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Saint David's Day is currently not a bank holiday in Wales. Some Welsh politicans have proposed than the national day of Wales, observed on 1 March, be designated as a public holiday. Polls show the proposal to have majority support in Wales. The UK Government holds the power to designate public holidays in Wales, and have refused proposals for either designating the day or devolving powers to the Welsh Government, which supports the proposal. The UK Government stated that designating the day would not be feasible due to the high numbers of commuters crossing the England–Wales border. In response to the UK Government's refusal, some public bodies in Wales have unofficially designated the day to be a holiday for their staff.
Background
Saint David's Day is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD. On the day, traditional festivities are held across Wales, with parades held in various towns and cities in the country.
St David's Day, along with St George’s Day for England, are not public holidays in the United Kingdom. However, St Patrick’s Day for Northern Ireland, and St Andrew's Day for Scotland are, with the latter designated as a public holiday in Scotland in 2007, by the then Labour Scottish Government, which, unlike Wales, holds the powers to designate public holidays. If defining the UK Government to be the responsible elected goverment for England, that would make Wales the only country in the UK unable to decide its own public holidays.
Powers to designate public holidays in England and Wales are held by the UK Government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
History
In 2000, the then National Assembly for Wales (now Senedd) voted unanimously in support for the granting of St David's Day to be a bank holiday.
A 2006 poll showed support for a St David's Day national bank holiday to be at 87%.
A 2007 petition was rejected by the then Labour UK Government, under Tony Blair.
In 2018, the UK Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, campaigned for making St David's Day and St George's Day bank holidays, together with St Andrew's Day and St Patrick's Day, as part of a plan to have all four patron saint days become UK-wide bank holidays.
In 2018, a YouGov poll conducted between October 2017 and March 2018, showed wide support (49-67%) for all patron saint days to become a bank holiday in their respective countries, with Corbyn's proposal for four UK-wide holidays supported only by 13-24% of sampled populations of the four countries. 58% of the Welsh sampled in the poll supported a Welsh bank holiday on 1 March, 17% a UK-wide holiday on 1 March, 20% opposed and 5% do not know.
In March 2021, a petition to the Senedd was rejected, as it concerned a proposal the Senedd or Welsh Government was not responsible for.
In October 2021, Gwynedd Council called on the UK Government to consider recognising St David's Day as a day of national celebration, and to devolve powers over bank holidays. Both were rejected by the government.
In February 2022, an e-petition supporting the proposal exceeded 10,000 signatures.
Unofficial designation
Until 2015, Isle of Anglesey County Council staff, celebrated St David's Day as a statutory/concessionary holiday following the council's establishment in 1996. The holiday's designation for council staff ended in 2015 following the formal adopting of a single status (job evaluation).
In 2018, a Powys County Council motion to make 1 March a bank holiday for staff, was voted down by 12 votes.
Carmarthenshire County Council has asked for an all-Wales approach to a St David's Day bank holiday.
In January 2022, Gwynedd Council voted to allow its staff to celebrate St David's Day with a paid day off work despite the UK government's refusal. Gwynedd councillors described the situation "like Oliver Twist", where they have to ask the UK government for a public holiday on Wales' national day, whereas an additional bank holiday was quickly created for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. The council designated 1 March 2022, to be an "additional holiday day" for Council staff. A Gwynedd Council report, stated that it would cost the council £200,000 every year. Teachers would have to continue to work on the day, as their contracts are not the council's responsibility.
On 27 January 2022, Caerphilly County Borough Council (CCBC) announced they would also lobby the Welsh and UK Governments for a St David's Day bank holiday. Following unanimous support from all council members to lobby for a St David's day bank holiday, Caerphilly Council leader Philippa Marsden suggested that all of Wales deserved a national holiday and that an all-Wales approach would be most appropriate "It would not be right or fair for those employees of CCBC alone to benefit from a public holiday, whilst their family members or neighbours employed elsewhere do not."
Other councils in Wales have announced they do not have plans to designate 1 March as a holiday for staff.
By late February, thirteen social enterprises in Wales have announced they will give their staff a day off on 1 March.
For St. David's Day 2022, Eryri/Snowdonia National Park Authority announced that "The staff received the extra day of holiday last year as a reward for their hard work over the pandemic and we feel that the same should happen again this year," according to Wyn Ellis Jones. In addition to this, more than a dozen social enterprises gave staff the day off work. These included the charity People and Work in Cardiff and Pentre (Rhondda), saying that it's decision reflected the changing face of Wales.
Support
A 2006 poll showed support for a St David's Day national bank holiday to be at 87%. Support for the holiday remained high at 65% even when asked if another public holiday is lost to provide a slot for St David's Day. A 2018 YouGov poll showed 75% support for a St David's Day bank holiday (58% Wales-only holiday; 17% UK-wide holiday).
Supporters for the designation, cite various reasons for a St David's Day bank holiday. They argue that Scotland and Northern Ireland having their patron saint day's to be a bank holiday is a reason for Wales to have the same. Economically, they argue that the bank holiday would potentially lead to a boost to the Welsh economy, tourism, and increase the international appeal of Wales. Culturally, supporters say the day would provide an opportunity to celebrate Wales as a whole, Welsh historical events, traditions, heritage, and the life of St David. It would also allow a better chance for parades to be organised for the day. Celebrating St David's day as a public holiday in Wales is supported by all parties and members of the Senedd which include the Welsh Labour government, Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Conservatives.
Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Jane Dodds supports St David's Day being made a bank holiday by saying; "This is the day we all come together to celebrate the huge tapestry of Welsh culture and remember our collective history. It is only right therefore that St David’s Day, Wales' national day, is made a public holiday just like St Andrew’s Day in Scotland and St Patrick’s Day in Ireland."
Non party-political pro-independence movement group YesCymru have showed support for a St David's Day public holiday.
A Senedd debate will be held on March the 2nd, 2022 following refusals of the UK government to instate a St David's day bank holiday at the request of the Welsh government and all the opposition Senedd parties. The Welsh government said, "We've repeatedly asked the UK government for the Senedd to have the powers to make St David's Day a bank holiday, and it's disappointing to see these requests continue to be refused."
Online petition
In February 2022, over 10,000 people have signed a e-petition for St David's Day to be designated a bank holiday, on the UK Parliament's e-petition site. Petitions with over 10,000 receive a response from the UK Government, with petitions over 100,000 considered for a UK parliamentary debate. The UK Government responded stating that there are no plans to make St David's Day a bank holiday due to its considerable cost to the economy. Although a previous admission, stated that the cost of the one-off bank holiday for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 cost £1.2 billion.
Opposition
Powers to designate public holidays in Wales are held by the UK Government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The UK Government has resisted calls for a public holiday in Wales every 1 March. In December 2021, the government claimed that there were too many people commuting across the border between Wales and England, for the public holiday to be economically feasible. Minister for Small Business and MP for Sutton and Cheam in London, Paul Scully, said "While we appreciate that the people of Wales want to celebrate their patron saint, more people work across the English/Welsh border than across the English/Scottish border [...] caus[ing] greater business disruption [...] if we had separate bank holidays".
UK tabloid, the Daily Mail, voiced their criticisms of a St David's Day bank holiday in Wales, claiming taxpayers would have to pay for the bank holiday for Welsh nationalists, following reports that the Gwynedd Council decision to designate the day as an additional holiday would cost £200,000.
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Diorygma fuscum is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in China, it was formally described as a new species in 2016 by Jian Li and Ze-Feng Jia. The type specimen was collected from Wanmulin, Fangdao Town (Jian'ou, Fujian Province) at an altitude of ; here it was found growing on bark. The specific epithet fuscum ("brown") refers to the lichen's mature ascospores, which are brownish in colour. Secondary chemicals that occur in the lichen include stictic acid (major), and minor to trace amounts of constictic acid, hypostictic acid, and hypoconstictic acid. The presence of stictic acid helps distinguish this species from the similar Diorygma pruinosum.
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Graphidaceae
Lichens described in 2016
Lichens of China |
Commerce was launched in 1813 at Prince Edward Island. She made one voyage to the East Indies, sailing under a licence from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked on 13 July 1823.
Career
Commerce first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1814. Her owners were Lemuel and John Cambridge.
In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.
On 10 May 1814, Commerce, Cole, master, sailed from Portsmouth, bound for Batavia. She arrived there in September, "after a pleasant 17 weeks' passage." She returned to Gravesend on 28 June 1815. From there she sailed to Helvoet.
In 1821 Commerce was registered at Bristol with John Cambridge, owner.
Fate
Commerce, John Toms, master, was wrecked on 13 July 1823 near Matan, while sailing from Quebec to Bristol. Another report put the site of the wrecking west of "Matans".
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HMS Topaze was a protected or third-class cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. The vessel was the lead of the class, also known as the Gem class, which were more powerful than preceding protected cruisers. Launched on 23 June 1904, Topaze joined the Channel Fleet and often acted as a flotilla leader for the destroyers of the Navy. At the beginning of the First World War, the cruiser operated with the Fifth Battle Squadron, but was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1915. There, the cruiser operated with ships of the Italian Regia Marina to enforce the blockade on Albania and to escort Italian troops and supplies to the front. Topaze also escorted shipping in the Indian Ocean in 1917. After the Armistice in 1918, the cruiser returned to the United Kingdom and was decommissioned on 7 October 1919. Topaze was sold and broken up in Germany.
Design and development
Topaze was one of two protected cruisers, or Gem-class third class cruisers, ordered by the British Admiralty under the 1902/1903 Programme. The design was generally similar to the preceding , but had more armour, mounted more guns, was faster and had improved seakeeping. The destroyer had an overall length of and a length of between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was at deep load. Power was provided by ten Normand boilers venting through three funnels which fed two 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines rated at and drove two shafts to provide a design speed of . A total of of coal was carried to give a design range of at and at . The ship had a complement of 296 officers and ratings.
Armament consisted of twelve QF Mark III guns, one mounted fore and another aft, the remainder lining the sides to give a broadside of seven guns. Each mount had a gun shield with of armour. A secondary armament of eight QF 3-pdr (47 mm) guns was carried and four Vickers Maxim guns for protection against torpedo boats and other light craft. The original design had no torpedo tubes. However, two tubes for torpedoes were fitted. The deck armour was distributed so that it was less at the ends, down to on the flat, and up to on the slope amidships. Fire control was undertaken from conning towers which were fitted with of armour. The ship was equipped with voice pipes but no formal fire control system or range finder.
Construction and career
Laid down by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead on 14 August 1902 and launched on 23 June the following year, Topaze was completed in November 1904. The vessel was the fourth of the name in Royal Navy service. The ship was commissioned on 6 December into the Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet. For the following decade, the ship served in various capacities in the fleet. In April 1909, the cruiser was allocated as the flotilla leader to the newly formed Fourth Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth. Topaze continued to act as the leader for destroyers until the early part of 1913, at which time the cruiser was attached to the Sixth Battle Squadron. On 1 April, the cruiser was commissioned at Chatham and then reassigned back to Portsmouth.
At the start of the First World War, Topaze was serving with the Fifth Battle Squadron under the battleship . The squadron was allocated to the Channel Fleet. The destroyer remained with the squadron as ievery vessel is denuded. On 2 November, the ship joined the battleship as part of the Channel Fleet based at Portland. On 28 December, the cruiser was escorting the battleship out on gunnery exercises. The small flotilla had no destroyer escort and was therefore vulnerable to submarine attack. The German submarine took advantage of this vulnerability and torpedoed the battleship on 1 January. Topaze saw the larger vessel list to starboard and the sailors starting to evacuate the stricken ship. Heavy sea hindered the rescue, but 43 were rescued by the cruiser before the battleship finally sank.
The increasing need for naval vessels in the Mediterranean Sea led to the gradual transfer of the Channel Fleet to that theatre. By 8 April, Topaze was the only vessel remaining, alongside the battleship , in the command. Initially, it was envisaged that the cruiser would join the newly formed Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron, but Topaze proved too slow to keep up with the more modern ships. Instead, the cruiser left Dover to join the Mediterranean Fleet on 23 June. The British vessels operated with the Regia Marina against the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. On 28 July, the cruiser joined three Italian destroyers in hunting an Austro-Hungarian raiding force at Pelagosa. The combined force then enforced a blockade in the Adriatic Sea from 6 October. The importance of the blockade was such that even when more modern light cruisers arrived, Topaze remained on station. A typical patrol after 27 November involved the cruiser and one or two destroyers spending 30 hours off the coast of Albania. In December, the cruiser was also involved in escorting Italian troops and supplies to the front, including 20,000 soldiers carried to Vlorë. It was during one of these sailings, on 4 December, that the cruiser was attacked along with the Italian destroyer .
On 4 March 1917, Topaze was reposted to the East Indies Station. The cruiser was sent, along side protected cruiser and Exmouth, to perform escort duties in the Indian Ocean in exchange for the Japanese sending the protected cruiser and 8 destroyers to the Mediterranean. Topaze was based at Aden. The reinforcements proved invaluable in providing safety to shipping navigating crucial trade routes, from Freemantle to Colombo, the Red Sea and Cape Town, and between Mumbai and the Persian Gulf. By July, the cruiser had returned to the Mediterranean, joining the British Adriatic Squadron.
After the Armistice of 11 November 1918 and the end of the First World War, the Royal Navy returned to a peacetime level of mobilisation and surplus vessels were culled. By the middle of the following year,Topaze was the only light cruiser remaining at the Royal Navy base in Egypt. The ship sailed to Portsmouth and was decommissioned on 7 October 1919. On 22 September 1921, the cruiser was sold to G Cohen to be broken up in Germany.
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World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom |
Sousa is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on April 24, 2012. Sousa is named for American bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa.
Sousa is one of the better preserved of many peak ring basins on Mercury.
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Punctularia strigosozonata is a fungus species of the genus Punctularia. It was originally described in 1832 by Lewis David de Schweinitz as a member of genus Merulius. Patrick Talbot transferred it to genus Punctularia in 1958. Punctularia strigosozonata produces the antibiotic phlebiarubrone.
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Corticiales
Fungi described in 1832
Taxa named by Lewis David de Schweinitz |
Bytyqi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arbër Bytyqi (born 2003), Kosovo Albanian professional footballer
Bardhec Bytyqi (born 1997), Albanian professional footballer
Enis Bytyqi (born 1997), Kosovo Albanian professional footballer
Fabiana Bytyqi (born 1995), Czech professional boxer of Kosovan descent
Hysen Bytyqi (born 1968), Kosovo agricultural scientist
Sinan Bytyqi (born 1995), retired Kosovo Albanian professional footballer
Zymer Bytyqi (born 1996), Kosovan footballer
Albanian-language surnames
Ethonymic surnames |
The 2022 Tulane Green Wave football team will represent Tulane University in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Green Wave will play their home games at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, and compete in the American Athletic Conference (The American). They will be lead by seventh-year head coach Willie Fritz.
Schedule
Tulane and The American announced the 2022 football schedule on February 17, 2022.
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Tulane
Tulane Green Wave football seasons
Tulane Green Wave football |
Japan is scheduled to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which takes place between 4–13 March 2022. In total, 29 athletes are expected to compete.
Administration
President of the Japanese Paralympic Committee Junichi Kawai serves as Chef de Mission.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Alpine skiing
Japan is scheduled to compete in alpine skiing.
Biathlon
Japan is scheduled to compete in biathlon.
Cross-country skiing
Japan is scheduled to compete in cross-country skiing.
Snowboarding
Japan is scheduled to compete in snowboarding.
See also
Japan at the Paralympics
Japan at the 2022 Winter Olympics
References
Nations at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
2022
Winter Paralympics |
John Marshall Dowe (September 1, 1896 – May 15, 1946) was an American politician who served as Connecticut State Comptroller (1941–1943, 1945–1946). A Democrat from Killingly, he also served in the Connecticut General Assembly.
Political career
Dowe served in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1931 and 1933 and as deputy state comptroller from 1935 to 1939. A former chair of the Democratic State Central Committee, Dowe was the Democratic nominee for an open seat representing Connecticut's 2nd congressional district in 1932. Dowe narrowly lost the election to Republican nominee William L. Higgins.
Dowe was elected to the office of Connecticut State Comptroller in 1940 and again in 1944. When he died in office in May 1946, the Connecticut General Assembly appointed Raymond S. Thatcher to fill the vacancy.
Personal life
Dowe was born on September 1, 1896, and was raised in Killingly, Connecticut. Dowe attended the town's public schools as well as Brown University. In 1917, he left Brown without a degree to enlist in the United States Army and saw active duty overseas in World War I with the 103rd Field Artillery Regiment, 26th Infantry Division, American Expeditionary Force.
Returning to Killingly in May 1919, Dowe took over the running of the family business, which his grandfather had established in 1860. He dedicated ten years to running his business before entering public service in the 1930s. He had two sons, Marshall and David, with his first wife, Muriel Clark, who died in 1934. Dowe later married Doris Perry of Danvers, Massachusetts.
At the age of 49, Dowe suffered a heart attack and died at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford on May 15, 1946. Doris Dowe died by suicide on October 22, 1946. She had been in poor health and been "despondent" at her husband's death.
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1946 deaths
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Eddy Kaspard (born 27 May 2001) is a Tahitian association footballer who currently plays for Trélissac FC of the Championnat National 2, and the Tahiti national team.
Club career
As a youth Kaspard began playing with A.S. Manu-Ura from age five to ten. He then moved to A.S. Tefana where he remained until 2015. That year he participated in a trials in Metropolitan France organized by Tefana. After being spotted by Ligue 1 club AS Saint-Étienne in a tournament, he was invited to return when he turned sixteen. However, the return trial was unsuccessful and he then had a test period with AJ Auxerre. After not being offered a spot in the club, he had a successful trial with Trélissac FC of the Championnat National 2 in 2017. That year he reportedly also drew interest from AS Monaco. In the 2021–22 Coupe de France Kaspard appeared for Trélissac in the club's Seventh Round victory over A.S. Vénus, Tahiti's representative in the tournament that season.
International career
As a youth Kaspard represented Tahiti at the under-17 and under-20 levels. He captained the Tahiti team at the 2017 OFC U-17 Championship and scored against Papua New Guinea in the final match of the Group Stage. After turning down an offer to play for France at the under-19 level, Kaspard scored three goals in the 2018 OFC U-19 Championship. He scored against New Zealand and Papua New Guinea in the Group Stage before adding a goal against the Solomon Islands in the Semi-finals. Kaspard's three goals put him tied for third place in the tournament's Golden Boot race. Tahiti ultimately finished as runners-up in the tournament and qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland. Kaspard was then named to Tahiti's final roster for the tournament and appeared in all three of the nation's Group Stage matches. Ahead of the tournament he was identified as Tahit's Player to Watch by Goal.
In February 2022 Kaspard was named to Tahiti's roster for a training camp in France and 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification. He was one of four foreign-based players in the squad.
Personal life
Kaspard's father, Abet Kaspard Tahi, is a former footballer from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu and a former member of the New Hebrides national team. His mother is from Tahiti where the younger Kaspard was born and raised.
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Global Sports Archive profile
Soccerway profile
Oceania Football Center profile
2001 births
Living people
Association football forwards
Tahitian footballers
Tahiti international footballers |
"King" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their upcoming fifth studio album. It was written and produced by Florence Welch and Jack Antonoff. The song was released on 23 February 2022 as the first single of the album.
Background
On 21 February 2022, fans of the band received a medieval-styled tarot card in the mail that featured a photo of Florence Welch dressed in period clothing. The card had the word "King" on it, and each envelope was inscribed with the wording "Florence + the Machine - Chapter 1" along its back. That same day, digital billboards began popping up around London that featured the same picture of Welch that was printed on the card. The band's website was also updated with fifteen tarot cards, the first of which featuring the mailer's design.
Composition
The track begins with restrained vocals, and minimal instrumentation over a strong bassline. At the three-minute mark, the song reaches an orchestral crescendo. The song's lyrics focus on Welch's examination of her inner conflict between art and starting a family. It deals with the more universal theme of gender expectations, specifically societal expectations of womanhood. The sacrifices which women have to make when choosing between families and their careers is a core theme of the track. On the song's hook, Welch repeats the refrain "I am no mother. I am no bride. I am king."
Music video
The music video for "King" was directed by Autumn de Wilde and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, both of whom have collaborated with Florence and the Machine for their past music video releases. It was released on the same day as the single on the band's YouTube channel. The video was partially shot on location in Ukraine, with production being handled by Anonymous Content and Radioaktive Film. Jamie Feliu-Torres served as the music video's cinematographer, while visual effects were produced by Denis Reva and Framestore.
The video depicts Welch floating around "draped in royal purple robes, as she unseats and cracks the neck of a J. Crew-looking king", played by English actor Jack Riddiford. Welch's character is flanked by courtiers, billed as "Lace Monsters", that "dance behind her and whirl in jubilation while the orchestra [credited as the "Ghost Orchestra"] floats in suspended animation." Alexander Antofiy also stars as "The Henchman", a mysterious character who seemingly facilitates some of the actions taken by Welch's character.
Critical reception
Both the song and its music video were well received by critics, who praised its themes and composition. Tyler Golsen of Far Out Magazine praised its instrumental arrangement and musical composition, describing it as "anthemic and operatic". Elise Soutar, in a review for Paste, favorably compared the song's gradual build-up to Florence + the Machine's output on High as Hope.
Hannah Dailey of Billboard said that "the video is as dynamic as the song, which moves between soft, pensive moments and roaring, anthemic releases." Matt Moen, writing for Paper, described the video as " mixed-with-The Craft".
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2022 songs
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Polydor Records singles
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Olive Mirzl Hirst (20 June 1912 – 26 February 1994) was an English advertising agent. She was the first women to be appointed a managing director of an advertising agency in Britain when she was got to that position with Sells in September 1950. Hirst worked in each of the agency's departments and established its film and screen advertising advertisement. She was the first female to be voted vice-chairman of the Publicity Club of London in the same year, and the first woman to be made a fellow of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Hirst was president of the Women's Advertising Club of London from 1959 to 1960.
Early life
On 20 June 1912, Hirst was born in Mortlake, Surrey, the oldest daughter of Frederick and Mirzl. Not much is known about her early life. Hirst had two sisters and a brother. She was educated at The Abbey School in Mill Hill.
Career
Hirst left school in 1930 to join the advertising agency department of Sells in its overseas department the following year as secretary to H. G. Wood. She continued working with Wood until 1935, when he became chairman and managing director. Hirst aided Wood in a major way to operate Sells and accounts such as Brylcreem and Timothy Whites. Variously Hirst worked in each of the agency's departments, except for its studio department, and established the film and screen advertising department. Throughout the Second World War, she was given the responsibility of raising money for the Post Office by selling space for advertising in stamp books. It was Hirst's idea to sell advertising space in stamp books.
In January 1950, she was appointed to the board of directors of Sells. Patricia Mann, who wrote Hirst's obituary in The Guardian, said that this "was a signal achievement in what was very much a man's world." Following the death of Wood nine months later in the year, Hirst was unanimously appointed managing director of Sells. This made her the first woman to be made a managing director of an advertising agency in Britain. That same year, Hirst was made the first female to be voted the vice-chairman of the Publicity Club of London after a four-year spell on the council and as secretary to the finance committee (of which she chaired between 1946 and 1951, when more than 900 people became members). In 1959, she received the Layton Trophy from the Publicity Club. Hirst was the first woman to be made a fellow of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in 1961. She was also the first woman to gain election to its council.
From 1959 to 1960, Hirst was president of the Women's Advertising Club of London (WACL). She was one of the primary instigators of the publications of the WACL's project that led to the publication of the 150 Careers in Advertising, with Equal Opportunity for Men and Women (subtitled 'with equal opportunities for men and women') by Patricia Mann in 1971. The book stated career opportunities in advertising for women and men with particular advice for women and it was aimed towards graduates, school leavers and those who entered the advertising industry from another career. Following her retirement, she began her second career. Hirst spent several years working as a supplier of oil drilling equipment for an international oil equipment company. Hirst wrote a regular newsletter to keep in contact with employees.
Personal life
She was a Roman Catholic. On 26 February 1994, Hirst died of lung cancer at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in Westminster, having suffering from the cancer for quite some time. She was not married. A requiem mass was held for Hirst at House Chapel in Westminster's Mount Street on the morning of 7 March 1994.
Legacy
A black and white film negative of Hirst taken by Baron Studios in November 1964 has been held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London since 1999.
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1994 deaths
People from Surrey (before 1965)
20th-century English women
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The Essential is a compilation album by American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde, released in 2005.
Critical reception
Johnny Loftus, writing for AllMusic, noted the compilation's similarity to the band's 2002 compilation Classic Masters, but felt that like its 2002 predecessor, The Essential fails to "adequately replace" the 1996 compilation Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde. Loftus noted the omission of tracks from the band's 1993 album Mexican Moon and also the lack of any unreleased material. He concluded it was "a pretty satisfactory overview of Concrete Blonde's IRS output" and "probably OK for the casual fan". PopMatters described The Essential as "very good, if flawed overview of these cult darlings". They also noted the lack of any songs from Mexican Moon and also questioned whether the inclusion of "Little Wing" and "Roses Grow" can be considered essential.
Track listing
Personnel
Frank Collura – compilation producer
Evren Goknar – mastering
Asterik Studio – design
Diana Barnes – art direction
Gerri Miller – liner notes
Paul Natkin, Chansley Entertainment Archives – band photography
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Concrete Blonde albums
2005 compilation albums
Capitol Records compilation albums
EMI Records compilation albums |
La Grive-Saint-Alban is a geomorphological karstic site located on the territory of the French commune of Saint-Alban-de-Roche, in the Isère department. This area, long exploited for its red clay, is known since the XIX century for the richness of its fossil deposits, distributed from the Bathonian stage to the Miocene.
Description
La Grive-Saint-Alban is a karstic fracture caused by the hydrochemical and hydraulic erosion of carbonate rock formations, mostly limestone.
The geological layers shows a succession of argillaceous strata, from red clay to silt in an environment composed of marl and limestone.
Changes in the fossil composition are shown across the various layers, which indicates that the deposit happened in several stages. Various changes affected the European mammalian fauna during the Miocene (-25 to -5 Ma), caused by an important climate change leading Europe towards a temperate climate.
Several members are distinguished, named D, M1, M2, L3, L5 and L7, providing various species buried during different periods.
The fauna is diverse, with skeletal remains, jaws, molars and skeletons of carnivores, insectivores, rodents and ungulates, showing the faunal diversity of the Miocene. Several species of Sciuridae, Gliridae and Cricetinae, such as Democricetodon and Heteroxerus (a flying squirrel) are similar to those of the paleontological sites of Vieux-Collonges and Sansan.
A fossil of giant squirrel discovered on this site received the name Lagrivea after La Grive-Saint-Alban.
Bibliography
Charles Depéret, La faune de mammifères miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) et de quelques autres localités du bassin du Rhône : documents nouveaux et révision générale, éditions H. Georg, 1892
Claude Gaillard, Mammifères miocènes nouveaux ou peu connus de La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère), 1899
Jean Viret, Catalogue critique de la faune des mammifères miocènes de La Grive Saint-Alban, 1re partie: Chiroptères, carnivores, édentés pholidotes, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon, éditions A.Rey, 1951
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Bulletin of the Société anthropologique de Lyon
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Eugeniella palleola is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) in the family Pilocarpaceae. Found in Nicauragua, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by lichenologists Othmar Breuss and Robert Lücking. The type specimen was collected by Breuss in a montane rainforest on the Mombacho volcano (Granada ) at an altitude of ; here it was found growing on the smooth bark of small stems. The specific epithet palleola, meaning "rather pale", refers to the shade of the apothecial discs, which are lighter than other species of Eugeniella. Secondary chemicals that occur in the lichen include atranorin, stictic acid, and minor amounts of norstictic acid.
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Mikey Freedom Hart is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He has worked with Bleachers, Taylor Swift, Empress Of, Dev Hynes a.k.a Blood Orange, ASAP Rocky, Lana Del Rey, and The Chicks. He has received two Grammy nominations.
A classically trained pianist, Hart has performed and recorded with various musical instruments. He currently plays live for Bleachers and Blood Orange.
Life and career
Hart was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and was raised in New Orleans. He moved to New York City at the age of 16 where he started learning piano classically at age three, grew up performing and singing in church.
In 2018, Hart co-wrote the Dev Hynes song "Hope" featuring Puff Daddy and Tei Shi in the Negro Swan album.
He has played and added additional production to Santigold's single "Banshee".
He co-produced and co-wrote the Portugal. The Man's song "Easy Tiger".
In 2020, he played and recorded DX7, electric guitar, nylon guitar, Rhodes, and celesta on Taylor Swift's song "Gold Rush". He can be heard playing a number of instruments and adding his sound to Swift's albums Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Fearless (Taylor's Version), and Red (Taylor's Version).
He played piano on Lana Del Rey's albums Norman Fucking Rockwell! and Chemtrails over the Country Club.
Hart has also worked with several other artists including Empress Of, ASAP Rocky, The Chicks, and Emily Lind.
He was a producer on the Jon Batiste's single "Freedom" and album We Are for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2021.
Bands
Hart is currently playing keys for the Bleachers and they are currently performing for the NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. He is also playing keyboard and piano for Blood Orange, and they are also performing for the NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts.
He performed and helped direct the musical component of Louis Vuitton Fall 2019 Menswear Fashion show at Paris Fashion Week.
Ex Reyes
In 2015, Hart started a solo project as Brooklyn-based psychedelic-soul band "Ex Reyes". Different musicians are performing for the band.
In 2016, music video for the song "Keeping U in Line" was released. In 2017, an original song "Blame Me" was released with Amazon Music.
Accolades
Hart is nominated for two Grammy Awards at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for producing and playing on Jon Batiste's album We Are and for engineering on Taylor Swift's album Evermore.
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The Thanksgiving Day Disaster took place on November 29, 1900, at the annual football game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinals, also known as The Big Game. A large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1.00 admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof collapsed, spilling many spectators onto a furnace. Twenty-three people were killed, and over a hundred more were injured. The disaster remains the deadliest accident at a sporting event in U.S. history.
Background
Every year since 1892, the University of California and the Stanford University football teams play an annual game towards the end of November or the beginning of December. The event is known as The Big Game. From 1892 to 1900, the game took place at Recreation Park stadium in San Francisco on Thanksgiving day. The stadium was located in a heavily industrial part of San Francisco. After the 1900 game, the event's location would alternate between the two schools' campuses.
At the 1897 Big Game, portions of a packed grandstand collapsed under the weight of spectators. Nobody was killed, but a 10-year-old boy was hospitalized.
The disaster
On the day of the 1900 game, the San Francisco and Pacific Glass works factory had just opened across the street from the stadium. Because the factory was brand new, only one furnace was active that day. The remaining furnaces were not scheduled to start until the following Monday. The furnace was 30-by-60 feet and was filled with fifteen tons of molten glass with a temperature of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was enclosed by a series of binding rods that resembled croquet hoops.
The kickoff took place at 2:30 p.m. with a crowd of 19,000 spectators watching in the stadium, with thousands more watching in the street. A group of 500 to 1000 people who did not want to pay $1.00 for a ticket gathered on the factory's roof to watch for free. Factory employees tried to phone the police to turn back the crowd but were instead told to speak to the game's lieutenant. However, the officers stationed at the stadium denied them entry.
In 1900, rooftops were only required to hold 40 pounds of excess mass per square inch. However, the size of the crowd that day exceeded that number. Approximately twenty minutes after kickoff, the roof of the factory collapsed.
Of the hundreds of people on the roof, at least a hundred people fell four stories to the factory floor. Sixty to a hundred more people fell directly on top of the furnace, the surface temperature of which was estimated to be around 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Had the bodies broken through the furnace, they would have instantly been vaporized by the molten glass. Many of the spectators were pinned by the binding rods to the surface of the furnace, making escape more difficult. Fuel pipes were also severed, spraying many victims with scalding hot oil. The fuel also ignited, setting many bodies on fire. Factory employees worked to remove many bodies from the furnace, using metal poles to poke bodies out of reach.
Despite the incident, the game continued with Stanford winning.
Aftermath
Thirteen people were killed on the day of the disaster, with nine more dying in the hospitals in the days that followed. A 28-year-old man succumbed to his injuries three years after the disaster, bringing the final death toll to twenty-three. All of the victims were male, and most were children.
After the event, many American newspapers featured the incident on the front page. Most of the content in the sports sections was about the game itself. The San Francisco Chronicle referred to the event as the"closest and most exciting game of football ever played by the elevens of the two California universities." Writers for the student newspapers at both universities paid little attention to the disaster but wrote about the game itself.
The San Francisco Call referred to the incident as "the most horrifying accident that ever happened in San Francisco."
No physical memorial of the disaster exists, save for a cross at one 12-year-old boy's grave. The site of the disaster is now occupied by a UCSF building.
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November 1900 events
1900 disasters in the United States
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Challavanipeta Is a village Panchayat in Jalumuru mandal of Srikakulam district in indian state of andhrapradesh. The PIN code of this village is 532432.
Geography
Challavanipeta village is located in the UTC 5.30 time zone and it follows indian standard time(IST). Challavanipeta is located at .
This village is Located on National Highway 326A and Andhrapradesh State Highway 106.
Demography
Area of Challavanipeta Village is 38.23 km².
Population of this village, according to 2020, is 10146.
Population Density is 265 people per km².
Transportation
Challavanipeta village is located on major four road junction. National Highway 326A and Andhrapradesh State Highway 106 connects this village and forming a major four roads Junction.
APSRTC operates number of buses through this village .
APSRTC Connects Buses to Srimukhalingam, Pathapatnam
, Parlakimidi , Budithi, Saravakota, Nowthala, Jalumuru , Narasannapeta, Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam through this Challavanipeta village.
Autos and taxis are also available from Challavanipeta village to Kotabaommali , Jarjangi , Narasannapeta , Pathapatnam , Jalumuru.
References
Villages in Srikakulam district |
Oryol Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation named after V. V. Lukyanov or Lukyanov Oryol Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia (Oryol Law Institute; , Orlovskiy yuridicheskiy institut Ministerstva vnutrennikh del Rossiyskoy Federatsii imeni V. V. Luk'yanova; OrYUI MVD Rossii imeni V. V. Luk'yanova) is a state institute for training, retraining and advanced training for law enforcement agencies of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia, located in the city of Oryol, the administrative centre of Oryol Oblast.
History
On 20 April 1976, the Minister of Interior of the USSR Nikolai Shchelokov ordered the creation of the Oryol Special Secondary School of the Ministry of the Interior of the USSR (; OSSShM of MIA USSR). This school was created on the basis of the interregional school for the training of junior and middle commanding militsiya officers. The basis of the teaching staff of the school was made up of employees with a big practical experience in law enforcement. The first graduation of OSSShM cadets took place in August 1978.
In 1991, on the basis of OSSShM, the Oryol Higher School of the Ministry of the Interior of the RSFSR (; Orlovskaya vysshaya shkola MVD RSFSR) was created. On 17 May 1997, the Government of Russia transformed the school into the Oryol Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia. From 1 September 2008, the institute began to train specialists for traffic police units (GIBDD).
On 30 May 2013, the Minister of Interior of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltsev awarded the Oryol Law Institute the honorary name of Honoured Lawyer of Russia, Doctor of Law, Lieutenant General of militia Valery Vitalyevich Lukyanov.
Educational and operational activities
The institute includes 4 faculties (Faculty of training of traffic police specialists; Faculty of training investigators; Faculty of distance learning; Faculty of vocational training, retraining and advanced training), 14 divisions (chairs), 5 sections, and 8 auxiliary units.
The term of study is 5 years.
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Official site
Oryol
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1976 establishments in the Soviet Union
Police academies in Russia |
Gallia Club de Lucciana is a football club based in Lucciana, a town on the French island of Corsica. As of the 2021–22 season, it competes in the Championnat National 3, the fifth tier of the French football league system. Founded in 1929, the club's colours are red and white.
History
Gallia Club de Lucciana was founded in 1929. In 1988, the club merged with CA Bastia to form CA Bastia Gallia Lucciana. However, the club refound its independence in 2003.
In 2016, Lucciana won the Coupe de Corse. In 2017, the club achieved promotion to the Championnat National 3, the fifth tier of football in France.
Honours
References
Football clubs in Corsica
Association football clubs established in 1929
1929 establishments in France |
Cat Burglar is a 2022 interactive film created by Charlie Brooker and written by Mike Hollingsworth and James Bowman, with Annabel Jones as an executive producer. Debuting on Netflix on February 22, 2022, the viewer plays cartoon cat Rowdy who is trying to steal a valuable artwork from a museum which is being protected by security guard dog Peanut. The viewer must answer a series of trivia questions correctly in order to advance the story, with the animation having different outcomes depending on how the viewer answers. The film's slapstick humor and throwback animation style pays homage to the work of director Tex Avery.
Plot
Rowdy (James Adomian) a feline burglar learns that a museum is displaying a valuable artwork which he decides to steal. Dog Peanut (Alan Lee), the museum's security guard, is ordered by the museum's director (Trevor Devall) to protect the artwork from being stolen. The story sees Rowdy attempting to break into the museum and successfully steal the painting without being caught by Peanut, which is done by the viewer answering a series of trivia questions. Every time the viewer gets the questions right, the story progresses. The cartoon ends when either Rowdy successfully steals the artwork and wins, or the Rowdy runs out of lives and loses.
Production
The film was released on February 22, 2022. According to Netflix, the typical runtime is 15 minutes, and the film offers around 90 minutes of animation depending on the viewer's route through the story.
Cat Burglar was the first production by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones's production company Broke and Bones since it was acquired by Netflix. The pair were previously involved in interactive fiction in the 2018 special Bandersnatch, part of the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror.
Reception
Cat Burglar received generally positive reviews. Stuart Jeffries gave it 4 out of 5 stars in The Guardian, praising the music and the homages to classic cartoons. Lauren O'Neill of i also gave Cat Burglar 4 out of 5 stars, liking the interactive elements which make the viewer less passive in comparison to most streamed television. Caroline Framke of Variety enjoyed the interactive aspects, saying that was tempting to mess up to see what kind of twists the show would take. Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph was more critical, giving it 3 out of 5 stars, liking the animation, but feeling frustrated by the interactive elements, arguing that they felt, "tacked on".
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2020s American animated television series
2020s interactive fiction
English-language Netflix original films
Interactive television
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Aurora Evelyn Clark (born 1976) is an American computational chemist. She is a Professor and Director of the Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State University. Clark is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Early life and education
Clark was born in 1976 in a small, isolated town in central Washington. As she grew up on a farm, Clark enrolled in veterinary science at Central Washington University and earned her PhD in physical chemistry at Indiana University. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she studied the chemical interactions and bonding of heavy element complexes.
Career
Following her postdoctoral fellowship, Clark joined the chemistry department at Washington State University (WSU) in 2005. Upon joining the faculty, Clark used Pacific Northwest National Laboratories supercomputers to adapt Google's PageRank software into moleculaRnetworks, a cost-effective method for scientists to determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions. Following this, Clark was named the interim director of the materials science and engineering program at WSU.
As a result of her research in simulating highly radioactive systems, Clark was named deputy director of the IDREAM center, one of four DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers intended to expedite the cleanup of sites contaminated by nuclear weapons production. At the same time, she was also named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society for her "service to the nuclear/inorganic and computational chemistry communities and for her innovative research." The following year, Clark was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committee to develop the agenda for basic research in separations science.
In 2019, Clark was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her methods that integrate applied mathematics and chemistry to extract new information from modeling data. She was later also inducted into the American Physical Society for her work in "developing innovative methods to advance the study of complex chemical solutions and their interfaces using molecular simulation and integrating methods from graph theory, topology (shape) and geometry."
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Maurice Stanley Betteridge (19 February 1927 – 25 May 2020) was a church historian who served as Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne from 1979 to 1992.
Betteridge was born in New Zealand, and obtained MA and BD degrees from the University of New Zealand. He was ordained into the Anglican ministry by Percival Stephenson, and was greatly influenced by William Orange. Betteridge served as minister of St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin before being awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at General Theological Seminary in New York City, where he obtained an STM degree.
Betteridge moved to Australia and served as the Federal Secretary of the Australian Church Mission Society from 1973 to 1978, as well as lecturing at the University of New England.
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Seminary presidents
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Finland is scheduled to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which takes place between 4–13 March 2022.
Alpine skiing
Santeri Kiiveri is expected to compete in alpine skiing.
Cross-country skiing
Inkki Inolan is expected to compete in cross-country skiing.
Snowboarding
Matti Suur-Hamari is expected to compete in snowboarding.
See also
Finland at the Paralympics
Finland at the 2022 Winter Olympics
References
Nations at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
2022
Winter Paralympics |
Dariya Nikitichna Dobroczajeva (Ukrainian: Дарія Микитівна Доброчаєва; March 30, 1916, Khyshnyky, now Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine – December 1, 1995, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian botanist and university teacher.
Biography
Dobroczajeva was the head of the Botanical Museum of the Botanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She brought back numerous herbarium materials from expeditions in Ukraine and private trips to various countries, donating more than 30,000 herbarium sheets to the Institute of Botany. For a long time, she headed the herbarium exchange fund, significantly expanded her connections to botanical institutions in many countries of Europe, Asia and America, and intensified her work to replenish the world flora collection. Her area of specialty was Spermatophyte.
In 1969, Dobroczajeva was a recipient of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR for Science and Technology. In 1982, she received the Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR. The standard author abbreviation Dobrocz. is used to identify that person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Plants described
Centaurea alutacea Dobrocz. 1949
Centaurea czerkessica Dobrocz. and Kotov, 1962
Centaurea nigriceps Dobrocz. 1946
Centaurea pseudomaculosa Dobrocz. 1949
Centaurea pseudocoriacea Dobrocz. 1949
Centaurea ternopoliensis Dobrocz. 1949
Anthemis subtinctoria Dobrocz. 1961
Anthemis parviceps Dobrocz. and Fed. ex Klokov, 1974
Anthemis zephyrovii Dobrocz. 1961
Echium popovii Dobrocz. 1977
Myosotis popovii Dobrocz. 1957
Onosma guberlinensis Dobrocz. and Vinogr. 1966
Onosma macrochaetum Klokov and Dobrocz. 1957
Onosma volgense Dobrocz. 1977
Symphytum popovii Dobrocz. 1968
Spiraea litwinowii Dobrocz. 1954
Trapa danubialis Dobrocz. 1955
Trapa flerovii Dobrocz. 1955
Trapa macrorhiza Dobrocz. 1955
Helianthemum creticola Klokov and Dobrocz. 1974
Helianthemum cretophilum Klokov and Dobrocz. 1974
Selected works
Books
Dariya N. Dobrochaeva, I.U.D. Kleopov. 1990. Analiz Flory Shirokolistvennykh Lesov Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR. 350 pp. ISBN 5-12-000800-3
Dariya N. Dobrochaeva, G.P. Mokritskii. 1991. Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipskii. 214 pp. ISBN 5-12-001749-5
Articles
Zaverukha BV, Ilyinskaya AP, Shevera MV Daryna Mykytivna Dobrochaeva (to the 75th anniversary of her birth), Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 1991, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 109–110. (in Ukrainian)
"Wreath of remembrance on the fresh grave of Professor Darina Mykytivna Dobrochaeva", Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 1996. - vol. 53, no. 1–2, pp. 154–61. (in Ukrainian)
AP Ilyinskaya, VV Protopopova, MV Shever. "The man who did good" (to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Professor Darina Mykytivna Dobrochaeva). Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 2011, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 475–477. ISSN 0372-4123 (in Ukrainian)
Ilyinskaya AP, Shevera MV Daryna Mykytivna Dobrochaeva (1916-1995). - K.-Kremenchuk: PP Shcherbatykh, 2006. p. 40. (in Ukrainian)
Protopopova V., Shevera M. Researcher of flora Professor Daryna Mykytivna Dobrochaeva "Woman in science and education: past, present, future". Mat-li 2 Int. scientific-practical conf. (Kyiv, 2002). - K., 2002, pp. 322–324 (in Ukrainian)
Shevera MV Dobrochaeva DM, Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine. vol. 8. Dl-Dya. Kyiv: Institute of Encyclopedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2008, p. 128. (in Ukrainian)
KM Sitnik. "Outstanding women scientists of the Institute of Botany". MG Kholodny National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 2011, vol. 68, no. 2. ISSN 0372-4123 (in Ukrainian)
Awards and honours
1969: State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR for Science and Technology
1982: Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR
The Dobrochaeva Botanical Museum is named after her and is one of the five exhibitions of the National Museum of Science and Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, housed in the National Museum of Natural History.
References
External links
Biography in Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
1916 births
1995 deaths
Ukrainian botanists
Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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Broad Appeal: Living with E's is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Gem. The series stars Cathy Jones and Mary Walsh as Enid and Eulalia, their longtime sketch characters from This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
In the first season, Enid and Eulalia offered "pre-posthumous lifestyle advice", including their thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic, while in the second season they undertake a train journey across Canada.
Walsh received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
References
2020 web series debuts
Canadian comedy web series
CBC Gem original programming |
The 2014 Melon Music Awards were held on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, South Korea. Organized by Kakao M through its online music store Melon, the 2014 ceremony was the sixth installment of the event. The 2014 ceremony was hosted by Park Eun-ji and Takuya Terada.
Performers
Winners and nominees
Main awards
Winners and nominees are listed below. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Other awards
References
External links
Official website
2014 music awards
Melon Music Awards
South Korean music awards
Annual events in South Korea |
is a Japanese artistic gymnast. Born in Mie, Japan, he graduated from National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya and later join Tokushukai Gymnastics Club. Sugino has represented Japan at several FIG World Cup competitions.
See also
Japan men's national gymnastics team
2021 Top Scorers in Men's Artistic Gymnastics
References
External links
Takaaki Sugino at FIG website
Japanese male artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Mie Prefecture
Living people
1998 births |
Antipterna glacialis is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola glacialis. The holotype was collected at Mount Lofty, South Australia.
Meyrick's description
Further reading
References
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1885
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick |
Lovell Adams-Gray is a Canadian actor best known for the role of Dru Tejada in Power Book II: Ghost, and his performance in the web series 21 Black Futures, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
Originally from the Etobicoke district of Toronto, he has also had roles in the television series Lost & Found Music Studios, Slasher, Second Jen and Coroner, and is slated to play Jelly in Clement Virgo's forthcoming film adaptation of David Chariandy's novel Brother.
References
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21st-century Canadian male actors
Black Canadian male actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male web series actors
Male actors from Toronto
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Candelaria Moreno Becerra (born 30 October 2000) is an Argentine-born Andorran alpine skier. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in women's downhill, women's super-G, and women's combined.
She competed in 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.
References
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2000 births
Andorran female alpine skiers
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers of Andorra
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina |
The Presbyterian Church of Sierra Leone (PCSL) is a Reformed Presbyterian denomination in Sierra Leone. It was formed in 1988 by Korean missionaries, sent by Kosin Presbyterian Church in Korea.
History
The Presbyterian churches originate from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. It is the Christian churches Protestant that adhere to Reformed theology and whose ecclesiastical government is characterized by the government of an assembly of elders. Government Presbyterian is common in Protestant churches that were modeled after the Reformation Protestant Switzerland, notably in Switzerland, Scotland, Netherlands, France and portions of Prussia, of Ireland and later in United States.
In 1988, the Kosin Presbyterian Church in Korea Mission sent the first missionary family, Rev. and Mrs. Dae Won Shin, to Sierra Leone. The couple worked with the evangelization of children and missionary work grew in the country. Several churches were planted and the denomination was organized.
However, with the outbreak of Sierra Leone Civil War and later Western African Ebola virus epidemic, Korean missionaries had to leave the country. Likewise, most of the denomination's pastors also left the country.
From the beginning, the Presbyterian Church of Ghana supported the PCSL, due to the lack of pastors ordained by the denomination.
In 2021, the denomination consisted of 7 churches and about 500 members.
Interchurch relations
The denomination was previously a member of the World Reformed Fellowship.
As of 2021, the denomination has received assistance from Presbyterian Church in America for the training of pastors.
References
Presbyterian denominations in Africa |
Frank Smith is an American Democratic Party politician currently serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 118th district, which includes part of the city of Milford since 2021. Smith was first elected to the seat in 2020, defeating Republican Erik Smith. Smith currently serves as vice chair of the House's Housing Committee. He is also a member of the House Education and Environment Committees.
References
People from Milford, Connecticut
Connecticut Democrats
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Living people |
Tereza Nová (born 6 February 1998 Stod) is a Czech alpine skier. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's downhill, Women's super-G, and Women's combined.
She competed in 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.
References
External links
1998 births
Czech female alpine skiers
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers of the Czech Republic
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
People from Plzeň-South District |
Girish Chandra Tripathi (G.C. Tripathi) is the Chairman of the Higher Education Council Uttar Pradesh. Previously, he has been the 26th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (27 November 2014 to 26 November 2017), and professor of Economics at the University of Allahabad.
See also
List of vice-chancellors of Banaras Hindu University
Banaras Hindu University women's rights protest
References
Banaras Hindu University
Vice Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University
Banaras Hindu University people |
The Récif fossile de Marchon - Christian Gourrat Regional Nature Reserve (RNR284) is a Regional Nature Reserve located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Established in 2015, it spreads over 0,1 hectare and protects a limestone outcrop bearing fossils from the Mesozoic era.
Localisation
The territory of the natural reserve is located in the Ain department, on the town of Arbent near the city of Oyonnax. Its reduced surface makes it the second smallest natural reserve of France.
History of the site and reserve
The site was discovered in 1996 by Christian Gourrat, a naturalist from Oyonnax. Initially established as a Voluntary Nature Reserve under the name of Forêt de Marchon Natural Reserve, it is now registered at the regional inventory of geologic sites.
Ecology (biodiversity, ecological interest, etc.)
The site is reduced to a limestone outcrop in the Marchon forest. It bears fossil animals from the Mesozoic era (140 My), particularly rudists. For several species, the reef represents the locus typicus.
The local forest is mainly composed of beech and spruce.
Touristic and educational interest
The reserve is open to the public. Any samplings are forbidden.
Administration, management plan, regulations
Tools and legal status
The natural reserve was established after a deliberation of the Regional Council of 06 March 2015.
References
Protected areas established in 2015
Regional natural parks of France
Geography of Ain
Tourist attractions in Ain
Geologic formations of France
Cretaceous Europe
Limestone formations
Hippuritida
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of Europe
Paleontology in France
Ain |
Barbora Nováková (born 6 January 2002 Brno) is a Czech alpine skier. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's downhill, and Women's super-G.
She competed in 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
References
External links
2002 births
Czech female alpine skiers
Living people
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of the Czech Republic
Sportspeople from Brno
Alpine skiers at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics |
Nikkolas Smith is an American contemporary artist and activist who predominantly depicts African-American marginalized voices, as well as social justice in his works. His digital paintings are widely shared on social media and have been featured in Times Square, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Early life and education
Nikkolas Smith was raised in Spring, Texas as the youngest of six children. He earned a master's degree in architecture from Hampton University in Virginia, where he drew political cartoons for the school's paper. After graduating, Smith moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a Disney Imagineer until 2019.
Art career
Smith describes himself as an "artivist", combining activism within his artistic works. Smith's portfolio of artwork ranges in stylization from pop to impressionist, digitally painted on his iPad in Photoshop. His work is influenced by Nina Simone and Norman Rockwell. Smith began his Sunday Sketch series in 2013. He shares weekly Sunday sketches on his Twitter and Instagram channels; select images from this series were compiled into a book.
Smith is an author and illustrator of children's picture books. He illustrated the picture book The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (2021), which was inspired by Nikole Hannah-Jones' The 1619 Project. Fast Company described Smith's illustrations as using African symbols, various color palettes, and carefully drawn facial expressions to show the humanity of the enslaved people. Born on the Water ranked number one on The New York Times Best Seller List Children's Picture Book category and was included on Time for Kids, Best Children's and YA book list published in 2021. Smith's paintings from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil went viral on social media. Skyhorse Publishing offered him a book deal, which resulted in the 2016 book The Golden Girls of Rio. The Golden Girls of Rio was nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children.
His art often depicts victims of police brutality, civil rights figures, athletes, and cultural icons. Smith began incorporating activism into his art following the killing of Trayvon Martin. In July 2013, his portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing a hoodie went viral. Black Lives Matter commissioned Smith to paint George Floyd in 2020. The finished work was featured as a centerpiece in Times Square's billboards, and the Beverly Center shopping mall in Los Angeles. He has also painted portraits of Tamir Rice, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Bree Newsome, and Lupita Nyong'o.
Smith created an 11 by 10-foot digital painting of Chadwick Boseman after Boseman died from colon cancer in August 2020. The painting, titled King Chad, features Boseman, who played T'Challah in the movie Black Panther, giving the "Wakanda Forever" salute to a child wearing a Black Panther mask. The painting was temporarily on display in Downtown Disney in California. Smith donated his King Chad painting to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where it is on permanent display.
Other examples of Smith's work include posters for movies such as Dear White People, If Beale Street Could Talk, Southside with You, and Black Panther. Art Basel invited Smith to create the logo for its "what Matters" campaign in 2019. Notable figures have shared Smith's work on social media, including Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Nipsey Hussle, and Janet Jackson. His digital painting of Atatiana Jefferson was shared on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 2021, Smith created the "First Practicing Vegan" for PETA featuring Cory Booker and other prominent vegans in a reproduction of Rockwell's painting, Freedom from Want. The poster appeared at various bus stops in New Jersey during the 2021 holiday season.
Personal life
Smith is married to a documentary filmmaker. The couple have a son, Zion, who was born in 2020.
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Catherine Louise Hirshfeld Crouch is an American materials physicist. She is a Full professor in the Department of Physics at Swarthmore College and faculty director of Swarthmore's Natural Sciences & Engineering Inclusive Excellence Initiatives.
In 2021, Hirshfeld Crouch was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "her leadership in physics education research, focused on promoting the thoughtful use of interactive engagement for all students, for making physics relevant to life science majors, and supporting others through archiving of key resources, mentoring, and commitment to equity and inclusion in STEM."
Early life and education
Hirshfeld Crouch was born to Dr. John W. Hirshfeld in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Williams College in 1990 before completing her PhD at Harvard University. When graduating from Williams College, Hirshfeld Crouch was named valedictorian. Following her PhD, Hirshfeld Crouch remained at Harvard as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics Education and Applied Physics under the guidance of Eric Mazur.
Career
Upon completing her Postdoctoral Fellowships, Hirshfeld Crouch joined the faculty at Swarthmore College in 2003 and earned tenure in 2009. At the time, she was an assistant professor of physics whose research focused on the technique of microphotoluminescence. Following her promotion to associate professor, Hirshfeld Crouch expanded her research interests to include protein-cell membrane interactions, nanoparticle physics, and physics education. She also became a principal investigator in a nine-institution National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for evaluation and dissemination of physics curriculum. Hirshfeld Crouch also became an editor for the journal Physical Review who later recognized her as one of their "Outstanding Referees" for 2016.
In 2017, Hirshfeld Crouch was promoted from associate professor to full professorship. At the same time, she was selected to oversee a grant from the NSF to measure how well students taking the Introductory Physics for Life Science (IPLS) course perform. Two years later, Hirshfeld Crouch was elected vice chair of the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on Education where she would help advise the organization's efforts in faculty development, K–12 teacher recruitment, setting national standards for undergraduate physics education, and establishing new initiatives.
In 2021, Hirshfeld Crouch was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "her leadership in physics education research, focused on promoting the thoughtful use of interactive engagement for all students, for making physics relevant to life science majors, and supporting others through archiving of key resources, mentoring, and commitment to equity and inclusion in STEM."
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Buskerud District Court () is a district court located Buskerud, Norway. This court is based at four different courthouses which are located in Drammen, Hokksund, Kongsberg, and Nesbyen. The court serves the western part of Buskerud which includes cases from 16 municipalities. The court in Drammen accepts cases from the municipalities of Drammen and Lier. The court in Hokksund accepts cases from the municipalities of Øvre Eiker, Modum, Sigdal, and Krødsherad. The court in Kongsberg accepts cases from the municipalities of Flesberg, Kongsberg, Nore og Uvdal, and Rollag. The court in Nesbyen accepts cases from the municipalities of Flå, Hemsedal, Hol, Gol, Nesbyen, and Ål. The court is subordinate to the Borgarting Court of Appeal.
The court is led by a chief judge () and several other judges. The court is a court of first instance. Its judicial duties are mainly to settle criminal cases and to resolve civil litigation as well as bankruptcy. The administration and registration tasks of the court include death registration, issuing certain certificates, performing duties of a notary public, and officiating civil wedding ceremonies. Cases from this court are heard by a combination of professional judges and lay judges.
History
This court was established on 26 April 2021 after the old Drammen District Court, Hallingdal District Court, and Kongsberg og Eiker District Court were all merged into one court. The new district court system continues to use the courthouses from the predecessor courts.
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District courts of Norway
2021 establishments in Norway
Organisations based in Drammen
Organisations based in Hokksund
Organisations based in Kongsberg
Organisations based in Nesbyen |
Ringerike, Asker og Bærum District Court () is a district court located in Viken county, Norway. This court is based at two different courthouses which are located in Hønefoss and Sandvika. The court serves central part of the county, just west of Oslo. This court has jurisdiction across six municipalities. The court in Hønefoss accepts cases from the municipalities of Hole, Jevnaker, Lunner, and Ringerike. The court in Sandvika accepts cases from the municipalities of Asker and Bærum. The court is subordinate to the Borgarting Court of Appeal.
The court is led by a chief judge () and several other judges. The court is a court of first instance. Its judicial duties are mainly to settle criminal cases and to resolve civil litigation as well as bankruptcy. The administration and registration tasks of the court include death registration, issuing certain certificates, performing duties of a notary public, and officiating civil wedding ceremonies. Cases from this court are heard by a combination of professional judges and lay judges.
History
This court was established on 26 April 2021 after the old Asker og Bærum District Court and Ringerike District Court were merged into one court. The new district court system continues to use the courthouses from the predecessor courts.
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District courts of Norway
2021 establishments in Norway
Organisations based in Asker
Organisations based in Bærum
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Follo og Nordre Østfold District Court () is a district court located in Innlandet county, Norway. This court is based at two different courthouses which are located in Ski and Mysen. The court serves the eastern part of the county which includes cases from nine municipalities. The court in Ski accepts cases from the municipalities of Enebakk, Frogn, Nesodden, Nordre Follo, Vestby, and Ås. The court in Mysen accepts cases from the municipalities of Indre Østfold, Marker, and Skiptvet. The court is subordinate to the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.
The court is led by a chief judge () and several other judges. The court is a court of first instance. Its judicial duties are mainly to settle criminal cases and to resolve civil litigation as well as bankruptcy. The administration and registration tasks of the court include death registration, issuing certain certificates, performing duties of a notary public, and officiating civil wedding ceremonies. Cases from this court are heard by a combination of professional judges and lay judges.
History
This court was established on 26 April 2021 after the old Follo District Court and Heggen og Frøland District Court were merged into one court. The new district court system continues to use the courthouses from the predecessor courts. When the court was created, the Storting also approved moving these areas from the Borgarting Court of Appeal to the Eidsivating Court of Appeal. This change was not carried out immediately, however, but on 1 March 2022 the change was officially enacted.
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District courts of Norway
2021 establishments in Norway
Organisations based in Mysen |
Søndre Østfold District Court () is a district court located in southern Østfold, Norway. This court is based at four different courthouses which are located in Fredrikstad, Halden, Moss, and Sarpsborg. The court serves the southern part of Østfold which includes nine municipalities. The court in Fredrikstad accepts cases from the municipalities of Hvaler and Fredrikstad. The court in Halden accepts cases from the municipalities of Aremark and Halden. The court in Moss accepts cases from the municipalities of Moss, Råde, and Våler. The court in Sarpsborg accepts cases from the municipalities of Rakkestad and Sarpsborg. The court is subordinate to the Eidsivating Court of Appeal.
The court is led by a chief judge () and several other judges. The court is a court of first instance. Its judicial duties are mainly to settle criminal cases and to resolve civil litigation as well as bankruptcy. The administration and registration tasks of the court include death registration, issuing certain certificates, performing duties of a notary public, and officiating civil wedding ceremonies. Cases from this court are heard by a combination of professional judges and lay judges.
History
This court was established on 12 April 2021 after the old Fredrikstad District Court, Halden District Court, Moss District Court, and Sarpsborg District Court were all merged into one court. The new district court system continues to use the courthouses from the predecessor courts. When the court was created, the Storting also approved moving these areas from the Borgarting Court of Appeal to the Eidsivating Court of Appeal. This change was not carried out immediately in April of 2021, however, and the law stated that the change would take place when the government is ready to make the switch.
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District courts of Norway
2021 establishments in Norway
Organisations based in Fredrikstad
Organisations based in Halden
Organisations based in Moss, Norway
Organisations based in Sarpsborg |
Bryan Fontenot is an American politician, former law enforcement officer, and businessman serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 55th district. He assumed office on January 13, 2020.
Education
Fontenot graduated from Thibodaux High School in 1996 and studied criminal justice at L. E. Fletcher Technical Community College.
Career
Prior to entering politics, Fontenot owned Thibodaux Driving School and was an employee in the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office. He also served as a commander in the Thibodaux Police Department, where he was assigned to the Bureau of Narcotics. He is the owner and CEO of BRYCO Land Developments. In 2014, he was elected to serve as justice of the peace of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in October 2019 and assumed office in January 2020.
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Igea is a village in Spain.
Igea may also refer to:
Francisco Igea, Spanish politician
Interactive Games and Entertainment Association, an Australian video game association
See also
Egea (disambiguation) |
Antipterna homoleuca is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola homoleuca. The lectotype for Ocystola homoleuca was collected at Wirrabara, South Australia, while that for Ocystola argophanes was collected in Brisbane, Queensland.
Meyrick's description
Further reading
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Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1885
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick |
David Brooks Robinson (born 26 October 1939) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral. He served as commander, Naval Surface Force Pacific from 1993 to 1996. Robinson was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions as the commanding officer of a patrol gunboat in Vietnam.
Early life and education
Born in Alexandria, Louisiana and raised in Denton, Texas, Robinson graduated from Denton Senior High School in 1958. He then studied at Texas A&M University for one year before being appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1959. Robinson graduated in June 1963 with a B.S. degree in naval science. He later earned an M.S. degree in oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School in October 1969. His thesis was entitled Seiching in Monterey Bay.
Military career
A career surface warfare officer, Robinson commanded the patrol gunboats from November 1969 to March 1971 and from March 1971 to September 1971 in South Vietnam. During a patrol mission up the Bồ Đề River on 11 August 1970, Canon came under simultaneous fire from enemy forces concealed on both shores. Despite a broken leg and shrapnel wounds from a rocket explosion, Robinson directed return fire until the attack was suppressed. He then remained at his post strapped to a upright stretcher until Canon was safely moored at a forward base upstream. Robinson was subsequently awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.
Robinson served as the executive officer of the guided missile destroyer from October 1974 to April 1976. He then served as the commanding officer of the guided missile destroyer from April 1976 to July 1978. Robinson later served as the commanding officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner from January 1983 to July 1984.
As a flag officer, Robinson commanded Cruiser Destroyer Group 8 from July 1988 to August 1989. He then served as Vice Director and Director for Operational Plans and Interoperability on the Joint Staff from September 1989 to December 1991, which included Pentagon oversight and analysis of Gulf War operations. Robinson next became Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Pacific Fleet in January 1992.
In April 1993, Robinson was promoted to vice admiral and assumed command of the Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Personal
Robinson married Juliet Gene Kirkpatrick (22 March 1940 – 12 October 2005) on 1 August 1964 in Denton, Texas. They have two sons and five grandchildren.
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Living people
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Irena Bihariová (born 15 September 1980 in Trnava) is Slovak lawyer and politician. She is the Progressive Slovakia leader since June 2020.
Life
She attended Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava, receiving a master's degree in 2009. Her specials are extremist crimes including cybercrime.
She recognizes herself as Romani, born in an "assimilated family".
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Slovak lawyers
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1980 births
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Arsen Grigoryan may refer to:
Arsen Grigoryan (singer, born 1982), Armenian singer, actor and TV presenter
Arsen Grigoryan (singer, born 1978), Armenian singer, composer and music producer
Arsen Grigoryan (singer, born 1968), Syrian-born Armenian traditional songs performer
Surname |
Theodore Herman Wolf (January 30, 1889- September 19, 1963) was an American farmer and politician. He served four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives. His father was the former candidate for Vice President of the United States, Augustus Bernard Wolf. He is also the grandson of German-American abolitionist, August Wolf. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Wolf married Mildred A. Harnish on September 12, 1915, in West Township, Effingham, Illinois. They had five children including Raymond T. Wolf. After leaving the Illinois House of Representatives in 1933, Wolf resumed his legal, banking, business and farming interests. He was a delegate to the 1936 Republican National Convention. He died on September 19, 1963, in Mount Pulaski, Illinois after suffering a stroke. He is interred in the Mount Pulaski Cemetery in Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
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is a Japanese artistic gymnast. Born in Saitama, Japan, he graduated from Juntendo University and later join Central Sports. Takeda was part of Japan men's national gymnastics team that won the gold medal at 2015 World Championships.
See also
Japan men's national gymnastics team
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's team all-around
References
External links
Naoto Hayasaka at FIG website
Japanese male artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture
Living people
1995 births |
The Australian Church Record is an Australian Christian newspaper. It was founded in 1880, and is based in Sydney. It has historically represented the evangelical wing of the Anglican Church of Australia.
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Newspapers published in Sydney
Newspapers established in 1880
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"Sus Huellas" ("Her Prints") is a song written and performed by Bachata singer Romeo Santos as his first single for his upcoming fitfh studio album Formula, Vol. 3 (2022). It was released on Valentine's Day of 2022. This song contains metaphorical lyrics. It describes a person who is trying to forget a love from their past.
Charts
See also
List of Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Airplay number ones of 2022
References
2022 singles
Bachata songs
Romeo Santos songs
Songs written by Romeo Santos
Spanish-language songs
Sony Music Latin singles
2022 songs |
The Presidency of Alberto Fernández began on 10 December 2019, when Alberto Fernández was sworn into office to a four-year term as President of Argentina. Fernández took office alongside vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner following the Frente de Todos coalition's victory in the 2019 general election, with 48.24% of the vote against incumbent president Mauricio Macri's 40.28%. Fernández's victory represented the first time in Argentina's history that an incumbent president had been defeated in a re-election bid.
President-elect
On 18 May 2019, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Fernández would be a candidate for president, and that she would run for vice president alongside him, hosting his first campaign rally with Santa Cruz Governor Alicia Kirchner, sister-in-law of the former Kirchner.
About a month later, seeking to broaden his appeal to moderates, Fernández struck a deal with Sergio Massa to form an alliance called Frente de Todos, wherein Massa would be offered a role within a potential Fernández administration, or be given a key role within the Chamber of Deputies in exchange for dropping out of the presidential race and offering his support. Fernández also earned the endorsement of the General Confederation of Labour, receiving their support in exchange for promising that he will boost the economy, and that there would be no labour reforms.
Inauguration
Fernández took office on 10 December 2019. The ceremony took place, as it is constitutionally mandated, in the palace of the National Congress of Argentina. He was accompanied by his domestic partner, Fabiola Yáñez, and his only child, Tani Fernández. At midday, Fernández was sworn in alongside Vice President-elect Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in presence of Macri, Vice President (and president of the Senate) Gabriela Michetti, the General Assembly (the congregation of both houses of Congress), and domestic and international dignataries.
Cabinet
Fernández's cabinet took office on the same day he was sworn in as president, on 10 December 2019. The cabinet is formed by members of the Frente de Todos, a peronist coalition formed ahead of the 2019 general election, as well as independents. Reflecting the composition of the Frente de Todos, it was made up of members belonging to different branches of the Justicialist Party, members of the Renewal Front, and independents.
The first change in the cabinet took place in November 2020, when María Eugenia Bielsa was replaced by Jorge Ferraresi as Minister of Habitat. Ginés González García, Minister of Health, was sacked in February 2021 and replaced by vice-minister Carla Vizzotti following a scandal regarding preferential treatment in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The Justice Minister, Marcela Losardo, resigned in March 2021 for personal reasons and was replaced by congressman Martín Soria.
Ahead of the 2021 legislative elections, the ministers of defense (Agustín Rossi) and social development (Daniel Arroyo) announced their candidacies for legislative positions; they were replaced by Jorge Taiana and Juan Zabaleta, respectively, in August 2021. Following the governing coalition's poor showings in the September 2021 primary elections, President Fernández organised a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in changes in the portfolios of foreign affairs, security, agriculture, education, science and technology, and the Cabinet Chief's Office.
Ministers
Presidential secretariats
Domestic affairs
Economic policy
On 14 December 2019, the government established by decree the emergency in occupational matters and double compensation for dismissal without just cause for six months.
Fernández's first legislative initiative, the Social Solidarity and Productive Recovery Bill, was passed by Congress on 23 December 2019. The bill includes tax hikes on foreign currency purchases, agricultural exports, wealth, and car sales - as well as tax incentives for production. Amid the worst recession in nearly two decades, it provides a 180-day freeze on utility rates, bonuses for the nation's retirees and Universal Allocation per Child beneficiaries, and food cards to two million of Argentina's poorest families. It also gave the president additional powers to renegotiate debt terms – with Argentina seeking to restructure its US$100 billion debt with private bondholders and US$45 billion borrowed by Macri from the International Monetary Fund. As the capital controls stayed in effect and with no prospect of being removed, the MCSI degraded the country from emerging market to standalone market.
Organisations of the agricultural sector, including Sociedad Rural Argentina, CONINAGRO, Argentine Agrarian Federation and Argentine Rural Confederations, rejected the increase in taxes on agricultural exports. Despite these conflicts, Fernández announced the three-point increase in withholding tax on soybeans on the day of the opening of the regular sessions, on 1 March and generated major problems in the relationship between the government and the agricultural sector.
At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the IMF reported that Argentina's GDP would plunge by 9.9 percent, after the country's economy contracted by 5.4 percent in first quarter of 2020, with unemployment rising over 10.4 percent in the first three months of the year, before the lockdown started. On September 22, as part of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, official reports showed a 19% year-on-year drop in the GDP for the second quarter of 2020, the biggest drop in the country's history. Investment went down 38% from the previous year. The poverty rate rose to 42% in the second half of 2020, the highest since 2004. Child poverty reaches the 57.7% of minors of 14 years.
Debt restructuring and agreement with the IMF
In 2018, under the Mauricio Macri administration, Argentina received the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s biggest loan to date: $57 billion US$ were initially greenlit by the international organisation. Following Macri's defeat in the 2019 election, Fernández's economy minister, Martín Guzmán, announced the incoming administration would not request the final installment of the IMF's loan, accounting for $11 billion.
Argentina defaulted again on 22 May 2020 by failing to pay $500 million on its due date to its creditors. Negotiations for the restructuring of $66 billion of its debt continued after that. On August 4, Fernández reached an accord with the biggest creditors on terms for a restructuring of $65bn in foreign bonds, after a breakthrough in talks that had at times looked close to collapse since the country's ninth debt default in May.
In 2021, the International Monetary Fund concluded the 2018 loan granted to Macri's administration "had not delivered on its objectives". The Fernández administration has maintained its criticism of the deal, with Guzmán calling it "an absurd loan".
On 28 January 2022, the Fernández administration struck an agreement in principle with the International Monetary Fund over a new $44.5 billion standby deal. The deal, which requires congressional approval in order to take effect, caused unease within the governing coalition. Máximo Kirchner, president of the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies and leader of La Cámpora, one of the coalition's largest partners, resigned from his position on 1 February 2022 over disagreements with the IMF deal.
COVID-19 pandemic
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fernández administration announced a country-wide lockdown, in effect from 20 March until 31 March, later extended until 12 April. The lockdown was further renewed on April 27, May 11, May 25, June 8, July 1, July 18, August 3, August 17, August 31 and September 21, and included several measures including travel, transport and citizen movement restrictions, stay-at-home orders, store closures and reduced operating hours.
Responses to the outbreak have included restrictions on commerce and movement, closure of borders, and the closure of schools and educational institutions. The announcement of the lockdown was generally well received, although there were concerns with its economic impact in the already delicate state of Argentina's economy, with analysts predicting at least 3% GDP decrease in 2020. Fernandez later announced a 700 billion pesos (US$11.1 billion) stimulus package, worth 2% of the country's GDP. After announced a mandatory quarantine to every person that returned to Argentina from highly affected countries, the government closed its borders, ports, and suspended flights.
On 23 March, Fernández asked the Chinese president Xi Jinping for 1,500 ventilators as Argentina had only 8,890 available.
Despite the government's hard lockdown policy, Fernández was criticised for not following the appropriate protocols himself. This included traveling throughout the country, taking pictures with large groups of supporters without properly wearing a mask nor respecting social distancing, and holding social gatherings with union leaders.
On 3 September 2020, despite most local governments still enforcing strict lockdown measures, Fernández stated that "there is no lockdown", and that such thoughts had "been instilled by the opposition", as part of a political agenda. Fernández eased some lockdown measures in the Greater Buenos Aires on 6 November 2020, shifting to a "social distancing" phase.
Economic impact
Due to the national lockdown, the economical activity suffered a collapse of nearly 10% in March 2020 according to a consultant firm. The highest drop was of the construction sector (32%) versus March 2019. Every economical sector suffered a collapse, with finance, commerce, manufacturing industry and mining being the most affected. The agriculture sector was the least affected, but overall the economic activity for the first trimester of 2020 accumulates a 5% contraction. It is expected that the extension of the lockdown beyond April would increase the collapse of the Argentinian economy. On March, the primary fiscal deficit jumped to US$1,394 million, an 857% increase year-to-year. This was due to the public spending to combat the pandemic and the drop in tax collection due to low activity in a context of social isolation. Schools were closed for over a year, and it is estimated that 1.5 million of kids abandoned school, a 13% of the total.
Because banks were excluded in the list of businesses that were considered essential in the lockdown decree, they remained closed until the Central Bank announced banks would open during a weekend starting on 3 April. Due to Argentina's notoriously low level of banking penetration, many Argentines, particularly retirees, do not possess bank accounts and are used to withdraw funds and pensions in cash. The decision to open banks for only three days on a reduced-hours basis sparked widespread outrage as hundreds of thousands of retirees (coronavirus' highest risk group) flocked to bank branches in order to withdraw their monthly pension and emergency payment.
Vaccination campaign
On 21 January 2021, Fernández became the first Latin American leader to be inoculated against the disease via the recently approved Gam-COVID-Vac (better known as Sputnik V). On 7 December 2021, Fernández received his booster dose of the vaccine.
Ginés González García was forced to resign as Health Minister on 19 February 2021 after it was revealed he provided preferential treatment for the COVID-19 vaccine to his close friends, including journalist Horacio Verbitsky and other political figures. He was succeeded by the second in charge Carla Vizzotti. The revelation was met with wide national condemnation from supporters and opposition, as Argentina had at the time received only 1,5 million doses of vaccine for its population of 40 million.
Fernández tested positive for the COVID-19 on 2 April 2021 having a "light fever".
By January 2022, 86.2% of the country's population had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 74.5% had received the respective two doses of the vaccine. Booster shots started being given to vulnerable populations in October 2021.
Social policy
In September 2019, during the Mauricio Macri administration, the Argentine Congress declared a "National Hunger Emergency". As one of his initial measures as president, Fernández launched the Plan Argentina contra el Hambre ("Argentina against Hunger Plan"). As part of the plan, the Social Development Ministry began issuing Tarjeta Alimentar cards, debit cards assigned 4,000 pesos per month (later adjusted to 6,000 pesos) to beneficiaries of the existing Universal allocation per child (AUH) programme to be used in food items. In addition, the programme implemented price caps for essential food items ("Precios Cuidados") and value-added tax returns for low-income households.
At the onset of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures, the Fernández administration launched two complimentary social assistance schemes: the Ingreso Familiar de Emergencia ("Emergency Family Income", IFE) and the Asistencia de Emergencia al Trabajo y la Producción ("Emergency Labour and Production Assitance", ATP). The IFE programme granted 10,000 monthly pesos to informal sector workers and self-employed workers whose income was affected by the lockdown. In total, over 8 million people across the country during two months, and later continued to be issued for people living in urban centres where lockdown measures continued in place throughout 2020. On the other hand, the ATP programme granted half of the salaries of workers (active or otherwise) for a number of businesses. Lastly, the government forbid all terminations and unilateral suspensions of labour contracts for 120 days, later extending the measure to cover all of 2020 and 2021.
Social issues
Following his victory in the 2019 elections, Fernández announced his cabinet would include, for the first time in Argentina's history, a ministry dedicated entirely to deal with women's affairs. Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta was appointed as the first Minister of Women, Genders and Diversity on 10 December 2019. Prior to the establishment of the Mingéneros, women's affairs were dealt by the National Institute for Women.
Abortion
On 31 December 2019, Fernández announced that he would send a bill in 2020 to discuss the legalisation of abortion, ratified his support for its approval, and expressed his wish for "sensible debate". However, in June 2020, he stated that he was "attending to more urgent matters" (referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the debt restructuring), and that "he'll send the bill at some point". In November 2020, Fernández's legal secretary, Vilma Ibarra, confirmed that the government would be sending a new bill for the legalisation of abortion to the National Congress that month. The Executive sent the bill, alongside another bill oriented towards women's health care (the "1000 Days Plan"), on 17 November 2020. The bill was passed by the Senate on 30 December 2020, and received presidential assent on 14 January 2021, effectively legalising abortion in Argentina.
LGBT rights
On 4 September 2020, Fernández signed a Decreto 721/2020, which establishing a 1% employment quota for trans and travesti people in the national public sector. The measure had been previously debated in the Chamber of Deputies as various prospective bills. The decree mandates that at any given point, at least 1% of all public sector workers in the national government must be transgender, as understood in the 2012 Gender Identity Law.
On 20 July 2021, Fernández signed another decree, Decreto 476/2021, mandating the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) to allow a third gender option on all national identity cards and passports, marked as an "X". The measure applies to non-citizen permanent residents who possess Argentine identity cards as well. In compliance with the 2012 Gender Identity Law, this made Argentina one of the few countries in the world to legally recognize non-binary gender on all official documentation.
Security policy
Fernández first appointed anthropologist Sabina Frederic as security minister. Frederic positioned herself as a staunch opponent of previous security minister Patricia Bullrich's policies. On 24 December 2019, the Ministry of Security published Resolution 1231/19, which reversed many of Bullrich's policies in the Ministry: previous protocols on firearm use by security forces were overturned, and a protocol on the use of taser guns was created. In addition, the resolution annulled the programme overseeing offenders in the railway system and the 1149 Protocol, which "allowed security forces to harm the rights of LGBT citizens".
In April 2020, Frederic stated that the ministry would continue her predecessor's policy of cyber surveillance to measure "social humour"; these statements were widely criticized by social organizations and the Opposition.
As one of his initial measures in the presidency, Fernández intervened the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), redirecting its budget to finance the government's plan against hunger. Attorney Cristina Caamaño was designated as interventor of the AFI on 21 December 2019. Under Fernández, the agency's powers and reach have been considerably reduced, and its files are undergoing a process of declassification to aid in the investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing.
Narcotics
On 12 November 2020 Fernández signed a decree legalising the self-cultivation and regulating the sales and subsidised access of medical cannabis, expanding upon a 2017 bill that legalised the use and research of the plant and its derivatives. In June 2019, during his presidential campaign, he had signaled his intention to legalise marijuana for recreational purposes, but not other types of drugs.
In February 2022, a batch of laced cocaine distributed in Puerta 8, a villa miseria in Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires Province caused up to 23 deaths and dozens of hospitalizations. Police analyses concluded the cocaine had been tainted with opioids, resulting in a much higher rate of lethality. The Buenos Aires Province government initially warned potential consumers to throw away any cocaine they may have acquired in the 24 hours prior to the first hospitalizations, hoping to reduce casualties.
Foreign policy
Fernández's first presidential trip abroad was to Israel in January 2020. There, he paid respects to the victims of the Holocaust and maintained a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who thanked him for keeping Hezbollah branded as a terrorist organisation, a measure taken by former President Mauricio Macri.
In January 2022, Fernández was elected president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), succeeding Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Bolivia
Alberto Fernández questioned the conclusions the Organisation of American States that the reelection of Evo Morales was unconstitutional for electoral fraud. Fernández's government recognised Morales as the legitimate President of Bolivia, and granted him asylum in Argentina in December 2019. On 9 November 2020, following Luis Arce's victory in the 2020 Bolivian election, Fernández personally accompanied Morales to the Argentine border with Bolivia, wherein the two leaders held a public act celebrating Morales's return to his home country.
China
In February 2022, during a state visit to China, Fernández formally signed Argentina's entry into the Belt and Road Initiative, finalizing an accession process that had begun during the presidency of Mauricio Macri. In addition, Fernández attended the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. During the same international tour, Fernández met Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley in Barbados.
BRI-based investments in Argentina include over $8,000 million US$ for a new nuclear power plant in the existing Atucha Nuclear complex. Atucha III (as the project has been dubbed) is expected to become Argentina's fourth nuclear power plant, and will create 7,000 new jobs in the sector.
Falkland Islands
On 3 January 2020, three weeks into the Fernández presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship issued a statement ratifying Argentina's historic claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), the South Georgia Islands, and the South Sandwich Islands on the 187th anniversary of the "United Kingdom's illegal occupation". The statement also called for a new round of bilateral negotiations in order to "find a peaceful and definite solution to the dispute". Fernández himself stated that the Malvinas are "a territory [Argentina] will never give up". The Fernández administration gave back secretariat-level status to the Secretariat of Malvinas Affairs, which had been demoted to an undersecretariat during Macri's government.
On 1 March 2020, during the first opening of regular sessions of Congress, Fernández once again stated the government's position on the Falklands matter, and announced three bills to deal with it: the creation of the National Council of Malvinas Affairs, the delimitation of the outer rim of the Argentine continental platform, and the modification of the federal fishing regime to harshen sanctions against illegal fishing in Argentina's claimed maritime zone.
In February 2022, during his state visit to China, Fernández signed an accord with Chinese president Xi Jinping in which China reaffirmed its support to the Argentine claim over the islands, prompting condemnation from the United Kingdom and the local government of the Falklands.
Iran
Regarding Argentina's strained relations with Iran, Fernández publicly defended the Memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran, although critical of this prior to taking office. In September 2020, Fernández asked Iran before the UN General Assembly to "cooperate with the Argentine justice" to bring justice to the cause and extradite those Iranian officials who stand accused of the attack. He further stated that if the officials were to be found innocent, "they could freely return to Iran or otherwise face the consequences for their actions."
Mercosur
During his administration, Argentina's relationship with Brazil has become somewhat strained. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro refused to attend Fernández's inauguration, accusing him of wanting to create a "great Bolivarian homeland" on the border and of preparing to provoke a flight of capital and companies into Brazil. Fernández and Bolsonaro had their first conversation through a video conference on 30 November 2020, during which both presidents agreed on the importance of cooperation and the role of Mercosur. Despite the two presidents' political differences, trade between Argentina and Brazil grew during the COVID-19 pandemic: according to according to the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (and based on data provided by the Brazilian economy ministry) Argentina's exports to Brazil grew more than any other countries' between January and November 2021.
The relationship with Uruguay under Fernández and Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou, who was elected on the same day as Fernández, have been described as "tense". Argentina opposes Uruguay's position on the flexibilisation of the Mercosur trade bloc policies, a flagship issue for Lacalle Pou. In March 2021, during a Mercosur summit led by Fernández as president pro tempore of the bloc, Lacalle Pou stated that Mercosur "cannot become a burden" for Uruguay, while Fernández responded by saying that if the bloc had become a burden, any of its members were "free to take a different boat".
Russia
The Fernández administration has maintained friendly ties with Russia under Vladimir Putin. Argentina was the first country in Latin America to greenlight the use of the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, and Fernández himself got the Sputnik V vaccine. Argentina was also one of the first countries outside of Russia to produce Sputnik V, with the local Richmond Laboratories providing the necessary infrastructure. Large-scale production started in June 2021.
In February 2022, Fernández visited Russia for the first time in his capacity as president, and met with Putin for bilateral talks. Fernández highlighted the friendship between both nations and stated his wish for Argentina to become "Russia's entryway to Latin America".
Argentina did not, however, support Russia during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Fernández himself lamented the invasion and asked "the Russian Federation to put an end to the military action and return to dialogue". Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship rejected the use of force and called on Russia to respect the charter of the United Nations and international law. Before the UN, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero condemned "the invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate and military operations on Ukrainian soil," and said that the world "does not tolerate more deaths or wars".
United States
Donald Trump's top adviser for the Western Hemisphere, Mauricio Claver-Carone, crossed Fernández in 2019 saying: "We want to know if Alberto Fernández will be a defender of democracy or an apologist for dictatorships and leaders in the region, whether it be Maduro, Correa or Morales."
Venezuela
Under Fernández, Argentina has exited the Lima Group, formed by North and South American nations to address the crisis in Venezuela, after not subscribing to any of the Group's statements and resolutions. Argentina voted in favour of the United Nations resolution to back the continuity of the UN Human Rights Office report on human rights violations in Venezuela. Under Fernández, Argentina withdrew recognition of Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. In January 2020, the Fernández administration revoked the credentials of Guaidó's envoy in Argentina, Elisa Trotta Gamus. However, Fernández also refused to recognise Maduro's envoy Stella Lugo's credentials and Foreign Minister Felipe Solá asked her to return to Caracas.
List of international trips and state visits
Controversies
Fernández has engaged in disputes with users on Twitter before his presidency, in which his reactions have been regarded as aggressive or violent by some. Tweets show him responding to other users with expletives such as "pelotudo" (Argentinian slang for "asshole"), "pajero" ("wanker"), and "hijo de puta" ("son of a bitch"); he also called presidential candidate José Luis Espert "Pajert", a word play between his last name and the Argentine slang for "wanker". In December 2017, he responded to a female user by saying, "Girl, what you think doesn't worry me. You better learn how to cook. Maybe then you can do something right. Thinking is not your strong suit".
In June 2020, he told journalist Cristina Pérez to "go read the Constitution", after being questioned about his attempts to install a government-designated administration in the Vicentín agricultural conglomerate.
On 9 June 2021, during a working meeting with business leaders alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the Casa Rosada, Fernández sought to play up the Argentinian ties with Europe by saying that "The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe." Fernández erroneously attributed the quote to the Mexican poet, essayist and diplomat Octavio Paz, although it had originated from lyrics by local musician and personal friend Litto Nebbia. Faced with the negative backlash to his comments, on the same day Fernández apologized on Twitter and the next day sent a letter to the director of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), clarifying his comments.
In August 2021, it was revealed that there had been numerous visits to the presidential palace during the lockdown that he had imposed in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; visitors included an actress, a dog trainer, and a hairdresser, as well as hosting a birthday party for the First Lady.
See also
Politics of Argentina
:Category:Presidency of Alberto Fernández
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Fernandez
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Jean Freddi Pascal Greco (born 12 February 2001) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Catania, on loan from Vicenza.
Career
Club career
Greco started his career with Italian Serie A side Torino. In 2021, he signed for Pordenone in the Italian second tier. After that, Greco was sent on loan to Italian third tier club Catania, where he made 18 league appearances and scored 1 goal. On 4 September 2021, he debuted for Catania during a 2–0 win over Fidelis Andria. On 24 October 2021, Greco scored his first goal for Catania during a 4–1 win over Monterosi. Before the second half of 2021–22, he signed for Vicenza in the Italian second tier. After that, Greco was sent on loan to Italian third tier team Catania.
International career
He is eligible to represent Madagascar Internationally, having been born there.
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Association football midfielders
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Not to be confused with several streams named Wadi el Maleh/ in Tunisia and Algeria
Wadi el Maleh (, also Wadi al Maleh, al Malich, etc.; , Nahal Milcha, Milcha Stream, also Milkha, Malcha, etc.) is a non-intermittent stream in West Bank. It starts northwest of Tubas and flows into the Jordan Valley in the area between Mehola and Shadmot Mehola. (Its lower flow marks the southern boundary of the Beit She'an Valley.) Its length is about 20km and drainage basin of about 90 sq. km.
It follows geological faults and makes a nearly 90 degree kink northwards in the area where Road 5799 joins the Allon Road and further arcs around Shamdot Mehola to flow into the Jordan River in the west-to-east direction at about .
Places of note long the stream include , a hammam by mineral hot springs, and , a Mamluk fortress.
Refences
Rivers of the West Bank
Tributaries of the Jordan River |
Yanick Létourneau is a Canadian film producer, who is the head of Peripheria Productions. He is most noted as a producer of the documentary film Gulîstan, Land of Roses, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, and the narrative feature film Night of the Kings (Le Nuit des rois), which was a CSA nominee for Best Picture at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
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French Quebecers
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Charles Edward Wooten (born 1950) is an American serial killer. Initially convicted and sentenced to life for two separate murders committed around Fort Worth, Texas in 1969, he was paroled in May 1992 thanks to campaigning from his father, Arlis, whom Wooten would kill during an argument in July 1993. Wooten was later convicted of this murder and given another life term.
Murders
First murders
In April 1969, Wooten, then imprisoned on a 5-year prison sentence for armed robbery, was paroled after serving only 18 months. On September 1, he and an unnamed 16-year-old accomplice went to a gas station on the North Side of Fort Worth, where they abducted and later shot the 58-year-old attendant, Loyd Dewey Choat. A few days later, the man's body was found in a creekbed near Watauga. According to one sheriff's suspicions, the killer might have brought two teenage girls to view Choat's body, but the reason for this belief was never established. Later that month, police brought murder charges 18-year-old Stephen James Duffy and 21-year-old Henry W. Baldwin, as it was initially believed that they were the ones responsible for the killing.
On November 6, the day of Wooten's bachelor party, he, along with his 18-year-old brother-in-law Michael Wayne Bush and 17-year-old Gerald Ross Weatherly, decided that they would rob a local gas station attendant working the night shift, a 26-year-old man by the name of David Daniels. The day after, the trio entered the gas station and robbed it, with Wooten stabbing Daniels 36 times before fleeing. Both Choat and Daniels' murders were initially thought to be unconnected, until shortly after Wooten's arrest on December 20, when he was caught after attempting to rob a grocery store where his father, Arlis "Edward" Wooten, worked as an assistant manager. By the end of the month, the underage accomplice implicated him in the Choat murder, which was quickly followed up by Bush and Weatherly, who in turn implicated him in the Daniels' killing. As a result, Wooten was held without bond on two counts of capital murder, with the charges levelled against Duffy and Baldwin being subsequently dropped.
While awaiting trial, Wooten claimed that he had shot a young blond woman three times as she was exiting a bathroom, but claimed that he was unable to remember neither the date or location of where this supposed crime had occurred. The sheriff presiding over his detention, Lon Evans, nonetheless contacted sheriffs and police departments all around the area, none of which reported having a crime with such characteristics. As a result, this supposed "confession" of Wooten's was considered a hoax and ignored. On May 26, 1970, in the middle of his trial, Wooten pleaded guilty to both murders in a bid to avoid the death penalty, which had been sought by the district attorney. As a result, he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms, which were stacked with another life sentence amassed from his guilty plea to the grocery store robbery in December 1969.
Patricide
After Wooten's incarceration, his father conducted a series of highly publicized interviews with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in which he claimed that his son had told him that he had been "haunted [...] by dreams of murder and mayhem." Over the subsequent 23 years, the elder Wooten would repeatedly write letters to the parole board, begging them to consider him for parole. During his imprisonment, Wooten earned a master's degree in humanities and became a skilled leather worker, whose crafts were sold by the proprietor of a grocery store. He also steadfastly denied any guilt in the murders, claiming that he had been framed.
In May 1992, Wooten was finally paroled and moved into his father's apartment in Azle. Shortly after his release, Wooten's father found him a job as a carpet cleaner and leather craftsman, and for some time, he appeared to be slowly rehabilitating. However, on July 29, 1993, Charles and Arlis got into an argument, resulting in the former shooting the latter in the head, before dismembering the body and driving to a field outside of town, where he set the remains on fire. The elder Wooten's disappearance was reported to police by one of his other sons a few days later, and after searching through the shrubbery, authorities located a set of four charred, scattered limbs which were tentatively identified as belonging to Arlis Wooten. A report later emerged that a youth who lived in the area had told his mother that he had seen a man putting what appeared to be a body in the back of his trunk, but this was dismissed by her at the time.
Arrest, trial and imprisonment
Charles was arrested as a suspect in the murder on August 3 and held on $100,000, together with two alleged accomplices, 41-year-old Titus Henry Hill and 24-year-old Michelle Ann Matl. When he was brought to the crime scene as part of a routine inspection, investigators reported that he had no visible emotion during the entirety of the procedure. At his murder trial in June 1995, prosecutors claimed that the reason for the murder was that Wooten wanted to collect his father's life insurance, but a lack of substantiable evidence could not prove this claim. Wooten himself would plead guilty to the crime in exchange for a life term with a possibility of parole after he has served 35 years of his sentence. This outcome came as a disappointment to some family members, who wished that he had been sentenced to death for their father's murder.
As of February 2022, Wooten remains incarcerated at the J. Dale Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, with a projected parole date in 2028.
See also
List of serial killers in the United States
References
External links
Inmate Locator
1950 births
Living people
20th-century American criminals
American male criminals
Male serial killers
American serial killers
People convicted of murder by Texas
American people convicted of murder
Patricides
American people convicted of robbery
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Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Texas
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In Ulster Rugby's fourth season since the advent of professionalism, they were champions of the Heineken Cup, and finished second in the IRFU Interprovincial Championship.
Pre-season
Harry Williams was appointed as Director of Rugby, signing a three-year full time contract, starting on 1 July when he resigned as principal of Holywood Primary School. A former prop for Malone and Bangor, Williams had coached Bangor to Ulster League and Cup titles in the 1980s. He was Ulster's coach for four years from 1987, and had led them to four unbeaten seasons in the Interprovincial Championship. He was part of the Irish development squad coaching team for their tour of New Zealand in 1993, and was Ireland A coach for three years. Most recently, he was coach of Dublin side Bective Rangers for 18 months, before resigning for family reasons at the end of 1998. Former Ireland fullback Colin Wilkinson was assistant coach, and Harry Brennan was strength and conditioning coach.
Warren Gatland, the new Ireland coach, led a drive by the IRFU to bring Irish players who had signed contracts with English clubs back to Ireland. Ulster were strengthened by the return of out-half David Humphreys and centre Mark McCall from London Irish, centre Jonathan Bell and hooker Allen Clarke from Northampton, and lock Mark Blair from Edinburgh, but locks Paddy Johns and Jeremy Davidson rejected the IRFU approach, Johns staying at Saracens, Davidson moving from London Irish to Castres. Two English-born Irish internationals were also signed: fullback Simon Mason from Richmond, and prop Justin Fitzpatrick from London Irish.
The IRFU announced that the Irish provinces would have squads of 30 players, most of whom would be full-time professionals, for the coming season. The IRFU Ulster Branch signed 19 full-time players for the 1998–99 season, including Jonathan Bell, Justin Fitzpatrick, Allen Clarke, David Humphreys, Simon Mason, Maurice Field, Denis McBride, Stephen Ritchie, James Topping and Gary Longwell, while younger players like Robin Morrow and Sheldon Coulter were signed to part-time contracts.
Mark McCall was named as captain, but sustained a career-ending injury in a friendly against Glasgow on 28 September.
1998–99 Heineken Cup
Ulster's Heineken Cup campaign started with a draw against Edinburgh, followed by a heavy defeat away to Toulouse. When the players reacted with relief that the scoreline was not as extreme as the 108–16 defeat Toulouse had recently inflicted on Ebbw Vale, Williams was furious. Training was revamped: where previously the team had trained in the early mornings and evenings to accommodate part-time players, daytime sessions were introduced for full-time professionals, with one evening session a week for the part-timers. Ulster defeated Ebbw Vale, and then Toulouse at home, in front of Ravenhill's biggest crowd for several years, and were unbeaten for the remainder of the pool stage. With Ebbw Vale beating Toulouse 19–11 at home in their final game, Ulster topped the pool with an away win over Edinburgh.
They drew Toulouse at home in the quarter-finals. In the second half, with Ulster narrowly in the lead, flanker Andy Ward received word that his wife had gone into labour, and left the field, replaced by Derek Topping. Toulouse almost took the lead, if not for a late try-saving tackle on Michel Marfaing by David Humphreys, who injured his shoulder in the process. Bryn Cunningham replaced him, and Ulster held on to win. This was followed by a home semi-final against Stade Francais, with Ravenhill's capacity increased to 20,000 with temporary stands. It featured a memorable try from Humphreys – from his own 22, he chipped the ball forward to Sheldon Coulter, who passed it back to Humphreys to run it in from the halfway line – as well as five penalties, a conversion and a drop goal from Simon Mason, in a 33–27 victory. In the final, held at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Ulster defeated Colomiers 21–6 to become the first Irish side to lift the Heineken Cup.
Pool 3
Quarter-final
Semi-final
Final
1998–99 IRFU Interprovincial Championship
Top three teams qualify for next season's Heineken Cup.
Friendlies
Ulster Rugby Awards
The IRFU Ulster Branch Awards ceremony was held on 27 May 1999 at the Balmoral Conference Centre. Winners were:
Player of the year: Simon Mason
Guinness personality of the year: David Humphreys
Northern Bank coach of the year: Harry Williams
Renault schools player of the year: Bryan Young, Ballymena Academy
Calor Gas youth player of the year: David Cantley, Dromore
First Trust club of the year: Dungannon RFC
Dorrie B. Faulker Award: Joe Eagleson, competitions secretary
References
1998-99
1998–99 in Irish rugby union
1998–99 Heineken Cup |
Tribute is an American video-sharing website headquartered in Brooklyn. Created in 2014 by Andrew Horn and Rory Petty, the platform lets customers create video montages (called “tributes”) for occasions including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, get well soon, and memorials. Tribute.co allows users to record video messages, request submissions from friends and family, insert photos, add music, and send the resulting video tribute montage to a recipient.
History
When Andrew Horn turned twenty-seven, his girlfriend, Miki Agrawal surprised him with a video montage containing clips of his family and closest friends explaining why they loved him. This resulted in Andrew's idea to create Tribute–a “living eulogy” video-compilation service that he co-founded with software engineer Rory Petty.
Founded in 2014, Tribute's activity accelerated in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it had sent over 5 million videos as of December 2021. While social distance restrictions were in effect, the site provided a way for people to connect while in-person celebrations were put on hold.
For each video sold, Tribute makes one available to hospitals for free and has partnered with Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center in Ohio, Lurie Children's Hospital in Illinois and CarePoint Health in New Jersey.
Overview
Tribute's collaborative technology starts with inviting people to contribute via email, SMS or social media. Participants receive a prompt to record a short video via their phone, computer or tablet. The site's video editing software allows users to drag and drop the clips in their desired order without prior video editing experience.
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Video hosting
Video editing software
Internet properties established in 2014
Companies based in Brooklyn |
Antipterna monostropha is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola monostropha. The lectotype for Ocystola monostropha was collected at Blackheath, New South Wales.
Occurrence data from GBIF shows A. monostropha occurring in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.
Meyrick's description
Further reading
References
External links
Antipterna monostropha: images & occurrence data from GBIF
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1885
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick |
United We Can may refer to:
Unidas Podemos, Spanish political party
United We Can (Costa Rica), Costa Rican political party |
Will Stein (born September 25, 1989) is an American football coach who is currently the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
Playing career
Stein was a walk-on quarterback at Louisville from 2008 to 2012.
Career statistics
Coaching career
Louisville
After his playing career concluded, Stein stayed at Louisville as a graduate assistant and quality control coach from 2013 to 2014.
Texas
Stein was named a quality control coach at Texas in 2015, joining his former college coach Charlie Strong and position coach Shawn Watson.
Lake Travis HS (TX)
Stein was the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach at Lake Travis High School in Texas from 2018 to 2019.
UTSA
Stein was named the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at UTSA on December 20, 2019. He was promoted to co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on January 8, 2022.
References
External links
UTSA profile
Louisville profile |
Chile is scheduled to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which takes place between 4–13 March 2022.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Alpine skiing
Chile will send three alpine skiers to compete in the games.
See also
Chile at the Paralympics
Chile at the 2022 Winter Olympics
References
Nations at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
2022
Winter Paralympics |
Kōkako was a Maori rangatira (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand. He probably lived in the late sixteenth century.
Life
Kōkako was the son of Manu-Tongātea of Ngāti Ruanui and Mātaatua descent from Marokopa, south of Kāwhia. According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, his mother was Wawara from the Lake Rotoiti region, whom his father married during a military campaign into the Bay of Plenty region. According to this version, he was named after the Kōkako birds which the war-party ate during their march.
In a version told to Bruce Biggs by Elsie Turnbull, Manu-Tongātea is instead a man of Maungatautari, who committed adultery with a lady of Marokopa and left behind a kōkako-feather cloak after which Kōkako is named.
Invasion of Āwhitu
After spending some time in Marokopa, Kōkako led a raiding party down the Waikato River and into Manukau Harbour, where they seized the Āwhitu Peninsula. This brought them into conflict with the famous warrior, Tūheitia. After some fighting, Kōkako withdrew to Kāwhia.
Rape of Whaea-tāpoko
In the Kāwhia region, Kōkako encountered a female rangatira named Whaea-tāpoko, who belonged to Ngāti Taupiri. Since she was recently widowed, she was under tapu, but Kōkako wanted to marry her anyway. Therefore, he pretended to be thirsty in the night, leading Whaea-tāpoko to send one of her slaves to fetch him some water. Kōkako followed the slave, leapt out at her, and smashed her gourd. When Whaea-tāpoko heard what had happened, she came out to investigate and Kōkako raped her. After he had finished, Kōkako told that if she had a child she should name it Tamainu-pō ('Son-of-the-drink-by-night') or Pare-inupō ('Daughter-of-the-drink-by-night'). In the end, she had a boy, Tamainu-pō.
Battle of Kiri-parera
Then Kōkako went back north to Āwhitu, where, according to one account, he drowned Tūheitia by means of a trick, but Tūheitia's son Māhanga continued the fight.
After some time, Māhanga moved south into the Waikato, settling near Te Pahu, where the Kāniwhaniwha stream meets the Waipa River, at a village called Kāniwhaniwha or Pūrākau. Therefore, Kōkako came south with a war party and built a fortress at Kiri-parera, just downstream from Kāniwhaniwha.
When Māhanga's force approached Kiri-parera, they saw Kōkako's forces hiding ready for an ambush near the gateway. Among Māhanga's forces was Kōkako's son, Taimainu-pō, who had gone into exile after an argument with his older half-brother. He shouted for Māhanga's forces to charge and then used the distraction to sneak over the palisade into the fortress and search for Kōkako. While he was still on the fence, Kōkako's forces broke and fled into their fortress and Tamainu-pō caught sight of his father, recognising him by his red feather-cloak. He leapt down on him, pushed him into the ditch, snatched off his cloak, and let him flee.
Kōkako withdrew to the island of Tai-pōuri near Rangiriri on the Waikato River (or Okarahea according to Mohi Te Rongomau).
Reconciliation with Taimainu-pō and Māhanga
Sometime later, Taimainu-pō had a son with Tū-kōtuku, daughter of Māhanga and wished for the baby to receive the tohi baptismal ritual from his own father, so he came down the river with his wife and newborn son and walked straight to the largest house in the village. The people cried out that the house was tapu and Kōkako came out to investigate the shouting. Then Tamainu-pō revealed his name, handed Kōkako his patu and cloak, presented his wife and his child. Kōkako led them to the tūāhu altar and performed the tohi ritual for both Tamainu-pō and his newborn son, naming him Wairere.
Kōkako agreed to return to Kāniwhaniwha with Tamainu-pō and make peace with Māhanga.
Family
Kōkako married Punanga and had two sons:
Urutonga, an ancestor of Ngāi Te Rangi
Te Aweto, who married Puketoa.
By Whaea-tāpoko he was the father of Tamainu-pō, the ancestor of Ngāti Tamainupo.
According to an 1849 account by Āperāhama Taonui, Kōkako was also the father of Reitū and Reipae, but other accounts make them his great-granddaughters or the daughters of Māhanga.
Sources
The story of Kōkako is recorded by Pei Te Hurinui Jones based on an oral account which he heard from Te Nguha Huirama of Ngāti Tamainu-pō, Ngāti Maniapoto, and Ngāti Te Ata on 24 May 1932. The story is also reported in an 1871 manuscript by Wiremu Te Wheoro, which was published in John White The Ancient History of the Maori: IV Tainui (1888).
References
Bibliography
Ngāti Ruanui
New Zealand Māori men
Māori tribal leaders
16th-century New Zealand people
Waikato Tainui
Mātaatua
New Zealand rapists
People from Waikato |
Kwasan Observatory is a Japanese observatory in the Kyoto University founded in 1929. Issei Yamamoto was a first director of the observatory.
References
Astronomical observatories in Japan
Astronomical observatories
Kyoto University |
Vilius Armalas (born 21 July 2000) is a Lithuanian footballer who plays as a defender for club Kavala.
Career
Before the second half of 2018–19, Armalas signed for Portuguese top flight side Benfica. Before the 2021 season, he was sent on loan to Hegelmann in Lithuania. Before the second half of 2021–22, he signed for Greek club Kavala. On 26 January 2022, Armalas debuted for Kavala during a 1–0 win over Trikala.
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
A Lyga players
Association football defenders
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
FC Hegelmann players
FC Stumbras players
Lithuanian expatriate footballers
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Lithuanian footballers
S.L. Benfica footballers
Super League Greece 2 players
Kavala F.C. players
Sportspeople from Kaunas |
Polysulfobetaines are zwitterionic polymers that contain a positively charged quaternary ammonium and a negatively charged sulfonate group within one constitutional repeat unit. In recent years, polysulfobetaines have received increasing attention owing to their good biotolerance and ultralow-fouling behavior towards surfaces. These properties are mainly referred to a tightly bound hydration layer around each zwitterionic group, which effectively suppresses protein adsorption and thus, improves anti-fouling behavior. Therefore, polysulfobetaines have been typically employed as ultrafiltration membranes, blood-contacting devices, and drug delivery materials.
The chemical structure of polysulfobetaines can be divided in several subgroups. Most widespread are amides of (meth)acrylic acid ('PSPP') or quaternary esters ('PSPE'). Also, compounds from poly(vinylpyridinium), poly(vinylimidazolium), or quaternary poly(pyrrolidinium) as well as zwitterionic ionenes, are often found.
Synthesis
Polysulfobetaines are generally synthesized via free radical polymerization. However, the synthesis of polysulfobetaines is often limited by their poor solubility in most solvents and at present, only few sulfobetaine monomers that are suited for free radical polymerization, are commercially available. The most popular ones are SPE and SPP, which provide a good combination of hydrophilicity and polymerizability.
Solution behavior
Almost all polysulfobetaines are insoluble in water at low temperatures, however many polysulfobetaines feature an upper critical solution temperature (UCST) in aqueous solution. This means they undergo a coil-to-globule collapse transition upon cooling. Such a behavior is highly unusual, since other zwitterionic polymers, e.g., poly(phosphatidylcholines) and poly(carboxybetaines) do generally not feature a responsive behavior towards a temperature stimulus.
The reason for the UCST-type behavior of polysulfobetaines in solution is based on their electrically neutral behavior, i.e., the overall charge is zero, over a large pH range (approximately 2 – 14). Due to the neutralization of the charges, repulsive and attractive interactions are present between the individual polymer chains and inner salt are formed. The balance of this complex interplay of interactions between numerous charged groups with water and with themselves, strongly affects the solubility of polysulfobetaines in water and eventually, results in an UCST-type transition. The temperature of this phase transition, often called clearing point, is very sensitive to molar mass, polymer architecture, solvent isotopes, e.g., H2O/D2O, and especially to the addition of salts to the solution.
The presence of salt additives in aqueous solution leads to an altered balance of the attractive and repulsive interactions and therefore, also to an altered solubility. Especially, the nature of the salt anion has a strong effect on the solubility of the polysulfobetaines. While chaotropic anions cause an improved dissolution (salting-in effect), kosmotropic anions result in precipitation of the polysulfobetaines (salting-out effect).
Thin films from polysulfobetaines
Thin films made from polysulfobetaines also feature a thermo-responsiveness, however, the phase transition is strongly shifted, which is mainly addressed to the increased polymer concentration and the altered polymer-polymer and polymer-water interactions. Furthermore, and analogously to aqueous solutions, different water isotopes (H2O/D2O) and salt additives were found to affect the phase transition as well. Interestingly, polysulfobetaine thin films feature a co-nonsolvency effect in mixed water/methanol vapors, which is not found in water/methanol solution. Apparently, polysulfobetaines feature a miscibility with lower alcohols at the substance-rich side of their phase diagrams.
References |
Rosa 'Henry Fonda' (aka JACyes) is a bright yellow Hybrid tea rose cultivar, bred by American hybridizer, Jack E. Christensen in 1995. The rose was named for film and stage actor, Henry Fonda. It was introduced in the U.S. by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. in 1996.
Description
'Henry Fonda' is a tall upright hybrid tea rose, in height, with a spread. It has a large, high-centered, full (26-40 petals) bloom form. Bloom size is . The flowers begin as long, pointed, ovoid buds and are bright yellow in color. The rose has little or no fragrance. They are borne on strong stems, primarily as a solitary bloom form, but sometimes in clusters of two or three. The flower's edges can sometimes look frayed or torn. 'Henry Fonda' is a vigorous grower and has medium-sized, dark green, glossy foliage.
History
Jack E. Christensen
Jack E. Christensen (1949–2021) was an award-winning American rose breeder, garden writer and biology teacher from Southern California. Christensen was born in Glendale, California in 1949. He showed an early interest in nature and gardening when he was very young. In high school, Christensen won a scholarship to University of California, Los Angeles. He initially planned to become a doctor, but later changed his mind and transferred to Cal Poly Pomona to study Botany.
Christensen spent most of his horticultural career at Armstrong Nurseries in Southern California. He progressed through the company until he became a hybridizer of roses and fruit trees, and vice-president of research. During his career, he developed over 80 new rose cultivars, including 'Henry Fonda', 'Gold Medal', 'Cricket', 'White Lightnin' and 'Fragrant Plum'. Christensen was the youngest hybridizer to win an All-America Rose Selections (AARS) in 1986, with his hybrid tea, 'Voodoo'.
In 2001, Christensen left Armstrong Nurseries and became a gardening writer for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Rancho Cucamonga, California. He also took a position as a biology teacher at Chaffey High School in Ontario, where he taught for 20 years. On March 10, 2021, at the age of 72, Christensen died after a long illness.
'Henry Fonda'
'Henry Fonda' was developed by Christensen from an unnamed seedling and the hybrid tea rose, 'Sunbright', in 1995. The rose was named for film and stage actor, Henry Fonda (1905–1982). The new rose variety was introduced in the U.S. by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. in 1996.
Notes
Henry Fonda
1996 introductions |
The 2010 Constellation Cup was the inaugural Constellation Cup series played between Australia and New Zealand. The series featured three netball test matches. Australia won the opening test 48–43. New Zealand leveled the series by winning the second test 59–40. Australia won the inaugural Constellation Cup series by defeating New Zealand 46–40 in the final test. The Australia team was coached by Norma Plummer and captained by Sharelle McMahon. New Zealand were coached by Ruth Aitken and captained by Casey Williams. Both teams used the series to prepare for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Squads
Australia
New Zealand
Matches
First test
Holden Netball Test Series
Second test
New World International Netball Series
Third test
Gallery
References
2010
2010 in New Zealand netball
2010 in Australian netball
August 2010 sports events in Australia
September 2010 sports events in New Zealand |
Maleh and el Maleh are Arabic-language surnames. Notable people with the surnames include:
Edmond Amran El Maleh
Gad el Maleh
Haitham al-Maleh
Nabil Maleh
Nadja Maleh
Youssef Maleh
See also
Arabic-language surnames |
The Sovereign 30 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by the Sovereign Design Group as a cruiser and first built in 1998.
The Sovereign 30 is a development of the Sovereign 28.
Production
The design was built by Sovereign America in the United States, starting in 1998, with only one prototype built, before the company went out of business. The prototype was used as a factory demonstrator and was eventually sold to a private owner.
Design
The Sovereign 30 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It is a cutter rigged sloop with a center cockpit, a raked stem, a plumb transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of ballast.
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of for docking and maneuvering.
The design has a bow and a stern cabin. The galley is equipped with a two-burner alcohol-fired stove and an ice box. The head is fully enclosed and includes a shower. The fresh water tank has a capacity of .
The boat can be transported on a three-axle trailer with surge brakes.
The design has a hull speed of .
See also
List of sailing boat types
References
Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Sovereign Design Group
Sailboat types built by Sovereign Yachts |
Latjor Tuel was a black man fatally shot by Calgary police on February 19, 2022 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Tuel refused to drop a stick, and stabbed a police dog in the neck, during a lengthy confrontation with police.
Latjor Tuel
Latjor Tuel was born in South Sudan and his family claimed he was a child solider for the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army before moving to Canada as a refugee, approximately 20 years prior to being killed. His family also claimed he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, and that he provided financial support to family members in South Sudan.
Events of February 19, 2022
Calgary police reported that at approximately 3:40 pm on the 19 February 2022, they responded to a call from the public reporting a man assaulting others, while holding weapons, near a bus stop close to the intersection of 45th Street and 17th Avenue S.E. in the Forest Lawn area of Calgary. Callers reported a man carrying a knife and holding a stick, and one caller reported the man had hit someone with the stick. When officers arrived at 3:46 pm, Tuel was holding a knife and a stick. Video of the incident shows officers speaking with Tuel as he sat on the sidewalk, and officers are repeatedly heard telling Tuel to drop or throw away his knife. At 4:02 pm, Tuel got up and an officer discharged less-lethal baton rounds at him. Tuel then ran towards police, and a police dog was allowed to approach him; Tuel stabbed the dog in the neck and hit it with his stick. Police then discharged a taser at Tuel. Police surrounded Tuel, who was still holding his knife and stick, and during a confrontation, Tuel was shot four times, by two different officers. The police dog was taken to an animal hospital in life-threatening condition. Tuel died at the scene. No police officers were injured.
Reactions and response
While police have described Tuel as holding a weapon, multiple friends have challenged that account stating that he used a retractile cane as a mobility aid. Friends have also criticized police for killing Tuel, specifically pointing out that it is natural for people to defend themselves against charging dogs.
Calgary's Police Chief Mark Neufeld defended the actions of his officers, "the call that the police responded to was not—when reported—about mental health. It was a complaint of an assault involving a man in possession of a knife and a stick in a busy public area". On February 23, 2022, Neufeld was questioned by the police commission about the killing and stated the Tuel may have faced systemic barriers, but also that the actions of his officers were not racially motivated.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, Alberta's police oversight body, are investigating the incident.
Jyoti Gondek, the mayor of Calgary stated the events were devastating and tragic and that questions needed to be answered by the investigation.
Calgary Black Chambers called for an inquiry into Tuel's death, and made comparisons with the Calgary Police Service's assault of Godfred Addai-Nyamekye and killing of Anthony Heffernan.
On February 26, 2022, a crowd of demonstrators gathered in downtown Calgary calling for justice for Tuel.
Fundraiser
A GoFundMe campaign was created to raise funds to repatriate Tuel's body to South Sudan and to fund legal action.
See also
No Visible Trauma (2020 documentary about the assault of Godfred Addai-Nyamekye and killing of Anthony Heffernan)
Lost Boys of Sudan
References
2022 in Alberta
Calgary
Deaths by firearm in Canada
Deaths by person in Canada
Killings by law enforcement officers in Canada
Lost Boys of Sudan |
Andrew Moses (June 6, 1874 – December 22, 1946) was a career officer in the United States Army. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, he served from 1897 to 1838, and was a veteran of the Spanish–American War and World War I. He attained the rank of major general and was most notable for his service as commander of 156th Field Artillery Brigade, 81st Division during the First World War, the Hawaiian Division and Schofield Barracks from 1936 to July 30, 1937, and the Hawaiian Department from 1937 to 1938.
Early life
Andrew Moses was born in Burnet, Texas on June 6, 1874, the son of Norton Moses and Lucy Anne (Kerr) Moses. He attended the public schools of Burnet County and Round Rock Institute in Round Rock, Texas. He was a student at the University of Texas at Austin for a year, then began attendance at the United States Military Academy. Moses graduated from West Point in 1897 ranked 56th of 67. He received his commission as a second lieutenant of Infantry and was assigned to the 11th Infantry Regiment at Whipple Barracks, Arizona.
Start of career
In March 1898, Moses transferred to the Artillery Branch and was assigned to the 7th Artillery Regiment at Fort Slocum, New York. During the Spanish–American War, he took part in the coastal defenses of Maine, first at Fort Preble, then as commander of the post at Fort Scammel. From mid to late September 1898, Moses was on recruiting duty in Philadelphia.
Moses remained in Philadelphia until September 1899, when he was assigned to command of Battery N, 7th Artillery at Fort Totten, New York. In November 1899, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and in December he was assigned to field artillery duty at Fort Riley, Kansas. Moses was promoted to captain in August 1901 and in October he was posted to Havana, Cuba during the First Occupation of Cuba and assigned as commander of the 23rd Coast Artillery Company. From November 1901 to May 1902, Moses acted as chief Ordnance officer for the Department of Cuba. From May 1902 to June 1903, Moses commanded the Santa Clara Battery in Havana Harbor.
From June 1903 to August 1905, Moses commanded the 75th Coast Artillery Company at Fort Preble. From September 1905 to August 1906, Moses was a student at Fort Totten's School of Submarine Defense. From October 1906 to August 1907, Moses was assigned as artillery engineer and ordnance officer for the District of Charleston, South Carolina.
From September 1907 to August 1911, Moses was commandant of cadets and professor of military science at Texas A&M University. From September to December 1911, Moses was assigned to Fort Caswell, North Carolina, and he was promoted to major of Coast Artillery in October 1911. From December 1911 to March 1913, he was assigned to Fort McKinley, Maine. From March 1913 to August 1914, Moses was commander of the post at Fort H. G. Wright, New York. From August to November, 1914 he was assigned as inspector and instructor of the New York National Guard. From November 1914 to August 1917, Moses was assigned to duty with the Army General Staff in Washington, D.C. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of Coast Artillery in May 1917.
World War I
In August 1917, Moses was promoted to temporary colonel and assigned to command the 81st Division's 316th Field Artillery Regiment at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. He remained in command of the regiment during its organization and training for World War I, and its July 1918 departure for combat in France. In June 1918, Moses was promoted to temporary brigadier general. After arriving in France, he was assigned to command of the 316th's higher headquarters, the 156th Field Artillery Brigade. He remained in command until the end of the war in November 1918. Afterwards, he performed post-war occupation duty, then led his brigade back to the United States in June 1919.
After returning to the United States, Moses was assigned to New York City as chairman of the Joint Board of Review for Redelivery of Troop Transports, and he remained in this post until May 1920. The joint board was responsible for returning the ships the U.S. military had seized for wartime use, and for agreeing to payment terms with their owners. In May 1920, Moses was reduced to his permanent rank of lieutenant colonel. Moses' wartime service was recognized with award of the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
Continued career
From May 1920 to May 1921, Moses was a student at the United States Army War College. In July 1920, he received permanent promotion to colonel. After graduation, he remained at the college as director of the Intelligence and Personnel courses from 1921 to 1923. In 1923, Moses was assigned to Hawaii as commander of the 13th Field Artillery Regiment. In 1927, he was assigned as executive officer of the 155th Field Artillery Brigade, an Organized Reserve unit based in Washington, D.C. As the senior regular army officer assigned to Washington's reserve units, Moses was the primary trainer and advisor for the area's reservists.
In 1928, Moses was again assigned as director of the Personnel course at the Army War College, after which he completed the aerial observation courses at the Coast Artillery School and Air Tactical School. Moses commanded the 2nd Coast Artillery District at Fort Totten from November 1929 to February 1930, and was promoted to permanent brigadier general in January 1930. From March 1930 to October 1931, Moses commanded the Panama Coast Artillery District.
Moses was assigned as Assistant Chief of Staff (G-1) on the Army Staff from October 1931 to October 1935. While living in Washington, he also served as vice president and president of the Army and Navy Club. Moses performed unassigned staff duty from October 1935 to January 1936, and was promoted to major general in December 1935. He commanded the Hawaiian Division and Schofield Barracks from March 1936 to July 1937. From July 1937 to June 1938, Moses was commanding general of the Hawaiian Department. At his retirement, Moses received a second award of the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
Later life
Moses reached the mandatory retirement age of 64 in June 1938, after which he resided in Washington, DC. He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on December 22, 1946. Moses was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Family
In 1897, Moses married Jessie Fisher (1877–1951). They were married until his death, and were the parents of a daughter, Kathleen. Kathleen Moses (1899–1987) was the wife of Colonel Frank Fenton Reed.
Legacy
The Moses/Reed Collection are stored at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Part of the Seaver Center for Western History Research, the Moses/Reed papers include maps, photos, lecture notes, and other materials accumulated by Andrew Moses and Frank Reed during their military careers.
Moses Hall, a residence building at Texas A&M University, was constructed in 1942 and was named for Moses.
Works by
Notes
References
External links
Andrew Moses at Arlington National Cemetery
Andrew Moses at U.S. Army Pacific
1874 births
1946 deaths
People from Burnet, Texas
Military personnel from Washington, D.C.
United States Military Academy alumni
United States Army War College alumni
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
United States Army generals of World War I
United States Army generals
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery |
Eva Antonia Gallardo-Gutiérrez (born 1973) is a Spanish mathematician specializing in operator theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid, deputy director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Spain), and the president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Gallardo completed her Ph.D. at the University of Seville in 2000. Her dissertation, Ciclicidad de operadores: Teoría espectral, was supervised by Alfonso Montes-Rodríguez. With Montes-Rodríguez, she is a coauthor of a research monograph, The Role of the Spectrum in the Cyclic Behavior of Composition Operators (American Mathematical Society, 2004).
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Spanish mathematicians
Spanish women mathematicians
University of Seville alumni
Complutense University of Madrid faculty |
Themis Kefalas (; born 28 May 2000) is a Greek footballer who plays as a defender for Panserraikos.
Career
At the age of 16, Kefalas joined the youth academy of English eighth tier side Haringey Borough. In 2018, he signed for QPR in the English second tier. In 2019, he was sent on loan to English sixth tier club Billericay Town. Before the second half of 2020–21, Kefalas was sent on loan to Barnet in the English fifth tier.
Before the second half of 2021–22, he signed for Greek team Panserraikos after receiving interest from France and Spain. On 2 February 2022, he debuted for Panserraikos during a 0–1 loss to Anagennisi Karditsa.
References
External links
2000 births
Association football defenders
Barnet F.C. players
Billericay Town F.C. players
Expatriate footballers in England
Greek expatriate footballers
Greek expatriate sportspeople in England
Greek footballers
Living people
National League (English football) players
Panserraikos F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Sportspeople from Athens
Super League Greece 2 players |
Issah may refer to:
Issah Abass (born 1998), Ghanaian professional footballer
Issah Gabriel Ahmed (born 1982), Ghanaian former professional footballer
Fuseini Issah(born 1975), Ghanaian politician and member of parliament
Kamal Issah (born 1992), Ghanaian professional footballer
Mohammed-Awal Issah (born 1986), Ghanaian former professional footballer
Issah Mmari (1981–2003), better known by his stage name E-Sir, Kenyan hip hop artist
Issah Moro (born 1974), Ghanaian retired football forward
Issah Samir (born 1989), Ghanaian boxer who qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics
Issah Yakubu (born 1992), Ghanaian professional footballer |
Potkleče is a village in the municipality of Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 1,685.
References
Populated places in Zavidovići |
Major Edward Baylies Thornhill M.Inst.C.E (11 June 1841 - 31 August 1911) was chief engineer of the London and North Western Railway from 1902 to 1909.
Family
He was born on 11 June 1841 in St James West, Middlesex, the son of Walter Thornhill (1806-1887) and Sophia Turner (1811-1879).
On 25 September 1873 he married Mary Elizabeth Walker (1854-1945) in St Saviour's Church, Paddington and they had the following children:
Walter Edward Thornhill (1874-1950)
Ethel Sophie Mary Eleanor Thornhill (1875-1876)
Henry Langton Thornhill (1877-1945)
Margorie Thornhill (1878-1971)
Violet Constance Thornhill (1880-1977)
Frederick Baylies Thornhill (1882-1957)
John Albert Thornhill (1884-1970)
Charles Hope Thornhill (1886-1956)
Geoffrey Holland Thornhill (1888-1917)
Mildred Mary Thornhill (1892-1977)
He died on 31 August 1911 in Colwyn Bay, Caernarvonshire.
Career
He was educated at King's College, London and then served a pupilage with William Pole MICE.
He entered the service of the London and North Western Railway in September 1862. Shortly after joining he was appointed a resident engineer and one of his first projects was the widening of the railway between Edge Hill and Lime Street Station in Liverpool, the enlargement of Liverpool Lime Street railway station and a new dock at Garston.
He was appointed a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineering in 1870.
In 1879 he was appointed chief assistant to the company for all new works under the Chief Engineer Frank Stevenson.
In 1893 he was appointed to the rank of Major in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps.
On the death of Frank Stevenson in 1902, he succeeded to the post of Chief Engineer. In this role he designed the widening into Euston station, the Wilmslow and Levenshulme new railway; the wideneng into Manchester London Road station and the construction of another dock at Garston.
References
1841 births
1911 deaths
British railway civil engineers
London and North Western Railway people |
Hanno Berger is a German lawyer. He enjoyed a high reputation for brokering tax and financial products. Since the 00-years, he has become a leading initiator of dividend stripping deals, seeking so-called "cum-ex" transactions for the purpose of tax robbery.
Life
Berger reached a Ph.D. in 1980. He started his carrer at Hess state financial authorithy and was responsibel for monitoring banks. In 1996 he changend into privat business and became partner in the law firm Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster (today: Clifford Chance).
Cum Ex
Berger is considered the leading advisor and initiator of dividend stripping transactions, which, according to a report of Die Zeit, have caused tax losses of over 55 billion euros. Public prosecuters called him the "Spiritus Rector" of cum-ex tax fraud.
In Cum-ex transactions, bankers, consultants and stock traders have had taxes refunded that no one had previously paid to the Federal Republic of Germany. The general public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt and the public prosecutor's office in Cologne accused Berger of tax evasion in a particularly serious case in 2021. In Hanno Berger you see a central figure behind numerous Cum-Ex-Aktienkreis deals. In the cases for which Berger is accused alone, the German state suffered damage in the hundreds of millions of euros in evaded taxes.
Berger should come to his trial at the Wiesbaden district court in early 2021. But Berger did not appear at the beginning of the trial, citing his state of health. The court therefore issued an arrest warrant and shortly thereafter the district court in Bonn also put Berger out for a search. In July 2021, the Swiss police arrested him. Berger defended himself against his extradition with all legal means. In his view, his practices were not illegal in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court saw things differently and described Berger's actions as fraudulent.
On February 22, 2022, the Swiss authorities granted the German judiciary’s application for extradition and transferred Berger to Germany.
References
21st-century German businesspeople
German financial businesspeople
Living people
Businesspeople from Frankfurt |
Jack E. Christensen (1949–2021) was an award-winning American rose hybridizer, garden writer and science teacher. He developed more than 80 rose varieties during his career. He was the youngest hybridizer to win an All-America Rose Selections (AARS) award in 1986. His most popular rose varieties are: 'Henry Fonda', 'Gold Medal', 'Midas Touch' and the AARS winner, 'Voodoo'.
Biography
Christensen was born in Glendale, California in 1949. He showed an early interest in nature and gardening when he was very young. In high school, Christensen won a scholarship to University of California, Los Angeles. He initially planned to become a doctor, but later changed his mind and transferred to Cal Poly Pomona to study Botany.
Christensen's first job after college was at Armstrong Nurseries in Southern California, where according to his wife, Jeanie, "he hoed weeds for a year". He progressed through the company until he became a hybridizer of roses and fruit trees, and vice-president of research. During his career, he developed over 80 new rose cultivars, including 'Henry Fonda', 'Gold Medal', and 'Midas Touch'. Christensen was the youngest hybridizer to win an All-America Rose Selections (AARS) in 1986, with his hybrid tea, 'Voodoo'.
In 2001, Christensen left Armstrong Nurseries and became a gardening writer for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Southern California. He also took a position as a biology teacher at Chaffey High School in Ontario, where he taught for 20 years. On March 10, 2021, at the age of 72, Christensen died after a long illness.
Selected roses
'White Lightnin', Grandiflora, (before 1979)
'Cricket', Miniature, (1979)
'Gold Medal', Grandiflora, (1982)
'Azure Sea', Hybrid tea, (1983)
''Voodoo, Hybrid tea Hybrid tea, (1986)
'Peppermint Twist', Floribunda, (1988)
'Fragrant Plum', Grandiflora, (1988)
'Midas Touch', Hybrid tea, (1992)
'Brass Band', Floribunda, (1993)
'Henry Fonda', Hybrid tea, (1995)
'Almost Sunset', Hybrid tea, (1996)
Rose gallery
See also
Garden roses
Tom Carruth
Felicitas Svejda
References
1949 births
2021 deaths
Rose breeders
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
California Polytechnic State University alumni
People from Glendale, California |
"Oblivion" is a song by English rock band Terrorvision. Written by the band and produced by Gil Norton, the song was included as the second track on the band's second studio album, How to Make Friends and Influence People (1994). Like most Terrorvision songs, "Oblivion" contains political themes, but according to bass player Leigh Marklew, the messages were not taken seriously because of the song's doo-wop chorus. Released as the album's first single on 28 March 1994, the song peaked at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart and number 65 in Australia.
Release and reception
On 28 March 1994, "Oblivion" was issued as the lead single from How to Make Friends and Influence People. When the album was released on 18 April 1994, "Oblivion" appeared as the second track. According to AllMusic reviewer Leslie Mathew, the song is a satirical critique on "squatter hippies". Upon the single's release, Music & Media magazine likened the song to the Smithereens' "Top of the Pops" (1991) and called it "hard-to-forget" with "instant 'got-ya' quality".
On 3 April 1994, the single debuted at number 47 on the UK Singles Chart. The following week, it rose to its highest position of number 21, becoming Terrorvision's highest-charting single in the UK until February 1996, when "Perseverance" reached number five. "Oblivion" spent six weeks on the UK Singles Chart and is the band's second-longest-charting single in the UK, after 1999's "Tequila". Its British sales registered on the Eurochart Hot 100, peaking at number 72 on the issue dated 30 April 1994. In Australia, "Oblivion" is Terrorvision's only song to enter the top 100 of the ARIA Singles Chart, reaching number 65 in mid-1994.
Track listings
UK CD1
"Oblivion"
"The Model" (with Die Cheerleader)
"Remember Zelda"
UK CD2 and Australian CD single
"Oblivion"
"Problem Solved" (by Die Cheerleader)
"What Do You Do That For?"
"Oblivion" (demo)
UK 7-inch single
A. "Oblivion"
B. "What Do You Do That For?"
UK 12-inch single
A1. "Oblivion"
A2. "The Model" (with Die Cheerleader)
B1. "Remember Zelda"
B2. "Problem Solved" (by Die Cheerleader)
French CD and 7-inch single
A. "Oblivion"
B. "The Model" (with Die Cheerleader)
Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the How to Make Friends and Influence People booklet and the UK CD1 liner notes.
Studio
Mixed at The Church (London, England)
Personnel
Terrorvision – writing, arrangement
Tony Wright – vocals
Shutty – drums
Mark Yates – guitars
Leigh Marklew – bass
Anita Madigan – backing vocals
Gil Norton – production, mixing
Chris Sheldon – mixing
Elliot Ness – mixing assistant
John McDonnell – mixing assistant
Al Clay – engineering
Mike Cyr – engineering assistant
Mark Phythian – programming
Union Design – artwork design
Toby McFarlan Pond – photography
Charts
References
1994 singles
1994 songs
EMI Records singles
Political songs
Song recordings produced by Gil Norton
Songs about hippies
Satirical songs
Terrorvision songs |
Predražići is a village in the municipality of Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 228.
References
Populated places in Zavidovići |
Michael Burton is an American politician and former theatre performer serving as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 92nd district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 6, 2021.
Early life and education
Burton was born in Affton, Missouri. He graduated from Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis and briefly attended Lindenwood University, though he left the school to move to New York City and perform on Broadway.
Career
In 2001, Burton originated the role of Ben Rogers in the Broadway production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He also appeared on the cast recording of the show. Burton returned to Missouri in 2011 and worked as a teacher. He became involved with local politics and activism when he joined a movement to prevent the construction of a housing development on the site of Tower Tee, a historic golf course. Burton was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in November 2020 and assumed office on January 6, 2021.
References
Living people
Missouri Democrats
Members of the Missouri House of Representatives
Actors from Missouri
Male actors from Missouri
People from Affton, Missouri |
Ribnica Dio is a village in the municipality of Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the banks of the Krivaja River.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 1,016.
References
Populated places in Zavidovići |
James A. Holstein is an American sociologist who is emeritus professor of sociology at Marquette University. He was the editor-in-chief of Social Problems from 2002 to 2005.
References
External links
Living people
American sociologists
Marquette University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Academic journal editors |
This is a list of military equipment used by Turkey during World War II. Turkey remained neutral during the war until the very end when it joined the allies and never saw combat. It like Sweden and Spain supplied Nazi Germany with resources despite being neutral. Turkey did not have a good arms industry during the war or before and relied on foreign weapons during the conflict and World War I weapons such as Turkish Mausers.
Weapons
List of World War II weapons of Turkey
Aircraft
List of aircraft of Turkey during World War II
References
World War II military equipment of Turkey |
Jurgis Astikas (1530 - 1579 Grand Duchy of Lithuania) or Jurgis Astikaitis was a Lithuanian nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and a member of the noble Astikai family. He participated in the Livonian War and signing of the election of king Henry of Valois after the death of king Sigismund Augustus in 1572. Jurgis was executed in Lithuania in 1579 under suspicions of plotting to assassinate king Stephen Báthory. Jurgis did not leave any descendants.
References
Lithuanian nobility
1530 births
1579 deaths |
"Gimme Some More" is a song by Busta Rhymes from the album E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front.
Gimme Some More may also refer to:
"Gimme Some More" (The J.B.'s song), a song by the J.B.'s from the album Food for Thought
"Gimme Some More", a 1969 song by Crazy Elephant
"Gimme Some More", a song by Labi Siffre from the album Crying Laughing Loving Lying
See also
"Gimme More" |
Cannock Chase is an area in Staffordshire, England.
Cannock Chase may also refer to:
Cannock Chase District
Cannock Chase (UK Parliament constituency)
"Cannock Chase", a song by Labi Siffre from his album Crying Laughing Loving Lying |
Love Monster may refer to:
Love Monster (album), an album by Amy Shark
Love Monster (EP), an EP by Monster Magnet
Love Monster (manga), by Riko Miyagi
Love Monster (TV series), a childrens' television show
Love Monster, a series of books by Rachel Bright |
In 2015, Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Fotokol in Cameroon, prompting a burqa ban.
Background
Boko Haram is a Nigerian Salafi jihadist group who began their insurgency in 2009. In 2014, their insurgency spread into neighbouring Cameroon. In February 2015, they killed over 90 people in Fotokol, Logone-et-Chari, Far North Region.
Bombings
Several suicide bombings were carried out by Boko Haram in Fotokol in 2015, including those on 12 July, 9 November and 21 November. The July bombers were two women wearing burqas, who killed 13 people.
Reaction
By 16 July, the governor of the mostly Muslim Far North, Midjiyawa Bakari, banned the wearing of the Islamic veil, including the burqa, which he said was to prevent further attacks. During the 2010s, several countries brought in similar laws in response to Islamic extremism and terrorism.
References
2015 murders in Africa
21st-century mass murder in Cameroon
Boko Haram in Cameroon
Boko Haram suicide bombings
Far North Region (Cameroon)
Bombings
Hijab
July 2015 crimes in Africa
Mass murder in 2015
November 2015 crimes in Africa
Suicide bombings in 2015
Suicide bombings in Africa
Terrorist incidents in Cameroon in 2015 |
The Hangman at Home is an internationally co-produced animated film, directed by Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot and released in 2021. Inspired by Carl Sandburg's poem of the same name, the film depicts five interwoven stories about human vulnerability and the need for emotional connection.
The film was released in both short film and immersive virtual reality editions.
The short film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
References
External links
2021 films
2021 animated films
2021 short films
Canadian films
Canadian animated short films
Danish films
Danish animated short films
French films
French animated short films |
Pondicherry Football Association is the state governing body of football in Puducherry. It is affiliated with the All India Football Federation, the national governing body.
Competitions
Pondicherry Women's League
References
Football in Puducherry
Football governing bodies in India |
Robert James Perry is an American physicist.
Perry earned a degree in liberal arts at St. John's College, Annapolis, and pursued a doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He taught at Ohio State University and was granted emeritus status upon retirement. In 1998, Perry was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[f]or the development of renormalization group coupling coherence and the identification of a simple confinement mechanism, which led to a constituent picture in light-front QCD." The American Association for the Advancement of Science granted Perry an equivalent honor in 2007.
References
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Physical Society
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Ohio State University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American physicists
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni |
Iryna Senyk (Ukrainian, Іри́на Миха́йлівна Се́ник; June 8, 1926, Lviv - October 25, 2009, Boryslav) was a Ukrainian poet, nurse, and Soviet political dissident. She was imprisoned in Stalinist camps as were her mother and brother.
Biography
Iryna Mykhailivna Senyk was born on June 8, 1926, in Lviv. Her parents were Mykhailo Senyk and Maria Senyk.
From 1939, she was a member of the Youth of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and in 1941, she became a full member of the organization, working in the regional propaganda department. She studied at a folk school and a private girls' gymnasium before entering University of Lviv in 1944.
In December 1945, while a student at the University of Lviv, she was arrested on charges of "treason against the homeland" (Article 54-1 "a") and "involvement in a counter-revolutionary organization" (Article 54–11) of the Criminal Code, and imprisoned on Lontsky Street. She was sentenced in 1946 to ten years in concentration camps in Siberia (Ozerlag, Angarlag, and Irkutsk Oblast) and life in exile on charges of links with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Despite all the camp bans, she continued writing poetry, which she had been doing since the age of nine, secretly writing on scraps of paper. While in camp, she learned how to embroider pieces on religious themes. She left the camp in 1956, with the second disability group, exiled in the Siberian Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo region; the term of the exile expired in 1968.
After the exile, Senyk arrived in Ivano-Frankivsk as the return to Lviv was not possible. For a short time, she worked as a nurse with prisoners in a tuberculosis hospital. She became acquainted with Viacheslav Chornovil, Valentin Moroz and other activists of the resistance movement against Russification and national discrimination of the Ukrainian people - the Shestydesyatnyky ("Sixties activists"). She also helped to spread samizdat. In December 1969, she signed the statement of 16 former political prisoners "Again chamber affairs?" addressed to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was directed against the practice of conviction in prison. The statement was published in the Ukrainian Herald No. 1 in 1970 and broadcast on Radio Liberty.
In 1972, Senyk, a nurse, was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison camp and five years in exile, with an expected release date of November 17, 1983. While serving her sentence in a Mordovian camp, repressed for her beliefs, she became an invalid, her arm broken during an accident at a rock quarry. In 1979, now in exile, she was a signatory to the "Members of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords", dated October 6, 1979. Since 1979, she was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. She was also an honorary member of PEN International. Senyk was a signatory of the 1987 Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia (UANTI) declaration.
Awards
2005, Order of Princess Olha, 3rd order
2006, Award For Courage, 1st order
Selected works
Suviĭ polotna : poeziï, 1990
Suviĭ polotna : poeziï, 1990
White aster of love : collection of poetry embroidery and contemporary dress designs, 1992 (in English and Ukrainian)
Bila aĭstra li︠u︡bovy : zbirka virshiv, vyshyvok ta zrazkiv suchasnoho odi︠a︡hu, 1992
Zahratovana i︠u︡nist ́ : poeziï, 1996
Slavni dochky Ukraïny-Rusi, 1999
V nas odna Ukraïna, 1999
Knyz͡hechka Babusi Iryny dli͡a chemnöi dytyny (Babusia Iryna's little book : won't you come and have a look)
References
1926 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Ukrainian poets
20th-century Ukrainian women writers
Writers from Lviv
Nurses
Soviet dissidents |
Brie Ruais is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working in large “multi-faceted” ceramic sculptures that are often wall-mounted, performance, photography, video, and site-specific installation.
Ruais’ work is a process-oriented, performative, body-conscious strain of feminist sculpture and addresses themes such as the environment, eco-feminism, feminist theory, and embodiment. Her work falls in the lineage of body-based conceptual artists Janine Antoni, Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, and Eleanor Antin; artists whose work engages with the land such as Michelle Stuart, Ana Mendieta, and Richard Long; as well as the gestural athleticism of action painting and Richard Serra’s lead performances. Her work has also been compared to artists whose work is influenced by their natural surroundings like Georgia O’Keefe and Agnes Martin.
Early life
Ruais was born in 1982 in Southern California. She received her BS in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt School in 2004. She received her MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in 2011, where she studied with Jon Kessler.
Work
Ruais’s abstract ceramic sculptures retain both the primordial, earthen origins of clay as well as the physical and psychological imprint of their maker. Working on the floor, Ruais begins her work with a predetermined set of actions and an amount of clay that often equals her own bodyweight. The titles of her work reference the gestures she performs, like “spreading out from center,” “compressing,” “pushing landscape,” and “making space from the inside.” Her process is highly physical and it is performed quickly from beginning to end, utilizing her entire body. She is described as kicking, spreading, scraping, and skimming, cinching, ramming, and shoving the material across the floor or up a wall. The resulting form is then cut into segments, glazed, fired, and hung on the wall. The finished sculpture is embedded with the marks of this process: “whorled and rutted from fingers, elbows and boot treads”. The sculptures are topographical documents of the performance that formed them. Ruais’ work explores both the limits of the body and the material.
Ruais is known for her circular wall works that measure on average 80 inches (2 meters) in diameter. The sculptures are made on the floor and then hung vertically on the wall. They resemble clocks, starbursts, ray-like forms, punctures, and wounds. In Scraped Away from Center, 130lbs (Night) (2018), for example, the pigmented stoneware extends outward from the center, where Ruais knelt to make it, into a circular form with jagged edges.
Books
Brie Ruais’ work is included in Phaidon’s Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic, a global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals, published in 2017.
Exhibitions
2021 Movement on the Edge of the Land, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX
2021 Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2021 This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
2021 This Earth: Notes and Observations From Montello Foundation Artists, The Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
2020 Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics, The Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2020 The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Afterimages, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada
2019 Earth Piece, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2019 America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2019 Intimate Immensity, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 The Form Will Find its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2017 New Ruins, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2015 Crafted: Objects in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
2015 The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2014 EAF14 Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2013 Vessels, The Horticulture Society of New York, New York, NY
2011 BYTS Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Awards
2021 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place
2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2017 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, NY, NY
2017 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, Nevada
2016 Dieu Donne, Workspace Program Residency, NY, NY
Collections
Ruais' work is in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, Matamoros Art In Embassies Collection, Mexico, Burger Collection, Hong Kong, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
References
External links
Albertz Benda
Night Gallery
Cooper Cole
Brie Ruais
1982 births
Living people
American art
American contemporary artists
American feminists |
Amudhae is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Ezhil and starring Jai Akash, Prakash Raj, Madhumitha, and Uma.
Premise
Nancy, who is in love with Dinakar, gets married to millionaire Victor. Dinakar later gets married to his cousin, Vinaya. How Nancy reunites with Dinakar forms the rest of the story.
Cast
Jai Akash as Dinakar
Prakash Raj as Victor
Madhumitha as Nancy
Uma as Vinaya
Ranjitha as Susi (special appearance)
Ragasya (special appearance in the song "Pottu Thaluda")
Anamika (special appearance in the song "Valayal")
Dhamu as Dinakar's friend
Delhi Ganesh as Dinakar's father
M. S. Bhaskar as Victor's friend
Santhana Bharathi as Nancy's father
Sathyapriya as Dinakar's mother
Fathima Babu as Nancy's mother
Kuyili as Vinaya's mother
Rajasekar as the church father
Swaminathan as a priest
Bava Lakshmanan as the village head
Krishnamoorthy as an alcoholic
Production
After Ezhil saw a special screening of Ramakrishna, he signed Jai Akash for his next film Amudhae. The film was to be produced by a thirty five person unit, which later became a twenty eight person unit. Madhumitha was cast as the heroine. The film was shot in several locations in Kerala including Alappuzha, Munnar, Kuttanad, Chalakudy and Vazhachal.
Soundtrack
Newcomer Sunil Xavier, who worked as an assistant to S. A. Rajkumar, composed the music for the film.
"Anbe Adu Oru Kalam" - Unni Menon, Sujatha
"Enna Enna Nan Solla" - Swarnalatha
"Madura Jilla" - Manikka Vinayagam, Priya
"Pottu Thalluda" - Krishnaraj
"Valaya Kadu" - Karthik, Subha
Release
A critic from Sify opined that "The film lacks technical finesse and offers little in the way of surprise", praised the performances of Raj, Madhumitha, and Uma while criticising Jai Akash's "wooden", emotionless performance. Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu opined that "Flashes of brilliance and food for thought the story offers — you could disagree with the logic or feasibility of the proposition tabled, but the point is, it is something different". Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote that "If he [Ezhil] had worked on the screenplay better, etched his characters in a more convincing way, and had a tighter grip on his narration, it would have turned out to be a more engaging entertainer".
References
External links
Indian romantic drama films |
The Bois du Parc National Nature Reserve (RNN39) is a National Nature Reserve located in the department of Yonne. Established in 1979, it spreads over 45 ha, and its most interesting features are its steep-sided cliffs in an important coral reef dating from the Jurassic era.
Location
The site is located in Burgundy, along the Yonne, between Auxerre and Avallon and in the territory of the commune of Mailly-le-Château.
History of the site and reserve
160 million of years ago, what is now the Yonne valley was a warm and shallow sea, enabling the development of a coral reef characteristic of tropical seas.
Fossilized prints of corallite, petrified in its living location, still remains, along with numerous seashells. It is one of the most beautiful outcrops of fossilized corals in France.
Ecology (biodiversity, ecological interest, etc.)
Specific natural environments have colonized the site. The top of the cliffs and rocks is occupied by dry grasslands characterized by the presence of bushlands and southern plants. Those constitutes the most interesting biological diversity of the site. Broadleaf forests, made of sessile oaks, hornbeams and field maples, covers the brown earth of the limestone plateau. In the South-West, downy oaks have colonized the rocky slopes, while beech forests and lindens thrives in the North-facing slope.
Flora
Sub-mediterranean species are found on the site, isolated with respect to their common repartition in Southern Burgundy. European feather grass, pasqueflowers, St Bernard's lilies and Cantabrican morning glories can be found in the area.
Fauna
Local fauna is closely linked with the diversity of natural habitats : cliffs, grasslands, forest.
Birds
The avifauna is rich, with, in forested areas, the European honey buzzard and the Eurasian sparrowhawk, in their outskirts, the Eurasian blackcap and the western Bonelli's warbler, while the cliffs hosts the black redstart and the common kestrel. The emblematic peregrine falcon nidifies too in the reserve.
Reptiles and amphibians
The driest areas hosts several reptiles, such as the green whip snake, the Aesculapian snake and the western green lizard.
Invertebrates
The entomologic fauna is quite rich in the grasslands. The most characteristic elements are the European mantis, the New Forest cicada, and the owly sulphur.
Touristic and educational interest
A discovery trail permits to visit freely the nature reserve across the forests and the grasslands in top of the cliffs.
Administration, management plan, regulations
The nature reserve is managed by the Conservatoire des sites naturels bourguignons.
Tools and legal status
The nature reserve was established the 30 August 1979.
References
External links
Protected areas established in 1979
Regional natural parks of France
Geography of Yonne
Tourist attractions in Yonne
Geologic formations of France
Jurassic Europe
Limestone formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of Europe
Paleontology in France
Yonne |
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