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2017 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium on 13, 14 and 15 July.
Medalists
Results
Heats
14 July
Qualification rule: First 3 (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
Semifinals
14 July
Qualification rule: First 3 (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.
Final
15 July
References
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Diet Coke Plus
Diet Coke Plus (also known as Coca-Cola Light Plus) was a formulation of Diet Coke fortified with vitamins and minerals. It is sweetened with a blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
The drink was released in the United Kingdom in October 2007, available in two variants, one with vitamins B3, B12, and vitamin C, and the other containing antioxidants with added green tea and vitamin C. Although Diet Coke Plus Antioxidants is labeled as sugar free, it actually contains 0.1 grams of sugar in the green tea powder per 100ml.
Warning letter
On December 10, 2008, the United States Food and Drug Administration wrote a Warning Letter to The Coca-Cola Company that Diet Coke Plus violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The term "plus" is a regulated term on food and beverages. A food may be labeled "plus" to describe its nutrients only if it contains at least 10% more of the Reference Daily Intake or Daily Reference Value compared to the usual amount. Because Diet Coke Plus labeling does not indicate the increased amount of nutrients, it cannot use the word "plus" on its label. Regardless, snack foods, such as carbonated soda, may never use the word "plus" because the FDA does not consider it appropriate to fortify snack foods. The FDA required The Coca-Cola Company to detail corrective action within 15 days.
The Coca-Cola Company issued a statement saying, "This does not involve any health or safety issues, and we believe the label on Diet Coke Plus complies with FDA's policies and regulations."
When a food manufacturer or marketer violates federal regulations, the FDA generally will send a letter to the company. While the letters themselves are not legally binding, the FDA may take the company to court if it does not take corrective action. The drink was discontinued in November 2011.
References
External links
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Bhagyeshwar
Bhagyeshwar is a business center in Sanphebagar Municipality in Achham District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. It was annexed to form the new municipality since 18 May 2014. According to the 1991 Nepal census, the village had a population of 1158 living in 257 houses. At the time of the 2001 Nepal census, the population was 1321, of which 62% was literate.
References
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Eglinton GO Station
Eglinton GO Station is a train station that serves the Scarborough Village and Eglinton East neighbourhoods of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a station on the Lakeshore East line of the GO Transit rail network. The station opened to the public in 1967.
New pedestrian tunnels, elevators, and accessible platforms, were completed in 2016 in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
Connecting transit
Toronto Transit Commission buses can be boarded on Eglinton Avenue East at the intersection with Bellamy Road North.
9 Bellamy
86 Scarborough
116 Morningside
905 Eglinton East Express
References
External links
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Selma Yildirim
Selma Yildirim (born 25 August 1969) is an Austrian politician who is a member of the National Council and deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).
Life
Yildirim was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to Austria as a child. She studied law at the University of Innsbruck. She is the leader of the SPÖ Tirol's women's organisation since 2014. In November 2019 Yildirim became the party's spokesperson on judicial affairs.
Yildirim was elected to the National Council in the 2017 election, after running as her party's leading candidate in Tyrol. She kept her seat after the 2019 election.
Earlier, in April 2017, Yildirim had been nominated to become a judge on the , but she was rejected in 2018 because she became a member of parliament in the meantime.
References
External links
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Day of the Cuban Armed Forces
The Day of the Cuban Armed Forces is a national holiday in Cuba celebrated annually on December 2 commemorating the landing of the Granma which brought the Castro brothers and their supporters from Mexico to Cuba to start their revolution against the Batista Regime. The event is marked by military parades, fireworks and concerts throughout the country.
History and celebrations
In October 1956, a group of Cuban dissidents, led by Fidel Castro, purchased a yacht called the Granma for US$15,000 from a United States-based Company, Inc. The yacht, which carried 82 rebels sailed from the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz on November 25, 1956 and headed for Cuba. The revolutionaries planned to land in the province of Oriente and begin an armed struggle against the government of Batista. On the night of December 2, the Granma landed on the coast of Cuba. The landing of a group of Cubans led by Fidel Castro from the yacht Granma is considered to be the day of the beginning of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army, from which the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba was its successor.
In the years after the landing, date has been marked annually as the Day of the Cuban Armed Forces The largest parade to be held took place in 1986 in the presence of General Humberto Ortega from Nicaragua as well as officials from the Soviet Union. The first ever military parade in years to be held on the holiday was marked in 2006. The annual parade in 2016 celebrating the diamond jubilee was postponed for 1 month due to the Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro, and took place on January 2, 2017.
Expanded summary
The Day of the Cuban Armed Forces is the foremost military holiday, which on special years has been marked by a full military parade by personnel of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in the Plaza de la Revolución, situated in the namesake district of the national capital city, Havana. The parade has been held with breaks since 1963, and is presided by the President of Cuba in his capacity as commander in chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and (at times) First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (from 2006 to 2008 and from 2017 onwards, the posts have been held by separate people). With the veterans of the Revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the international deployments of the Armed Forces during the Cold War, active personnel of the armed forces and their families, the diplomatic corps, citizens of Havana and pro-Cuba solidarity groups in the stands, as guest of honor, he arrives at 7:55 am for the parade proper at the José Martí Memorial's general saluting base, where he is received by the members of the Council of Ministers and the Council of State, the leadership and deputies from the National Assembly of People's Power, and Party officials. As the President arrives, the National Anthem (La Bayamesa) is played by the massed military bands provided by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Military Bands Department and a 21-gun salute is fired by the artillery battery of the Ceremonial Unit of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
This is followed by the review of the parade formations, which are led by either an Army Corps General or a Divisional General, by the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, a billet of an general officer holding the rank of Army Corps General. As the report is made by the parade commander, the Minister responds by informing the President of the commencement of the ceremony. As the vehicles of both the parade commander and the parade reviewing officer pass the tribune, the parade formations, which are massed west of the square along the Avenida Paseo fronting the National Theater, present arms as the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces' vehicle approaches the ground and mobile columns. The ground column formations of an estimated 8,900 personnel are from units of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, while units from both organizations are at the rear providing the crews for the mobile column of around 550 vehicles and 1,800 crewmen, and behind them are the civilian formations forming up the demonstration segment following the parade proper. As the Minister's vehicle and that of the parade commander both halt in front of the formations, he greets the formations assembled:
The parade responses with a loud Venceremos and the band then strikes up to the Yorckscher Marsch as the vehicles carrying the parade commander and the reviewing officer both return to the square. The keynote holiday address then follows. In recent parades, the University Youth Federation president addressed the nation from the saluting base.
Historical segment
Following this, the parade begins with the historical segment. As the trumpeters of the Armed Forces Massed Bands sound a bugle call, the mounted ceremonial horse guards battalion of the Revolutionary Army, wearing uniforms of the Cuban Mambisa cavalry (Caballeria Mabisa) of the Cuban War of Independence, trot past the saluting dais as the combined bands plays march music. As the mounted squadron passes by the saluting base the officers salute and the troopers present their machetes at the charge position, honoring the cavalrymen who fought during the conflict.
Following them is a contingent of Jose Marti Pioneer Organization Pioneers in the 5th and 6th grades escorting a replica of the Granma, the fast yacht whose landing in 1956 sparked the outbreak of the Revolution and the birth of the modern day Revolutionary Armed Forces. In the parade of 2017, the yacht contingent was followed by youth reenactors in three columns wearing uniforms of the guerilla combatants of the revolutionary period, carrying weapons used during those years. This is followed by the Bay of Pigs invasion segment, which begins with middle and high school level Pioneers escorting a T-34 medium tank and a SU-100 self-propelled gun, followed by a 2nd youth contingent wearing uniforms and weaponry used, followed by the living veterans of the Cuban forces deployed during that period. Then comes two civil contingents, one honoring the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign final march to Havana's city center by thousands of participating youths and teachers, and a children's theater trope.
March past proper
The finale of the historical segment is followed by the parade commander ordering the parade to march past in the following manner:
Parade... attention! Ceremonial pass in review!By battalions! Distance by a single lineman! Right... turn! Slope... arms!Eyes to the right, by the left, forward, quick march!
The massed military bands play a cadence at this point while the Ceremonial Unit's linemen take up their places in the Avenida Paseo. As the Marcha Invasor is played by the bands, the parade commander's vehicle, together with the general staff's vehicles and the color guard carrying the Flag of Cuba, all drive past the grandstand with all the officers saluting at the eyes right. The parading components march past in the following order:
Havana Campus Battalion, Corps of Cadets, Camilio Cienfuegos Military Schools System
Corps of Cadets, Jose Maceo Military College
Corps of Cadets, Antonio Maceo Military College
Corps of Cadets, Jose Marti Military Technical Institute
Regiment of Midshipmen, Granma Naval Academy
Corps of Cadets, Arides Sánchez Military Justice School
Cuban Army
Western Army Battalion
Central Army Battalion
Eastern Army Battalion
Special Forces
Armed Forces Military Police
Cuban Navy
Cuban Air Force
Youth Labor Army
Ministry of the Interior
National Special Forces Brigade
Border Troops and Coast Guard
Territorial Troops Militias
See also
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
Public holidays in Cuba
Armed Forces Day
References
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Nottingham Post
The Nottingham Post (formerly the Nottingham Evening Post) is an English tabloid newspaper which serves Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
The Post is published between Monday and Saturday each week, and is also available via online subscription. It was formerly “Campaigning Newspaper of the Year”. In the first six months of 2018 the paper had a daily circulation of 14,814, down 14% on the same period in 2017.
Occasionally the newspaper includes special features which focus on a particular aspect of life in Nottingham. An example of this was the paper’s Muslims in Nottingham series in April 2007. This consisted of a week-long series of interviews and articles in both the newspaper and on the Evening Post website. They focused on Nottingham’s Muslim community, giving its members the opportunity to express their views of life in the city.
History
The first edition of The Evening Post was printed by Thomas Forman on 1 May 1878. It sold for ½d and consisted of four pages.
In July 1963, the Posts main competitor, the Nottingham Evening News, closed and merged with the Post. Also, the city’s two morning papers, the Nottingham Guardian and the Nottingham Journal, were merged into The Guardian Journal.
On 19 June 1973, a printing dispute began, causing a period of industrial turmoil in the company, and The Guardian Journal ceased publication on that day.
During the protracted dispute, some Post journalists launched their own newspaper, receiving moral support from Brian Clough, then manager of Nottingham Forest.
Eventually, as the only remaining newspaper was the Nottingham Evening Post, which increasingly covered the whole day’s news, it was re-named the Nottingham Post from the beginning of July 2010.
One of the Posts stalwart journalists, Emrys Bryson, wrote a revue about Nottingham life called Owd Yer Tight, which ran at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. The Posts sister paper, the Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian, published D. H. Lawrence's first short story.
In March 1996 the Post was relaunched as a full-colour tabloid, although the Saturday edition had switched to the smaller paper size as far back as 1982.
The Post was based at offices on Forman Street in the centre of Nottingham until 1998 when the paper relocated to Castle Wharf House. It moved to Tollhouse Hill in the city centre in 2012. In October 2011 printing moved from Derby to Birmingham.
In 2012, Local World acquired the paper's owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.
Other publications
As well as the main newspaper, the Post also published a weekly sports paper on a Saturday throughout the football season, The Football Post (no longer published) which included coverage of the two local Football League clubs, Nottingham Forest and Notts County, as well as coverage of local non-league football, cricket, ice hockey and rugby union. In addition to this, the Post also previously published Forest Fever, a weekly newspaper-style magazine dedicated to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Its weekly in-depth look at events at the City Ground featured interviews with players, former players, management and supporters.
There is also a monthly Bygones paper (no longer published as a separate publication), which publishes features and stories on the history of Nottingham.
Contributors
Over the years, several Post journalists moved to Fleet Street. Among them were Robert Bolton of The Sun, Robert Stephens of the Evening Standard and John Marquis of Reuters and Thomson Newspapers, who later went on to become an author and editor of the Bahamas’ best-selling daily, The Tribune. Marquis was also voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in the 1974 National Press Awards (now British Press Awards) and was for many years London Sports Editor and Chief Boxing Correspondent of the Thomson newspaper empire, covering many Mumammad Ali fights. The late political sketchwriter Frank Johnson (The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator) was briefly a Post journalist, while the music and sports writer Richard Williams trained on the Post in the 1960s. Another Post reporter, BBC regional broadcaster John Barsby, became president of the National Union of Journalists.
Among the Posts more illustrious journalists of recent times was Duncan Hamilton, whose book about Brian Clough (Provided You Don't Kiss Me) was described by TV commentator John Motson as “one of the best football books I’ve ever read.” After 20 years on the Post, Hamilton became deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post.
Well-known regional broadcaster Colin Slater was another Post stalwart, covering Notts County for many years.
Nottingham born broadcaster, writer, humourist and film maker Steve Oliver wrote as a critic for the paper between 2011 and 2017.
As of 2018, the editor is Mike Sassi. One of its longest-serving editors in recent times was Barrie Williams, who served for 14 years before becoming editor of the Western Morning News in Plymouth.
References
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Septoria cucurbitacearum
Septoria cucurbitacearum is a fungal plant pathogen infecting cucurbits.
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
References
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Fry-Barry House
The Fry-Barry House is a one-story, brick and frame house located at 314 W. Austin in Marshall, Texas. Built in 1860 the house is one of the oldest homes in Marshall. It was designed by W.R.D. Ward, a planter and merchant who also designed Magnolia Hall. Major Edwin James Fry, a businessman and banker, purchased the house in 1872. When Fry died in 1927, his daughter, Pamela and her husband, Walter L. Barry inherited the house. Mary Louise Barry inherited the house in 1961.
The house is currently owned by Joslin Marshall.
The house was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a historic marker was installed in 1962. It was also listed as a National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Harrison County, Texas
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Harrison County
References
External links
Fry-Barry House from the Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Texas
Category:Greek Revival architecture in Texas
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Temi Epstein
Temi Le Anne Epstein (born January 6, 1975) is an American former child actress active in the middle 1980s. Her best-known movie is in Friday the 13th Part VI, but her more remarkable role was the one of "Young Ashton Main" in the 1985 miniseries North and South.
Epstein was born Tamar Le Anne Epstein in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia and is a graduate from Northwestern University. She is currently an SAT instructor of a Jewish community in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
She married Evan Levy on September 3, 2000.
Filmography
1999 - Take It Easy as Fawn
1994 - Last Time Out as Julie Davis
1991 - In the Heat of the Night as Terri in episode "Child of Promise" (1991)
1986 - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives as Little Girl
1985 - North and South as Young Ashton Main
External links
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1908 VFL Grand Final
The 1908 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1908. It was the 11th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1908 VFL season. The match, attended by 50,261 spectators, was won by reigning premiers Carlton by a margin of 9 points, marking that club's third premiership victory and third in succession.
Right to challenge
This season was played under the amended Argus system. Carlton was the minor premier, and Essendon had finished second. The teams both qualified for this match by winning their semi-finals matches.
If Essendon had won this match, Carlton would have had the right to challenge Essendon to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because Carlton was the minor premier. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.
Teams
Umpire – Jack Elder
Statistics
Goalkickers
Attendance
MCG crowd – 50,261
See also
1908 VFL season
References
AFL Tables: 1908 Grand Final
The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996.
Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals
Grand
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Maaris Meier
Maaris Meier (born 22 May 1983) is a Mountain bike rider and road cyclist from Estonia. She represented her nation at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the women's road race. She won the silver medal at the 2008 World University Cycling Championship in the Cross-country.
References
External links
Official website
Category:Estonian female cyclists
Category:Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic cyclists of Estonia
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Tallinn
Category:1983 births
Category:Cyclists at the 2015 European Games
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1891 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1891 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1891 season. This was the first Tennessee Volunteers football team. They traveled on Thanksgiving Day to Chattanooga, Tennessee to face Sewanee. They had no head coach and were mainly an intramural team.
Schedule
References
Category:Tennessee Volunteers football seasons
Tennessee Volunteers
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Alexei Zhitnik
Oleksiy Mykolaiovych "Alexei" Zhitnik (, ; born October 10, 1972) is a Ukrainian-Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Zhitnik has played more games in the National Hockey League (NHL) (1,085) than any other Soviet-born defenceman. He has represented the Soviet Union, CIS, and Russia internationally, and Ukraine during two NHL All-Star Games. His number, 13, has been honored by Sokil Kyiv.
Playing career
Zhitnik was drafted 81st overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft after playing for Sokil Kyiv in the Soviet Championship League for two years. After another year, he came to the NHL for the 1992–93 NHL season.
He made his NHL debut on October 6, 1992, against the Calgary Flames and scored his first goal nine nights later, also against Calgary. In his rookie season with the Kings, he finished second among rookie defenceman in points with 48. He was an important part of the Kings' playoff run to the Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to the Montreal Canadiens.
After another year of playing with the Kings and Wayne Gretzky, he was traded on February 14, 1995, along with Robb Stauber, Charlie Huddy and a fifth-round draft pick, to the Buffalo Sabres for Grant Fuhr, Denis Tsygurov and Philippe Boucher. He became one of the team's best players, helping the Sabres win the Northeast Division in the 1996–97 NHL season, his second full year with the team. In the 1997–98 NHL season, he led all defensemen in shorthanded goals (3). He also helped the Sabres reach the finals in the 1998–99 NHL season and stayed on the team until the 2004–05 NHL lockout when he returned to the Russian Super League.
Following the lockout, he signed a four-year contract with the New York Islanders. He became an effective force on the team, and even though he missed the last 18 games of the season with a fractured ankle, he finished second among team defenceman in scoring.
On December 16, 2006, Zhitnik was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for Freddy Meyer and a conditional third round draft pick. However, he was traded two months later on February 24, 2007, to the Atlanta Thrashers to add experience for playoffs, in exchange for Braydon Coburn.
Due to Zhitnik's disappointing play and the Thrashers focus on rebuilding, the team bought out Zhitnik's contract on June 30, 2008, making him a free agent.
On July 26, 2008, Zhitnik returned to Russia and the now-Kontinental Hockey League, signing a tryout contract with Dynamo Moscow.
Zhitnik won a gold medal as part of Team Ukraine's Masters hockey team at the 2017 Maccabiah Games.
Awards
1992: Gold Medal (XVII Olympic Winter Games)
1992–93: Clarence S. Campbell Bowl (Los Angeles Kings)
1996: Bronze Medal (World Cup of Hockey)
1998: Silver Medal (XVIII Olympic Winter Games)
1998–99: Played in the All-Star Game (NHL)
2001–02: Played in the All-Star Game (NHL)
2008: Spengler Cup Champion (Dynamo Moscow)
2008–09: Played in the All-Star Game (KHL)
Records
On February 20, 2007, as a Flyer, he became the eighth defenseman born outside of North America, and first born in the Soviet Union to appear in 1,000 NHL games (Sergei Zubov has since joined Zhitnik in that regard). The others at the time: Nicklas Lidström, Börje Salming, Calle Johansson, Ulf Samuelsson, Fredrik Olausson (all from Sweden), Petr Svoboda from the Czech Republic and Teppo Numminen of Finland.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Career transactions
Selected by Los Angeles Kings in 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He was Los Angeles' 4th round choice, 81st overall.
Traded to Buffalo by Los Angeles Kings with Robb Stauber, Charlie Huddy and Los Angeles' 5th round choice (Marian Menhart) in 1995 Entry Draft for Philippe Boucher, Denis Tsygurov and Grant Fuhr, February 14, 1995.
Signed as a free agent by Kazan (Russia), December 6, 2004.
Signed as a free agent by the New York Islanders, August 2, 2005.
Traded to Philadelphia by the Islanders for Freddy Meyer and a conditional 3rd round draft pick on December 16, 2006.
Traded to Atlanta by Philadelphia for defenseman Braydon Coburn on February 24, 2007
See also
List of NHL players with 1000 games played
References
External links
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Left-Hander (1964 film)
Left-Hander (, translit. Levsha) is a 1964 feature-length cutout-animated film from the Soviet Union. The film is based on the story of the same name by the 19th century Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov. It was directed by the "Patriarch of Soviet animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.
The score was performed by the Government Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Grigori Gamburg.
Plot
The screen version of the narration of Nikolay Leskov about the surprising master Lefty who grounded a "aglitskaya" (English) steel flea.
Creators
Awards
1964 — the Honourable diploma at the VII International film festival short and documentaries in Leipzig.
Video
In 2008 was issued together with animated films "The Humpbacked Horse" 1947 and 1975 on DVD the Krupnyy Plan company.
Creation history
Ivanov-Vano bore an animated film plan about the gifted master in Leskov's story about 30 years. Over time he arrived at idea that the originality of the narration of Leskov can be transferred, having created a graphic row with a support on an art system of the Russian popular print with "its characteristic generality of forms, specific expressiveness". For animation the idea to show evolution of character of the main character was innovative. Art directors at creation of the movie were inspired by ancient engravings (action in the imperial palace), English engravings (the foreign line), and the Tula episodes were solved in the stylistics of a popular print which is organically uniting all three lines. According to the proposal of the animator of "Lefty" Yury Norstein, the movie became in equipment of a turn.
See also
History of Russian animation
List of animated feature films
List of stop-motion films
References
External links
Lefty at the Animator.ru
(Official Russian)
Lefty at myltik.ru
Category:1964 films
Category:Films directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano
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Anigraeopsis
Anigraeopsis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
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Katakado Dam
Katakado Dam is a gravity dam on the Tadami River west of Aizubange in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. It was constructed between 1951 and 1953 for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation. It supplies a 57 MW power station with water.
See also
Yanaizu Dam – located upstream
References
Category:Dams in Fukushima Prefecture
Category:Hydroelectric power stations in Japan
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Burnley Rural District
Burnley was a rural district of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was named after but did not include the large town of Burnley, which was a county borough.
The district and its council was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. In 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, with its territory going on to form part of the districts of Pendle, Ribble Valley, Burnley and Hyndburn.
The offices of the Rural District Council were in Reedley Hallows, Reedley at what is now the Oaks Hotel on Colne Road. Prior to becoming the Council offices, the building was a private residence known as Oakleigh and the home of Abraham Altham. The Altham family were importers of tea and this is represented in the fine stained glass window found at The Oaks colloquially giving the building the name "Tay-Pot (or teapot) Hall". The Altham's also founded a travel agency business in 1874 which continues to trade throughout East Lancashire, the west of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
It administered the area containing the civil parishes of Altham, Barley-with-Wheatley Booth, Blacko, Briercliffe, Brunshaw (merged with Burnley in 1911), Cliviger, Dunnockshaw, Foulridge, Goldshaw Booth, Habergham Eaves, Hapton, Heyhouses (part of Sabden after 1904), Higham with West Close Booth, Huncoat (merged with Accrington in 1929), Ightenhill, Old Laund Booth, Newchurch in Pendle, Northtown (today split between Ightenhill, Higham and Simonstone), Old Laund Booth, Read, Reedley Hallows, Roughlee Booth, Sabden (after 1904), Simonstone, Trawden, Wheatly Carr Booth (merged with Old Laund Booth in 1935), Worsthorne with Hurstwood.
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Calestienne
The Calestienne (Walloon: Calistinne) is a 130 km long narrow strip in the Belgian region of Wallonia and also in a small part of France, which is mainly formed of limestone rocks and reaches nearly 300 meters in maximum height. Because of erosion it is rich of relief.
The Calestienne is a transitional region between the lower Fagne-Famenne and the higher Ardennes. It stretches from the communes of Fourmies and Wallers-en-Fagne just across the French border till Louveigné in the Belgian province of Liège.
External links
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Radegast train station
Radogoszcz station () is a historic railway station in Łódź, Poland. The station, which was originally built between 1926 and 1937, was used extensively during the The Holocaust. It served as the Umschlagplatz for transporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. The "loading platform" is in Marysin, a neighbourhood in the city's Bałuty district.
The Holocaust
During Second World War, the station was situated just outside the Łódź Ghetto – one of the biggest Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe. The Umschlagplatz at the Radegast station was the place where predominantly Jewish inhabitants of Łódź including thousands of persons expelled from across occupied Poland were gathered for deportation directly to Chełmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz German extermination camps. Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews, and many Roma, Sinti and Lalleri passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944. The collection point had the same significance for Łódź as the better known Umschlagplatz had for the Warsaw Ghetto.
Memorial
In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the Łódź Ghetto in 1944 and the departure of the last transport from Radegast spurred efforts to transform the former station into a Holocaust memorial. On August 28, 2005, a monument commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was unveiled, based on design by Czesław Bielecki, and featuring the Tunnel of the Deported. The renovated station building serves as one of the divisions of the Łódź Museum of Independence.
References
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Falling in Between Live
Falling in Between Live is the fourth live album by American band Toto, released in 2007. It was recorded live at Le Zénith, Paris, France.
The album is the first Toto record to feature bassist Leland Sklar, who at the time was thought to be temporarily replacing Mike Porcaro, "due to a hand injury", however Porcaro had really begun to feel the first effects of ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). It is also the second and final recording to feature keyboardist/vocalist Greg Phillinganes, as well as the final live album with original lead vocalist Bobby Kimball, who was added to the official line-up to return the band to the classic 2 keyboardist format, and to fill in the gap during live performances since David Paich had temporarily retired from touring, but was still an active member in the studio.
Track listing
Disc one
"Falling in Between" (Steve Lukather, David Paich, Simon Phillips, Mike Porcaro, Bobby Kimball, Greg Phillinganes) - 5:22
"King of the World" (Kimball, Lukather, Paich, Steve Porcaro, Phillips, M. Porcaro) - 5:32
"Pamela" (Paich, Joseph Williams) - 5:42
"Bottom of Your Soul" (Lukather, Paich, Phillips, M. Porcaro, Kimball) - 7:04
"Caught in the Balance" (Lukather, Paich, Phillips, M. Porcaro, Stan Lynch, Kimball) - 6:44
"Don't Chain My Heart" (Paich, Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, M. Porcaro) - 5:37
"Hold the Line" (Paich) - 4:22
"Stop Loving You" (Lukather, Paich) - 3:22
"I'll Be Over You" (Lukather, Randy Goodrum) - 2:29
"Cruel" (Jed Leiber, Phillips, Kimball, Lukather) - 2:44
"Greg Solo" (Phillinganes) - 6:21
Disc two
"Rosanna" (Paich) - 9:19
"I'll Supply the Love" (Paich) - 1:56
"Isolation" (Lukather, Paich, Fergie Frederiksen) - 2:50
"Gift of Faith" (Lukather, Paich, Lynch) - 2:37
"Kingdom of Desire" (Danny Kortchmar) - 2:51
"Luke Solo" (Lukather) - 6:07
"Hydra" (Paich, S. Porcaro, J. Porcaro, Lukather, Kimball, David Hungate) - 2:04
"Simon Solo" (Phillips) - 3:42
"Taint Your World" (Lukather, Paich, Phillips, M. Porcaro, Kimball) - 2:07
"Gypsy Train" (Paich, Lukather, J. Porcaro, M. Porcaro) - 7:10
"Africa" (Paich, J. Porcaro) - 6:15
"Drag Him to the Roof" (Lukather, Paich, Lynch) - 9:14
Personnel
Bobby Kimball – lead and backing vocals
Steve Lukather – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocal on 'Bottom of Your Soul', 'Don't Chain My Heart', 'I'll Be Over You', 'Gift of Faith', 'Kingdom of Desire' and 'Gypsy Train' co-lead vocals on 'King of the World' and 'Rosanna'
Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocal on 'Africa', co-lead vocals on 'Falling in Between', 'King of the World' and 'Drag Him to the Roof'
Simon Phillips – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Tony Spinner – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocal on 'Stop Loving You', co-lead vocals on 'Drag Him to the Roof'
Leland Sklar – bass
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Ləzran
Ləzran or Lezran or Lyazan or Lyazran may refer to:
Ləzran, Jalilabad, Azerbaijan
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List of Techland video games
This is a list of Techland video games.
Games developed
Cancelled and delayed projects
Chrome 2 (on hold)
Day of the Mutants (cancelled)
Warhound (on hold)
Hellraid (on hold)
Games published
Notes
References
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Kępa Okrzewska
Kępa Okrzewska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Konstancin-Jeziorna, north-east of Piaseczno, and south-east of Warsaw.
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Kenan Bajramović
Kenan Bajramović (born May 24, 1981) is a Bosnian professional basketball player who last played for Spars Sarajevo of the Bosnian League.
Professional career
Bajramović spent the early part of his career in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina between his original club, Čelik Zenica and Bosna Sarajevo, with whom he won the national title and cup in 2005.
From 2005 to 2007 he played with the Ukrainian team Azovmash Mariupol. With them he was a two time champion of the Ukrainian SuperLeague. For the 2007–08 season he moved to Lietuvos rytas.
In June 2008, he signed a two-year deal with the Ukrainian team BC Kyiv. In February 2009, Kyiv released him. Later that month he signed with Türk Telekom of Turkey for the remainder of the season.
In August 2009, he signed a one-year deal with the German team ALBA Berlin. In December 2009, Alba released him. In January 2010, he signed with his former team Lietuvos rytas for the remainder of the season. With them he won the Litvanian League in the 2009–10 season. He later re-signed with Rytas for one more season.
In August 2011, he signed a one-year deal with the Turkish team Banvit. In August 2012, he re-signed with Banvit for one more season.
In October 2013, he signed with the Latvian team VEF Rīga. In January 2014, he parted ways with Rīga. On January 22, 2014, he returned to Bosnia and signed with OKK Spars Sarajevo. However he played only one game with Spars, and on February 1, 2014, he signed with Beşiktaş İntegral Forex of Turkey for the rest of the season. On October 25, 2014, he extended his contract with Beşiktaş until the end of season.
On September 3, 2015, he signed with OKK Spars Sarajevo. On February 19, 2016, he left Spars and signed for the rest of the season with Socar Petkim of the Turkish Basketball First League. On August 12, 2016, Bajramović signed with French club Cholet Basket for the 2016–17 season. On November 8, 2016, he left Cholet and signed with OKK Spars Sarajevo. In November 2017, Bajramović signed with Turkish club Akhisar Belediyespor.
In January 2019, Bajramović signed for Spars Sarajevo for the rest of the 2018–19 season. It's his fourth stint with the Spars.
Euroleague career statistics
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| 19 || 6 || 24.5 || .500 || .421 || .759 || 5.7 || .8 || .6 || .4 || 11.1 || 11.4
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| style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos rytas
| 14 || 6 || 26.1 || .465 || .233 || .766 || 5.2 || 1.4 || .6 || .2 || 11.4 || 10.4
Bosnian national team
Bajramović is a long time member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team. He played with them at the three European Championships (2003, 2005 and 2011).
Personal life
He is married to Zlata Bajramović. On March 11, 2008, they have become the parents to a baby girl named Sarah.
References
External links
Euroleague.net profile
FIBA.com profile
TBLStat.net profile
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The Sound of Speed
The Sound of Speed is a compilation of singles and rare tracks by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The track listing below is for the version released in most of the world - the Japanese version dropped "Snakedriver", "Something I Can't Have", "Write Record Release Blues", "Tower of Song", "Little Red Rooster", "Lowlife" and "Reverberation", but added "Subway", "In the Black", "Terminal Beach" and "I'm Glad I Never".
Track listing
All songs written by Jim Reid and William Reid, except where noted.
LP (4509-93104-1)
Side 1
"Snakedriver" – 3:44
"Reverence (radio mix)" – 5:39
"Heat" – 3:00
"Teenage Lust (acoustic version)" – 2:25
"Why'd You Want Me?" – 3:15
"Don't Come Down" – 2:39
"Guitarman" (Jerry Reed) – 3:43
"Something I Can't Have" – 3:02
Side 2
"Sometimes" – 2:53
"Write Record Release Blues" – 2:58
"Shimmer" – 2:46
"Penetration" – 2:48
"My Girl" (Smokey Robinson) – 3:05
"Tower of Song" (Leonard Cohen) – 4:49
"Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 3:25
"Break Me Down" – 2:29
"Lowlife" – 3:27
CD (4509-93104-2)
"Snakedriver" – 3:44
"Reverence (radio mix)" – 5:39
"Heat" – 3:00
"Teenage Lust (acoustic version)" – 2:25
"Why'd You Want Me?" – 3:15
"Don't Come Down" – 2:39
"Guitarman" (Jerry Reed) – 3:43
"Something I Can't Have" – 3:02
"Sometimes" – 2:53
"Write Record Release Blues" – 2:58
"Shimmer" – 2:46
"Penetration" – 2:48
"My Girl" (Robinson) – 3:05
"Tower of Song" (Cohen) – 4:49
"Little Red Rooster" (Burnett, Dixon) – 3:25
"Break Me Down" – 2:29
"Lowlife" – 3:27
"Deviant Slice" – 3:01
"Reverberation" (Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, Stacy Sutherland) – 3:46
"Sidewalking (extended version)" – 7:52
Original releases
Track 20: Non-album single "Sidewalking" from 1988.
Tracks 11, 12, 13, 16: B-sides to "Blues from a Gun" from 1989.
Track 18: B-side to "Head On" from 1989.
Tracks 14, 17: Part of Rollercoaster EP from 1990.
Tracks 2, 3, 7: B-sides to "Reverence" from 1992
Tracks 5, 9: B-sides to "Far Gone and Out" from 1992.
Tracks 4, 6, 19: B-sides to "Almost Gold" from 1992.
Tracks 1, 8, 10, 15: Part of Sound of Speed EP from 1993.
Personnel
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jim Reid – vocals, guitar, production
William Reid – vocals, guitar, production, engineer (tracks 11 to 14, 16, 18, 19)
Ben Lurie – bass (track 1), guitar (track 15)
Nick Sanderson – drums (tracks 1, 8)
Additional personnel
Brad Davidson – bass (track 15)
Wiff – drums (track 15)
Dick Meaney – engineer (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10, 15)
Anjali Dutt – engineer (track 2)
George Kaleve – engineer (track 4)
Alan Moulder – engineer (track 7)
Flood – engineer (track 17)
John Loder – production (track 20)
Colin Bell – photography
References
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The Protector (1985 film)
The Protector () is a 1985 Hong Kong-American action film directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello and Roy Chiao. It was Chan's second attempt at breaking into the American film market, after 1980 film The Big Brawl, a film which had been a disappointment at the box office. Conflicts between Glickenhaus and Chan during production led to two official versions of the film: Glickenhaus' original version for American audiences and a Hong Kong version re-edited by Jackie Chan. Chan later directed Police Story as a response to this film.
Plot Summary
US/Glickenhaus version
One night, after a patrol in New York City, New York police officers Billy Wong (Jackie Chan) and his partner Michael have a drink at a bar (Patrick James Clarke). Machine-gun wielding crooks come in to rob the bar and its customers. Michael kills one of the crooks but is fatally gunned down. Wong shoots the rest but is forced to chase the last remaining crook into the New York harbor, resulting in a boat chase in which he kills the gangster by causing an explosion. Wong is demoted to crowd control for the ruckus. Later, he goes to a fashion show party undercover, hosted by a Laura Shapiro (Saun Ellis), the daughter of a locally known gangster Martin Shapiro. At the party, he meets his new partner, Danny Garoni (Danny Aiello), who has also been demoted due to claims of police brutality. In the middle of the fashion show, masked gangsters armed with machine guns storm in and kidnap Laura Shapiro, and nobody knows why. They later learn that crime boss Harold Ko (Roy Chiao) and Martin Shapiro are suspected of smuggling drugs from Hong Kong to New York, and that Ko may have kidnapped Laura and taken her to Hong Kong for ransom. The men get a lead – Shapiro's bodyguard Benny Garrucci (Bill "Superfoot" Wallace) recently made several calls to a Hong Kong massage parlor.
Wong and Garoni go to Hong Kong and investigate the massage parlor. While there, they get massages, but Billy notices that the masseuses are trying to kill them. Billy and Garoni fight off the parlor employees before they are cornered and held at gunpoint by the parlor manager (Shum Wai). The manager questions them, revealing that he knows they are cops, and then threatens to kill them. However, Garoni and Wong overpower him and his men, and leave the parlor.
The next day, Wong and Garoni go to see Lee Hing (Peter Yang) on his boat, and show him Tin Ho's coin to gain his trust. However, Hing is reluctant to give any information, noting that he retired and is concerned for his safety. A man named Stan Jones (Kim Bass) gets on the boat, and warns Wong and Garoni they are being followed by the massage parlor manager and his men. Garoni, Jones and Wong easily get rid of the other gangsters, then Wong pursues the parlor manager to get more information, and almost catches him but fails. After witnessing this, Lee Hing agrees to help them, telling the cops to come back the next day after he gets information from various contacts about Ko.
Wong and Garoni head back to their hotel, finding cash in a suitcase on the bed. Ko then calls them, telling them to take the money and leave Hong Kong at once. During the phone call, they are attacked by Ko's men, and the cops manage to kill them, but not before one of the gangsters sets off a grenade in a suicide attempt to kill them. They are taken to the police station in Hong Kong, where they are scolded by the Royal Hong Kong Police chief superintendent Whitehead (Richard Clarke) for the ruckus. Whitehead refuses to believe that Ko was behind the most recent attack, and tells the cops about Ko's charitable reputation in Hong Kong, informing them that at a press conference Ko will announce that all the winnings from a race horse he owns will be donated to charity. The next day, Garoni and Wong arrive at Ko's press conference (where Garucci is also present) and embarrass Ko by publicly showing the crowd his attempted bribe to them.
The next day, Wong, Jones, and Hing's daughter Soo Ling (Moon Lee) visit Lee Hing to see what he found, while Garoni follows Garrucci. But instead, they see that Lee Hing has been killed and his boat burned. At a loss for information, Wong and Moon Lee visit a fortune teller. The fortune teller cryptically informs them that Garruci has come to Hong Kong to make an exchange for Laura Shapiro. But he warns them that if they interfere, there will only be death and betrayal. Meanwhile, Garoni follows Garruci to a shipyard, and deduces that it's Ko's drug lab with Laura Shapiro inside. In a meeting between Ko and Garucci, it is revealed that Ko kidnapped Shapiro's daughter because Shapiro did not pay for Ko's last shipment, which Garucci said was a "simple misunderstanding".
Wong, Garoni and Jones go to the drug lab. They destroy it and save Laura Shapiro in the process. Garoni, however, fails to escape with them after he is shot by Garrucci, and is held hostage unless Billy returns Laura to Ko. Wong decides to leave Laura Shapiro with Superintendent Whitehead.
Wong meets Ko and Garucci at the shipyard. He sees that Garoni is still alive, but then learns that Whitehead was on Ko's payroll the whole time, and is now holding Laura hostage (confirming the "betrayal" that the fortune teller cryptically warned about). Garucci then engages Wong in a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight, which Wong wins despite Ko's attempts to cheat and help Garucci. Then Wong dispatches Ko's guards and is eventually about to kill Ko, but Garrucci comes after Billy with a cut-off saw. In the ensuing fight, Garrucci is electrocuted when the saw hits an electric panel. Jones and Soo Ling arrive to help untie Garoni and rescue Laura. Ko escapes in a helicopter, and Billy follows after him, but a guard blocks his way. Billy and the guard fight on a cargo lifter, where Wong prevails by eventually knocking the guard off to a long fall to his death. Garoni goes outside with the gang and kills a sniper with a 6-shot 20mm cannon. Wong eventually makes inside of a crane, and kills Ko when he drops the contents of the crane onto Ko's helicopter.
With Ko dead and Laura Shapiro saved, Billy and Danny are given a NYPD Medal of Honor.
Hong Kong Version (aka Jackie Chan's personal edit)
Although the basic narrative of Jackie Chan's edit is the same as the US version, Chan added a subplot to provide more depth to the movie, which slightly changes how the movie progresses from beginning to end.
This edit begins to deviate from the US version after Garoni and Wong leave the massage parlour. The next day, Wong goes to a theater to look for a woman named May Fong Ho. However, the woman he is looking for (Sally Yeh) goes by the name Sally, and Wong quickly deduces who she is among the dancers she's rehearsing with. Wong disturbs her during a rehearsal by showing her Tin Ho's coin, but she denies having any friends from New York and tries to avoid Wong. Two men competing for Sally's affection try to fight Wong but are easily beaten before Wong pulls out his gun to end the fight. Wong and Sally then go to a restaurant, where she reveals that her father and another man were partners of Ko, until Ko killed her father. She changed her name in order to hide from Ko. She tells him to visit Lee Hing, her father's partner. However, unbeknownst to Sally and Wong, one of Ko's men has overheard the conversation.
After this scene, this edit stays the same as the US version until after Ko's press conference. In the Hong Kong version, after the press conference, Garucci expresses his concern to Ko's bodyguard, David Ho, about Garoni and Wong's knowledge of their drug operation, and that he'd like to do something about it. David tells him that there's a way he can help.
Later that night, Lee Hing meets with his contact Wing (Hoi Sang Lee) at a seafood warehouse to find information about Ko. Wing tells Hing that Laura is being held in shipping containers at the shipyard, and reveals that the shipping containers contain Ko's heroin factory. However, they are suddenly attacked by a group of men with ice picks and Benny Garucci. Wing easily beats up the rest of the men, but is overpowered and killed by Garucci in a fight.
Later, Wong meets with Hing's daughter Soo Ling to meet with Lee Hing and his contact. They arrive at the warehouse, but find both Hing's and Wing's dead bodies. Realizing that Sally may be in danger, Wong visits Sally at her house. He soon deduces that Sally's substitute maid is working for Ko, and has planted a bomb under Sally's bed. Wong diffuses the bomb. Minutes later, the massage parlor manager arrives to warn Sally that Ko is coming after her. Sally reveals that the manager is actually her uncle and an outcast in her family. The manager had been demoted and fallen out of favor with Ko (also shown in an earlier scene) after failing to kill Lee Hing, Garoni, and Wong earlier, and that they are aware of Wong's visit with Sally. After the uncle arrives, more men working for Ko (this time with guns) arrive to kill them, but they fail and retreat. Sally's uncle tells Wong that Laura is being held at a shipyard in a container, and that inside of the containers is Ko's drug factory. Afterwards, Wong instructs Sally and her uncle to find his contact in the United States to build a new life and start over.
After this scene, the plot of this edit is the same as the original US version.
Cast
Jackie Chan as Billy Wong
Danny Aiello as Danny Garoni
Moon Lee as Soo Ling
Roy Chiao as Harold Ko
Peter Yang as Lee Hing
Sandy Alexander as Gang Leader
Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus as Jesse Alexander
Becky Ann Baker as Samantha Alexander (as Becky Gelke)
Kim Bass as Stan Jones
Sally Yeh as May Fung Ho / Sally (Hong Kong version)
Paul L. Smith as Mr. Booar (uncredited)
Bill Wallace as Benny Garrucci
Victor Arnold as Police Captain
Shum Wai as massage house manager
Irene Britto as Masseuce
Ron Dandrea as Martin Shapiro
Saun Ellis as Laura Shapiro
Hoi Sang Lee as Wing (Hong Kong version)
Alan Gibbs as Gunman
David Ho as David
Joe Maruzzo as Marina Attendant (as Joseph Maruzzo)
John Spencer as Ko's pilot
Mike Starr as Hood (as Michael Starr)
James Glickenhaus as Man walking in front of store (uncredited)
Joe Wong as Sergeant Chan
Kam Bo-wong as Bald Thug (as Kobe Wong)
Fung Hak-on as Thug with Ice Pic
Wan Faat as Thug
Johnny Cheung as Thug
Lam Wan-seung as Thug
Lee Fat-yuen as Thug
Chung Wing as Thug
Tai Bo as Thug
Patrick James Clarke as Michael
John Ladalski as Ko's Van Driver (uncredited)
Big John Studd as Huge Hood
Robert Mak
Mark Cheung
Production
According to his book I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, Chan broke his hand while filming a stunt scene.
Version comparison
The relationship between James Glickenhaus and Jackie Chan was, according to various sources, highly contentious for most of the production. Chan was appalled at the way Glickenhaus directed the fight scenes, feeling that his methods were sloppy and lacked attention to detail. At one point he offered to direct the fight scenes himself, but Glickenhaus refused. Things became so bad that Chan walked off the set, but was forced to return and finish the film by contractual obligation. However, when preparing the film for release in Hong Kong, Chan completely re-edited the film and shot new footage to both fit his style of film making and remove all content he found objectionable.
The following changes were made by Jackie Chan for the Hong Kong release of the film:
Scenes in the US
Punk gang ("the Indians") robbing the truck driver [trimmed for pacing, use of alternative shots]
Michael & Billy Wong driving from the stripped truck to the bar (heavily trimmed for pacing)
Bar shootout (use of alternate angles, slightly trimmed)
Billy Wong asks a civilian where the black bearded crook who shot Michael has gone. (added)
Wong chasing the black-bearded crook on foot and by boat. (re-edited and trimmed)
Michael's funeral. (deleted)
African-American cop tells Wong "Billy, we are with you" (in Cantonese) after Wong is scolded by the captain (added)
Garoni's racial slur towards Wong ("chink") is dubbed in Cantonese to be "you boy".
Scenes in Hong Kong
Massage parlour
Extra dialogue between Billy, Danny and a Chinese police officer was shortened for the HK version. In the original US edit, the British HK police chief warns them about their actions and to use discretion, and a native HK police officer tells Bill and Danny about the number they traced to a massage parlor. The HK edit dubs the dialog and shortens the scene so that the chief tells them about the massage parlor.
Billy and Danny receiving a manicure/pedicure at the massage parlour (deleted)
A few short sequences featuring Billy in action in the massage parlour. (deleted in order to make the scene flow better)
Billy catches the gun. (slowed down)
Boat and dock area
Billy locates Sally Yeh, fights with two guys in a gym and interviews her. (added)
Stan Jones' reply to Lee Hing's comment "on credit I suppose" on the boat. (deleted)
Wong chasing the massage parlour manager. (trimmed for pacing and re-scored)
Lee Hing tells Garoni and Wong that Soo Ling will contact them instead of Stan. (changed through dubbing)
The discovery of Lee Hing's dead body on his boat. (deleted)
Other scenes
Mr. Ko's assistant beats the parlour manager and plots to kill Billy and Danny. (added)
Ko's voice on the phone is replaced by a female voice demanding that he should leave. The original US edit has Billy saying "It's not your money we want, it's your ass." Whereas in the HK edit, he says, "It's not your money we want, it's Laura Shapiro."
Garruci talks with Ko's henchman. (replacing the scene where Garruci exchanges money with Ko)
Benny Garrucci beats up Lee Hing and Wing. (added)
Wong and Soo Ling visit a fortune teller. (deleted)
Wong discovers a bomb in Sally Yeh's bedroom. Then her uncle comes to warn Billy and Sally. Then Sally and her uncle depart from the airport. (added)
Drug lab and warehouse
The fight scene between Billy Wong and Benny Garrucci is re-edited to be more fast-paced.
Billy trying to block Benny's brass knuckles with a large metal can. (added)
Billy smashes a pot over Benny's head. (slow-motion and alternative take)
Billy spins a large gear handle to hit Benny in the face. (deleted)
The fight between Billy and Mr. Ko's henchmen has more close-ups cut in. (re-edited)
Benny Garrucci attacks Billy with a concrete saw. (re-edited)
Changes to content
All cursing has been excised and American slang replaced. The HK edit dubs all of the English dialog without properly translating the cursing, sometimes changing the entire context of lines.
All nudity with women has been excised, with the drug lab re-shot to show fully dressed lab workers, and the nude masseuse being deleted.
The score is slightly different in certain scenes, and Chip Taylor's song "One Up For the Good Guys" during the end credits is replaced with a replayed upbeat theme from the movie's score.
Japanese Extended Version
The Japanese version of The Protector can be described as "an extended version" of Jackie Chan's edit. Like many old school Japanese versions of foreign language films, it features vertical Japanese subtitles burned into the right side of the screen.
The Japanese edit and Jackie Chan's edit have these few differences & similarities:
All scenes taking places in the USA contain the original US soundtrack. However the dialog, music, and sound effects were mixed differently to match more closely with the Hong Kong version, as almost all scenes remain edited like they are in the Hong Kong version.
Exclusive to the Japanese version, the scenes of Billy Wong asking a pedestrian where the bearded crook went and the African-American cop expressing his support to Billy were given an English post-sync dub, rather than the Cantonese dub for the Hong Kong version.
All scenes taking place in Hong Kong contain the Cantonese dub (although a full Japanese dub was also made).
The opening credits are in English, and feature Sally Yeh's name
The Japanese version exclusively contains the outtake credits
Deleted/Extended Scenes
Almost all of the Japanese version is edited to match the Hong Kong version, but it contains some scenes that were cut out of the Hong Kong version. Some scenes were given a different Cantonese dub to keep the original context of these scenes intact, as they were in the Glickenhaus version. These scenes are:
Garoni & Wong's first visit with Superintendent Whitehead & the latter conversation with the inspector. The latter conversation was kept in the Japanese version, requiring a new Cantonese dub.
Garoni & Wong talking about their plans outside the police station after their second visit with Whitehead (deleted from the Hong Kong version)
Garucci & David Ho talking in their car after leaving the airport (exclusive to the Japanese version)
Garucci & David Ho talking after Ko's press conference (slightly different Cantonese dub to change context)
Garucci exchanging money with Ko at his office (deleted from Hong Kong version)
Reception
The movie had a mixed to negative reception when it was released in the United States in 1985.
In an interview with James Glickenhaus by Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan held before Chan achieved mainstream success with American audiences, Logan mentioned that many of his fans were disappointed with the movie. An unfazed Glickenhaus responded, "Well, you know that's still the most successful Jackie Chan movie internationally and always will be because the American audience, the mainstream audience will never sit still for Jackie's style of action".
John J Puccio comments that "Chan's charm is in precious little evidence and his martial-arts stunts are limited to a few jumps and spills. Without Chan's contributions, the film is nothing more than a clichéd, wannabe thriller". He points out that "The Protector" isn't just badly written; it's uniformly awful all the way around. The acting is mechanical; the action is gratuitous; the pacing is humdrum; and the background music is trite and redundant.
Box office
In North America, The Protector was a box office disaster, making only US$981,817. Chan's re-edited version grossed HK $13,917,612 in Hong Kong, a respectable sum, but significantly less than any of Chan's domestic films at the time.
Home media
Warner Bros. released the U.S Version on DVD, VHS and Laserdisc.
In Hong Kong, Universe Laser released a DVD of Jackie Chan's personal edit, featuring a Cantonese and Mandarin dub, along with 9 different subtitles, including English. It was non-anamorphic. This DVD is now out of print.
Shout! Factory released The Protector on DVD and Blu-ray as part of a double feature with Crime Story on January 15, 2013. It features the US version in high definition with a lossless DTS 5.1 Master Audio and English Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtracks and English subtitles. The Blu-ray also contains Jackie Chan's edit of the film in anamorphic standard definition.
In 2011, a blu-ray release from Paramount in Japan features the US cut in high definition, the Hong Kong cut in anamorphic standard definition, and a "Japanese Extended Edition". This is not the original Japanese extended edition, as the scenes from the Hong Kong edit are visibly inferior to the scenes from the US version. The extended cut is presented in anamorphic standard definition, and combines scenes from the US cut and the Hong Kong cut. The Glickenhaus scenes contain the original English dialog and the Hong Kong version scenes contain the Cantonese dub. However, this version does have the exclusive outtake credits, which plays the song "One Up for the Good Guys" by Chip Taylor.
In 2014, another Japanese blu-ray from Paramount was released, this time containing the true Japanese extended cut (with the vertical Japanese subtitles) in high-definition. It features the original English/Cantonese soundtrack and a Japanese dub, each encoded in LPCM 2.0, but with no English subtitles.
In 2015, a German blu-ray released by Splendid contained the Glickenhaus version in high definition with the original unaltered mono track in 2.0 DTS-MA, along with Fortune Star's slightly altered audio track. It also features an HD-upscaled version of the Hong Kong edit with a DTS-MA encoded audio, and an non-upscaled anamorphic version with a 2.0 Dolby track.
In 2019, a UK blu-ray released by 88 Films containing the Gickenaus version in high definition, and it is the first time that it is been given a true high-definition remaster. The blu-ray by 88 Films also contains the Hong Kong edit as a 1080p upscale from an SD source. The Glickenhaus edit contains the original stereo track and the slightly altered track from Fortune Star, while the Hong Kong edit contains a 2.0 Dolby track. Commentary tracks are provided to both edits along with many special features.
See also
Jackie Chan filmography
Notes
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Parmeliella
Parmeliella is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Pannariaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions, and contains over 90 species.
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Hajjiabad (33°39′ N 50°04′ E), Kamareh
Hajjiabad (, also Romanized as Ḩājjīābād; also known as Ḩaq Verdī) is a village in Khorram Dasht Rural District, Kamareh District, Khomeyn County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 40, in 10 families.
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Tony Sinclair (biologist)
Anthony Ronald Entrican Sinclair (born March 25, 1944) is a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of British Columbia.
Education and early life
Sinclair spent his early childhood in the African bush in Tanzania, where his love for Africa and animals led him to study for degrees in zoology at Pembroke College, Oxford. For his doctoral dissertation, Sinclair conducted research into the ecology of African Buffalo under Niko Tinbergen at the University of Oxford with supervision from Hugh Lamprey at the Serengeti Research Institute.
Research and career
Sinclair is an ecologist and leading authority on the ecology, population dynamics and community structures of large mammals. His work is of importance for the management and conservation of the environment in Africa, North America and Australia. He is particularly interested in the areas of predator sensitive foraging, predator–prey theory, migration and the regulation of populations.
By conducting long-term research on large mammals in the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem and elsewhere in East Africa, Sinclair showed the ways in which different animal populations are regulated. He has also investigated how plant-eating animals are able to co-exist with each other, even when they have overlapping food sources.
Sinclair and his work are featured prominently in the documentary film, The Serengeti Rules, which was released in 2018.
Awards and honours
In 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002.
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St. Philip Catholic Central High School
St. Philip Catholic Central High School, located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo, is a Roman Catholic high school in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Sports
The Fighting Tigers compete in Class D of the MHSAA. The school offers the following sports: baseball, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country, football, boys' golf, boys' track, girls' track, volleyball, boys' and girls' swimming with Battle Creek Central, girls' soccer, and boys' soccer with Calhoun Christian.
St. Philip's is associated with the South Central Athletic Association (SCAA) beginning with the school year of (2009), transferring out of the Saint Joe Valley.
The most recent Class D state Titles came in girls' cross country (2006), and volleyball (2007-W, 2007-F, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014).
Notable alumni
Don Kent, professional wrestler
Mike Reilly, Major League Baseball umpire
John C. Sheehan, organic chemist
References
External links
Official School website
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Paul (bishop of Mérida)
Paul was the metropolitan bishop of Mérida in the mid-sixth century (fl. 540s/550s). He was a Greek physician who had travelled to Mérida, where there may have been a Greek expatriate community. Certainly enough Greek clergy were travelling to Spain in the early sixth century that Pope Hormisdas wrote to the Spanish bishops in 518 explaining what to do if Greeks still adhering to the Acacian heresy desired to enter communion with the local church.
At some point in his episcopate, he performed a Caesarian section to save a woman's life. In gratitude, her husband, the richest senator in Lusitania, left all his possessions as a legacy to Paul, as well as immediately giving him one half. Though canon law dictated that all gifts to bishops passed to the Church, Paul kept the legacy as his private possession.
Paul's sister's son, Fidelis, was hired out as a boy to a trading vessel on its way to Spain. When the merchants arrived in Mérida, they approached the bishop for an audience, as was customary, and Paul discovered his nephew. Paul immediately took Fidelis under his wing. Contrary to canon law, he consecrated Fidelis as his successor in the bishopric and tried to force the clergy to accept his decision by threatening to withhold his vast private wealth which technically belonged to the Church. Paul offered to leave the wealth to Fidelis and after Fidelis' death to the Church, but the bishops initially refused. They were forced to relent when he threatened to remove all his wealth and dispose of otherwise; the riches made Mérida by far the richest see in Spain. Fidelis, in accordance with Paul's wishes, left the wealth to the Church at his death. Paul's later biographer, the author of the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium, justified the bishop's transgressions of canon law by saying that the ideas had been relevante sibi Spiritu sancto: "revealed to him by the Holy Spirit." The VPE, as it is abbreviated, refers to Paul as a saint.
Paul is often held up by moder historians as an example of the poor image the Arian church had of Catholics on account of his illegal activities, but he is also used as proof of the close ties between the East and West which still existed for Spain, at least in the sixth century. He also demonstrates that there was little prejudice which would prevent foreigners from attaining high position in a Spanish city under the Visigothic monarchy.
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Cape Bon
Cape Bon ("Good Cape") may refer to either
a peninsula in far northeastern Tunisia, also known as Ras at-Taib (), Sharīk Peninsula, or Watan el Kibli
or
the northernmost point on the peninsula, also known as Ras ed-Dar.
Peninsula
The peninsula's northern shore forms the southern end of the Gulf of Tunis, its Southern shore is on the Gulf of Hammamet.
The peninsula is administered as the country's Nabeul Governorate.
Settlements on the peninsula include Nabeul, El Haouaria, Kelibia, Menzel Temime, Korba, and Beni Khalled. Rivers include the Melah and Chiba wadis. Mountains include Kef Bou Krim (), Kef er-Rend (), Djebel Sidi Abd er-Rahmane (), Djebel Hofra (), and Djebel Reba el-Aine (). Besides Cape Bon, other headlands on the peninsula are Ras Dourdas and Ras el-Fortass on the northern shore, Ras el-Melah on the short eastern shore, and Ras Mostefa and Ras Maamoura on the southern shore.
The ruins of the Punic town Kerkouane are also located here. Djebel Mlezza ("MtMlessa") has tombs from the time of Agathocles, which were excavated just before the First World War.
See also
Battles of Cape Bon in 468 and in 1941
El Brij, Tunisia
Sidi Rais
Korbous
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Relative bearing
In nautical navigation the relative bearing of an object is the clockwise angle from the heading of the vessel to a straight line drawn from the observation station on the vessel to the object.
The relative bearing is measured with a pelorus or other optical and electronic aids to navigation such as a periscope, sonar system, and radar systems. Since World War II, relative bearings of such diverse point sources have been and are calibrated carefully to one another. The United States Navy operates a special range off Puerto Rico and another on the west coast to perform such systems integration. Relative bearings then serve as the baseline data for converting relative directional data into true bearings (N-S-E-W, relative to the Earth's true geography). By contrast, Compass bearings have a varying error factor at differing locations about the globe, and are less reliable than the compensated or true bearings.
The measurement of relative bearings of fixed landmarks and other navigational aids is useful for the navigator because this information can be used on the nautical chart together with simple geometrical techniques to aid in determining the position of the vessel and/or its speed, course, etc.
The measurement of relative bearings of other vessels and objects in movement is useful to the navigator in avoiding the danger of collision.
Example: The navigator on a ship observes a lighthouse when its relative bearing is 45° and again when it is 90°. He now knows that the distance from the ship to the lighthouse is equal to the distance travelled by the vessel between both observations.
See also
Absolute bearing
Bearing
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Marzec
Marzec is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Piotr Marzec
Ryszard Marzec
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Doctor Demonicus
Doctor Demonicus (Douglas Birely) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He possesses advanced knowledge of genetic engineering and has clashed with the Avengers and the Shogun Warriors, in addition to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Publication history
Doctor Demonicus first appeared in Godzilla, King of the Monsters (vol. 1) #4 (Nov. 1977) and was created by Doug Moench and Tom Sutton.
Fictional character biography
Douglas Birely was born in Culver City, California. As a scientist, he was studying the correlation between radioactivity and mutation when he is contaminated by a radioactive spill. As Doctor Demonicus, he is a criminal geneticist and subversive. His discovery of the Lifestone allows him to create immense monsters mutated from animals. These include Batragon, Ghilaron, Lepirax, and Centipor. Using his monsters and his Demon-Soldiers, he raids oil tankers from his secret laboratory located on one of the Aleutian Islands. The monsters are defeated by Godzilla and Demonicus is defeated by Gabe Jones and taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. When Jones confronts Demonicus during this story, Demonicus is altogether willing to tell him his background and when referencing his monsters' creations he says "Knowing of his nuclear radiation mutation, I took my cues from Godzilla himself." When Godzilla begins slaying the creatures he has made, Demonicus becomes unstable, even claiming he would battle Godzilla directly in order to save one of the creatures.
Demonicus becomes an ally of the alien Myndai, Maur-Konn, who gives Demonicus his gigantic space satellite base orbiting the moon. Demonicus later uses his genetic and robotic monsters the Starchild, Cerberus, and the Hand of Five against the Shogun Warriors Raydeen, Combatra, and Dangard Ace. Demonicus launches a meteor strike against Earth from his space station base on the dark side of the Moon. He is defeated by the Shogun Warriors and taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. again.
He eventually captures, mentally controls and further mutates Godzilla (however, the creature is deliberately not named as such, because Marvel's license to use the monster had, by that point, expired. To give readers a clue as to who the creature was, Demonicus refers to the creature as being both "the greatest living dinosaur" and "my once-greatest enemy", the latter referring to Godzilla's defeat of his original creations. This version of Godzilla, according to G-Fan magazine, still makes occasional appearances in the Marvel Universe). The creature also, for unknown reasons, shrunk in size once Demonicus had captured and enslaved him. He sets Godzilla against the Avengers West Coast. Demonicus also salvages Iron Man's original armor and uses it to attack the West Coast Avengers personally. He is defeated by Tony Stark. He is later mutated by both the Lifestone and the demon Raksasa. His alter ego, Douglas Birely, develops skin cancer, which is kept under control by devices in his costume.
Demonicus is the founder, creator, and leader of the Pacific Overlords (who gained their various superpowers due to Demonicus exposing them to fragments of the Lifestone), and with them battles Sunfire and the West Coast Avengers. He raises a land mass from the Pacific Ocean floor just north of Hawaii, and on it founds the new nation of Demonica with himself as ruler. He attempts, unsuccessfully, to get the United Nations to recognize Demonica as a sovereign nation. However, he is seemingly killed when Demonica sinks back into the Pacific.
Doctor Demonicus is eventually arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for his crimes. He was sentenced to "the Raft", a supervillain prison facility. He was among the 43 villains who escaped during the breakout engineered by Electro.
The Hood hires him as part of his criminal organization to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helps them fight the New Avengers, but is taken down by Doctor Strange. Demonicus participates in the Hood's temporary alliance with superheroes in order to battle an invading Skrull force. As seen in flashbacks, the Hood had used his powers to help Demonicus and the others escape from jail. During a secretive gathering, Demonicus and the others learn of the Skrulls' attempt to infiltrate and control their organization. He joins with the Hood's gang in an attack on the New Avengers, who were expecting the Dark Avengers instead.
Powers and abilities
Doctor Demonicus is a genius with a Ph.D. in genetics and has an advanced knowledge of genetics and of the advanced technology of the alien Myndai. The doctor wears a costume that contains life-support devices which keep his skin cancer in remission. He has demonic-looking features, including mottled skin and horns on his forehead. He carries a blaster that fires an unknown form of concussive energy. He uses advanced genetics, robotics, and force field technology adapted to various weaponry. Doctor Demonicus possesses the Lifestone, a radioactive meteor, with which he has created artificially mutated monsters and humans.
References
External links
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Slade Hall
Slade Hall is a small Elizabethan manor house on Slade Lane in Longsight, Manchester, England (). An inscription above the porch dates the building to 1585.
The mansion is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, first listed on 25 February 1952.
History
Slade, known anciently as Milkwall Slade, was an estate made up of in Rusholme and in Gorton, both in Manchester, England. From about the mid-13th century until the reign of Elizabeth I, it was held by a family who adopted Slade as their surname. They sold the estate to the Siddall family, who in 1583 began construction of Slade Hall. Work was completed by 1585, as evidenced by an inscription on a beam over the porch, which also has the initials of the builder, E. S., for Edward Siddall. The Siddals and their descendants occupied the house for the next 300 years.
Slade Hall was offered for sale at auction in 2002, and was bought by property developer Mel Evans for £527,000. The hall was converted into flats, and as of 2017 is divided into shared accommodation for 14 residents. It is also the registered office of the Partington Housing Association.
Description
Slade Hall is an Elizabethan timber-framed house on a stone base, built to a hall and cross-wing plan. There are some brick extensions to the rear, a slate roof, and a 19th-century wing added to the right of the original. It is of two storeys, the upper one jettied.
The stud-and-rail timber frame has zig-zag herring-bone bracing between the constructional timbers. A porch in the angle between the main gable and the southern wing has painted lozenges resembling quatrefoils. The main hall has two first-floor four-light wooden mullioned casements; the range to the left has a restored fourteen-light mullion and transom window, with a three-light window immediately to its right. The range of the cross-wing on the right has ten-light mullion and transom windows at the ground floor and twelve-lights at the first floor.
The interior has some exposed timber work showing the house's original construction. Plaster friezes are still visible in the first-floor chamber above the hall, described by architectural historian Norman Redhead as crude 16th-century stuff. They depict mainly heraldic motifs, including the Elizabethan coat of arms and the Siddall family's crest, but also an "entertaining" hunting scene.
See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Manchester-M13
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Richard Haking
General Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking (24 January 1862 – 9 June 1945) was a British general who commanded XI Corps in the First World War.
Arguments over the late release of Haking's Corps on the first day of the Battle of Loos were instrumental in forcing the resignation of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Haking is remembered chiefly for the high casualties suffered by his forces (including many Australian troops) at the second Battle of Fromelles, launched while the Battle of the Somme was underway 80 km to the south, although at least one British historian has sought to defend his reputation, regarding him as an "intelligent and capable man" unfairly maligned in the popular mythology of the war. Although blocked from further promotion he continued to command XI Corps – including in Italy in the winter of 1917–18 and in Flanders in April 1918 – until the end of the war.
Early career
Haking was probably born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of a clergyman, Reverend Richard Haking. He attended Sandhurst then was commissioned into the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (which that year became part of the Hampshire Regiment) on 22 January 1881.
Haking saw active service in Burma 1885-7, and was promoted captain in 1889. He married Rachel Buford Hancock on 28 September 1891; they had no children.
Haking studied at Staff College 1896–97. He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for Cork District 1898–99. He was promoted major in 1899. He served on the staff in the Boer War, then returned to Staff College, first as a lecturer 1901-4, then as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG) 1904-6. Whilst on the faculty at Camberley he was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1903 and colonel in 1905.
Haking was GSO1 (chief of staff) to 3rd Division 1906–08 then Brigadier-General General Staff (BGGS) Southern Command in 1908. He was honoured with the Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1910.
According to Andy Simpson, in the Edwardian period "he established a reputation as a sound tactical thinker". His book Company Training (1913) was partly inspired by Haig's 1909 Field Service Regulations. The book espoused the pre-war belief that morale and leadership were the most important factor in winning a battle. He also argued that the attacker would have the advantage over the defender, even if numerically inferior, and deprecated the idea that modern weapons had made defence superior to attack. The book was reprinted during the first part of the war, at least. The book was considered "first class" and in Gordon Corrigan's view "even today ... has a freshness about it and an insight into human characteristics that would not be out of place in a modern military work".
Western Front: brigade and division commander
Haking was given command of the 5th Infantry Brigade in September 1911, and took it to the Western Front on the outbreak of war in August 1914, as part of Douglas Haig's I Corps. On 23 August 1914—the day of the Battle of Mons—in accordance with a request by Smith-Dorrien, GOC II Corps, Haig sent Haking with three battalions to make contact with II Corps on Haig's left, but Haking reported back that he had made no contact with the enemy. He helped force the Petit Morin during the Battle of the Marne. During the advance after the Marne, Haking's brigade was at the forefront at the Battle of the Aisne, and on 14 September his was one of the few units to fight its way onto the Chemin des Dames after the crossing of the River Aisne. Haig recorded that Haking's 5th Brigade made good progress on the eastern slopes of the Beaulne ridges, reaching the ridge of Tilleul de Courtacon, before having to pull back on meeting opposition. However, on that day he received a head wound that required three months' recuperation.
He returned to the front in November. On 21 December 1914 he was promoted to command the 1st Division from 21 December 1914, with the rank of major-general. His division took part in the Battle of Aubers Ridge (also known as the first Battle of Fromelles) in May 1915, where the three attacking divisions suffered a total of 11,600 casualties and where he argued for further attacks despite the clear failure of the first assault. His attacking brigades lost over 50% of their fighting strength in little over an hour. He was not blamed for what Simpson describes as the "flawed artillery plan and lack of artillery support" at Aubers Ridge.
With the BEF expanding massively in size, Haking was one of the divisional commanders (he was fourth in order of seniority after Thomas Morland, Henry Horne and Hubert Gough) whom Haig recommended to the Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith on 8 July 1915 as suitable for command of corps and armies in due course, although only Horne and Gough attained the latter level of command.
Western Front: Loos
On 1 September Haig recommended Haking, as a known "thruster", for command of XI Corps, part of First Army. The promotion was not confirmed until 4 September as Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief BEF, was ill. Haking would hold this command until the end of the war.
Preparations and First Day
Haking's corps took part as a reserve in the Battle of Loos in September 1915. He later told the Official Historian, James Edward Edmonds, that he had thought Haig wanted XI Corps to fill the gap between Hubert Gough's I Corps and Henry Rawlinson's IV Corps in the offensive, not act as a reserve at all. Before the battle Haking spoke to the men of 2nd Guards Brigade. One observer recorded that he "spoke very confidently, comparing the German line to the crust of a pie, behind which, once broken, he said, there is not much resistance to be expected. He ended up by saying "I don’t tell you this to cheer you up. I tell it you because I really believe it". He assured his commanders that there would be no German resistance once their line had been broken (letter of Lt-Col Rowland Feilding to his wife, 16 Sep 1915). Although "everyone was too optimistic", Haking's promises to Regimental officers that there would be "very little opposition" were "altogether misleading" and a "most regrettable travesty of the real facts" (testimony of various colonels to the Official Historian in the mid-1920s).
XI Corps were committed to battle (21st and 24th Division, both New Army formations, but not the Guards Division which was to be held back at first), tired and hungry after an overnight march to conceal their presence from the enemy, at 2.30pm on 25 September, the first day of the battle.
Second Day
GHQ released the Guards Division to First Army control at 1.45pm on 26 September, and it spent the day marching up to the front. Haking was ordered (at 11.30pm) to submit plans for it to attack the next day. The next day Haig wanted to call off the attack, but Haking felt it would not be possible to do so in time. Haking also lifted the artillery barrage off the German front positions to bombard more distant targets at 3pm, an hour before the attack was due to begin – Rawlinson, who visited him at 10am, thought this a bad idea, but kept his doubts to himself. Under pressure from Haig, XI Corps issued orders to 3 Guards Brigade that they were not to attack unless 2 Guards Brigade had already been successful, but these orders were not issued until the former had already left their trenches. XI Corps suffered another 8,000 casualties on the second day. Nick Lloyd agrees with Prior & Wilson that the blame for the decision to continue the attack on the second day lies with Haig, although he points out that Haking took his men forward without any doubts.
Nick Lloyd argues that Haking "proved unequal to the task" of welding XI Corps into a fighting formation. Poor relations between staff "do not reflect well on his managerial skills". Although Haking was not personally responsible for the attacks on 25 and 26 September, he offered no dissent to Haig's plans and his subsequent plans shared Haig's underestimation of the enemy and "traditional" view of artillery (i.e. that it was an adjunct to the infantry attack, rather than grasping the importance of concentrated artillery fire in making such an attack possible).
Ousting of Sir John French
The late release of Haking's XI Corps on the first day was thought – supposedly – to have thrown away a chance of breakthrough and decisive victory. French blamed poor First Army staffwork and traffic control, whilst Haig alleged that French had released the reserve too late. On the day itself Rawlinson had telephoned Haking at 12.20pm urging him to get the reserves forward, and wrote on the telephone log that Haking reported "traffic" difficulties. In a letter of 10 October Haking blamed difficulties as his divisions moved through the administration areas of I Corps and IV Corps. However, Haking later – after a meeting with Haig – claimed that this had been based on "memory of verbal statements made to (him)" by the commanders of 21st and 24th Divisions on the night of 25 September. He now wrote that "the most careful arrangements were made by First Army to ensure that the roads were kept clear". He then blamed "indifferent march discipline" (Haig was blaming the delay on "bad march discipline" – almost exactly the same phrase). In the final paragraph of his report he wrote that "there is none to blame except GHQ and they know it". Nick Lloyd writes "it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Haking was deliberately falsifying or "cooking" his evidence to make it more palatable to (Haig)". Haig’s and Haking’s slur was bitterly resented by a number of officers who later testified to the Official Historian in the 1920s about traffic congestion and poor direction by the Military Police.
Haking was also one of those who criticised French's deployment of the reserve to King George V when the King visited the front in October, as part of the moves which led to French's enforced resignation.
In Simpson’s view Loos was a "disaster" but "Haking escaped censure on this occasion … he was … quick to back Haig in the subsequent intrigues against French, and after Haig became commander-in-chief the security of Haking’s position was not in doubt".
Subsequent Attacks
A subsequent attack ensued on 13 October. In some respects, writes Nick Lloyd, this was better-planned than what had gone before. Haking insisted that the attacking brigades be given precise orders as to their objectives, and the direction and timing of their advance. Care was taken to see that troops were supplied with grenades, that they took machine guns forward with them, and that they kept communications trenches clear. 18-pounder guns were to be kept in the front line to give covering fire as the men went over the top, a tactic used at the Battle of Festubert earlier in the year, whilst at a First Army conference on 6 October it was agreed that XI Corps would be supported by "every available gun" and by smoke over a wide front (i.e. forcing the Germans to disperse their own fire). Attempts were also made to assimilate tactical lessons from recent assaults and in some divisions to train on scale models.
On 10 & 12 October divisional artillery concentrated on wire cutting whilst heavier guns concentrated on destroying enemy strongpoints. Haking persuaded himself that the enemy were "shaken and disorganised" ("little more than wishful thinking" in Nick Lloyd's view) and that enough artillery and gas was now available to win a decisive victory (in the event the bombardment did little damage to the German positions). Once again Haking gave a series of highly optimistic speeches to the attacking brigades. However, on the day of the attack, and apparently at Haking's insistence, the heavy guns were again "lifted" from the German front line an hour before the 2pm attack, leaving them to be bombarded only by shrapnel – a tactic used by the Guards Brigade earlier in the battle. Haking ignored advice from Haig (on the telephone on 28 September) to suggest that this had been a bad idea, although in accordance with Army doctrine at the time Haig once again delegated the decision to Haking as the "man on the spot". Haking appears to have thought that High Explosive fire might disperse British gas (although gas was, this time, being used as an adjunct to the attack rather than a decisive weapon in itself), but he also wanted to give the Germans "a chance to run away". Stuart-Wortley, GOC 46th Division, was under Haking's command for the attack. He later complained that he and his troops had been "hurried into the trenches" with barely enough time "to become acquainted with the actual position". Haking overruled his wish to launch a careful step-by-step attack, telling him that he would "reach Fosse 8 without firing a shot". In Nick Lloyd's description Haking was "seriously misleading the troops under his command" or else "simply ignorant". The attack went so badly that Lt-Col J. C. Wedgwood MP sent a report to the Prime Minister.
After Loos
The future Air Vice Marshal Philip Game, then serving as GSO1 to 46th Division, wrote frequently in letters to his wife (10, 11, 24 November, 8, 10, 20 December 1915) of how Haking interfered frequently with his planning. Game described Haking as "a vindictive bully" and "really impossible, untruthful, a bully and not to be trusted" (letters of December 1915 and April 1916). In May 1916 Haking complained that a unit had "dirt on their clothes" – they had in fact just come out of the trenches.
Haking claimed in May 1916 that no division could be considered a fighting unit until they had carried out a successful trench raid. In John Bourne's view "Haking had already begun to achieve a reputation as something of a loose cannon … he did more than anyone in the BEF to encourage trench raids and "the spirit of the bayonet"". Haking launched what John Bourne describes as "an unnecessary and unsuccessful attack" against a German position called the Boar's Head (19–30 June 1916).
Western Front: Fromelles
Planning
Haking suggested a First Army attack towards Fromelles, not towards Lille as originally planned. Bourne writes: "that (Fromelles) took place at all owed most to the ambition and willingness of Haking to carry it out, and his unshakeable confidence that it would work. Fromelles is difficult to justify as the point for an attack, even a feint attack" as it was flat ground, broken up by water obstacles, and overlooked by Aubers Ridge. Fromelles lay near the boundary of Second and First Armies, opening the possibility of participation by Second Army, whose GOC Plumer was reluctant to mount a diversionary attack at Ypres or Messines. Haking's plan did not take into account the earlier failure on the same ground in May 1915.
Haking "was most optimistic" about the upcoming Somme offensive (Millward War Diary, 22 June 1916). At a conference of his corps commanders (8 July) Monro (GOC First Army) said that the Battle of the Somme was progressing "favourably", but ordered Haking to prepare a plan on the assumption that he was to be assisted by a division of Second Army and some extra artillery (on the same day 4th Australian Division was ordered south to the Somme but instructed to leave behind its artillery). Haking presented a scheme to Monro (9 July) for a two-division attack over a front of 4,200 yards, aiming to capture part of Aubers-Fromelles Ridge, which lay a mile or so behind the German line. Monro initially rejected this plan in favour of a Canadian attack at Vimy Ridge, but after pressure from GHQ – caused by the movement of German reserves from Lille to the Somme sector – informed Haking (13 July) that it was to go ahead. That day Haking's plan was approved at a conference at Choques, attended by Maj-Gen Butler (Deputy Chief of Staff, BEF) with Major Howard in attendance, Maj-Gen Barrow (Chief of Staff First Army) and Maj-Gen Harington (Chief of Staff Second Army). Plumer (GOC Second Army) also approved the plan at another meeting that day, and at another subsequent meeting, and it was agreed that the bombardment – by the equivalent of five or six division's worth of artillery – should start on 14 July, with a view to an attack on 17 July to capture and hold the German first line.
Haking now learned that Second Army were only allocating him the equivalent of two divisions’ worth of artillery (that of 4th and 5th Australian Divisions), not three as promised. Haking was also concerned at the shortage of ammunition and the inexperience of the Australian gunners. He therefore reduced the planned width of the attack to around 3,500 yards, apparently in the belief that he had sufficient artillery to cover this effectively.
General Walker refused to let 1st Australian Division take part in Fromelles, for which insubordination he would most likely have been relieved had he been commanding British troops. Instead the 5th Australian Division under J W McCay took part – the division was inexperienced and had only been in France a short time. The attack was overlooked by a German fortification called the Sugar Loaf.
Butler reiterated Haig's conditions that sufficient guns and ammunition for counter-battery work be available at a meeting with Haking, Monro, Plumer, Barrow and Harington on 16 July, and at the meeting pointed out that intelligence reports of the movement of German reserves meant that the attack was no longer so urgently required. Haking was, however, "most emphatic" that the troops were "worked up … ready and anxious" to attack and that a delay would be poor for morale. Butler again reiterated Haig's concerns in a memo (17 July).
Preparation
Haking told his divisional commanders (at a conference on the afternoon of 16 July) that he wanted to avoid a repetition of what had happened on the Somme on 1 July, when the Germans had had time to man their parapets before the British crossed No Man's Land. The artillery was to stay "on, not over" the German positions until the infantry attacked (although he thought that the bombardment over a relatively narrow frontage would "reduce the defenders to a state of collapse before the assault"), and that the infantry were to be deployed in No Man's Land ready to "rush forward together" when the signal was given. Haking issued a letter "to be read to all troops", although he "trust(ed) them not to disclose it to anyone". The letter gave details of the artillery bombardment, including plans for a feint – deepening of the range of the bombardment and "show(ing of) bayonets over the parapet" – to tempt the Germans from their front-line dugouts so that they could then be shelled again – and also disclosed that the objective was to be limited to the German first line. The plan was thus well known, even to "the Mademoiselles" behind the British lines, although in practice the Germans, holding the high ground, could see enough of the British lines to guess that an attack was coming.
In the event the attack was postponed because of rain (which made it hard for artillery to register targets). Haking opened his advanced corps HQ at Sailly at 6am on 17 July – a sign that he did not expect the attack to be postponed for long, let alone cancelled. At 8.30am he sent a despatch in which, contradicting the assurances he had given, he admitted that many of the Australian gunners had never fired on the Western Front before, and that many of the infantry were "not fully trained" and "do not appear to be very anxious for the attack to be delivered". Eventually the start times (11am for artillery, 6pm for the infantry attack) were fixed for 19 July.
Although only the German front line was the target, plans were being discussed for further advances, possibly by night, in the event of complete success being achieved.
Initial Attack
A "surprise" attack was launched after an 11-hour bombardment, at 6pm on 19 July. He launched an attack by two divisions (61st British Division – consisted of 182nd, 183rd and 184th Brigades under the command of Major-General Colin Mackenzie – and 5th Australian Division) which cost 7,000 casualties. 18th and 14th Australian brigades managed to cross No Mans Land, but then suffered greater casualties in the retreat than in the original attack. 15th and 184th Australian brigades suffered severe casualties crossing No Mans Land for no result.
Controversy over plans to renew the attack
A further attack at 9pm was cancelled by 61st Division, but one Australian battalion attacked alone and suffered severe casualties. This earned the undying disgust of the commander of the Australian 15th Brigade, Brigadier-General Harold 'Pompey' Elliott, who had seen 80% of his two assaulting battalions killed, wounded or captured by night-fall.
The truth appears to be slightly more complicated. Haking, in possession of incomplete information, initially ordered a renewal of the attack the next day. Having received fresh information about the three brigades of 61st Div. at 8.20pm he ordered the 9pm attack to be abandoned and that 183 and 184 brigades return to or remain in their own front line. The 5th Australian Division was ordered to consolidate its gains, ready to assist another attack by 61st Division the following morning, whilst McCay was ordered not to reinforce Elliott's 15th Brigade but rather to withdraw any survivors of the initial assault. These orders were then confirmed again by XI Corps HQ just after 9pm. Pompey Elliott received orders, time stamped 9.25pm, telling him that he might withdraw 59th Battalion if he thought its attack unlikely to succeed. Elliott later claimed in his notes on the battle that McCay had only learned at 8.35pm, from 61st Division, that the latter's attack had been cancelled, too late to stop 58th Battalion going forward, and that the blame therefore lay with Haking. Paul Cobb puts the blame with McCay and his staff for not processing Haking's orders quickly enough.
Whilst 58th Australian Battalion were attacking, Haking changed his mind again on the basis of fresh information: McCay informed him that 8th and 14th Brigades were holding their positions in the German lines, whilst an RFC plane had misinterpreted flares, probably let off by Germans, as indicating the presence of BEF troops. At 10pm Haking's chief of staff, Brigadier-General W.H. Anderson, met with McCay and his chief of staff Lt-Col Wagstaff. Haking now ordered British 184th Brigade to attack the Sugar Loaf at 3am to assist the Australians, whilst McCay was authorised to reinforce his forward positions.
McCay had information about 8th and 14th Brigades, but sent a message (10.30pm) to Elliott's brigade asking for an update. Elliott was himself none the wiser – he knew that 60th Battalion were trying to hold their position in the German lines, but as yet had no information about 58th Battalion attack, and replied (at 11.30pm) that although he was concerned about German machine gun fire he was willing to make another attempt on the Sugar Loaf provided he was reinforced by 57th Battalion. An hour later Elliott learned of the failure of 58th Battalion attack, and notified McCay at once.
Haking then cancelled the night attack at 12.10am after learning that 61st Division had suffered too many casualties already and that trenches were blocked with wounded men.
A 5am conference was held at Sailly, with Monro, Mackenzie, McCay and Barrow. During the meeting an up-to-date report was received from 5th Australian Division HQ, and Monro and Haking ordered that 14th Brigade was to be withdrawn from the German front line rather than reinforced. Haking regarded the battle as over on 2pm on 20 July, when 5th Australian Division returned to the command of II ANZAC Corps. His advance Corps HQ at Sailly closed down an hour later. Monro and Haking concurred with McCay's veto of a proposal (21 July) that an informal local truce be negotiated in the Australian sector to allow the wounded to be collected, although this was in accordance with official GHQ policy at the time.
Reports and recriminations
Four days after the battle, Haking's four-page report accompanied Mackenzie's paper to First Army Headquarters. He wrote that 61st Division was "not sufficiently imbued with the offensive spirit to go in like one man at the appointed time". He conceded that the Australian Division had "attacked in the most gallant manner and gained the enemy’s position" but added that they "were not sufficiently trained to consolidate the ground gained", a phrase which caused angst in the Australian press and was quoted by Bean in the Australian Official History. He claimed that "The artillery preparation was adequate. There were sufficient guns and sufficient ammunition" and that "the wire was properly cut and the assaulting Battalions had a clear run into the enemy’s trenches", omitting to mention that on 17 July he had mentioned that some gunners had never before fired on the Western Front, and that many of the casualties resulted from machine guns fired from positions that the bombardment had failed to suppress. He claimed that "the lessons to be learnt from the attack apply more to the Divisions which took part than to ordinary trained Divisions" ... "the attack, though it failed, ha(d) done both divisions a great deal of good" ... and that "with two trained Divisions the position would have been a gift after the artillery bombardment; with these two new Divisions there was a good chance of success but they did not quite attain it", omitting to mention that he had had a good Division (the 1st) in May 1915. He also wrote that "the attack … has done both Divisions a great deal of good" and also listed the chronology of dates and postponements, claiming that he had been "directed to attack".
An intelligence report of 14 August wrote that no withdrawals of German troops had taken place from the Fromelles sector. Gordon Corrigan stresses that the battle "did prevent the Germans from shifting reserves south to the Somme battlefield, and cannot be said to have been without point". By 26 July Haking had received McCay's report and was more generous in his praise of the Australians, although he blamed 61st Division for failing to take the Sugar Loaf.
Wilson (diary 30 July 1916) described Fromelles at the time as "a botch job". Captain Philip Landon testified to Edmonds in 1938 that it had been "as good an illustration as there was of the reckless extravagance in expenditure of life (italics in original) which ruled the minds of some of the subordinate commanders, like Gen Haking, at this stage of the war" ... "the weakness of GHQ lay in not seeing that a Corps Commander, left to himself, would also be tempted to win glory for his Corps by spectacular success, and would be prodigal in using the Divisions which passed through his hands for this purpose". Colonel E.R. Clayton later testified to Edmonds that Haking's "undue optimism was one of the direct causes of failure" of the attack at Fromelles. In the Official History Wilfrid Miles later wrote scathingly of the lack of preparation and the pointlessness of an attack by inexperienced troops, to seize a position which they could not possibly have held against counterattacks, and blames First Army for not cancelling the operation.
Harold Elliott later (in 1930) criticised Haking for exaggerating the amount of artillery that would be available, and for attacking without surprise. He exonerated McCay and argued that Haking, after Major Howard's report (which Haig had annotated to permit the attack only on condition that sufficient guns and ammunition were available) had persuaded Monro, who in turn persuaded Butler, and that Haking had been keen to win glory for himself. He also stressed how Haking had ignored suggestions from Monro that the attack be postponed because of the rain, and was scornful of Haking's after-battle report.
Andy Simpson writes that Fromelles was "a costly failure" but "although the Australian Official Historian blamed Haking for the affair, fault also lay with the First Army and the 5th Australian Division itself".
Passed over for army command
Sheffield describes Haking as acquiring a reputation as a "butcher" and an organiser of pointless "stunts". Haking was one of the few First World War generals to have gained this label while the fighting was still taking place rather than after the war ended. However, it has also been claimed that he acquired the nickname amongst Australian troops from his propensity for ordering trench raids, and that "it is not even known how pejorative the appellation really was" given that amongst Australians " "bastard" is almost a term of affection"
His promotions may have resulted from Haig's patronage, but later attempts by Haig to obtain an Army command for him were unsuccessful. Monro (3 August 1916) recommended Haking as his successor as GOC First Army. When it became known that Haking was the front-runner, Wilson – who had been acting Army Commander earlier in the year and who was also considered for the promotion this time – wrote (5 August) "it only shows how hopelessly out of touch GHQ is with what we all think of Haking". Haig placed Haking in acting command of First Army from 7 August to 29 September 1916.
A letter from the CIGS Robertson (10 August) said that the War Committee vetoed Haking's promotion. The command went instead to Horne. The affair may have caused a curtailing of Haig's powers to make senior appointments.
Haking believed that the Germans on the Somme were "very tired, confused & rather demoralised" and "in a bad way" (Wilson diary 29 August 1916). Haking and his XI Corps took no part in the Somme, which Simpson argues "does not argue for much faith in Haking’s competence … at general headquarters".
Haking was honoured with the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1916.
Later war
Liddell Hart later claimed that Haking had reported Broadwood (57th Division) in early 1917 for "lack of fighting spirit". Haking protested to Horne (GOC First Army) on 18 March 1917 about how he was expected to hold a four-division stretch of front with two divisions, putting too much strain on the units involved. Horne met with him personally to discuss his concerns.
After being sent to reinforce the Italian Front following the disastrous Battle of Caporetto from November 1917 to March 1918, XI Corps was returned to the Western Front and was stationed at Béthune. It was almost immediately engaged by the assault in the German Spring Offensive of that year. Overall, the Corps protected the Channel ports, although some sections of the Corps were all but destroyed by the German "Georgette" Offensive. In particular the 2nd Portuguese Division suffered 7,000 casualties and 300 officers (out of a divisional strength of 20,000) in the Battle of Estaires. Haking and his Corps "did well" in the halting of this offensive. Haking was not a believer in "defence in depth", but Andy Simpson argues that this was not necessarily a bad thing, as 55th Division under his command – fresh troops holding old fortifications – were able to hold their positions and even establish a defensive flank despite the rout of the Portuguese division to their south.
Lloyd George told the War Cabinet (11 April) that the Liberal War Committee (a committee of backbench MPs) had made "very serious protests" to him that afternoon against the retention of "incompetent" officers like Gough (who had just been sacked after his Fifth Army had borne the brunt of the German March Offensive) and Haking. Unlike Gough, Haking retained his command.
General Gomes da Costa later wrote (in O corpo de exercito portugues na Grande Guerra: A batalha do Lys) of "the esteem in which I held General Haking … who always showed himself through his knowledge of the Portuguese language, extremely intelligent and clever, a fine soldier and a loyal friend".
Haking conducted a successful attack at La Bassee in June 1918. Simpson writes that his "performance continued to be far more convincing than earlier in the war". On 17 October 1918 his corps entered the line as part of Birdwood’s Fifth Army. Corrigan writes that that autumn Haking "earned a high reputation in the British Offensive which ended the war" whilst Simpson writes that "(h)is promise before the First World War was never realised during it, but he undoubtedly showed far more skill with the soldiers of 1918 than with those under his command in 1915–16".
Haking was honoured with the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1918.
Post-war
After the war, in Corrigan's view, "his ... career was distinguished": he became chief of the British section of the Armistice Commission in 1918-19, commander of the British military mission to Russia and the Baltic Provinces in 1919 and commander of Allied troops in the plebiscite area of East Prussia and Danzig in 1920, before becoming High Commissioner to the League of Nations in Danzig in 1921–23.
Haking was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1921 New Year Honours. He became General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt 1923–27 and was promoted to full general in 1925. He retired in 1927.
Haking died of secondary colon cancer at Old Mill Cottage, Bulford, Wilts on 9 June 1945. The funeral took place at Bulford on 12 June 1945, with military honours. His wealth at death was £5,579 12s 1d (around £200,000 at 2016 prices) as of 26 Nov 1945.
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Steven Sherlock
Steven Sherlock (born 28 March 1997) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Cork Senior Championship club St. Finbarr's and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. He usually lines out as a left corner-forward.
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Club
Inter-county
Honours
St. Finbarr's
Cork Senior Football Championship (1): 2018
Cork
Munster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2016
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External links
Steven Sherlock profile at the Cork GAA website
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Generation gap (disambiguation)
The name generation gap may refer to:
Generation gap: a term referring to differences between people of a younger generation and their elders
Generation gap (pattern): a pattern for modifying or extending generated code
Generation Gap (TV series): 2004 PBS sitcom
The Generation Gap: 1969 ABC game show
The Generation Gap (song): 1988 single by Hoodoo Gurus
The Generation Gap (band) an acid rock band from Florida
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Dover Beach (novel)
Dover Beach is a 1987 science fiction novel by Richard Bowker. The book was nominated for the 1987 Philip K. Dick Award.
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Memorial Drive (Houston)
Memorial Drive is an arterial road in the western half of Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Interstate 45 west to State Highway 6, a distance of approximately 20 miles (32 km), although a section goes through several predominantly higher-income residential neighborhoods in the cities of Houston, Bunker Hill Village, Piney Point Village, and Hunters Creek Village. In addition it goes through Memorial Park. Memorial Drive was named in the memory of the men who served in Camp Logan.
History
Memorial Drive was established in the 1920s. In the 1940s and early 1950s, Memorial Drive was originally intended to be one of ten freeway spokes extending outward from Downtown Houston. Despite the explosive population growth in the Houston area in recent decades, the heaviest traffic on Memorial Drive was in the early 1960s. Nearly 47,000 vehicles per day traveled on the section at Waugh Drive in 1960. When the Katy Freeway opened in 1968, the road's importance as a high-speed corridor decreased. In contrast to its earlier days, between 30,000 and 36,000 vehicles per day traveled along this section in 2001.
Houston City Council member Pam Holm announced in May 2007 that a large portion, roughly one fourth of the Memorial's length, will be expanded and beautified. The stretch of road from George Bush Park eastward to Gessner Road, about 6.2 miles (9.9 km), will be renovated to meet the population boom in the west Houston area. The first part of the expansion was slated to begin in 2009.
Path
The full path of Memorial Drive, highlighted in red.
Parkway section
This limited-access portion of Memorial Drive was opened to traffic in early 1956. The 2.3 mile (3.7 km) portion between Houston Avenue and Shepherd Drive is a limited-access parkway. There is an underpass at Heights Boulevard/Waugh Drive with a large cloverleaf interchange. There are also exit and entrance ramps at Shepherd Drive. Motorists can enter Memorial Drive from northbound (by way of the I-45 northbound/Pease Street distributor ramp) or southbound Houston Avenue, Prairie Street, and Capitol Street. Motorists exit either to I-45 southbound and Pierce, Jefferson and Bagby Streets (by way of the Heiner Street distributor elevated ramp), Rusk Street, or Texas Avenue. Most of this parkway is three lanes in each direction.
This section of Memorial Drive hugs the north bank of Buffalo Bayou, crossing over it twice near Glenwood Cemetery, while Allen Parkway follows the south bank of the Bayou. There are continuous bike paths and jogging trails along the road, which passes by Buffalo Bayou Park, Cleveland Park, Spotts Park, and the Houston Police Officers' Memorial.
Memorial Park
Memorial Drive is the only major road in Memorial Park (except for a short section of Woodway Drive) and the only road that traverses the entire park. Like the parkway section, there are many bicycle and jogging trails along the road. The annual Chevron Houston Marathon is held on this section of Memorial Drive each January.
Memorial Villages
After passing under Interstate 610, the road slowly winds north, through wooded but densely populated neighborhoods. The road later turns south through three of the Memorial Villages: Hunters Creek Village, Piney Point Village, and then Bunker Hill Village. The Memorial Villages are upscale neighborhoods, populated mainly by corporate executives, and feature some of the more expensive homes in the Houston area. For all but the westernmost edge of Bunker Hill Village, the road is only two lanes wide. Between Gessner Road and State Highway 6, Memorial Drive has four lanes.
West end
West of Beltway 8, Memorial Drive is considered a major road in the area, making its way through numerous residential neighborhoods on the westside and usually bordered by retail shops and strip malls, many of them serving the surrounding higher-income residential population. The upscale shopping center Town & Country Village borders this segment. This segment also passes through the northern portion of the Energy Corridor management district. The western end of Memorial Drive is at Highway 6, at the edge of a large earthen dam on Barker Reservoir, next to George Bush Park.
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Laura J. Burns
Laura J. Burns is an American author originally from Long Island, New York. Starting in publishing, she now specializes in novels based on television shows or movies. She often collaborates with fellow author Melinda Metz, with whom she writes the book series based on the Everwood TV show, and the Wright and Wong young detective series. She was closely involved with the creation of the Roswell High series, and later became a staff writer on the Roswell TV series.
Selected Works
Roswell: Quarantine (2003)
Charmed: Seasons of the Witch vol. 1 - Samhain & Imbolc (2003)
Charmed: Inherit the Witch (2004)
Charmed: Sweet Talkin' Demon (2006)
Darcy's Wild Life: A Fine State of Affairs (2006)
Darcy's Wild Life: Go West Darcy! (2006)
With Melinda Metz
"Abomination, Beauport, Brittany, France, 1320" in Tales of the Slayer vol. 2 (2003)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Apocalypse Memories (2004)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Colony (2005)
Everwood: First Impressions (2004)
Everwood: Making Choices (2004)
Everwood: Worlds Apart (2005)
Everwood: Change of Plans (2005)
Wright and Wong: The Case Of The Prank That Stank (2005)
Wright and Wong: The Case of the Nana-Napper (2005)Wright and Wong: The Case of the Trail Mix-Up (2005)
Wright and Wong: The Case of the Slippery Soap Star (2005)Kong, the 8th Wonder of the World (2005)Kong: Escape from Skull Island (2005)Crave (2010)Sacrifice (2011)Sanctuary Bay (2016)I Do Not Trust You'' (2018)
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Interview with Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz
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Murphy Institute
The Murphy Institute is a research and educational center that supports a number of academic programs in the fields of political economy and ethics at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
History
The Murphy Institute was founded in 1980 with a generous contribution from the Murphy family. It was established to be a research and educational center aimed at understanding and linking the economic, ethical, and political questions and practices within our society. The Institute has three core programs: an interdisciplinary undergraduate program in political economy, established in 1984; the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, started in 2001 to address critical ethical questions and dilemmas related to citizenship, justice, community, and professional responsibility; and the Public Policy program, created in 2010 seeking to foster research and outreach on public policy. As a means to enrich teaching and research in political economy, ethics, and public policy, the Murphy Institute also regularly hosts conferences, seminars, and lectures by prominent public figures and visiting scholars and co-sponsors publications.
Steven M. Sheffrin is the Director of the Murphy Institute.
Murphy Family
The Murphy Institute was established in memory of Charles H. Murphy, Sr. (1870–1954) by his son Charles H. Murphy, Jr. The Murphy Institute is supported by the endowment of the Tulane Murphy Foundation.
Past Directors
1980–1981: William Oakland
1981–1984: Dagobert L. Brito
1984–2009: Richard F.Teichgraeber III
2010–present: Steven M. Sheffrin
References
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/classified/paid-notice-deaths-murphy-charles-h.html
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Roy MacGregor
Roy MacGregor is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction.
Career
Roy MacGregor was born in Whitney, Ontario, in 1948 and grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. His work tends to focus on Canadian topics; Shelagh Rogers has dubbed him the "heir to Peter Gzowski". He has a longstanding interest in the life of Tom Thomson, and has written both a novel and a biography exploring the artist's life and mysterious death.
MacGregor has also been called "the Wayne Gretzky of hockey writing" and the Washington Post once declared him to be "the closest thing there is to a poet laureate of Canadian hockey." In 2012, he was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association and named the media honouree to the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2015 he was named to the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as winner of the Brian Williams Media Award. He is also a member of the Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame, Huntsville being the small town where he played competitive hockey, lacrosse and baseball. In 1960, he played - as a second- and third-liner - on the Huntsville team that won the all-Ontario Pee Wee 'A' lacrosse championship.
He is the winner of multiple awards for his writing, including the prestigious Rutstrum Award, which is given out every five years to the best book on wilderness writing in North America. MacGregor won in 2001 for his memoir on his father, A Life in the Bush. MacGregor is a multiple winner of National Magazine Awards, National Newspaper Awards and twice was awarded the ACTRA "Nellie" as Canada's top television dramatist. He has received honorary degrees from Laurentian University, Trent University and Loyalist College.
In 2005, Roy MacGregor was named an Officer in the Order of Canada. In 2012, he was awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He and Ellen, an artist, live in Kanata, Ontario, and have four grown children and five grandchildren.
Bibliography
The Ice Chips and the Haunted Hurricane, with Kerry MacGregor, Illustrated by Kim Smith, Harper Collins, 2018.
The Ice Chips and the Magical Rink, with Kerry MacGregor, Illustrated by Kim Smith, Harper Collins, 2018.
Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada, Random House Canada, 2017, winner of Ottawa Book Award 2018 .
Canoe Country: The Making of Canada. Random House, Canada, 2015.
Wayne Gretzky's Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey. Random House, Canada, 2011.
Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him. Random House, Canada, 2010
Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People. Viking/Penguin, Canada, 2007.
The Dog and I: Confessions of a Best Friend. Penguin Books Canada, 2006.
The Weekender: A Cottage Journal. Penguin Books Canada, 2005.
Canoe Lake. Novel, originally published as Shorelines, McClelland & Stewart, Canada, 2002.
Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Canada, 2002.
A Loonie for Luck: A True Fable about Hockey and the Olympics. McClelland & Stewart, Canada, 2002.
A Life in the Bush: Lessons from my father. Viking/Penguin, Canada, 1999.
The Seven A.M. Practice. McClelland & Stewart, Canada, 1996.
Valley Christmas. GenerTal Store Publishing House, Canada, 1996.
The Home Team: Fathers, Sons & Hockey. Viking/Penguin, Canada, 1995.
Road Games: A Year in the Life of the NHL. Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, Canada, 1993.
The Road Home: Images of the Ottawa Valley. Photography by Steve Evans. General Store Publishing House, Canada, 1992.
Quantity Time: Words of Comfort for Imperfect Parents. McClelland & Stewart, Canada, 1990.
Chief: The Fearless Vision of Billy Diamond. Viking/Penguin, Canada, 1989.
Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada. Co-author with Ken Dryden, McClelland & Stewart, 1989.
The Screech Owls Mystery Series for young readers. 29 volumes, 1995-2015.
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NGC 415
NGC 415 is a spiral galaxy of type SB(rb)b located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 1, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, round, gradually a little brighter middle."
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Bajrići (Cazin)
Bajrići (Cazin) is a village in the municipality of Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Abutilon listeri
Abutilon listeri , commonly known as the lantern flower, is a tropical shrub in the Malvaceae or mallow family. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet honours British zoologist and plant collector Joseph Jackson Lister, who visited the island on HMS Egeria in 1887.
Description
Abutilon listeri is a common shrub on Christmas Island, growing to 1–3 m in height. The leaves are circular to broadly ovate, either entire or weakly crenate, and about 90–160 mm long. The yellow flowers occur in loose, terminal panicles.
Distribution and habitat
Found only on Christmas Island, the lantern flower grows in natural clearings and the rainforest margin behind the sea cliffs on the lower terraces, and is often found in secondary growth and along paths and tracks. It responds well to environmental disturbance.
Taxonomy
The lantern flower is closely related to the sympatric A. auritum; both have a paniculate inflorescence and fewer than 15 mericarps.
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Squib (keelboat)
A Squib is a type of small racing keelboat designed in 1967 by Oliver Lee as a successor to the Ajax 23. It is a strict "one-design" class of boat, having a length of 5.79m, beam of 1.87m, a sail area of 15.8 sq m (without spinnaker) and a weight of 680 kg (including sails and fittings). The usual crew is two people and the boat can be cruised or raced with a Portsmouth Yardstick of 1129. The Squib has been adopted by the RYA as the National Keelboat and is big enough to race at sea and small enough to be trailed easily behind a family car.
Early history
Oliver Lee built the prototype Squib in 1967, using cold moulded wood. Following a succession of trials, the prototype was used as a "plug" from which copies of the boat could be built using glass-reinforced plastic construction. The first to be built was launched in June 1968, with sail number 11. Much later the plug was turned into a functioning boat and still sails. During 1968, a further five Squibs were built, and the first fleet began racing at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch. Over the following few years numbers grew at Burnham and new fleets were formed at Waldringfield, Brixham, Abersoch and Aldeburgh. The Squib was granted national status by the Royal Yachting Association in 1972, when numbers exceeded 300.
In 1974, with sail numbers approaching 400, some of Britain's yachting journalists were invited to Burnham-on-Crouch to race Squibs, in an event called the "Squib Symposium". This resulted in raising the Squib's profile with the yachting press. Around this time, the Design Centre (now retitled as the Design Council) decided to put the Squib on its index of selected designs.
Squib builders
Boats from number 11 to 157 were built by Oliver Lee in Burnham.
From 158 to 724, Squibs were built under licence by Hunter Boats.
Numbers 725 to 767 were built by Oliver Lee Racing Yacht.
After the death of Oliver Lee, in 1994, the licence moved to Barker Brewer Boats who built 768 to 782.
In 1997 the licence was acquired by Bruce Parker Sailboats who, by Spring 2009, had built 100 Squibs, their first being 783 and final boat 885. They were the only official builder of Squibs until they went into liquidation.
The moulds have been owned by the National Squib Owners Association since 1994 and a new deck and a new hull mould were commissioned in 2009. Strict control is kept over Squib build to ensure that older boats do not become uncompetitive as has happened in some other classes. However, there were keel mould changes in Squib number 230 and again at 465.
Older Squibs are still prized. In 1996, the National Championship winning boat was a Barker Brewer build (771 Arctic Fox.) In 1999 and 2008, Parker built Squibs won. All the other Championships since 1996 were won by older boats, nine of them by boats built before 1972.
By 2010 over 810 Squibs have been built and the National Squib Owners Association has over 640 members.
In June 2014 The National Squib Owners Association (NSOA) announced that Rondar Race Boats have been chosen to be the next builder of the National Squib and it has been decided to number all new Squibs starting at No. 900.
The squib today
By 2010, there are 27 local fleets in the British Isles and Ireland, 10 of which have over 20 boats. In 2008, the 40th Anniversary Regatta, with 45 entries, was held at Burnham-on-Crouch.
The Squib is not only raced. Cruising is a major feature of the life of the Squib Fleet at Newhaven and Seaford YC and a version of the Squib cruised from Glasgow to Invernesss – and one crossed the Atlantic.
The Squib is a favourite boat for people with disabilities and, for example, the East Anglia Sailing Trust, an organisation aimed at providing sailing opportunities for disabled people, uses a fleet of Squibs. In 2009, the Special Olympics (for people with learning disabilities) were held in Leicester. The sailing events were at Rutland and the Squib was selected as the competition boat.
The class is beginning to have international aspirations. In the early days a couple of Squibs went to Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands as day charter boats and a fleet grew there but none of the boats now remain in use. Other early Squibs went to South Africa, Greece, Germany and Australia. Six brand new Squibs recently went to Germany and there is talk of the class featuring in Kiel Woche and of racing on the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands.
In August 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Squib class will be celebrated at Cowes Week (England) with a fleet of 100 Squibs, and at Calves Week (Ireland) in an appropriate manner.
Racing
The first National Championship was held at Burnham, in 1972, with 29 competitors, and the event has been held at a different venue every year since then. The Nationals move around the British Isles and have been held from Dundee to Plymouth, as well as in Ireland (four times) and in Wales (eight times). The first 100 boat Nationals fleet was at Howth near Dublin in 1996 and attendance at the Nationals is regularly over 80 boats. In 2009, in Weymouth, 108 Squibs competed in the National Championship.
In 1995 Rutland Sailing Club instituted an Inland Championship which has proved so popular that it has been held on Rutland Water every year since with the entry limited to 55. Squibs are one of the largest fleets at Cowes Week. In 2008, there were 40 Squibs racing, appropriately in the Squib’s 40th year.
Counting regional championships, invitational events and regattas, Squibs compete in 25 open events each year - all over the British Isles and increasingly on the Continent.
Ranked by attendance at National Championships, the Squib is consistently one of the top ten classes. In 2007, only five other classes had larger numbers than the Squib and four of these were children’s boats.
Squibs race as a class in Aldeburgh Week, Medway Week, Menai Strait Fortnight, Oulton Week and Tay Week.
In Ireland there are Squib fleets in the North at Belfast Lough (Cultra), and Strangford Lough.
There are fleets on the east coast at Howth, Dublin Bay, Arklow, Wexford,
The south coast at Kinsale and Glandore.
The only inland freshwater fleet is at Dromineer on Lough Derg.
Related design
The Sandhopper is a shallow draft version of the Squib, also designed by Oliver Lee. Among others, there are regular racing fleets at locations on the East Coast of England.
External links
Squib Class Association
Low Number Squibs
(Asterix indicates a national Championship winner)
11 - 'Squib' - RCYC.
12 - 'Perkers' - ?
13 - 'Aquabat' - RVYC
14 - 'Firecracker'
15 - 'Lee Deck'
16 - 'Squibbo'
17 - 'Nimbus of Burnham'
18 - 'NicRs'(formerly 'Drips').
19 - 'Seabright'
20 - 'Buccaneer' Royal Victoria Y.C.
21 - 'Tombo' - Royal Corinthian Yacht Club
22 - ?
23 - 'Grayling' - SCYC.
24 - 'Femme Fatale' (Formerly 'Kit Kat') - RStGYC / LDergYC
25 - 'Crackers II'
26 - ?
27 - 'Vindex'
28 - 'Thistle' - SCYC*
29 - ?
30 - 'Crimson Dusk' Burwain.
31 - 'Frodo'
32 - 'Rojo' - ?*
33 - 'Incendio' - RVYC/Portsmouth SC
34 - ?
35 - 'Ruby Blue' (formerly) 'East Coast Joy' - Dun Laoghaire , - (formerly) 'Quackers' Whitby, Yorks - (formerly) 'Sandpiper' Lytham St Annes
36 - 'Artemis II'
37 - 'Kerfuffle' - HowthYC.
38 - 'Nimble'(formerly Smithy's Nimble) - KinsaleYC
39 - 'First Tango'
40 - 'Ruby'
41 - 'Seahorse'
42 - 'Fifty Shades' (formerly 'East Wind') - KinsaleYC
43 - 'In The Pink'
44 - 'Perfection' - RStGeorgeYC.*
45 - ?
46 - 'Lola' - GreystonesSC.
47 - 'Insatiable' - RAngleseaYC.
48 - 'Periquin' - DunLaoghaireMotorYC/ R.St.GeorgeY.C.
49 - 'Genesta'
50 - 'Firebird' - ?
51 - 'Mucky Duck' (Formerly 'Battaleur') - KinsaleYC.
52 - 'Baccante VII'
53 - 'Karma' (formerly 'Petard') 'The Backstop' RStGYC.
54 - 'Penny B'
55 - 'Pyro'
56 - Crackertoo HowthYC
57 - 'Bobonski' - HolyheadSC.
58 - 'Still Talkin''
59 - ?
60 - ?
61 - ?
62 - 'Can Brio' - RAYC
63 - 'Inky Fingers'
64 - 'Joint Venture' - RNoIYC
65 - 'Banshee' - SCYC
66 - 'Puffin II' - HowthYC
67 - 'Flare' - ?
68 - ?
69 - 'Touchpaper'
70 - 'Contender' - RNorthofIrelandYC
71 - ?
72 - 'Guy Falkes' - Royal Corinthian Yacht Club
73 - 'Brimstone' - Oulton Broad.*
74 - 'Nyheden' - Denmark (For sale 25-6-17)
75 - 'Tiddler' - South Africa in need of restoration.
76 - 'Koroo'
77 - 'Dora' (formerly 'Brita').
78 - 'Aficianado' - RNoIYC
79 - 'Sedition' - KinsaleYC
80 - ?
81 - ?
82 - ?
83 - 'Easy'
84 - 'Entente Cordiale' (formerly Sroda) - ?
85 - 'Kitten'
86 - Jubilation (formerly Miss Sparks) - ?*
87 - 'Fizzle'
88 - 'Hussy' - WeymouthSC
89 - 'Klipbok' - Formerly Howth YC
90 - 'Paramour'
91 - 'Discord'.
92 - 'Heartbeat' for sale June 2019
93 - 'Sannu-Sannu II'
94 - 'Confusion' - Howth
95 - 'Little Demon' - RStGeorgeYC.
96 - 'Moonstone' - SCYC
97 - 'Ex Flame'
98 - 'Nebulette' - KinsaleYC
99 - 'Rebound'
100 - 'Fagin' - RNoIYC.*
101 - 'Iskra'
102 - 'Slipstream' - KillyleaghYC
103 - ?
104 - 'Wildfire'.
105 - 'Helmut Shoing II' (formerly Navy Lark) - RCYC.
106 - ?
107 - 'Taxi'.
108 - 'Ogo Pogo' SCYC
109 - ?
110 - ?
111 - 'Seven' - RAYC.
112 - 'Peregrine'
113 - ?
114 - ?
115 - ?
116 - 'Aquarius' - KillyleaghYC
117 - 'Cracker'
118 - ?
119 - 'Shillelagh' - KinsaleYC
120 - 'Sonny P' (formerly the incomparable'Squiblissatude') - KinsaleYC
121 - ?
122 - ?
123 - 'O'Leary' (formerly Saillavie) - MYC/HYC/GHYC
124 - 'Tasmanian Devil'
125 - 'Buzz lite' (formerly'Returned to Splendour') - RStGYC
126 - ?
127 - 'Misfire' - SCYC
128 - 'Pani-Munta' - RVYC
129 - 'Dash'
130 - 'Kanaloa' (formerly 'The Dance') - NationalYC
131 - 'Smackerel'
132 - 'Cariad Bach' - SCYC.
133 - ?
134 - 'Allegro' - KinsaleYC.
135 - ?
136 - 'Ric O'Shea' - SCYC.*
137 - 'Atomic' formerly Mary Ellen) - ?.
138 - 'Sidewinder' - RStGYC.
139 - 'Inchallah' - RNoIYC
140 - 'Kinnard'
141 - 'Ariel'
142 - 'Squiggle'
143 - ?
144 - 'Terpsichore' - KillyleaghYC?
145 - 'Yee Haa' - RNoIYC
146 - 'Prodigal' - RNoIYC
147 - 'Pot Black' - kinsaleYC (For sale 19Dec17 )
148 - 'Halloween' - RNoIYC
149 - 'Firecracker' - KillyleaghYC
150 - 'Expresso' (formerly'Gemini') - KinsaleYC
151 - ?
152 - 'Trio'.
153 - 'Aldebaran' - WeymouthSC
154 - ?
155 - 'Best Mates' - KinsaleYC
156 - 'Chilli' - HowthYC (for sale 25-6-17)
157 - 'Chequermate' - Ian Grey.
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Concrete Block House
Concrete Block House may refer to:
Concrete Block House (614 N. 4th Ave., Phoenix, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona
Concrete Block House (618 N. 4th Ave., Phoenix, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona
Concrete Block House (640 N. 6th Ave., Phoenix, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona
See also
Goodfellow-Julian Concrete Block District, St. Louis, Missouri, National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis, Missouri
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Battle of Thermopylae in popular culture
The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BCE has long been a subject of cultural fascination, as it is perhaps the most famous military last stand of all time. This "against all odds" story is passed to us from the writings of the Greek Herodotus, who was not present at the battle himself. He relates the story of 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians defending the Pass of Thermopylae against almost "2 million" Persians on the third day of the battle. (For the first two days, the Greek force had numbered somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000.)
Although modern historians have questioned the numbers presented by Herodotus, with most at around 100,000 to 250,000 invaders, the story has resonated with authors and poets for centuries over the inspiring bravery and resolution of the Spartans.
The performance of the defenders at the battle of Thermopylae is often used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and good use of terrain to maximize an army's potential, and has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. Even more, both ancient and modern writers used the Battle of Thermopylae as an example of the superior power of a volunteer army of freemen defending native soil. The sacrifice of the Spartans and the Thespians has captured the minds of many throughout the ages and has given birth to many cultural references as a result.
Cultural references
Perhaps the best known poem on the Battle of Thermopylae is the epigram attributed to Simonides:
Thermopylae has been used as a name for ships; for example, a clipper ship 212 feet in length displacing 991 tons was launched in Aberdeen in 1868. Christened Thermopylae, it established speed records and was also notable for having a male figurehead wearing Greek armor, helmet, shield and sword.
The Greek phrase "Μολών λαβέ" ("molon labe", or "come and take them"), a quote attributed to Leonidas at the battle, has been repeated by many later generals and politicians in order to express an army's or nation's determination to not surrender without a battle. The motto "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" is on the emblem of the Greek First Army Corps. Both the original Greek phrase and its English translation are often heard from pro-gun activists as a defense of the US constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
The Battle of Tirad Pass, fought on December 2, 1899, is sometimes called the "Philippine Thermopylae."
The Battle of Wizna, fought on September 7–10, 1939, is often called the Polish Thermopylae.
The phrase was written on the flag fashioned by the Texans during the Battle of Gonzales.
The name "Leonidas" passed into Russian as well as Ukrainian (shortened to "Leonid"), and remains a fairly common male name among the speakers of these languages. Among the prominent persons of that name are Soviet Union premier Leonid Brezhnev and Leonid Kuchma, president of the post-Soviet Ukraine.
The name "Leonidas" exists also among speakers of English, Spanish, and Portuguese - as well as, of course, modern Greek (see Leonidas (disambiguation)).
Asteroid 2782 Leonidas is named for the Spartan king.
The Luftwaffe Leonidas Squadron under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Heiner Lang, flew "Self-sacrifice missions" (Selbstopfereinsatz) against Soviet held bridges over the Oder River from 17 April until 20 April 1945 during the Battle for Berlin.
Australian groups seeking to get greater recognition for the heroic acts of soldiers in the World War II Battle of Isurava (September 1942, in New Guinea) have dubbed that battle "Australia's Thermopylae" and established a website setting out in detail the grounds for making such a comparison (see ).
The Battle of Thermopylae has also been compared to various battles of the Anglo-Zulu War.
Poetry and song
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|“Exercitus noster est magnus,” Persicus inquit, “et propter numerum sagittarum nostrarum caelum non videbitis!” Tum Lacedaemonius respondet: “In umbra, igitur, pugnabimus!” Et Leonidas, rex Lacedaemoniorum, exclamat: “Pugnate cum animis, Lacedaemonii; hodie apud inferos fortasse cenabimus!”
|“Our army is great,” the Persian says, “and because of the number of our arrows you will not see the sky!” Then a Spartan answers: “In the shade, therefore, we will fight!” And Leonidas, king of the Spartans, shouts: “Fight with spirit, Spartans; perhaps we will dine today among the ghosts!”
|Wheelock's LatinInspired by Cicero's, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.42.101
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|Τιμή σ' εκεινους όπου στην ζωή τωνώρισαν να φυλάγουν Θερμοπύλες.Πότε από το χρέος μη κινούντες΄δίκαιοι κ' ίσοι,σ'ολες των τες πράξεις,αλλά με λύπη κιόλας κ' ευσπλαχνία,γενναίοι οσάκις είναι πλούσιοι κι ότανείναι πτωχοί, πάλ' εις μικρόν γενναίοι,πάλι συντρέχοντες, όσο μπορούνε΄πάντοτε την αλήθεια ομιλούντες,πλην χωρίς μίσος για τους ψευδωμένους.
Και περισσότερη τιμή τους πρέπειόταν προβλέπουν (και πολλοί προβλέπουν)πως ο Εφιάλτης θα φανεί στο τέλος,και οι Μήδοι επί τέλους θα διαβούνε.
|Let honor be to those in whose lifeit was set to guard Thermopylae.Never moving away from duty;Just and equals in all of their actsBut with sadness and compassionBrave once they are rich and whenThey are poor, again braveComing to aid as much as they can;Always speaking the truthBut without hate for those who lie.And even more honor they deserveWhen its predicted (and many predict)That Ephialtes will appear in the endAnd the Medes will finally pass through| The Greek poet Kavafis who lived in Alexandria
of Egypt at the turn of the 20th century
wrote one of his more famous poems entitledThermopylae in 1903. The poem actually created
the expression guarding Thermopylae and has been
told in honor of other dead, such as those of
the Imia crisis.
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|Przechodniu powiedz Polsceżeśmy polegliwierni w jej służbie|Passerby, tell Polandthat we fellfaithfully in her service|Inscription on the Polish war cemetery at Monte Cassino:
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|La patria así se formaTermópilas brotando;constelación de Cíclopessu noche iluminó|And so the nation formsThermopylae springing;a Cyclops constellationits night enlightened
|The National Anthem of Colombia, IX Stanza IX:
|-
|... едно име ново, голямо антично,
като Термопили славно, безгранично,
що отговор дава и смива срамът,и на клеветата строшава зъбът.|... A new name, its roots to antiquity tracing,As great as Thermopylae, all fame embracing,A name to wipe shame away, with its plain truthSmashing to smithereens calumny's tooth.|The volunteers at Shipka, by Ivan Vazov
|}
Dimitris Varos Ω ξείν…'' (O stranger) is a poetic book written in 1974.
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Commemorative coins
Greece announced two commemorative coins to mark 2,500 years since the historic battle. While this anniversary will take place in 2021, the coins show the dates 2020 and 480 BC and the text "2,500 years since the Battle of Thermopylae."
See also
The Score
Laconophilia
Sparta in popular culture
The 300 Spartans
300 (film)
List of last stands
References
Culture
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Onychostoma meridionale
Onychostoma meridionale is a species of cyprinid in the genus Onychostoma. It inhabits Southeast Asia and is considered "least concern" by the IUCN. It has a maximum length of .
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Pat McLaughlin
Pat McLaughlin is a singer/songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was raised in Waterloo, Iowa, but moved to San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. There McLaughlin began to write songs, playing alone at open mic nights and in the streets near the bay. After a brief stint in Boston, he moved to Nashville where he formed a band and released his first album in 1980. Two consecutive projects for Capitol Records followed. His first major label album Pat McLaughlin made its debut in 1988.
In the late 1980s, McLaughlin experienced his first mainstream country music success when Steve Wariner recorded McLaughlin's song "Lynda". Wariner's version climbed to the top of the charts, winning McLaughlin his first BMI Country Award in 1988. In 1992, Tanya Tucker and Delbert McClinton had a hit with McLaughlin's "Tell Me About It" — another BMI award resulted from this song. During his years in New Orleans, McLaughlin also released records produced by Jim Rooney (Hal Ketchum) and Ben Keith (Neil Young).
In 1997 along with former Subdudes members Tommy Malone and Johnny Ray Allen plus drummer Kenneth Blevins, McLaughlin formed Tiny Town. The quartet recorded one self-titled album, produced by Bernie Leadon in 1998. McLaughlin's compositions have been recorded by artists including Bonnie Raitt, Alan Jackson, Taj Mahal, Trisha Yearwood, Al Kooper, Nanci Griffith, Josh Turner, Gary Allan, Shawn Camp and Don Williams.
Gary Allan recorded McLaughlin's "Songs About Rain" in 2003, securing yet another BMI Country Award for McLaughlin. Allan's 2010 release, Get off the Pain, includes two McLaughlin co-writes: "I Think I've Had Enough" and "When You Give Yourself Away."
As a studio musician he has contributed guitar to projects by Jamie Hartford, Rosanne Cash, Julie Roberts, Don Williams, Al Cooper, Shawn Camp, Cowboy Jack Clement, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash and many more.
2010 has found McLaughlin continuing his monthly gigs at Douglas Corner Cafe in Nashville. In spring 2010 he was featured on "Jammin' at Hippie Jacks," which airs on select public television stations across the U.S. He has also been performing with songwriters Shawn Camp and Al Anderson (formerly of NRBQ) in a band called The World Famous Headliners. There has been some speculation that a World Famous Headliners CD will be released while McLaughlin's website also makes note that a solo CD and DVD are forthcoming.
In November 2010 Pat McLaughlin appeared as an opening act for John Prine.
Discography
Albums
External links
Big Yellow Dog Music Publishing Company
References
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 380
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 380 of the United States Reports:
Udall v. Tallman,
Singer v. United States,
Crider v. Zurich Ins. Co.,
Freedman v. Maryland,
United States v. Gainey,
Carrington v. Rash,
United States v. Ventresca,
In re Ryan, (per curiam)
Mason v. Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., (per curiam)
City of Coronado v. San Diego Unified Port Dist., (per curiam)
Drueding v. Devlin, (per curiam)
Maddox v. Birzgalis, (per curiam)
Bonanno v. Louisiana, (per curiam)
Blaauw v. Grand Trunk Western R. Co., (per curiam)
United States v. Mississippi,
Louisiana v. United States,
United States v. Boston & Maine R. Co.,
United States v. Seeger,
Department of Mental Hygiene of Cal. v. Kirchner,
Swain v. Alabama,
Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., (per curiam)
Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., (per curiam)
Arthur v. Colorado, (per curiam)
Hall v. Illinois, (per curiam)
Davis v. Mabry, (per curiam)
Stadler v. State Bd. of Equalization of Cal., (per curiam)
Barnes v. Texas, (per curiam)
Seals v. Alabama, (per curiam)
Radio & Television Technicians v. Broadcast Service of Mobile, Inc., (per curiam)
Reserve Life Ins. Co. v. Bowers, (per curiam)
Trans-Lux Distributing Corp. v. Board of Regents of Univ. of N. Y., (per curiam)
Santos v. Texas, (per curiam)
Baker v. Alaska, (per curiam)
Martinez v. United States, (per curiam)
Harrison v. McNamara, (per curiam)
Genovese v. Ohio, (per curiam)
Marvel v. United States, (per curiam)
Textile Workers v. Darlington Manufacturing Company,
NLRB v. Brown Food Stores,
American Ship Building Co. v. NLRB,
Sansone v. United States,
Henry v. Collins, (per curiam)
O'Keeffe v. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc., (per curiam)
Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. United States, (per curiam)
FTC v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.,
Pointer v. Texas,
Douglas v. Alabama,
Burnett v. New York Central R. Co.,
NLRB v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.,
Jenkins v. United States, (per curiam)
Abernathy v. Alabama, (per curiam)
Chicago & North Western R. Co. v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co., (per curiam)
McKinnie v. Tennessee, (per curiam)
U.S. A. C. Transport, Inc. v. United States, (per curiam)
American Oil Co. v. Neill,
Hanna v. Plumer,
Dombrowski v. Pfister,
American Comm. for Protection of Foreign Born v. Subversive Activities Control Bd., (per curiam)
Veterans of Abraham Lincoln Brigade v. Subversive Activities Control Bd., (per curiam)
Texas v. New Jersey,
Callender v. Florida, (per curiam)
Gold v. DiCarlo, (per curiam)
Corpora v. New York, (per curiam)
Cumberland Farms Northern, Inc. v. Maine Milk Comm'n, (per curiam)
Brown v. California,
Western & Southern Life Ins. Co. v. NLRB, (per curiam)
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. NLRB, (per curiam)
Thomas v. Mississippi, (per curiam)
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. NLRB, (per curiam)
Carolina & Northwestern R. Co. v. United States, (per curiam)
Murray v. United States, (per curiam)
Harman v. Forssenius,
Armstrong v. Manzo,
General Motors Corp. v. District of Columbia,
Commissioner v. Brown,
FTC v. Consolidated Foods Corp.,
Griffin v. California,
Paragon Jewel Coal Co. v. Commissioner,
Railway Clerks v. Association for Benefit of Noncontract Employees,
Commissioner v. Estate of Noel,
Warren Trading Post Co. v. Arizona Tax Comm'n,
One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania,
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Ochradenus socotranus
Ochradenus socotranus is a species of plant in the Resedaceae family. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
References
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Ghana Grid Company
Ghana Grid Company is an electricity transmission company in Ghana. It was established in 2008 as Government of Ghana with a mandate to ensure the provision of transparent, non-discriminatory and open access to the transmission grid for all the participants in the power market particularly, power generators and bulk consumers and thus bring about efficiency in power deliver.
See also
Electricity sector in Ghana
References
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Pea enation mosaic virus
Pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) is a plant pathogenic virus.
The two RNAs of the disease are now categorised as two separate, mutualistic viruses: PEMV-1 is an Enamovirus, while PEMV-2 is an Umbravirus.
It is spread by green or pea aphids and affects legumes as pea, alfalfa, broadbean or sweet pea mostly in temperate regions.
Symptoms include chlorotic, translucent or necrotic lesions, malformation of leaves and stipules, and plant distortion. However, the most characteristic symptom is the formation of enations on the abaxial, i.e. downy, leaf side. Enations are derived from the cells of vascular bundles undergoing hyperplasia.
References
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Pea enation mosaic virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas (born September 22, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and professor.
Career
Laskas is the author of eight books, including To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope (2018), based on a New York Times Magazine article, and Concussion (2015). Similarly, Concussion is based on her 2009 GQ article "Game Brain" about forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, who tried to publicize his findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players despite NFL opposition. The article was also adapted by Laskas and screenwriter Peter Landesman into a film of the same name, starring Will Smith as Omalu. Laskas is currently a GQ correspondent and contributes to the New York Times Magazine.
Laskas' other works include Hidden America (2012), Growing Girls (2006),The Exact Same Moon (2003), and Fifty Acres and Poodle (2000). Laskas' work has been widely anthologized, including in The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 ("Underworld") and The Best American Sportswriting 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010 ("Game Brain"), and 2012. Her New York Times Magazine article "The Mailroom" was a finalist in feature writing for the 2018 National Magazine Awards. Her GQ piece about coal miners, "Underworld," was also a finalist in feature writing in 2008. Her earliest essays and features are compiled in The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know (1996).
Laskas has been writing for national magazines for 20 years, with work appearing in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. She was formerly a contributing editor at Esquire, and a weekly syndicated columnist ("Significant Others") at The Washington Post Magazine. She also wrote "Ask Laskas" in Reader's Digest and the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal.
Laskas is a Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Center for Creativity at University of Pittsburgh.
Bibliography
Books
We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures, (editor), with an introduction by Hillary Clinton, nonfiction (New York: Morrow, 1999).
Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2000).
The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003).
Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2006).
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work, nonfiction (New York: Penguin, 2012).
Concussion, nonfiction (New York: Penguin Random House, 2015).
To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope (New York: Penguin Random House, 2018).
Essays and reporting
Laskas, Jeanne Marie (January 17, 2018). "To Obama With Love, Hate, and Desperation." New York Times Magazine.
References
External links
Author's website
Laskas' writing at GQ magazine
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General Electric Catalyst
The General Electric Catalyst (formerly Advanced Turboprop, or ATP) is a turboprop engine under development by GE Aviation.
It was announced on 16 November 2015 and will power the Cessna Denali, it first ran on December 22, 2017, and should be certified in 2020.
The engine aims for 20% better efficiency than its competition thanks to a 16:1 overall pressure ratio, variable stator vanes, cooled turbine blades, 3D printed parts and FADEC.
Development
After introducing the General Electric H80 in 2010 to improve the Walter M601, GE started analyzing its competition and devised a clean-design engine in 2014, then was selected for the Cessna Denali competition.
In September 2015, General Electric created a European turboprop development center, after the US-Exim Bank closure in June, investing over $400 million and creating 500 to 1,000 jobs.
The engine was announced on 16 November 2015 at the National Business Aviation Association's annual tradeshow.
The gearbox, power turbine and combustor will be made in Turin and the rotating components will be supplied from Warsaw, both locations belonging to Avio, acquired by GE in 2013, and the final assembly line should be at Walter Engines in Prague. It should be certified in 2020.
It was designed by Avio Aero engineers, and the joint Engineering Design Center between GE Aircraft Engines and Warsaw Institute of Aviation.
In October 2017, GE received 85% of the parts, on track to deliver the first test engine by the end of the year.
At this time, the axial-centrifugal compressor vehicle - stator, rotor and cold-section assemblies - was tested in Munich to validate its efficiency, performance and operability.
Testing
After two years of development, it completed its first test run in Prague on December 22, 2017.
After most of the component tested and the engine run, GE Aviation maintains its performance objectives and hope to exceed them.
It will begin certification testing in 2018, validating the aerodynamics, mechanics, and aerothermal systems.
It is expected to power the Cessna Denali first flight in late 2018 and will complete over 2000 hours of testing before the Denali enter service.
GE Aviation Czech, the development, testing and production headquarters, has recruited around 180 employees, with another 80 expected in 2018 among 500 others for the complete facility at full production rate.
It was developed over two years by 400 GE designers, engineers and materials experts in the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Poland, the U.S. and elsewhere.
Six test cells will open, 10 test engines will be built and it will be flown later in 2018 on a flying testbed, certification tests over 2018-2019 include altitude, performance and high-vibration testing.
In March 2018 the first sample ran nearly 40 hours before several years of health monitoring review.
The next engine is assembled and instrumented for altitude trials and will be tested in Canada from summer 2018.
From later in 2018, Cessna will receive three engines to prepare the first-quarter 2019 Denali maiden flight.
Its development is 30% faster than previous new GE projects as the development program has 10 engines, plus several rebuilds.
Over the next two years, 33 engine tests overall will happen including 17 certification tests.
The certification do not require a flying testbed but a modified King Air 350 may be used for flight safety clearance early in 2019, before Denali flight tests.
At the end of May 2018, 60 hours of testing were completed including at full power while second engine assembly was nearly complete for a summer first run, component certification was imminent and should be followed by whole-engine certification testing, starting with ingestion and altitude tests.
By July 2018, the first engine ran over 100 hours while a second engine is running in Prague before being sent to Canada later in the year for altitude testing, performance is on target or better than predicted.
By May 2019, test engines ran up to 41,000ft in an altitude chamber and over 1,000 h, simulating three years of operations, while the FADEC ran 300 h in the Denali iron bird.
By October 2019, over 1,000 engine cycles logged 1,600h of tests: 1,200h in test cells and 400h in compressor rigs.
Altitude, endurance, vibration, durability and ingestion testing were complete, as integrated propeller controls tests and high-pressure compressor and gas generator turbine overspeed tests.
New icing tests requirements pushed back the first engine delivery to 2020, and Cessna Denali first flight even further.
Five engines were assembled by then, and two other should be completed before 2019 ends.
First flight test aboard a King Air was delayed until spring 2020 and certification for autumn 2021, after a 18-month campaign, due to new FAA testing requirements, including icing tests.
Market
The ATP is intended to cover the market between the H80 and CT7. It will compete with the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6, produced at 51,000 units and leading the small turboprop market for 50 years, adding to the sub-850 horsepower General Electric H80. It has been selected to power the new Cessna Denali single engine turboprop aircraft, seating up to 12 passengers at over 280 knots on 1,500 nautical miles. GE plans to invest up to $1 billion in the project, including $400 million for a manufacturing center in Europe.
Design
The 1,300 shp Advanced Turboprop could be extended in an 850 to 1,600 shp range. Its 16:1 overall pressure ratio allow a 20% lower fuel burn and 10% higher cruise power than same size class competition with a 4000–6000 hour mean time between overhauls (MTBO). The compressor is derived from the General Electric T700 with four axial stages and a single centrifugal stage, with the same 3D aerodynamics design used in the GE9X. The engine include variable stator vanes (VSVs) and 3D printed parts.
The reverse-flow single-annular combustor resembles the GE-Honda HF120 design. The two-stage single-crystal high pressure turbine will be the first in this class of engines to be fully cooled. The three-stage low-pressure turbine is contra-rotating. A FADEC integrated propulsion control system will govern both engine and propeller pitch as an entire system.
Twelve 3D-printed parts replaces 855 parts: frames, combustor liners, sumps, exhaust case, bearing housings, stationary components in the flowpath, and heat exchangers. Overall weight is reduced by 5% and brake specific fuel consumption is improved by 1%. 3D printing is not used for rotating components such as blades, discs and rotors. 35% of the engine will be printed at GE, reducing the serialized part count to 35. They are printed from a titanium alloy.
The time between overhauls is 4,000 hours, 33% more than its leading competitor.
It is the first turboprop in its class with two stages of variable stator vanes.
It will feature a composite, five-bladed propeller system from McCauley, a subsidiary of Textron.
Turboprops now have to be certificated for high-altitude ice crystal icing: a compressor blisk has to survive an impact from an ice ball.
This would require a 2 lb (1.13kg) heavier first stage and would hamper the engine aerodynamics.
GE proposed channelling to the engine inlet hot oil from an accessory gearbox sump to avoid growing ice and will test this in a Canadian cold weather facility in summer 2018.
Cooled turbines allow over higher operating temperatures.
Its FADEC, VSVs and a three-stage counter-rotating turbine generates 10% higher cruise power, maintaining peak efficiency at off-design conditions for better lapse rate and altitude power.
The one-piece sump replaces 45 conventional parts and will be printed in just four days down from 14 initially.
Applications
Cessna Denali
XTI TriFan 600, selected in July 2019
Specification
See also
References
External links
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USS Mayo
USS Mayo (DD-422) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo.
Mayo was laid down 16 May 1938 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River, Massachusetts; launched 26 March 1940; sponsored by Mrs. C. G. Mayo, daughter-in-law of Admiral Mayo; and commissioned 18 September 1940, Lieutenant C. D. Emory in command.
Service history
Mayo joined the expanding Neutrality Patrol after shakedown and escorted Marines to Iceland in July 1941 as they took protective custody of that key island. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to the Atlantic Charter during the second week in August, Mayo guarded their meeting by patrolling off NS Argentia, Newfoundland.
The formal entrance of the United States into World War II lengthened her convoy assignment beyond the western Atlantic Ocean. Escort of slow merchant convoys out of Boston gave way in summer 1942 to duty with fast troop transports out of New York City. U-boats and bad weather were not the only dangers to be encountered. When caught fire 3 September, Mayo swiftly moved alongside the burning ship and removed 247 survivors. With the invasion of North Africa, Mayo appeared at Casablanca, Morocco, 12 November, 4 days after D‑Day, to protect the landing of reinforcements. A retraining period at the end of the year in Casco Bay, Maine, temporarily interrupted convoy assignments.
With DesRon 7, Mayo joined the 8th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea in August 1943. She gave fire and antiaircraft protection to the beachhead at Salerno, Italy, 8 September and again 22 to 24 January 1944 to the assault beaches at Anzio. At 20:01 on the 24th she hit a mine and the explosion killed seven and wounded 25 of her crew while almost breaking her in two. Despite a gaping hole at the waterline, starboard, she survived a tow back to Naples for a temporary patch, and 3 March began the long tow back to the States. Pulled into New York Navy Yard 5 April, Mayo required 4 months for repairs.
Mayo made a voyage to Trinidad and four to Europe before Germany surrendered. DesRon 7 sortied from New York 5 May 1945 for the western Pacific, and at Pearl Harbor joined fast carrier TG 12.4. Planes from this group struck Wake Island as a training gesture 20 June as the ships sailed on westward. Upon reaching Ulithi, Mayo began a series of escort missions to Okinawa. On 24 August she got underway escorting occupation troops which were landed on Honshū 2 September. She shepherded additional troops from the Philippines and Okinawa before sailing from Yokohama 5 November for San Diego, California and Charleston, South Carolina, arriving 7 December.
She decommissioned 18 March 1946 and went into reserve at Orange, Texas. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1971, sold 8 May 1972 and broken up for scrap.
As of 2005, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named Mayo.
Convoys escorted
Awards
Mayo received two battle stars for World War II service.
References
Bibliography
External links
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Citizen Cyborg
Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 non-fiction book by bioethicist and sociologist James Hughes, which articulates democratic transhumanism as a socio-political ideology and program.
The editors of the popular science magazine Scientific American recommended Citizen Cyborg in their April 2005 issue.
See also
Bioconservatism
Democratic transhumanism
Gattaca argument
Gattaca critical reception
Libertarian transhumanism
References
External links
Google Books: Citizen Cyborg
Citizen Cyborg References and Resources by Chapter
Reviews
Citizen Cyborg Reviews
Forman, Frank. Transhumanism's Vital Center. Journal of Evolution and Technology (April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
Doctorow, Cory. Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg. Boing Boing (11 April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
Ford, Alyssa. Humanity: The Remix. Utne Reader (May/June 2005) . Retrieved on 2011-07-07
Bailey, Ronald. Trans-Human Expressway. Reason (11 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
Cave, Stephen; Cave, Friederike von Tiesenhausen. The most dangerous idea on earth?, Financial Times (27 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
Arrison, Sonia. Future Humans. TechNewsWorld (6 October 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
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Never Grow Up
Never Grow Up may refer to:
Never Grow Up (book), 2015 autobiography by Jackie Chan
Never Grow Up, 2017 stand-up comedy special by Bryan Callen
Music
Albums
Never Grow Up, a 2012 album by Mr Hudson
Never Grow Up: Lullabies and Happy Songs, a 2014 charity album by Brooke White
Songs
"Never Grow Up", from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now
"Never Grow Up", from Svoy's 2011 album Grow Up
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Francis Grimshaw
Francis Joseph Grimshaw (1901–1965) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham.
Life
Born in Bridgwater, Somerset on 6 October 1901, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St Brendan's College, Bristol, then in Berkeley Square in central Bristol; in 1960 he would dedicate the new school in Brislington. He was ordained in Bristol as a priest for the Diocese of Clifton on 27 February 1926.
He was appointed Bishop of Plymouth on 2 June 1947. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 25 July 1947. The principal consecrator was Joseph Masterson, Archbishop of Birmingham; and the principal co-consecrators were William Lee (Bishop of Clifton), and Edward Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham.
He was translated to the Archdiocese of Birmingham as Archbishop of Birmingham on 11 May 1954. In 1958 he led the Christian Brothers schools of England on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the centenary year of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St Bernadette. He participated in the first three sessions of the Second Vatican Council, held between in 1962 and 1965.
He died in office on 22 March 1965, aged 63.
Legacy
Several schools have been named after him, including Archbishop Grimshaw School, Solihull. St Boniface's Catholic College in Plymouth has a House named after him.
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Mariano Lebrón Saviñón
Mariano Lebrón Saviñón (Santo Domingo, 3 August 1922 - 18 October 2014) was a Dominican author of the 20th century. One of the founders of the second private university in the Dominican Republic, he named it the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, also writing its anthem. He was born on August 3, 1922 in Santo Domingo, the son of a Spanish immigrant, José Lebrón Morales (a native of Seville, southern Spain), and a Dominican mother, Rosa Cándida Saviñón Pérez, of Canarian descent. He attended primary and secondary education in Santo Domingo. He received his medical degree at the University of Santo Domingo in 1946, and in 1949 (specializing in pediatrics) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He directed the hospital of Santo Domingo Social Prevention and worked in the Ministry of Health, the Ramfis hospital, Father Billini Hospital, and several medical clinics in the country. Alongside the practice of medicine, he was Director of Publications of the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña and professor of medicine at the University and the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
He is a founding member of the group Poesia Sorpredida (Surprised Poetry), of the Dominican Academy of Medicine, and the Institute Duartiano. In addition to his poetry and essays production, is author of the book History of the Dominican culture, one of the most ambitious of its kind in Dominican history.
Among numerous recognition he has received are: Commander of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, Caonabo Gold in 1988, Vasconcelos National Prize Award from the Front Affirmation Hispanist of Mexico (1992) and Literature (1999), the highest honor bestowed by the letters in the Dominican Republic, and was the only Dominican chosen to be speaker the Prince of Asturias award, named by Prince Felipe de Borbon y Grecia. From 1984 to 2006 Lebrón chaired the Dominican Academy of Language.
In August 2014 he was admitted to a hospital due to frequent respiratory problems. Because of the delicate state of his health he was readmitted in October. He eventually died at the age of 92 on October 18, 2014.
His surname Lebrón is of Spanish origin. This surname is distributed throughout Spain (mostly in Seville) and Latin America. Not to be confused with Lebron (originally Lebraun) concentrated mostly in Las Matas de Farfán,a town in the San Juan Province, of supposed Haitian/French origin.
References
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Oklahoma Ethics Commission
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is an agency of the state of Oklahoma that issues rules on the ethical conduct for state elected officials and employees. It also investigates and prosecutes violations of its rules. The Ethics Commission was created by a two-to-one vote of the people of the state per an initiative effort adding Article XXIX to the Oklahoma Constitution. The statewide vote on the amendment (State Question No. 627) was held September 18, 1990. Commissioners were sworn in and began meeting in July 1991.
The Commission is composed of five members, with one each appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma, President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Attorney General of Oklahoma. All members serve five year terms.
The Commission was created in 1990 during the term of Governor Henry Bellmon.
Commissioners
The Commission is composed of five appointed members. One each is appointed by the Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Attorney General. No more than three can be of the same political party. No more than one congressional district may be represented at a time. All members serve five year terms.
As of 2019, the current Commissioners are:
Jarred Brejcha - appointed by Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Charles McCall in 2019, represents Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, Independent, term expires July 2024.
Gregg Engle - appointed President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate Greg Treat (R-Oklahoma City) in 2019, represents Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district, Republican, term expires July 2024.
Cathy Stocker - appointed by Attorney General of Oklahoma Scott Pruitt in 2012, reappointed by Attorney General of Oklahoma Mike Hunter in 2017, represents Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district, Republican, term expires in July 2022.
Holly Johnson - appointed by the Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2011, reappointed by Chief Justice John Reif of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2016, represents Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, Republican, term expires July 2021
Charlie Laster - appointed by Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin in 2017, represents Oklahoma's 5th congressional district, Democrat, term expires July 2022
Jurisdiction
The Commission serves as the official repository of the financial disclosure statements, campaign contributions and expenditure reports and lobbyist registrations and reports and has the power to issue advisory opinions when requested.
The primary duty of the Commission is to issue rules on ethical behavior. Such rules are presented to the Governor of Oklahoma and both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature for review. If not disapproved by joint resolution, subject to veto by the Governor, the rules become effective. In the event the Governor vetoes a joint resolution disapproving the rules, the procedure is the same as for veto of any other bill or joint resolution. Once in effect, the rules may be repealed or modified by the Commission, subject to the same legislative and gubernatorial action as for newly promulgated rules. Alternatively, the rules may also be repealed or modified by the Legislature under the same procedures.
See also
Ethics Commission
References
External links
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Ethics Commission
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Bernardo Silva
Bernardo Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva (born 10 August 1994), known as Bernardo Silva () or simply Bernardo, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Manchester City and the Portugal national team.
Born in Lisbon, Silva came through Benfica's youth academy. He began playing for Benfica B in 2013 and was promoted to the first-team in 2014, playing a few minutes with the latter. He was on loan at the Ligue 1 side Monaco during the 2014–15 season, with Les Monégasques making the move permanent in winter 2015. After winning the national championship with them in 2017, he was signed by English club Manchester City for a reported fee of £43.5 million. He subsequently won the Premier League and EFL Cup in his first season in England, following this up with a domestic treble the following season. He had a significant role in City becoming the first men's team in England to win a domestic treble, being named Manchester City's Player of the Year in 2019 and was also named to the PFA Premier League Team of the Year. Afterwards, Silva was listed among the 30-man shortlist for the Ballon d'Or.
Silva made his senior debut for Portugal in 2015 after previously being capped by Portugal youth teams at under-19 and under-21 levels. He was chosen in Portugal's squads for the 2017 Confederations Cup, 2018 World Cup and 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals on home soil, winning the latter tournament, while also being named as the Player of the Tournament.
Club career
Benfica
A product of S.L. Benfica's youth system, Silva played for its ranks, and in 2013 they won the 2012–13 Portuguese Juniors Championship. He made his debut for Benfica B in a Segunda Liga match against Trofense on 10 August 2013 (Matchday 1).
On 19 October 2013, Silva made his debut for Benfica at the age of 19, in a 2013–14 Taça de Portugal third round 1–0 away victory against Campeonato Nacional de Seniores club C.D. Cinfães, coming out of the bench in the 80th minute. His good performance for Benfica B in the 2013–14 Segunda Liga earned him the league's Breakthrough Player of the Year award. He was a member of Benfica's domestic treble-winning team of the 2013–14 season.
Monaco
On 7 August 2014, Silva joined Monaco on one-year loan deal. He made his debut on 17 August in a Ligue 1 away match against Bordeaux, replacing Lucas Ocampos in the second half. On 21 September, he made his first start, in a 1–0 home win against Guingamp. On 14 December, he scored the only goal of a home win against Marseille.
On 20 January 2015, Benfica announced that Silva's economic and sports rights had been sold to Monaco for €15.75 million; he signed a contract for Monaco that would expire on 30 June 2019. On 10 April, he scored twice in a 3–0 away win against Caen. On 10 August 2015, Silva extended his contract by one year, tying him to the club until June 2020.
In the 2016–17 Champions League group stage away match against CSKA Moscow on 18 October 2016, Silva scored Monaco's equalizer in the 87th minute to ensure that the match finished in 1–1 draw. On 15 January 2017, he scored Monaco's last two goals in a 4–1 away win over Marseille to help Monaco move to the top of the Ligue 1 table for the first time since Week 5 of the current Ligue 1 season. The following 29 January, Silva scored and added-time equaliser in the 1–1 draw against reigning league champions Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes, putting his team on top of the league. He finished the 2016–17 season with 8 goals and 9 assists in the league and 11 goals and 12 assists in 58 matches across all competitions.
Manchester City
2017–18 season
The calibre of his performances against Manchester City for Monaco in the UEFA Champions League knockout legs in the 2016–17 season was noted by head coach Pep Guardiola and his backroom staff. On 26 May 2017, Manchester City confirmed the signing of Silva on a five-year contract after passing his medical tests. Although the transfer fee remains undisclosed, it has been reported to amount to €50 million (£43.5 million), which could reach €70 million with add-ons.
Silva officially joined the club on 1 July 2017, ahead of the 2017–18 season.
On 13 February 2018, Silva scored his first Champions League goal for the City in a 4–0 away victory against Basel in the first leg of the round of 16 stage.
On 5 March, Silva scored the solitary winning goal against Chelsea at home – a key win which put them only three wins away from winning the Premier League title. He established himself as a consistent performer, playing the most matches of any City player in the season up to the end of February 2018. By the end of the season, he had played for Manchester City 53 times in all competitions – the most of any City player that season and helped them to a record 100 points in the Premier League and the EFL Cup.
2018–19 season
Silva made 51 appearances for Manchester City during the 2018–19 season, scoring 13 goals and adding 14 assists in all competitions.
On 24 April 2019, Silva scored the opening goal for City against Manchester United in the Manchester Derby, and the 2–0 win at Old Trafford put his team on top of the league.
2019–20 season
In the 2019–20 season, Silva scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 thrashing of Watford in the Premier League on 21 September. Days later, he was accused of being racist towards his teammate Benjamin Mendy in a tweet which likened the player's appearance to that of a dark-skinned advertising mascot; Mendy said that he was not offended. In November, Silva was banned for one match and fined £50,000 for the tweet.
In October 2019, Silva was nominated as one amongst 30 candidates for Ballon d´Or.
International career
In 2013, Silva represented Portugal at the 2013 European Under-19 Championship, reaching the semi-finals. For his performances, he was named among the top 10 talents under the age of 19 in Europe by a selection of UEFA reporters.
On 31 March 2015, Silva made his senior debut for Portugal, starting in a 0–2 friendly defeat to Cape Verde in Estoril.
On 27 June 2015, Silva scored Portugal U21s' first goal in a 5–0 win against Germany U21 in the semi-finals of the European Under-21 Championship in Czech Republic. He was left out of the Portuguese squad for the finals of Euro 2016 due to injury.
Silva was selected for the Portugal squad for the 2017 Confederations Cup which was hosted in Russia. He scored the second goal of the match in the group stage of the tournament, a 4–0 win over New Zealand. The national team reached the semi-finals before losing out to Chile in a penalty shootout after a 0–0 draw at the end of regulation time. He missed the third place play-off in which Portugal defeated Mexico 2–1 after extra time.
Silva was named in Portugal's 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. He featured in all 4 matches with Portugal, but was knocked out of the tournament after a 1–2 loss to Uruguay.
Silva was selected for three matches in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League group stage, scoring a goal in a 3–2 victory against Poland.
In the UEFA Nations League Finals, Silva played both matches and registered an assist in each as Portugal won the trophy, and was named the tournament's best player.
Style of play
Silva is a diminutive, elegant, and creative left-footed playmaker, with a slender build, who is capable of playing in several attacking and midfield positions. Throughout his career, he has been fielded in a variety of roles, including as a winger on either flank (although he favours the right side of the pitch), as a central midfielder, as a deep-lying playmaker, as an attacking midfielder, or even as a second striker; he has also been deployed in a false-9 role, or even as wing-back on occasion. He is mainly known for his technique, acceleration, agility, passing, vision, and dribbling skills, as well as his energy and defensive work-rate, which enables him to cover ground, press opponents, and start attacks after winning back possession. Although he is known for his ability to carry the ball forward, run at defences, and retain possession, he is also known to be an intelligent team player, with a strong personality, who prefers to participate in the build-up of offensive plays rather than undertaking individual dribbling runs. Despite primarily being a creative midfielder, he is also capable of scoring goals himself.
Personal life
Silva is a supporter of Portuguese club S.L. Benfica. His English has been described as "perfect" by the media, partly as a result of his parents sending him to an English-speaking school in Lisbon when he was six years old. Silva's cousin Matilde Fidalgo, also born in 1994, has represented Portugal and Manchester City's women's teams.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first. Score column indicates score after each Silva goal.
Honours
Benfica
Primeira Liga: 2013–14
Taça de Portugal: 2013–14
Taça da Liga: 2013–14
Monaco
Ligue 1: 2016–17
Manchester City
Premier League: 2017–18, 2018–19
FA Cup: 2018–19
EFL Cup: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
FA Community Shield: 2018, 2019
Portugal U21
UEFA European Under-21 Championship runner-up: 2015
Portugal
UEFA Nations League: 2019
FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2017
Individual
Segunda Liga Breakthrough Player of the Year: 2013–14
SJPF Segunda Liga Player of the Month: October 2013, December 2013 & January 2014
UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2013
UEFA European Under-21 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2015
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month: January 2017
UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2016–17
PFA Team of the Year: 2018–19 Premier League
Manchester City Player of the Year: 2018–19
Alan Hardaker Trophy: 2019
UEFA Nations League Finals Player of the Tournament: 2019
UEFA Nations League Finals Team of the Tournament: 2019
FIFA FIFPro World11 nominee: 2019 (6th midfielder)
IFFHS Men's World Team: 2019
References
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National team data
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Clark County, Idaho
Clark County is a rural county in the U.S. state of Idaho; its county seat and largest city is Dubois. As of the 2010 Census, the county had a population of 982, making it the least populous county in the state (trading places with Camas County).
History
Establishment of stage coach stops along the route between Salt Lake City and the Montana mine were established at Beaver Canyon ( named after Beaver Creek (Camas Creek) ) and Dry Creek (now Dubois) in 1864. Originally part of Alturas County, both locations were transferred to Oneida County in 1877. They became part of Bingham County at its creation in 1885. Clark County was also the site of the Battle of Camas Creek during the Nez Perce War which occurred at Camas Meadows near Kilgore on August 20, 1872. The Utah and Northern Railway reached Beaver Canyon in 1879. By the 1890 Census, Beaver Canyon had a population of 216. The settlement relocated to Spencer in 1897.
The majority of Clark County was transferred to Fremont County when it was created in 1893 with the remaining territory being transferred in 1896. By the 1900 Census, 1,199 residents lived in the five precincts of Birch Creek, Dubois, Kilgore, Medicine Lodge, and Spencer. At the 1910 census, the precincts contained 1,095 residents.
Dry Creek was renamed Dubois in 1892 and incorporated prior to 1920 while Spencer was incorporated in 1947.
The county was established in 1919, partitioned from Fremont County by the state legislature; the county division bill was signed by Governor D. W. Davis on February 1. It was named for state senator Sam K. Clark, an early pioneer on Medicine Lodge Creek in the upper Snake River valley.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is water.
The northern border of the county is the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains, which forms the state line with Montana and is also the continental divide. It is crossed by Interstate 15 over Monida Pass at above sea level. Monida Pass also marks an east-west divide between Bitterroot subranges: the Beaverhead Mountains are to the west and the Centennial Mountains are to the east.
Adjacent counties
Lemhi County – west
Butte County – southwest
Jefferson County – south
Fremont County – east
Beaverhead County, Montana – north
Major highways
Interstate 15 – Monida Pass
SH-22
National protected areas
Caribou-Targhee National Forest (part)
Nez Perce National Historical Park (part)
Salmon-Challis National Forest (part)
Demographics
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,022 people, 340 households, and 257 families living in the county. The population density was 1 person per square mile (0/km²). There were 521 housing units at an average density of 0 per square mile (0/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 74.17% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.98% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 23.48% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. 34.25% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 14.3% were of English, 8.1% German and 5.8% Irish ancestry.
There were 340 households out of which 45.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.80% were married couples living together, 7.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.40% were non-families. 20.00% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.01 and the average family size was 3.52.
In the county, the population was spread out with 35.20% under the age of 18, 8.00% from 18 to 24, 27.50% from 25 to 44, 20.10% from 45 to 64, and 9.20% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 110.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 112.20 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $31,576, and the median income for a family was $31,534. Males had a median income of $23,854 versus $20,192 for females. The per capita income for the county was $11,141. About 18.70% of families and 19.90% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.10% of those under age 18 and 11.70% of those age 65 or over.
2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 982 people, 345 households, and 243 families living in the county. The population density was . There were 531 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 72.4% white, 1.0% American Indian, 0.7% black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 23.8% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 40.5% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 14.8% were English, 7.4% were German, and 6.5% were American.
Of the 345 households, 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% were married couples living together, 7.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 29.6% were non-families, and 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.41. The median age was 32.7 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $40,909 and the median income for a family was $37,656. Males had a median income of $32,895 versus $24,125 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,737. About 8.7% of families and 11.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.5% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The public schools in the county are operated by Clark County School District #161, headquartered in Dubois. Clark County High School competes in athletics in the Rocky Mountain Conference in IHSAA 1A Division II; the school colors are orange and black and its mascot is a bobcat.
Communities
Incorporated communities
Dubois (county seat)
Spencer
Unincorporated communities
Humphrey
Kilgore
Politics
Presidential elections
Clark County has participated in every presidential election since the election of 1920. The county has voted for every Republican candidate except in 1932 when it voted for the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt giving him 54 percent of the vote. It was the solitary county in Idaho, and one of only three counties west of the Continental Divide alongside Rio Blanco County in Colorado and Kane County in Utah, to give a plurality to Alf Landon in his 1936 landslide defeat.
Voter Registration
Government
Federal
The County is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Mike Simpson of the 2nd Congressional District. It is represented in the United States Senate by Republicans Mike Crapo and James Risch.
State
The County is in the 35th Legislature district. It is represented by Republican Senator Van Burtenshaw. And Republican representatives Jerald Raymond and Rod Furniss.
County
The County has 3 County Commissioners Nick Hillman, Greg Shenton, and Macoy Ward. The county also has other County officials like Sheriff, County Clerk, Attorney, Coroner, Treasurer, and Assessor.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Idaho
References
External links
State of Idaho official site – Clark County
Clark County School District #161
Clark county historical photographs at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
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Thaddeus Stevens School
Thaddeus Stevens School can refer to at least one of a few different schools in the United States:
Thaddeus Stevens School of Observation, on the National Register in Philadelphia, PA
Thaddeus Stevens School (Pittsburgh), a Pittsburgh Landmark
Thaddeus Stevens School (Washington, D.C.), on the National Register in Washington D.C.
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Charlie Pagnoccolo
Charles Pagnoccolo (born 25 March 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
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Dover, Calgary
Dover is a residential neighbourhood in the southeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded by 26 Avenue SE to the north, Peigan Trail to the south, 24 Street SE and Deerfoot Trail to the west and 36 Street SE to the east. The Inglewood golf course, developed in the Bow River valley, borders the community to the west.
The area was annexed to the City of Calgary in 1961, and Dover was established in 1971. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 9 councillor.
The postal code in this area is T2B.
Demographics
In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Dover had a population of living in dwellings, a 1.7% increase from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2012.
Residents in this community had a median household income of $43,875 in 2000, and there were 23.9% low income residents living in the neighbourhood. As of 2000, 15.5% of the residents were immigrants. A proportion of 29.4% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 32.8% of the housing was used for renting.
Education
The community is served by Ian Bazalgette Junior High, Forest Lawn Senior High, Valley View Elementary and West Dover Elementary public schools as well as by Holy Cross Elementary & Junior High and Saint Damien Elementary (Catholic schools).
See also
List of neighbourhoods in Calgary
References
External links
Dover Community Association
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1988 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1988 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of Peruvian football was played by 37 teams in the format of Regional Tournaments. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.
Torneo Regional
Metropolitan
Group A
Group B
North
Central
South
Liguilla Regional
Torneo Descentralizado "B"
North
Central
Metropolitan
South
Final group
Torneo Descentralizado
Liguilla
Championship Match
Title
External links
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Turkish women in academics
Turkish women in academics refers to Turkish women who make scientific research or teach in the universities in Turkey and abroad.
Background
During the Ottoman Empire era women had no chance to teach in the universities except for the very last years of the empire when Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Partisi) came to power. The first Turkish woman who was able to teach in the İstanbul University (then known as Darülfunun) was Halide Edip (later Halide Edip Adıvar) in 1918. But Halide Edip chose to join the nationalist forces of Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) in Anatolia rather than to stay in İstanbul. During the Republican era the number of academics increased.
Present situation
During the opening ceremony of 4th International Congress of Women Rectors in 2010, Gülsün Sağlamer, the chairperson of the organization committee, said that the percentage of woman professors in Turkey is 27% and this percentage is higher than most other countries. She added that the percentage of woman rectors however is only 10 out of 168 and this percentage needs to be increased. Since then, the number of woman professors is on the rise and in 2011-2012 school year, the number of Turkish women professors raised to 4729 which corresponds to 28%.
With other titles however (associate professor, instructor etc.) the percentage is much higher. According to Times Higher Education a survey carried by Thomson-Reuters reveals that the percentage of female academics is 47.5% which is one of the highest in all countries.
List of some academics
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Tülay Adalı
Halide Edip Adıvar
Zeynep Ahunbay
Türkan Akyol
Saffet Rıza Alpar
Lale Aytaman
Behice Boran
Halet Çambel
Zeynep Çelik-Butler
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Tansu Çiller
Canan Dağdeviren
Güzin Dino
Naşide Gözde Durmuş
Aysel Ekşi
Elza Erkip
Ayşe Erzan
Birgül Ayman Güler
Remziye Hisar
Afet İnan
Ioanna Kuçuradi
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Şule Kut
Janet Akyüz Mattei
Nesrin Nas
Leyla Neyzi
F. Tulga Ocak
Lale Orta
Asuman Özdağlar
Feryal Özel
Paris Pişmiş
Necla Pur
Nükhet Ruacan
Gülsün Sağlamer
Türkan Saylan
Nur Serter
Ayşe Soysal
Pakize Tarzi
Nermin Abadan Unat
Bahriye Üçok
Serap Yazıcı
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King Creole
King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau. It is based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, about a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women.
Presley later indicated that of all the characters he portrayed throughout his acting career, the role of Danny Fisher in King Creole was his favorite. To make the film, Presley was granted a 60-day deferment from January to March 1958 for beginning his military service. Location shooting in New Orleans was delayed several times by crowds of fans attracted by the stars, particularly Presley.
The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958, to both critical and commercial success. The critics were unanimous in their praise of Presley's performance. King Creole peaked at number five on the Variety box office earnings charts.
The soundtrack song "Hard Headed Woman" reached number one on the Billboard pop singles chart, number two on the R&B chart, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while the soundtrack album peaked at number two on the Billboard album chart.
Plot
Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher (Elvis) works before and after school to support his surviving family: his father (Dean Jagger) and sister Mimi (Jan Shepard). After Danny's mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans.
At work one morning, Danny rescues Ronnie (Jones) from her abusive date. After a taxi ride to Danny's high school, Ronnie kisses him. Danny responds to witnessing schoolmates' teasing by kissing Ronnie back and then punching one of them in the face when he makes a teasing remark. Danny's reaction summons him to the principal's office; where Miss Pearson (Helene Hatch), his teacher, tells Principal Evans (Raymond Bailey) that Danny will not graduate because of his poor attitude. Mr. Evans is sympathetic, but powerless to help; so Danny decides to drop out of school to find work, against the wishes of his father, who tries to convince Danny to stay in school.
When Danny leaves the school grounds, three young men lure him into an alley. Their leader, Shark (Vic Morrow), wants revenge for Danny hitting the teasing student at school, who turned out to be his brother. Danny defends himself so well that it impresses Shark, so Shark invites Danny to join his gang. Shark then has Danny to help the gang shoplift at a five-and-dime by singing "Lover Doll" to distract the customers and staff.
Only Nellie (Dolores Hart), who works the snack bar, notices Danny's complicity in the theft, but she does not turn him in.
Later that night, Danny meets Ronnie again at The Blue Shade nightclub, where Danny is now employed. At first, she pretends not to know him, as she is accompanied by her boyfriend and the club's owner, Maxie Fields, aka "The Pig" (Matthau). When Maxie does not believe her, she claims she heard Danny sing once. Maxie insists that Danny prove he can sing. His rendition of "Trouble" impresses Charlie LeGrand (Paul Stewart), the honest owner of the King Creole nightclub, the only nightspot in the area not owned by Maxie; impressed, LeGrand offers Danny a job as a singer at his club.
After leaving the club Danny meets up with the Shark gang for his share of the nightly take. He then makes his way to the Five and Dime at closing time to see Nellie. Danny invites Nellie to a fictitious party in a hotel room; finding nobody else there, Nellie starts crying in fear and leaves after admitting that she still wants to see Danny again, but not under those conditions.
Meanwhile, Mr. Fisher finds employment as a pharmacist in a local drug store; but his boss, Mr. Primont (Gavin Gordon)—who reluctantly hired Mr. Fisher after his boss made him do so—constantly demeans Mr. Fisher obviously out of retaliation, much to Danny's embarrassment. That situation makes it easier for Danny to go against his father's wishes and accept Charlie's job offer. Danny does; and when he becomes a hit at the King Creole, Maxie tries to hire him. Danny declines his offer out of loyalty to Charlie.
Shark, now working for Maxie, suggests to Danny they beat up Primont to help his father. One night when Mr. Fisher leaves the store dressed in Primont's hat and coat (lent due to a rainstorm), Shark recognizes him, but decides to mug him anyway, as that would be even better for Maxie's purposes. Danny's father is so badly injured that he needs expensive surgery; so Maxie pays for a specialist to perform it. Maxie later blackmails Danny into signing with him by threatening to tell his father about his involvement in the mugging, and then does it anyway. Outraged, Danny pummels Maxie for the betrayal and helps Ronnie escape him.
Maxie sends his henchmen after Danny. Shark and another gang member trap him in an alley. Danny knocks out one of his pursuers. Then Shark stabs Danny, but kills himself in the struggle. Ronnie then finds a profusely bleeding Danny and takes him to her house on a bayou to recover. She asks him to forget her sordid past and pretend to love her. Danny replies that it would not be difficult and kisses her. Maxie drives up, accompanied by Dummy (Jack Grinnage), a member of Danny's former gang. Maxie fatally shoots Ronnie. Dummy, who had been befriended by Danny, grapples with Maxie; the gun goes off, killing its owner.
Danny returns to the King Creole. He sings the lines "Let's think of the future, forget the past, you're not my first love, but you're my last" to Nellie in the audience. Mr Fisher also shows up to listen to his son sing.
Cast
Elvis Presley as Danny Fisher
Carolyn Jones as Ronnie, Maxie's mistress
Walter Matthau as Maxie Fields, the local gangster
Dolores Hart as Nellie, a five-and-dime employee who falls for Danny
Dean Jagger as Mr. Fisher, Danny's father
Liliane Montevecchi as Forty Nina, a stripper at the King Creole nightclub
Vic Morrow as Shark, Maxie's lead thug
Paul Stewart as Charlie LeGrand, owner of the King Creole
Jan Shepard as Mimi Fisher, Danny's sister
Brian G. Hutton as Sal, a member of Shark's gang.
Jack Grinnage as Dummy, a mute member of Shark's gang.
Dick Winslow as Eddie Burton
Raymond Bailey as Mr. Evans, the school principal
Gavin Gordon as Mr. Primont, drug store manager and Mr. Fisher's overbearing boss
Production
Hal Wallis acquired the rights to A Stone for Danny Fisher in February 1955 for $25,000, with the intention of giving the lead role of a New York boxer to either James Dean or Ben Gazzara. The role was originally written for Dean, but the project was cancelled after his death in 1955. In January 1957, following the success of an off-Broadway stage version of the story, Presley was suggested as a possible replacement. After negotiations were completed, the character of Fisher was changed from a boxer to a singer and the location was moved from New York to New Orleans.
Wallis selected Michael Curtiz, a noted director of the Hollywood studio system whose works included The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Casablanca. Curtiz decided to shoot the film in black and white for dramatic ambiance and to give the streets a film noir appearance. He also selected an experienced cast to support Presley, including Walther Matthau and Carolyn Jones, as well as Dolores Hart, Presley's co-star in the 1957 film Loving You. Curtiz instructed a "taken aback" Presley to lose fifteen pounds and shave his sideburns for the role, both of which Presley did.
On December 20, 1957, a month before filming was due to begin, Presley received his draft notice. Presley and Paramount had to request special permission to defer Presley's enlistment to allow him to finish the film. Both pointed out to the draft board that a delay in filming would cost them a large sum of money invested in the pre-production of the film. On December 27, Presley received a 60-day deferment.
Filming took place between January 20 and March 10, 1958, mostly at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, and on location in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, while the scene of the bayou was filmed at Lake Pontchartrain. During filming, Presley was constantly moved to avoid the crowds of fans who came to see him on location, which delayed the film-making. Wallis had rented a house for Presley's privacy, and a second one after one of his assistants noticed that the back of the houses in the block led to the back of the houses on the adjacent street. To escape from the crowds, Presley would climb to the roof of one house and cross over onto the roof of the other. After a fan discovered his path, he resided on the tenth floor of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, which was rented for the whole cast.
Before filming began, Curtiz was convinced that Presley would be a "conceited boy", but after a few weeks of working together, he described Presley as a "lovely boy" who would go on to be a "wonderful actor". Presley, after seeing an early copy of the finished film, thanked Curtiz for giving him the opportunity to show his potential as an actor; he would later cite Danny Fisher as his favorite role of his acting career. Fourteen days after the completion of King Creole, Presley was officially inducted into the U.S. Army.
Reception
The film was first shown at Loew's State Theater in New York City on July 2, 1958. During the opening week, it ranked number five in box office earnings on the Variety national survey. Billboard wrote:
Elvis Presley's new film shapes up as a box-office winner. It's got plenty of action and characterisation and the star gives his best acting performance to date ... (the) Incidents and characters of the original novel are distorted, but the plot stands up well and the dialog is salty and emotion-packed. As Danny, Presley exhibits improved histrionics and provides many moving and tense moments. Carolyn Jones is a knockout as a fallen thrush who would like to love him; their aborted romance gives the pic its finest scenes.
Variety declared that the film "Shows the young star [Presley] as a better than fair actor". The New York Times also gave a favorable review:
Mr. Curtiz and his players have got it snugly draped around Mr. Presley's shoulders. And there it stays, until a limp melodramatic home stretch, even with eight or so of those twitching, gyrating musical interludes. ... These also perfectly typify the Bourbon Street honky-tonks that Mr. Curtiz and his fine photographer, Russ Harlan, have beguilingly drenched with atmosphere. Matching, or balancing, the tunes are at least seven characterizations that supply the real backbone and tell the story of the picture. ... for Mr. Presley, in his third screen attempt, it's a pleasure to find him up to a little more than Bourbon Street shoutin' and wigglin'. Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it, so help us over a picket fence.
The Spectator, however, criticized the relationship of Presley's character with his love interests:
The girls in his (Michael Curtiz's) latest film, King Creole, are both played by good, serious actresses: Carolyn Jones .. and Dolores Hart, ... both are shown to be hungrily, desperately, unpridefully in love with him (Presley's character). They have no existence, except in him; do nothing but wait for him; hope for nothing but a little rough affection ... Instead of being kissed, they beg for kisses, which Mr. Presley sulkily and reluctantly hands out now and then, with the air of a small, fastidious boy being press to eat marshmallow and, though he feels a bit sick not quite knowing how to get out of it ... (it) really seems to suggest this is a god come down among us for a spell; and when tender and infinitely patient in spite of the long past of infidelity, nonchalance, and what looks to an observer like plain indifference from him, her lips poised for the kiss that doesn't come ... As the most extreme example of a contemporary idol, Mr. Presley is pretty fascinating, and, though you may be put off at first by his pale, puffy, bruised looking babyish face, by the weary cherubic decadence you might imagine in Nero, and the excessive greasiness of his excessively long, spiky locks, his films, however bad (and King Creole is pretty low on his list), are well worth taking a look at.
About Presley's performance, Down Beat wrote: "Let it be noted that Elvis Presley's latest, King Creole, is his best picture thus far--comparatively speaking, of course. Maybe about 10 more films (and as many drama coaches) from now Elvis might begin to get an inkling of what acting's all about." TV-Radio Mirror magazine praised Presley's acting over his past roles: "Elvis Presley does his strongest acting job so far. Two years ago, Presley on the screen was a laughing stock. But nobody is laughing now". Meanwhile, The Monthly Film Bulletin criticized the violence depicted in the film and rated the movie a III, denoting poor, stating, "This entangled series of cliches, each with more unlikely motivation than the last, provides the most unattractive Presley vehicle so far. His numbers only offer intermittent relief from the calculated violence and viciousness, and he can do little to balance the disagreeable movie".
Commonweal lamented the lack of punishment to the main character for his actions, but praised the director for his influence on Presley:
No doubt adults won't be moved much by "King Creole" one way or the other, but unfortunately teenage audiences may be taken in, especially since Danny is supposed to be a sympathetic character and at the end goes unpunished by the police for his crimes ... It must be said in favor of Director Michael Curtiz that he does succeed in getting Presley to act every now and then, but the cards are stacked in such an obvious manner against Danny that even Montgomery Clift couldn't have handled the role with conviction.
Catholic World commented:
Playing a part— an underprivileged youth who, on and off, displays some dignity and honest aspirations — that requires some histrionic effort, Presley shows signs that he is getting the hang of acting. The picture itself, however, after a promising enough beginning turns into a lurid melodramatic hash composed in about equal part of juvenile delinquency, gangsterism and sex. These may be legitimate dramatic subjects but the script gives them an illegitimate viewpoint and leaves muddled moral issues dangling.
The Florence Times wrote of Presley:
the fellow isn't a bad actor. Of course, he's nothing at all sensational and the Academy Award isn't in danger, but there are Hollywood habitues who've gotten by for years with less ability. In fact, given the normal amount of the more painstaking type of direction, it is entirely possible that Mr. Wiggle-hips could develop into a really competent actor. As long, however, as he can continue to attract audiences in present proportions there's little need in worrying with drama schools.
Allrovi rated the movie with four stars out of five, stating: "The film's highlight is a brief exchange of fisticuffs between Elvis and Walter Matthau. Together with Jailhouse Rock, King Creole is one of the best filmed examples of the untamed, pre-army Elvis Presley".
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has a score of a perfect 100% "Certified fresh" approval rating based on 21 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.79/10.
Home media
The film was released on VHS by Paramount Pictures in 1986. In 2000, it was re-released in DVD with remastered sound and image, featuring the original theatrical trailer.
Soundtrack
See also
List of American films of 1958
List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregation website
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
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Zarih
A zarih () or ḍarīḥ () is an ornate, usually gilded, lattice structure, that encloses a grave in a mosque or Islamic shrine.
Zarihs serve as a marker for the tombs of religious figures, and as a symbol of their sacred nature. Zarihs are funded by donations, it is considered a blessing to do so, according to Shia. The construction and installation of zarihs are often done on a volunteer basis, made as a waqf with its creators demanding no pay for their work.
A zarih is built from fine materials by skilled craftsmen; from calligraphers, metal workers, jewelers, carpenters, designers and engineers. Zarihs can be the size of a small room and are commonly built by hand in a process that often takes several years. Not all zarihs are of the same quality however, the most intricate zarihs found, are often in the shrines of Shia Imams and are seldom built, these zarihs take longer to construct and use more sophisticated materials and methods.
The walls of a zarih are filled with verses from the Quran, names of holy figures and other religious artwork. Notable installations are found in the Imam Husayn Shrine, the Al Abbas Mosque, the Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque , the Abdul Qadir Jilani Mosque, The Junaid Baghdadi with Sirri Saqti shrine and the Imam Ali Mosque.
See also
Islamic architecture
Shia
Sufi
References
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Mitchell Barnett
Mitchell Barnett (born 15 April 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and forward for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL.
He previously played for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League.
Background
Barnett was born in Taree, New South Wales, Australia.
He started his junior rugby league career with Wingham Tigers Junior Rugby League in 1999, and remained with Wingham JRL until the end of under-16s in 2011, when he was signed by the Newcastle Knights.
Playing career
Early career
After playing in the lower grades at the Newcastle Knights, Barnett joined the Canberra Raiders. In 2013 and 2014, he played for the Raiders' NYC team.
2015
In 2015, Barnett graduated to the Raiders' New South Wales Cup team, Mount Pritchard Mounties. On 10 April, he re-signed with the Raiders on a two-year contract. On 3 May, he played for the New South Wales Residents against the Queensland Residents. In round 22 of the 2015 NRL season, he made his NRL debut for Canberra against the Wests Tigers. On 27 September, he won the 2015 New South Wales Cup Player of the Year award and was named at second-row in the 2015 New South Wales Cup Team of the Year. In November, after Barnett's management discovered his new Canberra contract for the next two seasons hadn't been lodged with the NRL, he opted to instead attempt to sign a more lucrative deal with the Gold Coast Titans. However, after Canberra threatened legal action, the signed contract was discovered and lodged, Barnett returning to Canberra to honour the deal.
2016
On 8 May, Barnett played for the New South Wales Residents against the Queensland Residents for a second year in a row. On 8 June, he rejoined the Newcastle Knights effective immediately on a contract until the end of 2017, after being released from the final two years of his Canberra Raiders contract. He made his Newcastle debut in round 14 against the New Zealand Warriors. He played nine games for Newcastle in his first season at the club as they finished bottom of the table.
2017
In March, Barnett re-signed with the Newcastle club on a three-year contract until the end of 2020. He made a total of 22 appearances and scored four tries for Newcastle as the club finished last on the table.
2018
Barnett played 23 games for Newcastle in the 2018 NRL season as the club finished 11th on the table.
2019
In round 11 against the Sydney Roosters, Barnett kicked 2 goals, with one from the sideline, after regular kicker Kalyn Ponga went off the field with an injury. In December, Barnett re-signed with the Knights on a three-year contract until the end of 2023.
References
External links
Newcastle Knights profile
NRL profile
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Polideportivo Islas Malvinas
The Polideportivo Islas Malvinas is an indoor arena located in Mar del Plata, Argentina which was built for the XII Pan American Games in 1995. It is qualified to host such sports as basketball, handball, volleyball and tennis, as well as to accommodate all kinds of shows, conventions and exhibitions. In the city, it is mostly known for being the stage where Peñarol de Mar del Plata play their home games first division basketball and local levels.
It belongs to the Teodoro Bronzini sports compound.
The arena's name reflects Argentina's claims of sovereignty over the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands in English).
Facilities
The stadium is built in the Campo Municipal de Deportes of the city. It has an area of 1.3 has, of top international level. It has a sport area of 65 x 48 meters with floating floor 24 x 43 m
Provides a direct vehicular access to the center of the complex, allowing the convenience that emergency vehicles such as ambulances within reach in case of an emergency and also areas of storage, which allow easy entry of any element or equipment (such as: sound, lighting). Access to the public are 4 and access the pockets are 16 galleries, all with emergency exit systems, which provides maximum safety and flow for ingress and egress to the complex. All the infrastructure of health, gym locker rooms, food service and others, have special adaptations for disabled people. It is equipped with a heating and air renewal, four boards many changes, plus a network of 28 speakers. Until 2008 it had a video-wall, and was the only stadium in the country that has one, but the need to expand the number of seats for the performance of the Davis Cup had the video-wall removed to be replaced with more seats .
A major traffic area covered Edge is available to perform any kind of simultaneous events as gastronomy and wine tasting, exhibition and sale of products or others.
The stadium was originally allowed to accommodate 6,482 spectators. However, for the implementation of the 2008 Davis Cup, new seats were added. Currently, the stadium has 7,666 seats, although in peak condition (with spectators standing in doorways and sitting on the stairs) may have around 8,000 people. It also has VIP access to journalism, independent judges and players, conference room, shower facilities and complementary.
It is part of the "Teodoro Bronzini" Municipal Sports Park, a 35 hectares area with several sport venues, including the Estadio José María Minella, the Julio Polet Municipal Velodrome, the Pan American Field Hockey Stadium, the "Alberto Zorrilla" Natatorium, the "Justo Roman" Athletic stadium and the Patinódromo Municipal.
History
Originally built for the XII Pan American Games in 1995, the Polideportivo Islas Malvinas has become a symbol and pride of the city maximum, because it's the only one with those characteristics. When completed the Pan American Games, it began to be used with different types of applications. One, perhaps the most has justified its existence, was to be the stage where the basketball team first division Peñarol de Mar del Plata is local (most of the year is this use). For a year, so has been in the same place his archrival, Quilmes Mar del Plata. However, Peñarol has its home-court advantage at this stage, almost seamless (there were two years when for economic reasons could not make use of facilities) since 1995.
In addition it is used for stage shows, concerts and recitals in the summer, taking advantage of the high season for the city, where most shows Buenos Aires moved to Mar del Plata.
Finally, it is clear that the stadium is usually the place where they develop international sports tournaments such as basketball, handball and volleyball, as well as religious conventions and exhibitions. Its large capacity and features of the first level have allowed over the years a great flexibility to develop various types of activities.
Currently, the event which gathers more people and on a regular basis is the 'Superclasico' basketballQuilmes-Peñarol, where the stadium is filled with fans and supporters and sometimes even sold out completely. On that day, you have big security operation to prevent violence between the two factions.
The stadium was chosen to host the final of the Davis Cup 2008 (Spain – Argentina) to be played from 21 to 23 November 2008. For this occasion, the capacity was extended to 9,800 spectators capacity to meet regulatory actions requiring the organization. However, after moving seats that were removed had been placed solely for the tournament, and the final capacity for all events is 7,666 spectators.
Events held
Sports
1995 Pan American Games
1999 FIVB Volleyball World League Final Round
2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
2003 Parapan American Games
2005 FIBA Under-21 World Championship
2006 South American Games
2007, 2009 and 2011 Super 8 Tournament
2008 Davis Cup Final
2009 World Senior ITF Championships
2009–10 FIBA Americas League Final Four
FIBA Americas Championship 2011
2011 Men's Youth World Handball Championship
2013 FIVB Volleyball World League Final Round
2013 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship
2015 Summer Transplant Games
Concerts
Luis Miguel December 5, 2010 (Luis Miguel Tour).
Ricky Martin September 14, 2011 (Música + Alma + Sexo World Tour), March 25, 2016 (One World Tour).
Calle 13 October 30, 2011 (Entren Los Que Quieran Tour).
Roxette April 28, 2012 (Charm School World Tour)
Lali Espósito (Soy Tour) October 8, 2016
External links
Official Davis Cup website Final Davis Cup 2008 Argentina vs Spain 1–3
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List of teams and cyclists in the 1962 Vuelta a España
For the 1962 Vuelta a España, the field consisted of 90 riders; 48 finished the race.
By rider
By nationality
References
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Winnipeg Sun
The Winnipeg Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
It is owned by Postmedia following its acquisition of Sun Media, and shares many characteristics typical of Sun tabloids, including an emphasis on local news stories, extensive sports coverage, a Canadian conservatism editorial stance, and a daily Sunshine Girl.
The newspaper, like most of those in the Canadian Sun chain, are known for short, snappy news stories aimed primarily at working class readers. The Sun's layout is based somewhat upon that of British tabloids.
The newspaper is distributed throughout the Winnipeg metro region through retail sales, vending machines and home delivery. According to Canadian Newspaper Association figures, the newspaper's average weekday circulation for the second quarter of 2016 (April-June) is 44,424. This figure was 36,905 on Saturdays, and 38,079 on Sundays.
History
On August 27, 1980, Southam Newspapers closed the Winnipeg Tribune after 90 years in publication, leaving Winnipeg with only one daily newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press.
While planning for the Winnipeg Sun was taking place, another group that was publishing The Downtowner and The Suburban, had publicly stated in their editorial they were strongly considering transforming their weeklies into Winnipeg's next major daily newspaper; this, however, did not happen.
In response to demand for a new newspaper voice in the city, the Winnipeg Sun was announced at a press conference in October 1980, and first published on November 5, 1980. Its founders were Al Davies, Frank Goldberg, William (Bill) A. Everitt and Tom Denton, with Denton being the first publisher. It initially published Monday, Wednesday and Friday editions. Afternoon home delivery began on December 19, 1980. Carriers collected $1.50 every two weeks from subscribers.
It extended its publication cycle to include Tuesday and Thursday editions on April 27, 1981. The paper added a Sunday edition on September 12, 1982. The Sun moved to seven-day publication in 1992.
Because the newspaper did not normally publish a Tuesday edition, a special edition reporting on assassination attempt of U.S. President Ronald Reagan was printed on March 31, 1981.
Starting August 4, 1981, the Sun moved to a morning home-delivery schedule. The newspapers were expected to be done by 6:30 a.m.
On March 10, 1982, the Sun reduced the size of the paper to more closely resemble that of the other tabloid-size newspapers.
The newspaper started publishing Sunday through Friday beginning September 12, 1982, with its largest paper to date at 120 pages.
Winnipeg, curiously, is one of the very few cities in Canada or the United States where a new daily newspaper emerged after the death of the No. 2 underdog. Aside from the free Metro daily publications, outside of Toronto, Winnipeg is the only other city in English Canada with two separately owned competing metropolitan daily newspapers.
In its early days, the newspaper's offices were located at 290 Garry Street in downtown Winnipeg, around the corner from the offices that had housed the defunct Winnipeg Tribune. In 1983 the newspaper moved to a building in suburban Inkster Industrial Park, presaging a similar move by the Winnipeg Free Press some years later.
In February 1983, Quebecor invested in the newspaper, at a time when circulation of the Sun had grown to 34,000 daily. Lack of advertisers and not owning its own printing press caused the paper's debts to grow. The new owners reviewed continuing Winnipeg magazine, but by June 1984 the last edition was published.
On January 5, 1999, Quebecor acquired the Sun Media chain of newspapers. On May 10, 1999, the newspaper was relaunched, taking on an appearance consistent with the Toronto Sun, the Edmonton Sun, the Calgary Sun and the Ottawa Sun.
In January 2020, Al Davies, former V.P. Operations and one of the founders of the WInnipeg Sun in 1980, died at age 71.
Comic strips
The Sun carries a comics page. Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.
See also
Ottawa Sun
Calgary Sun
Edmonton Sun
Toronto Sun
List of newspapers in Canada
References
External links
winnipegsun.com, Winnipeg Sun official website
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Betsy Ross (character)
Betsy Ross is Captain America's early love interest and supporting character in Marvel Comics appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, during the 1930-1940s period known to historians and collectors as the Golden Age of Comic Books. She then debuted as the superheroine Golden Girl in Captain America Comics #66.
Publication history
Marvel Comics' first Golden Girl, Elizabeth Ross, first appeared, without yet a superhero identity, as Betty Ross in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941). A supporting character who appeared in occasional stories, she assisted the U.S. Army and was a love interest for Steve Rogers, Captain America's real identity. She succeeded Bucky as Captain America's sidekick in issue #66 (Apr. 1948), in the 12-page story "Golden Girl", by an unconfirmed writer and by penciller Syd Shores. Later, it was retconned that this was not Steve Rogers but Jeff Mace, the superhero Patriot and the third man to be called Captain America. Golden Girl appeared in Captain America stories through issue #74 (Oct. 1949), except for issue #71, and also in the Captain America stories in Marvel Mystery Comics #87-88 and #92 (Aug. & Oct. 1948, June 1949). Betsy's non superhero design has changed over the years; when she first appeared she was blonde, but later stories had her with red hair and wearing a blonde wig as part of her Golden Girl costume.
The 2010 miniseries Captain America: Patriot retroactively revealed that she was the aunt of General Thunderbolt Ross, and the great-aunt of his daughter Betty Ross, two characters introduced in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962).
Fictional character biography
Immediately before and during most of World War II, Betsy Ross was a member of the U.S. Army's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and had previously worked as a waitress and later an FBI agent. She became a friend and eventual girlfriend of Army Private Steve Rogers, unaware of his dual identity as Captain America, whom she admired and who had saved her on more than one occasion. She was kind and resourceful, but not especially strong at first. Betsy investigated fortune tellers Sando and Omar and exposed them as spies. In issue #6 (Sept. 1941), she was captured by the Imperial Japanese spy known as Fang along with Bucky, but was rescued by Captain America. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' official entry into the war, she soon became involved in more missions that had her opposing Nazi and Imperial Japanese forces. Over the course of the comics, Ross grows into a tough and capable ally of Captain America and Bucky.
She had adapted her name slightly to Betsy Ross — the name of the U.S. colonial-era woman to whom legend ascribes sewing the first American flag — by the time that Captain America's sidekick, the second Bucky (Fred Davis) was shot and wounded. The third Captain America, Jeffrey Mace, who'd succeeded the M.I.A. Rogers and the killed-in-action William Naslund, revealed his civilian identity to Ross and gave her a bulletproof cape previously owned by Naslund and trained her as his new partner, the costumed crime-fighter Golden Girl.
For Ross' first mission as Golden Girl, she and Captain America investigated strange seismic activity in a city, leading them to encounter Mr. Zrr from Dimension Zee and assisted him in capturing Denton Smith and Cecil Babylon, two criminals who found safe haven in that dimension. After many more adventures, culminating in a battle with the Red Skull in Hell, Ross and Mace married by 1953 and eventually retired from their superhero duties.
After Mace died of cancer, Betsy moved to Valhalla Villas, a Florida retirement community for ex-heroes and ex-villains. She was one of the Golden Age heroes who went back into action one last time after being temporarily de-aged as part of the "Last Days" part of the Secret Wars storyline.
Powers and abilities
Betsy Ross had no superpowers but was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and wore a bulletproof cape that belonged to William Naslund, formerly the Spirit of '76.
Other media
Betsy Ross appeared in the Captain America portion of The Marvel Super Heroes TV series (1966).
References
External links
Grand Comics Database
All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update 2 - Adam II to Zodiac (May 2007)
International Catalogue of Superheroes: Golden Girl
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Sten Lagergren
Sten Yngve Dennis Lagergren (6 May 1876 – 4 April 1922) was a Swedish physical chemist known for his fundamental findings in adsorption kinetics.
Lagergrens's 1898 article "Zur Theorie der Sogenannten Adsorption Gelöster Stoffe" (To the theory of the so-called adsorption of dissolved materials) brought him a lasting fame. In 2018, 120 years after its publication, the paper was cited more than 800 times according to Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, making its total number of citation above 6000. In addition, his name became an eponym in the form of Lagergren equation or Lagergren kinetics occurring several thousand times in the literature.
Biography
Early life
Sten Lagergren was born in Ramnäs, Sweden on 6 May 1876. His father, Per Henrik Lagergren, was a commercial agent, his mother was Hilda Amalia Vistrand.
Education and professional career
Lagergren attended to the university college Stockholms Högskola (Stockholm Highschool; the predecessor of the present Stockholm University), and studied there between 1894–1899.
He wrote the paper that made him famous as a university student. Apparently, it made him a "one hit wonder", since no other notable scientific paper have been written by him anymore.
He became a secondary school teacher, and was the rector of the Sofi Almquists samskola from 1902 and of the Beskowska skolan between 1905–1913. He was the author of several secondary school textbooks in geometry.
Marriage and children
Lagergren married Alfhild Lindström (born in 1877) in 1906. They had one daughter.
Death
Sten Lagergren died on 4 April 1922 in Lidingö, Sweden.
His classic work and its aftermath
In his perennial 1898 paper, Lagergren formulated a so-called pseudo-first-order model for adsorption kinetics based on an extensive body of experimental measurements. Both the empirical data and the model were highly acclaimed by the contemporaries. In 1900, Wilhelm Ostwald (Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1909) wrote an unusually extensive review of the paper in his Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. Beyond words of recognition, Ostwald also drafted some ideas to further develop the model. Actually, having abandoned research, Lagergren could not give thought to these advises. The path was followed, instead, by Herbert Freundlich. His paper based on his habilitation lecture heavily relies upon Lagergren's results. They were also included in his classic book, in its later editions, and since then, in all standard treatises of surface chemistry and related areas.
The first occurrence of the eponymic use of Lagergren's name can be traced back to an article of Dietl ("Lagergren'sche Formel" on p. 800).
The use of Lagergren's model gained a new impetus in the beginning of the 21st century largely with the advent of sorption-based technologies of water desalination. A citation review of Lagergren's equation counted about 170 papers citing Lagergren's original paper until 2004. Within 10 years, this number exhibited a twentyfold increase.
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Achkoda
Achkoda (sometimes spelled Anchkoda) is a village in the Neturia CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Achkoda is located at .
Area overview
Purulia district forms the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The general scenario is undulating land with scattered hills.Raghunathpur subdivision occupies the northern part of the district. 83.80% of the population of the subdivision lives in rural areas. However, there are pockets of urbanization and 16.20% of the population lives in urban areas. There are 14 census towns in the subdivision.It is presented in the map given alongside. There is a coal mining area around Parbelia and two thermal power plants are there – the 500 MW Santaldih Thermal Power Station and the 1200 MW Raghunathpur Thermal Power Station. The subdivision has a rich heritage of old temples, some of them belonging to the 11th century or earlier. The Banda Deul is a monument of national importance.The comparatively more recent in historical terms, Panchkot Raj has interesting and intriguing remains in the area.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Achkoda had a total population of 1,178, of which 596 (51%) were males and 582 (49%) were females. There were 582 persons in the age range of 0-6 years. The total number of literate persons in Achkoda was 640 (62.75% of the population over 6 years).
Culture
Achkoda, like Cheliyama, showcases aatchala-style temples with terracotta work on the walls. However, while there has been restoration at Cheliyama, Achkoda remains untouched. Achkoda “seems to be at least five centuries old. Its panels are smaller in size (than those at Cheliyama) and some of them depict tribal life.”
Achkoda picture gallery
Terracotta carvings
Some pictures are a part of Wiki Explores Purulia programme, an initiative by West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
References
External links
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George Chamier
George Chamier (8 April 1842–25 April 1915) was a New Zealand engineer, surveyor and novelist. He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on 8 April 1842.
Writings
Philosopher Dick, 1890
A south sea siren, 1895
The Story of a successful man, 1895
War and Pessimism, and Other Studies, 1911
References
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Category:1915 deaths
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Category:New Zealand surveyors
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Category:19th-century male writers
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Been (surname)
Been is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dick Been (1914–1978), Dutch footballer
Harry Been (born 1949), Dutch football official
Mario Been (born 1963), Dutch footballer and manager
Michael Been (1950–2010), American musician
Robert Levon Been (born 1978), American musician
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Multilocus genotype
A multilocus genotype is the combination of alleles found at two or more loci in a single individual. For example, in a diploid species, if there are two SNP loci and the first locus has alleles A and G, while the second locus has alleles T and C, the multilocus genotype can be represented as {A/G,T/C}. If the genome is not haploid then the multilocus genotype does not necessarily determine which alleles co-occur on chromosomes. In the example, if the two loci are located on the same chromosome the possibilities are either {A-T,G-C} or {A-C,G-T}. Where A-T represents a haplotype with alleles A and T together on one chromosome and G and C together on the other. If the haplotypes are determined the multilocus genotype is referred to as a phased genotype, otherwise it is referred to as unphased. Some authors suggest that the term multilocus genotype should only be applied to phased multilocus data while others apply it to unphased multilocus data as well. The combination of alleles at two or more loci on a single chromosome make up a haplotype and the two haplotypes in a diploid individual make up the diplotype (a synonym for a phased multilocus genotype).
References
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Tiger Lily, California
Tiger Lily is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located south-southeast of Placerville, at an elevation of 2080 feet (634 m).
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Dye, Missouri
Dye is an unincorporated community in Platte County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
History
A post office called Dye was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1902. The community has the name of James Dye, the original owner of the site.
References
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2017 European Team Championships
The seventh European Athletics Team Championships were held from 23 to 25 June 2017.
Super League
Place: Stadium Lille Métropole, Lille, France
Participating countries
Men's events
Women's events
Score table
Final standings
First League
Place: Karls' Stadium, Vaasa, Finland
Participating countries
Men's events
Women's events
Score table
Final standings
Second League
Place: National Sport Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Participating countries
Men's events
Women's events
Score table
Final standings
Third League
Place: Matthew Micallef St. John Athletics Stadium, Marsa, Malta
Participating countries
AASSE
No teams were relegated from the Second League after the 2015 edition in order to enlarge it. Although eligible, Albania and Kosovo did not participate.
Men's events
Women's events
Score table
Final Standings
After 40/40 events
Promotion was given to Malta following a failed doping test by an athlete (Adela Čomor, BIH).
References
External links
Official Super League site
Official First League site
Official Second League site
Official Third League site
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Team
European
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American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment
The American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a “high-visibility effort” to address global warming (global climate disruption) by creating a network of colleges and universities that have committed to neutralize their greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.
Second Nature is the main supporting organization of the ACUPCC. It is a nonprofit organization that "has worked with over 4,000 faculty and administrators at hundreds of colleges and universities to help make the principles of sustainability fundamental to every aspect of higher education." It is the main supporting organization of the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment.
Definition of sustainable development
The commonly accepted definition of sustainable development is defined as, “development that meets the needs of the present with- out compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
However, as pointed out by Lander Medlin, APPA's executive vice president, “sustainability is not just about protecting the environment—it is also about finding ways to meet the basic needs of all current and future generations of humans.” The ACUPCC seeks to encourage higher education institutions to give their students tools to think with a sustainable perspective for the future.
Mission
The ACUPCC seeks to create connections with higher educational institutions in order to carry out two goals:
The first is to make an agreement with these colleges and universities that they will commit to eliminate their net greenhouse gas emissions from specified campus operations.
The second focuses on education and the institutions’ ability to promote research of sustainability programs and empower the "higher education sector to educate students, create solutions, and provide leadership-by-example for the rest of society."
ACUPCC provides “a framework and support” for America's colleges and universities. The ACUPCC relies on institutions of higher education to be role models for their communities as well as students, and to educate people who will contribute to fighting to reverse global warming and create a sustainable society.
ACUPCC agreement
ACUPCC institutions have agreed to:
Complete an emissions inventory.
Within two years, set a target date and interim milestones for becoming climate neutral.
Take immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by choosing from a list of short-term actions.
Integrate sustainability into the curriculum and make it part of the educational experience.
Make the action plan, inventory and progress reports publicly available.
History
In October, 2006, planning sessions were held at Arizona State University with the twelve founding signatory Presidents, Second Nature, ecoAmerica, and AASHE. ACUPCC was launched in December 2006, when the founding Presidents sent a letter to nearly 400 of their peers to invite them to join in the initiate. In June 2007, with a signatory group of 284, The ACUPCC was launched to the public at the first Climate Leadership Summit.
12 founding signatories
Loren Anderson, president, Pacific Lutheran University
Michael Crow, president, Arizona State University
Nancy Dye, president, Oberlin College
Jo Ann Gora, president, Ball State University
David Hales, president, College of the Atlantic
Bernard Machen, president, University of Florida
Gifford Pinchot III, president, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Kathleen Schatzberg, president, Cape Cod Community College
Mary Spilde, president, Lane Community College
Douglas Treadway, president, Ohlone College
Darroch Young, chancellor, Los Angeles Community College District
Paul Zingg, president, California State University, Chico
Current signatories
By 2010 there were 697 universities and colleges in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, representing a student population of over 5.6 million as signatories under the ACUPCC. Complete list of signatories.
External links
The American College and University President's Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)
Second Nature
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
References
www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org
www.secondnature.org
www.aashe.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003031/http://www2.aashe.org/heasc/documents/MA08ExecSumm.pdf
www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/about/mission-history
www.fastcompany.com/blog/tony-cortese/green-u/higher-education-s-purpose-healthy-just-and-sustainable-society
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Sam Mewis
Samantha June Mewis (born October 9, 1992) is an American soccer player. She plays as a midfielder for the North Carolina Courage in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She played college soccer for the UCLA Bruins. Her club career started in 2013 when she signed with Pali Blues in the W-League and continues with her playing for the North Carolina Courage in the National Women's Soccer League with three NWSL wins under her belt.
Early life
Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts to Robert and Melissa Mewis, Samantha grew up in Hanson, Massachusetts where she attended Whitman-Hanson Regional High School and played on the soccer team, tallying 77 goals and 34 assists during her time there. She grew up with her older sister Kristie, playing soccer for numerous youth teams, including club team, Scorpions SC, as well as the under-17 and under-20 United States national teams. Mewis earned Parade All-American honors twice during her high school years and was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America national player of the year in 2010. In 2011, she was named Gatorade Massachusetts Girls Soccer Player of the Year for the second time after receiving the accolade previously for 2009–10. The same year, she was named ESPN RISE All-American after scoring 30 goals and serving 8 assists during her senior year.
UCLA Bruins
In her first year, Mewis was second on the team in scoring with six goals and seven assists, only bested by current United States women's national soccer team member Sydney Leroux and was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. Due to national team commitments, Sam missed the first six games of her second season, but finished the year with three goals and three assists in 16 games. In her junior year, Mewis helped UCLA win the Pac-12 championship on the way to its first NCAA Championship. In December 2014, she was named the winner of the 2015 Honda Award for soccer by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
Club career
Pali Blues
In 2013, Mewis signed with the Pali Blues in the W-League. The team won the western conference title as well as the national championship in July 2013.
Western New York Flash, 2015–2016
Mewis was selected fourth overall by the Western New York Flash in the 2015 National Women's Soccer League entry draft. She started all 20 regular-season games for the Flash, scoring 4 goals and providing 4 assists to share the top of the team scoring leaderboard with Lynn Williams. On September 9, 2015, the NWSL announced that Mewis was selected as a finalist for the NWSL Rookie of the Year Award for the 2015 season, along with Sofia Huerta and the eventual winner, Danielle Colaprico.
In the 2016 season, Mewis missed several games as she was away training with the U.S. WNT in preparations for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Western New York Flash finished fourth in the standings and qualified for the play-offs. In the semi-final, Mewis scored a goal in the 16th minute helping the Western New York Flash to upset the Shield winning Portland Thorns. In the NWSL Championship game Mewis once again scored a goal. The Championship game went to penalties, Mewis missed her penalty but the flash went on to win the Championship, winning the penalty shootout 3–2.
North Carolina Courage, 2017–present
It was announced on January 9, 2017, that the Western New York Flash was officially sold to new ownership, moved to North Carolina, and rebranded as the North Carolina Courage.
Mewis had a very successful 2017 season, as she appeared in every game for the Courage, tallying 6 goals and 3 assists. She was named to the NWSL Best XI and was a finalist for the NWSL Most Valuable Player Award.
Mewis missed the beginning of the 2018 season as she was recovering from a knee injury. She appeared in 17 regular season games, as the Courage won their second consecutive NWSL Shield. In the play-offs, Mewis was in the starting line-up for the semi-final match against the Chicago Red Stars and scored a goal in the 86th minute. North Carolina won 2–0 and advanced to their second straight championship game. She played all 90 minutes in the NWSL Championship game as the Courage defeated the Portland Thorns 3–0. Mewis has now won two NWSL Championships.
Due to her participation in the 2019 World Cup, Mewis only appeared in 12 regular season games for the Courage in 2019. North Carolina won the NWSL Shield for the third consecutive season. They advanced to the final after defeating Reign FC in the semi-final. Mewis scored a goal in the champinoship game as North Carolina defeated the Chicago Red Stars 4–0 to win their second consecutive NWSL Championoship.
Club summary
International career
Mewis was a member of the United States under-17 team that was runner-up at the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand. As her sister Kristie was also a member of the team, they were the first sisters to represent the United States at a Women's World Cup. They also played together at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. At the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Mewis helped the team win the championship after defeating Germany 1–0 in the final.
On January 24, 2014, Mewis was named for the first time to the senior national team roster for friendlies against Canada and Russia. She made her debut for the team at the 2014 Algarve Cup during the team's second match of the tournament, a 1–0 loss to Sweden.
After a spell out of the team, Mewis was invited back to the senior team following their success at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She continued to get regular playing time, scoring four goals in 2016 including the winning goal against Germany in the 2016 She Believes Cup that won the United States the trophy. Mewis was named as an alternate for the U.S. WNT for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In 2017 Mewis was one of three players to appear in every game for the U.S. WNT., she played 1,242 minutes which was second highest on the team. She scored three goals and was a finalist for 2017 U.S Female Player of the Year.
Mewis suffered a knee injury in a November 2017 game against Canada, which would sideline her for the beginning of 2018, forcing her to miss the 2018 SheBelieves Cup. Mewis returned to the field for the U.S. in June 2018 in a friendly against China. In September 2018 she was named to the final 20 player roster of the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship.
In May 2019, Mewis was named to the final 23-player roster for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. She ended up playing in 6 out of 7 matches, including the final. The United States won the 2019 World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 2–0.
Player statistics
World Cup appearances
International goals
Personal life
Mewis' sister, Kristie, played for the United States women's national soccer team and plays professionally for the Houston Dash. In late December 2018, Mewis married longtime boyfriend Pat Johnson in Boston, Massachusetts.
After winning the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Mewis revealed that while she was young, her father, Bob Mewis, would pick up side jobs to be able to afford her and her sister's soccer expenses.
Honors
College
UCLA
NCAA Women's Soccer Championship: 2013
International
CONCACAF U20 Women's Championship: 2012
FIFA U20 Women's World Cup: 2012
CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament: 2016; 2020
SheBelieves Cup: 2016
Tournament of Nations: 2018
CONCACAF Women's Championship: 2018
FIFA Women's World Cup: 2019
Club
Western New York Flash
NWSL Champions: 2016
North Carolina Courage
NWSL Champions: 2018, 2019
NWSL Shield: 2017, 2018, 2019
Personal
NWSL Best XI: 2017
In popular culture
Ticker Tape Parade
Following the United States' win at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Mewis and her teammates were honored with a Ticker tape parade in New York City. Each player received a key to the city from Mayor Bill de Blasio.
See also
List of UCLA Bruins people
2012 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship squads
2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup squads
References
Match reports
External links
US Soccer player profile
North Carolina Courage player profile
UCLA player profile
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The Island Inside
The Island Inside () is a 2009 film directed by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso.
Plot
Three siblings try fighting the schizophrenia they inherited from their father.
References
External links
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Oleuropein
Oleuropein is a glycosylated seco-iridoid, a type of phenolic bitter compound found in green olive skin, flesh and seeds, leaves, and argan oil. The term oleuropein is derived from the botanical name of the olive tree, Olea europaea.
Because of its bitter taste, oleuropein must be completely removed or decomposed to make olives edible. During processing of bitter and inedible green olives for consumption as table olives, oleuropein is removed from olives by immersion in lye.
Chemical treatment
Oleuropein consists of a molecule of elenolic acid linked to the orthodiphenol hydroxytyrosol by an ester bond, and to a molecule of glucose by a glycosidic bond. Alkaline conditions favor the elimination, or directly the decomposition, of oleuropein from the tissues of fresh green olives immersed in a lye solution. Two mechanisms occur simultaneously: first, at high pH (~ 13.9) in a 3 wt. % NaOH solution, most of the phenolic groups (pKa ≈ 10) present in the oleuropein molecule are deprotonated and present in a dissociated state. The ionized phenolate groups significantly increase the solubility of the molecule in the tissue of the olives. The oleuropein can then more easily diffuse out of the fruits and is released into the lye solution.
Second, under alkaline conditions, the oleuropein molecule is chemically hydrolyzed into hydroxytyrosol and elenolic acid by the breakdown of the ester and glycosidic bonds. At high pH, as phenols and polyphenols, the molecule is sensitive to oxidation and can degrade faster, while olives turn black as during their normal ripening, if the solution is oxygenated by air injection (alkaline oxidation of olives also called the California process).
The lye solution is replaced several times by a fresh one until the bitter taste has completely disappeared. An alternative process uses an amberlite macroporous resins to trap the oleuropein molecule directly from the solution, giving the advantage to reduce waste water while capturing the extracted molecules.
Enzymatic hydrolysis during the maturation of olives is also an important process for the decomposition of oleuropein and elimination of its bitter taste.
Green olive blackening
Green olives may be treated industrially with ferrous gluconate (0.4 wt. %) to change their color to black. Gluconate, an edible oxidation product of glucose, is used as non-toxic reactant to maintain Fe2+ in solution. When in contact with polyphenols, the ferrous ions form a black complex, giving the final color of the treated olives. Black olives treated with iron(II) gluconate are also depleted in hydroxytyrosol, as iron salts are catalysts for its oxidation.
See also
Elenolic acid (a marker for maturation of olives)
Hydroxytyrosol
Oleocanthal
Olive leaf
Olive: Traditional fermentation and curing
References
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Category:Phenol antioxidants
Category:Anti-inflammatory agents
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Głupice-Parcela
Głupice-Parcela is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drużbice, within Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.
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Pisgochaga
Pisgochaga (possibly from Quechua p'isqu bird, chaka bridge, "bird bridge") is a mountain in the northern part of the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of . It is located in the Ancash Region, Corongo Province, Cusca District.
References
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2009 Stuttgart Open – Singles
Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.
Jérémy Chardy won in the final 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 against Victor Hănescu.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
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Parri Bangla
Parri Bangla () is a village situated 28 km from Gilgit city and 23 km from Juglot city. Parri Bangla was established in 1885 by the residents of Juglot Sai and Balas. In 1929, . The first Development was a Dak Bangla on the Slik Road of the village during the period of British Colonial Rule. Locally Dak Bangla means "Post House". A water channel from Sai Nullah was constructed in 1931 by the locals of the village.
The population of Parri Bangla consists of Pakhtuns, Kashmiris, Sheens, Yashkuns, Dom, Kamin, Akhars etc.
External links
Parri-Bangla Satellite image at wikimapia.org
Parri-Bangla
KKH
Category:Populated places in Gilgit District
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Meghan Camarena
Meghan Camarena (born July 17, 1987) known by her online pseudonym Strawburry17, is an American YouTube personality and television host. She has worked on a number of videos, web series, and films, gaining popularity as a YouTube star, and participating as a contestant with fellow YouTuber Joey Graceffa on The Amazing Race 22 and The Amazing Race: All-Stars. She was an on-screen host for video content at Teen.com and was the backstage correspondent for season 2 of the TruTV talent contest Fake Off. in 2017, she and fellow YouTuber Jimmy Wong co-hosted the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime which was part of Disney's inaugural "D XP" summer programming block on Disney XD.
Career
Camarena was born in Fresno, California and grew up in Modesto, California. In her Draw My Life video, she said she had two older half-brothers from her parents' previous marriages, and younger twin brothers later. She would often take care of her younger brothers while her father was away and because her mother had suffered a bevy of physical problems and was on medication a lot. She graduated from Davis High School in 2005. Although she said she did okay in school, because of her mother's hardships, she said she was fairly depressed, had taken up drinking, and in college she had an on-and-off relationship with a boyfriend. Her grandmother took her to church where she made peace with God, left her boyfriend, and joined a Bible college internship program.
During this time, she learned video production for her youth group. She was inspired by some YouTubers, and began making home videos. She started up a YouTube channel called strawburry17 in 2007 where she would do video blogging, lip dubbing, and would later have videos on "unboxing cutesy Japanese toys, taste-testing weird foods from around the world, and reviewing apps and games." Camarena said that she chose her AOL screen name based on a Strawberry Shortcake cartoon, and that her birthday was on the 17th, but since "strawberry17" was taken, she went with a different spelling. She has since stuck with that screen name for her projects and branding. Her first music video was a lip dub of "I'm a Gummy Bear" and featured her brother. Her videos soon became popular and she was getting offers from record and media companies.
In 2010, she began corresponding with YouTuber Joey Graceffa who was located in Boston and who was planning to move to Los Angeles. In 2011, she met YouTuber Jimmy Wong who had encouraged her to enter a YouTube video contest called Next Up where the prize was $35k. She said she entered that in the last minute. She was selected as one of the 25 winners, and attended a YouTube boot camp in Manhattan. Using her Next Up money, she moved to Los Angeles In 2012, a YouTube upstart company called Big Frame arranged for her a trip to India where she made videos for the nonprofit organization Water.org. In Los Angeles, she produced videos for Teen.com and also hosted their YouTube channel along with Graceffa. The same year, when Google updated its analytics to throw out inactive and closed subscriber accounts, Camarena said she started treating her YouTube channel more like a company rather than just an Internet channel. She likened the YouTube channel to a startup, and when she hired staff for production and marketing, she said she was able to take on acting projects and do appearances at events. She had produced videos five days a week. She would also prepare videos in a large batch for the season, so it could run over several months. She and Graceffa participated in season 22 of The Amazing Race, where they competed as "Team Cute". Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan said "They are young and street-smart and savvy, and they get on very well. I could see them going a long way". The team was eliminated in the tenth episode and finished fifth overall. They would return for the All-Stars season, where they were eliminated in the third episode and finished ninth overall. Also in 2014, she produced a zombie-themed short film called The Grey Road which was funded by Ron Howard's New Form Incubator program.
In 2015, she was the backstage correspondent for the second season of Fake Off, which was a talent show broadcast on TruTV. She signed a deal with Disney's Maker Studios where she worked on creating online content in the entertainment industry. Her YouTube channel went over 1 million subscribers. In October of that year, she and other YouTube creators made a project called Spider-Man Murder Mystery which ran on Instagram. Camarena played character Gwen Stacy, who also goes by "Spider-Gwen". She starred as one of the eight correspondents of Unlocked: The World of Games, Revealed, a multi-part documentary on video games, where she followed people involved in e-sports. In 2017, she and Wong were selected to co-host the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime which was created as part of Disney's "D XP" programming block on Disney XD. In 2018, she and YouTubers Markiplier, Jacksepticeye and LuzuGames launched Twitch channels.
Camarena has appeared at several conventions including multiple VidCons, SXSW, Playlist Live and various Comic-Cons. In 2016, she was an L.A. Biz Women of Influence honoree. She cited Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as some of her biggest influences and inspirations. She and YouTuber Jacksepticeye hosted the Level Up! games panel at the D23 Expo 2017.
Personal life
Camarena is half-Mexican and half German-Irish. She lives in the Los Angeles area. When she had moved to Los Angeles in 2011, she was dating Wong but they broke up in 2013. In addition to attending YouTube related conventions, she has participated as a cosplayer, an activity she was done since 2011. She, Graceffa and YouTuber Catherine Valdes had also created a band called The Tributes with music video parodies based on The Hunger Games film series.
Filmography
References
External links
Joey and Meghan's profiles on The Amazing Race 22
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List of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles episodes
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (previously Million Dollar Listing) is an American reality television series on Bravo that debuted on August 29, 2006. The series chronicles the professional and personal lives of six real estate agents — Josh Flagg, Madison Hildebrand, Josh Altman, James Harris, David Parnes, and Tracy Tutor Maltas — based in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and Malibu, California as they sell high-end properties. It also gives viewers an inside look at the world of high-priced real estate in Los Angeles County. The series has three spin-offs, Million Dollar Listing New York, which premiered on March 7, 2012, Million Dollar Listing Miami, which premiered June 25, 2014, and Million Dollar Listing San Francisco, which premiered July 8, 2015.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2006)
Season 2 (2008)
Season 3 (2009)
Season 4 (2011)
Season 5 (2012)
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2014)
Season 8 (2015)
Season 9 (2016)
Season 10 (2017-18)
Season 11 (2019)
References
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