Michael Sidney Timpson (born February 26, 1970 in Mountain View, California) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Early life and education

Timpson was born and grew up in Silicon Valley, California at the height of the computer age.  Although still regularly frequenting that area, he has also lived in Los Angeles, Upstate New York, Michigan, Kansas, Memphis, England, and Taiwan.  Most recently he resided in Tampa, Florida before moving to Seoul, Korea in August 2010.

A child of the multicultural era in Northern California, he was intrigued with Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian, and Oceanic traditional music in his formative years; seeds that would eventually bear a lasting impact on his musical style. In recent years, with his research on Chinese instruments, he has become a doubler/improviser on various Chinese wind instruments, such as suona, guanzi, yamudi, dizi, xiao, chiba, xun, koudi, bawu, hulusi, sheng, hulusheng and other related instruments from Asia and the Middle East.

He earned a BM at the University of Southern California, an MA at the Eastman School of Music, and a DMA at the University of Michigan; his notable teachers include Samuel Adler, William Albright, William Bolcom, Morten Lauridsen and Joseph Schwantner.

Career

Although clearly a composer of the concert art-music genre, his definitive style combines elements of European, American, and Asian musical sources.  His music is written for nearly every medium, including orchestral, chamber, band, percussion, electronic, vocal, and even non-western instruments.  His two most well-known and performed compositions are Chasin' Bill for Chinese silk and bamboo ensemble and CRUSH for soprano saxophone and Chinese Guzheng.

The nature of his music is eclectic, stemming from maximalism to minimalism, modernism to postmodernism, and fluidly combines tonality and atonality.

His musical beginnings were borne out of playing baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, often manipulating the latter instrument with guitar pedals; he was also co-founder of the group Jazz on the line with fellow saxophonists Rent Romus (Aaron Repke) and Dan Magay.  This led to a strong interest in American improvisational forms, especially Cool Jazz, Progressive Bebop, Free Jazz, and non-commercially oriented Jazz Fusion.  He would later evolve incorporations and influences of funk, new wave, heavy metal, new jack swing, electronica, trip hop, and shibuya-kei into his music.

He has recently been appointed as Associate Professor of Music Composition at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.  He is a former faculty member in the same fields at University of South Florida, University of Kansas and Rhodes College and in 2009, was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar (Humanities) in Taipei, Taiwan to write a book on orchestration for Chinese instruments.  A musical style that merges American jazz and pop, Asian traditions and the European avant-garde, his compositions have been featured throughout the United States, France, Czech, Ukraine, Canada, Japan, and Taiwan. Timpson won the ASCAP Grant for Young Composers, the BMI Student Composers Award, the DownBeat Magazine award for extended composition, and was twice nominated for the American Academy of Arts and Letters composition award.  He also won the Brian M. Israel Prize (The Society for New Music and the New York Federation of Music Clubs), the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award, National Federation of Music Club's Youse competition, second places at the Music From China International Competition and in NACUSA (National Association of Composers of The United States of America)'s composition competition, very highly commended in England's Kathryn Thomas Flute Competition, and honorable mention at the National Federation of Music Club's Beyer competition.
His compositions appear on Albany/Capstone, CRS, NACUSA, and ERM recording labels, and have been published by World-Wide-Music. Three of his works were recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic and a fourth by the Chinese National Film Orchestra. His works were premiered in Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Taiwan National Concert Hall, and his orchestral compositions were premiered by The Florida Orchestra and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Timpson's works have also appeared on radio shows throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe.  His music is published by HoneyRock Music and American Composers Editions.

References

 Michael Sidney Timson page at Chinesezheng.com (archive from 11 October 2008, accessed 28 January 2018).
 http://mysite.verizon.net/resquw01
 https://web.archive.org/web/20100621190822/http://music.arts.usf.edu/bio_timpson.html
 http://www.myspace.com/michaeltimpson

American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
1970 births
Academic staff of Ewha Womans University
Pupils of Samuel Adler (composer)
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni
21st-century American male musicians

Michael Sidney Timpson


Atto Ayippey Mensah (born 1964) is a Ghanaian-born Sierra Leonean football coach and former player. He lives in the Netherlands and holds both Sierra Leonean and Dutch citizenship.

He came to Sierra Leone in 1980 and played for East End Lions and won the championship in 1980 and 1985. Mensah gained Sierra Leonean citizenship in 1987.

Mensah made his international debut for Sierra Leone in the 1988 African Cup of Nations qualification competition in a 2-0 victory over Nigeria in July 1987. He made 6 caps before moving to the Netherlands in 1989. There he had a trial at Sparta Rotterdam and played in the amateur ranks ending at ASV Arsenal. He got his UEFA B-licence in the Netherlands and worked as a youth coach. He is currently head coach of amateur-side ASV Arsenal in Amsterdam.

Mensah was appointed by the Ministry of Sport in September 2014, replacing the Northern Irish manager Johnny McKinstry in the role of manager of the Sierra Leone national football team for the remaining 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches. He was replaced by John Ajina Sesay, who was appointed by the Sierra Leone Football Association in October 2014.

References

Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sierra Leonean men's footballers
Sierra Leone men's international footballers
Sierra Leonean football managers
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1964 births
Men's association football players not categorized by position

Atto Mensah


Methona confusa (giant glasswing) is a species of clearwinged butterfly in the order Lepidoptera and in the family Nymphalidae. It can be found in some Central and South American countries in regions with forests and mountains.

Taxonomy
M. confusa is in the order Lepidoptera and in the family Nymphalidae. The subfamily is Danainae while it is still not certain where the genus, Methona fits within the Ithomiini tribe.  There are 4 subspecies of M. confusa.  Two of the subspecies are Methona confusa confusa and Methona confusa psamathe.

Description
Methona confusa has a wingspan of about 11 cm. The wings do not have nanostructures and thus are transparent and reflective. It has black margins and black cross-bars on the forewings and the hindwings. Small white spots are present along the margin of the wing on the underside of the wing while there are also white spots on the abdomen and the thorax. Antennae are black with a yellow tip. M. confusa display Mullerian mimicry and Batesian mimicry through their wings.

Life cycle and behavior
To develop from an egg to an adult, it takes M. confusa about 45 days. The white eggs are found in clusters on the bottom side of Brunfelsia (Solanaceae).  Some species of Methona could be monophagous.  M. confusa and M. curvifascia have similar larval appearances. M. confusa has 12 stripes on the body while M. curvifascia has 11. M. confusa as an instar has dark brown and yellow stripes transversely across the body. As a pupa, it has a black cremaster and the wing pads have a black and gold color a couple days before emerging as an adult.  This pupa stage lasts around 12 days.

For mating, males will copulate with the female in two sequences. The male would grab onto the female where they would fall to the ground. In the second sequence, the male would leap onto the female while flying.

M. confusa has also been known to display gregarious behavior as larvae and summit congregation behavior.

Distribution
This species can be found in Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, and Colombia. Specifically, M. confusa can be found in the Amazon basin. The population of M. confusa has been declining which could be due to the predation during the larval stage from ants and birds. During the pupal stage, they are impacted by parasitoid wasps (Eulophidae) and fungi.

Habitat
This species is often found in montane forests and mountains such as the Andes with elevations as high as 3,500 meters.  Unideal habitats that they have been found in are wet grasslands/punas.

References

Ithomiini
Fauna of Brazil
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1873
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler

Methona confusa


Elwyn Thomas (July 5, 1894 – February 15, 1971) was a Florida judge, and a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from 1938 to 1969.

Early life
Elwyn Thomas was born in Eldred, Florida, a small community in St. Lucie County, Florida named after his mother's family, on July 5, 1894, to Hal S. Thomas and Julia E. Thomas. He attended Stetson University College of Law in DeLand, Florida where he received his LL.B degree in 1915.

Career
He was admitted to law practice in Florida the same year. He began his practice in DeLand and later moved to Fort Pierce. In 1917, he became the prosecuting attorney for St. Lucie County, Florida. Two years later, he served as the City Attorney for both Vero Beach (1919–1923) and Fort Pierce (1919–1925). On June 14, 1924, he married Eva Banes. In 1925, he became the 21st Circuit Court Judge for St. Lucie County, a position he held for ten years.

From 1935–1936, he was the president of the Fort Pierce/St. Lucie County Chamber of Commerce. From 1935 to 1938, he also served as Senior Judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit. In 1938, he was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court as an associate justice and he served on Florida's high court for 31 years until 1969. From 1947 to 1949 and from 1959 to 1961, he served as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Stetson University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1951.

Justice Thomas was instrumental in creation of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, lobbying for their establishment in 1957.

Organizations/affiliations
Florida Bar Association
Freemasonry
past Master of Ft. Pierce Lodge No. 87
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
Member, David Brewer Chapter, since April 2, 1915
District Justice, 1954
Supreme Vice Justice, 1954-1956
Supreme Justice, 1956-1958
Chair, Supreme Advisory Board, 1958-1960
Rotary Club of Tallahassee
Sigma Nu fraternity
Vero Beach Yacht Club
charter member, 1926

Footnotes

External links
Florida Supreme Court page on listing justices of the court

1894 births
1971 deaths
Justices of the Florida Supreme Court
Stetson University College of Law alumni
20th-century American judges

Elwyn Thomas


The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.  Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858. The dinosaur was later named Hadrosaurus foulkii by Joseph Leidy. The site, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994, is now a small park known as "Hadrosaurus Park" and is accessed at the eastern end of Maple Avenue in northern Haddonfield.

History
William Parker Foulke, an attorney and amateur paleontologist affiliated with Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, was vacationing in Haddonfield in 1858, when he was alerted to the discovery in 1838 of large bones on the farm of Joseph Hopkins.  Hopkins and farm workers had been quarrying marl when they uncovered bones resembling vertebrae.  Foulke proceeded to direct a careful excavation in the area surrounding Hopkins' marl pit, turning the finds over to Dr. Joseph Leidy for analysis. Foulke unearthed 35 of an estimated 80 bones from the Hadrosaurus, which is believed to have been herbivorous, 7 meters in length, and weigh 2.5 tons.  It lived during the Cretaceous period, 73 million years ago.  Leidy published an analysis in 1865, and oversaw the creation of a reconstructed skeleton of the creature found in 1868.  This reconstruction, put on public display at the Academy, brought the find a wider public audience.

The site lingered in obscurity until 1984 when a local Boy Scout from Troop 65, Christopher Brees, as part of an Eagle Scout project researched the site and generated publicity, eventually leading to the species being designated the official dinosaur of New Jersey.

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places listings in Camden County, New Jersey

References

External links
NJ page on discovery
Site Visit plus maps

Haddonfield, New Jersey
National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey
Cretaceous paleontological sites of North America
National Register of Historic Places in Camden County, New Jersey
Paleontology in New Jersey
Natural history of New Jersey
Parks in Camden County, New Jersey
1838 in paleontology
1994 in paleontology
Fossil parks in the United States
Dinosaur fossils

Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site


Edmond Antoine Anne Tapissier (14 June 1861, Lyon – 27 April 1943, Treignac) was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and tapestry designer.

Biography
His father was a silk merchant. He first studied in Lyon under . He then went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Colarossi, followed by the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where he studied with Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand Cormon. While there, in 1902, he married Jeanne Bonin (1880-1952), from Treignac.

In 1908, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français and was awarded a bronze medal. He held a major exhibition at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925.

He created numerous illustrations for children's books; notably , famous for its pioneering use of dialogue balloons, but now racially offensive. It was published in 1908 under the pseudonym "Rose Candide". He also illustrated fables by Charles Perrault and produced caricatures for Le Petit Journal during World War I.

An avid traveller, he visited Russia, Italy, Greece, the Middle East and Turkey. He became an official painter for the Navy in 1918, and was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1927. In addition to his paintings and drawings, he created tapestry designs for The Beauvais Manufactory and the Manufacture des Gobelins, as well as decorating some churches and town halls.

A number of his works may be seen at the Château-Musée de Nemours.

References

Further reading
 Anne Tapissier, Edmond Tapissier,  Edition Riccobono, Draquignan, 1972

External links

Biographical notes @ Aurorae Libri
More works by Tapissier @ ArtNet

1861 births
1943 deaths
19th-century French painters
French genre painters
French illustrators
French lithographers
French tapestry artists
Artists from Lyon
20th-century French painters

Edmond Tapissier


Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 buddy comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on February 22, 2008 in the United Kingdom and in North America.

The title is inspired by a phrase that was commonly displayed on video rental cassettes in America during the medium's heyday.

Plot
In 2003 Passaic, New Jersey, Elroy Fletcher owns the declining "Be Kind Rewind" VHS rental store. Despite Fletcher's claims that jazz pianist Fats Waller was born there, the building is condemned as a slum and the officials give him 60 days to upgrade it to the required standards or they will demolish it to make way for high-end development.

Fletcher leaves on a trip with friends to memorialize Waller and visit rental store chains to research efficient and modernized ways of running one, leaving his only employee, Mike, to work alone. Before leaving, Fletcher cautions Mike to keep his conspiracy theorist friend, Jerry, away from the store. However, Mike misinterprets his warnings and is left confused.

After attempting to sabotage an electrical substation, believing its energy to be melting his brain, Jerry receives a shock which leaves him magnetized. When entering the store the next day, he inadvertently erases all its VHS tapes. Mike discovers the disaster and is further pressed when Miss Falewicz, an acquaintance of Fletcher, wants to rent Ghostbusters. To prevent her from reporting a problem to Fletcher, Mike comes up with an idea: as Miss Falewicz has never seen the movie, he proposes to recreate the film with cheap special effects, using himself and Jerry as the actors and hoping to fool her. They complete the movie just in time when another customer asks for Rush Hour 2. Mike and Jerry repeat their filming, enlisting the help of Alma, a local, for some of the parts. She later makes Jerry a remedy that demagnetizes him.

Word of mouth spreads through Miss Falewicz's nephew of the inadvertently hilarious results of Mike and Jerry's filming, and soon the store is seeing more requests for such movies. Mike, Jerry and Alma pretend the films came from Sweden to demand long wait times and higher costs for the rental ($20 instead of $1). To meet demand, they enlist the locals to help out in making the movies, using them as actors in their films. When Fletcher returns, intent on converting the store to a DVD rental outlet, he recognizes that they are making more money from the "sweded" films than from normal rentals, and joins in with the process. However, the success is put to a halt when two court bailiffs arrive, insisting the sweded films are copyright violations, and seize the store's assets and the tapes, which they destroy. Without any money to renovate the building, Fletcher gives up hope and reveals to Mike that he made up the connection of Fats Waller to the building. Fletcher is given a week to evacuate it before its demolition.

Jerry, with the help of the townspeople, convinces Fletcher and Mike to give one last hurrah and put together a documentary dedicated to the fake life of Fats Waller. They create Fats Waller Was Born Here.

On the day the building is scheduled for demolition, Fletcher invites all the locals to watch the final film and quietly reveals to Miss Falewicz that he gave the city official permission to go ahead with the demolition plans after the film ends. When Jerry accidentally breaks the store's TV screen trying to raise it for all to see, a nearby DVD store owner loans them his video projector, allowing them to show the movie on a cloth placed in the store's window. As their film ends, Fletcher, Mike and Jerry exit the store to find a larger crowd has gathered in the street to watch the film through the window, including the city official and wrecking crew, and they are applauded by the gathered crowd.

Cast

 Mos Def as Mike Coolwell
 Jack Black as Jerry McLean
 Danny Glover as Elroy Fletcher
 Mia Farrow as Miss Falewicz
 Melonie Diaz as Alma Sykes
 Arjay Smith as Manny
 Quinton Aaron as Q
 Chandler Parker as Craig
 Karolina Wydra as Gabrielle Bochenski
 P. J. Byrne as Mr. Baker
 Matt Walsh as Officer Julian
 Paul Dinello as Mr. Rooney
 Sigourney Weaver as Ms. Lawson
 Marcus Carl Franklin as Kid #1
 Jon Glaser as Video Store manager
 Marco Quevedo as Cool Library Kid
 Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Jimmy Scott and McCoy Tyner appear as Fats Waller fans in a scene cut from the theatrical release, but restored for the DVD.

"Sweded"

Films that were erased and recreated are referred to as having been sweded. These remakes are unedited with only a single take per scene. The tapes are described as having come from Sweden as an excuse for higher rental fees and longer wait times. Jerry fabricates the word "sweded" while arguing with Craig (Chandler Parker) and his gang.

In light of the theme of sweding, director Michel Gondry sweded a version of the trailer of the film, starring himself. On the official website, users can engage in sweding, which puts their faces on the VHS cover of a movie. The Be Kind Rewind YouTube channel also encourages filmmakers to create sweded versions of popular movies. A Sweded Film Festival launched in 2016 to showcase fanmade sweded films.

The theme of sweding also relates to film history, in that the collectively made remakes represent social memories of films, and memories that arise through films.

Reception

Box office
In its opening weekend, the film earned $4 million in 808 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking No. 9 at the box office, and averaging $5,013 per theater. As of September 21, 2008, the film had grossed $30.4 million worldwide—an estimated $11 million in the United States and Canada and $19 million in other territories.

Reception
Be Kind Rewind has received mixed reviews, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 65% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 128 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Slighter and less disciplined than Gondry's previous mind-benders." Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 52 out of 100, based on 35 reviews.

Writing in The New York Times, reviewer A. O. Scott called the film "inviting, undemanding and altogether wonderful" and added that "you'll want to see it again, or at least Swede it yourself."

References

External links

2008 films
American comedy films
British comedy films
2000s English-language films
2008 comedy films
Films about films
Films directed by Michel Gondry
Films set in New Jersey
Films shot in New Jersey
French comedy films
English-language French films
New Line Cinema films
Focus Features films
2000s American films
2000s French films

Be Kind Rewind


Taken is a 2008 French action thriller movie directed by Pierre Morel and produced by Luc Besson.

A 17 year old American girl goes to Paris on holiday. She is kidnapped by an Albanian gang of sex traffickers. Her father rescues her.

It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins, and Famke Janssen.

It was released on 27 February 2008 in France and on 30 January 2009 in the United States. A sequel, Taken 2, was released on 3 October 2012.

Other websites

2008 action movies
2000s action thriller movies
2008 crime thriller movies
French action movies
French crime movies
French thriller movies
Kidnapping in fiction
Movies about abduction
Movies about prostitution
Movies about revenge
Movies set in Paris
Movies set in Los Angeles
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by Pierre Morel
Albanian-language movies

Taken (movie)


Count Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski (1 January 1537 – 1 April 1567) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), Leliwa coat of arms. Son of Hetman Jan Tarnowski and Zofia née Szydłowiecka. He was married to Zofia Odrowąż since 1555, but had no issue.
He was educated in the worldly affairs at the court of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, at his father's great expense claimed Orzechowski.
He was owner of Tarnów, Wiewiórka, Przeworsk, Rożnów and Stare Sioło.
Secretary of King Sigismund II Augustus since 1554, held offices of castellan of Wojnicz, starost of Sandomierz, Stryj and Dolina. Poor health disallowed Jan Krzysztof to have a substantial career in the military, Niesiecki said: King was shoving a lesser military command to him during the Muscovy war ( Northern Seven Years' War), but his health weak due to consumption prevented him from achieving knightly deeds.'
Died prematurely, most likely to the ravages of tuberculosis, and was buried next to his father, Piotr Skarga presided over his funeral at Tarnów.
On his person ended the Tarnów line of the Tarnowski family clan.
Poet Jan Kochanowski dedicated his poem Chess to him.

References
Kasper Niesiecki,Polish Armorial'' - "Korona Polska przy złotey wolnosci starożytnemi Rycerstwa Polskiego y Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego kleynotami naywyższymi Honorami Heroicznym, Męstwem y odwagą, Wytworną Nauką a naypierwey Cnotą, nauką Pobożnością, y Swiątobliwością ozdobiona Potomnym zaś wiekom na zaszczyt y nieśmiertelną sławę Pamiętnych w tey Oyczyźnie Synow podana TOM ... Przez X. Kaspra Niesieckego Societatis Jesu", Lwów (Lviv), 1738, vol 9, p 42.
Stanisław Orzechowski, Żywot i śmierć Jana Tarnowskiego (written 1561), Franciszek Bohomolec ed., Radom 1830. p. 62-100.

1537 births
1567 deaths
Counts of Poland
Polish Roman Catholics
Jan Krzysztof

Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski


Marlik is an ancient site near Roudbar in Gilan, in northern Iran. Marlik, also known as Cheragh-Ali Tepe is located in the valley of Gohar Rud (gem river), a tributary of Sepid Rud in Gilan Province in Northern Iran, Marlik.  Marlik is the site of a royal cemetery, and artifacts found at this site date back to 3,000 years ago. Some of the artifacts contain amazing workmanship with gold.
Marlik is named after the Amard people.

Marlik Cup
Marlik Cup is a cup of pure gold and is 18 cm high. The height of the prominent designs of the cup reaches 2 cm.

Archaeology
The mound at Mārlik is a rocky outcrop capped by several meters of sediment. It is surrounded by olive groves and fruit gardens owned and maintained by local villagers, overlooking rice paddies on the lower slopes of the valley. The site was already partly looted by  treasure hunters and the archaeology team were hindered by local corruption

A number of tombs were found. The initial Archaeology report concluded:
"In total, fifty-three tombs were discovered at Mārlik. The tombs were dug into the overlaying sediments of the mound, sometimes hitting and penetrating into the underlying bedrock. The tomb constructions vary from roughly dug pits lined with stone to fairly well-constructed examples with walls made from stone slabs bound together with mud mortar. The stone used in the tombs is mostly local, but in some tombs one could see yellowish slabs brought from the headwaters of the Gowharrud, some 15 km to the south. A few, evidently more important, tombs are entirely made of this imported stone, a potential indication to the social significance of the occupant. The tombs range in size from fairly small (1.5x1x1 m [Tomb 4]) to relatively large (7x4.5x2.5 m [Tomb 52]). Most tombs yielded very little or no large skeletal remains, perhaps a result of natural deterioration of organic material and rodent activity. In the handful of tombs, where partial skeletal remains where preserved, the body seemed to have been laid on its side on a large, flattened slab, surrounded by grave goods."

The archaeology is generally assumed to have belonged to a  people group who spoke an Iranian language and who migrated into Iran from Central Asia in early to mid-2nd millennium BCE. The abundance of arms, horse-trappings (as well as horse burials), and spouted vessels among the grave goods has been cited as distinct Iranian signatures (Kurochkin). The exact attribution of these people, however, remains largely a conjecture.

See also
 Amardi

Gallery

References

G.N. Kurochkin, "Archeological search for the Near Eastern Aryans and the royal cemetery of Marlik in northern Iran", nnales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Series B   ISSN 0066-2011, 1993, vol. 271 (1), pp. 389–395 (10 ref.)

History of Gilan
Archaeological sites in Iran
History of Talysh
Iranian culture
Gilan Province

Marlik


Sitarganj is a city and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Now it is home to the Integrated Industrial Estate Sitarganj (IIE) being developed by State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (SIDCUL).

Geography
Sitarganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 298 metres (978 feet). The city is located between three major water reservoirs naming:- Baigul Fish Reservoir, Dhora Reservoir and Nanak Sagar Reservoir which are used mainly for fisheries.

Baigul or Sukhi is a small tributary originating from the foothills of Kumaon Himalayas which was harnessed in 1967 for irrigation and flood control purpose. Baigul has an area of 2695 ha with an elevation of 211 m from the sea-level. The drainage area of 305 km2 is fed from southwest monsoon and local catchment of wooded forest. The Plankton species in Baigul is rich comprising 17 genera of green algae, 4 genera of blue-green algae, 10 genera of desmids and 14 genera of diatoms.

Nanak Sagar Dam has been constructed on river Saryu or deoha at Nanak Matta forming Nanak Sagar which adds up to the beauty of Nanakmatta which is a nearby town to sitarganj. Length of the Dam is 19700 m and Volume of the dam is 3833 * 10³ m³. Irrigation potential of This dam is 39200 hectares, built with an estimated cost of Rs. 36.3 million.

Dhora Dam is located near dineshpur constructed on river dhora, Length of the Dam is 9700 m and Volume of the dam is 50.700 * 10³ m³. Irrigation potential of This dam is 14600 hectares, built with an estimated cost of Rs. 11.1 million.

Sitarganj comes under the Terai Agro Climatic zone of Uttarakhand. Its regional connectivity (50 – 100 km) to major towns and cities: Rudrapur, Haldwani, Bareilly, Moradabad, Rampur, Kashipur and across states (300 – 500 km) to Uttar Pradesh, Delhi.

It is near to Nainital (a hill station) and Indo-Nepalese border. Sitarganj is closer to Nanak Matta gurudwara temple which is a famous shrine and big nanak sagar dam(12 km from Sitarganj).

Coca-Cola will set up a bottling plant in Sitarganj in 70 acres of land that will be provided by the Uttarakhand government.

Demographics
 India census, Sitarganj Tehsil had a population of 148266 in which 21893 population lives in main city.. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. The SC and ST population is 14.3% and 13.1% respectively. In Sitarganj, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. India census, Sitarganj has a low proportion of primary and secondary schools than the district aggregate, but still Sitarganj has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: with male literacy of 79%, and female literacy being 66%.

Major markets
Ramleela Ground

Meena Bazaar

References

Cities and towns in Udham Singh Nagar district

Sitarganj


The 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion was a tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army active during the Second World War.

The battalion was activated at Camp Blanding on 15 December 1941, in line with the reorganisation of the anti-tank force, by redesignating the Provisional Antitank Battalion of the 43rd Infantry Division. It was later organized as a towed battalion, equipped with towed 3" anti-tank guns.

The 643rd deployed into Normandy exactly three years after it was activated, landing at Cherbourg on 15 December 1944. The following day, a major German offensive was launched in the Ardennes forest, beginning the Battle of the Bulge, and the battalion was rushed into action, arriving at the front on 22 December. One company was deployed that same evening to support an attack on Hotton by elements of Combat Command Reserve of the 3rd Armored Division. The battalion remained attached to the 3rd Armoured until 26 December, supporting it in a number of small-scale engagements.

The battalion was later briefly attached to the 82nd Airborne Division before being assigned to the 83rd Infantry Division on 2 February; it would serve with them for the remainder of the war After being re-equipped with M18 Hellcat tank destroyers in March, it pushed into central Germany with the 83rd, crossing the Elbe river before being withdrawn to take up occupation duties in the Harz Mountains at the end of the war.

Notes

References

 Tankdestroyer.net (Web based United States tank destroyer forces information resource) Tankdestroyer.net

Tank destroyer battalions of the United States Army
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
Military units and formations established in 1941

643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion


Ann-Kristin "Kikki" Danielsson (born 10 May 1952) is a Swedish country, dansband and pop singer. Sometimes, she also plays the accordion and she has also written some lyrics. She has gained notice for yodeling in some songs. Danielsson gained her largest popularity in the Nordic region from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. She also gained popularity at the US country stage during the 1980s. In 1986, she had the "Kikki i Nashville" TV show.

Life and work
Danielsson was born in Osby, Sweden, and resides in Gävleborg.

In total, she has participated nine times at the Swedish Melodifestivalen and one time at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix. She has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1982 (as a part of the Swedish pop and country group Chips with the song "Dag efter dag", finishing 8th) and in the 1985 (solo) with the song "Bra vibrationer", finishing 3rd.

Kikki Danielsson was born in Osby, but was adopted and lived on a farm in Älmhult, Småland from the age of five. There, she became the only child in the family while her younger sister was adopted to another place. As a five-year-old girl, Kikki Danielsson made her first singing performance, which occurred at the local Sunday school's Lucia party in her Småland home church, singing the Christmas song "När Jesusbarnet låg en gång". As a child, she sang in the local church choir.

As a 17-year-old girl, Kikki Danielsson begun as a singer in dansband Nickies and in 1973 she switched to another dansband, Wizex, with which she participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1978. She left Wizex in 1982, but as a member of the pop and country group Chips, she participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1980, 1981 and 1982. She has also been a popular Svensktoppen artist, with hits as the Melodifestivalen songs, but also other songs, like "Papaya Coconut" in 1987. She willingly sings country and has contributed in radio and TV shows in the US in the 1980s.

During the second half of 1984, she married Swedish musician Kjell Roos, who led the dansband Roosarna, with which she sang between 1990 and 1999. In 1985 she gave birth to their first child, a daughter. In late 1987 she released the Christmas album "Min barndoms jular". Together with Roosarna, she had many Svensktoppen hits during the 1990s. In 1994, the "dansband of the year" prize at the Grammis was awarded to Kikki Danielsson & Roosarna. In 1999 she separated from Kjell Roos. However, the musical co-operation restarted in 2003.

Kikki Danielsson has also sung at the 2001 Stockholm Pride. Together with Elisabeth Andreassen and Lotta Engberg she participated at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2002 and together they called themselves Kikki, Bettan & Lotta and had an own dinner show during the second half of 2002 and participated at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix in 2003. They also started a successful collaboration with the Swedish brand "twilfit" designing stretchy yet fashionable T-shirts.

Kikki Danielsson participated at Melodifestivalen 2006, which is the Swedish qualifications for the Eurovision Song Contest. She performed with the song "I dag & i morgon", written by Thomas G:son and Calle Kindbom, which reached the final in the Stockholm Globe Arena, where it finished at the 10th and last place. Totally, she has participated nine times at the Swedish Melodifestivalen and one time at Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix. In 2018, she participated in Melodifestivalen once again.

From 28 November to 17 December 2006, she toured Sweden with a band on the "Julstämning med Kikki" Christmas concert tour. Her periods of problems with alcohol have been a popular topic of the Scandinavian press (Danielsson first started drinking heavily to self-medicate as a result of her rheumatoid arthritis), as has her weight problem, in which she has become obese. Because of her weight problem, she appeared in Du är vad du äter, the Swedish version of "You Are What You Eat", in 2006 where she made great progress and lost several pounds.

In January 2010, it was announced that Kikki Danielsson together with Sören "Sulo" Karlsson and The Diamond Dogs would record the single Maybe I'll Do, and on 13 July 2010 she appeared at Allsång på Skansen. On 13 April 2011 she released the album Första dagen på resten av mitt liv, where she worked together with Sören "Sulo" Karlsson.

In 2012, Danielsson starred in the film Sean Banan inuti Seanafrika.

In 2017, she participated in the eighth season of Så mycket bättre (TV4).

Kikki Danielsson performed again at Melodifestivalen on 3 February 2018, this time with the song "Osby Tennessee", which ended up seventh and last in the semi-final following votings.

In February 2020, Kikki Danielsson was elected into the Melodifestivalen Hall of Fame.

Melodifestivalen, Melodi Grand Prix and Eurovision entries
Melodifestivalen 1978: Miss Decibel (with Wizex) – 2nd place
Melodifestivalen 1980: Mycke' mycke' mer (with Chips) – 4th place
Melodifestivalen 1981: God morgon (with Sweets 'n Chips) – 2nd place
Melodifestivalen 1982: Dag efter dag (with Chips) – winner
8th place at the Eurovision Song Contest 1982
Melodifestivalen 1983: Varför är kärleken röd? – 2nd place
Melodifestivalen 1985: Bra vibrationer – winner
3rd place at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Melodifestivalen 1992: En enda gång – 4th place
Melodifestivalen 2002: Vem é dé du vill ha (Kikki, Bettan & Lotta) – 3rd place
Melodi Grand Prix 2003: Din hand i min hand (Kikki, Bettan & Lotta) – 4th place
Melodifestivalen 2006: I dag & i morgon – 10th place
Melodifestivalen 2018: Osby Tennessee – semi-finalist

Solo discography

Studio albums
1979: Rock'n Yodel
1981: Just Like a Woman
1982: Kikki
1983: Singles Bar
1984: Midnight Sunshine
1985: Bra vibrationer
1986: Papaya Coconut
1987: Min barndoms jular (Christmas album)
1989: Canzone d'Amore (1989)
1991: Vägen hem till dej
1992: Jag ska aldrig lämna dig
2001: Nu är det advent (Christmas album)
2011: Första dagen på resten av mitt liv
2015: Postcard from a Painted Lady
2016: Christmas Card from a Painted Lady (Christmas album)
2017: Portrait of a Painted Lady
2022: Ängel med sorgkant

Compilation albums
1983: Varför är kärleken röd?
1984: Kikkis 15 bästa låtar
1990: På begäran
1992: In Country
1994: På begäran 2
1997: Långt bortom bergen
1999: I mitt hjärta
2001: 100% Kikki
2001: Fri - En samling
2006: I dag & i morgon
2008: Kikkis bästa
2021: Miss Decibel

Singles

References

External links

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Grammis awards of 1994, with Kikki Danielsson & Roosarna as "Dansband of the year"

Swedish accordionists
Swedish country singers
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Swedish pop singers
Yodelers
Melodifestivalen winners
Melodi Grand Prix contestants
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Sweden
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1982
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People from Osby Municipality
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Living people
20th-century Swedish women singers
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21st-century Swedish singers
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English-language singers from Sweden
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Charles Roberts Breyer (born November 3, 1941) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Breyer served as chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2018 to 2022.

Early life and career

Breyer was born in San Francisco, California. He is the younger brother of Stephen Breyer, who served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 to 2022. Breyer and his older brother Stephen were active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the Eagle Scout rank.

Breyer attended Lowell High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. He was a law clerk to Judge Oliver Carter of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1966 to 1967. He was a Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco in 1967, and was then an assistant district attorney for the City & County of San Francisco, California, from 1967 to 1973.

Breyer was an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1974, and then entered private practice in San Francisco from 1974 to 1997, interrupted by a brief stint as chief assistant district attorney of the City and County of San Francisco in 1979.

Federal judicial service
On July 24, 1997, Breyer was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by D. Lowell Jensen. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8, 1997, and received his commission on November 12, 1997. He took senior status on December 31, 2011. He served as a Member of the United States Judicial Conference from 2006 to 2010. He has served as a Member of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation since 2011. He served as Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2013 to 2016 and as a Member of the same commission since 2017.

Stephen Breyer has recused himself from appeals of cases tried by his brother, including Olympic Airways v. Husain, Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker, United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds and City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan.

Notable cases

Breyer presided over the Ed Rosenthal trial in 2007, a federal prosecution for distribution of marijuana for medical use. This case was controversial because Breyer sentenced Rosenthal, who faced a possible sentence of 100 years for growing marijuana, to just one day in prison. He also presided over the stock-options backdating trial of Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes in 2007.

In 2014, he ruled against the City of San Francisco's legislation to protect tenants from Ellis Act evictions. He presided over the 2014 criminal case involving San Francisco police theft and racist texting, in which his court order was blamed for the delay in releasing information.

Following the Volkswagen emissions scandal, Breyer had approved a $16.5 billion settlement for US consumers. Volkswagen agreed to redeem an estimated 475,000 diesel automobiles in the US.

Personal life
Breyer was married to the late Sydney Goldstein, who founded City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco in 1980 and for whom the Nourse Theater was renamed in her honor after her death in 2018.

See also
 List of Jewish American jurists

References

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1941 births
20th-century American judges
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Miss World 2021 was the 70th edition of the Miss World pageant, held at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 16 March 2022. The coronation was originally scheduled to be held on 16 December 2021 at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. However, the pageant was rescheduled to 16 March 2022 due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Puerto Rico.

At the end of the event, Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica crowned Karolina Bielawska of Poland as Miss World 2021. It is the second victory of Poland in the history of the pageant.

Contestants from 97 countries and territories competed in this year's pageant, featuring the smallest number of candidates at the pageant since 2003. The pageant was hosted by Peter Andre and Fernando Allende. Don Omar, Gente de Zona, Victor Manuel, Pedro Capó, and the Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra (Filarmónica de Puerto Rico) conducted by Angel Velez with guest conductor Mike Dixon performed in this year's pageant.

Background

Location and date

The edition was initially set at the end of 2020 but was postponed indefinitely due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. On 29 July 2020, the Miss World Organization announced that the 70th Miss World will take place at the end of 2021.

On 8 March 2021, the Miss World Organization confirmed that the competition will take place at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 16 December 2021. However, due to high demands of tickets for the final competition, the Organization announced on 2 September that the competition would be relocated to the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, the largest indoor venue in Puerto Rico.

The threat of the Omicron variant had already detected in some parts of the world during the pre-pageant activities, as the disease started to ravage and swept across the island. On 14 December Miss World Indonesia Pricilia Carla Yules tested positive for COVID-19. As a precaution, her roommate Miss World India Manasa Varanasi and five others were classified as suspected cases. Miss World Organization chairwoman Julia Morley confirmed that the delegates are currently isolated and in quarantine and that they will not be on stage for the final show if they do not produce a negative PCR test. On 15 December, Puerto Rico Department of Health confirmed that 17 positive cases for COVID-19 related to the Miss World pageant activities, includes contestants and technical personnel.

An official statement stating that Miss World Malaysia Lavanya Sivaji tested positive for COVID-19 by her national director via Miss World Malaysia Instagram on 16 December 2021. She was required to be isolated for 10 days and will not be permitted on the stage during the finals as part of Puerto Rico Department of Health and Miss World guidelines. The finale, originally slated 16 December, was later postponed and will be held on an unspecified date but within 90 days in Puerto Rico. On 16 December, epidemiologist Melissa Marzán confirmed that 15 staff and 23 contestants were positive cases associated with Miss World during the Puerto Rico Department of Health press conference. She added that pageant organizers decided to postpone, not the island's authorities.

On December 22, the Miss World Organization announced via the Miss World social media accounts that the rescheduled 70th Miss World pageant would take place on 16 March 2022 and would be held at Puerto Rico's Coca-Cola Music Hall instead of the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. Only the 40 semifinalists had returned to Puerto Rico from 9 to 11 March 2022 for the rescheduled event.

Selection of participants
Contestants from 97 countries and territories were selected to compete in the competition. Due to the pandemic, numerous national pageants were postponed or canceled entirely, resulting in multiple former runners-up from previous national pageants being appointed, or casting processes taking place instead. Eight of these delegates were designees after the original contestant withdrew or elapsed her reign.

Andrea Montero, Miss World Costa Rica 2020, was expected to represent Costa Rica at Miss World. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Montero elapsed her reign as Miss World Costa Rica, making her no longer eligible to compete. Due to this, Tamara Dal Maso was appointed as Miss World Costa Rica 2021. The same happened with Miss World America 2020 Alissa Anderegg, where she was replaced by Miss World America 2021 Shree Saini, a semi-finalist at Miss World America 2020, Miss World Japan 2020 Maria Kaneya, where she was replaced by Miss World Japan 2021 Tamaki Koshi, Miss Rwanda 2020 Nishimwe Naomie Mäckenzie, where she was replaced by Miss Rwanda 2021 Grace Ingabire, and Miss Senegal 2020 Ndeye Fatima Dione, where she was replaced by Miss Senegal 2021 Penda Sy.

Amela Agastra was appointed as the representative of Albania after Joanna Kiose, Miss World Albania 2021, withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. Lizzy Dobbe, the first runner-up of Miss World Netherlands 2020-2021, was appointed to represent the Netherlands since Dilay Willemstein, Miss World Netherlands 2020-2021, doesn't want to take the vaccine against COVID-19. Juliana Rugumisa was appointed as the representative of Tanzania after Miss Tanzania 2020/2021 Rose David Manfere breached her contract with Miss Tanzania.

On 15 December, the government of Sint Maarten officially denounced the participation of Lara Mateo at Miss World 2021 as Dutch territory representative. The current franchise holder of the Miss and Mr World license for Sint Maarten did not select Lara Mateo for her participation; they are currently under investigation by the government. Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs said the government discovered that Lara Mateo was wrong registered by Guadeloupe's franchise holder to represent Sint Maarten. The local government issued an official letter stating that they did not endorse Lara Mateo to Miss World. She added that Collectivity of Saint Martin, neither their Tourism Department nor the Culture Department, did not know or acknowledge the candidate and reassured that their winners would solely compete at Miss France.

The 2021 edition saw the debuts of Iraq and Somalia, and the returns of Belize, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Estonia, Guinea, Madagascar, Namibia, Norway, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Sint Maarten, and Uruguay. Sint Maarten last competed in 2001, Estonia last competed in 2007, Namibia last competed in 2015, Saint Lucia last competed in 2016, Cote D'Iviore, Guinea and Uruguay last competed in 2017, while the others last competed in 2018. Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, British Virgin Islands, Croatia, Cook Islands, Denmark, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Montenegro, Myanmar, New Zealand, Russia, Samoa, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Thailand, and the US Virgin Islands withdrew. Both Darya Goncharevich of Belarus and Natalija Labovic of Montenegro withdrew due to health concerns. Star Hellas 2021 Anna Pavlidou of Greece withdrew after not getting the second dose for the COVID-19 vaccine. Michelle Calderon of Guatemala, Nazerke Karmanova of Kazakhstan, and Adesha Penn of the US Virgin Islands withdrew due to undisclosed reasons.

Incidents before the pageant
On 28 February 2022, Del Valle took to Instagram to announce she would no longer be hosting the pageant's 70th edition, claiming "It is contrary to my ethics and moral principles to continue working with an organization that has acted in a defamatory, frivolous and unfair manner; solely for the purpose of causing harm." Puerto Rico with a Purpose's lawsuit against Del Valle and Del Valle's countersuit are still active.

Results

Placements

§ – Digital Media Challenge winner

Continental Queens of Beauty

Challenge Events

Head-to-Head Challenge

The contestants were officially assigned to their grouping via Miss World YouTube Channel on 24 November 2021. The winner of each group will compete at the head-to-head final in the Capitol of Puerto Rico on 9 December. The eight semi-finalists who won at the second round will automatically be part of the Top 40.

Round 1
  Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge.
  Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge, but advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice or a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
  Advanced to the Top 40 via a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
  Advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice.

Note:  wasn't assigned to any group for the Head-to-Head challenge.

Round 2
  Advanced to the Top 40 via the Head-to-Head challenge.

Talent
The finals of the Talent competition was held on 4 December 2021, and the winner was officially announced via the Miss World Facebook page on 13 December 2021. The candidate who won the challenge will be included in the Top 40 and will compete at the finale on 16 March 2022. Burte-Ujin Anu of Mongolia won the challenge.

  Advanced to the Top 40 via the Talent challenge.

Top Model
The finals of the Top Model competition was held at the T-Mobile Distrito on 6 December 2021, and the winner was officially announced via the Miss World Facebook page on 13 December 2021. The candidate who won the challenge will be included in the Top 40 and will compete at the finale on 16 March 2022. Olivia Yacé of Cote D'Ivoire won the challenge.

  Advanced to the Top 40 via the Top Model challenge.

Best Designer Dress

Sports
The Sports Challenge was initially held on 1 December 2021, but Miss Norway, Amine Storrød, had an asthma attack during the event which led to the delay the rest of the competition. The finals of the challenge was held on 10 December 2021, and the winner was officially announced via the Miss World Facebook page on 13 December 2021. The candidate who won the challenge will be included in the Top 40 and will compete at the finale on 16 March 2022. Karolina Vidales of Mexico won the challenge.

  Advanced to the Top 40 via the Sports challenge.

Multimedia
The winner of the Multimedia Challenge was officially announced via the Miss World Facebook page on 13 December 2021. The candidate who won the challenge will be included in the Top 40 and will compete at the finale on 16 March 2022. Olivia Yacé of Côte D'Ivoire won the challenge.

  Advanced to the Top 40 via the Multimedia challenge.

Beauty With a Purpose
The finalists of the Beauty With a Purpose was officially announced via the Miss World Facebook page on 13 December 2021. The six finalists were then announced as winners and are included in the Top 40 and will compete at the finale on 16 March 2022. Aside from that, a Beauty With a Purpose Ambassador Award was given during the finale to a candidate that will accompany the new Miss World with her reign.

  Advanced to the Top 40 via Beauty With a Purpose.

§ B eauty With a Purpose Ambassador Award winner

Pageant

Format
15 contestants earned their spot in the semi-finals via various challenges and the remaining 25 semi-finalists were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on 21 January 2022. There was a tie for the Top 12 placements on the coronation night, which increased the placements to Top 13 which include the Digital Media Challenge Winner. Shree Saini of United States was awarded as Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador and she will accompany the new Miss World, Karolina Bielawska of Poland during her reign.

Selection committee

 Jacqueline Aguilera – Miss World 1995 from Venezuela
 Stella Nolasco – Puerto Rican fashion designer
 Vanessa Ponce – Miss World 2018 from Mexico
 Brock Pierce – American entrepreneur and cryptocurrency tycoon
 Crystal Rose Pierce – American entrepreneur
 Vincent De Paul – American actor and model
 Julia Morley – Chairman and CEO of the Miss World Organization
 Peter Thomas Roth – CEO and founder of Peter Thomas Roth Skin Care
 Giselle Laronde – Miss World 1986 from Trinidad and Tobago
 Patrick Robinson – American fashion designer
 Mari Allende – Mexican philanthropist and television personality

Contestants

97 contestants competed for the title.

Notes

References

External links

Miss World
2021 beauty pageants
2022 beauty pageants
Beauty pageants in Puerto Rico
2021 in Puerto Rico
2022 in Puerto Rico
Events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Events affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

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The Gunnerus Library in Trondheim is the oldest scientific library in Norway and dates back to 1768 when it was the library of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS). The library is named after bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773).

The Gunnerus Library is among the most important historical libraries in Scandinavia due to its rich collection from the 18th century. It focuses especially on the academic fields of archaeology, botany and zoology, but is also a general scientific library with an extensive collections in the history of culture and sciences, as well as genealogy and local history. The library is open to the public and is mainly frequented by scientists and students from the NTNU and local historians.

The Gunnerus library is located in Trondheim's neighborhood of Kalvskinnet. It is based in the building of the DKNVS' library which dates back to 1866, and the new adjacent annexes which were later added in the years 1939 and 1975.

The library boasts a collection of photographs, maps, manuscripts and a huge holding of books dating back from the 15th century. The library also holds an extensive book collection which came from the Norwegian legal deposit and revised materials from the last one hundred years.

History

The year 1768 applies as the library's founding year because the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) hired Peter Daniel Baade as librarian. He was supposed to convey the book collection outwards. But Baade's employment was of short duration. Already after one month he got appointed as priest to Zealand in Denmark. That is the reason why Johan Ernst Gunnerus, the co-founder of the Society, became librarian, a position which he held until he died in 1773. At this time the library was located in Gunnerus' house at Dronningens gate.

According to the society's earliest statutes every new member had to pay 10 riksdaler or give two books within the same value to the library. That is how the library started to build its collection. But also testamentary inheritances were made, for example from Gerhard Schøning and Christopher Hammer.

At first the library was a research library only for members of the DKNVS but after a while it opened to the public. Until the year 1874 the collection was characterized by general science. That year brought a reform to the Society which introduced a new focus on literature. From then on the collection focused on the subjects botany, zoology, archeology and history.

The library history is closely connected with the museum, today's NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology. Both became part of the University in Trondheim in 1968.

As part of the legal deposit the library got the requisition right for Norwegian printings in 1939. With this right the library of DKNVS in Trondheim and the Bergen Museum were able to claim in each case one copy of books from Norwegian publishers. The new legal deposit law in 1989 extended this right for all university libraries, among these also the Gunnerus Library and the NTNU University Library.

Name
Since its founding the library got the name Library of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. 1984 was the year when the official name University Library in Trondheim was given.

In 1996 the Norwegian University of Science and Technology was founded. The University Library became part of it from January 1997 on. The old library of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters became a branch library and got the name Gunnerus Library.

Collection growth

References

Sources
Til Opplysning : Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim 1768–1993 (Tapir forlag, 1993)

External links
Gunnerus library's homepage
Books within the Gunnerus library

Libraries in Norway
Archives in Norway
1768 establishments in Norway
Library buildings completed in 1974
Libraries established in 1768

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The Norwegian Bandy Premier League  is the top level of bandy in Norway. National bandy champions have been named yearly since 1912, but the league was only founded in 1932.

The league consists of eight teams. After the regular league, the leading teams goes to a play-off which decides what team will be the Norwegian champion. Since 1976, the winner of the league is formally awarded the title league champion (Norwegian: seriemester), a title which however is not counted to be worth as much as the national championship title. Stabæk Idrettsforening won the final in 2016.

Structure
All the eight teams plays the other teams three times during a season. At the end of the season, each team will have played 21 matches.

The teams are ranked according to the following:

 Number of points (two for win, one for draw, nill for loss).
 The results against each other.
 Goal difference.
 Number of goals scored.

The two bottom teams play a qualification round against the two top teams in the second highest division. The two teams which win the qualification round will play in the premier league in the next season.

League Champions since 1976

Norwegian Champions

The six top teams go to play-off for the national championship. Teams 3 and 4 in the table play against team 5 or 6. The winners of these matches meet team 1 and 2 in semifinals. The winners of the semifinals meet in the national championship final.

References

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1932 establishments in Norway
Bandy
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Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds and helped evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death. For months afterward he was suspected of planting the bomb, resulting in adverse publicity that "came to symbolize the excesses of law enforcement and the news media."

Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell was soon considered a suspect by the FBI and local law enforcement based on psychological profiling. Though never charged, Jewell experienced what was described as a "trial by media", which took a toll on his personal and professional life. He was cleared as a suspect after 88 days of intense public scrutiny. In 2005, Eric Rudolph confessed and pleaded guilty to that bombing and other attacks.

Jewell's life has been the subject of popular culture, including the 2019 movie Richard Jewell and the ten-episode drama Deadly Games, the 2020 season of the anthology series Manhunt.

Early life
Jewell was born Richard White in Danville, Virginia, the son of Robert Earl White, who worked for Chevrolet, and his wife Bobi, an insurance claims coordinator. Richard's birth parents divorced when he was four. When his mother later married John Jewell, an insurance executive, his stepfather adopted him.

Olympic bombing accusation

Centennial Olympic Park was designed as the "town square" of the Olympics, and thousands of spectators had gathered for a late concert and merrymaking. Sometime after midnight on July 27, 1996, Eric Robert Rudolph, a domestic terrorist who would later bomb a lesbian nightclub and two abortion clinics, placed a green backpack containing a fragmentation-laden pipe bomb under a bench. Jewell was working as a security guard for the event. He discovered the bag and alerted Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers. This discovery was nine minutes before Rudolph telephoned 9-1-1 to deliver a warning. During a Jack Mack and the Heart Attack performance, Jewell and other security guards began clearing the immediate area so that a bomb squad could investigate the suspicious package. The bomb exploded 13 minutes later, killing one person – later identified as Alice Hawthorne – and injuring more than 100 others. A cameraman also died of heart failure while running to photograph the incident.

Investigation and the media coverage
Early news reports lauded Jewell as a hero for helping to evacuate the area after he spotted the suspicious package. Three days later, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the FBI was treating him as a possible suspect, based largely on a "lone bomber" criminal profile. For the next several weeks, the news media focused aggressively on him as the presumed culprit, describing him a "person of interest". The media, to varying degrees, described Jewell as a failed law enforcement officer who might have planted the bomb so he could "find" it and be a hero.

The New York Times reported in October 1996, when he was cleared as a suspect, that "a number of law-enforcement officials have said privately for months that they thought Mr. Jewell had been involved in the bombing, even though there was no evidence against him and some evidence seemed to rule him out".

Jewell was never charged officially, but the FBI thoroughly and publicly searched his home twice, questioned his associates, investigated his background, and maintained 24-hour surveillance of him. The scrutiny began to ease only after Jewell's attorneys hired an ex-FBI agent to administer a polygraph, which Jewell passed.

A Justice Department investigation of the FBI's conduct found that the FBI had tried to cause Jewell to waive his constitutional rights by telling him he was participating with a training movie about bomb detection, although the report concluded "no intentional violation of Mr. Jewell's civil rights and no criminal misconduct" had occurred.

Exoneration
On October 26, 1996, the US Attorney in Atlanta, Kent Alexander, sent Jewell a letter saying "based on the evidence developed to date ... Richard Jewell is not considered a target of the federal criminal investigation into the bombing on July 27, 1996, at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta". The letter did not include an apology, but in a separate statement issued by Alexander, the U.S. Justice Department regretted the leaking of the investigation.

The separately issued statement said that Jewell "endured highly unusual and intense publicity that was neither designed nor desired by the FBI, and in fact interfered with the investigation," and that "The public should bear in mind that Richard Jewell has at no time been charged with any crime in connection with the bombing, and the property that was seized pursuant to court-authorized search warrants has been returned." The New York Times reported that the statement was "highly unusual" because "it was a tacit admission by Federal officials that they had been wrong in their suspicion of Mr. Jewell".

At a press conference in July 1997, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno expressed personal regret concerning the leak that resulted in intense media scrutiny of Jewell. She said, "I'm very sorry it happened. I think we owe him an apology. I regret the leak."

In 1998, Eric Rudolph was named as a suspect in the Centennial Park bombing and the bombings of abortion clinics. He was arrested in 2003 after a lengthy manhunt. Rudolph later agreed, in April 2005, to plead guilty to the Centennial Park bombing and other attacks on an abortion clinic and a lesbian nightclub, as part of a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty.

In 2006, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue honored Jewell for his rescue efforts during the attack, and publicly thanked him for saving people's lives. Perdue said Jewell "deserves to be remembered as a hero".

Subsequent life, career and public appearances
Jewell worked in various law enforcement jobs, including as a police officer in Pendergrass, Georgia. He worked as a deputy sheriff in Meriwether County, Georgia, until his death. He also gave speeches at colleges. On July 30, 1997, Jewell testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives in which he called for an independent investigation into methods used by FBI agents during their investigation of him. He appeared in Michael Moore's 1997 movie The Big One. He had a cameo appearance in the September 27, 1997, episode of Saturday Night Live, in which he jokingly fended off suggestions that he was responsible for the deaths of Mother Teresa and Diana, Princess of Wales, both of which had occurred later that year.

Jewell married Dana Jewell in 1998; they remained married until his death. The couple relocated to a farm they bought together, south of Atlanta. In 2001, Jewell was honored as the Grand Marshal of Carmel, Indiana's Independence Day Parade. Jewell was chosen in keeping with the parade's theme of "Unsung Heroes". On each anniversary of the bombing until his illness and eventual death, he privately placed a rose at the Centennial Olympic Park scene where spectator Alice Hawthorne died.

Three FBI agents were censured afterward by the Department of Justice:
 Woody Johnson - Head of FBI Atlanta office
 David Tubbs - Head of FBI Kansas City office
 Donald Johnson

Libel cases
After he was dismissed as a suspect, Jewell filed libel suits against NBC News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, the New York Post, and Piedmont College.

Jewell sued the Atlanta Journal-Constitution because, according to Jewell, the paper's headline ("FBI suspects 'hero' guard may have planted bomb") "pretty much started the whirlwind." In one article, the Journal-Constitution compared Jewell's case to that of serial killer Wayne Williams. The newspaper was the only defendant that did not settle with Jewell. The lawsuit remained pending for several years, having been considered at one time by the Supreme Court of Georgia, and had become an important part of case law regarding whether journalists could be forced to reveal their sources. Jewell's estate continued to press the case even after his death in 2007, but in July 2011, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled for the defendant. The Court concluded that "because the articles in their entirety were substantially true at the time they were published—even though the investigators' suspicions were ultimately deemed unfounded—they cannot form the basis of a defamation action."

Although CNN settled Jewell's libel suit for an undisclosed monetary amount, CNN maintained that its coverage had been "fair and accurate".

Jewell sued NBC News for this statement made by Tom Brokaw: "The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case. They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case." Even though NBC stood by its story, the network agreed to pay Jewell $500,000. Jay Leno also apologized during a Tonight Show episode on October 28, 1996.

On July 23, 1997, Jewell sued the New York Post for $15 million in damages, contending that the paper portrayed him in articles, photographs, and an editorial cartoon as an "aberrant" person with a "bizarre employment history" who was probably guilty of the bombing. He eventually settled with the newspaper for an undisclosed amount.

Jewell filed suit against his former employer Piedmont College, its president Raymond Cleere, and college spokesman Scott Rawles. Jewell's attorneys contended that Cleere telephoned the FBI and spoke to the Atlanta newspapers, providing them with false information on Jewell and his employment there as a security guard. Jewell's lawsuit accused Cleere of describing Jewell as a "badge-wearing zealot" who "would write epic police reports for minor infractions." The college settled for an undisclosed amount.

In 2006, Jewell stated that the lawsuits were focused on vindicating his reputation rather than financial gain, highlighting that the vast majority of the settlements were allocated to legal fees and taxes.

Media portrayals
Richard Jewell, a biographical drama movie, was released in the United States on December 13, 2019. The movie was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It was written by Billy Ray, based on the 1997 article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell," by Marie Brenner, and the book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle (2019) by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen. Jewell is played by Paul Walter Hauser while Kathy Bates played mother Bobi (for which she earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination).

The 2020 season two of the television crime drama anthology series Manhunt, also known as Manhunt: Deadly Games, features the story of the Centennial Park bombing and the other bombs planted by Eric Robert Rudolph. Richard Jewell is portrayed by Cameron Britton.

Reference is made to the unjust allegations against Richard Jewell based on a psychological profile in the television series Criminal Minds (season 3, episode 1).

Death
Jewell had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 2007 and suffered kidney failure and other medical problems related to his diagnosis in the ensuing months. His wife, Dana, found him dead on the floor of their bedroom when she came home from work on August 29, 2007; he was 44 years old. An autopsy found the cause of death to be severe heart disease with diabetes and related obesity complications as a contributing factor.

See also
 Centennial Olympic Park bombing

References

Further reading

External links
 "Richard Jewell v. NBC, and other Richard Jewell cases". Libel and Slander. May 18, 2011.
 Farnsworth, Elizabeth (October 28, 1996). "Olympic Park: Another Victim". PBS NewsHour.
 All I did was my job': Decade later, pain of being called bombing suspect fresh to Richard Jewell". NBC News/Associated Press. July 27, 2006.

1962 births
2007 deaths
1996 Summer Olympics
American adoptees
American deputy sheriffs
Deaths from diabetes
Fake news in the United States
Journalistic scandals
People from Meriwether County, Georgia
Security guards

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High Point University (HPU) is a private university in High Point, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university was founded as High Point College in 1924, and it became High Point University in October 1991. HPU offers 63 undergraduate majors, 65 undergraduate minors, and 18 graduate majors. U.S. News & World Report ranks HPU #1 in Regional Colleges South.

History

In the mid-19th century, the Methodist Protestant Church, which is now part of the United Methodist Church, became active in educational pursuits in North Carolina. In 1921, after some years of consideration, the statewide governing body of the Methodist Protestant Church voted to establish a college. Shortly afterward, the church accepted an offer from the citizens of High Point to contribute  of land and $100,000 to the project, placing the new school in the city of High Point. The English Renaissance style campus was designed by R. E. Mitchell of Washington, D.C., assisted by Herbert Hunter of High Point. The school was founded in 1924 as High Point College, a joint venture between the Methodist Protestant Church and the citizens of High Point, and officially opened on September 14, 1924. When the college opened, the campus consisted of three buildings, attended by nine faculty members, with a student enrollment of 122.

The steadfast growth that characterized the birth of the college ended abruptly with the Great Depression. This period was difficult for the college in 1932–33, as faculty salaries were cut and expenses were sometimes bartered. Despite a $50,000 fund-raising campaign, the college declared bankruptcy on June 15, 1934, and reorganized in an effort to reduce its indebtedness. Subsequent reorganization enabled the college to move forward with business and renewed expansion.

On October 9, 1991, under the guidance of President Jacob C. Martinson, Jr., and the board of trustees, High Point College changed its name to High Point University to reflect post-graduate degree programs. Coinciding with the offering of graduate studies, every building on the campus was renovated and new ones were constructed with a campus quadrangle added to replace a former city street that bisected the campus, and by 2004 the university's endowment increased to $40 million. When Martinson stepped down as president in 2005, he was the longest serving United Methodist college president in the country.

In 2005, the university was 92 acres and landlocked with an undergraduate enrollment of 1,450. Its operating budget was $35 million with approximately 100 faculty members. Since Nido R. Qubein became president of High Point University in 2005 the growth of the university has had significant impact on the city, region and the state of North Carolina. Qubein is the fourth highest paid college president, paid $2.9 million a year, in the United States.

Since Qubein took office in 2005, High Point University has grown from three academic schools to 10 academic schools - the David Hayworth College of Arts and Sciences; the Phillips School of Business; the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication; the Stout School of Education; the School of Art and Design; the Wanek School of Natural Sciences; the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy; the Congdon School of Health Sciences; the Webb School of Engineering; and the School of Dental Medicine and Oral Health.

In early 2012 Businessweek reported that about $700 million in new building and campus upgrades was financed by heavy borrowing and Moody's Investors Service downgraded the school's bonds to junk status in 2009 due to the school's position as one of the most heavily leveraged colleges in the country. The U.S. Department of Education's "financial responsibility" score for the 2012 and 2013 fiscal year has High Point University scoring the highest possible score of 3, putting the university ahead of Elon University, Duke University, and Davidson College. Businessweek responded by inviting the school to make financial documents available to support any challenges to the article's accuracy, but none were offered in response. In addition to questioning debt levels, Businessweek challenged whether the school's relationships with its lenders and vendors were at an appropriate arm's length, citing in particular that the school spends large amounts on marketing with a public relations firm headed by Qubein's daughter. The college's claims to a growing reputation in higher education were challenged as based more on high-end student amenities and marketing strategy than on academics.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac of April 19, 2016, noted that Qubein was the third highest-donor university president in the country from 2006 to 2016. He committed $10 million to High Point University. Donations from alumni, parents and supporters of HPU total about $214 million since 2006. In 2010, the university announced plans to invest about $2.1 billion in overall growth in the next decade. To date, HPU has spent $1.2 billion on four new schools plus facilities, faculty and student services.

Ashley Furniture Industries Chairman Ron Wanek donated $10 million to HPU in 2013 after visiting Qubein. Wanek's gift to the university is the tenth contribution of $10 million or more that Qubein has received during his tenure.

In April 2016, HPU announced plans to invest $160 million in new building projects including a 5,000-seat arena and conference center, undergraduate science center and residence hall. The Caine Conservatory opened in the spring of 2020 to support botanical research and the growth of HPU's arboretum and gardens. The facility also includes HPU's newest eatery, the Butterfly Café. The following year, the $170 million Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center, and the adjoining Jana and Ken Kahn Hotel, opened. It is home to HPU's men's and women's basketball teams, as well as a venue for major events, speakers, concerts, entertainment, academic symposia and recreational activities.

In June 2023 the university was placed on Warning status by its educational accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, after the accreditor's board found significant non-compliance with its standards of student support, student outcome, and disclosure of accreditation status.

Location
Together, Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem, along with the surrounding suburbs and townships, form the Piedmont Triad region, an area with a population over 1.5 million. Of that number, approximately 108,285 live in High Point. Both Greensboro and Winston-Salem are 20 minutes from campus. East of the university are Raleigh (1 hours away) and the Atlantic Ocean (3 hours away); south are Charlotte (1 hours away) and Atlanta, Georgia (5 hours away); west are the Appalachian Mountains (2 hours away); and north is Washington, D.C. (5 hours away).

Academics

High Point University has a student-to-faculty ratio of 17:1. The average freshman retention rate is 81%.

HPU offers 61 undergraduate degree programs (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science), 65 undergraduate minors, and 14 graduate degree programs (Master of Arts, Master of Education, Master of Public Administration, Master of Business Administration, Master of Science, Master of Physician Assistant Studies, Doctor of Pharmacy, and Doctor of Physical Therapy).

Rankings
For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked HPU #1 in Regional Colleges South and, for Regional Colleges South, #19 in Best Value Schools and #1 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. HPU has been named to "The Best 387 Colleges: 2022 Edition" by The Princeton Review and on the Best Southeastern Colleges "2022 Best Colleges: Region by Region" list.

Schools
High Point University has ten schools: School of Dental Medicine and Oral Health; Congdon School of Health Sciences; Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy; Webb School of Engineering; Wanek School of Health Sciences; Nido R. Qubein School of Communication; David R. Hayworth School of Arts and Design; Earl N. Phillips School of Business; School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences; School of Education.

Student life
High Point University is a residential campus, with 19 residence halls in total. In 2019, The Princeton Review ranked High Point University #5 in the nation for Best College Dorm Rooms. All High Point University students are required to reside on campus until senior year, unless they commute from their parent's permanent address.

Greek life

There are currently 17 Greek organizations on campus.

Honor societies

There are numerous honor societies at High Point.

Notable alumni
 Cody Allen - Former Major League Baseball pitcher. Drafted in the 23rd Round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft
 Dick Culler – Former Major League Baseball player
 Austin Dillon – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion, 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion
 Donna Fargo – Grammy Award winning country music singer/songwriter
 John Gillespie -   Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
 Issa Konare – PBL Basketball player for the Vermont Frost Heaves and plays for Senegal's national team
 Gene Littles – Former ABA basketball player and NBA coach
 Jack Lucas – Youngest United States Marine Corps veteran to receive the Medal of Honor
 Robert R. Merhige, Jr. - federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia who is known for his ruling on desegregation in the 1970s.
 Jonathan Miller - West Virginia House of Delegates
 Taylor Milne – Canadian Olympian in the 1500 metres and 3000 metre steeplechase
 Nido R. Qubein - Seventh president of High Point University, businessman, motivational speaker, author
 Arizona Reid – Professional basketball player in the Israeli National League
 Andre Scrubb - Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros
 Jaime Schultz - Baseball player
 Tubby Smith –  College basketball coach and assistant coach of the 2000 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team
 Kevin West - Actor

Notable faculty
 Francisco Laguna Correa - writer, ethnographer, cultural critic, teacher
 Tubby Smith - college basketball coach and assistant coach of the 2000 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team

Athletics

The High Point Panthers include HPU's 16 athletic teams that compete at the NCAA Division I level, mostly in the Big South Conference. HPU's 16 varsity sports are baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's indoor track & field, men's and women's outdoor track & field and women's volleyball. In recent years, HPU has won nine Big South Conference Championships, produced 10 Conference Players of the Year; and more than 130 HPU athletes have received Big South All-Academic Honors.

In the spring of 2021, the Division I athletic department won 13 of 16 possible conference championships. Led by a 2nd round appearance by the men's soccer team in the NCAA Tournament. Just two seasons later the feat was accomplished again with a 2-0 first round win against North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Prior to the Spring of 2021, the 2010-2011 season was the most successful since High Point University joined NCAA Division I in 1999–2000. In the fall, the women's soccer team and women's volleyball team won Big South Tournaments and the men's soccer team won the Big South regular season. In the spring, the women's lacrosse team won the National Lacrosse Conference tournament and set a record for wins by a first-year program, with 15.

The 2010-2011 women's lacrosse team success led to other accomplishments in 2013. Women's lacrosse assistant coach Lauren Norris was selected to coach the 2013 Israel National Lacrosse Team in the 2013 FIL Women's World Cup.

In the fourth round of the 2013 Major League Soccer (MLS) Supplemental Draft, the Columbus Crew picked High Point University senior midfielder Shawn Sloan.

In 2016, Christine Rickert of the High Point University women's track and field team qualified to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Rickert placed 12th in the javelin throw, just nine places away from a spot on the Olympic Team. She remains the Big South Conference Record Holder in javelin with a throw of 52.47m (172–2 ft).

High Point University also fields the following sports at the club level: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rowing, running, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, women's field hockey, softball, ultimate frisbee, equestrian and ice hockey.

In the fall of 2013, the High Point University field hockey team qualified for the national tournament in Virginia Beach with a 6-2-0 season. The club equestrian team is a member of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA).

Donations to High Point University's Athletic Department have exceeded $30 million. The primary athletics facilities at High Point University are the Qubein Center (basketball), Millis Center (volleyball), Williard Stadium (baseball), and the Witcher Athletic Center at Vert Stadium (track, soccer, lacrosse).

At the beginning of 2017, High Point University announced plans for a new basketball arena and conference center to be built on campus. The facility will be named for High Point University president, Dr. Nido R. Qubein, and his wife, Mariana Qubein. Construction on the Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center began in 2018; the facility was originally projected to open in 2020, but construction was delayed due to COVID-19 issues. The facility opened in late September 2021, with the first basketball game to be played on November 4. The Qubein Center includes 4,500 arena seats, 2,500 conference center seats. It was also announced in early 2017 that the basketball court in the new arena was named after High Point men's head coach and High Point University alumnus Tubby Smith. Smith and his wife, Donna, donated $1 million to the construction of the new facility.

In spring 2018, HPU announced the hire of hiring of Hall of Famer and NCAA Championship Winning coach Orlando 'Tubby' Smith as the Panthers' head coach for men's basketball. Smith, who becomes the 12th head men's basketball coach in HPU history, joins the Panthers after serving as the head coach at Memphis for two seasons.

Dan Hauser has served as the HPU athletic director since 2014.

Publications and media
 High Point University Magazine, for alumni
 The Apogee, the literary magazine
 Black Script
 Hi-Po, a monthly publication by students for fellow students
 Zenith, yearbook
 HPU Vision, on-campus broadcast club
 HPU Sports Link, broadcasts HPU athletics live online

Sechrest Gallery
A permanent collection of original works donated to the university by High Point Alumnus Darrell L. Sechrest. Among others, the permanent collection includes works by Christian Dietrich, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allesandro Gherardini, El Greco, George Harvey, Emile Louis Picault, Elsie Popkin, and Antonio Zucchi and Angelica Kauffman. The gallery is housed within the Hayworth Fine Arts Center.

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Peter Baumann (born 1960 in Rosenheim) is a German computer scientist and professor at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University, Bremen, Germany, where he is head of the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Academic positions

Baumann is professor of Computer Science at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University, Bremen, Germany and founder and CEO of rasdaman GmbH.

He is inventor and Principal Architect of the rasdaman Array DBMS, the historically first complete implementation of what today is called a "Big Data Analytics" server for large, multi-dimensional arrays.
He has authored and co-authored 100+ book chapters and papers on array (aka raster) databases and further fields, and has given tutorials on raster databases worldwide.

Baumann is active in several bodies concerned with scientific data access and use:
 chair, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics (ESI)
 board member, United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UNGGIM) Private Sector Network
 member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC); functions:
 chair, Coverages Standards Working Group and Big Data Domain Working Group
 editor of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards suite
 editor, ISO TC211 19123-1 and 19123-3
 founding member and chair, CODATA Germany
 Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Charter Member

Academic career

Baumann obtained a degree in Computer Science (1987) from Technical University of Munich, a doctorate (1993) in computer Science from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt while working with Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
He has pursued post-doctoral activities in both industry and academia,
working for Softlab Group in Munich (now Cirquent)
and as Assistant Head of the Knowledge Bases Research Group of FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) / Technical University of Munich where he was deputy to Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D.
Among Baumann's entrepreneurial activities was founding of the spin-off company rasdaman GmbH for commercialization of the world's first multi-dimensional array database system.
In August 2004 he was appointed as Professor of Computer Science at Constructor (formerly: Jacobs) University.

Awards and patents

(source: Peter Baumann's homepage)

 DIN Innovator Award 2019
 DatSci Data Science Technology Innovation of the Year, finalist 2019
 TechConnect World Innovation Award 2019
 NATO Defence Innovation Challenge award goes to rasdaman as the only product in the Data Science category 2018
 Copernicus Masters Competition 2014: Winner, Big Data Challenge
 Open Geospatial Consortium Kenneth Gardels Award 2014
 Geospatial World Forum Innovation Award 2013
 Innovationspreis Mittelstand 2012, category: Best of Open Source
 European IT Prize 1998
 Jos Schepens Memorial Award 1998
 Innovation Prize of the Bavarian State Government 1998
 Founders Competition Multimedia 1998, German Association of Engineers / Electrical Engineering - IT

Baumann holds international patents on array databases.

Research interests

Baumann's current research interests include scalable database and Web service support for large, multi-dimensional arrays, including algebraic modeling, query language, query optimization, system architecture, and applications such as earth sciences and life sciences. As part of this research, standardization of geo raster services is being addressed. As such, it is related to dimensional databases, however with a distinct focus on spatio-temporal, multi-dimensional raster graphics data, rather than business data.

Much of his concrete work is implemented and benchmarked in the framework of the rasdaman array DBMS.

Bibliography

See for a complete bibliography
 Peter Baumann Web Coverage Processing Service Implementation Specification version 1.0.0, OGC Best Practice Paper, doc no. 07-157.
 Peter Baumann Large-Scale Raster Services: A Case for Databases, Invited keynote, 3rd Intl Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems (CoMoGIS), Tucson, USA, 6–9 November 2006. In: John Roddick et al. (eds): Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice, 2006, pp. 75 – 84.
 Peter Baumann A Database Array Algebra for Spatio-Temporal Data and Beyond, 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS '99), July 5–7, 1999, Zikhron Yaakov, Israel, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 1649, Springer Verlag, pp. 76 – 93.
 Peter Baumann On the Management of Multidimensional Discrete Data, VLDB Journal 4(3)1994, Special Issue on Spatial Database Systems, pp. 401–444.

References

External links
 Homepage

1960 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Academic staff of Jacobs University Bremen
People from Rosenheim
Technical University of Munich alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni

Peter Baumann (computer scientist)