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Ottavio Briccola Ottavio Briccola was an Italian general. He was the first Italian governor of Cyrenaica after he had participated in the Italo-Turkish War. At the beginning of World War I he commanded the 8th corps of the Italian fifth army. Notes Category:1853 births Category:1924 deaths Category:People from Turin Category:Italian colonial governors and administrators Category:Italian military personnel of the Italo-Turkish War Category:Italian military personnel of World War I Category:Italian generals Category:Grand Officers of the Military Order of Savoy |
Ngatokotoru Arakua Ngatokotoru Arakua is a New Zealand international rugby league player. She represented the Kiwi Ferns at the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup. Arakua made her debut when she was named in the squad for the 2017 Anzac Test against the Jillaroos. She also made her nines debut at the 2017 NRL Auckland Nines. References Category:1997 births Category:Living people Category:New Zealand female rugby league players Category:New Zealand national rugby league team players Category:Brisbane Broncos (NRLW) players Category:St. George Illawarra Dragons (NRLW) players |
Nozomu Kasagi is a Japanese film director. Filmography きみのジャージはどこ (Kimi no jaaji wa doko) (2001) スワンズソング (Suwanzu Songu; Swan's Song) (2002) TOKYOスピーシーズ (Tokyo Species) (2012) External links JMDb Profile Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:Japanese film directors |
2007 Copa Panamericana The Copa Panamericana 2007 was a minor football club tournament organized by DIRECTV between July 16 and July 22 in the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, USA. The tournament was divided in two groups of three, who played each other once, with the top club in each group progressing to the final match. The champion, Cruz Azul, received $250,000 USD. Competing clubs Alianza Lima Boca Juniors Caracas FC Club América Cruz Azul Deportivo Cali Venue All seven matches were held at the University of Phoenix Stadium, with a total capacity of some 70,000 people. Groups Group 1 Group 2 Final Champion Goalscorers 3 Goals Israel López (Cruz Azul) 2 Goals Federico Insúa (América) Miguel Sabah (Cruz Azul) Mauro Boselli (Boca Juniors) 1 Goal Ever Espinoza (Caracas) Leonel Vielma (Caracas) Martín Palermo (Boca Juniors) Jesús Dátolo (Boca Juniors) Diego Valdéz (Deportivo Cali) César Delgado (Cruz Azul) Statistics External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070714050952/http://www.copapanamericana2007.com/ 2007 Category:Soccer in Arizona Category:2007–08 in Mexican football Category:2007–08 in Argentine football Category:2007 in Colombian football Category:2007 in Peruvian football Category:2007 in Venezuelan sport |
Biotecnol Biotecnol is an immune-oncology company focusing on the development of multifunctional antibodies for highly heterogeneous oncological situations. Biotecnol is developing oncological treatments for rare diseases such as triple-negative breast cancer, malignant mesothelioma, and other highly-aggressive and mutated cancer subtypes. History Started in 1996, Biotecnol operated as a consultancy company, providing consultancy services to Portuguese pharmaceutical companies, and also European biotech companies. In 2000, Biotecnol attracted its first investment and was able to begin independent activities. This allowed Biotecnol to develop into the first pharmaceutical biotech research & development-driven company in Portugal. In 2002, Biotecnol accomplished further financing, which allowed Biotecnol to transition to product development. The company's early administrative quarters were located in the TagusPark science park in Oeiras near Lisbon, Portugal, and the research and development facilities were located nearby. The company was funded through a mixture of private funding (72%) and Portuguese venture capital (28%). The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has its Research and Development laboratories in Oeiras Portugal. During Q1 2006, Biotecnol consolidated all its activities into the current facility at Lagoas Park in Portugal. Biotecnol has also established a wholly owned subsidiary, Biotecnol Inc, in Durham, North Carolina, USA in 2008. Today Biotecnol is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has its Research and Development Facilities in Portugal. In addition to these activities, Biotecnol also co-founded the Portuguese Bio-Industries Association (APBio) in 1998 to promote the development of a biotechnological industry in Portugal. APBio is part of the European Bioindustries Association (EuropaBio), which represents over 600 European companies. In 2013, Biotecnol created a spin-off company called Rodon Biologics to focus on therapeutic development for clients, while keeping the US branch of Biotecnol focused on the company's proprietary drug development. In 2017, Biotecnol partnered with Cancer Research UK for clinical development of Biotecnol's first drug, Tb535H, which targets the 5T4/WAIF1 tumor antigen, and was developed with Biotecnol's antibody-based Trisoma platform. The founders Biotecnol was founded by Dr Pedro de Noronha Pissarra and Dr Andrew Kelly. Dr Kelly's training included work as part of the European Community ECLAIR-funded project on commercially significant phytopathogenic fungi. After work on Escherichia coli at King's College, London, he helped create Biotecnol's research programmes. Dr de Noronha Pissarra has worked at numerous institutions, including King's College, London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and the Centre for Biotechnology of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. References External links Biotecnol Category:Biotechnology companies of Portugal Category:Biotechnology companies established in 1996 Category:Portuguese brands Category:Oeiras, Portugal Category:1996 establishments in Portugal |
Charles Butler (lawyer) Charles Butler KC (14 August 1750 – 2 June 1832) was an English Roman Catholic lawyer and miscellaneous writer. Biography Charles Butler was born in London, the son of James Butler, a nephew of Alban Butler. He was educated at Douai. In 1769 he became apprenticed to the conveyancer John Maire, and subsequently (on Maire's death in 1773) to Matthew Duane. In 1775 he set up his own conveyancing practice and entered Lincoln's Inn. He edited, with Francis Hargrave, Coke upon Lyttleton, published in 1775. Peter Bellinger Brodie was one of his students. A 1777 pamphlet supporting naval impressments won him the patronage of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, but Butler withdrew from general political activity to press for Catholic relief. Secretary of the Catholic Committee from 1782, he was appointed by them to draft a new relief bill in 1788: despite controversy within the English Catholic community over the extent to which the Catholic condition should be assimilated to that of Protestant dissenters, a bill passed on 24 June 1791. In 1792 Butler helped found the Cisalpine Club "to resist any ecclesiastical interference which may militate against the freedom of English Catholics". Relations between cisalpine Catholics, minimising the authority of the Pope over English Catholics, and vicars apostolic (especially Butler's long-time opponent John Milner) were strained; in 1807 a Catholic Board was formed after efforts to repair relations, but Milner would censure Butler in 1822 as 'a rebel to ecclesiastical authority and a public sinner'. He had considerable practice as a conveyancer, and after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 was the first Catholic to be called to the bar since 1688. His only appearance at the bar was in Cholmondeley v. Clinton at the House of Lords, which set a precedent for judgements on land removal. In 1832 he took silk, and was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. Butler married Mary Eyston in 1776; they had one son (who died young) and two daughters. Works His literary activity was enormous, and the number of his published works comprises about fifty volumes. The most important of them are: Reminiscences (1821–1827) Horae Biblicae (1797), which passed through several editions Horae Juridicae Subsecivae (1804) Book of the Roman Catholic Church (1825), which was directed against Southey and excited some controversy lives of Erasmus, Grotius, Bossuet, Fénelon He also edited and completed the Lives of the Saints of his uncle, Alban Butler, Fearne's Essay on Contingent Remainders and Hargrave's edition of Coke upon Littleton's Laws of England (1775). A complete list of Butler's works is contained in Joseph Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. i. pp. 357–364. References External links Category:1750 births Category:1832 deaths Category:English biographers Category:English memoirists Category:English non-fiction writers Category:English Roman Catholics Category:History of Catholicism in England Category:Members of The Club Category:English male non-fiction writers |
Queck Queck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elise Queck, (married Augustat; 1889– 1940), German politician Gustav Queck (1822–1897), German educator and classical philologist Horst Queck (born 1943), German ski jumper Richard Queck (1888–1968), German footballer |
July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) July 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 20 All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 1 by Old Calendar. For July 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 6. Saints Venerable Abba Diocles of the Thebaid. Venerable Macrina the Younger, sister of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa (380) Venerable Dius of Antioch, Abbot, Wonderworker (c. 430) The Venerable 4 (or 40) fellow ascetics. Saint Gregory of Panedus, Bishop of Panedus, New Confessor for the holy icons’ sake. Venerable Theodore the Sabbaite, Archbishop of Edessa (848) Venerable Michael, ascetic at the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas and the nephew of Venerable Theodore the Sabbaite the Bishop of Edessa. Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Martin of Trier, tenth Bishop of Trier in Germany and possibly a martyr (c. 210) Saints Justa and Rufina of Seville, two sisters, potters by trade, martyred under Diocletian and venerated as the main patron-saints of Seville (287) Saint Arsenius the Great of Scetis, an anchorite in Egypt and one of the most highly regarded Desert Fathers (c. 449) (see also: May 8 ) Saint Felix of Verona (Felicinus, Felice), Bishop of Verona in Italy, venerated from ancient times as a saint. Saint Symmachus, Pope of Rome (514) Saint Ambrose Autpertus, a Frankish Benedictine abbot (c. 778) Saint Jerome of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (787) Saint Aurea of Córdoba (Aura), a nun at Santa María de Cuteclara de Córdoba, martyred by beheading (856) Post-Schism Orthodox saints Blessed Romanus of Ryazan, Prince of Ryazan (1270) Venerable Paisius of Kiev Far Caves (14th century) Blessed King Stefan Lazarević of Serbia (1427), and his mother St. Milica of Serbia (Eugenia in schema) (1405) Saint Sophronius (Smirnov), Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1921) Other commemorations Uncovering of the relics (1903) of Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, Wonderworker (1833) Commemoration of the miracle (1944) of Hieromartyr Charalampus (202), who saved the residents of Erana-Filiatra in Messinia from certain death. Synaxis of the Saints of Kursk. Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Anthony of Valaam (1862) Repose of Blessed Abbot Nilus, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1870) Repose of Elder John, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1903) Repose of Archimandrite Nektary (Chernobyl) of Jerusalem (2000) Icon gallery Notes References Sources July 19/August 1. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). August 1 / July 19. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). July 19. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. July 19. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 53. The Nineteenth Day of the Month of July. Orthodoxy in China. July 19. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 213–214. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 347–348. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 19 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 19 Ιουλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). 19/07/2019. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Russian Sources 1 августа (19 июля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 19 июля по старому |
стилю / 1 августа по новому стилю. СПЖ "Союз православных журналистов". 2018. 19 июля (ст.ст.) 1 августа 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). Category:July in the Eastern Orthodox calendar |
Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; ; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His maternal great-grandfather was African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander I of Russia. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, who attempted to seduce the poet's wife, Natalia Pushkina. Ancestry Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility. She was the daughter of Ossip Abramovich Gannibal (1744–1807) and his wife, Maria Alekseyevna Pushkina (1745–1818). Ossip Abramovich Gannibal's father, Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an African page kidnapped to Constantinople as a gift to the Ottoman Sultan and later transferred to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. Abram wrote in a letter to Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great's daughter, that Gannibal was from the town of "Lagon". Largely on the basis of a mythical biography by Gannibal's son-in-law Rotkirkh, some historians concluded from this that Gannibal was born in a part of what was then the Abyssinian Empire, located today in Eritrea. Vladimir Nabokov, when researching Eugene Onegin, cast serious doubt on this origin theory. Later research by the scholars Dieudonné Gnammankou and Hugh Barnes eventually conclusively established that Gannibal was instead born in Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad in modern-day Cameroon. After education in France as a military engineer, Gannibal became governor of Reval and eventually Général en Chef (the third most senior army rank) in charge of the building of sea forts and canals in Russia. Early life Born in Moscow, Pushkin was entrusted to nursemaids and French tutors, and mostly spoke French until the age of ten. He became acquainted with the Russian language through communication with household serfs and his nanny, Arina Rodionovna, whom he loved dearly and was more attached to than to his own mother. He published his first poem at 15. When he finished school, as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene. After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg. In 1820, he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmila, with much controversy about its subject and style. Social activism While at the Lyceum, Pushkin was heavily influenced by the Kantian liberal individualist teachings of Alexander Petrovich Kunitsyn, whom Pushkin would later commemorate in his poem 19 October. Pushkin also immersed himself in the thought of the French Enlightenment, to which he would remain permanently indebted throughout |
his life, particularly Diderot and Voltaire, whom he described as "the first to follow the new road, and to bring the lamp of philosophy into the dark archives of history". Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. That angered the government and led to his transfer from the capital in May 1820. He went to the Caucasus and to Crimea and then to Kamianka and Chișinău in Moldavia, where he became a Freemason. He joined the Filiki Eteria, a secret organization whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek state. He was inspired by the Greek Revolution and when the war against the Ottoman Turks broke out, he kept a diary recording the events of the national uprising. Rise He stayed in Chișinău until 1823 and wrote two Romantic poems, which brought him acclaim: The Captive of the Caucasus and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray. In 1823, Pushkin moved to Odessa, where he again clashed with the government, which sent him into exile on his mother's rural estate of Mikhailovskoye (near Pskov) from 1824 to 1826. In Mikhaylovskoye, Pushkin wrote nostalgic love poems which he dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, wife of Malorossia's General-Governor. Then Pushkin continued work on his verse-novel Eugene Onegin. In Mikhaylovskoye, in 1825, Pushkin wrote the poem To***. It is generally believed that he dedicated this poem to Anna Kern, but there are other opinions. Poet Mikhail Dudin believed that the poem was dedicated to the serf Olga Kalashnikova. Pushkinist Kira Victorova believed that the poem was dedicated to the Empress Elizaveta Alekseyevna. Vadim Nikolayev argued that the idea about the Empress was marginal and refused to discuss it, while trying to prove that poem had been dedicated to Tatyana Larina, the heroine of Eugene Onegin. Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after his poem "Ode to Liberty" was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825). Being exiled in 1820, Pushkin's friends and family continually petitioned for his release, sending letters and meeting with Tsar Alexander I and then Tsar Nicholas I on the heels of the Decembrist Uprising. Upon meeting with Tsar Nicholas I Pushkin obtained his release from exile and began to work as the tsar's Titular Counsel of the National Archives. However, because insurgents in the Decembrist Uprising (1825) in Saint Petersburg had kept some of Pushkin's earlier political poems the tsar retained strict control of everything Pushkin published and he was unable to travel at will. During that same year (1825), Pushkin also wrote what would become his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov, while at his mother's estate. He could not however, gain permission to publish it until five years later. The original and uncensored version of the drama was not staged until 2007. Around 1825–1829 he met and befriended the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, during exile in central Russia. In 1829 he travelled through the Caucasus to Erzurum to visit friends fighting in the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War. In the end of 1829 Pushkin wanted to set off on a journey abroad, the desire reflected in his poem Поедем, я готов; куда бы вы, друзья... He applied for permission for the journey, but received negative response from Nicholas I on 17 January 1830. Around 1828, Pushkin met Natalia Goncharova, then 16 years old and one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow. After much hesitation, Natalia accepted a proposal of marriage from Pushkin in April 1830, but not before she received assurances that the Tsarist government had no intentions to persecute |
the libertarian poet. Later, Pushkin and his wife became regulars of court society. They officially became engaged on 6 May 1830, and sent out wedding invitations. Due to an outbreak of cholera and other circumstances, the wedding was delayed for a year. The ceremony took place on 18 February 1831 (Old Style) in the Great Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow. When the Tsar gave Pushkin the lowest court title; Gentleman of the Chamber, the poet became enraged, feeling that the Tsar intended to humiliate him by implying that Pushkin was being admitted to court not on his own merits but solely so that his wife, who had many admirers including the Tsar himself, could properly attend court balls. In the year 1831, during the period of Pushkin's growing literary influence, he met one of Russia's other great early writers, Nikolai Gogol. After reading Gogol's 1831–1832 volume of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Pushkin supported him and would feature some of Gogol's most famous short stories in the magazine The Contemporary, which he founded in 1836. Death By the autumn of 1836, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and faced scandalous rumours that his wife was having a love affair. On 4 November he sent a challenge to a duel to Georges d'Anthès, also known as Dantes-Gekkern. Jacob van Heeckeren, d'Anthès' adoptive father, asked that the duel be delayed by two weeks. With efforts by the poet's friends, the duel was cancelled. On 17 November d'Anthès made a proposal to Natalia Goncharova's (Pushkina's) sister – Ekaterina Goncharova. The marriage did not resolve the conflict. Georges d'Anthès continued to pursue Natalia Goncharova in public, and rumours that d'Anthès had married Natalia's sister just to save her reputation circulated. On 26 January (7 February in the Gregorian calendar) of 1837 Pushkin sent a "highly insulting letter" to Heeckeren. The only answer to that letter could be a challenge to a duel, as Pushkin knew. Pushkin received the formal challenge to a duel through his sister-in-law, Ekaterina Gekkerna, approved by d'Anthès, on the same day through the attaché of the French Embassy, Viscount d'Archiac. Pushkin asked Arthur Magenis, then attaché to the British Consulate-General in Saint Petersburg, to be his second. Magenis did not formally accept, but on 26 January (7 February), but approached Viscount d'Archiac to attempt a reconciliation; however, d'Archiac refused to speak with him as he was not yet officially Pushkin's second. Magenis, unable to find Pushkin in the evening, sent him a letter through a messenger at 2 o'clock in the morning, declining to be his second as the possibility of a peaceful settlement had already been quashed, and the traditional first task of the second was to try to bring about a reconciliation. The duel with d'Anthès took place on 27 January (8 February) at the Black River, without the presence of a second for Pushkin. D'Anthès fired first, critically wounding Pushkin; the bullet entered at his hip and penetrated his abdomen. D'Anthès was only lightly wounded in the right arm. Two days later, on 29 January (10 February) at 14:45, Pushkin died of peritonitis. At Pushkin's wife's request he was put in the coffin in evening dress – not in chamber-cadet uniform, the uniform provided by the tsar. The funeral service was initially assigned to the St. Isaac's Cathedral, but was moved to Konyushennaya church. Many people attended. After the funeral, the coffin was lowered into the basement, where it stayed until 3 February, when it was removed to Pskov province. Alexander Pushkin was buried on the grounds of the |
Svyatogorsky monastery in present-day Pushkinskiye Gory, near Pskov, beside his mother. His last home is now a museum. Descendants Pushkin had four children from his marriage to Natalia: Maria (b. 1832), Alexander (b. 1833), Grigory (b. 1835) and Natalia (b. 1836), the last of whom married morganatically with Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau (of the House of Nassau-Weilburg) and was granted the title of Countess of Merenberg. Only the lines of Alexander and Natalia still remain. Natalia's granddaughter, Nadejda, married into the extended British royal family (her husband was the uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Descendants of the poet now live around the globe in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States. Legacy Literary Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan. His poetic short drama Mozart and Salieri (like The Stone Guest, one of the so-called four Little Tragedies, a collective characterization by Pushkin himself in 1830 letter to Pyotr Pletnyov) was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as well as providing the libretto (almost verbatim) to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri. Pushkin is also known for his short stories. In particular his cycle The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, including "The Shot", were well received. Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus. Onegin is a work of such complexity that, while only about a hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning in English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. Even so, Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers like Henry James. Pushkin wrote The Queen of Spades, which is included in Black Water, a collection of short stories of a fantastic nature by major writers, compiled by Alberto Manguel. Musical Pushkin's works also provided fertile ground for Russian composers. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila is the earliest important Pushkin-inspired opera, and a landmark in the tradition of Russian music. Tchaikovsky's operas Eugene Onegin (1879) and The Queen of Spades (La Dame de Pique, 1890) became perhaps better known outside of Russia than Pushkin's own works of the same name. Mussorgsky's monumental Boris Godunov (two versions, 1868–9 and 1871–2) ranks as one of the very finest and most original of Russian operas. Other Russian operas based on Pushkin include Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and The Stone Guest; Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Tale of Tsar Saltan, and The Golden Cockerel; Cui's Prisoner of the Caucasus, Feast in Time of Plague, and The Captain's Daughter; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; Rachmaninoff's one-act operas Aleko (based on The Gypsies) and The Miserly Knight; Stravinsky's Mavra, and Nápravník's Dubrovsky. Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs, have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle "Caprice étrange"). Suppé, Leoncavallo and Malipiero have also based operas on his works. The Desire of Glory, which has been dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, was set to music by David Tukhmanov ), as well as Keep Me, Mine Talisman – by Alexander Barykin ) and later by Tukhmanov. Romanticism Pushkin is considered by many to be the central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature although he was not unequivocally known as a Romantic. Russian critics have traditionally argued that his works represent a path from Neoclassicism through |
Romanticism to Realism. An alternative assessment suggests that "he had an ability to entertain contrarities which may seem Romantic in origin, but are ultimately subversive of all fixed points of view, all single outlooks, including the Romantic" and that "he is simultaneously Romantic and not Romantic". Russian language According to Vladimir Nabokov, Pushkin's idiom combined all the contemporaneous elements of Russian with all he had learned from Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Karamzin and Krylov: The poetical and metaphysical strain that still lived in Church Slavonic forms and locutions Abundant and natural gallicisms Everyday colloquialisms of his set Stylized popular speech by making a salad of the famous three styles (low, medium elevation, high) dear to the pseudoclassical archaists and adding the ingredients of Russian romanticists with a pinch of parody. Pushkin is usually credited with developing Russian literature. He is seen as having originated the highly nuanced level of language which characterizes Russian literature after him, and he is also credited with substantially augmenting the Russian lexicon. Whenever he found gaps in the Russian vocabulary, he devised calques. His rich vocabulary and highly-sensitive style are the foundation for modern Russian literature. His accomplishments set new records for development of the Russian language and culture. He became the father of Russian literature in the 19th century, marking the highest achievements of the 18th century and the beginning of literary process of the 19th century. He introduced Russia to all the European literary genres as well as a great number of West European writers. He brought natural speech and foreign influences to create modern poetic Russian. Though his life was brief, he left examples of nearly every literary genre of his day: lyric poetry, narrative poetry, the novel, the short story, the drama, the critical essay and even the personal letter. His work as a critic and as a journalist marked the birth of Russian magazine culture which included him devising and contributing heavily to one of the most influential literary magazines of the 19th century, the Sovremennik (The Contemporary, or Современник). Pushkin inspired the folk tales and genre pieces of other authors: Leskov, Yesenin and Gorky. His use of Russian language formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov and Leo Tolstoy, as well as that of subsequent lyric poets such as Mikhail Lermontov. Pushkin was analysed by Nikolai Gogol, his successor and pupil, and the great Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky. The last mentioned also produced the fullest and deepest critical study of Pushkin's work, which still retains much of its relevance. Honours In 1929, Soviet writer, Leonid Grossman, published a novel, The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel. The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime. In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet. In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour. There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye. Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel. The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk. Pushkin was portrayed on screen by Sergei Bezrukov. The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences. A minor planet, |
2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after him. A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour. MS Aleksandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class). A station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour. The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada. UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday. A statue of Pushkin was unveiled inside the Mehan Garden in Manila, Philippines to commemorate the Philippines–Russia relations in 2010. The Alexander Pushkin diamond, the second largest found in Russia and the former territory of the USSR, was named after him. On 28 November 2009, a Pushkin Monument was erected in Asmara, capital of Eritrea. In 2005 a monument to Pushkin and his grandmother Maria Hannibal was commissioned by an enthusiast of Russian culture Just Rugel in Zakharovo, Russia. Sculptor V. Kozinin In 2019, Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport was named after Pushkin in accordance to the Great Names of Russia contest. Gallery Works Narrative poems 1820 – Ruslan i Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила); English translation: Ruslan and Ludmila 1820–21 – Cawcazskiy plennik (Кавказский пленник); English translation: The Prisoner of the Caucasus 1821 – Gavriiliada (Гавриилиада) ; English translation: The Gabrieliad 1821–22 – Bratia razboyniki (Братья разбойники); English translation: The Robber Brothers 1823 – Bahchisarayskiy fontan (Бахчисарайский фонтан); English translation: The Fountain of Bakhchisaray 1824 – Tsygany (Цыганы); English translation: The Gypsies 1825 – Graf Nulin (Граф Нулин); English translation: Count Nulin 1829 – Poltava (Полтава) 1830 – Domik v Kolomne (Домик в Коломне); English translation: The Little House in Kolomna 1833 – Anjelo (Анджело); English translation: Angelo 1833 – Medny vsadnik (Медный всадник); English translation: The Bronze Horseman 1825–1832 (1833) – Evgeniy Onegin (Евгений Онегин); English translation: Eugene Onegin Drama 1825 – Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов); English translation by Alfred Hayes: Boris Godunov 1830 – Malenkie tragedii (Маленькие трагедии); English translation: The Little Tragedies Kamenny gost (Каменный гость); English translation: The Stone Guest Motsart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери); English translation: Mozart and Salieri Skupoy rytsar (Скупой рыцарь); English translations: The Miserly Knight, or The Covetous Knight Pir vo vremya chumy (Пир во время чумы); English translation: A Feast in Time of Plague Prose Short Stories 1831 – Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina (Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина); English translation: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin Vystrel (Выстрел); English translation: The Shot, short story Metel (Метель); English translation: The Blizzard, short story Grobovschik (Гробовщик); English translation: The Undertaker, short story Stantsionny smotritel (Станционный смотритель); English translation: The Stationmaster, short story Baryshnya-krestianka (Барышня-крестьянка); English translation: The Squire's Daughter, short story 1834 – Pikovaa dama (Пиковая дама); English translation: The Queen of Spades, short story 1834 – Kirjali (Кирджали); English translation: Kirdzhali, short story 1837 – Istoria sela Goryuhina (История села Горюхина); English translation: The Story of the Village of Goryukhino, unfinished short story 1837 – Egypetskie nochi (Египетские ночи); English translation: The Egyptian Nights, unfinished short story Novels 1828 – Arap Petra Velikogo (Арап Петра Великого); English translation: The Moor of Peter the Great, unfinished novel 1836 – Capitanskaa dochka (Капитанская дочка); English translation: The Captain's Daughter, novel 1836 – Roslavlyov (Рославлев); English translation: Roslavlev, unfinished novel 1841 – Dubrovsky (Дубровский); English translation: Dubrovsky, unfinished novel Non-Fiction 1834 – Istoria Pugachyova (История Пугачева); English translation: A History of Pugachev, study of the Pugachev's Rebellion 1836 – Puteshestvie v Arzrum (Путешествие в |
Арзрум); English translation: A Journey to Arzrum, travel sketches Fairy tales in verse 1820 – Ruslan i Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила); English translation: Ruslan and Ludmila 1825 – Жених; English translation: The Bridegroom 1830 – Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде; English translation: The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda 1830 – Сказка о медведихе; English translation: The Tale of the Female Bear, or The Tale of the Bear (was not finished) 1831 – Сказка о царе Салтане; English translation: The Tale of Tsar Saltan 1833 – Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке; English translation: The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish 1833 – Сказка о мертвой царевне; English translation: The Tale of the Dead Princess 1834 – Сказка о золотом петушке; English translation: The Tale of the Golden Cockerel See also Anton Delvig Aleksandra Ishimova Anna Petrovna Kern Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy Literaturnaya Gazeta Pushkin Prize Vasily Pushkin Vladimir Dal Kapiton Zelentsov, contemporary illustrator of Pushkin's novels UN Russian Language Day Notes References Further reading Binyon, T.J. (2002) Pushkin: A Biography. London: HarperCollins ; US edition: New York: Knopf, 2003 Yuri Druzhnikov (2008) Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of Nationalism, Transaction Publishers Dunning, Chester, Emerson, Caryl, Fomichev, Sergei, Lotman, Lidiia, Wood, Antony (Translator) (2006) The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy University of Wisconsin Press Feinstein, Elaine (ed.) (1999) After Pushkin: versions of the poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by contemporary poets. Manchester: Carcanet Press; London: Folio Society Pogadaev, Victor (2003) Penyair Agung Rusia Pushkin dan Dunia Timur (The Great Russian Poet Pushkin and the Oriental World). Monograph Series. Centre For Civilisational Dialogue. University Malaya. 2003, Vitale, Serena (1998) Pushkin's button; transl. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux DuVernet, M.A. (2014) Pushkin's Ode to Liberty. US edition: Xlibris Телетова, Н.К. (Teletova, N.K.) (2007) Забытые родственные связи А.С. Пушкина (The forgotten family connections of A.S. Pushkin). Saint Petersburg: Dorn Wolfe, Markus (1998) Freemasonry in life and literature. Munich: Otto Sagner ltd. Wachtel, Michael. "Pushkin and the Wikipedia" Pushkin Review 12–13: 163–66, 2009–2010 Jakowlew, Valentin. "Pushkin's Farewell Dinner in Paris" (Text in Russian) Koblenz (Germany): Fölbach, 2006, . Galgano Andrea (2014). The affective dynamics in the work and thought of Alexandr Pushkin, Conference Proceedings, 17th World Congress of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry. Multidisciplinary Approach to and Treatment of Mental Disorders: Myth or Reality?, St. Petersburg, 14–17 May 2014, In Dynamische Psychiatrie. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse und Psychiatrie – International Journal for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychiatry, Berlin: Pinel Verlag GmbH, 1–3, Nr. 266–68, 2015, pp. 176–91. External links Biographical essay on Pushkin. By Mike Phillips, British Library (Pdf). The Pushkin Review, annual journal of North American Pushkin Society. Retrieved 2010-10-19 English translations of Pushkin's poems. Retrieved 2013-04-26 English translation of "The Tale of the Female Bear" List of English translations of Eugene Onegin with extracts List of English translations of The Bronze Horseman with extracts Alexander Pushkin. Mozart and Saliery in English Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov in English Alexander Pushkin. The Bronze Horseman in English Alexander Pushkin poetry(rus) Pushkin's poetry translated to English by Margaret Wettlin Category:19th-century Russian short story writers Category:19th-century translators Category:Imperial Russian dramatists and playwrights Category:Imperial Russian novelists Category:Imperial Russian male writers Category:Imperial Russian poets Category:Imperial Russian short story writers Category:Imperial Russian translators Category:Russian male dramatists and playwrights Category:Russian male novelists Category:Russian male poets Category:Russian male short story writers Category:Romantic poets Category:French-language poets Category:Russian-language writers Category:Italian–Russian translators Category:Translators of Dante Alighieri Category:Writers from Moscow Category:Russian nobility Category:Russian Freemasons Category:Philhellenes Category:Members of the Russian Academy Category:Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni Category:Russian |
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HP MediaSmart Server The HP MediaSmart Server was a home server from Hewlett-Packard that ran Microsoft's Windows Home Server operating system. Models As of October 2008, the HP MediaSmart Server is sold in two models, EX470 (RRP US$599) and EX475 (RRP US$749). They feature a 1.8 GHz AMD Sempron 3400+ processor, one Gigabit Ethernet port, four internal SATA drive bays, four USB 2.0 ports and one eSATA port. The two models are identical with the exception of the amount of included storage: the EX470 has one 500 GB hard drive preinstalled, while the EX475 has two 500 GB hard drives preinstalled. Hackers and enthusiasts have modded the EX470 by adding a VGA monitor, upgrading the memory from 512 MB to 2 GB and upgrading the processor to a 2.6 GHz AMD LE-1640. On December 29, 2008, HP announced two more models, the EX485 and the EX487, available for pre-orders starting on January 8, 2009. The newer models include support for Apple's Time Machine backup software. They also use a 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron processor, replacing the AMD Sempron from the old models. Other features include a revamped user interface and larger preinstalled hard drives (one 750 GB drive for the EX485; two 750 GB drives in the EX487). On April 30, 2009, HP announced the MediaSmart Server LX195 which was intended to be a low-cost entry into the Home Server market. The new model featured a single internal 640 GB drive, a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, 1 GB of DDR2 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, and four USB ports for storage expansion. The software features included with the LX195 are the same as the initial launch features of the EX485/EX487 server On September 14, 2009, HP launched two new MediaSmart servers. The EX490 comes with 1 TB of hard disk storage and costs $549, while the EX495 comes with 1.5 TB and costs $699 both 7200 rpm. The 490 comes with an Intel Celeron Processor 2.2 GHz and the 495 with an Intel Pentium Processor Dual Core 2.5 GHz. On November 30, 2010, The Windows Home Server team at Microsoft confirmed rumors that HP would not be offering hardware for the next version of Windows Home Server (codenamed "Vail"), and that HP would stop selling MediaSmart servers altogether after the end of the calendar year 2010. See also HP MediaSmart Connect HP MediaSmart TV References External links HP's MediaSmart Server Site Official MediaSmart Server Community & Forums Useful Add-ins for MediaSmart Server MediaSmart Server Enthusiast Community MediaSmart Server Category:Windows Server Category:Backup software Category:Home servers |
National Library of Laos The National Library of Laos (Lao language: ຫໍສະໝຸດແຫ່ງຊາດ) is in Vientiane, Laos. It was established in 1956. Starting in October 2007, the library has collaborated with the University of Passau and the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz) to create the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (ໂຄງການຫໍສະໝຸດດິຈິຕອລໜັງສືໃບລານລາວ). The government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic has granted permission for the manuscript collection to be made accessible via the Internet. See also List of national libraries References External links Category:Libraries in Laos Laos |
Little Ann Little Ann is a hamlet attached to Abbotts Ann, approximately two miles south-west of Andover in the north-west of Hampshire. The Poplar Farm Inn is situated in the village, and is part of the Vintage Inns chain, a trading name of Mitchells & Butlers. References Category:Villages in Hampshire |
Barcarolle (horse) Barcarolle (foaled 1835) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in 1838. In a racing career which lasted from April 1838 until September 1839, the filly ran seven times and won twice. Unraced as a two-year-old Barcarolle won the Guineas on her second appearance of 1838 but contracted an illness and raced only once more that season. After winning one minor race from four starts in 1839, she was retired from racing and exported to Russia in the following year. Background Barcarolle was a bay mare bred at Quidenham in Norfolk by her owner William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle. She was the ninth foal of Bravura, a successful racemare who won seven times in 1824. Barcarolle was the only classic winner produced by Thoroughbred family 45. Barcarolle's sire, Emilius, won the Derby in 1823 and went on to become a successful stallion at the Riddlesworth stud which was owned and run by Thomas Thornhill. Emilius’s best winners included Priam, Plenipotentiary, Oxygen, Preserve, Riddlesworth (2000 Guineas) and Mango (St Leger) and he was British Champion sire in 1830 and 1831. Racing career 1838: three-year-old season Barcarolle made her first racecourse appearance on 20 April at the Newmarket Craven meeting where she contested a Sweepstakes restricted to horses owned by "Members of the Coffee-room". The weather at meeting was unusually cold, with rain, sleet, snow and strong winds. She started the outsider of the three runners for the race over the Rowley Mile course and finished second to Mr Batson's filly Vespertilio. On 3 May Barcarolle, ridden by Edward Edwards, was one of six fillies, from an original entry of twenty-two, to contest the 1000 Guineas over the Ditch Mile course. She started second favourite at odds of 4/1 and won from Lord Exeter's fillies Mecca and Romania. Barcarolle was considered a serious contender for The Oaks after her win at Newmarket, but was ruled out of the race when she fell victim to the outbreak of "coughs and inflammatory sore throats" which affected many leading horses that spring. After a break of five months, Barcarolle returned to action at the Newmarket First October meeting. In the Grand Duke Michael Stakes over ten furlongs she finished third of the five runners behind the 2000 Guineas winner Grey Momus. 1839: four-year-old season Barcarolle returned as a four-year-old on 1 April at the opening day of the Craven meeting. In the Craven Stakes over ten furlongs she finished unplaced behind Mr Rayner's colt Quo Minus. She was also engaged in a handicap race on the same day but was withdrawn by her owner. At Royal Ascot on 29 May she was beaten by her only opponent, a colt named Ion, in the Swinley Stakes over one and a half miles, and then finished unplaced in the Grand Stand Plate two days later. On 25 September, seventeen months after her last success, Barcarolle contested the Woburn Stakes at Bedford Racecourse. The race was scheduled in a series of heats, with the prize going to the first horse to win twice. Ridden as in the Guineas by Edwards, Barcarolle settled the race by winning the first and second heats. Stud record Barcarolle was retired from racing to become a broodmare, but produced no foals in Britain as she was sold and exported to Russia in 1840. Pedigree References Category:1835 racehorse births Category:Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Category:Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Category:Thoroughbred family 45 Category:1000 Guineas winners |
Excelsior Geyser Excelsior Geyser Crater, formerly known as Excelsior Geyser, is a dormant fountain-type geyser in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Excelsior was named by the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. Description The Excelsior Geyser pool discharges 4,000 to 4,500 gallons (15,100–17,000 l) of water per minute directly into the Firehole River. In the late 19th century (and possibly 1901), it was an active geyser that erupted frequently. Most eruptions were about 100 feet high, although some exceeded in both height and width. It is believed that the powerful eruptions damaged its internal plumbing system, and it now boils as a productive hot spring most of the time. Activity In 1985, Excelsior returned to activity for a 46-hour period from September 14 to 16. These eruptions were relatively small at but a few were as much as tall and 100 feet wide. All of these eruptions lasted about 2 minutes at intervals of 5 to 66 minutes. Between 2004 and 2006, Excelsior did have violent boiling strong enough to be considered as eruptions. This boiling reached between and had a duration of seconds. References Category:Geothermal features of Yellowstone National Park Category:Geysers of Wyoming Category:Geothermal features of Teton County, Wyoming Category:Geysers of Teton County, Wyoming |
Shelley Carroll Shelley Carroll () is a city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She represents (Ward 17) Don Valley North. She was formerly the Chair of the City's Budget Committee. Background Carroll started as a bank teller but after 7 years in the banking industry changed careers and chose to operate her own day care centre, while caring for her own special needs child. She first rose to prominence as head of the North York Parent Assembly and then the Toronto Educational Assembly. Both groups pushed for more funding for education and vigorously opposed the education reforms brought in by then Premier, Mike Harris. Politics In the 2000 municipal election, she was elected as a school trustee in Don Valley East, ousting the incumbent. The school board endured fierce battles over provincial cuts to education, and Carroll became the leader of the faction of the Board refusing to implement the Harris agenda. She was elected Co-Chair of the Board by her peers in her last year in office. For her activism on behalf of children, she was awarded a Golden Jubilee Medal. In the 2003 municipal election, she decided to run for city council when incumbent Paul Sutherland left to run in the provincial election. Her main opponent was former west-end councillor Rob Davis. During her first term on council she sat on the Budget Committee and then was elected by her peers to the position of Chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee by mid-term. After the 2006 municipal election, she was appointed to sit on Mayor David Miller's Executive Committee and was elected Chair of the Budget Committee. Under the governance procedures of the time, only this chair was elected by a majority vote on council, all other standing committee chairs were appointed by the Mayor. She was re-elected as a City Councillor in 2010 and in 2014. In December 2014, she was appointed to the Toronto Police Services Board by Toronto City Council. She resigned from the Board on March 26, 2018. In October 2016, Carroll announced that she would seek the Liberal Party nomination for the newly formed Don Valley North provincial riding in the next provincial election and was acclaimed as the candidate. She resigned from City Council on April 5, 2018, in order to run in the 2018 provincial election, but lost to the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate Vincent Ke. Jonathan Tsao was appointed by City Council to represent Ward 33 for the remainder of the term before municipal elections on October 22, 2018. On July 6, 2018, Carroll first announced that she was running for re-election to City Council in Ward 31, renumbered from Ward 33. After the ward boundary changes imposed by the Ontario Government of Doug Ford, Carroll ultimately ran for election in the newly expanded (Ward 17) Don Valley North in the 2018 Toronto election. She won by a significant margin over the runner up, Christina Liu, who was endorsed by former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman. For the 2018–2022 council term, Carroll is the vice chair of the North York Community Council, as well as being Deputy Speaker of Toronto City Council. Election results References External links Shelley Carroll for Don Valley North Category:Canadian bankers Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Toronto District School Board trustees Category:Toronto city councillors Category:Women municipal councillors in Canada Category:Women in Ontario politics |
Piano Concerto (Furtwängler) The Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was written between 1924 and 1937, and is among the longest of all piano concertos. It received its world premiere in Munich on October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as the piano soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 1939 there was a radio broadcast which has survived as the only documentation of the unpublished version of the concerto. The piano concerto is cast in three movements: The first (Schwer, pesante in B minor) is an extensive sonata form movement of more than 30 minutes duration. A second movement there follows an Adagio solenne in D major. It is influenced by Bruckner's and Brahms' adagio style and lasts about 11 minutes. The third movement (Allegro moderato in B minor) is composed in free-form and has some hints of a rondo. Its duration is about 20 minutes and the work concludes in dark and gloomy mood with pianissimo dynamics. Furtwängler's Symphonic Concerto received mixed reviews, and has, as a very difficult piece for both pianists and orchestras, rarely been performed in public. There were extensive revisions made to the concerto prior to its publication by Brucknerverlag of Wiesbaden in 1954, and this is the version that has been heard in public since then. The concerto has been published once since, in a critical edition edited by George Alexander Albrecht (see below). The Brucknerverlag also published a two-piano reduction of the score. Other notable champions of the work have included Paul Badura-Skoda, Daniel Barenboim, Konstantin Scherbakov, Gerhard Oppitz, Erik Then-Bergh, Gergely Boganyi, Dagmar Bella, Walter Prossnitz, Johannes Bork (June 14, 1950, with the composer conducting), Homero Francesch, Hirokuni Ishikawa, Takahiro Sonoda, András Schiff and David Lively (a pupil of Claudio Arrau) and most recently, Stephan Möller. Discography On the Marco Polo label, it has been recorded by Alfred Walter conducting the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice, with David Lively at the piano; this recording is available on CD. Conductor Daniel Barenboim took up the keyboard for a recording by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, from a 1971 broadcast performance that several minor record companies issued on LP (such as Bongiovanni, Phorion and Penzance). On the Tahra label, Erik Then-Bergh recorded it with Rafael Kubelik and Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Bavaroise. Here are some historical performances: 16 Jul 2004 Essen Wilhelm Furtwängler: Sinfonisches Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Gerhard Oppitz, piano, Essener Philharmoniker, conductor: Stefan Soltesz Location: Alfried Krupp Saal It is not certain if this concert is recorded. 31 Mar 2004 20:00 University Monterrey (Mexico) Walter Prossnitz, piano Monterrey Symphony Felix Carrasco (conductor) Furtwängler, Symphonic Concerto in b minor 01 Apr 2004 20:00 University Monterrey (Mexico) Walter Prossnitz, piano Monterrey Symphony Felix Carrasco (conductor) Furtwängler, Symphonic Concerto in b minor Per correspondence with Mr. Prossnitz, these two concerts are not recorded. RAI3 used to broadcast a historical recording by pianist Bella Dagmar, one of Furtwangler's illegitimate children, playing a shortened version of the concerto, and has the recording in its radio archive. However, it is currently unobtainable as this version is not circulated commercially or otherwise. It is uncertain if RAI will broadcast this historical recording in the future or plan to cooperate with any record label to release it commercially. Stephan Moller recorded the concerto recently with Takeo Noguchi and this version is available in Japan. Versions by Schiff, Badura-Skoda, Boganyi and Sonoda (an amateur who only recorded the 2nd mov. with FIT-PO under Noguchi) are available in a small connoisseur circle. A 19 January 1939 performance of Furtwangler's Symphonic |
Concerto was also released in 1988 on the PILZ label (CD 78 004) with the composer conducting the Berlin PO and with Edwin Fischer as the soloist. References PILZ compact disc release CD 78 004 (1988). Further reading Furtwängler, Wilhelm ; Albrecht, George Alexander, ed. (2004). Sinfonisches Konzert für Klavier und Orchester. Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1886-1954. Works. 2002. Werkgruppe 1, Werke für Orchester ; Bd. 4. Berlin: Ries & Erler. . Category:Compositions by Wilhelm Furtwängler Furtwangler Category:1937 compositions |
Beyond the Wall (Game of Thrones) "Beyond the Wall" is the sixth and penultimate episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 66th overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Alan Taylor. At 70 minutes, it was the series' longest episode until the airing of the season's finale. The episode's main plot focuses on Jon Snow's raiding party as they journey north of the Wall; they successfully capture a wight to prove the threat, though Thoros is killed. Daenerys rescues the group from the Army of the Dead, and the Night King kills and reanimates Viserion. Jon is separately rescued by Benjen, who sacrifices himself, and Jon acknowledges Daenerys as Queen. Meanwhile, at Winterfell, tension builds between Sansa and Arya. The title of the episode is taken from the namesake lands where most of the episode takes place. "Beyond the Wall" received mostly positive praise from critics, who listed the epic scale and special effects of the battle between the White Walkers and the dragons, the interactions between the northern raiding party, and Jon swearing fealty to Daenerys as highlights of the episode, though some reviewers criticized the episode for "defying logic" and its rushed storytelling. In the United States, the episode achieved a viewership of 10.24 million in its initial broadcast. This episode marks the final appearances of Joseph Mawle (Benjen Stark) and Paul Kaye (Thoros of Myr). Plot At Winterfell Arya confronts Sansa about the letter Sansa wrote to persuade Robb to bend the knee to Joffrey. Arya accuses Sansa of mainly being concerned that she will lose face with the Northern lords if the letter is made public. Sansa confides in Littlefinger, who suggests that Brienne, sworn to serve both sisters, would intervene if Arya acted against Sansa. However, when Cersei invites Sansa to King's Landing to parley, Sansa sends Brienne as her representative. Sansa searches Arya's room and finds Arya's faces. Arya discovers Sansa and explains her training with the Faceless Men. Arya says she could take Sansa's face, seemingly threatening her with the Valyrian steel dagger before instead leaving her with it. At Dragonstone Tyrion suspects Cersei will lay a trap when they meet, but counsels Daenerys to not stoop to her level. Daenerys grows frustrated with Tyrion's pragmatism, but he reassures her of his loyalty to her cause. Tyrion further questions how Daenerys, who believes herself infertile, can establish a legacy that will outlive her. She refuses to discuss the succession before ascending to the Iron Throne. Beyond the Wall Jon, the Hound, Jorah, Beric, Thoros, and Gendry journey beyond the wall with Tormund and several other Wildlings. Jon offers Longclaw, the ancestral Mormont sword, to Jorah, but Jorah insists Jon keep it. An undead polar bear attacks the party, and Thoros is savaged saving the Hound. The party continues onwards. Jon and the others ambush and destroy a White Walker accompanied by wights, and all but one of the wights instantly collapse, inanimate. They capture the last wight. A horde of wights approaches, and Gendry is sent alone to Eastwatch to send a raven to Daenerys while the others take refuge on a small island in the middle of a partially frozen lake. The Night King and other White Walkers watch from high ground. Beric suggests that destroying the Night King will in turn destroy the other White Walkers and the wights. Thoros succumbs to his wounds and the others cremate him. Gendry arrives at Eastwatch, and Davos has the raven sent to Daenerys. Daenerys flies her |
dragons north, having received the raven and having rejected Tyrion's advice to "do nothing." The wights attack Jon's group when the water refreezes. Daenerys arrives and the dragons burn many wights. The men try to evacuate on Drogon but the wights continue their attack; using an ice javelin, the Night King kills Viserion. Jon stays on the ground to cover the others' departure, but is pulled into the water. Jon is saved by Benjen Stark, who gives Jon his horse to ride to Eastwatch while sacrificing himself to hold off the wights. Jon recovers aboard a ship. He apologizes to Daenerys for Viserion's death; she tearfully accepts the loss as the cost of her learning the truth, and she vows to fight the Night King with Jon. He calls her "my Queen" and believes the Northern lords will come to accept her leadership. Beyond the wall, the Night King reanimates Viserion. Production Writing "Beyond the Wall" was written by the series' creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. In the "Inside the Episode" featurette published by HBO following the airing of the episode, David Benioff indicated that the death of the dragon Viserion was something that he and the writers had been working towards for a long time, and added "The whole path of the show in some way has been trying to map out all of the episode end points, and with this one, it was the dragon opening its blue eye, and realizing that the Night King has finally gotten his own weapon of mass destruction." Weiss also stated that the most enjoyable part in writing the sequence was to make it seem as though all of the "good guys" were going to "get out the other side more or less scot-free," and knew that subsequently killing the dragon would have "a tremendous emotional impact," due to its importance to Daenerys. He continued by saying that they knew it would be important for the Night King to seize on the opportunity to kill a dragon, and that they intended for the scene to be a "one-two punch" by having the viewer witness "the horror" involved with seeing "one of these three amazing beings like this in the world going under the water and not coming up again, and processing that," but also "processing something that's even worse," by having the dragon pulled out of the water and becoming a part of the Night King's army. Regarding the inclusion of the wight polar bear attack, Benioff and Weiss stated that they had wanted to have a wight polar bear for "about four seasons," but never made it onto the screen due to opposition from the special effects team. Weiss recalled being told that they were not able to afford the special effect, but felt that it made "perfect sense that you could have one of these things out there, and we really put our four feet down and said goddamnit, we want a zombie polar bear," and thus wrote it into the episode. Weiss also spoke about the concluding Winterfell sequence, saying that once Sansa finds Arya's collection of faces and is confronted, Sansa was intended to start to see Arya as "a real, physical danger to her," and that they wanted to translate that fear to the subsequent episode, in "The Dragon and the Wolf". Filming "Beyond the Wall" was directed by Alan Taylor. This was Taylor's seventh episode as a director for the series, but it was his first episode since the second season, where he directed that season's finale episode, "Valar Morghulis". He was also a |
director for two episodes in the first season, "Baelor" and "Fire and Blood", as well as four other episodes in the second season. Since his hiatus from the series, Taylor was a director for several big budget Hollywood films, including Thor: The Dark World and Terminator Genisys. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Taylor spoke about the differences between his earlier stint with the series, and his return for the show's seventh season, saying he was previously told to avoid using green screen, and thus special effects, due to the budgetary constraints that the series had in its earlier seasons. However, with "Beyond the Wall", he was able to fully utilize visual effects to create the large environment, dragons and armies due to the increased budget. He also described the experience as "going full circle," having witnessed the evolution of characters such as Sophie Turner as Sansa and Maisie Williams as Arya Stark, who he directed when they were children, and that they have since grown up. Many of the scenes leading up to the battle with the White Walker army were filmed in Iceland, but the majority of the episode's battle sequence was filmed in a quarry in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Taylor had expected to film the sequence entirely in Iceland, but quickly realized that it was not feasible due to the amount of production that was required. In filming the wight polar bear attack, Taylor noted that the bear was designed by the New Zealand-based Weta Digital, which previously worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Richard Dormer, who portrays Beric Dondarrion, described filming the scene in a separate interview, saying "It was very cold, wet and physical. Hot as well, running around imagining a 12-foot flaming polar bear. It’s pretty weird, but it was fun." Dormer also noted the difficulty of filming a flaming sword, revealing that the sword could only burn for two minutes at a time, and could not be swung too quickly, requiring Dormer to slow down his movement. He also said that the sword he was using weighed approximately three times more than a normal sword. Though the actors were dressed warmly for the scenes beyond the Wall, their suits contained a "tube system through which cold water can be circulated between shots using a portable pump to keep them from getting overheated," due to the actual warmth of filming on a fake set in Northern Ireland. This was also essential due to the possibility of Rory McCann's, who portrays Sandor "The Hound" Clegane, prosthetic makeup melting off his face. In another interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor also spoke about the process of interacting with the lake and water, saying "every moment of interaction with water had to be a multiple stage process where we filmed the action on our 360 degree set and landscape, and then restage it against green screen with elements we shot in a dunk tank rig, and all of those elements get married together to form something as simple as a guy falling into the ice and plopping into the water." Four to five different shots were needed in order to accomplish this portion of the battle. Taylor described working with Vladimir Furdik, who portrays the Night King, noting that Furdik is completely covered in prosthetics, and saying "He's just delightful. There's nothing he can't do. He's a full-on actor in that role, aside from being able to do all of the action and all of the horse work. He has a beautiful face — although you lose some of that behind the Night King prosthetics." |
Taylor revealed that he had worked with Furdik previously, as Furdik was also a stunt performer on Thor: The Dark World. To film the death of the dragon, Viserion, Taylor said that he "provided the shots where we knew the dragon was going to be impaled and crash," for special effects supervisor Joe Bauer to use later. But Taylor also filmed reaction shots "all along the way" while the dragon fell to its death, utilizing a tennis ball on a stick in order for the actors to understand where the dragon was in the scene, as well as a "pre-viz" and storyboards for them to understand what the final product would look like. Taylor praised Emilia Clarke's performance as Daenerys Targaryen in the scene, and he was also grateful that he was chosen to direct the dragon's death, due to his self-proclaimed past with directing pivotal death scenes in several series, including the death of Ned Stark in season one, as well as major deaths in Rome, Deadwood and The Sopranos. Taylor also spoke about the amount of time that was intended to pass between the approach of the White Walker army, and Daenerys's arrival, saying that they were being intentionally vague, "We did a few things, like getting deliberately hazy about how much time is passing, because it's so dark in the frozen lake and you don't know how many days or nights you may have witnessed. We tried to make it a little ambiguous and give it some wiggle room on that end. We were aware that we were asking for people's suspended disbelief — plausible impossibilities is what you're aiming for." Reception Ratings "Beyond the Wall" was viewed by 10.24 million viewers on its initial viewing on HBO, which was less than the previous week's rating of 10.72 million viewers for the episode "Eastwatch". The episode also acquired a 4.7 rating in the 18–49 demographic, making it the highest rated show on cable television of the night. In the United Kingdom, the episode was viewed by 3.18 million viewers on Sky Atlantic, making it the highest-rated broadcast that week on its channel. It also received 0.98 million timeshift viewers. Critical reception "Beyond the Wall" received mostly positive reviews from critics who listed the epic scale and special effects of the battle between the White Walkers and the dragons, the interactions between the northern raiding party and Jon swearing fealty to Daenerys as highlights of the episode, although some reviewers criticized the episode for " logic." It has received an 84% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes from 43 reviews, with an average score of 8.3 out of 10. The site's consensus reads ""Beyond The Wall" delivered the epic battles and plot twists that are expected from the penultimate episode of a Game of Thrones season – although sometimes in ways that defied logic." Some reviews were more negative. Terri Schwartz of IGN wrote in her review of the episode, "Game of Thrones has long set the precedent that its penultimate episodes of its seasons would be the biggest in terms of scale and, oftentimes, loss, in everything from "Baelor" to "The Rains of Castamere". In that way, "Beyond the Wall" was no different, as it arguably featured the greatest loss the series has faced to date: a dragon killed by the Night King, and even worse, resurrected by him." However, Schwartz also criticized the episode saying that it suffered "more than any other episode to date from the rushed, truncated storytelling in Season 7." Schwartz went on to also praise the interactions between the northern |
raiding party on their journey to find the White Walkers, and ultimately gave the episode a 6.9 out of 10. Daniel D'Addario of Time Magazine wrote in his review of the episode "This episode, occupying the penultimate-in-the-season slot that has historically been the spot where the biggest moments occur, was ever-so-slightly less a barnburner than last year's "Battle of the Bastards," for instance. But that's in part due to the increasing obviousness of the stakes." Myles McNutt of The A.V. Club spoke similarly in his comparison of the episode to the previous season's penultimate episode, questioning some of the reasoning behind the battle, writing "we have a situation here where a series of events engineered for action and suspense effectively sells out the characters involved." He also praised the episode, however, by saying "On the level of spectacle, "Beyond The Wall" is another series high point, with stellar work from returning director Alan Taylor, capturing the visceral battles that the seven men and several Red Shirts encounter on their journey. And I was charmed by the series of "walk and talks" that punctuate their travels, brief vignettes of characters like Sandor and Tormund interacting for the first time while marching toward their potential dooms." He gave the episode a B. Steve Greene of IndieWire wrote in his review, ""Beyond the Wall" might not be the best episode of the season, but it's more assuredly the most important. By bringing the season-long promise of terror and triumph in rapid succession, the series turned this vital episode into a horror story to remember." Accolades Leak Similar to the fourth episode of the season, "The Spoils of War", the episode was leaked before it was set to air, on August 20, 2017. Four days before its official broadcast, HBO Spain and HBO Nordic accidentally allowed "Beyond the Wall" to be available for on-demand viewing for one hour before being removed. References External links "Beyond the Wall" at HBO.com Category:2017 American television episodes Category:Game of Thrones (season 7) episodes Category:Films with screenplays by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss |
Matt Browne (speedway rider) Matt Browne (born 15 April 1983) is an American motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of United States team at 2007 Speedway World Cup but he did not started as reserve. Career details Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup) 2007 - 7th place (did not started as reserve) See also United States national speedway team Speedway World Cup References Category:1983 births Category:American speedway riders Category:Living people |
132nd Tank Regiment (Italy) The 132nd Tank Regiment () is a tank regiment of the Italian Army based in Cordenons in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Originally the regiment, like all Italian tank units, was part of the infantry, but since 1 June 1999 it is part of the cavalry. Operationally the regiment is assigned to the 132nd Armored Brigade "Ariete". History World War II The 32nd Tank Infantry Regiment had been deployed to Italian Libya on 24 January 1941 to rebuild Italian forces after the Italian 10th Army had been annihilated during the British Operation Compass. The 32nd regiment fielded the I, II, and III tank battalions "L" with useless L3 tankettes and the VII, VIII, and IX tank battalions "M" with M13/40 tanks. As the regiment's L3/35 tankettes were useless the commander of the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" General Ettore Baldassarre demanded repeatedly to be sent M13/40 tanks to re-equip the regiment's three "L" battalions or be sent "M" tank battalions. Ultimately the High Command in Rome settled on a plan to repatriate the men of the 32nd and retrain them at the 32nd's depot in Verona. Therefore, the 4th Tank Infantry Regiment raised a new command company, which was transferred to Libya on 1 June 1941 and gave birth to the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment on 1 September 1941. After its activation the 132nd regiment received the three "M" battalions of its sister regiment, whose return to Italy was repeatedly postponed, until both regiments were heavily invested and decimated during the British Operation Crusader, fighting battles at Bir el Gubi on 19 November and 4-7 December and for Point 175 before retreating West. As the Ariete division had lost 76% of its men during Operation Crusader the 32nd regiment was taken out of the front on 31 December 1941 and sent to the rear. On 8 January 1942 the 32nd was disbanded and its personnel used to bring the 132nd regiment partially back up to strength for Erwin Rommel's second offensive. The 132nd regiment was now the only Italian tank regiment in the North African theater. In February 1942 the 133rd Tank Infantry Regiment reached Libya. After its arrival the 133rd Tank Infantry Regiment was forced to cede two of its three battalions to units, who had been decimated during the Panzer Army Africa's advance to Gazala in the preceding weeks: the XI Tank Battalion "M" with M13/40 tanks was ceded to the 101st Motorized Division "Trieste", while the X Tank Battalion "M" with M14/41 tanks was ceded to the 132nd regiment. This allowed the 132nd to disbanded the VII Tank Battalion "M", whose men and tanks were used to fill the gaps in the regiment's two remaining M13/40 tank battalions. As the 133rd's XII tank battalion had lost one of its companies to British warplanes in the Mediterranean the 132nd remained the only Italian tank regiment in the North African theater until the 133rd was able to move to the front on 31 May 1942. Battle of Gazala In the meantime Rommel had renewed his offensive operations with the Battle of Gazala. The 132nd regiment fielded 169 tanks, 87 officers, 245 non-commissioned officers and 1,437 soldiers for the upcoming operation. The Ariete division was tasked to swing around the heavily fortified Bir Hakeim position and attack it from the rear. On 27 May 1942 the 132nd regiment encountered the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade at Rugbet el Atasc and sent its veteran VIII and IX medium tank battalions forward, while the fresh X medium tank battalion was in second line. The Indian position was overrun by the VIII and |
X battalions with the loss of some of which were repairable on the field, killed and , while the Indian brigade lost killed and wounded and about including Admiral Sir Walter Cowan and most of its equipment. After over-running the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, the tank battalions of the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment moved to the north-east of Bir Hakeim and the IX Battalion with sixty tanks, changed direction towards the fort of Bir Hakeim defended by the 1st Free French Brigade. The IX Battalion arrived before the Bir Hakeim minefield and barbed wire at charged and lost and a Semovente 75/18 self-propelled gun. Ten tanks got through the minefield and were knocked out by French 75 mm anti-tank guns, causing casualties. The remnants of the IX Battalion retired to the main body of the Ariete, which moved north towards Bir el Harmat around noon, following Rommel's original plan, while the Battle of Bir Hakeim continued for another two weeks. After having defeated the British at Gazala the Axis offensive continued with the capture of Tobruk and the Battle of Mersa Matruh. El Alamein After having pursued the British Eighth Army to El Alamein Rommel attacked on 1 July 1942 in the First Battle of El Alamein. By 3 July Axis forces were heavily decimated and Rommel paused his attack, which allowed the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment to pull back to the abandoned British RAF El Daba airfield where the VIII tank battalion had to be disbanded to bring the remaining two battalions partially up to strength. By 15 July the 132nd was back at the front attacking the 22nd British Armoured Brigade to the south of Ruweisat Ridge. In early August the 132nd received the XIII Tank Battalion "M" with M13/40 tanks, which originally had been raised by the 32nd Tank Infantry Regiment's depot in Verona for service in Libya, but had been assigned to the 31st Tank Infantry Regiment instead. Now again at full strength the 132nd was ready for Rommel's next attempt to break through at El Alamein. During the resulting Battle of Alam el Halfa the regiment was heavily engaged at El Qattara. On 23 October 1942 the Second Battle of El Alamein commenced during which the 132nd regiment clashed repeatedly with British armored formations, but on 4 November the entire Ariete Division was encircled by the 7th British Armoured Division and annihilated. The 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment was declared lost 20 November 1942. The few survivors of the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment, 133rd Tank Infantry Regiment, and XI Tank Battalion "M" of the 101st Motorized Division "Trieste" were grouped together in the "Cantaluppi" Group, an ad-hoc formation commanded by Colonel Gaetano Cantaluppi, which received the XIV Tank Battalion "M" with M14/41 tanks from the 31st Tank Infantry Regiment, after that regiment's arrival in North Africa. The "Cantaluppi" Group went on to form the short-lived 132nd Anti-tank Regiment, whose creation as officially sanctioned as having been on 5 December 1942 and which was declared lost on 18 April 1943 after the Battle of El Guettar in the Tunisian Campaign. For its service from Bir el Gubi to El Alamein the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment was awarded a Gold Medal of Military Valour. Sardinia After having been destroyed twice the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment was raised again on 21 March 1944 in Sardinia, as part of the Italian Co-belligerent Army. While the 32nd Tank Infantry Regiment had been sent to Sardinia in September 1942 to defend the island against an allied invasion, then 132nd regiment's task was to manage and maintain the equipment of the for a |
number of reserve battalions. During this time the regiment's structure was as follows: 32nd Tank Infantry Regiment, in Sanluri I Tank Battalion "L" (L3/35 tankettes) II Tank Battalion "L" (L3/35 tankettes) III Semovente Battalion "L" (Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns) IV Semovente Battalion "L" (Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns) V Semovente Battalion "L" (Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns) On 15 May 1944 the Infantry Division "Granatieri di Sardegna" was raised again in Sardinia and the 32nd and 132nd regiments joined the division, which remained static on the island. On 27 August 1944 the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment was disbanded, followed by the Granatieri division on 31 August, and 32nd regiment on 2 October 1944. Cold War Immediately after ratification of the peace treaty between the allies and Italy on 15 September 1947 the Italians began to rebuild their army. A first tank battalion with M4 Sherman tanks was raised in spring 1948 in Rome, which moved in June to Casarsa della Delizia to make room for a second M4 Sherman tank battalion. On 10 July 1948 the two battalions were used to form the 1st Tankers Regiment in Rome, which joined the Armored Brigade "Ariete" on 7 September 1948. The brigade had been reformed earlier on 1 June 1948 without units. Regiment and brigade moved in fall 1948 to the Friuli Venezia Giulia region - the regiment to Casarsa della Delizia and the brigade headquarters to Pordenone. On 1 April 1949 the 1st Tankers Regiment was renamed 132nd Tankers Regiment "Ariete" and on 28 April 1950 it moved to Aviano. On 1 October 1952 the Armored Brigade "Ariete" was expanded to Armored Division "Ariete" and consequently the 132nd regiment raised a third M4 Sherman tank battalion in 1953, but had to cede it to the reformed 31st Tankers Regiment within a few weeks. In 1954 the regiment formed a M26 Pershing tank battalion for itself and its two other battalions were also re-equipped with M26 Pershing tanks. In 1955 the three battalions of the regiment were renumbered and given the traditions of three of the battalions that had served with the 132nd during the Western Desert Campaign. In December 1958 the regiment was renamed 132nd Tank Regiment. At this time the regiment was structured as follows: 132nd Tank Regiment, in Aviano VII Tank Battalion (M4 Sherman tanks) VIII Tank Battalion (M4 Sherman tanks) X Tank Battalion (M4 Sherman tanks) On 1 March 1964 the 32nd Tank Regiment was reformed and joined the 132nd in the Ariete Division. During the same year the 132nd Tank Regiment ceded its VII Tank Battalion to the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment and received the XXXVIII Bersaglieri Battalion in return. 8th Tank Battalion "M.O. Secchiaroli" During the 1975 army reform the 132nd Tank Regiment was disbanded on 31 October 1975 and its VIII Tank Battalion became the 8th Tank Battalion "M.O. Secchiaroli", while the X Tank Battalion became the 10th Tank Battalion "M.O. Bruno", and its XXXVIII Bersaglieri Battalion became the 27th Bersaglieri Battalion "Jamiano". The war flag and traditions of the disbanded regiment were assigned to the 8th Tank Battalion "M.O. Secchiaroli". Tank and armored battalions created during the 1975 army reform were all named for officers, soldiers and partisans, who were posthumously awarded Italy's highest military honor the Gold Medal of Military Valour for heroism during World War II. The 8th Tank Battalion's name commemorated 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment Corporal Giovanni Secchiaroli, who had fought with the VIII Tank Battalion in North Africa and was killed in action on 27 May 1942 during the Battle of Rugbet el Atasc. Equipped with M60A1 Patton main battle tanks the battalion |
joined the Armored Brigade "Manin", whose headquarters had been formed from the 132nd Tank Regiment's headquarters. 10th Tank Battalion "M.O. Bruno" The 10th Tank Battalion "M.O. Bruno" was formed during the 1975 army reform by renaming the X Tank Battalion of the 132nd Tank Regiment. The 10th Bruno received the war flag and traditions of the 133rd Tank Regiment. In 1986 the Italian Army disbanded its remaining divisions and to retain the historically significant name "Ariete" the Armored Brigade "Manin" was renamed Armored Brigade "Ariete" on 1 October 1986. Recent times After the end of the Cold War the Italian Army began to reorganize its forces and for traditional reasons battalions were renamed as regiments without changing size or composition. On 27 July 1992 the 8th Tank Battalion "M.O. Secchiaroli" entered the newly reformed 132nd Tank Regiment. On 31 July 1995 the 63rd Tank Regiment in Cordenons transferred from the Mechanized Brigade "Mantova" to the Ariete brigade and on 30 November of the same year the 63rd Tank Regiment was renamed as 132nd Tank Regiment and the tank unit in Aviano was disbanded. From 29 December 1992 to 15 March 1994 the regiment participated with in the international Unified Task Force and UNOSOM II missions in Somalia. For its conduct and service in Somalia the regiment was awarded a Bronze Medal of Army Valour, which was affixed to the regiment's war flag and added to the regiment's coat of arms. Current structure As of 2019 the 132nd Tank Regiment consists of: Regimental Command, in Cordenons Command and Logistic Support Company 8th Tank Battalion "M.O. Secchiaroli" 1st Tank Company "Rugbet El Atasc" (13x Ariete main battle tanks) 2nd Tank Company "El Alamein" (13x Ariete main battle tanks) 3rd Tank Company "Tobruch" (13x Ariete main battle tanks) 4th Tank Company "Bir Hacheim" (13x Ariete main battle tanks) The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, and Commissariat Platoon. In total the regiment fields 54x Ariete main battle tanks: 13x per company, plus one for the battalion commander and one for the regiment commander. See also 132nd Armored Brigade "Ariete" Further reading External links Italian Army Website: 132° Reggimento Carri References Category:Tank Regiments of Italy |
Rikei was the eldest daughter of Katsunuma Nobutomo (勝沼 信友), a samurai of the Sengoku period. She lived as a nun on Daizen-ji temple at Mount Kashiwao and is most notable for her military history, Rikei-ni no Ki, or "Nun Rikei’s Account." Influence In 1582, the daimyō (大名) or warlord Takeda Katsuyori (武田 勝頼) rebelled against the rival Hojo clan, but because of his poor leadership skills, he was defeated by Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu. He, his young formal wife, and about ninety of their followers, mostly women, fled to Rikei's nunnery. However, because of Katsuyori's failure as an administrator, no one wanted to welcome or pity this retinue. Rikei, on the other hand, pitied their fate. She was familiar with the style of military tales, so she wrote Rikei-ni no Ki or "The Nun Rikei's Account" to honor them so that their names at least could remain. The Rikei-ni no Ki is one of three military accounts written by women in this time period (1600s), the others being the Oan Monogatari and the Okiku Monogatari. Rikei's work starts with a description of the Takeda clan's genealogy, and then she moves into a description of the killings and ritualistic suicides that the retinue committed in order to preserve their honor and avoid capture. She also incorporated a myougouka, or prayer verse, in her account. After describing the death of Katsuyori's formal wife, she lists seven poems. The beginning of these verses form the acrostic "na-mu-a-mi-ta-hu-tsu," which is a Buddhist prayer that translates loosely to "Glory to Amitabha" or "May they rest in peace.". References Category:Japanese women poets Category:Japanese women historians Category:16th-century Japanese women writers Category:16th-century Japanese writers Category:17th-century Japanese writers Category:1611 deaths Category:Japanese writers of the Edo period Category:People of Sengoku-period Japan Category:1530 births Category:Women of medieval Japan Category:16th-century Japanese women Category:17th-century Japanese women Category:Edo period Buddhist monks |
Paraccra mimesa Paraccra mimesa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania. The wingspan is about 14 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is bluish grey, the costa and proximal half of the termen edged with yellowish ochreous marked with blackish spots and grey dots respectively. The ochreous orange fascia from two-thirds of the costa to the end of the termen is marked red inside. The hindwings are brown. The larvae feed on the fruit of Agelaea pentagyna and Rourea thomsoni. References Category:Moths described in 2005 Category:Tortricini Category:Moths of Africa Category:Taxa named by Józef Razowski |
Mistaken for Strangers (song) "Mistaken for Strangers" is a song by Brooklyn-based indie rock band The National from their fourth studio album, Boxer. The song was released on April 30, 2007 in the UK and May 1, 2007 in the US as the album's first single. Reception "Mistaken for Strangers" has received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone and Louis Pattison of The Guardian each praised the song as one of Boxer'''s standout tracks, with Pattison adding that the song is "gloomily great." Heather Phares of Allmusic said the song "touches on the side of the band that could be mistaken for a more hopeful Joy Division, if lyrics like 'You wouldn't want an angel watching over you? / Surprise surprise, they wouldn't want to watch' can be counted as hopeful." Dennis Scanland of Music Emissions said it is "an infectingly beautiful upbeat song that is calling out to be the best track this year." Ian Cohen of Stylus Magazine described the song as "corrosive but ingratiating, backing up [vocalist Matt] Berninger's loopy melodies with little more than spiny, corrugated behind-the-bridge picking and brick-solid godbody drumming from Bryan Devendorf." However, Ted Grant of Playlouder said the song, along with album track "Brainy," features "some especially overbearing stickwork and neo-sing-a-long choruses that don't really suit" the band. The song's title was also given to the 2013 documentary film Mistaken for Strangers which premiered April 17, 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The film takes place in 2010 as the band prepares to dive into the international spotlight. The National’s lead singer Matt Berninger invites his brother Tom to join the band on tour for the latter's directorial debut. Music video The music video for "Mistaken for Strangers" was filmed in Berninger's Brooklyn apartment, and was released in May 2007. The video was directed by Thread-Count, a collaboration between Berninger's brother Tom, Ryer Banta, and Hope Hall. In a June 2007 interview with The Scenestar'', Matt Berninger explained the video as "very low-budget, without any narrative. No applied story to it. We're really happy with it. That kind of stuff, when it comes to videos, we'd much rather be cinéma vérité and just shooting the band as the band. Not the band on a desert or on a spaceship. That's usually more interesting I think." Track listing UK CD (BBQ 405CD) "Mistaken for Strangers" – 3:31 "Blank Slate" – 3:17 "Santa Clara" – 4:06 UK and US 7" vinyl (BBQ 405) "Mistaken for Strangers" – 3:31 "Blank Slate" – 3:17 Accolades All information adapted from AcclaimedMusic.net. References External links Official band website Category:2007 singles Category:The National (band) songs Category:2007 songs Category:Beggars Banquet Records singles Category:Songs written by Matt Berninger |
List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption This is a list of sovereign states by the date in which they adopted their current national flag. For most of these states, the date of flag adoption is clear, but for others the exact date of flag adoption is unknown or disputed because of design changes. This list defines the year of flag adoption as the year since when the current flag has been used continuously to represent a nation, autonomous region or occupied state. Only countries which are currently sovereign states are listed, although the flag may have been adopted before the countries gained independence. The listed countries may have undergone fundamental regime changes, great geographical changes or even temporary lost autonomy, political unions or secessions. If the flag remained in use during such events, its original adoption date is listed. Changes that do not alter the basic design of the flag, like the changes in ratio or colour shade, restyling of emblems or inscriptions or the addition or removal of stars, are listed in the last column. The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column. List References Sources Sources for most of the dates in this list can be found in the articles on the respective flags or per the Flags of the World database. Category:Lists and galleries of flags Flag adoption |
Puffia Puffia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Puffia gerrardii, which is restricted to the littoral forests of southeastern Madagascar. References Category:Monotypic Rubiaceae genera |
Hoyt, New Brunswick Hoyt is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, with a long history dating from the 1800s. History Notable people See also List of communities in New Brunswick References Category:Communities in Sunbury County, New Brunswick |
FC Malacky FC Malacky is a Slovak association football club located in Malacky. It currently plays in 3. Liga (Bratislava) (3rd level). Current squad External links Official website Futbalnet profile References Category:Football clubs in Slovakia |
Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi is a Ghanaian traditional ruler and Paramount Chief of Sefwi Wiaso traditional area. He is currently the president of Western Region House of Chiefs. Early and working life Yaw Gyebi was born in 1950 in the Western Region of Ghana. He attended several schools in Ghana and read courses in business. He is an accountant by profession. Paramount Chief Yaw Gyebi was made the Paramount Chief of the Sefwi Anhwiaso Traditional Area. His area of rule covers a territory from the upper eastern part of the western region. President of House of Chiefs In November 2016, officials of the Electoral Commission of Ghana organized an election to fill the position of the presidency of the Western Region House of Chiefs. Yaw Gyebi contested and won by obtaining seven votes out of a total vote count of eleven. His contender for the seat was Nana Kwesi Agyemang IX, the paramount chief of Lower Dixcove Traditional Area, who had been the acting president of the House prior the election. Yaw Gyebi was sworn into office by Justice Peter Kwodwo Ababio, a Sekondi-Takoradi High Court Judge. As the elected head of all chiefs in the Western Region, Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II, represents the region at the National House of Chiefs. He serves as the chief mediator for the settling of disputes among traditional rulers in the region. He has also been soliciting for funds and donations for the improvement of educational institutions. As part of his duties, he also receives dignitaries and government officials who pay visits to the region. Appointments In May 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo appointed Yaw Gyebi and John S. Nabila, a former President of the National House of Chiefs, to the board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. The board is made up of seven members and has the responsibility of managing Ghana's oil resources. References Category:Living people Category:Ghanaian leaders Category:1950 births Category:Ghanaian accountants Category:People from Western Region (Ghana) |
Topolyovka Topolyovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. References Category:Rural localities in Vladimir Oblast |
Golden Age of Finnish Art The Golden Age of Finnish Art coincided with the national awakening during the time 1880–1910. Themes during the period were often influenced by Kalevala and were visible in visual arts, literature, music and architecture of the time. Central figure of the time was Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Other notable figures were Pekka Halonen, Albert Edelfelt, Jean Sibelius, Eino Leino, Helene Schjerfbeck, Eero Järnefelt, Emil Wikström and Eliel Saarinen. Finnish art became known also in Europe at Paris 1900 World Fair, where Finnish pavilion was one of the most popular pavilions. Works References External links The Golden Age of Finnish Art, Elina Ojala, University of Tampere. Category:Finnish culture |
Documenting Hate Documenting Hate is a project of ProPublica, in collaboration with a number of journalistic, academic, and computing organizations, for systematic tracking of hate crimes and bias incidents. It uses an online form to facilitate reporting of incidents by the general public. Since August 2017, it has also used machine learning and natural language processing techniques to monitor and collect news stories about hate crimes and bias incidents. , over 100 news organizations had joined the project. History Origin Documenting Hate was created in response to ProPublica's dissatisfaction with the quality of reporting and tracking of evidence of hate crimes and bias incidents after the United States presidential election of 2016. The project was launched on 17 January 2017, after the publication on 15 November 2016 of a ProPublica news story about the difficulty of obtaining hard data on hate crimes. Introduction of the Documenting Hate News Index On 18 August 2017, ProPublica and Google announced the creation of the Documenting Hate News Index, which uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API for automated monitoring and collection of news stories about hate crimes and bias incidents. The API uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The findings of the Index are integrated with reports from members of the public. The Index is a joint project of ProPublica, Google News Lab, and the data visualization studio Pitch Interactive. Response Participation , thousands of incidents had been reported via Documenting Hate. , over 100 news organizations had joined the project, including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Vox, and the Georgetown University Hoya. Relationship to government statistical monitoring A policy analyst for the Center for Data Innovation (an affiliate of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), while supporting ProPublica's critique of the present state of hate-crime statistics, and praising ProPublica for drawing attention to the problem, has argued that a nongovernmental project like Documenting Hate cannot solve it unaided; instead, intervention at the federal level is needed. See also Unite the Right rally References External links Documenting Hate on ProPublica (www.documentinghate.com redirects to this ProPublica page) Documenting Hate News Index Google News Lab Google Cloud Natural Language API Pitch Interactive Category:Data mining Category:Data journalism Category:Hate crime Category:Knowledge bases Category:Machine learning Category:Media analysis organizations and websites Category:Natural language processing Category:Prejudice and discrimination Category:Social statistics |
DACH1 Dachshund homolog 1, also known as DACH1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the DACH1 gene. DACH1 has been shown to interact with Ubc9, Smad4, and NCoR. Structure Gene structure . This protein coding gene has 760 amino acid protein, and an observed molecular weight of 52 kDa. Dachshund Family transcription factor 1 is encoded by DACH gene, who spans 400kDa and is encoded by 12 exons. This gene is located, in humans, in chromosome 13 (13q22). It encodes a chromatin-associated protein that associates with other DNA-binding transcription factors to regulate gene expression, mRNA translation, coactivator binding, and cell fate determination during development. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. Four alternatively spliced transcripts encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene.DACH1 mRNA was detected in multiple human tissues, including kidney and heart. Dach1 is located in nuclear and cytoplasmic pools and is considered a cell fate determination factor. Dachshund domain 1 (DD1, also known as Box-N) has a predicted helix–turn–helix family structure. The X-ray crystal structure of the human DACH1 Box-N illustrates that the DACH1 protein contains a domain that is conserved with the pro-oncogenes ski/sno oncogenes, which form an α/β structure similar to that found in the winged helix/forkhead subgroup of DNA binding proteins. This protein is widely expressed including bone marrow, brain, colon, eye, heart, kidney, leucocyte, liver, lung, pancreas, pineal gland, placenta, prostate, retina, skeletal muscle, small intestine, stromal/preosteoblasts and the spleen. Protein modification. DACH1 is modified by phosphorylation, acetylation, and SUMOYlation. Acetylation of Dach1 determine binding to the p53 tumor suppressor, and thereby governs a subset of p53 functions involved in stem cell restraint and the inhibition of cellular proliferation. SUMOYlation of DACH governs HDAC binding. Phosphorylation of Dach1 contributes to YB-1 binding, subcellular distribution and the induction of EMT via translation of EMT regulatory genes. Function Organismal development. Dach1 is similar to the D. melanogaster dac gene, which encodes a nuclear factor essential for determining cell fates in the eye, leg, and nervous system of the fly. Dach is a member of the Ski gene family and is involved in eye and organismal development. Dach1 deletion mice exhibit early postnatal death, although no developmental defects were detected in any organ system examined, including kidneys. DACH1 plays an important role on this precursor of cell proliferation in retinal and pituitary. Restrain of Cancer cell growth. DACH1 protein is able to prevent the proliferation of cancerous cells (lung, breast, prostate) and functions as a repressor of estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer cells. Transcription. DACH1 conducts transcriptional function through interacting with transcription factors including c-Jun, estrogen receptor alpha, the androgen receptor, and the basal transcription apparatus through binding to the co-integrator protein CA150. Curiously, DACH1 selectively bound to the delta domain of c-Jun, which was known to interact with an endogenous cellular repressor. DACH1 binds directly with a Forkhead-like DNA sequence to restrain oncogenic signals from a subset of FKHR proteins. Dach1 governs mRNA translation of an EMT signature and governs Snail1 transcription. Cell migration. DACH1 inhibits migration of vascular endothelial cells, fibroblasts and prostate epithelial cells wherein DACH1 maintains persistence of migratory directionality via heterotypic signals. Disease relevance Cancer DACH1 has been implicated in suppression of tumor growth, and has been proposed as a putatative tumor suppressor although no formal in vivo evidence has been published to date. Supporting evidence includes the finding that Dach1 expression is reduced in human malignancies including breast, lung, prostate and brain tumors. DACH1 inhibits Cyclin D1 expression and thereby reduces breast cancer cell line cell growth. Normal cells and |
some breast cancer cells have receptors that bind estrogen and progesterone. These two hormones often promote the growth of breast cancer cells. Approximately 70% of breast cancers are ERa+, DACH1 expression decreases when the cancer is more invasive and the level of estrogen is high. Nephropathy Renal hypodysplasia (RHD) is characterized by small and/or disorganized kidneys following abnormal organogenesis. Double homozygous missense mutations of DACH1 and BMP4 occurred in a patient with bilateral cystic dysplasia. Functional analysis of the DACH1 mutation (p.R684C). demonstrated enhanced suppression of the TGF-β pathway. Dach1 is highly expressed in the adult podocyte, with transcripts showing an approximate tenfold enrichment compared to total kidney cortex. It is also more widely expressed in the earlier developing kidney, but again including definite podocyte expression. Diabetes Hepatocyte the abundance of DACH1 Is Increased in the hepatocytes of Obese patients. Dach1 promotes hepatic insulin resistance via Nuclear Exclusion of HDAC4. References Further reading |
Shuanglian metro station Shuanglian () is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a station of the . Station overview The station is located underneath the metro park, near Minsheng West Road and Zhongshan North Road. The station is a two-level, underground structure with one island platform and two exits. The washrooms are inside the entrance area. Public art in the station consists of a mural titled "Dawning Sail". Composed of porcelain enamel, the mural reflects Shuanglian's rich historical past from its role as a once-prosperous trading post on the Tamsui River to new developments in the area. The station is a planned transfer station with the Minsheng-Xizhi Line. History TRA Station 17 August 1916: Opened for service on the Tamsui Railroad Line as "Shuanglian Parking Station". 1943: The station re-opened after renovation. In the past, there was a goods loading center near the station. Thus, it became a major transfer center on the Tamsui Line. 15 July 1988: Closed along with the TRA Tamsui Line. Taipei Metro Station July 1993: DORTS decided to use the station as one of the trial stations for public art installations. 28 March 1997: Opened for service with the opening of the segment from Tamsui to Zhongshan. Station layout Exits Exit 1: Minsheng W. Rd. Exit 2: Minsheng W. Rd. Other metro services The station is an entrance to the Zhongshan Underground Metro Mall, connecting (between this station and Zhongshan station). Around the station Chen Dexing Ancestral Hall Immaculate Conception Cathedral Ministry of Labor Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum Mackay Commemorative Hospital Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation Headquarters Tatong District Main Office Taipei Imperial Hotel Minxiang Park Taipei City Archives References Category:Tamsui–Xinyi line stations Category:Railway stations opened in 1916 Category:Railway stations opened in 1943 Category:Railway stations closed in 1988 Category:Railway stations opened in 1997 Category:Railway stations with vitreous enamel panels |
Moonlight (runtime) Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of the now deprecated Microsoft Silverlight application framework for Linux and other Unix-based operating systems, developed and then abandoned by the Mono Project. Like Silverlight, Moonlight was a web application framework which provided capabilities similar to those of Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. History and overview In an interview in the beginning of June 2007, Miguel de Icaza said the Mono team expected to offer a "feasibility 'alpha' demo" in mid-June 2007, with support for Mozilla Firefox on Linux by the end of the year. After a 21-day hacking spree by the Mono team (including Chris Toshok, Larry Ewing and Jeffrey Stedfast among others), a public demo was shown at Microsoft ReMIX conference in Paris, France on June 21, 2007. However, in September 2007, developers still needed to install and compile a lot of Mono and Olive (the experimental Mono subproject for .NET 3.0 support) modules from the Mono SVN repository to be able to test Moonlight. A Moonlight IDE, named Lunar Eclipse, exists in SVN for XAML designs. Moonlight uses Cairo for rendering. Moonlight was provided as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome on popular Linux distributions. The plugin itself does not include a media codec pack, but when the Moonlight plugin detects playable media it refers users to download a free Media codec pack from Microsoft. Moonlight 2.0 tracked the Silverlight 2.0 implementation. The first completed version, Moonlight 1.0, supporting Silverlight 1.0, was released in January 2009. Moonlight 2.0 was released in December 2009. The Moonlight 2.0 release also contained some features of Silverlight 3 including a pluggable media framework which allowed Moonlight to work with pluggable open codecs, such as Theora and Dirac. Preview releases of Moonlight 4.0, targeting Silverlight 4 compatibility, were released in early 2011. In April 2011, the Moonlight team demonstrated Moonlight running on Android tablets and phones at the MIX11 Web Developers conference in Las Vegas. Shortly after the April 2011 release, Attachmate, parent to developer Mono, laid off an undisclosed number of Mono employees, and announced a deal with startup Xamarin for Mono development and support. At that time, Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman affirmed their commitment to the Moonlight project, although there were no outward signs of any further development afterward. In December 2011, de Icaza announced that work on Moonlight had stopped with no future plans. He explained that Microsoft had "cut the air supply" to it by omitting cross-platform components, making it a web-only plugin, and including Windows-only features. He advised developers to separate user interface code from the rest of their application development to ensure "a great UI experience on every platform (Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Web)" without being dependent on third party APIs. DRM Silverlight supports Digital Rights Management in its multimedia stack, but Microsoft will not license their PlayReady DRM software for the Moonlight project to use and so Moonlight is unable to play encrypted content. Desktop support Moonlight was also usable outside of the browser as a Gtk+ widget (known as Moonlight.Gtk). A number of Desklets were written using this new technology during the Novell Hack Week in 2007. MoonBase is an experimental set of helper classes built on top of Moonlight.Gtk that can be used to create full blown C# desktop applications using the Moonlight (Silverlight 4.0) widgets and XAML files. MoonBase also has a related XAML editor/previewer. Microsoft support Shortly after the first demo at MIX 07 in Paris, Microsoft began cooperating with Novell to help with the building of Moonlight. Support included giving |
exclusive access to Novell for the following Silverlight artifacts: Microsoft's Test suites for Silverlight, Silverlight specification details, beyond those available on the web, Proprietary codecs made available free-of-charge for Windows Media Video and Audio, for VC-1 and MP3, and in the future H.264 and AAC, only licensed for use with Moonlight when running in a web browser. Other potential decoders include GStreamer and FFmpeg (used during the development stage) but Novell will not provide prepackaged versions of Moonlight with those libraries, because those decoders have not been granted licensing for the use of patented codec technologies. Microsoft released two public covenants not to sue for the infringement of its patents when using Moonlight. The first one covered Moonlight 1 and 2, is quite restrictive and covered only the use of Moonlight as a plugin in a browser, only implementations that are not GPLv3 licensed, and only if the Moonlight implementation has been obtained from Novell. It also notes that Microsoft may rescind these usage rights. The second covenant was an updated and broader covenant that no longer limits the covenant to users that obtain Moonlight from Novell, it covers any uses of Moonlight regardless of where it was obtained. The updated covenant covers the implementations as shipped by Novell for versions 3 and 4, it no longer distinguishes Novell from other distributions of Moonlight and expands the covenant to desktop applications created with Moonlight. The covenant does not extend to forks licensed under the GNU GPL (Moonlight itself uses the Lesser GPLv2). Codecs integration Although Moonlight is free software, the final version was going to use binary-only audio and video codecs provided by Microsoft which will be licensed for use with Moonlight only when used as a browser plugin (see above). The Windows media pack is not distributed together with the Moonlight plugin but the first time when media content in Silverlight is detected the user will be prompted to download the pack containing the codecs used in Silverlight directly from Microsoft. Self built versions could still use the FFmpeg library and there was discussion about adding GStreamer support as an alternative to using Microsoft's binary codecs for those who wish to use GStreamer instead and also for use when used outside of a browser. Mono architect Miguel de Icaza blogged that the Mono team prototyped Moonlight multimedia support using the LGPL-licensed FFmpeg engine but that they were unable to redistribute packaged versions that used that library due to FFmpeg codec licensing issues inside of the United States. Moonlight in other distributions After the release of Moonlight 2, a covenant provided by Microsoft was updated to ensure that other third party distributors can distribute Moonlight without their users having to worry about getting sued over patent infringement by Microsoft. This covenant can be found on the Microsoft website. Kevin Kofler and Tom Callaway, of Fedora, have stated publicly that the last covenant was "not acceptable" for that distribution and that "it is still not permissible in Fedora". The version of Moonlight that was going to be available direct from Novell would have access to licensed closed source media codecs provided free of charge by Microsoft. Third-party distributions of Moonlight would only be able to play non-patent encumbered media like Vorbis, Theora and Ogg. To support other formats, the distributors would have had to choose from a few licensing options: Negotiate licences directly with individual media codec owners (e.g. MPEG-LA, Fraunhofer Society) Negotiate access to Microsoft's Media Pack as Novell have done Use GStreamer or a commercial codec license Use a hardware-specific software like VDPAU At the PDC conference on October |
13, 2008, Microsoft placed the 'Silverlight XAML Vocabulary' under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, stating in a press release, "The Silverlight XAML vocabulary specification, released under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, will better enable third-party ISVs to create products that can read and write XAML for Silverlight." Since Moonlight is essentially a XAML reader, Debian's position is that Moonlight is safe for them to redistribute (leaving each user to agree to their own licensing for Microsoft's and others' binary codecs). See also MonoDevelop – an open source IDE targeting both Mono and Microsoft .NET framework platforms References External links Wired - Microsoft Silverlight Coming to Linux Moonlight 1.0 Media Stack article by Miguel de Icaza The H Open Source - Health Check: Moonlight Category:Free multimedia software Category:Free software programmed in C Category:Free software programmed in C++ Category:Free software programmed in C Sharp Category:Mono (software) Category:Silverlight |
Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Bantamweight The men's bantamweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the second-lightest contested, and allowed boxers of up to 54 kilograms. The competition was held from 28 July to 2 August 1952. 23 boxers from 23 nations competed. Medalists Results References Bantamweight |
1957 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election Elections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its "Parliamentary Committee") occurred in November 1957. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Hugh Gaitskell), Deputy Leader (Jim Griffiths), Labour Chief Whip (Herbert Bowden), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (A. V. Alexander) were automatically members. The results of the election are listed below: † Multiple candidates tied for position. References 1957 Category:1957 elections in the United Kingdom |
Shane Getkate Shane Charles Getkate (born 2 October 1991) is a South African-born Irish cricketer. Getkate was born with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, which caused him to collapse on field during an under-19 game in June 2011. In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland, the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis. Domestic and T20 career He made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Northern Knights in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Trophy on 26 May 2017. He made his List A debut for Northern Knights in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Cup on 29 May 2017. He made his first-class debut for Northern Knights in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Championship on 30 May 2017. In April 2019, he was one of five cricketers to be awarded with an Emerging Player Contract by Cricket Ireland, ahead of the 2019 domestic season. In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Belfast Titans in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled. International career In January 2019, he was named in Ireland's Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for the Oman Quadrangular Series and the series against Afghanistan in India. He made his T20I debut for Ireland against Oman on 13 February 2019, becoming Ireland's 700th international cap. In June 2019, he was named in the Ireland Wolves squad for their home series against the Scotland A cricket team. Later the same month, he was named in Ireland's squad for their series against Zimbabwe. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Ireland against Zimbabwe on 1 July 2019. In September 2019, he was named in Ireland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. References External links Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Irish cricketers Category:Ireland One Day International cricketers Category:Ireland Twenty20 International cricketers Category:Northern Knights cricketers |
Luzhniki (Moscow Central Circle) Luzhniki () is a station on the Moscow Central Circle of the Moscow Metro that opened in September 2016. Name It is named for the nearby Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Transfer Passengers may make out-of-station transfers to Sportivnaya station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, across Khamovnichesky Val. Gallery External links mkzd.ru Category:Moscow Metro stations Category:Railway stations in Russia opened in 2016 Category:Moscow Central Circle stations |
List of German films of 1939 References External links IMDB listing for German films made in 1939 filmportal.de listing for films made in 1939 German Category:Lists of German films film |
Natalie Gregory Natalie Lynn Gregory (born October 20, 1975) is an American former child actress. Career She starred as Alice in the television film Alice in Wonderland (1985). Gregory is the youngest actress to have played the role in a television or sound-film production based on the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Gregory's nearest rival is British actress Sarah Sutton who was 12 when she portrayed Alice in a 1974 BBC production. Her performance in the film earned her a nomination for Exceptional Young Actress Starring in a Television Special or Movie of the Week in the 1986 Young Artist Awards. Acting in the production with her in the role of her sister was her real-life sister Sharee Gregory, who is married to actor Michael Landon Jr. Gregory has had guest-starring roles in a number of television series including a two-part episode of the drama Highway to Heaven, which starred her brother-in-law's father. She also starred in the Disney animated film Oliver & Company (1988) as the speaking voice of Jenny Foxworth and appeared in other films. She has also appeared as Annie at Cranium Command, an attraction at Epcot, a Walt Disney World Resort theme park. Prior to acting in movies and TV shows, she got her start appearing in commercials for certain products, such as Hamburger Helper, Care Bears, McDonald's, and Chips Ahoy. Filmography References External links Category:1975 births Category:American child actresses Category:American film actresses Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:American television actresses Category:American voice actresses Category:Living people |
NASA Astronaut Group 9 NASA Astronaut Group 9 was a group of 19 NASA astronauts announced on May 29, 1980, and completed their training by 1981. This group was selected to supplement the 35 astronauts that had been selected in 1978, and marked the first time that non-Americans were trained as mission specialists with the selections of ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Wubbo Ockels. In keeping with the previous group, astronaut candidates were divided into pilots and mission specialists, with eight pilots, eleven mission specialists, and two international mission specialists within the group. Achievements As with the previous group, several spaceflight firsts were achieved, including: First Costa Rican astronaut: Franklin Chang-Diaz (January 12, 1986, STS-61-C) First Dutch citizen in space: Wubbo Ockels (October 30, 1985, STS-61-A) First Swiss astronaut: Claude Nicollier (July 31, 1992, STS-46) First African-American Marine in space: Charles Bolden (January 12, 1986, STS-61-C) First person to be launched into space more than six times: Jerry Ross (April 8, 2002, STS-110) First astronaut spouse selected as an astronaut: William Fisher (August 27, 1985, STS-51-I; married to Anna Fisher, Group 8 astronaut) In addition, Chang-Diaz and Ross share the world record for the most spaceflights, with seven each. Bolden also became the second astronaut to serve as NASA Administrator, appointed in 2009. Group members Pilots John E. Blaha (born 1942), U.S. Air Force (5 flights) STS-29 — March 1989 — Pilot — Deployed TDRS-D STS-33 — November 1989 — Pilot — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-43 — August 1991 — Commander — Deployed TDRS-E STS-58 — October 1993 — Commander — Spacelab: SLS-2 STS-79 — September 1996 — Mission Specialist 4 — Launched for long duration flight aboard Mir Mir EO-22: Board Engineer 2 STS-81 — January 1997 — Mission Specialist 4 — Landed from long duration flight aboard Mir Charles F. Bolden, Jr. (born 1946), U.S. Marine Corps (4 flights) - Former NASA Administrator STS-61-C — January 1986 — Pilot — Deployed Ku-1 communications satellite STS-31 — April 1990 — Pilot — Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope STS-45 — March 1992 — Commander — ATLAS-1 STS-60 — February 1994 — Commander — Spacehab 2 Roy D. Bridges, Jr. (born 1943), U.S. Air Force (1 flight) STS-51-F — July 1985 — Pilot — Spacelab 2 Guy S. Gardner (born 1948), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) STS-27 — December 1988 — Pilot — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-35 — December 1990 — Pilot — ASTRO-1 Ronald J. Grabe (born 1945), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) STS-51-J — October 1985 — Pilot — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-30 — May 1989 — Pilot — Deployed the Magellan probe STS-42 — January 1992 — Commander — Spacelab: IML-1 STS-57 — June 1993 — Commander — Spacehab Bryan D. O'Connor (born 1946), U.S. Marine Corps (2 flights) - Former NASA Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance STS-61-B — November 1985 — Pilot — Deployed 3 communication satellites STS-40 — June 1991 — Commander — Spacelab: SLS-1 Richard N. Richards (born 1946), U.S. Navy (4 flights) STS-28 — August 1989 — Pilot — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-41 — October 1990 — Commander — Deployed the Ulysses (spacecraft) STS-50 — June 1992 — Commander — Spacelab: U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1 STS-64 — September 1994 — Commander — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) Michael J. Smith (1945–1986), U.S. Navy (1 flight) - Died During the Challenger Disaster STS-51-L — January 1986 — Pilot — Planned to Deploy TDRS-B Mission Specialists James P. Bagian (born 1952), |
U.S. Air Force (2 flights) STS-29 — March 1989 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed TDRS-D STS-40 — June 1991 — Mission Specialist 1 — Spacelab: SLS-1 Franklin Chang-Diaz (born 1950), Physicist (7 flights) STS-61-C — January 1986 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed Ku-1 communications satellite STS-34 — October 1989 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed the Galileo probe STS-46 — July 1992 — Mission Specialist 2 — Deployed ESA’s European Retrievable Carrier and flew the Tethered Satellite System’s TSS-1 mission STS-60 — February 1994 — Mission Specialist 3 — Spacehab 2 STS-75 — February 1996 — Mission Specialist 4/Payload Commander — The Tethered Satellite System’s TSS-1R mission STS-91 — June 1998 — Mission Specialist 2 — Final Shuttle/Mir mission STS-111 — June 2002 — Mission Specialist 1 — Installed the Mobile Base System for Canadarm2 on the ISS Mary L. Cleave (born 1947), Engineer (2 flights) STS-61-B — November 1985 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed 3 communication satellites STS-30 — May 1989 — Mission Specialist 2 — Deployed the Magellan probe Bonnie J. Dunbar (born 1949), Scientist (5 flights) STS-61-A — October 1985 — Mission Specialist 1 — Spacelab D1 STS-32 — January 1990 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed the SYNCOM IV-F5 satellite; retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility STS-50 — June 1992 — Mission Specialist 1 — Spacelab: U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1 STS-71 — June 1995 — Mission Specialist 3 — First Shuttle/Mir docking STS-89 — January 1998 — Mission Specialist 3 — Eighth Shuttle/Mir docking William Frederick Fisher (born 1946), Physician (1 flight) STS-51-I — August 1985 — Mission Specialist 3 — Deployed three communications satellites David C. Hilmers (born 1950), Engineer (4 flights) STS-51-J — October 1985 — Mission Specialist 1 — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-26 — September 1988 — Mission Specialist 3 — Was the "Return-to-Flight" shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster; deployed TDRS-C STS-36 — February 1990 — Mission Specialist 2 — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-42 — January 1992 — Mission Specialist 2 — Spacelab: IML-1 David Leestma (born 1949), U.S. Navy (3 flights) - Currently NASA Manager of JSC's Advanced Planning Office STS-41-G — October 1984 — Mission Specialist 3 — Deployed the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite STS-28 — August 1989 — Mission Specialist 2 — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-45 — March 1992 — Mission Specialist 2 — ATLAS-1 John M. Lounge (1946–2011), U.S. Navy (3 flights) STS-51-I — August 1985 — Mission Specialist 2 — Deployed three communications satellites STS-26 — September 1988 — Mission Specialist 1 — Was the "Return-to-Flight" shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster; deployed TDRS-C STS-35 — December 1990 — Mission Specialist 2 — ASTRO-1 Jerry L. Ross (born 1948), U.S. Air Force (7 flights) - Currently NASA Chief of JSC's Vehicle Integration Test Office STS-61-B — November 1985 — Mission Specialist 2 — Deployed 3 communication satellites STS-27 — December 1988 — Mission Specialist 2 — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission STS-37 — April 1991 — Mission Specialist 1 — Launched the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory STS-55 — April 1993 — Mission Specialist 1 — Spacelab: D2 STS-74 — November 1995 — Mission Specialist 2 — Second Shuttle/Mir docking STS-88 — December 1998 — Mission Specialist 1 — First shuttle mission to the International Space Station; delivered Unity (Node 1) and the first two Pressurized Mating Adapters STS-110 — April 2002 — Mission Specialist 1 — Delivered the S0 Truss and the Mobile Transporter for Canadarm2 Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944), U.S. |
Army (1 flight) STS-61-B — November 1985 — Mission Specialist 3 — Deployed 3 communication satellites Robert C. Springer (born 1942), U.S. Marine Corps (2 flights) STS-29 — March 1989 — Mission Specialist 3 — Deployed TDRS-D STS-38 — November 1990 — Mission Specialist 1 — Was a classified United States Department of Defense mission International Mission Specialists Claude Nicollier (born 1944), Swiss Air Force (4 flights) STS-46 — July 1992 — Mission Specialist 3 — Deployed ESA’s European Retrievable Carrier and flew the Tethered Satellite System’s TSS-1 mission STS-61 — December 1993 — Mission Specialist 3 — Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1 STS-75 — February 1996 — Mission Specialist 3 — The Tethered Satellite System’s TSS-1R mission STS-103 — December 1999 — Mission Specialist 5 — Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), Physicist (1 flight) STS-61-A — October 1985 — Payload Specialist 3 — Spacelab: D1 See also Astronaut List of astronauts by name List of astronauts by selection List of space travelers by name List of space travelers by nationality NASA Astronaut Groups References External links Astronaut Biographies: Home Page Category:NASA Astronaut Corps Category:Lists of astronauts |
Esteban Lisa Esteban Lisa (1895–1983), is a painter from Spain, living almost his whole life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Biography Esteban Lisa was born in Hinojosa de San Vicente, Toledo (Spain) on August 8, 1895. At the age of 12 he emigrated to Argentina to live with his paternal aunt and uncle. He worked as a glass washer, then as a messenger - and later as a librarian - at Buenos Aires Central Post Office. At the same time he completed his primary studies. He entered the Beato Angélico Art School, where he studied with Friar Guillermo Butler. He taught painting in the School for Adults, located at number 900 Serrano (Buenos Aires), and joined the Argentine Teachers' Union. He married the Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, Josefina Pierini. His pictorial production continued almost uninterrupted from the 1930s until 1978, and was complemented by his studies of philosophy and science. His mystic conception of life and art was to accompany him always: abstraction was his chosen means of visual communication. He was not interested in following a career as an artist-painter, and perceived that his role in society would be not only to teach the techniques of painting, but also to contribute to the spiritual development of human beings, by carefully preserving his work for future generations. His short book: Kant, Einstein and Picasso, published in 1956, which he circulated among friends and cultural institutions, was to highlight his main preferences. His literary production totals 14 books, written and published, including: The Theory of Cosmovision, and The Vision of Plato. Lisa owned an extensive library, comprising over 900 books on philosophy, oriental religions and art, which is now located in the headquarters of the Esteban Lisa Foundation. In 1955, the year in which he retired from his official teaching duties, with the support of his disciples, Lisa founded his own center, known as the "Four Dimensions Modern Art School", located at 1966 Rivadavia, Buenos Aires. His "Institute for Research into the Theory of Cosmovision" was opened later at 1535 Alsina. Between 1956 and 1979 Lisa gave numerous conferences in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Paraná, Gualeguay and Azul on his Theory of Cosmovision, his means of uniting aesthetic experiences, ethics and modern science. He travelled to Spain to be reunited with his family in 1981. He died in Buenos Aires on June 19, 1983. Work The eruption of Esteban Lisa’s work onto the international arena could become an important event in the history of abstraction, since he is not only a pioneer of this art form in terms of Latin American Art, but also in the context of Spanish abstraction. His work was never shown during his lifetime. Now there is an extraordinary international reception of his work by collectors, art critics and the general public. Lisa worked in the realm of abstraction from c.1935 to 1978. Lisa’s work began to be studied and catalogued in 1996, a decade after an exhibition held in the Museum Sivori of Buenos Aires in 1987 passed unnoticed. One-man exhibitions were held in Buenos Aires (Galería Palatina, 1997) and Madrid (Guillermo de Osma, 1998). Museum shows were held on Rosario (1997), Montevideo (1998) and Cordoba (1999). Other exhibitions included a large retrospective in the Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (July 1999) and in Santa Fe (November 1999). He was also shown in ARCO (Madrid, 1987, 1988, 1999) and FIAC (Paris, 1997, 1998) Art Fairs. In 2008 an exhibition "Dialogues with Esteban Lisa" took place in Cuenca, Fundación Antonio Pérez, with more than 50 paintings and drawings. In 2010, Esteban Lisa's work was shown for |
the first time in the Middle East through a comprehensive exhibition at the Foundation Audi in Beirut, Lebanon. References Sánchez gil, Julio; Esteban Lisa/Pietro Spada(April 2017). Catálogo de exposiciones en Toledo, ciudad Real y Madrid. D.L. TO 326-2017 . External links and references http://www.estebanlisa.com/homeingles.swf https://web.archive.org/web/20050824170432/http://www2.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/arara/issue_two/abstracts.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090525012440/http://www.dipucuenca.es/aplicaciones/publico/agenda3.asp?idagenda=149 Category:Modern painters Category:20th-century Spanish painters Category:Spanish male painters Category:Argentine painters Category:Argentine male painters Category:People from Buenos Aires Category:1895 births Category:1983 deaths |
Worklife (TV programme) Worklife (Previously Business Edition and Business Live) is a news programme that premiered on BBC World News on 1 February 2010 as part of a network-wide refresh. The programme is presented by Tanya Beckett (Monday–Thursday) and Jamie Robertson (Friday). The programme examines the inner workings of business, translating complex financial stories to give viewers a clearer understanding of the rapidly changing global economy, and how it will impact on their lives. It also includes the top global news stories of the day as well as weather updates. The current presenting line up is Sally Bundock with either David Eades or Karin Giannone in the morning. In 2015 the programme was relaunched as Business Live with two editions one at 08:30BST/GMT and 20:00BST/GMT. Originally there was only one morning edition but was expanded to two in November. History Business Edition was reduced from 60 to 45 then to a 30-minute structure on 9 November 2010. The programme was replaced with an edition of BBC World News from April 2011. Business Edition with Tanya Beckett returned to BBC World News on 18 June 2012 at 22:00 GMT. This was originally an edition of World News Today. In June 2015 the program was ended to allow Outside Source and World News Today to be simulcast on the BBC News Channel. It returned in November 2015 replacing an edition of World News Today under the name Business Live. On 7 October 2019, Business Live was renamed to Worklife to reflect with sister programme Worklife India and its BBC Worklife website. About the programme Morning edition This edition is presented live from London with two presenters and broadcast on BBC News Channel and BBC World News at 0830 GMT/BST (0930 CET). It gives the latest in Europe, Asia closing view, US recap. It uses the World Business Report title, with another music and change the name of World Business Report. Its name is sometimes called BizLive for short. After the top story, the headlines will be presented from the catwalk. Then, it switches to the presenter sitting at the desk. After that, the catwalk presenter will present the programme in the first half of the show. After the look at the markets segment they will join together at the desk with a guest. In the last half, they will have a look at social media segment and then the business papers review. This was the first edition of the programme until November when its second edition launched in the evening. Evening edition This edition is presented live from London and New York. Tanya Beckett and Michelle Fleury are the main presenters and the show is broadcast at 2000 GMT/BST (2100 CET) only on BBC World News. During the top stories, the New York presenter will appear first, then the London presenter at the desk. The headlines intro is the same as the morning edition. The programme is mainly presented from the catwalk in Studio C, New Broadcasting House, London. Its ending theme is longer than the morning edition, using a part of the title. This was originally an edition of World News Today and replaced the Business Edition which was broadcast at 2100 GMT/BST (2200 CET), Business Edition was also an edition of World News Today until 2010, but was replaced by Outside Source in June 2015. Presenters Former presenters References External links (2010-2012) Category:2010 British television series debuts Category:2010s British television series Category:2020s British television series Category:BBC World News programmes |
LIM domain LIM domains are protein structural domains, composed of two contiguous zinc finger domains, separated by a two-amino acid residue hydrophobic linker. They are named after their initial discovery in the proteins Lin11, Isl-1 & Mec-3. LIM-domain containing proteins have been shown to play roles in cytoskeletal organisation, organ development and oncogenesis. LIM-domains mediate protein–protein interactions that are critical to cellular processes. LIM domains have highly divergent sequences, apart from certain key residues. The sequence divergence allow a great many different binding sites to be grafted onto the same basic domain. The conserved residues are those involved in zinc binding or the hydrophobic core of the protein. The sequence signature of LIM domains is as follows: [C]-[X]2–4-[C]-[X]13–19-[W]-[H]-[X]2–4-[C]-[F]-[LVI]-[C]-[X]2–4-[C]-[X]13–20-C-[X]2–4-[C] LIM domains frequently occur in multiples, as seen in proteins such as TES, LMO4, and can also be attached to other domains in order to confer a binding or targeting function upon them, such as LIM-kinase. The LIM superclass of genes have been classified into 14 classes: ABLIM, CRP, ENIGMA, EPLIN, LASP, LHX, LMO, LIMK, LMO7, MICAL, PXN, PINCH, TES, and ZYX. Six of these classes (i.e., ABLIM, MICAL, ENIGMA, ZYX, LHX, LM07) originated in the stem lineage of animals, and this expansion is thought to have made a major contribution to the origin of animal multicellularity. LIM domains are also found in various bacterial lineages where they are typically fused to a metallopeptidase domain. Some versions show fusions to an inactive P-loop NTPase at their N-terminus and a single transmembrane helix. These domain fusions suggest that the prokaryotic LIM domains are likely to regulate protein processing at the cell membrane. The domain architectural syntax is remarkably parallel to those of the prokaryotic versions of the B-box zinc finger and the AN1 zinc finger domains. References Category:Protein domains Category:Transcription factors |
U.S. Siracusa U.S. Siracusa S.r.l., commonly referred to as simply Siracusa, was an Italian association football club located in Syracuse, Sicily. The club withdrew from professional football in 2012. An illegitimate phoenix club, was promoted to Lega Pro in 2016 as Siracusa Calcio (known as A.S.D. Città di Siracusa from 2014 to 2016 and Sport Club Siracusa from 2013 to 2014). Another illegitimate phoenix club, also known as A.S.D. Città di Siracusa, lasted for only one season from 2012 to 2013. U.S. Siracusa itself was an illegitimate phoenix club of A.S. Siracusa. History U.S. Siracusa was an illegitimate heir of A.S. Siracusa, which focused on youth football from 1995, until folded circa 2006. U.S. Siracusa Unione Sportiva Aldo Marcozzi 1956 was a team from Syracuse. Circa 1991 the team became a S.r.l. with a P.IVA 01007200890. The team played in 1995–96 Promozione Sicily (7-tier at that time). In 1996 the club switched the name to Unione Sportiva Dilettanti Siracusa S.r.l., as the major team representing the city in senior football, after the expel of A.S. Siracusa from the professional league in 1995. However, one of the affiliated youth club of U.S. Siracusa, was remained to use the name Aldo Marcozzi at least until 2004–05 season. That season, Aldo Marcozzi finished as the 4th of Group B of Siracusa Provincial Allievi League, while A.S. Siracusa finished as the 8th. U.S. Siracusa's under-17 team was played in National Allievi League – Serie D Division that season. The team reached Serie D in 1999 (fifth tier at that time), but quickly relegated back to Eccellenza Sicily. Siracusa returned to play Serie D in 2002; since then, the Sicilian team unsuccessfully tried to reach a spot into professional football until 2009, when they dominated the Group I of Serie D, getting finally promoted back to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (ex-Serie C2) in advance of six weeks, after a 2–0 home win to Rosarno in front of 5,000 local supporters. After the promotion the club dropped the word "amateur" () from the denomination, to become Unione Sportiva Siracusa S.r.l.. In their first season back into professionalism, Siracusa have re-appointed Giuliano Sonzogni as head coach; During the 2011–12 season, headed by coach Andrea Sottil, at his first season into professional football, Siracusa actually won the Lega Pro Prima Divisione by earning more points than any other team in that year. However, due to financial troubles again, instead of being directly promoted to Serie B, U.S. Siracusa was inflicted a penalty of 5 points in the same season, which caused the relegation of the club to a final third position. Losing then the play-off semifinal to Lanciano did not help with their promotion to Serie B after almost six decades. After the end of the 2011-12 season, U.S. Siracusa did not appeal against the exclusion by the federal council of Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and it is excluded by the Italian professional football. However, U.S. Siracusa's youth teams were still allowed to play in 2012–13 season, as well as retaining the registration number of the club: 79957. Their Giovanissimi team relegated from Sicilian Giovanissimi League directly; while their Allievi team finished as the 4th of Group H of Sicilian Allievi League . In the next season the Allievi team finished as the 11th of Group E. However, 2 positions higher than the illegitimate heir, Sport Club Siracusa. U.S. Siracusa also applied a dormant status by withdraw the youth teams from the league from 2014 onward. Legacy On 31 August 2012 an illegitimate phoenix club was restarted from Terza Categoria – Syracuse Province as A.S.D. Città di Siracusa |
(registration number: 936289). The club was dissolved in 2013, and S.C. Siracusa / A.S.D. Città di Siracusa / Siracusa Calcio (registration number: 917156) took over as the main football club of the city. Colours and badge The colours of the team are sky blue and white. Stadium U.S. Siracusa's first team played in Stadio Nicola De Simone which can hold 5,946 people. Notable former players Notable former managers Honours Serie D:Promoted (1): 2008–09Eccellenza Sicily:Winners (1): 1997–98Promoted (1): 2001–02Promozione Sicily:Promoted (1)''': 1995–96 References Category:Defunct football clubs in Italy Category:Football clubs in Sicily Category:Sport in Syracuse, Sicily Category:Association football clubs established in 1956 Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 2014 Category:Serie C clubs Category:1956 establishments in Italy Category:2014 disestablishments in Italy |
Johan Peter Weisse Johan Peter Weisse (13 August 1832 – 7 March 1886) was a Norwegian philologist. Personal life He was born in Fluberg as a son of physician Joachim Frederik Weisse and his wife Grethe Fleischer. His grandfather had migrated to Norway from Brandenburg. The family moved to Trondhjem in 1833. He married his own cousin Maja Stang (1843–1916) in July 1863 in Fredrikshald. She was an aunt of engineer Olaf Stang. In May 1893 one of their daughters married politician Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark. Through them, Weisse was the maternal grandfather of professor Johan Peter Holtsmark, professor Anne Holtsmark and painter Karen Holtsmark. Career He took his examen artium at Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1850. He read languages such as Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Old Danish, Old Swedish, Greek, Latin, Russian and Cuneiform script already at that time, as witnessed by his diary Litterær Dagbog. He started studying philology in 1851. From 1853 to 1855 he had to stay in Rome because of health issues, but he studied the city vividly. He was a part of a Nordic intellectual group here, which included Julius Middelthun, Christoffer Borch, Georg Forchhammer and Niels Ravnkilde. He finally graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1858. In October 1858 he was hired as co-editor (together with Nicolai Mejdell) of the newspaper Christiania-Posten. He is remembered for writing political and satirical commentary, and a 25-piece series between July 1859 and January 1860 on Italian history and society, marking himself as a supporter of Camillo Cavour. In early 1861 Weisse was hired as teacher at Trondhjem Cathedral School. He stayed here until September 1865, when he changed to Fredrikshalds lærde og realskole. From June 1874 to April 1875 he worked at Christiania Cathedral School, and from April 1875 he was an inspector at Aars og Voss School. In November and December 1875 he held trial lectures for the position as professor at the Royal Frederick University, and he was appointed on 23 December in competition with Jan Johanssen. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1879. He continued as professor until his death, and also held numerous popular lectures. His obituary in Dagbladet read that Weisse wanted to "form men and not mere objects for examination". He contributed "significantly" to Marius Nygaard's textbooks on Old Norse, first published in 1871. In 1871, Weisse released his own Latin grammar, Latinsk Grammatik til Skolebrug, but it was considered too difficult for school students, and was out-competed by Emil Schreiner's Latinsk Sproglære. The dominating Latin-Norwegian dictionary was later released by Schreiner, Nygaard and Johanssen. Schreiner sat on the committee that hired Weisse as professor in 1875. Weisse died from a stroke in March 1886. He was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund. References External links Digitized books by Weisse in the National Library of Norway Category:1832 births Category:1886 deaths Category:People from Trondheim Category:Norwegian people of German descent Category:Norwegian diarists Category:Norwegian philologists Category:Classical philologists Category:Latinists Category:Norwegian expatriates in Italy Category:University of Oslo alumni Category:Norwegian newspaper editors Category:Norwegian schoolteachers Category:University of Oslo faculty Category:Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Category:Burials at Vår Frelsers gravlund Category:People educated at the Trondheim Cathedral School Category:19th-century Norwegian male writers |
Anthurium albidum Anthurium albidum is a species of plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. References Category:Endemic flora of Ecuador albidum Category:Data deficient plants Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Le Jeu du Roi Le Jeu du Roi ("the king's game") is a 1976 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail. It focuses on the subject of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia. It was published by éditions Robert Laffont. Adaptation The novel was the basis for the 1988 film Letter from Patagonia. The film was directed by Marc Evans and stars Pierre Dux. References External links Le Jeu du Roi at the author's website Category:1976 French novels Category:French novels adapted into films Category:French-language novels Category:Novels by Jean Raspail |
Facekini The facekini () is a mask designed for swimmers and beachgoers which covers the head and reveals only the eyes, nose, and mouth. It was invented by Zhang Shifan, a former accountant from the coastal Chinese city of Qingdao. The mask is popular in Qingdao, where it is used by people for protecting themselves from tan-inducing ultraviolet rays while in direct sunlight and from jellyfish, insects and other irritants while at the beach. The mask is made of a stretchy fabric that is commonly used in bathing suits, and comes in different colors and patterns. They are often worn in combination with various sun protecting clothing such as body suits with long sleeves, sunglasses, visors, or umbrellas. Facekinis are available in local swim stores near beaches and online. See also Balaclava (clothing) Anti-flash gear References External links Category:Headgear Category:Chinese inventions Category:Protective gear Category:Qingdao Category:Sports masks |
Gradež Gradež may refer to the Slovene name for Grado, Italy, a town in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Gradež, Velike Lašče, a settlement in the Velike Lašče municipality in Slovenia |
Haselbacher See Haselbacher See is a lake in Leipzig (Saxony)/ Altenburger Land (Thuringia), Germany. At an elevation of 151 m, its surface area is 3.35 km². Category:Lakes of Saxony Category:Lakes of Thuringia LHaselbacherSee |
Platygaster munita Platygaster munita is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Platygastridae. It is found in Europe. References Further reading Category:Parasitic wasps Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Insects described in 1836 Category:Platygastridae |
Mount Colvin Mount Colvin is the 39th highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains, in the U.S. State of New York. Mount Colvin offers excellent views of a number of other Adirondack High Peaks, most notably the peaks that comprise the Great Range. High Peaks that are readily visible from Colvin include Giant, Rocky Peak Ridge, Upper Wolfjaw, Lower Wolfjaw, Armstrong, Sawteeth, Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Tabletop, Marcy, Haystack, Redfield, Allen, Nippletop, Dial, and Blake. The mountain is named after Verplanck Colvin, an explorer of the Adirondacks and the director of the survey which mapped the region. After naming many other peaks and geographic features, he chose this less-prominent mountain to name after himself. Gallery Notes External links Peakbagger.com: Mount Colvin Summitpost.org: Mount Colvin Category:Mountains of Essex County, New York Category:Adirondack High Peaks Category:Mountains of New York (state) |
Walter Barfuss Walter Barfuss (4 February 1955 – 24 July 1999) was a West German bobsledder who competed in the late 1970s. He won two bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships (Two-man: 1978, Four-man: 1977). Barfuss also finished seventh in the four-man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. References External links Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931 Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930 Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 562. Category:Bobsledders at the 1980 Winter Olympics Category:German male bobsledders Category:1955 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Olympic bobsledders of West Germany |
Park Fifth Towers Park Fifth is a residential high-rise development overlooking Pershing Square in Los Angeles that is set to open in summer 2019. History The site of Park Fifth at 5th and Olive streets is the site of the former Hazard's Pavilion, which was demolished to build Temple Auditorium, later renamed Clune's Auditorium, which was the historic home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was demolished by developer David Houk in 1985 to make way for an office and hotel complex. The office boom of the '80s collapsed before Houk could build on the site. The site was to directly block the historic Subway Terminal Building, the original home of the Los Angeles Red Cars. Park Fifth was originally planned as a $1 billion double tower luxury residential high-rise condominium complex. The skyscrapers were to be part of the revitalization boom in Downtown Los Angeles. Park Fifth 1 would have been a 732 residential unit tower. Park Fifth 2 would have been the shorter tower reaching 43 stories, both connected by a 15-story residential bridge. The Park Fifth project would have also included a five-star hotel. The initial Environmental Impact Report from the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency indicated significant negative impacts on the city's pedestrian and traffic conditions, historical and aesthetic concerns, and the local water table. A more extensive Environmental Impact Report addressing these issues was drafted in February, 2008. In June 2008, the project had received entitlements and city council approval. The project would have been built by Turner Construction, who built Library Tower, at 633 West Fifth Street, which at the time was the largest building west of Chicago. The project was designed by the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). Erika Nelson, vice president of marketing for Park Fifth, revealed that construction was delayed until later in 2008 due to financing problems, delays in environmental impact reports, and entitlement processes. A slow housing market, troubled economy, and slump in downtown Los Angeles revitalization had put many new projects on hold indefinitely. October 4, 2008, David Houk said he would break ground on the project next year if he could secure funding, implying that the previous financiers had backed out. October 20, 2008 Rich Marr, project manager, stated that the project had been pushed back to the second quarter of 2009, citing the need for more capital and to finish engineering and architectural work. December 12, 2008, Namco, the main financier of the project, was facing legal action for fraud and breach of contract and would not be investing in Park Fifth. The other investor, Africa Israel Investments was expected to pull out of the project. Citing lack of funding, a poor economy, and lack of public interest, developer David Houk conceded, "We have construction financing available, but don't have anybody to sign it because we don't have partners." In June 2009, the owners put the property up for sale. In 2014, the new owner, San Francisco real estate investment firm MacFarlane Partners, announced that the Park Fifth development was going ahead with 650 units in a high-rise apartment building. See also Grand Avenue Project References External links Official site Category:Unbuilt buildings and structures in the United States Category:Proposed skyscrapers in the United States |
List of Italian telephone companies This is a list of telephone companies in Italy Acantho Aexis Albacom Alcotek Alltre Amtel ASCO Atlanet Bergamocom (only in Bergamo) Blu Brennercom (coverage only in South Tyrol, Trentino and Northern Italy) Budget Telecom Cdc 1085 ClickTel Colt Telecom Digitel EasyTel EcsNet Elemedia Elitel Energit Eurotime Communication Eutelia Fastweb FreeLine H3G Iliad Italia Infostrada Intred Leadercom LTS (coverage in Sicily) Messagenet Millecom Mobaila Momax Nodalis Noicom OlimonTel Omnitel (incorporated by Vodafone) Orobiacom Plugit Selet Telecomunicazioni Tag Comunicazioni Telecom Italia TIM Tibis Communication Tiscali Wind Tre See also List of companies of Italy List of public utilities References Italy Telephone companies, Italian * Telephone Category:Lists of telecommunications companies |
Globally hyperbolic manifold In mathematical physics, global hyperbolicity is a certain condition on the causal structure of a spacetime manifold (that is, a Lorentzian manifold). This is relevant to Einstein's theory of general relativity, and potentially to other metric gravitational theories. Definitions There are several equivalent definitions of global hyperbolicity. Let M be a smooth connected Lorentzian manifold without boundary. We make the following preliminary definitions: M is causal if it has no closed causal curves. M is non-total imprisoning if no inextendible causal curve is contained in a compact set. This property implies causality. M is strongly causal if for every point p and any neighborhood U of p there is a causally convex neighborhood V of p contained in U, where causal convexity means that any causal curve with endpoints in V is entirely contained in V. This property implies non-total imprisonment. Given any point p in M, [resp. ] is the collection of points which can be reached by a future-directed [resp. past-directed] continuous causal curve starting from p. Given a subset S of M, the domain of dependence of S is the set of all points p in M such that every inextendible causal curve through p intersects S. A subset S of M is achronal if no timelike curve intersects S more than once. A Cauchy surface for M is a closed achronal set whose domain of dependence is M. The following conditions are equivalent: The spacetime is causal, and for every pair of points p and q in M, the space of continuous future directed causal curves from p to q is compact in the topology. The spacetime has a Cauchy surface. The spacetime is causal, and for every pair of points p and q in M, the subset is compact. The spacetime is non-total imprisoning, and for every pair of points p and q in M, the subset is contained in a compact set (that is, its closure is compact). If any of these conditions are satisfied, we say M is globally hyperbolic. If M is a smooth connected Lorentzian manifold with boundary, we say it is globally hyperbolic if its interior is globally hyperbolic. Other equivalent characterizations of global hyperbolicity make use of the notion of Lorentzian distance where the supremum is taken over all the causal curves connecting the points (by convention d=0 if there is no such curve). They are A strongly causal spacetime for which is finite valued. A non-total imprisoning spacetime such that is continuous for every metric choice in the conformal class of the original metric. Remarks Global hyperbolicity, in the first form given above, was introduced by Leray in order to consider well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on the manifold. In 1970 Geroch proved the equivalence of definitions 1 and 2. Definition 3 under the assumption of strong causality and its equivalence to the first two was given by Hawking and Ellis. As mentioned, in older literature, the condition of causality in the first and third definitions of global hyperbolicity given above is replaced by the stronger condition of strong causality. In 2007, Bernal and Sánchez showed that the condition of strong causality can be replaced by causality. In particular, any globally hyperbolic manifold as defined in 3 is strongly causal. However, in definition 3 the closure of seems strong (in fact, the closures of the sets imply causal simplicity, the level of the causal hierarchy of spacetimes which stays just below global hyperbolicity) . It is possible to remedy this problem strengthening the causality condition as in definition 4 proposed by |
Minguzzi in 2009. This version clarifies that global hyperbolicity sets a compatibility condition between the causal relation and the notion of compactness: every causal diamond is contained in a compact set and every inextendible causal curve escapes compact sets. Observe that the larger the family of compact sets the easier for causal diamonds to be contained on some compact set but the harder for causal curves to escape compact sets. Thus global hyperbolicity sets a balance on the abundance of compact sets in relation to the causal structure. Since finer topologies have less compact sets we can also say that the balance is on the number of open sets given the causal relation. Definition 4 is also robust under perturbations of the metric (which in principle could introduce closed causal curves). In fact using this version it has been shown that global hyperbolicity is stable under metric perturbations. In 2003, Bernal and Sánchez showed that any globally hyperbolic manifold M has a smooth embedded three-dimensional Cauchy surface, and furthermore that any two Cauchy surfaces for M are diffeomorphic. In particular, M is diffeomorphic to the product of a Cauchy surface with . It was previously well known that any Cauchy surface of a globally hyperbolic manifold is an embedded three-dimensional submanifold, any two of which are homeomorphic, and such that the manifold splits topologically as the product of the Cauchy surface and . In particular, a globally hyperbolic manifold is foliated by Cauchy surfaces. In view of the initial value formulation for Einstein's equations, global hyperbolicity is seen to be a very natural condition in the context of general relativity, in the sense that given arbitrary initial data, there is a unique maximal globally hyperbolic solution of Einstein's equations. See also Causality conditions Causal structure Light cone References Category:General relativity Category:Mathematical methods in general relativity |
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is a virtual reality first person shooter video game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital for Microsoft Windows. It is the first VR game in the Serious Sam series. It was released on 20 September 2017 and is available for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The game was first announced on E3 in 2016. Gameplay The game is a stand-still wave shooter where you clear each stage by battling swarms of enemies. There are five planets, each consisting of 4 stages, including boss fights. During gameplay, the player is given a skill tree, to unlock special abilities and improve current stats, as well as weapons. The weapon arsenal consists of classic weapons along with specialized weapons such as bow (with regular and explosive arrows) and energy sword. The ammo can be bought in the store with credits collected during combat. Another novelty is the introduction of shields, which serve to protect the player from incoming projectiles, apart from physical dodging. The game offers several modes of play, apart from the story mode, such as arena, endless mode etc. Reception The game received positive reviews. Gaming website UploadVR gave it 8.5 out of 10 stating "Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope combines frenetic action, testosterone-laden humor and beautiful graphics into a solid VR package that kept me coming back for more punishment. It has few minor blemishes and may not have lasting power for some gamers, but ultimately it’s one of the best VR wave shooters you can play. Now where did I put that rocket launcher?". Zara Stone, writing for Forbes magazine praised its mixed reality wizard. It was included in Rock, Paper, Shotgun's list of top 22 VR games for PC. References External links Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope on Croteam's website Category:2017 video games Category:First-person shooters Category:Windows games Category:Windows-only games Category:Serious Sam Category:Video games developed in Croatia Category:Virtual reality games |
Crematogaster chlorotica Crematogaster chlorotica is a species of ant in tribe Crematogastrini. It was described by Emery in 1899. References chlorotica Category:Insects described in 1899 |
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is the oldest, and largest nonprofit visual arts membership organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and the oldest continuously exhibiting visual arts organization in America. History Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) was founded in 1910 to create opportunities for local artists to display their work and to foster an appreciation of visual art. Membership is open to any artist within a 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh and who is over 18 years of age. Admittance is based on the quality of the applicant's work, as judged by the AAP Membership committee. Screenings are held twice yearly. Past membership has included such well-known artists as Andy Warhol, Samuel Rosenberg (artist), John Kane, Mary Cassatt, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Qualters, and Rochelle Blumenfeld. Exhibitions The following is from the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's First Annual Exhibition catalog from 1910: The Associate Artists of Pittsburgh organized March 4, 1910. Exhibitions will be held annually. The society is designed to foster a love for the fine arts and a true appreciation of what Pittsburgh artists are doing. It owes the success of its first exhibition to the enthusiastic and practical co-operation of men and women in Greater Pittsburgh who are engaged in the creation of works of art, and the public spirit of Mr. Harry Davis, who volunteered the use of the Grand Opera House building as a place where the public may view the collection and become better acquainted with the talents of Pittsburgh artists. The Second Annual Exhibition was held at the Carnegie Institute [now the Carnegie Museum of Art], with an Acknowledgment printed in the Second Annual Exhibition catalog as follows: The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh desires to acknowledge its indebtedness to the Trustees of the Carnegie institute and its Director, Mr. John W. Beatty, for their courtesy in extending the use of the Galleries for this Exhibition. References External links Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (website) Category:Culture of Pittsburgh |
La La Land (Demi Lovato song) "La La Land" is a song recorded by American singer Demi Lovato. It was written by Lovato, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas and produced by the Jonas Brothers alongside John Fields, for Lovato's debut studio album, Don't Forget (2008). It was released as the album's second single on December 18, 2008, through Hollywood Records. "La La Land" is one of six songs on the album co-written by the Jonas Brothers, who also contributed backing vocals and guitars to the track. Lovato said that she wrote the song about being yourself in Hollywood and not letting other people change who you are. Musically, the song is a guitar-driven pop rock song and the lyrics speak of Lovato feeling "out of place" in Hollywood. The song was met with positive reviews from critics. Commercially, "La La Land" peaked at number fifty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number thirty-five on the UK Singles Chart. The song achieved its highest peak in Ireland, where it reached number thirty on the Irish Singles Chart. It was less successful in Australia and Germany, where it peaked in the lower half of the charts. The song was used to promote Lovato's Disney Channel sitcom Sonny with a Chance and its music video features appearances from her co-stars. Background and release "La La Land" is one of six songs on Lovato's debut album Don't Forget (2008) that she co-wrote with the Jonas Brothers. Lovato said that it was "important" to have them on her album, because "I mean, just look at how successful they are. I would love to have their input anytime, because they're obviously doing something right." The band also contributed backing vocals and played the guitar to the song. It was produced by the Jonas Brothers and John Fields, with the latter also playing the bass, guitars and keyboards. The song also features Devin Bronson, who provided a guitar solo, and Dorian Crozier, who played the drums. In an interview, Lovato explained that the song is about being yourself when you are surrounded by "the pressures of fame". She said, "You get to Hollywood and a lot of times people can try to shape you and mould you into what they want you to be. The song is just about keeping it real and trying to stay yourself when you're out in Hollywood." "La La Land" was released as the album's second single on December 18, 2008. It was later released in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2009, with the new song "Behind Enemy Lines". A CD single was released on June 1, 2009, with a recorded live version of the Camp Rock song "This Is Me" from Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. Composition "La La Land" is a guitar-driven pop rock song. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is composed in the time signature of common time with a moderate beat rate of 84 beats per minute. It is written in the key of A major and Lovato's vocal range spans from the low-note of F3 to the high-note of E5. It has a basic sequence of Fm–D–E as its chord progression. Lyrically, "La La Land" is about Lovato feeling "out of place" in Hollywood, demonstrated in lines such as, "Who said I can't wear my Converse with my dress?", and "I'm not a supermodel, I still eat McDonald's." Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic compared the track's theme to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A.", and the guitars present in the song to works |
by English punk rock band The Clash. Music video "La La Land" was directed by Brendan Malloy and Tim Wheeler. It was used to promote Lovato's then-upcoming Disney Channel sitcom, Sonny with a Chance. In an interview with MTV News, Lovato said that it "really describes the show. I'm excited about that." Speaking of the video, co-director Malloy said, "The idea for the video is to create this hyperreal world, that's the word we keep using, La La Land. Fame has definitely gotten to everybody's head. It's more like [Lovato] is the only one in this world that fame hasn't gotten to." According to Lovato, her Sonny with a Chance co-stars play "stereotypical Hollywood Los Angeles [...] big type of people." The video premiered on December 19, 2008 on Disney Channel. It was released to the iTunes Store on January 20, 2009. For the video, the lyric "I still eat McDonald's" was changed to "I still eat at Ronald's". Jefferson Reid of E! Online praised the video, writing, "Mocking Hollywood phonies is always cool by us, and bonus points to Demi Lovato for doing it while rocking out in admirable form. Skewering the "La La Land" machine with sass and grit, Disney's latest everygirl rock star seems like she might eventually give Miley Cyrus a real run for her money." The video features appearances from Lovato's Sonny with a Chance co-stars Allisyn Ashley Arm, Doug Brochu, Sterling Knight, Michael Kostroff, Brandon Mychal Smith and Tiffany Thornton, as well as Lovato's older sister Dallas Lovato. The video begins with Lovato being interviewed on a talk show called Rumor Has It with Benny Beverly (Brochu). After introducing her to the audience, Beverly asks Lovato what it is like to be a star. A video is then shown to the audience, which serves as the main portion of the clip. In Hollywood, Lovato walks past a "Be-seen section," and bumps into a stranger on the street, which a paparazzo (Knight) takes a picture of. A woman then reads a tabloid magazine with Lovato and the "mystery man" on the cover. The video then cuts to Lovato and the Sonny with a Chance cast at a red carpet event, with paparazzi taking pictures of Lovato wearing Converse sneakers with a dress. Lovato is then shown on the set of a commercial for her perfume, in a pink wig with makeup being applied to her. She is uncomfortable and eventually refuses to cooperate, which angers the director (Smith). The video then cuts back to Rumor Has It with applause from the audience and ends with Beverly praising Lovato. Live performances Lovato performed "Get Back" and "La La Land" at the Kids' Inaugural: "We Are the Future" event on January 19, 2009, in Washington D.C. at the Verizon Center. The event was held to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. On April 7, 2009, Lovato performed "La La Land" on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars. During the performance, Benji Schwimmer and Tori Smith danced along. Barrett wrote that "the frantic nature of both song and dance complemented each other quite nicely." On April 25, 2009, Lovato performed the song on the final episode of singing competition My Camp Rock (UK), where she also presented the award to the winner, Holly Hull. During the summer of 2008, Lovato performed the song in both of her Warm Up Tour and the Jonas Brothers' Burnin' Up Tour, for the latter she served as the opening act. Later in 2009, the song was performed during the Summer Tour 2009. In 2010, |
she performed the song during her South American tour. Lovato also performed the song during her set at the Jonas Brothers Live in Concert World Tour 2010. Scott Mervis of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that Lovato performed a "high-energy, high-volume" version of the song. In September 2011, Lovato performed the song during the revue concert An Evening with Demi Lovato as part of a medley with "Get Back" and "Here We Go Again". Critical reception Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music wrote a positive review of the song and rated it four out of five stars. He wrote, "So, essentially doing a song like this is rocky ground, but the good news is that Demi generally comes across as the kind of bright, scrappy, girl-next-door type, so it doesn't sound quite so preposterous when she insists that she's still quite normal, really." McAlpine concluded his review, writing, "You can almost hear the paparazzi cameras going off as she's singing. [...] Of course, the only thing she has to worry about now is that having made this very public declaration, if she slips up for a second, we'll all be watching..." Judy Coleman of The Boston Globe said that Lovato shows "her Gen-Y stripes", and "forcibly rhymes 'everything's the same' with 'the La-La land machine' – pronounced, of course,' ma-SHAYN'." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic noted it as one of the best tracks on Don't Forget. Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic included "La La Land" at number eight on his "Top 10 from the Disney girls" list, and wrote, "Are Disney girls just naturally plagued by insecurity or is it all a plot to seem more real? Like Miley's "Party in U.S.A.," this song is all about how out of place Lovato feels in La La Land." Chart performance On January 10, 2009, "La La Land" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 83. The following week, it rose to number 56. The same week, it debuted on the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 42. On January 31, 2009, "La La Land" reached its peak of number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 27 on Hot Digital Songs. To date, it has sold 935,000 digital copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In the UK, on the UK Singles Chart, the song debuted at number 63 on May 2, 2009. The following week, it reached its peak of 35, and spent a total of seven weeks on the chart. In Ireland, it debuted at number 30, which became its peak. In Germany, the song debuted at number 82 and spent only one week on the chart. In Australia, it reached its peak of number 76 on May 11, 2009. Track listings and formats US/Europe CD single "La La Land" – 3:16 "This Is Me" (Live with Jonas Brothers) – 3:22 Digital download "La La Land" – 3:16 "Behind Enemy Lines" – 2:49 Digital EP "La La Land" – 3:16 "La La Land" (Wideboys Radio Mix) – 3:13 "La La Land" (Wideboys Club Mix) – 6:09 Credits and personnel Recording and management Recorded at Wishbone Studio Mixed at Mix LA Mastered at Sterling Sound Seven Peaks Music obo Itself and Demi Lovato Publishing (ASCAP); Jonas Brothers Publishing LLC (BMI)/Sony/ATV Songs LLC administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Personnel Demi Lovato – vocals, songwriting Nick Jonas – songwriting, guitars, background vocals Joe Jonas – songwriting, background vocals Kevin Jonas II – songwriting, guitars, background vocals Dorian Crozier – drums John Fields – bass, guitars, keyboards, programming, production, recording Devin Bronson – guitar solo |
John Taylor – guitars, background vocals Jonas Brothers – production Chris Lord-Alge – mixing Nik Karpin – assistant Ted Jensen – mastering Credits adapted from Don’t Forget liner notes. Charts Sales References External links Category:2009 singles Category:Demi Lovato songs Category:Songs written by Joe Jonas Category:Songs written by Nick Jonas Category:Songs written by Kevin Jonas Category:Songs written by Demi Lovato Category:Hollywood Records singles Category:Music videos directed by The Malloys Category:2008 songs Category:Song recordings produced by John Fields (record producer) Category:Songs about Los Angeles |
Policy sociology This is a term coined by Michael Burawoy as a way of providing solutions to social problems. Goals are usually defined by a client, which could be the government. Policy sociology provides instrumental knowledge, that is, knowledge that can be used to solve or help a specific case in the social world. According to Burawoy, the information gathered from policy sociology is open to an extra-academic audience. It is not confined to academic boundaries. The findings of policy sociology research are likely to have an effect on the general public as they could influence government policy. In recent year, policy sociology has been a popular research methodology for analysing educational policies. Sometimes it is also called critical policy sociology. References Category:Sociological terminology |
Silverfish Bay Silverfish Bay () is a roughly triangular body of water that lies within Terra Nova Bay along the Scott Coast of Victoria Land. Its outline may be defined by a line that connects the tip of the Campbell Glacier Tongue, Shield Nunatak, Oscar Point, and then returns to the Campbell Glacier Tongue. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 2006 because of an abundance of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) eggs in the bay. References Category:Scott Coast Category:Bays of Victoria Land |
Florencia, Cuba Florencia () is a municipality and town in the Ciego de Ávila Province of Cuba. It is located in the western part of the province, south of Chambas. This municipality merged in 1976 as result of the new political and administrative division of Cuba. Florencia was formerly the barrios of Guadalupe, Tamarindo and Marroquí which were separated from the municipality of Morón. Overview The municipality is a mountain region with rivers, forest and caves with subterranean rivers. A huge hydraulic complex was constructed under Fidel's government in 1991 named "Liberación de Florencia" ("Florencia Independence") since the Florencia area was the first quarter taken by local revolutionary forces in the province of Camagüey on December 14, 1958. This hydraulic complex is located in the fertile valleys of Florencia and Tamarindo and it reinforces the beauty of this Cuban area. Unlike other municipalities in this province, Florencia is the only one where its economy is basically tobacco. Florencia is also the seat of the municipal government and the biggest city with around 7,000 people. Other towns are Tamarindo, Las Pojas, Lowrey, Guadalupe and Marroquí. History In 1920's the Norte de Cuba railroad opened between the cities of Santa Clara and Puerto Tarafa in Nuevitas (Camagüey). The origin of Florencia was the construction of a railroad station to provide access to its Guadalupe neighbors in 1926. Guadalupe is the oldest town in this region. This train station was built on a farm known as El Merino (on a site called Ojo de Agua (eye of water)). The railroad was crucial for this region, it actually was the first means of communication and transport that linked these lost valleys with the rest of country. In the 1920s the roads were almost nonexistent and people lived in complete isolation. The only method of communication and transport was by arreas (mules). With the arrival of the railroad, the farmers became wealthier and as a result many merchants and businessmen moved their companies to be near the new station. Real estate companies and the local owners of the farms started to develop what is now this enchanting town. First the railroad station and then the new town itself was named Florencia. The name was suggested by one of the neighbors who said that the mountain view reminded her of the mountains near Florence in Italy. The fast increase of its population was in part due to the Sansó & Cia, which opened a big food industry in the town in the 1940s and also as a result of the construction of dams on the Chambas river. When the water of the dams flooded the Florencia and Tamarindo valleys in the 1990s, many of the affected farmers and their families moved to Florencia. Florencia grew quickly, and it has since become the most important cultural and economical centre with the best communications facilities in the area. Before 1976, Florencia was part of the municipality of Morón, which was divided into six new municipalities of the new province of Ciego de Avila. A new identity was created for people after Florencia became a new municipality: Florencianos (Florencians). Geography This territory is located in the Northwest Ciego de Ávila Province of Cuba. The Chambas River and its confluents flow South to North across the Florencia, Guadalupe and Tamarindo valleys. The Liberation of Florencia Dams, in this river, cover a great areas of those valleys. The valleys are surrounded by hills which are part of the Central Cordillera (one of the three Mountain Systems of the Island). Those high grounds separate the municipality from the other part of the |
province which is almost flat and with different geographical features. To the Northwest the North Jatibonico River merges into Jatibonico Sierra forming a system of caves with a singular beauty at a rich forest and fauna area known as Boqueron. Boqueron is a National Natural Reserve with a camping area and is the location of the Florencia Hipic Center. Between Boqueron and Florencia Valley is El Merino Hill, which is the highest peak of the Jatibonico Sierra with 396.6 m over sea level. The hill is visible from every point of the town. Social, Economic and Cultural Life The main economical activity is agriculture with tobacco grown as the major plant. Other important areas include the refinement of conserved food, growth of vegetables and fruit, and livestock production. The culture tradition of this municipality has its origin fundamentally in the country sector. This sector includes a large ethnic diversity formed mainly by the Canarian Migration from the late 19th century and early 20th century. The major artistic manifestation which more representativity has reached in Florencian lands during its history has been La Décima (literary composition to be sung written in 10 syllables). In Florencia, in 1968 the Primer Taller Literario Decimista de Cuba' was founded' (First Decimista Literary symposium of Cuba)instituted by humble country men. People are proud of their traditions and popular celebrations. The most important events are spending entire Saturday nights in parrandas güajiras (Cuban country music parties), celebration of 14 de Diciembre, los Pinos (pine tree), memorials to Isabel Victoria (the first teacher and the greatest contributor to public works in Florencia town) and Lucas Buchillon (the regional poet). At other times, the election of La Flor de Virama (the tobacco flower) (similar to a Miss Florencia contest) and the Carnaval Star are some of the most exciting activities. In Tamarindo the celebration of January'28 is important. All of these festivities are celebrated as street parties, very common in Cuba. There are many cultural institutions such as the Florencia Municipal Museum, which has a rich collection of objects of Cuban Natives recovered from different areas of the Chambas River shores, Casa de la Cultura (cultural house), and Municipal Library. Boqueron a National Natural Reserve is 4 km west of Florencia city and it is a local, national and international touristic destination. This natural reserve has caves, rivers, and a rich forest and animal life. The "Hipic Center of Florencia" located at Boqueron area, together with fishing at the "Liberación" Dam are the most important tourist attractions. Demographics In 2004, the municipality of Florencia had a population of 19,811. With a total area of , it has a population density of . Now, Florencia has a negative average population growth, it was -4.59 in 2004. The municipality population decreased from 19,856 in 2002 to 19,765 in 2004. This is controversial in Ciego de Avila where the province has one of the highest average population growths in the nation. Notable people Omar Carrero is one of the most important pitchers in the history of the Cuban Beisbol Team and the most valuable player of 1976, on the list of most valuable players ( or ) in the Cuban National Series. He was born and grew up in the village known as Lowrey, where his family and relatives live today. Jaime Sarusky is a narrator and journalist. In 2004, he was the National Literary Award winner. Most notable amongst his works is The Ghost Of Omaja'' (1986) See also Municipalities of Cuba List of cities in Cuba References External links Category:Populated places in Ciego de Ávila Province |
Progressive People's Party (Ghana) Progressive People's Party (PPP) () is a political party in Ghana. It was formed in 2012 by Paa Kwesi Nduom, the presidential candidate for the Convention People's Party in the 2008 general election. PPP pulled 64,267 popular votes in the 2012 general elections with Papa Kwesi Nduom as a flagbearer and Brigitte Dzogbenuku as the running mate, making it the third largest party and the second largest opposition party in Ghana. The party's National Head Office Building is located in Asylum Down, Accra. The motto of the party is "Prosperity in Peace" with "Awake" as the slogan. History The party's formation was followed by a declaration on 28 December 2011 by Nduom for progressive and independent-minded people to come together and form an alternative political movement. The interim leadership of the progressive movement began a nationwide campaign to recruit members to form Interim Regional and Constituency Executives. The team visited all ten regions of Ghana. In January 2012, the party submitted an application to the Electoral Commission for registration in accordance with the Political Parties Act. The party received its provisional certificate on Friday, February 3, 2012. The party went to the first National Convention on February 25, 2012 which was held at the Accra Sports Stadium. The Final Certificate was received on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Claims PPP seeks power to implement an agenda for change built on Stewardship, Education, Healthcare and Jobs. PPP plans to implement the agenda using the spirit of inclusiveness, and full participation of women and youth. Most importantly, PPP has stated that it will maintain an incorruptible leadership. Structure The Party elected officers in two-thirds of the districts in Ghana as well as Regional Executives. Elected National Officers of the party include: Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, Chairperson; William Doworkpor, First Vice Chairperson; Ban Saliah, Second Vice Chairperson; Belinda Bulley, Third Vice Chairperson, Murtala Ahmed Mohammad, National Secretary; Felix William Ogwah, National Treasurer; Nana Ofori Owusu, Director of Operations; Vivian Tetteh, Women Coordinator; Divine Nkrumah, Youth Coordinator; Kofi Asamoah Siaw, Policy Adviser; Deroy Kwesi Andrew, Director of Research; Richard Nii Amarh, Executive Director and Paa Kow Ackon, Director of Communication. References Category:2012 establishments in Ghana Category:Political parties established in 2012 Category:Political parties in Ghana Category:Liberal parties in Africa |
City of South Barwon The City of South Barwon was a local government area in Victoria, Australia, which contained a number of Geelong suburbs south of the Barwon River, and extending to Torquay in the south and Barwon Heads to the east. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994. History South Barwon was formed as a road district, when it was severed from the Corporation of Geelong on 2 June 1857. It then covered and 600 households. It was incorporated as a borough on 21 October 1863, and became a town on 24 December 1874, when it was amalgamated with the Connewarre Road District, and now covered and 1714 people. It was proclaimed as a city on 6 December 1974. The first council offices were on Mount Pleasant Road, in Belmont, which opened in 1884 at a cost of 1400 pounds. New chambers were built in 1970, and in 1974 plans were made for a new Civic Centre, on the corner of the Princes Highway and Reynolds Road, Belmont. Plans were approved in 1976, a tender was accepted and the first sod turned in August 1977, and on May 24, 1978 it was officially opened. The Mount Pleasant Road offices became a community centre. After amalgamation, the Civic Centre was used by the City of Greater Geelong as offices, before being sold to Barwon Health. On 18 May 1993, significant proportions of its land area was annexed to the newly created City of Greater Geelong, despite concerns expressed by the coastal town of Torquay that it was a separate community of interest from Geelong. The Shire of Barrabool, which had been significantly reduced by the creation of Greater Geelong and had lost much of its rates base, joined Torquay residents in suggesting the Kennett Liberal government create a coastal shire, which united Torquay and Anglesea. On 9 March 1994, the City of South Barwon was abolished, and, along with the remainder of the Shire of Barrabool and parts of the Shire of Winchelsea, was merged into the newly-created Surf Coast Shire, which established its administrative centre at Torquay. Wards The City of South Barwon was divided into four wards on 19 May 1978, each of which elected three councillors: Belmont Ward Connewarre Ward Grovedale Ward Highton Ward Towns and localities Barwon Heads Belmont Breamlea Connewarre Grovedale Highton Marshall Mount Duneed (shared with the Shire of Barrabool) Torquay (shared with the Shire of Barrabool) Armstrong Creek Population * Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book. References South Barwon City |
Kusaj Khalil Kusaj Khalil (, also Romanized as Kūsaj Khalīl, Koosej Khalil, and Kūsaj-e Khalīl; also known as Kūseh Khalīl, Kūseh-ye Khalīl, and Kūsh Khalīl) is a village in Almahdi Rural District, Jowkar District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 332, in 75 families. References Category:Populated places in Malayer County |
Donny Lucy Donald Hassett Lucy (born August 8, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. During his career, he appeared on three brief stints with the Chicago White Sox. High School and College Donny attended Fallbrook Union High School in San Diego, California. He was named the 2001 San Diego County Male Athlete of the Year. He was a catcher and an infielder in baseball and was a running back and a linebacker in football. After graduating from high school, he attended Stanford University. In 2002 and 2003, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In his junior year, he was All-Pac-10 when he hit .313 with 12 home runs and 47 RBIs in 56 games. After his junior year, he was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round (59th overall) in the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. Professional career He began his professional career for the White Sox with the White Sox Rookie League in 2004. He hit .239 in 50 games at the rookie level. In , he played for the Single-A Kannapolis Intimidators. In , he began playing for the High Single-A Winston-Salem Warthogs. After 97 games in which he hit .262, he was promoted to the Double-A Birmingham Barons on August 13. He played in 18 games at the Double-A level in which he batted .283. Donny played at the Double-A and Triple-A level in 2007. He was promoted to the majors on September 1, when rosters expanded. On September 5, 2007, Lucy made his major league debut when he started behind the plate. He got his first major league hit, which was a single, off Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers. Lucy made the White Sox opening day roster for the 2010 season after backup catcher Ramón Castro bruised his heel in a spring training game and was placed on the DL. Lucy hit his first home run, a solo shot, on April 15, 2010 off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Dana Eveland. It was also his first run batted in. On May 3, 2010 Donny was optioned to the White Sox Triple-A team, Charlotte Knights, due to Ramon Castro being activated from the 15-day disabled list. On November 5, 2010, Donny was granted free agency. During the 2010-2011 offseason, Lucy signed a minor league contract with the White Sox. On August 16, 2011, Donny was called back up to the White Sox. On December 16, Donny Lucy announced his retirement from Major League Baseball. References External links Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Baseball players from California Category:Chicago White Sox players Category:Major League Baseball catchers Category:Great Falls White Sox players Category:Kannapolis Intimidators players Category:Winston-Salem Warthogs players Category:Birmingham Barons players Category:Charlotte Knights players Category:Stanford Cardinal baseball players Category:Hyannis Harbor Hawks players Category:Sportspeople from Escondido, California |
Jersey Shore Historic District The Jersey Shore Historic District is a national historic district located in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 286 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Jersey Shore. Most were built during the period 1830 to 1860, and are representative of Victorian, Greek Revival, and Federal style architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. History The Borough of Jersey Shore had its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary War days, according to newspaper accounts of the town's history. Dean R. Wagner, who prepared the form which helped secure the Jersey Shore Historic District's placement on the National Register of Historic Places, the present day Borough of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania confirmed in 1975 that the town is located on lands which were part of initial land grants made to 17th and 18th-century settlers along the western branch of the Susquehanna River, roughly 15 miles south of what is, today, the city of Williamsport in Lycoming County. Those land grants, from north to south, were: Forrest Situate, Richmond Situate, Richland Situate, and Forge Hammer. A portion of Forrest Situate was then subsequently purchased by Jeremiah and Reuben Manning who, sometime around the year 1800, had left the shore of New Jersey where they were residing to relocate to Pennsylvania. After purchasing their land, they then laid out a town north of what is, today, Allegheny Street, and initially named their new town Waynesburg. That year, there were just four houses inside the town's boundaries, but the town was ripe for expansion because there were multiple businesses located outside of town, including lumber and flour mills. Twelve years later, William B. Smith purchased land south of what is now Allegheny Street, and laid out a new section of town there in 1813. Initially reachable by wagon and stagecoach, the town became even more accessible when it became a stop on the West Branch Canal in 1834. Further growth was impeded during the mid-1800s, however, when planners chose to build the incoming railroad on the other side of the river, rather than closer to or through the town. The name of the town was officially changed to Jersey Shore in 1826. This historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Notable architecture Notable buildings include: Abraham Lawshe House (), which was the home of the owner of Jersey Shore's largest tannery Gallagher-Webb House () Mark Slonaker House (), which was the home of one of the men who collaborated on the construction of a pig iron furnace on the Upper Pine Bottom Run in 1814 Stone-Nice House () Bailey-Allen House () Sanderson-Sebring House () Samuel Humes Building (1852), which was named in honor of a member of the board of directors of both the Jersey Shore National Bank and the Lewisburg Turnpike and Bridge Company Moran-Trump House (1855) West Branch Dormitory Building (1856) McHenry-Cline House (). References Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Federal architecture in Pennsylvania Category:Greek Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Category:Historic districts in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania |
Williams, Modoc County, California Williams is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4426 feet (1349 m). References Category:Unincorporated communities in California Category:Unincorporated communities in Modoc County, California |
1999–2000 Sacramento Kings season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the Kings' 51st season in the National Basketball Association, and 15th season in Sacramento. During the offseason, the Kings acquired Nick Anderson from the Orlando Magic, and signed free agent Tony Delk. For the season opener, the Kings traveled to Tokyo, Japan to play their first two games against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Coming off a winning record in a strike shortened season was much expected of the Kings, who got off to a fast start winning nine of their first ten games. However, they lost seven of their final eight games, finishing fifth in the Pacific Division with a 44–38 record. Superstar forward Chris Webber led the way with 24.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game, and was selected for the 2000 NBA All-Star Game. In the Western Conference Quarterfinals, they would lose in five games to the Los Angeles Lakers. Following the season, Corliss Williamson was traded to the Toronto Raptors, and Delk signed as a free agent with the Phoenix Suns. Draft picks Roster Roster Notes Center Jerome James missed the entire season due to a knee injury. Regular season Season standings z – clinched division title y – clinched division title x – clinched playoff spot Record vs. opponents Game log Playoffs Western First Round (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Sacramento Kings Last Playoff Meeting: 1984 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 3-0; Kings were in Kansas City, Missouri) Player statistics Season Playoffs Awards and records Chris Webber, All-NBA Third Team Transactions References Category:Sacramento Kings seasons Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento |
Rambhotlapalem Rambhotlapalem is a village in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the located in Cherukupalle mandal of Tenali revenue division. Piped Water Supply scheme under ARWSP, provides water to the residents. Geography Rambhotlapalem is situated to the southwest of the mandal headquarters, Arumbaka, at . It is spread over an area of . Demographics The village is home to 6,015 people with 1,628 households. The population consists of 2% schedule castes and 3% schedule tribes. It has unhealthy sex ratio of 898 females per 1000 male in the village. The sex ratio of this village decreased drastically by 190 points between 2001-11 particularly alarmingly among SC households. Government and politics Rambhotlapalem gram panchayat is the local self-government of the village. It is divided into wards and each ward is represented by a ward member. Education As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has a total of 6 Zilla/Mandal Parishad schools. See also List of villages in Guntur district References Category:Villages in Guntur district |
Nouaillé-Maupertuis Nouaillé-Maupertuis is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. See also Communes of the Vienne department References INSEE Category:Communes of Vienne |
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