Vitaly Aleksandrovich Nikolayenko (, transliteration: Vitálij Aleksándrovich Nikoláyenko, 1938  – December 2003) was a Russian self-educated natural scientist and photographer notable for his extensive research on the ethology of Russian bears. He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula. He was found dead in December 2003 at the Kronotsky state reserve, one of two managed by the federal government,  north of Petropavlovsk.  Authorities concluded that the cause of death was an apparent bear mauling.

Biography
A senior ranger on the Kronotsky Wildlife Reserve, Vitaly Nikolayenko battled illegal hunting and fishing in the reserve. His patrols kept him in the wilderness for months on end. He routinely spent each day from dawn to dusk following bears, documenting their feeding, mating, and social habits.

Interest in bears

He compiled one of the most exhaustive documentaries on the giant,  cousins of the North American grizzly bear, Kamchatka brown bears, regularly filling what became hundreds of journals, a body of work viewed as one of the most important biographical records of brown bear behaviour in existence.

Nikolayenko walked more than  a year through the remote river valleys and coastal plains of Kamchatka, where approximately 15,000 brown bears are under increasing threat from foreign hunters and poachers. He documented an average of 800 bear contacts each year.

For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him.

Nikolayenko also documented several lucky escapes during his time with the bears. He described how he had fallen down bluffs to avoid charging bears and been chased up trees.

He helped conduct an inquiry after Michio Hoshino, the renowned Japanese bear photographer, was pulled out of his tent and eaten by a bear in 1996 in the southern reserve, a more remote region neighbouring the  Kronotsky state reserve where Nikolayenko was based.

Death
In the winter of 2003, Nikolayenko had been out in the wilderness much longer than planned, probably because not all of the bears had yet gone into hibernation. He had been waiting for a helicopter flight out of the reserve and was last heard from in late December 2003. When a helicopter did eventually arrive to pick him up, the crew found no sign of the researcher, and a search team was dispatched.

On 1 January 2004, Russian authorities announced that the body of Nikolayenko, 66, had been found at a lake near his remote one-room hut on the Tikhaya River. The  pawprint of a medium-sized male bear was found next to his body, along with an empty can of pepper spray with which Nikolayenko had apparently tried to defend himself.

Victor Rebrikov, a tourist guide and longtime friend of Nikolayenko who was on the search team that found the body, said it appeared that Nikolayenko had followed a large male bear to the small, spring-fed lake that lies less than  from the hut.

"Vitaly must have begun to take pictures of the resting bear, but the tree trunks and branches were in the way, and he must have decided to get inside the grove. His footprints lead into the grove after the bear. He approached the bear at a distance of three meters", Rebrikov said.

A large swath of orange pepper spray indicated that Nikolayenko tried to defend himself, and a flare gun was lying next to the body, unfired. His camera was broken and bloody nearby.

Just two months before, American bear researcher Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed and partially eaten by bears in the Alaska Katmai National Park.

Controversy
Despite making a life's work of harassing poachers and monitoring bears, Nikolayenko was a polarising figure within the naturalist community, which had an institutionally unfavourable view of his proactive approach to monitoring bears. His overt familiarity with his subject went against the grain of the more passive method known in the field as "separation", which is largely the consensus in ethologist circles.

Nikolayenko insisted that he never underestimated the potential for ferocity amongst bears, and resisted the urge to ascribe human emotions to them. Even Dobrynya, he accepted, probably only tolerated his presence.

Unfortunately, Nikolayenko's death was looked upon by his critics as confirmation of their position, and the bears who became habituated to his presence were easy pickings for poachers. At least 20 bears Nikolayenko knew were killed about seven months before his own death.

Nikolayenko also fought a war of words with the man with whom he probably had more in common than anyone in Kamchatka, Charlie Russell, a researcher who operated in the south Kamchatka reserve. Russell and Nikolayenko clashed when the Russian ranger was called in to review Russell's project.

Nikolayenko strongly objected to Russell's policy of feeding half-grown cubs, arguing that it rendered the research meaningless and had the potential to make the cubs dangerously eager for human handouts. Russell felt the cubs needed the kind of nourishment they would have received from their mother to make them strong enough to fend off predators. The men argued bitterly throughout their acquaintance.

See also
Timothy Treadwell
List of unusual deaths

References

External links
Conservation Force
A Loss to Man and Nature

Deaths due to bear attacks
Russian naturalists
Russian photographers
Accidental deaths in Russia
2003 deaths
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
1938 births

Vitaly Nikolayenko


The High Court of Fiji is one of three courts that was established by Chapter 9 of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji — the others being the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The Constitution empowered Parliament to create other courts; these were to be subordinate to the High Court, which was authorized to oversee all proceedings of such courts. The High Court had unlimited original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings under any law and such other original jurisdiction as is conferred on it under the Constitution.

The High Court consists of the Chief Justice and at least ten (and no more than eighteen) puisne judges. Parliament may also allow for junior judges, called Masters of the High Court, to sit on the High Court. Section 129 of the Constitution declares that "A judge who has sat in a trial of a matter that is the subject of appeal to a higher court must not sit in the appeal." As the membership of the High Court overlaps to a large extent with that of the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court, this clause is inserted to prevent a conflict of interest.

In 2007, following the military coup, six Australian and New Zealand judges resigned from the court. They were replaced by two Malaysian judges, "with more appointments from Asia expected to follow soon".

Until July 2007, under the High Court Act, foreign judges appointed to the High Court had to be nationals of one of the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Tonga, or the United Kingdom. In practice, appointees were almost exclusively nationals of Australia and New Zealand. In July 2007, President Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda issued the High Court Act (Amendment) Promulgation, which extended the list to "any country which is at the time of the appointment a member of the Commonwealth of nations". The Promulgation particularly highlighted Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and India as potential sources for the appointment of new judges. Hong Kong was specifically cited as an authorised source for judges despite not being a member of the Commonwealth. The Promulgation was approved by the Cabinet led by interim Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.

See also
 Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 9 (detailing the composition and role of the judiciary)

References

External links
 Jurist Legal Intelligence - Fiji Islands
 High court caselaw on PacLII

Law of Fiji
1997 establishments in Fiji
Courts and tribunals established in 1997

High Court of Fiji


E-Tower is a 37-storey skyscraper located in Vila Olímpia neighborhood, near Marginal Pinheiros, in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. At 148 metres, it is the 17th-tallest skyscraper in the city, with a postmodern architecture inspired by the Westend Tower in Frankfurt. Its original project was taller, but due to the intense traffic of helicopters in the region it had to be changed. It is the 4th most modern skyscraper in São Paulo.

Concrete resistance
E-Tower has the world record for concrete resistance, with a 10 metres floor-to-ceiling high lobby. The building was projected to the resistance concrete fck = 80 MPa, so that the four underground levels' pillars could have their dimensions reduced without losing their resistance capacity. The reduction of the pillars section allowed a higher number of parking spaces. The compression resistance achieved was considered a national record.

Usage
It is composed of three different volumes. From 3rd to 7th floor, each floor has 1100m² of net area; from the 8th to the 19th floor, each floor has 850m² of net area; and from the 22nd to the 37th floor, each floor has 550m² of net area. Features of the building include a heated swimming pool in the 37th floor, an auditorium for 100 people on the ground level, a fitness centre on the 20th floor, a restaurant on the 21st floor, and a helipad on the roof.

Gallery

See also
 List of tallest buildings in São Paulo
 List of tallest buildings in Brazil
 Postmodern architecture

References

External links
 Emporis
 SkyscraperPage

Office buildings completed in 2005
Skyscrapers in São Paulo
Skyscraper office buildings in Brazil

E-Tower


An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba in West Africa and Vietnamese (especially its colloquial register) in Southeast Asia.

A closely related concept is that of an analytic language, which uses unbound morphemes or syntactical constructions to indicate grammatical relationships. Isolating and analytic languages tend to overlap in linguistic scholarship.

Isolating languages contrast with synthetic languages, also called inflectional languages where words often consist of multiple morphemes. That linguistic classification is subdivided into the classifications fusional, agglutinative, and polysynthetic, which are based on how the morphemes are combined.

Explanation
Although historically, languages were divided into three basic types (isolating, inflectional, agglutinative), the traditional morphological types can be categorized by two distinct parameters:

 morpheme per word ratio (how many morphemes there are per word)
 degree of fusion between morphemes (how separable the inflectional morphemes of words are according to units of meaning represented)

A language is said to be more isolating than another if it has a lower morpheme per word ratio.

To illustrate the relationship between words and morphemes, the English term "rice" is a single word, consisting of only one morpheme (rice). This word has a 1:1 morpheme per word ratio. In contrast, "handshakes" is a single word consisting of three morphemes (hand, shake, -s). This word has a 3:1 morpheme per word ratio. On average, words in English have a morpheme per word ratio substantially greater than one.

It is perfectly possible for a language to have one inflectional morpheme yet more than one unit of meaning. For example, the Russian word vídyat/видят "they see" has a morpheme per word ratio of 2:1 since it has two morphemes. The root vid-/вид- conveys the  imperfective aspect meaning, and the inflectional morpheme -yat/-ят inflects for four units of meaning (third-person subject, plural subject, present/future tense, indicative mood). Effectively, it has four units of meaning in one inseparable morpheme: -yat/-ят.

Languages with a higher tendency toward isolation generally exhibit a morpheme-per-word ratio close to 1:1. In an ideal isolating language, visible morphology would be entirely absent, as words would lack any internal structure in terms of smaller, meaningful units called morphemes. Such a language would not use bound morphemes like affixes.

The morpheme-to-word ratio operates on a spectrum, ranging from lower ratios that skew toward the isolating end to higher ratios on the synthetic end of the scale. A larger overall ratio suggests that a language leans more toward being synthetic rather than isolating.

Examples
Some isolating languages include:
 Classical Chinese
 Vietnamese
 Yoruba
 Khmer language
 Thai language

See also
 Analytic language
 Free morpheme
 Linguistic typology
 Synthetic language
 Zero-marking language

References

Further reading
 Sapir, Edward (1921). Chapter 6: "Types of linguistic structure". In Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech.

eo:Lingva tipologio#Analizaj lingvoj

Isolating language


Modern rock is an umbrella word used to describe rock music, which is found on college rock radio stations. Some radio stations use this word to check the difference of themselves from classic rock, which is based in 1960s–1980s rock music.

Modern rock is also known as alternate radio. It is a rock format commonly discovered on commercial radio; the format has mostly of the different rock genre.

Generally, it begins with Hardcore punk but later it refers especially to alternative rock music since the 1980s. The term "modern rock" is used in the US to show the difference between the music from classic rock. It focuses on music recorded in the 1960s through to the early 1990s.

Radio

Modern rock


Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger is a Japanese television series. It is the 42th in Toei's Super Sentai series, following Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.

New things
This series if the first to feature two different teams of heroes-the gentleman thief-themed Lupinrangers and the Police-themed Patrangers. They engage in a three-way battle against an alien criminal organization targeting Earth called the Gangler. It is also the first Super Sentai tv series to not have an ending theme like many of TV Asahi's other shows.

Schedule
Lupinranger vs Patranger was the last Super Sentai series to air entirely in the Heisei era, premiered on February 11, 2018, and on February 10, 2019, joining Kamen Rider Build and later Kamen Rider Zi-O, in the Super Hero Time line-up on TV Asahi affiliate stations.

Story
The Lupin Collection, a big collection of dangerous items acquired by the legendary gentleman thief Arsenè Lupin, is stolen by a crime syndicate known as the Gangler. However, they receive opposition from two Super Sentai teams: the Lupinrangers: Kairi Yano, Touma Yoimachi and Umika Hayami. They aim to steal back the collection to live up their namesake's reputation and save those they have lost. The others are Patrangers: Keiichiro Asaka, Sakuya Hikawa and Tsukasa Myoujin. They are tasked with uploading justice by getting back the collection and taking down the Gangler. A human drama unfolds that pits the opposing teams against each other as their late tale is woven. This is made more intricate by the Lupin Collection's mysterious origins and its contributor Noël Takao. He aids the two teams as their fourth member in the hopes of uniting them against the Gangler for his own agenda. After the Gangler are defeated, the Patrangers learn the Lupinrangers' identities and motives while Noël still works to unite the two Super Sentai teams into one.

Characters

Lupinranger

Patranger

X

Cast
 Kairi Yano / Lupin Red: Asahi Ito
 Touma Yoimachi / Lupin Blue: Shogo Hama
 Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow: Haruka Kudō
 Keiichiro Asaka / Patren 1: Kousei Yuki
 Sakuya Hikawa / Patren 2: Ryo Yokoyama
 Tsukasa Myoujin / Patren 3: Kazusa Okuyama
 Noël Takao / Lupin X / Patren X: Seiya Motoki
 Director Hilltop: Ike Nwala
 Zamigo Delma: Jingi Irie
 Shori Yano: Kōji Shiba
 Aya Ohira: Nagisa Yuzuki
 Shiho Ichinose: Moka Komatsu
 Kogure: Yoichi Nukumizu

Voice Actors
 Good Striker: Yūji Mitsuya
 Jim Carter: Rie Kugimiya
 VS Changer: Rondo Mimura
 Narration: Hiroki Yasumoto

Guest cast
 Bundorute Peggy (5, 6): Tadashi Mizuno
 Shinta Yamaguchi (19): Kazayuki Aijima
 Koji Yamada (35): The Touch
 Restaurant customers (51): Mai Oishi, Sumiko Tanaka, Yuki Nagata, Michiko Makino

Opening theme song
 "Lupinranger VS Patranger"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Hiroshi Takaki
 Arrangement: Hiroshi Takaki (Project.R)
 Artist: Project.R (Tatsuhiko Yoshida, Hitomi Yoshida)
 This song is a mix of "Lupinranger, Dial o Mawase" ("Lupinranger, Turn the Dial") by Tatsuhiko Yoshida (Project.R) and "Chase You Up! Patranger" by Hitomi Yoshida (Project.R).

Super Sentai series
2018 television series debuts
2019 television series endings


"Move On" is the second chart single from David Jordan, taken from his first album Set the Mood. "Move On" peaked at number 68 on the UK Singles Chart.

Critical reception
Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy Chart Blog gave the song a positive review stating:

With a dash of Terence Trent D'Arby, a fair dollop of Justin Timberlake and a sprinkling of Prince, David Jordan looks to have stumbled upon a recipe for chart success. His first release 'Place In My Heart' got critics' tongues wagging, while his last single 'Sun Goes Down' had plenty of fans splashing their pocket money, bagging the Barnet-born warbler a number four chart spot. With his debut album Set The Mood wriggling up the top 40, it's perfect timing for release number three.

His latest titbit, 'Move On', follows a similar formula to his last two releases, focusing on Jordan's ability to switch between piercing falsetto and husky warbling at the drop of a beat. It ticks all the right boxes, with a crunching rhythm, plenty of zoom sound effects and a superb vocal performance from the 23-year-old. Unfortunately, it does little else beyond that and occasionally slips into boyband parody with ultra-emotional crooning and tacky breakdowns that were probably last heard on a 5ive record. Fortunately, behind all that, Jordan's obvious talents shine through, meaning his march towards pop stardom should continue uninterrupted. .

Track listings

Chart performance

References

2008 singles
Song recordings produced by Trevor Horn
2008 songs
ZTT Records singles
David Jordan (singer) songs

Move On (David Jordan song)


Matt Nolan (born 1974) is an English drummer, bespoke musical instrument maker and metal sculptor. Nolan works as an independent cymbal and gong maker from his workshop in Bath in the South-West of England.  Nolan is part of a small community of one-man "artisan cymbalsmiths"  and attracts the interest of professional drummers and musicians. Nolan was an electrical engineer before he became an instrument maker.
According to The Drummer's Journal, Nolan is "the only person in the UK independently making cymbals, alongside only a handful of other individuals worldwide."

Nolan crafts by hand different metal percussion musical instruments, both repeated lines and bespoke commissions, including novel instruments and recreations of period instruments.  Nolan started experimenting with making metal percussion instruments in 2005.  In 2008, he started a one-man artisan business. Nolan works with a range of materials, including bronze alloys, stainless steel and titanium.

Nolan has consulted and worked collaboratively on various projects, including the Stella Artois's Chalice Symphony, the Gameleste for Björk (an experimental musical instrument used on the Biophilia album and tour and also displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City),
and underwater instruments for Danish group, Aquasonic.

References

External links
Official website
Museum of Modern Art
Between Music: Aqua Sonic
Matt Nolan Video Review (NSMD Magazine)

1974 births
Living people
English musical instrument makers

Matt Nolan


Jirōemon Kimura  (木村 次郎右衛門, Kimura Jirōemon; 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest man in history.

Biography
Kinjirō Miyake (三宅 金治郎, Miyake Kinjirō) was born on 19 April 1897 in the fishing village of Kamiukawa (present Kyōtango), as the third of six living children to farmers Morizo and Fusa Miyake. Except for his oldest sister, who died 6 weeks before the age of 5 years in 1892, and his oldest brother, who died just 31 months old in 1894, longevity was common in his family; in late-1980s his second-oldest sister died at age 96, his second-oldest brother at age 91 and his second-youngest brother at age 85, in 1993 his younger sister died at age 93, and his youngest brother as well as last living sibling Tetsuo died in 2007 98 years old.

After he finished school at the age of 14, he worked for local post offices for over 45 years until he retired in 1962 at the age of 65, and thereafter worked until age 90 as a farmer along with his eldest son, who died at age 76 in September 1998, less than 4 weeks after his youngest son, who died at age 54. In the 1920s, he also worked as a government communications worker in Korea, which was at the time a colony of Japan.

After returning from Korea, Miyake married his 6 years, 9 months younger neighbour Yae Kimura, who died at age 75 in 1979, and changed his name to Jirōemon Kimura upon the marriage (since his wife's family lacked a male heir) and had, except their second child, a son who died in 1927 just 20 days before the age of 2 years, 7 children (of whom 5 were still living at the time of his death). He lived in Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan with his eldest son's widow and grandson's widow.

Longevity
Kimura, who became the oldest living Japanese man after Tomoji Tanabe's death on 19 June 2009, two months after celebrating his 112th birthday and being the 7th Japanese man to do so, became the oldest living man in the world as well as the oldest man to receive the title as the oldest living man after American man Walter Breuning's death on 15 April 2011, just four days before celebrating his 114th birthday and becoming the second Japanese man and the 7th man in the world to do so. Later that year, on 26 October, Kimura became the oldest Japanese man ever and the 5th oldest ever in the world after breaking the record of Yukichi Chuganji.

On 2 December 2011, upon the death of 115-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, Kimura became the oldest living person in Japan and the third oldest living person in the world behind American woman Besse Cooper and Dina Manfredini, both of whom died in December 2012, whereafter Kimura also became the oldest living person in the world, and also the oldest man ever after breaking Danish-born American man Christian Mortensen's record, and later on 19 April 2013, his 116th birthday, the first and only verified man as well as only the 8th verified person to become at least 116 years old.

After 113-year-old James Sisnett's death on 23 May, Kimura became the last living man in the world born in the 19th century, after already being the last living Japanese man since 111-year-old Tanekichi Onishi from Hokkaido, who was just a week older than Sisnett, died on 11 September 2011, and even the last living person born in 1897 since Japanese woman Koto Okubo, who was the oldest living woman, died at age 115 years, 19 days on 12 January 2013.

According to Kimura himself, the sun above him was the secret to his long life, but also that he trained eating until he was only 80 % full, drank alcohol only in moderation and never smoked.

Death
From 11 May 2013, Kimura was hospitalized for pneumonia and later blood-sugar problems and recovered temporarily, but his health continued to decline as his blood-sugar level, urine production and response declined, though until 2.08am the night of 12 June when Kimura died of natural causes aged 116 years, 54 days. He was succeeded as the oldest living person by Japanese woman Misao Okawa, who already was the oldest living woman since Koto Okubo's death, and as the oldest living man by Spanish-born American man Salustiano Sanchez, who was over 4 years younger.

Kimura was survived by his two daughters and three sons, 13 of 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

References

Related pages
 Shigechiyo Izumi
 Kane Tanaka, the oldest Japanese person ever

1897 births
2013 deaths
Japanese supercentenarians
World record holders
People from Kyoto Prefecture

Jiroemon Kimura


An application layer gateway is a special firewall which does stateful packet inspection. Some protocols such as TFTP use ports chosen at random. An application layer gateway can strengthen such a system by only allowing communication on ports which are used by one of the sessions. Note that this setup is different from a proxy firewall (also called application layer firewall). Such a firewall will also look at the payload data being transmitted.

Computer networking

Application layer gateway


Downshift or downshifting may refer to:

The shift of a vehicle transmission into a lower gear.
Downshift, the name of three fictional characters in the Transformers universes.
Downshifting (lifestyle), the social practice of adopting a simpler life

See also
 Down-shift operator, in mathematics

Downshift


The Welsh Sheepdog (, ) is a herding dog breed from Wales. Some people incorrectly call a Welsh Sheepdog a Welsh Collie - usually 'Welsh Collie' is used for a cross between a Welsh Sheepdog and a Border Collie, which is often a milder dog and easier to manage than the pure breed.

Like other types of working dog, Welsh Sheepdogs are normally bred for their herding abilities rather than appearance, and so they are different in build, colour and size.  Welsh Sheepdogs are the collie type, usually black-and-white, red-and-white or tricolour, and merle markings may occur over any of these combinations.  The coat may be short or fairly long, and the ears are pricked, but usually folded at the tip.  They are longer in leg, broader in chest and wider in muzzle than the Border Collie. They are extremely active and intelligent, and therefore need much exercise and mental stimulation, if they are to be kept as pets.

Over many decades the Welsh Sheepdog has mostly been replaced for working sheep in Wales by the Border Collie, a standardised breed. However, in more recent years, efforts have been made to keep the Welsh Sheepdog as a variety.

Welsh Sheepdogs are usually loose-eyed, not scaring the stock with their eyes like the  Border Collie.  They are able to work freely without being under human control.  Welsh Sheepdogs are most often used for herding sheep, but also work cattle, goats, and even horses and pigs.  They were often in the past used as a droving dog to take cattle and sheep to markets in Britain.

Health
The Welsh Sheepdog is generally healthy, but can be infected by things most other herding breeds are infected by, such as:

• Atopic Dermatitis, which seems to be more common indoors for this breed. It causes irritation to the dog's skin.

• Collie Eye Anomaly, which is very common with collie breeds. It causes sight loss.

• Epilepsy, a brain disorder which causes seizures.

• Hip dysplasia, which makes the hip go weak. Mostly in growing dogs.

• Diabetes, which is not listed for the dog breed being more likely to get, but there are increasing numbers of this. It causes weight loss, and makes the dog urinate more.

Food levels
The Welsh Sheepdog needs about three cups of dry food each day, which costs between $1.20 and $1.40. The monthly cost of this is about $35, but this can go to $45.

References

Dog breeds originating in Wales

Welsh Sheepdog


The COVID-19 pandemic first entered the U.S. state of Wisconsin in early February 2020. The COVID-19 was one of the leading causes of death for Wisconsin in 2020. As of July 9, 2021, almost 7,400 people in the state had died from the COVID-19 virus.

A steady upward trend for new COVID-19 cases in late June/early July 2020 began accelerating in mid July that same year. In response to July's rising cases and death tolls, the Governor Tony Evers declared a face mask mandate for all people age five and older in any building that isn't a private home.

As of July 12, 2021, over six million doses of vaccines have been given to people. Close to 48% of people in Wisconsin have completed the entire vaccines series.

On Friday, March 12, 2020, the Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency in Wisconsin. The following day, he ordered that all public and private K-12 schools across Wisconsin be closed until at least April 5.

Most university schools under the University of Wisconsin System, including Madison and Stout, canceled all in-person classes through early April 2020.

On March 16, the Governor of Wisconsin ordered a ban on gatherings of higher than ten staff members or exceeding fifty children at exactly the same time in childcare facilities.

ProPublica did an analysis of COVID-19 cases involving certain racial backgrounds in Milwaukee County dating until the morning until Friday, April 3, 2020. They noted that Blacks and African Americans were almost half the county's cases and twenty-two of that county's twenty-seven deaths. Both the county and the city of Milwaukee passed resolutions almost one year before. They also classified racial inequality as a major public health crisis even though Asian Americans and Mexican Americans live much longer than White people.

The 2020 Democratic National Convention was scheduled for July 13–16 in Milwaukee. It was later postponed and rescheduled for August 17–20 on April 2, 2020.

References

Wisconsin
2020s in Wisconsin

COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin


Colonel Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent  (31 May 1849 – 7 April 1908), known as Howard Vincent or C. E. Howard Vincent, was a British soldier, barrister, police official and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1908.

Early life and education
Vincent was born in Slinfold, near Horsham in Sussex, the second son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet, the village's rector. His brothers included Sir William Vincent, 12th Baronet, Claude Vincent, who became an administrator in India, and the financier and diplomat Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon.

He was educated at Westminster School and in November 1866 entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Lawyer, soldier and policeman

Passing out in 1868, he purchased a commission in the 23rd Foot (later the Royal Welch Fusiliers). He was promoted lieutenant in 1871. In 1871, he served as a correspondent with the Daily Telegraph in Berlin and then went on to Russia to learn the language and study the country's military organisation. In 1872 he began to write articles and lecture at the Royal United Services Institution. After his regiment was posted to Ireland later that year, he began to address political meetings on the Irish question, expressing generally Liberal views.

On 3 May 1873, Vincent enrolled as a pupil barrister at the Inner Temple. In that and the following year he travelled to Turkey and again to Russia, learning Turkish (to add to Russian, French, German and Italian, which he already knew). He also became an expert on the politics of the Near East. In 1874, he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Militia as a captain. He resigned his commission in November 1875, but a month later was appointed lieutenant-colonel commanding the 40th (Central London Rifle Rangers) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, again resigning his commission in 1878. He continued to write on political and military matters.

He was called to the bar on 20 January 1876 and joined the South-Eastern Circuit in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, although he never really devoted himself to the law. On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877, the Daily Telegraph sent him to report on the Russian Army, but he was refused permission to accompany the army into the field, as the Russians were suspicious that he spoke Russian and suspected him of being a Turkish sympathiser.

In 1877 he enrolled as a student at the faculté de droit of the University of Paris and investigated the Parisian police. When, later that year, the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch was hit by a scandal in which several senior officers were dismissed, Vincent was asked to report on the Paris detective system. This so impressed R. A. Cross, the Home Secretary, that in 1878 he was appointed to the new post of Director of Criminal Investigation to head the new Criminal Investigation Department. Although without the official status of Assistant Commissioner, this post was equivalent to the two Assistant Commissioners in almost every way. Vincent answered directly to the Home Secretary and not to the Commissioner, which put him in a rather strange position, as his deputy, Adolphus Williamson, and his men did answer to the Commissioner (luckily Vincent and Commissioner Sir Edmund Henderson had a good relationship). Vincent completely reorganised the department. From 1883 he also edited the Police Gazette.

In 1884, however, realising that his police post offered little chance of further advancement, he resigned to enter politics. That year he was also appointed lieutenant-colonel commanding the Queen's Westminster Volunteers, holding the post for twenty years until 1904. He was rewarded for his police service by being appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1885.

Vincent was knighted in 1896 and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1898 for his service as British delegate to a conference on anarchists in Rome.

He was selected to command the infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers in the Second Boer War, but was eventually refused permission to go due to a heart problem. He went in a private capacity anyway, however, and arrived in Cape Town in January 1900, at the height of the war. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, and appointed aide-de-camp to the King, and colonel in the Volunteer Force in 1901. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1889 and was granted the honorary rank of colonel in 1894.

He resigned his commission for the final time in 1904, retaining his rank.

Politician
Vincent went on a world tour, in which he was so impressed with the effects of imperialism that he decided to stand for the Conservative Party (although he had previously tended towards Liberalism). At the general election in November 1885 he defeated Samuel Plimsoll to win the constituency of Sheffield Central. He remained in Parliament until his death, being returned unopposed in 1895 and 1900, although he had to win the elections of 1886, 1892 and 1906. As an MP Vincent became the first politician to rally the public in support of opposition to immigration and make it a campaign issue. He was assisted in this endeavour by William Evans-Gordon who soon took over from Vincent as the focus of "anti-alien" campaigning.
He also served on London County Council from 1889 to 1906. He was chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1895, chairman of the Conservative Party Publication Committee from 1896, and vice-chairman of the Primrose League from 1901. He founded the United Empire Trade League in 1891 and served as its honorary secretary until his death. In 1898 he was appointed to the Royal Commission organising the United Kingdom's participation in the Paris Exhibition of 1900. In 1901 he chaired an inquiry into the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In September 1902 he attended the Congress of the International Union of Penal Jurisprudence at St. Petersburg.

He retained his Parliamentary seat, and his characteristic interjection of a sarcastic 'Yah, yah!' into the opposition speeches continued until his death aged 59 on 7 April 1908.

Footnotes

References
Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Storm of Politics

External links

 The Police Code and General Manual of the Criminal Law Vincent's handbook for the police.
 Portraits of Vincent in the National Portrait Gallery

1849 births
1908 deaths
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Royal Welch Fusiliers officers
Royal Berkshire Militia officers
Queen's Westminsters officers
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1895–1900
UK MPs 1900–1906
UK MPs 1906–1910
People from Slinfold
People educated at Westminster School, London
Politics of Sheffield
Knights Bachelor
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
English barristers
Members of the Inner Temple
Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis
British International Olympic Committee members
Members of London County Council
Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works
Military personnel from Sussex
Deputy Lieutenants of the County of London

Howard Vincent


Paul Hammond is an English former professional association football goalkeeper who played professionally in England, the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

Playing career
On 13 January 1971, Hammond signed as an apprentice with English First Division club Crystal Palace. He remained in the Palace youth team until first team keeper, John Jackson was injured in 1972.  While Hammond then became the starting keeper, his inexperience was a contributing factor to Palace's slide to the second division, then third division.  In the midst of Palace's free fall through the English leagues, the team loaned Hammond to the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League for off-season training.

The Rowdies were created in 1974 and began play in 1975. The new owners hired Eddie Firmani, an assistant with Palace, as the team's first head coach. Firmani brought over three Palace players, Stewart Jump, Mark Lindsay and Hammond for the 1975 season. Amazingly, the Rowdies won the league championship that season, with Hammond recording clean sheets in all three playoff games. He saved a penalty in the 1–0 quarter-final win over Toronto, and survived an onslaught of Portland shots in the Rowdies 2–0 Soccer Bowl victory. However, Hammond returned to Palace at the completion of the loan and was replaced by U.S. great Arnie Mausser. Although Mausser had been capped by the U.S. national team, and was selected as the top NASL goalkeeper for 1976, Firmani preferred Hammond and negotiated his purchase from Palace. Hammond made a total of 117 Football League appearances for Palace. At this time Palace was attempting to rebuild its team and used the funds from Hammond's sale to purchase striker Jeff Bourne from Derby County. Hammond played with the Rowdies through the 1977 season, but was traded to the Houston Hurricane after only eight games of the 1978 season. He then spent the 1979 and 1980 seasons in Houston, being named to the NASL second team All Star list in 1979. While in Houston, Hammond was introduced to professional indoor soccer when a new league, the Major Indoor Soccer League began operations in 1978–1979. Hammond played for the Houston Summit Soccer which drew many of its players from the NASL Hurricane. Hammond was selected as the Goalkeeper of the Year as the Summit ran to the best record only to fall to the champion New York Arrows in the playoff semifinals.

At the end of the 1980 season, the Hurricane folded and Hammond went to the Seattle Sounders dispersal sale. By this time Hammond had blossomed into an excellent keeper. In 1982, the Sounders went to the championship game, only to fall to the New York Cosmos by a score of 1–0. That year Hammond was ranked as the third best keeper in the league. At the end of the season, Hammond entered contract negotiations with the Sounders.  However, other opportunities beckoned. He had gained his U.S. citizenship and the United States Soccer Federation had decided to enter the U.S. national team into the NASL. The team, fittingly known as Team America, drew on U.S. citizens playing in the NASL, MISL and the American Soccer League. However, many U.S. players were unwilling to leave their professional teams to play full-time for the national team. To make up a full roster, USSF allowed a limited number of non-U.S. citizens, such as Alan Green to join Team America. Hammond elected to leave the Sounders after they failed to meet his demands and signed with Team America. When Team America finished the 1983 season with a 10–20 record, the worst in the NASL, USSF withdrew the team from the league. At that point, Hammond moved to the Toronto Blizzard for the last season of the NASL. In 1984, Hammond achieved his greatest success in the NASL when he had the lowest goals-against average in the league. That gained him another Second Team All Star team selection. Hammond remained with the Blizzard for the 1985 season, which they played in the National Soccer League of Canada. He also played for the Hamilton Steelers.

Managerial career
Hammond managed Bridport for the 2006–07 season.

Honours
Soccer Bowl '75
Soccer Bowl '82 (runner-up)
Soccer Bowl '84 (runner-up)

Individual
MISL Goalkeeper of the Year: 1978–79
All-MISL team: 1978–79 (second team)
NASL All-Star: 1979 (second team)
NASL All-Star: 1984 (second team)

References

External links
1971-1972 Crystal Palace Youth Team
New York Times on Team America/Hammond
Stats at neilbrown

1953 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
English expatriate men's footballers
English emigrants to the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Men's association football goalkeepers
Hamilton Steelers (1981–1992) players
Houston Hurricane players
Houston Summit players
Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players
Naturalized citizens of Canada
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Seattle Sounders (1974–1983) players
Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–1993) players
Team America (NASL) players
Toronto Blizzard (1971–1984) players
Toronto Blizzard (1986–1993) players
Canadian National Soccer League players
Footballers from Nottingham
English football managers
Bridport F.C. managers
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
English expatriate sportspeople in Canada

Paul Hammond (footballer)


The Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) is a forensics laboratory specializing in DNA profiling run by the United States Armed Forces and located at the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

It is part of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES).

AFDIL stores refrigerated DNA samples from all current active duty and reserve personnel.  However, almost all casualty identifications are effected using fingerprints from military ID card records (live scan fingerprints are recorded at the time such cards are issued). When friction ridge skin is not available from deceased military personnel, DNA and dental records are used to confirm identity.

External links
www.afmes.mil
Department of Defense DNA Operations

Laboratories in the United States
Forensics organizations
Military medicine in the United States
Dover Air Force Base


Das Goldene Lenkrad ('The Golden Steering Wheel') is one of the best-known German awards for new car models. It has been awarded since 1976 by the Axel Springer SE-owned tabloid BILD am Sonntag (BamS), since 2009 in cooperation with Auto Bild.

The rules were tightened in 2017. For the first time, the results in everyday fuel consumption had an impact on the grading of the test cars. If the difference between the specified factory consumption and actual consumption was too large on a fixed test track, this led to the deduction of points.

In addition, the vehicles were randomly inspected by the independent testing organisation DEKRA. If there were too many deviations from the legal limits applicable from September 2017, the car was disqualified.

Tom Drechsler, Editor-in-Chief Auto of the BILD Group: "The new tests in the style of doping controls have two consequences: They make the price even more valuable: for the customers and for those who build the cars."

In the case of diesel vehicles, the DEKRA test was mainly concerned with nitrogen oxide emissions; in the case of petrol engines, the particle values were determined.

The 2018 award ceremony was cancelled on 22 June 2018 due to exhaust gas manipulations.

History
The prize was initiated by the publisher Axel Springer, who commissioned the former BamS author Hermann Harster to carry it out. In contrast to other car awards such as the Car of the Year, the prizewinners are not determined by journalists or readers, but in two-day test drives by an independent jury of experts, racing drivers and prominent drivers. The award ceremony takes place annually in November in Berlin. With the assumption of editorial responsibility by Peter Maahn, then head of the Auto department at BamS, the criteria of the award were professionalised in 1979. Over the years, the Golden Steering Wheel has developed into an institution which, according to a survey, is the most important German award for automobiles.

The award ceremony was broadcast on the ZDF television channel on 12 November 2000. Presented by Johannes B. Kerner, produced by Schwartzkopff-TV, the award winners were presented in Hangar 2 at Tempelhof Airport.

After 21 years, Maahn handed over responsibility to his successor Joachim Walther in December 2000. In 2007, the Green Steering Wheel was awarded for the best environmental innovation for the first time.

Since this year, Tom Drechsler, Editor-in-Chief Auto of the BILD Group and Editor-in-Chief AUTO BILD, together with Marion Horn, Editor-in-Chief of the BamS, bear overall editorial responsibility for the Golden Steering Wheel.

The trophy
The Golden Steering Wheel is made of gold plated brass and was designed in November 1975 by the then 82-year-old goldsmith Walter W. Franke. Within three days and nights, he carved a 32-centimeter-high pedestal and the 15-centimeter diameter steering wheel from wood. This wooden model then served as a model for the brass casting, which was finally covered with gold.

The lettering on the base contains the name of the vehicle class, the vehicle, the manufacturer and the date on which the prize was awarded.

The jury
In the last 30 years, the international jury that participated in the decision included, among others: Sir Peter Ustinov, Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio, Walter Röhrl, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Thomas Gottschalk, Frank Elstner, Nina Ruge, Jörg Wontorra, David Coulthard, Peter Maffay, Barbara Schöneberger, Nick Heidfeld, Rolf Stommelen or Hans-Joachim Stuck. Only two jurors (Hans Herrmann and Erhard Schwind) have been involved in all 30 decisions to date. The jury traditionally consists of three different groups: technicians, motor sportsmen and celebrities. Each of the groups evaluates different criteria that correspond to their respective automotive know-how. The winner of the Honorary Steering Wheel is not chosen by the jury, but by a panel of BamS editors and publishers. A jury of experts from politics, environmental associations, the automotive industry and automobile clubs will decide on the Green Steering Wheel after a pre-selection by the readers.

The Golden Steering Wheel is a reader's choice in the first step. They determine the four models per class that go one lap further and are tested in Balocco in northern Italy. An international jury of experts will examine the winning cars according to various criteria. Among other things, designers evaluate the design there, and connectivity experts check the networking of the cars. Celebrities such as entertainer Barbara Schöneberger and crime scene star Richy Müller rate the driving pleasure and racing drivers such as Formula 3 driver Mick Schumacher and rally legend Walter Röhrl transmission, suspension and brakes.

The award ceremony
Except for the years 2000 to 2002, the award ceremony always took place in the  in Berlin. In the three years mentioned, the Golden Steering Wheel was broadcast on ZDF from Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. The most famous award ceremony was on 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. At that time, many guests of the event took the opportunity to visit the eastern sector of the divided city for the first time during the night without checks. Conversely, numerous residents of East Berlin spontaneously attended the after-show party. At the 1999 award ceremony, Nina Ruge suffered minor burns during the burning down of a stage firework, which met with a great response from the media.

Honorary awards
In addition to the vehicles, from 1983 honorary prizes were also awarded to personalities for special merits. The prizewinners were:

 1983: Henry Ford
 1984: Ferry Porsche
 1985: Giovanni Agnelli
 1986: Franz Stadler
 1987: Lee Iacocca
 1988:
 1989: Eberhard von Kuenheim
 1990: Carl Hahn
 1991: Raymond Lévy
 1992: Louis R. Hughes
 1993: Michael Schumacher
 1994: Bernd Pischetsrieder
 1995: Giorgetto Giugiaro
 1996: Wendelin Wiedeking
 1997: Ferdinand Piëch
 1998: Jürgen Schrempp
 1999: Louis Schweitzer
 2000: Jacques Nasser
 2001: Joachim Milberg
 2002: Jürgen Hubbert
 2003: Robert A. Lutz
 2004: Helmut Panke
 2005: Dieter Zetsche
 2006: Martin Winterkorn
 2007: Lewis Hamilton
 2008: Franz Fehrenbach
 2009: Luca di Montezemolo
 2010: Norbert Reithofer
 2011: Alan Mulally
 2012: Ferdinand Piëch
 2013: Peter Schreyer
 2014: Elon Musk
 2015: Ratan Tata
 2016: Mary Barra
 2017: Håkan Samuelsson

See also
 List of motor vehicle awards

References

External links

Motor vehicle awards
German awards
Awards established in 1976
1976 establishments in West Germany
Axel Springer SE

Das Goldene Lenkrad


Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama television series produced by Rajshri Productions. It aired from 18 June 2012 to 1 November 2014 on Star Plus. It starred Disha Parmar and Nakuul Mehta as Pankhuri Gupta Kumar and Aditya Kumar.

Plot
Pankhuri Gupta is a small town simple girl from Kullu. Aditya Kumar, a rich boy in Mumbai, has grown cynical about relationships, having seen his parents Avantika and Harish separated for 20 years.
Purushottam Deewan (Aditya's maternal grandfather), a wealthy business tycoon, visits the Guptas in Kullu, determined to get Pankhuri married to Aditya.

Instead, Avantika fixes Aditya's engagement with the Mumbai-based Latika Bafna, who only wants the Deewans' money. Latika frames Aditya for taking advantage of her, but Pankhuri proves his innocence & rebukes Latika for her lies against Aditya. Aditya and Pankhuri become best friends. Pankhuri's parents fix Pankhuri's marriage to Shivam Mehta. Latika tries to ruin the wedding, prompting Shivam to leave. Aditya steps in and marries Pankhuri, and Avantika eventually accepts her as her daughter-in-law wholeheartedly after seeing her unconditional efforts to reunite her with her husband Harish.
Rubel (Anuj's son) comes to India. He is a spoiled brat and despises Aditya as he believes he is too good and more emotionally attached to Purushottam and gets more things whatever he wants more than him and wants the family business and property.
Rubel marries Latika in a contract marriage for the property. Sheela and Latika plan and successfully brainwash Anuj for property and make him acquire a power of attorney. They plot against Aditya and Pankhuri and get them ousted out of the Deewan mansion. They later fire Shanky. Kaira (Anuj's daughter) fears and lives in a misconception that  Purushottam killed his wife Kaushalya. This misunderstanding is cleared after many complicated truths.
At a young age, Aditya was accidentally responsible for the death of Kaushalya, who was in a coma. After learning the truth, Kaira apologises to Purushottam. The Deewans are reunited after many ups and downs. Anuj starts showing love and cares for his father Purushottam and sisters Avantika and Preeti, by handing the reins of the business that he'd usurped to Avantika and Aditya. Preeti marries Sameer Deshpande.

Purushottam's younger brother Manik and his family invite themselves to live in Deewan Mansion after the former's death.

Latika joins Manik and his wife Manorama in their ulterior plans and undergoes an abortion but feigns a miscarriage blaming Pankhuri, which is later revealed to Rubel of Latika's true colours, leading Rubel to change himself and become a better and positive person. Aditya is jailed, framed for possessing fake notes and illegal drugs, and is proven innocent after some time as Aditya relentlessly sticks to the truth that he didn't do anything unethical nor did he ever possess fake notes and illegal drugs. The wicked Manorama compels him to divorce Pankhuri to save Rubel, Aditya-Pankhuri gets divorced for a few days till the true colours of Manik, Manorama & Kapil are out, Manik and Manorama reform after Manorama becomes paralyzed due to an accident and realize all the wrongdoings they caused to everyone in the family, feels sorry for their wrongdoings Rubel divorces Latika, and falls in love with, and marries Payal. Pankhuri and Aditya remarry with all rituals in a grand way. Kapil (Manik's son) gets arrested, and Kaira marries Varun.

The family reunites with Aneesha (the late Kaushalya's younger sister), who returns from Australia after decades. Vikram (Varun's elder brother) wants to use Kaira for revenge on Deewans as a decision by Avantika affects him negatively. The family eventually settles the problem. Aditya and Pankhuri have a tiff . While she goes off to Kullu, they sort out the tiff and patch over the phone and have a special conversation just before Pankhuri falls of a cliff due to a landslide.

2 years later

Harish meets Pankhuri's lookalike Ayesha on a trip in Lucknow and uses her to bring Aditya out of the belief that Pankhuri is still alive but the plan flops. Aditya realises Ayesha isn't Pankhuri and still believes that Pankhuri is alive. Ayesha falls in love with him but keeps her feelings to herself, aware that Aditya only loves Pankhuri. Ayesha's mother Nilofer forces Aditya to marry her after Ayesha's image is tarnished by a photographer Arif.

He marries her; to save her dignity and respect; Avantika soon accepts her. Alive, Pankhuri is brought back to deewan mansion in a coma. On waking up, she reveals being abducted for jewellery. The culprits are caught. Ayesha leaves to pursue her dream of becoming a designer after seeing that Aditya was,is, and will always be only Pankhuri's Adi & only and only love Pankhuri, none can replace her, decides to free him from bond of marriage, which he did to save her dignity and image in the society. Aneesha accompanies her as she considers Ayesha like her daughter. Avantika's past affair is revealed when her illegitimate son Ayush comes to live with the Deewan family.

Eventually, Harish accepts Ayush as his stepson. The show ends on a happy note with Pankhuri turning pregnant and everyone in the family reuniting and rejoicing: thus, fulfilling the dream of being a united and happy family that the late Purushottam Deewan had always dreamt of.

Cast

Main
 Disha Parmar as
Pankhuri Gupta Kumar: Ambika and Diwakar's daughter; Aditya's wife (2012–2014)
Ayesha Khan Kumar:(Twins Looksalike) Nilofer's daughter; Nafisa and Rukhsaar's sister; Aditya's second wife who releases Adi from the bond of marriage seeing his undying love for Pankhuri and ends the marriage mutually and remains good friends with Aditya -Pankhuri (2014)
 Nakuul Mehta as Aditya Kumar: Avantika and Harish's son; Ayush's half-brother; Pankhuri's husband (2012–2014)

Recurring
 Kanwarjit Paintal as Jagdish Prasad Gupta: Puru's friend; Mohina's husband; Diwakar, Pushkar and Kailash's father; Pankhuri and Neha's grandfather (2012–2014)
 Mukesh Khanna as Purushottam "Puru" Deewan: Manik's elder brother; Jagdish's friend; Kaushalya's husband; Anuj, Avantika and Preeti's father; Aditya, Rubel and Kaira's grandfather (2012–2013)
 Rita Bhaduri as Mohina Gupta: Jagdish's wife; Diwakar, Pushkar and Kailash's mother; Pankhuri and Neha's grandmother (2012)
 Kunwar Aziz Ustahi as Diwakar Gupta: Mohina and Jagdish's eldest son; Pushkar and Kailash's brother; Ambika's husband; Pankhuri's father (2012–2014)
 Leena Prabhu as Ambika Kaneria Gupta: Govardhan and Deepak's sister; Diwakar's wife; Pankhuri's mother (2012–2014)
 Faizal Qureshi as Pushkar Gupta: Mohina and Jagdish's second son; Diwakar and Kailash's brother; Sushma's husband; Neha's father (2012–2014)
 Ajita Kulkarni as Sushma Gupta: Pushkar's wife; Neha's mother (2012–2014)
 Abir Goswami/Vimarsh Roshan as Kailash Gupta: Mohina and Jagdish's youngest son; Diwakar and Pushkar's brother; Preeti's ex-lover; Vedika's husband (2012–2014)
 Prerna Bhatt as Vedika Gupta: Kailash's wife (2012–2014)
 Manish Khanna as Govardhan Kaneria: Ambika and Deepak's brother; Kamini's husband (2012-2014)
 Bharti Sharma as Kamini Kaneria: Govardhan's wife (2012-2014)
 Shreya Arora/Urmila Tiwari as Neha Gupta Kapur: Sushma and Pushkar's daughter; Naman's wife (2012–2013)
 Anubhav Krishna Srivastava as Naman Kapur: Shivam's brother; Neha's husband (2012–2013)
 Nandita Puri as Kaushalya Deewan: Anisha's elder sister; Puru's wife; Avantika, Anuj and Preeti's mother; Aditya, Rubel and Kaira's grandmother (2012-2014)
 Manasi Salvi as Avantika Deewan Kumar: Puru and Kaushalya's daughter; Anuj and Preeti's sister; Harish's wife; Ayush and Aditya's mother (2012–2014)
 Nitesh Pandey as Harish Kumar: Sukhmani's son; Sarika's brother; Avantika's husband; Aditya's father; Ayush's step-father (2012–2014)
 Nikhil Sharma as Ayush Malhotra: Avantika's son; Harish's step-son; Aditya's half-brother (2014)
 Mehul Buch as Anuj Deewan: Puru and Kaushalya's son; Avantika and Preeti's brother; Sheela's husband; Rubel and Kaira's father (2012–2014)
 Sonali Naik as Sheela Deewan: Anuj's wife; Rubel and Kaira's mother (2012–2014)
Khushwant Walia as Rubel Deewan: Sheela and Anuj's son; Kaira's brother; Latika's ex-husband; Payal's husband (2012–2014)
 Monica Khanna as Payal Deewan: Deepak's daughter; Rubel's second wife (2013–2014)
 Prinal Oberoi as Kaira Deewan Dhanrajgir: Sheela and Anuj's daughter; Rubel's sister; Manan's ex-girlfriend; Varun's wife (2012–2014)
 Prashant Upadhyay as Varun Dhanrajgir: Vikram's brother; Kaira's husband (2013–2014)
 Ashlesha Sawant as Preeti Deshpande: Kaushalya and Purushottam's daughter; Avantika and Anuj's younger sister; Kailash's ex-lover; Sameer's wife (2012–2014)
 Vijayendra Kumeria as Sameer Deshpande: Nirmala and Sadanand's son; Preeti's husband (2013–2014)
 Mehmood Junior as Shankar "Shanky" Chatterjee: Deewans' caretaker and Puru's aide (2012–2014)
 Meenkashi Sethi as Sukhmani Kumar: Harish and Sarika's mother; Aditya and Payal's grandmother (2012–2014)
 Yashashri Chiplunker as Payal Sharma: Sarika's daughter (2013–2014)
 Prateek Shukla as Shivam Kapoor: Naman's brother; Pankhuri's ex-fiancé (2012)
Alefia Kapadia as Latika Bafna Deewan: Nisha's daughter; Aditya's ex-fiancé; Rubel's ex-wife (2012–2014)
 Priyanka Nayyar as Nisha Bafna: Latika's mother (2012–2013)
 Worship Khanna as Toby (2013)
 Nivaan Sen as Sahil (2013)
 Raj Singh Suryavanshi as Manan Modi: Kaira's ex-boyfriend (2013)
 Rajlaxmi Solanki as Nirmala Deshpande: Sadanand's wife; Sameer's mother; Kaushalya's nurse (2013–2014)
 Kuldeep Mallik as Sadanand Deshpande: Nirmala's husband; Sameer's father (2013–2014)
 Apurva Agnihotri as Vikram Dhanrajgir: Varun's brother; Amrita's husband (2014)
 Aleeza Khan as Amrita Dhanrajgir: Vikram's wife (2014)
 Kunika as Aneesha James Waterson: Kaushalya's younger sister; Puru's sister-in-law; Anuj, Avantika, Preeti's maternal aunt (2014)
 Anil Dhawan as Manik Deewan: Puru's brother; Manorama's husband; Kapil and Revati's father (2013)
 Suchitra Bandekar as Manorama Deewan: Manik's second wife; Kapil and Revati's step-mother (2013)
 Alekh Sangal as Kapil Deewan: Manik's son; Manorama's step-son; Revati's brother; Anuradha's husband (2013)
 Harsha Khandeparkar as Anuradha "Roshni" Deewan: Kapil's wife (2013)
 Sonali Nikam as Revati Deewan: Manik's daughter; Manorama's step-daughter; Kapil's sister (2013)
 Mridul Kumar Sinha as Mr. Goel, Sheela Deewan's elder brother (2014)
 Aparna Ghoshal as Nilofer Khan: Nafisa, Ayesha and Rukhsaar's mother (2014)
 Monica Murthy as Rukhsaar Khan: Nilofer's daughter; Ayesha and Nafisa's sister (2014)
 Divjot Sabarwal as Nafisa Khan: Nilofer's daughter; Ayesha and Rukhsaar's sister (2014)

References

External links
 Official Website on hotstar

StarPlus original programming
Indian television series
Indian television soap operas
Serial drama television series
2012 Indian television series debuts
Television shows set in Himachal Pradesh
Television shows set in Mumbai


Nickel(II) oxide, also known as nickelous oxide, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is NiO. It contains nickel in its +2 oxidation state. It also contains oxide ions.

Properties
Nickel(II) oxide is a light green solid. It does not dissolve in water. Sometimes it is gray because all of the nickel is not in the +2 oxidation state. It reacts with acids to make nickel(II) salts. For example, it reacts with hydrochloric acid to make nickel(II) chloride. It does not react with bases easily.

Preparation
Nickel(II) oxide can be made by heating nickel powder in air at . This normally makes a black nickel oxide. It also can be made by reacting nickel with water at . The simplest way to make it is to heat nickel(II) hydroxide, nickel(II) carbonate, or nickel(II) nitrate.

Uses
It is used to make alloys. It is also used in ceramics. It is used to make other nickel compounds.

Safety
Nickel(II) oxide can irritate skin and make problems when breathed in.

Related pages
Nickel(II) sulfate

Nickel compounds
Oxides

Nickel(II) oxide


Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 182816 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.

Biography
About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first. Among his college contemporaries, besides Taine, were Francisque Sarcey, Challemel-Lacour and Prevost-Paradol. Of them all, About was considered the most highly vitalized, exuberant, brilliant and "undisciplined". It is said that one of his schoolmasters told him "You will never be more than a little Voltaire," and About's career did tend toward Voltaire-style witty satire and commentaries on contemporary issues.

At the end of his college career, he joined the French school in Athens, but claimed that he had never intended to follow the professorial career for which the École Normale was a preparation, and in 1853 he returned to France and devoted himself to literature and journalism.

Career

He made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer.  The satirical Le Roi des montagnes (1856; translated into English by Mary Louise Booth as The King of the Mountains, and by Tom Taylor as The Brigand and His Banker, for a dramatized version) is the best-known of his novels.  In Greece, About had noticed that there was a curious understanding between the brigands and police: brigandage was becoming almost a safe and respectable industry.  About pushed this idea to invent the story of a brigand chief who converts his business into a registered joint-stock company.

About's commentary on modern Greece, La Grèce contemporaine (1854), was an immediate success.  But his Tolla (1855), the story of a young Parisian actress, gave rise to charges of drawing too freely on an earlier Italian novel, Vittoria Savelli (1841). This aroused prejudice against him, and he was the object of numerous attacks. The Lettres d'un bon jeune homme, written to the Figaro under the signature of "Valentin de Quevilly", provoked more animosities. During the next few years, he wrote novels, stories, a play (which failed), a book-pamphlet on the Roman question, many pamphlets on other subjects of the day, innumerable newspaper articles, some art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manuals of political economy, L'A B C du travailleur (1868), Le progrès (1864).  His more serious novels include Madelon (1863), L'Infâme (1867), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche (1866), and Le roman d'un brave home (1880) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L'Assommoir.  He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le nez d'un notaire (1862); Le roi des montagnes (1856); L'homme à l'oreille cassée (1862); Trente et quarante (1858); Le cas de M. Guérin (1862; see Georges Maurice de Guérin).

He was initiated at the Saint-Jean de Jérusalem Grand Orient de France lodge in Nancy on 7 March 1862. He wrote several articles against Masonic side degrees, a point of view that was common among French leftwing freemasons.

About's attitude towards the empire was friendly but critical. He greeted the liberal ministry of Émile Ollivier at the beginning of 1870 with delight, and welcomed the Franco-Prussian War. But as a result of the war he lost his beloved home in Alsace, which he had purchased in 1858 out of the fruits of his earlier literary successes.  With the fall of the empire, he became a republican, and threw himself into battle against conservative reactionaries.  From 1872 to about 1877, his paper, the  XIXe Siècle (19th century), became a power in the land. His political career, however, failed to advance further.

On 23 January 1884 he was elected a member of the Académie française, but died before taking his seat.  His grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris includes a sculpture by Gustave Crauck.

Filmography
L'uomo dall'orecchio mozzato, directed by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle (Italy, 1916, based on the novel L'Homme à l'oreille cassée)
Per un figlio, directed by Mario Bonnard (Italy, 1920, based on the novel Germaine)
Germaine, directed by Augusto Genina and Augusto Camerini (Italy, 1923, based on the novel Germaine)
The Prince's Child, directed by Luise Fleck and Jacob Fleck (Germany, 1927, loosely based on the novel Le Roi des montagnes)
The Man with a Broken Ear, directed by Robert Boudrioz (1934, based on the novel L'Homme à l'oreille cassée)
Mi vida en tus manos, directed by Antonio de Obregón (Spain, 1943, based on the short story Le Buste)
Trente et Quarante, directed by Gilles Grangier (1945, based on the novel Trente et Quarante)
, directed by Willy Rozier (1964, based on the novel Le Roi des montagnes)

Notes

References
Benjamin Willis Wells, A Century of French Fiction, s. v., About

External links

1828 births
1885 deaths
People from Dieuze
19th-century French novelists
Writers from Grand Est
French opinion journalists
19th-century French journalists
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Members of the French School at Athens
Members of the Académie Française
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French Freemasons

Edmond François Valentin About


(born December 6, 1977) is a Japanese Kabuki, film, television actor and stage producer.  He is the eldest son and successor of the celebrated Ichikawa Danjūrō XII. He is known for being a renowned tachiyaku (actor specializing in male roles), in particular he specializes in aragoto roles (which is a tradition that has existed in his family since 1660 with his ancestor and founder of the Naritaya acting house, Ichikawa Danjūrō I).

Prior to assuming his current title, Danjūrō was known as , the eleventh holder of the Ebizō name.

Names and lineage
Danjūrō is a member of the acting guild Naritaya, founded by Ichikawa Danjuro I, which dates back to the 17th century. Born into the Ichikawa family, he is the heir to Ichikawa Kabuki. As is the case with the names of all Kabuki actors, his name is a yago, or stage name, that he succeeded from his father in 2004. Prior to this he went by the stage name Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII. His father Ichikawa Danjūrō XII died in 2013; in January 2019, he announced that he would adopt the name of Danjūrō, thus becoming Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, in May 2020. The name change was postponed when Kabuki shows were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Danjūrō assumed his current title on 31 October 2022 ahead of performances starting the following week. At the same time his son Kangen Horikoshi took the name Ichikawa Shinnosuke VIII (the first name his father Ebizo used when he started acting in kabuki theater) and made his Kabuki debut.

Career

Early acting career
At a very young age, Danjūrō began rigorous training: voice training to master the unusual vocalizations that characterize Kabuki, and physical training to prepare for the stylized movements and poses demanded on the stage. Ichikawa Ebizō XI appeared on stage for the first time at age five in 1983 at the Kabukiza Theater in the role of "Harumiya" in the performance of The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari).  In 1985, he received the stage name Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII, an honorific name in the Ichikawa lineage, and made his full stage debut in the performance of Uiro-uri also at the Kabukiza Theater.  In 1994, he made his first television appearance in the NHK Taiga drama, Hana no Ran, which starred his father Ichikawa Danjuro XII.  And in 2003, he was cast as a leading role Miyamoto Musashi, in the NHK Taiga drama, Musashi.

Later work
In 2011, Ichikawa Ebizō XI landed a starring role in the film Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.  The film Ask This of Rikyu in 2013 was a biographical film of Sen no Rikyū in which he won Best Actor at the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize for performing the title role. The following year, he starred in the film Over Your Dead Body, and in 2017 he appeared in a supporting role in the Japanese samurai film Blade of the Immortal, which also premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. He has appeared numerous times at the Kabuki-za Theater, Osaka Shochikuza Theater, Minami-za Theater, and many other theaters in Japan.

In recent years, Danjūrō has been actively engaged in producing performances to reintroduce the values of traditional Japanese art to the contemporary generation in projects. Since 2012, Danjūrō has produced the performance series entitled "Invitation to the Classics" to make Kabuki more accessible to smaller cities in rural Japan.  Also, in 2013, 2015 and 2017, he self-produced an innovative project called "ABKAI" where the original contemporary Kabuki was introduced. On November 28, 2019, Danjūrō starred as Kairennosuke in the stage production . In addition, his son Kangen Horikoshi portrayed a younger version of Kairennosuke in the play's third act.

During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremonies, he performed Kabuki moves in traditional dress accompanied by the jazz pianist, Hiromi Uehara.

On 22 May 2022, Danjūrō conducted a kabuki performance with his "nirami" glare atop the roof of Tokyo Skytree to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the tower's opening.

International performance
His activities have taken him abroad extensively, including performances in Paris in 2004, London/Amsterdam in May–June 2006, Paris Opera in March 2007, Monaco Opera in September 2009, London/Rome in June 2010, Singapore in November 2014 and October 2015, UAE in February 2016.  He has also appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City in February 2016, which collaborated with Noh and Kyogen.

Danjūrō became the first kabuki actor to hold commemorative performances at the Theatre national de Chaillot in Paris, and he earned a nomination for the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for his work on the London stage in 2006.  In 2007, France awarded him its prestigious The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in appreciation of his work.

Filmography

Film
Sea Without Exit (2006) – Koji Namiki
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011) – Tsukumo Hanshiro
Ask This of Rikyu (2013) – Sen no Rikyū
Over Your Dead Body (2014) – Kousuke Hasegawa/Tamiya Iemon
Blade of the Immortal (2017) – Eiku Shizuma

Television
NHK Taiga drama
Hana no Ran (1994) – young Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Musashi (2003) – Miyamoto Musashi
Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017) – Oda Nobunaga
Kirin ga Kuru (2020–21) – Narrator
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1995, TV Tokyo) – Kipposhi
Ooka Echizen no Kami (1997, TV Tokyo) – Ichijuro Ooka
Chushingura Nakazokyoran (2000, TV Asahi) – Nakazo Nakamura
Mr. Brain (2009, TBS) – Kōhei Takei
Matsumoto Seicho Drama Special Kiri no Hata (2010, Nihon TV) – Kinya Otsuka (leading role)
Story of Machiko Hasegawa (2013, Fuji TV) – Ichikawa Ebizō IX
Yowakutemo Katemasu (2014, NTV) – Kentarō Yachida
Ishikawa Goemon (2016, TV Tokyo) – Ishikawa Goemon
Okehazama (2021, Fuji TV) – Oda Nobunaga

Animation
 Case Closed –  Conan and Ebizō's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery, which is the 804th and 805th episodes in honor of 20th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime.

Personal life
On November 19, 2009, he announced his engagement to news presenter Mao Kobayashi in a written statement and the couple later held a press conference at a local hotel for an official announcement on January 29, 2010. Their wedding took place on July 30, 2010 and was televised by Nippon TV.

On November 25, 2010, Danjūrō got involved in a late-night brawl at a members-only bar in the Nishi Azabu district of Tokyo, and sustained serious injuries, including a burst blood vessel in his left eye. Although the assailant, a member of a motorcycle gang, was arrested and jailed, the court's judgment was that Danjūrō's role in provoking the incident could not be denied. The incident caused a subsequent hiatus in his acting activities, and led to the cessation of a commercial advertising campaign featuring him. The incident received broad coverage due to Danjūrō's status, and brought to public view the links that exist between the entertainment world and mobsters in Japan.

On July 25, 2011, his daughter, Reika, was born. On March 22, 2013, his son and successor Kangen Horikoshi (now Ichikawa Shinnosuke VIII) was born.

In 2016, he ordained as a Shingon Buddhist monk at Narita-san Shinshō-ji temple.

On June 22, 2017, Mao Kobayashi died after a protracted battle with breast cancer.

See also
 Ichikawa Ebizō - chronology of Ebizō kabuki actors
 Ichikawa Danjūrō - chronology of Danjuro kabuki actors

References

External links
 Career Timeline
 NARITAYA Ichikawa Danjuro/Ebizo Official Website
 ABKAI Ichikawa Ebizō XI blog

1977 births
Living people
Horikoshi High School alumni
Japanese Buddhist clergy
Kabuki actors
Male actors from Tokyo
People from Meguro
Shingon Buddhist monks
Taiga drama lead actors

Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII


Jeff Ballard (born Chicago, 1977) is an American glass artist.

Biography

Jeff Ballard started working with glass at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the fall of 1996. After receiving his BFA in 2000 Ballard spent six years gaffing and designing work for production studios across the Southwest. He has taken classes and worked at Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Pittsburgh Glass Center, studying under notable artists such as Dante Marioni, Chris Taylor, Davide Salvadore, and Pino Signoretto. In 2006, Ballard re-located to the Northwest where he spends time creating his own work while teaching classes at the Eugene Glass School and the University of Oregon Craft Center. Ballard was announced as a finalist for the 2008 Niche Awards and was published in Art Buzz, the 2008 collection. He was recently awarded the Poleturner scholarship from Pilchuck and was also asked to be a craftsperson in residence for the creation of Pilchuck's 2008 and 2009 auction centerpieces. His work can be found in galleries, museums, and private collections throughout the United States.

References

External links
 Official website
 Function Art Gallery: Artist biography

American glass artists
Living people
1977 births

Jeff Ballard (artist)


Joseph Zähringer (often written Josef, March 15, 1929 – July 22, 1970) was a German physicist.

From 1949 until 1954 he attended the Universität Freiburg, studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy. In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. By 1958 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany as an assistant. He eventually became the director of the institute in 1965.

His contributions to astronomy included the study of gas isotopes in meteorites and lunar materials. The crater Zähringer on the Moon is named after him.

At Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr. Zahringer worked with Dr. Oliver Schaeffer's cosmochemistry group applying mass spectrometry techniques to the study of rare gases in meteorites.  These studies were largely related to determining the exposure ages of meteorites to cosmic rays in space. Dr. Zahringer contributed much of the mass spectrometer technology from the MPI-Heidelberg.  From this period until his untimely death Dr. Zahringer collaborated with Dr. Schaeffer who had moved on to found the Earth and Space Sciences Department at Stony Brook University.  This collaboration included work on the Apollo 11 & 12 missions.

External links
 Max Planck society brief biography (in German).
 Astronomy/Planetary Database entries.

1929 births
1970 deaths
20th-century German physicists

Joseph Zähringer