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Jersey has an unwritten constitution arising from the Treaty of Paris (1259). When Henry III and the King of France came to terms over the Duchy of Normandy, the Norman mainland the suzerainty of the King of France. The Channel Islands however remained loyal to the British crown due to the loyalties of its Seigneurs. But they were never absorbed into the Kingdom of England by any Act of Union and exist as "peculiars of the Crown".
This peculiar political position has often been to the benefit of islanders. Until the 19th century, the island was generally able to be exempt from the harsher parts of Westminster legislation, while being included in favourable policies, such as protectionist economic policies. England, and later the United Kingdom, passively exploited the strategic benefits of the Channel Islands. For example, they were able to serve as a convenient stop-off point for trade to Gascony.
Legislation
Legislation relating to the organisation of government includes:
Reform
Campaigns for constitutional reform during the 19th century successfully called for: the replacement of lay Jurats with professional judges in the Royal Court to decide questions of law; the establishment of a Police Court (later known as the Magistrate's Court); the creation of a Petty Debts Court; a professional, salaried police force for St Helier in addition to the Honorary Police; and the reform of "archaic procedure of the Royal Court for criminal trials". In 1845, the elected office of deputy was created though this did little to redress the disparity of representation between the rural and urban parishes: in 1854 St Helier contained over half of the island's population, yet was able to elect only three out of the 14 deputies.
Two significant constitutional reforms took place during the 20th century. In 1946, the States of Jersey drew up plans for change following the German Occupation, which were examined by a Committee of the Privy Council. No change was made to the functions of the Bailiff. The twelve Jurats were removed from the assembly of the States of Jersey and replaced by twelve senators elected on an island-wide basis who would have no judicial functions. The twelve Rectors also lost their place in the States assembly. No reforms were made to the role of the Deputies in the assembly. The second major reforms took place in December 2005, when the States of Jersey Law 2005 came into force. This created a system of ministerial government to replace the previous committee-based administration.
Electoral reform is a topic of debate on the island. The 2000 Clothier report recommended the reform of the composition of the States to have a single type of member known as a Member of the States of Jersey (MSJ). In 2009, the States Assembly rejected proposals to keep the 12 Connétables and introduce 37 deputies elected to six "super-constituencies". In 2010, the States assembly agreed to holding elections for all seats on a single date and to cut the number of Senators from 12 to 8. In 2016, a proposition (P.2016/113) was voted on in the States concerning changes to its composition. The 12 Parish Connétables would retain their position as States Members, with 32 Senators elected from six large districts, each electing either six or five Senators. In 2021, the States Assembly voted a large reform of their composition from the 2022 general election. The role of Senators will be abolished and the eight senators replaced with an increase number of deputies. The 37 deputies will be elected from nine super constituencies, rather than in individual parishes as they are now. Although efforts were made the remove the Connétables, they will continue their historic role as States members.
In December 2010, a committee chaired by Lord Carswell recommended changes to the role of the Bailiff—in particular that the Bailiff should cease to the presiding officer over the States Assembly.
The States Assembly agreed in March 2011 to establish an independent electoral commission to review the make-up of the assembly and government.
In April 2011, Deputy Le Claire lodged au Greffe a request for the Chief Minister to produce, for debate, a draft written "Constitution for Jersey"; the States Assembly did not support this idea.
Clothier report
The Report of the Review Panel on the Machinery of Government in Jersey was released in December 2020 with an aim to provide a deep reform of the island's governance system.
The report recommended a reform of the electoral system. They recommended that an independent Chief Electoral Officer be appointed, that elections be reformed to become single-day general elections (for all States Members, including Connétables) and that candidates be required to submit a brief statement on policies and objectives for the next term.
The report recommended alterations to the composition of the States. According to the report, the role of Senator should be abolished and replaced with 12 additional States members; the Connétables should no longer be States Members ex officio, being required to run for office separately if they wish to sit in the States; that discrepancies between the number of representatives and the parishes' populations should be evened out; that the name Deputy should be replaced with Member of the States of Jersey and that the total size of the Assembly should be between 42 and 44 members.
The report recommended that the existing Committee structure, made of twenty four committees, should be abolished and replaced. They recommended that the number of portfolios was too large, and should be reduced; that for the committees there should be established a number of departments (as few as seven); the political direction of each department should be the purview of a Minister and one or two other members; that a Council of Ministers should be created, invested with sufficient powers; that a Treasury Department should be established to take over the Resources role of the Policy and Resources Committee and that new Scrutiny committees should be established to scuritinise the Council of Ministers.
On the role of the Bailiff, the report recommended that he should cease to act as the president of the States assembly and that a Speaker should be elected instead by the States. They also recommended he no longer be the principal link with the Home Office. Instead, he should focus his full time on his role as the Chief Justice of the Island and his position as the Lord Chancellor-equivalent for the island should be respected.
Otherwise, the report also recommended that facilities for States members be improved, with the establishment of a Committee of Members, which would provide proper facilities for all Members; that a Jersey (or Channel Islands) Ombudsman be appointed to hear complaints about Government Departments and that there should be regular use of consultative papers.
Role of the United Kingdom
The Crown Dependencies have each had a historic and complex relationship with the United Kingdom and with its predecessors. Jersey is not, and has never been, part of the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Great Britain or the Kingdom of England, however it has been a dependency of the monarch of each of these states at their time of existence. Therefore, the government in Westminster has played an important role in Jersey's lawmaking and political landscape since Jersey was separated from the Norman mainland. Furthermore, the island's strong non-political links with Great Britain has meant that the British political goings-on have frequently had a strong effect on Jersey's politics.
Unlike the situation of the British Overseas Territories, the UK Parliament has never been the constitutional link between the Channel Islands and the UK and the island has never had representation in the House of Commons. The link is instead through the monarch. Within the United Kingdom government, responsibility for relations between Jersey (and the other Crown dependencies) and the United Kingdom lie in the Crown Dependencies Branch within the International Directorate of the Ministry of Justice, which has a core team of three officials, with four others and four lawyers available when required.
In 2010, the House of Commons Justice Committee, conducting an inquiry into the Crown dependencies, found that the Jersey government and those of the other islands were "with some important caveats, content with their relationship with the Ministry of Justice". Tensions have, however, arisen from time to time. In the 1980s, there were discussions about a financial contribution from Jersey towards the United Kingdom's costs in relation to defence and international representation. In March 2009, the House of Lords Constitution Committee criticised UK government proposals in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill dealing with the Common Travel Area, concluding that "the policy-making process ... has not been informed by any real appreciation of the constitutional status of the Crown dependencies or the rights of free movement of Islanders". In 2009, the UK cancelled the reciprocal health agreement with Jersey, though a new one came into effect in April 2011.
According to constitutional convention United Kingdom legislation may be extended to Jersey by Order in Council at the request of the Island's government. Whether an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament may expressly apply to the Island as regards matters of self-government, or whether this historic power is now in abeyance, is a matter of legal debate. The States of Jersey Law 2005 established that no United Kingdom Act or Order in Council may apply to the Bailiwick without being referred to the States of Jersey.
Although Jersey is for most day-to-day purposes entirely self-governing in relation to its internal affairs, the Crown retains residual responsibility for the "good government" of the island. The UK government has consistently adopted a "non-interventionist policy", and following the "high degree of consensus amongst academics, legal advisers, politicians and officials" would only intervene "in the event of a fundamental breakdown in public order or the rule of law, endemic corruption in the government or other extreme circumstances". According to UK Ministry of Justice guidance, UK Government departments have a responsibility to engage directly with the Crown Dependencies.
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Tamainu-pō was a Maori rangatira (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Ngāti Tamainupō hapu. He probably lived around 1600.
Life
Tamainu-pō was the son of Whaea-tāpoko, a female rangatira based at Kāwhia, who belonged to Ngāti Taupiri. . She was raped in the night by Kōkako, a Waikato Tainui chieftain of Ngāti Ruanui and Mātaatua descent. Tamainu-pō's name, which means 'Son-of-the-drink-by-night', was given by his father in reference to the rape. He grew up around Kāwhia Harbour and his mother only revealed his parentage to him when he was a young adult. He had an older half-brother, Taiko, and a sister, Maikao, who married Ta-nanga-whanga, a rangatira of Ngā Iwi.
Flight to Pokohuka
One day, when the young men were playing teka (a form of darts) with his friends, one of the darts fell into a kumara pit and Tamainu-pō went to collect it. There he found his sister-in-law, wife of his elder brother, Taiko. The lady called him down into the pit, revealed the dart held between her thighs, and when Tamainu-pō went to take it, she had sex with him.
Taiko was out fishing, but he found out about the adultery, because his fish hook had been fouled and one of the feathers from Tamainu-pō's cloak was left in the kumara pit. Taiko confronted Tamainu-pō in the gardens, attacking him with his koikoi spear, but Tamainu-pō parried with his digging stick, until their mother Whaea-tāpoko arrived and broke up the fight.
Tamainu-pō fled to the harbour, where one of his elderly relatives was carving a canoe. The elder hid him under the canoe and because a canoe under construction is tapu, the party pursuing Tamainu-pō did not check underneath it and took the elder's word that he had not seen Tamainu-pō.
Tamainu-pō crossed the harbour to Te Taharoa, where an elder sung a karakia over him and sent him along a ridge of Mount Pirongia, saying that he would know he was safe when a storm came upon him. Tamainu-pō followed the route towards Ōpārau, past Te Awaroa and up onto the Pokohuka ridge, the site of Kāwhia's mauri manu ('bird talisman'), where the storm caught him.
Courtship of the daughters of Māhanga
After the storm, Tamainu-pō and his slave went hunting birds, coming down the Kāniwhaniwha stream to a village called Kāniwhaniwha or Pūrākau, which was located where the stream meets the Waipa River, near modern Te Pahu. The chieftain of this village was Māhanga, son of Tūheitia and a descendant of Hoturoa of the Tainui canoe, according to Pei Te Hurinui Jones. As Tamainu-pō hunted, Māhanga's daughters, Wai-tawake and Tū-kōtuku-rerenga-tahi, caught sight of him up a tree and invited him to come back to their village. The two girls vied with one another to marry Tamainu-pō, but Māhanga, impressed by the large haul of birds that Tamainu-pō had caught, which indicated the power of his karakia (magic spells), and the efficiency with which he distributed the birds to the people, decided in favour of Tū-kōtuku. According to Wiremu Te Wheoro, Wai-tawake angrily fled to the south and married a man of Maniapoto.
Battle of Kiri-parera
Later on, Kōkako, who had fought with Māhanga's father in Manukau Harbour, came south with a war party and built a fortress at Kiri-parera, just downstream from Kāniwhaniwha. Māhanga assembled his forces and called for his Toko-whitu ('Seven Champions') to leap over his back. None of them could, but Tamainu-pō was able to do it, a sign that he would defeat Kōkako.
When Māhanga's force approached Kiri-parera, they saw Kōkako's forces hiding ready for an ambush near the gateway. Taimainu-pō shouted for them to charge and then used the distraction to sneak over the palisade into the fortress and search for his father. 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, seized his patu, and then let him go free, without revealing who he was.
After the battle, the Toko-whitu all presented severed heads, claiming that they had killed Kōkako, but they obviously looked nothing like him (Kōkako had distinctive light-coloured hair). Taimainu-pō also brought a head, taken from someone who looked similar to Kōkako, and together with the cloak and patu, this convinced Māhanga that Kōkako was dead.
Journey to Kōkako
After the birth of his son, however, Taimainu-pō wished for the baby to receive the tohi baptismal ritual from his own father, so he revealed his true parentage and the fact the Kōkako was still alive to his wife, Tū-kōtuku, and to his father-in-law Māhanga, who agreed to let them go, in the hope that Taimainu-pō would forge a peace between him and Kōkako. Then he placed Tamainu-pō, Tū-kōtuku, and the newborn under a tapu, telling them not to get out of their canoe or reply to calls from the banks of the river until they reached their destination. They paddled down the Waipa River and along the Waikato River until they reached Kōkako's new base on the island of Tai-pōuri near Rangiriri on the Waikato River (or Okarahea according to Mohi Te Rongomau).
When they arrived, they walked straight to the largest house. 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.
Conflict with Ta-nanga-whanga
Tamainu-pō's sister Maikao was married to Ta-nanga-whanga of Ngā Iwi, who said to her, "Oh there, perhaps, stand the tree ferns with large / edible hearts of Puke-o-tahinga." This was an insult to Kōkako and Maikao told Tamainu-pō, who gathered a war party and travelled down the Waikato River to Port Waikato, where he met a younger half-brother (unnamed, but Bruce Biggs speculates that he might be Marutūahu). Together they built a fort called Tarata-piko, opposite Ta-nanga-whanga's fort at Pū-tataka. In the night, Tamainu-pō snuck into the fortress, made his way to where Ta-nanga-whanga slept, and decapitated him with Maikao's help. Then his forces attacked and sacked the fortress, capturing many rangatira. Tamainu-pō also captured Maikao's two young sons, gave them the hongi and then murdered them. The murder of the nephews, known as Nga Tokorua a Puaki ('the pair of Puaki'), is proverbial.
Family
Tamainu-pō and Tū-kōtuku had one son, Wairere, who had a number of children:
Whenu, son of Hinemoa and ancestor of Ngaere and Toroa-ihirua.
Te Kāhurere, son of Tū-kapua and ancestor of Te Wehi.
Possibly the twin girls, Reitū and Reipae, who married Ue-oneone and Korowharo respectively, creating a link between Tainui and Ngāpuhi that is considered very important in Tainui whakapapa.
Sources
The story of Tamainu-pō's birth, flight, 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. A similar story, attributed to Ngāti Awa sources, but actually derived from an 1871 manuscript by Wiremu Te Wheoro, appears in John White The Ancient History of the Maori: IV Tainui (1888). The story of Tamainu-pō's flight was also reported by Mohi Te Rongomau of Ngāti Hourua and Ngāti Māhanga in the Otorohanga Land Court on 23 August 1886. An account reported to Bruce Biggs by Elsie Turnbull recounts the story of the seduction in the kumara pit, but attributes it to Tamainu-pō's father Kōkako and the wife of one Kārewa. The murder of Maikao's children is recounted by Bruce Biggs and by John White, the latter drawing on a Ngāti Mahuta tradition.
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Cyperus cymulosus is a species of sedge that is native to parts of Mauritius.
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Antipterna lithophanes is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola lithophanes. The lectotype for Ocystola lithophanes was collected at Deloraine, Tasmania. Holotypes for Alfred Jefferis Turner's synonyms were collected from Queensland and New South Wales.
Occurrence data from GBIF shows A. lithophanes occurring in Victoria, and New South Wales.
Meyrick's description
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Ambati Prudhvi Reddy (born January 23, 1996) is an Indian basketball player from the state of Telangana. He has received professional training and played at the Europe Basketball Academy.
Ambati Prudhvi Reddy is currently the captain of Telangana state's Basketball Team. He is playing for the Senior Men's Indian team as a starting PG and also for the 3x3bl professional league for the Delhi Hoopers.
Early life and education
Born in Siripuram village of Ramannapet mandal in Telangana's Nalgonda district, Ambati Prudhvi Reddy focused initially on cricket and he was the 12th man in the school squad. His attention later turned towards Basketball since he felt that his athletic physique was more suited for the game. During his stint as a student at St Mary's College in Hyderabad, he started practicing professional Basketball.
Playing career
A resident of Hyderabad, Ambati Prudhvi Reddy posted his gaming sessions on YouTube and soon he received an invitation from the Europe Basketball Academy (EBA) based in Barcelona, Spain to play professional basketball. This was the beginning of his innings in basketball, in the year 2013. The head of EBA, Srjdan Premovic helped him in extending his training stint from three months to a year in Spain, where he got an opportunity to compete with leading talent from across the world.
After returning to India, he achieved success at the 2014 South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) championship in Bengaluru. In the meanwhile, Prudhvi's game was noticed by an American prep school coach in Barcelona where ex-NBA and D-Leaguers played the summers. The coach of Christian Life Centre, Houston invited him to the Christian Life Academy in Houston, Texas where he spent a year for intense training.
The experience and exposure he gained abroad helped Ambati Prudhvi Reddy in improving his game. With the UBA making inroads in India, there was more potential for his sporting career. He was selected by the Mumbai Challengers on an annual contract in the UBA's second season. Prudhvi missed the NBA D League, finishing second to Palpreet Brar in a nationwide screening. He was among the country's top 16 chosen by the UBA to visit the US after Seasons two and three, where he averaged 20 and 25 points per game. Ambati Prudhvi Reddy is part of the Mumbai team, with playoffs in the ongoing UBA Pro Basketball League.
Early achievements
Played 3 ICSE Nationals and Captained the Team Twice (2008–2010)
Represented Hyderabad district in all age groups – Under-14, Under-16 & Under-18 Seniors (2009–2017)
Represented the state team in all age groups from 2009 to 2017. He was the captain for every age group.
Professional achievements
Selected for U14 Indian camp and was in the Top 10 for the IMP US CAMP (2009–2010)
Selected for U18 Juniors Indian camp and he was the 13th player for the FIBA TEAM in 2012
Represented the Indian team in SABA and won the championship in 2015
NBA conducted a selection trail to select one player to represent in NBA D league and he secured the second spot
Announced the Best PG in U21 age group
Chosen to play in UBA from Season 2 for Mumbai challengers and won the Season 4, including server MVP's
Selected among the Top 12 to represent UBA in the US
Personal life
Prudhvi's mother is a sports teacher with more than 20 years experience. After her retirement, she is now the PACS Vice chairman of Ramannapet mandal. His father owns a private business, while his elder brother is based in Los Angeles, USA.
References
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Croatia refers to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Croatia. The first missionaries arrived in Croatia in 1974. In 2019, there were 635 members in 6 congregations.
History
Krešimir Ćosić was baptized in 1971 while studying and playing for Brigham Young University. He rejected his 1973 draft with the Los Angeles Lakers and returned to Yugoslavia to play and coach basketball in 1974. He won many of Basketball's highest recognitions during his college and professional career. Throughout his career, Ćosić would openly talk about the LDS Church. He served in local church leadership roles while in Croatia.
The first sacrament meeting was held in Zadar on September 11, 1972. The Zadar Branch, Croatia's first, was organized in 1974. The LDS Church gained legal recognition by the Yugoslav government in 1975. A limited number of North American missionaries served in Yugoslavia on limited assignments in the late 1970s. In 1981, the first full-time missionary called from Yugoslavia, Radmila Ranović, started his mission. He was called to serve in the Canada Montréal Mission. In 1982, the Zagreb Branch was organized. President Thomas S. Monson dedicated Croatia for missionary work on October 31, 1985, in Zagreb. Through much of the 1980s, missionaries were only permitted to speak about the Church if they were first asked by a potential investigator. In April 1987, Russell M. Nelson and other church leaders met with government authorities and received verbal permission for missionaries to openly proselytize in Croatia. The LDS Church received official government recognition in September 1987. Seminary began in 1997. On May 25, 2008, a major public square in Zagreb was named after Krešimir Ćosić. Institute began in 2008.
On May 24, 2009, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated the newly constructed Zagreb meetinghouse. This was the first Church-constructed meetinghouse in Croatia. In May 2012, Young Women in Croatia attended young women camp for the first time. More than 375 people attended a commemoration celebrating 40 years since the beginning of Ćosić's efforts to establish the LDS Church in Yugoslavia on June 1–2, 2012.
Humanitarian Efforts
The Church has conducted 161 humanitarian projects since 1985 that have included activities such as clean water initiatives, community projects, emergency response, refugee response, and wheelchair donations. Most recent projects have focused on refugees. Large amounts of humanitarian aid were donated from 1991 to 1992 due to war in the region. Between 1993 and 1998, the LDS Church provided thousands of tons of food, clothing, bedding and medical supplies to Croatia. In 1997, missionaries Vernon and Muriel Smith launched a project to help struggling farmers in the Sisak region reestablish the local pork industry. In 1999, the Church donated 130 pigs to needy refugee families to replenish their lost livestock. In 2002, Church members in the Netherlands donated quilts and toys to orphanages in Croatia and Slovakia. In 2003, the Church began planting 1,450 fruit trees at an elementary school in Ratkovac to help increase self-sufficiency.
Districts and Congregations
As of February 2022, Croatia had the following district and congregations:
Zagreb Croatia District
Karlovac Branch
Osijek Branch
Rijeka Branch
Split Branch
Zadar Branch
Zagreb Branch
Congregations not part of a stake are called branches, regardless of size.
Missions
Prior to 1987, any missionary activity was performed under the Austria Vienna Mission. The Austria Vienna East Mission was organized on July 1, 1987, and administered to Yugoslavia among other former soviet countries. On July 1, 1996, the Austria Vienna South Mission was created and administered the former Yugoslavia. Mission headquarters were relocated to Slovenia in 1999 and renamed the Slovenia Ljubljana Mission. On January 9, 2003, the mission home and office was relocated to Croatia and became the Croatia, Zagreb Mission. In the early 2010s, the Adriatic North Mission headquarters was relocated to Zagreb, Croatia. As of February 2022, the Mission covers missionary efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia. and Slovenia.
Temples
There are no temples in Croatia. As of February 2022, Croatia was located in the Frankfurt Germany Temple district. Church President Russell M. Nelson has announced that a temple will be built in Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary which, once completed, will reduce the travel time and cost needed to attend a temple.
See also
Religion in Croatia
References
External links
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Croatia - Official Site (Croatian)
ComeUntoChrist.org Latter-day Saints Visitor site
Christianity in Croatia |
This is a list of all weapons ever used by the Italian Army. This list will go in chronological order so from earliest weapons to the present ones used by the Italian Army
World War II
List of Italian Army equipment in World War II
Cold War
List of Cold War weapons and land equipment of Italy
Present
List of equipment of the Italian Army
References
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Theresa Murphy Koehler is an American microbiologist who is the Herbert L. And Margaret W. DuPont Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Sciences at McGovern Medical School. She is known for her work on anthrax. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
Early life and education
Koehler was an undergraduate student in biology at Virginia Tech. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for graduate studies, where she focused on microbiology. She remained there for her doctoral research. Koehler was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Research and career
In 1991, Koehler joined the faculty at McGovern Medical School. Her research considers host-pathogen interactions, with a particular focus on the Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis species. Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals. As an internationally recognized expert on anthrax, her laboratory was one of the few institutions licensed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the bacteria in the early 2000s.
Koehler served on the advisory board of the Journal of Bacteriology. She currently serves as Associate Editor of PLOS Pathogens. She is Chair of the National Institutes of Health Review Group on Bacterial Pathogenesis.
Awards and honors
2008 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
2009 Paul E. Darlington Award
2021 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Selected publications
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Community Consolidated School District 181 (D181), also known as Hinsdale Elementary School District 181 or Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills District 181, is a school district headquartered in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. In addition to a portion of Clarendon Hills, the district boundaries include Hinsdale and portions of Burr Ridge and Oak Brook. It is in DuPage County.
History
Prior to 1990 the middle school only had grades 7–8. In 1990 it had 2,600 students. That year the district planned to move 6th graders to the middle school, but it faced parental opposition.
In 2018 Hector Garcia became the superintendent.
Schools
Middle schools
Hinsdale Middle School
Clarendon Hills Middle School
Elementary schools
Elm School
Madison School
Monroe School
Oak School
Prospect School
The Lane School
Walker School
Pre-Kindergarten
Preschool
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NFTBooks is an online project for publishing e-books on blockchain.
History and overview
NFTBooks was founded by Roland Hayes and Chau Nguyen in Sydney, Australia. Allan Nguyen is the executive advisor, while Vikram Soni is the administrative manager.
NFTBooks is a project that publishes books on the blockchain platform in the form of NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
NFTBooks is actively traded on the market. NFTBooks' ticker symbol is NFTBS.
Status
NFTBooks is officially registered in Australia and operates internationally.
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The 2001 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 was the third stock car race of the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the fourth iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, March 4, 2001, in North Las Vegas, Nevada at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 267 laps to complete. At race's end, Jeff Gordon, driving for Hendrick Motorsports, would make a late-race comeback from the back to win his 53rd career NASCAR Winston Cup Series win and his first of the season. To fill out the podium, Dale Jarrett of Robert Yates Racing and Sterling Marlin of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates would finish second and third, respectively.
Background
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Entry list
Practice
First practice
The first practice session was held on Friday, March 2, at 1:20 PM PST, and would last for one hour and 40 minutes. Michael Waltrip of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 31.477 and an average speed of .
Second and final practice
The second and final practice session, sometimes referred to as Happy Hour, was held on Saturday, March 3, at 1:45 PM PST, and would last for one hour and 30 minutes. Casey Atwood of Evernham Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 32.706 and an average speed of .
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on Friday, March 2, at 2:15 PM EST. Each driver would have two laps to set a fastest time; the fastest of the two would count as their official qualifying lap. Positions 1-36 would be decided on time, while positions 37-43 would be based on provisionals. Six spots are awarded by the use of provisionals based on owner's points. The seventh is awarded to a past champion who has not otherwise qualified for the race. If no past champ needs the provisional, the next team in the owner points will be awarded a provisional.
Dale Jarrett of Robert Yates Racing would win the pole, setting a time of 31.376 and an average speed of .
Four drivers would fail to qualify: Kyle Petty, Brendan Gaughan, Andy Houston, and Rick Mast.
Full qualifying results
Race results
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The Adventures of Massang is a Kalmyk folktale about a strong hero born of a cow, who finds three companions and has further adventures. The tale was published in the Siddi-Kur (or Siddhi-Kur), a compilation of Kalmyk and Mongolian stories.
Summary
Slaying the Shimmu
In the tale How the Schimnu-Khan was Slain, of Tibetan or Mongolian provenance, the first part shows the birth of a youth named Massang "of the bull's head". A poor man's only cow gives birth to a half-man, half-cow hybrid and its owner is horrified by the creature. The cow-man, receiving clemency, flees from the old man and into the world. The youth meets a "black-coloured man (...) born of the dark woods", a "green-coloured man (...) born of the green meadows" and a "white-coloured man (...) born of the crystal rock" and the quartet soon move to a dweliing overlooking a hill. They take turns cooking the food while the others gather game nearby. One day, a small old woman appears and beats the three companions to steal their food ("milk and meat", as the story says). On the fourth day, Massang sees the little old woman and matches strength with the creature. After three tests, the little woman escapes and leaves behind a blood trail for the four heroes to follow. They soon come to an opening in the rock; down below, the witch's corpse strewn about near heaps and heaps of treasure. Massang descends to take the treasure to his companions but they betray him and leave him for dead in the pit. Massang sleeps on the witch's corpse - for years - and when he awakes, three cherry trees have sprouted, which he uses to climb to the surface. He visits his treacherous companions and discovers they have made a life for themselves with the witch's treasure, but they beg Massang to spare them.
Origin of a constellation
In the second part of the tale, Massang decides to spare his former companions and carries on with his life. He finds a beautiful maiden carrying water in a jug and follows her. Massang arrives at the court of Churmusta Tengri, who bids welcome to the hero and tells him his arrival is most propitious. Churmusta Tengri explains that there will be a war between a white host of Tengri forces and the black host of the Schummu. Massang helps the white hosts by defeating the black host leader. At the end of the tale, a Schummu strikes a hammer against the ground and sparks fly out, originating seven stars of a constellation (Ursa Major or the Pleiades). In this version of the tale, translated by British folklorist Rachel Harriette Busk, the narrator, in the framing device of the book, comments that he never returned to his master to bring him riches.
Versions
Charles Fillingham Coxwell translated the tale as Massang's Adventure. In his translation, Massang's companions are a "dark complexioned man (...) descended from the forest", a man of green colour "born of the turf" and a white man originated from crystal.
The tale was also translated by Charles John Tibbits as The Adventures of Massang, wherein Massang is described as horned; the dark man is called Iddar, Son of the Forest, and the other two Son of the Grass and Son of the Sedges. In his translation, the Schummu smites Massang and from this action seven stars spring out.
In a Russian language translation of the tale, titled "Массанг" ("Massang"), published in 1978, the hero's companions are given the following names: Idder (Иддер) of the dark woods; Geger (Гегер) of the green fields/meadows; and Adder (Аддер) of the white mountains. This tale also contains the origins of the constellation, but ends on a happy note.
Massang also appears in a Tibetan and in a Kalmyk tale. In the latter, he is born from a human couple in the country of India, but still shows the bull/ox features, like horns and a tail.
In a version of the tale translated by author Eleanore Myers Jewett with the title The Promise of Massang, sourced as Tibetan, the translator removed the animal birth of the hero, thus making him a normal boy instead. The tale lacks the second part about the origin of the constellation, and ends with Massang bringing the cow's owner the riches he promised.
Variants
Mongolia
, Hungarian professor or Mongolian studies, provided a Hungarian language translation of a Mongolian tale "Ам цагаан бяруу". In his translation, titled Am Cagán Bjarú, a Fehérszájú Borjú ("Am Cagán Bjarú, The White-Mouthed Calf"), the constellation Dolon Burhan ("The Seven Buddhas") was originally a man named White-Mouthed Calf. The story is largely the same: the ox-man hero is born of a cow, meets three companions (a man from the forest, a man from the woods, and a man sat on a stone), and finds them a house. While there, a mysterious old woman appears and demands a bit of their food, and attacks them after being denied. The White-Mouthed Calf hurts the old woman and follows her to a pit, he is betrayed by his companions, but reaches the surface after three years by climbing on three trees that sprouted on the old woman's corpse. At the end of the tale, the White-Mouthed Calf helps the Celestial Emperor against the Emperor of Demons, but an evil woman, ally of the Emperor of Demons, strikes the hero with a weapon and his body is torn apart in seven pieces. The Celestial Emperor takes the seven pieces and creates the Seven Buddhas constellation.
Tibet
In a variant titled Masang Yharu Khadra, sourced as from Tibet, the hero is born with a bull's head and tail and given the name Masang Yharu Khadra. He meets his companions (a man with face as black as wood bark, another with face as blue as the grasslands, and the third with face as pale as a rock). He is betrayed in the same manner and escapes the hole by climbing up three peach trees. When he meets the girl, he follows her and climbs up a rose vine to the sky, where he meets the leader of the gods of heaven, who enlists Masang's help. The next day, the forces of heaven assume the shape of white yaks and fight the demonic forces, who are in the shape of black yaks.
In a Russian language translation, the hero's name is given as "Пегий бычок" (English: "Piebald Bull Calf"), and its source is explicitly named "Игра Веталы с человеком" ("Vetala's Game with a Man").
Analysis
Parallels
Folklorist William Ralston Shedden-Ralston called Massang the "Calmuck Minotaur", in reference to the hybrid bull-man creature of Greek myth. Charles Fillingham Coxwell also related Massang to the Greek Minotaur.
Coxwell saw a parallel between Massang and Lorraine (French) hero "John of the Bear" (Jean de l'Ours), another strong hero with animal parentage.
Hungarian scholarship argue for a parallel between the Kalmyk Massang and a similar figure of Hungarian folktales: Fehérlófia ('Son of the White Mare'), a youth born of a white mare.
Tale type
W. R. S. Ralston related the story to a international narrative wherein a hero, joined by two companions (his brothers or not), follows a creature to its underground lair; the hero is lowered by a rope and finds down there either kidnapped princesses or some treasure. Either way, the hero is abandoned by the other two in the underground to perish, but eventually escapes and punishes his traitorous companions. These tales were later classified in the international index Aarne-Thompson-Uther as tale type ATU 301, The Three Stolen Princesses (or The Three Underground Kingdoms, in Russian academia).
According to philologist researcher Irina S. Nadbitova, from the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities research RAS, a similar narrative exists in the Kalmyk Folktale Corpus, but the bull-man hero is disenchanted by a girl at the end of the tale. Nadbitova classified it as type 430, "Юноша-бык" ("The Bull Youth").
Other motifs
The second part of the tale of "ox-man" Massang (or Masn Mirü) involves his fight against a powerful enemy king and the origin of a constellation. However, scholarship suggests that this second part is an addition to the original tale. Scholarship points out that the story of Massang serves as an etiological tale to the origin of a seven-star constellation known as "Долон Эбуген" ("Seven Elders") or "Долан Бурхн" ("Seven Deities").
The little old woman who attacks the heroes is described as a Schimnu or Schumnu, which the translator considered to be a version of Mara, a demonic being in Buddhism.
See also
Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples (Romanian fairy tale)
The Story of Bensurdatu (Italian fairy tale)
Dawn, Midnight and Twilight (Russian fairy tale)
The Gnome (German fairy tale)
The Norka (Russian fairy tale)
Jihaguk daejeok toechi seolhwa (Korean folktale)
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Belgium shares borders with France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Belgium became de-facto independent from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830.
Its borders were formalized between 1839 and 1843.
Over the years there have been various adjustments, notably after the Treaty of Versailles (1919) when some territory was transferred to Luxembourg.
There remain enclaves of Germany and the Netherlands within Belgium and enclaves of Belgium within the Netherlands.
General
Belgium obtained de-facto independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands with the Belgian Revolution in 1830.
Its extent was formalized by the Treaty of London (1839).
The border between Belgium and the Netherlands was only delimited by the Boundary Treaty signed in the Hague on 5 November 1842, and the Convention of Maastricht of 8 August 1843.
The Hague Treaty delimited the border in general terms while the Maastricht Convention delineated the boundary with detailed descriptions and maps on a 1:10,000 or, where necessary, 1:2,500 scale.
Belgium–France border
The limits of the Belgium–France border are outlined in the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk, agreed between France and the then-United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Belgium inherited the border upon its independence.
Maintenance of and disputes concerning the border markers are managed by a mixed Franco-Belgian border delimitation commission, which is convened when required.
A commission was convened in 2000 concerning maintenance of the 78 border markers between France and the Belgian province of West Flanders.
On 4 May 2021 a border post was moved by a Belgian farmer, shifting it approximately into France.
Belgium–Luxembourg border
The border between Belgium and Luxembourg is about long.
It runs between the Belgian provinces of Luxembourg and Liège and the Luxembourg regions of Ardennes, Luxembourg City and Red Lands.
There are 507 border markers along the S-shaped border.
The Belgium–Luxembourg border was defined in 1839.
The French-speaking part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Arlon region were allocated to Belgium, while the German speaking part of the Grand Duchy was within the German Confederation.
The border was redrawn in 1919 after the Treaty of Versailles, with the French-speaking province being transferred to Luxembourg.
Belgium–Germany border
The border between the modern states of Belgium and Germany has a length of .
The border runs between the Belgian region of Liege and the German regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
It runs from the Germany-Belgium-Luxembourg tripoint to the Germany-Belgium-Netherlands tripoint.
There were many changes to the border demarcation until World War II.
After the war ended in 1945, Belgium was given administration of the German territories of Aachen-Bildchen, Losheim and Losheimergraben.
The accord of 26 September 1956 returned these towns to Germany.
The Vennbahn was a railway line built in Germany close to the Belgian border.
When the areas of Eupen, Malmedy and St. Vith became part of Belgium as a result of the Versailles Treaty, a strip wide along the railway line became Belgian territory.
Some of the land to the west of the line remained German in five small enclaves.
From north to south they are named Munsterbildchen, Rötgener Wald, Rückschlag, Mützenich and Ruitzhof.
A sixth German enclave to the south, Hemmeres, was also cut off by a railway line, but it was handed back to Germany in 1956.
Belgium–Netherlands border
A total of 365 border posts were erected to indicate the border between Belgium and the Netherlands after it was agreed in 1843.
While the two treaties resulted in the finalisation and demarcation of the main border between the two countries, they left the complicated territorial situation in Baarle unresolved.
The current Belgian enclaves as well as Dutch counter-enclaves have resulted in what has been called the world's most complicated international boundary.
This is a continuation of land ownership from the feudal age.
Several subsequent negotiations failed to resolve the territorial issues here.
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Juan Puntes is a New York-based art curator and founder and director of WhiteBox. He founded the alternative, non-profit art center in Philadelphia in 1997, before relocating it to Chelsea, New York City in 1998.
Life
Puntes was born in Zaragosa, Spain. In 1973, at the age of twenty, Puntes arrived in the United States from Spain, with the intent to evade a draft from Franco's army, at the end of the Vietnam War.
Puntes attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. In 1983, after studying in Boston he moved to New York City.
Career
Throughout his tenure at WhiteBox, Puntes has served as Artistic and Programs Director.
He has curated notable exhibitions at WhiteBox, including a survey of Michael Snow and Carolee Schneemann and solo exhibitions of Alexey Kallima, Mary Mattingly, Javier Tellez, and Duke Riley.
Later, relocated to Harlem as WhiteBox Harlem, he created a series of programs engaging community with emphasis on sustainability and environment, as well as continuing his socio-political projects to serve and support undeserved communities, youth in particular, in the neighborhood.
He co-curated "We Are Your Future". a special project for the 2007 Moscow Biennial, featuring 33 contemporary conceptual artists from China and Latin America.
In 2005 Puntes co- curated "Russia 2: Bad News From Russia", a presentation of avant-garde Russian art.
In 2016, after Mr. Trump was elected president, Puntes co-curated the exhibition #makeamericagreatagain with Raul Zamudio and Blanca de La Torre. The intention for this show was to appropriate Mr. Trump's campaign hashtag, bringing together a physical exhibition with that of social media, where both components would juxtapose and integrate. Puntes promised to call all of his contacts to join them in reacting to–as Mr. Puntes calls it– the “2016 presidential election charade.”
In 2017 he curated "Illegal Fashion Runway Show" a fashion show that combined politics, art and fashion. It featured the works of artists and designers of diverse immigrant background. The concept of the show was a response to President Trump's travel ban.
In 2022 Puntes and Zamudio co-curated the exhibition "Perfect day, Drugs an Art" at WhiteBox Harlem.
Puntes co-wrote the book "Russian Art From Glasnost to the Present", published 2008 by Chelsea Art Museum, M&J Guelman Gallery, Russia! Magazine.
Other roles
Outside of WhiteBox, Puntes has contributed to other international curatorial projects.
In 2016 he was a speaker at "Sites of Mass Displacements" panel discussion. He was a panelist at the Simposyum "Art Activism – White Cube vs Public Space" at The Museum of Cultural History, in Oslo.
In 2021 Puntes was part of the “From the Viewpoint of MAKING” exhibition panel discussion.The exhibition has also included multimedia performances of music, dance, and poetry.
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303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (Docket 21–476) is a pending United States Supreme Court case related to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Background
Lorie Smith is a website designer, running her business as 303 Creative, LLC. registered in Colorado. Smith had been successful in developing websites for others and wanted to move into making wedding announcement websites, but as a practicing Christian, she knew ahead of time that it would be against her faith to make sites for non-heterosexual marriages, wanting to include a notice on her business website to alert users to this and willing to help such clients find other potential designers that could help them instead.
Before implementing this, Smith discovered that such a notice would violate the Colorado anti-discrimination state laws that were amended in 2008, which prevents public businesses from discriminating against gay people as well as making statements to that effect. Smith sued Colorado in 2016 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, seeking to block enforcement of the anti-discrimination law. The district court awaited for the result of the Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission which also dealt with the same anti-discrimination law. As Masterpiece was ruled in 2018 on more narrow grounds, the district court ruled against Smith in 2019, as Colorado had yet to investigate Smith and thus there was no evidence that she had engaged in discrimination. Smith appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which upheld the district court decision in a 2–1 ruling. In the majority ruling, the Tenth Circuit held the antidiscrimination law satisfied strict scrutiny under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, deepening a circuit split with decisions issued by the Arizona Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich dissented in the Tenth's decision, writing "the majority takes the remarkable — and novel — stance that the government may force Ms. Smith to produce messages that violate her conscience."
Supreme Court
Smith filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, which the Supreme Court accepted in February 2022 to likely be heard in the 2022–2023 term. While the petition sought additional clarification related to the Free Exercise clause and on whether Employment Division v. Smith should be overturned, the Supreme Court limited the case to the question of whether Colorado's law violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
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Anton Gorelkin (; born January 22, 1982, Kemerovo) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of 7th and 8th State Dumas.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Gorelkin worked as a journalist and a correspondent for the TASS in the Kemerovo Region. In 2011, he started working for the Administration of the Kemerovo Oblast, where he worked as deputy governor. In 2016, he became the deputy of the 7th State Duma. In September 2021, he was re-elected for the 8th State Duma from the Kemerovo Oblast constituency.
Gorelkin is known for his support of implementing the sovereign internet. In 2019, he authored a bill that would restrict foreign ownership of internet resources that are recognized as being "significant" in the Russian Federation to 20%. However, the bill was not accepted in that version and was sent for a revision. Gorelkin re-introduced a new draft law in December 2020 that proposed limiting foreign shareholdings in Russian companies that offer online video streaming services to 20%. According to the suggested amendments, video services whose share of the Russian audience is less than 50% will be able to open representative offices in Russia. The project is planned to be considered in April 2022.
Gorelkin also actively supported the introduction of the single audience meter in Runet that would gather all the data on the audience of Internet media, audiovisual services, news aggregators and TV channels.
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Garret Wellesley, 7th Earl Cowley (30 June 1934 - 17 June 2016) was an English-American banker.
Early life
Wellesley was born in Nevada on 30 June 1934. He was the son of actor Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley (1890-1962), and his second wife, Mary Elsie Himes (1906-2003). Before his birth, his father had sold Draycot House and the Draycot Estate in 1920, at which time it encompassed 4,320 acres. His parents met while his mother "was working as a hat check girl at a road house near Reno" and was divorced from Joseph T. Himes of San Francisco three weeks before their wedding. In 1935, a forest fire raging over the foothills of the Sierra Nevada threatened his parent's ranch, known as Wellesley Ranch, in Lakeview, about five miles north of Carson City, Nevada.
From his father's first marriage to actress Mae Picard, he had an elder half-brother, Denis Wellesley, 5th Earl Cowley, who succeeded to their father's titles upon his death in 1962. His paternal grandparents were Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley and his first wife, Lady Violet Nevill (daughter of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny).
He graduated from University of South Carolina in Los Angeles in 1957 and receive an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1962.
Career
After USC, Wellesley spent three years in the Counterintelligence Corps of the U.S. Army. After obtaining his MBA, he began a career in finance and banking, working as an investment analyst with Wells Fargo between 1962 and 1964, an investment counsellor with Dodge & Cox from 1964 to 1966, vice-president and investment counsellor with Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis from 1967 to 1969 and a senior vice-president with Shareholders Capital Corporation between 1969 and 1974.
In 1975, he unexpectedly succeeded to his title after his nephew, Richard, died aged just 29. He continued to work in finance as group vice-president with Bank of America in London, between 1978 and 1985 and then as independent financial advisor between until 1990 before becoming an investment partner with Thomas R. Miller & Son in Bermuda. He also took his seat in the House of Lords.
Personal life
Lord Cowley was married four times. His first marriage was on 16 September 1960 to Elizabeth Suzanne Lennon, a daughter of Haynes Lennon of South Carolina. Before their divorce in 1966, they were the parents of two children:
Lady Elizabeth Tara Lennon Wellesley (b. 1962), an artist.
Garret Graham Wellesley, 8th Earl Cowley (b. 1965), who co-founded the peer-to-peer lending firm Wellesley & Co.; he married Claire L. Brighton, only daughter of Peter W Brighton of Stowbridge, in 1990.
He was married to Isabelle O'Bready of Sherbrooke, Quebec from 1968 to 1981 and to Paige Deming, a daughter of Joseph Grove Deming of Reno, Nevada from 1981, with whom he adopted "several daughters."
Lady Sarah Paige Wellesley, who married Frank Mosier, eldest son of Frank Mosier of Saratoga, New York.
After the death of his third wife in 2008, Lord Cowley married Carola Marion Stormonth ( Erskine-Hill) Darling (b. 1943) on 15 February 2012. The widow of Capt. Robin Andrew Stormonth Darling, Carola was the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Erskine-Hill, 2nd Baronet and the former Christine Alison Johnstone (only daughter of Capt. Henry James Johnstone). From her first marriage to Sir Richard Brooke, 11th Baronet, which ended in divorce, she is the mother of Sir Richard Brooke, 12th Baronet.Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 214
Lord Cowley died on Friday, 17 June 2016 after a short illness. His funeral was held in London and he was succeeded in the title by his son, Graham.
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The 2022 America East Men's Basketball Conference Tournament will be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the America East Conference that will begin March 6, 2022 and end March 12, 2022. All tournament games will be played on the home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
Eight of the ten America East teams will qualify for the tournament. Stony Brook will not be eligible for the tournament due to a postseason ban imposed by the conference. The teams will be seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Schedule
Bracket
See also
2022 America East Women's Basketball Tournament
America East Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
References
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Aleksey Govyrin (; born May 26, 1983, Kovrov) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of 8th State Duma.
In 2006 he started working in the "Askona" company, first as a manager and, later, as a Wholesale Sales Director. In the 2010s, he became the General Director of "Askona-Vek". On September 9, 2018, he was elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Oblast of the 5th convocation. Since September 2021, he has served as a deputy of the 8th State Duma from the Vladimir Oblast and Ivanovo Oblast constituency.
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The Box Set is a five-CD album, most of which was recorded live, by saxophonist Jimmy Lyons. It was recorded at a variety of locations from 1972 to 1985, and was released in limited quantities by Ayler Records in 2003. The album includes a 60-page booklet featuring photos and essays on Lyons by Ben Young and Ed Hazell.
Reception
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "oddly moving," and commented: "The sheer bulk of material is less impressive than the doggedness of Lyons's search for a sound that led the alto saxophone on from Charlie Parker's innovations... and towards a new freedom of expression... it was... Lyons's sympathetic merging of personalities with others... that made him such a quietly compelling figure."
In a review for JazzTimes, Bill Shoemaker referred to the album as "a triumph," and wrote: "There is no more direct route connecting Charlie Parker to the '60s and its ongoing aftermath than Jimmy Lyons."
Rex Butters, in an article for All About Jazz, remarked: "While the tapes were recorded casually without thought of commercial release, the performances themselves override any quibbling over sound quality... Priding itself on the quality of its unissued live performances, Ayler has added a valuable entry to the Jimmy Lyons discography." In a separate All About Jazz review, Clifford Allen wrote: "this is an excellent resource. One can more clearly understand the singular impact of Lyons' voice separated from his usual pianistic foil, and one can also see the importance of that foil to Lyons' development. Five different contexts give both the Lyons scholar and the curious onlooker a varied program of material to sift through, and suffice it to say, Jimmy Lyons is more firmly cemented in jazz history because of this set."
Writing for One Final Note, Joe Milazzo stated that the album represented "some of the strongest music Lyons ever made," and noted that Lyons "seems an inexhaustible font of ideas not so much because the content of his solos, phrase by phrase, well-defined note by well-defined note, is so remarkable. It is because Lyons knows that it is not just the individual ideas themselves, but how they interface with each other that matters. All tissue is connective tissue, in a sense. What is so amazing is that this breakneck processing of melodic variations, tightly organized but separated utterly from any sort of harmonic foundation, is the foundation of Lyons' approach. Lyons departs from a point that most musicians would consider a destination: his instrumental virtuosity really is a manifestation of self-knowledge."
Critic Tom Hull wrote: "Lyons' selflessness may have been the secret of the Cecil Taylor Unit's success. Without naming anyone, Taylor once said, 'It's rare to find musicians who are loyal and protect you and give you space to be yourself. You learn to value them highly and to give them the same space they give you.' The Box Set was specially designed for fans who care as much about that space."
In an article for Dusted Magazine, Derek Taylor remarked: "None of Lyons' solo recordings incorporate piano and the same holds true for six-plus hours of music issued on this sumptuous five-disc Box Set by Ayler Records. Proof of his talent and creativity, Lyons' melodic and harmonic facility makes the absence hardly noticeable. His compositions actually work better without a chordal anchor to ground them, and there are plenty of examples in this set that bear this claim out."
A review at the Tangents web site stated: "this is an unmissable document of a truly outstanding jazz man in fine company and, for my money, the 'box of the year'."
Track listing
Disc 1, track 6 by Thelonious Monk. Disc 4, track 5 by Karen Borca. All other compositions by Jimmy Lyons.
Disc 1
"Jump Up" – 10:02
"Gossip" – 14:04
"Ballad One" – 15:14
"Mr. 1-2-5 Street" – 11:18
"Jump Up # 2" – 17:28
"Round Midnight" – 7:37
Recorded at Studio Rivbea, New York City, September 15–17, 1972.
Disc 2
"Family" – 41:24
"Heritage I" – 37:18
Recorded at Studio Rivbea, New York City, June 30, 1975.
Disc 3
"Heritage II" – 13:36
"Clutter" – 20:02
"Mary Mary Intro" – 11:41
"Never" – 6:09
"Configuration C" – 5:18
"Repertoire Riffin'" – 14:29
"Impro-Scream & Clutter II" – 7:21
Track 1 recorded at Studio Rivbea, New York City, June 30, 1975. Tracks 2-7 recorded at Soundscape, New York City, April 9, 1981.
Disc 4
"Wee Sneezawee" – 13:38
"After You Left" – 9:24
"Theme" – 10:40
"Shakin' Back" – 10:55
"Good News Blues" – 11:06
"Jimmy Lyons Interview" – 11:41
Tracks 1-5 recorded at Geneva, Switzerland, May 12, 1984. Track 6 recorded at and broadcast by WKCR-FM, "Jazz Alternatives", New York City, July 27, 1978.
Disc 5
"Wee Sneezawee" – 13:15
"After You Left" – 9:39
"Tortuga" – 13:09
"Gossip" – 9:27
"Shakin' Back" – 13:02
"Driads" – 15:49
"Jump Up" – 0:36
Recorded at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts during the Tufts Jazz Festival, February 12, 1985.
Personnel
Jimmy Lyons – alto saxophone
Karen Borca – bassoon (disc 4, tracks 1–5; disc 5)
Raphe Malik – trumpet (disc 1)
Hayes Burnett – bass (disc 1; disc 2; disc 3, track 1)
William Parker – bass (disc 5)
Sidney Smart – drums (disc 1)
Henry Letcher – drums (disc 2; disc 3, track 1)
Paul Murphy – drums (disc 4, tracks 1–5; disc 5)
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Alhaji Lateef Jakande's administration founded the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board.
The executive governor in 1980, Alhaji Lateef Jankande founded The LSTMB by statute 13th of caps 103 of 19194, which took place in 1980.
The board was established to oversee the traditional medicine code of conduct and practice.
All traditional medicine practitioners in Lagos state must be accredited, inspected, monitored, and licensed.
The buildings of practitioners and conventional clinics/health institutions.
The Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has Promised to invest in Traditional Medicines.
Lagos State Inaugurates traditional medicine research committees
Mohammed Abdullahi, Minister of State for Science, Technology, and Innovation, announced on Thursday that herbal medicine production will reach $50 billion by 2030.
African herbs and roots should be researched, according to a traditional medicine practitioner.
Traditional medicine should be investigated in order to maximize the benefits accruable to the country in our programs.
Mission
To provide a conducive atmosphere for the promotion of traditional medicine in order to maximize its potential for health and economic development.
The LSTMB has plans to establish the Agency to bring its Services closer to various local government areas in Lagos.
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Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Azerbaijan in 2025.
Electoral system
The President of Azerbaijan is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off is held.
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Phalaenopsis boulbetii is a species of orchid endemic to Cambodia.
This species grows lithophytically. The specific epithet boulbetii honours the French cartographer Jean Boulbet.
Conservation
This species is protected unter the CITES appendix II regulations of international trade.
References
boulbetii
Orchids of Cambodia
Aeridinae |
André Doye (15 September 1924 – 29 November 1981) was a French professional footballer who played as a forward. He scored five goals in seven appearances for the France national team from 1950 to 1952. At club level, he most notably played for Bordeaux from 1948 to 1956, winning the Division 1 title in the 1949–50 season.
Honours
Bordeaux
Division 1: 1949–50
Coupe de France runner-up: 1951–52, 1954–55
References
1924 births
1981 deaths
Sportspeople from Nord (French department)
French footballers
Association football forwards
RC Lens players
Toulouse FC players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
FC Dieppe players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
France international footballers |
The 1926 Southwest Texas State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University) during the 1926 college football season as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA). In their eighth year under head coach Oscar W. Strahan, the team compiled an overall record of 7–2 with a mark of 4–1 in conference play.
Schedule
References
Southwest Texas State
Texas State Bobcats football seasons
Southwest Texas State Bobcats football |
Govinda Naam Mera is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language comedy thriller film written and directed by Shashank Khaitan and produced by Dharma Productions and Viacom18 Studios. The film stars Vicky Kaushal, Kiara Advani and Bhumi Pednekar.
Principal photography of the film commenced in Mumbai in March 2021 and wrapped up in September of the same year. Govinda Naam Mera was earlier announced to release in theatres on 10 June 2022 but was eventually postponed to avoid a clash with Prithviraj (2022).
Cast
Vicky Kaushal as Govinda Waghmare
Kiara Advani as Govinda's girlfriend
Bhumi Pednekar as Mrs. Waghmare
Production
It was initially reported in January 2020 that Shashank Khaitan was writing and directing a spy comedy titled Mr. Lele staring Varun Dhawan, Bhumi Pednekar and Janhvi Kapoor. A first look poster was later released featuring Dhawan. However, the project was shelved a few months later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. In January 2021, the film was re-announced with a new cast with Vicky Kaushal replacing Dhawan and Kiara Advani replacing Kapoor.
Principal photography of the film commenced in Mumbai in March 2021. A song from the film was shot during the end of August on board the Roll-on/roll-off to Alibaug. Several scenes featuring Kaushal and Advani were also filmed in Pondicherry. Filming was halted for several weeks in April when both Kaushal and Pednekar tested positive for COVID-19. The shoot resumed in June of the same year after the cast and crew got the first dose of the vaccine. The film was wrapped up in September 2021.
Release
The film was officially announced in November 2021 with a new title by the producers and cast with the release of three posters of the main characters played by Kaushal, Advani and Pednekar. It was initially scheduled to hit theatrical screens on 10 June 2022 but was eventually postponed to avoid a clash with Prithviraj (2022).
References
External links
Indian films
Hindi-language films
Upcoming films
Upcoming Hindi-language films
2022 comedy-drama films |
William DeBilzan (born February 27, 1956, in Amarillo, Texas) is an American artist who focuses on abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures.
Early life
Born in Amarillo, Texas in 1956, he was raised in the small farm town of Grass Lake, Michigan. As a result of his Midwest background, he often incorporates rural landscape elements within his paintings and rustic frames.
Career
DeBilzan traveled west to Southern California in his early twenties and launched a construction company that focused on tile design, which he owned and operated for 18 years. During a difficult time in his mid-30s, he started to visit art galleries and soon began to experiment with painting. Soon, he found that people became more interested in his paintings rather than his houses. DeBilzan began selling his work at local art fairs, and subsequently opened a gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
DeBilzan went on to open galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Delray Beach, Florida. His work has also been exhibited in dozens of galleries in various countries.
His artistic works include an extensive mural and sculpture installation at the Marriott Central Park Hotel in New York City and a painting installation at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE. His artwork themes include loneliness, friendship, and love.
His works have also been displayed at the University of New Mexico in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
DeBilzan has galleries in Laguna Beach, California and Delray Beach, Florida.
Style
DeBilzan's artistic style is characterized by elongated figures, engaging textures, and rich color palette.
Personal life
He currently resides with his family in Florida and continues to work from his studio in Delray Beach, Florida.
References
Living people
1956 births
American painters
American sculptors |
Vladislav Gerasimenko (born 26 April 2001) is a Russian competitive swimmer. He is a world junior record holder in the long course 4×100 metre medley relay, swimming a 59.53 for the breaststroke portion of the relay. He is a four-time medalist from the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and a five-time medalist at the World Junior Swimming Championships, spanning breaststroke and freestyle disciplines. He competed at the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships, placing 16th in the prelims heats of the 50 metre breaststroke.
Background
Gerasimenko was born 26 April 2001 in Russia.
Career
2017
As a 16-year-old competing at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Győr, Hungary in July, Gerasimenko won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:02.20, placed sixth in the 200 metre breaststroke at 2:19.29, and won gold medals as part of both the 4×100 metre medley relay and 4×100 metre mixed medley relay swimming the breaststroke leg of the relays in the final. At the 2017 World Junior Swimming Championships held at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, United States in August, he placed 5th in the 50 metre breaststroke with a 27.82, 13th in the 100 metre breastroke with a 1:02.14, won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay for his prelims relay contribution swimming the breaststroke leg in 1:01.51, and won a bronze medal as part of the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay contributing a split of 1:01.77 for the breaststroke leg in the prelims.
2018
2018 European Junior Championships
In July 2018, Gerasimenko won the gold medal in the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 28.03 seconds at the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships in Helsinki, Finland. For the his second individual event, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:01.36. He also won gold medals in the 4×100 metre medley relay, with a final relay time of 3:35.58, and the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay, in a Championships record and European junior record time of 3:47.99, swimming breaststroke in the final for each relay.
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
A few months later, in October 2018 at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gerasimenko won his first gold medal of the competition on the first day in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, finals relay time of 3:28.50, for his contributions in the prelims heats and placed seventh in the final of the 100 metre breaststroke the following day with a time of 1:02.43. The third day of competition, Gerasimenko split a 51.56 for the third leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay to help win the gold medal with fellow finals relay teammates Kliment Kolesnikov, Daniil Markov, and Andrey Minakov in a time of 3:18.11. In the final of the 4×100 metre medley relay the following day, he split a 1:01.50 for the breaststroke leg of the relay to contribute to a gold medal win in a world junior record time of 3:35.17. On the sixth and final day of competition, he swam breaststroke in the prelims heats of the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay, winning a silver medal for his efforts when the relay placed second with a 3:51.46 in the final, and placed sixth in the final of the 50 metre breaststroke, his final individual event of the competition, with a time of 28.36 seconds.
2019
2019 European Junior Championships
For the 50 metre breaststroke at the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships, held at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan in July, Gerasimenko won the gold medal with a time of 27.89 seconds. In the final of the 100 metre breaststroke, he tied for third place with a time of 1:00.84. He also won a gold medal as part of the 4×100 metre medley relay, swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay in the prelims heats with a time of 1:03.76.
2019 World Junior Championships
On the second day of the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships, held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary in August, Gerasimenko won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 59.97 seconds, finishing 0.20 seconds ahead of silver medalist in the event Josh Matheny of the United States. His time set a new Russian national age group record for boys aged 18 years old and younger and broke the former record of 1:00.12 set in 2015 by Anton Chupkov, it also made him the eighth-fastest male Russian swimmer in the event in history. The sixth and final day of competition, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 27.58 seconds. Later in the same session, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, helping set a new world record and Championships record of 3:33.19 with relay teammates Nikolay Zuev, Andrey Minakov, and Aleksandr Shchegolev by swimming the breaststroke 100 metre portion of the relay in 59.53 seconds.
2021
In October 2021, Gerasimenko competed at the fourth stop of the 2021 Swimming World Cup, held in Kazan and conducted in short course metres, placing 16th in his first event, the 100 metre breaststroke, with a time of 59.76 seconds. The next day he swam a 27.39 to place 17th in the 50 metre breaststroke. For the third and final day of competition, he swam a personal best time of 2:16.43 in the 200 metre breaststroke prelims heats and placing 18th overall. Following the Swimming World Cup, Gerasimenko competed at his first senior international championships, the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan in November, where he placed 16th in the prelims heats of the 50 metre breaststroke and did not advance to the semifinals as he was the fourth-fastest Russian swimmer in the prelims heats with his time of 26.80 seconds and only the fastest two were eligible to advance.
International championships
Gerasimenko swam only in the prelims heats.
Personal best times
Long course metres (50 m pool)
Short course metres (25 m pool)
Legend: h – prelims heat
Records
World junior records
Long course metres (50 m pool)
References
External links
2001 births
Living people
Russian male breaststroke swimmers
Russian male freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia |
Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture is a book of five essays on video game studies by Alexander R. Galloway. The essays are a critical analysis of the medium of video games, and its aesthetic and political impact.
Summary
The first chapter, "Gamic Action, Four Moments", outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the book. Proceeding from the premise that "video games are actions", and that they are a collaboration between player and computer, Galloway offers two axes of analysis: operator (i.e., the player)<-->machine (i.e., the computer); and diegetic (i.e. "in-universe")<-->non-diegetic (i.e., "out of character"). For example, firing a weapon is a diegetic operator action; ambience is a diegetic machine action; pausing the game is a non-diegetic operator action; and network lag is a non-diegetic machine action. These four modes of action can also be used to describe individual games: Galloway gives the examples of Tekken, Myst, Warcraft III, and Dance Dance Revolution, respectively.
Further reading
External links
(Open-access version of Chapter 4)
Press website
Project MUSE link
JSTOR link
Books published by university presses of the United States
English-language books
2006 non-fiction books
University of Minnesota Press books
Books about games
Books about video games
Books about media theory |
Francine-Charlotte Gehri (31 May 1923 – 14 February 2022) was a Swiss writer.
Biography
After her studies in business, Gehri worked as a secretary and a teacher for many years. A cultural activist, she set up three writers' festivals in the Lake Geneva area in the municipalities of Montreux and La Tour-de-Peilz. For ten years, she worked alongside Janine Massard as organizer of the Rendez-vous littéraires du wuinze du café romand in Lausanne. She also coordinated other writers' festivals in Fribourg, Sion, Geneva, and Yverdon-les-Bains.
Gehri served as President of the for six years. She represented Romandy at the Académie des provinces françaises. As a writer, she wrote several short stories, such as Histoires sans point d'orgue and La vie en mieux. She also wrote one novel, titled Le Chemin de l'Espagne.
Gehri was a recipient of multiple literary awards. She won the Prix Paul Budry, the 1978 Œuvre suisse des lectures pour la jeunesse, the 1993 Prix Guy de Maupassant, and the 1994 Prix des Ecrivains vaudois.
Gehri died on 14 February 2022, at the age of 98.
References
1923 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Swiss women writers
People from Lausanne |
Balkanatolia was a series of islands or an island continent, comprising approximately the modern Balkans and Anatolia, that for much of the Eocene maintained a land fauna distinct from that of either western Europe or Asia. In southeastern Europe, Eocene finds of Amynodontidae, Hyracodontidae, Brontotheriidae, and Anthracotheriidae have affinities to Asian, but not western European, forms, possibly up to 10 million years before the Grande Coupure, bachitheriids and cricetid rodents in the Balkans indicate that invasive mammals from Asia began to colonize southeastern Europe sometime between the Lutetian and the Priabonian. The fauna of southeastern Europe also differed from that of Anatolia; this may be an artefact of the research process to date, but there may have been internal barriers to movement.
The fauna remained distinct from that of western Europe until the Grande Coupure, when Antarctic glaciation began, sea levels fell and land migration became possible; the endemic western European fauna disappeared and was largely replaced by Asian forms. Some of them may have arrived from Balkanatolia.
References
Eocene
Balkans
Anatolia |
Igor Igoshin (; born December 11, 1970, Kirov, Kirov Oblast) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas. In 2004, he was awarded a Doctor of Sciences in Economics and Political Sciences.
From 1995 to 1998, he worked as the CEO of the JSC "Agroproduct". In 1999 he was elected deputy of the 3rd State Duma. In 2003, 2007, 2011, 2016, and 2021 he was re-elected for the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas respectively. He represents the Vladimir constituency.
References
1970 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
Mochammad Widi Syarief Hidayatullah (born July 31, 2003) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as an forward for Liga 1 club Persebaya Surabaya.
Club career
Persebaya Surabaya
He was signed for Persebaya Surabaya and played in Liga 1 in 2021 season. Widi made his first-team debut on 6 February 2022 in a match against Persipura Jayapura as a substitute for Ruy Arianto in the 46th minute at the Ngurah Rai Stadium, Denpasar.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
External links
Widi Syarief at Soccerway
Widi Syarief at Liga Indonesia
2003 births
Living people
Indonesian footballers
Persebaya Surabaya players
Association football forwards |
Wigtwizzle is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bradfield, in South Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is south of Penistone, and north west of Sheffield.
History
In the 15th century, the name of the hamlet was recorded as Wigtwisle, in the 16th century as Wigtwizle, and Wiggtwisle in the 17th century. The name derives from an Anglo-Saxon owner, Wicga, and means Wicga's land at the confluence of two streams, (Allas Lane Dike, and Lee Lane Dike, both of which flow into Broomhead Reservoir). Up until the 1960s, it was still recorded as Wightwizzle, but modern mapping uses Wigtwizzle without the 'H'. It is thought that both Wigtwizzle and nearby Brightholmlee, whilst not directly mentioned in the Domesday Book, are thought to be part of one of the 16 Berewicks of Hallamshire that were mentioned in the book.
The hamlet used to have a large house known as Wigtwizzle Hall. It was believed to have been built in 1610, but was demolished in 1935 and the stone used partly to build the local reservoirs of Broomhead and More Hall. There used to be a pub in the village known as the Sportsman's Arms (or Sportsman Inn), after closure it was used by Sheffield City Council as a woodyard and has since been converted into a house.
Wigtwizzle was part of the parish of Ecclesfield in the wapentake of Upper Strafforth. It is now part of the civil parish of Bradfield, under which the ten-year censuses are recorded. The land to the west of the hamlet is known as Wightwizzle Common and extended the to Howden Edge, which is the boundary between Derbyshire and Yorkshire. The road to the west of the hamlet was part of the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire under the name Côte de Wigtwizzle.
To the south of the hamlet is Canyards Hills SSSI.
Notes
References
Sources
External links
Wigtwizzle on Get Outside
Map of Canyards Hills SSSI
Mapping from 1950 showing the Sportsman's Inn and the hamlet as Wightwizzle
Villages of the metropolitan borough of Sheffield |
Antipterna assulosa is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1940 as Machaeretis assulosa. The species epithet, assulosa, derives from the Latin adjective, assulosus ("like a splinter"). The holotype for Machaeretis assulosa was collected at Sandgate in Queensland.
Further reading
References
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1940
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner |
Vladimir Ilinykh (; born May 20, 1975, Severouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of 8th State Duma.
From 1995 to 2012, he was engaged in business. On March 4, 2012, he was elected deputy of the Duma of the Severouralsky Urban Okrug. In December of the same year, he left the post to become First Deputy Head of Administration of the Severouralsky Urban Okrug. From May 2014 to December 2016, he headed the administration. On September 18, 2016, he was elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk Oblast. On February 6, 2020, he was elected the head of Orenburg. Since September 2021, he has served as the deputy of the 8th State Duma from the Orenburg Oblast constituency.
References
1975 births
Living people
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
List of ambassadors of the Philippines may refer to:
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Brunei
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Egypt
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to France
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Japan
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Lebanon
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Singapore
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to South Korea
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Spain
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Turkey
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United Kingdom
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United States
Philippines
Lists of ambassadors of the Philippines |
The Sainte-Victoire National Nature Reserve (RNN117) is a national nature reserve located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Covering 140 hectares, the nature reserve was established in 1994 to protect the fossilized dinosaur eggs preserved on the western foot of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Localisation
The territory of the nature reserve is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, on the commune of Beaurecueil. Set on the western foot of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, the site covers 140 ha and consists of the fossil site of Roques-Hautes. The nature reserve is comprises a central part named "Les Grands Creux" whose penetration is forbidden and a protection area.
History of the site and reserve
The site is known since 1947 for its paleontological deposit of dinosaur eggs.
Late Cretaceous Provence was a tropical region, occupied by a fluvio-lacustrine biotope favourable to animal reproduction, notably for the egg-laying of large reptiles, such as turtles, crocodiles and dinosaurs. The site was classified as early as 1964, under the law of 1930.
Ecology (biodiversity, ecological interest, etc.)
The principal interest of the site is paleontological, due to the presence of the dinosaur eggs fossil deposits, one of the few of such fossil sites in the world.
Roques-Hautes fossil site
The Roques-Hautes fossil site is a deposit of dinosaur eggs, located near the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in the commune of Beaurecueil, in the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation. It was uncovered in 1952 by Raymond Dughi and François Sirugue, respectively curator and assistant curator of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Aix-en-Provence. It dates from the Late Cretaceous.
Touristic and educational interest
The nature reserve can be accessed by the south through the parking lots de Roques-Hautes, de l'Aurigon and du Toscan, served by the D17, or by the north through the road of the Bimont Dam on the commune of Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, served by the D10.
Access to the Grands-Creux sector is forbidden to the public.
Administration, management plan, regulations
The nature reserve is managed by the Departmental Council of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Tools and legal status
The nature reserve was established by decree the 1 March 1994..
References
Geologic formations of France
Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe
Cretaceous France
Maastrichtian Stage
Fluvial deposits
Ooliferous formations
Paleontology in France |
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Georgia in 2024.
Electoral system
150 members of Parliament are elected by two methods; 77 were from a single nationwide constituency using closed list proportional representation with a 3% electoral threshold. The other 73 are elected in single-member constituencies using two-round system, in which candidates had to receive over 50% of the valid vote to win in the first round. A second round is held between the top two candidates if there is no winner in the first round.
References
Georgia
Parliamentary elections in Georgia (country) |
The Dutch municipal elections of 2022 will be held on 16 March in 333 municipalities in the Netherlands. This election will determine the composition of the municipal councils for the following four years.
Background
In the previous municipal elections, local political parties won by far the most votes and seats. Nationally, all local political parties won a total of 29% of the votes and around a third of municipal council seats. Local parties have seen a steady rise since the 1990s and in Vlieland there are only local parties that participate.
Of all national political parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) will contest the most municipal elections; the party will be on the ballot in all but five (Diemen, Ouder-Amstel, Rozendaal, Vlieland and Schiermonnikoog). The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) comes in second, contesting in 317 elections, while Democrats 66 participates in 289 elections. The Labour Party (PvdA) will participate in 303 elections, and GroenLinks in 229, many of which are joint lists between the two parties. Meanwhile, the ChristianUnion runs in 175 and the Reformed Political Party (SGP) in 96, with these parties also having many joint lists. The Socialist Party participates in 86, Forum for Democracy (FvD), which had previously only participated in Amsterdam, has expanded significantly to participate in 50 elections. The Party for Freedom (PVV) participates in 31, Party for the Animals (PvdD) in 30, DENK in 20, 50PLUS in 19 and BIJ1 in 5. There are also 3 national parties participating for the first time in municipal elections, BvNL in 20 municipalities, Volt in 10, and JA21 only in Amsterdam.
12 municipalities will not have elections on 16 March due to mergers.
Electoral system
Municipal councils are elected using party-list proportional representation. The amount of seats depends on the population of the municipality, ranging from nine seats for municipalities with a population below 3,000, to 45 seats for municipalities with a population over 200,000.
Amsterdam
Opinion polling
Rotterdam
Opinion polling
The Hague
Opinion polling
Utrecht
Opinion polling
References
External links
2022 elections in the Netherlands
2022
March 2022 events in Europe |
Hypogymnia papilliformis is a rare species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in China and the Russian Far East, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by Bruce McCune, Svetlana Tchabanenko, and Xin Li Wei. The type specimen was collected by the second author in the Lazovsky Nature Reserve (Primorsky Krai, Russia) at an altitude of ; here, in a mixed conifer–broadleaved forest, it was found growing on Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis). The lichen has also been recorded from a mixed forest in the mountains of Shaanxi Province in China, at an altitude of . The specific epithet papilliformis alludes to the papillose texture (i.e., covered with pimple-like structures) of the upper thallus surface. Secondary compounds that occur in Hypogymnia papilliformis include atranorin, and physodic acid as major metabolites, and minor amounts of 2'-O-methylphysodic acid and vittatolic acid.
References
papilliformis
Lichens described in 2015
Lichens of China
Lichens of Europe
Taxa named by Bruce McCune |
Ichwan Tuharea (born November 14, 2000) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga 1 club Bhayangkara.
Club career
Bhayangkara
He was signed for Bhayangkara to played in Liga 1 on 2019 season. Ichwan made his professional debut on 20 February 2022 in a match against Persikabo 1973 at the Kompyang Sujana Stadium, Denpasar.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
External links
Ichwan Tuharea at Soccerway
Ichwan Tuharea at Liga Indonesia
2000 births
Living people
Indonesian footballers
Bhayangkara F.C. players
Association football midfielders |
List of ambassadors of Albania may refer to:
List of ambassadors of Albania to Austria
List of ambassadors of Albania to China
List of ambassadors of Albania to France
List of ambassadors of Albania to Germany
List of ambassadors of Albania to Greece
List of ambassadors of Albania to Hungary
List of ambassadors of Albania to Italy
List of ambassadors of Albania to Russia
List of ambassadors of Albania to the United Kingdom
List of ambassadors of Albania to the United States
Albania |
Wildegg Castle is a small castle in the municipality of Möriken-Wildegg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
See also
List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
Literature
Hans Lehmann: Die Burg Wildegg und ihre Bewohner, Aarau 1922.
Andres Furger und andere: Schloss Wildegg. Aussenstelle des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums, Braunschweig 1994 (Digitalisat).
Sophie von Erlach: Kleine Burg-Chronik des Schlosses Wildegg der Sophie von Erlach, hrsg. und komm. von Andres Furger, Zürich 1994.
Walter Merz (Hrsg.): Die Urkunden des Schlossarchivs Wildegg, Aarau 1931.
Thomas Pauli, Stefan Hess: Schloss Wildegg: Neu unter Aargauer Flagge, in: Argovia 2011, S. 264–269.
Dokumentation der Sanierung Domäne Schloss Wildegg 1999–2011, hrsg. vom Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik BBL, Bern 2011 ISBN 978-3-905-782-14-1
Christoph Reding, Felix Ackermann, Felix Müller: Schloss Wildegg. (Schweizerische Kunstführer, Nr. 926, Serie 93). Hrsg. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-099-7.
References
External links
Castles in Aargau |
On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the independence of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and the neighbouring Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), although previously claiming that recognizing the statelets would be a violation of the Minsk agreements. Documents issued by the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have been valid in Russia since 2017. This allowed residents to work, travel, or study in Russia. The head of state, Leonid Pasechnik made a deal with Russia to evacuate citizens to southern parts of Russia.
Ever since, Russia has been establishing diplomatic relations with the LPR. Both sides have signed a treaty of friendship, cooperation, military aid and assistance. Russia has given out more than 600 000 Russian passports to the citizens of the republics and has backed the rebels with guns and artillery. Russia also recognizes the Ukrainian controlled areas as part of the rebels. Russia has also ordered troops to serve as peacekeepers in the separatist held regions of the Donbas. Relations still stay strong between the 2 states.
See also
International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Donetsk People's Republic–Russia relations
References
Separatism in Ukraine
Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic |
Tubifera ferruginosa, more commonly known as raspberry slime mold or red raspberry slime mold, is a species of slime mold in the class Myxogastria. It is one of the most widely known and distinct slime molds, being found throughout temperate regions of the world, primarily in Europe and North America.
Description
T. ferruginosa is often found growing on damp rotten wood in temperate forests. It forms small, cushion-like "pseudoaethalia", or fruiting bodies from June to November that are bright red when young, and purple-brown when mature. These "pseudoaethalia" are different from the aethelia of other slime molds like Fuligo septica, because they are made of tightly bunched, gelatinous rods, or sporangia. Each individual sporangium is approximately 0.5 mm wide and 3 to 5 cm tall, while the width of the pseudoaethalia can reach 15 cm.
The pseudoaethalia is anchored to a surface by the hypothallus, a spongy, raised structure that appears light in color.
Name
The name "ferruginosa" comes from Ferrug-, meaning “rusty” or “rust”; and -osa, meaning “fullness” or “abundance”.
References
Myxogastria
Species described in 1791 |
Josephte Dufresne (1929–1995) was a Canadian pianist, teacher and conservatoire director.
Life and work
Josephte Dufresne was born January 9, 1929 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
She studied piano in her birthplace and in Montreal with Jean-Marie Beaudet. After winning a Canadian study grant, the Prix d'Europe in 1950, she traveled to Paris and studied with composer Yves Nat. After returning to Montreal, she began to perform and teach.
Her passion was promoting the music of Canada and she did so as a recitalist and concert soloist on Société Radio-Canada (SRC) and CKAC radio and television. In 1967, she presented 13 half-hour recitals on SRC performing the work of about 60 Canadian composers. She also created her own works, such as her Pièce Concertante no. 1 for Canadian composer Jean Papineau-Couture and dedicating it to him.
Dufresne performed throughout Quebec, in New York State and in several cities in France, including Paris. She also accompanied other artists who went on tour. This was especially true of Canadian singer Claire Gagnier as well as other vocalists performing in televised opera productions.
In 1967, Dufresne was named a professor at the new Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Hull, in Gatineau, Quebec when it welcomed its first 168 students from the Ottawa region. From 1972–1978, she was assistant director before becoming its director (1980–1984).
Starting in 1975 she began editing a work on Canadian music for piano. In 1987, she left teaching to devote herself to her music.
She died February 7, 1995 at 66, in Ste-Hyacinthe, Québec.
Personal life
She married the director, orchestra conductor and television producer, Jean-Yves Landry in 1956, but later divorced.
Discography
Letondal, Champagne, G.-É. Tanguay, Lavallée, Contant, Renaud, Garant, Gagnon, Hétu: 1969; RCI 252, (Champagne) 4-ACM 30, (Hétu) 4-ACM 31 (CD).
Matton Concerto for two pianos and percussion, Danse brésilienne for two pianos: J. Landry p, L. Charbonneau et Lachapelle perc; 1955; RCI 145 et 5-ACM 29.
Papineau-Couture, Prévost, Mercure, Vallerand, Élie: Myette v, Millet fl; Allied ARCLP-4.
Pépin, Morel, Mathieu, Tremblay, Garant, Papineau-Couture, Matton: 1955; RCI 135, (Pépin) 4-ACM 5, (Garant) 4-ACM 2, (Matton) 5-ACM 29.
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Antipterna hemimelas is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1940 as Ocystola hemimelas. The species epithet, hemimelas, derives from the Greek, έμιμελας ("half black"). The male holotype for Ocystola hemimelas was collected in Perth, Western Australia.
Further reading
References
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1940
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner |
Robert "Bicycle Bob" Silverman (30 November 1933 – 20 February 2022) was a Canadian cycling activist in Montreal.
Biography
Silverman grew up in the Snowdon neighborhood of Montreal and attended the High School of Montreal and Sir George Williams University. At the age of 25, with the financial help of his father, he opened a bookstore on Stanley Street. A Trotskyist, he had no incentive for profit and often gave books away to customers, driving him into bankruptcy.
While studying in France in 1969, Silverman discovered great enjoyment from cycling. Encouraged by his wife, Edith, he rode his bicycle to his French lessons. Upon his return to Montreal in 1970, he purchased a second-hand bicycle during an era in which cycling in the city was rare. In 1975, he co-founded the group to fight for better bicycle safety in Montreal. In 1977, he attempted to organize an international cycling foundation, saying "Cyclists of all countries, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains! Let's build International Cycling". He proposed the creation of a multilingual library and an international liaison bulletin.
Silverman died in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts on 20 February 2022, at the age of 88.
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A urinal target, sometimes known by the specific types urinal fly or urinal bee, is an image or mark placed inside a urinal to encourage users to aim in a particular place so as to avoid messes and reduce cleaning costs.
History
In late-19th century Great Britain, people would put pictures of bees in urinals and toilets. They served as a target, but also a joke about the pronunciation of the honeybee's genus, Apis. Engineer and businessman Thomas Crapper even put a picture of a bee in the toilets his company produced, down below the water. In 1954, an inventor patented a propeller contraption suspended over a toilet, attached from the exterior. In 1976 a dentist in New Jersey patented a bullseye decal he called the Tinkle Target, citing how "parents, janitors, and others responsible for this cleanliness have often despaired the human male sloppiness of failing to direct urine into the proper receptacles".
In the early 1990s, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport introduced pictures of flies to its men's room urinals in an effort to reduce "spillage", or the amount of urine which spills onto the floor and must then be cleaned. Though sometimes credited to Aad Kieboom, a manager at the airport, according to Kieboom it was the cleaning department's manager, Jos van Bedaf, who had the idea. Van Bedaf remembered, during his time as a soldier in 1960s, that someone had drawn a dot in one of the urinals, and that the bathroom with that urinal was cleaner than others. He suggested a fly because, he said, it is the animal people would most like to urinate on. Flies connote unsanitary conditions and are both widely disliked without being frightening like some other disliked insects.
They have been installed in urinals at airports, stadiums, and schools in many places around the world.
Functionality
Urinal design often contends with issues of cleanliness, changing their structure or adding elements like screens to avoid spilling or splashing. Targets are one such intervention to get users to direct a stream of urine to an ideal location. While the flies in the Schiphol Airport urinals are etched, they can also be baked into the porcelain or stuck on as a sticker afterwards. One form of sticker is temperature sensitive, with the fly disappearing when heat is applied.
While flies and bees are well-known, targets can also take the form of written words, a dot, a flag, or a tree. Some urinals at the University of Louisville use a logo of the school's rival, the University of Kentucky. In Iceland, some urinals displayed pictures of bankers during the 2008-11 financial crisis. Targets can also be objects like a piece of wood or a Cheerio.
Employees of Schiphol Airport conducted trials to test how effective their etched images of flies were. The result was an 80% reduction in spillage, cutting cleaning costs by about 8%.
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein included urinal targets as an example of what they call "nudging" in their 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. According to nudge theory, positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions can influence the behavior and decision-making of groups or individuals in predictable ways, without using rigid rules. Thaler, a behavioral economist, called it his favorite example of a nudge. Thaler and Sunstein wrote that "It seems that men usually do not pay much attention to where they aim, which can create a bit of a mess, but if they see a target, attention and therefore accuracy are much increased".
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Alexander Iltyakov (; born October 9, 1971, Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas. In 2008, he was awarded a Doctor of Sciences in Technical Sciences.
In 1995, he, together with his brothers, founded the "Veles" meat processing plant. From 1995 to 2011, he worked as an executive director of the plant. In June 2011, Iltyakov presented to Vladimir Putin a business plan on how to develop meat production in the Ural region. The plan was later included in the All-Russia People's Front's program. The same year, Iltyakov was elected as a deputy of the 6th State Duma from the Kurgan Oblast constituency. In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected for the 7th and 8th State Dumas respectively.
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The Carshalton Council Offices is a former municipal building on The Square, Carshalton, London. The structure, which was briefly the headquarters of Carshalton Urban District Council before becoming a public library, is a Grade II listed building.
History
Following a significant increase in population, largely associated with the growing importance of the area as a residential suburb of London, the area became an urban district in 1894. The new urban district council initially rented premises in the High Street. In the early 20th century, civic officials, led by the clerk to the council, Charles Lovelock, launched an initiative to raise funds for purpose-built council offices. The site they selected, on the west side of The Square, had formed part of the grounds of All Saints Church.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the chairman of the council, Councillor C. W. Edwards, on 21 December 1906. It was designed by R. Frank Atkinson and W. Willis Gale in the Baroque Revival style, built in red and blue bricks with stone dressings at a cost of £2,500 and was completed in 1908. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto The Square; the central section bay featured a doorway flanked by banded pilasters supporting an entablature, which was broken by a large keystone, and an open segmental pediment. There was a casement window flanked by stone scrolls on the first floor. The other bays were fenestrated by cross-windows on the ground floor and by casement windows on the first floor. At roof level, there was a modillioned cornice.
Within a few years the civic leaders decided that the building was too small and Lovelock persuaded the lord of the manor, Blake Taylor, to sell land including The Grove and the rest of the area around the upper ponds to the council. By the mid-1920s, the council had relocated its offices to The Grove. The old council offices in The Square were converted for use as a library and a museum and were re-opened by the former member of parliament, Sir Thomas Worsfold, in January 1931. The museum failed to attract sufficient visitors and the collection was put into storage two years later. However, the building continued to serve the people of Carshalton as a public library until December 2012 when the library service relocated to the Westcroft Centre. The building then became a nursery but that also closed in 2020.
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Andrey Isayev (; born 9 October 1971, Moscow) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.
Isaev is a grandson of a Soviet politician and People's Commissar of Local Industry of the RSFSR, Konstantin Ukhanov. In 2000, Andrey Isayev was awarded a Doctor of Sciences in Political Science. From 1986 to 1991, he was a member of several political organizations, including the Moscow People's Front (aiming to build "democratic socialism") and Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists. From 1995 to 2001, he was a secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia. In December 1999, he was elected deputy of the 3rd State Duma. Two years later, he became a member of the United Russia. From 2003 to 2011, he was the deputy of the 4th and 5th State Dumas. In March 2011, Isayev was appointed the first vice-chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia. In December 2011, he was re-elected as deputy of the 6th State Duma. From 2014 to 2016, he was Deputy to the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin. Later he was appointed deputy chairman of United Russia. In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas respectively.
Isayev was involved in several public scandals. For instance, in 2012, he was appointed deputy secretary to the parliamentary leader of United Russia Sergey Neverov. However, soon Isayev was fired after making a drunken brawl on board. Later Isaev was reinstated in the party. In 2012, opposition leader Dmitry Gudkov accused Isaev in owning an undeclared "Orthodox hotel" in Germany that rents rooms to Christian tourists with the purpose of earning money.
Isaev is known for his active support of the Dima Yakovlev Law.
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Anita Louise Doherty formerly Anita de Gregory (Born January 25, 1949) is a Bahamian former athlete, educator and philanthropist, best known as a competitor in the pentathlon at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games as well as competing in tennis, field Hockey, netball, and softball. She was born in Nassau, Bahamas but grew up in West End, Grand Bahama. She attended Hampton School in Jamaica, before attending Ulster College of Physical Education in Northern Ireland.
Doherty was inducted into the Grand Bahama Sports Hall of Fame in 2005 and The Bahamas Hall of Fame in 2011.
Anita Doherty Odd Distance Track Meet and the Anita Doherty Park are named in her honor on Grand Bahama Island.
Career
She is the former Vice Principal and Principal of Bishop Michael Eldon School after teaching there for 31 years in total.
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The 2nd Critics' Choice Super Awards will honor the best in genre fiction film and television, as presented by the Critics Choice Association. The nominees were announced on February 22, 2022. The winners will be announced on March 17, 2022.
Nominees
Film
Television
Most nominations
Film
Television
See also
27th Critics' Choice Awards
12th Critics' Choice Television Awards
References
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Emenuele Dessì (born 30 March 1964) is an Italian politician who has served in the Senate of the Republic since 2018.
Political career
Originally a member of the Five Star Movement, he left the party on 25 February 2021 due to disagreements with the Draghi government. On 11 November 2021 he joined the Communist Party.
See also
List of current Italian senators
References
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1964 births
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Glaucium oxylobum, called Lotus sweetjuice, is a species of flowering plant in the horned poppy genus which is native to Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It was originally described by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Friedrich Alexander Buhse in 1860 in the 12th volume of the Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.
References
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Flora of Afghanistan
Flora of Iran
Flora of Turkmenistan
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Get to Know You may refer to:
"Get to Know You", a song by Baboon from Ed Lobster
Get to Know You, an extended play by Jai Waetford
"Like to Get to Know You", a song by Spanky and Our Gang
Like to Get to Know You (album), its parent album
"Wanna Get to Know You", a song by G-Unit from the album Beg for Mercy
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Getting to Know You (disambiguation) |
Antipterna nivea is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1940 as Ocystola nivea. The species epithet, nivea, derives from the Latin adjective, niveus ("snow-white"). The male lectotype for Ocystola nivea was collected at Warwick in Queensland.
Further reading
References
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1940
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner |
Porina rivalis is a species of semi-aquatic, saxicolous (rock-dwelling), and crustose lichen in the family Trichotheliaceae. Found in Great Britain, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by lichenologist Alan Orange. The type specimen was collected in Nant Walch near Llanwrtyd Wells (Breconshire) at an altitude of ; here the lichen was found growing on stones submerged in a shaded stream. The species had been known previously from streams in Wales, but it had been incorrectly identified as Porina lectissima. Porina rivalis has also been recorded from streams in South-west England and North England. It has a thin brown thallus (20–70 μm thick) with prominent dark brown or black perithecia. Its ascospores are shaped like narrow ellipsoids, have three septa, and typically measure 13.0–17.5 by 4.0–5.5 μm.
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Lichens described in 2015
Lichens of Europe |
This is a list of Catholic schools in Hong Kong, ordered by the operator. Some are operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. Others are operated by religious orders or by Caritas.
Diocesan
Diocesan secondary
Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School
Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School
Kwun Tong Maryknoll College
Lai King Catholic Secondary School
Newman Catholic College
Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School
(聖安當女書院)
St. Joan of Arc Secondary School
St. Joseph's Anglo-Chinese School
St. Teresa Secondary School
(西貢崇真天主教學校(中學部))
Tuen Mun Catholic Secondary School
Tung Chung Catholic School
Valtorta College
Yu Chun Keung Memorial College No. 2 (余振強紀念第二中學)
Yuen Long Catholic Secondary School
Diocesan primary
Aberdeen St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School
Bishop Ford Memorial School
Bishop Walsh Primary School
Castle Peak Catholic Primary School
Catholic Mission School
Chai Wan Kok Catholic Primary School
Cheung Chau Sacred Heart School
Cho Yiu Catholic Primary School
Choi Wan St. Joseph’s Primary School
Father Cucchiara Memorial School
Good Counsel Catholic Primary School
Holy Family School
Jordan Valley St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Kowloon Bay St. John The Baptist Catholic Primary School
Kowloon Tong Bishop Walsh Catholic School
Laichikok Catholic Primary School
Lei Muk Shue Catholic Primary School
Ling To Catholic Primary School
The Little Flower’s Catholic Primary School
Lok Wah Catholic Primary School
Mary of Providence Primary School
Meng Tak Catholic School
Ng Wah Catholic Primary School
Our Lady of China Catholic Primary School
Pak Tin Catholic Primary School
Ping Shek Estate Catholic Primary School
Price Memorial Catholic Primary School
Raimondi College Primary Section (Private)
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School
Sai Kung Sung Tsun Catholic School (Primary Section)
St. Andrew’s Catholic Primary School
St. Charles School
St. Edward’s Catholic Primary School
St. Francis of Assisi’s Caritas School
St. Francis of Assisi’s English Primary School (Private)
St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School
St. Joseph’s Anglo-Chinese Primary School (Private)
St. Patrick’s School
St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary School (Po Kong Village Road)
St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School
Sau Mau Ping Catholic Primary School
Shak Chung Shan Memorial Catholic Primary School
Sham Tseng Catholic Primary School
Shek Lei Catholic Primary School
Shek Lei St. John’s Catholic Primary School
Tai Kok Tsui Catholic Primary School
Tai Kok Tsui Catholic Primary School (Hoi Fan Road)
Tin Shui Wai Catholic Primary School
Tsuen Wan Catholic Primary School
Tsz Wan Shan Catholic Primary School
Tung Chung Catholic School
Wong Tai Sin Catholic Primary School
Yan Tak Catholic Primary School
Yaumati Catholic Primary School
Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road)
Diocesan kindergartens
Annunciation Catholic Kindergarten (天主教領報幼稚園)
Cheung Chau Sacred Heart Kindergarten (長洲聖心幼稚園)
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Kindergarten (天主教露德聖母幼稚園)
Raimondi College Kindergarten Section (高主教書院幼稚園部)
Star of the Sea Catholic Kindergarten & Star of the Sea Catholic Nursery (天主教海星幼稚園．幼兒園)
St. Andrew’s Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖安德肋幼稚園)
St. James Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖雅各伯幼稚園)
St. Jerome’s Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖葉理諾幼稚園)
St. Margaret Mary’s Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖瑪加利大幼稚園)
St. Peter’s Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖伯多祿幼稚園)
St. Stephen’s Catholic Kindergarten (聖斯德望天主教幼稚園)
St. Teresa’s Kindergarten (聖德蘭幼稚園)
St. Thomas’ Catholic Kindergarten (天主教聖多默幼稚園)
Tai Po Catholic Kindergarten (天主教大埔幼稚園)
Tsuen Wan Our Lady Kindergarten (荃灣聖母幼稚園)
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The 1919–20 season saw Rochdale compete in The F.A. Cup for the 8th time where they reached the first round proper. The also competed in the Central League.
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Grigore Manolescu (March 28, 1857–July 14, 1892) was a Romanian stage actor.
Born in Bucharest, he left his family at age 14 in order to work in the theatre. He entered the Conservatory in 1871 under Ștefan Vellescu, who was initially reluctant to admit the youth, perceiving a disproportionate body and defects of diction.
Manolescu made his debut in 1873, in the play Un bal din lumea mare, in the troupe of Matei Millo, at the Bossel Theatre. He acted in comedies for a time at the Walhala. In 1875, he began to appear at the Iași National Theatre. In 1878, he made his debut at the National Theatre Bucharest, in the role of Quintus Fabius Maximus, in Rome vaincue by Dominique-Alexandre Parodi. His first prominent appearance was later that year as the title character in Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas. In 1879, he performed as Despot Vodă in the play by Vasile Alecsandri.
In 1880, Manolescu, together with Aristizza Romanescu, left on a scholarship for Paris, where they studied under Louis-Arsène Delaunay. Meanwhile, he was influenced by Italian verismo. In 1881, he returned to Bucharest, where he was named scene director at the National Theatre; his major successes began at this point. He excelled in great tragic roles, while also playing comedies. His appearances included Răzvan (Răzvan și Vidra, by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu), Gallus (Fântâna Blanduziei, by Alecsandri), Ovidiu (also by Alecsandri), Kean (by Alexandre Dumas), Karl Moore (The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller) and Don Carlos (also by Schiller). From William Shakespeare, he played Ferdinand in The Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and, most notably, Prince Hamlet. Manolescu himself translated a French edition of Hamlet into prose; its “efficient dialogue”, “suggestive phrasing” and “fluency of speech” made it suitable for performance.
In 1891, together with Romanescu, he organized the first foreign tour of the National Theatre Bucharest, at Vienna. Among the plays performed were Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Ironmaster by Georges Ohnet and Nerone by Pietro Cossa. His final season began that autumn: wracked by cancer, he managed to perform some of his older roles at Bucharest, Iași and elsewhere in Western Moldavia. His final appearance was in Civil Death by Paolo Giacometti, at Piatra Neamț. He died in Paris in July 1892; two weeks later, he was buried at Bellu Cemetery.
Manolescu was married to actress Anicuța Popescu; together with Romanescu, they formed a love triangle of rivalry and jealousy.
Notes
References
Simion Alterescu (ed.), Istoria teatrului în România, vol. II (1849-1918). Bucharest: Editura Academiei R.S.R., 1971
Virgil Brădățeanu, Profiluri: Mari actori români, vol. I. Bucharest: Editura Meridiane, 1973
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Harold Gunness (February 6, 1899 – March 11, 2003) was the last surviving American veteran of the Polar Bear Expedition, part of the intervention by the allied forces in the Russian Civil War.
Biography
After graduating from a high school in Barnesville, Minnesota, in 1917, Gunness enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned to the cruiser , which escorted troop transports across the Atlantic. When the ship was sent to Arkhangelsk, in northern Russia, in August 1918, about 50 men from her, including Gunness, were attached to the Army's 339th Infantry Regiment.
Gunness was issued with an American-made M1891 Mosin–Nagant rifle, and in September his unit traveled up the Dvina River on barges. About 200 miles from the coast they engaged Bolshevik troops around the village of Seletsko, driving them out. However, the Russians regrouped and flanked the Americans, who were forced to retreat. Gunness eventually returned to the Olympia, and sailed for England in November 1918.
After the war, Gunness opened a hardware store in Minnesota, before moving to Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1951. He had two sons, three stepchildren, and 17 grandchildren.
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Antarctic gateway cities are five Southern Ocean rim cities through which nearly all cargo and personnel travel before reaching Antarctica. These include Punta Arenas, Chile; Ushuaia, Argentina; Cape Town, South Africa; Hobart, Australia; and Christchurch, New Zealand. As Antarctica is a low-resource environment with no major transportation infrastructure of its own, gateway cities are a necessary part of all Antarctic activity.
Each of the gateway cities accommodate both planes and ships traveling to Antarctica and generally service the areas of Antarctica closest to them. A mix of both national Antarctic programs and commercial tourism companies use gateway cities, although cities differ in how much of each they facilitate. As a result of their status as Antarctic transportation hubs, the cities also have cultural, economic, ecological, and political connections to Antarctica.
History
Early Antarctic exploration
In the 1820s when mainland Antarctica was first discovered, the current gateway cities didn't have the infrastructure to support expeditions so ships departed from more northerly ports such as Valparaíso, Chile and Sydney, Australia. The current gateway cities began establishing themselves as important Antarctic supply hubs around the turn of the 20th Century when several of the most notable Heroic Age expeditions first traveled through them, beginning with the Southern Cross Expedition in 1898.
21st Century
Though the cities operated almost entirely independently through most of their history as Antarctic gateways, the cities have made efforts to build relationships with one another in the 21st century. In 2009, officials from each city met in Christchurch and signed a statement of intent to promote peaceful cooperation among the cities. The statement expired two and a half years later. From 2017 to 2020, an Australian-led project called Antarctic Cities recruited partners from each of the gateway cities to study their relationship with one another and with Antarctica. The project aimed to transition the cities from gateways, which participate in purely transportation activities, to custodial cities, which also participate in Antarctic stewardship activities.
Public relationship to Antarctica
A 2020 survey found that roughly three-quarters of respondents from each of the gateway cities felt Antarctica was "very/fairly important to the city's identity." A majority of respondents also reported feeling "very/fairly responsible for Antarctica's future" and that it was important for their city to develop a relationship with Antarctica to promote better care for the environment. In recent years the cities have seen efforts by municipal officials to promote stronger relationships with the continent, such as Antarctic festivals, education programs for K-12 students, museum exhibits, and public outreach campaigns.
Cities
Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas is located on the Southern Cone near the Antarctic Peninsula. More than 20 national Antarctic programs travel through Punta Arenas, more than any other gateway city. In 2016 the municipal government launched a project to increase infrastructure and promote cultural connection to Antarctica.
Ushuaia
Ushuaia is the most southerly of the gateway cities and is located roughly 1000 km from the Antarctic Peninsula. Ushuaia is by far the most popular gateway city for tourism to Antarctica, accounting for 90% of all tourists to the continent. Nearly all of the passengers departing Ushuaia for Antarctica travel by cruise ship. It services Argentina's own National Antarctic Directorate, but no other national Antarctic program. It is also home to Antarctic-related tourism attractions, such as the Antarctic Museum.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the largest of the gateway cities and the farthest from Antarctica. In addition to South Africa's own national Antarctic program, the programs of Russia, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and Japan also reach Antarctica via Cape Town. As of 2021, tourism company White Desert has offered direct commercial flights from Cape Town to Antarctica.
Hobart
Hobart services the national Antarctic programs of Australia, France, and China. Hobart offers the least transportation to Antarctica among the gateway cities, but has the highest number of Antarctic scientists. It also houses several Antarctic policy and research organizations including the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Polar Network, and Antarctica Tasmania. It also hosts Antarctic museum exhibits and an annual Australian Antarctic Festival.
Christchurch
Christchurch offers almost no commercial travel to Antarctica, but it is a logistics center for the national Antarctic programs of New Zealand, the United States, Italy, and South Korea. Christchurch also houses the headquarters for the Council of Members of National Antarctic Programs, an international organization comprising representatives from each of the governmental research programs operating in Antarctica. In addition to its services for national Antarctic programs, Christchurch is home to several locations and events for the local public. These include the International Antarctic Centre, the Christchurch Antarctic Office, an annual Antarctic festival called Days of Ice, and many permanent museum exhibits. The local University of Canterbury houses Gateway Antarctica, a center for Antarctic studies and research.
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People of Antarctica |
Antipterna diplosticta is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1944 as Ocystola diplosticta. The species epithet, diplosticta, derives from the Greek, διπλοστικτος ("two spotted"). The male holotype for Ocystola diplosticta was collected at Gladstone in Queensland.
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Taxa described in 1944
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Fatma Khanum Kamina (, born 1841, Shusha, Shusha Uyezd, Shamakhi Governorate, Russian Empire - died 1898, Shusha, Shusha Uyezd, Russian Empire) was one of the famous Azerbaijani women poetees during XIX century.
Life
She was born in 1841 in Shusha. His father Mirza Beybaba Fana was also a poet. She was educated in Shusha. She was called "Mirza Fatma Khanum" by the people because of her education. Most of his poems are written in classical form. Mir Mohsun Navvab stated in "Tazkireyi-Navvab" that Fatma khanum had 400 poems. Fatma took an active part in the "Mejlisi-Faramushan" gatherings of Shusha intellectuals led by Mir Mohsun Navvab and in the "Mejlisi-uns" literary circle.
She died in 1898 in Shusha. Writing about his death, Firidun bey Kocharli called her "one of the rare people of the time".
Family
She was from Tahirovs, one of the noble families of Shusha. She was a relative of Tahira Tahirova (Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic) and Mirza Hasan Tahirzadeh (fourth Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus).
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1898 deaths
Azerbaijani poets
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The Plage aux Ptérosaures (in French, "Beach to Pterosaurs"), located on the Mas de Pégourdy in the commune of Crayssac in the department of Lot, is a palaeoichnologic site bearing tracks made by dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
Description
The site was uncovered in 1993. The Plage aux Ptérosaures was, at the end of the Jurassic era, located in a gulf opened on the Atlantic ocean between Bordeaux and the island of Oléron. It was during that period a marine lagoon. The site itself was a mudflat, flooded at high tide, in which animals were foraging for food.
Jean-Michel Mazin, research director of the CNRS at the Claude Bernard university, oversaw the research. Forty species of ichnotaxa dating back from around 140 million years were identified.
The Plage aux Ptérosaures is protected by a metallic building, in which paleontologists works in near-complete darkness, for only a raking light can expose the ground contours and sometimes reveal new tracks.
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Movie extract from "La plage aux ptérosaures", by Pierre Saunier.
Plage aux ptérosaures
Pterosaurs
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Secret Room is a 2013 Nigerian film directed by Eneaji Chris Eneng.
Secret Room may also refer to:
The Secret Room, a 1969 novel by Marion Eames
"Secret Room", a song by Baboon from their 2002 album Something Good Is Going to Happen to You |
Notre-Dame on Fire () is an upcoming disaster film based on the Notre-Dame de Paris fire that occurred on 15 April 2019. The film is directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud from a script written by Annaud and Thomas Bidegain. Produced by Pathé Films and TF1 Films Production, it is an international co-production between France and Italy.
Notre-Dame on Fire is scheduled to be released in France on 16 March 2022, by Pathé Distribution in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and standard formats.
Synopsis
On 15 April 2019, a violent fire broke out in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Women and men will do everything to save the building.
Cast
as The general
Chloé Jouannet as Marianne
Maximilien Seweryn
as The general Gallet
Élodie Navarre
Antonythasan Jesuthasan as Jonas
Oumar Diolo as Moumet
as policeman
as the motorized policeman
Ava Baya
Kevin Garnichat
Nathan Gruffy
Maxime Grandemange as American tourist
Thomas Descharmes
Vassili Schneider
Chloé Chevallier
Daniel Horn as Scottish guide
Production
In April 2020, Jean-Jacques Annaud announced that he wanted to make a film about the fire. He explains this choice later: "Obviously, I immediately felt the extraordinary cinematographic merits. Beyond the disaster and the grief, of course, there is precisely the emotion and the spectacle of the fire". The filmmaker had first thought of making a documentary.
Filming begins in March 2021 in Bourges. Bourges Cathedral is used for its resemblance to Notre-Dame. The team then began to shoot in the studio at the Cité du Cinéma. A sequence is then shot in mid-April in Versailles, in the Versailles-Château-Rive-Gauche12 station. Sequences were also shot in Notre-Dame d'Amiens cathedral, whose spire and certain parts of the building are similar to those of Notre-Dame.
To complete his film, director Jean-Jacques Annaud calls for the recovery of archive footage from the day of the fire:
"I still need the traffic jams that were created by this event, the people singing in the night to cheer on the firefighters who saved the cathedral. I also need testimonies from foreign countries (…) to discuss the planetary event. If you have these images, we would be happy to take advantage of them and put them in the film."
Release
In February 2022, it was announced that the film would be released in France on March 16, 2022, three years after the fire.
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Pig Latin is a linguistic game that makes use of the English language.
Pig Latin may also refer to:
Pig Latin, the programming language used by Apache Pig
"Pig Latin", a song by Baboon on the album Something Good Is Going to Happen to You |
Barbara Spaniol (born 17 September 1963) is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Landtag of Saarland since 2004. Starting her career in The Greens, she joined The Left in 2007. From 2013 to 2021 she was one of the vice presidents of the Landtag. She is The Left's lead candidate for the 2022 Saarland state election.
Education and career
Spaniol graduated from high school in 1982 and then studied librarianship and information science in Cologne, graduating as a librarian in 1985. From 1989 to 1992, she completed additional studies at the Academy for Office Management in Grünstadt. In 1990, she obtained a teaching qualification in word processing and subsequently became a state-certified teacher of office technology in 1991.
From 1985 to 2004, Spaniol worked as a member of the administrative staff of the Landtag of Saarland. In 1987, she became a civil servant and held the positions of deputy head of the Department of Information Services and head of the Landtag Library. From 1997 to 2004, Spaniol was women's representative at the Landtag; from 2002 to 2004 she was spokeswoman for the working group of state women's representatives.
Political career
The Greens
Spaniol joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 1996. During her time in the party, she was a member of the Saarland branch's state executive committee, district executive committee, state council, and the federal women's council. She was elected to the Homburg city council and the Landtag of Saarland in the 2004 Saarland state election, where she was secretary of the Greens parliamentary faction. She was also spokeswoman for education, culture, and science, as well as European and women's policy. She was also second secretary of the Landtag.
The Left
On 6 August 2007, Spaniol left the Greens and joined The Left. She sat as a non-attached member of the Landtag for the remainder of the parliamentary term. Following her exit from the Greens faction, the Landtag elected Claudia Willger to replace her as second secretary of the Landtag on 29 August. Spaniol unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit over the move, claiming that she had been elected to serve for the entire duration of the legislative period.
After joining The Left, Spaniol became spokeswoman for education and speaker of the party's state working group on education. She was also elected chairwoman of Saarpfalz-Kreis district association and speaker for the board of the Homburg city association. In 2009, she became chairwoman of The Left faction in the Homburg city council.
Spaniol was re-elected to the Landtag in the 2009 Saarland state election along with ten other deputies for The Left. She became vice-chair of the new Left parliamentary faction and spokeswoman for education, media, and women's policy. In October 2013, she was elected second vice president of the Landtag, succeeding the late Rolf Linsler. After the 2017 Saarland state election, she continued in office as third vice president.
In the long-running party dispute between Saarland Left chairman Thomas Lutze and parliamentary leader Oskar Lafontaine, Spaniol was considered an ally of Lutze. On 2 November 2021, she was expelled from The Left parliamentary faction upon request of four of its six members. Group secretary Jochen Flackus claimed that Spaniol had "supported the public attacks by the state chairman against the Left faction" and had failed to "protect her own faction and colleagues." She described the move as "incomprehensible, inappropriate and unfair" and stated that she wanted to continue her political work. On 10 November, she founded the Saar-Linke faction with Dagmar Ensch-Engel, who previously resigned from The Left faction in 2018. She also vacated her position as vice president of the Landtag.
Ahead of the 2022 Saarland state election, Spaniol was elected as the Left's top candidate in the Neunkirchen constituency with 98% of votes. On 21 November, she was also elected lead candidate for the party's statewide list with 85.1% support.
Other affiliations
Spaniol was a member of the supervisory board of the Musikschule Homburg gGmbH from 2014 to 2019. Until March 2017 she was on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Franco-German Cultural Cooperation. Since March 2018, she has been a member of the baord of directors of Studentenwerk in Saarland; she was previously a deputy member of the board.
She is also a member of the Education and Science Workers' Union, Mehr Demokratie e.V., the Sports and Games Club SSV Homburg Er-bach, the Interest Group Erbach-Berliner Wohnpark in Homburg, and the support group Pro Familia Neunkirchen.
Personal life
Spaniol is married to Saarbrücken physician and politician Andreas Pollak and has one child. Pollak was himself a member of the Landtag for the Greens from 1994 to 1999. Before Spaniol defected to The Left, Pollak also ended his political activities with the Greens.
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Novo is a Portuguese and Galician surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Álvaro Novo (born 1978), Spanish footballer
Emanuel Novo (born 1992), Portuguese footballer
Nacho Novo (born 1979), Spanish footballer
Pelayo Novo (born 1990), Spanish footballer
Salvador Novo (1904–1974), Mexican writer and poet
Portuguese-language surnames
Galician-language surnames |
Brownkey Abdullahi is an activist and blogger who was born to Somali parents in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. She is the founder of the Brownkey Organization.
Early life
Abdullahi was born to a Somali parents, who fled the Somalia Civil War in 1991, in Dadaab refugee camp.
She started school while aged three.
Abdullahi considers herself "Dadaabbian" neither Kenyan nor Somali.
Activism
In 2013, Abdullahi started blogging, making her the first person to blog from Dadaab. Her blogging originally focused on countering negative rhetoric about Somali refugees before focusing on women's rights.
Career
Abdullahi founded the Brownkey Organization, based in Dadaab, which advocates against female genital mutilation and gender based violence. In 2017, the foundation campaigned for better living conditions and for reform to camp policy.
Awards
Abdullahi is a Akili Dada Fellow.
References
1991 births
Living people
Somalian women activists
Youth activists
Refugees
Women bloggers
Feminist bloggers
Writers of blogs about home and family
African bloggers
Somalian activists |
Pomaderris grandis, commonly known as large pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and produces white flowers from July to October. It grows in rocky gullies on the slopes of Mount Manypeaks in the Esperance Plains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia. The species was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. It is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is rare or near threatened.
References
Flora of Western Australia
grandis
Plants described in 1862
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller |
Petr Mikhaylovich Fradkov (; born 1978) is a Russian economist and banker serving as the chairman and CEO of Promsvyazbank and the general director of the .
Early life and education
Fradkov was born in 1978 in Moscow. He is the son of Mikhail Fradkov. Fradkov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 2000. In 2007, he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Kingston Business School. Fradkov completed a second MBA and a at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Career
Fradkov joined the VEB.RF in 2000 working as a deputy representative in the United States. In 2004, he was the deputy director general of the Far Eastern Shipping Company. Fradkov returned to VEB in 2007. In 2011, Fradkov became the head of EXIAR. In April 2015, Fradkov became the general director of the , a joint-stock company and subsidiary of VEB.
In 2018, Fradkov was appointed head of the Promsvyazbank (PSB) with Dmitri Pozhidaev serving as his deputy. Since 2018, Fradkov has worked to transform PSB into a bank that services the defense industry and supports state defense contracts. In his role as chairman and CEO of PSB, Fradkov has held working meetings with Vladimir Putin and participated in roundtable discussions in international forums in which he forecasts the PSB's long-term strategic plans for supporting the Russian defense industry.
In November 2020, Fradkov became lead of the Chuvash Regional Branch of SoyuzMash.
On February 22, 2022, U.S. president Joe Biden signed sanctioning Fradkov for operating or having operated in the defense and related materiel and financial services sectors of the Russian Federation economy. He was sanctioned by the British government on 24 February 2022 for his role as CEO of Promsvyazbank.
Personal life
Fradkov is married to Victoria Igorevna Fradkova. She is a lecturer in the department of international relations and the foreign policy of Russia at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. They have a daughter.
Awards and honors
Fradkov received a Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Level II.
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"It's Magic" is a 1947 song by Doris Day.
It's Magic may also refer to:
It's Magic (Abbey Lincoln album), a 1958 album by Abbey Lincoln
It's Magic (Sonny Stitt album), a Sonny Stitt album recorded in 1969 but withheld until 2005
It's Magic!, a 2014 album by Garou
"It's Magic", a song by Don Patterson from the 1966 album Goin' Down Home
"It's Magic", a song by Peter, Paul & Mary from the 2003 album In These Times
"It's Magic" (Girls Aloud song), a song by Girls Aloud from the 2005 album Chemistry
It's Magic (1948 film), a 1948 released in the U.S. as Romance on the High Seas
See also
Magic (disambiguation)
"If It's Magic" |
Mochammad Rio Agata (born November 27, 1999) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga 1 club Persela Lamongan.
Club career
Persela Lamongan
He was signed for Persela Lamongan to played in Liga 1 on 2019 season. Rio made his league debut on 10 February 2022 in a match against Persebaya Surabaya at the Ngurah Rai Stadium, Denpasar.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
External links
Rio Agata at Soccerway
Rio Agata at Liga Indonesia
1999 births
Living people
Indonesian footballers
Persela Lamongan players
Association football goalkeepers |
Rabbi Yechezkel Taub (7 October 1895 – 22 May 1986) was the Yabloner Rebbe (Grand Rabbi of Yablon, or Jablonna, Poland). Taub was a Hasidic leader in the migration from Europe to Israel in the interwar years, and a founder of Kfar Hasidim. He was a namesake and descendant of the first Rabbi Yechezkel Taub, Grand Rebbe of Kuzmir.
He lost his faith after the Holocaust, becoming a secular Los Angeles laborer and businessman, with his past identity hidden. He was later bankrupted, and began his college education at an advanced age. Eventually, he returned to Judaism, moved back to Israel, and resumed a minor role as Rebbe for the last few years of his life.
Origins
In the 18th century, Yechezkel Taub, great-great-grandfather of the subject of this article, founded a Hasidic court in Kuzmir (the Yiddish name for Kazimierz Dolny). His decendants formed many branch sects, including the musical Modzitzer group, whose Rebbes are also named Taub.
The first Yechezkel Taub's son, Dovid Tzvi Hirsch Taub, moved to Neishtot (Nowe Miasto) to start his own Kuzmir branch. In turn, his son Yosef Moshe Taub moved to Jablonna and founded the Yabloner dynasty. Yosef Moshe was succeed by his son Yaakov in Jablonna.
Yaakov Taub married Beila Gurman in 1882. They had four daughters, followed by Yechezkel, their only son. Yechezkel was born in his great-grandfather's seat in Neishtot.
Yechezkel Taub married his wife Pearl in 1915. Yaakov Taub died in 1920, leaving the Yabloner Chasidus in the hands of 24-year-old Yechezkel, who led it successfully.
Palestine
In 1924, Taub became involved with Hovevei Zion movement, under the infliuence of Rabbi Yeshaya Shapira, founder of Hapoel Hamizrachi, the religious Zionist movement. Shapira convinced Taub that an entire Hasidic sect could be moved to Palestine, and provide a base for Hasidic growth in and immigration to the Land of Israel.
Taub made plans to move everyone in stages, raising money for himself and an initial group of 90 families (some sources indicate a few hundred families) to emigrate, purchase land, and set up an a agricultural enclave. He joined forces with Rabbi Israel Hoffstein who was leading a similar emigration. WIth help from the Jewish National Fund, they purchase land in the Jezreel valley, using about 25% of the funds they had collected in Europe as a down payment for their new dairy. This constitututed the founding of Kfar Hasidim.
However, they encountered many problems over the next few years:
the Hasidic settlers had no experience in the field
many of the people were elderly or nursing mothers, and unable to work
Although Arab tenant farmers had accepted relocation money, many refused to move
unusually heavy rains and flooding ruined the fields that year, and in turn caused malaria-spreading mosquitos to proliferate
many settlers died from snake poisoning or malaria
Bedouin killed livestock and contaminated the drinking supply
money form Europe eventually dwindled
The result was a village on the brink of starvation. Taub negotiated with the Jewish National Fund. Their agreement called for the land to be turned over to the JNF, the village to be moved off the hilltop, closer to the farming valley, for crops and orchards to replace dairy farming, for expert farmers form Hapoel Hamizrachi to join the community and be given land stakes, and for unproductive members of the community to return to Poland until the enterprise could support them. In return, the JNF provides funds to sustain the people and to seed the new enterprise.
By 1938, things were beginning to turn around, but were still shaky. Some wanted to return to Poland, but there was no money to give them to purchase tickets. Simultaneously, some of the early investors wanted either land they had been promised, or their money back. Neither was possible, as the JNF had been given the land, and money was not yet available form the new enterprise. The investors were threatening him. Taub was forced to go to America to raise more funds.
United States
Taub came to America as a fundraiser for Yabloner Hasidim, and to raise money to pay back investors, but after many setbacks, his life changed. He sent his wife back to Europe when he left for America.
Fundraising and war years
Taub's niece hd a home in New York, where Taub stayed. He travelled and raised money form Zionist-friendly Orthodox communities, and from the Federation of Polish Jews in America. That organization bought 400 acres of land for Kfar Hasidim at his urging, for Jews to escape Poland to Palestine. But two months later, the Nazis invaded Poland. Taub was unable to return to Israel to effectuate the plan. Desperate to do anything to help fight the Nazis, he began working as a laborer in war-related programs.
Taub moved west and found work in San Francisco and Los Angeles shipyards. At the time, he still maintained his title of Yabloner Rebbe and was still Sabbath-observant.
New life
Reports of the annihilation of Polish Jewry caused Taub enormous distress. He had failed his Polish constituents, and sent many of the emigres back to Poland. He was also certain their remaining relatives in Kfar Hasidim blamed him for their deaths, though the Jewish National Fund had forced him to do so. Distraught, and believing he had no Hasidim left to call him Rebbe, he abandoned not only the title, but all the trappings of Orthodox Jewry.
The skills in construction and drafting that he had picked up in the shipyards were useful to start a real estate and construction business. A few of his construction and real estate partners knew of his past life, as well as some minor Hasidic personalities based in Los Angeles. They protected his confidentiality, notably even when, in the Taub's/Nagel's presence, a Hasid recalled his experience with the Yabloner Rebbe in Europe.
When he was about 70, he suffered major financial setbacks. His business empire collapsing, and not even paying property tax on his developments, he became sick and hospitalized. Some introspection prompted by sick visits from a journalist and Top Gun author Ehud Yonay, a secularized Israeli relative, caused him to decide to pursue a college degree. In 1972, upon becoming well again, he enrolled in San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University Northridge (CSUN). He gained some public notoriety as the septuagenarian living in a dormitory with typical college kids. He earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology in 1975. He completed a Master's dissertation in 1978, a book about his counseling of recovering drug addicts, named Paradise Cove—They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Return
Upon completion of his graduate degree, he reluctantly agreed to take a trip to Israel, fearful of his reception by those who knew his past. His family quietly planned a grand reunion (without his knowledge) of his religious and pioneer followers and their families, both Hasidic and secular, welcoming him back. He agreed to move back permanently, but shuttled between Kfar Hasidim and Los Angeles regularly until 1981, settling his affairs. He also restarted Jewish religious practices, relieved that his Israeli followers viewed him as their savior form the Nazis, rather than the sealer of the fait of his lost European followers that had consumed him previously.
Upon his permanent return, he resumed his role as Yabloner Rebbe, serving quietly in that capacity in Kfar Hasidim for the last few years of his life.
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1986 deaths
Polish emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
20th-century rabbis
Polish Zionists |
Jill Jennifer McCluskey is an American economist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Sustainability and Director of the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University.
Early life and education
McCluskey completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics and Political Science in 1989 at the University of California, Santa Barbara before completing her Master's degree in economics at Georgetown University. Following this, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for her Master of Science degree and PhD in agricultural and resource economics.
Career
Following her PhD, McCluskey joined the faculty at Washington State University in 1998. During her early tenure, she taught industrial organization and microeconomic theory including the economics of food quality and labeling, firm incentives, and consumer perceptions and behavior. Outside of the institution, she served as director of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) from 2005 to 2008 and Chaired the Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section. In 2010, McCluskey became the principal investigator on a study aimed at researching partner accommodation policies on recruitment, retention, and promotion of female faculty at WSU. Later, she was appointed chair of graduate studies in the WSU School of Economic Sciences before being elected president of the AAEA from 2014 to 2017. Once concluding her term as AAEA president, McCluskey was named a Fellow of the AAEA for her research, teaching, service, and leadership.
Following her election to AAEA Fellow, McCluskey joined the National Academy of Science’s Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources to provide advice on requests and inquiries from Congress, federal, and state agencies and identify frontiers of science and policy in the food, agricultural, and natural resources system. She was also recognized by WSU for her "ground-breaking research in economic incentives, product quality and reputation, consumer acceptance of technology, and women in STEM fields" by being named a University Regents Professor, the highest honor bestowed onto faculty. McCluskey then became the first female Director of WSU's School of Economic Sciences by replacing outgoing director H. Alan Love in 2019. At the same time, she was elected a Fellow of the Western Agricultural Economics Association and named an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
In 2021, McCluskey was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her contributions to research and leadership in the areas of food labeling, food quality, and product reputation.
Personal life
McCluskey is married to Matt, a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at WSU. After their daughter was murdered at the University of Utah, they established a non-profit organization to fund research and education programs centered around making college campuses safer.
Selected publications
Modern Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy: Essays in Honor of Gordon C. Rausser
New Technology and Conflicting Information: Assessing Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for New Foods
The Economics of Reputation
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Jam on Hawthorne is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Description
Jam on Hawthorne is a restaurant in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood. Carrie Uffindell of Eater Portland has described the restaurant as an "adored, no-frills café". The interior features a play area for children. Breakfast is served daily, with gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options available. Belgian waffle toppings include berries, Nutella, and whipped cream. The restaurant is named after its jams, which are made on site. According to the website's Michelle DeVona, "this cheerful, art-decked restaurant is a Portland favorite for its well-portioned breakfast scrambles and sandwiches, in addition to its extensive boozy brunch menu complete with mimosa buckets". Joy Church of Eater Portland described Jam on Hawthorne as a "Portland staple" and wrote, "This large, bustling cafe sticks to a classic recipe for grilled cheese sandwich, using Portland French's sourdough with Block and Barrel cheese. A slightly sweet, ultra-smooth tomato soup topped with basil comes on the side." Eater's Waz Wu described the cafe as a "brunch stalwart, satisfying both vegan and omnivores" and wrote:
The Portland Mercury Jenni Moore described Jam on Hawthorne as a "vegan- and omnivore-friendly breakfast joint" with a "diverse selection of mimosa flavors" and a "flexible mimosa menu".
History
Jam on Hawthorne operates in a space which previously housed Cafe Lena. Jam on Hawthorne is owned by Gordon Feighner and Katie Prevost, who also own Cricket Cafe. In 2011, the restaurant expanded next door into a space which had housed a bar, and announced plans to start serving dinner. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the restaurant received a permit from the Portland Bureau of Transportation's (PBOT) Healthy Businesses Program to serve on sidewalks and streets temporarily. Jam on Hawthorne used a plaza on Southeast 23rd and also operated via take-out during the pandemic.
Reception
Jam on Hawthorne has been included in multiple Eater Portland lists, including Carrie Uffindell's 2017 overview of the city's "most worthy" waffles, Michelle DeVona's 2018 list of recommended eateries in Hawthorne, Joy Church's 2019 overview of "where to find super-nostalgic grilled cheese and tomato soup in Portland", and Waz Wu's 2021 list of the city's "hottest spots for vegan brunch right now". In 2019, Michael Russell included Jam on Hawthorne in The Oregonian 2019 "ultimate guide to Portland's 40 best brunches". Jenni Moore included Jam on Hawthorne in the Portland Mercury 2020 list of "five excellent brunch spots where the mimosas are at least plentiful, strong, and multifarious".
In 2017, Willamette Week readers ranked Jam on Hawthorne third and runner-up in the Best Brunch Spot and Best Omelet categories in an annual readers' poll. For the same poll in 2017, readers named Jam on Hawthorne a winner and runner-up in the Best Mimosa and Best Brunch Spot categories. The newspaper said in 2019, "The lines may be long, but the wait is worth it. Serving solid brunch classics, Jam's go-to meal is the two-egg breakfast, a couple mimosas, and full immersion into a Sex in the City gal brunch fantasy." The 2020 readers' poll saw locals rank Jam on Hawthorne a winner in the Best Brunch Spot category.
References
External links
Jam on Hawthorne at Zomato
Buckman, Portland, Oregon
Restaurants in Portland, Oregon |
Trick Bag is a 1976 album by the Meters.
Trick Bag may also refer to:
"Trick Bag", an Earl King single covered on the aforementioned album and for which it is named
"Trick Bag", a song by Don Patterson from the 1966 album Goin' Down Home
See also
Bag of Tricks |
2015 Fotokol attack may refer to:
Fotokol bombings
Fotokol massacre |
George Andrew may refer to:
George Andrew (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer
George Andrew (Scottish footballer), centre-back
See also
George Andrews (disambiguation) |
The Federation of Construction and Woodworkers (, FECOMA) was a trade union representing workers in the building and woodworking industries in Spain.
The union was founded in 1984, when the National Federation of Construction merged with the National Federation of Wood. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Workers' Commissions. By 1994, it had 44,581 members. In 2014, it merged with the Federation of Private Services, to form the Federation of Construction and Services.
References
Building and construction trade unions
Trade unions established in 1984
Trade unions disestablished in 2014
Trade unions in Spain |
Ruivo is a Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Catarina Ruivo (born 1971), Portuguese film director
Mário Ruivo (1927–2017), Portuguese scientist and politician
See also
Cabo Ruivo (Lisbon Metro), metro station in Lisbon, Portugal
Pico Ruivo, mountain in Madeira, Portugal
Portuguese-language surnames |
Tourtia is the name given by geologists to the first Cenomanian clay-sand conglomeratic deposits in Wallonia.
Those deposits are generally composed of a matrix of grey or blackish clay more or less sandy, bearing various pebbles from the Paleozoic and Albian fossils undergoing taphonomic reworking.
The Tourtia from Tournai, also called sarrasin de Bellignies or sarrasin de Bettrechies, is a glauconitic marl bearing paleozoic pebbles.
References
Paleontology in Belgium
Geology of Belgium
Geologic formations of Belgium |
George Alcorn may refer to:
George Edward Alcorn Jr. (born 1940), American physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor
George Oscar Alcorn (1850–1930), Canadian lawyer and politician |
Ben Holmes (born October 15, 1995) is an American professional football quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL). He played college football at Nevada.
Holmes attended Orchard Park High School, where he initially played wide receiver and won the state title in 2011. He then switched to quarterback and took the Quakers back to the state final. Holmes attended prep school in Texas and enrolled at Nassau Community College. He transferred to Tarleton State and led the Texans to a 23-2 record in two seasons in Division II. As a senior, Holmes threw for 34 touchdowns and three interceptions. He made 196 completions for 3,338 yards and rushed for 59 yards on 32 attempts with a touchdown.
Holmes played for the Arizona Rattlers in the Indoor Football League and for the Sea Lions in the Spring League. He was drafted 4th overall in the 2022 USFL Draft.
References
External links
Tarleton State Texans bio
1995 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Arizona Rattlers players
Tarleton State Texans football players
People from Orchard Park, New York
The Spring League players |
Little Duck may refer to:
Little Duck Creek (South Hyco Creek tributary)
Little Duck Key, an island of the Florida Keys
Little Duck Organics, a food industry company
Little Duck River, a tributary of the larger Duck River in Tennessee, US
"Little Duck", a song by Don Patterson from the 1966 album Goin' Down Home
The protagonists of the children's song "Five Little Ducks"
Little Duck, a film by electronic musician James Murphy
Adina, a fictional character and the "little duck" to which the title Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack refers
See also
Little White Duck (disambiguation) |
Nate Grimes (born May 1, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for BG Göttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for the Fresno State Bulldogs.
Early life and high school career
Grimes began his high school career at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a junior, he averaged 13.6 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.4 assists per game. For his senior season, Grimes transferred to Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In September 2014, he committed to play college basketball at Fresno State over offers from Boise State, Iowa, San Francisco, Utah State, Washington State and Wichita State.
College career
Grimes redshirted his freshman season. He averaged 1.7 points and 1.8 rebounds per game as a redshirt freshman. As a sophomore, Grimes averaged 4.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He averaged 11.8 points and 9.2 rebounds per game as a junior. On January 25, 2020, Grimes was suspended for conduct detrimental to the team. As a senior, he averaged 11.5 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. Grimes was named to the Third Team All-Mountain West by the media. On March 16, 2020, Grimes was arrested and charged with corporal injury to spouse/cohabitant.
Professional career
On September 24, 2020, Grimes signed his first professional contract with Kobrat of the Korisliiga. He averaged 16.7 points, 12.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. On June 30, 2021, Grimes signed with Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen of the BNXT League. He averaged 18 points, 11.9 rebounds, 1.4 steals and 1.0 block per game in eight games. On February 19, 2022, Grimes signed with BG Göttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga.
References
External links
Fresno State Bulldogs bio
1996 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
American expatriate basketball people in Finland
Basketball players from Nevada
Fresno State Bulldogs men's basketball players
Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen players
Kobrat players
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Las Vegas |
The Federation of Food Processing (, FAYT) was a trade union representing workers in the food processing sector in Spain.
The union was founded in 1977, as an affiliate of the Workers' Commissions. By 1981, it had 21,511 members, and as of 1994 its membership had grown to 31,625. In 2000, it merged with the Federation of Agriculture, to form the Federation of Agrifood.
References
Food processing trade unions
Trade unions established in 1977
Trade unions disestablished in 2016
Trade unions in Spain |
Disinformation has been distributed by governmental agencies in relation to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis.
Aims and attribution
In January 2022, aims of disinformation (misinformation intended to deliberately deceive) distributed by Russian authorities included using "wedge issues" to encourage disunity among Western countries in support for Ukraine; to counter themes promoted by the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); to create plausible deniability for human rights violations carried out by Russian forces; and to create a casus belli for further invading Ukraine.
Disinformation attributed to both Ukraine and Russia since the 2014 beginning of the Russo–Ukrainian war aimed to show the other side being involved in serious human rights violations.
Effects
In February 2022, Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat judged that the quality of Russian misinformation videos had weakened, but remained especially effective for the older generation of Russians.
Disinformation themes
Russian
Prerecording of "urgent" call to evacuate
On 18 February 2022, leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the separatist areas of Ukraine involved in the War in Donbas, broadcast what was presented as an urgent appeal for citizens to evacuate to Russia. Metadata from Telegram showed that the recordings had been uploaded two days earlier, on 16 February.
Fake assassination attempts
According to Bellingcat, a supposed bombing of a "separatist police chief" by a "Ukrainian spy", broadcast on Russian state television, showed visual evidence of the bombing of an old "green army vehicle". The old car's registration plate was that of the separatist police chief, but the same licence plate was also seen on a different, new SUV.
On 18 February 2022, LPR showed video appearing to show the removal of a car full of explosives that had been prepared for blowing up a train full of women and children evacuating to Russia. The video's metadata showed that it had been recorded on 12 June 2019.
Fake sabotage attempts
The DPR released a video on 18 February 2022 that claimed to show Poles trying to blow up a chlorine tank. The video was distributed further by Russian media. The video's metadata showed that it was created on 8 February 2022, and included a mix of different pieces of audio or video, including a 2010 YouTube video from a military firing range in Finland.
Ukrainian intelligence attributed responsibility for the video to the Russian intelligence service GRU.
Claim of genocide in Donbas
In mid February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukraine was carrying out genocide in Donbas. The Guardian interpreted the 2021 exhumation of mass graves of victims killed in 2014 during the Donbas war as being "used politically" to give a "grossly misleading" impression that genocide was occurring.
Putin has repeatedly described Ukraine, which has a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as being governed by neo-Nazis. Putin has said he wants denazification of Ukraine.
Ukrainian
Misrepresented Moscow anti-war protest
StopFake, a Ukrainian fact-checking group, showed that photos of a protest in 2014 were used by some accounts to represent a supposed "large anti-war protest" in Moscow during the 2021–2022 Russo–Ukrainian crisis. (Anti-war protests in Moscow did start on February 24, after the report.)
Snake Island sailors
On February 24th 2022, the Ukrainian government claimed that 13 sailors were asked to surrender by Russian sailors, and responded "fuck you", leading to the Russian sailors executing the Ukrainian sailors. In reality, the 82 sailors defending the island surrendered immediately and were proven to be alive on February 28th. The Russian government announced they would soon release the sailors because they had pledged to not take arms up against Russia again. Readpassage noted that Canadian news outlets went with the Ukrainian government's incorrect version of events over the Russian government's correct version of events, which was released hours before.
Responses
The United States Department of State and the European External Action Service of the European Union (EU) published guides aimed to respond to Russian misinformation. Twitter paused all ad campaigns in Ukraine and Russia in an attempt to curb misinformation spread by ads.
References
Misinformation
Fake news
Pseudohistory
Russo-Ukrainian War
Propaganda by war
2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis |
The Federation of Agriculture (, FECAMPO) was a trade union representing workers in agricultural sector in Spain.
The union was founded in 1977, as an affiliate of the Workers' Commissions. By 1981, it had 15,689 members, and as of 1994 its membership had grown slightly, to 17,899. In 2000, it merged with the Federation of Food Processing, to form the Federation of Agrifood.
References
Agriculture and forestry trade unions
Trade unions established in 1977
Trade unions disestablished in 2016
Trade unions in Spain |
Frep the Fox (フレップ・ザ・フォックス) is the official mascot of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He is an anthropomorphic Ezo red fox, an animal native to the northern Japan area, where the island of Hokkaido is. He has the number 179 after the number of municipalities in Hokkaido. He also has his own Instagram account.
History
He was announced on March 21, 2016, on a news article on the Fighters' website. 4 days later, on the 25th, he made his first appearance. For his first 2 seasons as a mascot of the Fighters, he was a "mascot apprentice" under the then-main mascot of the Fighters, Brisky the Bear. In his 3rd season in 2018, he became main mascot. This was announced during a Fighters fan festival in December 2017 at the Sapporo Dome by Brisky himself.
Fictional backstory
According to the Fighters' website on a news article announcing his unveiling (and a video released on the Fighters' YouTube channel), Frep was born in the hill ranges of Hokkaido. He was known for being mischievous. When he grew up, he went on a solo trip in Hokkaido. His trip ended him up in Sapporo. He began exploring the sights of the big city, then saw the Sapporo Dome (the Fighters' home stadium) and was immediately impressed, and he dreamed of playing an active role there. He then took up some odd jobs, including working at a Lawson, but seeing that the Fighters were bascially everywhere, this made him want to join the team even more. So, one day, he confronted Brisky at a Fighters practice facility. He told him, "I want to be a mascot!". But there was only one problem. Frep was a complete amateur at baseball. Brisky then told him that it was not easy being a mascot. Frep, however, did not easily give up. One day, he confronted Brisky and begged him to join the team. He agreed, and Frep became an apprentice.
Appearance
Frep is an Ezo red fox that is beige and has 7 star marks on his forehead with a tuft on fur also on the top of his head. He also wears a baseball outfit, but primarily wore a black baseball jersey from 2016 to 2017. He wears custom made shoes with the Fighters' star mark on the side. He says he "designed them himself". Previously, he wore black and white shoes from Mizuno, who makes the jersey apparel for the Fighters.
References
Japanese Baseball mascots
Nippon Professional Baseball mascots
Baseball mascots |
James W. Parkinson (September 10, 1829January 28, 1897) was an American farmer, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Calumet County during the 1880 session.
Biography
James W. Parkinson was born in Jefferson County, New York, in September 1829. He received a common school education and moved to Wisconsin in 1855. He stayed briefly in Shebyogan, before settling at Brothertown, in Calumet County, in 1856.
He served as town clerk and superintendent of the local schools, and was justice of the peace for 26 years. He served as chairman of the town board for 23 years, and was chairman of the Calumet County board of supervisors for the last 20 years of his life.
In 1892, he was elected to another term in the Assembly, and served in the 1893–1894 session.
He died at his home in Brothertown, in January 1897.
Electoral history
Wisconsin Assembly (1879)
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 4, 1879
Wisconsin Assembly (1892)
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 8, 1892
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External links
1829 births
1897 deaths
People from Jefferson County, New York
People from Brothertown, Wisconsin
Farmers from Wisconsin
Wisconsin Democrats
County supervisors in Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
19th-century American politicians |
W. Joe Pack (1875 – November 13, 1939) was a Mississippi lawyer and judge who served on the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1928.
Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Pack read law to gain admission to the bar. He worked in private practice in Laurel, Mississippi, and served as a county attorney.
In January 1928, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice John B. Holden died, and that same month Governor Dennis Murphree appointed Pack to the seat. Pack ran for the seat in a special election later that year, and won the first round of primary election voting on August 21, 1928, but was defeated in the run-off election on September 11, 1928, by Chancellor Virgil A. Griffith. The following year, Pack was elected as a state circuit judge for Jones County, Perry County, and Forrest County.
Pack died from a sudden stroke during the first year of his third term on the circuit court.
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1875 births
1939 deaths
People from Lauderdale County, Mississippi
U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law
Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court |
Antipterna homopasta is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1932 as Periallactis homopasta. The species epithet, homopasta, derives from the Greek, όμοπαστος ("uniformly sprinkled"). The male holotype for Periallactis homopasta was collected at Crows Nest in Queensland.
References
Further reading
Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1932
Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner |
Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road is a continuous road route in the Scenic Rim and Logan City regions of Queensland, Australia. Part of the road is signed as State Route 90 and the rest as State Route 92. Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road (number 203) is a state-controlled road, part district and part regional.
Route Description
The Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road commences at an intersection with the Beaudesert–Nerang Road (State Route 90) in , a locality north-east of .
The road runs north-east through Birnam as State Route 90. It follows the north bank of the Albert River, passing through and crossing the river into . It passes the exit to Mundoolun Connection Road (State Route 90) and becomes State Route 92. It reaches Tamborine village where it crosses State Route 95, Tamborine Mountain Road to the south-east and Waterford-Tamborine Road to the north-west.
The road continues north-east along the river, through Tamborine, Cedar Creek and , before crossing to the north of the river in . It next runs between and , then between and . Finally it passes and reaches , where it ends at an intersection with Beenleigh Connection Road (State Route 94).
Land use along the road is primarily rural until it reaches Bannockburn, where it becomes largely residential.
State Route 92
Prior to the closure of the northern end of James Street as part of the Beenleigh Town Square development, State Route 92 continued north-east on James Street and then north on City Road to the Pacific Motorway. It now follows Beenleigh Connection Road north and east to the Pacific Motorway.
Road condition
Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road is fully sealed. It has about with an incline greater than 5% and about greater than 10%.
History
Nindooinbah pastoral run was established as a sheep station in the area around where Beaudesert now stands about 1842, and the town was settled in 1847. By the early 1880s the town had become the commercial centre for the surrounding district, and had a stagecoach connection to Brisbane. The first school opened in 1882, and 125 town lots were offered for sale in 1885. In 1888 the railway line arrived and the first church was built.
Tabragalba pastoral run was established in 1843 and Mundoolun in 1842. From 1863 to 1872 Mundoolun was a stop on a mail coach run between Casino and Brisbane. Tamborine was settled by the early 1870s, with a school and a church opening in that decade. A timber mill was established in Cedar Creek in 1864, and the locality had farms, a school and a church by the early 1870s. Belivah opened its first church in 1872 and a school in 1874. Mount Warren Park was the site of a sugar cane plantation in 1865.
Sugar cane was grown in Beenleigh in the 1860s, with a sugar mill opening in 1867. The town was surveyed in 1866 and a post office opened in 1867. Schools, churches, and subdivision of land for residences and small farms soon followed. By the 1880s Beenleigh was the commercial centre for the surrounding areas. The railway line arrived in 1885.
The first roads along the Albert River valley were cut to provide access to the pastoral runs and new settlements for wheeled vehicles. With the growth of closer settlement and small farms came the need for better roads and bridges to ensure reliable access to markets.
Major intersections
All distances are from Google Maps.
See also
List of road routes in Queensland
List of numbered roads in Queensland
Notes
References
Roads in Queensland |
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