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In Dependence is a novel written by British-Nigerian author Sarah Ladipo Manyika. Her first novel, it was originally published by Legend Press, London, in 2008,
Background
According to Manyika, "she conducted a "huge amount" of research so as to convey the reality of living in Nigeria at that time, including reading back issues of local magazines and newspapers to capture the zeitgeist." In Dependence was first published in 2008 by Legend Press in London, In 2009, it was published by Cassava Republic in Nigeria, In 2014, In Dependence was published by Weaver Press in Zimbabwe, where it is a set book for the Advanced-level English Literature examination.
Reception
Toni Kan writes in The Lagos Review: "Sarah Manyika has written an impressive debut novel which will find a well deserved place in the pantheon of post-colonial literature." In Dependence has also been introduced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria for candidates sitting for the 2017 UTME. Bustle listed it as one of the five books by African authors during the #ReadAfricaWeek.
References
2008 Nigerian novels
2014 Zimbabwean novels
Cassava Republic Press books |
Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is an autonomous, statutory and constitutional institution formed as a quasi judicial body in Karnataka under Section 24-B of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 to protect the rights of consumers. It is a system of alternate dispute resolution between conflicting parties during the process of trade. The president of the States Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is appointed by the state government in consultation with the Chief Justice of state high court.
History and Objective
Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission was formed to promote and protect the rights of consumers as per the Consumer Protection Act 1986.
Composition
Following shall be the composition of Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission:
1. President and
2. Not less than two members and not more than that presribed in State Act.
President will be appointed by state Government in consultation with the Chief Justice of state High Court. The eligibility for president is that he should be serving or served as Judge in any High Court. Members should be of 1. Not less than 35 years of age and 2. recognised university bachelor degree 3. With good ability,integrity and standing and with proficient experience of 10 years and expertise knowledge in subjects of accountancy,law,commerce,economics,industry,administration and public affairs and problem solving ability in same.
Also not more than fifty percent of members of committee should be from judicial background.
Hon'ble Justice BS Indrakala is the President of Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
Levels and Jurisdiction
Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission was formed for promoting and protecting the rights of consumers through three levels with the below mentioned jurisdiction:
District Commission (earlier referred to as District Forum) can accept complaints from consumer if the value of goods or services is up to ₹1 crore (Earlier limit was ₹20 lakh).
State Commission can accept complaints from consumer if the value of goods or services is more than ₹1 crore but less than ₹10 crores ( earlier limit was between ₹20 lakh and ₹1 crore).
National Commission can accept complaints from consumer if the value of goods or services is more than 10 crores.
Procedure to file Complaints
Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission laid down below process of filing and resolving complaints:
Complaints can be filed electronically and examination of disputing parties is done through video-conferencing which includes hearing and/or examination through any other mode.
Complaints to be resolved as early as possible. Time period for resolving dispute in case the complaint does not require analysis and testing of product quality is 3 months from the date of receipt of notice by the opposite party. However if the complaint requires analysis or testing of product quality the time limit for resolving dispute is within 5 months.
Complaints can be filed using E-Daakhil Portal which is hassle free, speedy and economical facility and made for convenient of consumers to approach the respective consumer forum. It also avoid the need of consumers to travel and be available physically in the commission.
E-Daakhil Portal had been incorporated features like sending e-notice, downloading case document link, providing link for Video call hearing, filing of response in writing by opposite party, rejoinder filing by the person complaining and sending sms and e-mail alerts.
Currently 43,000 users have registered on the E-Daakhil Portal with around 10,000 cases being filed.
Penalties and Imprisonment
Manufacturers and Service providers are made punishable as a criminal offence for giving misleading information or for wrong advertisement of product.
Punishment may include fine of Rs 10 lakhs or imprisonment for 2 years or both.
Investigative Agency
Violation of consumer rights or unfair trade practices is investigated by the Investigation wing headed by Director-General level position in Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA).
Important Terms
Following are the important terms in Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission:
As per the act "Goods" means anything purchased by consumers either in retail or wholesale from retailers or wholesalers. They can either be produced or manufactured.
As per the act "services" means those which are in the form of "transport,telephone,electricity,housing,banking,insurance,medical treatment etc".
As per the act consumer means " any person who buys any goods or hires or avails any services for a consideration which has already been paid or promised or partly paid and partly promised or under any system of deferred payment".
Person includes anyone buying goods, either through online system or direct or offline, by way of teleshopping, or through mode of electronic includes direct selling or in a multi-level marketing.
Consumer does not include person buying or availing goods or services for resale or for any other commercial purpose.
For the purpose of commission the terms are referred in Consumer Protection Act'2019.
Challenges
The district, state and national level commissions face challenges of understaffing or non fulfillment of vacancies in time.
The report prepared by senior advocate on the directions of Supreme Court of India found out many shortcomings in the offices of district and state consumer redressal bodies in many states of India. These include absence of storage rooms for case files, lack of member chambers for convenience of members hearing complaints, non availability of court rooms and washrooms in selective cases.
Related Articles
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
Odisha State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission
Andhra Pradesh State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
References
External links
Official Website
Quasi-judicial bodies of India
Legal organisations based in India
Consumer organisations in India
Indian commissions and inquiries |
Flag captain () was in the Swedish Navy a captain or commander who served as deputy to a fleet commander. During the 1900s, the flag captain served as chief of staff of Flaggen, the staff of the Chief of the Coastal Fleet.
History
The flag captain was in the Swedish Navy a naval officer, of the rank of captain or commander, who was posted as chief of staff to a fleet commander. If he was a flag officer, the flag captain carried, as command flag, the standard prescribed for "squadron commander", otherwise he carried the broad pennant (galjadett) intended for "department commander". According to the regulations in force before 1875, the flag captain was an officer of the rank of flag officer or regimental officer, commanded to assist the commander of a fleet of at least six ships of the line, frigates or battalions of archipelago ships.
Between 1904 and 2000, the flag captain served as chief of staff of Flaggen, the staff of the Chief of the Coastal Fleet.
Flag captains (1902–2000)
1902–1903: Lieutenant commander Sten Ankarcrona
1904–1907: Commander Herman Wrangel
1907–1907: Captain Carl August Ehrensvärd
1907–1909: Commander Gustaf af Klint
1909–1915: Commander Henning von Krusenstierna
1914–1915: Lieutenant commander Ulf Carl Knutsson Sparre (acting)
1915–1918: Captain Carl Alarik Wachtmeister
1918–1919: Lieutenant commander Henrik Gisiko
1920–1923: Captain Gustaf Starck
1923–1925: Captain Charles de Champs
1925–1930: Captain Claës Lindsström
1930–1931: Captain Fabian Tamm
1932–1933: Captain Hans Simonsson
1933–1936: Captain Gösta Ehrensvärd
1937–1939: Captain Yngve Ekstrand
1939–1941: Captain Helge Strömbäck
1941–1943: Captain Erik Anderberg
1943–1945: Captain Erik Samuelson
1946–1948: Captain John Wirström
1948–1950: –
1950–1951: Captain Erik af Klint
1951–1953: Captain Bertil Berthelsson
1953–1956: Captain Einar Blidberg
1957–1959: Captain Åke Lindemalm
1959–1964: Captain Magnus Starck
1964–1966: Captain Nils-Erik Ödman
1966–1971: Captain Alf Berggren
1971–1973: Captain Göte Blom
1973–1973: Commander Sigurd Håkansson
1973–1978: Captain Åke Johnson
1978–1980: Captain Lennart Forsman
1980–1980: Captain Bengt O'Konor
1980–1982: Captain Holger Grenstad
1982–1983: Captain Johan Bring
1983–1985: Captain Claes Tornberg
1985–1986: Captain Gustaf Taube
1986–1988: Captain Bengt Uggla
1988–1989: Captain Frank Rosenius
1989–1992: Captain Emil Svensson
1992–1994: Captain Christer Hägg
1994–1996: Captain Olof Jonsson
1996–1998: Captain Anders Stävberg
References
Military appointments of Sweden
Swedish Navy |
The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 Amendment Act 1873 (36 &37 Vict. LXXXIX) extended and amended the provisions of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870.
Background
Having operated under the 1870 Act, the Board of Trade thought it was expedient to have powers to make Provisional Orders, to hold Inquiries and to make or amend rules for enforcing the Act.
Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 Amendment Act 1873
The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 Amendment Act 1873 received Royal Assent on 5 August 1873. Its long title is ‘An Act to extend and amend the provisions of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870.’
Provisions
The Act comprises 15 Sections and a Schedule:
Section 1: Short Title. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870, Amendment Act, 1873.”
Sections 2 to 11: repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c 39).
Section 12: Provisional Orders. Power of Board of Trade to revoke, amend, extend, or vary Provisional Order.
Section 13: Inquiries. Where, in relation to any application for a Provisional Order under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870, or under this Act, it is in the opinion of the Board of Trade expedient that an inquiry should be held, they may order and direct such inquiry to be held at such time and place as they may think proper.
Section 14: Rules for carrying Acts into effect. The Board of Trade may from time to time make, and, when made, may rescind, annul, or add to, the rules for carrying the Acts into effect.
Section 15: This Act shall not apply to any place within the Metropolis as the same is defined in the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.
Schedule: repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c 39).
Amendments and Repeal
The Act was repealed by the Gas Act 1948.
See also
Oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom
References
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1873 |
Richelle is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Richelle Bear Hat, Blackfoot and Cree artist
Richelle Carey (born 1976), American broadcast journalist
Richelle Cranston (born 1989), Australian rules footballer
Richelle Mead (born 1976), American fantasy author
Richelle Parham, American marketer; vice president and chief marketing officer for eBay
Richelle Simpson (born 1982), Canadian artistic gymnast and acrobat
Richelle Stephens (born 1996), American rugby sevens player
Feminine given names |
Halina Poon Suk-han () is a Hong Kong educational worker, currently serving as a member of the Election Committee, which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive.
Education career
Poon is the founding principal of Christian and Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Secondary School. She was promoted to the chairlady of the Hong Kong Subsidized Secondary Schools Council from vice-chair in 2016, and stepped down in 2020. A year later, Poon ran in the 2021 Election Committee Subsector elections as a pro-Beijing candidate from the newly formed Education Professional Alliance. She was elected with the highest vote amongst other candidates in the Education subsector.
Poon is also the member of the Council of the City University of Hong Kong. She had previously served as the courtier of the University of Hong Kong until 2020, and sat in a number of commissions of the Hong Kong Government as members. Poon was awarded the Medal of Honour by HKSAR Government in 2007 in recognition of her enthusiastic participation in educational and social affairs.
In February 2022, it is announced that Poon will become the principal of Guangzhou Nansha Minxin School for Hong Kong Children starting from September 2022. The primary-and-secondary school is headed by Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's former Chief Executive and vice-chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Political stance
Poon was regarded as pro-Beijing after joining the establishment-leaning teacher's group Education Professional Alliance. The Election Committee is also described as skewing the pro-Beijing camp.
During her tenure as Subsidized Secondary Schools Council chair, large-scale protests erupted in the city. Poon was criticised for not signing a petition for an independent commission of inquiry. She later supported an independent commission of inquiry but on the arrest of teenagers. In the speech, she called on the Hong Kong authorities to rescue the institutions and livelihood, and hoped the Chinese Government not to give up on Hong Kong. She also claimed the fear of China for suppressing freedom of speech stems from bandwagon effect. She had contacted the police after "Glory to Hong Kong", the iconic song during protests, was heard from near the school she led.
References
School principals and headteachers
Hong Kong politicians |
Dan Slușanschi (12 September 1943 – 22 July 2008) was a 20th century Romanian classicist and specialist in Indo-European linguistics who made contributions in the fields of Ancient Greek, Latin/Medieval Latin and Persian. He is known for his editions and translations of Dimitrie Cantemir's works.
Studies
Dan Slușanschi graduated in 1965 from the Faculty of Classical Philology of the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in classical and Indo-European philology in 1972. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, where he taught Latin language syntax, Indo-European linguistics (language and mythology), history of Sanskrit literature, ancient Persian (history, civilization, language), history of the Latin language, Greek syntax, medieval and neo-Latin Latin, text criticism and ancient metrics. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Brussels, Liege, Berlin, Caen, Chisinau, Cluj, Timisoara, Constanta. He had a doctor honoris causa from the University of Caen.
Publications
Editions
Textele latine din anexa la L. Protopopescu, Contributii la istoria învatamîntului în Transilvania, Craiova, 1966.
D. Cantemir, Historia Moldo-Vlachica and De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus (în Opere Complete, IX, 1), Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1983.
D. Cantemir, Encomia in authorem, în V. Candea (ed.), Sistima religiei muhammedane, Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1987 (Opere Complete, VIII, 2).
D. Cantemir, Vita Constantini Cantemyrii, Moldaviae Principis, Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1996 (Opere Complete, VI, 1 - cu A. Pippidi si I. Campeanu).
Virgil, Aeneis, Bucuresti, Paideia, 2000, 2 vols. (I. Editie critica)
D. Cantemir, Incrementorum & Decrementorum Aulae Othmanicae libri III, editia critica princeps, Amarcord, 2001.
D. Cantemir, Descriptio Moldaviae, editia critica princeps, Bucuresti, Anastasia, 2005.
D. Cantemir, Sacro-Sanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago, editie critica, Bucuresti, EUB, 2005.
Translations
Dimitrie Cantemir, De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus; Historia Moldo-Vlachica Opere complete, Vol.IX, Partea I: De antiquis et hodiernis. Moldaviae nominibus, Prefața de Virgil Cândea. Ediție critică, traducere, introducere, note și indici de Dan Slușanschi, Editura Academiei, București, 1983.
E. Benveniste, Vocabularul institutiilor indo-europene, Bucuresti, Paideia, 1999, I; 2005, I-II.
Eneida de Publius Vergilius Maro, Editura Paideia, București, 2000.
Homer, Iliada, traducere de Dan Slușanschi, ilustrații de Mihail Coșulețu, Editura Humanitas, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3702-4
Homer, Odysseia, tradusă în hexametri de Dan Slușanschi și ilustrată de Alexandru Rădvan, Editura Humanitas, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3701-7.
Dimitrie Cantemir, Istoria cresterilor si descresterilor Curtii Otomane, prima traducere româneasca, Editura Paidea, 2008, 2010, 2012.
Bibliography
Dan Slusanschi – portret de clasicist, Edited by Ana-Maria Răducan and Florin George Călian
Nicht jeder Spezialist ist auch ein Intellektueller, Forscher Florin George Călian erzählt von Antoaneta Sabău, der Antike und Dan Slusanschi, by Klaus Philippi
References
External links
Dan Slusanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages
1943 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Romanian people
20th-century linguists
Linguists from Romania
Romanian writers in French
Romanian schoolteachers
Grammarians from Romania
Grammarians of Latin
University of Bucharest faculty
University of Bucharest alumni |
Iakovos Makrygiannis (), born Dimosthenis Makrygiannis (; Alatsata, 1910 – 1971), was a Greek theologian and bishop who served as Metropolitan of Elassona.
Biography
Iakovos Makrygiannis, baptised Dimosthenis, was born in 1910 in Alatsata, Ottoman Empire. He studied Theology at the Department of Theology of the University of Athens. He was ordained a deacon in 1937 by the Archbishop of Athens, Chrysostomos, taking on the monastic name Iakovos. In 1940 he was ordained a priest and served as a vicar in the Archbishopric of Athens (Temple of Saint Demetrius of Psychiko) and as abbot of the monastery of Penteli from 1945 to 1955.
Metropolitan of Elassona
On 2 March 1956 he was elected Metropolitan of Elassona and two days later he was ordained a bishop in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. He did important spiritual, philanthropic and cultural work, including:
founding camps
organising a youth foundation
creating a boarding school for the children from mountainous areas who studied in the Gymnasium in Elassona and couldn't afford shelte
He personally took care in public works such as the electrification of remote villages and the creation of roads. With his suggestion, the annual celebration of the Eleftheria of Elassona on 6 October was introduced, as a local holiday commemorating the liberation of the city on 12 October 1912.
Persecution by the dictatorship
On 2 August 1967, he was irregularly removed from his position by the Greek junta, which had intervened in the Synod of the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece, forcing him to resign. This was a common tactic by the regime used against different metropolitans as well. In this way the dictatorship managed to replace bishops who didn't cooperate with the regime with ones with more friendly attitudes.
Death and memory
Iakovos died on 20 July 1971 in Loutraki, where he resided as the dictatorship didn't allow him to return to Elassona. He was buried in the cemetery of Chalandri by relatives and friends. His boned were transferred by order of metropolitan Vasileios to the Panagia Olympiotissa Monastery, so Iakovos could return to the city post-mortem, despite his irregular removal from his position. In his memory, a central road in Elassona is named after him.
References
Sources
Charalampos (Charis) Andreopoulos, Η Εκκλησία κατά τη δικτατορία 1967-1974. Ιστορική και νομοκανονική προσέγγιση, Epikentro Editions, Thessaloniki, 2017
People from Alaçatı
1910 births
1971 deaths |
The 2022 RFL 1895 Cup, known as the 2022 AB Sundecks 1895 Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the third playing of the RFL 1895 Cup, a rugby league football competition for clubs in the United Kingdom. The competition for clubs who play below the top-tier Super League, with amateur clubs joining lower-tier professional clubs in qualification for the first time. The competition will be played from April to May 2022. The final will be played as a curtain raiser to the 2022 Challenge Cup Final at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London on 28 May 2022.
Format
The 2021 competition had run with an altered format due to the disruption caused to that season by the COVID-19 pandemic. Under these changes, the early rounds of the 2021 Challenge Cup served as the opening rounds of the 1895 Cup, with the four teams which progressed from round 2 of the Challenge Cup also becoming semi-finalists of the 1895 Cup. That format was popular among teams, and so the 2022 tournament returned with an adapted version of that, reflecting the re-formatting of the Challenge Cup to facilitate the re-entry of amateur sides to that tournament.
This adapted format for 2022 will see five teams progress from round 5 of the 2022 Challenge Cup, and hence qualify for the 1895 Cup. Any Championship, League 1 or Amateur team that subsequently wins in round 6 of the Challenge Cup will qualify automatically for the semi-finals of the 1895 Cup. Two of the remaining qualifiers will be drawn into a play-off match on 9th/10th April, to reduce the five qualifiers to four teams for the semi-finals on the 7th/8th May, with the final held as a curtain-raiser for the 2022 Challenge Cup Final on the 28th May.
Qualification
The early rounds of the Challenge Cup function as the qualification for the 1895 Cup, with the Fifth Round, played on the 12th/13th March, acting as the final qualifier. All professional RFL member clubs below the Super League are eligible to participate in the 1895 Cup, as well as those amateur teams which entered the Challenge Cup. Newly formed Cornwall R.L.F.C. who play in RFL League 1 decided not to enter the competition.
References
2022 in English rugby league
2022 in Welsh rugby league
RFL 1895 Cup |
Ellerslie School (founded 1877) is a school in Auckland, New Zealand.
Ellerslie School may also refer to:
Ellerslie Girls' High School (founded 1898), Cape Town, South Africa
Ellerslie (founded 1922), a girls' school in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, now part of Malvern College
See also
Ellerslie (disambiguation) |
A blank value in analytical chemistry is a measurement of a blank. The reading does not originate from a sample, but the matrix effects, reagents and other residues. These contribute to the sample value in the analytical measurement and therefore have to be subtracted.
References
Analytical chemistry |
Jasper Löeffelsend (born 10 September 1997) is a German footballer who plays as a right-back for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.
Career
Youth & Early career
Löeffelsend played with various teams at youth level, including spells at SV Bergisch Gladbach 09, SV Union Rösrath and TV Herkenrath 09. Following his time at Herkenrath, he had short spells with SV Straelen, Bonner SC, FC Hennef 05 and FC Wegberg-Beeck, appearing for the teams in both the Regionalliga West and Mittelrheinliga. After signing with Wegberg-Beeck in July 2020, Löeffelsend and the club mutually agreed to terminate his contract to allow him to accept a scholarship to play college soccer in the United States.
College
Löeffelsend attended the University of Pittsburgh in 2020, where he played two seasons, making a total of 36 appearances, scoring two goals and tallying 19 assists. In his two seasons with the Panthers, he was named All-ACC First Team twice, ACC Defensive Player of the Year twice, was a MAC Hermann Trophy semi-finalist twice, TopDrawerSoccer Best XI First Team, United Soccer Coaches South All-Region First Team twice, United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-America twice, and College Soccer News First Team All-America.
MLS
On 11 January 2022, Löeffelsend was selected 81st overall in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft by Real Salt Lake. On 22 February 2022, he signed with Salt Lake's MLS Next Pro side Real Monarchs. However, on 27 February 2022, it was announced that Löeffelsend had signed a one-year deal with Real Salt Lake's first team who compete in Major League Soccer. He made his debut for the club the same day, appearing as an injury-time substitute during a 0–0 draw with Houston Dynamo.
References
External links
Jasper Löeffelsend | Real Salt Lake
1997 births
Living people
Association football defenders
Bonner SC players
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
FC Hennef 05 players
FC Wegberg-Beeck players
German expatriate footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
German footballers
Major League Soccer players
Pittsburgh Panthers men's soccer players
Real Monarchs players
Real Salt Lake draft picks
Real Salt Lake players
Real Monarchs players
SV Bergisch Gladbach 09 players
SV 19 Straelen players |
The Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC, or IGC-GRTKF) in charge of negotiating one or several international legal instruments (treaty) to protect traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources in relation with intellectual property, thus bridging existing gaps in international law. The IGC is convened in Geneva by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and has been meeting since 2001.
History and mandate
The IGC was established in 2001 by the General Assembly of WIPO, which reviews, updates, and extends the mandate of the IGC every 2 years at the Assembly's September meetings.
The IGC had a first diplomatic crisis in 2003, as "the enormity of its task was becoming clearer, as was the gulf in expectations among states as to the IGC’s overall purpose and anticipated outcomes." The crisis lasted until 2009, when WIPO Assembly "agreed on a much-strengthened mandate" for the IGC, asking it to draft a legal instrument towards the convening of a Diplomatic Conference to adopt one or several treaties.
Since 2010, the mandate of the IGC has remained mostly unchanged: to conclude a consensual text which would bridge the gaps between the numerous existing international legal instruments provide some, but insufficient protection on either traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, or genetic resources (UNDRIP, Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya Protocol, FAO plant treaty, UNESCO conventions on culture and intangible heritage, etc.), none of which include explicit protections for indigenous peoples and local communities.
IGC's negotiations were suspended is 2020 because of the pandemic of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, resuming in 2022.
Work
The IGC convened an Indigenous panel at every meeting, and created the WIPO Voluntary Fund for Member States to fund the active participation and involvement of indigenous communities and civil society stakeholders.
A number of documents have been issued to guide the works of the IGC, including a series of Background brief documents, as well as guidelines and other information documents.
The IGC has also developed draft international legal instruments on traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources.
References
External links
IGC: What is happening now?
Background brief: Origins, rationale and achievements of the IGC (available also in Arabic, Chinese, French, Português, Russian, and Spanish)
Wendland, Wend (February 2022). International negotiations on Indigenous knowledge to resume at WIPO: a view of the journey so far and the way ahead. WIPO Magazine, Article 001.
Robinson, Daniel F.; Abdel-Latif, Ahmed; Roffe, Pedro (14 July 2017). Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-35486-4.
Indigenous peoples
Intellectual property law
International trade organizations
Oral tradition
United Nations organizations based in Geneva
United Nations specialized agencies
World Intellectual Property Organization |
Rampage is an Israeli long range air-to-ground precision strike weapon. It's developed by Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Missile |
Zavaroni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lena Zavaroni (1963–1999), Scottish singer and television show host
Othello Zavaroni (1910–1991), French architect |
Mirrors of Embarrassment is an album by the American band Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit. It is dedicated to Wayne Bennett.
The band supported the album by touring with the 1993 H.O.R.D.E. festival. Bruce Hampton left the band later the same year.
Production
The album was produced by Johnny Sandlin, who called the band the best that he had heard. Hampton played his "chazoid", an instrument that resembled a combination of guitar and mandolin. He spent a month writing the songs for the album, after the band had finished touring behind their debut.
Bela Fleck played banjo on "Dead Presidents"; John Popper also contributed to the album. "Trondossa" is built around the sound of a Hammond B-3.
Critical reception
Stereo Review stated: "Just imagine it—a six-string-bass jazz/funk virtuoso, a mandolin phenom with avant-garde leanings, a guitarist who'd have been a Southern-rock hotshot in another context, and a four-armed drummer (or so it seems), all coming together in a sound that combines the brisk tandem runs of bluegrass, the improvisational aspects of jazz, and the dynamics of rock." The Washington Post determined that "at times it's all a bit too clever and cluttered for its own good, but more often than not it evokes the open-ended possibilities that hippie-rock has often promised and rarely delivered."
The Star Tribune opined that "if you married two great San Francisco Bay Area bands of the 1970s, Tower of Power and the Grateful Dead, the result might sound like the Aquarium Rescue Unit." The Telegram & Gazette noted that "the playing is spirited, the sentiment a little demented." The State declared that "Matt Mundy's mandolin dances with Jimmy Herring's speed-of-light guitar licks in some of this century's most bodacious Southern-fried fusion."
AllMusic wrote that the album was "relaxed, smart, fun music with big fat friendly shouter vocals from the Colonel."
Track listing
References
1993 albums
Capricorn Records albums |
Revan is a fictional Star Wars character created for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Revan may also refer to:
People
Clan Revan, a Highland Scottish clan
Given name
Revan Kelly (born 1999), Sri Lankan cricketer
Revan Nath, the 7th or 8th Navnath
Revan Nurianto (born 2002), Indonesian football winger
Surname
Dominic Revan (born 2000), English football defender
Other uses
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, 2011 novel part of the Star Wars expanded universe
See also
Revans (disambiguation) |
Florence Victoria Lucas (October 10, 1915 – September 6, 1987) was an American lawyer and state official. She was president of the Jamaica, Queens branch of the NAACP in the 1950s and 1960s, and was Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights from 1972 to 1975. She was the first Black woman elected to the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church.
Early life
Lucas was born in New York City, the daughter of Charles Lucas and Maybelle L. Hunter Lucas. She graduated from John Adams High School, Hunter College, and Brooklyn Law School in 1939.
Career
In 1940, Lucas was the first Black woman from Queens admitted to the New York bar. In 1941 she worked in the Office of Price Administration (OPA) in Washington, D.C. After World War II she returned to New York and had a private law practice in Queens from 1954 to 1966. She was appointed to the state Human Rights Commission in 1966, and was deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights from 1972 until she retired from government work in 1975. In the late 1970s and 1980s she was a consultant on affirmative action programs.
Lucas was active in the Queens County Women's Bar Association, the Urban League, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the National Council of Negro Women. She was president of the Jamaica branch of the NAACP from 1953, and held statewide offices in the organization as well. In 1957, she ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the City Council. She was director of the Samuel Huntington Community Center in South Jamaica. She served on the board of trustees of Marymount Manhattan College, and received an honorary doctorate from Marymount Manhattan College in 1986. She was the first Black woman elected to the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church.
Lucas enjoyed music as a hobby. She founded and directed a girls' choir at Brooks Memorial Methodist Church. In 1960, she and Arlein Ford Straw wrote "Two Songs for Freedom".
Personal life
Lucas married twice. She had a son in the 1940s with her first husband. She died from cancer in September 1987, aged 71 years, at her home in the Rosedale neighborhood of Queens. She was survived by her second husband, D. Rex Edwards, and adopted two children.
References
External links
Freda Bein Muldoon, Remembering Florence Victoria Lucas, Civil Rights Pioneer: An Authorized Biography (2021), a self-published biography by Lucas's daughter.
Florence V. Lucas, "Ending Discrimination: Positive Approaches for Government" The Catholic Lawyer 15(1969): 189–208.
1915 births
1987 deaths
American women lawyers
Hunter College alumni
Brooklyn Law School alumni
People from Jamaica, Queens |
Černí baroni is a 1992 Czechoslovak comedy film.
Černí baroni may also refer to:
Černí baroni (book), a satirical novel written by Miloslav Švandrlík
Černí baroni (TV series), a Czech television series that aired in 2004 |
"Pixelated and Afraid" is the twelveth episode of the thirty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 718th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on February 27, 2022. The episode was directed by Chris Clements and written by John Frink.
Plot
Lisa and Bart hold an intervention after feeling that Homer and Marge are stuck in a cringe-worthy relationship rut devoid of romance, so Homer and Marge reluctantly agree to go to a resort for couples in the wilderness with no technology or modern entertainment. But when an icy road results in a car crash, Homer and Marge find themselves lost in the frigid woodlands fighting for survival against the elements.
Reception
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4 out of 5 stars stating, "Some of this development is almost un-Homer-like. He is a little too competent in the wild. You get the idea he may have taken that crayon out of his nose again. He has the capacity to understand Marge has all the real solutions, and still finds a way to go a step further, by making sure she has matching rugs on her feet at the end of the episode. What Bart and Lisa see, when they look at Homer and Marge toss diaper bags into taco bins, is a couple who have given up. The wolverine scene proves it was all an exercise, like the “wax on, wax off,” lessons in Karate Kid."
Marcus Gibson of Bubbleblabber gave the episode a 7.5 out of 10 stating, "This is one of the episodes that don’t rely heavily on slapstick and concentrate on telling the story. The writers attempt to have Homer and Marge working together to survive against the wild and the deadly wolverine while providing a message about the beauty of the great outdoors. We also see more of Homer being a caring husband for Marge instead of a careless grouch like in some previous episodes, which is great for people who needed a break from his negligent attitude. The result is far from perfect, but it is as attractive as the couple’s spark regardless."
References
External links
2022 American television episodes
The Simpsons (season 33) episodes
Television episodes about organized crime |
A terrestrial cable is a communications cable which crosses land, rather than water. Terrestrial cable may be subterranean (buried) or aerial (suspended from poles), and may be fiber or copper. The term "terrestrial cable" is principally used to distinguish it from submarine cable, although some overlap exists between the two.
Major terrestrial cable systems include the Europe-Persia Express Gateway and the family of Eurasia terrestrial cable networks.
See also
Aerial cable
Utility pole
Undergrounding
Direct-buried cable
List of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa
References
External links
Eurasia terrestrial cable networks
The Operation of Cross-Border Terrestrial Fibre-Optic Networks in Asia and the Pacific
Signal cables
Optical telecommunications cables
Telecommunications equipment
History of telecommunications |
USS PCE-869 was a for the United States Navy during World War II. She was renamed ROCS Yong Xing (PCE-42) and ROCS Wei Yuan (PCE-68) after being acquired by the Republic of China Navy on 28 August 1945.
Construction and career
PCE-869 was laid down by Albina Engineer & Machine Works, Portland on 2 September 1942 and launched on 6 February 1943. She was commissioned on 19 September 1943.
After the war on 28 August 1945, she was transferred to the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Yong Xing (PCE-42). ROCS Yung Shun (AM-44) and Yong Xing passed through the Gatun locks, Panama Canal, on 21 April 1946, flying Chinese flags, but still wearing U.S. Navy hull numbers. Yongxing Island was the namesake of the ship.
In October 1946, Yong Xing was led by Lin Zun and Yao Ruyu, together with the Tai Ping, Chung Chien and Chung Yeh ships, to the South China Sea to receive and station in the Xisha and Nansha Islands. The ship was incorporated into the 1st Fleet of Coastal Defense, participated in the civil war, and successively shelled the liberated areas and bombed the 228 incident on the coasts of Shandong, Guangdong and other places, as well as major ports in Hainan Island and Taiwan.
Captain Lu Weiyuan commander of Yong Xing, a graduate of the Qingdao Maritime Academy, was a person trusted by the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Gui Yongqing. Lin Cheng, a staff member of the CPC Shanghai Bureau's Rebellion Committee, instigated Navigation Officer Chen Wanbang (the 12th Navigation Class of Mawei Sea School) and Quartermaster Zhu Jigang to lead them to organize medical officers, a sergeant, a marine corporal, two telecommunication soldiers, two or three gun and artillery soldiers were planning to join the Chinese Communist Party. At the end of April 1949, Yong Xing was ordered to set off from Wusongkou in Shanghai to patrol the Jiangyin area. On May 1, 1949, when sailing to Baimaosha outside the mouth of Shihe, Taicang County, Jiangsu Province, Chen Wanbang directed the insurgents to make a sudden action.
On September 1, 1949, to commemorate the death of the former captain, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Weiyuan, the ship was renamed as Wei Yuan, and the number was PCE-42 after the reorganization. In 1965, the Navy added the escort patrol ship and the minesweeper to different fleets, so the number was changed to PCE-68, decommissioned in 1971.
From March to May 1964, in order to build the airfield on Dongsha Island, the Navy's 62 task force composed the Wei Yuan, Mei Chen, and Mei Song 3 ships into the 62.9 task force, Wei Yuan as the flagship, and the logistics fleet commander Rear Admiral Qian Huaiyuan. He also serves as the detachment leader, implements the Tamjiang No. 2 Project, and transports materials for the construction of the airfield.
References
PCE-842-class patrol craft
Ships built in Portland, Oregon
1943 ships
Maritime incidents in 1949
Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Republic of China Navy |
Georgios Filippidis () was a Greek politician and landowner.
Biography
He was born in Milies, Pelion, was the son of Argyros Filippidis and descended from a wealthy and family of the area. He was president of the community of Milies.
He was elected member of parliament for Larisa, with the support People's Party in the 1932 election and was reelected for Volos in 1933, and for Larisa again in 1935 and 1946.
References
MPs of Larissa
People from Milies
Greek MPs 1932–1933
Greek MPs 1933–1935
Greek MPs 1935–1936
Greek MPs 1946–1950 |
Bamford is a civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Bamford, and is otherwise rural. The listed buildings consist of a farmhouse and two associated barns, a bridge, and two churches with associated structures.
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Buildings
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Sources
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Lists of listed buildings in Derbyshire |
is a mountain on the border between Chichibu, Saitama and Kawakami, Nagano in the Okuchichibu Mountains of Japan. At a height of , it is the highest point in Saitama.
References
Sanpo
Sanpo |
"Back to the Cold War" is the fourth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 315th episode overall of the series, it is scheduled to premiere on Comedy Central in the United States on March 2, 2022.
References
South Park (season 25) episodes |
A diffusion tube is a scientific device that passively samples the concentration of one or more gases in the air, commonly used to monitor average air pollution levels over a period ranging from days to about a month. Diffusion tubes are widely used by local authorities for monitoring air quality in urban areas, in citizen science pollution-monitoring projects carried out by community groups and schools, and in indoor environments such as mines and museums.
Construction and operation
A diffusion tube consists of a small, hollow, usually transparent, acrylic or polypropylene plastic tube, roughly 70mm long, with a cap at each end. One of the caps (coloured white) is either completely removed to activate the tube (in the case of nitrogen dioxide sampling) or contains a filter allowing in just the gas being studied. The other cap (a different colour) contains metal mesh discs coated with a chemical reagent that absorbs the gas being studied as it enters the tube. Tubes that work this way are also known as Palmes tubes after their inventor, American chemist Edward Palmes, who described using such a tube as a personal air quality sensor in 1976.
During operation, the tube is opened and vertically fastened with cable ties to something like a lamp-post or road sign, with the open end facing down, and the closed, coloured cap at the top. The gas being monitored, which is at a higher concentration in the atmosphere, diffuses into the bottom of the tube and is quickly absorbed by the chemical cap. Since it's absorbed, the process of diffusion continues. After a fixed period of time (typically from two weeks to a month), the tube is sealed up and sent away to a laboratory for analysis. The atmospheric concentration of the gas being studied can be calculated using the amount captured and Fick's laws of diffusion.
Diffusion tubes can be used to sample various different gases, including oxides of nitrogen (nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide), sulphur dioxide, ammonia, and ozone. Although tubes sampling these gases all work through the same process of molecular diffusion, there are important differences. Nitrogen dioxide tubes use triethanolamine, TEA, as the absorbing (reagant) chemical, for example, while hydrogen sulphide tubes are opaque (rather than transparent) to prevent ultraviolet light from degrading the chemicals inside. Some types of tube can sample multiple gases at the same time.
Advantages and disadvantages
Diffusion tubes are reasonably accurate, relatively cheap, easy to use, extremely compact, passive (they need no power source), and have a fairly long shelf life; with careful positioning, they can be deployed more or less anywhere, indoors or outdoors. They give a reasonable indication of the long-term, average concentration of a pollutant gas, such as nitrogen dioxide, and they make it easy to compare average pollution levels in different places or at different times. Often, a series of tubes are mounted in exactly the same place for consecutive months of the year to enable longer-term comparisons of pollution levels. It's also common for local authorities to mount a number of tubes in different places over the same time period so pollution hotspots in towns and cities can be identified.
Since diffusion tubes are designed to be left in place for days or weeks at a time, they don't indicate shorter-term fluctuations of the pollutant being studied, such as the rising and falling levels of gas during the day, the difference between one day and the next or between weekdays and weekends, or the number of times guideline pollution levels are exceeded while they're in place. They're also much less accurate than the highly sensitive, automated monitoring equipment used in roadside pollution monitoring cabins. Sources of inaccuracy include air turbulence (caused by things like wind movements or air conditioners), pollution from building ventilation systems, ultraviolet light (theoretically absorbed by the plastic tube), and other pollutants.
References
Air pollution
Measuring instruments |
Irene Cortes (born 1979) is a filmmaker and artist.
Biography
Irene was born in 1979.
She has been exhibiting artist and filmmaker for more than 18 years active filmmaker and has been making films for more than 18 years. Most of her work is related to tackling climate change and she calls her style of filmmaking "building film". Her films have been exhibited in Dieselverkstaden, Sweden; Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin; RufXXX, Seoul; Spin Gallery, Toronto. Her sculptures are at display at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Sustainability, Spain.
As an author, her books have been published in Asian countries.
Work
Nowhere Here Now
The Gata: Water Ceremony
Awards and recognition
For The Luminous Landscape (2019)
References
Filmmakers |
Jude Nzochukwu Njoku better known as Jude Njoku is a Nigerian professor of Agricultural economics. He served as the 4th Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri from 2000 to 2005.
References
Nigerian academics
Igbo academics
Vice-Chancellors of Federal University of Technology Owerri
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Owerri |
TB2 may refer to:
Baykar Bayraktar TB2, unmanned combat aerial vehicle
Polikarpov TB-2, Soviet bomber prototype
.tb2, file suffix; see Tar (computing)#Suffixes for compressed files |
The Gardner Swamp Wildlife Area is a tract of protected land located in Door County, Wisconsin, managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Land to be used for the Wildlife Area was first acquired in 1958, and the master plan for the Wildlife Area was completed in 1980.
Gardner Swamp
The swamp for which the Wildlife Area is named after has several different types of land covering it. Land cover types include Upland Broad-leaved Deciduous Forest, Upland Grass, Open Wetland/Marsh, Shrub Wetland, and the most commonly found, Forested Wetland, which covers , or 38% of the entire Wildlife Area. When the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) began to consolidate parcels of the swamp into a , hunters and landowners in the area were supportive of the actions as the area would frequently flood due to beavers constructing dams along the Keyes Creek, a river that bisects the Wildlife Area.
Flora and Fauna
The above-mentioned river, Keyes Creek, in addition to bisecting the Wildlife Area, is also classified as a Class II Trout Stream, and is used as a spawning ground for Northern pike and White sucker. In addition to varied species of fish that can be found in Keyes Creek, the Wildlife Area is home to various waterfowl, deer, beaver, woodcock, shorebirds, and the occasional bald eagle.
The Wildlife Area is also home to the critically endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly.
See also
Hine's emerald dragonfly
Sturgeon Bay
Swamp
References
External Links
U.S. Geological Survey Map at the U.S. Geological Survey Map Website. Retrieved February 28th, 2022.
Biodiversity in Selected Natural Communities Related to Global Climate Change Report at the Focus Energy Website. Retrieved March 1st, 2022.
State Wildlife Area
Protected areas of Wisconsin
Geography of Door County, Wisconsin
Protected areas established in 1980 |
TB3 may refer to:
Baykar Bayraktar TB3, unmanned combat aerial vehicle
Tupolev TB-3, Soviet monoplane heavy bomber |
The Kennedy House (also Joshua Kennedy House or Kennedy-Cox House, and formerly known as Barnwell-Mitchell House) at 607 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama, was built by local landowner Joshua Kennedy, Jr in 1857.
Description
It is a stuccoed brick two storey townhouse with monumental columns at the front, bracketed eaves, and arched windows. The building was catalogued for the Historic American Building Survey of Alabama, HABS AL-800, and photographed by Jack Boucher; at the time the notes were typed for the survey, in 1979, the building was also called "Barnwell-Mitchell House". The HABS documentation described it thusly: Brick with stucco scored to simulate ashlar, rectangular (three-bay front) with long offset rear wing, two stories, gable roof with single cross-gable, wide bracketed eaves, full-height pedimented four-column portico reflecting transition between Classic Revival and Italianate, arched openings with hood molds, bay window on W side, L-shaped wooden gallery in rear; side hall plan, ornate interior woodwork, curved stair with statuary niche, denticulated plaster cornice; notable cast-iron fence. Built 1857 for wealthy local merchant; later Seamen's Bethel; American Legion headquarters since 1947; later addition to rear wing. Outstanding local example of late ante-bellum architectural eclecticism, 4 ext. photos (1963), 2 int. photos (1963).
Joshua Kennedy (who died fighting for the Confederate Army near Richmond, Virginia in 1862.) and his descendants lived there until 1923, after which for two decades it was the Merchant Navy Club of the Seamen's Church Institute of Mobile (colloquially the "Seamen's Bethel"). It was renovated by the American Legion Post #3, which earned the Legion an award in 1950 from the Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the house a listing in the 1963 Historical American Buildings Survey, but had fallen into disrepair by 2012.
Mobile's 1857 Foundation, with financial support from one of Mobile's mystic societies, renovated the house (for $2 million) in the 2010s; it reopened in 2020.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
See also
Church Street East Historic District
External links
— Photo gallery, with images before and after the renovation
Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama
Houses in Mobile, Alabama |
The Hotel Pasaje was located on Paseo del Prado between San José and Dragones, facing the National Capitol.
History
Before the Havana walls were torn down, a partial map shows the site of the Villanueva railway the site of the National Capitol and the site of the Pasaje hotel before the plots were subdivided.
The Hotel Pasaje was the oldest in the Las Murallas neighborhood. Located in block No. 14 of said urbanization, it was part of the construction of the area in the 1870s. Mr. Pedro Gutiérrez Castillo was the first private owner of all these plots, on October 9, 1874 he bought, for 250,000 pesetas, plots No. 6 and 7: Lot No. 6 located towards Prado Street and No. 7 towards Zulueta. Later, in that same year, it also acquired plots Nos. 4 and 5 of this block. Each of the portions measured 670 m. Villanueva Station and Campo de Marte in the early years of the 20th century. In the background, the buildings erected on the sites mentioned Villanueva Station and Campo de Marte in the early years of the 20th century. In the background, the buildings erected on the sites mentioned Despite the meticulous layout of the grounds, the hotel did not emerge as a single building but was the result of the addition of several farms and the incorporation of an existing passage in the block from earlier times. Added to this are the purchase and sale actions of said lots and the changes of owners. Thus, Emilio Reyling and Arcadio Sequeira are the ones who begin to manufacture independent buildings, but with some common uses and linked to the passage. Essential for the study of Las Murallas is the work of the historian Carlos Venegas Fornias The urbanization of the walls: dependency and modernity (1990), and for the Hotel Pasaje, the (unpublished) research by Patricia Andino Díaz Historical Study Sala Polivalente Kid Chocolate, former Hotel Pasaje (2015). In this last work, the previous presence of this opening in the block is revealed, when many might think that the hotel was built from the beginning with the same concept of commercial galleries crossing a block and that at the time they were very fashionable in Europe. . Andino similarly exposes the existence, in the National Archives of Cuba, of Book 99 of the Old Mortgage Registry, where it is detailed that lot No. 4 of block 14 was "crossed by the urban railway track whose translation is agreed to Central Street”, that is, Zulueta Street.
Built in 1871, the Hotel Passage was the first building to be built in Cuba dedicated to the hotel industry. Up to that time, the usual thing was to adapt the existing buildings for this function.
Gallery
The name of the Hotel Pasajere received its name from the gallery that crossed the site of the building from the Prado to Calle Zulueta. The ceiling of this gallery was covered with glass, which facilitated the lighting of the commercial establishments that were established on both sides, The gallery made the hotel a popular place for Havanans of the time.
Nationalization
By the late 1950S, the Hotel Pasajet was still considered a fine hotel, however, it was no longer the exclusive establishment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the 1920s until the end of the Republic, its clientele was made up of business travelers, budget-conscious visitors, and some families who rented rooms for long periods of time. However, the management managed to survive all the tourism crises in Cuba and the Pasaje hotel continued to offer services uninterruptedly until its nationalization by the Cuban government after the triumph of the 1959 Revolution.
The front of the Hotel Passage faced the Paseo del Prado; the rear went to Calle Zulueta, between the aforementioned roads and with access to both streets, ran a gallery or passage covered with an iron and glass structure and that accommodated several commercial and service establishments, among these are the publishing house “Flérida Galante”, of pornographic books. This passage gave the hotel its name. A few meters from the Central Park and next to the Payret theater, became one of the most representative urban places in Havana.
Gallery
See also
Hotel Perla de Cuba, Havana
El Capitolio
Havana
Notes
References
External links
Demolición “a la cubana” en la Habana Vieja
Buildings and structures in Havana
Neoclassical architecture in Cuba
Architecture in Havana
History of Havana
Demolished buildings and structures in Cuba |
The Old Town Hall is a former events venue in Bridge Street, Loddon, Norfolk, England. The structure, which is currently occupied for commercial use, is a grade II listed building.
History
In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a company to raise funds for the erection of an events venue in the town: the site they selected on the west side of Bridge Street was owned by an individual, James Copeman, from whom they bought it for £30. The building was designed in the Jacobean style, built in red brick and was completed in time for the first court hearing on 10 August 1870.
The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Bridge Street with the outer bays projected forward as pavilions; the central bay featured a round headed doorway flanked by banded pilasters supporting a modillioned canopy while the outer bays contained mullioned and transomed bay windows with ornate parapets above. All three bays were surmounted by Dutch gables containing oculli and, in the case of the outer bays, decorated with finials. Internally, the principal room was the main assembly hall.
Petty session hearings were held in the building once a fortnight in the 19th century. The building was used for various public events including political meetings and, in March 1923, the first-class cricketer and local member of parliament, Michael Falcon, gave a speech there: Falcon lost his seat at the general election nine months later. During the Second World War, the building served as a civil defence report centre, as a recruiting post for ARP staff and as a first aid post; it also acted as an administration centre for children evacuated from London to families in the Norfolk area.
After the war the use of the building as an events venue declined and it was sold for commercial use: the company that had originally developed it was wound up in the 1960s. Following local government re-organisation in 1974, the building also became the offices of the local parish council. By the early 21st century part of the building was in use as a tourist information centre, but it also accommodated a local hairdressing salon. A programme of works to convert three of its rooms into additional guest accommodation for an adjacent public house, The Swan, was completed in August 2017.
References
Government buildings completed in 1870
City and town halls in Norfolk
Loddon, Norfolk
Grade II listed buildings in Norfolk |
This article is about the small settlement, for the Township see Rooks Creeks Township
Rooks Creek is a small hamlet in Rooks Creek Township, Livingston County, Illinois. The hamlet is served by the Pontiac, Il mail service and shares a Pontiac address.
History
What little that's left is a grain elevator owned by Graymont Grain Co-op since 1990, and a house. The elevator sits along the alignment of a former Illinois Central line that was closed on December 1, 1981 and removed later.
Livingston County, Illinois |
The 2022 Uruguayan Segunda División is the season of second division professional of football in Uruguay. A total of 12 teams competed; the top two teams and the winner of the Championship play-offs were promoted to the Uruguayan Primera División.
Club information
Torneo Competencia
Group A
Group B
Promotion Playoffs
Semi-finals
First Leg
Second Leg
Finals
Relegation
Reference
See also
2022 in Uruguayan football
Uruguayan Segunda División seasons
2 |
Tarik Kopty (, ; 20 August 1944 – 24 February 2022) was an Arab-Israeli actor. He acted in multiple films which appeared at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kopty died in Nazareth on 24 February 2022, at the age of 77.
Filmography
The Barbecue People (2003)
The Gospel According to God (2004)
The Syrian Bride (2004)
The Band's Visit (2007)
The Little Traitor (2007)
Lemon Tree (2008)
Pillars of Smoke (2009)
(2010)
Inheritance (2012)
Zaytoun (2012)
Omar (2013)
Bethlehem (2013)
A Borrowed Identity (2014)
References
1944 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Israeli actors
21st-century Israeli actors
Arab citizens of Israel
People from Nazareth |
Lloyd John O'Neil AM (17 July 1928 - 27 February 1992) was an Australian publisher. He was involved with a number of different publishing firms and imprints during his career. He served as president of the Australian Book Publishers Association from 1969 to 1971.
Early life
O'Neil was born in Melbourne on 17 July 1928, the son of Eunice Ellen (née Lloyd) and Louis Joseph O'Neil. His father was a wool classer and his mother was a professional pianist. He attended Caulfield Grammar School until 1944.
Career
After leaving school, O'Neil moved to Sydney and began working with Angus & Robertson as a buyer, becoming head of art books. He left Angus & Robertson in 1951 and the following year joined Cassell as a travelling salesman. Settling in Brisbane, in 1955 he was recruited by bookseller Brian Clouston to run schoolbook publisher Jacaranda Press. He left Jacaranda in 1959 and moved back to Melbourne to establish his own company, Lansdowne Press.
In December 1967, O'Neil was appointed by the McEwen government as deputy chairman of the newly created National Literature Board of Review, to advise the Minister for Customs and Excise on literary censorship.
O'Neil reportedly published "more than 1000 Australian titles" during his career.
Personal life
O'Neil married Janet Twigg-Patterson in 1953, with whom he had four daughters. The couple separated in 1973 and divorced in 1978. The following year, he married fellow publisher Anne O'Donovan, with whom he had a son and a daughter. His youngest child Clare O'Neil was elected to federal parliament in 2013, while another daughter Helen O'Neil has served as executive director of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and on the board of the Film Finance Corporation Australia.
O'Neil was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 1987. He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1991 and died on 27 February 1992 at the age of 63. Following his death, the ABPA established the Lloyd O'Neil Award in his honour, to be presented at the Australian Book Industry Awards for "exceptional long service to the industry".
References
1928 births
1992 deaths
People from Melbourne
People educated at Caulfield Grammar School
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Members of the Order of Australia |
Mohsen Baharvand is an Iranian diplomat who served as ambassador of Iran to United Kingdom from July 2021 to February 2022.
References
Living people
Iranian diplomats
Ambassadors of Iran to the United Kingdom |
The Ground Master 200 (GM200) is a medium range radar manufactured by Thales Group.
The GM200 simultaneously tracks a wide variety of threats from low Radar Cross Section (RCS), low flying (cruise missiles), very low velocities targets such as Class 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or pop-up combat helicopters to high diving, coming in large numbers and high velocities threats.
The system fits in a 20 ft ISO shelter and weighs less than ten tons. It includes power generator unit, mast, and room for 2 workstations with a set of radio voice and data communications. The GM200 is transportable by road, rail, tactical aircraft (C-130 type) or helicopter. The GM200 can be set up in 15 minutes and be operated remotely or locally.
The GM200 can be deployed in a variety of roles, such as gap filler, protection of high-value asset or sensor of an air defence system.
This radar is part of the Ground Master family (like GM400α, GM60, GM200 MM/A & MM/C) which has been selected more than 200 times by many countries.
Main characteristics
Detection domain
Instrumented range:
250 km Surveillance
100 km Engagement
Ceiling: up to 80,000 feet
Elevation coverage: 70°
Key Features
Update rate: up to 1.5s
S-Band
Artificial Intelligence inspired algorithms
Electronic Counter Counter Measures (ECCM) capabilities
Full digital stacked beam
Full doppler waveforms
GaN Technology
Detection Performances
Air Breathing Targets (ABTs)
Helicopters (including hovering during pop-up phase)
Cruise Missiles (CMs)
Sea surface targets
Rockets
Artillery and Mortars
UAV from Class I (Mini) up to Class IV (HALE).
References
Ground radars
Thales Group
Military radars of France |
Taqueria Los Puñales is a queer-owned and operated Mexican restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Description
Taqueria Los Puñales is a queer-owned and operated Mexican restaurant on Belmont Street southeast Portland's Sunnyside neighborhood. Named after a gay slur which the business' owners have reclaimed, Brooke Jackson-Glidden of Eater Portland has described Taqueria Los Puñales as "vocally and transparently queer", and Mey Rude of Out Traveler has called the restaurant "unapologetically queer".
The Oregonian's Michael Russell has described the restaurant as "friendly" and "colorful". The interior features prints by queer Mexican artist Felix d'Eon, framed portraits of Mariah Carey, Verónica Castro, Gia Gunn, and Marsha P. Johnson, pennants, and photographs of RuPaul.
The menu includes more than 20 taco options as well as adobada, barbacoa, chile rellenos, guisados, tinga, and house-made tortillas. Drink options include beer, cocktails, margaritas, agua fresca, and Jarritos.
History
Friends Brian Aster and David Madrigal opened the restaurant in June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Branding and lettering were completed by trans indigenous artist Kennedy Barrera-Cruz and local lesbian artist Shelbee Smith, respectively. According to Out Traveler's Mey Rude, Taqueria Los Puñales is the first and only gay taqueria operating in North America, as of 2020. Sometimes staff distribute stickers which say "Gay Tacos".
Reception
In 2020, Katherine Chew Hamilton of Portland Monthly called the restaurant a "standout" of the year and wrote, "Taqueria Los Puñales makes some of the best tacos I've had in Portland—I particularly love the choripapas and the barbacoa." Tuck Woodstock and Hamilton included the taqueria in the magazine's 2021 overview of the city's "very best" tacos. Karen Brooks and Hamilton also included Taqueria Los Puñales in the magazine's 2022 list of the city's 50 best restaurants.
Seiji Nanbu and Brooke Jackson-Glidden included the business in Eater Portland's 2021 list of "15 Outstanding Taco Spots in Portland". The duo said, "Los Puñales has easily become a staple taqueria in Portland... While the classic guisados here are great, the beauty of Los Puñales lies in the more unconventional fillings like the garlicky steak al pesto and fried Chile relleno." In 2021, Bill Oakley said Taqueria Los Puñales was his favorite taco restaurant in Portland.
See also
List of Mexican restaurants
References
External links
2020 establishments in Oregon
LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon
Mexican restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Queer culture
Restaurants established in 2020
Sunnyside, Portland, Oregon |
Shamao Mountain (), also called Mount Shamao, is a mountain located in Yangmingshan, in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Located on the Tatun Volcano Group, it stands at 643 m and a parasitic volcano of Qixing Mountain. Shamao Mountain is a round volcanic dome that looks like a black gauze cap. As the lava was more viscous when the mountain was formed, it gradually became a tholoid.
References
Volcanoes of Taiwan
Mountains of Taiwan
Dormant volcanoes
Landforms of Taipei |
Jai Rup Singh is former Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and the founder Vice-Chancellor of Central University of Punjab, Bathinda.
Career
He has written more than 90 research publications and delivered over 60 invited talks internationally and represented many national and international academic bodies. His significant research contribution is in genetics of eye diseases, diabetes and population disease profiling.
Books
References
Living people
Central University of Punjab faculty
20th-century Indian educational theorists
20th-century Indian educators
Heads of universities and colleges in India |
Oruthee is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by V. K. Prakash. Produced by KV Abdul Nazar under the banner of Benzy Productions, the screenplay of the film was written by S. Suresh Babu. Marking her return to Malayalam cinema after eight years, Navya Nair plays Radhamani, a middle-class woman who "has to face unforeseen circumstances that occur to her in a span of three days". Oruthee also features Vinayakan and Saiju Kurup in major supporting roles. The cinematography of the film was done by Jimshi Khalid and was edited by Lijo Paul. Gopi Sundar and the band Thakara composed the soundtrack, with lyrics written by B. K. Harinarayanan, Alankode Leelakrishnan, and Abru Manoj.
Cast
Navya Nair as Radhamani
Vinayakan as Sub Inspector Antony
Saiju Kurup
KPAC Lalitha
Santhosh Keezhattoor
Vyshakh
Kalabhavan Haneef
Sreedevi Varma
Filming
Oruthee commenced principal photography in January 2020. The filming was concluded in one schedule on March, carried out primarily at Kochi.
Release
The film is scheduled to release on 11 March 2022.
Accolades
References
Indian films
Indian thriller films
Upcoming films |
"Polladha Ulagam" is a song featured in the soundtrack of the Tamil language action thriller film Maaran, directed by Karthick Naren. Starring Dhanush and Malavika Mohanan in the lead roles, the film is produced by T. G. Thiagarajan under his production company Sathya Jyothi Films. The track is composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar, while Dhanush and Arivu, the latter who wrote the lyrics sang the song. The song received positive reviews from critics and became the most viewed Tamil song.
Release
The single was released on 26 January 2022. The track was released as a video song on YouTube, the same day.
Records
The song garnered 7.8 million views within 24 hours, until the record was broken by "Arabic Kuthu" a song from the Tamil film Beast starring Vijay sung by Anirudh Ravichander and Jonita Gandhi with the latter composing the music for that film.
Music video
The track is choreographed by Jani Master in his first collaboration with actor Dhanush.
Reception
The song received positive responses among audiences appreciating Dhanush's impressive dance moves for the number, which was released on Wednesday night, thrilled fans, with over 73,000 people and became the most viewed
Tamil song in the year 2022.
References
External links
2022 songs
Indian songs
Tamil film songs
Tamil-language songs |
Geesiena Jacoba "Sienie" Strikwerda (née van Klinken; 7 November 1921 – 23 June 2013) was a Dutch educator, feminist, and anti–nuclear weapons activist. She served as chairperson of the , the national committee against nuclear cruise missiles. On 29 October 1983, the committee organised a demonstration of 550,000 people which was the largest demonstration in the history of the Netherlands. In 1985, she offered Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, a petition with 3.7 million signatures. She served in the Provincial Council of North Holland between 1991 and 1995.
Biography
Van Klinken was born on 7 November 1921 in Musselkanaal, Netherlands. In the 1930s, the family moved to Leeuwarden where she spend her youth. In May 1940, she obtained her teaching degree with a specialisation in English. She worked as a nurse in the , a hospital in Amsterdam. In 1944, she met Pé Strikwerda and became pregnant. The couple later married, however she needed a note from her father for her release from the hospital, and it marked her beginning as a feminist.
In 1946, Strikwerda joined the Nederlandse Christen Vrouwenbond (Dutch Christian Women Union). In the mid-1960s, she worked in the catechesis of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1969, she started teaching religion and social history in high schools. In 1971, she became the Chairperson of the Nederlandse Christen Vrouwenbond, and served until 1976. During her tenure, she was an activist for abortion, birth control, and the acceptance of homosexuality.
Anti-nuclear weapons activist
In 1979, Strikwerda joined Vrouwen tegen Kernwapens (Women against Nuclear Weapons). On 6 December 1979, a demonstration of approximately 10,000 women was organised against the deployment of 48 nuclear cruise missiles in the Netherlands. The group marched to the Binnenhof, the seat of the States General of the Netherlands, and Strikwerda climbed on a vehicle to address the crowd.
On 21 November 1981, a large demonstration against nuclear weapons was organised in Amsterdam. The demonstration was attended by 400,000 to 450,000 people, and was organised by the (Interdenominational Peace Council) in collaboration with political parties, unions, and peace groups. A better organisational structure was needed, and in 1982, the Komitee Kruisraketten Nee () was established with Strikwerda as chairperson.
On 29 October 1983, the Committee Cruise Missiles No organised a demonstration in The Hague which was attended by 550,000 people, and was the largest demonstration in the history of the Netherlands. More than 3,000 buses arrived in The Hague, and the Dutch railways scheduled 120 extra trains. After the demonstration, the doors at Den Haag Centraal railway station were kept closed and people were let in piecemeal to prevent overcrowding. There were no incidents, and only 16 arrests from a counter-demonstration.
Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers announced on television that decisions were not made by the size of a demonstration, but by the majority in parliament. To further pressure the government, a petition was organised. In 1985, a petition with 3.7 million signatures was offered to Lubbers.
Despite strong opposition against nuclear weapons, the government decided to place the cruise missiles, but with a two-year delay. In 1986, Strikwerda announced her retirement as chairperson effective 3 October. On 8 December 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed which resulted in a cancellation of the cruise missiles in the Netherlands.
Later life
Strikwerda became a member of the Labour Party. In 1991, she participated in the elections for the Provincial Council of North Holland, and served until 1995.
Strikwerda died on 26 June 2013 in Amsterdam, at the age of 91.
References
1921 births
2013 deaths
People from Stadskanaal
Dutch anti–nuclear weapons activists
Dutch feminists
Members of the Provincial Council of North Holland
Dutch schoolteachers
Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians |
Professor Zahoor Ahmed Shah Almadani is A salafi Scholar and Head Of Department Arabic And Professor At Degree College, Beerwah based in Kashmir.
Shah is a graduate from Islamic University of Madeenah. He also is a former pass-out of Kulyatus Salafiyah Kashmir. He holds a bachelor's degree in Hadeeth from University of Madeenah and a master's degree in Arabic from University of Kashmir. Currently he is working as a professor in a Government Degree College Beerwah in Kashmir.
He is included in one of the Tall stalwarts of Salafism in Kashmir and Greater Himalayan Region. He is Currently working with Jamiat e Ahlihadith J&K, a socio-religious organization.
References
Living people |
Sherzod Temirov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Шерзод Темиров; born 27 October 1998) is an Uzbekistani footballer who currently plays as a left winger and striker for Persepolis.
Club
Persepolis
On 28 February 2022, Temirov signed an 18-month contract with Persian Gulf Pro League champions Persepolis.
Career statistics
International career
Temirov made his debut for the Uzbekistan national football team in a 3-0 friendly win over South Sudan on 27 January 2022 (substitute with Eldor Shomurodov in 72 minute).
Honours
Pakhtakor Tashkent
Uzbekistan Super League (1): 2021
Uzbekistan Cup (1): 2020
Uzbekistan Super Cup (1): 2021
References
External links
1998 births
Living people
Uzbekistani footballers
Uzbekistani expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Iran
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
Association football forwards
Persepolis F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Uzbekistan Super League players
FC Nasaf players
FK Mash'al Mubarek players |
Arsi Mountains National Park is a national park in Arsi Zone of Oromia Region in Ethiopia. It protects a portion of the Ethiopian Highlands, and includes montane forests, subalpine heath, and alpine grasslands and shrublands. The park was designated in 2011, and covers an area of 10876 km2.
Geography
The park encompasses the Arsi Mountains, which are part of the Ethiopian Highlands. The mountains extend northeast to southwest through the park, and form the southern wall of the African Rift Valley. Mountains in the park include Dera Dilfaqar, Mount Chilalo (4036 m), the Galama Mountains, Mount Kaka, and Hunkolo. The volcanic caldera of Mount Chilalo is the highest point in the park.
Mountain rainfall sustains numerous streams and alpine lakes. The northern slopes drain towards the Awash River, while the southern slopes are drained by headwater streams of the Shebelle River.
Bale Mountains National Park lies south of the Arsi Mountains. The upper valley of the Shebelle River separates the Arsi Mountains from the Bale Mountains.
Flora and fauna
There are three main vegetation zones in the park, generally defined by altitude.
Dry evergreen Afromontane forests predominate on the lower slopes, from 2843 to 3756 meters elevation. The dry evergreen forests are interspersed with areas of mixed plantations of native and exotic trees between 3181 and 3340 meters elevation.
Subalpine vegetation, mostly heath shrubland dominated by the shrubs Erica arborea and Erica trimera, occurs above the tree line, from 3202 to 3985 meters elevation.
Afro-alpine vegetation occurs at the highest elevations, from 3576 to 4008 meters. It made up mostly of grasses, herbs, shrubs, including species of Helichrysum and Alchemilla, interspersed with stands of the giant lobelia Lobelia rhynchopetalum, which is endemic to the Afro-alpine Ethiopian Highlands.
Wildlife in the park includes the endangered mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) and Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis). The park is home to several rare and limited-range highland rodents, including the Ethiopian striped mouse (Mus imberbis), Nikolaus's mouse (Megadendromus nikolausi), black-clawed brush-furred rat (Lophuromys melanonyx), and Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat (Lophuromys chrysopus).
Conservation and threats
Threats to the park include excessive livestock grazing, human-caused fires, and wood collection.
References
National parks of Ethiopia
Protected areas of Oromia Region
Protected areas established in 2011
2011 establishments in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Highlands |
Giorgos Lianis (; born in Amyntaio, 2 September 1942) is a Greek journalist and politician.
Biography
He was born on 2 September 1942 in Amyntaio, Florina. He is a first cousin of Dimitra Liani and nephew of the professor and minister Georgios Lianis and lieutenant general Konstantinos Lianis. He stueid in the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In his younger years he was a football player for G.S. Iraklis in the Super League.
He was a main witness in the trial of the perpetrators of the junta submitting important documents and recorded talks he had acquired, with evidence against Georgios Papadopoulos, Ioannis Ladas and Dimitrios Ioannidis.
He was elected member of parliament of Florina with PASOK in June 1989 and reelected in November 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2009. He served as Deputy Minister of Sport in the Ministry of Culture during 1993 – 1996 and 2002 – 2004.
On 14 June 2011 he left the parliamentary group of PASOK, refusing to vote the medium-term consolidation program for the Greek economy.
References
Sources
Giorgos Lianis' biography in Eleutherotypia
External links
Giorgos Lianis, biography and personal articles on Aixmi.gr
Greek writers
Greek journalists
1942 births
Living people
People from Amyntaio
Greek MPs 1989 (June–November)
Greek MPs 1989–1990
Greek MPs 1990–1993
Greek MPs 1993–1996
Greek MPs 1996–2000
Greek MPs 2000–2004
Greek MPs 2004–2007
Greek MPs 2007–2009
Greek MPs 2009–2012 |
Squatinactis is a genus of extinct elasmobranch Chondrichthyes known from the Carboniferous aged Bear gulch limestone in Montana. This fish was discovered in 1974 by Richard lund. The type specimen, named CMNH 46133, consists of a brain case, poorly preserved jaws and gills, a pectoral fin, and a partial vertebral axis. This creatures most startling feature were its broad pectoral fins which resembled those of Stingrays and Angel sharks (Squatina). The holotype specimen has about 15 teeth in its jaw. This creature is named after the angel shark. Teeth found in Derbyshire, England have been tentatively identified as those belonging to S. caudispinatus.
Classification
Because of the bizarre nature of Squatinactis, it is somewhat difficult to classify. In the original study conducted in 1974, Lund noted that the teeth of this fish are Cladodont is design. This doesn't really help however, as the term ´´Cladodont´´ is used to describe most paleozoic Chondrichthyeans based on their teeth and not phylogeny (including Cladoselache, Ctenacanthus, and Dracopristis). This fish is currently classed within the Elasmobranchii, more specially in its own grouping, the Squatinactiformes.
References
Extinct fish
Species described in 1974 |
This is a list of famous roads, streets and avenues in and around Dhaka.
Airport Road
B. K. Dash Road
Bailey Road
Bangabandhu Avenue
Indira Road
Jashimuddin Avenue
Madani Avenue
Mirpur Road
Nawabpur Road
New Elephant road
Panthapath
Purbachal Expressway
Rishikesh Das Road
Sat Masjid Road
Sonargaon Janapath Road
References
Dhaka-related lists
Dhaka |
The Antonov AKS was a Soviet proposed mother ship aircraft intended to carry the Tupolev OOS air-launch-to-orbit spaceplane. It was to consist of two Antonov An-225 fuselages connected by a conjoined wing.
Design and development
Designed in the 1980s, the AKS was a twin-fuselage design consisting of two An-225 fuselages, with the OOS to be carried under the raised center wing. Multiple engine configurations were proposed, ranging from 18 Progress D-18T turbofans to as many as 40 engines, with placements both above and below the wings. An alternative design for the AKS was to use entirely new fuselages, each with a single tail.
The AKS was deemed unfeasible, and no prototypes were ever built.
Specifications (18-engined AKS)
See also
References
Antonov aircraft
Jet aircraft
Aircraft related to spaceflight |
Olena Kysilevska (1869–1956) was a Ukrainian social activist, journalist, writer, senator (1928-1935) on behalf of the Ukrainian National Democratic Union (UNDO). Her last name is sometimes translated as Kysilewska.
Life and work
Olena was born 24 March 1869 in Monastyryska, Buchach county, Galicia, Ukraine and died 29 March 1956 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
She was born into the family of a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Fr. Lev Simenovich. She spent her childhood in the village of Filvarky (now Pidhorodne), which is now united with the town of Monastyryska. After the death of her father-priest, she entered the Vidylov School in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) in 1884. There she joined the Tovarystvo Rus'kykh Zhinok (Association of Ukrainian Women), founded in 1884 by Natalia Kobrynska, and became active in the women's movement in Galicia.
Writer
Kysilevska began publishing short stories and articles on education and women’s rights in almanacs and journals in 1910, and from 1912 she edited a women’s page in the newspaper Dilo. During World War I, she was a member of the Red Cross relief committee for prisoners of war and the wounded in Vienna, Austria. After the war she became a member of the executive of the Union of Ukrainian Women in Lviv.
For many years, (1925–1939) she published and edited the semimonthly Zhinocha dolia in Kolomyia. She traveled extensively throughout Western Europe and North America (1924), participating in the international women’s movement and organizing Ukrainian women’s organizations. Several of these trips were described in her travelogues Letters from the Black Sea Coast (1939) and Around My Native Land (1951).
Senator
Kysilevska was an active member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance and was elected to two terms in the Polish Senate (1928–1935). From 1935 on, she headed the women’s section of the Silskyi Hospodar society in Lviv.
As a result of the Second World War, Kysilevska lived as a displaced person in Northern Europe until she immigrated to Canada in 1948 to join her son Vladimir Kaye-Kysilewsky, a historian, journalist and publisher. That same year Olena was elected the first president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations, a position she held until her death.
Personal life
Kysilevska died 29 March 1956 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Archives
Kysilevska's personal archives (works of art, articles, sketches and memoirs) are held at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa as The Olena Kysilevska Collection (1985), published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Her work can also be found at Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute within the archives, HOLLIS 009497096. Correspondence found there "sheds light on the publishing activities of Olena Kysilevska, president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (1948-1956)."
References.
External links
1869 births
1956 deaths
Ukrainian women short story writers
Ukrainian short story writers
Ukrainian feminists
Ukrainian editors
19th-century Ukrainian women writers
20th-century Ukrainian women writers
19th-century Ukrainian writers
20th-century Ukrainian writers
Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Ballard was a small village located between Chenoa and Lexington, IL on the Union Pacific railroad.
History
At one point in time, Ballard had a decent population with a few businesses and homes. The last remaining marker of the settlement was The Graham and Bennion Elevator, better known to locals simply as "The Ballard elevator". The roughly 80 foot structure was demolished in 2006.
References
Villages |
Séamus Mac Mathúna (born 1945) is an Irish language and Irish literature scholar and university professor.
Biography
Séamus Mac Mathúna was born in Belfast in 1945 where he attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast. He then attended Queen's University Belfast where he obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Celtic Studies. This was followed by post-graduate research into Indo-European, Old Norse and Linguistics at the University of Zürich and the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies by Queen's University Belfast.
In 1970, he was appointed to a Lectureship in Celtic Languages and Literatures at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He then moved to a Statutory Lecturer in Modern Irish at University College, Galway in 1976. In 1980, was appointed Professor of Irish at Ulster University from which he retired in 2014.
Research
He has conducted research into Early Irish language and literature; Irish folklore; the syntax, semantics and lexicon of Irish; and Celtic links with Nordic, Slavic and Germanic cultures.
Awards
Member of the Royal Irish Academy (Vice-president 2009–13)
Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
President of Societas Celto-Slavica
Joint General Editor of the society's journal, Studia Celto-Slavica.
Publications
These are detailed in the Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Mac Mathúna, S. (1985). Immram Brain: Bran's Journey to the Land of the Women
Mac Mathúna, S. (1995). Collins Gem Irish Dictionary
Mac Mathúna, S. (1997). Collins Pocket Irish Dictionary
Mac Mathúna, S. (2007). On the Definite Article and Definite Descriptions in Irish
Mac Mathúna, S., & Corrain, A. (eds) (1997). Miscellanea Celtica in Memoriam Heinrich Wagner
Mac Mathúna, S. (2006). Parallels between Celtic and Slavic
Mac Mathúna, S. (2012). Ireland and Armenia: Studies in Language, History and Narrative
Borsje, M., Dooley, A., Mac Mathúna, S., & Toner. G. (eds) (2014). Celtic Cosmology. Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
A Festschrift in his honour was presented to him on his 75th birthday and launched at the 17th International Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica held in Uppsala on 7–10 May 2020.
References
People educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Academics of Ulster University
Members of the Royal Irish Academy
Irish lexicographers
Translators from Irish
Celtic studies scholars
1945 births
Living people |
The 2013 Subway Firecracker 250 was the 16th stock car race of the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series and the 12th iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, July 5, 2013, in Daytona Beach, Florida at Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) permanent triangular-shaped superspeedway. The race was extended from its scheduled 100 laps to 101 due to a green–white–checker finish. At race's end, Matt Kenseth, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would pull away on the final restart to win his 27th career NASCAR Nationwide Series win and his first of the season. To fill out the podium, James Buescher of Turner Scott Motorsports and Elliott Sadler of Joe Gibbs Racing would finish second and third, respectively.
Background
Daytona International Speedway is one of three superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the other two being Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.
Entry list
(R) denotes rookie driver.
(i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
Practice
First practice
The first practice session was held on Thursday, July 4, at 2:30 PM EST, and would last for one hour and 20 minutes. Brad Sweet of JR Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 31.259 and an average speed of .
Second and final practice
The second and final practice session, sometimes referred to as Happy Hour, was held on Thursday, July 4, at 5:30 PM EST, and would last for 55 minutes. Parker Kligerman of Kyle Busch Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 48.913 and an average speed of .
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on Friday, July 5, at 2:05 PM EST. Each driver would have two laps to set a fastest time; the fastest of the two would count as their official qualifying lap.
Austin Dillon of Richard Childress Racing would win the pole, setting a time of 50.298 and an average speed of .
Blake Koch was the only driver to fail to qualify.
Full qualifying results
Race results
References
2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series
NASCAR races at Daytona International Speedway
July 2013 sports events in the United States
2013 in sports in Florida |
The Gerasimov Doctrine, named for the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, is a foreign policy doctrine, the development of which is attributed in the Western world to Russian economic blockade.
The doctrine redefines the modern concept of interstate conflict and warfare puts it on a par with political, economic, informational, humanitarian and other non-military activities. The doctrine became known after its publication in February 2013 and the subsequent actions of Russia in relation to Ukraine, which fully coincide with the theses of this doctrine. According to a number of researchers, the key elements of the Gerasimov Doctrine underlie the concept of "". However, there are opinions, that hybrid warfare is alien to Russian military theory.
History
The appearance of the term "Gerasimov Doctrine" was preceded by the speech by Gerasimov before the Russian Academy of Military Sciences with a report on hybrid war in February 2013 and publication of the main theses of the report in the Gerasimov article "The value of science in anticipation" in the Military and Industrial Courier. This article was reprinted in the English-language magazine Military Review and subsequently quoted many times in the Western press.
Doctrine
The doctrine calls for a 4:1 ratio of non-military to military action.
Military action
Military measures of strategic deterrence
Strategic deployment.
Warfare.
peacekeeping operations.
Non-military actions
Formation of coalitions and alliances.
Political and diplomatic pressure.
Economic sanctions
Economic blockade
Breakdown of diplomatic relations.
Formation of political opposition.
Action of opposition forces.
Conversion of the economy of the country confronting Russia to the military rails.
Finding ways to resolve the conflict.
Changing the political leadership of the country confronting Russia.
Implementation of a set of measures to reduce tensions in relations after the change of political leadership.
In addition, the doctrine assumes "information confrontation," without specifying whether these activities are military or non-military.
Evaluation of the doctrine by experts
The Gerasimov doctrine is a response to the "Color Revolutions" doctrine, particularly the events of the Arab Spring. According to some experts, its key elements are based on the historical roots of Russia's previous military doctrine and show a striking similarity to the provisions of China's "unlimited war" doctrine, published in 1999. It is believed that this doctrine can be seen as a reinterpretation in the realities of the 21st century of the well-known concept of unconventional warfare, which in modern Russian military terminology are called "nonlinear". Within this framework, the main goal of "nonlinear warfare" is to achieve the desired strategic and geopolitical results, using a wide toolbox of non-military methods and means: explicit and covert diplomacy, economic pressure, winning the sympathy of the local population, etc.
According to the U.S. military, the "Gerasimov Doctrine" represents the most complete embodiment of the latest achievements of Russian military thought in a new type of warfare, which demonstrates the unprecedented integration of all capabilities of national influence to achieve strategic advantages. Based on the discreteness of the idea of war, which was established in Russian culture by Leo Tolstoy's classic novel War and Peace, the Gerasimov doctrine has blurred the lines between the polarized states of "war" and "peace," introducing a kind of analog to the Western idea of an intermediate continuum or "gray zone. American analysts point out that the Russian military's use of the new developments surprisingly inverts some of the fundamental paradigms of armed confrontation that were laid down in the works of Carl von Clausewitz and have been considered immutable for centuries. For example, Clausewitz's definition of war as a "continuation of politics, but by other means" no longer applies in the "Gerasimov doctrine" because it does not consider war as a continuation of politics, but politics as a continuation of war, emphasizing that the effective conduct of politics may involve a broader arsenal of non-military means and methods. Similarly, the Gerasimov Doctrine forces a reconsideration of several other important tenets, such as Clausewitz's military-theoretical understanding of the "center of gravity" as a key point of effort.
Western experts were particularly concerned by the apparent focus of the Russian "Gerasimov doctrine" on exploiting the weak links of the Western principle of managerial decision making, which is based on a system of checks and balances that implies exhaustive analysis of the situation, lengthy public discussion and extensive coordination of the efforts of various agencies (the State Department, the Department of Defense, etc.). In contrast, the Russian model of governance, based on Gerasimov's ideas, seamlessly combines all the authoritative institutions, making coordination between them completely unencumbered. Moreover, their functioning is hidden from the outside observer by an impenetrable veil of secrecy, and the available tools use the applied achievements of , which allows the Russian authorities to act rigidly, flexibly and quickly, not particularly distracted by such conventions as legality, legitimacy, etc..
Application of the doctrine
Given the release date of the Gerasimov report and Russia's subsequent actions, many experts are inclined to link these events and directly point to Russia's use of the doctrine against Ukraine and the USA.
Criticism
Some experts believe that Gerasimov did not present anything new, and doubt the existence of such a doctrine. For example, Roger McDermott, an expert on the armed forces of the former Soviet Union, points out in the specialized journal Parameters that Gerasimov deliberately ignores the factors that conceptually unite the various wars and armed conflicts, emphasizing that each has its own history and unique path of development.. As R. McDermott writes, the denial in the context of Gerasimov's ideas of a generalizing model that could be perceived as a holistic doctrine is more than compensated for by the meanings attributed to his statements by Western specialists. According to R. McDermott, myths about the emergence of Russia's latest and deadliest hybrid warfare doctrine are one of the most dangerous aspects of the confrontation between Russia and NATO.
Political scientist Mark Galeotti stated in an article for Foreign Policy that the famous "Gerasimov doctrine," which is understood in the West as an "expanded theory of modern warfare" or even "a vision of total war," does not exist in reality, and that he himself is the inventor of this term.
See also
Dulles' Plan
Notes
References
Chivvis C. "Understanding Russian "Hybrid Warfare". And What Can Be Done About it" RAND Corporation. 2017. — 1 марта.
Henry Foy. "Valery Gerasimov, the general with a doctrine for Russia" Файненшл Таймс. — 2017. — 1 сентября.
Hoffman, Frank G; Mattis, James N. "Future Warfare: The Rise of Hybrid Wars Proceedings" United States Naval Institute, 2005. pp 18–19.
War in Donbas
Foreign relations of Russia
Foreign policy doctrines |
Aa aurantica is a species of orchid in the genus Aa native to Peru. It was described by Delsy Trujillo in 2011.
References
aurantiaca
Flora of Peru
Plants described in 2011 |
Brood XXI (also known as the Floridian Brood) was a brood of 13-year periodical cicadas that inhabited the Florida Panhandle and the area around the Alabama–Mississippi border. It was last seen in 1870 and is presumed extinct.
Lifecycle and history
Like other 13-year Magicicada, Brood XXI cicadas would tunnel to the surface of the ground in massive numbers during late-April to early-June of emergence years. After emerging, the nymphs would molt to become adult cicadas, mate, lay eggs, and then die off over the course of a few weeks. Once the eggs hatched, the nymphs would burrow back underground around tree roots to grow and develop for 13 years, thus completing the cycle. The extreme and sudden population explosion of adult Brood XXI cicadas was likely a form of predator satiation, a tactic utilized by extant periodical cicada broods.
Brood XXI was only one of four 13-year broods prior to extinction. The surviving three are Brood XIX (the "Great Southern Brood"), Brood XXII (the "Baton Rouge Brood"), and Brood XXIII (the "Mississippi Valley Brood").
References
Cicadas |
Carl Friedrich August Grosse (5 June 1768 – 15 March 1847) also known as Edouard Romeo Vargas-Bedemar was a German author, translator, aesthetic philosopher, and mineralogist. He is best known for his gothic novel Der Genius, which was translated into English by Peter Will as Horrid Mysteries, subtitled "A Story From the German Of The Marquis Of Grosse" and subsequently referenced by Jane Austen as one of the seven 'horrid novels' in Northanger Abbey. His philosophy focused on the aesthetics of sublimity, following the work of Friedrich Schiller, and provided one of the first philosophical treatments of imagination.
Biography
Grosse was born in Magdeburg, Germany on 5 June 1768, the son of Erenst Grosse, a successful doctor, and Dorothea Elizabeth Amalia Schröder. In 1786, he enrolled at the University of Göttingen to study medicine, and began his literary career there with essays on the sublime and transmigration of the soul, as well as engaging in translation of works by Scottish moral philosopher and poet James Beattie. He transferred to the University of Halle in late 1788, where he joined secret societies. Afterwards, he travelled to Italy and Switzerland, and returned to Göttingen sporting the cross of the Knights of Malta, claiming to have inherited a title "Marquis Grosse of Vargas" from a deceased Italian aristocratic wife, a claim quickly exposed as a fraud which forced him to leave Göttingen for Spain in 1791.
Grosse spent two years in Spain, attacking in writing Göttingen's academic society for rejecting him. In 1793 he moved to Italy, claiming to be Edouard Romeo, count of Vargas, a falsified title to which he added Baron Bedemar in 1795. He lived in Italy until 1808, when he was accused of political conspiracy. He was again forced to move, and settled in Denmark, where he became friends with the future King of Denmark Christian VIII and was entrusted by the Danish government with several high offices. Grosse also served some time in the Austrian military as an officer. While in Denmark, he made a reputation as a mineralogist and mining expert. Respected as a geologist, he joined several Danish scientific societies and went on study trips to the Faroe Islands, Scotland, Scandinavia, Russia, the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
For most of his life, Grosse lived using the name Edouard Romeo Vargas, and published the majority of his works using it. He invented a fake family for himself: father Carl Emmanuel von Vargas, mother Elizabeth Murray (who he claimed was of old Scottish ancestry), and sister Rosalia von Spreti. Grosse's fiancée Luise Michaelis described him as "mysterious, impressive, and frightening" and ultimately did not end up marrying him.
Grosse died on 15 March 1847 in Copenhagen.
Philosophy
Grosse was a philosopher of sublimity, contemporaneous with and strongly influenced by Friedrich Schiller. Grosse was a proponent of hearing as the sense best suited to the sublime, rather than the typically privileged sight. He wrote that the ear is "most suited to an indefinite Schwärmerei of imagination." He also theorized that distance of sound (which he called "entfernung" had a key role in producing sublime experiences, writing "A soft music heard from afar is far more stirring than if heard in the concert hall; and the wavering tones of the distant [entfernung] set off the power of imagination into the realm of scattered images." Grosse applied gothic landscape traditions to the mind, where psychological responses are framed in terms of physical spaces of light and dark. According to Grosse, the imagination turns passive emotional sublimity into an active emotional without any moral evaluation, a philosophical stance that anticipated amoralism and was one of the earliest attempts at a theory of imagination.
Influence
Grosse's literature was an influence on German romantic writers, including Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A. Hoffman. Though Tieck was strongly influenced by Grosse and incorporated his themes and ideas in his work, he also criticized Grosse, calling him "a gracious, imaginative, and sensitive sort of person, only he lacks and will always lack power and depth." In entitling a philosophical treatise, Grosse took Schiller's title Über das Erhabene, which was subsequently reused by Tieck in 1792 and again by Grosse and Schiller in 1801.
Through Über das Erhabene, Grosse took ideas of Edmund Burke, James Beattie, and Johann Georg Schlosser, and was alongside Schiller's Von Erhabenen, introduced a British aesthetic sublimity to the German philosophical scene, which to that moment had been dominated by French-originated moral sublimity.
Der Genius was loosely translated into English by Peter Will and entitled Horrid Mysteries. Printed by Minerva Press, the book became well known to an English audience and was included by Jane Austen among seven 'horrid' novels in Northanger Abbey, alongside The Necromancer by Karl Friedrich Kahlert, The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons, Clermont by Regina Maria Roche, The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale, by Eliza Parsons, The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom, and The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath. The book was favoured by early English romantics. However, it was forgotten in the ensuing decades and all seven books were assumed to be fictitious inventions of Austen. Horrid Mysteries was the first to be re-found, by English author and collector Michael Sadleir, who encountered it alongside Roche's Children of the Abbey in 1922 at a bookstore on Oxford Street, London.
Works
Über das Erhabene (Göttingen and Leipzig, 1788)
Helim, oder Über die Seelenwanderung (Zittau and Leipzig, 1789)
Der Genius. Aus den Papieren des Marquis C. von G. (Halle, 1791–1795)
Memoiren des Marquis von G. (Berlin, 1792–1795)
Der Dolch (Berlin, 1794–1795)
Chlorinde. Aus den Papieren des Don Juans von B. (Berlin 1796)
Horrid Mysteries (London, 1796)
Über des grieschische Epigramm (Berlin and Stettin, 1798)
Reise nach dem Hohen Norden durch Schweden, Norwegen, und Lappland. In den Jahren 1810, 1811, 1812, und 1814 (Frankfurt, 1819)
References
1768 births
1847 deaths
18th-century German male writers
Writers of Gothic fiction
German mineralogists
18th-century German philosophers
18th-century German translators
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Dorothy T. Krieger was an American academic and endocrine researcher who served as a professor and director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her major contribution was her discovery of treatment for Cushing's Disease.
Early life and career
Kreiger was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 18, she graduated with a degree from the Barnard College. In 1949, she received a medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In April 1984, she received a special award, Albert Lasker Special Public Health Award, by the Albert D. and Mary Lasker Foundation.
Personal life
She was married to C. Wayne Bardin and has two children.
Awards
Lasker Award (1984)
References
External links
Dorothy T. Krieger - Worldcat
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty
American endocrinologists |
The Baker-Gorbachev Pact between the then Secretary of State of the United States, James Baker, and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev was a commitment reached in February 1990 by these countries in the context of German reunification according to which a unified Germany may enter NATO while the alliance would not expand to any other country of the Eastern Bloc.
The existence of this pact of was always defended by Soviet general secretary Gorbachev on numerous occasions and by historians such as Mary Elise Sarotte, while there has been a debate on if this agreement was verbal or written. Several declassified memorandums and documents both Soviet and from the United States reflect the existence of these negotiations during 9 February 1990. The following day Federal German Chancellor Helmut Kohl joined the negotiations in Moscow.
The agreements were an important step towards the consensus of the two superpowers (the U.S. and the Soviet Union) on German reunification and allowed for the subsequent signing of the Two Plus Four Agreement which paved the way for German unification. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union NATO would eventually expand to fourteen countries (including Germany) in the period from 1990 to 2017 rendering the rest of the agreement worthless. Compliance with the agreements was one of the pretexts used by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia in 2022, to demand a legal ban on Ukraine joining NATO.
The agreement
The process of fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification and the collapse of the communist governments (1989-1991) brought enormous changes in the countries of the Eastern Bloc -then allies of Russia or part of the Soviet Union- altering the geopolitical balance of alliances and power in Europe.
On February 9, 1990, during the process of German reunification, the Secretary of State of the United States, John Baker, visited the then General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev and his Minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze, and a day later, there was also the visit of the Chancellor of Federal Germany Helmut Kohl. The goal was to appease the Soviets by including a unified Germany in the Western orbit. Gorbachev went so far as to propose a pan-European security structure, including Russia's entry into NATO. Baker considered this pan-European idea "a dream" unattainable. Baker and Kohl convinced Gorbachev that a unified Germany would join NATO, which would be better than an independent but militarized Germany, while promising no further expansion of the alliance to the east. Baker assured Gorbachev on February 9, 1990: 'We understand the need for assurances to the countries in the East. If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east'. Gorvachec was very clear to Baker: 'Such an expansion would be “unacceptable”.
Result
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the Gulf War the world order was completely altered. NATO ended up expanding to fourteen Eastern countries (former GDR in 1990, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland in 1999; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia in 2005; Albania, Croatia in 2009 and Montenegro in 2017), some of them on the border with Russia.
The agreements were again the subject of public debate in 2022 on the occasion of the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, during which the Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded compliance with the 1990 agreement to Gorbachev and the legal ban on Ukraine joining NATO, which both Ukraine and NATO refused. The crisis ultimately led to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
See also
Enlargement of NATO
German reunification
Two Plus Four Agreement
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
References
February 1990 events
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union–United States relations |
The navarch () was the magistrate who commanded the fleet in Ancient Sparta.
History and role
The powers of the navarch were extensive and were not subordinate to the two Spartan kings. The navarch commanded the fleet, but also performed the sacrifices, distributed wages and booty, negotiated with foreign states, and even administered the territories he captured. Aristotle therefore described the navarchy as another kingship. An ambitious man such as Lysander yielded formidable influence in Sparta through his time as navarch at the end of the Peloponnesian War.
The office is mentioned for the first time by Herodotus in 480 during the Persian Wars, but it was likely created earlier, perhaps in 512 for the first attack of Sparta against Athens by Anchimolus, likely the first navarch. It seems the navarchy disappeared after the catastrophic defeat of Leuctra in 371. In the beginning the office was probably irregular, and probably that no navarch was appointed for most of the Pentecontaetia (479–431), as the Spartans did not launch any navy during this period. Following the defeat of the Spartan navy at Cyzicus in 410, a law was passed an established fixed terms from spring to spring. In about 400 another law forbade iteration of the office, but repetition was apparently allowed, since Teleutias was probably navarch three times. This law could furthermore be bypassed by appointing a secretary (, )—in effect vice-admiral—to the navarch; the influential Lysander therefore became secretary twice. The navarchs were elected for one year by the Spartan assembly, supervised by the ephors. One exception took place in 395, when the king Agesilaus II was granted the privilege to appoint the navarch.
List of Spartan navarchs
References
Bibliography
Ancient sources
Aristotle, Politics.
Modern sources
Paul Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia, A Regional History 1300–362 BC, London, Routledge, 2002 (originally published in 1979). ISBN 0-415-26276-3
Caroline Falkner, "Astyochus, Sparta's Incompetent Navarch?", Phoenix, Vol. 53, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1999), pp. 206–221.
Simon Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides, Volume I, Books I-III, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991. ISBN 0198150997
Paul Poralla & Alfred S. Bradford, Prosopographie der Lakedaimonier, bis auf die Zeit Alexanders des Grossen, Chicago, 1985 (originally published in 1913).
Paul A. Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478–446 B.C., New Haven, Yale University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-300-24261-4
Raphael Sealey, "Die spartanische Nauarchie", Klio, 58, 1976, pp. 335–358.
Lukas Thommen, "Xenophon und die spartanische Nauarchie", Historika, Storia Greca i Romana, V. 5: Great is the power of the sea, 2015, pp. 313–320.
Military history of Sparta
Admirals
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Ergi Goga (born 25 October 2002) is an Albanian professional footballer who currently play as a left-back for Kategoria e Parë club Erzeni.
References
2002 births
Living people
People from Tirana
People from Tirana County
Albanian footballers
Association football defenders
Kategoria e Parë players
Akademia e Futbollit players
KF Erzeni players |
Ochrolechia minuta is a species of crustose lichen in the family Ochrolechiaceae. It was first formally described in 1938 by Swedish lichenologist Gunnar Degelius as Perforaria minuta. The type specimen was collected from the Kodiak Island Borough in Alaska. Toby Spribille transferred it to the genus Ochrolechia in 2020, suggesting that the absence of cephalodia, and the presence of alectoronic acid, indicate that it is "related to the alectoronic acid-containing species of poriform Ochrolechia".
References
Pertusariales
Lichens described in 1938
Lichens of the United States |
Henry Eugène Pottier (21 February 1912 – 7 September 2000), often erroneously written as Henri Pottier, was a French architect. A disciple of Victor Laloux, he won a Prix de Rome in 1944.
As it was customary to fill the position of Architecte en chef des bâtiments civils et palais nationaux (English: Chief Architect of Civilian Buildings and National Palaces) from among recipients of the award, Pottier ascended to the function in 1968.
An adherent to the Athens Charter, he is perhaps best known to the general public as the chief architect of the Front de Seine, a major 1970s redevelopment in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, and several entertainment facilities in the Principality of Monaco, for whose government he was a consulting architect. He designed many public buildings, first in his native Eure, then in the Paris region during the 1960s and 1970s.
Major works
École nationale supérieure des travaux publics, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
Centre sportif municipal Parc Lagravère, Colombes, France
Saint-Bernard Chapel, Colombes, France
Henri Mondor University Hospital, Créteil, France
Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, Lyon, France
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Embassy of Germany, Paris, France
New Val-de-Grâce Hospital, Paris, France
Tour Les Poissons at Le Zodiaque, Courbevoie, France
Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
Stade Louis II, Monaco
Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco
Higher Institute of Mining, Industry and Geology, Niamey, Niger
References
External links
Fonds Pottier, Henry (1912-2000) at Archiwebture (in French)
1912 births
2000 deaths
People from Eure
20th-century French architects |
The American Innovation and Choice Online (AICO) is a proposed antitrust bill in the United States Congress. The legislation was introduced by David Cicilline (D-RI) as H.R. 3816 in the House of Representatives on June 11, 2021. On October 14, 2021, companion legislation in the Senate was introduced by Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as S.2992.
The legislation aims to prevent Big Tech companies from "self-preferencing" their own products at the expense of competitors. Under AICO, covered platforms would be forbidden from disadvantaging other companies' products or services. The legislation would also prohibit covered platforms from using non-public data collected from business users to unfairly advantage the platforms' own products.
On June 24, 2022, the House Committee on the Judiciary advanced H.R. 3816 on a 24–20 vote. On January 20, 2022, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance the legislation in a 16–6 vote.
Background
Following a sixteen-month investigation, the House Committee on the Judiciary released a 450-page report in 2020 alleging that Big Tech companies have engaged in anti-competitive conduct.
According to Cicilline, both AICO and five accompanying pieces of antirust legislation approved by the House Committee on the Judiciary in June 2024 were borne out of the report's findings.
Provisions
Under the House legislation (H.R. 3816), AICO would forbid covered platforms from:
"Self-preferencing" their own products at the expense of competitors
Intentionally disadvantaging other firms' products or services
Using non-public data generated by a business user to advantage the covered platform's own products
Interfering with pricing decisions set by another business user
The legislation would also prohibit covered platforms from retaliating against a business user that notifies law enforcement about the activities of covered platforms. If passed, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be responsible for determining which platforms are "covered platforms" subject to AICO, and would be tasked with enforcement of the law.
Penalties
H.R. 3816 specifies penalties for covered platforms that violate AICO. Failure to comply with the law would result in fining the offending platform up to 15% of their U.S. revenue in the prior calendar year or up to 30% of their U.S. revenue for any one line of business harmed by their actions. Violation of AICO would additionally result in restitution as well as disgorgement.
Companies affected
If enacted, only companies with 50 million or more monthly users in the U.S. and a market capitalization of at least $600 billion would be governed by the provisions of AICO. According to reporting by Axios, AICO would prevent Apple and Google's Android from setting "prices and policies for their app stores that rivals have complained make them lose business and revenue". The legislation also aims to prevent Amazon from "self-preferencing" their own products at the expense of those sold by third parties.
Impact on cybersecurity
According to Richard Stiennon, the chief research analyst at cybersecurity company IT-Harvest, AICO would not prevent covered platforms from investing in cybersecurity measures. Stiennon noted that Google would be able to block phishing efforts on Gmail, and would similarly be permitted to continue scanning apps submitted to its Google Play store.
Legislative history
House of Representatives
H.R. 3816 was introduced by Cicilline on June 11, 2021, with fellow Democrat Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Republicans Ken Buck (R-CO) and Lance Gooden (R-TX) as original cosponsors. On June 24, 2022, the House Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance the legislation in a 24–20 vote. The legislation has not received a floor vote in the full House of Representatives.
Senate
S.2992 was introduced as a companion bill to H.R. 3816 by Klobuchar and Grassley on October 14, 2021. On January 20, 2022, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted in favor of advancing the legislation in a 16–6 bipartisan vote.
See also
Open App Markets Act
United States antitrust law
References
United States federal antitrust legislation
Proposed legislation of the 117th United States Congress
United States antitrust law |
Aegilops biuncialis is a species in the family Poaceae native to the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Middle East.
References
biuncialis
Flora of Europe
Flora of Western Asia |
Captain Reuben Merrill (December 2, 1818 – June 16, 1875) was an American merchant sea captain. A native of Cumberland, Maine, he lived the latter part of his life in nearby Yarmouth. His house there, now known as the Captain Reuben Merrill House, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Early life
Reuben Merrill was born on December 2, 1818, in Cumberland, Maine.
Career
Merrill was a leading mid-19th-century sea captain. After going to sea in his youth, he gained experience enough to become a master mariner. He was captain of the merchant ships Cumberland, Yarmouth, Esther and Champlain.
Champlain
Merrill's ship, Champlain, was built for W. H. Kinsman & Company in East Boston, Massachusetts, in 1874 by Campbell & Brooks. It registered . Its builders "firmly believed that she would prove to be the fastest vessel that ever wore canvas". While at the dock, Merrill noticed three martingales and guessed, correctly, that the largest of them was bound for his vessel. Believing it was too small for Champlain, he requested a larger version. One was, indeed, made larger and heavier to suit Merrill.
Personal life
On October 1, 1846, Merrill married Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard, with whom he had four children: Elizabeth (died in infancy in 1847), Osborne, Eva and Ferdinand.
In the 1850s, when Merrill's seafaring career was its peak, he commissioned noted Portland architect Thomas J. Sparrow, to build him a home. The result was the building at today's 233 West Main Street, completed in 1858. (The home's address at the time of its listing was 97 West Main Street.)
Death
Merrill died on June 16, 1875, when he was knocked overboard from his ship, Champlain, while shipwrecking in the Farallon Islands, California, off San Francisco, in dense fog. He had made sure that his crew was safely aboard the lifeboat, and as he was preparing to join them, he was struck by the martingale that he had personally requested by the ship's builders the previous year. The ship was near the end of its voyage from New York to the California coast. He drowned, aged 56, and neither his body nor the cargo ($210,000 in value) were ever recovered. He has an epitaph on his wife's headstone in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery. She died the year following her husband's death.
His eldest son and the ship's first mate, 26-year-old Osborne, witnessed his father's death. He lived until 1929, but did not go to sea again. He is also interred in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery.
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1875 deaths
People who died at sea
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The 16th edition of Strade Bianche will be held on 5 March 2022. It is the third event of the 2022 UCI World Tour.
Route
Starting and finishing in Sienna the course covers 184km. It includes 63km of gravel over 11 sectors.
References
Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche |
Jaydah Marie Bedoya Paiva (born 2002) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a forward for American college team UConn Huskies and the Ecuador women's national team.
Early life
Bedoya was raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Her father is Ecuadorian and her mother is Puerto Rican.
College career
Bedoya has attended the University of Connecticut in the United States.
International career
Bedoya made her senior debut for Ecuador on 22 February 2022.
References
External links
2002 births
Living people
People with acquired Ecuadorian citizenship
Ecuadorian women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
Ecuador women's international footballers
Ecuadorian people of Puerto Rican descent
Sportspeople from New Bedford, Massachusetts
Soccer players from Massachusetts
American women's soccer players
UConn Huskies women's soccer players
American people of Ecuadorian descent
American sportspeople of Latin American descent
American sportspeople of South American descent
American sportspeople of Puerto Rican descent
21st-century Ecuadorian women |
Commander-captain or commanding captain is a naval rank, used in a number of navies, including all Scandinavian nations. The rank is rated OF-4 within NATO forces.
Scandinavia
Denmark
On 11 February 1693, the rank was codified, by King Christian V, with the publication of the updated Danish order of precedence. Here "" was placed below , above and equal to . As of 2022, the rank is placed below and above . It has the grade of M401 within the Ministry of Defence's pay structure. Officially translated the rank is called "Commander, senior grade".
Norway
Sweden
In the Swedish Navy, the rank of is ranked below and above . Before 1972, the rank was divided into two ranks: and .
Gallery
References
Naval ranks
Captains
da:Kommandørkaptajn
no:Kommandørkaptein
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Lochham station () is a railway station in the municipality of Gräfelfing, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway of Deutsche Bahn.
Services
the following services stop at Lochham:
Munich S-Bahn : service every twenty minutes between and Grafing Bahnhof; some trains continue from Grafing Bahnhof to .
References
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Lochham layout
Railway stations in Bavaria
Buildings and structures in Munich (district)
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Shlomo ben Afeda Ha-Kohen or Solomon Afeda Cohen (in ) (1826 in Constantinople – 1893 in Constantinople) was a Karaite Jewish hakham of the nineteenth century considered the last of the Karaite sages of Constantinople.
He is famous for his two abridgements of Elijah Bashyazi's masterpiece "Aderet Eliyahu" (The Mantle of Elijah): Sefer Gefen Ha-Adderet composed in 1860 and Sefer Yeriot Shelomoh composed in 1862.
Solomon Cohen proposed shortening the prayers of the Karaite festivals with the aim to attract more Karaites to the temple (Knessa).
He also worked as a scribe.
Biography
His biography has been reported by Abraham Danon in 1925. Solomon (ben Eliezer Afeda) Cohen, was born in Constantinople in 1826 (5586 in the Hebrew calendar), of a family that emigrated from Damascus ( Syria) after the dispersion of the Karaite community of the city. He learned to read and write in the small communal school from a teacher whose knowledge did not go beyond reading and he left school at a young age. Driven by the love of Jewish studies, he returned to student life under the supervision of his uncle Isaac Cohen who was a hakham. After that, Solomon Cohen did not have recourse to any teacher but studied by himself all the works of the Karaite authors, both printed and manuscript, as well as the works of the Jews of Spain, which he said were "truly inspired by God".
In 1860 and 1862, he wrote his most famous works on the Karaite Halakhah. Having given up his small business to devote himself definitively to his literary career, he was appointed head of the community of the Constantinopolitan Karaites, as well as officiating minister and teacher.
His temperament characterized by a deep melancholy, led to arouse against him the animosity of the local community. Considering his position untenable in Constantinople, he was forced to resign in 1870 and was replaced by Sabbatai Mengoubi (born about 1835). The following year he left for Cairo ( Egypt), where he was appointed head of the local Karaite community, and remained there until 1874. His successor, Sabbatai Mengoubi, resigned from his post in Constantinople and went to Cairo to take his place. Solomon Cohen then returned to Constantinople and was again appointed head of the community there (1874–81).
Family
Solomon Cohen was the son of Eliezer Afeda Yerushalmi Kohen who died from the Plague in Constantinople in 1873.
References
Resources
Constantinopolitan Karaites
Mikdash Me'at: An English Language Abridgement of Adderet Eliyahu Translation with commentary, by Tomer Mangoubi, of Khacham Elijah Bashyazi's 15th century masterpiece of Jewish law.
Sefer ha-mitsṿot Gefen ha-Adderet
Sefer ha-mitsṿot Yeriʻot Shelomoh
Byzantine Jews
Byzantine philosophers
Philosophers of Judaism
Karaite rabbis
1826 births
1893 deaths |
Jane Cakebread (1829/1830 – 17 December 1898) was a 19th-century British domestic worker and inebriate who, according to official records, was convicted 281 times for drunkenness. Nearly every court in London and its vicinity had a record of her conduct and acts. It was these records of continuous arrest and sentence that started England, her case focusing public attention on the ineffectiveness of the short-term imprisonment policy of dealing with drunkenness. The Inebriates Act 1898 was directly due to her and similar cases.
Early life and education
Jane Cakebread was born in Sawbridgeworth in the English county of Hertfordshire in 1827 or 1828. She was the eldest child of Susan and James Cakebread. Her father was a carter and carpenter from Clavering, Essex. Her father died at 71 years of age in 1852, and her mother at 62 years in 1863. The Cakebreads were a family of five sons and three daughters and she had very little schooling.
Career
Cakebread became what she called a "single-handed parlour maid". In 1861 she was employed by Charles Friend Hardy who worked at the London Stock Exchange. She memorised chapters of the Bible, including one from the Book of Job concerning the uncertainty of human life.
While in service, it was said that her employers left her a legacy of . She did no work after that. If true, then she either wasted it or got robbed of it. Then began her life of inebriety and her first appearances in London police courts charged with being "drunk and disorderly". "Miss Cakebread", as she loved to call herself, or "Jane", as she was known on the streets, was molested and baited for sport by boys in the street. She was adopted by Thomas Holmes who was employed by the courts as their missionary.
Street life
For more than fifteen years, Cakebread was a familiar figure at Worship Street, Clerkenwell, and subsequently at North London police courts. Magistrates found her amusing and she was usually dealt with leniently. She said "it was quite a pleasure to appear before a Metropolitan Police Magistrate". She was happy to be "reported" and she enjoyed being known to local police officers. One of her joys was to read about herself being reported. She was a frequest visitor to Millbank Prison up to 1890. When Millbank closed, females were received into Holloway Prison.
Philanthropists tried to improve her life style and she took advantage of it. During the great frost of 1895, for nine weeks, Cakebread slept out doors using a bed made from a bundle of sticks, and she washed in the River Lea. Lady Henry Somerset opened a Farm Colony and Children's Home at Duxhurst, Reigate in 1899 to rehabilitate alcoholics as part of the temperance movement. She brought Cakebread there to dry out, but Cakebread complained she was "buried alive". Lady Henry found Cakebread to be quarrelsome and spiteful, and she allowed her back to London after three months. Cakebread returned to sleeping on Stamford Hill, begging and inebriation. When she was arrested on January 21, 1896, she was remanded to Holloway Sanatorium where she was declared insane.
Claybury Asylum
On January 31, 1896, Cakebread, stated to be 62, but whose real age was older, was admitted into Claybury Asylum from the Hackney Workhouse, having been previously in Holloway Prison. While nominally a servant, was in reality a vagrant who had not been self-supporting for at least 30 years. She was found to be vague and disconnected, believing herself to be a "lady of high character," entitled to a fortune, a portion of which had been stolen from her. Her appearance was striking; her manner was at times gracious and condescending. She was physically well except for incipient cataract. She would promise to be well behaved and then suddenly become abusive, violent and threatening.
Cakebread wrote letters about living in a beautiful country cottage, where the birds sang, the trees gave a shade, and the breeze blew. But as time went by, she became more noisy, more flagrantly untruthful, less and less amenable to discipline, and more inordinately fond of notice. She would put up her hair in curl-papers, decorate herself with bits of ribbon and lace to impress the doctors on their rounds. A desire for prominence amounting to a disease, she was wholly indifferent and indiscriminating as to the personality of her audience. It was accompanied by jealousy, distrust of the nurses, who she thought injured her, and by violent outbursts of anger when the praise for which she longed was not forthcoming. Believing herself a grand lady, she constituted herself a supervisor of the patients in the hospital, a conceit in which she was humored by the attendants. Despite her high opinion of herself, Cakebread had no selfconfidence. She depended almost entirely upon the opinions of others, and this was the cause of her lack of self-control, her fickleness and vacillation. She was considered by many eminently religious. She was absolutely untruthful, but this was due to defective memory, a pathological condition induced by alcohol.
At the end of a year, she was unchanged in regard to the want of self-control. At the end of two years, there was no improvement. At the end of three years, she appeared to be more demented, and there was a total collapse. Cakebread died at Claybury Asylum, 17 December 1898, of heart failure and dropsy, with cirrhosis of the liver and kidneys.
Notes
References
External links
Jane Cakebread at ODNB
1830 births
1898 deaths
Alcohol abuse in the United Kingdom
19th-century English women
People from Hertfordshire (before 1965)
English people with disabilities |
Hanna Veres, Ukrainian: Га́нна Іва́нівна Ве́рес (21 December 1928 - 11 June 2003) was a folk artist, embroiderer and weaver from Ukraine. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of artists Valentina and Elena Veres. She was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize with Anna Vasylashchuk in 1968.
Biography
Veres was born on 21 December 1928 in the village of Obukhovychi (uk) in the Vyshhorod district of Kyiv region. Her mother was the artist, Maria Posobchuk (uk). Veres had two daughters, Valentina (uk) and Elena Veres, both of whom also became artists. According to historian, N M Nevega, Posobchuk taught her daughter many of her skills, which she in turned passed on to her daughters.
A specialist in the field of decorative textile arts, especially artistic embroidery, Veres created traditional Polesian woven towels, as well as decorative fabrics and panels. Towels are a traditional Ukrainian textile: they are used as a special surface for food to be served on, and many are given as gifts at significant life moments. She founded the Museum of Folk Weaving in Ivankiv, which opened in 1988 and closed in 1992. Her works toured to America, where they were shown in Toronto and Montreal.
From 1966 to 1968 she made a series of ornamental textiles, dedicated to Taras Shevchenko. The 1971 edition of Shevchenko's Kobzar is illustrated with reproductions of her towels co-produced with Anna Vasylashchuk (uk). The films Lyada (1974, "Kyivnaukfilm"), A Flax Blooms (1980, "Ukrtelefilm") are dedicated to Veres' work.
Veres lived in Kyiv, in a house on Bastionny Lane. She died in Obukhovychi on 11 June 2003.
Awards and recognition
Order of the Badge of Honor.
Member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since 1965.
Shevchenko Prize in 1968; together with Anna Vasylaschuk for a series of Ukrainian folk woven towels created in 1965-1967).
Honored Master of Folk Art of the USSR since 1977.
People's Artist of Ukraine since 1995.
Member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine since 1999.
Legacy
Veres' works are held in the Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Shevchenko National Reserve in Kaniv, and the National Folk Decorative Art Museum, as well as in other locations.
According to early reports, on 27 February 2022, works by Veres were among those destroyed when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned down during the Battle of Ivankiv, a military engagement during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other works destroyed alongside included paintings by Maria Prymachenko.
Selected works
Decorative cloths
"Ukraine, my mother" (1956)
Reapers Reap (1962)
"Ukraine, my mother" (1966)
Golden Autumn (1966)
"Flowers, Ukraine" (1967)
"Our Thought, Our Song" (1967)
"In a free, new family" (1969)
"Soviet Ukraine" (1971)
Generosity (1973)
Chornobyl Bells (1988)
Lightning (1990)
Decorative fabrics
"Our Thought, Our Song" (1965)
"Flowers of Polissya" (1967)
"Kyiv - Garden" (1975)
"Happiness of the Earth" (1985)
Panels
"Famous, Fatherland" (1978, Hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow )
"Memory of the Fiery Years" (1984)
"April, Ukraine" (1984)
"Space Next" (1990)
"Mom's Cherry" (1990)
"The Chernobyl Tragedy" (1991, dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster)
References
1928 births
2003 deaths
Textile artists
Embroiderers
Ukrainian women artists
Shevchenko National Prize
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Shankar Nath Rimal (born 5 March 1935) is a Nepalese civil engineer and architect who standardised the modern Nepalese flag. He has also designed many prominent buildings and monuments in Nepal. He served as the president of Nepal Engineer's Association four times, in the 4th, 17th, 18th and 19th executive council.
Early life and education
He was born on 5 March 1935 (22 Falgun 1991 BS) in Tangal, Kathmandu to father Devendra Nath Rimal and mother Sita Devi Rimal. He received his primary education from Nandiratri School, Naxal and completed his SLC-level education from Durbar High School in 1950. He enrolled in Bengal Engineering College to study electrical engineering under Colombo plan but later shifted to civil engineering. He graduated in 1957.
Notable works
He standardised the flag of Nepal in 1962 on the request of King Mahendra. He calculated the mathematical specifications required to draw the map which was included in the-then constitution. He designed multiple historical sites and monuments such as Shahid Gate, Solatee hotel, building of Nepal Academy and many other government buildings. He was involved in the design of Narayanhiti Palace which was designed by Benjamin Polk. He has designed various temples such as Bhaleshwor Mahadev, Vishnu temple in Singapore and Unmata Bhairav temple inside Pashupati temple complex.
He was awarded with National Araniko Award, 2077 by Nepal Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 for his contribution to fine art.
Personal life
He is married to Shashi Rimal. They have three children.
References
Nepalese architects
Nepalese civil servants
Nepalese engineers
1935 births
People from Kathmandu
Living people
Durbar High School alumni |
Homies () is a South Korean hip hop group composed of Chin, CK, and Louie. They first garnered attention when they appeared on the YouTube hip hop audition program Superbee's Rap Academy in 2019.
They signed to Yng & Rich Records in 2020 where they released the studio album Generation (2021) and extended plays Ghetto Superstars (2020) and Family Business (2021).
They won Discovery of the Year at the Gaon Chart Music Awards, Best Music Style at the Melon Music Awards, and Best New Artist at the Korean Hip-hop Awards.
Career
2019-2020: Ghetto Kids and signing to Yng & Rich Records
In June 2019, Homies appeared on the YouTube hip hop audition program Superbee's Rap Academy and finished in second place. In November 2019, they released their debut EP B.F.A.M.
In January 2020, they released the EP 진인사대천명. In May 2020, they released their debut studio album Ghetto Kids, which was nominated for Underrated Album of the Year at the Korean Hip-hop Awards. In December 2020, they signed to Yng & Rich Records, a hip hop label established by rapper Superbee.
2021-2022: "Siren Remix"
In February 2021, Homies won New Artist of the Year at the Korean Hip-hop Awards. In March 2021, they released the single "Siren Remix" featuring rappers Uneducated Kid and Paul Blanco. It became their first single to enter the Gaon Digital Chart and peaked at number 18. In May 2021, they released the EP Family Business. In December 2021, they released their second studio album Generation and won Best Music Style at the Melon Music Awards.
In January 2022, they won Discovery of the Year at the Gaon Chart Music Awards.
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Musical groups established in 2019
South Korean hip hop groups |
Imran Hills, named for the ancient King Imran, are historical places known for their views of the Indus River.
Hills |
Ploštín () is a settlement and a borough of Liptovský Mikuláš, located 3 km south of the city center. In 2009, Ploštín had a population of 481.
Geography
Ploštín lies in Liptov Basin under Low Tatras. The cadastral territorz of the former independent municipality is spread between Roháčka, Jamy, Ploštín and Tretiny hills peaking at between 676 and 827 meters above sea level. It borders the borough of Iľanovo in the east and Demänová borough in the west. The settlement center is located 635 meters above sea level.
Rivers
Ploštínka stream flows though the settlement in the south-west to north-east direction.
History
Ploštín is first mentioned in 1355. Archeological findings at Rohačka evidence settlements dating to late bronze age. After 1976, the city became a borough of Liptovský Mikuláš. In mid-15th century, Ploštín was considered a part of Liptovský Hrádok municipality.
Culture and services
Historical landmarks
Lutheran prayer room with a bell tower: a single level brick building dating to early 20th century. The bell tower is square based and topped with a baroque metal decorations.
Transport
The borough is served by bus lines 3 and 4 ran by MAD Liptovský Mikuláš.
Emergency services
Despite its minimal size, Ploštín is protected by a voluntary fire brigade.
In pop culture
A punk band Ploštín Punk was established in 1992.
References
Sources
ULIČNÝ, Ferdinand (ed.): Ploštín. Liptovský Mikuláš : Tranoscius, 2007. 213 s. ISBN 978-80-7140-273-2
External references
Oficiálna stránka mesta Liptovský Mikuláš
Liptovský Mikuláš District |
Before partition, Ireland was governed through the Dublin Castle administration and the Home Office was also responsible for Irish affairs. From 1924 to 1972, Northern Ireland affairs were handled by the Northern Ireland Department of the Home Office. In August 1969, for example, Home Secretary James Callaghan approved the sending of British Army soldiers to Northern Ireland.
As the Troubles worsened, the UK Government was increasingly concerned that the Northern Ireland Government (at Stormont) was losing control of the situation. On 24 March 1972, it announced that direct rule from Westminster would be introduced. This took effect on 30 March 1972.
The Northern Ireland Office was then created.
References
History of Northern Ireland
Government of Northern Ireland
Home Office (United Kingdom) |
Asaduzzaman Noor (born 08 August 1991 in Bangladesh) better known as Asad Noor, is an exiled Bangladeshi blogger, human rights defender, and online activist. Noor is known for advocating freedom of expression, LGBT rights, and criticizing religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh. He has been subject to multiple persecutions and charges filed by the Bangladeshi authorities for "offensive comments about Islam". He is accused of "spreading rumors and defaming Islam on Facebook." He fled the country in discreet in February 2019, and is reported to living in India.
Life
Noor was born on 08 August 1991 in the Muksudpur Upazila of the Gopalganj district in Bangladesh. He began his blogging career in 2013, being involved in solidarity with the Shahbag movements. He began receiving death threats from fundamentalists from 2015, regarding his online activism. On 26 December 2017, Noor was arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, in response to a lawsuit filed by an Islamic religious clergy for sharing content on social media that hurt "religious sentiments." He was later charged with defamation of religion under the 2013 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act on 11 January 2018. He was released on bail on 16 August 2018. He was captured by the military intelligence on 11 September of that same year, as an Islamic Advocacy group of madrassah teachers and students urged for his imprisonment.
On 13 July 2020, Noor published several video blogs condemning the intimidation of Bangladesh's minority Buddhist community in Rangunia Upazila of the Chittagong District. Consequently, a local Awami League leader filed a lawsuit against Noor on July 14 2020 under the Digital Security Act, with the charges of "hurting religious sentiments" and "running propaganda against the spirit of the liberation war." One of Noor's video blogs presented the alleged vandalism of an under-construction Buddhist statue of a Buddhist monastery in Rangunia. Noor claimed the attackers were backed by forest officials and the local AL MP, because they conspired to banish the monks from the area. Following Noor's release of his videos, local Islamic groups protested against the blogger and accused him of undermining religious harmony between Muslims and Buddhists.
On July 18, 2020, Noor's family members, including his elderly parents were detained by the police for 48 hours.
Reactions
Upon his arrest by the Bangladeshi authorities in 2017, PEN America urged for his immediate release from prison. In remarks to his family's detention, Amnesty International’s South Asia Researcher Sultan Mohammed Zakaria stated “The harassment of Asad’s family is not an isolated incident. It is part of a worrying pattern targeting families of human rights defenders in exile.” Regarding his persecutions by the Bangladeshi authorities, the United Nations special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Mr.Ahmed Shaheed said “We express grave concern at the alleged persecution and prosecution of Mr. Noor, for the exercise of his human rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, opinion and expression.” In August 2020, Humanist International urged the Bangladesh police to drop all the charges against Noor.
In 2021, during a General Debate at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Humanists International's Advocacy Officer Lillie Ashworth raised the issue of Asad Noor's persecution and demanded justice for him. She also expressed her concerns about the detention of Noor’s family members by Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies, and urged Bangladeshi authorities to practice its "moral and legal obligation" to protect the "rights of human rights activists."
References
Living people
1991 births
Bangladeshi atheists
Bangladeshi bloggers
Bangladeshi emigrants to Germany
Bangladeshi secularists
Bangladeshi humanists
Bangladeshi former Muslims
Former Muslim critics of Islam
Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh |
Lillian B. Miller (1923–1997) was an American art historian who served as historian of American culture at the National Portrait Gallery. She was known for her work studying Charles Willson Peale and his family.
Biography
Lillian Beresnack was born in 1923 in Boston to Lithuanian immigrant parents. She was the daughter of a butcher. As a child, her passion was literature. She attended Dorchester High School for Girls.
Beresnack then matriculated to Radcliffe College, becoming the first member of her family to attend college. She commuted from the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston and worked as a secretary. She graduated Radcliffe in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature.
She then attended Columbia University as a graduate student, where she worked as a secretary to historian Jacques Barzun and literary professor Lionel Trilling. She ultimately received an A.M. and a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia. When Mary McCarthy left her teaching job at Bard College in 1947, Barzun and Trilling recommended Beresnack as a replacement, and she ultimately taught there for three years. In 1948, she married Nathan Miller, an economics historian whom she met in a seminar on American history.
In the 1950s, the Millers were living in Manhattan and having children. Miller was rejected for a American Association of University Women fellowship because she was pregnant.
In 1960, both Millers went to work at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where the university abandoned a nepotism rule to allow them to teach in the same history department. In the late 1960s, Miller published her dissertation, "Patrons and Patriotism: The Encouragement of Fine Arts in the United States: 1790–1860". This ultimately led to her getting a job as historian of the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery in 1971. The Millers thus moved to Bethesda, Maryland; her husband, who maintained his professor post at UWM, commuted to Milwaukee.
In 1981, she took a professor job at the Rochester Institute of Technology while maintaining her position at the Smithsonian.
Miller died on November 27, 1997, of a cerebral hemorrhage at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
References
External links
1923 births
1997 deaths
American art historians
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
Smithsonian Institution people
Rochester Institute of Technology faculty
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Radcliffe College alumni
Columbia University alumni
Deaths by intracerebral hemorrhage
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The 1974–75 season was Manchester City's 73rd season of competitive football and 55th season in the top division of English football. In addition to the First Division, the club competed in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Texaco Cup.
First Division
League table
References
External links
Manchester City F.C. seasons
Manchester City |
Fuego Del Sol ("Fire of the Sun") (born October 16, 1995), is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Career
Del Sol debuted in May 2014, largely competing on the Independent circuit in Oklahoma and Texas. Del Sol participated in Impact Wrestling's Collision in Oklahoma on October 14, 2017, in a four-way match against Trevor Lee, DJZ and Malico. At Victory Road on September 14, 2019, Del Sol and Retro Randy were defeated by The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander). He also wrestled for WWE on January 6, 2020, as KJ Orso on Raw, losing to Erick Rowan.
Del Sol made regular appearances at AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation throughout All Elite Wrestling's residency at Daily's Place during the COVID-19 pandemic. His first appearance was on June 9, when he teamed with Low Rida in a losing effort against SCU (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). His run resulted in a 34 match losing streak, which was broken on July 6, 2021, where he teamed with Marko Stunt to defeat Ryzin and Baron Black.
On August 13, 2021, Del Sol made his AEW Rampage debut in an AEW TNT Championship match, losing to Miro. Following the match Sammy Guevara offered him a contract and announced that he had joined the main roster. Del Sol would then purchase a new car which he would ultimately lose to Miro on September 17, in a Championship vs. Car match. On the September 29 episode of AEW Dynamite Del Sol interfered in Guevara's match against Miro, resulting in Guevara winning the championship. On December 8, 2021, Del Sol was defeated by Hook on Rampage. On January 26, 2022, Del Sol once again aided Guevara in his TNT Championship match against Cody Rhodes at Beach Break.
Personal life
Del Sol resides in Oklahoma City.
Championships and accomplishments
Imperial Wrestling Revolution
IWR Revolutionary Championship (1 time)
Sabotage Wrestling
Sabotage Championship (1 time)
References
External links
1995 births
All Elite Wrestling personnel
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Alabama |
Pontllanfraith Low Level railway station served the village of Pontllanfraith, historically in Monmouthshire, Wales, from 1857 to 1964 on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
History
The station was opened as Tredegar Junction on 25 May 1857 by the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway. An excursion ran on 1 June 1857, which carried 15000 people and travelled to South Wales. Its name was changed to Pontllanfraith on 1 May 1905 and changed again to Pontllanfraith Low Level on 19 July 1950. It closed on 15 June 1964.
References
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
1857 establishments in Wales
1964 disestablishments in Wales |
The Chinese Ambassador to India is the official representative from the People's Republic of China to India.
List of representatives
This is a list of diplomatic representatives from China to India. It includes envoys of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1946 to 1950, and those of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1950.
See also
Embassy of China, New Delhi
References
India
China
China–India relations |
La pasajera () is a 2021 Spanish science-fiction comedy horror road movie directed by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez which stars Ramiro Blas, Cecilia Suárez, Paula Gallego and Cristina Alcázar.
Plot
Four people with different backgrounds (a skeevy driver, a religious Mexican, and a posh woman with her wayward teen daughter) coincide on a van trip across empty Spain. They enter in contact with an extraterrestrial entity, which possesses women and chops off the head of men.
Cast
Production
The screenplay was penned by Luis Sánchez-Polack based on a previous screenplay by Javier Echániz and Asier Guerricaechebarría. La pasajera is a Persons Films, La Dalia Films, SG Producciones and Eye Slice Pictures production, and it had support from Gobierno de Navarra and Navarra Film Office. It was fully shot in Navarre.
Release
The film screened at the Sitges Film Festival on 9 October 2021. Distributed by Karma Films, it was theatrically released in Spain on 18 February 2022.
Reception
Miguel Ángel Romero of Cinemanía gave the film 2 out of 5 stars considering that the film, blending B movie exploitation and Spanish costumbrismo, features comedy moments alongside a great deal of cringe.
Beatriz Martínez of El Periódico de Catalunya also rated it with 2 out of 5 stars, considering that although the film achieves a personality of its own, the special effects do their job, and the film displays a "not negligible" visual imagination, there is something unsettling lurking throughout the film, namely the ambiguity towards machismo.
Pablo Tocino of Mondosonoro scored 7 out of 10 points, considering that while Cristina Alcázar and Cecilia Suárez' performances are more than adequate, those of Ramiro Blas and Paula Gallego stand out in particular.
See also
List of Spanish films of 2022
References
Alien invasions in films
Spanish road movies
Spanish thriller films
Spanish comedy horror films
Spanish science fiction films
Films shot in Spain
2021 science fiction horror films
2021 thriller films
2020s Spanish-language films
Spanish science fiction horror films
Films set in Spain |
Needy Streamer Overload is a 2022 denpa-themed adventure visual novel for Microsoft Windows, developed by xemono and published by WSS playground. The player takes on the role of a manager for a female livestreamer, making decisions for her so that she can achieve her goal of reaching one million followers within a month. The game was released under the title Needy Girl Overdose in Japan.
Setting
is a mentally-ill young girl with a needy personality, who has dropped out of school and has confined herself at home, living together with the self-insert player protagonist. In order to pay for rent, in addition to meeting her parasocial attention needs, Ame decides to commence livestreaming on the internet, where she takes on the persona of , or for short, interacting with her stream viewers as she dons her wig and makeup. The protagonist, affectionally called , is tasked with managing her day-to-day life as she increases her follower count.
Gameplay
The player interacts with Ame exclusively through a pastel-themed Windows 95-esque user interface, selecting her daily tasks via desktop icons, monitoring her stats via the Task Manager, and conversing with her through an instant messenger service called JINE. Each day is divided into noon, dusk and evening timeslots, and various actions can take up one or multiple of these timeslots; Ame can only livestream during the evening, as that is the time of day where stream viewers are most active. During Ame's livestreams, the player takes on the role of a content moderator responsible for deleting or promoting viewer comments within the stream's livechat.
Alongside follower count, Ame has three stats which the player will need to monitor, namely stress, affection (towards the player), and mental darkness; should certain attributes become too high or low, Ame will begin to display adverse effects. Activities that the player can choose for Ame may involve searching for new stream ideas, spending time together, sleeping, or abusing prescription and illicit drugs; each activity raises and lowers Ame's stats in differing ways.
There are 22 different endings to the game, which are encountered based on the player's choices.
Development
Game development began in June 2020. , who had previously written various literature focused on mental illness, was responsible for the planning and writing of the game, while illustrator was responsible for the character designs. The game's art direction heavily draws influence from vaporwave aesthetics and retro pixel art from the PC-98 era, along with 1990s-era bishōjo games. There were originally four different female characters with unique personality traits planned during the early stages of development, however it was eventually decided that the final game would only feature a single heroine, combining various personality traits into the one character. The game consists of over 140,000 lines of dialogue.
Media
The game's theme song is "INTERNET OVERDOSE" by and Kotoko, composed and produced in a denpa song style. The song is available as a playable track in the music rhythm game Muse Dash, as part of a collaboration update.
Reception
As of February 2022, the game has sold over 200,000 copies on Steam, with a rating of "overwhelmingly positive" based on 5,800 user reviews.
IGN Japan notes that the game has merit as a work of satire intended at picking apart modern livestreaming culture and toxic relationships, and praises the game's art and presentation, however criticises the limited choices and gimmicks available to express the player character's persona in different ways, arguing that the player is not given the opportunity to become properly aware of any consequences from their interactions with Ame. In addition, the character of Ame is criticised as more of a "male nerd's delusion" of what girls are like, rather than how women realistically behave.
Dengeki Online suggests that despite the gratuitous use of mentally disturbing content, Needy Streamer Overload is a quality piece of work full of expressiveness that can only be delivered through games as an entertainment medium, while also pointing out that players unfamiliar with internet culture may not fully appreciate what the game attempts to portray.
A review from mentions that while the game has a few rough areas and bugs which detract from the experience, the game still represents a domestic Japanese indie title with a high degree of preciseness put into it, closely satirising the intended audience's internet addiction while at the same time acknowledging how it forms part of their identity.
provides a comparatively more critical review of the game, claiming that it is a disturbing and morally problematic title which uses ambiguity to hide the player's evident hatred towards Ame, as observable through the player's ability to torment her, and how the game rewards players who choose to ignore repercussions on Ame's mental health when allowing her to overdose on drugs and slice her wrists in order to progress through the game and unlock new scenarios to explore. The review also criticises the game's lack of sagacity when utilising shock value, suggesting that such usage moves beyond parodic intent.
References
External links
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD on Steam
2022 video games
Adventure games
Business simulation games
Social simulation video games
Video games about mental health
Video games about virtual reality
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games with alternate endings
Visual novels
Windows games
Windows-only games |
The 1973–74 season was Manchester City's 72nd season of competitive football and 54th season in the top division of English football. In addition to the First Division, the club competed in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the FA Charity Shield.
First Division
League table
References
External links
Manchester City F.C. seasons
Manchester City |
Yucca luminosa, more commonly referred to as its synonym Yucca rigida, is a plant species in the yucca genus native to northern Mexico. It is also commonly called Silver-leaf Yucca, Blue Yucca, and Rigid Blue Yucca. It grows in ravines of stony soil and limestone scrubland at elevations of above sea level.
Yucca luminosa usually grows individual or branched tall trunks, with a crown of powdery blue leaves that grow to long and narrowly lanceolate, tapering at both ends. It forms tall inflorescences with white flowers.
References
luminosa
Plants described in 1902
Flora of Durango
Flora of Chihuahua (state)
Flora of Coahuila |
This is a glossary of terms frequently used in nutrition. Words used in definitions that are defined elsewhere are italicized.
B
Body compositionThe ratio of muscle to fat tissue, or the breakdown of fat, muscle and bone in the body.
C
Cardiovascular enduranceThe ability to which the lungs and heart can support the necessary muscles with oxygen and nutrients during prolonged periods of exercise.
E
ExercisePhysical activity, often planned, structured and repetitive in nature.
F
FlexibilityRange of motion of limbs around joints.
Fundamental motor skillsFoundational movements such as jumping, throwing and running.
H
Health-related fitnessComponents of physical fitness that contribute to improved health, such as, cardiovascular fitness.
Healthy dietA diet centered in recommended portions of the main food groups and generally low in cholesterol and salt.
L
Locomotor skillsMovements involved in moving from one place to the next, such as walking.
M
Manipulative skillsAbility to control objects with the hands and feet.
Moderate physical activityActivity that elevates heart rate and breathing, but is not strenuous.
Muscular enduranceStamina of muscles, their ability to maintain activity.
Muscular strengthNecessary force to complete a given physical task, such as throwing a ball.
N
Nutrition factsInformation provided on the back of most food labels.
Nutritionally rich foodsFoods high in minerals, vitamins, fiber and other key nutrients.
P
Physical activityMovement resulting in energy expenditure.
Physical fitnessThe ability to complete physical activities on a daily basis.
S
SedentaryA lack of physical activity.
StaminaOne's ability to maintain physical activity.
V
Vigorous physical activityPhysical activity that is difficult to maintain for a long period of time, often leads to fatigue.
References
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Laurie Schlegel is an American politician serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 82nd district. She assumed office on May 10, 2021.
Education
Schlegel attended St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Louisiana State University and a Master of Arts in marriage and family counseling from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Career
Schlegel began her career as a sales manager for Marriott International. From 2001 to 2011, she was a pharmaceutical sales representative for AstraZeneca. In 2014 and 2015, she was a counselor for Catholic Counseling Services. Since 2015, she has worked for Lighthouse Counseling Center. Schlegel was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in a May 2021 special election, succeeding Charles Henry.
Schlegel has supported legislation that would ban transgender students from competing on girls' sports teams in schools.
References
Living people
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The Starwind 22 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Halsey Herreshoff as a cruiser and first built in 1982.
Production
The design was built by Starwind, from 1982 to 1984 and also by Chrysler Marine in the United States, but it is now out of production. It was replaced in production by the Starwind 223.
Design
The Starwind 22 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop or optional masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard. It displaces and carries of ballast. of flooding water ballast. The ballast is drained for road transport.
The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.
The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.
The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a straight settee and a drop-down dinette table that forms a double berth in the main cabin. The galley is located on the starboard side just aft of the bow cabin. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink. The head is located in the bow cabin on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is .
The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 273 and a hull speed of .
See also
List of sailing boat types
References
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Halsey Herreshoff
Sailboat types built by Chrysler Marine
Sailboat types built by Starwind |
Elena-Marie Bey is an American paralympic swimmer.
She competed at the 1976 Summer Paralympics, winning four gold, a silver and a bronze medal.
References
American swimmers |
Taka Borja (born 20 November 2003) is a Northern Mariana Islands association footballer who currently plays Teen Ayuyu and the Northern Mariana Islands national team.
Youth career
In 2015 Borja competed with Tan Holdings in a youth tournament in Guam. In the tournament he scored in a 2–4 defeat to Guam Shipyard FC. That year he also took an early lead in the under-12 division top scorer race. The following season he scored fifteen goals to secure the Golden Boot award as the top scorer for the under-14 league. As a youth he also played futsal and was the captain of Bedte FC.
By 2021 Borja had joined Teen Ayuyu and was playing with the senior squad in the Marianas Soccer League.
International career
Borja represented the Northern Mariana Islands in 2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification and 2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification. In 2018 he was named to the youth national team again for the East Asian Football Federation U15 Tournament in Xianghe, China and the Tuloy XO Cup held in the Philippines. He served as captain of the team during its time in China.
Borja made his senior international debut on 19 February 2022 in a friendly against Guam. Three days later he scored his first senior international goal in the second match of the series.
International goals
Scores and results list Northern Mariana Islands' goal tally first.
International career statistics
References
External links
National Football Teams profile
Global Sports Archive profile
2003 births
Living people
Association football forwards
Northern Mariana Islands footballers
Northern Mariana Islands international footballers |
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 16 June 1983) is the daughter of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Chairperson of Dubai Culture
& Arts Authority and member of the Dubai Council and Chairperson of Art Dubai.
Her Highness was born on 16 June 1983 and is married to Hamdan Bin Faisal AlQassimi which whom she has 3 children.
Her Highness has been actively engaged in culture and the arts within the UAE since the inception of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. She also advocates for the advancement of literature and strives to sustain a culture of reading. She has several initiatives including a recent one to renovate and modernise Dubai's Public Libraries, aiming to transform them into havens of lifelong learning, collaboration and creativity.
Roles and positions
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was appointed Chairperson of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) on 5 September 2019 having joined the organisation in 2008. Her Highness is also a member of the Dubai Council and patron of several key initiatives
Vice Chairman of the Emirates Literature Foundation
Patron of Dubai Design Week
Patron of Dubai Watch Week
Patron of The Global Grad Show
Patron of Dubai Arts Season
Achievements
As Chairperson of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority Her Highness launched Dubai Culture's Six-Year Strategic Roadmap, which aims to position Dubai as a global centre for culture and nurture the creativity talent developing in the region. Her Highness has also launched a number of initiatives to promote and encourage the growth of the cultural and creative industries across the region. These include “The Dubai Creative Economy Strategy” as well as a number of ‘Majilis’ talks and sessions.
Her Highness has spoken at Global Women's Forum 2020 (Dubai Women Establishment announces programme for Global Women's Forum Dubai 2020, 2020). She has also featured on the front cover or Vogue Arabia 50th issue
Her Highness also holds a black belt in taekwondo.
Career
Her Highness interned at Dubai Holding before joining the newly incepted Dubai Culture and Arts Authority in 2008 and subsequently was appointed chairperson in 2019. (Latifa bint Mohammed appointed Chairperson of Dubai Culture, n.d.)
Education
Sheikha Latifa holds an Executive MBA with Honours (2005-2007) and a graduate degree in Business Sciences specialised in Marketing from Zayed University (2001-2004)
Awards
First Arab Lady Of The Year Award in 2021
In 2021, Her Highness was awarded the First Arab Lady Of The Year Award in 2021 which recognises the role she has played in the resurgence of Dubai's cultural and creative sector and her support for innovative cultural initiatives that have enriched the local and regional cultural landscape
References
External links
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority
Dubai Design Week
Living people
Emirati businesspeople
Emirati politicians
Emirati Sunni Muslims
Maktoum family
1983 births |
The St. Thomas Tommies baseball team is a baseball team that represents the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) in the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tommies are members of the Summit League and play their home games at Koch Diamond in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They are led by thirteenth-year head coach Chris Olean.
Previous season
The Tommies finished the 2021 NCAA Division III baseball season 37–10 overall (17–2 conference) and first place in conference standings. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Tommies were selected to play in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, beginning in the Collegeville Regional. The Tommies would eventually win the Regional advancing to the College World Series, where they lost in the National Championship Series 0–2 to Salisbury Sea Gulls.
Preseason Summit poll
For the 2022 poll, St. Thomas was projected to finish in seventh in the Conference.
Roster
Schedule
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| 1 || February 18 || || at || Infinity Insurance Park • University Park, Florida || 3–4 || Tiburcio (1–0) || Constertina (0–1) || None || 745 || 0–1 || –
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| 2 || February 19 || || at FIU || Infinity Insurance Park • University Park, Florida || 1–3 || Clemente (1–0) || Gartner (0–1) || Lequerica (1) || – || 0–2 || –
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| 3 || February 19 || || at FIU || Infinity Insurance Park • University Park, Florida || 1–3 || Hernandez (1–0) || Esch (0–1) || None || – || 0–3 || –
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| 4 || February 20 || || at FIU || Infinity Insurance Park • University Park, Florida || 3–9 || Cabarcas (1–0) || Chiriboga (0–1) || None || – || 0–4 || –
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| 5 || February 25 || || vs || Malcolm U. Pitt Field • Richmond, Virginia || 2–0 || Retz (1–0) || Jeter (0–1) || Laubscher (1) || 35 || 1–4 || –
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| 6 || February 25 || || at || Malcolm U. Pitt Field • Richmond, Virginia || 3–4 || Kimbell (1–0) || Constertina (0–2) || None || 150 || 1–5 || –
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| 7 || February 26 || || Sacred Heart || Malcolm U. Pitt Field • Richmond, Virginia || 3–2 || Coborn (1–0) || Attonito (0–1) || None || 55 || 2–5 || –
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| 8 || March 1 || || at || U.S. Bank Stadium • Minneapolis, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 9 || March 4 || || at || Charles Schwab Field Omaha • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 10 || March 5 || || at Creighton || Charles Schwab Field Omaha • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 11 || March 6 || || at Creighton || Charles Schwab Field Omaha • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 12 || March 9 || || at Iowa || Duane Banks Field • Iowa City, Iowa || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 13 || March 11 || || at Northwestern || Rocky Miller Park • Evanston, Illinois || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 17 || March 22 || || at Iowa || Duane Banks Field • Iowa City, Iowa || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 18 || March 25 || || at || Tal Anderson Field • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 19 || March 26 || || at Omaha || Tal Anderson Field • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 20 || March 27 || || at Omaha || Tal Anderson Field • Omaha, Nebraska || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 21 || March 30 || || || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 22 || April 1 || || || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 23 || April 2 || || South Dakota State || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 24 || April 3 || || South Dakota State || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 25 || April 5 || || || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 26 || April 8 || || at || Newman Outdoor Field • Fargo, North Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 27 || April 9 || || at North Dakota State || Newman Outdoor Field • Fargo, North Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 28 || April 10 || || at North Dakota State || Newman Outdoor Field • Fargo, North Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 29 || April 13 || || at Minnesota || Siebert Field • Minneapolis, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 30 || April 15 || || at || Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex • Stephenville, Texas || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 31 || April 15 || || at Tarleton State || Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex • Stephenville, Texas || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 32 || April 16 || || at Tarleton State || Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex • Stephenville, Texas || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 33 || April 19 || || at Minnesota || Siebert Field • Minneapolis, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 34 || April 22 || || || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 35 || April 23 || || Northern Colorado || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 36 || April 24 || || Northern Colorado || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 37 || April 27 || || at Minnesota || Siebert Field • Minneapolis, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 38 || April 29 || || || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 39 || April 30 || || Western Illinois || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 40 || May 1 || || Western Illinois || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 41 || May 3 || || at || Franklin Field • Franklin, Wisconsin || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 42 || May 6 || || at || J. L. Johnson Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 43 || May 7 || || at Oral Roberts || J. L. Johnson Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 44 || May 8 || || at Oral Roberts || J. L. Johnson Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma|| – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 45 || May 10 || || at || Duffy Bass Field • Normal, Illinois || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 46 || May 13 || || at South Dakota State || Erv Huether Field • Brookings, South Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 47 || May 14 || || at South Dakota State || Erv Huether Field • Brookings, South Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 48 || May 15 || || at South Dakota State || Erv Huether Field • Brookings, South Dakota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 49 || May 19 || || Omaha || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 50 || May 20 || || Omaha || Koch Diamond • St. Paul, Minnesota || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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| 51 || May 21 || || Omaha || TBA • TBA || – || – || – || – || – || – || –
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References
St. Thomas
St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies baseball seasons
St. Thomas |
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