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15831743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Quincy%20%281681%E2%80%931737%29 | Edmund Quincy (1681–1737) | Edmund Quincy III (; 1681–1737) was an American merchant and judge. He was the son of Col. Edmund Quincy II (1627-1698) II and his second wife, Elizabeth Gookin. He married Dorothy Flynt and had 7 children. Four lived to adulthood, including Edmund Quincy IV and Dorothy Quincy, who was the topic of a famous poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Life
Like his father and grandfather, he was deeply involved with the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. He was a magistrate, Supreme Court judge from 1718 until his death, and a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1737, he was appointed to a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. However, he contracted smallpox and died before his return to Massachusetts. The colony built a monument at his grave in Brunhill Fields Burial Ground in London and gave in Lenox to his family as a tribute for all of his efforts.
See also
Quincy political family
References
1681 births
Merchants from colonial Massachusetts
People from Quincy, Massachusetts
1737 deaths
Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
Harvard University alumni |
15831806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20Highway%205 | Puerto Rico Highway 5 | Puerto Rico Highway 5 (PR-5) is a main highway in the San Juan Metropolitan area which connects the cities of Cataño to Bayamón and is being extended and converted to a tollway (it has a toll plaza in Bayamón near PR-2 and PR-174) to access the municipalities of Naranjito and Comerío. It is a short freeway from south Cataño to the business area in Bayamón. It makes intersections with PR-22, PR-6, PR-2 and PR-199, where it ends at this time. The highway will parallel PR-167 and will contain the new cable-stayed bridge being built between Bayamón and Naranjito. It will probably end in Puerto Rico highway 152 when completed.
Route description
Cataño to Bayamón
PR-5 begins in a dead end in downtown Cataño, on a peninsula overlooking San Juan Bay. It crosses downtown Cataño on an urban street, passing through the main square. Shortly after an intersection with PR-165, it becomes a divided avenue until reaching PR-22 at the Bayamon city limit.
After the PR-22 intersection, it becomes a freeway, paralleling the Metro Urbano bus rapid transit route. After an intersection with PR-29, it becomes an avenue in downtown Bayamon, where the Metro Urbano ends. After the intersection with PR-2, it becomes a tolled freeway until this section ends, becoming the western section of PR-199.
Toa Alta to Naranjito
This section begins at an intersection with PR-167, near the border with Bayamon. This segment passes through the Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge and is a freeway until the junction with PR-148. It then continues as a non divide highway, and then becomes divided until its end at an intersection with PR-164 and PR-152. This entire segment was originally known as PR-147.
Tolls
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
005
Public–private partnerships in Puerto Rico
05 |
15831821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVOP | WVOP | WVOP (970 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk format and licensed to Vidalia, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Dennis Jones, through licensee RadioJones, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network.
On February 1, 2010, WVOP changed format from oldies to news and talk.
References
External links
VOP |
15831870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wayne | Frank Wayne | Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi Jr.; July 9, 1917 – March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was also associated with Mark Goodson Productions.
Biography
Wayne was the original executive producer of the current incarnation of The Price Is Right from its 1972 premiere until his death in 1988. He created the show's most popular pricing game, Plinko, and many others. Both of his sons, Philip Wayne Rossi and Mark Wayne, also worked on Price.
Wayne is also credited with creating The Match Game in 1962 and Now You See It in 1974 for Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions. He filled in for Bud Collyer on Beat the Clock in Summer 1953 while a writer/stunt creator on the show, then later became the show's producer.
As an independent producer, Wayne created and produced Laugh Line, a game show hosted by Dick Van Dyke.
On March 18, 1988, Wayne died in Los Angeles, California. After Wayne's death, former longtime host Bob Barker became the executive producer of The Price Is Right, holding the title until his 2007 retirement. According to producer Roger Dobkowitz, "When Frank Wayne passed on, Bob became the official Executive Producer of the show. However, in reality, Bob was the de facto executive producer since the '70s... he just didn't have the title. In other words, Bob basically went along with what the producers wanted... but he had veto power. If Bob wanted something done, the show would do it. Please don't get the wrong impression... Bob was not interested in taking over the show... he just wanted some things done a certain way that he felt important to make the show better and his performance better. During the years after Frank died, he let Phil Wayne and me run the show. Then after Phil left, I was the sole producer. I had much leeway in doing things... I just had to check them out with Bob first (new games, set changes, etc.). Bob's office was his dressing room... we would confer there either before or after the show."
Upon his death, a short tribute was recorded by Barker, which aired after an episode of The Price is Right as an attached segment that followed the end credits:
Following is a message saying "Frank Wayne July 9, 1917-March 18, 1988."
Notes
1917 births
1988 deaths
American game show hosts
Television producers from Massachusetts
Businesspeople from Boston
20th-century American businesspeople |
15831872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Harrison | Wendell Harrison | Wendell Harrison (born October 1, 1942) is an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.
Early life and career
Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, Harrison began formal jazz studies with pianist Barry Harris. He began playing clarinet at age seven. He switched to tenor saxophone while attending Northwestern High School, and at 14, performed professionally for the first time. In Detroit, early gigs included backing Marvin Gaye as part of Choker Campbell's band. In 1960, Harrison moved to New York. He began performing with artists such as Grant Green, Chuck Jackson, Big Maybelle, and Sun Ra. Along with saxophonist Howard Johnson, and trumpeters Marcus Belgrave and Jimmy Owens, Harrison toured with Hank Crawford and appeared as a sideman on four of Crawford's albums recorded for Atlantic Records during 1965-67.
In the late 1960s, Wendell Harrison relocated to California and entered substance abuse treatment at Synanon center. During his two-year stay, he collaborated with artists such as Esther Phillips and Art Pepper. In addition, Harrison and other residents recorded an album under the musical direction of Greg Dykes. Prince Of Peace was released on Epic Records in 1968.
Tribe
In 1971, Harrison headed back to Detroit and began teaching music at Metro Arts, a multi-arts complex for youth. At Metro Arts, Harrison reconnected with Marcus Belgrave, and first met pianist/composer Harold McKinney and trombonist Phil Ranelin, who had moved to Detroit from Indianapolis in 1969. With Ranelin, Harrison formed the Tribe record label and artist collective. Tribe used this vehicle to convey a growing black political consciousness. In addition to McKinney and Belgrave, the group also included drummer and composer Doug Hammond, pianist Kenny Cox, trumpeter Charles Moore, pianist David Durrah, and bassist Ron Brooks.
Harrison and his first wife, Patricia, also published Tribe magazine, a publication dedicated to local and national social and political issues, as well as featuring artistic contributions such as poetry and visual pieces. The magazine proved popular, eventually switching from quarterly to monthly publication. Harrison supervised the editing of Tribe magazine until the final issue hit the newsstands in 1977.
Rebirth and WenHa
In 1978, with encouragement from John Sinclair, Harrison and Harold McKinney co-founded Rebirth, Inc. Run by Harrison's second wife, Pamela Wise, Rebirth is a non-profit jazz performance and education organization, whose mission is to “educate youth and the greater community about jazz through workshop and concert presentations throughout the Midwest”. Notable jazz artists, such as Geri Allen, Jimmy Owens, James Carter, Eddie Harris, Leon Thomas, and Woody Shaw have participated in Rebirth's programs. Further expanding on his focus on music education, Harrison authored the Be Boppers Method Books I & II as a teaching aid to musicians looking to build their improvisational skills.
During this time, Harrison also created the WenHa record label and publishing company, which released many of his recordings as well as that of other artists, such as Wise, Phil Ranelin, and Doug Hammond.
Return to clarinet
In the late 1980s, Harrison increased his focus on the clarinet. He formed the Mama's Licking Stick clarinet ensemble, which features E flat soprano, B flat, alto, bass and contrabass clarinets. With this ensemble, Harrison recorded several albums: Mama's Licking Stick, Rush and Hustle, Live In Concert, and Forever Duke. Harrison has continued to bring attention to the jazz clarinet via education workshops, as well as public performances. He has showcased the clarinet in such varied settings as his own Swing Ensemble (where he occasionally sings) and accompanying techno artist Carl Craig.
Revisiting Tribe and Michigan Jazz Masters
In the early 1990s, Wendell Harrison was awarded the title of “Jazz Master” by Arts Midwest, a regional organization partnered with the National Endowment For the Arts. This distinction led Harrison to collaborate with fellow honorees to form the Michigan Jazz Masters group in 1995. Focusing on a more straight-ahead jazz style for this project, Harrison toured with Michigan Jazz Masters throughout the United States, followed by Middle East and African tours.
Harrison's recordings under the Tribe label continued to have a large following in Europe and Asia. In the early 2000s, this attention led to the reissue of his 1972 release, An Evening With the Devil, as well as most of the Tribe Records catalog. The ensuing publicity encouraged Harrison to once again feature the tenor sax, working closely again, and touring internationally with, Tribe label mates Phil Ranelin and Marcus Belgrave. This renewed interest resulted in another collaboration with producer Carl Craig on the 2009 album, Rebirth, which integrates the style of the 1970s Tribe recordings with Craig's modern production values and musical sensibility. In addition to performing, Harrison is credited with four compositions to the album.
Recent projects
Wendell Harrison continues to hold the position of artistic director of Rebirth[citation], organizing and executing workshops and residencies in school music programs. Harrison also continues to perform and record, collaborating on sessions with artists such as Proof, Amp Fiddler, Don Was, and Will Sessions.
Education
Wendell Harrison earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in 2014 from Spring Arbor University, majoring in Organizational Management. In 2017 he earned a Masters in Communications Degree, also from Spring Arbor University.
Discography
Albums as Leader:
An Evening with the Devil (Tribe Records, 1972)
A Message From the Tribe with Phil Ranelin (Tribe, 1973)
Dreams of a Love Supreme (Rebirth Records, 1979)
Organic Dream (Rebirth, 1981)
Birth of a Fossil (Rebirth, 1985)
Reawakening (Rebirth, 1985)
Wait Broke the Wagon Down (Rebirth, 1987)
The Carnivorous Lady (Rebirth, 1988)
Fly by Night (WenHa, 1990)
Forever Duke (Wen-Ha, 1991)
Live in Concert (WenHa, 1992)
Something For Pops with Harold McKinney (Wenha, 1993)
Rush & Hustle (WenHa/Enja, 1994)
The Battle of the Tenors (WenHa/Enja, 1998)
Eighth House: Riding with Pluto (Entropy Records, 2002)
Urban Expressions (WenHa, 2004)
It's About Damn Time (Rebirth, 2011)
Appears on:
Hank Crawford - Dig These Blues (Atlantic, 1965)
Hank Crawford - After Hours (Atlantic, 1966)
Hank Crawford - Mr. Blues (Atlantic, 1967)
Hank Crawford - Double Cross (Atlantic, 1967)
Greg Dykes - The Prince Of Peace, 1968
Phil Ranelin - The Time is Now!, 1973
Harold McKinney - Voices and Rhythms of the Creative Profile, 1974
Marcus Belgrave - Gemini II, 1974
Phil Ranelin - Vibes From the Tribe, 1976
William Odell Huges - Cruising, 1982
Michigan Jazz Masters - Urban Griots, 1998
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless, 2004
Phil Ranelin - Inspiration, 2004
Slicker - We All Have a Plan, 2004
Proof - Grown Man Shit, 2005
Proof - Searching for Jerry Garcia, 2005
John Arnold - Style and Pattern, 2005
Amp Fiddler - Afro Strut, 2007
Carl Craig - Paris Live, 2007
Tribe - Rebirth, 2009
Sean Blackman - In Transit, 2009
Will Sessions - Kindred, 2010
Doug Hammond Tentet - Rose, 2011
John Lindberg BC3 - Born in an Urban Ruin, 2016
References
External links
[ Wendell Harrison] at Allmusic
Wendell Harrison website
1942 births
Living people
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
American jazz clarinetists
American male jazz composers
American jazz composers
American magazine publishers (people)
Jazz musicians from Michigan
Musicians from Detroit
Record producers from Michigan
21st-century American saxophonists
21st-century clarinetists
21st-century American male musicians |
15831881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Hooley | Joan Hooley | Joan Hooley (born 13 November 1936) is an actress. Born in Jamaica, Hooley moved to the United Kingdom as a young girl, and her career has been based in Britain. She is best known for playing the role of Josie McFarlane in BBC's EastEnders. Still, she has also appeared in other television programmes, since the mid-1950s. Since 2015, she has appeared in ITV's Off Their Rockers.
Career
Hooley first appeared on television in the 1950s. She was cast in the ITV hospital soap opera Emergency Ward 10 and appeared in the series in 1964. She played Dr Louise Mahler, who embarked on an interracial relationship with a white doctor, Giles Farmer (played by John White), which included what was long-thought to have been the first interracial kiss on television. A love scene between the two characters was rewritten because it was considered "a little too suggestive". She has commented, "I suddenly found myself in the papers under the headline: 'Black and White TV Kiss Banned'. It was very upsetting and it hit my self-esteem. My part suddenly evaporated and Dr Mahler was sent back to Africa on a holiday where she was bitten by a snake and died. What an exit!"
Her other credits include roles in No Hiding Place (1961); Danger Man (1965); Special Branch (1969); as Umma in C.A.B. (1988); The Bill (1988; 1993); Bugs (1995) and Kavanagh QC (1997). In 1998 she was cast as Josie McFarlane, the mother of Mick McFarlane (Sylvester Williams), in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The character was introduced by executive producer Matthew Robinson, but in November 1999 it was announced that Hooley's character was being dropped.
She made her final appearance in episodes transmitted in February 2000. Since leaving the serial, Hooley has publicly accused EastEnders and the BBC of racism and tokenism, for giving her character no significant storylines, and using her like a prop. In 2000 she commented, "It was very demeaning and a form of insidious racism. That is a very strong phrase to use against the BBC and EastEnders but I feel very badly about how they handled my character. They were just fulfilling a duty to have a black face in the show."
Hooley subsequently had roles in Urban Gothic (2000); Doctors (2004), and Respectable (2006), among others. As well as acting, Hooley has written scripts for the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's.
In 2015, Hooley joined the cast of ITV's Off Their Rockers as one of the pranksters. She starred in Season 5, Episode 2 of BBC's Death In Paradise, which aired on 28 January 2016.
Personal life
In 2002, at the age of 65, Hooley married actor Geoff Harris, known for his portrayal of Charles Dickens in his one-man Dickens show. They met and became a couple in 1993, and remained together until Harris' death of cancer in 2004.
References
External links
1936 births
Living people
British soap opera actresses
Jamaican soap opera actresses
Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom |
15831914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Fehlis | Heinrich Fehlis | {{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = SS-Oberführer
| name = Heinrich Fehlis
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| caption = Fehlis in 1941
| birth_date =
| death_date = 11 May 1945 (aged 38)
| birth_place = Wulften am Harz, German Empire
| death_place = Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
| placeofburial = Eidanger
| allegiance =
| branch = Schutzstaffel
| serviceyears = {{plainlist|
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| rank = SS-Oberführer| commands = Head of Sicherheitsdienst and Sicherheitspolizei for Norway and Oslo
| battles = World War II
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Heinrich Fehlis (1 November 1906 – 11 May 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer during World War II. He commanded the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Norway and Oslo during the German occupation of Norway.
Background
Heinrich Fehlis was born on 1 November 1906 in the village of Wulften am Harz, northeast of Göttingen, Germany. He was a newly educated attorney when Hitler rose to power in 1933, joining the SA that year on 1 April and the Nazi Party on 1 May. On 10 September 1935, Fehlis joined the SS, where he successfully applied to work for the Gestapo in Berlin. Rising through the ranks in Stuttgart and Frankfurt, he gained a reputation for skill and was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in April 1940. He then taught a course for police officers until he was ordered to Norway as part of Operation Weserübung.Fehlis's biographical information is described as a footnote, citing information from the SS Personalhauptamt in:
German occupation of Norway
On 21 April 1940, Fehlis became leader of the Einsatzkommando in Oslo and in November he succeeded Walter Stahlecker in the dual command of the SD and SiPo in Norway and Oslo. He rose to the rank of SS-Standartenführer, reporting to Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner in Berlin and Wilhelm Rediess and Josef Terboven in Norway. In June 1944 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer.
Together with his subordinate, Hellmuth Reinhard, Fehlis regulated the use of torture and sentenced prisoners to death in so-called "office judgements". 151 Norwegians were executed without trial, the majority on direct orders from Fehlis.
General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (Commander of the Wehrmacht in Norway) gave the following description of Fehlis: "[he] was really a quiet, modest man and always very polite to me. By the way, I am fully aware that he has had me and my staff under close supervision for all these years".
It has been suggested that Fehlis took a milder approach towards the end of the war, possibly fearing reprisals in the case of a German defeat. Despite already having a family in Germany, he entered a relationship with a Norwegian woman named Else Johanne Schaug, who gave birth to his daughter Venke Fehlis in January 1945.
German capitulation and suicide
Following the German surrender on 8 May 1945 and the end of World War II in Europe, Fehlis and other SS officials attempted to escape capture by Milorg. He arranged for Gestapo members to be hidden among ordinary soldiers in the Wehrmacht, personally leading a force of around 75 men disguised in Gebirgskorps Norwegen'' uniforms to a military camp near Porsgrunn. Following a tip-off, the camp fell under suspicion and was surrounded. During negotiations, Fehlis (who impersonated a lieutenant named "Gerstheuer") requested an hour to prepare for surrender. Milorg agreed, but when they finally entered the camp it was in a disorderly condition with many of the Germans in a state of intoxication. Fehlis' body was discovered in one of the camp rooms; he had found the means to first poison, then shoot himself. He was buried in Eidanger.
Else Schaug escaped to Sweden with her and Fehlis' daughter Venke. In 2012, Venke released a book about her experience growing up as his daughter.
See also
Ernst Weiner
Alfred Zeidler
Siegfried Fehmer
Victoria Terrasse
Beisfjord massacre
Operation Blumenpflücken
Espeland detention camp
Grini detention camp
Nazi concentration camps in Norway
References
1906 births
1945 suicides
1945 deaths
Einsatzgruppen personnel
German mass murderers
German military personnel who died by suicide
Gestapo personnel
Nazis who died by suicide
People from Northeim (district)
People from the Harz
SS-Oberführer
Suicides by cyanide poisoning
Suicides by firearm in Norway |
15831918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers%2C%20Friends%20and%20Strangers | Lovers, Friends and Strangers | Lovers, Friends and Strangers is the sixth solo studio album by American country music singer, Barbara Mandrell, released in May 1977. The album peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. "Hold Me", the album's only single, peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Mandrell's success was beginning to build with the release of this album. "Married, But Not to Each Other", the second single from her previous album, Midnight Angel, had peaked at number three on the Billboard county singles chart, which lead to its inclusion on Lovers, Friends, and Strangers. A cover version of "After the Lovin'" was included, which exemplified the type of songs Mandrell was recording at the time. This track was also nominated for a Grammy the following year for Best Female Performance – Country. Like many of her following albums, Lovers, Friends, & Strangers consisted of 10 tracks, instead of 11 like on her previous two releases, This Is Barbara Mandrell and Midnight Angel.
Track listing
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
The Holladay Singers, The Lea Jane Singers - backing vocals
Bobby Thompson - banjo
Mike Leech, Steve Schaffer - bass guitar
Hayward Bishop, Kenny Malone - drums
Tommy Williams - fiddle
Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Chip Young, Reggie Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy, Terry McMillan - harmonica
Farrell Morris - percussion
David Briggs, Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey, Hal Rugg - steel guitar
George Binkley III, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennid Haight, Sheldon Kurland, Ann Migliore, Steven Smith, Donald Teal, Gary Vanosdale - strings
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 2,5,6,8)
Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
References
1977 albums
Barbara Mandrell albums
Dot Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer) |
15831920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Canal%20Link | Liverpool Canal Link | The Liverpool Canal Link is an English waterway link that connects the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, at the Liverpool Pier Head, to the city's South Docks. It cost £22m and was opened in March 2009. The new link adds of navigable waterway to the canal system.
History
It was intended that the Leeds and Liverpool Canal would be linked to the docks in Liverpool. It was only in 1846, 30 years after the canal's completion, that the canal was directly linked to the docks via the Stanley Dock Branch. Georges Dock was filled in at the beginning of the 20th century to allow the building of the Liver Building, Cunard Building and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Building, now known as "the Three Graces". This meant the North and South Docks were no longer directly linked. Boats wishing to travel from the North Docks to the South Docks had to go via the River Mersey.
Planning
By 2000 there were several new canal projects such as the renovation of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, the Ribble Link and Rochdale Canal. The Waterways Regeneration Task Force, part of British Waterways, took over the South Docks from English Partnerships. The Task Force approached the Liverpool City Council's Liverpool City Vision with the suggestion of linking the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the South Docks by building a new waterway across Pier Head.
Four routes were proposed and after public consultation in 2001 a route was chosen. The winning route was across the front of the Three Graces at the Pier Head. Feasibility work was funded by the North West Regional Development Agency, British Waterways Regeneration Task Force and a detailed proposal drawn up during 2003. Funding for the work came from the NWRDA, (50%) with the rest coming from Europe via the ERDF Objective 1 programme. The original estimate was £17 million.
After some changes to the plans following the failed Fourth Grace project and objections by English Heritage a new plan was drawn up by March 2005 which took account of the new Museum of Liverpool. Planning permission was applied for in August 2005 and granted in early 2006.
Route
The chosen route includes two new locks, open channels, tunnels and culverts. Two new highway bridges were built, as well as flow control structures and utility diversions.
The docks between Salisbury Dock and Prince's Half-Tide Dock were filled in with just a small drainage channel remaining. Following dredging in the 1990s, this section was in water and navigable. Further dredging took place at the northern edge of the Trafalgar Dock infill.
Between Trafalgar Dock and the Prince's Half-Tide Dock a -wide channel through Trafalgar Dock and the northern end of West Waterloo Dock was built, with a new crossing at the dock passage between Trafalgar and West Waterloo Dock. The channel from West Waterloo Dock to Prince's Dock was dredged and the level of the docks reduced.
From the northern end of Prince's Dock through to the start of the Pier Head area a new fixed bridge and lock was built at Prince's Dock. Prince's Dock Footbridge was raised to allow boats to pass underneath and the bridge approaches have been landscaped. A new culvert across land known as Plot 7 was built along with another new culvert beneath St. Nicholas Place and the cruise liner facility.
The final section of the canal link commences south of the Floating Roadway Basin, crosses the Pier Head and terminates at Canning Dock. of new canal was built along with associated bridge crossings and a lock structure. A new basin was built at Mann Island along with extensive landscaping for the general public.
Construction
In 2007, during the construction of the canal link, the sites of Chester Basin and Manchester Dock were excavated. The excavation revealed various carved stones in the area of Chester Basin, which were identified as being from the Liverpool Town Hall of 1673. The excavation was shown in a Time Team Special, broadcast on Channel 4 on Monday 21 April 2008.
The canal link was completed in December 2008 with the Pier Head section finished earlier in September. After a period of testing and commissioning the canal link opened on 25 March 2009.
Images
See also
Canals of Great Britain
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
References
External links
Pennine Waterways, includes virtual tour of Canal Link
Photographs of the Canal Link
Photographs of the Link under Construction
Canals in England
Canals in Merseyside
Canals in Liverpool
Transport in Liverpool
Tourist attractions in Liverpool
Canals opened in 2009 |
15831947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Copa%20Telmex%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles | 2008 Copa Telmex – Doubles | Martín García and Sebastián Prieto were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.
Agustín Calleri and Luis Horna won in the final 6–0, 6–7(6–8), [10–2], against Werner Eschauer and Peter Luczak.
Seeds
Draw
Draw
External links
Main Draw
Doubles |
15832016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamei%20Koremasa | Kamei Koremasa | was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period, who ruled the Tsuwano Domain. He assisted in the construction of a part of Kōdaiji Temple in Kyoto. His childhood name was Dairiki (大力).
Family
Father: Kamei Masanori
Mother: Kōmyōin
Wife: Tōsen-in
Concubine: Mizusaki Hōan’s daughter
Children:
Kamei Masanao (1645-1679) by Tōsen-in
Kamei Koretsugu
daughter married Matsudaira Yasutomi
daughter married Shimazu Tadataka
daughter married Namba Munekazu
daughter married Washo Masatoki
Kamei Korechika (1669-1731) by Mizusaki Hōan’s daughter
Kamei Masasuke
Munekiyo Sōjō
Tago Masazumi
daughter married Morikawa Toshitane
daughter married Itakura Shigehiro
daughter married Yagyū Toshikata
Kamei Noriyuki
References
"Goryoeshi shiseki" on bakumatu.727.net (18 February 2008)
Daimyo
1617 births
1681 deaths
Kamei clan |
15832028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling%20Valley%20Ecumenical%20Partnership | Watling Valley Ecumenical Partnership | The Watling Valley Ecumenical Partnership is a Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP) in Milton Keynes, England which belongs to the Church of England, The Baptist Union, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church.
The Watling Valley is a large area on the western side of Milton Keynes. This area is covered by one Anglican Parish.
Locations
All Saints, Loughton
St. Mary's, Shenley
Holy Cross, Two Mile Ash
Servant King, Furzton
St. Giles, Tattenhoe
External links
Official website
Churches in Buckinghamshire
Organisations based in Milton Keynes
Christian ecumenical organizations |
15832033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaladium%20Arena | Spaladium Arena | Spaladium Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Split, Croatia. It was opened in December 2008, and hosted the following month's World Men's Handball Championship in 2009. The hall will host the event again in 2025 with Croatia, Denmark, and Norway as national co-hosts.
, Spaladium Arena had been closed for more than a year over the inability of its operators to cover the maintenance costs. It was reopened for a Severina concert in December 2013. As of 2020, the arena was largely out of use.
Concerts & events
Ministry of Sound: New Year's Party; December 31, 2009 – January 1, 2010
Zdravko Čolić performed a sold out concert on February 14, 2010
Jelena Rozga performed a sold out concert during her The Bižuterija Tour; February 11, 2011
Severina Vučković performed a sold out concert during her Dobrodošao u Klub Tour; December 6, 2013
Dubioza kolektiv performed a concert on March 1, 2014
Željko Joksimović performed a concert on March 8, 2014
Marko Perković Thompson performed a concert on December 23, 2014
Đorđe Balašević performed a concert on May 22, 2015
Iron Maiden performed a sold out concert on their Book of Souls tour on July 27, 2016
Parni valjak performed a sold out concert on November 19, 2016
Prljavo kazalište performed a concert on February 10, 2017
Nina Badrić performed a concert on March 8, 2019
Maya Berović performed a concert on her Pravo Vreme tour on March 31, 2019
Severina Vučković performed a sold out concert during The Magic Tour; November 16, 2019
Željko Bebek performed a concert on December 21, 2019
Petar Grašo performed a concert on March 25, 2022
Doris Dragović performed a sold out concert on November 12, 2022
Saša Matić performed a sold out concert on December 17, 2022
Gallery
See also
List of indoor arenas in Croatia
List of indoor arenas in Europe
References
External links
Sports venues completed in 2008
Sports venues in Split, Croatia
Indoor arenas in Croatia
Handball venues in Croatia |
15832047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir%20%C4%86osi%C4%87%20Hall | Krešimir Ćosić Hall | The Krešimir Ćosić Hall () is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena located in Zadar, Croatia. The arena is home to the KK Zadar basketball club and also hosts concerts, conventions and other sporting, business and entertainment events.
From October 2008, its official name became Krešimir Ćosić Hall, named after the legendary Croatian basketball player Krešimir Ćosić. Former name of the arena was Sportski centar Višnjik (). The arena's nickname is "Peka", which is a traditional Dalmatian cookware of the same name. For several months during 2008, it was the largest indoor arena in Croatia, and now it is the third largest.
Events
The arena was used as one of the venues during the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship. Also, the Croatia Davis Cup team has played at the arena for the 2008 Davis Cup World Group play-offs and 2016 Davis Cup World Group semifinals.The arena was also host for group matches during 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
See also
List of indoor arenas in Croatia
List of indoor arenas in Europe
References
External links
Official site
Venue information
Gradovi domaćini - Svjetsko prvenstvo u rukometu 2009.
Indoor arenas in Croatia
Basketball venues in Croatia
Handball venues in Croatia
Sports venues completed in 2008
Sport in Zadar
KK Zadar
2008 establishments in Croatia
Hall, Krešimir Ćosić |
15832065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20O%27Neil | James A. O'Neil | James A. O’Neil (January 26, 1800 – September 1, 1874) was an American businessman and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory. A New York native, he took part in the Champoeg Meetings and helped form the Provisional Government of Oregon. Prior to the formation of a government he participated in the Willamette Cattle Company, and later served as a judge in the Provisional Government.
Early life
James O’Neil was born in the state of New York in 1800. He was partly educated in legal studies there. In 1834, James joined Nathaniel Wyeth’s fur trading company, the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company (CRFTC), that was organized to exploit the fur trade along the west coast of North America.
Oregon
Wyeth’s party arrived in 1834 at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers at present day Portland, Oregon. O’Neil helped build Wyeth’s Fort William on today’s Sauvie Island. The venture was a failure, and O’Neil moved up the Willamette Valley and took a land claim near what is now Wheatland, Oregon, in 1835. In 1837, the Willamette Cattle Company was formed by area settlers, led by Ewing Young. O’Neil joined the company and sailed to California aboard the Loriot and then drove cattle back to Oregon.
In 1838, he was one of the people to sign a petition circulated around the Euro-American settlements of the Oregon Country that was sent to the United States Congress asking for the United States to extend its jurisdiction over the region. The U.S. did not do so until it formed the Oregon Territory in 1848 after settling the Oregon boundary dispute with Great Britain. In 1841, settler Ewing Young died without an heir, leading to a series of meetings at Champoeg on the French Prairie. At a later meeting in 1843, settlers voted 52 to 50 in favor of forming the Provisional Government of Oregon with O’Neil voting with the proponents.
Following this vote, he assisted in the creation of the government by serving on the first legislative committee that wrote the Organic laws of Oregon, and was elected as a justice of the peace for the Yamhill District. This assistance included selling several legal texts to the legislative committee to help frame the Organic law. In 1845, he was elected as a judge for the district. O’Neil also built a grist mill that year, the first in what became Polk County.
Later years
O’Neil then moved to Benton County and lived at Tampico where he operated a store. In 1853, he joined a commission working to build a railroad connection to California, remaining until 1854. The next year he married Tabitha C. Bowman.
James A. O’Neil died in September 1874, at his farm in Polk County near the community of Lewisville. He was buried there, but later moved to the Hart Cemetery.
References
External links
Brown’s Political History of Oregon
Champoeg Meetings
Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon
People from New York (state)
1800 births
1874 deaths
Oregon pioneers
People from Yamhill, Oregon
People from Benton County, Oregon |
15832066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vara%C5%BEdin%20Arena | Varaždin Arena | The Varaždin Arena is a multi-use indoor arena in Varaždin, Croatia. It is used mostly for team handball, volleyball and basketball games. The stadium has a capacity of 5,000 and was officially opened on 6 December 2008. It was completed to be used as one of the venues during the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship hosted in Croatia. It hosted all the Group C matches which consisted of Germany, Macedonia, Algeria, Poland, and Russia.
The arena was also used to host the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship and will be hosting 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.
The arena has played host to various events other than sports, such as dancing championships, various expos, school affiliated events, circuses, auto-shows, and concerts. In its short history the arena hosted numerous artists such as: Đorđe Balašević, Zdravko Čolić, Limp Bizkit, Mišo Kovač, Dino Merlin, Plavi Orkestar, Gibonni, Bambi Molesters, Halid Bešlić, Crvena Jabuka and Parni Valjak.
Concerts & events
Tony Cetinski performed a concert during the Karlovačko Live 2012 - December 26, 2012
Lijepom našom HRT television music show held the filming event - December 5, 2012
Gregorian (band) performed a concert during their Epic Chants World Tour 2013 - April 5, 2013
2Cellos performed a concert - June 1, 2013
Les Misérables (Jadnici) the musical was performed - September 27, 2013
Severina Vučković performed a sold-out concert during her Dobrodošao u Klub Tour - November 8, 2013
Goran Bregović performed a concert promoting his album Champagne for the Gypsies - November 30, 2013
Klape i Tamburaši performed a joined concert - December 6, 2013
Neno Belan & Fiumens held a Big Christmas concert - December 20, 2013
Gallery
See also
List of indoor arenas in Croatia
List of indoor arenas in Europe
References
External links
Arena Varazdin
Facebook address
Davis Cup: Croatia vs Ecuador, march 2010
Handball venues in Croatia
Indoor arenas in Croatia
Arena
Arena |
15832087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Defensor%20Sr. | Arthur Defensor Sr. | Arthur "Art" Doligosa Defensor Sr. (born December 25, 1941) is a Filipino politician and a statesman who served as the governor of Iloilo from 1992 until 2001, and again from 2010 until 2019. He also served as Representative of the 3rd District of Iloilo from 2001 to 2010. He was the Majority Leader of the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He is currently a member of the PDP–Laban. He is married to Cosette Rivera Defensor.
Early life and education
Arthur Doligosa Defensor was born on December 25, 1941, to Santiago A. Defensor and Lourdes P. Doligosa, Both of them are public school teachers.
He graduated with honors from Mina Elementary School, as well as Iloilo High School. He obtained his Associate in Arts degree from the University of the Philippines, Iloilo City in 1959 and his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City in 1963.
A bemedalled orator and debater, Defensor is a recipient of various awards, among which are the Most Outstanding Alumnus in Public Service (Centennial Award) from the UP in the Visayas, and the BenignoS. Aquino, Jr. Fellowship for Professional Development. He was cited four times as the Most Distinguished Alumnus of the Iloilo National High School
Political career
Governor Arthur D. Defensor, Sr. is the only chief executive of the Province of Iloilo who got elected six times in the office, a manifestation of the overwhelming support of the people of his leadership. He was first elected in 1992, re-elected in 1995, and in 1998. After serving nine years as Congressman, he was again elected governor in 2010 and re-elected in 2013 and in 2016.
His name has become synonymous with good governance while his extensive and distinguished political career has never been tarnished with accusations of wrongdoings and misconduct. Moreover, his long list of awards and citations conferred on him attests to his exemplary public service record.
A brilliant lawyer, Defensor became the first Mayor of his hometown, Mina, at the young age of 26. When martial law was declared in 1972, he chose to concentrate on his law practice, becoming one of the most sought-after lawyers in the City and Province of Iloilo.
In 1984, he ran and won as an opposition Assemblyman in the Batasan Pambansa where he proved himself to be a champion of freedom and democracy. He became a leading critic of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, earning for him the admiration of his province mates.
In 1986, after the People Power Revolution, he was appointed by President Corazon C. Aquino as Undersecretary of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports. In 1989, he was appointed Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
The call to serve his kasimanwas was too strong for him to resist. He ran and won as Governor of the Province of Iloilo in 1992, a position he held for nine years. As chief executive, he gave top priority to reforestation, agricultural productivity programs, and infrastructure development.
He worked hard for the realization of the Iloilo International Airport, obtaining funding from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Likewise, the construction of the New Iloilo Provincial Capitolwas started during his term, a project that has become his legacy to his constituents. But more than for any of these, he is known for restoring his constituents’ faith in local governance by adhering to a policy of full transparency and accountability.
In 2001, after serving three consecutive terms as Governor of Iloilo, he ran and won a seat in the House of Representatives, representing the Third Congressional District of Iloilo. He was re-elected in 2004, and then again in 2007.
During the 12th Congress (2001–2004), he was elected Assistant Majority Leader. He also served as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Basic Education and Culture. He authored or co-authored 110 House Bills, some of which have been enacted into law. These include the Anti-Money Laundering Law and the Overseas Absentee Voting Law.
In the 13th Congress (2004–2007), he was elected Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Good Government. He was, likewise, a member of all standing committees. This time, he authored or co-authored 130 House Bills, including the law prohibiting the imposition of the death penalty in the Philippines.
He was the House Majority Leader of the 14th Congress (2007–2010) and Chairman of the Committee on Rules where he authored 66 bills and co-authored 121 bills. He steered into passage a number of bills considered as landmark legislation and bills of national significance and import.
In 2010, he returned to the Capitol to again serve the people of the Province of Iloilo as governor under the platform of "Reform and Change" where he introduced measures that ensured transparency and honest governance.
He initiated the Procurement Reform Program that made the Iloilo Provincial Government's procurement process competitive and transparent, resulting in millions of pesos in savings and putting in place an efficient and effective system of acquisition of goods and services.
In 2013, the Government of Canada and the Presidential Commission on Women cited the Province of Iloilo as the "Most Outstanding Local Government Unit in Women Economic Empowerment Governance" because of its exemplary gender program and its effective implementation of the Gender-Responsive Economic Actions for Transformation (GREAT) Women Project that aims to promote and support microenterprises for women.
This initiative earned for the Province of Iloilo a number of recognitions. In 2011, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) awarded the Province of Iloilo the "Seal of Good Housekeeping" in recognition of its exemplary performance in governance, transparency and accountability.
Defensor also made the Province of Iloilo a consistent winner in the Annual DILG Excellence in Local Governance (EXCELL) Awards, winning major awards since 2011 and was capped by being cited as the Most Outstanding Local Government Unit, Provincial Category, in 2015.
Also in 2015, the DILG also conferred the Province of Iloilo with the "Seal of Good Local Governance Award" which allowed it to access the P7-Million Performance Challenge Fund of the department. Last year (2016), the Province of Iloilo was likewise conferred with the "Seal of Good Local Governance Award" for the third time.
In 2016, Defensor was elevated into the Hall of Fame for winning in three consecutive years the Most Outstanding Provincial Governor of the Philippines in the field of Social Services conferred by the Association of Social Welfare and Development Officers of the Philippines, Inc.
Governor Defensor's flagship environment program, Action for Regreening and Transformation for Climate Change Adaptation (ART for CCA), which aims to plant millions of trees, has gained widespread support from various sectors, and was also cited by the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for its great contribution to the National Greening Program.
His campaign to protect and preserve the Visayan Sea, the country's richest fishing ground, earned for the governor an Award of Recognition from the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), a global network of environmental compliance and enforcement practitioners based in Washington D.C., United States of America.
On June 29, 2016, he received the Kalikasan Award from the DENR "for his exemplary and dauntless commitment to champion environmental governance, protection and rehabilitation in the Province of Iloilo."
Governor Defensor's other advocacies include support for education, water and sanitation services, public health and hospital enhancement, job generation, local economic development, cultural heritage conservation and tourism development, among others.
On October 26, 2014, he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Public Administration (D.P.A.), honoriscausa by Central Philippine University during its 87th Commencement Exercises.
He also received the Paul Harris Fellow, the highest award given by The Rotary Foundation of the Rotary Club International, as well as the Pinoy Icon -General Emilio Aguinaldo Award for Government Service from the Junior Chamber International (JCI).
Personal life
Defensor Sr. is married to Cosette Rivera, née Rivera. They have three children – Arlette, Arthur Jr., and Lorenz – and eight grandchildren.
Arlette is married to Eric Pilapil, the Vice President for Legal and Corporate Secretary of Stradcom Corporation.
Arthur Jr., a lawyer, is the incumbent governor of Iloilo and previously represented the Third (3rd) Congressional District of Iloilo. He is married to Michelle Camacho.
Lorenz, the youngest child, is also a lawyer and now a Senior Board Member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Iloilo. He is married to Vaneza Ungson, also a lawyer.
Defensor Sr. is also a cousin of the late former Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
External links
House of Representatives Official Website
Arthur Defensor Personal Information
20th-century Filipino lawyers
Governors of Iloilo
University of the Philippines alumni
Central Philippine University people
Central Philippine University alumni
1941 births
Living people
Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Iloilo
Majority leaders of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
People from Iloilo |
15832122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Barnett%20%28politician%29 | Richard Barnett (politician) | Major Sir Richard Whieldon Barnett (6 December 1863 – 17 October 1930) was an Irish barrister, sportsman, volunteer officer and freemason who sat as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Early life and education
He was the eldest son of Richard Barnett, a doctor of medicine of Ardmore, Holywood, County Down and his wife Adela née Whieldon. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics and law. He graduated with a BA Honours in jurisprudence in 1887 and an MA and Bachelor of Civil Law in 1889. While at university he joined the Oxford University Volunteers, a volunteer unit of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, obtaining the rank of captain. From 1889 to 1897 he held a commission in the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (The Rangers), acting as musketry instructor.
Career
In 1889 he moved to London where he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1889 and practiced on the South-Eastern Circuit.
An expert sport shooter, Barnett represented Ireland in the contest for the Elcho Shield on 37 occasions, and twice made the record score. He was one of twelve competitors for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1908 Summer Olympics He finished fourth in the 1000 yard free rifle competition. A member of the council of the National Rifle Association, he was the captain of the winning team in the Lords vs Commons shooting team at Bisley in 1921–28.
He was also Irish Chess Champion from 1886 to 1889. At Oxford he was president of the Oxford University Chess Club, competing in a number of varsity matches against Cambridge.
On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he was appointed musketry officer of the 41st Infantry Brigade. In November of the same year he became Staff Officer for Musketry for the 36th (Ulster) Division. In October 1915 he moved to the 40th Division, ending the war with the brevet rank of major.
In 1916 he was elected unopposed at a by-election as Conservative & Unionist MP for St Pancras West. Following the war a general election was held in 1918: Barnett was elected as MP for the new seat of St Pancras South West. While in parliament he introduced the Nursing Registration Bill 1919. He joined the House of Commons Chess Circle, serving as its president from 1923 to 1929. He was involved in hosting World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca on a visit to the UK in 1919. Knighted in 1925, Barnett resigned from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.
Outside of parliament Barnett had a number of business interests, particularly in oil companies. He was vice-president of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists and president of British Controlled Oilfields Limited. He was also a prominent freemason and a member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Turners.
Later life
In 1892 he married Maud Emmeline Cawsey, of Sidmouth, Devon. She died in 1920.
He died on the 17th October 1930, aged 66, following complications after an operation and is buried in a family vault on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Barnett had been churchwarden of Christchurch, Albany Street from 1918, and in June 1931 a tablet to his memory was also erected there.
References
External links
list of Irish shooters
1863 births
1930 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
British male sport shooters
Irish male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Irish chess players
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Members of the Middle Temple
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Lewisham
British sportsperson-politicians
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers
People of the National Rifle Association
People from Forest Hill, London
Politicians from the London Borough of Lewisham |
15832128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggins%20Mountains | Muggins Mountains | The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains, and east of the Laguna Mountains. The Castle Dome Mountains lie to the northeast across the broad Castle Dome Plain. The Muggins Mountains Wilderness occupies the southwest portion of the range.
The Muggins Mountains are a triangular block about on the SW and SE sides and on the north side. The northern half of the mountain range has the two high peaks of the range: the unnamed northwest at and the northeast, Red Bluff Mountain at . The northern of the range is within the Yuma Proving Ground.
The southern portion of the range is bordered on the southeast by the agricultural Mohawk Valley and the Gila River Valley; to the southwest is Dome Valley and the northwest-flowing Gila River agricultural valley. The Muggins Mountains Wilderness is in the southwest and borders Dome Valley. Two peaks are located in the wilderness, Muggins Peak at in the southeast, and the Klothos Temple in center west at .
There is flatland, mesas, and hills between the two northern peaks within the Yuma Proving Ground. Small alluvial fans drain this northern perimeter. The unnamed northwest mountain is separated from the southern mountain block by the west flowing Vinegaroon Wash. The large visible alluvial fan that drains the central Muggins Mountains by way of Vinegaroon Wash sits on the northwest of the range and can be seen from US 95 4 mi west.
Several washes drain the southwest and the Muggins Mountains Wilderness including Long Mountain Wash, Twin Tanks Wash and Muggins Wash all drain southwest into the northeast Dome Valley foothills. Morgan Wash drains the southeast wilderness border to the southeast into Mohawk Valley.
Vegetation
Ephemeral water sources only persist in winter-spring and should be considered nonexistent, except during rains, or winter, and standing water only lasts the longest in wetter and cooler years. The elevation of the mountains is such that there are no standing forests, only desert communities of vegetation. This section of the western Sonoran Desert, and local Yuma Desert is in the creosote bush scrub community. Desert ironwood, palo verde, catclaw acacia, saguaros, ocotillo, Anderson thornbush, smoketree, and creosote are some locally adapted tree/bush species. Brittlebush, saltbush, and bebbia are some common shrub forms.
The nearest communities to the Muggins Mountains are Dome, Ligurta, and Wellton in the Dome and Mohawk Valleys.
See also
List of mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona
List of LCRV Wilderness Areas (Colorado River)
References
External links
BLM Muggins Mountains Wilderness site
Public Lands Muggins Mountains Wilderness site Muggins Mountains map and region:
Wilderness Preservation System: Muggins "Mountain" Wilderness site
Mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley
Mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert
Mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona
Mountain ranges of Arizona |
15832149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatesttits | Greatesttits | Greatesttits is the eleventh album released by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore. It was the first official compact disc issued by Moore. The album is a compilation of previously released tracks from Moore's four vinyl issues on New Rose Records, Paris.
The album is currently out of print. the CD-R version is available by mail from the artist.
Track listing
"Welcome to London" (:56)
"I Wanna Hit You" (1:57)
"Chantilly Lace" (2:25)
"One Moore Time" (2:14)
"Forecast" (2:00)
"Topic of Same" (4:23)
"His Latest Flame" (2:13)
"First-Hand" (2:25)
"Teen Routines" (2:21)
"Why Can't I Write a Hit?" (2:20)
"U. R. True" (2:35)
"Wayne Wayne (Go Away)" (4:23)
"Debbie" (4:00)
"I Hope That You Remember" (3:02)
"Part of the Problem" (3:43)
"Don't Let Me Go to the Dogs" (4:04)
"Why Should I Love You" (3:18)
"Along Comes Mary" (2:52)
"The Bodycount" (3:33)
"Hobbies Galore" (4:14)
"Cover of "Rolling Stone"" (4:25)
"You Always Want What You Don't Have" (3:52)
"The Whereabouts" (3:32)
"Diary" (3:23)
References
External links
RSM's Greatesttits webpage
1990 albums
R. Stevie Moore albums
New Weird America albums |
15832156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s%20Ups%20and%20Downs | Love's Ups and Downs | Love's Ups and Downs is the seventh solo studio album by the American country music singer Barbara Mandrell, released in 1977. It was produced by Tom Collins.
Love's Ups and Downs was Mandrell's second album released in 1977. The previous album released two singles, one of which was a top 5 hit. This album also released two singles. Both became top 10 hits on the Billboard Country charts, the first time Mandrell had had two solo top 10 hits in a row. The first single, "Woman to Woman" peaked in the top 5 and was a major hit that year. It was the first time that one of Mandrell's singles peaked inside the Billboard Hot 100, only peaking at #92. It also was the first time one of her songs reached the Adult Contemporary charts but, again, it was not a major hit, only reaching the top 50. The second single, "Tonight" was another top 5 hit, but did not chart on the Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary charts. The album as a whole was not a major success, only peaking at #29 on the Top Country Albums chart.
The album included a remake of Jackie Wilson's, "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher", which had been a pop hit for Rita Coolidge, and "How Long", originally recorded by Ace. "Woman to Woman" was a cover version of Shirley Brown's #1 R&B hit from 1974. The album has ten tracks, some of which were new songs.
Track listing
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (Gary Jackson, Carl Smith)
"Don't Hand Me No Hand-Me-Down Love" (Charles Silver, Rory Bourke)
"If I Were a River" (Marty Yonts)
"The Magician" (Kent Robbins)
"Woman to Woman" (Homer Banks, Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen)
"Tonight" (Rafe Van Hoy, Don Cook)
"Let the Rain Out" (Geoffrey Morgan)
"A Fancy Place to Cry" (John Schweers)
"Walking Home in the Rain" (Paul Craft)
"How Long" (Paul Carrack)
Personnel
Barbara Mandrell - lead vocals
Lea Jane Berinati, Tom Brannon, Dorothy Deleonibus, Janie Fricke, Ginger Holladay, The Jordanaires, Sherilyn Kramer, Duane West - backing vocals
Mike Leech - bass guitar
Hayward Bishop, Kenny Malone - drums
Tommy Williams - fiddle
Pete Bordonali, Jimmy Capps, Steve Gibson, Glenn Keener, Billy Sanford, Bobby Thompson, Chip Young, Reggie Young - guitar
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - percussion
David Briggs, Tony Migliore, Bobby Ogdin, Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
John Hughey, Hal Rugg - steel guitar
George Binkley III, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Carl Gorodetzky, Sheldon Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann, Steven Smith, Gary Vanosdale, Stephanie Woolf - strings
Archie Jordan - string arrangements (tracks 1,5,6,10)
Charlie McCoy, Farrell Morris - vibraphone
Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
Singles – Billboard (North America)
References
Barbara Mandrell albums
1977 albums
Dot Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Collins (record producer) |
15832177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Railway | Van Railway | The Van Railway was a standard gauge railway in mid Wales. The line was built in 1871 to link the highly productive lead mines at Van, near Llanidloes to the main Cambrian line at Caersws. The mines closed in 1920, but the railway remained open until 1940.
Route
The line ran westwards from Caersws along the Cerist and Trannon river valleys, with halts at Red House, Trefeglwys, Cerist and Garth & Van Road. An underground railway portal has been restored at the mine site.
Traffic
Passengers were carried from 1873 until 1879. General freight was carried by the Cambrian Railways in 1896, to which company the line was leased. The railway was a private venture by Earl Vane, who also leased the mine to the mining company and was the chairman of the Cambrian Railway Company. It was built by David Davies of Llandinam, the contractor and colliery owner.
John Ceiriog Hughes
Until his death in 1887, John Ceiriog Hughes was Manager of the Van Railway, and it is said that many passengers "made pilgrimage along its short length ... for a chance of conversing with one of (Wales') most notable characters".
References
Pre-grouping British railway companies
Railway lines opened in 1871
Railway companies disestablished in 1940
Industrial railways in Wales
Railway companies established in 1871
1871 establishments in Wales
1940 disestablishments in Wales |
15832181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%20Estrada | Jackie Estrada | Jackie Estrada (born September 10, 1946) is an American comic-book convention organizer, book editor, co-publisher of Exhibit A Press, administrator of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and past president of Friends of Lulu.
A San Diego resident since the 1950s, Estrada got involved in helping to put on San Diego Comic-Con in the mid-1970s. In addition to having edited nine of the Con's program books over the years, she helped start the Robert A. Heinlein annual blood drive, created the position of pro liaison, and created (and was the first coordinator of) artists’ alley at the Comic-Con. She has been administrator of the Eisner Awards (the "Oscars" of the comics industry) since 1990, and she chairs the Con's guest committee and awards committee.
As a professional editor, Estrada has edited hundreds of books, the majority of them college texts. Most recently she edited Comics: Between the Panels, a lavish four-color coffee table book from Dark Horse Comics. The book features more than one hundred of her photos, taken of various comics professionals over the past twenty-plus years. Estrada was one of the founders of the San Diego Professional Editors’ Network (SD/PEN), and has taught editing at the University of California, San Diego.
With husband Batton Lash, Estrada co-founded Exhibit A Press in 1994 to publish Lash's comic book, Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (now called Supernatural Law). Estrada edits all of the company's comics and books, does the lettering for the comic book, and handles the public relations.
In 2011, Estrada complained that she and her husband Batton Lash were the targets of abuse and threats after cartoons by her husband appearing on BigGovernment were criticized for being racist attacks against President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.
In early 2014 Estrada ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to publish Comic Book People: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, a hardcover book published by Exhibit A Press featuring her photos from that period. The book was released in September 2014. In 2015, she ran a second successful Kickstarter campaign to finance another book of photographs from the 1990s.
In 2018, the Harvey Awards honored her with their first annual Comics Industry Pioneer Award.
References
External links
Exhibit A Press
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards website
People from San Diego
1946 births
Inkpot Award winners
Living people
Harvey Award winners |
15832215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrook%20Township | Millbrook Township | Millbrook Township may refer to the following places in the United States:
Millbrook Township, Peoria County, Illinois
Millbrook Township, Graham County, Kansas
Millbrook Township, Michigan
Township name disambiguation pages |
15832224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20Internet%20Exchange | Neutral Internet Exchange | The Neutral Internet Exchange (abbreviated as NL-ix, with the last two letters typeset in lowercase) is an Internet exchange in Europe, which is distributed across ninety-six datacentres in fifteen European cities in seven countries by year-end 2023. The exchange was founded in 2002 to serve as an alternative to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. As of May 26, 2015, the daily average inbound traffic is 619.48 Gbit/s and the daily average outbound traffic 616.77 Gbit/s and 513 members are connected on 1762 ports. On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange.
Datacenters
NL-ix members can connect at 96 sites in 15 cities across 7 countries.
References
External links
Neutral Internet Exchange (official website)
Internet in the Netherlands
Internet exchange points in the Netherlands |
15832226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Asian%20Five%20Nations | 2008 Asian Five Nations | For divisional competitions, see: 2008 Asian Five Nations division tournaments
The 2008 Asian Five Nations, known as the 2008 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to its sponsorship by HSBC, was the inaugural series of the newly formatted Asian rugby union tournament, the Asian Five Nations. It is the flagship competition devised by the International Rugby Board to develop the sport in the Asian region. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 26 April to 24 May, with Japan winning all four of their games to become the first Asian Five Nations champions on 18 May 2008.
Scoring system: 5 points for a win, three for a draw, one bonus point for being within seven points of the winning team, and one for four tries.
Teams
The teams involved, with their world rankings pre tournament, were:
(43)
(30)
(18)
(33)
(23)
Final table
Bottom team, Arabian Gulf, are relegated to Division One for 2009 edition.
Fixtures
Report on JRFU website
References
External links
Japan Rugby Football Union
Asian 5 nations on itsrugby.co.uk
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Five Nations
Five Nations
Asia
2008 in Hong Kong sport
2008 in South Korean sport
2008 in Kazakhstani sport |
15832233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Sheffield%2C%201st%20Baron%20Sheffield | Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield | Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an English nobleman, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield (died 15 November 1531, son of Robert Sheffield and Helen Delves) and his second wife Jane Stanley, daughter of George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange and Joan le Strange, 9th Baroness Strange. Through his mother, he was a second cousin once removed of the reigning English monarch, King Henry VIII.
Life
Following his father's death in 1531, his wardship was granted to George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. However, both Rochford and Boleyn were executed in 1536, and his wardship was transferred to John de Vere, the fifteenth Earl of Oxford.
Sheffield married Anne de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, before 31 January 1538, and by her had a son and three daughters. In 1547 he was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick. Two years later, during Kett's Rebellion in Norwich, Lord Sheffield was killed in a street near the Cathedral Close when he fell from his horse, removed his helmet assuming the customary capture and eventual ransom, yet was fatally struck by a butcher, reputedly named Fulke. With the loss of a senior commander and his army being broken up in street fighting, Northampton ordered a retreat.
He was buried at St Martin at Palace, Norwich.
Children
Eleanor Sheffield (born about 1537) married Denzel Holles
John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield (c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) married Douglas Howard
Robert Sheffield (born about 1540)
Frances Sheffield (born 1542) married Thomas Metham
Elizabeth Sheffield (born about 1546)
Ancestry
References
Edmund Sheffield Accessed February 17, 2008
familysearch.org Accessed February 17, 2008
1521 births
1549 deaths
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Peers of England created by Edward VI
16th-century English nobility
Edmund
English murder victims
People from the Borough of Boston |
15832264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPPL | WPPL | WPPL (103.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Peter Michael Galinski, through licensee WPPL Mountain Country Radio, LLC, and features programming from AP Radio and Dial Global.
References
External links
PPL
Radio stations established in 1991 |
15832301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPNG%20%28FM%29 | WPNG (FM) | WPNG (101.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a rock format. Licensed to Pearson, Georgia, United States, it serves the Douglas, Georgia and Waycross, Georgia areas. The station changed ownership when Broadcast South, LLC bought the station in 2009.
It was previously owned by KM Radio of Pearson, LLC (a subsidiary of KM Communications Inc. based in Skokie, IL), the original licensee. From November 2001 through March 6, 2009, they were known as "Freedom 101.9" and carried an Adult Contemporary format provided via satellite from ABC Radio The station was known as Classic Rock 101.9 from the date it first went on the air in 1999 until November 2001.
WPNG is under exclusive contract with the Coffee County, Georgia school system to broadcast the Coffee Trojan Football games with "Voice of the Trojans" Gene Wade and Leslie Byron Smith.
The station changed its format to Rock on January 5, 2018.
References
External links
PNG (FM)
Rock radio stations in the United States |
15832320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQTS | WQTS | WQTS (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a southern gospel format from The Life FM network. Licensed to Statesboro, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by The Power Foundation.
History
The station went on the air as WUUF on 1988-03-24. On 1995-08-06, the station changed its call sign to WPMX.
WPMX swapped call signs with sister station WHKN on August 9, 2018, and then changed call signs again on August 28, 2018, to the current WQTS. This came after Neal Ardman, owner of Radio Statesboro, Inc., sold the facility to the Power Foundation, owner of The Life FM, for $150,000.
References
External links
1996 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Radio stations established in 1996
QTS
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States |
15832343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPCH%20%28AM%29 | WPCH (AM) | WPCH (1310 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to West Point, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by San Antonio–based iHeartMedia, through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC, and features programming from Fox Sports Radio.
History
The station signed on in August 1958 as WBMK. It changed its call letters to WZZZ on December 1, 1976, and was assigned the call sign WPLV on January 1, 1988. On October 7, 1994, the station changed its call sign to WCJM, then on February 23, 1996, switched back to WPLV.
In March 2003, Root Communications License Company, L.P., reached an agreement to sell this station to Qantum Communications subsidiary Qantum of Auburn License Company, LLC, as part of a 26 station deal valued at $82.2 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 30, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on July 2, 2003.
On May 15, 2014, Qantum Communications announced that it would sell its 29 stations, including WPLV, to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), in a transaction connected to Clear Channel's sale of WALK AM-FM in Patchogue, New York, to Connoisseur Media via Qantum. The transaction was consummated on September 9, 2014.
The station took on the WPCH call sign on June 1, 2015.
Programming
All of the programming on WPCH is from Fox Sports Radio.
References
External links
PCH
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1958
IHeartMedia radio stations
1958 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Fox Sports Radio stations |
15832414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Frost%E2%80%93Big%20Boulder%20Ski%20Resort | Jack Frost–Big Boulder Ski Resort | Jack Frost–Big Boulder is a resort with two separate ski areas. It is located in Kidder Township, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. In 2019, the resort, which had been owned and operated by Peak Resorts, was purchased by Vail Resorts.
Big Boulder
Big Boulder opened in 1947, and employee John Guresh is credit with developing the first usable snow making equipment while working there in the 1950s. Big Boulder resort has three main parks, Big Boulder Park, Freedom Park, and LOVE Park, inspired by Philadelphia's LOVE Park a popular destination for skateboarders.
During the 2020-21 ski season, Vail made the decision to considerably reduce the number of terrain parks at Big Boulder and market the mountain as a learning hill. It remains to be seen if this is a temporary COVID-19 pandemic-related change, or if Vail has decided to take away what made Boulder special when compared to today’s mega resorts. The resort has two lodges, the main lodge, which is located at the bottom of the mountain and can be seen from the parking lot. Inside there are cafes and other services for the snowboarders and skiers. The other lodge, located at the bottom of Big Boulder Park, is called the lower lodge. The lower lodge includes an outdoor grill, a bar a pro shop, and the entire lodge is sponsored by Red Bull Energy Drink.
Jack Frost
The owners of Big Boulder built Jack Frost with a longer runs and a higher vertical drop, going down to the level of the Lehigh River, rather than up to a ridge top.
Ecology
Jack Frost Ski Resort
According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. potential natural vegetation types, Jack Frost Ski Resort would have a dominant vegetation type of Northern Hardwood's (106) with a dominant vegetation form of Northern hardwood forest (23). The plant hardiness zone is 5b with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of . The spring bloom typically begins around April 30 and fall color usually peaks before October 11.
Big Boulder Ski Resort
According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. potential natural vegetation types, Big Boulder Ski Resort would have a dominant vegetation type of Northern Hardwood (106) with a dominant vegetation form of Northern hardwood forest (23). The plant hardiness zone is 6a with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of . The spring bloom typically begins around April 30 and fall color usually peaks before October 13.
Recreation
In 2006, warm weather resulted in issues for local skiers, but was able to stay open with snow reserves made in December.
The resort was able to open one week earlier due to an aggressive snow season.
Jack Frost is a major tourist destination and attraction in the region and has caused an influx of new home buyers. Home buyers have cited the ski resort, golf courses, and distance from New York City and Philadelphia as factors for purchasing local properties.
References
External links
Official site
Big Boulder Ski Area history
1972 establishments in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Peak Resorts
Pocono Mountains
Ski areas and resorts in Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Carbon County, Pennsylvania |
15832466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Purpose%20Cultural%20Cat-Girl%20Nuku%20Nuku%20DASH%21 | All Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku Nuku DASH! | , shortened to Nuku Nuku DASH, is a 12-episode Japanese anime OVA series and the third adaptation of the manga, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, created by Yuzo Takada. Nuku Nuku DASH was produced by the Banneko Dash Committee, which included Ashi Productions, MOVIC, and Starchild Records, and directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto. The series was released on DVD in three volumes from September 23, 1998, to December 23, 1998. The English language was licensed by ADV Films and was also released on three DVD volumes from October 28, 2003, to January 20, 2004. Discotek Media announced the rescue license of this series, along with the original OVA and TV Series.
Plot summary
The Natsume family — Professor Kyusaku, his wife Akiko, and fourteen-year-old son Ryunosuke — take in a young woman by the name of Atsuko, who has lost her memory. Unbeknownst to all of them, Atsuko is an Androrobot prototype which has escaped from the power Mishima Corporation's research facilities.
In order to track down the missing prototype, Mishima transferred Akiko, who is employed by the corporation, to a new secret department the hunt for the Androrobot. Professor Kyusaku has secrets of his own and discovers that Atsuko is an Androrobot and sneaks Atsuko down into his hidden lab under the house in order to attempt to unlock her secrets. Ryunosuke knows there's something different about Atsuko but she seems pretty normal outside of the fact that she can't remember anything about herself, and he is quite happy to have her around.
Differences from previous adaptations
Nuku Nuku DASH! is a completely alternate universe, as evidenced by the radical change in the ages and general appearances of most of the characters, though they do tend to retain some of their original look. In DASH!, Nuku Nuku has matured from a 14- to 16-year-old appearance to a 19-year-old and is much curvier than in the original OVAs or Nuku Nuku TV. She has actual blood flowing in her body. She also sports green hair of a shade so light that it is often mistaken for blonde and golden eyes and has a form of selective memory loss, which is later explained near the end of the series when her memories are regained. She also enters tactical form, in which she can use her androbot powers, whenever the need to protect life arises. The civilians call Nuku Nuku in tactical form, 'Super Dynamite Girl'. Kyusaku is not her creator in DASH! but rather is a friend of her creator, a man known simply as Professor Higuchi. As a result, Nuku Nuku, despite still using the familiar nickname, is actually named Atsuko Higuchi in this series, and Kyusaku's son Ryunosuke falls head over heels in love with Nuku Nuku, occasionally encountering her super heroic alter ego, but does not learn the truth until the end of the series.
Akiko's Henchwomen Arisa and Kyouko are the same, with more significant changes to their personalities. The two have switched bodies. Arisa is now less implosive and more laid back and not as prone to violence, while Kyouko is now more aggressive and takes her job very seriously.
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku nuku DASH!(1998) Episode List
Episode 1
A fourteen year old Ryonusuke finds an attractive woman outside rescuing a kitten. Upon return, the woman, Atsuko Higuchi, seems to be having a shelter in his house after her parents died in a car crash, as claimed by Ryonusuke's father Kyosaku. But later she gets revealed as one of the top products of Mishima Industries, escaping confinement, a so-called androbot. Ryonosuke's mom Akiko gets charged with the responsibility of taking her back forcefully or destroy her, which doesn't work as amidst the chaos Nuku nuku activated her tactical mode, destroying the attack helicopter. Despite being romantically attracted to her, Ryonusuke doesn't recognize her upon seeing her in action.
Episode 2
During a three-day office sanctioned vacation, Ryonusuke's parents are out of the house, leaving only Ryonusuke and nuku nuku to watch over the house. In that time, an imperfect clone of nuku nuku tries to destroy/bring her back, but nuku nuku defeats her and ends her sad state.
Episode 3
Mishima Industries again sends an androbot which uses flower markers to locate nuku nuku but fails continuously. So, in a fit of rage, it starts destroying the neighborhood Ryonusuke lives until nuku nuku stops her and sends her away to, supposedly to Mishima Industries. Her fate would remain unknown till the end of the series.
Episode 4
Mishima Industries hire two very uncooperative people Arisa and Kyouko who go rogue and take the fighter plane to hunt down Nuku nuku and fail in the process.
Episode 5
In this episode, Nuku nuku is detected with a sunglass like sensor and is quickly attacked with an auto controlled jet, again, which she quickly thwarts. The plan to again try this is not accepted, as it would be too costly to manufacture & market the glasses on a large scale, which makes sense as the previous attempts were pre made stuff.
Episode 6
A cat being subjected to experimentation escapes the Mishima Industries and the reckless duo is sent to retrieve it, but they don't have any luck. Meanwhile, Nuku nuku finds a litter of kittens and decides to adopt those and be their mother, as she's in actuality, a cat. Later while thwarting the reckless actions of the mentioned duo, nuku nuku finds the cat missing and realizes the cat mother has died, becoming saddened. Then the next day all the neighborhood kids seem to decide to adopt every single of those kittens to take care of them.
Episode 7
A human experimentation subjected with the purpose of having Esper powers & getting used for named Yuko, escapes Mishima Industries with the intention of seeing a clear blue sky during a rainy day and gets found by Nuku nuku. At the house Ryonusuke's father quickly identifies her and after, accomplishing the much-attempted Mishima server hacking, sadly, concludes that Yuko has less than 12 hours to live. When Ryonusuke hears about this he doesn't believe it and refuses to let her go until her wish gets fulfilled. But Yuko goes with them nonetheless, after wiping Ryonusuke's memories about her. Her fate would also remain unresolved till the end of the series.
Episode 8
A synthetic bioweapon that can parasitically attach itself to any machine and then arm itself to destroy any moving thing is intentionally let loose with nefarious plot. Nuku nuku tracks down the weapon and then with the paramilitary help takes it down, saving Ryonusuke who was out there for a bike ride. Later, this plot was seemed to be hatched by the young president of the company in a malignant takeover bid.
Episode 9
Mishima Industries and a certain other German company named Zweig decide to hold a promotional match between the top robots of both companies. The whole of town is invited. Nuku nuku is told not to go by Kyosaku, Ryonusuke's father, but she does anyway. At the brawl, initially losing the German robot goes rogue(planned) and takes hold of the presenter lady as a hostage to use that to defeat the Japanese one. Taking quite the damage, the robot is just about to fall down, and right then nuku nuku offers a helping hand in defeating the adversary robot. Later, it gets revealed that nuku nuku sees her as a comrade because before being an androbot she, as a cat used to always hang with the robot.
Episode 10
The young president takes over the branch and immediately foments resentment among the people of the previous administration. He then manipulates nuku nuku with the promise of revealing her true nature & history. She goes out with him at night and they reach a certain planned location where the guy reveals to her that he's also an androbot like her. Then a robot, intentionally let loose to kill the young president and be framed as an accident, attacks the duo. Initially nuku nuku can't activate her life protecting tactical mode as she doesn't see any human to protect until Ryonusuke arrives on bicycle. Then she stops the robot. The higher ups flee immediately, but get killed by the young president's mole, point black. Later it is revealed that, the guy designed all this to consolidate his power in the branch and knowing the secret behind nuku nuku's tactical mode.
Episode 11
Nuku nuku's real creator comes back to her, intending to take her to Germany. He was previously thought to be dead, but his apparent detainment by Mishima Industries had ended when corporate spies from the German competitor freed him and took him to their country. Ms Akiko, Ryonusuke's mother suspecting the young president of ill motive, inform the board of executive of it, who, along with her, try to apprehend him at basement level 1 before accessing a place, which shouldn't be for the president without the consent of the board. The young guy then ousts all the guys of being clones of the founder and then subdues them with his androbot assistant. Then taking Ms Akiko hostage, he tells her about the truth of nuku nuku and also unfolds the exact twin of nuku nuku, who unlike her has the directive to kill all life, against which nuku nuku was created as a failsafe.
Episode 12
In a flashback it is revealed, that, nuku nuku and her twin's robotic model were based on the body of the girl her creator Higuchi loved dearly. Now with the activation of the unnamed nuku nuku twin, the young president, who remained unnamed, intends to exact revenge on his creators on behalf of all the experimentations of Mishima Industries. Nuku nuku tears through the hostile machine amid an army and Mishima bot battle after refusing to leave town for her loved ones. Then she saves Ms. Akiko from an attack of her sister, which kills the young president and his androbot assistant. Before confronting her twin androbot, nuku nuku meets Ryonusuke and finally reveal everything they had about each other. After a heartfelt goodbye, she finally faces her twin sister, who at the moment, was destroying anything trying to touch her, with her super advanced ultra strong telekinesis powers. Nuku nuku then with tear smeared face destroys her sister, along with herself, with an intense hug strike, remembering for the last time all her loved ones, including her twin sister.
In the epilogue, after a few years, Ryonusuke, comes back & meets a grown up Noriko, in a place where he first met nuku nuku. There a figure appears, surprisingly resembling nuku nuku.
Reception
The English language release of Nuku Nuku Dash was received poorly by anime reviews, obtaining an overall score of 32 out of 100 from the Meta Anime Review Project. Jason Carter of the web publication Anime Jump! stated that he hated the series. Don Houston of DVD Talk complained that the show that appeared to be much older than it really was, using concepts that were ready done to death. Carlos Ross of T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews states that "DASH has little of what made [All Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku Nuku] work - when it comes to the been-there, done-that, so-last-century action sequences. What cheapens them even further is that this series has so much potential." Reviewer Chris Beveridge of AnimeOnDVD.com, however, gave a more positive light to the series by stating that he enjoyed the series more than he has expected to since he wasn't sure what else there could be done after the original series.
References
External links
Starchild's official website
1998 anime OVAs
Action anime and manga
Comedy anime and manga
Mecha anime and manga
ja:万能文化猫娘DASH! |
15832486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Morrison | David Morrison | Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison (born 24 May 1956) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Chief of Army from June 2011 until his retirement in May 2015. He was named Australian of the Year for 2016.
Early life and education
The son of Major General Alan "Alby" Morrison, Morrison attended St Edmund's College, Canberra and the Australian National University, where he studied arts and law. In 1979, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and joined the Australian Army. He then graduated from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
Military career
In 1987 and 1988, Morrison served as the Australian instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom.
In 1992, Morrison attended the Army Command and Staff College, Queenscliff, and was then appointed as the Brigade Major of the 3rd Brigade, based in Townsville, Queensland. During that time he took part in Operation Lagoon, acting as chief of staff for a multinational force that provided security to the peace conference held in Bougainville during 1994. The following year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
In 1997 he was appointed commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR), holding that position until the end of 1998, when he was posted as the Chief Instructor for the Command, Staff Operations Wing at the Army All Corps Promotion Training Centre in Canungra.
He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999 for his services as brigade major, director of Preparedness and Mobilisation and CO of 2 RAR.
Upon promotion to colonel in October 1999, Morrison was appointed as colonel of Operations, Headquarters International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). On his return to Australia, he was posted to the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters (DJFHQ) as chief of staff. He left that position at the end of 2001 to attend the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Canberra, where he graduated in 2002 with a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies.
Morrison was promoted to brigadier in November 2002, and commanded the 3rd Brigade from December 2002 until December 2004. He was then appointed as Director-General Preparedness and Plans – Army (DGPP-A) and held that position until his promotion to major general in December 2005.
He was appointed commander of the Australian Defence College in January 2006, and Head Military Strategic Commitments in April 2007.
Morrison took up the appointment of Deputy Chief of Army in February 2008, replacing Major General John Cantwell. He served in this position until December, when he was appointed Land Commander Australia (LCAUST). Following a re-structure in July 2009, the post of Land Commander Australia was re-designated as Commander Forces Command. Morrison was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List of 2010 for distinguished service to the Australian Army in the fields of training and education, military strategic commitments and force structure and capability; in particular, as Commander Australian Defence College, Head Military Strategic Commitments and Deputy Chief of Army.
Army veterans who fought a "decisive ambush against far superior forces" at Thua Tich in Vietnam in 1969 have complained that Morrison argued against their recognition in 2008, which was subsequently approved by Labor defence support secretary Dr Mike Kelly.
Morrison was promoted to lieutenant general on 23 June 2011, and assumed the post of Chief of Army in a ceremony the following day. On 4 April 2014, it was announced that Morrison's term as Chief of Army had been extended for twelve months, to June 2015.
In 2012, Morrison spoke out against defence budget cuts.
In 2013 Morrison, in supporting diversity, authorised the combining of a rainbow flag with the Rising Sun badge. In that year, Morrison also permitted defence personnel to march in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. These decisions have been criticised.
In 2013, Morrison obtained a second Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from Deakin University. He received the university's Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
On 25 January 2016, Morrison was made Australian of the Year in a ceremony in Canberra attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Morrison listed his three priorities as Australian of the year: "action on a republic, domestic violence and gender equality". Morrison's priorities were criticised.
Women in the military
In June 2013, Civilian Authorities were going to announce the mishandling of serious investigations by the ADF. As a result, Morrison ordered an investigation into several emails sent from Army accounts over a three-year period that were highly demeaning to women, which became known as the "Jedi Council scandal". At a 13 June press conference, Morrison announced that he had suspended three members of the Army, ordered action to consider the suspension of five others, and suggested as many as nine more could face disciplinary action. He described the emails as "explicit, derogatory, demeaning and repugnant", and suggested that the alleged conduct was even worse than the "Skype scandal" of 2011. In a video posted on the Army's official YouTube channel, a visibly irate Morrison described the alleged behaviour as a "direct contravention" of the Army's values. He added that he had been committed ever since becoming Chief of Army to making the Army an inclusive force. "If that does not suit you," he said, "then get out!" He also told anyone not willing to work with women and accept them as equals, "There is no place for you amongst this band of brothers and sisters."
Morrison's speech was written by his speech writer, Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor, who is transgender. Morrison, as one of her strongest supporters, refused to accept her resignation from his office when she came out. Seven months after his speech, Morrison attributed "one of the most quoted phrases" in his anti-misogyny speech, "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept", to General David Hurley.
Morrison's aggressive response was widely hailed by Australian and American media, in particular comparing it to the relatively guarded response of the U.S. military to similar accusations.
In June 2014 Morrison formed part of the Australian delegation to the Global Summit To End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London, to which he delivered a speech arguing that armies that separate themselves from civil society, value men over women and celebrate violence "do nothing to distinguish the soldier from the brute".
Controversy
Since the "Jedi Council scandal", information was received by media outlets, that the army, under the control of Morrison, had previously investigated the individuals involved and had failed to find any evidence of the allegations and cleared those involved of any wrongdoing. However, Morrison recommended that the commanding officer be dismissed.
Contrasts have been drawn regarding the differing responses to allegations of sexual misconduct by subordinates, in case of a lieutenant colonel, in the case of Governor-General Peter Hollingworth, and Morrison.
In February 2016, Senator Jacqui Lambie made a speech in the Senate in relation to cases involving former soldiers who claim to have suffered abuse, calling for an inquiry into coverups and Morrison's involvement. The Prime Minister has also agreed to support a general mediation process for those involved.
Post military career
In May 2015 Morrison retired from the army and in September 2015 was appointed chairman of the Diversity Council Australia, a not-for-profit workplace diversity advisor to business in Australia, and as a gender diversity adviser to Deloitte Partners. He is also a motivational speaker.
As an advocate for gender diversity, Morrison campaigned against the use of gender-neutral terms such as 'guys'. In response, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the use of generic words such as 'guys' should not cause offence.
Morrison participated in a "Walk a Mile in their Shoes" event demonstrating against family violence. In September 2016 Morrison equated the legacy of domestic violence victims with fallen servicemen and women, proposing an Anzac Day-like memorial for women who have been killed by their partners. The ABC Fact Check has determined that men, women and children can be both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. Morrison says, "it's not about the statistics... we are all, as a society, the victim."
He is also a public speaker.
Honours and awards
References
External links
1956 births
Military personnel from Queensland
Academics of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Australian feminists
Australian generals
Australian military personnel of the International Force for East Timor
Australian National University alumni
Australian of the Year Award winners
Australian republicans
Chiefs of Army (Australia)
Commanders of the Legion of Merit
Graduates of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea
Living people
Male feminists
Officers of the Order of Australia
People educated at St Edmund's College, Canberra |
15832491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20the%20Imperial%20Collections | Museum of the Imperial Collections | The Museum of the Imperial Collections is located on the grounds of the East Garden of Tokyo Imperial Palace. It showcases a changing exhibition of a part of the imperial household treasures.
History
The Museum of the Imperial Collections was conceived during the change from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989) to the Heisei period (1989 – 2019) . The Imperial family donated 6,000 pieces of art to the Japanese government in 1989. Many pieces were created by Imperial Household Artists. The museum was opened in 1993 for the study and preservation of the art collection. The collection was further enlarged by the donation of the art collection of Prince Chichibu (1902 – 1953) in 1996, the collection of Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu (1911 – 2004) in 2005, and the collection of Prince Mikasa family in 2014.
The number of items in the collection is 9,800 at present, but the exhibition room is a small room of 160 square meters and the storage room is small. Therefore, the existing museum will be rebuilt and the exhibition room will be expanded to 1,300 square meters. The construction is scheduled to be completed in 2025.
Selected artists
Although the museum houses many masterpieces, none of them are designated as National Treasure or Important Cultural Property because cultural properties owned by the Imperial Family or the Imperial Household Agency (Cultural properties donated to the nation by the Imperial family) are not subject to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties of Japan.
In 2018, in order to show the importance of cultural properties to many people in a way that is easy to understand, the Imperial Household Agency proposed that cultural properties under its management should also be designated as National Treasure or Important Cultural Property. In July 2021, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in response to a proposal made by the Imperial Household Agency, decided to designate five cultural properties as National Treasures in the first stage of the designation, including Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, an emakimono depicting the Mongol invasion of Japan, Karajishi-zu Byōbu, a byōbu by Kano Eitoku, and Dōshoku sai-e, a painting by Ito Jakuchu.
Nihonga
Kaihō Yūshō (1533–1615)
Kanō Eitoku (1543–1590)
Iwasa Matabei (1578–1650)
Kanō Tan'yū (1602–1674)
Kanō Tsunenobu (1636–1713)
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (early 17th century)
Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795)
Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800)
Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828)
Hokusai (1760–1849)
Calligraphy
Wang Xizhi (303 – 361)
Kūkai (774 – 835)
Ono no Michikaze (894 – 966)
Fujiwara no Sukemasa (944 – 998)
Fujiwara no Kintō (966 – 1041)
Fujiwara no Yukinari (972 – 1027)
Minamoto no Shunrai (1055–1129)
Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241)
Modern Nihonga
Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958)
Kanzan Shimomura (1873–1930)
Tomioka Tessai (1837–1924)
Takeuchi Seihō (1864–1942)
Kawai Gyokudō (1873–1957)
Uemura Shōen (1875–1949)
Sculptures and crafts
Kawanobe Itcho (1831–1910)
Miyagawa Kōzan (1842-1916)
Asahi Gyokuzan (1843–1923)
Unnno Shomin (1844–1915)
Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845–1927)
Namikawa Sōsuke (1847–1910)
Ishikawa Komei (1852–1913)
Takamura Kōun (1852–1934)
Suwa Sozan (1851–1922)
References
External links
Imperial Household Agency | The Museum of the Imperial Collections
Imperial Household Agency
Art museums and galleries in Tokyo
Art museums and galleries established in 1993
Museum of the Imperial Collections |
15832496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Mary%27s%20Church%2C%20Shenley | St Mary's Church, Shenley | St. Mary's Church, Shenley is an ecumenical church located in Shenley Church End, Milton Keynes, England. The church now forms part of the Watling Valley Ecumenical Partnership. It is likely that the church building existed in some form from 1223, for this is when the first rector is recorded. Parts of the nave date back to c.1150, and parts of the chancel date back to c.1180. The stonework in the church covers both Norman and Early English periods. The north aisle was built in the 14th century, and the Font in the 15th century. The church is Grade I listed, and seats approximately 120 people.
References
External links
http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Shenley/rectors.html
Grade I listed churches in Buckinghamshire
Churches in Milton Keynes
Shenley |
15832513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Beard | George Beard | George Beard may refer to:
George Miller Beard (1839–1883), American neurologist
George Beard (artist) (1855–1944), American landscape photographer
a pen name of Dav Pilkey (born 1966), American cartoonist and author
George Beard (fictional character) |
15832523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri%20Hall | Geri Hall | Geri Hall (born May 2, 1972, in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and comedian.
She has appeared on the CBC's This Hour has 22 Minutes in October and November 2004, March 2007 and became a permanent cast anchor in October 2007. Other appearances include the Rick Mercer Report and numerous television commercials. She wrote the Gemini Award-nominated To Die 4. She is known for her distinctive voice. She has appeared in The Blobheads on CBC.
Geri Hall is also known for her attempt to interview Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the CBC comedy series 22 Minutes during the 2008 federal election campaign in Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 12, 2008. Hall, who was in character as "Single Female Voter", was restrained by security and later taken away in handcuffs. She was not arrested and instead got an exclusive interview with Harper, who said he had never watched 22 Minutes, and asked Hall: "Do you like handcuffs?"
Hall did a similar stunt on March 4, 2009, when she attempted to poke fun at Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's new rule requiring reporters to stand five feet back. It was poorly received due to Hall attempting it in the middle of questions on U.S. Steel's decision to shut down several mills. New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos was visibly angry and yelled at Hall to "Get the hell out of here". Kormos later said "The timing of it was totally inappropriate, you've got a press gallery trying to hold the premier accountable when a few thousand workers just lost their jobs." McGuinty's office said Hall's timing showed a "lack of judgment". 22 Minutes executive producer Mark Farrell defended Hall and claims Hall wouldn't have known what McGuinty was speaking about beforehand. Farrell says she was doing what she always does (and what former 22 Minutes co-host Mary Walsh did before her)—waiting for a signal from organizers that the session was about to wrap up. "We always try to get in at the last question."
She is slated to have a regular role as Cynthia in the upcoming sitcom One More Time.
Recognition
2004 Canadian Comedy Award – Television – Pretty Funny Writing – Special or Episode – To Die 4 – Nominated
2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role Dramatic Series – The Jane Show episode "Rules of Engagement" – Nominated
2008 Canadian Comedy Award – Television – Pretty Funny Writing – Special or Episode – "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" episode 3 – Won
2008 Canadian Comedy Award – Performance – Pretty Funny Female Television Performance – "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" – Won
2008 Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series – "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" – Nominated
2008 Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series – "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" – Nominated
2010 Canadian Comedy Award for Best performance by a Female – Television – "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" – Nominated
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Actresses from Oakville, Ontario
Canadian television personalities
Canadian women comedians
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Canadian sketch comedians
Canadian women television personalities
Comedians from Ontario
21st-century Canadian comedians
Canadian Comedy Award winners
21st-century Canadian actresses |
15832531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABC%20Special%20Assignment | SABC Special Assignment | Special Assignment is an investigative current affairs programme on SABC. Since August 1998 the programme has covered news events in South Africa and beyond, often disclosing criminal activities and atrocities unknown to the public. Ashraf Garda is the shows current host. The Show is screened weekly on SABC 3 at 21:30 GMT.
References
External links
SABC official website
Special Assignment programme official website
South African television news shows
South African Broadcasting Corporation television shows
1990s South African television series
2000s South African television series
2010s South African television series
1998 South African television series debuts |
15832547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJYI%20%28FM%29 | WJYI (FM) | WJYI (103.1 FM) is a college radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Tifton, Georgia, United States, the station is owned by Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). It is funded, managed and operated by students with the assistance of a faculty advisor.
History
The station went on the air as WABR-FM in 1974. On June 1, 1988, the station changed its call sign to WPLH. The WABR call letters were transferred to a new Peach State Radio transmitter. The tower for the new, higher-power public radio station was intended to be built on University of Georgia property, but a surveying error placed the site on an ABAC pasture and, with FCC and FAA approval already secured, it had to be built on college property.
In 2008, WPLH began streaming the on-air broadcast over the internet.
In the FCC non-commercial stations filing window of 2021, ABAC received a construction permit for a new 265-watt station at 88.3 MHz. The WJYI call sign was assigned to the construction permit and then switched with WPLH on August 3, 2022, as WPLH's programming moved to the higher-power facility.
References
External links
JYI
Radio stations established in 1974
1974 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
15832549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20J.%20Lee%20%28historian%29 | J. J. Lee (historian) | John Joseph Lee (born 9 July 1942) (commonly known as J. J. Lee), is an Irish historian and former senator. He has held the chairs of Modern History in University College Cork and Professor of History and Glucksman Professor for Irish Studies and Director of Glucksman Ireland House, at New York University.
Biography
Born in Tralee, County Kerry, he spent his early years in Castlegregory in the same county. He also lived for some years in Ballinasloe, County Galway, where he attended national school. In 1954, he was awarded a Galway County Council scholarship to attend Gormanston College, County Meath.
He graduated in 1962 from University College Dublin with first-class honours in History and Economics. He completed his MA some years later on the history of the railways in nineteenth-century Ireland. He was also a graduate student of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
In 1973, he published The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848–1918. The following year he moved back to Ireland to become Professor of Modern History at University College Cork, succeeding Oliver MacDonagh. He held the chair until 2002 when he took up his position at New York University. He retired in September 2017.
His 1989 Ireland, 1912–1985: Politics and Society won the Irish Independent/Irish Life prize for History in 1991; and both the Aer Lingus/Irish Times prize for Literature and the J.S. Donnelly, Snr. prize for History and Social Sciences in 1992.
He has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1985.
In 1993, he was elected to the 20th Seanad as an independent member for the National University constituency.
Works
Lee, J.J.: The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848–1918, Clarendon Press (1973),
Lee, J.J.: Ireland 1912–1985 - Politics and Society, Cambridge University Press (1989)
Lee, J.J. & Marion R. Casey: Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, New York University Press (2006)
References
External links
Text of the introductory address delivered by Professor Dermot Keogh, in University College Cork on 2 June 2006, on the occasion of the conferring of the degree of doctor of literature, honoris causa, on Professor J.J. Lee
1942 births
Living people
20th-century Irish historians
21st-century Irish historians
Independent members of Seanad Éireann
Members of the Royal Irish Academy
Members of the 20th Seanad
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Members of Seanad Éireann for the National University of Ireland
Alumni of University College Dublin
New York University faculty
People from Tralee
Academics of University College Cork
People educated at Gormanston College |
15832569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPGY | WPGY | WPGY (1580 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. It licensed to Ellijay, Georgia, United States, and is owned by Randy Gravley and Byron Dobbs, through licensee Tri-State Communications, Inc. It features programming from AP Radio.
History
The station went on the air as WLJA on May 14, 1986. On December 1, 1999, the station changed its call sign to the current WPGY.
Translator
Previous logo
References
External links
PGY
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
PGY |
15832602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Hayden%20Needham | William Hayden Needham | William Hayden Needham (December 9, 1810 – September 29, 1874) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented the City of Saint John from 1850 to 1854 and York County from 1865 to 1866 and from 1869 to 1870 in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Mark D. Needham, and was educated at King's College (later the University of New Brunswick). He studied law with George Frederick Street, was called to the bar in 1834 and practiced in Woodstock, Fredericton, and Saint John. Needham married Mary Ann Gale in 1835. He was elected mayor of Fredericton six times between 1856 and 1868. He was elected in 1865, defeated in 1866 and then reelected in an 1869 by-election. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1870 and 1874. In 1873, he was named Queen's Counsel.
Needham died in Woodstock at the age of 63.
References
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
1810 births
1874 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
Mayors of Fredericton
Canadian King's Counsel
Colony of New Brunswick people
19th-century King's Counsel |
15832610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebufo | Beelzebufo | Beelzebufo ( or ) is an extinct species of frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations of Madagascar. The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to B. ampinga include devil frog, devil toad, and the frog from hell.
Discovery and naming
The first fossil bones were found in 1993 by David W. Krause of New York's Stony Brook University, and the species Beelzebufo ampinga was named and described by Evans, Jones & Krause (2008). The holotype is specimen UA 9600, consisting of a fused cervical and second presacral centra.
These specimens were then described in more detail by Evans, Jones, and Krause (2014).
Some 100 fossil isolated partial bones have been found between 1993 and 2011. Some portions of articulated skull are also known: specimen FMNH PR 2512 (a specimen discovered in 2010 which preserves most of the braincase, part of the palate, part of the skull roof and several pre-sacral vertebrae) and specimen FMNH PR 2512 (which preserves one of the posterior flanges). Researchers have been able to reconstruct parts of the frog's skeleton, including nearly the entire skull.
Description
In early studies, it is suggested that snout-vent lengths of up to 42.5 cm (16.7 in). But in later studies, animals of this species estimated to have grown to at least (snout-vent length), which is around the size a modern African bullfrog can reach. The head of Beelzebufo was very big, and bones of the skull roof show a rugous external surface, indicating at least parts of the head may have borne bony scales, called scutes.
The skull sutures are open in even the largest specimens of Beelzebufo, showing that it might have grown even bigger.
Classification
Beelzebufo is considered to be closely related to Baurubatrachus from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil, with both possibly being close relatives, though not members of, the extant South American frog family Ceratophryidae.
Paleobiology
Beelzebufo most likely was a predator whose expansive mouth allowed it to eat relatively large prey, perhaps even juvenile dinosaurs. Bite force measurements from a growth series of Cranwell's horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli), suggest that the bite force of a large Beelzebufo—skull width —may have been between .
Paleobiogeography
The fossils of Beelzebufo are from Madagascar, which, while still attached to India, separated from the coast of Somalia in the earliest stage of the Late Jurassic. Beelzebufo resembles horned frogs (Ceratophryidae) of South America, which raised the possibility of a close biogeographic link between Madagascar and South America during the Cretaceous. The initial description of Beelzebufo hypothesis reignited interest and research into skeletal variation among living members of the Ceratophyridae. These investigations suggest several of the similarities between Beelzebufo and horned frogs may have evolved by convergence; a possibility certainly acknowledged in the descriptions of Beelzebufo.
A study from 2018 suggested that Beelzebufo, and other extinct frogs with ceratophryid-like traits, such as Baurubatrachus, were instead part of a more ancient group of Neobatrachia, distantly related to horned frogs. However, a 2022 study recovered Baurubatrachus and Beelzebufo as sister genera, with the clade formed by the two genera in turn being the sister clade to extant Ceratophyridae. Thus, Beelzebufo could represent a taxon on the stem of crown group Ceratophryidae as previously suggested.
References
External links
Cretaceous frogs
Late Cretaceous amphibians
Maevarano fauna
Fossil taxa described in 2008
Maastrichtian life
Beelzebub
Neobatrachia |
15832613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPEH%20%28AM%29 | WPEH (AM) | WPEH (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Louisville, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Peach Broadcasting Co., Inc. and features programming from CNN Radio and Westwood One.
References
External links
PEH
Radio stations established in 1974 |
15832620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPEH-FM | WPEH-FM | WPEH-FM (92.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Oldies format. It is licensed to Louisville, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Peach Broadcasting Co., Inc. and features programming from CNN Radio and Westwood One.
References
External links
PEH-FM
Radio stations established in 1977 |
15832698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Edwards%20%28footballer%29 | Nigel Edwards (footballer) | Nigel Edwards (born 31 December 1950) is a Welsh former footballer who played as a full back. He made more than 400 Football League appearances for Chester City and Aldershot.
Playing career
Born Wrexham, Edwards was signed by Chester as a youngster in September 1968 after being at Blackburn Rovers on amateur terms. After impressing in the reserve side, Edwards made his Football League debut on 23 April 1969 against Lincoln City, alongside fellow youngster Grenville Millington. The pair would go on to make more than 500 league appearances for the club between them.
By 1971–72, Edwards was first-choice right-back at Chester and the subject of constant transfer speculation, having been involved in a tour of New Zealand and the Far East with Wales the previous summer. Although he had a brief loan spell at Rotherham United in the first half of 1973–1974 while out of Chester's first team, Edwards returned to Chester without appearing for the Millers and soon regained his place in the side.
In 1974–1975, Edwards missed just four games as Chester were promoted from Division Four and reached the Football League Cup semi-finals. Despite playing at full back, Edwards scored seven times during the season. Two years later he helped Chester reach the fifth round of the FA Cup and win the spin-off Debenhams Cup competition at the end of the season. He remained with the club until he joined Aldershot in July 1978.
After four seasons with Aldershot, Edwards returned to Chester in June 1982 with funds raised by supporters through the Seals Player Appeal Fund. He marked his first league game back with the winning goal against Crewe Alexandra, but he made just seven more league appearances and moved on to Oswestry Town the following year.
In May 2004, 53-year-old Edwards played in Chester goalkeeper Wayne Brown's testimonial at Deva Stadium.
Honours
Chester
Football League Fourth Division promotion as fourth placed team: 1974–1975.
Football League Cup semi-finalists: 1974–1975.
Debenhams Cup winners: 1976–1977.
References
1950 births
Living people
Footballers from Wrexham
Welsh men's footballers
Wales men's under-23 international footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
English Football League players
Chester City F.C. players
Aldershot F.C. players
Rotherham United F.C. players
Oswestry Town F.C. players
People educated at Ruabon Grammar School |
15832712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%2C%20Ohio | Bogart, Ohio | Bogart is an unincorporated community in eastern Perkins Township, south of Sandusky, in Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is centered on the intersection of Bogart Road and U.S. Route 250, 1,500 feet south of the State Route 2 interchange with US 250. The center of Bogart is also 1,500 feet west of the boundary between Perkins and Huron townships. Bogart is pronounced locally boh-girt. It is part of the Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Prior to 1957, Bogart was a fairly quiet rural community. To the southwest, though, lay an unused tract of 9,000 acres (36 km) that had been the site of a World War II munitions factory. In 1957 NASA acquired part of this tract for its Plum Brook Station and by 1963 had acquired the rest of the tract to build additional facilities there.
Plum Brook Station brought unprecedented growth to Bogart in the form of single-family housing subdivisions, condominium apartments, motels, restaurants and other businesses. Kalahari Resort and Convention Center is located one mile south of Bogart on the east side of US 250. On December 21, 2007, Kalahari Sandusky completed a major expansion of its indoor waterpark and now bills itself "America's Largest Indoor Waterpark.
Transportation
US 250 is the main north-south highway through Bogart, while State Route 2 is the major east-west limited-access highway through the area. Bogart Road also runs east-west from Huron on the east to Castalia on the west. Taylor Road used to run southwest to Bloomingville from US 250 just south of Bogart Road, but it is now interrupted by Plum Brook Station.
References
External links
NASA Plum Brook Station
KalahariResort.com - Official Website
Erie County interactive tax maps and aerials
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Erie County, Ohio |
15832713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Kerr%20%28New%20Brunswick%20politician%29 | George Kerr (New Brunswick politician) | George Kerr (born 1805) was a Scottish-born lawyer and politician in New Brunswick. He represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1852 to 1870.
He was born in Kirkcudbright and educated there. In 1832, he was called to the bar. He married a Miss Abrams and then married Miss Swayne after the death of his first wife.
References
The Canadian parliamentary companion HJ Morgan (1869)
1805 births
Members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
People from Kirkcudbright
Year of death missing
Colony of New Brunswick people
Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation New Brunswick |
15832717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20statistics | Computational statistics | Computational statistics, or statistical computing, is the study which is the intersection of statistics and computer science, and refers to the statistical methods that are enabled by using computational methods. It is the area of computational science (or scientific computing) specific to the mathematical science of statistics. This area is fast developing. The view that the broader concept of computing must be taught as part of general statistical education is gaining momentum.
As in traditional statistics the goal is to transform raw data into knowledge, but the focus lies on computer intensive statistical methods, such as cases with very large sample size and non-homogeneous data sets.
The terms 'computational statistics' and 'statistical computing' are often used interchangeably, although Carlo Lauro (a former president of the International Association for Statistical Computing) proposed making a distinction, defining 'statistical computing' as "the application of computer science to statistics",
and 'computational statistics' as "aiming at the design of algorithm for implementing
statistical methods on computers, including the ones unthinkable before the computer
age (e.g. bootstrap, simulation), as well as to cope with analytically intractable problems" [sic].
The term 'Computational statistics' may also be used to refer to computationally intensive statistical methods including resampling methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, local regression, kernel density estimation, artificial neural networks and generalized additive models.
History
Though computational statistics is widely used today, it actually has a relatively short history of acceptance in the statistics community. For the most part, the founders of the field of statistics relied on mathematics and asymptotic approximations in the development of computational statistical methodology.
In 1908, William Sealy Gosset performed his now well-known Monte Carlo method simulation which led to the discovery of the Student’s t-distribution. With the help of computational methods, he also has plots of the empirical distributions overlaid on the corresponding theoretical distributions. The computer has revolutionized simulation and has made the replication of Gosset’s experiment little more than an exercise.
Later on, the scientists put forward computational ways of generating pseudo-random deviates, performed methods to convert uniform deviates into other distributional forms using inverse cumulative distribution function or acceptance-rejection methods, and developed state-space methodology for Markov chain Monte Carlo. One of the first efforts to generate random digits in a fully automated way, was undertaken by the RAND Corporation in 1947. The tables produced were published as a book in 1955, and also as a series of punch cards.
By the mid-1950s, several articles and patents for devices had been proposed for random number generators. The development of these devices were motivated from the need to use random digits to perform simulations and other fundamental components in statistical analysis. One of the most well known of such devices is ERNIE, which produces random numbers that determine the winners of the Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued in the United Kingdom. In 1958, John Tukey’s jackknife was developed. It is as a method to reduce the bias of parameter estimates in samples under nonstandard conditions. This requires computers for practical implementations. To this point, computers have made many tedious statistical studies feasible.
Methods
Maximum likelihood estimation
Maximum likelihood estimation is used to estimate the parameters of an assumed probability distribution, given some observed data. It is achieved by maximizing a likelihood function so that the observed data is most probable under the assumed statistical model.
Monte Carlo method
Monte Carlo is a statistical method that relies on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be deterministic in principle. They are often used in physical and mathematical problems and are most useful when it is difficult to use other approaches. Monte Carlo methods are mainly used in three problem classes: optimization, numerical integration, and generating draws from a probability distribution.
Markov chain Monte Carlo
The Markov chain Monte Carlo method creates samples from a continuous random variable, with probability density proportional to a known function. These samples can be used to evaluate an integral over that variable, as its expected value or variance. The more steps are included, the more closely the distribution of the sample matches the actual desired distribution.
Bootstrapping
The bootstrap is a resampling technique used to generate samples from an empirical probability distribution defined by an original sample of the population. It can be used to find a bootstrapped estimator of a population parameter. It can also be used to estimate the standard error of an estimator as well as to generate bootstrapped confidence intervals. The jackknife is a related technique.
Applications
Computational biology
Computational linguistics
Computational physics
Computational mathematics
Computational materials science
Machine Learning
Computational statistics journals
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
Computational Statistics
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
Journal of Statistical Software
The R Journal
The Stata Journal
Statistics and Computing
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics
Associations
International Association for Statistical Computing
See also
Algorithms for statistical classification
Data science
Statistical methods in artificial intelligence
Free statistical software
List of statistical algorithms
List of statistical packages
Machine learning
References
Further reading
Articles
Books
External links
Associations
International Association for Statistical Computing
Statistical Computing section of the American Statistical Association
Journals
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics
Statistics and Computing
Numerical analysis
Computational fields of study
Mathematics of computing |
15832738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Borghese | Paolo Borghese | Paolo Borghese may refer to:
Paolo Borghese (1622–1646), Italian nobleman, first husband of Olimpia Aldobrandini
Prince Paolo Borghese (1904–1985), Italian nobleman |
15832744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%20State%20Highway%2024 | Idaho State Highway 24 | State Highway 24 (SH-24) is a long state highway in Idaho that runs east west from Shoshone, Idaho on the far west to Minidoka and Acequia on the far east.
Route description
SH-24 begins at I-84 near Rupert. It passes Dietrich, Owinza, and Kimama and runs approximately north of Paul and Burley and 15 miles north of Rupert. The highway ends at U.S. Highway 93 in Shoshone. It also runs parallel to U.S. Highway 30 and Interstate 84 south, and is parallel to a major Union Pacific railroad line as well.
Junction list
See also
List of state highways in Idaho
List of highways numbered 24
References
External links
024
Transportation in Minidoka County, Idaho
Transportation in Lincoln County, Idaho |
15832745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIHB-FM | WIHB-FM | WIHB-FM (96.5 MHz, "96.5 The Bull") is a radio station serving the Macon metropolitan area in central Georgia, and having Gray, Georgia as its city of license. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It airs a country music format.
History
This station was assigned the WPCH call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 1, 2006. It was previously used on "Peach 94.9", a station which had a very similar radio format in metro Atlanta, the next media market to the north. That station is now WUBL, "94.9 The Bull".
The call letters actually go back to an AM station in New York City. In the early 1930s, WPCH operated on 570 kHz in the New York metropolitan area.
During the week of March 17, 2008, fans of classic hits station "Peach 96.5" were told that they could listen to the station online until the station returned to the air as "Peach 102.5" on March 24, 2008. During this transition, the country format known as "The Bull" broadcast on both the 102.5 and 96.5 frequencies. In late 2008, the classic hits format returned as a simulcast on both 96.5 and 102.5 FM.
On March 22, 2011, 102.5 broke away from the 96.5 simulcast and now plays country music. Peach 96.5 FM still carries the classic hits format as well as online.
On September 19, 2011, WPCH shifted their format from classic hits to adult contemporary, keeping the "Peach 96.5" branding.
On February 23, 2013, at 12 midnight, WPCH changed their format back to country, branded as "New Country 96.5".
On June 1, 2015, at 6 AM, WPCH rebranded back to the "96.5 The Bull" branding. The new callsign WIHB-FM was adopted at the same time.
References
External links
WIHB-FM official website
IHB-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
Jones County, Georgia
Radio stations established in 1995
IHeartMedia radio stations |
15832747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20J.%20Guerard | Albert J. Guerard | Albert Joseph Guerard (1914–2000) was an American critic, novelist, and professor. He was born in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, (B.A. 1934), (Ph.D. 1938) and Harvard University, (M.A. 1936).
Life
Guerard was born in Houston in 1914. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1934 from Stanford and a master's from Harvard in 1936. He taught for a year at Amherst College before earning his doctorate from Stanford in 1938. He taught at Harvard from 1938 to 1961, where his students included Alice Adams, John Hawkes, Alison Lurie, and Robert Crichton. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1945 as a Technical Sergeant in the psychological warfare branch.
He moved to Stanford in 1961 where he launched the university's first freshman seminar program, which ran for 13 years. As many as 400 students were involved in it annually. He also worked to get funding for the Voice Project, a program that brought professional writers to campus to teach freshmen. He succeeded Yvor Winters in the literature chair named after Guerard's father, Albert Léon Guérard, who was also a professor at Stanford for many years. He remained at Stanford until 1985. His students included writers John Hawkes, Frank O'Hara and Harriet Doerr. His interest in modernism and postmodernism led him to develop Stanford's interdisciplinary doctoral program in "Modern Thought and Literature", which still exists.
After suffering from emphysema for many years, he died in the same room where his father had died 41 years before.
Work & awards
Guerard published nine novels, six books of criticism and a memoir called The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory and the Self, as well as a number of critical essays. He was preparing to submit a volume of some of his critical writing for publication when he died.
His novels include Night Journey, which drew from his experience in psychological warfare intelligence during World War II.
His critical books include The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky and Faulkner, which looks at three authors who broke away from realism.
He held the record for the most novels written by any living U.S. critic and the most critical books of any living American novelist.
He received a 1977-78 Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for distinguished teaching and a 1983 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching. In 1998, Guerard received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Publications
Novels
The Past Must Alter. London, Longman, 1937; New York, Holt, 1938.
The Hunted. New York, Knopf, 1944; London, Longman, 1947.
Maquisard: A Christmas Tale. New York, Knopf, 1945; London, Longman, 1946.
Night Journey. New York, Knopf, 1950; London, Longman, 1951.
The Bystander. Boston, Little Brown, 1958; London, Faber, 1959.
The Exiles. London, Faber, 1962; New York, Macmillan, 1963.
Christine/Annette. New York, Dutton, 1985.
Gabrielle: An Entertainment. New York, Fine, 1992.
The Hotel in the Jungle. Dallas. Baskerville Publishers. 1995.
Maquisard: A Christmas Tale. Novato, California, Lyford Books, 1995.
Short stories
Suspended Sentences. Santa Barbara, California, John Daniel, 1999.
Uncollected Short Stories
"Davos in Winter," in Hound and Horn (Cambridge, Massachusetts), October–December 1933.
"Tragic Autumn," in The Magazine (Beverly Hills, California), December 1933.
"Miss Prindle's Lover," in The Magazine (Beverly Hills, California), February 1934; revised edition, in Wake (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Spring 1948.
"Turista," in The Best American Short Stories of 1947, edited by Martha Foley. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
"The Incubus," in The Dial (New York), vol. 1, no. 2, 1960.
"The Lusts and Gratifications of Andrada," in Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1962.
"On the Operating Table," in Denver Quarterly, Autumn 1966.
"The Journey," in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey), Winter 1967.
"The Rabbit and the Tapes," in Sewanee Review (Tennessee), Spring1972.
"The Pillars of Hercules," in Fiction (New York), December 1973.
"Bon Papa Reviendra," in Tri-Quarterly (Evanston, Illinois), Spring1975.
"Post Mortem: The Garcia Incident," in Southern Review (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Spring 1978.
"Diplomatic Immunity," in Sequoia (Stanford, California), Autumn-Winter, 1978.
"The Poetry of Flight," in Northwest Magazine (Portland, Oregon), 22 January 1984.
"The Mongol Orbit," in Sequoia (Stanford, California), Centennial Issue, 1989.
Criticism
Robert Bridges: A Study of Traditionalism in Poetry. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, and London, Oxford University Press, 1942.
Joseph Conrad. New York, New Directions, 1947.
Thomas Hardy: The Novels and Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1949; London, Oxford University Press, 1950; revised edition, 1964.
André Gide. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, and London, Oxford University Press, 1951; revised edition, 1969.
Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1958; London, Oxford University Press, 1959.
The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976; London, Oxford University Press, 1977.
The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory, and the Self. Stanford, California, Stanford Alumni Association, 1980.
Editor, Prosateurs Américains de XXe Siécle. Paris, Laffont, 1947.
Editor, The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy. New York, HoltRinehart, 1961.
Editor, Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1963.
Editor, Perspective on the Novel, special issue of Daedalus (Boston), Spring 1963.
Co-Editor, The Personal Voice: A Contemporary Prose Reader. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1964.
Editor, Stories of the Double. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1967.
Editor, Mirror and Mirage. Stanford, California, Stanford Alumni Association, 1980.
External links
The Stanford Report:Obituary
Stanford University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Stanford University Department of English faculty
20th-century American novelists
1914 births
2000 deaths
American male novelists
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from Massachusetts |
15832752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Gardens | Victorian Gardens | Victorian Gardens was a seasonal traditional-style amusement park that set up at Wollman Rink in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, from spring through fall each year.
Description
The facility, which started operating in spring 2003, accommodated up to 3,000 guests and featured about a dozen rides geared primarily to ages 2–12. In addition to the rides, the park offers activities including face painting, balloon sculpting, interactive games and live entertainment, including clowns and magic shows, on weekends and holidays.
History
The idea to put an amusement park in the Wollman Rink came from a small group of industry veterans who saw an opportunity to use the 50,000 square foot facility all year long. After negotiations with the Central Park Conservancy, the New York City Parks Department and the Trump Organization, these private investors established Central Amusement International (CAI), which turned to Zamperla, an Italian amusement ride manufacturer, to put the ideas into play. Victorian Gardens first opened its gates to the general public in 2003.
Due to operating restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Victorian Gardens did not open for the 2020 season and never reopened.
Following the city's termination of all contracts with the Trump Organization in early 2021, CAI took over the operations of the nearby Central Park Carousel and plans were made to transform Wollman rink's warm season into other activities operated by other concessions. Albert Zamperla died in November 2022.
References
External links
Amusement parks in New York (state)
2003 establishments in New York City
Central Park
Entertainment venues in Manhattan |
15832758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velepromet%20camp | Velepromet camp | The Velepromet camp was a detention facility established in the final days of the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. The camp was set up by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), which shared control of the facility with Croatian Serb rebels. The facility, originally an industrial storage site, was located on the southern outskirts of the city of Vukovar, in close proximity to the JNA barracks. It consisted of eight warehouses surrounded by a wire fence, and was established on 16 November 1991, when the first detainees were brought there.
A few days after the end of the Battle of Vukovar, there were 2,000 detainees in the camp. Detainees usually spent several days in the camp, during which some of them were interrogated, beaten and killed. Up to 10,000 detainees passed through the camp before it was closed in March 1992, when the United Nations Protection Force deployed to the area. Anywhere between 15 and 800 inmates may have been killed at the camp, though the latter figure includes approximately 700 people who are missing and presumed dead. The events in the camp formed part of three indictments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. , two of the trials are ongoing, while the trial of Slobodan Milošević was terminated following his death.
Background
In 1990, following the electoral defeat of the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia by the Croatian Democratic Union (, HDZ), ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs worsened. The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska narodna armija – JNA) confiscated the weapons of Croatia's Territorial Defence (Teritorijalna obrana - TO) forces to minimize resistance. On 17 August, tensions escalated into an open revolt by Croatian Serbs, centred on the predominantly Serb-populated areas of the Dalmatian hinterland around Knin, parts of the Lika, Kordun, Banovina and eastern Croatia. This revolt was followed by two unsuccessful attempts by Serbia, supported by Montenegro and Serbia's provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo, to obtain the approval of the Yugoslav Presidency for a JNA operation to disarm Croatian security forces in January 1991.
After a bloodless skirmish between Serb insurgents and Croatian special police in March, the JNA itself, supported by Serbia and its supporters, asked the Presidency to give it wartime powers and declare a state of emergency. The request was denied on 15 March, and the JNA came under the control of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević. Milošević, preferring a campaign to expand Serbia rather than to preserve Yugoslavia, publicly threatened to replace the JNA with a Serbian army and declared that he no longer recognized the authority of the Presidency. By the end of the month, the conflict had escalated into the Croatian War of Independence. The JNA stepped in, increasingly supporting Croatian Serb insurgents and preventing Croatian police from intervening. In early April, the leaders of the Croatian Serb revolt declared their intention to integrate the area under their control, known as the Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina, with Serbia. The Government of Croatia viewed this declaration as an attempt to secede. In May, the Croatian government responded by forming the Croatian National Guard (Zbor narodne garde - ZNG), but its development was hampered by a United Nations (UN) arms embargo introduced in September. On 8 October, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia.
The second half of 1991 saw the fiercest fighting of the war, as the 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia culminated in the Siege of Dubrovnik, and the Battle of Vukovar. The Battle of Vukovar ended on 18 November, when the JNA captured the city after nearly three months of fighting. At the same time, Croatian Serb authorities began systematically expelling non-Serb civilians from areas under their control. The expulsions in the area of eastern Slavonia were primarily motivated by the aim of changing the ethnic composition in favour of Serbs as well as the resettling of Serb refugees who had fled western Slavonia following Operation Swath-10 by the Croatian Army.
Timeline
The Velepromet storage facility is located on the southern edge of Vukovar, in the Sajmište city district, a few hundred metres from the JNA barracks. It consists of eight sheet metal warehouses, surrounded by a wire fence. A brickyard was located just beyond the perimeter fence, away. The Velepromet storage facility was turned into a detention camp when the first detainees were brought there on 16 November, during the final days of the Battle of Vukovar, shortly after the JNA captured the Sajmište district. It served as a detention facility where the JNA and various paramilitary groups held Croats before they were transported to prison camps in Serbia or they were executed nearby. The site was within the area of responsibility of the JNA 2nd Assault Detachment, commanded by Major Branislav Lukić, the commanding officer of the JNA garrison in Vukovar, but the camp security was provided by Croatian Serb TO, volunteers and by JNA military police.
After the Battle of Vukovar, the JNA and its allied forces started taking all civilians remaining in Vukovar to the Velepromet camp, transferring them from various shelters elsewhere in the city. About 11:00 on 19 November, Cyrus Vance and Herbert S. Okun toured Vukovar on a United Nations fact-finding mission. They were given an escorted tour of several sites in or near the city, including the Velepromet camp, before departing for Belgrade at 13:00.
According to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, there were approximately 2,000 people held in the facility on 19 November, including civilians and approximately 800 people detained as prisoners of war by the JNA. Those included several hundred detainees taken from the Vukovar hospital. People transported to the Velepromet camp were then separated based on their ethnicity and suspected ZNG and Croatian police personnel were separated from the others. Colonel Bogdan Vujić of the JNA Counterintelligence Service visited the camp that day and described the conditions there as "inhumane". The International Committee of the Red Cross was denied access to the Velepromet camp.
Upon arrival at the facility, some of the prisoners were selected for beatings or execution. Survivors reported that some of the detainees were escorted to the brickyard, from which shots could be heard, and those detainees were not seen again. One surviving prisoner later reported that he witnessed the killing of one prisoner in the camp itself, when Serbian paramilitaries slit the victim's throat in front of detainees. Other prisoners were beaten during interrogations, were shot and wounded, or were otherwise abused. On 19 November, gradual transfer of the detainees to Sremska Mitrovica prison in Serbia started. These transfers caused a clash between Vujić and the Croatian Serb TO, as the latter wanted to keep the detainees under their control.
Detainees were generally kept in the Velepromet camp for three to four days before being transferred to Sremska Mitrovica. It is estimated that up to 10,000 civilians and prisoners of war passed through the Velepromet camp before the camp was closed down in March 1992, when the United Nations Protection Force deployed to the area. According to survivors, up to 800 were killed there, although a large number of those deaths are unconfirmed and many are considered missing. The figure includes 700 missing and presumed dead . Seventeen victims were buried in graves within the detention facility itself. According to the Croatian Government, about 350 inmates did not leave the camp alive. This figure was repeated by Croatian lawyers in March 2014, during the trial phase of the Croatia–Serbia genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Serbia's legal team maintained that the figure of 350 killed is exaggerated, but conceded that crimes had been committed in the camp. Based on the findings of the ICTY, the ICJ found that at least 15 inmates had been killed at Velepromet, but stated that it was impossible for the court to determine the exact number of deaths.
Aftermath
The events in the Velepromet camp formed part of three different ICTY indictments, although none resulted in a conviction. In the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the charges brought against Milošević by the ICTY prosecutors included unlawful confinement, imprisonment, torture and inhumane acts against Croat and other non-Serb civilians, including one hundred detainees held in the Velepromet camp. Milošević died before his trial was completed. Vojislav Šešelj, the leader of the Serb Radical Party, associated with the White Eagles paramilitaries, was charged with the unlawful confinement and killing of at least six people at the Velepromet camp who were buried in a mass grave near the site of the Ovčara massacre, near the village of Grabovo south of Vukovar, as well as an unspecified number of people in the brick yard adjacent to the Velepromet camp. He was acquitted of all charges in 2016. Goran Hadžić, a Croatian Serb policial leader in eastern Slavonia, who held the office of President of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia, was charged with the unlawful confinement and murder of the 17 people in Velepromet who were later buried within the compound. His trial was abandoned in 2014 as a result of Hadžić being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The site of the Velepromet camp is marked by a commemorative plaque, and there is a wreath-laying ceremony each November at the site. The compound was restored to is original use as a storage facility.
Footnotes
References
Books
News reports
Other sources
Serbian concentration camps in the Yugoslav Wars
Serbian war crimes in the Croatian War of Independence |
15832772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%21 | Osu! | Osu! (stylized as osu!) is a free-to-play rhythm game originally created and self-published by Australian developer Dean Herbert. Inspired by gameplay of the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan series, it was released for Microsoft Windows on 16 September 2007, with later ports to macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Osu!s gameplay, based on the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan series of rhythm games, primarily involves clicking notes, which appear as circles, using the mouse cursor. Since the game's release, three other game modes have been added, taking inspiration from Taiko no Tatsujin and Beatmania. Unlike many rhythm games, levels in Osu! are created and uploaded by users, increasing the range and volume of the song library, which is a factor contributing to the game's popularity.
The game has a significant connection to Japanese culture and anime music. It has also had effects on the esports industry—professional gamers use Osu! to warm up and practice, and the community frequently organizes tournaments between players.
Gameplay
Osu! is a rhythm game in which hit circles appear as notes over a song's runtime, and the objective is to click on the circles at the appropriate time and in the correct order, aided by rings called approach circles that close in on the hit circles to visually indicate the timing. The core gameplay is inspired by the Nintendo DS rhythm game Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and its sequel Elite Beat Agents. Other types of notes require that the player click and hold while moving the cursor. If the player misses too many circles, they fail the song and must retry. In-game settings, called mods, can change gameplay in different ways—for example, by speeding up the song or decreasing the size of circles. Songs are mapped to levels called beatmaps, and the same song can have multiple beatmaps of varying difficulties. Some beatmaps, including a tutorial, are bundled with a new installation of the game, but more can be downloaded from the game's website.
Beatmaps can be created and uploaded by all users. In the game's single-player mode, scores on beatmaps can be compared with other players, who are ranked on an online leaderboard. Scores are primarily measured using their performance points, which account for various aspects of a player's skill. Users can add others as friends and chat in-game, and the multiplayer mode allows groups of people to play beatmaps synchronously with each other.
Game modes
The game's original and most popular mode, based on Ouendan, is also known as osu!standard. There are also three alternative game modes, osu!mania, osu!taiko, and osu!catch. In osu!mania, a mode based on rhythm game series such as Beatmania and Guitar Hero, the player must press the correct keys on the keyboard when notes reach the bottom of the screen. osu!taiko is based on Taiko no Tatsujin; it involves circles moving from right to left, requiring keypresses when they reach the left side. osu!catch is based on EZ2Catch, a game mode in EZ2DJ. In it, fruits fall from the top of the screen and the player controls a character at the bottom whom they can move left and right with the goal of catching as much fruit as possible.
Development
Osu! was created by Dean Herbert, an Australian developer known online as "peppy", as a computer version of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents. One of his goals was to create longevity through enabling users to generate beatmaps. Herbert had experience creating video games prior to Osu!, having made some during high school and university, but has said he did not think it would become his job. He began developing Osu! while attending university and had a working build of the game after a few hours, which he shared with friends. It was written in C# using the XNA framework. The game's first public release was on 16 September 2007, and an open beta was officially available starting on 17 October. Due to the game's growth in popularity as well as user feedback, Herbert later added the extra game modes osu!mania, osu!taiko, and osu!catch. After releasing Osu!, Herbert, who had been working full-time for an IT company, gradually reduced his work hours to focus on maintaining Osu!. According to Herbert, as of a July 2014 interview for the official Osu! YouTube channel, the user interface of the game client and official website were undergoing full "revamps". In the same interview, he expressed interest or intentions to add major features to the game, such as a multiplayer power-up system inspired by Ouendan and TetriNET, 3D rotation of the field of play, and expanded multiplayer lobbies.
Legacy
Community and popularity
Osu! has continued to gain popularity since its release, being widely shared on video and live streaming platforms like YouTube and TikTok. The game works on a model of community-generated beatmaps, which has been cited as a significant factor in its popularity and longevity. A large portion of the available music consists of songs from anime—the game itself is aimed at foreign fans of Japanese culture and is influenced by it, particularly due to its inspiration from Ouendan and the general continuing association of rhythm games with Japan since the 1990s.
Tournaments are held frequently as another mode of competition. The Osu! World Cup is an annual tournament which comprises a group stage and bracket of the 32 highest-seeded national teams in the world, usually with 6 to 8 players on each team.
Due to the game's emphasis on quickly moving the mouse cursor to precise points on the screen, some players of multiplayer online battle arena games and first-person shooter games use it to improve reflexes and mouse control, and it has been specifically recommended by some esports professionals like Ninja and EFFECT.
Devices
Osu! has been noted for encouraging the use of unique input devices—although the game can be played with a computer mouse, it is often recommended to use a graphics tablet with a pen, which more closely emulates the gameplay of Ouendan. The accessibility of using a mouse and keyboard is another reason given for the game's popularity. Gaming keyboard manufacturer Wooting announced in March 2023 a three-key keyboard dedicated to playing Osu! due to the popularity of their keyboards among the game's players.
Critical reception
Jeuxvideo.com reviewed Osu! favorably with 18/20 points in 2015, praising its simple gameplay and its expansive community, but complaining about a high skill floor and its unoriginal gamemodes, as well as the prevalence of Japanese music, which they felt was excessive. In 2010, MMOGames.com reviewer Daniel Ball said that while the game was very similar to Elite Beat Agents, it was differentiated by its community's large library of high-quality community made content and customization.
Notes
References
External links
Official osu! wiki
2007 video games
Indie games
IOS games
MacOS games
Music video games
Open-source video games
Rhythm games
Software using the MIT license
Video games developed in Australia
Windows games
Windows Phone games |
15832781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Hultberg | Otto Hultberg | Otto F. Hultberg (14 November 1877 – 24 November 1954) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the Swedish team in the team running deer, single shots competition. In the 100 metre running deer, single shots event he finished fourth.
References
External links
Otto Hultberg at databaseOlympics.com
1877 births
1954 deaths
Swedish male sport shooters
Running target shooters
Olympic shooters for Sweden
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
19th-century Swedish people
20th-century Swedish people |
15832787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo%20text%20L | Rongorongo text L | Text L of the rongorongo corpus, also known as (London) reimiro 2, is the smaller of two inscribed reimiro in London and one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
Other names
L is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR21.
Location
British Museum, London. Catalog # AOA 9295.
Description
A prototypical two-headed Rapanui reimiro, or ceremonial crescent-shaped gorget/epaulet, in excellent condition, 41.2 × 10.5 cm, made of Pacific rosewood (Orliac 2005). The two holes top center were used to hang it from clothing.
A line of glyphs has been cut along the length of the bottom edge on the front.
Fischer reports from her notes that Katherine Routledge showed a photo of this object to two Rapanui elders in July 1914. They said it was a woman's rei miro, worn five to a side.
Provenance
Reimiro 2 was sold by Reverend William Sparrow Simpson, a collector who had never been to Easter Island, to the trustees of Christy Collection in January 1875. The trustees transferred it along with the rest of the Christy ethnological collection to the British Museum in 1883.
It is not known where Simpson acquired the object, but its history may be similar to that of rei miro 1.
Inscribed reimiro were evidently rare: An elder told Routledge that he had never seen a reimiro with glyphs.
Despite its poor provenance, there are no doubts as to its authenticity.
Text
There is one line of about 50 glyphs, ending in half a dozen komari (vulvas). Fischer makes the enigmatic comment "Any evidence in natural light of seemingly 'effaced' glyphs (palimpsests) disappears in artificial light."
Barthel
Fischer
Image gallery
References
BARTHEL, Thomas S. 1958. Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter.
FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts. Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
ORLIAC, Catherine. 2005. "The Rongorongo Tablets from Easter Island: Botanical Identification and 14C Dating." Archaeology in Oceania 40.3.
External links
Barthel's coding of text L
Rongorongo inscriptions |
15832788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOKA-FM | WOKA-FM | WOKA-FM (106.7 FM) is a country music radio station licensed to Douglas, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Coffee County Broadcasters, Inc. and features programming from Fox News Radio.
References
External links
The Buck website
OKA-FM
Country radio stations in the United States |
15832789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20True%20Meaning%20of%20Smekday | The True Meaning of Smekday | The True Meaning of Smekday is a 2007 children's book by Adam Rex. It was adapted by DreamWorks Animation into the 2015 feature film Home.
Rex's second volume in the series, Smek for President!, was published in 2015, prior to the release of Home. The film version, which departed significantly from the books' continuity, was followed by the 2016 animated TV series Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.
An audiobook edition of The True Meaning of Smekday, read by Bahni Turpin, was released on March 8, 2011.
Plot summary
The story is narrated in first person by a 12-year-old girl in eighth grade, and takes the form of a school-assigned essay intended for submission to a national competition, and expected to be stored in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years.
The protagonist is Gratuity "Tip" Tucci, who must survive on her own at age 11, after her mother is abducted by an alien race called the Boov. The entire Boov population arrives in a fleet of ships on Christmas Eve, and use their advanced technology to take over the Earth without bloodshed. The Boov promptly rename Earth and Christmas "Smekland" and "Smekday" respectively, in honor of their leader, Captain Smek.
On "Moving Day", when all humans are required by the Boov to relocate to Florida, Tip evades being transported by the Boov, and instead drives the family car to Florida in search of her mother. When the car breaks down, Tip reluctantly joins forces with a fugitive Boov mechanic who had taken the name J.Lo, thinking it to be a "common Earth name." Tip learns that the overly-friendly J.Lo was fleeing from his fellow Boov because, while modifying radio tower antennas for Boov use, he had accidentally transmitted a strong test signal in the wrong direction. The signal gave away the Earth's location to the Gorg, a violent alien race who had previously conquered the Boov's home planet.
Tip journeys across the Boov-controlled United States with her cat Pig and J.Lo, unsuccessfully seeking her mother at Florida's "Happy Mouse Kingdom," and continuing west to Roswell, New Mexico and Arizona. There, Tip and J.Lo, together with a wise old junk dealer named Chief Shouting Bear, must prevent politician Dan Landry from incompetently reaching a disastrous accommodation with the invading Gorg. In the face of certain death or enslavement by the Gorg, Tip finds her own way to defeat the powerful aliens, saving humans and Boov alike.
Reception and sequel
The book was highly recommended by The New York Times.
Smek for President!, a sequel billed as "Book Two of the Smek Smeries", was released by Disney Hyperion on February 10, 2015, along with an audiobook edition read by Bahni Turpin. The novel follows Tip and J.Lo on an impromptu summer vacation to New Boovworld, where J.Lo seeks a pardon from Captain Smek, but instead finds himself a pawn in Smek's campaign for High Boov when the Boov adopt human-style politics.
Film adaptation
DreamWorks Animation, in 2008, optioned the book's rights to adapt it into an animated feature film. Adam Rex announced in 2011 on Twitter that DreamWorks had renewed its option on the adaptation.
It was announced on June 20, 2012 that Tim Johnson was set to direct the film, with Rihanna and Jim Parsons voicing the lead roles, and the film would be released in fourth-quarter 2014. Chris Jenkins and Suzanne Buirgy would produce, and writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember were signed to adapt the novel into a screenplay. The title of the film was announced as Happy Smekday!; the project was retitled Home a year later.
In September 2012, 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Animation announced the release for November 26, 2014. The release of Home was later delayed to Spring 2015 in order to avoid competition with Penguins of Madagascar.
Released on March 27, 2015, Home grossed $386 million worldwide. In addition to Rihanna and Parsons, it featured the voices of Steve Martin as Smek, and Jennifer Lopez as Tip's mother.
According to director Tim Johnson, Lopez had known about the book because of the character who used her nickname J.Lo, which helped him attract her to take a voice role in the film. However, despite the actress being "into the idea the alien would be named after her," legal concerns involving trademarks and licensing prompted the filmmakers to rename the character Oh.
In addition to renaming a lead character, the film version departed completely from the plot and continuity of the book in numerous ways. Seeking a more worldwide scope, the screen adaptation had the Boov relocate the human population to Australia, eliminating large portions of the book that took place in Florida, Arizona, and New Mexico. Significant supporting characters, such as Dan Landry and the Chief, did not appear at all, and the film took an entirely different approach in its resolution of the conflict between the Boov and the Gorg. The film also shied away from the more mature and complex aspects of the book, opting to be more kid-friendly.
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, an animated television series based on the 2015 film, debuted on Netflix in July 2016.
Website
In conjunction with the 2007 publication of the book, author Adam Rex created a website that purported to be an educational effort by the National Time Capsule Project to provide a historic record of the Boov invasion of Earth for the benefit of future generations. The site included, for example, a short Boov-produced "training video" for humans in which the Boov explained their simplification of the calendar to three months, as well as Smekland's new Boov-approved holidays (such as Smekday, Smeksgiving, and Boov Passover).
References
External links
2007 American novels
American children's novels
American adventure novels
Children's science fiction novels
Novels about alien invasions
American novels adapted into films
2007 children's books
2007 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels |
15832796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo%20Biscardi | Aldo Biscardi | Aldo Biscardi (26 November 1930 – 8 October 2017) was an Italian football broadcaster, best known for presenting the show Il processo di Biscardi (The Biscardi Trial).
Biography
Native of Larino, province of Campobasso, he graduated in Law from the University of Naples. In 1952 he began working on the daily Neapolitan newspaper, Il Mattino. In 1956 he became the sports editor of the Rome sports paper Paese Sera, of which he would later become editor-in-chief.
In 1979 he began his television career, taking charge of Raitre sporting broadcasts and in 1980 was presenting programmes on a range of channels, gaining popularity for his down-to-earth style of chatting and for his linguistic gaffes and puns.
In 1980, Biscardi launched his RaiTre creation, Il Processo del Lunedì. In the first series, Enrico Ameri presented the show followed by Marino Bartoletti, with Biscardi taking the backseat role of editor.
In 1993, Biscardi moved to Tele+ and took on the range of sports offered by that channel, re-introducing the Il Processo di Biscardi programme with the same formula and name, followed, in 1996, by another move to Telemontecarlo. His flagship programme would continue on the channel before it became, from 2001, La7.
In 2005, with the creation of the digital terrestrial channel La7, Biscardi became director of sport of La7 and director of the digital terrestrial channel called La7 Sport which was founded in August 2005 but then folded in April 2007.
In May 2006, extracts from intercepted telephone conversations between Biscardi and Luciano Moggi were revealed. In the climate of the scandal which became known as Calciopoli, it was revealed that the Juventus official had instructed Biscardi on what to say or not say during his television programme. Biscardi therefore joined the list of those under investigation (July 2007) and although charges were later dropped they remained on file. In the meantime, Biscardi left La7 (May 2006) and took his programme with him to a new channel, 7 Gold. At the same time, in September 2006, the Italian Order of Journalists imposed a 6-month suspension due to the scandal which led to an open and heated confrontation with the Order.
References
1930 births
2017 deaths
People from the Province of Campobasso
Italian television personalities
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists |
15832802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymulin | Thymulin | Thymulin (also known as thymic factor or its old name facteur thymique serique) is a nonapeptide produced by two distinct epithelial populations in the thymus first described by Bach in 1977. It requires zinc for biological activity. Its peptide sequence is H-Pyr-Ala-Lys-Ser-Gln-Gly-Gly-Ser-Asn-OH.
The hormone is believed to be involved in T-cell differentiation and enhancement of T and NK cell actions. Besides this rather paracrine or auto-organic effects on the thymus dependent immune system, thymulin seems to have neuroendocrine effects as well. There exist bidirectional interactions between thymic epithelium and the hypothalamus-pituitary axis (for example, thymulin follows a circadian rhythm and physiologically elevated ACTH levels correlate positively with thymulin plasma levels and vice versa).
A recent focus has been on the role of thymulin as an effector on proinflammatory mediators/cytokines. A peptide analog of thymulin (PAT) has been found to have analgesic effects in higher concentrations and particularly neuroprotective anti-inflammatory effects in the CNS.
Astrocytes seem to be the target for thymulin for this effect. Researchers hope to develop drugs thwarting inflammatory processes associated with neurodegenerative diseases and even rheumatism with the help of thymulin analogs.
Moreover, thymulin has been associated with anorexia nervosa.
See also
IL-2 receptor
References
Nonapeptides
Hormones of the thymus gland |
15832804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills%20Township | Mills Township | Mills Township may refer to:
Mills Township, Bond County, Illinois
Mills Township, Midland County, Michigan
Mills Township, Ogemaw County, Michigan
Township name disambiguation pages |
15832807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOKA%20%28AM%29 | WOKA (AM) | WOKA (1310 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a gospel format. It is licensed to Douglas, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Coffee County Broadcasters, Inc. and features programming from Fox News Radio.
References
External links
OKA
Radio stations established in 1989 |
15832841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA%20problem | ABA problem | In multithreaded computing, the ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and the read value being the same twice is used to conclude that nothing has happened in the interim; however, another thread can execute between the two reads and change the value, do other work, then change the value back, thus fooling the first thread into thinking nothing has changed even though the second thread did work that violates that assumption.
The ABA problem occurs when multiple threads (or processes) accessing shared data interleave. Below is a sequence of events that illustrates the ABA problem:
Process reads value A from some shared memory location,
is preempted, allowing process to run,
writes value B to the shared memory location
writes value A to the shared memory location
is preempted, allowing process to run,
reads value A from the shared memory location,
determines that the shared memory value has not changed and continues.
Although can continue executing, it is possible that the behavior will not be correct due to the "hidden" modification in shared memory.
A common case of the ABA problem is encountered when implementing a lock-free data structure. If an item is removed from the list, deleted, and then a new item is allocated and added to the list, it is common for the allocated object to be at the same location as the deleted object due to MRU memory allocation. A pointer to the new item is thus often equal to a pointer to the old item, causing an ABA problem.
Examples
Consider a software example (written in C++) of ABA using a lock-free stack:
/* Naive lock-free stack which suffers from ABA problem.*/
class Stack {
std::atomic<Obj*> top_ptr;
//
// Pops the top object and returns a pointer to it.
//
Obj* Pop() {
while (1) {
Obj* ret_ptr = top_ptr;
if (ret_ptr == nullptr) return nullptr;
// For simplicity, suppose that we can ensure that this dereference is safe
// (i.e., that no other thread has popped the stack in the meantime).
Obj* next_ptr = ret_ptr->next;
// If the top node is still ret, then assume no one has changed the stack.
// (That statement is not always true because of the ABA problem)
// Atomically replace top with next.
if (top_ptr.compare_exchange_weak(ret_ptr, next_ptr)) {
return ret_ptr;
}
// The stack has changed, start over.
}
}
//
// Pushes the object specified by obj_ptr to stack.
//
void Push(Obj* obj_ptr) {
while (1) {
Obj* next_ptr = top_ptr;
obj_ptr->next = next_ptr;
// If the top node is still next, then assume no one has changed the stack.
// (That statement is not always true because of the ABA problem)
// Atomically replace top with obj.
if (top_ptr.compare_exchange_weak(next_ptr, obj_ptr)) {
return;
}
// The stack has changed, start over.
}
}
};
This code can normally prevent problems from concurrent access, but suffers from ABA problems. Consider the following sequence:
Stack initially contains top → A → B → C
Thread 1 starts running pop:
ret = A;
next = B;
Thread 1 gets interrupted just before the compare_exchange_weak...
{ // Thread 2 runs pop:
ret = A;
next = B;
compare_exchange_weak(A, B) // Success, top = B
return A;
} // Now the stack is top → B → C
{ // Thread 2 runs pop again:
ret = B;
next = C;
compare_exchange_weak(B, C) // Success, top = C
return B;
} // Now the stack is top → C
delete B;
{ // Thread 2 now pushes A back onto the stack:
A->next = C;
compare_exchange_weak(C, A) // Success, top = A
}
Now the stack is top → A → C
When Thread 1 resumes:
compare_exchange_weak(A, B)
This instruction succeeds because it finds top == ret (both are A), so it sets top to next (which is B). As B has been deleted the program will access freed memory when it tries to look at the first element on the stack. In C++, as shown here, accessing freed memory is undefined behavior: this may result in crashes, data corruption or even just silently appear to work correctly. ABA bugs such as this can be difficult to debug.
Workarounds
Tagged state reference
A common workaround is to add extra "tag" or "stamp" bits to the quantity being considered. For example, an algorithm using compare and swap on a pointer might use the low bits of the address to indicate how many times the pointer has been successfully modified. Because of this, the next compare-and-swap will fail, even if the addresses are the same, because the tag bits will not match. This is sometimes called ABAʹ since the second A is made slightly different from the first. Such tagged state references are also used in transactional memory. Although a tagged pointer can be used for implementation, a separate tag field is preferred if double-width CAS is available.
If "tag" field wraps around, guarantees against ABA do not stand anymore. However, it has been observed that on currently existing CPUs, and using 60-bit tags, no wraparound is possible as long as the program lifetime (that is, without restarting the program) is limited to 10 years; in addition, it was argued that for practical purposes it is usually sufficient to have 40-48 bits of tag to guarantee against wrapping around. As modern CPUs (in particular, all modern x64 CPUs) tend to support 128-bit CAS operations, this can allow firm guarantees against ABA.
Intermediate nodes
A correct but expensive approach is to use intermediate nodes that are not data elements and thus assure invariants as elements are inserted and removed [Valois].
Deferred reclamation
Another approach is to defer reclamation of removed data elements. One way to defer reclamation is to run the algorithm in an environment featuring an automatic garbage collector; a problem here however is that if the GC is not lock-free, then the overall system is not lock-free, even though the data structure itself is.
Another way to defer reclamation is to use one or more hazard pointers, which are pointers to locations that otherwise cannot appear in the list. Each hazard pointer represents an intermediate state of an in-progress change; the presence of the pointer assures further synchronization [Doug Lea]. Hazard pointers are lock-free, but can only track at most a fixed number of elements per thread as being in-use.
Yet another way to defer reclamation is to use read-copy update (RCU), which involves enclosing the update in an RCU read-side critical section and then waiting for an RCU grace period before freeing any removed data elements. Using RCU in this way guarantees that any data element removed cannot reappear until all currently executing operations have completed. RCU is lock-free, but isn't suitable for all workloads.
Alternate instructions
Rather than using a single pointer-wide compare-and-swap instructions,
some processors have other instructions
intended to be more resistant or immune to the ABA problem.
Some architectures provide "larger" atomic operations such that, as example, both forward and backward links in a doubly linked list can be updated atomically; while this feature is architecture-dependent, it, in particular, is available for x86/x64 architectures (x86 allows for 64-bit CAS, and all modern x64 CPUs allow for 128-bit CAS) and IBM's z/Architecture (which allows for up to 128-bit CAS).
Some architectures provide a load linked, store conditional instruction in which the store is performed only when there are no other stores of the indicated location. This effectively separates the notion of "storage contains value" from "storage has been changed". Examples include DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V and ARM (v6 and later).
Since these instructions provide atomicity using the address rather than the value, routines using these instructions are immune to the ABA problem.
See also
Readers–writers problem
References
Concurrency (computer science) |
15832854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo%20text%20J | Rongorongo text J | Text J of the rongorongo corpus, also known as (London) reimiro 1, is the larger of two inscribed reimiro in London and one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
Other names
J is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR20.
Location
British Museum, London. Catalog # AOA 6847.
Description
A prototypical two-headed Rapanui reimiro, or ceremonial crescent-shaped gorget/epaulet, 73 × 13.2 cm, of unknown wood. There are a few worm trails, but it is in excellent condition. The two holes top center were used to hang it from clothing.
Two glyphs are cut into the top center of the front, between the two holes used to hang it.
Provenance
The British Museum catalog states:
Presented by [Augustus] W. Franks Esq. Aug. 2. 1870. Obtained by Dr Comrie from the master of a vessel which brought it from Easter Island.
A label on the back reads:
6847. Easter Id. Pres. by A. W. Franks Esq. 8.8.70. Comrie [Collection].
Fischer says that the phrase "the master of a vessel" suggests that it was acquired before the Chilean slaving raids of 1862-63, probably during the 1820s to 1840s, the most active whaling period in the South Pacific.
Inscribed reimiro were evidently rare: An elder told Routledge that he had never seen a reimiro with glyphs.
Despite its poor provenance, there are no doubts as to its authenticity.
Text
One compound glyph, the shortest of Barthel's 26 texts.
The second glyph is "clearly" a rapa, or ceremonial dance paddle. It appears to be held by a human figure, glyph 530 , with what might be a headdress.
References
BARTHEL, Thomas S. 1958. Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter.
FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts. Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
External links
Barthel's coding of text J
Rongorongo inscriptions |
15832869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollym%20Gate%20railway%20station | Hollym Gate railway station | Hollym Gate railway station is a disused railway station on the North Eastern Railway's Hull and Holderness Railway to the west of Hollym, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1855. The station was closed to passengers on 1 September 1870.
References
Disused railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1855
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1870
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Hull and Holderness Railway |
15832875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Shore%20%28Montreal%29 | North Shore (Montreal) | The North Shore () is the general term for the northern suburbs of Montreal. The North Shore is located in southwestern Quebec on the northern shore Rivière des Mille Îles, opposite the Île Jésus (the city of Laval). It consists of twenty municipalities that belong to the Laurentides and Lanaudière administrative regions. While the city of Laval is commonly associated with the North Shore, it is not considered part of the North Shore because of its status as an island.
Included Municipalities
Laurentians
Blainville
Bois-des-Filion
Boisbriand
Deux-Montagnes
Lorraine
Mirabel
Oka
Pointe-Calumet
Rosemère
Saint-Eustache
Saint-Joseph-du-Lac
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
Sainte-Thérèse
Lanaudière
Charlemagne
L'Assomption
Mascouche
Repentigny
Saint-Sulpice
Terrebonne
Joliette
See also
List of crossings of the Rivière des Prairies
List of crossings of the Rivière des Mille Îles
Off-island suburbs
South Shore (Montreal)
Quebec Autoroute 13
Quebec Autoroute 15
Quebec Autoroute 19
Quebec Autoroute 25
Quebec Autoroute 640
Geography of Montreal
Greater Montreal |
15832877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritz%20Johansson | Mauritz Johansson | Gustav Mauritz Johansson-Fritzing (19 March 1881 – 7 October 1966) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the Swedish team in the team running deer, single shots event and the bronze medal in the team running deer, double shots competition. In the 100 metre running deer, single shots event he finished seventh and in the 100 metre running deer, double shots competition he finished 15th.
References
External links
profile
1881 births
1966 deaths
Swedish male sport shooters
Running target shooters
Olympic shooters for Sweden
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Jönköping
19th-century Swedish people
20th-century Swedish people |
15832905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masvingo%20District | Masvingo District | Masvingo, originally Victoria, encampases metropolitan Masvingo, in Masvingo Province in southern Zimbabwe. The district boasts of the Great Zimbabwe National Monument among its list of tourist attractions. Lake Kyle is also nearby. The people in the district are mostly rural, communal farmers. Mushandike Co-op. is found in the district, in which the villagers use the water from Tokwe River to irrigate their patches of land. Ngomahuru Hospital which is the second largest Psychiatric hospital in the country (after Ingutsheni) is also located.
Government & Politics
General Elections 2008
The district has been divided into fives sectors for the general elections of 2008. Candidates from both the MDC and ZANU-PF and independents will compete for the five constituency seats available and winners will go on to represent the district in Zimbabwe's new House of Assembly
Magogo Andrew (Independent), Mhere Edward (Zanu-PF), Chitando Jefferson (MDC Tsvangirai), Mukwazhe Munodei (ZDP), Mutume Mike (UPP) are vying for the Masvingo central seat, while in the north seat there is Mudenge Stan (Zanu-PF), Chidhodha Alois Makamure (UPP), Mutemere Wilstss (MDC Tsvangirai), Gobo Simbarashe (Independent) and to the south there is Chinoda Willington (Independent), Mzembi Walter (Zanu-PF), nad Matongo Lovemore (MDC Tsvangirai). In Masvingo urban, there is Mudzume Joburg (MDC Mutambara), Joosbie Omar (Zanu-PF), Tavarera Tinashe (UPP), Matutu Tongai (MDC Tsvangirai) and to there west there is Mbudzi Kudzai (Independent), Shava Jephias (UPP), Mbetu Jabulani (Zanu-PF), and Mharadza Tachiona (MDC Tsvangirai)
See also
Chiredzi
Masvingo Province
Mwenezi District
Gonarenzou National Park
References
Districts of Masvingo Province |
15832943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20y%20Los%20Trios%20Paraguayos | Alberto y Los Trios Paraguayos | Alberto y Los Trios Paraguayos was a trio from Paraguay formed by Luis Alberto del Paraná, with Digno García (1919–1984) and Agustín Barboza. They toured the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and released a number of UK records in the 1960s, on Philips Records in Europe and Epic Records in the United States. In expanded form beyond trio the group included performers of the accordion, orchestral harp, as well as guitars. The band leader, del Paraná, died in England in 1974.
The comedy rock band, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, from the 1970s took their name from a satirical version of this band's name.
See also
Los Paraguayos
External links
Selected discography
Artist page on Paraguayan music site
Paraguayan musical groups |
15832946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Borghese%20%281904%E2%80%931985%29 | Paolo Borghese (1904–1985) | Don Paolo Borghese, Duke of Bomarzo, Prince of Sant Angelo of San Paolo (20 October 1904 – 24 April 1985) was an Italian nobleman of the Borghese family. He was born in Cafaggiolo. His father and mother were Marco Borghese, Duca di Bomarzo, and Isabel Fanny Louise Porges.
His first wife was Anne dei Conti Scheibler, whom he married on 21 April 1927 at Castellazo. They had two children, Flavia Maria Pia Isabella Ernesta Ermina (born 1930) and Camila Maria Antonia Pia Isabella Ernesta Erminia (born 1932).
After Anne's death, Paolo married his second wife, Marcella Fazi, on 12 April 1938 at Rome. They had two children, the twin boys Francesco Marco Luigi Costanzo and Livio Marco Luigi Fabrizio (born 1938).
The Borghese family
Paolo Borghese's ancestors included Camillo Borghese (husband of Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte), as well as Pope Paul V and Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The latter two had an enormous influence on Italian art and beautifying Rome in the 1600s, and they helped finish St. Peter's Basilica. To honor Pope Paul V's accomplishments, the Borghese family name (spelled in Latin as Bvrghesivs) and coat of arms (an eagle and a dragon) can be found on the façade of the famous basilica.
The Borghese family received their titles (Prince and Princess) from Pope Paul V in the early 1600s. During that time, the Pope often had powers equal to a king, and like a king, he had the power to bestow titles, called Papal titles. These titles were often tied to territories of land. Paolo Borghese's branch of the family received five different titles, which included Prince of San Paolo, Prince of Sant'Angelo and Duke of Bomarzo.
While Pope Paul V was in power, he purchased entire towns and approximately 1/3 of the land south of Rome. As a family, the Borghese became the largest landowners of the "Roman Campagna," the central region in Italy, which is an area of approximately 1,300 square miles.
The Borghese name is displayed throughout Italy, including Florence at the Palazzo Borghese, Siena, and Rome. Rome's largest park, Villa Borghese gardens, was owned by the family until 1902, and one of Rome's largest museums, Galleria Borghese, holds the family's art collection. One of Rome's most famous streets is also named after the family, Via Borghese, and the family's coat of arms can be found in many piazzas throughout Italy.
The Borghese family has a private chapel in one of Rome's most famous basilicas, Santa Maria Maggiore. Beneath this basilica is a private crypt where many famous Borghese family members are laid to rest, including Pope Paul V, Pauline Bonaparte and her husband Camillo Borghese, as well as Paolo Borghese himself and his wife Marcella.
References
External links
Paolo Borghese at thePeerage.com
Paolo Borghese's obituary
1904 births
1985 deaths
Paolo |
15832951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvous | Fulvous | Fulvous is a colour, sometimes described as dull orange, brownish-yellow or tawny; it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch. As an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance. It is also used as in mycology to describe fungi with greater colour specificity, specifically the pigmentation of the surface cuticle, the broken flesh and the spores en masse.
The first recorded use of fulvous as a colour name in English was in the year 1664. Fulvous in English is derived from the Latin "fulvus", a term that can be recognised in the scientific binomials of several species, and can provide a clue to their colouration.
Birds
Fulvous babbler
Fulvous owl
Fulvous parrotbill
Fulvous shrike-tanager
Fulvous whistling duck
Fulvous wren
Fulvous-bellied antpitta
Fulvous-breasted flatbill
Fulvous-breasted woodpecker
Fulvous-chested jungle-flycatcher
Fulvous-chinned nunlet
Fulvous-crested tanager
Fulvous-dotted treerunner
Fulvous-headed brush-finch
Fulvous-headed tanager
Fulvous-vented euphonia
Gyps fulvus, the griffon vulture
Pluvialis fulva, the Pacific golden plover
Mulleripicus fulvus, the ashy woodpecker
Petrochelidon fulva, the cave swallow
Reptiles
Thamnophis fulvus, the Mesoamerican highlands gartersnake
Mammals
Fulvous harvest mouse
Fulvous pygmy rice rat
Fulvous-bellied climbing rat
Fulvus roundleaf bat
Eulemur fulvus, the common brown lemur
Spermophilus fulvus, the yellow ground squirrel
Fish
Cephalopholis fulva, the coney
Starksia fulva, the yellow blenny
Invertebrates
Fulvous dawnfly
Fulvous forest skimmer
Dorylus fulvus, a West African ant
Technomyrmex fulvus, a Central American ant
Nylanderia fulva, a South American ant
Paratrechina fulva, a South American ant
Aphaenogaster fulva, a nearctic American ant
Smicronyx fulvus, a sunflower seed weevil
Tigriopus fulvus, a marine copepod
Menemerus fulvus, a Japanese jumping spider
Megahexura fulva, the tawny dwarf tarantula
Euconulus fulvus, a New Zealand land snail
Rhagonycha fulva, the common red soldier beetle
Libellula fulva, the scarce chaser; a British dragon fly
Aplysina fulva, a scattered pore rope sponge
Fungi
Fomes fulvus, a North American conk
Amanita fulva
Mycovellosiella fulva, a plant pathogen
Byssochlamys fulva, a plant pathogen
Cladosporium fulvum, a plant pathogen
Xanthoria fulva, a lichen
Prokaryotes
Myxococcus fulvus
Pseudomonas fulva
Plants
Plagiobothrys fulvus, fulvous popcorn flower
Chrysopogon fulvus, red false beardgrass
Hemerocallis fulva, tawny daylily
Iris fulva, copper iris
Polyscias fulva a West African parasol tree
Ulmus fulva, slippery elm
Quercus fulva, an endemic Mexican oak
Utricularia fulva, an Australian carnivorous plant
Livistona fulva, a palm having fronds with golden undersides
Madhuca fulva, a threatened tree endemic to Sri Lanka
Arachnorchis fulva, the tawny spider-orchid
Arctophila fulva, arctic march grass
See also
Animal colouration
List of colours
References
External links
Your Dictionary: Fulvous
Shades of red
Shades of yellow
Shades of brown
Bird colours |
15832959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20Risk | Contact Risk | Contact Risk is the twelfth album released by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore. The album is currently out of print. the CD-R version is available by mail from the artist.
Track listing
"Your Dancing Ears" (5:40)
"Under the Light" (5:14)
"I Could Be Your Lover (a)" (1:00)
"Elation Damnation" (3:23)
"The Clinch" (2:30)
"Sponge Bath" (1:00)
"Can't Afford No Food" (2:01)
"Times Have Changed" (4:44)
"Ill (Worst)" (2:46)
"You Love Me, Do Something" (4:53)
"I Could Be Your Lover (b)" (:56)
"Pledge Your Money" (3:37)
"You Can't Write a Song" (4:16)
"Oil" (8:27)
"It's What You Do (It's Not What You Are)" (4:23)
"Alecia" (5:48)
"I Could Be Your Lover (c)" (1:06)
"I Like to Stay Home" (4:15)
"No Know" (3:00)
"Hours of Delight" (1:37)
"Play Myself Some Music" (3:44)
"Innocent Mind" (2:57)
External links
RSM's Contact Risk webpage
1993 albums
R. Stevie Moore albums
New Weird America albums |
15832990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Best%20in%20Show%20winners%20of%20the%20Westminster%20Kennel%20Club%20Dog%20Show | List of Best in Show winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show | The title of "Best in Show" is given to the dog chosen as the winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show according to conformation show rules. It has its origins in the variety classes for champions that were introduced in 1905 which included prizes for best champion dog and best champion bitch. The title of Best in Show at Westminster has been awarded every year beginning in 1907 except for 1923 when changes in American Kennel Club rules prohibited mixed breed judging until a uniform process could be adopted; following further changes in rules it was awarded again in 1924.
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is an all-breeds conformation show. It has been held in New York City, New York annually since 1877. It was held at Madison Square Garden for the first time in 1880, and is currently held in the modern arena of the same name. Dogs are first placed in breed specific classes for Best of Breed, with the winners moving on to the respective breed group. Winners from each group then compete for the title of Best in Show. In each class, the individual dogs are judged against the breed standard of each dog breed.
In 1992, competition at Westminster was restricted to champions only. A dog can only become a champion by gaining championship points at other conformation shows. Prior to 1992, admission to dogs was open, and in 1938 an English Setter named Daro of Maridor was the Best in Show title at Westminster in his first outing at a dog show at the age of 11 months. In 1929, a previously unregistered British dog won at Westminster using the name Laund Loyalty of Bellhaven, aged nine months in his only show on American soil.
The James Mortimer Memorial Silver Trophy is awarded permanently should the dog win Best in Show on five separate occasions with the same owner, otherwise a silver-plated replica is awarded. As of 2020, the most successful dog to win Best in Show at Westminster was a Smooth Fox Terrier named Ch. Warren Remedy. She was the first winner of Best in Show and the only dog to have won it on three occasions.
The Terrier Group would continue to win until 1913 when a Bulldog, Ch. Strathtay Prince Albert, won the title. The Terrier Group is the most successful group, with 45 wins out of 103 occasions. The least successful group is the Herding Group, a group which was only comparatively recently created in 1983, with wins by German Shepherd Dogs, in 1987 and 2017.
Best in Show
Summary of Best in Show winners
Number of winners by breed
Number of winners by group
See also
List of Best in Show winners of Crufts
List of individual dogs
Notes
References
General
Specific
Best in Show winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Dog shows and showing
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Awards to animals |
15832996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20H%C4%81naiali%CA%BBi%20Gilliom | Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom | Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom is an American vocalist and songwriter.
Hanaialiʻi is a six-time Grammy Award Nominee. She is best known for reinvigorating the Hawaiian tradition of female falsetto singing.
Her album Generation Hawaii won four Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards in 2007 for Album of the Year, Hawaiian Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and Best Engineered Album.
The Na Hoku Hanohano Awards are the Hawaii recording industry's regional equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Gilliom was also one of the five finalists for the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album but did not win. She performed, recorded, and toured for several years with fellow Hawaiian music artist Willie K, the producer of her first hit album, "Hawaiian Tradition". The two also had a personal relationship, which ended in 2001.
In 2013, the singer joined Willie K. to sing "Imagine" by John Lennon at the signing of the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act by Gov. Neil Abercrombie, which made Hawaii the 15th state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage. In 2014, Gilliom announced a forthcoming recording "Reunion" with Willie K. She was selected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and Abercombie proclaimed Oct. 15 to be Amy Hanaialiʻi and Willie K. Day in Hawaii.
In 2014 Hanaialiʻi launched her own line of Wine & Champagne with distribution throughout the USA.
In 2014, Hanaialiʻi Gilliom starred as Eva Perón in the musical Evita on Maui.
Early years
When growing up, Gilliom, her father (Lloyd), her mother (Mimi) and her brother were all involved with the Maui Youth Theater, now known as the Maui Academy of Performing Arts.
Her first album, Native Child (Mountain Apple Company MACD 2030), was released in 1995. "Hawaiian Tradition" (MACD 2040), her second album, was recorded and released in 1997.
Hanaialiʻi carries the legacy of her grandmother Jennie Napua Woodd. In the 1930s, her grandmother performed in New York City's famed Lexington Hotel, which was home of the original "Hawaiian Room". The Hawaiian Room ran for 60 years and sold out seven nights a week. Hanaialiʻi's grandmother performed at the Hawaiian Room for many years. Her brother Eric Gilliom is also a performer and she has performed with him professionally.
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15833010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%20Ekblom | Axel Ekblom | Axel W. Ekblom (22 March 1893 – 26 July 1957) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he won the bronze medal with the Swedish team in the team running target, double shots competition.
He was also a member of the Swedish trap team, which finished fourth in the team clay pigeon competition. In the individual trap event, he finished 16th.
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1957 deaths
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15833020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIGO | KIGO | KIGO (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. Licensed to St. Anthony, Idaho, United States, the station is currently owned by Albino Ortega.
When it first came on the air in 1966 KIGO was on 1400 kHz. It moved to 1420 kHz in 2006.
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Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Idaho |
15833025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noordpolderzijl | Noordpolderzijl | Noordpolderzijl is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland, about 4 km northwest of Usquert.
Noordpolderzijl is named after the zijl (sluice) in the dyke of the Noordpolder. The original sluice was built in 1811, when the Noordpolder was made dry. The hamlet is located on the land side of the sluice. At the other side of the dyke is the harbour of Noordpolderzijl, which is the smallest seaport in the Netherlands. It usually houses two fishing boats.
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15833041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crockerhill | Crockerhill | Crockerhill may refer to:
Crockerhill, Hampshire
Crockerhill, West Sussex |
15833059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccus%20mac%20Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt | Maccus mac Arailt (fl. 971–974), or Maccus Haraldsson, was a tenth-century King of the Isles. Although his parentage is uncertain, surviving evidence suggests that he was the son of Harald Sigtryggson, also known as Aralt mac Sitriuc, the Hiberno-Norse King of Limerick. Maccus' family is known as the Meic Arailt kindred. He and his brother, Gofraid, are first recorded in the 970s. It was during this decade and the next that they conducted military operations against the Welsh of Anglesey, apparently taking advantage of dynastic strife within the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
The Meic Arailt violence during this period could account for Maccus' participation in a royal assembly convened by Edgar, King of the English. Maccus may have been regarded as a potential threat by not only the English and Welsh kings, but also the rulers of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Perhaps as a consequence of this convention, the Meic Arailt thereafter turned their attention to Ireland. In 974, Maccus defeated and captured Ímar, King of Limerick. Gofraid resumed the family's campaigning against the Welsh before the end of the decade. In 984, the Meic Arailt appear to have formed an alliance with the family of Brian mac Cennétig, King of Munster. Whether Maccus was alive by this date is unknown. He does not appear on record after this date, and seems to have been succeeded by his brother. Gofraid is the first King of the Isles to be identified as such by Irish sources.
Family
Maccus was a member of the Meic Arailt kindred, although his exact parentage is uncertain. Surviving evidence suggests that Maccus' father was probably Aralt mac Sitriuc, King of Limerick. Such a relationship would mean that Maccus was a member of the Uí Ímair. Alternate possibilities—lacking specific evidence—are that Maccus was a son of Hagrold, a Danish warlord active in Normandy; or a son of Haraldr Gormsson, King of Denmark.
Maccus appears to have been an elder brother of Gofraid mac Arailt. A sister of Maccus and Gofraid, or perhaps a daughter of the latter, may have been Máel Muire, wife of Gilla Pátraic mac Donnchada, King of Osraige. Specific evidence of a familial relationship between Máel Muire and the Meic Arailt may be preserved by the twelfth-century Banshenchas, a source that identifies the mother of Gilla Pátraic's son, Donnchad, as Máel Muire, daughter of a certain Aralt mac Gofraid. One possibility is that this source has erroneously reversed the patronym of Maccus' brother. Another brother of Maccus may have been Eiríkr Haraldsson, a Viking who ruled the Kingdom of Northumbria in the mid part of the tenth century. Although non-contemporary Scandinavian sources identify this figure with the like-named Norwegian royal Eiríkr blóðøx, there is reason to suspect that these sources have erroneously conflated two different individuals, and that the former was a member of the insular Uí Ímair.
There is uncertainty surrounding Maccus' name. Although the nineteenth-century edition of the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters refers to him as , suggesting that the Gaelic is a form of the Old Norse —itself a borrowing of the Latin —the oldest manuscript forms of this source show that the recorded name was actually an abbreviated form of Maccus. Besides this mistranscription, Maccus is not accorded the name by any historical source, and his name is unlikely to refer to it. Maccus' name may instead be of Gaelic origin.
Irruption into the Irish Sea region
The Meic Arailt first appear on record in the Irish Sea in the 970s. The power of the family seems to have been centred in the Isles, and may have been based upon control of the important trade routes through the Irish Sea region. If the Meic Arailt were indeed centred in the Hebrides, the family's apparent ambition to secure control of Mann could account for its campaigning against the Welsh on Anglesey. The latter island was the traditional seat of the kings of Gwynedd, and control of it may have been sought by the Meic Arailt as a way to further ensure the control of the surrounding sea-lanes.
According to the "B" version of the eleventh- to thirteenth-century Annales Cambriæ, an unidentified son of Aralt wasted this island off the north-west Welsh coast. The thirteenth- and fourteenth-century texts Brut y Tywysogyon and Brenhinedd y Saesson corroborate this record and identify the attacker as Maccus himself. Maccus' assault targeted Penmon on the eastern coast of the island. Several near-contemporary engraved crosses at Penmon indicate that it was a significant ecclesiastical site with important patrons. Both Brut y Tywysogyon and Brenhinedd y Saesson further reveal that Gofraid attacked Anglesey the next year, and thereby brought the island under his control. At the time of the Meic Arailt kindred's attacks, the Kingdom of Gwynedd was in the midst of a vicious civil war triggered by the death of Rhodri ab Idwal Foel, King of Gwynedd in 969, a fact which could indicate that the Meic Arailt purposely sought to capitalise on this infighting.
Amongst an assembly of kings
There is evidence indicating that Maccus was amongst the assembled kings who are recorded to have met with Edgar, King of the English at Chester in 973. According to the "D", "E", and "F" versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, after having been consecrated king that year, this English monarch assembled a massive naval force and met with six kings at Chester. By the tenth century, the number of kings who met with him was alleged to have been eight, as evidenced by the tenth-century Life of St Swithun. By the twelfth century, the eight kings began to be named and were alleged to have rowed Edgar down the River Dee, as evidenced by sources such as the twelfth-century texts Chronicon ex chronicis, Gesta regum Anglorum, and De primo Saxonum adventu, as well as the thirteenth-century Chronica majora, and both the Wendover and Paris versions of Flores historiarum.
Whilst one of the named kings appears to have been Maccus himself, a certain other—named by Gesta regum Anglorum, and by Chronicon ex chronicis—could have been Gofraid. Gesta regum Anglorum describes Maccus as ("prince of the pirates" or "pirate king"), whilst Chronicon ex chronicis, De primo Saxonum adventu, and the twelfth- to thirteenth-century Chronicle of Melrose (which also notes the assembly) call him ("king of many islands" or "king of very many islands"). The titles associated with Maccus appear to relate to a similar one— ("king of many islands")—earlier accorded to Amlaíb mac Gofraid, King of Dublin by Chronicon ex chronicis.
The precise reasons for Edgar's assembly are uncertain. It came on the heels of a royal crowning ceremony at Bath, and could have been orchestrated as a way to project imperial authority over Edgar's neighbours. With a grand show of force, Edgar may have sought to demonstrate this authority, and thereby resolve certain outstanding issues with his neighbouring rulers. There is reason to suspect that the upsurge in Viking activity in the 960s/970s, and the emergence of the Meic Arailt in the region, may have factored in Edgar's machinations. Specifically, one aspect of the assembly may have concerned the ongoing warring between the Meic Arailt and the Welsh. Such conflict could have posed a significant threat to the English trade routes in the region, and Edgar may have sought an understanding with Maccus to ensure the safety of important sea-lanes shared with the Islesmen. The threat of international collusion could have also factored into Edgar's assembly. One possibility is that he may have acted to ensure that the Islesmen would not be tempted to lend support to discontented elements in the English Danelaw. It is also conceivable that the assembly could have concerned the remarkable rising power of Amlaíb Cúarán in Ireland. Edgar may have moved to resolve the strife between the Meic Arailt and the Welsh as a way to limit the prospect of any encroachment by Amlaíb Cúarán into the Irish Sea region. This reigning King of Dublin was a leading member of the Uí Ímair, and may have been a rival to the Meic Arailt. By easing tensions between the Meic Arailt and the Welsh, Edgar could have sought to gain their allegiance against Amlaíb Cúarán's ambitions of authority in the area, and further offset any attempt by Amlaíb Cúarán to attain an alliance with the Scots and Cumbrians against the English.
The fact that Brenhinedd y Saesson reports that Gofraid subdued Anglesey and placed it under tribute could indicate that the Meic Arailt were attempting to establish themselves in Britain, and could indicate that the Meic Arailt participated in the assembly in this context. If Maccus was in possession of Mann in the 970s the record of Edgar's assembled fleet could have been a response to the perceived threat that Maccus posed. As such, the episode could well be an example of tenth-century gunboat diplomacy. Other royal attendees of the summit meeting appear to have been Dyfnwal ab Owain, and Dyfnwal's son Máel Coluim, men who represented the Cumbrian Kingdom of Strathclyde. It is probable that the power of the Meic Arailt posed a serious threat to the rulers of this northern British realm, and may explain their own part in the assembly. One possible result of the conference is that Edgar recognised Maccus' lordship in the Isles in return for his acceptance of English overlordship. Although Maccus appears as a witness in two alleged royal charters of Edgar, these appear to be forgeries.
Later career
Whatever the reasons behind the assembly, the Meic Arailt violence in the region was temporarily abated—perhaps as a consequence of the conference—and the kindred turned its attention westwards towards Ireland.
In 974, the eleventh- to fourteenth-century Annals of Inisfallen and the Annals of the Four Masters reveal that Maccus—accompanied by the ("lawmen") of the Isles—attacked Scattery Island and captured Ímar, King of Limerick. Ímar appears to have gained the kingship of Limerick in the 960s. If Maccus was indeed a son of Aralt, Maccus' move against Ímar in 974 would appear to corroborate this kinship. For instance, Maccus' attack could have been undertaken in the context of regaining what he regarded as his patrimony, since Ímar's accession in Limerick was conceivably accomplished at the expense of Aralt's progeny.
It is possible that Ímar was in control of Limerick in 969, and may have controlled the town in 972, when the Munstermen are recorded to have expelled the Viking ruling elite. If correct, Ímar's return to power could explain the Meic Arailt kindred's actions against him. Maccus may have ransomed Ímar to the Limerickmen, or Ímar may have escaped his captors. Certainly the Annals of Inisfallen reports that Ímar "escaped over sea" the following year. In any event, Ímar next appears on record three years later when he and his two sons were slain by Brian mac Cennétig, King of Munster. In 967, Brian's brother, Mathgamain mac Cennétig, is reported to have attacked Limerick. If the eleventh- or twelfth-century Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib is to be believed, Ímar played a role in slaying Mathgamain the year before his own death at Brian's hands. As such, the Meic Arailt and Brian's family appear to have shared a common enemy in the person of Ímar.
The record of Maccus' attack is the second such notice of in the Isles. Earlier in 962, the Annals of the Four Masters reports that the and the Meic Amlaíb—seemingly the descendants of Amlaíb mac Gofraid—attacked several sites in Ireland. Such lawmen appear to have been elective representatives from the Hebrides, and these annal-entries could be evidence that leading figures in the Irish Sea region received formal support from the Hebrides. Following Maccus' campaigning against Ímar, nothing is recorded of the Meic Arailt until the 980s. In 984, the Annals of Inisfallen reports that the Meic Arailt contracted an alliance with Brian's family, and exchanged hostages with them in an apparent agreement pertaining to military cooperation against the Kingdom of Dublin. This compact seems to indicate that Brian's family sought to align the Vikings of the Isles against those of Dublin.
Maccus' brother eventually resumed the Meic Arailt attacks upon the Welsh. According to the Peniarth version of Brut y Tywysogyon, a certain —a man who may be identical to Gofraid—ravaged Llŷn in 978. The Red Book of Hergest version of Brut y Tywysogyon reports that Gofraid, along with the exiled Venedotian prince Custennin ab Iago, ravaged Llŷn and Anglesey in 980. The date of Maccus' death is unknown. Since he does not appear on record again, it is possible that he was dead by this date, and that Gofraid had succeeded him in the Isles. On the other hand, the record of the Meic Arailt assisting Brian's family in 984 could be evidence that Maccus was yet still active. In any case, Maccus is certainly unrecorded after 984. Gofraid's campaigning on Anglesey suggests that whatever authority the Meic Arailt gained over the Welsh in the 970s was only temporary. The fact that there is no record of Viking activity against the island between 972 and 980 suggests that the Meic Arailt's ambitions there had been fulfilled during this span.
In 980, Amlaíb Cúarán was utterly defeated by Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, King of Mide at the Battle of Tara, and retired to Iona where he died soon after. Whilst Islesmen are reported to have supported Amlaíb Cúarán's cause in the conflict, the Meic Arailt are not mentioned, and there is no specific evidence that they did so. On one hand, it is possible that the family supported Amlaíb Cúarán in the conflict. On the other hand, if evidence of contemporary Orcadian encroachment into the Isles is taken into account, there is reason to suspect that the Islesmen present in the conflict were adherents of the earls of Orkney, and did not include the Meic Arailt.
Maccus' brother is the first King of the Isles to recorded as such by Irish sources, when he was styled by the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster on his death in 989. The appearance of the kingdom at this time could indicate that the catalyst behind its emergence was Amlaíb Cúarán's defeat at Tara, the subsequent loss of Dublin to Máel Sechnaill's overlordship, and Amlaíb Cúarán's later demise. On one hand, the kingdom could have been a recent creation, perhaps a result of the Meic Arailt gaining overlordship over the Hebridean . On the other hand, the first record of a King of the Isles in Irish sources may merely reflect the fact that Dublin had been lost to the Irish after having previously formed part of Amlaíb Cúarán's imperium. In any event, later apparent descendants of Gofraid competed with the descendants of Amlaíb Cúarán for control of a kingdom that encompassed the Hebrides and the Irish Sea region.
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15833063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribd | Scribd | Scribd Inc. (pronounced ) operates three primary platforms: Scribd, Everand, and SlideShare. Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 195 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music. SlideShare is an online platform featuring over 15 million presentations from subject matter experts.
The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Tony Grimminck took over as CEO in 2024.
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Founding (2007–2013)
Scribd began as a site to host and share documents. While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic papers. His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research published. Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content online. He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the summer of 2006. There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader. The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds. In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online. That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd. The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark.
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro. ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009. In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes, and HP's lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle.
Subscription service (2013–2023)
In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books. This gave users unlimited access to Scribd's library of digital books for a flat monthly fee. The company also announced a partnership with HarperCollins which made the entire backlist of HarperCollins' catalog available on the subscription service.
According to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, this marked the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog.
In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering the travel publisher's entire library on its subscription service.
In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription offering with 10,000 titles from Simon & Schuster. These titles included works from authors such as: Ray Bradbury, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Isaacson, Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and David McCullough. Scribd has been criticized for advertising a free 14 day trial for which payment is required before readers can trial the products. Readers discover this when they attempt to download material.
Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription service in November 2014 and comic books in February 2015.
In February 2016, it was announced that only titles from a rotating selection of the library would be available for unlimited reading, and subscribers would have credits to read three books and one audiobook per month from the entire library with unused credits rolling over to the next month.
The reporting system was discontinued on February 6, 2018, in favor of a system of "constantly rotating catalogs of ebooks and audiobooks" that provided "an unlimited number of books and audiobooks, alongside unlimited access to news, magazines, documents, and sheet music" for a monthly subscription fee of US$8.99. However, under this unlimited service, Scribd would occasionally "limit the titles that you’re able to access within a specific content library in a 30-day period."
In October 2018, Scribd announced a joint subscription to Scribd and The New York Times for $12.99 per month.
Audiobooks
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription library. Wired noted that this was the first subscription service to offer unlimited access to audiobooks, and "it represents a much larger shift in the way digital content is consumed over the net." In April 2015, the company expanded its audiobook catalog in a deal with Penguin Random House. This added 9,000 audiobooks to its platform including titles from authors like Lena Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn, and George R.R. Martin.
Comics
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In November 2023, Scribd unbundled from one single product into three distinct ones: Everand, Scribd, and Slideshare. Everand was launched as a new subscription-based service, focused solely on a customer looking for entertainment in the form of books, magazines, podcasts and more.
Timeline
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and smartphones. In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called "Readcast", which allows automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and Twitter. Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its integration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference.
Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010, to become, according to TechCrunch, "the social network for reading".
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscription service, allowing readers to pay a flat monthly fee in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribd's book titles.
In August 2020, Scribd announced its acquisition of the LinkedIn-owned SlideShare for an undisclosed amount.
In November 2023, Scribd unbundled into three distinct products: Everand, Scribd, and Slideshare. Everand was launched as a new product, focusing solely on books, magazines, podcasts and more.
Financials
The company was initially funded with US$120,000 from Y Combinator in 2006, and received over US$3.7 million in June 2007 from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey Hills Group. In December 2008, the company raised US$9 million in a second round of funding led by Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and founder of Yammer and Geni, joined Scribd's board of directors in January 2010.
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital.
In January 2015, the company raised US$22 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures with partner Keith Rabois joining the Scribd board of directors.
In 2019, Scribd raised $58 million in new funding led by growth firm Spectrum Equity.
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All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either be private or open to the larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple to embed documents in their original layout regardless of file format. Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.
On May 5, 2010, Scribd announced that they would be converting the entire site to HTML5 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. TechCrunch reported that Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman tells me: 'We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.'"
Scribd has its own API to integrate external/third-party applications, but is no longer offering new API accounts.
Since 2010, Scribd has been available on mobile phones and e-readers, in addition to personal computers. As of December 2013, Scribd became available on app stores and various mobile devices.and had been important for may people
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Following a decision of the Istanbul 12th Criminal Court of Peace, dated March 8, 2013, access to Scribd is blocked for Internet users in Turkey.
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15833069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilling%20Group | Tilling Group | The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British Electric Traction (BET), became the main constituents of the country's nationalised bus industry in the late 1960s and was sufficiently well known to have entered popular culture as part of London's Cockney rhyming slang (Thomas Tilling = shilling).
The company continued as an industrial conglomerate after nationalisation of its bus interests; it was acquired by BTR plc in 1983.
Origins
The company traces its origins to 1846, when Thomas Tilling started in business. Tilling was born in 1825 at Gutter's Hedge Farm, Hendon, Middlesex, of parents who had moved there from Gloucestershire. In 1846, at the age of 21, he went into the transport business in London as a jobmaster in Walworth using a horse and carriage which cost him £30.
In January 1850, he purchased a horse bus together with the right to run four journeys a day between Peckham and Oxford Street. This bus he drove himself, and at the time had only one employee, a conductor named Joseph Eagle, who stayed with the firm until the end of his working life, well into the 1890s.
By 1856, Tilling owned 70 horses, which he used for bus and general carriage work. When the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was formed in 1866, Tilling was contracted to train and supply horses to haul the fire engines; the horses were trained to respond quickly and, prior to handover to the fire brigade, were employed on bus services (primarily the Peckham route) to gain experience with heavy traffic. Tilling soon became the biggest supplier of horsepower and vehicles in London, with a stable of 4,000 horses by the time of his death in 1893. Tilling is buried at Nunhead Cemetery, south London.
Tilling's horse buses stopped at predetermined points and ran to a fixed timetable, making them more punctual and orderly than the other operators' buses. This was one of the reasons for his success with customers. Because his buses operated on time, they earned the nickname of "Times" buses, and this became the fleet name painted on the side.
One of Tilling's children was the actress Mabel Constanduros.
Early history
The business passed to Tilling's sons, Richard and Edward, who, with Thomas's son-in-law Walter Wolsey, formed a limited company, Thomas Tilling Ltd, in 1897. In addition to bus work, the company hired carriages to individuals and to a range of public utilities.
The company put three Milnes-Daimler motor buses into service in 1904. These were open top double-deckers with 16 inside seats and 18 "outside" on the upper deck, and a speed of 12 mph (19 km/h). These were the first double-decker motorbuses built for public service in London. By 1905, Tilling had 20 motor buses but still owned 7,000 horses, kept in 500 stables. The horses worked the company's 250 horsebuses were hired to companies and individuals for hauling goods vehicles, cabs, and carriages. In 1907, Tilling began the first long-distance motor bus service, running 13 buses between Oxford Circus and Sidcup in Kent.
In 1909, Tilling entered into an agreement with the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC), which pooled their resources (and allowed Tilling to remain independent when LGOC led an amalgamation of most of London's bus companies), but which restricted their expansion in the capital. Then, LGOC and Tilling co-operated on a joint route from Peckham to Turnham Green, via Oxford Circus. The LGOC had introduced numbers on all its routes, and this was route number 12. This service between Peckham and Oxford Circus still operates and is still the number 12. It may be the oldest operating bus route in London. In 1915, the first woman bus conductor in London worked on Tilling route number 37. During World War I, women were recruited to replace men who had joined the Armed Forces.
In 1911, Tilling introduced the Tilling-Stevens TTA1 petrol-electric bus into its fleet; despite some drawbacks of the technology, this type formed the mainstay of the fleet for some years. In 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, the last horse-bus operated on the Tilling Honor Oak – Peckham Rye Station route, after which the horses were requisitioned for war work.
National expansion
Starting in 1914, with the LGOC dominant in London, the company looked to the rest of Britain outside London for growth. Tilling started to seek new markets in the provinces. The company began operating in Folkestone in 1914, Brighton in 1916, and Ipswich in 1919.
BET had entered into a similar agreement with LGOC in London, and was also expanding outside London. Instead of destructive rivalry, the two companies agreed to work in close co-operation. By 1928, a BET subsidiary, British Automobile Traction Company (BAT), had interests in nineteen bus companies, with Tilling being a co-owner of eleven of them, and at the same time was partly owned by Tilling itself. To simplify the arrangement, BAT was reconstructed with a new title, Tilling & British Automobile Traction Ltd (TBAT), and Tilling exchanged its shares in the various operating companies for an increased shareholding in the new company.
The railways of Britain had grown significantly and many companies had developed bus services. In 1923, most of these "pre-grouping" companies merged to form four mainline companies: Great Western Railway; Southern Railway; London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and London and North Eastern Railway. During the 1920s, the "Big Four" divested themselves of much of the operations of their bus networks by transferring their interests to Tilling and BET in exchange for shares.
The Tilling family's association with the company ended in 1929 with the death of Richard Tilling. In 1931, Thomas Tilling Ltd acquired the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, along with the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company, whose bus construction activities were renamed the Eastern Coach Works Ltd (ECW) in 1936.
In 1933, the new London Passenger Transport Board compulsorily acquired the 328 buses that made up Tilling's South London services. In 1935, Tilling took over Royal Blue, which was the premier express coach company in the South and West of England, with a network of routes stretching from Penzance to Margate and Bournemouth to London, having developed tours and local services around Bournemouth and the New Forest in the horse-drawn era and express coach services after the First World War.
Tilling and TBAT continued to trade successfully, but internal disagreements resulted in TBAT being wound up in 1942. The companies in TBAT were split between Tilling and BET, and the two groups continued to operate independently until nationalisation began in the late 1940s. Tilling Motor Services Ltd was formed from the break-up.
Nationalisation
As part of the government's moves toward nationalisation of the transport industry, the Transport Act 1947 resulted in formation of the British Transport Commission (BTC). The railway companies were nationalised from 1 January 1948 with the result that their major stake in the Tilling and BET bus companies passed into public ownership from that date. Tilling sold its remaining holdings to the BTC at the beginning of 1949, as did the Scottish Motor Traction group.
Thomas Tilling (BTC) Ltd. was set up as a BTC subsidiary to run Tilling's London private hire business, which continued under nationalisation.
BET retained its independence but the BTC ultimately gained up to a 50% holding in 17 of its companies so, from 1949, there were still two major bus groups, the nationalised BTC (formerly Tilling) and BET (partly owned by the BTC). By 1955 the BTC and BET companies were often known as the "Associated Companies" since "the actual ownership of the buses [was] to a greater or less extent in the hands of one party". The ex-Tilling companies continued to be commonly referred to as the "Tilling Group" long after nationalisation and normally carried one of two standard liveries – a crimson red or a deep green (often referred to as Tilling Red and Tilling Green), each with cream relief. These liveries remained the standard after formation of the National Bus Company until a new corporate livery of NBC Poppy Red/White or NBC Leaf Green/White was introduced from late 1972. The 1930s acquisition of Bristol and ECW resulted in Bristol chassis and ECW bodywork remaining standard amongst former Tilling Group fleets through the 1970s.
On 1 January 1963, a new body, the Transport Holding Company (THC), took over the bus assets of the BTC, and in 1967, BET sold its remaining bus interests to THC. The National Bus Company was formed a year later, mainly from former Tilling and BET subsidiaries.
The "Tilling Group" – Tilling subsidiary bus companies taken over by the BTC
Brighton, Hove and District
Bristol Tramways
Caledonian
Crosville
Cumberland
Eastern Counties
Eastern National
Hants and Dorset
Lincolnshire Road Car
Southern National
Southern Vectis
Thames Valley
United Automobile Services
United Counties
Western National
West Yorkshire
Wilts & Dorset
After nationalisation, the group remained as a management unit within the BTC with the following changes:
Caledonian was passed to Western SMT within the newly formed Scottish Omnibuses Group
Mansfield and District, Midland General and Notts and Derby Traction were added via Balfour Beatty and Midland Counties Electric Supply Company as a result of nationalisation of the electricity supply industry, 1 April 1948,
Red & White, United Welsh and South Midland were added with the nationalisation of the Red & White Group in 1950.
Non-nationalised Tilling Group
Following nationalisation of Thomas Tilling Ltd's bus interests, a number of subsidiaries continued under separate ownership as the Tilling Group. Tilling Group was taken over by BTR plc in 1983.
Companies within the Tilling Group post-1948 included:
Tilcon (formerly Tilling Construction Services Ltd), producer of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete – formed in 1970 by the merger of three existing subsidiaries, sold by BTR to Minorco, now part of Anglo American plc, in November 1995
Selwood, plant and pump manufacture, sales and hire – acquired 1972
PASCON, created by merging Palmers, Selwood & Croker within Tilling Group, 1982, sold by BTR in 1994 and now renamed Selwood Pumps
Heinemann, a publisher acquired in 1961
Pretty Polly, a lady's hosiery manufacturer acquired in 1957
Newey and Eyre, electrical and electronic distributors
DCE including Vokes, dust control equipment
InterMed, health care
Graham Group, builders merchants
Pilkingtons Tiles including Poole Pottery
Cornhill Insurance, general insurance
Rest Assured, beds and other furniture
References
Further reading
The War That Went on Wheels. The War Record of the Tilling Group of Companies 1939–1945.
External links
Thomas Tilling British Transport Films Resources: Thomas Tilling Ltd. – A Brief History by Howard Sprenger
Thomas Tilling 1825–1893 and Thomas Tilling Ltd. 1897–1969 compiled by Peter Gould 1999–2005
Exploring 20th Century London – Thomas Tilling Ltd, London's Oldest Bus Company
Grace's Guide - British Industrial History
Former bus operators in England
Defunct companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1846
1846 establishments in England |
15833076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crockerhill%2C%20West%20Sussex | Crockerhill, West Sussex | Crockerhill is a hamlet on the A27 road between Tangmere and Fontwell in West Sussex, England. It has one public house, The Winterton Arms. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Boxgrove.
References
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Villages in West Sussex |
15833080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Borghese%20%281622%E2%80%931646%29 | Paolo Borghese (1622–1646) | Paolo Borghese (1622/24–1646) was an Italian nobleman of the Borghese family. He was the son of Marcantonio II Borghese (1598–1658) and his wife Camilla Orsini.
Paolo was the first husband of Olimpia Aldobrandini, whom he married in 1638. They had five children:
Giovanni Giorgio Borghese
Camillo Borghese
Francesco Borghese
Giovanni Battista Borghese, Principe Borghese (1639-1717) married Eleonora Boncompagni and had issue (including Camillo Borghese, Prince of Sulmona, husband of Pauline Bonaparte).
Maria Virginia Borghese (1642-1718) married Agostino Chigi, Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and had issue.
External links
http://finnholbek.dk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I14504&tree=2
1620s births
1646 deaths
Paolo
Year of birth uncertain
17th-century Italian nobility |
15833102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20W.%20Micklethwaite | F. W. Micklethwaite | Frank William Micklethwaite (1849–1925) was a Canadian photographer, professionally known as F. W. Micklethwaite, whose photographs of Toronto and the Muskoka area form an important and unique photographic record of the province of Ontario's history in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Micklethwaite specialized in outside views and landscapes, as well as architectural and commercial photography, and he was one of Toronto's best known photographers.
Background
Micklethwaite was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, on 13 March 1849. His family mpved to Ireland in the 1850s, where his father, William Barton Micklethwaite, practiced photography in Newry, County Down. The younger Micklethwaite studied photography while in Ireland, and emigrated to Toronto around 1875. After working for three years as a proof reader for The Mail newspaper, he opened a commercial photography business at 22 Queen Street West in 1878. He later opened a studio, the location of which changed frequently until he established it at 243 Yonge Street in 1910. Micklethwaite also took up residence in Port Sandfield each summertime, and he took thousands of photographs of the Muskoka lakes area and wealthy cottagers.
In addition to his private clients, Micklethwaite was also commissioned by the Engineer's Department of the City of Toronto government from approximately 1891 to 1895 to take photographs of public works and their construction. As such, Micklethwaite is credited with many early images of public infrastructure in Toronto.
Death and legacy
Micklethwaite died on 5 December 1925, and he was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery next to his wife, Ruth. The photography business was willed to Micklethwaite's eldest son Fred. Fred Micklethwaite continued the family business until 1941, passing it on to his son, John Harold Micklethwaite, the fourth generation of Micklethwaite in the photography business. John was a commercial photographer in Toronto until his own death in 1983.
Many of F.W. Micklethwaite's photographs are held by the Library and Archives of Canada and the City of Toronto Archives. The Public Archives of Canada, the predecessor institution to the Library and Archives of Canada, held an exhibit of Micklethwaite's work in 1978, and a volume of his Muskoka photographs was published in 1993.
References
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People from Old Toronto
Burials at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto |
15833110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Ports%20Jr. | James F. Ports Jr. | James F. Ports Jr. was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 8, which covered portions of Baltimore & Baltimore City in Maryland. He served alongside Democrat Katherine A. Klausmeier and Republican Alfred W. Redmer Jr. In 2002, Ports decided against running for reelection in the House of Delegates and decided instead to run for Baltimore County Council. He won the Republican primary election, but lost in the general election to Vincent J. Gardina.
Education
Delegate Ports graduated from Perry Hall High School. After serving in the Marine Corps, Ports attended and graduated from Essex Community College, with his Associates of Arts Degree in 1989.
Career
As previously mentioned Ports was in the United States Marine Corps. He attained the rank of Sergeant, and once received the Expeditionary Medal for Marine of the Month. He served from 1978 until 1982.
After serving in the military, Ports was a supervisor of Industrial and Commercial Gas Field Operations for Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. He is also licensed as a registered representative by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as an insurance agent.
In his community he served as Vice-President of the Northeast Fullerton Community Association, which he was a member from 1986 until 1990. He has been a member of the 8th District Republican Club since 1988. Ports was a member of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee, serving from 1989 until 1990 and again from 2003 until 2006. He was once elected to be a delegate for the 2000 Republican Party National Convention.
Delegate Ports also is a member of the Rossville Democratic Association, the Taxpayers for Government Efficiency, the Essex Community College Alumni Association. Additionally, he is a member of the Competent Toastmasters, and the Phi Theta Kappa honorary fraternity. Delegate Ports is also an associate member of Lodge no. 76, of the Fraternal Order of Police. He was the Commander of the Perry Hall/White Marsh Post no. 11378, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) from 1992 until 1994. He is a life member of the Parkville Memorial Post no. 9083. Finally, he is an honorary co-chair and co-founder of the Perry Hall High School Alumni Association.
Delegate Ports has received awards from People Against Child Abuse, the Maryland School for the Blind, the Baltimore County Police Department, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. In 1996, Delegate Ports was selected as Outstanding Young Marylander of the Year by the Maryland Jaycees. Additionally, he received the General James P. S. Devereux Award from the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1997. Finally, Ports was awarded Legislator of the Year by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 2001.
Legislative career
While a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Ports was a member of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee from 1991 until 1992, the Ways and Means Committee from 1992 until 2003, the Joint Transportation Financing Committee in 1994, and the Special Joint Committee on Competitive Taxation and Economic Development from 1996 until 1997. Additionally, he served on the Joint Committee on the Selection of the State Treasurer in 2002, the Legislative Policy Committee from 2002 until 2003, and the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee from 2002 until 2003. Delegate Ports was also a member of the National Task Force on Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources, and with ALEC from 1991 until 2003, serving as vice-chair of the energy subcommittee. Ports served as Minority Whip from 2001 until 2002.
Delegate Ports originally made a name for himself when he fought against Baltimore County Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger's property condemnation bill, which was ultimately defeated. The bill would have allowed the county to use eminent domain to seize waterfront property in Essex and redevelop it.
Election results
1998 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 08
Voters to choose three:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Votes
!Percent
!Outcome
|-
|-
|Katherine Klausmeier, Dem.
|19,835
| 21%
| Won
|-
|-
|Alfred W. Redmer Jr., Rep
|17,846
| 19%
| Won
|-
|-
|James F. Ports Jr., Rep.
|17,756
| 19%
| Won
|-
|-
|J. Joseph Curran III, Dem.
|17,583
| 19%
| Lost
|-
|-
|Joseph C. Boteler III, Rep.
|11,306
| 12%
| Lost
|-
|-
|Taras Andrew Vizzi, Dem.
|9,927
| 11%
| Lost
|-
|}
1994 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 08
Voters to choose three:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Votes
!Percent
!Outcome
|-
|-
|Katherine Klausmeier, Dem.
|17,496
| 20%
| Won
|-
|-
|Alfred W. Redmer Jr., Rep.
|14,876
| 18%
| Won
|-
|-
|James F. Ports Jr., Rep.
|15,244
| 17%
| Won
|-
|-
|Calvin Clemons, Rep.
|13,996
| 16%
| Lost
|-
|-
|Daniel E. McKew, Dem.
|12,931
| 15%
| Lost
|-
|-
|John G. Disney, Dem.
|11,886
| 14%
| Lost
|-
|}
1990 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 08
Voters to choose three:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Votes
!Percent
!Outcome
|-
|-
|Alfred W. Redmer Jr., Rep.
|15,354
| 18%
| Won
|-
|-
|Joseph Bartenfelder, Dem.
|14,876
| 18%
| Won
|-
|-
|James F. Ports, Rep.
|14,266
| 17%
| Won
|-
|-
|Kenneth G. Hirsch, Rep.
|14,129
| 17%
| Lost
|-
|-
|Donna M. Felling, Dem.
|13,006
| 15%
| Lost
|-
|-
|William J. Burgess, Dem.
|12,680
| 15%
| Lost
|-
|-
|John Michael Fleig
|20
| 0%
| Lost
|-
|}
See also
References and notes
External links
Maryland Manual
American Legislative Exchange Council Award
People from Baltimore County, Maryland
Republican Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Living people
1958 births
United States Marines
21st-century American legislators
20th-century American legislators
21st-century American politicians
Secretaries of Transportation of Maryland
20th-century Maryland politicians
21st-century Maryland politicians |
15833120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Moment | Perfect Moment | "Perfect Moment" is a song originally by Polish singer Edyta Górniak from her first international album, Edyta Górniak (1997). It was written by Jim Marr and Wendy Page and produced by Christopher Neil. A cover by British singer and actress Martine McCutcheon reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1999.
Martine McCutcheon version
English actress Martine McCutcheon covered "Perfect Moment" and released it as her debut single on 5 April 1999. Her version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart that same month, launching her music career after her leaving BBC soap EastEnders, in which she played the character Tiffany Mitchell from 1995 to 1999. Over 12 million viewers tuned in to watch the final scenes of her tragic death after being hit by a car. The song also reached number three in Ireland and peaked at number 10 on the Eurochart Hot 100. It was included on her debut album, You Me & Us (1999). The music video for the song was filmed in New York City.
Critical reception
AllMusic editor John Lucas placed McCutcheon alongside her idols Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion. He stated that "her voice soars on the chart-topping power ballad". Nigel Williamson from Billboard noted it as a "sweeping ballad in the style of Celine Dion". Can't Stop the Pop described it as an "orchestral, sweeping ballad" and a "real showcase for her flexibility as a pop vocalist. The first verse and chorus are strikingly ethereal; there’s a calm serenity as the song shimmers and throbs alongside the gentle, warm vocals. If there was any part of Tiffany Mitchell in the song, then this is where she wakes up at the pearly gates of heaven." Tom Ewing from Freaky Trigger noted that the song "starts with a gentle, gauzy arrangement that suggests some kind of celestial waiting room." He added it as "unashamedly, open-heartedly sentimental".
Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian called it "a titanic belter of a ballad", noting the "diva's vibrato". Liverpool Echo said "Perfect Moment" is "one of those soaring, Streisand-like ballads that no one admits to liking but mysteriously sells hundreds of thousands of copies." A reviewer from NME described it as "total rapture". Sunday Mirror commented, "Bound to be a huge hit. Sounds a bit like a breathy Kylie. Which is no bad thing." Sunday Mercury noted, "It's surprising that Martine McCutcheon should release a ballad as her first single, rather than a catchy pop hit. But what's even more surprising is how good it is." They added, "It's a soulful number, sung with feeling by someone blessed with a superb voice. It's a slow burner, but it wasn't long before I was humming it to myself." They also concluded, "Goodbye Albert Square, hello Top of the Pops and a number one hit."
Music video
The music video for "Perfect Moment" begins with McCutcheon standing in front of a microphone, in a room overlooking a New York City street. Sometimes she also sits against the wall or lies on a sofa while she sings. Occasionally there are black-and-white clips of McCutcheon at different sites in the city. More than halfway through the video, the singer is seen standing on a roof, singing to the microphone, overlooking the city. As the video nears its end, McCutcheon lies on the couch again, singing the last lines of the song.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
1990s ballads
1997 songs
1999 debut singles
Martine McCutcheon songs
Number-one singles in Scotland
Pop ballads
Songs written by Jim Marr
Songs written by Wendy Page
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Virgin Records singles |
15833166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Hindmarsh | Mike Hindmarsh | Lieutenant General Michael Simon Hindmarsh (born 1956) is an Australian military officer, who holds a senior position within the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, commanding its elite force known as the Presidential Guard. A retired senior officer of the Australian Army, he spent over 30 years with the Australian Defence Force, during which time he served as Special Operations Commander Australia from 2004 to 2008, and as Commander of Joint Task Force 633 in the Middle East Area of Operations from March 2008 to January 2009. He retired from the Australian Army in mid-2009, and joined the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces as a special advisor and later, a commander of the UAE Presidential Guard, which is a UAE Armed Forces formation that includes both conventional and special forces units. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, for Rabdan Academy. (H.E. Staff member).
Military career
Australia
Mike Hindmarsh entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1976, graduating into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1978. 3512 STAFFCDT M.S.J. Hindmarsh.
Hindmarsh saw regimental service as a Platoon Commander with the 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and as a Troop Commander, Squadron Commander and Commanding Officer with the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR). Other appointments included: SO3 Operations at HQ Land Command; SO2 Training at HQ UK Special Forces; SO1 Operations at HQ Special Forces; and Brigade level tactics instructor at the Land Warfare Centre.
As Commanding Officer of the SASR, Hindmarsh commanded the ANZAC Special Operations Force detachment to Operation Pollard in Kuwait during 1998. Hindmarsh was later appointed to command the Special Operations Component on Operation Bastille and Operation Falconer in the Iraq War. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his distinguished leadership in this position.
He served as the Commander of the Australian Special Operations Command from October 2004 to February 2008. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 2008 for his distinguished service in that position.
Hindmarsh assumed command of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations in an official ceremony on 1 March 2008; he succeeded Major General Mark Evans in this position. His tour ended on 12 January 2009, at which time he was succeeded by Major General Mark Kelly. For his "distinguished command and leadership in action in the Middle East", Hindmarsh was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
From March 2009 until his retirement from the Australian Army in the later half of 2009, Hindmarsh assumed command of Army Training Command at Victoria Barracks, Sydney.
United Arab Emirates
Following retirement from the Australian Army, Hindmarsh accepted the positions of Special Advisor – National Security to the United Arab Emirates, and major general in charge of the United Arab Emirates Presidential Guard. Hindmarsh was invited by Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to help reorganize the Emirati military.
On 8 February 2016 an ABC News report questioned the extent of Hindmarsh's knowledge of civilian deaths allegedly caused during the operation of UAE forces in Yemen, as a result of his ongoing employment as a security advisor to the government.
Personal
Hindmarsh was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane. He is a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College, Queenscliff, the Joint Services Staff College and the United Kingdom Royal College of Defence Studies. He is married and has 3 sons. He enjoys rock climbing, bush walking and rugby union.
Honours and awards
Hindmarsh is a patron of The Grub Club, the organisation set up in memory of Sergeant Matthew Locke.
References
15. ^ Rabdan Academy Board of Trustees. https://ra.ac.ae/en/about-rabdan/board-of-trustees
16. ^ Trove website. StaffCdt. Page 52. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2587282891/view?sectionId=nla.obj-2631149106&partId=nla.obj-2588633282#page/n51/mode/1up
External links
Photos: 2004 (hires&smiling), 2009, beret, Op Slipper handover, Farewell to General Petreaus, Op Catalyst
"Always being ahead of the enemy", Australian Defence Magazine Feature, November 2004
1956 births
Military personnel from Queensland
Living people
Australian generals
Australian military personnel of the Iraq War
Australian military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
United Arab Emirates Army officers
Royal Military College, Duntroon graduates
Officers of the Order of Australia
Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies
People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School |
15833168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Shinske | Rick Shinske | Richard Charles Shinske (May 31, 1955 – October 23, 2012) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 63 games in the National Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and St. Louis Blues. Shinske played for the New Westminster Bruins of the WHL. He is the son of Ernie 'Punch" McLean's longtime partner and former general manager of the Estevan Bruins, Bill Shinske. He died of cancer in 2012. He was survived by his wife Janice, son, Grady and daughter, Bailey
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1955 births
2012 deaths
Adirondack Red Wings players
Binghamton Dusters players
Calgary Centennials players
California Golden Seals draft picks
Canadian ice hockey centres
Cleveland Barons (NHL) players
Edmonton Oilers (WHA) draft picks
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
New Haven Nighthawks players
New Westminster Bruins players
Phoenix Roadrunners (CHL) players
Salt Lake Golden Eagles (CHL) players
Sportspeople from Weyburn
St. Louis Blues players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States |
15833185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibi%C8%99el%20%28Strei%29 | Sibișel (Strei) | The Sibișel is a right tributary of the Râul Mare in Romania. It discharges into the Râul Mare in Sântămăria-Orlea. It starts at the confluence of headwaters Stânișoara and Pietrele in the Retezat Mountains. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Hunedoara County |
15833186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolis%20of%20Love | Necropolis of Love | Necropolis of Love was a new wave/synthpop band which formed in 1981 in Berkeley, California.
The group was often categorized as gothic rock or new wave; however, in a conversation with the prominent musician Iggy Pop, Necropolis of Love band member David Velasquez described the band's sound as "hostile disco music".
Discography
In Search Of... 12" EP (1983, Thumb Records)
The Hope 12" EP (1984, Thumb Records)
Singles
"Talk" (1982, Thumb Records)
References
External links
Myspace page
Discogs entry.
Musical groups established in 1981
American new wave musical groups
Musical groups from California |
15833190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie%20Moretto | Angie Moretto | Angelo Joseph Moretto (born September 18, 1953) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey forward who played five games in the National Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and 18 games in the World Hockey Association for the Indianapolis Racers between 1976 and 1979.
Moretto was born in Toronto, Ontario. Moretto married Donna Bucci Moretto in 1977. They have two children, Matthew Moretto and Olivia Moretto.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
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1953 births
Living people
California Golden Seals draft picks
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent
Cleveland Barons (NHL) players
Indianapolis Racers players
Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Oklahoma City Stars players
Phoenix Roadrunners (CHL) players
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15833206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo%20text%20M | Rongorongo text M | Text M of the rongorongo corpus, the larger of two tablets in Vienna and therefore also known as the Large or Great Vienna tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
Other names
M is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR24.
Location
Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna. Catalog # 22869.
There is a reproduction in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
Description
A rotted unfluted tablet of Pacific rosewood (Orliac 2005), 28.4 × 13.7 × 2.5 cm, M is one of the rongorongo tablets in the worst condition. It evidently lay on side b in damp soil, probably in a cave, for many years. The edges are rotted and the surfaces worm-eaten. Fischer suggests that the gashes on the top and side may have been intentional, for lashings.
Provenance
In 1882 an archaeological expedition aboard the visited Easter Island, and captain Wilhelm Geiseler purchased two tablets. The purchase had been arranged by Schlubach, the German consul in Valparaíso, at the request of Adolf Bastian, the director of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. The tablets were given to the uncle of Schlubach's wife, Alexander Salmon, Jr, who then shipped three tablets, M, N, and O, to Schlubach. Several years later, when Schlubach returned to Hamburg, he sent just one of the tablets to Bastian and sold the other two privately to the Hamburg firm "Klée und Kocher". They were then sold to the Austrian Vice-Consul in Hamburg, Heinrich Freiherr von Westenholz, who donated them to Vienna's Museum für Völkerkunde in 1886.
Alexander Salmon, Jr, the manager of the Brander plantations on Easter Island who had transcribed and (poorly) translated the 'readings' that Jaussen obtained for his texts, encouraged the manufacture of Rapanui artworks, and several scholars have questioned its authenticity. However, he never presented them as authentic, and Fischer accepts this text as genuine.
Content
Although there is little text to go on, Fischer reports that line Mr2 shares two sequences of glyphs with Gr2 of the Small Santiago tablet, which he suggests may have been the model for the Large Vienna.
Text
Nine lines of ~ 120 glyphs are visible on side a; side b is 'destroyed'. Fischer says that M apparently once held c. 11 lines of text on either side, much like "Mamari". Line a7 has 'faint traces' of glyphs which Fischer believes might be recoverable with electronic imaging.
Fischer also reports (p. 398) that M has suffered recent damage:
It is sad to have to report that between 1933, when Paul Rivet had a plaster cast (M.H. 33.79.2) of this tablet made for his Musée d'Ethnologie (now Musée de l'Homme) in Paris, and 1992, when I inspected the original in Vienna, great damage had occurred. The sequence is now missing from the middle top line of the tablet […]. What is far worse, however: someone has also apparently intentionally removed a piece from the tablet that contained parts of two lines of glyphs. Some 13 elements of [M]a1 and three of [M]a2—a fragment c. 7 × 2 cm in size—are now missing.
References
BARTHEL, Thomas S. 1958. Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter.
FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts. Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
ORLIAC, Catherine. 2005. "The Rongorongo Tablets from Easter Island: Botanical Identification and 14C Dating." Archaeology in Oceania 40.3.
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15833215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%20Meeke | Brent Meeke | Brent Alan Meeke (born April 10, 1952) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey forward who played 75 games in the National Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and California Golden Seals between 1972 and 1977. He later served as the head coach for the College of Wooster Fighting Scots ACHA men's ice hockey team from 2014 to 2017.
Meeke was born in Toronto, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1964 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Shopsy's minor ice hockey team.
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15833224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20B.%20Duncan | George B. Duncan | Major General George Brand Duncan (October 10, 1861 – March 15, 1950) was a United States Army officer who served in numerous conflicts, most notably World War I, where he commanded the 82nd Division, now the 82nd Airborne Division.
Military career
The son of Henry Timberlake Duncan Jr., mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, George Brand Duncan entered the United States Military Academy (USMA) in 1882, graduating in 1886 and receiving a position as a second lieutenant in the 9th Infantry. Several of his classmates included men who would, like Duncan himself, eventually rise to general officer rank, such as John J. Pershing, Charles T. Menoher, Walter Henry Gordon, Edward Mann Lewis, Mason Patrick, Julius Penn, Avery D. Andrews, John E. McMahon, Ernest Hinds, William H. Hay, James McRae, Lucien Grant Berry and Jesse McI. Carter.
He was stationed in Cuba during the Spanish–American War, and he served with distinction during the Philippine–American War, helping to organize the Philippine Scouts.
After a term on the General Staff, Duncan reported to France in June 1917, two months after the American entry into World War I, where he served as the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, part of the 1st Division of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). In September he was given command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division.
He remained in this appointment until May 1918 when he was selected by General John J. Pershing, his classmate at West Point who was now in command of the AEF, to take over the 77th Division. The first of the National Army divisions to arrive in France, the 77th began training with the British forces in northern France and Belgium where it soon gained a reputation as a first-class unit.
After having been relieved over concerns about his physical condition, Duncan successfully convinced Pershing to return him to command. In October 1918, Duncan relieved Major General William P. Burnham as commander of the 82nd Division, and participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
As a result of his service in World War I, he received numerous decorations, including the Croix de Guerre with two palms and a star and status as a Commander in the Legion of Honor from France, status as a Companion of Order of the Bath from the United Kingdom, and the Army Distinguished Service Medal from the United States. The citation for his DSM reads:
Duncan and fellow Major General Campbell King were the first two Americans ever honored with the Croix de Guerre. Duncan commanded the Seventh Corps Area from 1922 until 1925.
Personal life
Duncan married Mary Kercheval on October 23, 1895. The couple had two sons: Daniel, born in 1901, and Henry, born in 1903. Daniel, however, died as a child in 1906.
Duncan retired from military service in 1925. He is buried in Section D, Lot 120 in the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky.
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15833225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Grimes | Solomon Grimes | Solomon Grimes (born 24 July 1987) is a Liberian former professional footballer who last played for Nea Salamina in the Cypriot First Division in Cyprus.
Early career
Grimes started his career with Liberian league side Mighty Barroe in 2003, spending six years with the club before moving on to Liberian top side LISCR FC in 2007. He joined Greek side Ethnikos Piraeus for the remainder of the 2007 season. Grimes was later loaned out for the 2008 season to another Greek side Kalamata where he made 18 appearances. He later rejoined Ethnikos Piraeus till the 2011 season, making 92 appearances. In 2011, Grimes joined Cypriot Club Nea Salamina where he played from 2011-2016.
International career
Grimes gained his first call up against Gambia at the age of 17 in the 2004–2005 World Cup Qualification Round with the Liberia National Football Team and have gone on to make 38 appearances for the Nation and is one of the most experience players on the national team.
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15833230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Timashev | Sergey Timashev | Serge Fedorovich Timashev (Russian: Сергей Федорович Тимашев, born September 29, 1937, in Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian scientist performing research for USPolyResearch. He is best known for his work in flicker-noise spectroscopy (extraction of information from chaotic signals), physical chemistry (membrane processes), kinetics of chemical processes (diffusion in energy space), quantum physics (semiconductors), and Earth/space science (mechanism of global changes and evolution).
Biography
Timashev holds MS in Physics from the Moscow State University (1960), PhD in nuclear physics from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow, 1966), and DSc in physics and mathematics from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (Novosibirsk, 1975). His major job track record includes senior researcher (1969 to 1979) at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, USSR Academy of Science, Moscow; head of membrane process laboratory (1979 to present) at the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow; professor in molecular physics (1990 to 1994) at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute; professor in physics (1997 to present) at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; senior researcher (2005 to present) at USPolyResearch.
Scientific achievements
Timashev developed a flicker-noise spectroscopy method for extracting information from the chaotic signals produced by complex systems, which can be used for analyzing and predicting the behavior of these systems (earthquake prediction, EKG evaluation, Parkinsonian tremor signal evaluation, random electrochemical processes, etc.) He discovered the phenomenon of switching conductivity for surface-modified ion exchange polymeric membranes and electropervaporation effect. He also described the role of chemical and solar factors in the biosphere evolution. The total number of papers and books published by him is more than 300. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Russ. J. Phys. Chem., Russ. J. Electrochem., Colloid J., and J. Water Chem. Technol.
Honors and awards
Timashev received Russian Federation Government's Prize in Science and Technology (1995), Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (WD Wilson Visiting Fellowship, South Africa, 1996), and Russian Federation's Distinguished Scientist (1998).
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15833239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kuzyk | Ken Kuzyk | Kenneth Michael Kuzyk (born August 11, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 41 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Cleveland Barons. As a youth, he played in the 1966 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Shopsy's minor ice hockey team.
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