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1960–61 Isthmian League
The 1960–61 season was the 46th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.
Bromley were champions, winning their fourth Isthmian League title.
League table
References
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Crassimarginatidae
Crassimarginatidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.
This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies.
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Night Dragon Operation
Night Dragon Operation is one of the cyberattacks that started in mid-2006 and was initially reported by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at Internet security company McAfee in August 2011, who also led and named the Night Dragon Operation and Operation Aurora cyberespionage intrusion investigations. The attacks have hit at least 71 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.
Attack work model
The attacks use a variety of components—there is no single piece or family of malware responsible. The preliminary stage of the attack involves penetration of the target network, ‘breaking down the front door’. Techniques such as spear-phishing and SQL injection of public facing Web servers are reported to have been used. Once in, the attackers then upload freely available hacker tools onto the compromised servers in order to gain visibility into the internal network. The internal network can then be penetrated by typical methods (accessing Active Directory account details, cracking user passwords, etc.) in order to infect machines on the network with remote administration trojans (RATs). Since this attack is done by a government, the resources in terms of hardware, software, and other logistics available to the hackers are considerable (PLA Unit 61398).
References
Category:Cyberattacks
Category:Advanced persistent threat
Category:Cyberwarfare in China
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Air raid offense
In American football the air raid offense refers to an offensive scheme popularized by such coaches as Mike Leach, Hal Mumme, Sonny Dykes, and Tony Franklin during their tenures at Iowa Wesleyan University, Valdosta State, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Louisiana Tech, and Washington State.
The system is designed out of a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and one running back. The formations are a variation of the run and shoot offense with two outside receivers and two inside slot receivers. The offense also uses trips formations featuring three wide receivers on one side of the field and a lone single receiver on the other side.
History
The offense owes much to the influence of BYU head coach LaVell Edwards who used the splits and several key passing concepts during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s while coaching players such as Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, and Ty Detmer. Mike Leach has made reference that he and Hal Mumme largely incorporated much of the BYU passing attack into what is now known as the air raid offense. Some of the concepts such as the shallow cross route were incorporated into such offenses as the West Coast offense during the early 1990s as well, prominently under Mike Shanahan while he was the head coach of the Denver Broncos.
The offense first made its appearance when Mumme and Leach took over at Iowa Wesleyan College and Valdosta State University and had success there during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first exposure into NCAA Division I-A (now FBS) was at the University of Kentucky starting in 1997. There, Mumme and Leach helped turn highly touted QB Tim Couch into a star and later a first overall NFL draft pick. Leach then served as offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma in 1999 before landing the head coaching job at Texas Tech. Shortly into the early 2000s, assistant coaches started landing head coaching jobs such as Chris Hatcher at Valdosta State, Art Briles (first at Houston then Baylor), Sonny Dykes (first at Louisiana Tech, then at California), Ruffin McNeill at East Carolina, Dana Holgorsen at West Virginia, and Kevin Sumlin (first at Houston, then Texas A&M). Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury (Mike Leach's first quarterback at Texas Tech) runs the offense as well.
Air Raid System
The Scheme is notable for its focus on passing. As many as 65–75% of the calls during a season result in a passing play. The QB has the freedom to audible to any play based on what the defense is showing him at the line of scrimmage. In at least one instance, as a result of the QB's ability to audible, as many as 90% of the run plays called in a season were chosen by audible at the line of scrimmage.
Another important element in this offense is the inclusion of the no huddle. The QB and the offense race up to the line of scrimmage, diagnose what the defense is showing, and then snap the ball based on the QB's play call. This not only allows a team to come back if they are many points down as seen in the 2006 Insight Bowl but it also allows them to tire out the defense, allowing for bigger runs and longer pass completions. The fast pace limits the defense's ability to substitute players and adjust their scheme. The hurried pace can cause defensive mental mistakes such as missed assignments or being out of position or too many men on the field.
Another important aspect of the Air Raid offense is the split of the offensive linemen. In a conventional offense, the linemen are bunched together fairly tightly but in an Air Raid offense, linemen are often split apart about a half to a full yard from another. While in theory this allows easier blitz lanes, it forces the defensive ends and defensive tackles to run further to reach the quarterback for a sack. The quick, short passes offset any Blitz that may come. Another advantage is that by forcing the defensive line to widen, it opens up wide passing lanes for the QB to throw the ball through with less chance of having his pass knocked down or intercepted.
Coaches
Mike Gundy Head coach at Oklahoma State University
Hal Mumme – head coach at Valdosta State 1992–1996, Kentucky 1997–2000, SE Louisiana 2003–2004, New Mexico State 2005–2008, McMurry 2009–2012, and Belhaven 2014-2017; offensive coordinator at SMU 2013.
Mike Leach – offensive coordinator under Mumme at Valdosta State 1992–1996 and Kentucky 1997–1998, then at Oklahoma in 1999; head coach at Texas Tech 2000–2009; head coach at Washington State 2012–2019; head coach at Mississippi State 2020–present.
Mark Mangino – offensive line coach at Oklahoma in 1999 under Leach; offensive coordinator at Oklahoma 2000–2001 after Leach's departure; head coach at Kansas 2002–2009.
Art Briles – running backs coach at Texas Tech under Leach from 2000–2002; head coach at Houston 2003–2007 and Baylor 2008–2016.
Ruffin McNeil – at Texas Tech under Leach as linebackers coach 2000–2006 and defensive coordinator 2007–2009; head coach at East Carolina 2010–2015.
Lincoln Riley – wide receivers coach at Texas Tech from 2007–2009; offensive coordinator at East Carolina from 2010–2014; offensive coordinator from 2015–2017 at Oklahoma; head coach 2017–present at Oklahoma.
Sonny Cumbie – co-offensive coordinator at Texas Tech 2013; co-offensive coordinator at TCU from 2014–present. Played under Leach at Texas Tech.
Graham Harrell – Offensive coordinator at the University of Southern California 2019–present; North Texas from 2016–2019. Played under Leach at Texas Tech.
Seth Littrell – running backs coach at Texas Tech under Leach from 2005–2008; head coach at North Texas from 2016–present.
Greg McMackin – defensive coordinator at Texas Tech 2000–2002 under Leach; head coach at Hawaii from 2008–2011.
Manny Matsakis – special teams coordinator at Texas Tech 2000–2002 under Leach; head coach at Texas State in 2003.
Clay McGuire – offensive line coach at Washington State 2012 under Leach; played under Leach at Texas Tech.
Eric Morris – inside wide receivers coach at Washington State 2012 under Leach; played under Leach at Texas Tech; offensive coordinator at Texas Tech 2013–present.
Robert Anae – offensive line coach at Texas Tech 2000–2004 under Leach; offensive coordinator at BYU 2005–2010; OC at BYU 2013–2015; OC at Virginia 2016–present.
Josh Heupel – played QB under Leach (1999) and Mangino (2000) at Oklahoma. Coached quarterbacks at Oklahoma from 2006–2009 before serving as Co-OC from 2010–2014 for Oklahoma. After that, OC at Utah State (2015) and Missouri (2016–2017) before becoming head coach at UCF (2018–present).
Kliff Kingsbury – quarterback at Texas Tech 1998–2002, under Leach 2000–2002; offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Houston under Sumlin 2010–2011; offensive coordinator at Texas A&M under Sumlin in 2012; head coach at Texas Tech 2013–2018. Offensive Coordinator at the University of Southern California 2018 (1 month); Head Coach of the Arizona Cardinals 2019–present.
Mike Jinks – running backs coach at Texas Tech 2013–2015 under Kingsbury; head coach at Bowling Green 2016–2018.
Tony Franklin – running backs coach at Kentucky 1997–1999, under Leach in 1998; offensive coordinator at Kentucky in 2000; offensive coordinator at Troy in 2006, Auburn 2007–2008, Middle Tennessee 2009, Louisiana Tech 2010–2012, and OC at California 2013–2016.
Chris Hatcher – quarterbacks and receivers coach at Kentucky under Mumme in 1999; head coach at Valdosta State 2000–2006, Georgia Southern 2007–2009, Murray State 2010–2014, and Samford 2015 present.
Dana Holgorsen – quarterbacks and wide receivers coach under Mumme at Valdosta State 1993–1995; at Texas Tech under Leach as wide receivers coach 2000–2006 and offensive coordinator in 2007; offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Houston under Kevin Sumlin 2008–2009; offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State in 2010; head coach at West Virginia from 2011–2018; current head coach at the University of Houston.
Jake Spavital – quarterbacks coach under Holgorsen West Virginia 2011–2013; QB coach/offensive coordinator under Sumlin at Texas A&M 2013–2015; and QB coach/offensive coordinator under Dykes 2016; QB coach/offensive coordinator under Holgorsen at West Virginia 2017–2018; and Texas State head coach 2018–present.
Sonny Dykes – wide receivers coach at Kentucky under Mumme in 1999 and Texas Tech under Leach 2000–2006; offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arizona 2007–2009; head coach at Louisiana Tech 2010–2012; head coach at California 2013–2016; and head coach at SMU 2018–present.
Matt Mumme – offensive coordinator at Nevada 2017–present
Kevin Sumlin – wide receivers coach at Purdue 1998–2000, offensive coordinator at Texas A&M 2001–2002 and Oklahoma 2006–2007; head coach at Houston 2008–2011, Texas A&M 2012–2017, and Arizona 2018–present.
References
External links
Culture Crossfire Article covering History/Background of Air Raid Offense
Highlights of the air raid offense from Texas Tech's 2007 season
Highlights of the Mesh Route performed by Texas Tech and New Mexico State
The Shallow Cross Route as performed by Brigham Young in a game
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List of Belgian First Division clubs
A total of 77 association football clubs in Belgium have yet played in the Belgian First Division since its creation in 1895. Those clubs are listed here alphabetically. The last spell in the first division is indicated between brackets. Teams in bold are teams playing in the 2015-16 season. Teams in italics stopped, went into liquidation or merged with or into another team.
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Cupar, Saskatchewan
Cupar ( ) is a town 75 kilometres northeast of Regina. Cupar is settled on the flat plains 45 kilometres north of the scenic Qu'Appelle Valley. it is significant for its remarkable hockey history. It is often called the Home of Eddie Shore, as the legendary NHL defenceman was raised here.
History
Cupar became a village in 1905. It was named by a Canadian Pacific Railway official after the town of Cupar in Fife, Scotland. The town celebrated its centennial in 2005.
Cupar is the home of artist Jacqueline Berting. The Berting Glass studio is located north of town. One of her best known works is "The Glass Wheatfield", encompassing 1,400 waist high glass wheat stalks, each piece individually hand cut and lamp worked. Berting calls her work "A Salute to the Canadian farmer".
The town is known for the Cupar Gopher Drop, a unique lottery held every summer. Stuffed toy gophers (Richardson's Ground Squirrels) labelled with numbers are dropped from a hot-air balloon along with numbered gopher holes. The "owner" of the gopher that lands nearest Hole 1 wins first prize, and so on.
Rivalry with Southey
Cupar is well known for its fierce rivalry with the nearby town of Southey, Saskatchewan, especially in the field of sports. Without exception, there is a certain amount of animosity between individuals of the towns. However, the towns are close-knit, and inter-town sports teams are made often combining players from both towns.
Demographics
Climate
See also
List of communities in Saskatchewan
List of towns in Saskatchewan
Jewish Colony in 1901
References
External links
Town of Cupar Web site
Berting Glass
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Ulyap
Ulyap () is a rural locality (an aul) and the administrative center of Ulyapskoye Rural Settlement of Krasnogvardeysky District, Adygea, Russia. The population was 1,186 in 2018. There are 20 streets.
Ethnicity
The aul is inhabited by Adighes.
References
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Fallout (Front Line Assembly album)
Fallout is an album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2007. Initially announced as an EP, it is a collection of nine remixes and three previously unreleased tracks. by both the band themselves and other acts including Combichrist, as well as a few additional new tracks.
Background
According to Jeremy Inkel, "Electric Dreams" and "Unconscious" are songs that were originally meant for the Artificial Soldier album, but left unfinished until after. Band leader Bill Leeb later expressed his dissatisfaction with the release, saying, "We weren't that happy with Fallout even though it was more of a friendship remix CD."
Touring
After having postponed the tour because of the later than planned release of the album the band toured North America and Europe in support of Fallout. The North American leg comprised dates in April and May 2007. The band were accompanied by American industrial rock band Acumen Nation as supporting act until May 8, American new wave band and Metropolis label mates TheStart joined on 2 May 2007 for the remainder of the tour. Front Line Assembly continued their tour in Europe in June and July 2007 where British industrial band Portion Control acted as support.
Critical reception
David Jeffries of Allmusic called Fallout "one of the better odds and ends collections in FLA's catalog." Remarking on individual songs, he stated, "Sebastian R. Komor (Icon of Coil) makes "Unleashed" sound absolutely epic", and called Portion Control's "Lowlife" remix both "creepy and sinister" and the "most difficult and rewarding remix".
In his review, Peter Marks of Release Magazine said of the album, "The results are mixed", calling the "Unleashed" remix "not very impressive". He was positive about the Portion Control "Lowlife" remix, saying it "goes places FLA never would, or for that matter could." About the mix of "Lowlife" retitled "Reprobate", he said that "production master Greg Reely gives his version... a potent, malicious bent". On the new tracks Marks commented, "The three new works are all nice enough but it is "Armageddon" that sticks in my mind as it takes us back to a different era of this act, when they were releasing truly revelatory works."
Track listing
Personnel
Front Line Assembly
Bill Leeb – production (4, 5, 10), vocals, additional synthesizer (5)
Rhys Fulber – production (4, 10, 12), programming (4, 9, 10, 12)
Jeremy Inkel – production (5, 12), programming (5, 6, 12)
Chris Peterson – additional programming (5, 12)
Jared Slingerland – live guitar (5)
Additional musicians
Eskil Simonsson – vocals (11)
Adrian White – live drums (5)
Technical personnel
Chris Demarcus – drum engineering (5)
Greg Reely – mixing
Brian Gardner – mastering
Dave McKean – design, illustration
References
Category:Front Line Assembly albums
Category:2007 remix albums
Category:Metropolis Records remix albums
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Germaine Cousin
Saint Germaine Cousin (Germana Cousin, Germaine of Pibrac, Germana) (1579–1601) is a French saint. She was born in 1579 of humble parents at Pibrac, a village 15 km from Toulouse.
Of her, the Catholic Encyclopedia writes:
"From her birth she seemed marked out for suffering; she came into the world with a deformed hand and the disease of scrofula, and, while yet an infant, lost her mother. Her father soon married again, but his second wife treated Germaine with much cruelty. Under pretence of saving the other children from the contagion of scrofula she persuaded the father to keep Germaine away from the homestead, and thus the child was employed almost from infancy as a shepherdess. When she returned at night, her bed was in the stable or on a litter of vine branches in a garret. In this hard school Germaine learned early to practise humility and patience. She was gifted with a marvellous sense of the presence of God and of spiritual things, so that her lonely life became to her a source of light and blessing. To poverty, bodily infirmity, the rigours of the seasons, the lack of affection from those in her own home, she added voluntary mortifications and austerities, making bread and water her daily food. Her love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and for His Virgin Mother presaged the saint. She assisted daily at the Holy Sacrifice; when the bell rang, she fixed her sheep-hook or distaff in the ground, and left her flocks to the care of Providence while she heard Mass. Although the pasture was on the border of a forest infested with wolves, no harm ever came to her flocks."
She is said to have practised many austerities as reparation for the sacrileges perpetrated by heretics in the neighbouring churches. She frequented the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist, and it was observed that her piety increased on the approach of every feast of Our Lady. The Rosary was her only book, and her devotion to the Angelus was so great that she used to fall on her knees at the first sound of the bell, even though she heard it when crossing a stream. The villagers are said to have inclined at first to treat her piety with mild derision, until certain signs of God's signal favour made her an object of reverence and awe.
The ford in winter, after heavy rains or the melting of snow, was at times impassable. On several occasions the swollen waters were seen to open and afford her a passage without wetting her garments. Notwithstanding her poverty she found means to help the poor by sharing with them her allowance of bread. Her father at last came to a sense of his duty, forbade her stepmother henceforth to treat her harshly, and wished to give her a place in the home with his other children, but Germaine begged to be allowed to remain in the humbler position. At this point, when men were beginning to realize the beauty of her life, she died. One morning in the early summer of 1601, her father found that she had not risen at the usual hour and went to call her, finding her dead on her pallet of vine-twigs. She was 22 years old at the time.
Relics and veneration
Her remains were buried in the parish church of Pibrac in front of the pulpit. In 1644, when the grave was opened to receive one of her relatives, the body of Germaine was discovered fresh and perfectly preserved, and miraculously raised almost to the level of the floor of the church. It was exposed for public view near the pulpit, until a noble lady, the wife of François de Beauregard, presented as a thanks-offering a casket of lead to hold the remains. She had been cured of a malignant and incurable ulcer in the breast, and her infant son whose life was despaired of was restored to health on her seeking the intercession of Germaine. This was the first of a long series of wonderful cures wrought at her relics. The leaden casket was placed in the sacristy, and in 1661 and 1700 the remains were viewed and found fresh and intact by the vicars-general of Toulouse, who have left testamentary depositions of the fact.
Expert medical evidence deposed that the body had not been embalmed, and experimental tests showed that the preservation was not due to any property inherent in the soil. In 1700 a movement was begun to procure the beatification of Germaine, but it fell through owing to accidental causes. In 1793 the casket was desecrated by a revolutionary tinsmith, named Toulza, who with three accomplices took out the remains and buried them in the sacristy, throwing quick-lime and water on them. After the Revolution, her body was found to be still intact save where the quick-lime had done its work.
The private veneration of Germaine had continued from the original finding of the body in 1644, supported and encouraged by numerous cures and miracles. The cause of beatification was resumed in 1850. The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See. The miracles attested were cures of every kind (of blindness, congenital and resulting from disease, of hip and spinal disease), besides the multiplication of food for the distressed community of the Good Shepherd at Bourges in 1845.
On 7 May 1854, Pius IX proclaimed her beatification, and on 29 June 1867, placed her on the canon of virgin saints. Her feast is kept in the Diocese of Toulouse on 15 June. She is represented in art with a shepherd's crook or with a distaff; with a watchdog, or a sheep; or with flowers in her apron.
External links
Patron Saints: Germaine Cousin
St. Germaine Cousin at the Catholic Encyclopedia
Category:French Roman Catholic saints
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Category:Christian female saints of the Early Modern era
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John Spence (footballer)
John Spence was a professional footballer who played as a wing half for Sunderland.
References
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2012 Pan American Fencing Championships
The 2012 Pan American Fencing Championships were held in Cancún, Mexico from 15 to 20 June.
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
References
2012
Pan American Fencing Championships
Category:International fencing competitions hosted by Mexico
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Patrick McCarthy (Australian footballer)
Patrick "Pirren" McCarthy (born 11 March 1992) is an Australian rules footballer formerly in the Australian Football League.
Career
McCarthy plays primarily as a tall defender. Originally from South Australia, McCarthy attended and played school football for Sacred Heart College in Somerton Park. He played under 18s and reserves football for the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL up to the 2010 season, and he represented South Australia at the 2010 AFL Under 18 Championships, where he was selected as a defender in the Under 18 All-Australian team.
McCarthy was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its second round selection in the 2010 AFL National Draft (No. 34 overall). He was given guernsey number 24. He played three seasons with Carlton, playing mostly for its , the Northern Bullants/Blues. He played his sole senior AFL match in the last round of the 2012 season.
McCarthy was delisted at the end of the 2013 season. He returned to play for Glenelg in 2014.
References
External links
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Category:Living people
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Roy Hogsed
Roy Hogsed (born December 24, 1919 in Flippin, Arkansas; died March 1978) was an American country music singer. He is best known for his song "Cocaine Blues", which he took to number 15 on the country music charts in 1948. Although he was active in the music business for only seven years, "Cocaine Blues" has been widely covered.
Singles
Discography
Compilations
Cocaine Blues (Bear Family BCD-16191, 1999)
References
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Category:1978 deaths
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New Trafalgar Dispatch
The New Trafalgar Dispatch was part of the bicentenary celebrations of Lord Nelson's famous and momentous victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, in 1805. The prolonged and multi-focal ceremony took place between July and September 2005.
An actor, Alex Price, played the central role of Lieutenant Lapenotiere and recreated the delivery of Vice Admiral Collingwood’s original dispatch (report) to the Admiralty. The original dispatch was carried by HMS Pickle from the fleet off Cape Trafalgar to Falmouth. From there, Lapenotiere travelled by post chaise to London, in the very fast time of 37 hours.
In the re-enactment, the specially built replica post chaise visited various points, between Falmouth and London, many of them on the original route. Individual ceremonies were re-enacted with the post chaise at some of the 'stops', including Falmouth, Truro, Fraddon, Bodmin, Launceston, Okehampton, Exeter, Honiton, Axminster, Bridport, Dorchester, Lyme Regis, Salisbury, Andover, Bagshot, Staines and London, at each of which was read the specially drafted message, emphasising the sacrifice and courage of the participants of both sides, in that famous battle. Alex Price also delivered the same message without the post chaise but with a historic mail coach at Lifton, Bridestowe, Sticklepath, Crockernwell, Tedburn St Mary, Nadderwater, Clyst Honiton, Wilmington and Kilmington. The ceremonies also included the unveiling of permanent commemorative plaques to inaugurate and mark The Trafalgar Way.
External links
The New Trafalgar Dispatch
Ordnance Survey Trafalgar Way map
Collingwood's original message
The Pickle replica
The Lord Nelson Training Ship
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Coffee rock
Coffee rock is the common name for the rock-like formations of indurated sands that were formed from ancient river sediments of the Pleistocene age.
Coffee rock has been exposed by coastal weathering process on the beaches of Broadwater and Bundjalung National Parks in New South Wales, Australia. In addition, exposures can be seen in North Queensland, Australia at Kurrimine Beach, and in South East Queensland on Fraser Island and at the entry to Coonowrin Lake, Caloundra.
Exposed Coffee Rock on the beaches Fraser Island is more likely the beds of old lakes in the sand dunes when the sea level was lower. In places it is peat-like and embedded with wood ranging from small twigs to large tree trunks up to 1200mm in diameter, with some evidence of fire on the wood before being assembled.
References
National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW: Broadwater National Park, Bundjalung National Park and Iluka Nature Reserve - Plan of Management. Sydney, August 1997.
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Addis Run
Addis Run is a tributary stream of the Hughes River in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Addis Run has the name of a local landowner.
See also
List of rivers of West Virginia
References
Category:Rivers of Ritchie County, West Virginia
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Irigoyen
Irigoyen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adam Irigoyen (born 1997), American actor
Bernardo de Irigoyen (1822–1906), Argentine lawyer, diplomat and politician
Bernardo Irigoyen (born 1969), Argentine cricketer
Elsa Irigoyen (1919–2001), Argentine fencer
José Irigoyen (before 1797 – c. 1839), appointed Spanish governor of Texas who never arrived to claim his office
Julio Irigoyen (1894–1967), Argentine film director
María Irigoyen (born 1987), Argentine professional tennis player
Martín Irigoyen (born 1977), Argentine musician, composer and one of the pioneers of the steampunk sound
Matías de Irigoyen (1781–1839), Argentine soldier and politician
Miguel de Irigoyen (1764–1822), Argentine soldier and police chief
Roberto Irigoyen (before 1923 – after 1948), Argentine cinematographer
William Irigoyen (born 1970), French journalist
Fictional characters
Iman (comics) (Diego Irigoyen), fictional superhero from DC Comics
See also
Bernardo de Irigoyen, Misiones, city in the province of Misiones, Argentina
Bernardo de Irigoyen, Santa Fe, town (comuna) in the center-east of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina
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Karen Knútsdóttir
Karen Knútsdóttir (born 4 February 1990) is an Icelandic handballer who plays for Icelandic top division side Fram and the Icelandic national team as a middle back.
On April 26, 2018, Karen won her first national championship with Fram.
References
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Category:Living people
Karen Knutsdottir
Karen Knutsdottir
Karen Knutsdottir
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Karen Knutsdottir
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Manning Nunataks
The Manning Nunataks () are a group of nunataks in the eastern side of the southern part of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, about north-northeast of Pickering Nunatak. They were photographed from the air by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1957, and were named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Sergeant A.S. Manning, Royal Australian Air Force, an airframe fitter at Mawson Station in 1958.
See also
New Year Nunatak
Further reading
• S.L. Harley, I.C.W. Fitzsimons, Y. Zhao, editors, Antarctica and Supercontinent Evolution, P 102
• W. F. Budd, M. J. Carry, T. H. Jacka, Results from the Amery Ice Shelf Project
• Kim A. Krebs, The Morphology and Dynamics of the Lower Lambert Glacier and Amery Ice Shelf System
• W. BUDD, 1. LANDON SMITH and E. WISHART, The Amery lee Shelf, P 449
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George Edwin Smith
George Edwin Smith (April 5, 1849 – April 26, 1919) was a Massachusetts lawyer, legal writer, and politician. He served three terms as the President of the Massachusetts Senate. Previous to his assumption of the Senate Presidency, he served as a member of the Massachusetts Senate, elected from the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Early life and education
George Edwin Smith was born April 5, 1849, in New Hampton, New Hampshire to David H. and Esther Perkins. He was educated in common schools in New Hampton and began his formal education at the Nichols Latin School before enrolling Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He graduated Bates, with high honors, in 1873. His time at Bates sparked his interests in the law, and began to clerk for the at-the-time Maine Senator, William P. Frye, at his private legal firm. Smith went on to pass the Suffolk County bar in Boston in May 1973.
Early political career
In his early political career he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 8th Middlesex District comprising Malden and Everett, in 1883. He was subsequently re-elected 1884 with an increased voting turnout.
In 1892, he was a candidate for Mayor of Everett, and the lead the town into conception. He went on to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Public Library of Massachusetts, and chaired the committee that drew the charter for the newly founded city of Everett.
Other business and educational pursuits
In 1879, he was elected by the alumni of Bates College to serves on the Board of Overseers. In 1884, he was appointed by the Bates Corporation to serve on the Board of the President and was selected as a fellow of the college.
He also served as the President of the Glendon Club.
Death
Smith died at the Parker House in Boston, Massachusetts on April 26, 1919.
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Stanton Lewis (footballer, born 1974)
Stanton Lewis (born 9 March 1974) is a Bermudian retired international footballer.
Club career
A left-sided defender, Lewis has played club football for PHC Zebras and Boulevard Blazers.
International career
He earned a total of 21 caps for Bermuda, scoring 1 goal.
His final international match was a November 2006 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification match against Barbados.
International goals
Scores and results list Bermuda's goal tally first.
Managerial career
In 2012, he was Head Coach of Warwick Academy.
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Claudia Alende
Claudia Alende (born Claudia Manfrin Alende on October 9, 1993 in Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, Brazil) is a Brazilian singer, model and entrepreneur. Owner of Blanc Media and founder of Burger Babes.
Early life
Alende was born in Francisco Beltrão, Brazil, and moved to Sao Paulo when she was 20. Claudia is daughter of doctor Claudio Alende and lawyer Dolores Alende. As a child, she was considered a "tomboy"; she had no interest in pursuing a modeling career, preferring to spend her time playing video games. Her mother's friends and even strangers would compliment Claudia's modeling potential.
Career
In 2014, Alende participated in the Miss Bumbum contest and finished in second place, losing to Indianara Carvalho.
Alende then found fame online as a Megan Fox lookalike. By 2015 the Brazilian model was being followed by 2.8 million people on Instagram and had made £2.1 million from high profile social media endorsements. As of November 2017, Alende had over 10 million followers on Instagram.
On January 29, 2017, she was the judge of the Model Scout ID event together with Marcus Pelle, owner of DAS Models. The event was held in Barranquilla, Colombia. She had to choose one model out of 100 contestants.
Alende next founded Blanc Media, a entertainment company that works with international talent currently exceeding a 50 million network on Instagram. The company involvements include music production, motion pictures and marketing.
In June 2017 Alende was included in a feature by Forbes magazine as one of their top 15 Instagram influencers. The magazine commented: "As both a model and businesswomen this Brazilian influencer offers a combination of health and beauty content, business advice, motivational content, and lifestyle images. Known for both her beauty and business success, Claudia puts forward the image of the modern woman who can succeed in all aspects of life."
On December 4, 2017, she released her debut single "I'm Good at Being Bad".
On August 10, 2018, she released the single “Spotlight”.
On March 22, 2019, she released the single “Scared to Be Alone”.
On April 1st, 2019, she co-founded Burger Babes, a hamburger delivery service.
On August 23, 2019, she released the single “Summer Crime”.
Discography
Filmography
Film
Awards
I'm Good at Being Bad (Music Video)
Special Mention Award at the Asia South East-Short Film Festival (2018)
See also
Singers
References
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Frederick D. Gardner
Frederick "Fred" Dozier Gardner (November 6, 1869December 18, 1933), an American businessman and politician from St. Louis, Missouri, served as the 34th Governor of Missouri from 1917 to 1921.
Political career
Gardner was born in Hickman, Kentucky; his father was William H. Gardner. He rose to prominence in St. Louis. The only political office he ever sought was a single term as governor, and he narrowly won the election of 1916. However, he did later attend national conventions of the Democratic Party.
As Governor of Missouri he oversaw the elimination of the state's debt; it was $2,250,000 when he took office, but the state had over $3,500,000 in the treasury at the end of his term.
Businessman
In addition to his political career, Gardner spent 47 years in the funeral industry both as a funeral director and supplier, starting his career as an office boy. He worked for the Ellis Undertaking Co., M. Hermann & Son Livery & Undertaking, and the Southern Undertaking Co., all located in St. Louis. He eventually owned the St. Louis Coffin Co., and served as its president. He was also vice president of Gardner Motor Co. which operated in St. Louis from 1920 to 1932 and manufactured hearses and ambulances. He also operated casket manufacturing plants in Memphis, Tennessee; Texarkana, Arkansas; and Dallas, Texas.
Masonic
He was also a Freemason belonging to the historic Tuscan Lodge #360 Masonic Temple.
Personal life and death
He married Jeannette Vosburgh in 1894 and they had four children: William King, Dozier, Lee, and Janet Gardner. He died December 18, 1933 in St. Louis, from an infection of the jaw. He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery there with full Masonic rites.
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9th Texas Cavalry Regiment
The 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment fought at Round Mountain and Bird Creek (Chusto-Talasah) in 1861, Pea Ridge, Siege of Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge and the Holly Springs Raid in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Murfreesboro in 1864. The regiment surrendered to Federal forces on 4 May 1865 and its remaining personnel were paroled.
History
Formation
The 9th Texas Cavalry was mustered into service on 2 October 1861 at Brogden's Springs near Pottsboro in Grayson County, Texas. The field officers were Colonel William B. Sims, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan W. Townes, and Major William Quayle. Companies A and D hailed from Tarrant County, Company B from Fannin County, Company C from Grayson County, Company E from Red River County, Companies F and I from Titus County, and Companies G and K from Hopkins County.
The regiment first saw action in Indian Territory at the Battle of Round Mountain on 19 November 1861 and at the Battle of Bird Creek (Chusto-Talasah) on 9 December. After the regiment moved to Arkansas in February 1862, two companies went on Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross's raid into Missouri.
Pea Ridge
In early 1862, the regiment formed part of James M. McIntosh's 3,000-man cavalry brigade, together with the 1st Arkansas and 3rd, 6th, and 11th Texas Cavalry Regiments, and the 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion.
The brigade was part of Benjamin McCulloch's division which was soon incorporated into a Confederate army led by Earl Van Dorn. At the Battle of Pea Ridge on 6 March 1862, the cavalry brigade advanced east on the Ford Road toward an intended junction with a second Confederate division under Sterling Price at Elkhorn Tavern. At mid-morning, without warning, a force of Union cavalry and three artillery pieces appeared to the south and began shelling the Confederate horsemen. McIntosh's cavalry launched a massed charge that overran the guns and scattered the outnumbered Federal cavalry. During the clash, Colonel Sims received a wound in the arm so command of the 9th passed to Lieutenant Colonel Quayle.
Screened by a belt of woods, McCulloch formed his division facing south in two lines. He placed his infantry in the first line and the cavalry units, including the 9th Texas, in the second line. At this time, Union artillery south of the woods began firing blindly over the trees, causing some casualties. Before launching an attack McCulloch rode into the woods to scout, rode into range of a group of Federal skirmishers, and was shot dead. Fearing that the soldiers might lose heart, McCulloch's staff foolishly did not notify the second-line regimental leaders. Informed of McCulloch's death, second-in-command McIntosh rode forward to lead the attack and was immediately killed. The first-line Confederate regimental commanders decided to await orders from the third-in-command Louis Hébert. Meanwhile, Hébert was now out of touch, leading several infantry units into the woods farther east. During the confused fighting, Hébert became separated from his troops and was later captured.
After several hours of idleness under a demoralizing shelling, the Confederate unit commanders finally found out about the deaths of their leaders at 3:00 pm. At this time, Albert Pike led some units on a roundabout path to join with Price's division, while other units marched back to camp. Quayle and the commanders of three other cavalry units and two artillery batteries refused to obey Pike's orders and remained on the field. During the night the 9th Texas and other units marched to join Van Dorn and Price at Elkhorn Tavern for the second day of battle.
Corinth
The 9th Texas Cavalry was dismounted and sent east of the Mississippi River where it took part in the Siege of Corinth. The unit took part in a skirmish at Farmingham on 9 May 1862 and on several other occasions. The 9th was present during the Battle of Iuka on 19 September, but not engaged.
During the Second Battle of Corinth on 3–4 October 1862, the 9th Texas Cavalry served dismounted in Charles W. Phifer's brigade in the division of Dabney H. Maury. Also assigned to Phifer's brigade were the 3rd Arkansas and 6th Texas Cavalry Regiments (dismounted), Stirman's Arkansas Sharpshooter Battalion, and McNally's battery. In the first day's action, the 9th Texas captured a two gun section of John Welker's Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery. On the second day, Phifer's soldiers attacked the Union lines a short distance east of Battery Robinett. The 6th and 9th Texas Cavalry fought two Ohio regiments from John W. Fuller's brigade. After Texans' first charge was stopped by a storm of bullets, they fell back about 20 yards and engaged in a furious fusillade. A second charge was also repulsed. The officers of the 6th and 9th regiments finally ordered a retreat after a terrific and costly fight with the two sides as close as eight yards apart.
The 9th Texas Cavalry fought at the Battle of Hatchie's Bridge on 5 October. Leading Van Dorn's retreat, John Creed Moore's brigade was ambushed by Federals and lost 300 men on the west bank of the Hatchie River. Phifer's brigade, led by Sul Ross and William Lewis Cabell's brigade successfully defended the east bank, inflicting 570 casualties on the Union forces. In this contest, Ross's troops only sustained losses of seven killed and 22 wounded. In the two battles, Maury's division lost 2,500 out of 3,900 men.
Later operations
By December 1862, the 9th Texas Cavalry remounted and served in the Holly Springs Raid. In this operation, Van Dorn led 3,500 Confederate cavalry from Grenada to Holly Springs, Mississippi. Taking the Federal garrison by surprise, the Confederate horsemen captured 1,500 men and burned supplies worth $1.5 million. The raiders continued north to Bolivar, Tennessee, attacking Union posts along the way, then they escaped to Grenada. The raid convinced Ulysses S. Grant to pull his army back to Memphis. In May 1863, the regiment was part of Joseph E. Johnston army that tried unsuccessfully to relieve the Siege of Vicksburg. The unit fought in many skirmishes but there were no major actions.
In December 1863, the regiment nearly captured Grant and in 1864 it seized the gunboat . During the 1864 Atlanta campaign, the 9th Texas Cavalry under Colonel Dudley W. Jones was part of Sul Ross's brigade in William Hicks Jackson's cavalry division. This unit transferred from Mississippi to Georgia with Leonidas Polk's corps at the start of the campaign. The other units in the brigade were the 3rd and 6th Texas Cavalry and the 1st Texas Legion. Starting on 15 May 1864, for 112 days Ross's brigade was in continuous action.
The 9th Texas Cavalry took part in the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in late 1864, fighting at the Battle of Franklin on 30 November and the Third Battle of Murfreesboro on 5–7 December. The unit served as part of the rearguard during the retreat after the Battle of Nashville. In early 1865, the 9th Regiment was near Corinth, Mississippi. The Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana surrendered to Federal forces on 4 May 1865 and members of the regiment signed their paroles on 15 May.
See also
List of Texas Civil War Confederate units
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Noah Lewis
Noah Lewis (September 3, 1891 – February 7, 1961) was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica.
Life and career
Lewis was born in Henning, Tennessee, and learned to play the harmonica as a child. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in his early teens, where he met Gus Cannon near Ripley in 1910. By that time he was already a respected original stylist on the harmonica, noted for his liquid tone and breath control, which allowed him to generate enormous volume from the instrument. By then he was also noted for his ability to play two harmonicas at once – one with his mouth and one with his nose, a trick he probably taught to Big Walter Horton, who recorded briefly as a teenager with the Memphis Jug Band some 20 years later. Lewis' ability to generate volume led to him playing in string bands and brass marching bands around Henning and on the streets of Memphis.
At their meeting in 1907, Lewis introduced Cannon to the 13-year-old guitarist and singer Ashley Thompson, with whom Lewis had been playing in the streets of Ripley and Memphis for some time, and the three of them worked together over the next 20 years whenever Cannon was in Memphis and not away working medicine and tent shows. When Will Shade's Memphis Jugband recorded and became popular in the late 1920s, Cannon added a coal-oil can on a rack round his neck and renamed the trio (Cannon, Lewis and Thompson) Cannon's Jug Stompers. It was this lineup that made the Jug Busters' first recordings, for Victor Records, in Memphis on January 30, 1928. The songs from that session included "Minglewood Blues", "Springdale Blues", "Big Railroad Blues" and "Madison Street Rag". By the time of the band's next recording, on September 5, 1928, Cannon had replaced Thompson with Elijah Avery on banjo and guitar. By the time of the band's third recording session, four days later, Avery had in turn been replaced with an old friend of Cannon's from the medicine and tent show circuit, the six-string banjo player and guitarist Hosea Woods. The band's lineup remained unchanged from then on. With the Jug Stompers, Lewis sang lead vocal and played a melancholy harmonica solo on "Viola Lee Blues".
Lewis recorded four solo tracks and another four sides with the Noah Lewis Jug Band, consisting of Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (guitar) and Yank Rachell (mandolin), in 1930.
His songs "New, New Minglewood Blues", "Viola Lee Blues", and "Big Railroad Blues" were in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead.
Death
Lewis died in poverty, of gangrene brought on by frostbite, in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1961. He is buried in the Moorer (aka Marrows) Cemetery, 5 miles southwest of his birthplace, Henning.
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Paul Van Nevel
Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out little known polyphonic medieval works to perform.
He grew up in a musical family. From the age of 11 to 18 he used to sing four hours a day. His father played violin and encouraged his son to play every instrument in the house. While his father loved Wagner, his son Paul favoured Béla Bartók. His nephew Erik Van Nevel is also a choral conductor.
From 1969 to 1971 he studied early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. There he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, taking the name from the famous Codex Las Huelgas at the Cistercian monastery near Burgos which Van Nevel visited as a 24-year-old. He was able to spend two weeks studying the manuscript with the aid of a recommendation letter from the Belgian authorities.
Van Nevel teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and has been guest conductor of the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the choir of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix Paris in honorem of the Academy Charles Cros. His recordings with the Huelgas Ensemble received numerous awards including the Diapason d'Or in 1996 and the MIDEM Cannes Classical Award for best choral music in 1998.
Van Nevel is well known for his fondness for cigars, this interest finding musical outlet in The Art of the Cigar (2011, DHM).
In 1994 he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for stealing, in 1988, seven rare musical works in the Museo Bibliografico Musicale di Bologna.
Partial bibliography
1976 Polyfonie en ars subtilior. Uitgeverij de Monte, Louvain, 75p
1992 Nicolas Gombert et het avontuur van de Vlaamse Polyfonie (superseded by revised edition in French)
2004 Nicolas Gombert et l'aventure de la polyphonie franco-flamande trans. Eva de Volder, Kargo Paris (marked "édition définitive" on frontispiece)
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FATE1
Fetal and Adult Testis-Expressed 1, encoded by the FATE1 gene in humans, is a protein identified as a cancer-testis antigen (CTA) in hepatocellular carcinomas and gastric and colon cancers. It is testis-specific in the fetus (aged 6 – 11 weeks). In adults, it is expressed predominantly in the testis and adrenal glands, with some expression in the lungs, heart, kidneys and throughout the brain.
FATE1 is member of the Miff protein family, with its C-terminal domain, consisting of a transmembrane domain with a coiled-coil domain, showing high similarity to the mitochondrial fission factor (MFF) protein which is involved in mitochondrial and peroxisomal fission.
Gene location
FATE1 gene in humans is located on the long arm of the X chromosome at region 28, from base pair 150,884,502 to base pair 150,891,617.
Mechanism
It has been hypothesized that FATE1 uses its C-terminal transmembrane domain to attach to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane and with its C-terminal coiled-coil domain it interacts with mitochondria.
FATE1 is localized in mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAM) and modulates ER-mitochondria distance to regulate Ca2+- and drug dependent apoptosis in cancer cells.
FATE1 expression leads to reduction of Ca2+ uptake by mitochondria and therefore decrease in fragmentation of mitochondria, associated with mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, consequently providing protection against cell death.
Relation to cancer
FATE1 is detectable in all cell lines derived from tumors, but is low or undetectable in telomere immortalized, non-tumorigenic fibroblasts and lung epithelial cells. FATE1 is suggested to be essential for survival of tumor cells as depletion of FATE1 results in viability reduction in melanoma, breast, prostate and sarcoma settings.
Upregulation of FATE1 by a transcription factor steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1), involved in adrenal and gonadal development as well as in adrenocortical carcinoma, increases ER-mitochondria distance and is utilized by cancer cell to functionally uncouple ER and mitochondria.
Silencing FATE1 gene sensitizes non-small-cell lung cancer cell lines to paclitaxel, a chemotherapeutic drug against many different types of cancers.
Elevated level of FATE1 is found to be associated with higher mortality rate in colorectal cancers, but in non-small-cell lung cancers, elevation of FATE1 alone did not decrease chance of survival, but decreased if RNF183 expression is also increased.
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Cullen railway station
Cullen railway station was a railway station that served the small fishing village of Cullen, close to Portknockie in Moray. The railway station was opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) on its Moray Firth coast line in 1886, served by Aberdeen to Elgin trains.
In 1923 the GNoSR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway and at nationalisation in 1948 became part of British Railways. The station and line was recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" and closed on 6 May 1968. A period photograph of Cullen Station can be found on Google (Images).
History
Background
In 1881 the Great North of Scotland Railway put a bill to parliament to extend its Portsoy line along the Moray Firth as far as Buckie. In 1882 the Great North of Scotland applied for permission to build a line from Portsoy following the coast to Buckie and then running on to Elgin.
Great North of Scotland Railway
The GNoSR station opened as 'Cullen' on 1 May 1886 with the central section of the coast line, served by through Aberdeen to Elgin trains. In 1923 the Great North of Scotland Railway was absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway. This was nationalised in 1948, and services provided by British Railways. The station and line was recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's in his report "The Reshaping of British Railways" and closed on 6 May 1968.
Services
The GNoSR station was served by through trains running between Aberdeen and Elgin. There were no Sunday services.
The station infrastructure
Cullen station had a single curved platform with the typical wooden style of station building, however it was larger than many of the others with a central canopy between two wings. a passing loop was not provided. The 1902 OS map shows a weighing machine in the goods yard, several sidings and a goods shed. A station agent's or stationmaster's cottage sat near to the station.
The line was predominantly single track apart from a double track section between Buckie and Portessie. Track lifting took place shortly after closure in 1968.
The Cullen viaducts
Cullen viaduct (NJ 50623 67213) is a Grade B listed structure eight arches, built to carry a single track, constructed in 1884 and approached by substantial embankments. It was "designed around hollow masonry piers founded on concrete bases up to 20 feet (6.1m) below ground level, the limestone blocks being filled with rubble. The arches were built of red bricks set in cement with a ring of ashlar on each side, while the parapets were of blue limestone with a freestone capping." P M Barnett was the engineer responsible, such structures being made necessary by the refusal to permit the railway on an easier access through the Seafield Estate's property. To the east a single arch bridge survives, a four arch viaduct and finally another four-arched bridge. These structures were saved from demolition and now form part of a cycle route.
Station remnants
The station was demolished and the site is occupied by housing, however the Cullen railway viaducts were saved from demolition.
Moray Cycle Route
Much of the trackbed of the old railway now forms the Moray Cycle Route.
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New Theatre (Newtown)
The New Theatre is a community theatre company in the inner western Sydney suburb of Newtown, Australia. Established in October 1932, it is the oldest theatre company in continuous production in New South Wales.
The New Theatre relies on its performers, directors, designers, and crew working as volunteers.
List of Productions and Performed Readings
The following productions and performances have taken place in the past.
1953 - Reedy River
1989 - Windy Gully.
1999 - Summer of the Aliens; Lots more Funny Business; The Removalists; Othello; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Poor Superman; Relative Comfort; A Cheery Soul.
2000 - One Word We.
2001 - Party Time Politics; Charles Dickens' Hard Times; Once in a while the odd thing happens; The Man in the Moon is a Miss; The Club; The Diary of Anne Frank; Cries; Who's Afraid of the Working Class?; Search & Destroy; The Body Ophelia; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; World Premiere: Pandora's Garden.
2002 - Lemon Delicious; Moved Reading of Six Pack; Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Reedy River 2002; In Angel Gear; The Tempest; Abducting Diana; The Castle; Gabriel; Mad Before Midday; One-off moved Playreadings.
2003 - Funny Money, Mother Clap's Molly House, Lemon Delicious, Killing of Sister George, Silence, Dancing at Lughnasa, Assassins, Twelfth Night, African Gothic, Skylight, Blasted, A Room of One's Own, Woman in a Tree on A Hill, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Zoo Story, The Dumb Waiter, The Plough & the Stars, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Speed-the-Plow, Gary's House.
2004 - A Christmas Carol, Into The Woods, Features of a Blown Youth, Navigating, Gagarin Way, La Musica and Savannah Bay, Going to St Ives, Danton's Death, War, Our Town, Richard III, Double Take: Shakespeare Scenework, Another Country, A Twist of Lemon Delicious, Falsettos, Hating Alison Ashley.
2005 - Seven Little Australians, Falling Petals, The Wild Duck, Medea, Continental Drift (Lunch With Ludwig, The Girl on the Sofa, I Was In the House, Waiting for the Rain), The Woman in the Window, Manly Mates, Running up a Dress, The Winslow Boy, Thief River, The Titanic Orchestra, Pelleas and Melisande, The Country, Black Sail White Sail.
2006 - Thief River, Love Potions, Any Port in a Storm, The Titanic Orchestra, Aba Daba Honeymoon, A Beautiful Life, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Club, Journey's End, Not About Heroes, The Lady of the Camellias, Fencelines, The Voysey Inheritance, A Cultural Kebab, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Shakin the Tree, Badjelly the Witch.
2007 - You're Never Too Old to Play!; Badjelly the Witch; Life After George; Talking to Terrorists; Oh What a Lovely War; Mate!; the Man From Mukinupin; Damages; After the End; Honeymoon Suite; Ghosts; Traitors; Art Is a Weapon; New Theatre 75th Birthday Celebration; Howard's End, Election Night - Saturday 24 November 2007; Morning Tide; Confusions.
2008 - Angels in America - Part One: Millennium Approaches, The Real Inspector Hound, King Lear, Second Childhood, New Directions 2008: Catapult; Airsick; The Carnivores; Colder Than Here, Kid's Club - Winter, Summer
2016 - David Mamet's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard 26 April - 28 May 2016 with an original musical score by Eliza Scott.
References
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Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt Cenac (; born April 19, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He was a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012. He starred in the TBS series People of Earth and in Barry Jenkins's first feature Medicine for Melancholy. He also hosted and produced the HBO series Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas.
Early life
Cenac was born in New York on April 19, 1976 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and spent his early years in the Bronx. His father, Wyatt Cenac Sr., was a cab driver born in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada in 1944. When Cenac was five, his father was shot and killed in his cab by a teenage passenger in Harlem. Cenac moved with his mother, a New York native, and Trinidadian stepfather to Dallas, Texas in 1981. He spent his summers with his maternal grandmother in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in an apartment on President Street.
While in elementary school, he became friends with comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan, who also introduced him to comic books. He graduated from the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to Los Angeles. As of October 2014, Cenac lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and previously lived in Prospect Heights during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Cenac is the nephew of the Hon. Mr. Justice Dunbar Cenac, Registry of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. His father was the cousin of former deputy prime minister of Grenada Bernard Coard, who was imprisoned for 25 years following the American invasion of Grenada in October 1983. Cenac's paternal 3x-great-grandfather Cherebin Cenac was an officer from Agen, France on a French battleship during the Napoleonic Wars who settled in Soufrière, Saint Lucia. Cherebin's youngest child, Francis (1830–1892), later emigrated to Grenada.
Career
Having previously worked for three years as a writer on King of the Hill, Cenac garnered public attention in The Doomed Planet comedy sketch in which he did an impression of then-senator Barack Obama, discussing possible campaign posters.
In June 2008, Cenac was hired as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. After making several comedic appearances along with other correspondents, Cenac filed his first field report on July 21, 2008; titled "Baruch Obama," the report discussed Jewish voters' opinions of Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. He continued to integrate satirical Black-oriented material in his Daily Show segments, including "Rapper or Republican" until his final Daily Show appearance on December 13, 2012. In a July 2015 appearance on WTF with Marc Maron, Cenac revealed that his departure from The Daily Show stemmed in part from a heated argument he had with Jon Stewart over a June 2011 Daily Show bit about Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain. Despite this, Wyatt appeared on Stewart's final episode of Daily Show; both agreed that they're "good", a reference to the Maron podcast.
In October 2009, he worked with rapper Slim Thug on the music video "Still a Boss", a parody of how the recession is affecting the rap community. Cenac costarred in Medicine for Melancholy, an independent drama by Barry Jenkins released in 2008 that includes issues of African American identity and gentrification in San Francisco.
Cenac plays the voice of Lenny and Michael Johnson in the Nickelodeon animated series Fanboy & Chum Chum.
Cenac guest-starred on the MC Frontalot album Solved. Cenac's first hour-long comedy special, Comedy Person, premiered May 14, 2011, on Comedy Central.
In October 2014, Netflix released Cenac's second comedy special, Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn. This album was nominated at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album. In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman. The following year, he appeared in a filmed segment with fellow comedians Rachel Feinstein and Alex Karpovsky on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Cenac has also co-hosted four episodes of The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman since 2016.
Cenac released his third stand up album "Furry Dumb Fighter" in 2016 both digitally and on vinyl. It was recorded in Madison, WI. Cenac reports that his album titled is meant to sound like "freedom fighter."
Cenac's film roles include parts in Sleepwalk with Me and Hits, as well as a lead role in 2016's Jacqueline Argentine and 2017's festival hit, Fits and Starts, a film nominated for multiple awards, including the feature film grand jury prize at the prestigious South by Southwest film festival. Cenac released a web-series titled "aka Wyatt Cenac" about his life as the Viceroy for a gentrifying Brooklyn. Cenac's HBO docuseries, "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas", premiered in April 2018.
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Selçuk Yula
Selçuk Yula (November 8, 1959 – August 6, 2013) was a Turkish football player and topscorer.
Professional career
Yula started his career in the Ankara club Şekerspor. His transfer to Fenerbahçe at the age of 19, had been a milestone in his career, where he became twice league topscorer with 16 goals in 1982, with 19 goals in 1983, and he won two league titles with Fenerbahçe, where he scored a total of 134 goals. He also played and scored in the match against Bordeaux, European Champions of the time, that Fenerbahçe won 3–2.
Yula played for Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin in German Bundesliga in the season 1986–1987. He then came back to Turkey to play for Sarıyer (1987–1991) and then Galatasaray (1991–1993). He quit his professional career under Fenerbahçe jersey, in a specially scheduled match played between Fenerbahçe vs. Erzurumspor in Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.
International
He was capped 22 times for the Turkish national football team, including three times as the team-captain.
Other Interests
One of the most remarkable football legends of Fenerbahçe, Yula was a sports journalist with the newspaper Fotomaç and also served as sports critic and expert for the Fenerbahçe TV and ATV with weekly appearances. He was selected as the "Best Sports Critic of the Year" among the polls made within the Fenerbahçe fans in 2005 and 2007.
Death
On August 6, 2013, Yula died at the age of 53 of a heart attack.
References
External links
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V636 Scorpii
V636 Scorpii is a multiple star system in the constellation Scorpius, 3,000 light years away. The primary is a Classical Cepheid (δ Cephei) variable and its visual magnitude varies from 6.4 to 6.9.
V636 Scorpii is a spectroscopic binary, and the fainter companion is thought to itself consist of two stars. The primary is a luminous yellow star and a δ Cephei variable. The less massive companion orbits every 3.6 years and is apparently a B9.5 main sequence star, but the dynamics of the system suggest that it may actually be a pair of stars is a close orbit.
The Cepheid primary pulsates regularly with a period of 6.79671 days. It is a yellow-white supergiant or bright giant that is 5.6 times as massive as the Sun and 2,500 times as luminous.
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Milestones (1916 film)
Milestones is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley. As of August 2010, the film is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
Plot
A young anarchist and shipbuilder refuses to listen to his conservative father.
Cast
Isobel Elsom as Lady Monkhurst
Owen Nares as Lord Monkhurst
Campbell Gullan as Sir John Rhead
Minna Grey as Gertrude Rhead
Mary Lincoln as Rose Sibley
Hubert Harben as Sam Sibley
Esme Hubbard as Nancy Sibley
Cecil Morton York as Joseph Sibley
Roy Travers as Arthur Preece
Lionel d'Aragon as Andrew MacLean
Herbert Daniel as Richard Sibley
Ernest A. Graham as Ned Pym
Winifred Delavente as Honorable Muriel Pym
Molly Hamley-Clifford as Mrs. Rhead
See also
List of lost films
References
External links
BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes
Milestones at SilentEra
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Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Ruelle-sur-Touvre is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
Population
International relations
The commune has been twinned with Amstetten, Lower Austria since 1972 and Banbridge in Northern Ireland since 1994.
See also
Communes of the Charente department
References
INSEE
External links
Official site
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Equity Bank Congo
Equity Bank Congo (EBC), formerly ProCredit Bank DRCongo, is a commercial bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of May 2015, it was the seventh largest commercial bank in the country, with assets exceeding US$200 million and shareholders' equity of US$25 million. At that time, its customer base exceeded 170,000. It is owned by Kenya-based Equity Group Holdings Limited.
Overview
According to 2015 tax filings by Equity Group Holdings Limited, Procredit Bank had an asset base of about US$228.4 million, a loan book of about US$132.67 million, customer deposits of about US$185.5 million, and shareholder's equity valued at US$29 million at the time it was acquired by EGHL. Procredit made an after-tax profit valued at US$5.525 million in Calendar Year 2015. *Note: US$1.00 = KSh100.3, on 30 March 2016
As of August 2018, Equity Bank Congo was reported to be the most profitable subsidiary in the Equity Bank Group, during the first six months of calendar year 2018.
History
Before May 2015, three corporate entities jointly owned 79 percent of Procredit's stock: Procredit Bank, the German Investment Corporation, and Stichting DOEN. The remaining 21 percent was held by KfW (12 percent) and the International Finance Corporation (9 percent).
On 26 May 2015, Equity Group Holdings Limited (EGHL) of Kenya, a large financial services conglomerate announced that it had agreed to pay US$60 million for 79 percent shareholding in Procredit Bank. EGHL has a customer base exceeding 9.2 million in the five East African countries it serves, making it the largest commercial bank on the African continent by customer numbers. The deal was concluded following regulatory approval by Kenyan and Congolese authorities, which was obtained in September 2015.
In September 2019, Equity Bank Group began talks to acquire a controlling stake in Banque Commerciale du Congo (BCDC), the second-largest commercial bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If and when the transaction is concluded, the new acquisition is expected to be merged with the existing Equity Bank Congo.
In November 2019, Business Daily Africa reported that Equity Bank Group had agreed to pay US$106 million (KSh10.7 billion) to the George Arthur Forrest Group, in exchange of 66.5 percent ownership in BCDC. In addition, Equity Group Holdings was contemporaneously in negotiations with KfW, to acquire an extra 7.6 percent stake in Equity Bank Congo. All these acquisitions are subject to regulatory and shareholder approval from Kenya, DR Congo and COMESA.
Ownership
, the shareholding in the bank is illustrated in the table below:
Branches
As of May 2015, PBD maintained 15 networked service branches. At that time, EGHL planned to increase the branch list to 30. As of August 2018, the bank's branch list had increased to 41.
Rebranding
In July 2018, nearly three years since the acquisition by EGHL, Procredit Bank re-branded to Equity Bank Congo, to reflect the prevailing shareholding.
See also
List of banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Relayted
Relayted is the first studio album by Minneapolis indie rock collective Gayngs. It was released via Jagjaguwar on May 11, 2010. Inspired by 10cc's "I'm Not in Love", every song on the album was recorded at 69 BPM. On May 14, 2010, the album release show was held at First Avenue. The album peaked at number 27 on Billboards Heatseekers Albums chart. As of 2011, it has sold 13,000 copies.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Relayted received an average score of 78% based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Steven Hyden of The A.V. Club gave the album a grade of B+, calling it "a record fueled by the soft-rock solipsism of 10cc and loads of antidepressants." Barry Nicolson of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Dipping its toe in everything from soft-rock to hip-hop to R&B and sixties soul, the songs all manage the trick of sounding roughly the same, completely unique, and uniformly superb."
NME placed Relayted at number 13 on the "75 Best Albums of 2010" list. Pitchfork placed "The Gaudy Side of Town" at number 99 on the "Top 100 Tracks of 2010" list.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Justin Vernon – vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11), guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9), Rhodes piano (8), mixing
Zach Coulter – human beatbox (1), vocals (1, 3, 7, 10), keyboards (1, 4, 11), piano (4), guitar (6)
Michael Lewis – saxophone (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 11)
Phil Cook – electric piano (1), vocals (3), guitar (3), keyboards (4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11)
Brad Cook – bass guitar (1, 7, 9, 11)
James Buckley – phone call (1), organ (5), bass guitar (11)
Joe Westerlund – drums (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), vocals (8)
Ivan Howard – vocals (2, 9, 11), piano (6)
Nick Ryan – guitar (2, 8)
Shön Troth – slide guitar (2, 6, 7)
Jake Luck – keyboards (2, 7, 9), organ (4), trumpet (5)
Nate Vernon – gun (2)
Amish Kids – chainsaw (2)
Danny Krzykowski – guitar (3)
Grant Cutler – vocals (3)
Maggie Morrison – vocals (3, 9, 11), electric piano (10)
Adam Hurlbert – bass guitar (4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), keyboards (5)
Xander – piano (4)
Channy Moon Casselle – vocals (4, 6, 9)
Maggie Wander – vocals (4, 9)
LeRon – vocals (4)
Joe Mabbott – vocals (5)
Mike Noyce – vocals (6, 9)
Katy Morley – vocals (9)
Ryan Olson – bass guitar (7, 11), programming, sequencing, arrangement
Bruce Templeton – mastering
Michael Gaughan – painting
Eric Carlson – logo
Daniel Murphy – layout
Charts
References
External links
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Erdan Island
Erdan Island (Erhtan Island) (, also ) is an island in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan. The island has been called Seao-tan. Erdan Island is from Greater Kinmen Island and from Xiamen (Amoy) Island.
History
On September 6, 2011, President Ma Ying-jeou visited with the troops stationed on Erdan Island.
In November 2013, the island was designated as battlefield culture landscape by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Kinmen County Government. The island was handed over from Kinmen Defense Command of the Republic of China Armed Forces to the county government on 1 July 2014.
Geology
The island covers an area of 0.28 km2.
Tourist attractions
Erdan Hero Tunnel
See also
List of islands of Taiwan
Dadan Island
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Fight of the Century
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, billed as the Fight of the Century (also known as The Fight), was the boxing match between WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (26–0, 23 KOs) and The Ring/lineal heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (31–0, 25 KOs), held on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
It was the first time that two undefeated boxers fought each other for the heavyweight title. Frazier won in 15 rounds via unanimous decision. It was the first of a trilogy, followed by the rematch fights Super Fight II (1974) and Thrilla in Manila (1975), both won by Ali.
Background and cultural significance
In 1971, both Ali and Frazier had legitimate claims to the title of World Heavyweight Champion. An undefeated Ali had won the title from Sonny Liston in Miami Beach in 1964, and successfully defended his belt up until he had it stripped by boxing authorities for refusing induction into the armed forces in 1967. In Ali's absence, the undefeated Frazier garnered two championship belts through knockouts of Buster Mathis and Jimmy Ellis. He was recognized by boxing authorities as the World Champion. Unlike Mathis and Ellis, Frazier was plausibly Ali's superior, which created a tremendous amount of hype and anticipation for a match pitting the two undefeated fighters against one another to decide who was the true heavyweight champ.
Ringside seats were $150 () and each man was guaranteed 2.5 million dollars. In addition to the millions who watched on closed-circuit broadcast screens around the world, the Garden was packed with a sellout crowd of 20,455 that provided a gate of $1.5 million.
Prior to his enforced layoff, Ali had displayed uncommon speed and dexterity for a man of his size. He had dominated most of his opponents to the point that he had often predicted the round in which he would knock them out. However, in the fight preceding the Frazier fight, Ali struggled at times during his 15th-round TKO of Oscar Bonavena, an unorthodox Argentinian fighter who was prepared by Hall of Fame trainer Gil Clancy.
Frazier had an outstanding left hook, and was a tenacious competitor who attacked the body of his opponent ferociously. Despite suffering from a serious bout of hypertension in the lead-up to the fight, he appeared to be in top form as the face-off between the two undefeated champions approached.
The fight held broader meaning for many Americans, as Ali had become a symbol of the left-wing anti-establishment movement during his government-imposed exile from the ring, while Frazier had been adopted by the conservative, pro-war movement. According to the 2009 documentary Thriller in Manila, the match, which had been dubbed "The Fight", "gripped the nation. "Just listen to the roar of this crowd!" thundered Burt Lancaster, the color man. "The tension, and the excitement here, is monumental!"
The bout was noted for its general appeal with non-boxing and non-sport fans holding an impassioned rooting interest in one of the fighters. Prior to the fight, Mark Kram wrote in Sports Illustrated:
The thrust of this fight on the public consciousness is incalculable. It has been a ceaseless whir that seems to have grown in decibel with each new soliloquy by Ali, with each dead calm promise by Frazier. It has magnetized the imagination of ring theorists, and flushed out polemicists of every persuasion. It has cut deep into the thicket of our national attitudes, and it is a conversational imperative everywhere—from the gabble of big-city salons and factory lunch breaks rife with unreasoning labels, to ghetto saloons with their own false labels.
As Gil Clancy, who was in Frazier's corner that night, would later comment:
The electricity in the air then was just unbelievable. If they would have drop the bomb on Madison Square Garden that night, the country wouldn't been able to run.
Fight
On the evening of the match, Madison Square Garden had a circus-like atmosphere, with scores of policemen to control the crowd, outrageously dressed fans, and countless celebrities, from Norman Mailer to Woody Allen. Frank Sinatra, having been unable to procure a ringside seat, took photographs for Life magazine instead. Artist LeRoy Neiman painted Ali and Frazier as they fought. Burt Lancaster served as a color commentator for the closed-circuit broadcast. Though Lancaster had never performed as a sports commentator before, he was hired by the fight's promoter, Jerry Perenchio, who was also a friend. The other commentators were play-by-play announcer Don Dunphy and boxing champion Archie Moore. The fight was sold to, and broadcast by closed circuit, to 50 countries in 12 languages via ringside reporters to an audience estimated at 300 million, a record viewership for a television event at that time. Riots broke out at several venues as unresolvable technical issues interrupted the broadcast in several cities in the third round. And, although no live radio coverage of the fight itself was allowed under the terms of the promotion, the Mutual Radio Network did broadcast the fight, the night of March 8th, with announcers Van Patrick and Charles King, together with many other sports commentators, providing round-by-round summaries live as they came out over the UPI and AP wire services.
The referee for the fight was Arthur Mercante, Sr. After the fight, Mercante, a veteran referee of hundreds of fights, said "They both threw some of the best punches I've ever seen."
The fight itself exceeded even its promotional hype and went the full 15-round championship distance. Ali dominated the first two rounds, peppering the shorter Frazier with rapier-like jabs that raised welts on the champion's face. In the closing seconds of round three, Frazier connected with a tremendous hook to Ali's jaw, snapping his head back. Frazier began to dominate in the fourth round, catching Ali with several of his famed left hooks and pinning him against the ropes to deliver tremendous body blows.
Ali was visibly tired after the sixth round, and though he put together some flurries of punches after that round, he was unable to keep the pace he had set in the first third of the fight. At 1 minute and 59 seconds into round eight, following his clean left hook to Ali's right jaw, Frazier grabbed Ali's wrists and swung Ali into the center of the ring; however, Ali immediately grabbed Frazier again until they were once again separated by Mercante.
Frazier caught Ali with a left hook at nine seconds into round 11. A fraction of a second later, slipping on water in Frazier's corner, Ali fell with both gloves and his right knee to the canvas. Mercante stepped between Ali and Frazier, separating them as Ali rose. Mercante wiped Ali's gloves and waved "no knockdown." At 18 seconds into round 11, Mercante signaled the fighters to engage once again. Round 11 wound down with Frazier staggering Ali with a left hook. Ali stumbled and grabbed at Frazier to keep his balance and finally stumbled back first to the ropes before bouncing forward again to Frazier and grabbing on to Frazier until the fighters were separated by Mercante at 2:55 into the round.
Heading into Round 15, Frazier held the thinnest of leads on the judges scorecards (7–6–1, 10–4–0, and 8–6–0); so thin that, were he to lose the final round, he could still win, but only be by a single point. To be sure, Frazier closed convincingly. Early in round 15, Frazier landed a left hook that put Ali on the canvas. Ali, his jaw swollen noticeably, got up at the count of four, and managed to stay on his feet for the rest of the round despite several terrific blows from Frazier. A few minutes later the judges made it official: Frazier had retained the title with a unanimous decision, dealing Ali his first professional loss.
Scorecard
22 of the 25 sports writers also gave the fight to Frazier.
Viewership and revenue
The fight was broadcast live pay-per-view on theatre television in the United States, where it set a record with 2.5million buys at closed-circuit venues, grossing . It was also shown closed-circuit during the middle of the night in London theatres, where it set a record with 90,000 buys, grossing $750,000. Combined, the fight sold million buys in the United States and London, grossing (inflation-adjusted ).
On both closed-circuit and free television, the fight was watched by a record 300million viewers worldwide. It was watched by a record 27.5million viewers on BBC1 in the United Kingdom, about half of the British population. It was also watched by an estimated 54million viewers in Italy, and 2million viewers in South Korea.
Aftermath
Frazier lost his title 22 months later, when on January 22, 1973, he was knocked out by George Foreman in the second round of their brief but devastating title bout in Kingston, Jamaica.
Ali, for his part, refused to publicly admit defeat and sought to define the outcome in the public's mind as a "White Man's Decision". He split two bouts with Ken Norton in 1973, and was viewed by many as on a downward slide before a win in a rematch with Frazier in January 1974. Ali later went on to defeat Frazier in their third and final bout, The Thrilla in Manila. By the time of the rematches the social climate in America had settled down, with the Vietnam War coming to an end. Many dismissed the notion that Ali was a traitor and he was once again accepted as an American hero. Without either fighter representing the social divide in the country, neither their second nor third fight lived up to the hype of the first. Ali shocked the world for a second time with a victory in October 1974 over the heavily favored Foreman to regain the heavyweight title in The Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire.
Ali biographer Wilfrid Sheed wrote of the fight:
Both men left the ring changed men that night. For Frazier, his greatness was gone, that unquantifiable combination of youth, ability and desire. For Ali, the public hatred he had so carefully nursed to his advantage came to a head and burst that night and has never been the same. To his supporters he became a cultural hero. His detractors finally gave him grudging respect. At least they had seen him beaten and seen that smug look wiped off his face.
COINTELPRO
The fight provided cover for an activist group, the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, to successfully pull off a burglary at an FBI office in Pennsylvania, which exposed the COINTELPRO operations that included illegal spying on activists involved with the civil rights and anti-war movements. One of the COINTELPRO targets was Muhammad Ali, which included the FBI gaining access to his records as far back as elementary school.
See also
Ali–Frazier II – second bout, January 1974
Thrilla in Manila – third bout, October 1975
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Miss Dominican Republic 1993
Miss República Dominicana 1993 was a beauty contest held on July 28, 1992 in the Dominican Republic; the winner would represent the Dominican Republic at Miss Universe 1993. The first runner up would enter Miss World 1993. The second runner up would enter in Reina Mundial del Banano 1993. 26 candidates representing provinces and municipalities entered. The rest of finalist entered different pageants.
Results
Delegates
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Taleb, Iran
Taleb (, also Romanized as Ţāleb) is a village in Charuymaq-e Jonubegharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Charuymaq County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 84, in 19 families.
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Battle of Richmond, Louisiana
The Battle of Richmond was a minor engagement that was fought June 15, 1863, in Richmond, Louisiana, during the Siege of Vicksburg of the American Civil War.
Background
Richmond sat along an important Confederate supply line running into Vicksburg from the west. Union forces were able to advance against this supply line following their victories at the battles of Milliken's Bend and Young's Point. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman dispatched Brig. Gen. Joseph Mower's Eagle Brigade from the Vicksburg trenches to coordinate with Brig. Gen. Alfred W. Ellet's Marine Brigade and drive Maj. Gen. John George Walker's Confederates from Richmond.
Battle
Mower and Ellet advanced on Richmond with the Marines in the lead. Ellet's command was discovered by Confederate scouts and Walker deployed a concealed line of skirmishers from the 18th Texas Regiment. The Texans attacked and stopped the Union vanguard. Walker was able to hold off Ellet until Mower's infantry came up. Mower formed his brigade in line of battle and unlimbered his artillery. The battle continued as an artillery duel until Mower's troops maneuvered through a bayou on the Confederate's flank. Walker was informed his supply wagons were safely removed and, desperately outnumbered, he ordered a withdrawal.
Aftermath
Walker's men destroyed bridges behind them and although Mower's troops rebuilt them, the Union force contented themselves with destroying the town. The Union victory deprived the Vicksburg garrison of yet another supply route from Louisiana farmlands.
References
Further reading
Wardlaw, Trevor P. “Sires and Sons: The Story of Hubbard’s Regiment.” CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
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Richard Delahide
Richard Delahide ( died 1540 ) was an Irish judge of the sixteenth century, who held the offices of Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. His career was seriously damaged by the Rebellion of Silken Thomas, in which several members of his family played a leading part, and he narrowly escaped permanent disgrace.
Background and early career
He belonged to an Anglo-Irish family which had long been settled at Moyglare, County Meath He was a cousin of Sir Walter Delahide, who married Janet FitzEustace, an aunt of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare. The FitzGerald family had been almost all-powerful in Irish politics since the 1470s, but the ruling class eventually split into pro-Kildare (Geraldine) and anti-Kildare factions. Given their close family ties, it was natural for Richard to look to the Earl of Kildare to advance his career. Though little is known of his legal practice, it was almost certainly on Kildare's nomination that he was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1514; he held that office for 20 years, though he was threatened with removal in 1529. He was also made Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in 1533.
Silken Thomas Rebellion
The Geraldine connection proved disastrous for Delahide when, on the false report of his father's death, the 9th Earl of Kildare's son and heir Thomas, nicknamed "Silken Thomas" rebelled against Henry VIII. The judge pleaded that he was completely loyal to the Crown, but apart from his own ties to the FitzGerald family, the main supporters, if not instigators, of the rebellion were the Delahides of Moyclare. The "most false disloyal traitor" James Delahide, described as Thomas FitzGerald's "principal counsellor in all his doings" was the son of Richard's cousin Walter, and James' parents and brothers were also said to be involved in the rebellion. Inevitably, Richard was removed from office both as Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Later career
Judging by his letters to Thomas Cromwell, Delahide seemed less concerned at the risk being prosecuted for treason than with the loss of his public offices. Elrington Ball quotes his abject letter to Cromwell in 1534 in which Delahide denied that he had ever slandered Cromwell : in good faith I never spoke nor thought to speak any such thoughts...I know it well ye be of our Sovereign Lord's Privy Council and as high in his favour as any man. He greatly resented the loss of the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer to Thomas Cusack but grudgingly conceded: I would have been contented that he should have enjoyed the same accordingly though it had rightfully been mine own. Delahide's main concern was to be restored to the office of Chief Justice : he wrote that there is labours made for mine office of Justiceship wherein I have truly to the best of my little power served the King's Grace by the space of 20 years trusting that there shall be no good cause proved why his Grace should (re)move me from the same.
Delahide's pleas were partly successful: although he was not restored to office as Chief Justice, in 1537 he was made Chief Baron, and held that office until his death in 1540.
Personal life
He married Jenet Plunket, daughter of Christopher Plunkett and granddaughter of his predecessor as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, Sir Thomas Plunket; they had at least one son, George. Richard lived partly at Loughshinny and partly at the Castle of the Ward. His widow and son were still living at the Ward in 1542 but soon afterwards it came into possession of Lord Howth.
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A.S. Verbroedering Geel
AS Verbroedering Geel is a Belgian association football club based in Geel, province of Antwerp. Currently, they play in the Belgian Second Division.
History
Founded in 1926 as Meerhout Sport, the club received the matricule number 893. In 1966, Meerhout Sport merged with the other club from the city named Hand in Hand, with matricule 2169. The new club took the name F.C. Verbroedering Meerhout. At the end of the season, the club reached the Belgian Promotion. They were relegated to the provincial level in 1987. Ten years later, the club was back at the 4th national level, and even managed to reach the third division in 2006, where they stayed only one season. In 2008 the neighbour club of K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel went into liquidation, so F.C. Verbroedering Meerhout moved to De Leunen stadium, which was not used anymore, and added the name of the city Geel to their name.
In 2013, the team changed their name to Allemaal Samen Verbroedering Geel (English: All Together Fraternization Geel), short AS Verbroedering Geel.
References
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Adrián Muro
Adrián Misael Muro Hernández (born September 7, 1995 in Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes), known as Adrián Muro, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Durango.
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Munsar Lake Viramgam
Munsar Lake (મુનસર તળાવ) is water body constructed by Minaldevi, mother of Jayasimha Siddharaja, of Chaulukya dynasty. It was named as Mansavor but due to Indiscretion it's widely known as Munsar. This lake is situated at Viramgam, near Ahmedabad.
History
This lake was built during 1090 and 220-yard round shaped. It's shaped like a conch and temples. Gathering from the west, the water passes into a stone-built eightsided silt-well, kund, with, in a niche in each side, a figure cut in bold relief. From the silt-well, through a stone-lined channel and a three-cylinder tunnel, the water passes into the lake.
There is a temple of Munsari (also known as Mansar ) mata built by Marathas. This lake is surrounded by huge carved stone and more than 300 small and big temples (shrine). In each shrine on one side of the lake is a pedestal, probably for an image of Krishna, and on the other side a round basin, jaladhar, probably sacred to Shiva. On either side of one of the roadways that runs to the water's edge, is a larger temple with a double porch and spire and across the lake is a flat roofed colonnade.
Redevelopment by The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
During 2015 Gujarat Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama proposed development of Malav Talav (Dholka) and Musar Talav (Viramgam) as archaeological site with Archaeological Survey of India team. In 2016 team ASI has granted Rs. 60 million for renovation and redevelopment of the lake.
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Paul Bocage
Paul Auguste Tousez, known as Paul Bocage, (Paris, 5 October 1824 – Paris, 25 September 1890) was a French librettist, novelist and dramatist.
Nephew of the famous 19th century actor Bocage, he first wrote, under the collective pen name "Désiré Hazard", with Octave Feuillet, who had been his classmate at College Louis-le-Grand, the novel Le Grand Vieillard (1845), Échec et mat, a comedy in five acts, played at the Odeon in 1846, Palma, ou la Nuit du vendredi saint, a drama in five acts, played at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in 1847, La Vieillesse de Richelieu, a comedy in five acts, played the Comédie-Française in 1849 ; York, a comedy-vaudeville, played at the Palais-Royal in 1852.
Paul Bocage also wrote, jointly with Joseph Méry, Maître Wolframb, a libretto for the Théâtre Lyrique (1855), and, jointly with Théodore Cogniard, Janot chez les Sauvages, a vaudeville in one act, played at the Théâtre des Variétés.
He also attributes a share in Le Chariot d'enfant, a drama in five acts, by Méry and Gérard de Nerval and Alexandre Dumas's Romulus (1854), Les Mariages du père Olifus (1861) et Les Mille et un fantômes (1849).
Bocage wrote as well novelty items under the title of "Bric-a-Brac" in Le Mousquetaire. The authorship of Les Mohicans de Paris, a long novel serialized in that publication is attributed to him too. Finally, he published in 1860 les Puritains de Paris and la Duchesse de Mauves (1860, 4 vols. in-8).
References
William Duckett, Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture, Paris, Michel Lévy, 1855, p. 574.
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Hans Eleonardus Møller
Hans Eleonardus Møller (8 November 1804 – 12 September 1867) was a Norwegian politician and businessperson.
Personal life
Hans Eleonardus Møller was born in 1804 to Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. (1780–1860) and Inger (1774–1856), née Aall. He had two younger sisters Simonine and Marianne. His grandfather was physician Hans Møller (1736–1796), the member of the family who moved from their native Denmark to Norway.
He married Amborg Laura Aall, daughter of noted statesman Jacob Aall. They had two sons, Hans and Jacob Aall Møller.
Career
Møller started higher education in 1820, but did not complete; instead he eventually settled in Porsgrund as a merchant. He began as a timber merchant, but soon turned to the more lucrative shipbuilding business. He was also one of the largest ship-owners in the region, alongside Peter Magnus Petersen. He was also involved in banking, elected deputy member of the board of directors of Porsgrund savings bank in 1844, and later took the initiative to establish Gjerpen savings bank in 1848.
He was, however, better known in the context of marine insurance, to the point of being named "father of Norwegian marine insurance". An association for ship insurance companies Den første norske Assuranceforening was founded in 1837. Its managing board consisted of Hans Cappelen, Chr. H. Blom and Jacob Müller. However, Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. became treasurer in 1838. Hans J. C. Aall, County Governor and brother-in-law of Hans Eleonardus Møller, was also involved. In 1853 they founded another insurance company Porsgrunds Søforsikringsselskab, with Hans Eleonardus Møller as manager. As his two sons too became involved in these organizations, a fraction led by J. J. L. Schaaning sounded opposition toward the "Møllerian autocracy". Thus, in 1860 Møller founded a rivalling marine insurance company Det Norske Lloyd. His son Jacob was employed as treasurer, and took over as manager when Hans Eleonardus Møller died in 1867. When Jacob died in 1872 his other son Hans took over. In 1872 a ship H.E. Møller was built, named in commemoration of Hans Eleonardus Møller, but the ship disappeared in 1874 en route from Le Havre to Quebec.
Hans Eleonardus Møller was also active in politics, as an elected member of the Norwegian Parliament in 1845, 1851 and 1857–1858, representing the constituency of Bratsberg. He was also a member of the executive committee of Gjerpen municipal council.
He died of a stroke.
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Finn Christensen (artist)
Finn Christensen (26 February 1920 – 28 February 2009) was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
He was born in Kristiania and attended the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1947. He had several substantial decorating assignments, among others at hospitals (Rikshospitalet 1964, Ullevål and Aker 1969), churches (Lambertseter 1967, Åssiden 1968) and NRK. The National Gallery of Norway owns the relief Relieff (1971–72) and nine drawings; works were also bought by Riksgalleriet, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Nationalmuseum, Statens Museum for Kunst and the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Arts Council Norway from 1985 to 1988.
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Yola d'Avril
Yola d'Avril (April 8, 1906-March 2, 1984) was an American actress, who appeared in numerous productions between 1925 and 1953.
Biography
d'Avril was born in Lille, France, and died in Port Hueneme, California as Yola d'Avril Montiague.
During World War I, her family relocated to Paris. After her father died in 1923, she moved to Los Angeles. She appeared in MGM's adventure film, Tarzan and His Mate with Italian actor Paul Porcasi as her father, Monsieur Feronde.
Partial filmography
The Dressmaker from Paris (1925) - Mannequin (uncredited)
The War Horse (1927) - Yvonne
Orchids and Ermine (1927) - Telephone Operator
The Tender Hour (1927) - Cabaret Girl
Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927) - Cafe Dancer
Smile, Brother, Smile (1927) - Daisy
American Beauty (1927) - Telephone Girl
The Valley of the Giants (1927) - Felice
The Noose (1928) - Cabaret Girl
Lady Be Good (1928) - Assistant
Vamping Venus (1928) - Stenographer
Three-Ring Marriage (1928) - Minnie
The Awakening (1928) - (uncredited)
House of Horror (1929) - Bit Role (uncredited)
She Goes to War (1929) - Yvette
Shanghai Lady (1929) - Lizzie
The Love Parade (1929) - Paulette (uncredited)
Hot for Paris (1929) - Yola Dupre
Double Cross Roads (1930) - Happy Max's Moll (uncredited)
King of Jazz (1930) - Automobile Owner's Wife ("Springtime") / Marie ("All Noisy on the Eastern Front") (uncredited)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Suzanne (uncredited)
The Bad One (1930) - Gida
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930) - Maid
Born Reckless (1930) - French Girl
Those Three French Girls (1930) - Diane
Just Like Heaven (1930) - Fifi
The Truth About Youth (1930) - Babette - Kara's Maid (uncredited)
The Right of Way (1931) - Suzette
God's Gift to Women (1931) - Dagmar
Svengali (1931) - Maid (uncredited)
Just a Gigolo (1931) - Pauline
The Common Law (1931) - Fifi
Women Go on Forever (1931) - Pearl
The Last Flight (1931) - French Party Girl at Cafe (uncredited)
Suicide Fleet (1931) - French Girl in Tangiers (uncredited)
Cock of the Air (1932) - Italian Girl #2
Sky Devils (1932) - Fifi
Beauty and the Boss (1932) - Girl in Bath Tub (uncredited)
The Man from Yesterday (1932) - Tony's Cocotte
A Passport to Hell (1932) - Rosita
A Parisian Romance (1932) - Pauline
Diplomaniacs (1933) - French Vamp (uncredited)
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) - Maid in House (uncredited)
Glamour (1934) - Renee
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) - Madame Feronde (uncredited)
Monte Carlo Nights (1934) - Madelon
Kansas City Princess (1934) - French Manicurist (uncredited)
Straight from the Heart (1935) - French Girl in Taxi (uncredited)
Captain Blood (1935) - Girl in Tavern (uncredited)
I Met Him in Paris (1937) - French Wife in Room 617
The Hurricane (1937) - Club Hibiscus Singer [Sings 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love' in French] (uncredited)
Gone with the Wind (1939) - Belle's Girl (uncredited)
Green Hell (1940) - Native Girl (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress (1940) - Frenchwoman at Party (uncredited)
The Lady Has Plans (1942) - Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Night in New Orleans (1942) - Mme. Lamballe
A Passport to Hell (1942) - Celestine (uncredited)
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) - Housekeeper (uncredited)
Cloak and Dagger (1946) - First Nurse (uncredited)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) - French Maid (uncredited)
Red Ball Express (1952) - Barmaid (uncredited)
Little Boy Lost (1953) - Madame Le Blanc (uncredited) (final film role)
References
External links
Yola d'Avril at Virtual History
In Loving Memory Of Yola d'Avril
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Baltic Robinson
{{Infobox television
| show_name = Baltic Robinson
| show_name_2 = Robinsonid, Robinsoni, Robinzonai (2000–02)Džunglistaar, Džungļu zvaigznes, Džiungles (2004)'
| creator = Charlie Parsons
| theme_music_composer = Jon Rekdal
| country = Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
| language = Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
| num_seasons = 4
| network = TV3, TV3, TV3
| first_aired = 2000,September 7, 2004
| last_aired = December 18, 2004
| related = Survivor}}Baltic Robinson was a popular television show that aired in the Baltic region of Europe from 2000 to 2004 and was the first pan regional edition of Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries.
During its five-year (four season) run, the show was hosted by Emil Rutiku for Estonian, Vytautas Kernagis for Lithuanian and Pauls Timrots for Latvian audience. Due to the show's success, at least one contestant, Kristīne Koļadina, was given her own spin-off show which aired and was popular with viewers in her home country of Latvia.
The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.
Format
The Robinson format was developed by Planet 24, a United Kingdom TV production company owned by Charlie Parsons and Bob Geldof. Their company Castaway Television Productions retained the rights to the concept when they sold Planet 24 in 1999. Mark Burnett later licensed the format to create the U.S. show Survivor'' in 2000.
Fifteen contestants are put into a survival situation and compete in a variety of physical challenges. Early in each season three teams compete but later on the teams are merged and the competitions become individual. At the end of each show one contestant is eliminated from the show by the others in a secret "island council" ballot.
Seasons
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https://web.archive.org/web/20020816083640/http://www.tv3.lt/index.phtml?page_type=document&document=8597&nav=814 (Season 1 Archive)
http://www.apollo.lv/portal/fun/articles/7448
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Cabrillo Unified School District
Cabrillo Unified School District is a school district in California. It consists of Half Moon Bay High School, Pilarcitos High School/alternative education, Cunha Intermediate School, Farallone View Elementary School, Alvin S. Hatch Elementary School, Kings Mountain Elementary School, and El Granada Elementary School. In total, it serves close to 4,400 students .
External links
Official Cabrillo Unified School District web site
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Paul Kornfeld (playwright)
Paul Kornfeld (11 December 1889 – 25 April 1942) was a Czech-born German-language Jewish writer whose expressionist plays and scholarly treatises on the theory of drama earned him a specialized niche in influencing contemporary intellectual discourse.
Writing career before and after World War I
A native of Prague, Paul Kornfeld came to adulthood in the city which, as the capital of Bohemia, was, at the time, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a major center of culture and learning. In 1913, at the age of 23, he formulated a thesis elucidating his philosophy of dramaturgy, Der beseelte und der psychologische Mensch [The Spiritual and the Psychological Person, also translated as The Inspired and the Psychological Being] and wrote the first draft of his most-renowned play, Die Verführung [The Seduction]. His circle of young friends and compatriots included some of the most renowned German-speaking Jewish literary figures of the era, Oskar Baum, Max Brod, Rudolf Fuchs, Willy Haas, Franz Janowitz, Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Otto Pick, Hermann Ungar, Johannes Urzidil and Franz Werfel.
In 1916, amidst the chaos of World War I and, with ultimate birth of the future republic of Czechoslovakia only two years away, Kornfeld moved to Germany where, during the Weimar period, he experienced his most intense period of creativity. In 1918, during the final months of the war, he published a revised version of his thesis and oversaw the first production of Die Verführung. An expressionist work, which put forth abstract and revisionist ideas, it attempted to encapsulate the universality of human aspiration. Character development and plot details were eschewed in favor of an atmosphere of hopeless inability to cope, which defeated the play's tragic protagonist. A subsequent expressionist drama, Himmel und Holle [Heaven and Hell] presented even more abstract ideas, but in a vein that was, to a greater degree, lyrical and ecstatic.
Kornfeld also wrote satirical comedies which did not utilize expressionism and showed him in possession of a highly developed sense of humor. Der ewige Traum [The Eternal Dream] (1922), which held up a jaundiced mirror to reflect upon monogamous and polygamous relationships, Palme, oder Der Gekränkte [Palme, or The Offended One] (1924), which spotlighted a character of comically extreme sensitivity and Kilian, oder Die gelbe Rose [Kilian, or The Yellow Rose] (1926), all enjoyed audience approval as did his collaboration with Max Reinhardt on a 1925 Berlin theatrical production. Written in 1929 and staged in 1930, his final Berlin play, Jud Süß [Suss, the Jew, generally known under its literal translation, Jew Suss], presented a highly nuanced and objective portrayal of the controversial 18th century Jewish financier Joseph Süß Oppenheimer whose story had already been depicted a century earlier in Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella and, again, only four years before his own work, in Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 historical novel. Within a decade, it also became the subject of a 1934 British film starring Conrad Veidt, and a notorious 1940 German anti-semitic propaganda film with Ferdinand Marian in the title role.
Hitler era and death
Hitler's coming to power in 1933 put an end to Kornfeld's Berlin odyssey and forced him back to Prague, no longer a gathering hub of German-language culture, but, since October 1918, the capital of the new republic of Czechoslovakia. His subsequent literary output greatly decreased and he began work on what turned out to be his only novel, Blanche oder Das Atelier im Garten [Blanche or The Studio in the Garden], which was not published until 1957, fifteen years after its author's death. Shortly after completing it, in 1941, he was taken into custody by the German authorities administering occupied Prague, and transported to Ghetto Litzmannstadt, the name given during the German occupation to a section of Łódź, Poland's second-largest city (since 2007, third-largest). Between 1939 and 1944, over 200,000 Jews and a small number of Romani passed through the ghetto, an area of 4 sq. kilometers, of which only 2.4 kilometers were developed and habitable. Fuel supplies were extremely limited, and the inhabitants burned whatever they could to survive the harsh winter. Some 18,000 died during a famine in 1942, one of them Paul Kornfeld. He was 52 years old.
Through the passing decades, his literary output has remained, for the most part, neglected, although a critical edition, Paul Kornfeld: Revolution mit Flötenmusik und andere kritische Prosa [Paul Kornfeld: Revolution with Flute Music and Other Critical Prose], was issued in 1977.
References
Johnston, William M. (1972). The Austrian Mind An Intellectual and Social History 1848–1938. University of California Press.
Drain, Richard (1995). Twentieth-century Theatre: A Sourcebook. Routledge , (includes an excerpt from The Inspired and the Psychological Being)
External links
Paul Kornfeld biographical entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
English-language website of German publisher Schöffling & Co. providing brief digests of positive critical notices engendered by its republication of Paul Kornfeld's novel, Blanche oder Das Atelier im Garten {Blanche or The Studio in the Garden}; a brief biographical paragraph is also included
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Robert C. Lee
Robert Corwin Lee (August 30, 1888 – September 1, 1971) was Vice President of the Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.'s, shipping company, and an officer of the US Navy achieving the rank of Rear Admiral (lower half) in the US Naval Reserve.
Family
On June 15, 1918 he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.
Navy
Lee was promoted to the rank of Commander before leaving full-time service. Later, he was promoted to Rear Admiral (lower half) (Commodore) in the US Naval Reserve, as a result of service during World War II.
Shipping
Lee was instrumental in negotiating several significant contracts for Moore-McCormack in the 1920s, with Poland and Russia.
Both his wife and daughter, Kay Calder Lee, were "sponsors" (launching ladies) for several ships:
Publications
Mr. Moore, Mr. McCormack—and the seven seas! (New York: Newcomen Society in North America), transcript of 1956 Newcomen address(?), 32 pp.
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Calcifugous grasslands and montane communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system
Calcifugous grasslands and montane communities are botanical groupings in the British National Vegetation Classification system.
The calcifugous grasslands and montane communities of the NVC were described in Volume 3 of British Plant Communities, first published in 1992, along with the mesotrophic grassland communities and the calcicolous grassland communities.
In total, 21 calcifugous grasslands and montane communities have been identified.
The calcifugous grasslands and montane communities consist of the following groupings:
five grass-dominated communities which group together as "sub-montane calcifugous grasslands"; two of these, U1 and U2 are found throughout Britain, two more U4 and U5 are found throughout upland areas of Scotland, Wales and northern and western England, and one, U3, is localised in southwest England.
a sixth submontane community, U6, dominated by Heath Rush Juncus squarrosus
four communities categorised as "calcifugous vegetation of low- and middle-alpine snow-fields", all of which are confined or nearly confined to Scotland: U7, U8, U11 and U12
two moss- and rush-heaths of low- and middle-alpine plateaus U10, which is confined to Scotland, and U9 which is also found in northern England and North Wales
five communities grouped together as "mesotrophic montane swards and herb-rich banks and ledges": U13, U14, U15, U16 and U17; some of these are confined to Scotland while others extend into northern England or North Wales
four calcifuge fern communities, one of which, U20, is widespread; the remaining three (U18, U19 and U21) are confined to upland areas of northern and western Britain
List of calcifugous grasslands and montane communities
The following is a list of the communities that make up this category:
U1 Festuca ovina – Agrostris capillaris – Rumex acetosella grassland
U2 Deschampsia flexuosa grassland
U3 Agrostis curtisii grassland
U4 Festuca ovina – Agrostris capillaris – Galium saxatile grassland
U5 Nardus stricta – Galium saxatile grassland
U6 Juncus squarrosus – Festuca ovina grassland
U7 Nardus stricta – Carex bigelowii grass-heath
U8 Carex bigelowii – Polytrichum alpinum sedge-heath
U9 Juncus trifidus – Racomitrium lanuginosum rush-heath
U10 Carex bigelowii – Racomitrium lanuginosum moss-heath
U11 Polytrichum sexangulare – Kiaeria starkei snow-bed
U12 Salix herbacea – Racomitrium heterostichum snow-bed
U13 Deschampsia cespitosa – Galium saxatile grassland
U14 Alchemilla alpina – Sibbaldia procumbens dwarf-herb community
U15 Saxifraga aizoides – Alchemilla glabra banks
U16 Luzula sylvatica – Vaccinium myrtillus tall-herb community
U17 Luzula sylvatica – Geum rivale tall-herb community
U18 Cryptogramma crispa – Athyrium distentifolium snow-bed
U19 Thelypteris limbosperma – Blechnum spicant community
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Reilly (surname)
Reilly () is an Irish surname (other forms include O'Reilly and Riley), and is derived from the Gaelic Ó Raghallaigh Sept that was based in Counties Cavan and Westmeath. Reilly is among the ten most frequently found surnames in Ireland and although they are very widespread they can be mostly found in the region of the ancestral homeland.
People with the surname Reilly include:
Alan Reilly, Irish footballer
Arch Reilly, American baseball player
Ben Reilly, fictional comic-book character
Brandon Reilly (musician), frontman of the band "Nightmare of You"
Brandon Reilly (American football), American football wide receiver
Brent Reilly, Australian rules footballer
Charles Herbert Reilly, English architect
Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and director
David Reilly (singer), American singer
Dianne Reilly, Australian politician
Donald Reilly, American cartoonist
Edward Reilly (disambiguation), several people
Frank Reilly (footballer) (1894–1956), Scottish footballer
Frank J. Reilly, American illustrator and art educator
Ginny Reilly, American folk singer
Ike Reilly, American musician
Jack Reilly (artist), American artist
James Reilly (disambiguation), several people
Jim Reilly, Irish drummer
John Reilly (disambiguation), several people
Kelly Reilly, English actress
Kevin Reilly (disambiguation), several people
Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer
Long John Reilly, American baseball player
Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
Mal Reilly, English rugby league player
Matthew Reilly, Australian author
Michael Reilly, American congressman from Wisconsin
Michael Reilly, member of the New York State Assembly from Assembly District 62
Mike Reilly (umpire), American baseball umpire
Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator
Paddy Reilly, Irish singer
Paul Reilly (disambiguation), several people
Pauline Neura Reilly, Australian author and ornithologist
Rick Reilly, American sportswriter
Robert D. Reilly Jr, American rear admiral
Sean Reilly, Louisiana businessman and former legislator
Sidney Reilly, a Russian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent
Thomas Reilly (disambiguation), several people named Thomas, Tom and Tommy
Tomás Francisco Reilly (1908–1992), American-born Catholic Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic
Trevor Reilly (born 1988), American football player
Vini Reilly, British post-punk musician
William K. Reilly, American company director
Fictional characters:
Ignatius J. Reilly, protagonist of the 1980 novel A Confederacy of Dunces
See also
Reilley
Rielly
Reilly (disambiguation)
Riley (surname)
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ČD Cargo
ČD Cargo, a.s. (VKM: ČDC) is a state-owned Czech railway operator.
History
On 1 December 2007 dominant Czech railway operator České dráhy (Czech Railways) spun off its freight operations into newly established subsidiary ČD Cargo. Value of transferred long term assets with original accounting value amounting to CZK 4.8 bn was increased by evaluation difference CZK 5.5 bn calculated by advisory company YBN CONSULT. As a result, ownership equity amounted to CZK 9.1 bn and registered capital CZK 8.8 bn was entered into the Commercial register.
See also
České dráhy
List of ČD Classes
Rail transport in the Czech Republic
References
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Bakht Baidar
Bakht Baidar (بخت بیدار) is a social worker and politician from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was born in a small Village known as Kityarai. Kityarai is situated in Dir lower, Pakistan.
Political career
He started his political career at District Council level in 1979. He has been a candidate 3 times at the district council level in which he was elected twice in 1979 and 1983. In 1993 he became member of the provincial assembly for the first time. He has been to prisons many times during his political career.
He has served as the secretary general of Qaumi Watan Party. QWP granted him a ticket for contesting elections on the PK-97 seat in the May 2013 general elections. He won by securing 10912 votes against Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan candidate who secured 7528 votes.
He took oath as a Minister in the PTI led provincial government on June 13, 2013.
Education
He matriculated in 1968 from school in a nearby village known as Ouch. He was disqualified in the elections in Musharraf era in which a candidate was required to have a bachelor's degree. However, the PPP coalition government removed this condition and he was able to participate in the 11 May 2013 elections.
Minister of Irrigation
He was a Minister of Irrigation in a caretaker setup in 2008.
Minister of Industries, Commerce & Labour 2013
He was given the portfolio of Minister of Industries, Commerce & Labour in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. However, he was sacked in November 2013 just after a few months because of poor performance. QWP accused PTI of saving its own ministers at the cost of others and pledged to sit in opposition and play their role as opposition.
Attack on Guesthouse
There have been multiple attacks on the guest house of Bakht Baidar. The deadliest attack left six people dead and wounded four on the night of Eid Ul Fitr 2014. The funeral prayers of the dead were offered on Eid day, thus turning Eid into mourning. The dead included Muhammad Ishaq (brother of Bakht Baidar) and two policemen. Baidar was on Umra Trip and arrived the next day. After the incident many leaders including Siraj ul Haq, the Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan offered condolences to the family.
Quitting Party
Baidar was blamed for violating party policy in the Senate Elections in March 2015. The party chief Aftab Ahmad Khan sent him a show cause notice. However, Baidar asked for an unconditional apology from the party leadership and threatened he would resign from the party. This would eventually lead him to quit his provincial assembly membership.
See also
PK-97 (LOWER DIR-IV)
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Robert Wilson (crime novelist)
Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel The Company of Strangers and A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, The Silent and the Damned (titled: The Vanished Hands in the United States), won the 2006 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink.
The Javier Falcon series has been adapted for Sky television by Mammoth Screen titled Falcón with Marton Csokas in the title role.
Bibliography
Bruce Medway series
Instruments of Darkness – 1995
The Big Killing – 1996
Blood Is Dirt – 1997
A Darkening Stain – 1998
Javier Falcón series
The Blind Man of Seville – 2003
The Silent and the Damned – 2004 (published as The Vanished Hands in the US)
The Hidden Assassins – 2006
The Ignorance of Blood – 2009
Charles Boxer series
Capital Punishment – 2013
You Will Never Find Me – 2014
Stealing People – 2015
Hear No Lies - 2017
Non-series novels
A Small Death in Lisbon – 1999
The Company of Strangers – 2001
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1982 California gubernatorial election
The 1982 California gubernatorial election occurred on November 2, 1982. The Republican nominee, Attorney General George Deukmejian, narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Incumbent Governor Jerry Brown did not seek reelection to a third term (although he was elected again in 2010 and 2014).
Primary election summary
In the Democratic primary, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley easily defeated State Senator John Garamendi. On the Republican side, it was a two-man race between Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb and Attorney General George Deukmejian. Deukmejian won the primary with nearly 55% of the vote.
General election
Early indications were that it would be a close race but as the campaign went on, Bradley slowly increased his lead in the polls. Despite this, the outcome was still in doubt as election night wore on. A large late surge of absentee ballots (many from conservative Orange County and Deukmejian's home area of Long Beach) helped tip the balance in his favor. The incorrect polling numbers led to the theory — later dubbed "the Bradley effect" — that a statistically significant number of voters had given inaccurate responses when questioned by pollsters.
Results by county
References
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Robert Kerns
Robert Kerns (June 8, 1933, Detroit - February 15, 1989, Vienna) was an American baritone, he was a stylish and versatile singer with a wide repertoire.
Life and career
Kerns studied at the University of Michigan, and made his debut in 1955 in Toledo, Ohio, as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. After one year with the New York City Opera, he left for Europe in 1960, where he was engaged at the Zurich Opera where in 1961 he sang Kostandis in the world premiere of Martinů's The Greek Passion.
In 1963, he began a long association with the Vienna State Opera, and made his debut at the Royal Opera House in 1964, as Billy Budd. He made his debut at the Paris Opéra in 1973, and became the same year a permanent guest at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
He was also a regular guest at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Salzburg Festival, where he sang notably; Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Arlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Belcore in L'elisir d'amore.
Later he took on heavier roles such as, Germont, Posa, both Ford and Falstaff, as well as Marcello, Scarpia, and Onegin. He also included a few Wagner roles such as Wolfram, Donner, and Amfortas, in which his vocal and acting abilities were put to fine effect.
Robert Kerns made relatively few recordings, the best known being Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, opposite Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti and Christa Ludwig, under Herbert von Karajan; and as Donner in Das Rheingold under the same conductor.
Sources
Grove Music Online, Elizabeth Forbes, Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Kertomesis stesichora
Kertomesis stesichora is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is found in India.
The wingspan is 11–13 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous tinged with rosy-pink, with some scattered fuscous and dark fuscous scales. There is a small blackish spot on the base of the costa, and one on the dorsum near the base. The stigmata are blackish, the first discal forming a small round spot, the plical dot-like, beneath it, the second discal absorbed in a transverse blotch from the dorsum. There is a small blackish spot on the costa slightly beyond this, in one specimen little marked and there are some cloudy undefined blackish dots around the apex and upper part of the termen. The hindwings are grey.
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Frank Dux
Frank William Dux (; born April 6, 1956) is a martial artist, fight choreographer and author. According to Dux, a ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he was a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and has said he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. His alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dux's victory at the Kumite has been disputed, as has the existence of both the Kumite he described and Senzo Tanaka.
Dux served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1975 to 1981, and claims he was sent on covert missions to Southeast Asia and awarded the Medal of Honor. He also asserts he was recruited by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William J. Casey to work as a covert agent. His military records, however, show he was never sent overseas and has not received any awards; Dux states the military sabotaged his records to discredit him. He has been accused of falsifying his military service by authors B. G. Burkett, Ralph Keyes and Nigel West, and his claim to have worked for the CIA has been dismissed by Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., major general John K. Singlaub and Soldier of Fortune.
Dux worked as a fight choreographer for Bloodsport, Lionheart (1990) and Only the Strong (1993). He detailed his alleged work for the CIA in the book The Secret Man in 1996, and that same year co-authored the film The Quest alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. He sued Van Damme for breach of contract over the film, but lost the suit in 1998. He also lost a lawsuit against Soldier of Fortune for libel the following year, over their claims he had falsified his military and CIA service.
Early life
Dux was born on April 6, 1956 in Toronto, Canada. His family relocated to California when he was seven, and he later attended Grant High School. Dux states that he was introduced to and trained in ninjutsu by Senzo "Tiger" Tanaka, whom he described as a "world-famous" teacher and the descendant of 40 generations of warriors. Dux says that Tanaka brought him to Masuda, Japan when he was 16 to train him as a ninja.
Career
Dux served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1975 to 1981, and said he was sent on covert missions in Southeast Asia during this time and was awarded the Medal of Honor. Dux wrote articles for the September and October 1980 issues of Black Belt magazine, giving advice on martial arts techniques including knife fighting. He was described as being "decorated for his blade fighting techniques in actual combat in Southeast Asia" and as holding black belts in "Taekwondo and other arts". He also co-authored an article on knife fighting for Inside Kung Fu magazine in 1987.
Dux states he participated in a 1975 martial arts competition in The Bahamas called the Kumite, describing the event as a 60-round single-elimination tournament held in secret every five years; his story was first covered in the November 1980 issue of Black Belt. According to Dux, he was the first person to be given permission to speak publicly about the event, and was the first Westerner to win the tournament, achieving several world records there including the most consecutive knock-outs (56) and the fastest knockout (0.12 seconds). The 1988 film Bloodsport is based on his alleged Kumite victory. At the time of the film's release, he was operating martial arts schools in Woodland Hills and North Hollywood, Los Angeles, teaching his own martial art style, Dux Ryu ninjutsu, which is based on the Koga Ninja root principles of Ko-ryū, "adaptability and consistent change". Dux worked as the fight coordinator for Bloodsport and also for the 1990 film Lionheart and the 1993 film Only the Strong.
In 1993, Dux attended the 2nd annual Draka Martial Arts Trade Show in Los Angeles, where he had a confrontation with kickboxer Zane Frazier. Dux had previously hired Frazier to teach classes for him, though Frazier alleges that Dux never paid him. A fight ensued, with Frazier proving victorious. Rorion Gracie and Art Davie witnessed the fight and subsequently offered Frazier a position in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Dux states that Frazier sucker punched him while wearing brass knuckles, in contradiction to multiple sources, including mixed martial arts (MMA) referee John McCarthy, who make no mention of this in their accounts of the fight.
Dux released the book The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story in 1996. In the book, Dux states Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William J. Casey arranged to meet him in a restroom, and recruited him to work on covert missions, including destroying a fuel depot in Nicaragua and a chemical weapons plant in Iraq.
Alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dux was a co-author of the 1996 film The Quest. Dux sued Van Damme after the film's release for breach of contract, on the grounds the finished film was too similar to the manuscript Enter The New Dragon, which the two had also written. In 1998 Dux lost the case, with the jury foreman stating jurors found Dux's testimony "less than credible", including his assertion that audiotapes of his agreement with Van Damme were destroyed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Dux appealed the verdict, though his appeal was dismissed in 1999.
Disputed claims
Military service and Medal of Honor
Contrary to his claims, Dux's military records obtained through Freedom of information show he never served overseas, he has not been given the Medal of Honor or any other award, and that in January 1978 he was referred for psychiatric evaluation after he expressed "flighty and disconnected ideas". Dux states that the military sabotaged his service record to discredit him. A photograph of Dux in military uniform shows service ribbons being displayed in an incorrect order, and the Medal of Honor he is wearing is the version given to members of the United States Army, rather than the Marine Corps. Questioned about the photograph in 1988, Dux told John Johnson from the Los Angeles Times he was not able to get the military to explain why he was awarded a medal from the wrong service, though in later years he changed his story to say the uniform was just a Halloween costume.
In his book Stolen Valor, which won the Colby Award in 2000, B. G. Burkett says that Dux fabricated his military history and awards, and had not served in Vietnam, noting the war had ended before he enlisted. Dux responded to the allegations by saying he never claimed to have served in Vietnam, only in covert missions in Southeast Asia, though in 1980 he was described in Black Belt as having "a distinguished military record during the Vietnam conflict", and an interview with him in a 1987 issue of Inside Kung Fu describes him as a Vietnam veteran. Authors Ralph Keyes and Nigel West have also disputed Dux's military service, as has Soldier of Fortune magazine. In 2012 Sheldon Lettich, co-writer of Bloodsport, said that Dux originally showed him a Medal of Honor he claimed to have won, though years later, after people began questioning if he had won the medal, Dux then tried to convince him he had never made such a claim.
Kumite
John Stewart, the author of the 1980 Black Belt article that first described Dux's alleged Kumite victory, expressed regret for writing the article in 1988, describing himself as "naive" for believing Dux and saying after the story was published he received information that "raised questions about Dux's military career". In 1988 Jim Coleman, then editor of Black Belt, said that Dux's story was "based on false premises", adding they could find no evidence of such a competition; he made a similar statement again in 1996. Kenneth Wilson from the Ministry of Sports in The Bahamas disputed the existence of the Kumite, saying it was impossible a martial arts tournament of that scale could have been kept a secret. According to John Johnson, an invoice for the organization that allegedly staged the Kumite listed Dux as its only point of contact, and the base of the trophy he claims to have won was bought by him at a local trophy store. Dux told Johnson to speak to a man named Richard Robinson, whom he said he had met at the Kumite. Robinson initially confirmed Dux's story, saying he was invited to the Kumite as he was an undefeated wrestler at Lower Merion High School. Johnson later uncovered that Robinson had not attended that school, and had actually gone to school with Dux. Confronted with this information, Robinson responded "All right. I don't know what to say ... Frank was a buddy of mine when I was in L.A."
Sheldon Lettich said he got the idea for Bloodsport after listening to Dux's "tall tales" regarding the Kumite. Dux introduced him to a man named Richard Bender who claimed to have been at the Kumite and verified the story, though a few years later confessed to Lettich that he had been lying and that Dux had instructed him on what to say. Lettich described Dux as a "delusional day-dreamer". Citing his Kumite claims, MMA website Fightland includes Dux among their list of martial arts frauds. Both John Johnson and Fightland believe Dux faked his story to help promote his martial arts schools.
Senzo "Tiger" Tanaka
John Johnson reported he could find no evidence of Dux's alleged teacher Senzo "Tiger" Tanaka in history books or from other martial arts experts. Dux told Johnson he did not know the whereabouts of Tanaka or even if he was still alive, though in later years changed his story to say it was Tanaka's dying wish for him to compete in the Kumite. When Johnson pointed out that Dux's teacher has the same name as a ninja commander from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, Dux responded by saying that Fleming "used to base his characters on real people". In March 2017, Dux wrote an article saying he had found Tanaka's death certificate, which showed he had died in Los Angeles in 1975, though as of 2016 Dux's website said that Tanaka died in Japan.
Fight record
In 1980, Dux told Black Belt his fight record so far was 321 wins, 1 loss and 7 draws, though in 2014 he told AXS TV he had retired with a fight record of 329 wins, 0 losses. Curtis Wong, an editor of Inside Kung Fu, doubted whether Dux's alleged 56 consecutive knockout record was possible. Others observe the difficulty in proving or disproving Dux's "impossibly impressive" records, as "the only person able to verify any of this information is Dux himself".
CIA work and The Secret Man
Several notable figures refuted Dux's claims to have worked for the CIA in his book The Secret Man. Robert Gates, William J. Casey's deputy and successor, said he had never heard of Dux, nor had anyone else he knew in the CIA. Dux named General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. and major general John K. Singlaub as other people he had worked for, both of whom denied Dux's assertions. Singlaub called the book "virtually a complete fabrication". He had his lawyer write to HarperCollins, the company that owned the imprint ReganBooks which published the book, asking for it to be recalled. Soldier of Fortune opined there were at least ten plot holes in the book, such as Dux's "preposterous" claim that Casey personally handled his operations and ensured that no one else in the CIA would know of his existence, yet contradicts this by describing receiving documents and support from other personnel on numerous occasions. A CIA spokesman said the book was "sheer fantasy", adding that it was unusual for the CIA to comment on such matters though Dux's claims were "so preposterous that we thought it was necessary", also stating that it was convenient for Dux that Casey was dead and unable to refute the book himself. Reviewing the book, Publishers Weekly said "It's hard to tell whether the author is merely posturing or expressing his fantasy life in a memoir that reads as if patterned on the early paperback Avenger series."
Dux also alleged in the book that his father Alfred had worked for Mossad before the Second World War and also joined the Jewish Brigade in 1939. Nigel West says that Dux's family history does not "withstand much scrutiny", noting that Mossad was not formed until after the Second World War and that the Jewish Brigade was not formed until several years after Alfred is said to have joined it. Lieutenant commander Larry Simmons, a novelist who formerly commanded SEAL Team 5 and who had the same literary agent as Dux, posed with Dux for a photograph. Dux featured the photo in the book, with the caption saying he was "talking shop" with the SEAL Team leader. Simmons denied "talking shop" with him, adding that Dux was "not an American warrior. He is a con man."
Other claims and reactions
Writing in the book Actions Speak Louder, Eric Lichtenfield said that when his exploits are questioned, Dux counters by "actually exploiting his lack of substantiating evidence, and spinning it" into even wilder stories. Dux says the reason he no longer has a sword he was presented with at the Kumite is because he sold it in a failed attempt to buy the freedom of a boat of orphans who he later rescued from pirates, that he stopped a plot to assassinate Steven Seagal, and that discrepancies in his martial arts history are the work of fabrications by his rivals including ninjutsu master Stephen K. Hayes.
While many sources dismiss Dux's claims entirely, others believe there may be some truth to his stories. Dux sued Soldier of Fortune publisher Robert K. Brown for libel following the publication of their articles about him. While he eventually lost the case, during the hearing, John Johnson presented a photocopy of the receipt which he said proved that Dux had purchased his Kumite trophy, though the judge refused to allow it as evidence, noting several discrepancies such as the date on the receipt being after Dux was photographed with his trophy. Dariel Figueroa from Uproxx opined there were several holes in both Dux's claims, as well as some of his critics, "leading to a mess of false evidence, lies, and somewhere in the middle, the truth". Hugh Landman from Ranker has stated that while Dux "lies about, or at least greatly exaggerates, many aspects of his career" that does not necessarily mean his story is entirely false, speculating he may have won a Kumite that was significantly different from the one that appears in Bloodsport.
Film credits
Dux's credits on martial arts films are as follows:
1988 Bloodsport (fight choreographer)
1990 Lionheart (fight choreographer)
1993 Only the Strong (fight choreographer)
1996 The Quest (co-author)
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The Complete Anthology
The Complete Anthology is a compilation album by Australian rock band Mondo Rock, released in October 2017 through BloodLine Records / Liberation Music.
The Complete Anthology includes all the hits, plus album tracks and rarities, from their 1978 debut single "The Fugitive Kind" to 1991's "Soul Reason".
Mondo Rock will tour in support of the album in June 2018.
Track listing
CD1CD2
Charts
Release history
References
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Lakeshore State Park
Lakeshore State Park is a Wisconsin state park located on the shores of Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee. The park offers fishing, and jogging paths wind throughout the park. There is also a marina in the park where reservations for ships can be made up to 11 months in advance.
See also
Parks of Milwaukee
Henry Maier Festival Park, located directly west across a lagoon
External links
Lakeshore State Park official site
Friends of Lakeshore State Park official site
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Ovidiu Maitec
Ovidiu Maitec (December 13, 1925–March 18, 2007) was a Romanian sculptor.
Born in Arad, he studied at the Bucharest Fine Arts Institute from 1945 to 1950. For several years he taught artistic anatomy at Bucharest's N. Tonitza Fine Arts High School; meanwhile, from 1950 to 1956, he was teaching assistant at his alma mater. Numerous exhibitions devoted to Maitec's work were held both in Romania and abroad, and examples thereof are held by the Fonds national d'art contemporain and Tate. He was awarded the Romanian Academy prize in 1967, followed by the grand prize of the Fine Artists' Union in 1974, the Cultural Merit Order in 1975 and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1985. Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1990, he was elevated to titular membership in 1999. He died in Paris, and was buried at Bellu cemetery.
Notes
References
Alina-Cristina Cristea, "Arta lemnului în plastica lui Ovidiu Maitec", in the Vâlcea County Museum's Buridava, 10, 2012, pp. 284-88.
Corina Teacă, "Maitec Ovidiu", entry in Ioana Vlasiu (ed.), Dicționarul sculptorilor din România: secolele XIX-XX, vol. II. Bucharest: Institutul de Istoria Artei "George Oprescu", 2012,
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South Salem, New York
South Salem is a hamlet in the Town of Lewisboro, Westchester County, in the U.S. state of New York. Part of the New York metropolitan area, the town center has a post office, town hall, library, and recycling center.
Notable residents have included the 33rd Vice President of the United States Henry A. Wallace, Major John Andre (British spy held captive), Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, photographer O. Winston Link, artist Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965), pianist Hélène Grimaud, composer and arranger Clare Grundman, singer and musical stage headliner Sally Ann Howes, actress Colleen Dewhurst, and notorious real estate scion Robert Durst.
The Osborn-Bouton-Mead House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Education
Katonah-Lewisboro School District serves South Salem.
Meadow Pond Elementary School is in South Salem.
References
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Robert Bonner (baseball)
Robert L. Bonner (April 1, 1894 –?) was an American baseball infielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1923 to 1926 with several teams.
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Mamanuca Islands
The Mamanuca Islands () of Fiji are a volcanic archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. The group, a popular tourist destination, consists of about 20 islands, but about seven of these are covered by the Pacific Ocean at high tide.
The islands offer crystal clear waters, palm fringed sandy beaches and live coral reefs. There are islands, villages, resorts to visit, snorkel and swim.
The coastal/marine ecosystem and recreation value of the archipelago contribute to its national significance as outlined in Fiji's Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.
Since 2016, the islands have been the filming location of the television series Survivor. One of the islands, Monuriki, was made famous as the anonymous island that featured in the 2000 Robert Zemeckis film, Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks.
Islands
Islands in the Mamanuca chain, not all of which are inhabited, include:
Resorts
Resorts in the Mamanucas are varied with the high-end travelers accommodations to the backpacker/budget conscious travelers. Some of these are:
Activities
Port Denarau is the gateway to the Mamanuca and Yasawa islands. One may take day trips from Denarau to the Mamanuca Islands or find a resort to stay overnight.
Activities in the Mamanucas include sailing, swimming, snorkelling, kayaking, semi-submersible coral viewing, diving, swimming with reef sharks, windsurfing, hiking, visiting villages, mini golf and discovering secluded beaches.
Survivor
The American edition of Survivor has used the islands as the location for filming, beginning with its 33rd season (Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X) in April 2016. Typically, two 39 day competitions will be filmed back to back, with the first season airing in the fall of that year, and the second airing in the spring of the following year. This marks the longest consecutive period that Survivor has filmed in one location.
Before the airing of the 35th season (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers), host Jeff Probst said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the Mamanuca Islands is the optimal location for the show and he would like to stay there permanently.
The following seasons have filmed in the Mamanuca Islands:
Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X
Survivor: Game Changers
Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
Survivor: Ghost Island
Survivor: David vs. Goliath
Survivor: Edge of Extinction
Survivor: Island of the Idols
Survivor: Winners at War
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Alvania sculptilis
Alvania sculptilis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Taxonomy
There is also the Australian marine species Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) (synonym and basionym: Merelina sculptilis May, 1920 ), a junior secondary homonym of Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877). However, the genus Alvania as currently used has a very broad taxonomic extension, and these two species may very well end up in different genera when a robust phylogeny becomes available. For the time being, it is thus advisable to keep using the invalid name Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) for the Australian species.
Description
Distribution
This rare species occurs in European waters (the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers)
References
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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Africa Cup Baseball Championship
The Africa Cup Baseball Championship is the main international baseball competition in Africa. The Africa Cup Baseball Championship has not been played with the frequency, regularity or history of the European Championship, Asian Championship or South American Championship. Instead, it has been more irregular, like the Oceania Championship.
Results
Medal table
References
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Transport in Cornwall
The evolution of transport in Cornwall has been shaped by the county's strong maritime, mining and industrial traditions and much of the transport infrastructure reflects this heritage.
However, with the decline in mining and industry over the last century and more, transport provision in Cornwall has increasingly focused on the needs of tourism and holiday-makers. An example of this is the improvement of the A30 trunk road; the substantial dual carriageway sections have greatly relieved summer traffic congestion but are very under-used in winter.
In the case of the railway system, although Cornwall has lost some of its rail network since nationalisation in 1948, it has fared better than many other rural areas of England. In part, this is because many Cornish lines serve holiday destinations and are visitor attractions in their own right.
General situation
The inland transport network consists of longitudinal spines (the A30, A38 and A39 trunk roads (though the A39 is no longer designated as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and resorts on the coast.
As a maritime county, ports and sea transport were once vital to Cornwall's prosperity: however, they are less important now. Fishing, too, has traditionally been a core industry and Newlyn remains one of the largest fishing ports in southern Britain and a major centre for distribution of fish and shell-fish to continental Europe. Fish from the ports was an important component of the freight traffic for Cornish railways although now the fish is conveyed by road.
As well as Newlyn, several other ports (notably Padstow) and also Newquay cater for commercial fishing on a smaller scale. Many more small harbours cater to sport angling, again reflecting the county's reliance on tourism and leisure.
The coastline of Cornwall is deeply indented (particularly in the south) by estuaries and rias (flooded river valleys) so Cornwall's ferry crossings are an important part of today's transport mix. The Isles of Scilly are accessible by sea from Penzance.
Road transport in Cornwall
Cornwall is one of the few English counties with no motorways. However, trunk road access to and from the rest of the UK is at the heart of Cornwall's transport infrastructure and it is now possible to drive on uninterrupted dual carriageway from Glasgow to Bodmin Moor.
The principal road routes into Cornwall for both freight and passenger vehicles are the A30 from Exeter and the A38 from Plymouth and south Devon.
A30: The A30 between Exeter and Penzance is part of the Trans-European Road Network and is regarded by the Highways Agency as a strategic route corridor to the south west. The route has been greatly improved and upgraded in the past thirty years. There were only two short sections of dual carriageway on the of the A30 between Exeter and Penzance before 1976, but today only of single carriageway remain (one short stretch on Bodmin Moor and the rest in west Cornwall).
A38: A38 traffic into south-east Cornwall used to face severe delays at the Torpoint ferry (see below) across the River Tamar but this was relieved by the opening of the Tamar Bridge (a toll suspension bridge) in 1961. According to the Highways Agency, ...it is not envisaged that the A38 has, or will have, a strategic role to rival that of the A30; rather it has a sub-regional role to provide access between Cornwall and Plymouth and other parts of South Devon. Nonetheless, the A38 provides an alternative route for traffic from Exeter and the M5 motorway heading to south-east Cornwall. The increase in traffic warranted two extra lanes being added to the Tamar Bridge in 2001 (the first suspension bridge in the world to be widened while remaining open to traffic).
Other routes into Cornwall include the A39 from Barnstaple and Bideford to Bude and on to Wadebridge and south-west Cornwall; the A3072 from Hatherleigh and central Devon to Bude; and the A390 from Tavistock to Callington and Liskeard.
Early routes
In prehistoric times there were trackways across mid-Cornwall, trade routes between Ireland and Brittany. These arose because of the need to avoid the sea passage round Land's End. From Hayle on the north coast the track crossed to Mount's Bay; from the Camel estuary there were several routes. These went to Fowey, somewhere near Pentewan and to the River Fal. The east-west route was diverted northwards because of the obstacle of Bodmin Moor. From Mount's Bay it crossed the Carnmenellis and Hensbarrow moorlands and probably passed to the northwest of Bodmin Moor to connect with a route into the rest of Britain near Kilkhampton. It is likely that primitive main roads were in existence by the beginning of the 14th century. In medieval times a road known as the Royal Cornish Way began with a crossing of the River Tamar by Polston Bridge near Launceston. This bridge was probably built soon after the Norman conquerors had established a castle at Launceston. The medieval road then went by Downhead and Davidstow through Camelford (established as a borough in 1259) to the ford across the River Camel at Wade {Wadebridge) where a weekly market and two annual fairs were established in 1312. It then continued through St Columb Major and Mitchell to Truro. Another medieval way into Cornwall was by the Cremyll ferry from Plymouth and then by Millbrook and Crafthole to Looe where Looe bridge had been built in 1411-36.
Traffic flows and improvements
Data collected on the A30 Launceston bypass shows that annual average daily traffic rose from 14,318 in 1995 to 20,842 in 2005. As well as increased traffic from outside the county, Cornwall's resident population has grown more rapidly than average. The number of people living in Cornwall increased by 32 per cent between 1971 and 2001, compared to an average increase of 6.5 per cent in England as a whole.
Despite the very substantial increase in resident and visiting traffic, road improvements have reduced congestion on the major routes.
In particular, dualling of the A30 has relieved most of the congestion as towns along the route which were formally bottlenecks have been bypassed. Notable schemes include: Launceston bypass (1975); Bodmin bypass (1977); and the Fraddon and Indian Queens bypass and associated A39 spur(1995).
The most recent scheme is 7 miles of new dual carriageway to the north of Goss Moor. Opened in July 2007, the new road relieved a notoriously congested single carriageway stretch which included a bottleneck at the bridge carrying the Par-Newquay railway over the road. This scheme has reduced congestion, shortened journey times and reduced traffic volumes on the A39 and the A390. More than 30,000 vehicles a day use the new road on weekdays and up to 43,000 on Saturdays in August.
As well as dualling, villages have been bypassed on sections that remain single carriageway; for example, the mile of bypass opened in 1991 at Zelah on the Carland Cross to Chiverton Cross section.
Bus services
First Kernow, Plymouth Citybus and Go Cornwall Bus, Stagecoach South West, Hopley's Coaches and Summercourt Travel also operate services around the county including services to Devon.
A park and ride express bus service operates in Truro, transporting passengers from Threemilestone to Truro city centre.
Rail transport in Cornwall
History
Railways remain a core part of the county's transport infrastructure, with 37 stations within it.
Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick (who was developing high pressure stationary steam engines for Cornwall's industries) produced the world's first locomotive in 1802 by mounting an engine on wheels to run on rails. A horse-worked tramway was opened from Poldice mine to the harbour at Portreath in 1809 and many similar lines were then built linking mines with ports. The first steam-powered railway in Cornwall, the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, opened on 30 September 1834 less than ten years after the world's earliest steam railway, the Stockton and Darlington.
At its height, the railway system in Cornwall resembled the road network – central spines with branches to the coast. The Great Western Railway's main line from Plymouth to Penzance loosely followed the route of the A38 from Plymouth to the south of Bodmin then that of the A30 to Truro, Redruth and Penzance from 1859; the London & South Western Railway (LSWR)'s system in north Cornwall resembled that of the A39 beyond Camelford from 1895 (see maps).
The Cornish rail network suffered a substantial reduction during the 1960s due to the Beeching cuts. North Cornwall was hardest hit – the entire former North Cornwall Railway system which served Bude, Camelford, Wadebridge and Padstow was closed on 3 October 1966 (although the Wadebridge-Padstow section was retained for a further three months).
Further west, the line from Chacewater to St Agnes and Newquay closed on 4 February 1963 after just 60 years of existence. The Helston branch (which left the main line at Gwinear Road) closed to passengers on 3 October 1962 and to goods traffic two years later.
Today, the former Great Western Railway Penzance-Plymouth main line remains open and four ex-GWR branch lines (together with the ex-LSWR Callington branch as far as Gunnislake) survived the Beeching cuts, although Beeching had proposed the closure of the branches to Looe and St Ives. This network provides long distance rail services from stations on the main line directly to London and to many other parts of England and Wales. These services are fed by the branch lines. Exceptionally, the Newquay branch continues to provide intercity services between May and September. As well as long distance and holiday services, commuter and 'shopper' trains from Cornwall serve Plymouth, Devon.
Lines
The Cornish Main Line runs for 75¼ miles through the centre of Cornwall from Penzance to Saltash, where it continues on the Royal Albert Bridge across the River Tamar to Plymouth in Devon. It is the most westerly section of the route to Penzance from London Paddington.
As noted above, five branch lines serve Cornwall. Four have been designated as Community rail lines and are promoted by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The fifth, to Newquay, carries local Community Rail trains but the line itself cannot be designated because of the presence of intercity and freight trains. They are:
St Ives Bay Line – St Erth to St Ives (4¼ miles)
Maritime Line – Truro to Falmouth (12¼ miles)
Atlantic Coast Line (local passenger trains only) – Par to Newquay (20¾ miles)
Looe Valley Line – Liskeard to Looe (8¾ miles)
Tamar Valley Line – Plymouth to Gunnislake (15 miles)
See full list of stations in Appendix One below.
Services
Most services are operated by Great Western Railway including several through trains to London such as the Cornish Riviera Express that starts its journey mid-morning, and the Night Riviera sleeping car service. There are three services each day operated by CrossCountry to destinations as far afield as Aberdeen.
Typical journey times from Truro are: Redruth 13 min.; St Austell 17 min.; Falmouth 23 min.; Penzance 50 min.; St Ives 1 hr.; Plymouth 1¼ hr. Longer distance direct trains take around 2 hr. to Exeter St Davids; Bristol 3 hr. 20 min.; London Paddington 4¾ hr.; Birmingham 4 hr. 50 min.; Edinburgh 10 ¼ hr.
The Atlantic Coast Line to Newquay carries intercity services during the summer. Most of these run on Saturdays and Sundays but there is also a daily return service from London Paddington in July and August.
A number of special discounts and promotions are available to encourage travel on off-peak services, including a special "Devon and Cornwall Railcard" which offers discounts to local residents. The "Plus Bus" scheme allows through ticketing between trains and buses in many towns. Attractions and towns not on the current rail network are served by buses from stations such as Bodmin Parkway, St Austell, Redruth, St Ives and Penzance.
Rail freight
The carriage of rail freight has diminished since the 1950s. Today, the principal remaining traffic in Cornwall is china clay from the St Austell area and Goonbarrow on the Newquay line; this traffic is centred on St Blazey depot (which is on the Newquay branch, close to Par) and the freight-only line from Lostwithiel to Fowey docks where the china clay is loaded on to ships. A small amount of cement is carried to north of Liskeard for road distribution. The docks at Falmouth are also rail connected but see no regular traffic.
Air
Airports
Cornwall Airport Newquay (Cornish: Ayrborth Tewynblustri Kernow) offers or will soon offer flights up-country to Bristol, Leeds, London (Gatwick/Stansted), Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Southampton, Cardiff and the Isle of Man, and to destinations abroad including Chambéry, Dublin, Geneva, Reus, St. Brieuc, Düsseldorf, Girona, Alicante, and a summer service to Zürich.
Land's End Airport (Cornish: Ayrborth Penn an Wlas) , situated near St Just in Penwith, west of Penzance, is the most south westerly airport of mainland Britain. It is owned by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company (ISSC). ISSC's subsidiary Land's End Airport Limited operates the airport, and another subsidiary, Isles of Scilly Skybus, operates a regular passenger service to St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly as well as scenic flights around west Penwith.
Airfields
River and sea transport
Major ferries
The two major ferry services in Cornwall are the Torpoint Ferry which links Cornwall and Devon and the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company service linking the Isles of Scilly to the mainland.
The Torpoint Ferry is a chain ferry which carries cars and pedestrians across the Hamoaze at the mouth of the River Tamar connecting Torpoint in Cornwall with Devonport in Plymouth, Devon.
The Isles of Scilly ferry service operates seasonally (March–November) from Penzance to Isles of Scilly. The operating company is based in Penzance and also operates a year-round cargo service. The company's ferry vessel is named Scillonian III and its cargo vessel is named Gry Maritha.
Other ferries
The King Harry Ferry is a chain ferry which carries cars and pedestrians across Carrick Roads in the estuary of the River Fal. The crossing has been voted one of the ten most scenic ferry trips in the world by The Independent, alongside the Staten Island Ferry in New York City and the Star Ferry in Hong Kong.
Further down the Fal estuary, the St Mawes Ferry connects St Mawes with Falmouth and provides a year-round service to pedestrians and cyclists.
Fal River Links is a consolidation of ferry and boat services connecting Truro and Falmouth, and stopping at a few coastal villages in between.
The Black Tor Ferry crosses the tidal River Camel between Padstow and Rock. The ferry carries pedestrians and cyclists only (not vehicles).
A number of other ferry services operate in Cornwall and full details of these are listed on the Cornwall Council website.
See also
Cornish Way
References
Further reading
Fairclough, A. (1970) The Story of Cornwall's Railways. Truro: Tor Mark Press
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Due capricci (Ligeti)
Due capricci is a set of two capricci for piano written by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Both of the capricci were finished in 1947
Composition
The two pieces were composed when Ligeti was still studying in Sandor Veress's class at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, this is, as a part of his academic exercises. These represent the beginning of the shedding of Béla Bartók's and other Hungarian composer's influence, as he was asked to write it in his own style. Strangely, the second capriccio was composed first, in the spring of 1947, and the second capriccio was composed in November 1947. Both capricci are dedicated to Márta Kurtág. The set has been published by Schott Music together with Ligeti's Invention for piano, which is put in the middle and which the set is strongly associated with.
Structure
These two short pieces take approximately 2 minutes each to perform.
Capriccio No. 1: Allegretto capriccioso
Capriccio No. 2: Allegro robusto
The first capriccio is in a form of a sonatina, with its sections to be played continuously. Widely chromatic and modern, it is a very structured and attractive piece, constructed little motives. The second capriccio is far more abrasive, with a clear influence of Bartók's Allegro barbaro. It consists of irregular Bulgarian Rhythms with shifting accents all along the capriccio.
References
See also
List of solo piano compositions by György Ligeti
Invention (Ligeti)
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2013 Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso – Doubles
Martín Alund and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.
Sergio Galdós and Marco Trungelliti won the title, defeating Jean Andersen and Izak van der Merwe 6–4, 6–4 in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Draw
References
Main Draw
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Peter Hobday
Peter Hobday may refer to:
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William de Ferrers
William de Ferrers or Guillaume de Ferrières may refer to:
William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby (d. 1190)
William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby (c.1198–c.1247)
William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (1193–1254)
Guillaume de Ferrières (c.1150 – ?April 1204), the Vidame de Chartres, a French trouvère
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John Sherwood
John Sherwood may refer to:
John Sherwood (bishop) (died 1494), Bishop of Durham, diplomat
John Sherwood (director) (1903–1959), American director of The Monolith Monsters
John Sherwood (author) (1913–2002), author of fiction
John Sherwood (athlete) (born 1945), British hurdler
John D. Sherwood (1818-1891), American author
John Darrell Sherwood (born 1966), American author
John Sherwood (comic creator), see Les Pretend
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Ishan Arya
Ishan Arya (Irshad Ahsan)was an Indian cinematographer, and producer, best known as producer and cinematographer of Art cinema classic Garm Hava (1973). After working in theatre and advertising, he made his debut with Garm Hava directed by M. S. Sathyu. After that he worked largely in South Indian cinema, especially Telugu, though he work on two noted Hindi art films, Bazaar (1982) directed by Sagar Sarhadi and Anjuman (1986) directed by Muzaffar Ali. At the 23rd National Film Awards, he won the Best Cinematography Award for Telugu film, Mutyala Muggu (1975).
Personal life
He was born in the Ahsan family and is a nephew of Shaukat Kaifi and first cousin of Shabana Azmi. He was married to film, television and stage actress Sulbha Arya. His son Sameer Arya is also a cinematographer, known for films like Koyla (1997), Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and Shootout at Wadala (2013). He other son Sagar Arya is an actor and married to Anwesha Bhattacharya, daughter of Rinki and film director Basu Bhattacharya.
Cinematographer Baba Azmi who is his first cousin, started his career assisting Arya in Telugu films in the 1970s, starting as light boy, he worked with Arya for 10-12 Telugu films.
Filmography
Producer
Garm Hava (1973, Hindi)
Rusthum Jodi (1980, Kannada)
Cinematographer
Garm Hava (1973, Hindi)
Mutyala Muggu (1975, Telugu)
Khoon Pasina (1977, Hindi)
Kakana Kote (1977, Kannada)
Gorantha Deepam (1978, Telugu)
Bazaar (1982, Hindi)
Anjuman (1986, Hindi)
Aaj Jhale Mukt Mi (1986, Marathi)
Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya (1986, Hindi)
Nasihat (1986, Hindi)
Mohre (1987, Hindi)
[Toorpu Velle Railu] [1979,Telugu]
References
External links
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Galisteo
Galisteo may refer to:
Galisteo, Cáceres, a town in Extremadura, Spain
Galisteo, New Mexico, a census-designated place and village in New Mexico
Galisteo Basin, a basin in New Mexico where the Galisteo River (Galisteo Creek) flows
Persons
José Galisteo, (born 1977), Spanish singer
See also
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Phetchaburi River
The Phetchaburi River (, , ) is a river in western Thailand. It has its source in the Tenasserim Hills, in the Kaeng Krachan National Park, Kaeng Krachan district and flows through Tha Yang, Ban Lat, Mueang Phetchaburi and mouths into the Bay of Bangkok in Ban Laem district. It is long, most of which is within the Phetchaburi Province. It is the backbone of this province.
In addition, the water in this river was used in the coronation ceremony of the Thai Kings in each reign.
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Lamiodorcadion
Lamiodorcadion is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Lamiodorcadion annulipes Pic, 1934
Lamiodorcadion tuberosum Holzschuh, 1993
References
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Mount Carbine, Queensland
Mount Carbine is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Carbine had a population of 101 people.
History
Mount Carbine Post Office opened by September 1907 (a receiving office had been open from 1906) and closed in 1970.
In the , Mount Carbine had a population of 91.
Between 2008 and 2013, Mount Carbine was within the Tablelands Region.
References
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Torodora eupatris
Torodora eupatris is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found in Assam, India.
The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The forewings are bright yellow ochreous with an ill-defined transverse white line near the base and a sinuate white transverse line somewhat before the middle. The space between these two lines is occupied, except towards the costa, by a suffused blackish blotch, more or less sprinkled posteriorly with blue whitish. There are three white marks on the posterior half of the costa, sometimes confluent, as well as a crescentic white mark in the disc beyond the middle. A blotch of dark fuscous suffusion extends over the dorsal half of the wing from the antemedian line to near the termen. The hindwings are light grey, becoming pale ochreous yellowish towards the apex.
References
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Francisco Nazareno
Francisco Efren Nazareno Mercado (born December 13, 1993) is an Ecuadorian footballer. He currently plays midfield for Barcelona.
External links
Nazareno's player card on FEF
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Mellow Gold
Mellow Gold is the third studio album by American musician Beck, released on March 1, 1994 by DGC Records. Critics noted the album's hybrid of various styles including rock, hip hop, folk, blues, psychedelia, and country, as well as ironic, witty lyrics. Its decidedly anti-commercial attitude led to it becoming an unexpected commercial success, peaking at number thirteen in the United States and eventually being certified platinum. As of July 2008, Mellow Gold has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States.
Background
In a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, Beck said of the album: The whole concept of Mellow Gold is that it's like a satanic K-tel record that's been found in a trash dumpster, quite matter-of-factly. A few people have molested it and slept with it and half-swallowed it before spitting it out. Someone played poker with it, someone tried to smoke it. Then the record was taken to Morocco and covered with hummus and tabouli. Then it was flown back to a convention of water-skiers, who skied on it and played Frisbee with it. Then the record was put on the turntable, and the original K-Tel album had reached a whole new level. I was just taking that whole Freedom Rock feeling, you understand.
According to the album's liner notes, Mellow Gold was recorded at Carl Stephenson and Rob Schnapf's houses, predominantly utilizing a four-track.
Album cover
The robot on the cover of Mellow Gold was created by artist Eddie Lopez, who made a cameo in the music video for the hit song "Loser". The sculpture was named "Survivor from the Nuclear Bomb". The shot was originally taken in Lopez's garage space by Beck's friend as well as early collaborator Ross Harris. The last image was reshot in a studio where Harris was able to control the environment and also add visual effects to make the cover look more apocalyptic.
Title
The album was originally going to be titled Cold Ass Fashion, sharing its name with an earlier song of Beck’s. The final title used, Mellow Gold, was named after a potent strain of California marijuana.
Reception
Mellow Gold received general acclaim from music critics. AllMusic and Rolling Stone gave it five out of five stars (the latter originally giving it only three and a half.)
Guitar World magazine ranked Mellow Gold at #4 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.
Track listing
Samples credits
"Loser"
"I Walk on Gilded Splinters" by Johnny Jenkins
Kill the Moonlight dialogue
"Fuckin with My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)"
"Save the World" by Southside Movement
"Soul Suckin' Jerk"
"The Big Beat" by Billy Squier
"Sweet Sunshine"
"Save the World" by Southside Movement
"Beercan"
"Hog Leg" by the Melvins
Care Bears dialogue
Personnel
Beck – vocals, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, electric guitar, bass, harmonica, synthesizers, percussion, producer
Mike Boito – organ (track 8)
Stephen Marcussen – mastering
Tom Rothrock – producer, mixing
Rob Schnapf – producer, mixing
Carl Stephenson – producer, beats, sampling, sitar (track 1)
Petra Haden – violin (track 12)
David Harte – drums (tracks 2, 10, 11)
Rob Zabrecky – bass (track 12)
Robert Fisher – art direction, design
Ross Harris – photography
Mike O'Connor – drums
Additional personnel
DJ Smash – turntables
Charts
Certifications
References
External links
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Bob Ferguson (American football)
Robert Eugene "Bob" Ferguson (August 29, 1939 – December 30, 2004) was an American football fullback. He played college football at Ohio State University, where he won the Maxwell Award in 1961. Ferguson then played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Playing career
Ferguson attended Troy High School in Troy, Ohio. Ferguson's first year of eligibility at Ohio State University was 1959. The starting fullback at the beginning of the season was the senior, and Heisman Trophy candidate, Bob White. Through the course of the season, however, Ferguson supplanted White as the starter and led the team in rushing that season, averaging 6.1 yards per carry.
Over the next two seasons, Ferguson continued to lead the Ohio State offensive attack. In both 1960 and 1961 Ferguson was a unanimous All-American selection. In 1961, he won the UPI College Football Player of the Year, the Maxwell Award, and was the runner-up to Ernie Davis for the Heisman Trophy. The 1961 Heisman vote was the second-closest in the history of the award, with Davis edging Ferguson by 53 points.
Ferguson shared the Ohio State backfield in 1961 with halfbacks Paul Warfield and Matt Snell. Ferguson was a power runner and Warfield was supplied speed. The common description of the time said, "Warfield is the lightning, Ferguson is the thunder." The Buckeyes won the Big Ten Conference that year and were voted national champions by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA).
Ferguson finished his career at Ohio State with 2,162 rushing yards. This rushing total was at the time second in team history behind Howard Cassady. Ferguson owns the distinction of never having been thrown for a loss during his college football career. Ferguson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996, and into Ohio State's own Varsity O Hall of Fame in 1987. He was selected to the Ohio State Football All-Century Team in 2000.
Ferguson was a first-round draft pick by both the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League. Ferguson accepted the offer from the Steelers, but a head injury hampered his football career. After a mere two seasons, playing both for the Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings, he retired.
Later life
Ferguson returned to Ohio State University and earned a master's degree in sociology. He worked as a youth counselor in Columbus, Ohio until he was forced to retire in 1990 due to health problems. Ferguson died in 2004 of complications due to diabetes.
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Encyclopaedia of the Iranian Architectural History
The Encyclopaedia of the Iranian Architectural History of Iranshahr Architecture is the International Information Center for the History of Architecture and the City of Iranshahr (Iranian World, Iran Earth).
Date of establishment
In 2006, it was established by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and co-sponsored by the Iranian Academy of the Arts.
Managers
Mohammad Beheshti Shirazi, former head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran, is responsible for the group of researchers who are preparing this encyclopedia.
See also
http://iranshahrpedia.com/en/static/view/page/iranshahr
List of National Works of Iran (Excel file) Encyclopaedia of the Iranian Architectural History
Sources
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List of closed railway stations in Norfolk
This is a list of closed railway stations in Norfolk, England. There are also a number of heritage railway stations in Norfolk, which have been re-opened by preservation societies. The companies listed are the pre-1923 groupings.
Goods stations
References
See also
Railways in Norfolk
Norfolk railway stations
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Extinguishment
Extinguishment is the destruction of a right or contract. If the subject of the contract is destroyed (such as through merging the contract subject and the contract obligation), then the contract may be made void. Extinguishment occurs in a variety of contracts, such as land contracts (common, copyhold), debts, rents, and right of ways. A right may be extinguished by nullifying that right or, in the case of a debt, discharged by payment in full or through settlement.
An extinguishment may be by matter of fact and by matter of law. If a creditor receives satisfaction and full payment of a debt and the creditor releases the debtor, then that is express extinguishment by matter of fact. If a person is renting land and subsequently becomes the owner of that same land by purchase or descent, the rent is extinguished through implied extinguishment by matter of fact.
There are numerous situations where a claim is extinguished by operation of law. If two persons are jointly but not severally liable for a simple contract debt, a judgment at common law obtained against only one of the debtors works as an extinguishment of the claim on the other debtor as a matter of law. A conveyance of mortgaged land by the mortgagor to the mortgagee extinguishes the mortgage. However taking a promissory note for the amount due on the mortgage does not deprive the mortgage holder of a right to a lien, but merely suspends its enforcement until the note is payable.
Extinguishment of common
Common land (a common), in England and Wales and the United States, is a piece of land owned by one person, but over which other people can exercise certain traditional rights, such as allowing their livestock to graze upon it. If the owner of the common right becomes the owner of the fee simple estate, then the common right becomes extinguished. If the crop or other item over which there is a common right is severed from the land, then the common right becomes extinguished. Other situations in which the common right becomes extinguished include legal release and approvement (improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.)
Extinguishment of copyhold
A copyhold was a parcel of land tenure granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for services, such as agricultural services. Such grants/servitude was not always in the best interest of the peasant and the copyhold could be extinguished by an act of the tenant showing an intention not to hold the land any longer. Copyholds may be extinguished by the union of the copyhold and the freehold in the same person. Copyholds were gradually enfranchised (turned into ordinary holdings of land—either freehold or 999-year leasehold) during the 19th century. Legislation in the 1920s finally extinguished the last of them.
Extinguishment of a debt
Debts may be extinguished by the creditor accepting a higher security. If the creditor recovers a judgment, the original debt is extinguished. However, a trust deed given to secure the payment of a bond is not extinguished by a judgment on the bond since the original debt is not merged by the trust deed. A debt evidenced by a note may be extinguished by a surrender of the note
Extinguishment of rent
A union of the title to the lands and the rent in the same person will extinguish the rent. In Pennsylvania, a ground rent (rent of unimproved land) is extinguished by a conveyance from the ground rent owner to the tenant.
Extinguishment of ways
Right of ways include the right to use the land of another for a special purpose, such as a passageway. If the owner of the right of way purchases the close over which the right of way lies, the right of way is extinguished.
Notes
References
Rawle, Francis; Bouvier, John. (1914) Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia Extinguishment. Pp. 1166-1167. 3rd revision (being the 8th ed.) Vernon Law Book Co. ; St. Paul, Minnesota. Publisher: West Publishing Company. 3 vols.
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Hudar
Hudar () may refer to:
Hudar, Lorestan
Hudar, South Khorasan
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1989 Gator Bowl (January)
The 1989 Gator Bowl (January) was a college football postseason bowl game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Michigan State Spartans
Background
Georgia finished 3rd in the Southeastern Conference and first bowl game since 1987. Michigan State finished 2nd in the Big Ten Conference after a 0-3-1 start ended with six straight victories before being invited to their second straight bowl game and first ever Gator Bowl.
Game summary
First Quarter
UGA – Rodney Hampton 6 pass from Wayne Johnson (John Kasay kick), 0:01 left.
Second Quarter
Georgia – 39 yard field goal from Steve Crumley, 11:00 left.
Georgia – Rodney Hampton 30 yard touchdown pass from Wayne Johnson (John Kasay kick), 7:06 left.
Michigan State – Andre Rison 4 yard touchdown pass from Bobby McAllister (John Langeloh kick), 2:55 left.
Third Quarter
Georgia – Kirk Warner 18 yard touchdown pass from Wayne Johnson (John Kasay kick), 7:48 left
Michigan State – Andre Rison 55 pass from Bobby McAllister (kick failed), 3:55 left.
Georgia – 36 yard field goal from Steve Crumley, 2:16 left.
Fourth Quarter
Michigan State – Blake Ezor 3 yard touchdown run (John Langeloh kick), 14:24 left.
Georgia – Rodney Hampton 32 yard touchdown run (John Kasay kick), 11:58 left.
Michigan State – Andre Rison 50 yard touchdown pass from McAllister (Langeloh kick), 3:49 left.
Andre Rison caught 9 pass for 252 yards. Wayne Johnson went 15-of-27 for 227 yards.
Aftermath
This was Vince Dooley's final game with the Bulldogs. The following year, Ray Goff became head coach. The Bulldogs did not return to the Gator Bowl until 2014. As for the Spartans, they reached another bowl game the same year. They have not played in the Gator Bowl since this game.
Statistics
References
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BR-262
BR-262 is an east-west highway connecting the Brazilian states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul.
The highway runs from Vitória state capital of Espírito Santo to the Bolivian border at Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul.
BR-262 is the deadliest highway in Brazil for wildlife (and one of the deadliest in the world), with an immense toll in terms of roadkill. Researchers have found large numbers of birds, reptiles, and mammals dead from car collisions on the highway. Affected species include caimans, anacondas, and jabirus.
References
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The Old-Time Gospel Hour
The Old-Time Gospel Hour is a ministry program broadcast from Thomas Road Baptist Church. The founding pastor was Jerry Falwell. It has been replaced by Thomas Road Live with Jonathan Falwell.
In popular culture
Bono of the band U2 mentions The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the 1988 live version of the song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the album Rattle and Hum. Toward the end of the song, there is a spoken section where he says "...and I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and a preacher on the Old-Time Gospel Hour stealing money from the sick and the old. Well the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister."
References
External links
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Robert Godshall
Robert W. "Bob" Godshall (May 15, 1933 – November 24, 2019) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 53rd District and was elected in 1982.
Career
In 1979, Godshall was elected Montgomery County Controller and served in that position until he was elected to the House in 1982.
For the 2009-10 legislative session, Godshall served on the House Insurance and Rules Committees and was Republican chairman of the House Consumer Affairs Committee.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U.S. Constitution.
Personal
Godshall was a graduate of Souderton High School. He graduated from Juniata College and attended but did not graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. Godshall served on the Souderton Area School Board from 1963 to 1980. Godshall died a hospital in Sellersville, Pennsylvania on November 24, 2019 at the age of 86.
References
External links
Representative Godshall's site
Representative Bob Godshall's official web site
Pennsylvania House profile
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Pariwana
Pariwana (Quechua for flamingo, Hispanicized spelling Parihuana) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, on the border of the districts of Palca and Vilavila. Pariwana lies north of Qillqa.
References
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Song Machine
Song Machine is a series of singles and music videos releasing in 2020, by British virtual band Gorillaz. The project marks the first release with Remi Kabaka Jr. as an official band member, as well as the return of the character Murdoc Niccals in promotional material, after his absence from The Now Now in 2018. The project began with "Momentary Bliss", which featured rapper Slowthai & punk rock band Slaves, on 30 January, and is expected to continue until the end of the year. The releases have been described as punk rock, indie rock, and electronic music.
Background
On 28 January, the band officially released images via social media teasing a concept entitled Song Machine. A 23-second promotional single entitled "Song Machine Theme Tune" was released on streaming services with an accompanying video.
Damon Albarn and Remi Kabaka spoke to BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac for the official premiere, saying that Song Machine "may have an obtuse narrative arc at the end of each season, but it's more Ozark, than Designated Survivor. You just keep going until you run out of ideas."
Upon the premiere of "Momentary Bliss", Albarn revealed that the group had been in the studio with ScHoolboy Q and Sampa the Great among others, although he did say that these songs were likely to be saved for future series of Song Machine. The group also teased a possible collaboration with Australian band Tame Impala on Instagram.
A press release was put out to explain Song Machine further, with virtual Gorillaz member Russel Hobbs saying: "Song Machine is a whole new way of doing what we do, Gorillaz breaking the mould 'cos the mould got old. World is moving faster than a supercharged particle, so we’ve gotta stay ready to drop. We don’t even know who's stepping through the studio next. Song Machine feeds on the unknown, runs on pure chaos. So whatever the hell’s coming, we’re primed and ready to produce like there’s no tomorrow."
Release
Song Machine will contain 13 "episodes" would be released spontaneously throughout the year. Each episode will feature previously unannounced guest musicians on new Gorillaz material, with the first being "Momentary Bliss", which features both British rapper Slowthai and the Kent-based punk rock duo Slaves.
Episode One: 30 January 2020
Episode Two: 27 February 2020
Track Listing
Personnel
Gorillaz
Damon Albarn – vocals, songwriter, synthesizer, keyboards, bass, guitar, programming, production
Jamie Hewlett – artwork, design
Remi Kabaka Jr. – additional drum programming, production (Episode 1)
Additional personnel
Tyron Frampton – vocals (Episode 1)
Laurence Vincent – guitar, vocals (Episode 1)
Isaac Holman – drums, vocals (Episode 1)
Stephen Sedgwick – engineering, mixing engineer (Episode 1)
Samuel Egglenton – engineering (Episode 1)
John Davis – mastering engineering (Episode 1)
Fatoumata Diawara – vocals (Episode 2)
James Ford – production (Episode 2)
References
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Electoral district of West Sydney
West Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district, Ultimo and Pyrmont, bordered by George Street, Broadway, Bay Street and Wentworth Park. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Gipps, Sydney-Lang, Sydney-Denison and Sydney-Pyrmont.
Members for West Sydney
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I Got It Goin' On
"I Got It Goin' On" is the third and final single from Tone Loc's 1989 album Lōc-ed After Dark. While not as successful as the earlier singles "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", it reached #18 on the Hot Rap Singles chart and #59 on the Top R&B Singles chart in the summer of 1989. It eventually sold over 600,000 Singles(Gold).
Track listing
Vinyl
"I Got It Goin' On" (Remix)- 4:22
"I Got It Goin' On" (Go Go Instrumental)- 4:36
"The Homies" (Album Version)- 4:03
"The Homies" (On Tilt Mix)- 2:20
"The Fine Line Between Hyper and Stupid" feat. Akeem, Aleem & Hashim- 4:00
CD
"I Got It Goin' On" (Remix Edit)- 3:47
"The Homies"- 2:20
"The Fine Line Between Hyper and Stupid" feat. Akeem, Aleem & Hashim- 4:00
"Cheeba Cheeba"- 6:10
References
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Rinaldo
Rinaldo may refer to:
Renaud de Montauban (also spelled Renaut, Renault, Italian: Rinaldo di Montalbano, Dutch: Reinout van Montalbaen), a fictional knight in the medieval Matter of France
Rinaldo (Jerusalem Liberated), a character in a 1580 epic poem by Tasso
Rinaldo (opera), a 1711 Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, based on the above character
Rinaldo (cantata), an 1863 cantata by Johannes Brahms, based on the above character
HMS Rinaldo, one of four ships of the name launched between 1808 and 1943 by the Royal Navy
Books and films
Rinaldo Rinaldini, the Robber Captain, a 1797 novel by Christian August Vulpius
Rinaldo Rinaldini (film), a 1927 film based on the book
Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Räuberhauptmann, a 1968 German television series later released in France as La kermesse des brigands
People with the name
Rinaldo Conti (1199 or c. 1185–1261), who later became Pope Alexander IV
Giovanni Rinaldo (1720–1795), Count of Carli-Rubbi, Italian economist and antiquarian
Rinaldo de Lamare (1910–2002), Brazilian physician who specialized in pediatrics
Matthew John Rinaldo (1931–2008), United States Representative from New Jersey
Theodore Rinaldo (1944-2000), an American businessman, charismatic religious leader, and convicted child sex offender
Sandie Rinaldo (born 1950), Canadian television journalist and news anchor
Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves (born 1966), Brazilian footballer
Zac Rinaldo (born 1990), Canadian professional ice hockey player
See also
Monte Rinaldo, municipality in the province of Fermo, Italy
Rinaldi
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Lake Pleasant
Lake Pleasant may refer to a location in the United States:
Lake Pleasant Regional Park, park in Arizona containing a lake of the same name
Lake Pleasant Camp
Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, a village
Lake Pleasant Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota
Lake Pleasant, New York, a town
Lake Pleasant (New York), a lake
Lake Pleasant (hamlet), New York, a community in the town of Lake Pleasant and county seat of Hamilton County
Lake Pleasant (Washington), a lake on the Olympic Peninsula
See also
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Gilanmehr Fouman F.C.
Gilanmehr Fouman Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Fuman, Iran. They currently compete in 2016–17 Iran Football's 2nd Division.
They reached the Round of 16 in the 2016–17 Hazfi Cup.
Name history
Shahrdari Fouman (2007–2018)
Gilanmehr Fouman (2018–)
Season-by-season
The table below shows the achievements of the club in various competitions.
See also
Iranian football league system
References
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