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Award Description: The Alabama Department of Education received funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to absorb/pay cost associated with the increased distribution of USDA foods donated for use in The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Such costs include (but are not limited to) storage, transportation, handling, processing and distribution of such foods: as well as costs associated with determining and verifying beneficiary eligibility, record keeping, auditing, and other administrative procedures required for program participation. To date, the Alabama Department of Education has provided all $400,093 in ARRA administrative funds to 4 Alabama Food Banks that administer the local level emergency food system network/program which provides administrative support for the increase in persons seeking assistance due to recent economic conditions.
Project Description: During the current reporting period, Alabama Department of Education and its 4 subrecipients used TEFAP administrative funds provided through ARRA to transport, handle, store, process, TEFAP foods in preparation for ultimate distribution to program participants, which include persons living in households with incomes below the poverty level and the unemployed. No funds were used to administer the program at the State-level; 100% of the ARRA administrative funds were distributed to support the local emergency food network organizations, such as sub-distributing organizations (SDOs), food pantries and soup kitchens.
Jobs Summary: The Alabama State Department of Education, its sub-recipients, and their vendors have hired and/or retained, 4 administrative support staff. By hiring and retaining these employees, the Alabama State Department of Education, its sub-recipients, and their vendors have not only provided employment to 4 FTEs during these difficult economic times, but helped ensure taht TEFAP food has been distributed int he most effective manner possible. (Total jobs reported: 4)
Project Status: Completed
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Food Bank of N Alabama | $71,831 | HUNTSVILLE | AL |
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Bay Area Food Bank | $74,256 | THEODORE | AL |
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Riga Rīga |
City | |||
A view from St. Peter's Church in Riga Old Town. |
Location of Riga within Latvia |
Coordinates: 56°56′56″N 24°6′23″E / 56.94889°N 24.10639°ECoordinates: 56°56′56″N 24°6′23″E / 56.94889°N 24.10639°E | |||
Country | Latvia | ||
Government[1] | |||
• Type | City council | ||
• Mayor | Nils Ušakovs | ||
Area(2002) [2] | |||
• City | 304 km2 (117 sq mi) | ||
• Water | 48.50 km2 (18.73 sq mi) 15.8% | ||
• Metro | 10,133 km2 (3,912 sq mi) | ||
Population (2013) [3] | |||
• City | 693,064 | ||
• Density | 2,300/km2 (5,900/sq mi) | ||
• Metro | 1,018,295 (Riga Region) | ||
• Metro density | 101.4/km2 (263/sq mi) | ||
• Demonym | Rīdzinieki | ||
Ethnicity(2012) [4] | |||
• Latvians | 44.6 % | ||
• Russians | 39.1 % | ||
• Belarusians | 4.1 % | ||
• Ukrainians | 3.7 % | ||
• Poles | 1.9 % | ||
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
Calling codes | 66 & 67 | ||
Website | www.riga.lv |
Riga (/ˈriːɡə/; Latvian: Rīga, pronounced [ˈriːɡa] ( )) is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 693,064 inhabitants (January 2014), Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states and home to more than one third of Latvia's population.[5] The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltic Sea region.[citation needed] The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies between 1 and 10 metres (3.3 and 32.8 ft) above sea level,[6] on a flat and sandy plain.[6]
Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture.[7] The city is the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. The city hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 and the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Riga is served by Riga International Airport, the largest airport in the Baltic states.
Riga is a member of Eurocities,[8] the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC)[9] and Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU).[10]
One theory for the origin of the name Riga is that it is a corrupted borrowing from the Liv ringa meaning loop, referring to the ancient natural harbour formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava River.[11][12] The other is that Riga owes its name to this already-established role in commerce between East and West,[13] as a borrowing of the Latvian rija, for threshing barn, the "j" becoming a "g" in German—notably, Riga is called Rie by English geographer Richard Hakluyt (1589),[14][15] and German historian Dionysius Fabricius (1610) confirms the origin of Riga from rija.[14][16] Another theory could be that Riga was named after Riege, the German name for the River Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava.[17]
The river Daugava has been a trade route since antiquity, part of the Vikings' Dvina-Dnieper navigation route to Byzantium.[14] A sheltered natural harbour 15 km (9.3 mi) upriver from the mouth of the Daugava—the site of today's Riga—has been recorded, as Duna Urbs, as early as the 2nd century.[14] It was settled by the Livs, an ancient Finnic tribe.[11]
Riga began to develop as a centre of Viking trade during the early Middle Ages.[14] Riga's inhabitants occupied themselves mainly with fishing, animal husbandry, and trading, later developing crafts (in bone, wood, amber, and iron).[14]
The Livonian Chronicle of Henry testifies to Riga having long been a trading centre by the 12th century, referring to it as portus antiquus (ancient port), and describes dwellings and warehouses used to store mostly corn, flax, and hides.[14] German traders began visiting Riga, establishing a nearby outpost in 1158.
Along with German traders also arrived the monk Meinhard of Segeberg[13] to convert the Livonian pagans to Christianity. (Catholic and Orthodox Christianity had already arrived in Latvia more than a century earlier, and many Latvians baptised)[13][14] Meinhard settled among the Livs, building a castle and church at Ikšķile, upstream from Riga, and established his bishopric there.[13] The Livs, however, continued to practice paganism and Meinhard died in Ikšķile in 1196, having failed his mission.[18] In 1198 the Bishop Bertold arrived with a contingent of crusaders[18] and commenced a campaign of forced Christianization.[13][14] Bertold was killed soon afterwards and his forces defeated.[18]
The Church mobilised to avenge. Pope Innocent III issued a bull declaring a crusade against the Livonians.[18] Bishop Albert was proclaimed Bishop of Livonia by his uncle Hartwig of Uthlede, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg in 1199. Albert landed in Riga in 1200[14][18] with 23 ships[19] and 500 Westphalian crusaders.[20] In 1201 he transferred the seat of the Livonian bishopric from Ikšķile to Riga, extorting agreement to do so from the elders of Riga by force.[14]
Under Bishop Albert[edit]
The year 1201 also marked the first arrival of German merchants in Novgorod, via the Dvina.[21] To defend territory[22] and trade, Albert established the Order of Livonian Brothers of the Sword in 1202, open to nobles and merchants.[21]
Christianization of the Livs continued. In 1207 Albert started on fortification of the town.[21][23] Emperor Philip invested Albert with Livonia as a fief[24] and principality of the Holy Roman Empire.[14] To promote a permanent military presence, territorial ownership was divided between the Church and the Order, with the Church taking Riga and two-thirds of all lands conquered and granting the Order a third.[25] Until then, it had been customary for crusaders to serve for a year and then return home.[25]
Albert had ensured Riga's commercial future by obtaining papal bulls which decreed that all German merchants had to carry on their Baltic trade through Riga.[25] In 1211, Riga minted its first coinage,[14] and Albert laid the cornerstone for the Riga Dom.[26] Riga was not yet secure as an alliance of tribes failed to take Riga.[25] In 1212, Albert led a campaign to compel Polotsk to grant German merchants free river passage.[21] Polotsk conceded Kukenois (Koknese) and Jersika to Albert, also ending the Livs' tribute to Polotsk.[27]
Riga's merchant citizenry chafed and sought greater autonomy from the Church. In 1221 they acquired the right to independently self-administer Riga.[22] and adopted a city constitution[28]
That same year Albert was compelled to recognise Danish rule over lands they had conquered in Estonia and Livonia.[29] Albert had sought the aid of King Valdemar of Denmark to protect Riga and Livonian lands against Liv insurrection when reinforcements could not reach Riga. The Danes landed in Livonia, built a fortress at Reval (Tallinn), and set about conquering Estonian and Livonian lands. The Germans attempted, but failed, to assassinate Valdemar.[30] Albert was able to reach an accommodation a year later, however, and in 1222 Valdemar returned all Livonian lands and possessions to Albert's control.[31]
Albert's difficulties with Riga's citizenry continued; with papal intervention, a settlement was reached in 1225 whereby they no longer had to pay tax to the Bishop of Riga,[32] and Riga's citizens acquired the right to elect their magistrates and town councilors.[32] In 1226, Albert consecrated the Dom Cathedral,[14] built St. James's Church,[14] (now a cathedral) and founding a parochial school at the Church of St. George.[13]
In 1227, Albert conquered Oesel [33] and the city of Riga concluded a treaty with the Principality of Smolensk giving Polotsk to Riga.[34]
Albert died in January 1229.[35] He failed his aspiration to be anointed archbishop[24] but the German hegemony he established over the Baltics would last for seven centuries.[25]
Hanseatic League[edit]
In 1282 Riga became a member of the Hanseatic League. The Hansa was instrumental in giving Riga economic and political stability, thus providing the city with a strong foundation which endured the political conflagrations that were to come, down to modern times.
Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Swedish and Russian Empires[edit]
As the influence of the Hanseatic League waned, Riga became the object of foreign military, political, religious and economic aspirations. Riga accepted the Reformation in 1522, ending the power of the archbishops. In 1524, a venerated statue of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral was denounced as a witch, and given a trial by water in the Daugava River. The statue floated, so it was denounced as a witch and burnt at Kubsberg.[36] With the demise of the Livonian Order during the Livonian War, Riga for twenty years had the status of a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire before it came under the influence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Treaty of Drohiczyn, which ended the war for Riga in 1581. In 1621, during the Polish–Swedish War (1621–1625), Riga and the outlying fortress of Daugavgriva came under the rule of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, who intervened in the Thirty Years' War not only for political and economic gain but also in favour of German Lutheran Protestantism. During the Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658), Riga withstood a siege by Russian forces.
Riga remained the largest city in Sweden until 1710,[citation needed] a period during which the city retained a great deal of autonomous self-government. In that year, in the course of the Great Northern War, Russia under Tsar Peter the Great besieged plague-stricken Riga. Along with the other Livonian towns and gentry, Riga capitulated to Russia, but largely retained their privileges. Riga was made the capital of the Governorate of Riga (later: Livonia). Sweden's northern dominance had ended, and Russia's emergence as the strongest Northern power was formalised through the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. Riga became an industrialised port city of the Russian empire, in which it remained until World War I. By 1900, Riga was the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg in terms of the number of industrial workers and number of theatres.[citation needed]
During these many centuries of war and changes of power in the Baltic, and despite demographic changes, the Baltic Germans in Riga had maintained a dominant position. By 1867 Riga's population was 42.9% German.[37] Riga employed German as its official language of administration until the installation of Russian in 1891 as the official language in the Baltic provinces, as part of the policy of Russification of the non-Russian speaking territories of the Russian Empire, including Congress Poland, Finland and the Baltics, undertaken by Tsar Alexander III. More and more Latvians started moving to the city during the mid-19th century. The rise of a Latvian bourgeoisie made Riga a centre of the Latvian National Awakening with the founding of the Riga Latvian Association in 1868 and the organisation of the first national song festival in 1873. The nationalist movement of the Young Latvians was followed by the socialist New Current during the city's rapid industrialisation, culminating in the 1905 Revolution led by the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party.
Interwar period[edit]
The 20th century brought World War I and the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 to Riga. The German army marched into Riga on 3 September 1917.[38] On 3 March 1918 the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, giving the Baltic countries to Germany. Because of the Armistice with Germany of 11 November 1918, Germany had to renounce that treaty, as did Russia, leaving Latvia and the other Baltic States in a position to claim independence. Latvia, with Riga as its capital city, thus declared its independence on 18 November 1918. Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe. The United Kingdom and Germany replaced Russia as Latvia's major trade partners.
World War II and the Soviet Union[edit]
During World War II Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940 and then was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941–1944. The city's Jewish community was forced into the Riga Ghetto and a concentration camp was constructed in Kaiserwald. On 25 October 1941, the Nazis relocated all Jews from Riga and the vicinity to the ghetto. By 1942, most of Latvia's Jews (about 24,000) were killed on 30 November and 8 December 1941 in the Rumbula massacre.[39] By the end of the war the Baltic Germans were forcibly repatriated to Germany.
The Soviet Red Army re-entered Riga on 13 October 1944. In the following years the massive influx of labourers, administrators, military personnel and their dependents from Russia and other Soviet republics started. Microdistricts of the large multi-storied housing blocks were built to house local workers. By 1989 the percentage of Latvians in Riga had fallen to 36.5%.[40]
21st century[edit]
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In 2004, the arrival of low-cost airlines resulted in cheaper flights from other European cities such as London and Berlin and consequently a substantial increase in numbers of tourists.[41]
Historic Centre of Riga | |
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List | |
The Old Town of Riga is one of many World Heritage Sites in Europe
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | i, ii |
Reference | 852 |
UNESCO region | Europe and North America |
Administrative divisions[edit]
- Central District (3 km2 or 1.2 sq mi)
- Kurzeme District (79 km2 or 31 sq mi)
- Zemgale Suburb (41 km2 or 16 sq mi)
- Northern District (77 km2 or 30 sq mi)
- Vidzeme Suburb (57 km2 or 22 sq mi)
- Latgale Suburb (50 km2 or 19 sq mi)
Riga's administrative divisions consist of six administrative entities: Central, Kurzeme and Northern Districts and the Latgale, Vidzeme and Zemgale Suburbs. Three entities were established on 1 September 1941, and the other three were established in October 1969.[42] There are no official lower level administrative units, but the Riga City Council Development Agency is working on a plan, which officially makes Riga consist of 58 neighbourhoods.[43] The current names were confirmed on 28 December 1990.[44]
The climate of Riga is humid continental (Köppen Dfb). The coldest months are January and February, when the average temperature is −5 °C (23 °F) but temperatures as low as −20 °C (−4 °F) to −25 °C (−13 °F) can be observed almost every year on the coldest days. The proximity of the sea causes frequent autumn rains and fogs. Continuous snow cover may last eighty days. The summers in Riga are warm and humid with the average temperature of 18 °C (64 °F), while the temperature on the hottest days can exceed 30 °C (86 °F).
Climate data for Riga | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) |
13.5 (56.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
25.3 (77.5) |
30.1 (86.2) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
31.8 (89.2) |
29.3 (84.7) |
23.4 (74.1) |
17.2 (63) |
11.5 (52.7) |
33.6 (92.5) |
Average high °C (°F) | −2.3 (27.9) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
2.7 (36.9) |
9.8 (49.6) |
16.2 (61.2) |
20.1 (68.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
16.3 (61.3) |
10.4 (50.7) |
3.9 (39) |
0.3 (32.5) |
9.9 (49.8) |
Average low °C (°F) | −7.8 (18) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
1.0 (33.8) |
5.9 (42.6) |
10.0 (50) |
12.3 (54.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
8.0 (46.4) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
2.3 (36.2) |
Record low °C (°F) | −34.9 (−30.8) |
−33.7 (−28.7) |
−23.3 (−9.9) |
−11.1 (12) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
4.0 (39.2) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−2.8 (27) |
−8.7 (16.3) |
−18.9 (−2) |
−31.9 (−25.4) |
−34.9 (−30.8) |
Precipitation mm (inches) | 33.7 (1.327) |
27.0 (1.063) |
27.9 (1.098) |
41.1 (1.618) |
42.5 (1.673) |
59.9 (2.358) |
74.3 (2.925) |
73.1 (2.878) |
78.9 (3.106) |
60.2 (2.37) |
57.3 (2.256) |
46.0 (1.811) |
620.9 (24.445) |
Avg. precipitation days | 21.5 | 18.6 | 15.7 | 11.0 | 11.8 | 12.1 | 12.8 | 13.7 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 18.9 | 20.6 | 185.7 |
% humidity | 87.9 | 85.2 | 79.4 | 69.7 | 67.7 | 72.0 | 74.2 | 76.7 | 81.1 | 85.1 | 90.2 | 89.4 | 79.9 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 31.0 | 62.2 | 127.1 | 183.0 | 263.5 | 288.0 | 263.5 | 229.4 | 153.0 | 93.0 | 39.0 | 21.7 | 1,754.4 |
Source #1: World Meteorological Organization (avg high and low)[45] Hong Kong Observatory (sun 1961–1990)[46] | |||||||||||||
Source #2: Weatherbase (precipitation, humidity, extremes)[47] |
Riga is one of the key economic and financial centres of the Baltic States. Roughly half of all the jobs in Latvia are in Riga and the city generates more than 50% of Latvia's GDP as well as around half of Latvia's exports. Biggest exporters are in wood products, IT, food and beverage manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transport and metallurgy.[48] Riga Port is one of the largest in the Baltics. It handled a record 34 million tonns of cargo in 2011 [49] and has potential for future growth with new port developments on Krievu Sala.[50] Tourism is also a large industry in Riga and after a slowdown during the recent global economic recessions, grew 22% in 2011 alone.[51]
Riga, with its central geographic position and concentration of population, has always been the infrastructural hub of Latvia. Several national roads begin in Riga, and European route E22 crosses Riga from the east and west, while the Via Baltica crosses Riga from the south and north.
As a city situated by a river, Riga also has several bridges. The oldest standing bridge is the Railway Bridge, which is also the only railroad-carrying bridge in Riga. The Akmens Bridge connects Old Riga and Pārdaugava; the Salu Bridge connects Maskavas Forštate and Pārdaugava via Zaķusala; and the Vanšu Bridge connects Old Riga and Pārdaugava via Ķīpsala. In 2008, the first stage of the new Dienvidu Bridge route across the Daugava was completed, and was opened to traffic on 17 November.[52]
The Dienvidu Bridge is currently the biggest construction project in the Baltic states in 20 years, and it is to reduce traffic congestion in the city centre.[53][54] Another major construction project is the planned Riga Northern Transport Corridor,[55] which is scheduled to commence in 2010.
The Freeport of Riga facilitates cargo and passenger traffic by sea. Sea ferries currently connect Riga to Stockholm and Lübeck, operated respectively by Tallink and DFDS Tor Line.[56][57] The Latvian-flagged ferries MS Romantika and MS Silja Festival are located in the Riga Passenger Terminal.
Riga has one active airport that serves commercial airlines—the Riga International Airport (RIX), built in 1973. Renovation and modernization of the airport was completed in 2001, coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the city. In 2006, a new terminal extension was opened. Work on an extension of the runway was completed in October 2008, and the airport is now able to accommodate large aircraft such as the Airbus A340, Boeing 747, 757, 767 and 777. The annual number of passengers has grown from 310,000 in 1993 to over 4 million in 2009. It has now become the largest airport in the Baltic States, and there are plans to construct a new terminal to cope with increasing passenger numbers.
Riga was also home to an air base during the Cold War—Rumbula Air Base. Another airport, the Spilve Airport, is a former civilian and military airport in Riga located 5 km (3.11 mi) from Riga city centre, with active aircraft operating as early as the First World War. It became the first international airport of Riga in the 1930s, which, from 1937 linked the capital city with Helsinki via Tallinn, Warsaw via Vilnius, Berlin and Moscow via Kaunas. After World War II and the Soviet occupation, it was rebuilt into a 1950s-era airport, the hub of Aeroflot. A new ring taxiway and restored surface was added. The airport was closed for regular flights in the late 1980s. The terminal building still remains as a notable example of Stalin's neoclassical architecture.
Public transportation in the city is provided by Rīgas Satiksme which operates a large number of trams, buses and trolleybuses on an extensive network of routes across the city. In addition, many private owners operate minibus services. Riga is connected to the rest of Latvia by trains operated by the national railway company Passenger Train, whose headquarters are in Riga. There are also international rail links to Russia and plans to revive passenger railroad traffic with Estonia. Riga International Coach Terminal provides domestic and international connections by coach. Current plans envisage a trans-European rail link from Tallinn to Warsaw via Riga [58] financed by the European Union, with the first phase to be completed by 2013.[59]
The head of the city government in Riga is the mayor. Incumbent mayor Nils Ušakovs, who is a member of the Saskaņas Centrs party, took office on July 1, 2009.
The city council is a democratically elected institution and is the final decision-making authority in the city. The Council consists of 60 members who are elected every four years. The Presidium of the Riga City Council consists of the Chairman of the Riga City Council and the representatives delegated by the political parties or party blocks elected to the City Council.
With 696,618 inhabitants in January 2013,[60] Riga is the largest city in the Baltic States, though its population has decreased from just under 1 million in 1991.[3] Notable causes include emigration and low birth rates. Some have estimated that the population may fall by as much as 50% by 2050.[61] According to the 2011 census data, ethnic Latvians made up 46.33% of the population of Riga, with the percentage of ethnic Russians at 40.21%, Belarusians at 3.88%, Ukrainians at 3.45%, Poles at 1.85%, Lithuanians at 0.83% and other ethnicities at 3.46%. By comparison, 62.1% of Latvia's total population are ethnic Latvians, 26.9% are Russians, 3.3% are Belarusians, 2.2% are Ukrainians, 2.2% are Polish, 1.2% are Lithuanians and the remaining 2.1% are accounted for by other ethnicities.[62]
Upon the restoration of Latvia's independence in 1991, Soviet era immigrants (and any of their offspring born before 1991) were not automatically granted Latvian citizenship because they had migrated to the territory of Latvia during the years when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union. In 2013 citizens of Latvia made up 73.1%, non-citizens 21.9% and citizens of other countries 4.9% of the population of Riga.[63] The proportion of ethnic Latvians in Riga increased from 36.5% in 1989 to 42.4% in 2010. In contrast the percentage of Russians fell from 47.3% to 40.7% in the same time period. Latvians overtook Russians as the largest ethnic group in 2006.[4]
Notable residents[edit]
- Richard Wagner, a German composer, theatre director, polemicist
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, a Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor
- Leonids Breikss, a Latvian poet, author, and newspaper editor
- Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist
- Mikhail Eisenstein, Latvian architect
- Mikhail Tal, a Soviet-Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion
- Ivan Krylov, a Russian fabulist
- Artur Fonvizin, a Soviet painter of watercolours
- Mstislav Keldysh, a Soviet mathematician, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Rutanya Alda, a Latvian-American actress
- Ernst von Bergmann, a Baltic German surgeon, beginner of aseptic surgery
- Sir Isaiah Berlin, a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
- Andris Biedriņš, a Latvian professional basketball player
- Gunnar Birkerts, a Latvian-American architect
- Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, an Israeli basketball player
- Heinz Erhardt, a Baltic-German comedian, musician and entertainer
- Elīna Garanča, a Latvian operatic mezzo-soprano
- Laila Freivalds, former Swedish Minister for Justice, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister
- Philippe Halsman, an American portrait photographer
- Juris Hartmanis, a prominent Latvian-American computer scientist and computational theorist
- Nicolai Hartmann, a Baltic-German philosopher
- Miervaldis Jursevskis, a Latvian-Canadian chess master
- Lola Hoffmann, a physiologist, psychiatrist and guide to self-development and transformation
- Charles Kalme, an American International Master of chess and mathematician
- Gidon Kremer, a Latvian violinist and conductor
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz, an Israeli public intellectual and polymath
- DJ Lethal, an American music producer
- Ernst Munzinger, German Abwehr (Army intelligence) officer, later anti-Nazi
- Wilhelm Ostwald, a Baltic German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909
- Marian Pahars, a Latvian footballer
- Raimonds Pauls, a Latvian composer and piano player
- Kristjan Jaak Peterson, an Estonian poet
- Valentin Pikul, a Soviet historical novelist
- Tania Russof, an international porn star
- Ksenia Solo, Latvian-Canadian actress born in Riga
- Juris Upatnieks, a Latvian-American physicist and inventor in the field of holography
- Friedrich Zander, a Baltic-German engineer, designer of the first Soviet liquid-fuelled rocket
The radio and TV tower of Riga is the tallest structure in Latvia and the Baltic States, and one of the tallest in the European Union, reaching 368.5 m (1,209 ft). Riga centre also has many great examples of Art Nouveau architecture, as well as a medieval old town.
Art Nouveau[edit]
It is generally recognized that Riga has the finest and the largest collection of art nouveau buildings in the world. This is due to the fact that at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, when art nouveau was at the height of its popularity, Riga experienced an unprecedented financial and demographic boom. In the period from 1857 to 1914 its population grew from 282,000 to 558,000 making it the 4th largest city in the Russian Empire (after Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw ) and its largest port. The bourgeoisie of Riga used their wealth to build imposing apartment blocks around the former city walls. Local architects, mostly graduates of Riga Technical University, adopted current European movements, and in particular art nouveau. However, the most notable architect of Riga, Mikhail Eisenstein was an alumnus of Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. In that period around 800 art nouveau buildings were erected. The majority of them are concentrated in the central part of Riga and a few more in the Old Town.
- The Latvian National Opera was founded in 1918. The repertoire of the theatre embraces all opera masterpieces. The Latvian National Opera is famous not only for its operas, but for its ballet troupe as well.[64]
- The Latvian National Theatre was founded in 1919. The Latvian National Theatre preserves the traditions of Latvian drama school. It is one of the biggest theatres in Latvia.[1]
- The Riga Russian Theatre is the oldest professional drama theatre in Latvia, established in 1883. The repertoire of the theatre includes classical plays and experimental performances of Russian and other foreign playwrights.Riga Russian Theatre
- The Daile Theatre was opened for the first time in 1920. It is one of the most successful theatres in Latvia. This theatre is distinguished by its frequent productions of modern foreign plays.[65]
- Latvian State Puppet Theatre was founded in 1944. This theatre presents shows for children and adults.[2]
- The New Riga Theatre was opened in 1992. It has an intelligent and attractive repertoire of high quality that focused on a modern, educated and socially active audience.
World Choir Games[edit]
Riga will host the bi-annual 2014 World Choir Games from 9–19 July 2014 that coincides with the city being named European Capital of Culture for 2014.[66][67] The event, organised by the choral foundation, Interkultur, takes place at various host cities every two years and was originally known as the "Choir Olympics".[68] The event regularly sees over 15'000 choristers in over 300 choirs from over 60 nations compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in over 20 categories. The competition is further divided into a Champions Competition and an Open Competition to allow choirs from all backgrounds to enter.[66] Choral workshops and festivals are also witnessed in the host cities and are usually open to the public.[69]
Sports clubs[edit]
- Basketball
- BK VEF Rīga – a professional basketball team that is a three-time Latvian champion. VEF also participates in high-level international competition such as Eurocup
- Barons LMT – a men's basketball team, two-time Latvian champion, as well as the 2008 FIBA EuroCup winner
- TTT Riga – a women's basketball team, which between 1960 and 1982 won eighteen FIBA EuroLeague Women titles
- Ice hockey
- Dinamo Riga – a professional ice hockey club established in 2008. It plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. Dinamo was established as a successor to the former hockey team with the same name, which was founded in 1946 but ceased to exist in 1995.
- HK Riga – a junior hockey club, playing in the Minor Hockey League
- Football
- Skonto FC – a football club established in 1991. The club won fourteen successive Latvian Higher League titles. For a long time it provided the core of the Latvian national football team
- FS Metta-LU
- JFK Olimps/RFS
Sports facilities[edit]
- Arena Riga – a multi-purpose arena built in 2006 as the main venue for the 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. It can hold up to 14,500 people and has hosted ice hockey, basketball and volleyball events, as well as Red Bull X-Fighters
- Skonto Stadium – a football stadium, built in 2000. It is the main stadium used for games of the Latvian national football team
- Daugava Stadium – a stadium built in 1958, used for both football and athletics
- Latvijas Universitates Stadions
Sports events[edit]
- Eurobasket 1937
- 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships
- EuroBasket Women 2009
- 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
- Riga Marathon
- 2013 World Women's Curling Championship
- 2016 World Floorball Championships[70]
- University of Latvia (LU)
- Riga Technical University (RTU)
- Riga Stradiņš University (RSU)
- Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL)
- School of Business Administration Turiba (BAT)
- Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga)
- BA School of Business and Finance (BA)
- Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI)
Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]
Riga maintains sister city relationships with the following cities:[71]
See also[edit]
- Archbishops of Riga
- Riga City Council
- Riga Central Market
- Riga Charter, on cultural heritage conservation, adopted here in 2000
- Riga Region
- Rīgas Satiksme
- Riga Salsa Festival
- Riga Zoo
- Siege of Riga
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Off-Campus Dining: The Waffle House , IHOP , and subway are a few places I like to enjoy
Facilities: I love my HBCU , we are the oldest A- accredited college west of the Mississippi
Facilities: Campus life is the best , to experience a historical black college in its entirety makes me love my school even more
Local Atmosphere: The town of Marshall is a great place to experience away from home
Off-Campus Housing: It is very safe to live off campus near our school
Greek Life: Greek life brings life to the campus and student body.
Academics: Crinimal justice is a excellent major and the degree is attainable.
Academics: There is plenty of student support tutorials offered.
Majors: Criminal justice program is a good program to be included in. The class sizes arent to big, alot of professor-student interaction.
Off-Campus Dining: Few places to dine. Its gets repetitive.
Guys & Girls: Variety of people in one place.
Transportation: They provide provide transportation to the local walmart and thats it. The times the wiley van arrives can be more flexible and provide a wider range of destination.
Campus Dining: Campus doesn't ave variety nor space to provide adequate meals while a new café is being built.
Local Atmosphere: In a small town with limited metro transportation system.
Scholarships: I need scholarship help. I wish the school would step in and find some type of emergency funds for me to continue with my education at wiley college.
Athletics: The weight rooms are unacceptable. There are small and dont have adequate machines for fitness,the facilities dont support the notion of student body fitness.
Health & Safety: The nurse station hours should be more flexible and stay open longer than the time allowed. The campus should be more lit after dark.
Campus Strictness: Visitation is very strick,also curfew for incoming freshman.
Weather: When the weather isn't great the student body around campus isn't active.
Guys & Girls: Like I mentioned before, there are very immature people who take college as just another school, without realizing is the lat step before going out to the real world, we must gain all the knowledge possible to get a good job and to give our school great reputation as well. Those who do not take advantage of the opportunity of learning now, will regret it in the future.
Off-Campus Dining: The good thing is that you might run into someone you know, the bad is that we get bored of the same places and we just opt to organize reunions at my apartment.
Campus Housing: At least the dorms that I have lived at, they do not respect others by having very loud music, very loud conversations up to late hours in the mornings, and I have suffered and seen how RMCA/RCA have discriminated hispanics by prohibiting them from doing certain activities that other racial groups do normally. I think that is either because they want us to be better or just because they think we are "visitors" and do not want us to invade their space. African-american have me so tired with their constant thinking that because they are african-americans they should be treated much better than anybody else because of what their ancestors went through. The important thing is for us to grow as humanity and not be separated by race or ethnicity.
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| Worst Idea I've heard in along time Apparently so idiot editor thinks it;s a good idea to mix classic Star Trek and The Legion of Super-Heros. I'd be ROTFLMAO except that these clods seem serious. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/...le+Feedfetcher |
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Silent testimony: Black churches across the US combining pantomime with a Christian message
DETROIT — On stage in a church on Detroit's east side, Myra Morrison thrust her right fist down in front of her body and pulled it up slowly — as if she was yanking out her soul and delivering it to God. She was dressed in a white robe, wearing white paint on her face like a mask.
With a flip of her wrist, she glided her hand up, her furrowed brow melting into a face of bliss.
"I give myself away, so you can use me," a gospel singer sang on a recording, as the Farmington Hills, Mich., woman acted out the words to the song.
On this recent Saturday night, Morrison was part of a mime troupe performing a concert with others at Chapel Life Church. It was part of a two-day workshop of gospel mime, a growing trend in African-American Christian churches in metro Detroit and across the United States.
In Western cultures, pantomime has usually been associated with French performers and street artists. The silent art is often performed in Japanese and Indian spiritual traditions. But in recent years, the black church has taken up the art form, reinterpreting pantomime and combining it with a Christian message.
"You're bringing the word of God to life, illuminating it," explained Morrison, 47. "You're preaching with your body. It's not about entertainment. It's about ministry."
Gospel mime comes out of a history of spiritual expression that stretches back centuries in America and Africa, said Yolanda Smith, a Yale Divinity School lecturer who also performs liturgical dance.
"In African-American churches, movement has always been a part of our history, a part of our heritage," Smith said. She cited the ring shout, a form of expression that started during slavery and is rooted in Africa.
Mime is one of several ways of expression in black churches that have developed in recent years; they include liturgical dance, stepping routines, cheerleading and drill teams, Smith said. The practices are "a way of engaging young people" amid concerns that they are leaving the church.
Such activities are not strictly about performances, but are "an extension of the worship. It's intended to deepen the congregation's faith," Smith said.
In metro Detroit, there are hundreds of gospel mime artists, local performers say.
Mime artists have performed at small houses of worship as well as big Detroit churches such as Second Ebenezer Church on the city's east side and Greater Grace Temple on the west side. There was even a mime performance at the rally for Trayvon Martin at Hart Plaza in March.
Morrison's performance one Saturday night this summer was part of the Gathering of the Mimes, a two-hour gospel mime concert that featured several troupes from Detroit; the event drew more than 400 people to Chapel Life.
"I thought it was phenomenal," said Pastor Dwayne Merritt of Rhema Word Church International in Farmington Hills. "It's a great form of ministry. This is not a fad."
James Hayes, 31, of Detroit started to mime as a teenager in 1998 and was part of a group with his congregation, Second Canaan Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit. He later founded Run the Race Performing Arts Ministry.
When Hayes and others started performing mime, they faced resistance from some churches; in some cases, they still do. Merritt said some of the more conservative churches negatively associate it with African-rooted practices like voodoo.
"They would say it was demonic," Hayes said. "Back then, they didn't know. It was new, and with most things that are new, there is a fear."
Mime performances vary. They include dance numbers, short skits and stories about the life of Christ. Most, but not all, gospel mimes wear white paint on their faces, with black paint to highlight their eyebrows; they might wear white gloves, too. The dress for lead performers is often a flowing robe while back up and younger performers will wear black pants and black T-shirts.


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On Gun Hill Road Lives a Family on a Hair Trigger
Movies about transgendered Latinos are not exactly on the menu every week, so the attention paid to Gun Hill Road is understandable. It's a flawed but interesting debut by writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green, who says he based it on his own family, without further explanation. I shudder to think.
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Novell bags anti-trust appeal against Microsoft
A US appeals court has pumped fresh blood into an anti-trust lawsuit brought by Novell against Microsoft that was first filed in 2004. In a ruling yesterday, the court reversed a lower court's summary judgment that Microsoft had won last year, paving the way for Novell to take one final anti-trust stab at Redmond. Novell sued …
Never going to go anywhere
Microsoft have too much power and too much money in the US. They have senate paid off and enough money to buy their way out of any problems.
The government are scared to upset Microsoft in any way shape or form.
Won't go anywhere
Attachmate are not about to get into a spat with MS. All Attachmate wants is to streamline the new Novell and SUSE business units and get on with making money, not wasting time over something no one really cares about anymore.


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Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve
Cook County
Location and Access:
Take the US 34 (Ogden Ave.) exit off I-294 (Tri-state Tollway) go 0.75 mile on Ogden Ave. to Wolf Rd. Take Wolf Road north 1 mile to 31st St. in Westchester. The preserve is north of 31st St. and west of Wolf Road.
Wolf Road Prairie is an excellent example of the original tallgrass prairie of Illinois and is the largest prairie of its type remaining in the Chicago area. The prairie is dominated by big bluestem, little bluestem, prairie dropseed and Indian grass. Among its common forbs are smooth blue aster, sky blue aster, black-eyed Susan, nodding onion, prairie phlox, obedient plant and rattlesnake master. Uncommon prairie forbs include Indian paintbrush, bottle gentian, prairie gentian and Indian plantain. A marsh dominated by bulrush and cattail and a small savanna remnant also occur here. The savanna is dominated by bur oak with wild hyacinth, ground nut and meadow rue beneath the trees. Western chorus frog, fox snake, woodchuck, common snipe and swamp sparrow are some of the animals which occur at this preserve.
Ownership: Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Forest Preserve District of Cook County
Dedicated: September 1988
Size: 44 acres
Topo Map: Hinsdale 7.5
For Further Information Contact: Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Biologist, Silver Springs State Park, 13608 Fox Road, Yorkville, IL 60560 (708/553-1372) or Forest Preserve District of Cook County, c/o Conservation Department, 536 North Harlem Avenue, River Forest, IL 60305 (708/771-1330)


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