Birtukan Mideksa (Amharic: ብርቱካን ሚደቅሳ; born 27 April 1974) is an Ethiopian politician and former judge who has served as chairwoman of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) from 2018 to 2023. She was the founder and leader of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party from 2008 to 2010.

On 26 June 2023, Birtukan announced that she would resign from her post as NEBE chairperson effective on 7 August.

Early life and education
Birtukan Mideksa was born in Addis Ababa. She attended Miazia 23 missionary elementary school and later the Yekatit 12 secondary school also known as Etege Menen School. After graduating from high school, she attended Addis Ababa University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 2014, Birtukan received Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Administration from Harvard University. She is the mother of a daughter named Haale Mideksa who was born in 2005.

Professional career
Birtukan started her career as an associate judge. Later she was appointed to be a judge at the 3rd district court of the federal first instant court. In July 2002, she presided over a high-profile case of a former top-ranking official of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and former Minister of Defense Siye Abraha, who was accused of corruption. She set the defendant free on bail, and was surprised minutes later when federal authorities arrested Siye while he was walking out of the court accompanied by his family and friends. Following the re-arrest of Siye, Birtukan received threats and intimidation from government security officials. She then resigned from the federal court and started an independent Law firm. She worked as a lawyer from late 2003 to 2005.

Political career
Birtukan decided to join a political party to help bring about change, including recognition of the rule of law, and full respect for the implementation of the constitution. She joined the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice Party, and later Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD). In the election of 2005, her party won over a third of the seats. Party members believed they would have won even more seats if not for voting and counting irregularities. After the election, the governing party started to round up opposition party leaders including Birtukan, who was convicted of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order and was sentenced to life in prison. She was pardoned in 2007 after lengthy negotiations and after she, along with other leaders of the opposition, spent 18 months in prison.

Birtukan later founded the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) with the same principles that guided CUD. The need for having the new party name came from the fact that the ruling party's election commission was awarded to a splinter group from CUD (aka Kinijit). Birtukan was elected to be a chairwoman of the UDJ, which has the goal of bringing about change in Ethiopia by peaceful means.

On 28 December 2008, Birtukan was re-arrested. Her 2007 pardon was revoked and she was sentenced to life in prison. Human Rights Watch called the arrest politically motivated. The Ethiopian government claimed that her pardon had been conditional on "an apology for her crimes," and that it had ordered her re-arrest after hearing reports that she had publicly denied having apologized for her actions or asking for a pardon. Elizabeth Blunt of the BBC said that since her arrest, Birtukan, whom she described as "one of the younger and more charismatic leaders of the coalition which did so astonishingly well against the ruling party in the 2005 elections," had become "even more of a heroine, attracting widespread sympathy as a single mother separated from her baby daughter."

In December 2009, Amnesty International categorized Birtukan's imprisonment as "unjust and politically motivated" The organization also launched an international campaign demanding her release, challenging the Ethiopian government's claim that her incarceration was a legal matter.

Post-imprisonment and exile
On 6 October 2010, Birtukan was released from prison. According to government spokesman Shimeles Kemal, Birtukan submitted a pardon plea in October 2010, while the justice ministry quoted a statement in which she expressed regret for denying her 2007 pardon. The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham, welcomed her release, stating "This is an important step forward. We have always taken the view that her re-imprisonment was not in Ethiopian interest and a solution to Ethiopian political problem."

In 2011, Birtukan resigned from politics and went to the US, to study at Harvard. She was awarded the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, giving her five months in Washington, D.C. to "study the principles of democracy." As of March 2013, Birtukan was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

Starting from mid-2014, she had been working as Researcher at National Endowment for Democracy until her return to Ethiopia in November 2018 following the 2016 Ethiopian protests which resulted in an end to the 27 years of the TPLF led EPRDF government.

Return to Ethiopia

Encouraged by the political reforms started by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April 2018, Birtukan returned to Ethiopia in November 2018. On 23 November 2018, she was elected and sworn in as chairwoman of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) replacing incumbent Samia Gutu. Birtukan announced her resignation from this position on 26 June 2023 through her Facebook page; she submitted her resignation to Speaker of the House of People's Representatives on 12 June and will continue to serve as NEBE chairperson until 7 August.

Notes

References

External links

 Birtukan Mideksa Freedom Collection interview

1974 births
Living people
Addis Ababa University alumni
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Ethiopia
Ethiopian evangelicals
Ethiopian judges
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People from Addis Ababa
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Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice politicians
Recipients of Ethiopian presidential pardons
Unity for Democracy and Justice politicians
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Ethiopian expatriates in the United States
21st-century Ethiopian women politicians
21st-century Ethiopian politicians
21st-century judges
21st-century women judges

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Adelhard Roidinger (28 November 1941 – 22 April 2022) was an Austrian jazz musician (bass, electronic), composer and computer graphic designer.

Life and Works
Roidinger, who was from a musician family, learned first piano, violin and guitar. When he was 16, he started to play double bass. From 1960 to 1967, he studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and studied simultaneously double bass and jazz composing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in this city.

Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with Joachim Kühn and Eje Thelin and afterwards with Karl Berger and from 1971 to 1975 in Hans Kollers Free Sound. He founded the European Jazz Consensus with Alan Skidmore, Gerd Dudek and Branislav Lala Kovačev. The 'European Jazz Consensus' recorded also the albums 'Four for Slavia' and Memory Rise. Then, the International Jazz Consensus was formed by him along with Kovačev, Allan Praskin and John D. Thomas. In Austria3, which made the core of his ECM album Shady side, he performed with Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner. in addition, he worked also with Herbert Joos, Albert Mangelsdorff, Yosuke Yamashita, George Russell, Maria João, Anthony Braxton, Tone Janša and Melanie Bong. After additional education at IRCAM in Paris, his activity field of music reaches to performances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computer and visual components.

After working as a docent for Cybernetic Designing (TU Graz since 1967), Roidinger started to teach at Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz. He was the director of its jazz department since 1988 and moreover since 1994 the director of the Music and Media Technology department of the same university. He wrote lessons for double bass (1980) and bass guitar (1981) as well as a detailed publication about jazz improvisation and pentatonic scale (1984).

Awards and honours
In 1988, he was awarded Ernst Koref Composition Prize for his computer composition Siamesic Sinfonia.

References

Austrian jazz musicians
1941 births
Living people
Jazz bass guitarists
20th-century classical composers
Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
20th-century jazz composers
Academic staff of Anton Bruckner Private University

Adelhard Roidinger


Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina). The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions.

The play was attributed to Seneca, but modern scholarship generally discredits this, since it contains accurate prophecies of both his and Nero's deaths. While the play closely resembles Seneca's plays in style, it was probably written some time after Seneca's death in the Flavian period by someone influenced by Seneca and aware of the events of his lifetime.

Characters
Octavia.
Octavia's Nurse.
Chorus of Romans.
Seneca.
Prefect.
Poppaea.
Agrippina (ghost).
Nero.
Messenger.

Plot

Act I
Octavia, weary of her existence, bewails her misery. Her nurse curses the drawbacks which beset life in a Palace. The Nurse consoles Octavia and dissuades her from executing any revenge which she might be contemplating. The Chorus being in favor of Octavia, looks with detestation upon the marriage of Poppaea, and condemns the degenerate patience of the Romans, as being unworthy, too indifferent and servile, and complains about the crimes of Nero.

Act II
Seneca deplores the vices of his times, praises the simplicity of his former life, and offers his opinion that all things are tending to the worse. The philosopher warns his patron Nero but to no purpose. Nero stubbornly insists on carrying out his tyrannical plans, and appoints the next day for his marriage with Poppaea.

Act III
Agrippina appears from the underworld as a cruel soothsayer. She brings torches from the underworld to grace the wedding, and predicts the death of Nero. Octavia urges the populace, who are espousing her cause, not to grieve about her divorce. The Chorus however, does grieve for her sad lot.

Act IV
Poppaea, being frightened in her sleep, narrates her dream to the Nurse. The Nurse treating the dream as nonsense, consoles Poppaea with a shallow interpretation. The Chorus praises the beauty of Poppaea. The Messenger describes the hostile mood of the populace concerning Octavia's divorce and Nero's marriage with Poppaea.

Act V
Nero, boiling over with rage on account of the tumultuous rising of the populace, orders the most severe measures to be taken against them, and that Octavia, as the cause of the rising, shall be transported to Pandataria and there slain. The Chorus sings regarding popular favor, which has been destructive to so many, and after that tells of the hard fates which have befallen the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

References

Editions
 Otto Zwierlein (ed.), Seneca Tragoedia  (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford Classical Texts: 1986)
 Octavia: A Play attributed to Seneca, ed. Rolando Ferri (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries No.41, Cambridge UP, 2003)
 John G. Fitch Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: Loeb Classical Library: 2004)

Further reading
 F. L. Lucas, "'The Octavia', an essay," Classical Review, 35,5-6 (1921), 91-93 .
 P. Kragelund, Prophecy, Populism, and Propaganda in the "Octavia" (Copenhagen, 1982).
 T. Barnes, "The Date of the Octavia," MH, 39 (1982) 215–17.
 Harris, W.V., Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2001).
 T. P. Wiseman, "Octavia and the Phantom Genre," in Idem, Unwritten Rome (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008).
 Girolamo Cardano 'Nero: An Exemplary Life' Inkstone, 2012.
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War in the 'Octavia' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

External links
  Octavia—translated, with notes, by Watson Bradshaw

1st-century plays
Plays set in the 1st century
Plays set in ancient Rome
Plays by Seneca the Younger
Tragedy plays
Cultural depictions of Nero
62
60s in the Roman Empire
Cultural depictions of Seneca the Younger
Cultural depictions of Claudia Octavia

Octavia (play)


Buzzard is the common name of several species of birds of prey.

Buteo species
 Archer's buzzard (Buteo archeri)
 Augur buzzard (Buteo augur)
 Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus)
 Common buzzard (Buteo buteo)
 Eastern buzzard (Buteo japonicus)
 Ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis)
 Forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus)
 Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis)
 Grey hawk (Buteo plagiatus)
 Grey-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus)
 Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius)
 Jackal buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus)
 Long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus)
 Madagascar buzzard (Buteo brachypterus)
 Mountain buzzard (Buteo oreophilus)
 Puna hawk (Buteo poecilochrous)
 Red-backed hawk (Buteo polyosoma)
 Red-necked buzzard (Buteo auguralis)
 Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)
 Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
 Ridgway's hawk (Buteo ridgwayi)
 Roadside hawk (Buteo magnirostris)
 Rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus)
 Rufous-tailed hawk (Buteo ventralis)
 Short-tailed hawk (Buteo brachyurus)
 Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
 Upland buzzard (Buteo hemilasius)
 White-rumped hawk (Buteo leucorrhous)
 White-tailed hawk (Buteo albicaudatus)
 White-throated hawk (Buteo albigula)
 Zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus)

Other species
 Black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon)
 Black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)
 Grasshopper buzzard (Butastur rufipennis)
 Grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus)
 Honey-buzzards, genus Pernis and Henicopernis, superficially resembling Buteo buzzards are specialist feeders on wasp nests and larvae
 Barred honey buzzard (Pernis celebensis)
 Black honey buzzard (Henicopernis infuscatus)
 Crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus)
 European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
 Long-tailed honey buzzard (Henicopernis longicauda)
 Lizard buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
 Rufous-winged buzzard (Butastur liventer)
 White-eyed buzzard (Butastur teesa)
 In parts of the US, the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is colloquially called a "buzzard".

Bird common names
Birds of prey
Falconry
Vultures

Buzzard


The Avon Congregational Church is a Congregational Church building at 6 West Main Street in Avon, Connecticut.  Built in 1819 for a congregation founded in 1754, it is a high-quality example of Federal period architecture, and one of the finest works of architect David Hoadley.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.  The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Description and history
The Avon Congregational Church is prominently located in Avon's town center, at the northwest corner of Route 44 and 202.  It is a two-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a projecting entry section and a multistage tower with steeple.  The projecting section consists of three bays, separated by two-story Doric pilasters, with an entry and window above in each bay.  It is topped by a fully pedimented modillioned gable.  The tower begins with a plain square clapboarded stage, which has a circular panel with a globe motif, and is topped by a low balustrade with urned posts.  The next stage is an octagonal belfry with louvered round-arch openings separated by pilasters. The third stage is also octagonal but smaller in footprint, and is capped by a short spire and weathervane.  Each of these stages is also surrounded by a low spindled balustrade.

The church congregation was organized in 1754, when the area was still part of Farmington.  Its first church building, located on the east bank of the Farmington River, was destroyed by fire in 1817.  That congregation then divided, and the present church was completed in 1819 for the western half.  The building has been judged one of the finest works of David Hoadley, showing evidence of influence on him by the works of Charles Bulfinch.  The church was damaged by fire in 1876, and lost part of its steeple (since restored) in the 1938 New England hurricane.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut

References

External links

Avon Church web site

Avon, Connecticut
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Churches completed in 1819
19th-century United Church of Christ church buildings
United Church of Christ churches in Connecticut
Churches in Hartford County, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut

Avon Congregational Church


The Berkshire Museum is a museum of art, natural history, and ancient civilization that is located in Pittsfield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts (United States).

History

In 1903, local paper magnate Zenas Crane founded the Berkshire Museum. Inspired by such institutions as the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Crane decided to blend the best attributes of these establishments in a new museum for the people of Western Massachusetts. Thanks in large part to Crane's efforts, the broad and varied collections of Berkshire Museum include over 40,000 objects from virtually every continent—from important fine art and sculpture to natural science specimens and ancient artifacts.

As the third-generation owner of Crane & Company, a paper manufacturer that was (and continues to be) the official supplier of paper to the U.S. Treasury, Crane invested his wealth in his community. He actively sought out art and artifacts for Berkshire Museum, and encouraged the development of collections that would bring home to the Berkshires a wide cross-section of the world's wonders. Berkshire Museum became a "window on the world." The building was designed by the local architect Henry Seaver.

Crane purchased many of Berkshire Museum's first acquisitions, including a sizable group of paintings from the revered Hudson River School. Significant works by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church were a part of this early collection.

The museum's first curator was Harlan H. Ballard, who stayed in that role until early 1931.  He was replaced by Laura M. Bragg who became director of the museum.

The diverse collections also boast artifacts of ancient history and natural science: fossil collections, a 143-pound meteorite, an Egyptian mummy, shards of Babylonian cuneiform tablets, samplings of early Mediterranean jewelry, and representations of Berkshire ecosystems including local mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, plants, and minerals.

Berkshire Museum is the repository for objects associated with the lives of well-known figures in American history. The first successful expedition to the North Pole by Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson in 1908 and 1909 was supported by Crane. Henson's whole-body fur suit, the sledge that made the trip, and other equipment from the trek found a home at Berkshire Museum. The writing desk of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the musket believed to have belonged to Israel Bissell (a cohort of Paul Revere who made a midnight ride to Philadelphia to warn, "The British are coming!") also are part of the extensive permanent collection.

Berkshire Museum has exhibited works by some of the most accomplished artists from the United States and abroad: Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and John Singer Sargent. In the 1930s, the Berkshire Museum was the first museum to commission two site-specific mobiles (then a unique form of art) from Alexander Calder, who became one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. In the 1950s, the Berkshire Museum was the first to display the work of Norman Rockwell, as well as pieces by artists that challenged convention, such as Andy Warhol, Red Grooms, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Nancy Graves.

Berkshire Museum continues to add to the collections through purchases and gifts. In the 21st-century, acquisitions have focused on artists with national and international reputations who have strong connections to the Berkshires: Gregory Crewdson, Peter Garfield, Morgan Bulkeley, Stephen Hannock, Tom Patti, and others.

Gallery

Renovations
The Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation opened in March 2008. This new hall falls in line with the museum's traditional "curiosity cabinet" appeal and is dedicated to local innovators.

In October 2014, Berkshire Museum's "Dino Dig" paleontology exhibition was replaced by Spark!Lab, a hands-on, inventors laboratory space developed by the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.

Sale of art controversy
In July 2017, the Board of Directors at the Berkshire Museum announced a plan to sell the most significant portion of their art collection including two Norman Rockwell paintings, Blacksmith's Boy – Heel and Toe (Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop) (1940) and Shuffleton's Barbershop (1950), which were given to the museum by Norman Rockwell himself. They contracted with Sotheby's to auction a total of 40 pieces from their collection. The art was removed from the museum before the sale was announced, and museum officials initially refused to name the works that were to be sold. The estimated proceeds from the sale would be $50 million. The art sale created considerable controversy not only among the residents of Berkshire County, but within the larger art world. The Massachusetts Attorney General's brief of October 30, 2017, supported opposition to the sale and joined the plaintiffs in court.

On November 1, 2017, before a packed courthouse, Judge John A. Agostini heard arguments on both sides of the controversy centered on the right of the plaintiffs to sue. His ruling was published on November 7, denying the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction and dismissing the non-governmental plaintiffs for lack of standing. Nevertheless, the Massachusetts Appeals Court granted a temporary injunction to halt the sale that expired on December 11. The sale was opposed by members of the museum as well as the descendants of Norman Rockwell, who donated work to the museum with the understanding that it would always remain at the museum. Museum organizations condemned the plan to sell the items, with the state's lawyers asserting that the museum intended to sell nearly all of its valuable art to subsidize operating and other expenses. After months of negotiating at the Appellate Court level, a tentative settlement was reached on February 9, 2018, between the plaintiffs and the Attorney General's office. As of March 20, that settlement was in the hands of Justice David A. Lowy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, following a hearing involving lawyers from the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, the museum, and two separate groups of plaintiffs opposing the settlement.

On April 11, 2018, it was announced that the Berkshire Museum had sold Shuffleton's Barbershop by Rockwell to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art for an undisclosed amount. The painting was to be loaned to the Norman Rockwell Museum in nearby Stockbridge for display into 2020. Other works, including Blacksmith's Boy – Heel and Toe, were scheduled for sale at a Sotheby's auction in May 2018. Shortly after these initial sales, museum director Van Shields suddenly retired. In late November 2018, the museum announced that it had completed its sale of artworks, having raised $53.25 million through the sale of 22 pieces.

References

External links

Berkshire Museum within Google Arts & Culture

Museums in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Natural history museums in Massachusetts
Art museums and galleries in Massachusetts
Aquaria in Massachusetts
Museums established in 1903
1903 establishments in Massachusetts
Association of Science-Technology Centers member institutions
Paleontology in Massachusetts

Berkshire Museum


Ida Kavafian () (born October 29, 1952, in Istanbul) is an American classical violinist and violist.

Biography

Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six. Her teachers included Ara Zerounian, Mischa Mischakoff, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian, the last two of which she studied under while attending the Juilliard School from 1969 to 1975. Her first major exposure came when she won the Vianna da Motta International Violin Competition in Lisbon in 1973. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1978 which led to her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall. That same year she became a member of the Tashi ensemble with Peter Serkin, who also accompanied her for her New York solo debut. She was awarded the silver medal (second place) at the inaugural International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1982.

She began performing with her sister, Ani Kavafian, in 1983, when the pair played together at Carnegie Hall. In 1983-84 she toured with Chick Corea. A member of the Chamber Music Society from 1989 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2002, she played with the Beaux Arts Trio from 1992 to 1998 and sporadically thereafter. She founded her own group, Opus One, in 1998, with Steven Tenenbom, Anne-Marie McDermott and Peter Wiley. She teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School and the Bard College Conservatory of Music. She plays a J. B. Guadagnini violin made in Milan in 1751, and a Moes and Moes viola, made in 1987.

Kavafian's repertory includes classical and early romantic works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, as well as 20th century works of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Wuorinen, and Toru Takemitsu. Takemitsu has composed a concerto for Kavafian. She is also the founder of two prestigious music festivals: the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Music from Angel Fire.

Discography

With Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
 Judith Blegen and Frederica von Stade: Songs, Arias and Duets (Columbia, 1975)

With Tashi
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (RCA Red Seal ARL1-1567, 1976)

With Chick Corea
Children's Songs (album with Chick Corea - Piano, Fred Sherry - Cello, and Ida Kavafian - Violin)  (ECM, 1984)
Septet (ECM, 1984)

With Beaux Arts Trio
Hummel Piano Trios (Philips, 289 446 077-2)
Arensky Piano Trios (Philips, 289 442 127-2)

With Guarneri Quartet
Mozart String Quintets Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 6 (RCA/Sony, 88691918042)

With Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (Omac, 2009)

References
Footnotes

General references
Ida Kavafian at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
[ Ida Kavafian] at Allmusic

American classical violinists
American women violinists
1952 births
Living people
Musicians from Istanbul
Armenian classical violinists
Women classical violinists
20th-century classical violinists
20th-century American women musicians
20th-century Turkish artists
21st-century classical violinists
21st-century American women musicians
21st-century Turkish artists
American people of Armenian descent
Turkish people of Armenian descent
Turkish emigrants to the United States
Juilliard School alumni
Beaux Arts Trio members
20th-century American violinists
21st-century American violinists
Armenian women violinists
Turkish women violinists

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Cecil O. Creal (19 December 1899 – 20 November 1986) was mayor of Ann Arbor, in the U.S. state of Michigan, from 1959 to 1965.

Life and career

Creal was born in 1899 in Kiantone, Chautauqua County, New York. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Navy. Creal married Dama Godfrey of Ann Arbor in 1925. He was an Episcopalian. Creal had two sons, Richard and Robert.

Under Ann Arbor's old system of municipal governance, Creal served as President of the Ann Arbor Common Council (City Council) for multiple terms. The council president presided at the meetings then. The mayor under that system was more of a ceremonial figurehead, who had power of veto over council decisions, but did not attend the meetings.

Creal ran for Ann Arbor mayor as a Republican in 1959. He defeated Democrat Lloyd M. Ives, and went on to win two more terms, triumphing over Democrats Dorothee S. Pealy in 1961 and Albert F. Schneider in 1963. Creal did not run for a fourth term in 1965.

Creal died in Ann Arbor on November 20, 1986, and is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery. Ann Arbor's Creal Park and Creal Crescent are both named after Mayor Creal.

Sources
Mayors of Ann Arbor page at PoliticalGraveyard.com
Arborweb "Weddings of Yore"

1899 births
1986 deaths
United States Navy personnel of World War I
Burials in Michigan
Mayors of Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan Republicans
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American Episcopalians

Cecil Creal


POW is "prisoner of war", a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

POW or pow may also refer to:

Music
 "P.O.W" (Bullet for My Valentine song) (2013)
 "Pow! (Forward)", a 2004 song by Lethal Bizzle
 "Pow", a song by the Beastie Boys from Check Your Head
 "P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)", a 1993 song by Beowülf from Un-Sentimental
 "Pow", a song by Graham Central Station from My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me
 "POW", a 2009 song by Soulja Boy from The DeAndre Way

Organizations
 POW! Entertainment, a media production company
 Polska Organizacja Wojskowa or Polish Military Organisation
 Protect Our Winters, a non-profit environmental organization
 Portorož Airport's IATA code

Television
 P.O.W. (United States Steel Hour)
 P.O.W. (TV series), a 2003 ITV mini-series
 "P.O.W." (The Flash), an episode of The Flash
 P.O.W. - Bandi Yuddh Ke, Indian political thriller television series

Other uses
 P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, a 1988 arcade game that was ported to the NES console
 Pow (surname)
 pow function in C, the exponentiation function in the programming language C
 Powys, county in Wales, Chapman code POW
 Proof of work or PoW system
 P.O.W; aka Prince of Wales

See also
 Pow! (disambiguation)
 Pow wow (disambiguation)
 Prisoner of War (disambiguation)

POW (disambiguation)


Apam Senior High School be senior high school wey dey Apam for de Gomoa West DIstrict wey dey Central Region for Ghana insyd.

History
Apam Senior High School, dey de Zone B District for de Central region for Ghana, dem establish am for 1953 insyd for Paado's plains, wey be suburb of Apam (coastal town wey dey de area insyd). Dem begin de school under cocoa shed den oak trees. E start under de management of Rev. deGraft-Johnson wey Mr. C.S  Arthur Hessebe de only teacher.

For 1960, de school relocate go wey edey now, Mbofra mfa Adwen, plus very grand den impressive opening ceremony wey Lord Listowel perform am, de last Governor giv de den Gold Coast, wey be Ghana now. De school ein development make dem adopt de name Great APASS wey dem achieve under leadership den aegis of de late Dr. Peter Augustus Owiredu wey he san be known as PAO. Dr. P.A Owiredu take over as de headie from Rev. Degraft-Johnson from 1959 to 1981.

By 1964, de school move from day school go boarding school wey dem introduce advanced level subjects for Arts den Sciences plus de Ordinary level courses wey e dey offer.

Now nu Great APASS dey under de leadership of Nana E. C. Acquah. De school get student population of 1,808 plus 63 teaching staff den 48 non-teaching staff.

Programmes wey de school dey run dey include; General Arts, Business, Science, Home Economics, Visual Arts den Agriculture Science wey dem add am recently.

Headship
1.        1953 - 1958                 Rev. J. W. De-Graft Johnson

2.        1959 - 1979                 Dr. P.A. Owiredu

3.        1980 - 1988                 Mr. Sam Parry

4.        1988 - 2004                 Mrs. Esther Hamilton

5.         2004 - 2016               Mr. Archibold K. Fuah

6.        2016- 2019                 Nana E. C. Acquah

7.        2019- Date                 Mrs. Jemima Elsie Arthur-Morrison

Notable alumni

 Amerley Ollennu Awua-Asamoa, Ghanaian diplomat
 Nene Amegatcher, lawyer, academic den judge; active Justice of de Supreme Court of Ghana (2019 – date)
 Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, lawyer den judge; current Chief Justice of Ghana (2019 – date)
 Kojo Armah, diplomat, lawyer den politician
 David Dontoh, actor den television personality
 Guru, Ghanaian musician
 Nii Ashie Kotey, judge den academic; active Justice of de Supreme Court of Ghana (2019 – date)
 Nana Kuffour, footballer
 Aaron Mike Oquaye, politician; former Speaker of de Parliament of Ghana (2017 – 2020)
 Ato Quayson, Professor of English for Stanford University, formerly for New York University, den Professor den inaugural Director of de Centre for Diaspora Studies for de University of Toronto.

References

High schools for Ghana insyd
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Education for Ghana insyd
1953 establishments insyd Gold Coast (British colony)
Public schools insyd Ghana
Educational institutions dem establish insyd 1953
Education insyd de Central Region (Ghana)
Boarding schools insyd Ghana

Apam Senior High School


A sand box or sand jack is a device used for removing the centering of an arch. Each prop is mounted on a sand box. After the plug is removed, the sand pours from the box, causing the centering to move downwards, diminishing the pressure from the arch, and enabling to ultimately remove it.

References

Arches and vaults
Sand
Tools

Sand box (civil engineering)


is a regional airport serving Hachijōjima in the southern Izu Islands, Tokyo, Japan.

History

An air field was established on the island of Hachijōjima in 1926 by the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1954, it was turned over to civilian control and managed by the local authorities on the island. Scheduled service between Hachijōjima and Haneda Airport in Tokyo by Fujita Airlines in 1955, and subsequently to Komaki Airport in Nagoya. On April 30, 1963, a DC-3-201E (Registration JA5039) operated by All Nippon Airways (ANA) crashed on landing. There were no injuries, but the aircraft was a total loss.

Later on August 17, 1963 Fujita Airlines DH-115 Heron (Registration JA6159) crashed shortly after takeoff into Hachijō-Fuji, the highest mountain on the island, killing all aboard (3 crew + 16 passengers). Following this fatal crash, Fujita Airlines was merged into All Nippon Airways.

From 2000, ANA subsidiary Air Nippon operated flights to Hachijōjima using a Boeing 737-400 colorfully painted with a dolphin design to promote tourism. The campaign proved successful, and the aircraft used on the route was changed to a 737-500, and then to an Airbus A320. Flights to Oshima Airport were discontinued from 2009.

Toho Air Service operates helicopter services from Hachijōjima Airport to Aogashima and Mikurajima. Only All Nippon Airways's Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 provide service to Haneda Airport every day.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links
 Airport Guide from ANA
 Official home page

Airports in Tokyo
Transport in the Greater Tokyo Area
Izu Islands

Hachijojima Airport