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Adam Parfitt (born 22 April 1974) is a Canadian rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. References External links 1974 births Living people Canadian male rowers Olympic rowers for Canada Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Rowers from Victoria, British Columbia Pan American Games medalists in rowing Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Rowers at the 1995 Pan American Games
Veerakkalpudur is a panchayat town in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Demographics India census, Veerakkalpudur had a population of 16,665. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Veerakkalpudur has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 71%. In Veerakkalpudur, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age. References Cities and towns in Salem district
Curtis Lanneal Hollingsworth (December 18, 1916 – May 30, 1988) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Hollingsworth played for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1946 and 1947. He died in Birmingham, Alabama in 1988 at age 71. References External links and Seamheads 1916 births 1988 deaths Birmingham Black Barons players
35 Arietis (abbreviated 35 Ari) is a binary star in the northern constellation of Aries. 35 Arietis is the Flamsteed designation. It is approximately distant from the Earth, based upon an annual parallax shift of 9.51 mas. This star is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.64. This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system, with the presence of a companion being demonstrated by shifts in the spectrum of the primary component. The pair orbit each other with a period of 490.0 days and an eccentricity of 0.14. The primary is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B3 V. With a mass around 5.7 times that of the Sun, it is radiating 870 times the Sun's luminosity. This energy is being emitted from the outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 17,520 K, causing it to shine with the blue-white hue of a B-type star. This star was formerly located in the obsolete constellation Musca Borealis. References External links Image 35 Arietis Aries (constellation) B-type main-sequence stars Arietis, 35 Spectroscopic binaries Durchmusterung objects 0801 012719 016908
The Carnegie Building, also known as the Carnegie Steel Building, was a high-rise building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. History The structure started construction in 1893 and was completed in 1895 as the city's tallest at the time. It was the first steel-framed skyscraper in Pittsburgh upon completion. The building served as the world headquarters of Carnegie Steel Company, a steel producing company of the late 19th century created by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to manage steel mills in the city, and later to become U.S. Steel. The building was a Downtown Pittsburgh landmark and was located at 428-438 Fifth Avenue. It was torn down in 1952 for an expansion of Kaufmann's flagship store. Height and design The Carnegie Building was an early example of Chicago school architecture in Pittsburgh, and was designed by the architectural firm Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. It rose 13 floors in height, and stood as the first steel-framed skyscraper in Pittsburgh and one of the first steel-cage structured buildings in the world. See also List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh References 1895 establishments in Pennsylvania 1952 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Skyscraper office buildings in Pittsburgh Demolished buildings and structures in Pittsburgh Commercial buildings completed in 1895 Headquarters in the United States Chicago school architecture in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures demolished in 1952
Cororthosia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Hadeninae
This article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2007. International modern pentathlon events May 13 – 20: 2007 CISM Modern Pentathlon Championships in Rio de Janeiro Individual winners: Sandris Sika (m) / Yane Marques (f) July 23 & 24: 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro Individual winners: Eli Bremer (m) / Yane Marques (f) World modern pentathlon events August 14 – 22: 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Berlin Individual winners: Viktor Horváth (m) / Amélie Cazé (f) Men's Team Relay winners: (Eric Walther, Sebastian Dietz, & Steffen Gebhardt) Women's Team Relay winners: (Mhairi Spence, Lindsey Weedon, & Katy Livingston) August 27 – September 2: 2007 World Youth "A" and Combined Modern Pentathlon Championships in Pretoria Youth Individual winners: Yasser Hefny (m) / Krisztina Cseh (f) Youth Men's Team Relay winners: (Mikalai Hayanouski, Raman Pinchuk, & Artsiom Romankov) Youth Women's Team Relay winners: (Rachael Maume, Kate French, & Freyja Prentice) Youth Combined winners: Maxim Sherstyuk (m) / Anais Eudes (f) September 25 – 30: 2007 World Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships in Caldas da Rainha Junior Individual winners: Ondřej Polívka (m) / Adrienn Tóth (f) Junior Men's Team Relay winners: (Pier Paolo Petroni, Riccardo De Luca, & Federico Giancamilli) Continental modern pentathlon events February 22 – 25: 2007 African Modern Pentathlon Championships in Cairo Individual winners: Amro El Geziry (m) / Aya Medany (f) March 8 – 11: 2007 NORCECA Modern Pentathlon Championships in Havana Individual winners: Sergio Escalante (m) / Larissa Lellys (f) May 10 – 13: 2007 Asian & Oceania Modern Pentathlon Championships in Tokyo Individual winners: Lee Choon-huan (m) / Dong Le'an (f) June 6 – 13: 2007 European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Riga Individual winners: Viktor Horváth (m) / Evdokia Gretchichnikova (f) Team Relay winners: Aleksei Turkin (m) / Heather Fell (f) July 3 – 8: 2007 European Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships in Budapest Junior Individual winners: Róbert Kasza (m) / Adrienn Tóth (f) Junior Men's Team Relay winners: (Szymon Staśkiewicz, Bartosz Majewski, & Michal Kacer) Junior Women's Team Relay winners: (Adrienn Tóth, Krisztina Cseh, & Leila Gyenesei) July 4 – 9: 2007 European Youth "B" Modern Pentathlon Championships in Las Palmas Youth Individual winners: Zaramuk Shabatokov (m) / Sarolta Kovács (f) July 12 – 15: 2007 European Youth "A" & Combined Modern Pentathlon Championships in Vilnius Youth Individual winners: Maxim Sherstyuk (m) / Adrienn Tóth (f) Youth Men's Team Relay winner: Bence Demeter Youth Women's Team Relay winners: (Sarolta Kovács, Adrienn Tóth, & Krisztina Cseh) Youth Combined winners: Mikalai Hayanouski (m) / Ronja Steinborn (f) November 22 – 26: 2007 South American Senior & Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships in Rio de Janeiro Senior/Junior Individual winners: Tzanko Hantov (m) / Margaux Isaksen (f) 2007 Modern Pentathlon World Cup March 2 – 5: MPWC #1 in Mexico City Individual winners: Marcin Horbacz (m) / Edita Maloszyc (f) March 22 – 25: MPWC #2 in Cairo Individual winners: Eric Walther (m) / Tatiana Mouratova (f) April 12 – 15: MPWC #3 in Millfield Individual winners: Gábor Balogh (m) / Georgina Harland (f) May 10 – 13: MPWC #4 for Men in Budapest Individual winner: Andrey Moiseyev May 10 – 13: MPWC #4 for Women in Moscow Individual winner: Tatiana Mouratova May 24 – 27: MPWC #5 for Men in Drzonków Individual winner: Libor Capalini May 24 – 27: MPWC #5 for Women in Székesfehérvár Individual winner: Zsuzsanna Vörös Women's Team Relay winners: (Lada Jiyenbalanova, Alena Abrossimova, & Arina Jienbalanova) June 24 – 30: MPWC #6 in Rome Individual winners: Libor Capalini (m) / Anastasiya Prokopenko (f) September 15 & 16: MPWC #7 (final) in Beijing Individual winners: Edvinas Krungolcas (m) / Aya Medany (f) References External links Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne Website (UIPM) Modern pentathlon 2007 in sports
Independence is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 140 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Independence was established in 1835 on in Stephen F. Austin's colony by J. G. W. Pierson, Robert Stevenson, Colbert Baker, and Amasa F. Burchard. This land was a portion of a land concession made by the Mexican government to Thomas S. Saul, who then gave it to Pierson and Baker. The community flourished and developed into an important center for education and religion in the Republic of Texas. The Independence Baptist Church was founded in 1839 by elders Thomas W. Cox and Thomas Spraggins. Cox served as the church's first pastor. The second-oldest church connected to the Baptist General Convention of Texas was still a thriving congregation in the 1990s. In 1854, the church in which Sam Houston belonged baptized him in Little Rocky Creek, located two miles southeast of the community. In Independence, a post office was founded in 1846. The town also had a jail, a Masonic lodge, a cemetery, a hotel, a stagecoach depot, and a minor business center by the 1850s. Independence was formed in 1852, and T. T. Clay served as its first mayor. Despite their desire to assist Independence, the Baylor officials and city fathers refused to provide the Santa Fe train the right of way. Most of the local railway lines had bypassed Independence by the 1880s, and a large portion of trade was moving to rival towns. 200 people were living there in 1966, and the post office was no longer in operation. Independence had 140 residents in 1990 and was a small rural community. In 2000, that number stayed the same. The Independence Baptist Church, the Texas Baptist Historical Center, Judge Coles' house, and Baylor College Park were just a few of the many historical sites there. Other noteworthy locations include the Old Independence Cemetery, which has the burial places of Judge Coles, Sam Houston Jr., Moses Austin Bryan, T. T. Clay, and other notable Texans, as well as the Margaret Houston House and Houston-Lea Family Cemetery, which contains the graves of Margaret Lea Houston and her mother. Its population was reported as 140 in 2010. Milam Lodge No. 11, of the Grand Lodge of Texas, was located in the community. Seward Plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A tornado hit Independence in December 1983. On May 26, 2016, an EF0 tornado struck Independence, in which numerous trees were downed in a convergent pattern. In the 1838 Republic of Texas presidential election, Mirabeau B. Lamar claimed that he had moved to Texas in 1835 to become a citizen and purchased land rights from the community's land surveyor from which he could produce a receipt as evidence. Geography Independence is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 390 and 50, northeast of Brenham and west of Houston in northeastern Washington County. Education The Union Baptist Association obtained a charter to construct a university through the Texas Baptist Educational Society in 1845. Several cities submitted bids, but Independence—at the time Texas' richest community—won the right to keep the institution. With 24 students, Baylor University opened its doors as a coeducational institution in Independence in 1846. The school was split into male and female sections in 1851, and in 1866 it was given the official names Baylor Female College and Baylor University. Due to transportation issues, officials moved Baylor Female College (now the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor) and Baylor University to Belton and Waco in 1885. This decision signaled the start of Independence's century-long decline. Today, the community is served by the Brenham Independent School District. Notable people George Washington Baines Jerome B. Robertson William Bizzell Sam Houston Jr. Lawrence Sullivan Ross, 19th Governor of Texas, attended Baylor University. Andrew Jackson Houston, son of Sam and Margaret Lea Houston and politician. George W. Littlefield, Confederate Army soldier, attended Baylor University. Thomas Chilton, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, co-founded Baylor University. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor is buried in the community's cemetery. Martin Varner, Old Three Hundred member William Carey Crane, Baptist minister who preached at Independence Baptist Church from 1864-1867 and 1869-1884. Hosea Garrett, clergyman and philanthropist, who served as President Pro tempore at Baylor. Henry Arthur McArdle, painter Hugh Wilson, Presbyterian minister, who served as an administrator at Independence Female College. Royall T. Wheeler, judge who became Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Edward Taylor, brother of Horace D. Taylor, built a store in Independence in 1838. Nancy Moffette Lea, mother of Margaret Lea Houston, moved here in 1852. Antoinette Power Houston Bringhurst, the fifth child of Houston and Lea, got her education at Baylor Female College. George Wythe Baylor, Confederate soldier. Henry Weidner Baylor, physician and Texas Ranger. In popular culture American western TV series Walker: Independence takes place in Independence. Gallery References Further reading B. D. Augustin, "Independence: The Athens of Early Texas," Texas Highways, March 1984. T. Lindsay Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Lois Smith Murray, Baylor at Independence, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1972. Gracey Booker Toland, Austin Knew His Athens, San Antonio, TX: Naylor, 1958. See also Texas State Highway 211 The Texas Collection Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Populated places established in 1835
"Can't Stop Dancin" is a song by American singer Becky G. An accompanying music video was released onto Gomez's official Vevo account on December 3, 2014. A remix featuring Colombian singer J Balvin was released on March 3, 2015. Background and release "Can't Stop Dancin'" was released for retail via digital distribution, on November 4, 2014. The lyric video for the song was also uploaded to YouTube and VEVO, on the same day of its release, with cameo appearance by American singer Katy Perry. Composition "Can't Stop Dancin'" is written in the key of G minor and rides a moderate half-time groove of 100 beats per minute. While the melody follows the sequence Gm - E♭ - B♭ as its chord progression, Gomez's vocals span from the low tone of F3 to the high tone of B♭4. Music video The video was released on December 2, 2014 via VEVO, being uploaded to YouTube the following day. The visual sees Gomez arriving at a club with her friends and later doing a choreographed dance with two male dancers. These scenes are spliced with shots of her outside of several places, such as a house and some stairs. Gomez also performs the song in front of a light-cyan wall as well as inside a room with a bed, a chair, and a TV. The video has over 200 million views as of May 2022. Commercial performance "Can't Stop Dancin'" debuted at number 98 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 40 on the Billboard Pop Songs on the week dated for January 10, 2015. The song dropped out of the Billboard Hot 100 chart the next week. On the chart week dated for February 7, 2015, the song re-entered at number 95 and then peaked at number 88, becoming its succeeding week. Track listing Charts Certifications References 2014 singles Song recordings produced by Cirkut Song recordings produced by Dr. Luke Songs written by Cirkut Songs written by Dr. Luke Songs written by Theron Thomas Music videos directed by Hannah Lux Davis Becky G songs Songs written by Becky G Songs about dancing
Riverview Lake is a lake in Riverview Park at Mesa, Arizona, United States. The lake is located west of Dobson Road and north of 8th Street. Golden algae has caused recent fish die offs during the summer of 2018. Due to the severity of algae, a vast majority of fish were killed. Testing in late summer of 2018 showed the issues contained. AZGFD was able to stock the lake with sunfish and catfish. Fish species Rainbow Trout Largemouth Bass Sunfish Catfish (Channel) Carp References External links Riverview Lake Riverview Park at Mesa Parks & Recreation Reservoirs in Arizona Reservoirs in Maricopa County, Arizona Geography of Mesa, Arizona
Reader Rabbit (fully titled "Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory" or alternatively known as "Reader Rabbit Builds Early Learning & Thinking") is a 1984 video game and the first of the long-running Reader Rabbit edutainment series. It was made by The Learning Company for Apple II and later for other computers. It also made use of the KoalaPad graphics tablet. The Connelley Group helped with the Atari 8-Bit conversion in 1984. A Talking version was developed for the Apple IIGS in 1989. An enhanced version was released for DOS on 1991. A Deluxe version was released in 1994 for Macintosh and Windows 3.x. In 1997, the game was remade for Windows and Macintosh under the title "Reader Rabbit's Reading 1". Development Reader Rabbit was originally conceived by the Grimm sisters; Leslie authored the game while Corinne and Cindy contributed the art. Version 1.0 of Reader Rabbit, titled Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory, was released in early 1984 (and featured in the 1983 holiday special for Computer Chronicles), while versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 were released in 1984. Development for an updated 2.0 version began at the start of 1984. By this time, Leslie Grimm had suffered a disc fracture but was able to develop the game while bedridden, thanks to a detachable keyboard provided by her colleague Pete Rowe. Many critics and gaming historians erroneously assert that the Reader Rabbit series officially began in 1986. In 1988, the first "talking" version of Reader Rabbit was released for the Apple IIGS and Tandy 1000 computers. The game was remade as an enhanced version for DOS in 1991 to incorporate the 256-color VGA mode, sound card option and mouse compatibility. Another remake was done as a deluxe version along with its two sequels and implemented digitized speech. Gameplay The game takes place in the titular Word Factory, which teaches reading and spelling in four different activities and has over 200 three-letter words and more than 70 pictures for learning. The following four activities are: 1. Sorter - the player is required to pick words that start with a chosen letter and discard the rest. 2. Labeler - out of a number of mixed up letters, the player must use those letters to spell words that match three objects on the screen. 3. Word Train - the player needs to select a word that slightly differs from the first. 4. Matchup Games - the player must match picture cards with corresponding word cards. Reception The Learning Company showcased the game alongside Number Stamper, Word Spinner, Addition Magician and Colorasaurus in the 1984 Winter Consumer Electronics Show. Dr. Ann Piestrup praised the game for its ability to aid young learners in overcoming the difficulties of reading and its word recognition. References External links 1984 video games 1990 video games 1991 video games 1994 video games 1997 video games Children's educational video games Reader Rabbit DOS games Windows games Apple II games Apple IIGS games Commodore 64 games Classic Mac OS games Atari 8-bit family games The Learning Company games Video games about rabbits and hares Video games developed in the United States Single-player video games
The Reverend James Hope Moulton (11 October 1863 – 9 April 1917) was a British non-conformist divine. He was also a philologist and made a special study of Zoroastrianism. Biography His family had a strong Methodist background. His father was the first headmaster of the Leys School, Cambridge where James was one of the first students. After attending King's College, Cambridge, he chose to become a Wesleyan minister. He showed a strong talent for academic studies, and the University of Manchester invited him to teach Classical Greek and other languages. He was also teaching at the Didsbury College, a Methodist seminary near Manchester. He was a friend of James Frazer, the Scottish social anthropologist. He developed a strong interest in Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest known monotheistic religions. Over the course of his life he published many books and papers, mainly focused on Zoroastrianism and the Greek texts that the Bible is derived from. He was a Prison Chaplain at Preston for some time around 1910. In 1916 he decided to take advantage of the academic lull of World War I and spend a long spell in India, to serve as a Methodist missionary and to research and lecture on Zoroastrianism where it is still practiced by certain groups. This was not an easy time for him, as his wife had recently died, and while he was in India, his son William Ralph Osborn Moulton died in the French trenches on 5 August 1916. He spent 16 months in India under the auspices of the YMCA, researching, preaching and lecturing. A matter that was of particular interest to him was the religion of the Parsis, the Zoroastrians of the Indian subcontinent, and the relationship between their beliefs and Judeo-Christian religions. He felt that the former was awaiting its completion by the latter. While in Karachi, he availed of the friendship and library of Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, a U.S.-educated Zoroastrian scholar and the high priest of the Parsi community there. He left Karachi aboard the S.S. City of Paris, headed for Egypt where he met with his friend and colleague Dr J. Rendel Harris. The pair set sail from Port Said but as their ship passed the Gulf of Lion it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Moulton, Harris and several others from the ship escaped in a lifeboat, but James Moulton died on the third of the four days it took the boat to reach Corsica, aged fifty-three. He was buried at sea on 9 April 1917. Almost 3 years previously he opened up his book From Egyptian Rubbish Heaps with this paragraph "On July 31, 1914, the ill-fated Lusitania landed at New York after what proved her last peace voyage. A week later two of her passengers proceeded to the Conference at Northfield, where some two thousand Christian people were gathered in sight of the grave of D. L. Moody. It was very hard for us all, doubly hard for Britons, to detach our thoughts even partially from the horrors that were already beginning—horrors which will long make it impossible to name even the best of Germans without a sharp stab of pain. But we were studying the only Book that can ever bring peace and comfort to men in their direst need, and there is no fear that those who know will think we were 'fiddling while Rome burned.'" He had been aboard the ship on its last voyage just as World War 1 began. It was sunk less than 11 months later, killing everyone on board. Academic positions Tutor at Didsbury College Fellow of King's College, Cambridge Greenwood Professor of Hellenistic Greek and Indo-European Philology at Manchester University, 1908-17 Doctor of Letters (D. Litt.), University of London, 19 December 1901 Works Grammar of New Testament Greek Vol. I - Prolegomena, 1906 WILLIAM F. MOULTON a memoir, written with his brother, who had the same name as their father, William Fiddian Moulton The Papers of Oscar Browning, written with his father, William Fiddian Moulton Early Religious Poetry of Persia Early Religious Poetry of Persia, 1911 From Egyptian Rubbish Heaps, 1916 (second edition 1917) Early Zoroastrianism Fire Temples and Towers of Silence Parsi Piety The Crown of Zoroastrianism The Parsis The Parsis and Christian Propaganda The Teaching of Zarathushtra Treasure of the Magi: a study of modern Zoroastrianism Zarathustra and the Outside World Zoroastrianism An Introduction to the Study of New Testament Greek (1895) Two Lectures on the Science of Language (1903) The Christian Religion in the Study and the Street (1919) A Neglected Sacrament and Other Sermons and Addresses (1919) See also William Fiddian Moulton, father John Fletcher Moulton, uncle Richard Green Moulton, uncle James Egan Moulton, uncle George Milligan, co-author of Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. References Church History Institute Foreword to The Treasure of the Magi: A Study of Modern Zoroastrianism theology today book review kingkong Author Anniversary database External links From Egyptian Rubbish Heaps, Transcripts of a series of lectures he gave in 1914 Online transcript of The Treasure of the Magi: A Study of Modern Zoroastrianism 1863 births 1917 deaths Academics of the University of Manchester English biographers British chaplains English Methodist missionaries Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Methodist ministers Methodist missionaries in India People educated at The Leys School People who died at sea Burials at sea James Hope Prison chaplains Zoroastrian studies scholars Missionary linguists British casualties of World War I
A table reservation is an arrangement made in advance to have a table available at a restaurant. While most restaurants in the vast majority of the world do not require a reservation, and some do not have a policy or simply any channel for making one, so-called higher-end restaurants mainly in overcrowded cities often require a reservation, and some may have tables booked for weeks in advance. At particularly exclusive venues, it may be impossible to make a reservation on the same day as the planned visit. The modern reservation system evolved from the prior practice of arranging catering at a restaurant. Today, at such venues, observes Joy Smith, author of Kitchen Afloat: Galley Management and Meal Preparation (2002): "It's always smart to inquire about a restaurant's reservation policy. Some will only reserve for large parties of six or more". In recent times, many restaurants have replaced the traditional pencil and notebook with an online reservation system. Some websites exist which provide this service for multiple venues, such as Hostme, Tock, Bookatable, Chope, EZTABLE, Dimmi, Killer Rezzy (which also offers “rogue” reservations, which members can sell), OpenTable, Resy, Appointment Trader (which also allows users to buy reservations that are typically difficult to obtain), Yelp Reservations (formerly known as SeatMe), Shout (which allows users to either make a reservation or put the one they have up for sale), Zomato, ResDiary, Zurvu and Tablein. Reservations for later dining times may prove problematic, as a restaurant may have a backlog that will require the reservation-holders to wait beyond their stated arrival time. In addition, diners with a late reservation face a higher chance that the restaurant will run out of necessary ingredients for a particularly popular dish. Most restaurants do not charge a customer who fails to honor their reservations, and courts have tended not to impose substantial penalties on restaurants that fail to honor reservations. Nonetheless, it is generally considered polite to call and cancel a reservation once it is known one will not use it. Benefits Nowadays it has become common for fine dining restaurants to offer table reservations to their clients. This service has become an integral part of a restaurant's operation, because of its multiple benefits. Even though there are still types of restaurants that prefer the modality of "first come, first served", the majority of fine dining and casual restaurants organize their operation through table reservations. As it has become part of restaurants’ service to offer reservations, clients are tending more and more towards making use of this offer, and for some people, it has become mandatory to make a table reservation before going out to a restaurant since there are also benefits for the client in this type of service. Benefits to restaurants A restaurant will weigh the advantages and the disadvantages of offering the service of table reservations to its customers, and even though there is a cost involved in this service, the benefits it offers will outweigh all the disadvantages one may consider. Offering table reservations may be a good tool to increase demand for certain restaurants. As clients know that there is a limited capacity of seats, they will always prefer to make a table reservation instead of arriving at the restaurant and facing a long waiting line. This tool helps the restaurant to keep a high demand of its customers on busy nights, and even better, to increase traffic on slow nights when customers make reservations because they don't know how crowded the restaurant will be. Table reservations are also a handy tool in competitive markets since they make it possible for restaurants to “steal” some market share from their competition. This occurs when clients are not able to get a reservation at their "first choice" restaurant and they decide to go to their "second choice" restaurant, where they can get a reservation. This service represents an important benefit for restaurants, because by guaranteeing customers a seat, they will be able to start operating at an earlier time, and serve food until a later time than average, and thus, serve more parties each day, and consequently, have a higher daily income. The modality of table reservations helps restaurants to estimate demand more accurately, and therefore, to improve sourcing and staffing and manage costs more efficiently. By managing workflow in a better way, through reservations, the restaurant will be able to deliver a better quality of service. Benefits to clients A client will always benefit from being able to make a table reservation at the restaurant to which he wishes to go. Nowadays, the majority of people prefer to go out knowing that they have a reservation, instead of incurring the risk of not getting a table at the desired place. A clear benefit of making a table reservation for a client is the security that they will experience when going out to a restaurant.; i.e., making a reservation will guarantee the client that he will receive his table at the time and place he has planned. It is an advantage for the customer to know in advance that he will not have to go through the trouble of waiting until a table is available, or being put on a waiting list, or in the worst case, needing to find another place to eat, because the one chosen won't be able to serve him. Another important benefit of making a reservation in the desired restaurant is the better quality of service one will receive. As the restaurant knows at what time and with how many people the customer will arrive, a comfortable table with enough seats and space will be reserved, and the restaurant's staff will be prepared to serve the arriving group. Benefits of an online reservation system Traditionally, restaurants have managed their reservation systems with a reservation book, which means they received the reservations via telephone calls and wrote them down in a book. Nowadays, as a consequence of the massive use of the Internet and its benefits, experts have seen the opportunity and great added value of creating online reservation systems, and already many restaurants have replaced the traditional format with these new systems. An important advantage of online reservation systems is the flexibility they offer when making a reservation. When reservations are managed traditionally, patrons will only be able to call a restaurant to make a reservation during operational hours. On the contrary, when reservations are managed through an online reservation system, customers will be able to make their reservations at any time and from any place they choose. In general, patrons will have a better experience when making an online reservation, because it will be a quick process, the service will be available 24/7, and the system will provide all the necessary information to make the desired reservation with tranquility. Restaurants will experience a great number of benefits when using an online reservation system. Some of these benefits translate into a decline in incoming phone calls, better control of the capacity of the restaurant and the number of reservations one will be able to accept, and a number of handy statistics and reports that will help to analyze the business in interesting ways. These benefits arise from a wide range of management tools provided by online reservation systems, like operational reports, floor management software, customer reservation histories, and customer databases that include customer data and preferences, and grow with each new table booking. Restaurants will also be able to track cancellations, and manage walk-in and waitlists in a better way, eliminate overbookings, and create target email and postal mailings with the information from the customer database. Some online reservation systems include integrated email marketing tools. Disadvantages Reservations can cause logistical issues for venues. For example, paper-and-pencil reservations can lead to overbooking if performed incorrectly. Although point-of-sale (POS) systems and online systems provide solutions to this issue, overbooking can still occur for reasons such as miscommunication between multiple staff members. Additionally, if a venue is constantly fully booked, it may deter new customers from trying to book a reservation in the future. Guests who create reservations but neither cancel nor show up pose a significant financial risk to restaurants, leading to overstaffing and loss of business from potential paying customers. See also List of restaurant terminology References Restaurant terminology
Hot Springs Cove, formerly Refuge Cove, is an unincorporated settlement on Sydney Inlet on West Coast of Vancouver Island. It is located on the west side of the Openit Peninsula in the western Clayoquot Sound region. Hot Springs Cove derives its name from its proximity to Ramsay Hot Springs, and is protected by Maquinna Marine Provincial Park. The post office at Hot Springs Cove was closed in 1974 but had operated since 1947, when it was first named Sydney Inlet until being renamed in 1948. Despite the closure of the post office, there remains a year-round population in the vicinity. See also Sydney Inlet Provincial Park Gibson Marine Provincial Park Hesquiat Peninsula Provincial Park Sulphur Passage Provincial Park Marktosis, British Columbia References External links Hot Springs Co-op website Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Clayoquot Sound region Populated places in the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
Sir Esmond Ovey (23 July 1879 – 30 May 1963) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Soviet Union, Belgium and Argentina. Career Esmond Ovey was educated at Eton College and entered the Diplomatic Service as an attaché in 1902. He was appointed to Tangier but did not go there that year, instead being sent to Stockholm to assist with extra work in the period preceding the Russo-Japanese War. He did go to Tangier in 1904, was promoted to Third Secretary in 1905 and posted to Paris in 1906. While at the Paris embassy he was decorated with the MVO when King Edward VII visited Biarritz in 1907. In 1908 he was posted to Washington, D.C. where he met, and in May 1909 married, Blanche, daughter of Rear-Admiral William H. Emory, United States Navy. In the same month he was promoted to Second Secretary. In 1912 Ovey was transferred to Sofia and in 1913 to Constantinople. When the Ottoman Empire came into the First World War the British Ambassador, Sir Louis Mallet, left Constantinople with all his staff except Ovey, who was seriously ill with typhoid fever. "Luckily he was able to be moved to the American Embassy but Wangenheim, the German Ambassador, endeavoured to obtain Ovey's removal before he was sufficiently recovered. It was lucky that his wife was an American." Ovey was transferred to Norway where he remained for the rest of the war, acting as chargé d'affaires when the Minister was absent. He was promoted to First Secretary in 1916. In 1920 he was promoted to Counsellor and appointed to Tehran, but did not proceed; instead, he worked at the Foreign Office until 1924 when he did go briefly to Tehran before being posted to Rome, also briefly, before he was appointed Minister to Mexico when diplomatic relations were resumed in 1925 (having been broken off in 1914). In August 1929 Ovey was appointed Minister to Brazil, but he did not proceed there and instead was appointed, in November of that year, to be the first British Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The United Kingdom had recognised the Soviet Union in 1924, and Sir Robert Hodgson had been posted there as chargé d'affaires, but the British diplomatic mission had been withdrawn in 1927. Simultaneously a Soviet ambassador to the U.K. was appointed; Grigori Sokolnikov arrived in London on the same day as Ovey arrived in Moscow, 13 December 1929. Relations between the U.K. and the Soviet Union were uneasy and Ovey had to deal with several controversies. On the lighter side, however, Ovey related that when he was invited to a banquet by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, he observed that his fork – and all the knives, forks and spoons on the table – bore the British coat of arms, having been stolen during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy. Ovey made no protest. However, a serious crisis arose in March 1933 when six engineers of Metropolitan-Vickers were arrested in Moscow and tried for espionage and "wrecking" because some turbines built by the company were faulty. Ovey had a stormy interview with Litvinov in which he "observed a strong but correct attitude. His efforts were, on the whole, successful." One of the men was acquitted, three deported and two imprisoned but released after two months. Meanwhile, Ovey had been recalled to London to report and never returned to Russia. Ovey was appointed ambassador to Belgium in April 1934 and transferred to be ambassador to Argentina (and minister to Paraguay), his final appointment, in 1937. He retired in 1942. Honours Esmond Ovey was appointed MVO in 1907, CMG in 1917, knighted KCMG in the King's Birthday Honours of 1929 and raised to GCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1941. The King of Belgium gave him the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. Personal life In May 1909, in Washington, Esmond Ovey married Blanche, daughter of Rear-Admiral William H. Emory, United States Navy. She died in 1924. In 1930, in Paris, he married Marie-Armande, daughter of René Vignat, of Paris, and widow of Señor Barrios, of Mexico. She died in 1954. In 1933, Sir Esmond and Lady Ovey took a long lease of Culham Manor, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. They restored the house over several years and lived there until his death in 1963. Offices held References and sources References Sources OVEY, Sir Esmond, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, retrieved 4 September 2012 Obituary – Sir Esmond Ovey – A Wide Diplomatic Career (with photo), The Times, London, 31 May 1963, page 16 External links Morrell, Gordon, Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: Anglo-Soviet Relations and the Metro-Vickers Crisis, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995 Sir Esmond Ovey (photograph), National Portrait Gallery, London 1879 births 1963 deaths People educated at Eton College Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mexico Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Belgium Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Argentina Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Paraguay Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Members of the Royal Victorian Order
Seyyed Jalal Hosseini (; born 3 February 1982), commonly known as Seyyed Jalal or Jalal Hosseini, is a former Iranian professional footballer who played as a centre-back and was the Captain of Iranian club Persepolis. He has been a member of Iran's under-23 side as a wild card player on two occasions, in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games, winning a bronze medal in 2006. Hosseini has represented Iran at the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, 2011 AFC Asian Cup, 2015 AFC Asian Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Early life and education Hosseini was born on 3 February 1982 in Bandar-e Anzali, Gilan Province. He majored in German Studies. Club career Saipa Hosseini moved from Malavan to Saipa in summer 2005. Before that he was link with a move to Piroozi but the move was cancelled. During the 2005–06 season, he was the most consistent player for his club, making 28 full appearances and scoring one goal. He continued his solid performance for Saipa during the 2006–07 season with 26 full appearances and one goal and also won the league. He also played in the AFC Champions League matches for Saipa. Sepahan Hosseini signed for Sepahan in summer 2009 and became their regular player for the season. He won the Persian Gulf Cup for three times in a row with Sepahan. After three years and 94 league appearances, Hosseini left the club in 2012 as one of the league's most established centre-backs. Persepolis Hosseini signed a one-year contract with Tehran's reds until the end of 2012–13 Season. He extended his contract with Persepolis for one year in February 2013, keeping him in the team till 2014. He was regarded as the Iran Pro League's best defender. He was one of the main players in persepolis' second place league finish in 2014. Hosseini was named the best defender in the 2013–14 season. Al-Ahli On 17 July 2014, Hosseini joined Qatar Stars League's Al-Ahli with signing a one-year contract. He left the club in May 2015. Naft Tehran Hosseini left Qatar and joined Persian Gulf Pro League runners–up Naft Tehran in the summer of 2015. With Hosseini Naft reached the quarter–finals of the 2015 AFC Champions League. Midway through the season, he and many Naft players and management had disputes with the board as they had not been paid. As a result of this he left the club before the 2016–17 season. Persepolis In spring of 2016, after days of negotiation, Hosseini announced he had signed with his former club Persepolis. Shortly after he was announced as the club captain for the 2016–17 season. He led Persepolis to a consecutive Persian Pro League in which he was an indisputable player and played a big role in team. Asian Football Confederation website wrote Hosseini was a solid defender for Persepolis. On 25 June 2022, Hosseini confirmed his retirement from football as a player. He called the decision "difficult" but "right". At this time, with 9 league titles, he is considered the most honorable and unattainable Iranian player in this regard. Varzesh 3, described his retirement as "start of the Superman in a coaching suit", hoping he will start coaching immediately. International career Hosseini was a member of Iran U23 national team, participating in the 2006 Asian Games. He debuted for the senior national team in a friendly match against Belarus in February 2007. Having joined Team Melli again in July 2007, he played in all four of Iran's matches and scored Iran's first goal in its opening match at the 2007 Asian Cup against Uzbekistan. He was called again for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. He also played in 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification for Iran and 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification. He featured in West Asian Football Federation Championship 2010 and 2011 Asian Cup. On 1 June 2014, he was called into Iran's 2014 FIFA World Cup squad by Carlos Queiroz. He was called into Iran's 2015 AFC Asian Cup squad on 30 December 2014 by Carlos Queiroz. In 2016, Hosseini was selected as one of the top 3 defenders in the world by France Football magazine in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. In May 2018 he was named in Iran's preliminary squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia but did not make the final 23. On 1 December 2018, Hosseini announced his retirement from international football. Player profile Style of play Hosseini is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders in history of Iranian football. Also he is the most decorated player in Iranian football league. His tactical awareness and athleticism, intelligent positioning, and aggressive playing style, led the team in defensive positions. High running rate, fighting and cutting power and excellent leadership are the features of Hosseini's style of play. He is also mentioned as a player who respected the legacy of the Persepolis club, that is, ethics in sports. Career statistics Club International Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hosseini goal. Honours Saipa Persian Gulf Pro League: 2006–07 Sepahan Persian Gulf Pro League: 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 Persepolis Persian Gulf Pro League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21 Hazfi Cup: 2018–19 Iranian Super Cup: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 AFC Champions League runner-up: 2018, 2020 Iran U23 (Wild card) Asian Games Bronze Medal: 2006 Individual Persian Gulf Pro League Defender of the Year (6) : 2006–07, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League Team of the Year : 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 Navad Player of the Month: November 2017, December 2017 AFC Champions League OPTA Best XI: 2018 Iran's AFC Champions League Legend See also List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps References External links Jalal Hosseini at PersianLeague.com Jalal Hosseini at TeamMelli.com 1982 births Living people Iranian men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Iran men's international footballers Azadegan League players Qatar Stars League players Malavan F.C. players Sepahan S.C. footballers Saipa F.C. players Persepolis F.C. players 2007 AFC Asian Cup players 2011 AFC Asian Cup players 2014 FIFA World Cup players 2015 AFC Asian Cup players Asian Games bronze medalists for Iran Al Ahli SC (Doha) players Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games FIFA Men's Century Club Footballers from Bandar-e Anzali Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Persian Gulf Pro League players Iranian expatriate men's footballers Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff
The 1715 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the 1707 merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. In October 1714, soon after George I had arrived in London after ascending to the throne, he dismissed the Tory cabinet and replaced it with one almost entirely composed of Whigs, as they were responsible for securing his succession. The election of 1715 saw the Whigs win an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, and afterwards virtually all Tories in central or local government were purged, leading to a period of Whig ascendancy lasting almost fifty years during which Tories were almost entirely excluded from office. The Whigs then moved to impeach Robert Harley, the former Tory first minister. After he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years, the case ultimately ended with his acquittal in 1717. Constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used were the same throughout the existence of the Parliament of Great Britain. Dates of the election The general election was held between 22 January 1715 and 9 March 1715. At this period elections did not take place at the same time in every constituency. The returning officer in each county or parliamentary borough fixed the precise date (see hustings for details of the conduct of the elections). Results Seats summary See also 5th Parliament of Great Britain List of MPs elected in the British general election, 1715 List of parliaments of Great Britain References British Electoral Facts 1832–1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000). (For dates of elections before 1832, see the footnote to Table 5.02). External links History of Parliament: Members 1715–1760 History of Parliament: Constituencies 1715–1760 1715 in politics General election 1715
Nayak may refer to: Ethnic groups Nayak caste, a caste found in India Nayak, another name for the Charodi (community) of Karnataka, India Nayak , name used by Gor Banjara Community. Films Nayak (1966 film), a 1966 Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray Nayak (2001 Assamese film), a 2001 Assamese film directed by Munin Barua Nayak: The Real Hero, a 2001 Hindi film starring Anil Kapoor and Rani Mukerji People Bangaru Thirumalai Nayak, a member of the Madurai Nayak royal family Daya Nayak, Indian police inspector Ghanashyam Nayak, Indian film and television actor Jawahar Nayak, Indian politician Raghunatha Nayak, a king of the Nayaks of Tanjore Sevappa Nayak, first ruler of the Nayaks of Tanjore Thirumalai Nayak, a king of the Madurai Nayak Dynasty Varunakulattan, also known as Khem Nayak, 17th-century feudal lord of the Jaffna Kingdom Viswanatha Nayak, founder of Madurai Nayak Dynasty Other uses Naik (military rank), also spelt Nayak, a rank in the Indian and Pakistan armies Any of the Nayak dynasties, that arose from the fragmentation of the Vijayanagara Empire in South India Nayak (title), a title used across India Baba Nayak, fictional villain played by Rami Reddy in the 1995 Indian film Andolan See also Nayakan (disambiguation) Naik (disambiguation) Neyak (disambiguation) Nyack (disambiguation) Naayak, a 2013 Indian Telugu-language film directed by V. V. Vinayak Khal Nayak, 1993 Indian film by Subhash Ghai
Misi Taulapapa (born 25 January 1982) is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a or er for Doncaster in Betfred League 1. He has previously played for the New Zealand Warriors and the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL, and the Sheffield Eagles and Featherstone Rovers in the Championship. Taulapapa has also played for the Newcastle Thunder in League 1. Early years Taulapapa was born Auckland, New Zealand. He originally played rugby union for the Waitemata Football club, in the Auckland Rugby Union competition. He played with Waitemata when they won the Gallagher Shield in 2003. Taulapapa also represented the Kelston Boys High School's First XV in both regional and national tournaments. Playing career Taulapapa switched to rugby league in 2004. Taulapapa was selected to play in the Bartercard Cup competition for the Marist Richmond Brothers from where he was picked up by the New Zealand Warriors. Taulapapa played in six matches for the New Zealand Warriors in 2006 before he was released mid-season for turning up to a training session intoxicated. After being released by the Warriors halfway through the 2006 season he moved to Queensland to finish the season at the Central Comets. Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Taulapapa signed with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 2007. Here he played as a solid winger and was a fringe NRL player. Taulapapa made 19 appearances for the club in 2008 as Cronulla finished 3rd on the table. Taulapapa scored a hat-trick in the 2008 qualifying finals game against the Canberra Raiders. 2 weeks later, Taulapapa played on the wing for Cronulla in their 28-0 preliminary final defeat by Melbourne. Gateshead Thunder Taulapapa originally signed with the Gateshead Thunder for the 2010 season. However the club had financial difficulties which voided Taulapapa's contract. Sheffield Eagles He eventually signed with the Sheffield Eagles. After starting on the wing, he moved to full back after a long term injury ruled out the player in that position. He also took on the captaincy and by the end of the season was one of the stand out players for the Eagles, scoring a hat trick in a victory over the Leigh Centurions. two weeks later, against the same opponents in the play-offs, he suffered a broken leg that ruled him out for the remainder of the 2010 season. Hull Kingston Rovers In August 2011 Taulapapa signed to Super League club Hull Kingston Rovers. However, after his signature had been announced, Hull KR appointed a new manager - Craig Sandercock - who subsequently decided that Taulapapa did not fit into his plans for the 2012 season. Sheffield Eagles (rejoin) Taulapapa was released from his contract with Hull KR, without having played a single game, and re-signed for Sheffield, and later signed for Featherstone Rovers (captain) (Heritage № 1040). He would move to play for the Newcastle Thunder for the 2019 season. Doncaster RLFC On 9 Nov 2020 it was announced that he had signed for Doncaster for 2021. Representative career Taulapapa was a part of the Samoa squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. In 2009 he was named as part of the Samoa squad for the Pacific Cup. References External links Featherstone Rovers profile Misi Taulapapa at Sharks.com 1982 births Living people Auckland rugby league team players Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players Doncaster R.L.F.C. players Featherstone Rovers players Marist Richmond Brothers players New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent New Zealand rugby league players New Zealand Warriors players Point Chevalier Pirates players Richmond Bulldogs players Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league wingers Rugby league players from Auckland Samoa national rugby league team players Samoan rugby league players Sheffield Eagles players
Humsafar () is a 2011 Pakistani drama telenovela based on the novel of the same name by Farhat Ishtiaq (who also wrote the screenplay) and directed by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat. It stars Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Naveen Waqar in lead roles and Atiqa Odho, Hina Khawaja Bayat, Behroze Sabzwari and Noor Hassan Rizvi in supporting roles. Humsafar became the most successful program on the channel till date, earning it widespread acclaim and international recognition. Due to its success, critics referred to this era of Pakistani television as a "Golden Age". It was claimed as the highest-rated serial of its time in Pakistan, with the TRPs of 9.71, peaking at 11.9 TRPs. Plot Khirad Ahsaan belongs to a small lower-middle-class community in Hyderabad and lives with her widowed mother, Maimoona, in a small apartment. As the series opens, she has recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree and (as her late father was a math teacher) is very strong in mathematics. Maimoona's brother, Baseerat Hussain, is a self-made millionaire, who lives in Karachi. He is married to Farida, a social worker who runs a human rights NGO. They have one son, Ashar, who received his MBA from Yale University and runs the family's high-powered firm with his father. After Maimoona receives a cancer diagnosis, Baseerat brings her and Khirad to his large home in Karachi for treatment. When she realizes there is no cure, Maimoona asks Baseerat to arrange a marriage for Khirad. Feeling guilty for not taking better care of Maimoona, Baseerat compensates by promising that Ashar will marry Khirad, unbeknownst to Farida, Khirad, or Ashar. Farida opposes the match until Baseerat threatens to throw her out of the house if she does not accept it. While initially opposed, Ashar is emotionally manipulated by his father for the marriage, as is Khirad by her mother. Sara (Ashar's maternal cousin who is in love with him) attempts suicide after both learning about the match and hearing from Ashar that he only sees her as a friend. After he rescues her, she promises to move on. Despite being against the idea, Ashar and Khirad get married in a home ceremony. Within a short period, Maimoona dies, and Farida appears to have had a change of heart, treating Khirad as a daughter. After an initial period of complications, Ashar and Khirad eventually find themselves deeply in love with each other. After Baseerat's sudden death, and encouraged by Ashar to follow her dreams, Khirad enrols in a master's program in applied mathematics. Shortly after joining the program, she discovers that one of her classmates (Khizer) is Sara's paternal first cousin. Ashar becomes secretly jealous their friendship. Khirad's involvement in college and her achievements also bothers him. She and Farida also learn that Khirad is pregnant but decide to keep it as a surprise for Ashar. However, Khirad never has the opportunity to tell him the news because she has been framed by Khizer, Farida, and Zarina (Sara's mom). Khirad learns that the love and attention from Farida, Zarina, and Khizar was a facade that hid a complex conspiracy. Farida feels that because Khirad had a lower-class upbringing, she is beneath Ashar. Zarina hopes that Sara will stop obsessing over Ashar's marriage to Khirad. Farida made a deal with Khizar to pay for his graduate studies in the United States and a marriage to Sara, unbeknownst to Sara and Zarina. With Baseerat gone, Farida (who never forgave him for threatening to throw her out) convinces Ashar that Khirad and Khizar had an affair, despite her pleas of innocence. Unable to bear the idea and unwilling to hear Khirad's side of the story, Ashar gets away to a beach. Farida uses his absence to further fabricate and throw Khirad out of the house (as an act of revenge against Baseerat) in the middle of the night. Khirad quickly writes a note to Ashar proclaiming her innocence and leaves it with one of the house helpers. She is then taken to Hyderabad by a good samaritan and finds a home with her former neighbour, Batool Bano. As Farida told Ashar that Khirad had run away with Khizar, Ashar refused Khirad's multiple calls. Thus, she realises that she will never be able to convince him of her innocence and gives up on their marriage. She gives birth alone to a premature baby and decides she would raise Hareem herself, working as a math teacher. Four years later, driven by Hareem's need for open heart surgery, Khirad confronts Ashar. Her youthful innocence and fear of the world have now been both replaced by a firm and courageous persona that allows her to stand up to Ashar. She has also learned how to protect herself with documentation, evidence that forces Ashar to accept the reality that Hareem (whom he did not know existed) is his daughter. He brings them back home during the medical procedures. Khirad is then forced to confront both Sara and Farida, but the strength, independence, and confidence born of her hardships prevent them from bullying her. Sara confesses her love to Ashar again, but he informs her that he cannot love anyone and that she should stop pursuing him. Khizar returns from America and starts to blackmail Farida by threatening to reveal Khirad's innocence to Ashar if Sara does not marry him. Under pressure, Farida visits Sara and urges her to marry Khizar, but Sara and her mother refuse. Distraught, Sara attempts suicide again, and this time she succeeds. After Hareem's successful operation, Khirad secretly returns to Hyderabad and leaves Hareem with Ashar (telling him through a letter that he has full custody because she is not financially capable of taking care of her). However, the period with Khirad rekindled Asher's feelings for her. While looking through a box of albums, Ashar finds Khirad's letter from four years earlier and finally reads it for the first time. The truth of the letter overwhelms him as he realizes he committed a terrible mistake in believing the scene from four years before. He then overhears a phone call between Farida and Khizar, which confirms that what he saw was a fabrication and that Farida deliberately threw Khirad out to disavow the unborn child. Horrified by the reality of his unintentional complicity with the conspiracy against Khirad, he flees to Hyderabad to beg her forgiveness. He manages to convince Khirad to return home, where they face Farida. In his absence, Farida had found the letter, and thus upon seeing them both, begins to repeat her series of lies. However, Ashar stands up to her, perhaps for the first time. He rejects Farida's narrative, proclaims Khirad's innocence, and states that she belongs in this home with his daughter (whom Farida also attempted to disavow). Farida becomes so frightened by Ashar's decision to support Khirad that she has a nervous breakdown and loses all connection with reality. Ashar takes full responsibility for all the events and begs Khirad to stay with him. Khirad is hesitant, stating that she is a different person now and that she isn't certain she can love him as she used to. She also wonders how Ashar could have imagined she was capable of the narrative fabricated about her and how he could have abandoned her if he genuinely loved her. Deeply ashamed, Ashar agrees and states that it was entirely his fault and that he has no right to expect she can ever forgive him. However, he hopes she will stay so they can raise Hareem together. Khirad reluctantly consents to the arrangement, and a few months later, the three are a real family unit. Cast Fawad Khan as Ashar Hussain Mahira Khan as Khirad Ashar Hussain (Nee'Ahsaan) Naveen Waqar as Sara Ajmal Atiqa Odho as Farida Hussain Behroze Sabzwari as Baseerat Hussain Hina Khawaja Bayat as Zarina Ajmal Noor Hassan Rizvi as Khizar Saba Faisal as Maimoona Ahsaan Salma Zafar as Sherish Shahbaz Rajput as Ali Qaiser Naqvi as Batool Bano Sara Kashif as Hareem Hussain Guest appearances Khalid Anam as Khirad's father Mansha Pasha as the wife of Ashar's friend Kanwar Arsalan as Raza, Ashar's colleague Kanwar Atiq ur Rehman as Umar, Ashar's colleague Sarmad Khoosat as Dr. Idrees, Khirad's Professor Deviations from the novel Although author Farhat Ishtiaq adapted the screenplay from her novel, Humsafar, there are differences between the two. While the novel is narrated from Hareem's perspective, the serial focuses on Khirad and Asher. In the novel, Ashar is the brother of two sisters, while in the serial he has no siblings. In the novel, Sara is a minor character who is never close to Asher, becomes mentally ill and is hospitalised. In the serial, Sara is the main character who loves Ashar, is the love interest of Khizar, and dies at the end. In the novel, Khizar loves a girl named Mehreen and never returns from America. Khirad and Maimoona reside in Nawabshah in the novel, while the serial's location is in Hyderabad. While the drama ends with Farida's nervous breakdown and Ashar and Khirad's slow reconciliation, the novel ends with Asher begging Khirad to take him back and Khirad falling into his arms. Soundtrack The show's theme song Woh Humsafar Tha was composed by Waqar Ali and sung by Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch. Naseer Turabi wrote the poem to express his sorrow after the fall of Dhaka (marking the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971). It serves both as the song for the title sequence and as background music during each episode.[1] Production Development Humsafar’s producer Momina Duraid, notes that its development was somewhat serendipitous.[1] Duraid was working with author Farhat Ishtiaq on another of her works when she suggested Humsafar as a potential project (because Duraid had just read “and thoroughly enjoyed” the novel). Ishtiaq then told her that Humsafar “had already been declined by two production houses,” to which Duraid responded: “If I can feel it," then the "public can feel it as well.”[1] Ishtiaq states that when she started working on the novel, she "wanted to understand if the idea of love is complete without trust." Although she wrote the screenplay for Humsafar, she states that the novel differs from the television series, as "the former is more about the child, while the show concentrates on the parents as lovers."[2] Reception Release Humsafar greatly impacted Pakistan's television industry (which had previously been dominated by Indian Television). It was an enormously popular show during its national television run, was extensively discussed on social media, and by 2014 was the highest-rated Pakistani series to date. The series also had a large global audience. Star reported that the Humsafar page on Facebook had thousands of Pakistani-origin European and North American fans and viewers. Many said that although they had never watched a Pakistani drama, they are now completely hooked on Humsafar. Critical reception Many stated that the series led to a new phase in Urdu drama. Others argued that the series upheld misogyny and was regressive in its tendency to fall into stereotypes. Finally, some critics offered a middle ground, suggesting that the popularity of the series was due to a narrative that was both entrenched in patriarchy but also a critical response to it, offering characters and plot lines that reflected a degree of reality. Human rights activist Abira Ashfaq notes that “the terrible appeal of Humsafar is that it confirms characters and stories set in deeply patriarchal frameworks. It is sexist justice that soothes the hearts of patriarchal vigilantes and keeps us on because we want to see the mother-in-law shamed, humiliated and thrust out, and moral purity rise to the top in the reunion of Khirad and Ashar. It is a modern-day fairy tale, better than Cinderella, worse than Shrek; the born-again revival of TV drama in a tweeting world.” Kanika Rajani of The Indian Express argues that the series is unique in its decision to portray its protagonists as flawed, particularly "Asher’s frustration at his initial failed attempts to communicate with his wife." Response to Khirad Mahira Khan's portrayal of "Khirad" received positive feedback from critics and was popular with viewers when the serial debuted. To those who called Khirad a "downtrodden woman," Khan argued, "No, she was not. Go back and look at it, and there is a reason why she was not because the slap was removed from it, there were things that were removed and there were things that were brought in just to show that she had a spine." Khan further states that "Khirad is closest to my heart. We have a lot of crying women in serials. But despite going through so much hardship, Khirad is so dignified." Later, in September 2020, Khan reflected on Humsafar, stating that "Khirad is by far my most special character. She loved fiercely, she gave wholeheartedly and when it came to her self-respect she held that closest to her heart. What a woman." Promotion Hum TV gave the show its Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award. International broadcasts Humsafar was originally broadcast in 2011 on Hum TV. It later aired on a number of global networks, and streamed on Netflix from 2016 to 2021. Awards and nominations References External links Humsafar full series (no subtitles)- Hum Network Official YouTube Channel Humsafar Trailer (with title song) - HUM Music/Hum Network Arranged marriage in fiction Farhat Ishtiaq Hum TV Hum Network Limited Hum TV original programming Pakistani romantic drama television series Television series set in Punjab, Pakistan Television series about bullying Television series based on the novels of Farhat Ishtiaq Television series created by Momina Duraid Television series by MD Productions Urdu-language telenovelas Pakistani telenovelas Zee Zindagi original programming Hum Sitaray
Richard Glenn Fraser (born February 13, 1972) is a Canadian politician who was an elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary-South East. Elected as a Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLA in 2012, Fraser was sworn into the Redford cabinet in 2013 as Minister of Public Safety. Fraser initially joined the rest of the PC caucus in its merger with the Wildrose Party to form the United Conservative Party in 2017. He left the caucus on September 21, 2017, to sit as an Independent due to his dissatisfaction with the party's leadership contest and the emphasis put by candidates on spending cuts and austerity. Fraser registered his candidacy for the leadership of the Alberta Party on December 30, 2017. He officially announced his candidacy on January 9, 2018, and also joined the Alberta Party caucus. Electoral history 2019 general election References Living people Members of the Executive Council of Alberta Paramedics Politicians from Calgary Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 1972 births 21st-century Canadian politicians United Conservative Party MLAs Alberta Party MLAs
is a Japanese rock band from Nagano Prefecture, consisting of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Remi Matsuo and lead guitarist Hiroki Kamemoto. Originally formed by Matsuo as a quartet for a high school festival in 2007, the group became a duo when they moved to Tokyo to pursue music professionally in February 2010. Glim Spanky signed to Virgin Music in 2014, and released their first full-length album, Sunrise Journey, the following year. They have since released six studio albums, with 2017's Bizarre Carnival being their highest-charting to date. Their retro sound, reminiscent of 1960s and 1970s rock bands, has received praise from musicians such as Keisuke Kuwata, Motoharu Sano, and Maki Nomiya. In addition to releasing material as Glim Spanky, Matsuo and Kamemoto frequently collaborate with and write songs for other artists. History Early years and debut (2007–2015) Glim Spanky was formed in Nagano Prefecture by vocalist and guitarist Remi Matsuo during her first year of high school to perform a cover of Bump of Chicken's "Arue" at Matsukawa High School's 2007 cultural festival. With the exception of the drummer, each member was a beginner musician. The band's name comes from Matsuo's interest in Celtic culture and fantasy literature; she read a book describing a goblin's "glim" and added "spank" to describe their aggressive drive towards the music industry. The bassist and other guitarist quit after the festival, but Matsuo wanted to play another live in a week and recruited an upperclassman to play bass as a three-piece. Eventually, the bassist assumed it was difficult for Matsuo to play all of the guitar by herself and recruited another guitarist into the band without her permission; Hiroki Kamemoto, another upperclassman, worked at the same part-time job as the bassist and joined the band. They then began writing their own material and started focusing on the band full time. On days off from school, they would practice from 8:00 in the morning, until 1:00am at night. Glim Spanky won the Rock Banchō held by Sony Music in December 2008 and were finalists at the 2009 teenage artists-only festival Senko Riot held by Sony, Tokyo FM and au. By 2009, Kamemoto was attending Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, but traveled back to Nagano once a week for band activities. When their bassist and drummer quit in February 2010, Matsuo decided to enroll in Nihon University's art department and Kamemoto transferred to the closer Dokkyo University so they could continue the band in Tokyo. The duo resumed activities with support musicians in April 2010. Glim Spanky had their first release in December 2013 when Space Shower Music released the mini-album Music Freak nationwide. They went on their Freak on the Hill tour in March 2014. Matsuo stated that their first four years playing live houses in Tokyo as a duo were difficult, but because they were particular about their sound, stage presence, costumes and artwork, she was confident that the music industry would not leave behind a band with such a complete package. They had received offers from various offices, but waited until they found the right one. In June 2014 the band released their second mini-album and their major label debut, Shōsō, via EMI R (later renamed Virgin Music). It includes covers of "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele and "Hikōkigumo" by Yumi Arai. They supported it with the Hello Freaks Tour, which ended with the group's first one-man live. After Matsuo provided vocals to a cover of Janis Joplin's "Move Over" for a Suzuki commercial, Glim Spanky recorded their own version and released it as a 7-inch vinyl record limited to 300 copies on November 28. That year, Matsuo contributed guest vocals to the song "Nightfever" by Analogfish. Glim Spanky's first single, "Homero yo", was released in February 2015 and was used as the theme song of the TV show Taiko Mochi no Tatsujin ~Tadashii no Home-kata~. The band released a limited vinyl single for their song "Otona ni Nattara" in May 2015, which was used as the theme song of the film Children of Iron. In July 2015, they released their next single, "Real Onigokko", written as the theme song for the movie of the same name, and performed at that year's Fuji Rock Festival on the Red Marquee stage. Their first full-length album Sunrise Journey was produced by Junji Ishiwatari and Seiji Kameda, and released in July 2015. It also includes "Wonder Alone", the ending theme of the Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume DO anime, for which Matsuo and Kamemoto voiced characters based on themselves. Glim Spanky performed a one-man concert at Akasaka Blitz in October, and they were one of the recipients of that year's Miura Jun Award and nominated for Next Break Artist at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards Japan. Bizarre Carnival and Looking for the Magic (2016–2019) After their third mini-album Wild Side wo Ike in January 2016, Glim Spanky contributed a cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" for Hello Goodbye, a tribute album to The Beatles. Their second album Next One followed on July 20 and its tour began in September. "Ikari o Kure yo" was used as the theme song for One Piece Film: Gold, "Hanashi o Shiyō" is the second ending theme of Kyōkai no Rinne, while "Yami ni me o Koraseba" is the theme song of the film Shōjo. I Stand Alone, their fourth mini-album, was released on April 12, 2017. Their third album Bizarre Carnival was released on September 13, 2017, and the band embarked on its tour in October. They played their first overseas concert in Shanghai on December 16 and another in Taiwan on January 20, 2018. Bizarre Carnival was nominated for the 2018 CD Shop Awards. The duo's third single, "Orokamono-tachi", was released on January 31 and is the theme song of the Funōhan live-action film adaptation. It includes a cover of Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move". They also wrote the song "The Flowers" for the Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings film 2018 Hanabanasai Wild Flowers ~Hana o Aisuru Hitobito. In a collaboration for the project, the band performed a concert on top of a building in Shinjuku on February 25 which was broadcast live. "The Flowers" is included as a b-side on their fourth single "All of Us", released on May 9. If ordered on certain websites, the single includes their cover of The Brilliant Green's "There Will Be Love There (Ai no Aru Basho)" from the February 17, 2018 episode of the BS-TBS TV show Sound Inn "S". Glim Spanky performed at the Nippon Budokan for the first time on May 12. They also performed at Makuhari Messe on June 23 as part of Luna Sea's Lunatic Fest. 2018, where they were joined onstage by Sugizo for "Orokamono-tachi", and on June 30 as part of SiM's Dead Pop Festival 2018. The band returned to Fuji Rock Festival on July 27, this time playing the main stage, and played the Rock in Japan Festival on August 12. Glim Spanky were nominated for Best Japan Act at the 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards. They released their fourth album Looking for the Magic on November 21 and began its tour in March 2019, which continued into June and included shows in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The song "TV Show" was recorded in Los Angeles and features Jack White support members Jack Lawrence and Carla Azar on bass and drums respectively. Glim Spanky collaborated with Sugizo again to cover Daisuke Inoue's "Meguriai" as the first ending theme of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Advent of the Red Comet. The duo also provided Momoiro Clover Z with the song "Lady May", which they both composed the music for, while Matsuo wrote the lyrics and Kamemoto arranged it and contributed guitar. Glim Spanky returned yet again to Fuji Rock Festival where they performed twice; once on July 26 as part of Route 17 Rock'n'Roll Orchestra, a session band also including Yūzō Kayama, Reichi Nakaido, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Shō Okamoto (Okamoto's), and then an acoustic set on 27. They also performed at Rock in Japan Festival on August 11 and the Rising Sun Rock Festival on August 17. Walking on Fire (2019–present) Glim Spanky contributed the track "Circle of Time" to October 2019's New Gene, Inspired from Phoenix, a compilation album featuring songs inspired by Osamu Tezuka's manga series Phoenix. The band's fifth single "Story no Saki ni", which was written to be the theme song of the TV show Re:Follower, was released on November 20, 2019. Its music video features the deepfake technique, using the faces of six other women, to express multiple personality disorder on its lead actress. Glim Spanky wrote the song "From the Seeds" for Mone Kamishiraishi to sing as the opening theme for the March 2020 second season of the 7 Seeds anime. Both members composed the music, Matsuo wrote the lyrics and participated in the chorus, and Kamemoto arranged the song and provided guitar. On June 24, 2020, the band released the song "Konna Yofuke wa" digitally after writing and recording it remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. In October, they released their fifth album Walking on Fire and were recipients of the Shinmai Senshō award as natives of Nagano Prefecture who made important contributions to society. Glim Spanky live streamed a concert on November 14. The duo collaborated with Tomoyasu Hotei for the song "Savage Sun" on his November 2020 album Soul to Soul, and wrote "Mikansei na Drama" for DISH; both members composed the music, while Matsuo wrote the lyrics, and Kamemoto arranged the song and provided guitar. Kamemoto also provided guitar to the theme songs of the 2020 anime film Earwig and the Witch. For the film's 2022 album Āya to Majo Songbook 13 Lime Avenue, which is credited to the fictional band "Earwig", Kamemoto played on every track and Glim Spanky contributed the songs "The House in Lime Avenue" and "A Black Cat". Glim Spanky's song "Kaze wa Yonde Iru" was selected to be the official theme of Asahi Broadcasting Nagano's 30th anniversary, and was later released digitally in June 2021 with their own version of "Mikansei na Drama". They worked with Kamishiraishi again on covers of "Aozora" by The Blue Hearts and "Ikareta Baby" by Fishmans for her June album Ano Uta −2-. The duo covered "Slow na Boogie ni Shite Kure (I Want You)" for July's Takashi Matsumoto tribute album Take Me to Kazemachi!. In September 2021, they digitally released a cover of UA's 1996 song "Jounetsu". Glim Spanky wrote the song "Kagami yo Kagami" for virtual singer KAF, while Matsuo wrote and produced the song "Candy Moon" for Maki Nomiya. The band's sixth studio album, Into the Time Hole, was released on August 3, 2022. It was supported by an 11-date nationwide tour from November 2 to December 21. Glim Spanky's "Fukō Are" (lyrics co-written by Junji Ishiwatari) is the theme song of the Sawako ~ Soreha, Hatenaki Fukushū TV drama, while their song "Last Scene" is the theme of the Paravi show Koi no Last Vacation. Both songs are included on the band's seventh studio album, The Goldmine, which will be released on November 15, 2023. The duo also contributed a version of "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" to Yumi Matsutoya's 2023 album Yuming Kanpai!!, which features new versions of the singer's songs created by artists, chosen by Matsutoya herself, adding their own performances to her original recordings. Music and influences Glim Spanky's music is largely influenced by Western rock and blues bands from the 1960s and 1970s. The duo are also influenced by the fashion from those two decades and usually wear retro-looking clothing. They have also included liquid light shows, which were popularized in the 1960s, at their concerts. Matsuo is the principal songwriter of the band's lyrics and music, but when she only has a guitar riff, chord progression or drum phrase before working with Kamemoto to turn it into a song, then both get credited for the music as Glim Spanky. Her husky vocals have been likened to those of Janis Joplin. Due to her unique voice, Matsuo struggled with singing in primary school and junior high. But after noticing that John Lennon's voice had a rough quality to it in songs such as "Help!", she realized that her voice would suit rock music well. She cited The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell as influences. Matsuo grew up in an artistic family and was exposed to a wide range of music and cultures by meeting musicians and poets. In addition to the ubiquitous Western bands, she also heard French music, African rock, Shibuya-kei and folk. Kamemoto started playing guitar because of Glay, then moved on to Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Oasis, Jimi Hendrix and Cream. The duo are also fans of Japanese bands such as Bump of Chicken, Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Ellegarden which they grew up listening to. Both members cited The Beatles as their biggest influence. Talking about their second album Next One in 2016, Matsuo said that it is "absurd" to try and put Japanese lyrics in Western-style rock music. "But even so, you have to, so although Japanese lyrics are included on top of the melody, if you were to remove them you would have a completely Western-style melody, so we made the album that that in mind." In regards to what the band wanted to do next, she said that because rock music is imported from the West, she pondered what type of rock people in the West can not make, and came up with "orientalness." Western artists became influenced by Indian music and created psychedelic rock, but "Luckily for us, we already have that orientalness the moment we are born. We can put out there something people in the West cannot, so we are establishing ourselves a Japanese kind of rock that will echo throughout the world[...] A genuine oriental psychedelic rock band." Speaking of their 2017 album Bizarre Carnival, the singer described their first and second albums as "business cards to introduce ourselves. Up until now, we've held off on the kind of maniacal rock music we really like." 2018's Looking for the Magic begins with distorted vocals as Matsuo wanted the listener to be unable to tell where the singer was from in order "to create a utopia-like song that gradually enthralls listeners." The band found recording in Los Angeles quite different than in Japan, where its done in completely soundproof rooms with expensive cables. For "TV Show" they purposely left the white noise in to give it a raw feel. Matsuo referred to the song as a wake up call against people believing fake news on the internet; "Now that's scary. I wanted to say [in this song] that people should think for themselves about what is true, without just being fed information." She further stated "I've always included hope into even my most judgmental songs, because I believe rock music is about hope." Members – vocals, rhythm guitar (2007–present) – lead guitar, backing vocals (2007–present) Support members – bass – drums – drums – drums – keyboards, backing vocals – keyboards, backing vocals – guitar Former members – bass (2007–2010) – drums (2007–2010) Discography Albums Mini-albums Singles Other releases Compilation appearances Awards References External links for Deezer Japanese psychedelic rock music groups Japanese garage rock groups Japanese blues rock musical groups Japanese musical duos Musical groups from Nagano Prefecture Musical groups established in 2007 2007 establishments in Japan Female-fronted musical groups Male–female musical duos Rock music duos
Kevin Chapman (born July 29, 1962) is an American actor known for playing an assortment of characters ranging from the obnoxious brother Terrence Garrity in FX's Rescue Me to street enforcer Val Savage in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. He also appeared in the film Sunshine Cleaning (2008), portrayed Detective Lionel Fusco on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest (2011–2016), Freddie Cork on Brotherhood (2006–2008), and guest starred in 24 (2002–2003). Career Prior to acting, he had worked as a doorman and a stand-up comedian. While working at the Boston Office of Cultural Affairs, Chapman was discovered by the late director Ted Demme and was cast as Mickey Pat in Monument Ave. (1998). Other notable film roles of his include The Cider House Rules, Mystic River, 21 Grams, In Good Company, an Italian mobster in The Boondock Saints (1999), and Fire Lt. Frank McKinney in Ladder 49 (2004). Chapman starred as Irish Mob boss, Freddie Cork, for three seasons in the Showtime original series Brotherhood. Chapman played a first responder assisting Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in season 1 episode 24 of the TV series 24 (2001) and Kevin Mitchell in season 3 of 24 (2003). He also played a CIA operative (O'Leary) in the independent comedy Black Dynamite. In 2006, Chapman appeared as an officer in the episode "Lessons Learned" (Season 2, Episode 10) of Criminal Minds. In 2010, he played Bunny in Tony Scott's action film Unstoppable. He also was a guest star in the series Lost. He appears in the film Bad Country (2013), directed by Chris Brinker. From 2011 to 2016, he portrayed Detective Lionel Fusco on the CBS show Person of Interest. Personal life Chapman is married to Meaghan E. Kennedy, and they have two children. Filmography Film Television References External links American male film actors American male television actors People from Hingham, Massachusetts Living people 1962 births
The Milburn building was built in 1886 at 47-55 Colborne Street, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by architect Edward James Lennox. Lennox was well known for his work in Toronto for his work on more famous buildings like Casa Loma and Toronto's old city hall. The Milburn building was originally constructed to serve as a warehouse for a wholesaler of patent medicines. The block on the south side of Colborne Street between Church Street and Leader Lane remains in use, and the storefronts house restaurants. Marilyn M. Litvak, in Edward James Lennox: Builder of Toronto, described the building as "Romanesque Revival". References Buildings and structures in Toronto
Lisa Bunker is an American politician who was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2018. She represents the Rockingham 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party. Bunker and Gerri Cannon were elected simultaneously as the state's first transgender state legislators. Before her election to the legislature, Bunker was program director of a community radio station in Portland, Maine. In 2017, she published a middle-grade science fiction novel, Felix Yz, about a boy fused with an alien and the risky procedure to separate them. Her second middle-grade novel, Zenobia July (2019), is about a young trans girl finally living as herself and solving a cyber mystery. Both are published by Penguin Random House. References External links Living people Democratic Party members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives LGBT state legislators in New Hampshire American women novelists Transgender women politicians Transgender women writers Transgender novelists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American politicians Women state legislators in New Hampshire People from Exeter, New Hampshire Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women politicians American transgender writers
John Van "Tex" Austin (August 26, 1885 – 26 October 1938) was an American rodeo promoter, known as the "King of the Rodeo" or "Daddy of the Rodeo" because of his efforts to popularize the rodeo outside of its core American West demographic. He owned the Forked Lightning Ranch in New Mexico. From 1925 to 1929, he was promoter, manager, and director of the Chicago Roundup. Biography Austin's birth name, in St. Louis, Missouri, was Clarence Van Nostrand. In 1908, he left St. Louis and adopted a new persona, changing his name (and usually was called Tex Austin) and saying that he was raised on a cattle ranch in Victoria, Texas. He worked at the L.F.D. Ranch in Roswell, New Mexico and then at a ranch at Las Vegas, New Mexico. He claimed to have worked for Don Luis Terrazas, the Chihuahua cattle baron of the Creel-Terrazas Family. In 1910, he was a captain under Francisco Villa in Madero's revolutionary forces against Diaz. His first produced rodeo was in El Paso, Texas. In 1918 in Wichita, Kansas, he produced the first indoor rodeo. In the 1920s, Austin put together rodeos in the Chicago Stadium, New York's Madison Square Garden (1922), and in Hollywood. He took his rodeo to the newly opened Wembley Stadium in London, in 1924. Austin took to Britain such rodeo stars as: Ike Rude, Manerd Gayler, Andy Lund, Art Lund, Dave Campbell, Rube Roberts, Ted Elder and Vera McGinnis. The rodeo was challenged by animal rights activists attempting to get a court order barring the rodeo on the basis of animal cruelty. The Wembley rodeo, in which Austin lost $20,000, was to cause Parliament to pass the Protection of Animals Act 1934 which made it an offense to rope an untrained animal or to ride one using a cruel appliance such as a strap cinched tight around its genitals. Directly after the rodeo in Wembley Stadium, Austin produced a rodeo in Dublin, Ireland, held in Croke Park. Tex Austin returned to London with his rodeo in 1934 where cowboys and cowgirls performed in the White City stadium before the king and queen. Bronc riders including Herman Linder, Frank Sharp, Weldon Bascom, Clark Lund and Pete Knight rode in the 1934 London rodeo. The featured bucking horse of the show was the legendary Midnight. "Suicide" Ted Elder was a contestant in the trick riding competition and also a contract performer jumping his horses over on automobile. New Mexico In the early 1920s, he was involved with the Vermejo Park Ranch guest ranch. In 1925, he bought land in the old Pecos Pueblo Grant for a guest ranch called Forked Lightning Ranch. The main ranch house was one of the first works of John Gaw Meem. The ranch is now part of the Pecos National Historic Park. Austin would hold cattle drives between the ranch and Las Vegas, New Mexico, recruiting city folk back east to participate in the drives. The ranch was later owned by Buddy Fogelson and the actress Greer Garson. After losing the ranch in the Great Depression, Austin retired to Santa Fe with his wife Mary Lou McGuire of Albuquerque. They opened a restaurant in Santa Fe called "Tex Austin's Los Rancheros". He committed suicide in 1938, a few weeks after getting a diagnosis that he was going blind. He died of carbon monoxide inhalation while he was in his car at his home. Photographs of his rodeo days were found stacked on the couch of his home. Legacy He was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1976. References External links 1885 births 1938 deaths American sports businesspeople Rodeo promoters and managers Businesspeople from St. Louis People from Santa Fe, New Mexico Suicides in New Mexico Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning Ranchers from New Mexico 20th-century American businesspeople 1938 suicides
Purdie is a surname and may refer to: Alexander Purdie, Colonial Williamsburg printer, publisher, merchant Alexander Callender Purdie (1824–1899), New Zealand naturalist Bernard Purdie (born 1939), American session drummer Bernard Purdie (footballer) (born 1949), Welsh footballer Brad Purdie (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player Ethel Ayres Purdie (1874 - 1923), British accountant and suffragist Henry Augustus Purdie (1840–1911), American naturalist Jock Purdie (1918–1988), English footballer Justin Purdie (born 1980), Samoan rugby union player Rob Purdie (born 1982), English footballer Tom Purdie (1854–1929), Scottish footballer who played for Hearts Russell Purdie (born 1967), American intern under Pat Buchanan American conservative columnist and Communications Director for USA President Ronald Reagan. See also Purdey (disambiguation) Purdy (disambiguation)
Zhangshabu () is a station and the southern terminus on Line 10 of the Shenyang Metro. The station opened on 29 April 2020. Station Layout References Railway stations in China opened in 2020 Shenyang Metro stations
Xonotla is a town located northeast of Puebla in Mexico. It shares a border with Tuzamapan de Galeana to the north, Cuetzálan del Progreso to the east, Zoquiapan and Nauzontla to the south and Caxhuacan and Huehuetla to the west. Its population is 755. Name The town gets its name from the Nahuatl word "xonotl," which means jonote (Heliocarpus appendiculatus), and "-tla," which means abundant, which together means "where the jonote is abundant." The town was called "Xonotla" by the people because there are many trees whose oil was used to cure ailments. The place was named by Ixocélotl whose name means "jaguar face." History The place was founded by Ixocélotl in 1180 A.D. Xonotla was a densely populated area when the conquistadors arrived. Two languages were spoken at that time, Náhuatl and Totonaca. In 1591, San Martín Tuzamapan, Santiago Ecatlán and San Francisco Ayotoxco belonged to Xonotla. Moctezuma conquered this area and received tribute of corn, beans and chile when it was available. On 13 August 1552, Diego Ramirez charted the town. In 1608, an epidemic swept through the town. Geography The town measures 73.99 square kilometers. Its altitude is 800 meters above sea level and goes down to 500 meters toward the Zempoala and Tozán rivers. Climate The climate is humid and warm, with rains throughout the year. Main ecosystems Flora are chalahuite, jonote, blood of degree, encino, charcoal, cedar, mahogany and a great variety of perennial leaf shrubs. It has ferns, including arborescentes, orchids, camellias, lilies and tulips. Agriculture consists of coffee plantations and small corn farms. Fauna range from armadillo, wild boar, coyote, tejón, rabbit, squirrel, doves and to chachalacas. Reptiles include coralillo, flying, aquatic nauyaca, mazacuate, trout, catfish, prawn, acamaya, and others. Natural resources Wood from the forests is used for construction. The ground can be classified into 4 characteristic groups: Lithosol: It is the predominant ground. It occupies more than 50% of the surface mainly in the central and southwest portion. Regosol: It is located in the northeastern portion. It presents onerous phase. Phaeozem: It is located in the creek of Apulco. Andosol: It is located in a reduced area of the southwest Population There are two ethnic groups. The largest is the Náhuatl followed by the Totonaco. According to the 1995 census, the population is 4,559. Economic activity Xonotla produces corn, beans and coffee. Farm animals include cattle, pigs, goats, donkeys and rabbits. The fishing industry relies on catfish, prawns, mojarra, robalo, acamayas and rive in the area. The primary industries are nixtamal mills and furniture manufacturing. Tourism Legend has it that a miracle took place in the church. Many years ago, a native walking across the mountain saw a rock fall away from the mountain. He investigated to see if everything was all right, and found a virgin maiden in a cave. People pray at the site. References https://web.archive.org/web/20080203095644/http://emexico.gob.mx:80/work/EMM_1/Puebla/Mpios/21088a.htm Populated places in Puebla 1180 establishments 12th-century establishments in Mexico
Kayla is a village in Bhiwani tehsil, Bhiwani district, of the Indian state of Haryana. the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 4,052 across 738 households. See also List of villages in Bhiwani district References Villages in Bhiwani district
Samick Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. (Hangul: 삼익악기, also known as Samick) is a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1958 as Samick Pianos, it is now one of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers and an owner of shares in several musical instrument manufacturing companies. Apart from its own brand, Samick manufactures musical instruments through its subsidiary brands, including pianos under the brands Wm. Knabe & Co., Pramberger, Kohler & Campbell, and Seiler; and guitars under the brands Greg Bennett, Silvertone, Stony River, and San Mateo. Operations In 1992, Samick built its P.T. Samick factory in Cileungsi, near Bogor, Indonesia. This factory produces the majority of instruments that Samick makes. North American operations are performed from its newly constructed (completed July 2007) North American Corporate Headquarters, located in Gallatin, TN. This facility is responsible for all administrative activities for the North American market, as well as acting as a distribution center for its guitars and acoustic/digital pianos. The facility recently began the manufacture of a small number of acoustic pianos, which will be sold under the Knabe brand. Guitar manufacturing and OEM supply Samick guitars are manufactured under different brand names and made by a number of different makers, including Greg Bennett and J.T. Riboloff (a former luthier at Gibson). Some other Samick-built guitars are sold under Squier, Epiphone, Washburn, Hohner, Silvertone, and other brands. Greg Bennett Guitars American luthier Greg Bennett designed a line of guitars for Samick. The guitars have pickups designed by Seymour Duncan, machine heads from Grover, and bridges by Wilkinson. Woods used include ovangkol and ebony from Africa, rosewood from India, and rock maple from North America. Instruments under the Greg Bennett label are electric, acoustic and archtop guitars, electric and acoustic basses, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles and autoharps. Bennett died on June 29, 2020, at the age of 69. Piano manufacturing and brand management Samick also has a wide range of pianos. Its acoustic piano brands include Samick, Pramberger, Wm. Knabe & Co., Kohler & Campbell, and Gebrüder Schulze; and it has digital piano brands of Kohler, Samick Digital, and Symphonia. Samick recently announced the discontinuation of the Sohmer & Co. brand. In 2004, Samick gained controlling interest in competitor Young Chang, but antitrust rulings in the U.S. and Korea ended the merger a year later. From 2003 to 2009 Samick was associated with German C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik. In addition, Bechstein and Samick have a joint venture factory in Shanghai, China. In October 2008, Samick announced its purchase of Seiler, another German piano company, that is generally agreed to compete with Bechstein at both price point and overall quality. The announcement raises questions about the continued viability of relationship between Samick and Bechstein . In late 2009, Samick acquired a 16.5% share of Steinway Musical Instruments. By November 2010, Samick's share in Steinway Musical Instruments increased to 32%. In 2013, John Paulson outbid Samick when Steinway and Sons was taken private. Other businesses In 1975, Samick Pianos, as the company was known at that time, created an archery department and began building bows. In 1990, this division was spun off as Samick Sports Co., Ltd. In 2016, the company was restructured and its name changed to Samick Archery Co., Ltd. Since 1996, its products have been used to attain several Olympic gold medals, mostly by Korean athletes. Besides Olympic-level archery equipment, Samick also manufactures the very popular budget-oriented Sage and Polaris hunting bows. References External links Official website Piano manufacturing companies Guitar manufacturing companies Musical instrument manufacturing companies of South Korea Manufacturing companies established in 1958 South Korean companies established in 1958
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is a 2017 non-fiction book by Michael Eric Dyson. Overview A look into the state of race relations in the United States, delivered as "a hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide, directed specifically to a white congregation." The book grapples with the social construct of "whiteness" and challenges the readers to "reject the willful denial of history and to live fully in the complicated present with all of the discomfort it brings." Dyson's 'sermon' addresses "five dysfunctional ways that those regarded as white respond when confronted with the reality that whiteness is simultaneously artificial and powerful," as well as "dysfunctional ways that black people sometimes respond to white racism." Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed or discounted. References External links Macmillan.com 2017 non-fiction books English-language books Books about race and ethnicity Race in the United States African-American literature Works about White Americans St. Martin's Press books
Oslo Package 1 () was a political agreement and plan for introducing an urban toll ring around Oslo, Norway and making 31 investments to road infrastructure in Oslo and Akershus. The package was approved in 1988 and toll charges were introduced in 1990. It was supplemented by Oslo Package 2, which included a similar scheme for public transport. In 2008, they were both replaced by Oslo Package 3. The entire plan involved investments of 11 billion NOK (equivalent to billion NOK in ) to be funded by 4.8 billion NOK in state grants and 6.2 billion NOK in toll road revenue. 3.9 billion NOK was invested in Akershus, while 7.1 billion NOK was invested in Oslo. The company Fjellinjen was created to manage the toll collection. History During the 1970s, car traffic in Oslo increased greatly and there was political will to increase investment in motorways and tunnels in the city. The goal was to increase capacity and reduce congestion in city streets. In particular, Rådhusgata, the City Hall Square, and the areas around them were congested, hindering people from accessing the fjord. However, during the 1980s, the political climate shifted towards reduced public spending. In 1982, the Minister of Transport, Inger Koppernæs from the Conservative Party, promised increased government grants to local authorities that introduced toll roads. The first project planned was the Festning Tunnel that would, along with the intersection at Vestbanen, allow the City Hall Square to become car free. In 1986, the city council in Oslo and Akershus County Council jointly set demands for a new toll ring scheme, requiring that the state grant extra funding equal to the toll charges: the "krone for krone" principle. This was similar to a prior agreement in Bergen. A report made by the second Willoch cabinet provided that initial project, Fjellinjen, was to receive an annual grant of 230 million NOK. While there was local resistance, the plan was popular in the Storting. By 1987, Oslo and Akershus were in agreement on the placement of the eighteen toll plazas. Since the ring would be located within Oslo, there was more local resistance in Oslo than in Akershus. To increase support in Oslo, 20% of the funds were allocated for public transport and 70% of the investments would be used in Oslo. A committee with representatives from Oslo, Akershus, the state, and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration was created, while the planning became the responsibility of the Public Roads Administration. There were three plan periods from 1990 to 2001 and additional plans for the period until 2005 were also made. Estimates showed NOK 8.1 billion in investments were required from 1990 to 2001. The project was finally approved by the Storting on 10 June 1988. The goals of the project were to increase capacity by 30–50% and to avoid increased congestion by building from the city center outwards. Without the package, the investments would have taken about 30 years. The company Fjellinjen was founded on 13 February 1986 by the Municipality of Oslo to secure financing for the Festning Tunnel. With the 1988 decision, the company was given the responsibility of financing the rest of the toll ring. As a result, Akershus bought 40% of the company in 1990. Oslo Package 2 In 1996, the work started on the creation of a similar package for public transport – in particular, the Asker Line and Follo Line railways, the Ring Line and some extensions to the Oslo T-bane, and improvements to the infrastructure for buses and trams. The goal was to raise sufficient funding for the project, to reduce the project time from 25 years to 10 years. The package was passed by the Storting in 2000 and provided NOK 15.6 billion in funding. In addition to public grants, each public transport ticket would contribute NOK 0.75 and the tolls of the ring road would increase by 2 NOK. Oslo Package 3 Following the termination of Oslo Package 1 in 2008, a new political compromise was created for another twenty years of investments: Oslo Package 3. It includes investment in road, rail, and bus infrastructure as well as public transport operation. The total budget is NOK 58 billion. It was passed by parliament on 13 March 2008. Projects The main objective of the package was to move road traffic to the ring roads, reducing the amount of traffic in the city center and freeing up capacity in the main arteries. In the 1990s, a number of tunnels were built and the ring roads improved. During the 2000s, the focus was moved towards the arteries. Oslo European Route E18, running through the city centre, received much of the initial investments, with the Festning Tunnel opening in 1990 and the Vestbane Intersection in 1994. The City Hall Square was subsequently closed to cars. Also in the city centre were upgrades to National Road 162 in 1990–91, including the Vaterland Tunnel. A new intersection for National Road 4 was also built at Hausmannsgate. Ring 3 received funding for the Granfoss Tunnel (1992), upgrades from Sinsen to Storo (1994), intersections at Blindern (1993) and the Norwegian Radium Hospital (1997), and upgrades to the section from Tåsen to Ullevål (including the Tåsen Tunnel, 1999). National Road 190, connecting the E6 to the E18, was also expanded, including the Teisen Intersection (with the E6 in 1990) and the Ekeberg Tunnel (1995). The E6 received grants for the Ryen Intersection (1997), the Skullerud Intersection (1998), the Svartdal Tunnel (2000), and the Galgeberg Connection (2001). Akershus In 1993, the E6 was upgraded between Vinterbro and Vassum while the E18 received a new intersection at Lysaker and a connection to the European Route E16 at Sandvika, including the Kjørbo Tunnel. The following year, the Bekkestua Tunnel opened on National Road 160. Norwegian National Road 4 was extended from Skøyen to Slattum in 1993 and from Gjelleråsen to Slattum in 2003. National Road 159 was upgraded between Knatten and Lørdagsrud in 1997, and from Lørdagsrud to National Road 22 the following year. A bypass was also added past Strømmen in 2003. References Notes Bibliography Road transport in Oslo Road transport in Akershus
Marc Andrew Bolton (born 16 February 1968) is an English actor, best known for his television work. Training Bolton trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating with distinction in 1996. Stage career Bolton has enjoyed a varied career on the stage and has appeared at The Gate, The Bush Theatre and The Pleasance, as well as touring with the Hull Truck Theatre. Television career Bolton has appeared as the recurring character Dean Morris in Emmerdale since 2004 and has recently joined the BBC drama Doctors as returning character DC Dave Lynham. He has also guested on many other shows including EastEnders, as Andrew Clarke, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Bill, Dream Team and Ultraviolet. Personal life Bolton married his wife Eve in November 2003. External links Official website Living people 1968 births English male soap opera actors Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art People from Durham, England Male actors from County Durham
Gilanduz (, also Romanized as Gīlāndūz; also known as Gelandūz and Kilandus) is a village in Zarjabad Rural District, Firuz District, Kowsar County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 168, in 30 families. References Tageo Towns and villages in Kowsar County
Korakkattur is a small village which in Gobichettipalayam taluk, Erode district. Korakkattur is also called Korakkattupudur. This place comes under two panchayats which are Vellankovil and Kadukkampalayam. The village is also split between two MLA constituencies, Gobichettipalayam and Anthiyur. The Kariya Kalli Amman Kovil and Lord Shiva, Vishnu, Hanuman temple usually conducts a festival in February or March. There is also a Mariamman Temple located at this village which holds a seven-day festival in May. Korakkattur village is mainly dependent on agriculture, producing sugar cane, turmeric, rice, and other produce. The main water source is the LBP canal. Villages in Erode district
The Castle Cinema is a former cinema building located adjacent to the grounds of Swansea Castle in Swansea, south Wales. According to Kinematograph year book of 1914 the Castle opened in October 1913. It was the only building left standing in Swansea's Castle Street vicinity after the Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing raids during the Second World War. It is a grade II listed structure. In 1963 the Castle Cinema changed its manager (Mr. Harry Williams who had previously managed The Plaza on Swanseas Kingsway. Mr Williams retired in October 1981, aged 79). The cinema required complete refurbishment. New wall coverings and screen tabs were installed along with a cinemascope screen. Two hundred seats were removed from the back of the stalls to create a foyer which meant the small circle had no overhang. Double seats (kissing seats) formed the last few rows of the stalls. During the 1970s the cinema was showed a number of soft core porn films. By the end of the 1970s Swansea had only two other cinemas (the ODEON on The Kingsway and a small independent operating in a chapel). In 1982 the lease of the Castle was acquired by Circle Cinemas of Cardiff who renamed it the FILMCENTA and installed new projection equipment and Dolby Stereo and started to exhibit popular mainstream blockbusters. The cinema showed films that had not been secured by the Rank Organisation for its Odeon Chain. This was known as the ABC release stream. The local city council banned Monty Python's Life of Brian from being shown. Circa 1988 UCI opened a 10 screen multiplex in the town next door to the Filmcenta. This meant that it no longer showed a film exclusively and its audience chose to go to the multiplex with its modern facilities. The Filmcenta remained open for nearly two more years before eventually closing. The last film shown was "Doc Hollywood" with Michael J Fox. The building was converted to use as a laser gun combat-game and assault course called the Lazerzone. References Grade II listed buildings in Swansea Former cinemas
Psalmist movement is a term that covers a period of mass musical education in Britain having its roots in the dissenting congregational church singing organisations of late 18th century in regional Scotland and Northern England, which, by the mid-19th century, was to become a vibrant metropolitan cultural institution, coinciding with radical developments in broader national schools policy, the latter owing much to the teaching methods used by the psalmist singing schools. It is sometimes also referred to as the 'choral revival'. The names most often associated with the 'movement' in Britain are John Curwen (1816–1880), Sarah Ann Glover (1785–1867) and John Pyke Hullah (1812–24), However it had its philosophical roots in Europe, particularly in the social idealism of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. In Bernarr Rainbow's words 'As a result of the series of weekly massed singing classes introduced at Exeter Hall under government sanction, the people of London became more musically conscious between 1841 and 1843 than they had ever been.' Sources Cowgill, Rachel and Peter Holman (eds) 2007, Music in the British Provinces, 1690–1914 Ashgate Curwen, John Spencer Studies in Worship Music - www.archive.org/stream/studiesinworship Rainbow, Bernarr 1970, The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church (1839–1872) 1970 (London); with special reference to PART 1/3 'The Cradle of the Movement', pp. 43–57. References Education in England Music education
Trimountain or Tri-mountain, est. , is a traprock mountain located southeast of Meriden, Connecticut. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Trimountain is known for its scenic cliff faces, unique microclimate ecosystems, and rare plant communities. The mountain is traversed by the Mattabesett Trail. Geography Trimountain is located in Durham and Wallingford, Connecticut. It takes its name from its overall triangular shape, its three southern pinnacles, and the three notches between the pinnacles. A prominent landscape feature that rises above the surrounding valleys, Trimountain is roughly long by wide, although the steepness of the terrain makes the actual square mileage much larger. Although Trimountain has been subject to intensive quarrying, which has obliterated much of the northwestern face of the mountain, the Mattabesett Trail still traverses the southern pinnacles and the wooded eastern side of the mountain. The Metacomet Ridge continues north from Trimountain as Besek Mountain and south as Fowler Mountain. The east side of Trimountain drains into the Coginchaug River, thence to the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound; the west side drains into the Muddy River, thence into the Quinnipiac River and Long Island Sound. Geology and ecology Trimountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, also called traprock, a volcanic rock. The mountain formed near the end of the Triassic Period with the rifting apart of the North American continent from Africa and Eurasia. Lava welled up from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick. Subsequent faulting and earthquake activity tilted the strata, creating the cliffs and ridgeline of Trimountain. Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Connecticut. Trimountain is also an important raptor migration path. (See Metacomet Ridge for more information on the geology and ecosystem of Trimountain). Conservation and Recreation Trimountain is used for hiking, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing. The mountain is traversed by the Mattabesett Trail (maintained by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association), which stretches from the northern end of Lamentation Mountain, south to Totoket Mountain and north again to the Connecticut River. Trimountain State Park, and undeveloped property, is located on the southeastern side of the mountain. A trailhead for the Mattabesett Trail on Trimountain is located at the junction of Connecticut Route 68 and Connecticut Route 157 in Reeds Gap between Trimountain and Besek Mountain, west of Durham center. The ridgeline of Trimountain and its ecosystem is most threatened by quarrying and suburban development. The quarry on the western side of the mountain was approximately as of 2007. In 2000, Trimountain was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut. The Wallingford Land Trust and the Middlesex Land Trust have been active in conserving the viewshed of Trimountain. See also Metacomet Ridge Adjacent summits: References Farnsworth, Elizabeth J. "Metacomet-Mattabesett Trail Natural Resource Assessment." 2004. PDF wefile cited November 1, 2007. Connecticut Walk Book: A Trail Guide to the Connecticut Outdoors. 17th Edition. The Connecticut Forest and Park Association. Rockfall, Connecticut. Undated. Raymo, Chet and Raymo, Maureen E. Written in Stone: A Geologic History of the Northeastern United States. Globe Pequot, Chester, Connecticut, 1989. U.S. Congress New England National Scenic Trail Designation Act. External links Connecticut Forest and Park Association U.S. Congress New England National Scenic Trail Designation Act. NPS brochure for National Scenic Trail proposal. Wallingford Land Trust Middlesex Land Trust Mountains of Connecticut Wallingford, Connecticut Durham, Connecticut Metacomet Ridge, Connecticut Landforms of Middlesex County, Connecticut
The 2015–16 Lowland League was the third season of the Lowland Football League. The season began on 1 August 2015 and ended on 19 May 2016. Edinburgh City were the defending champions. Cumbernauld Colts were elected to the league as new members. The league was won by Edinburgh City with two matches remaining on 9 April 2016, securing their second title after a 1–0 win over Stirling University. They played the champions of the 2015–16 Highland League (Cove Rangers) in the semi-finals of the League Two play-offs, winning 4-1 on aggregate. Edinburgh City then drew 1–1 at home in the first leg of the play-off final against East Stirlingshire, before scoring a late penalty to win 1–0 away from home in the second leg, winning 2–1 on aggregate to gain a place in Scottish League Two. Teams The following teams have changed division since the 2014–15 season. To Lowland League Transferred from Caledonian Amateur Football League Cumbernauld Colts Stadia and Locations League table Threave Rovers were spared automatic relegation as neither champion of the two feeder leagues, Leith Athletic or St Cuthbert Wanderers, met licensing criteria. The club however, declined the opportunity to re-apply to the league and rejoined the South of Scotland Football League for the 2016–17 season. Results Lowland Football League play-off It was proposed that the respective winners of the 2015–16 East of Scotland Football League (Leith Athletic) and 2015–16 South of Scotland Football League (St Cuthbert Wanderers) leagues would meet in a play-off, with the winner taking a place in next season's Lowland League. However, neither met licensing criteria so the play-off did not take place. References Lowland Football League seasons 5 Scottish
Geoff Barton (born July 1955) is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine. He joined Sounds at the age of 19 after completing a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) after using the term for the first time (after editor Alan Lewis coined it) in the May 1979 issue of Sounds. In 1981 he edited the first issue of Kerrang!, which was published as a one off. This was successful so it became a fortnightly magazine. He left the magazine in 1995. Barton's articles for Sounds which covered the NWOBHM helped to create the sense that an actual movement was taking place, and in a sense helped to create one in the process. Barton recalls: "The phrase New Wave of British Heavy Metal was this slightly tongue-in-cheek thing...I didn't really feel that any of these bands were particularly linked in a musical way, but it was interesting that so many of them should then be emerging at more or less the same time." He currently works for Classic Rock. References British male journalists Living people British magazine editors 1955 births
Jennifer Mary Welsh (born 1965) is a Canadian professor of international relations, currently working as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University. Welsh is the Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies at McGill's Max Bell School of Public Policy, and a co-director of the Canadian Research Network on Women, Peace and Security. Welsh is a frequent commentator in Canadian media on foreign affairs. Prior to her appointment at McGill, Welsh was a professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford from 1999 to 2014, where she also co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2014 to 2019, Welsh was the chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence), where she directed a five-year European Research Council project on the ethics and law of contemporary armed conflict. Education Welsh has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from the University of Saskatchewan (1987), where she received the Governor General's Academic Medal (Gold). Welsh was named a Rhodes Scholar (1987) and completed a Master's and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford (1987–1992). Career From 1997 to 1998, Welsh was a Professor and Associate Director of the Peace & Conflict Studies Programme at the University of Toronto. Welsh was a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford (1999–2006) and was appointed a full professor in 2006. Welsh has engaged in a number of policy processes related to international peace and security and Canadian foreign policy. In 2005, she was the lead writer for the International Policy Statement for the Government of Canada. From 2013 to 2016 Welsh was served as Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Responsibility to Protect – a position in which she helped to further develop and implement the principle within and beyond the UN system. She delivered the 2016 Massey Lectures. Welsh currently works as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security and serves as the Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) at McGill University. She is also a professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, and the Co-Director of the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security. Welsh has also served as consultant to several organizations including McKinsey and Co, Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, and the Government of Canada. Welsh has also served on the boards or in an advisory role for numerous organizations, including the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt, the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and the Trudeau Foundation. Welsh was elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021, and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2022. Publications 1995 Author, Edmund Burke and International Relations (Macmillan/St. Martin's Press) 1998 Co author, Chips & Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation (Malcolm Lester Books) 1999 Co-editor, Empire and Community: Edmund Burke's Writings and Speeches on International Relations (Westview Press) 2003 Editor, Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (Oxford University Press) 2004 Author, At Home in the World: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century (HarperCollins) 2007 Co-editor, Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) 2008 Co-editor, The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (Oxford University Press) 2013 Co-editor, Just and Unjust Military Intervention: European Political Thought from Vitoria to Mill (Cambridge University Press) 2015 Co-editor, The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention (Oxford University Press 2016 Author, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century (House of Anansi Press Inc.) References External links Living people Canadian Rhodes Scholars Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford University of Saskatchewan alumni Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian non-fiction writers Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan Responsibility to protect Canadian officials of the United Nations Academic staff of the University of Toronto Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Academic staff of McGill University Academic staff of the European University Institute Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1965 births
The Clemson Tigers women's tennis team represents Clemson University in NCAA Division I college tennis. The Tigers are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team is currently coached by Nancy Harris, who is on her 15th season in Clemson. Home games are played in the Hoke Sloan Tennis Center in Clemson, South Carolina. The team has won 9 ACC championships since the program started and earned 18 NCAA Tournament bids. The Tigers finished a season among the top 25 teams in the nation 24 times. History On September 7, 1975, Clemson Athletics officials announced the start of the women's tennis program that would first start in the spring of 1976. The Lady Tigers played their first dual match on March 10 in Atlanta, Georgia, and captured a win against Georgia State 9–0. In May 1977 the Tigers finished the season ranked 9th in the country. Mary Kennerty King was the first coach of the program; she also served as a Clemson women's basketball coach for one season. In June 1978 Susan Hill, a freshman member of the team was named All-American and ACC Player of the Year, becoming the first Lady Tiger tennis player to get these awards. In October 1981 in Durham, North Carolina, the team won the first ACC Championship in the school's history. Since the program started the Tigers have won 9 ACC Championships and had 21 All-American players. Coaching history Mary Kennerty King (1976–1982)- First coach of the Clemson women's tennis program. Under her guidance Tigers compiled a 133–47 record with a .739 winning percentage. Andy Johnston (1983–1997) Captured a winning record of 254–160, which makes him the winningest coach in the program history. He led the team to five consecutive ACC Titles (1983–1987). He is currently working as an Associate Athletic Director in Football Operations at Clemson Tigers football team. Current staff Nancy Harris (1997–present) She is currently serving her 15th season in Clemson. Has a winning record of 238-129 in Clemson. Led the team to ACC Championship Titles in 2004 and 2008. Coached Julie Coin who later beat number 1 in the world Ana Ivanovic at 2008 US Open. Scott Kidd (2011–present)- Is on his second season as an assistant coach in Clemson. Before Clemson he was a head coach of both women's and men's teams in a NAIA school Auburn University-Montgomery. He was named a NAIA Coach of the Year five times and won a total of 6 NAIA National Championships. Gui Jasmin (2012–present) Volunteer assistant coach, on his first season in Clemson. Former player from Brazil. Studied in University of West Florida, where he also spent two years as an assistant coach of both men's and women's tennis teams. Josh Hudak – Graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. Kenneth Long – Student manager Monica Lopes – Graduate Athletic Trainer Hall of fame Former standout players Susan Hill (1978–1981) was named All-American three times in singles (1978, 1979, 1980). Four-time ACC Player-of-the-year, four time ACC Flight 1 champion. Lost only one ACC match in her entire college career and still holds the highest winning percentage in Clemson history (.863, with 126 wins and 20 losses). Clemson Hall of Fame Inductee (1986). Julie Coin (2002–2005) is a French professional tennis player, who graduated from Clemson with a degree in mathematics. She was a three-time ITF All-American at Clemson and ACC Player of the Year in 2004. Her best accomplishment in the career so far was the win over number one in the world Ana Ivanovic. Ani Mijačika (2006–2009) is a Croatian professional tennis player, who also studied in Clemson, but left after her junior year to go professional. While in Clemson she earned a spot on the 2007 All-ACC team and was named the Freshman of the Year. The only player in the history of Clemson tennis to achieve number 1 ranking in the nation. Jane Forman (1981–1984) 1982, 1983 and 1984 All-American (singles). With a highest final singles ranking of No. 10. Clemson Hall of Fame Inductee (2003). Gigi Fernández (1983) first Clemson player to reach finals of a national singles tournament. 1992 and 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist in doubles. Eight time doubles Grand Slam champion. Clemson Hall of Fame Inductee (2005). Current players Josipa Bek Born on Jan 27, 1988 in Osijek Croatia. Senior, majoring in Management. Reached a career high ranking of No. 8 in singles and No. 1 in doubles, partnering Keri Wong. Won her 100th career match in the match against Florida State University. Won her 106th doubles match in 2012, setting a new school record. Has 29 3-set match wins, which is the most 3-set wins in school history. Three-times All-American in singles and three times All-American in doubles. Runner up of the NCAA Doubles Championship in doubles in 2010. Before coming to Clemson played on professionally, reaching a ranking of No. 549 in singles and No. 277 in doubles. Keri Wong Born on Dec 25, 1989 in Jackson, Mississippi. Senior, majoring in Management. Reached a career high ranking of No. 32 in singles and No. 1 in doubles partnering Josipa Bek. Doubles All-American (2009, 2011). Was an All-ACC Selection twice in her career. Before coming to Clemson competed in the junior ITF circuit, reaching career high ranking of No. 379. Nelly Ciolkowski Born on Jun 11, 1990 in Neuilly-Plaisance, France. Senior, majoring in Management. Reached Finals of ITACarolina Region Singles Finals. Competed in the World University Games representing France also competed for France in Master'U BNP Paribas tournament, winning all of her singles matches for her home country. Monika Kochanová Born on February 16, 1989, form Bratislava, Slovakia. Sophomore, majoring in Parks Recreation and Tourism Management. Was red-shirted her freshman year. Before coming to Clemson played professionally and reached a career high ranking of No. 482 in singles and No. 323 in doubles. Klara Vyskocilova Born on August 4, 1990, from Klatovy, Czech Republic. Sophomore, majoring in Financial Management. Ranked among the top 50 players nationally in the Czech Republic. Currently ranked in top 100 among US college tennis players. Yana Koroleva Born on December 18, 1992, from Moscow, Russia. Freshman, majoring in Communication Studies. Before coming to Clemson played professionally, reaching a career high ranking of No. 385 in singles and No. 759 in doubles. Beatrice Gumulya Freshman from Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior coming to Clemson played professionally and reached a ranking of No. 755 in singles and No. 355 in doubles. Has a sister who is a professional tennis player- Sandy Gumulya Romy Koelzer Born on August 22, 1991. Freshman from Betzdorf, Germany, majoring in Communication Studies. Ranked in the top 50 of the German women's open division. All-Americans Nineteen different All-Americans have been a part of the Tiger program. Susan Hill (1978, 1979, 1980-singles) Jane Forman (1982, 1983, 1984-singles) Gigi Fernández (1983-singles) Nicole Stafford (1985-singles, 1987-doubles) Cathy Hoffer (1986-singles) Ingelise Driehuis (1986-singles, 1987-doubles) Boba Tzvetkova (1994-singles) Shannon King (1994-doubles) Janice Durden (1994-doubles) Sophie Woorons (1996-singles and doubles) Jan Barrett (1996-doubles) Julie Coin (2004-singles, 2005-singles and doubles) Alix Lacelarie (2005-doubles) Frederica Van Adrichem (2007-doubles) Ani Mijacika (2007-doubles, 2008, 2009-singles and doubles) Carol Salge (2008-doubles) Josipa Bek (2009, 2010, 2011-singles and doubles) Ina Hadziselimovic (2009, 2010-doubles) Keri Wong (2009, 2011-doubles) References External links ClemsonTigers.com – The official page of the Clemson Athletics Tennis Team.
West Side Place is an approved A$1 billion complex of four buildings, when built, will become some of the tallest buildings in Melbourne. The project is located on 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne. The complex The tallest of the buildings within the complex, Tower A, will comprise 600 apartments spanning across 81 levels. At a height of 268.7 metres, it will become the fourth-tallest building in Melbourne, and one of the tallest buildings in Australia. In addition to the apartments, a 5-star hotel of 263 rooms and a 500-seat ballroom will occupy the building. Hotel chain The Ritz-Carlton have signed on to manage the hotel, opening in February 2022. It spans floors 61 to 81, with its sky lobby located on floor 79. The 65-level Tower B will comprise 520 apartments and 260 rooms in a 3-4 star hotel and will reach a height of 211 metres. The third skyscraper will reach , 70 levels, and will comprise 778 apartments. The tall Tower D will include 805 apartments across 72 levels. The A$1 billion project will be Melbourne's biggest inner-city development, encompassing of floor space. Developed by Far East Consortium, the complex was initially proposed in 2013, and was later approved in mid-2014 by then-Planning Minister, Matthew Guy. It was proposed to be fully completed in 2022. Most of the building's residential apartments have opened . Construction was suspended in February 2022 when contractor Probuild went into administration. See also List of tallest buildings in Melbourne References External links Skyscrapers in Melbourne Residential skyscrapers in Australia Apartment buildings in Melbourne Proposed skyscrapers in Australia Skyscraper hotels in Australia Buildings and structures in Melbourne City Centre
Leslie C. Quick Jr. (January 27, 1926 – March 8, 2001) was co-founder of Quick & Reilly. He graduated from Widener University. In 1974 he co-founded Quick & Reilly, the first New York Stock Exchange member firm to offer discounted commissions to individuals. It is one of the nation's leading brokerage firms, expanding the business to include one of the largest specialist firms on the New York Stock Exchange, a major clearing and execution firm, and a NASDAQ market maker. Family Quick's family are devout Catholics. His widow, the late Regina Clarkson Quick (March 2, 1927 – April 3, 2006), was a Dame of Malta, and a noted philanthropist. They had seven children and 24 grandchildren. Affiliations Quick was a member of the Fairfield University board of trustees, and chairman of the board from 1982 through 1995. He received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1999. The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on the campus of Fairfield University was built in 1990 with his support and named for his wife, Regina. Legacy The Leslie C. Quick, Jr. Recreation Complex at Fairfield University was named in his honor in 2001, the year of his death. He contributed significantly to his alma mater, Widener University, whose football stadium, the Leslie C. Quick Jr. Stadium, was named after him when it was built in 1994. He is also honored with the name of Widener's business administration building, the Leslie C. Quick Jr. Building. Death Leslie Quick died on March 8, 2001, in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 75, from undisclosed causes. References External links Quick & Reilly 1926 births 2001 deaths Businesspeople from Boston Fairfield University alumni Widener University alumni Place of birth missing 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists
Patthardaihiya is a village development committee in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7598 people living in 1317 individual households. References Populated places in Kapilvastu District
La Virgen gitana is a 1951 Spanish comedy film directed by Ramón Torrado. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Carmen (Paquita Rico) is a gypsy orphan girl. One day she meets painter Eduardo Miranda (Alfredo Mayo), who asks her to pose for him for a picture of Debla, the gypsy virgin. She falls in love with the painter, not knowing he is married. But soon people begin to talk. Cast Paquita Rico as Carmelilla Alfredo Mayo as Eduardo Miranda Lina Yegros as Cristina Álvarez de Miranda Lola Ramos as Reyes Alfonso Estela as Vicente Félix Fernández as Miguel Modesto Cid as Agustín María Severini Rosa Fontsere (as Rosa Fontseré) Camino Delgado Pedro Mascaró Ana Morera Fortunato García as Juez References External links 1951 films 1950s Spanish-language films 1951 comedy films Films directed by Ramón Torrado Spanish comedy films 1950s Spanish films
Gelechia paroxynta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Tibet. References Moths described in 1931 Gelechia
Ahmad Mahrus Bachtiar (born September 3, 1987, in Jepara, Central Java) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a defender. He previously played for Sriwijaya in the Indonesia Super League. Club career Muba Babel United He was signed for Muba Babel United to play in Liga 2 in the 2020 season. This season was suspended on 27 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and was declared void on 20 January 2021. Honours Club Sriwijaya Indonesia Super League: 2011–12 References External links Ahmad Mahrus Bachtiar at Liga Indonesia 1987 births Men's association football defenders Living people Indonesian men's footballers Indonesian Premier League players Indonesian Premier Division players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Liga 2 (Indonesia) players Persijap Jepara players Persija Jakarta players Persiba Balikpapan players Persikabo Bogor players Sriwijaya F.C. players Gresik United F.C. players RANS Nusantara F.C. players PSIS Semarang players Perssu 1977 Sumenep players Persela Lamongan players Madura F.C. players Semen Padang F.C. players PS Barito Putera players PSIM Yogyakarta players Muba Babel United F.C. players People from Jepara Footballers from Central Java
David "Davy" Larmour (born 2 April 1949) is a former boxer from Northern Ireland who as an amateur won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1974 and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and as a professional won the British bantamweight title in 1983. Amateur career Born in Belfast and based in Shankill Road, Larmour boxed out of the Albert Foundry Boxing Club. He won a bronze medal at flyweight at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. After being beaten in the National Senior final in both 1971 and 1972 by Neil McLaughlin, he won the 1973 Irish flyweight championship with a win over Brendan Dunne. He went on to represent Ireland in November 1973 against Romania. In August 1974 he represented Ireland at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana, Cuba, losing in the first round to eventual bronze medalist Constantin Gruiescu. Larmour represented Northern Ireland at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, beating Chandra Narayanan of India in the flyweight final to take the gold medal. He represented Ireland at the 1975 European Championships in Poland, reaching the flyweight quarter-final where he lost to Charlie Magri of Great Britain. Larmour beat Tony Noonan in the Irish National Senior flyweight final in 1976, earning a place at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. With many African countries boycotting the games, Larmour got byes in the first two rounds, losing controversially in the quarter final to eventual gold medalist Leo Randolph of the US. Professional career After the Olympics, Larmour made the decision to turn professional, making his pro debut in July 1977 with a first-round knockout of Jimmy Bott. He was stopped in his next two fights (by John Feeney and George Sutton) before beating Alan Oag (via disqualification) in May 1978. In June he was stopped in the seventh round by Johnny Owen. In October 1978 he successfully challenged for Neil McLaughlin's BBBofC Northern Ireland Area bantamweight title, beating the defending champion on points. He won his next five fights before losing to Steve Sims on points in September 1980. In March 1981 he faced Dave Smith in a final eliminator for the British title, but lost by a single point. After beating Ivor Jones in April 1982 he faced Hugh Russell in October in another British title final eliminator, with the Northern Ireland Area title and the Irish title also at stake. Larmour again lost by a single point over the twelve rounds. Russell went on to take the British title from Feeney, and in March 1983 his first defence was against Larmour; This time, having put Russell down in the fifth round, Larmour took the decision to become British and Northern Ireland Area bantamweight champion. Larmour made one defence of the title, losing it to Feeney in November 1983. He subsequently retired from boxing. Legacy Larmour has participated in talks to schoolchildren in Northern Ireland, discussing his career and how boxing can help break down sectarian divisions. He is commemorated, along with Jimmy Warnock and Tommy Armour, on the 'Shankill Road Boxing' mural on Hopewell Crescent in his native Belfast. References External links Davy Larmour Olympic record, sports-reference.com 1952 births Living people Irish male boxers Male boxers from Northern Ireland Bantamweight boxers Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Boxers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Olympic boxers for Ireland Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Boxers from Belfast Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Zap Pow is a Jamaican reggae band, founded by singer/bassist Michael Williams aka Mikey Zappow and guitarist Dwight Pinkney. Members also included singer Beres Hammond, trumpeter David Madden, saxman Glen DaCosta, and drummer Cornell Marshall. They originally existed from 1969 to 1979. They re-formed in 2016. History The band was formed in 1969, by musicians Michael Williams (bass, guitar, vocals, songwriter, former drummer of Bobby Aitken's Caribbeats),) and Dwight Pinkney (guitar, vocals, formerly of The Sharks and guitarist on a 1966 session by The Wailers), Max Edwards (drums), Glen DaCosta (tenor saxophone, vocals, flute, a former pupil at Alpha Boys School), Joe McCormack (trombone), and David Madden (trumpet, vocals, another former pupil at Alpha Boys School, who had previously recorded with Cedric Brooks under the name 'I'm and Dave'). Pinkney and Williams had previously played together in the band Winston Turner & the Untouchables. The band's name came from a comic book that Williams had read. Several singles were released in 1970-71 including the hit "This is Reggae Music", and in 1971 their debut album, Revolutionary Zap Pow, was released on the Harry J label. In 1975, Beres Hammond joined as lead singer (other singers with the band included Winston "King" Cole, Milton "Prilly" Hamilton, Bunny Rugs and Jacob Miller), and their Tommy Cowan-produced 1976 album, Zap Pow Now topped the reggae chart in the UK. Trojan Records issued Revolution in the same year. Edwards left in 1977, to be replaced by Cornell Marshall. The band split up in 1979 with Hammond going on to a successful solo career. Pinkney went on to play with Roots Radics, and Edwards also pursued a solo career. Williams recorded and performed solo as Mikey Zappow. The horn section of DaCosta, McCormack and Madden were regularly used in recording sessions for other artists including Bob Marley & the Wailers, and they also recorded prolifically as individual session musicians, often being used by Lee "Scratch" Perry for sessions at his Black Ark studio.Katz, David (2000) People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Payback Press, , p. 294 Madden went on to release solo albums, as did DaCosta. Williams died in 2005, aged 61. In 2007 the band were honoured at the Prime Minister's Gala on Jamaican Independence Day. Pinkney and DaCosta re-formed Zap Pow in 2016, and by 2017 the band also included Lebert "Gibby" Morrison (bass), Richard "T Bird" Johnson (keyboards), Lando Bolt (drums), Everol Wray (trumpet), and singers Geoffrey Forrest and Fiona. They recorded a new album, Zap Pow Again, released in October 2017. Discography Albums Revolutionary Zap Pow (1971), Harry J Zap Pow Now (1976), Vulcan Revolution (1976), Trojan Zap Pow (1978), Island Zap Pow Again (2017), VP Compilation albums Beres Hammond Meets Zappow in Jamaica, Rhino Jungle Beat, Lagoon Love Hits, LMS Reggae Rules, Rhino Revolution (the best of) (2007), Trojan References External links Zap Pow at Roots Archives Jamaican reggae musical groups Trojan Records artists Island Records artists
The term Lourdes effect has been coined by the Belgian philosopher and skeptic Etienne Vermeersch to account for the observation that some supernatural powers seem to have a sort of resistance to manifesting themselves in a completely unambiguous fashion. According to Vermeersch, should the miraculous power of Lourdes actually exist there would be no reason to think that it would be more difficult for the Virgin Mary or God to reattach a severed arm than to cure paralysis or blindness. According to Vermeersch, the visions and photos of, for instance, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti lack reliability and clarity due to a similar effect. Vermeersch uses this term to mock what he calls the selective and uncritical approach to miracles, or the frivolous attribution of supernatural gifts to human beings. Skeptics note that the number of fatal accidents that occur on the way to and from Lourdes may well be considerably higher than the 67 alleged miracles due to faith healing recognized in 2005 by the Vatican. References Further reading Etienne Vermeersch, Van Antigone tot Dolly. Veertig jaar kritisch denken, Antwerpen, Hadewijch, 1997, 256 pp. (i.e. From Antigone to Dolly: Forty Years of Critical Thinking) Supernatural healing Spiritualism Effect Paranormal terminology Our Lady of Lourdes
Online land planning is a collaborative process in which sustainable development practices and design professionals from across the world are networked to provide advice and solutions on urban design and land planning issues. The target audience includes property owners, communities, businesses and government agencies that have limited access, time, finances or personnel to make informed decisions about land use. In many cases, this approach provides electronic documents that become the catalyst to rebuild after natural or man-made spur rural community development and stimulate or create a new microeconomy. Importance of technology One goal of online land planning is the effective use of the internet to support information sharing and decision making from remote locations such as the home. The use of the Internet, coupled with software technology such as geographic information systems (GIS), allows municipalities and other public and private organizations to compile base information, exchange information, present solutions to land planning issues, and receive feedback vis the internet. Benefits for land development companies and real estate industry organizations like the Urban Land Institute include easier access to efficient digital planning technologies, along with the opportunity for immediate participation and feedback. Worldwide, local and regional governments have created their own websites with access to map-centric and enterprise GIS databases that provide operational and public-service resources. References Climate Alarm: Oxfam Briefing Paper 108 (November 2007) Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Kotka IV: (1995) Prideaux, B. Building Visitor Attractions in Peripheral Areas - International Journal of Tourism Research, 4, 379-389. (2002) Vesterby, M & Krupa, K, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Bulletin 973. Shiode, N., Urban Planning, Information Technology and Cyberspace, Journal of Urban Technology (2000); McGinn, M., Getting Involved in Planning – Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Development Department (2001) Carver, S., The Future of Participatory Approaches Using Geographic Information (2003) Yigitcanlar, Tan, Australian Local Governments Practice and Prospects with Online Planning (2005) Huxol, J., A Participatory Model Using the Web (May 2004) Hall, Carly & Heffernan, Maree: GIS and its Potential Use in Human Services (2006) Penzu journal Urban planning
Freadelpha exigua is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kolbe in 1896. References Sternotomini Beetles described in 1896
The following is an overview of the events of 1925 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people. Annual events The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had own significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles. Births See also List of 1925 motorsport champions References Motorsport by year
Michael Louis Kaczmarek (born October 31, 1951) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Baltimore Colts in 1973. He played college football at Southern Illinois University. References 1951 births Living people American football linebackers Southern Illinois Salukis football players Baltimore Colts players
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (born June 24, 1967) is an American children's and young adult book author. In 2016, her children's book The War That Saved My Life received the Newbery Honor Award and was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction. Biography Kimberly attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and received a degree in chemistry in 1989. Bradley was always fascinated with chemistry, but when her sophomore roommate convinced her to take an Introduction to Children's Literature course, she immediately loved it. Her instructor, the Newbery medalist Patricia MacLachlan encouraged Bradley to continue writing and helped her learn more about writing for children. During college, she began writing by working as a freelance writer for equestrian magazines. Bradley's knowledge of horses influenced some of her children's literature, such as the award-winning The War That Saved My Life. After college, Bradley married her high school sweetheart, Bart Bradley. While he attended medical school, she worked primarily as a research chemist, while still writing as a part-time editor for equestrian magazines and creatively whenever she could. Career Her first novel, Ruthie's Gift, was published in 1998 and she has continued to publish 17 books catered to children and young adults. She has won numerous awards for her stories as well as many other literary honors. Ruthie's Gift Bradley's first novel is set in a small Indiana farming community at the start of World War I, and follows the story of Ruthie, an 8-year-old tomboy who strives to form a stronger sense of self and selflessness during a particularly dramatic year in her life: the year her sixth brother is born, the year she makes her first friends (twin girls), the year she almost dies of pneumonia, the year the war takes one of her brothers from her. . Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children Bradley's 2011 book, Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children, received 5 starred book reviews and numerous accolades. The story is told by three young boys, two of whom were the children of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. Although Jefferson's children get special treatment from him, they are still his slaves and cannot mention who their father is to anyone. The lighter-skinned children have a chance to convert to white society, but the children who look more like their mother do not. As each child continues to grow up, the distinction between freedom and slavery becomes even more prominent. The War That Saved My Life Aimed at middle-school readers, The War That Saved My Life follows 10-year-old Ada and her little brother Jamie, who are in the middle of London during World War II. When Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the bombings, Ada sneaks off with him to escape their cruel mother. Ada has never left her one-room flat before because her mother was ashamed of Ada's clubbed foot. Ada, Jamie, and Susan Smith, the children's caretaker in the country, all begin a new adventure together. Ada then learns how to ride a pony named Butter, and finds a friend named Maggie, while also overcoming her feelings of worthlessness. Ada gains the courage needed to fight her own battles and the much-needed love of a mother figure. Overall, this story has been described as, “the rare novel that can take something as massive as a world war and distill it to its human essence.” The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life #2) In this follow-up novel, Brubaker Bradley's story of Ada and Jamie continues in the English countryside during WWII. They are now safe with Susan Smith and Jamie is adjusting to safety well, but Ada struggles. Throughout this story, Ada becomes close with the Thorntons in this story as the war continues and circumstances change. Fighting Words Published in 2020, Brubaker creates a story centered around Delicious, a.k.a. Della, who is a 10-year-old girl who has had her already difficult life turned upside down after her "step-dad" attempted to molest her. Della tries to heal in her new foster home, but suffers more as she watches her older sister Suki who was the victim of years of sexual abuse struggle to overcome the trauma. This is an endearing story that handles a difficult topic delicately making it accessible to younger audience than other books with similar themes. Awards and honors 1998 Publisher's Week “Flying Start” Award for Ruthie's Gift 2011 Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books of 2011 for Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children 2012 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year with "Outstanding Merit" for Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children 2012 ALA Notable Children's Book for Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children 2012 NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People for Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children 2016 Newbery Honor for The War That Saved My Life 2016 Josette Frank Award Winner and Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year with "Outstanding Merit" for The War That Saved My Life 2016 Schneider Family Book Award for The War That Saved My Life 2016 #1 New York Times bestseller for The War That Saved My Life 2018 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year with "Outstanding Merit" for The War I Finally Won 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Fighting Words 2021 Newberry Honor for Fighting Words 2021 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year with "Outstanding Merit" for Fighting Words Publications Ruthie's Gift (1998) One-of-a-Kind Mallie (1999) Weaver's Daughter (2000) Halfway to the Sky (2002) Favorite Things (2003) The President's Daughter (2004) For Freedom: The Story of A French Spy (2005) Ballerino Nate (2006) The Perfect Pony (2007) Leap of Faith (2007) The Lacemaker and the Princess (2007) Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children (2013) The War That Saved My Life (2015) The War I Finally Won (2017) Fighting Words (2020) Personal life Bradley currently lives in Bristol, Tennessee. References 1967 births Living people American women children's writers American children's writers Writers from Fort Wayne, Indiana Smith College alumni People from Bristol, Tennessee Newbery Honor winners American young adult novelists Novelists from Indiana 21st-century American women
Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited, doing business as Jazz, () is Pakistan's largest mobile network and internet services provider formed by the merger of Mobilink and Warid Pakistan. It provides a range of services for prepaid and postpaid customers to individual and corporate clients. It is headquartered in Islamabad, and the current CEO is Aamir Hafeez Ibrahim. History Formerly known as Mobilink, the company was founded in 1994 as a joint venture between Saif Group and Motorola Inc. In February 2001, Egypt based Orascom Investment Holding bought Motorola’s shares in Jazz to become the majority shareholder with 69% control. Then, in June 2007, Orascom further purchased the remaining shares under Saif Group’s control to become Jazz’s 100% owner. In 2010, Russian operator VEON agreed to acquire most of the telecom assets of Orascom, including Jazz, in a $6.5 billion deal, creating the world’s fifth-largest mobile network operator by subscriber base. In November 2015, VEON announced the 100% acquisition of Pakistan’s Warid Telecom, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Group. Completed in July 2016 after due approvals, the first-ever local telecom company acquisition created a combined subscriber base of 50 million. Following the merger of Mobilink and Warid Pakistan, Mobilink was officially rebranded to Jazz in 2017. As of August 2023, Jazz has 70 million subscribers in Pakistan, among which 42 million are 4G subscribers. VEON will buy the remaining 15% shares in Jazz from Abu Dhabi Group for 100pc ownership. In March 2021, VEON completed the acquisition of 15 percent shares held by Abu Dhabi Group for . Network Jazz has over 14,000 active cell sites in the country, with over 25,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables laid. Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, and ZTE are the primary vendors for networking equipment at Jazz, including Radio Base Stations, Microwave equipment and network switches. In 2014, Jazz participated in the 2014 NGMS auction held by PTA, which allowed them to bid for a 3G license, and a 10 MHz block in the 2100 MHz band was allocated to Jazz. In March 2017, Jazz inaugurated their Network Operations Center (NOC) which makes use of IBM and Dell EMC products to manage day-to-day network operations and provides the company with 24x7 network surveillance. Radio Frequency Summary Jazz's participation in the 2014 NGMS Auction held by PTA allowed them to bid for the 3G license, which included a 10 MHz block in the 2100 MHz band. In July 2014, they announced that they have over 10,000 3G and 9,000 4G ready cell sites. Jazz did not bid for any 4G spectrum in the 2014 NGMS auction. Post-merger with Warid, Jazz was able to use Warid's license allowing them to become a4G network using a 5 MHz block in the 1800 MHz band. In May 2017, Jazz won the 2017 NGMS auction held by PTA. This includes a 10 MHz block in the 1800 MHz (FDD-LTE Band 3) frequency to be used for Jazz 4G. Jazz was also awarded additional 4G spectrum on 30 June 2017 by PTA. 4G+ / LTE-A launch Jazz has refarmed a 10 MHz block from its 900 MHz spectrum for carrier aggregation with their existing 1800 MHz 4G spectrum. The LTE-A network would be rolled out to cater for growing demand. This makes them the third carrier after Telenor Pakistan and Zong 4G to officially launch LTE-A in the country. In July 2021, Jazz upgraded its existing LTE network to LTE-A Pro, with the introduction of 256-QAM and Massive MIMO. It is currently the only network in Pakistan that is offering 3CA (Tri-band) carrier aggregation and 256-QAM on its LTE network. VoLTE testing Jazz tested VoLTE in May 2017 with its partners Huawei and Nokia, announced in a press statement. Jazz rolled out VoLTE across its network in February 2022, with supported devices including Samsung, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Itel, Xiaomi, Realme, Infinix and Jazz Digit branded feature phones. WiFi Calling Jazz rolled out Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) capabilities branded 'JazzFi' in July 2023. It is the only carrier in Pakistan currently offering VoWiFi. 5G Trials In January 2020, Jazz had reported that they had successfully carried out 5G trials with reaching speeds of 1.5Gbps. These trials were carried out on the 2.6 GHz spectrum. Subsidiaries JazzCash Jazz had partnered with Mobilink Microfinance Banking to make an entry into the branchless banking market, initially launched under the MobiCash brand name, it was later changed to JazzCash. It is a direct competitor to Telenor Pakistan's Easypaisa. References Jazz (mobile network operator) VEON Internet service providers of Pakistan Pakistani brands Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies Mergers and acquisitions of Pakistani companies Companies based in Islamabad Pakistani companies established in 2017 Telecommunications companies established in 2017
Cyril Stacul (born 12 October 1984) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er or for the Lézignan Sangliers in the Elite One Championship and has played for France at international level. He previously played for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and SM Pia XIII in the French top flight. Stacul was named in the France training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He represented France again in the 2010 European Cup. References External links Super League profile 1984 births Living people Baroudeurs de Pia XIII players Catalans Dragons players France national rugby league team players French rugby league players Lézignan Sangliers players People from Villeneuve-sur-Lot Rugby league centres Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league wingers Sportspeople from Lot-et-Garonne
Derivatives law is the area of law governing derivatives. It is associated with principles of contract law, and practitioners must also have a good understanding of insolvency, netting and set-off, and conflict of laws. Over-the-counter derivatives are documented under master agreements, the most common of which is the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement. Contract law Financial regulation Derivatives (finance)
"Something's Got a Hold on Me" is a song by American singer Etta James. The song was written by James, Leroy Kirkland and Pearl Woods, while production was handled by Leonard and Phil Chess. It was released in 1962 as the third single from her 1962 self-titled album as a 7" vinyl disc. Musically, "Something's Got a Hold on Me" is an R&B track with elements of soul, blues and gospel. Upon its release, the single was an R&B hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart. "Something's Got a Hold on Me" has been covered and sampled by various contemporary artists. Australian singer Jessica Mauboy also covered "Something's Got a Hold on Me" in 2013 and released it as a single. The song plays in the opening scene of the Best Picture winning film CODA. Background and composition "Something's Got a Hold on Me" was written by Etta James, Leroy Kirkland and Pearl Woods, while it was produced by two founders of the Chess Records, Leonard and Phil Chess. The song was released as the third single from James' 1962 self-titled studio album. It was served as a 7" vinyl disc with the other song, "Waiting for Charlie to Come Home", as the B-side in the United States. Later, the track was included on the singer's 1963 compilation album Etta James Top Ten. The live version of "Something's Got a Hold on Me" also appeared on Etta James' first live album, Etta James Rocks the House (1964). In 1992, the song was a part of her greatest hits album, My Greatest Songs. "Something's Got a Hold on Me" is an R&B track with elements of soul, blues, and gospel. The song lasts for a duration of (two minutes and 48 seconds). According to the sheet music published by EMI Music Publishing, "Something's Got a Hold on Me" was composed in the key of G minor and set as the moderate tempo of 72 beats per minute with a "strong beat". James' vocals in the song span on nearly one and a half octaves, from the low-note of D4 to the high-note of G5. Live performances On September 27, 1963, Etta James first performed "Something's Got a Hold on Me" at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee; later the performance was recorded and was included on her first live album Etta James Rocks the House. During a "King-led all-star concert" which was held at the Ebony Theater, Los Angeles, California in 1987, James performed the song again with American blues musician B.B. King. There, the singer sang the track with backing guitar played by King. That performance was released as a CD and home video entitled "A Night of Blistering Blues". Track listing US 7" single "Something's Got a Hold on Me" – "Waiting for Charlie to Come Home" – Reception Jay Lustig of New Jersey On-Line called "Something's Got a Hold on Me" a "scintillating" track. Upon its release, "Something's Got a Hold on Me" was an R&B hit, peaking at number four on the Hot R&B Sides chart, a music chart which was published by American music magazine Billboard and now is the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The single also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 37. Cover versions and samples "Something's Got a Hold on Me" has been covered on numerous occasions. On March 30, 2004, Natalie Cole performed "Something's Got a Hold on Me" at the Apollo Theater in New York City. In 2010, American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera also covered it for the soundtrack album Burlesque. The version by Aguilera met with favorable reviews from critics; a writer from Blogcritics wrote that "[the song] really digs in and makes them show stoppers" and "[it] suits her voice perfectly", while Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic picked "Something's Got a Hold on Me" as one of the three best songs from the soundtrack. Jools Holland, with Paloma Faith, recorded a version for his 2012 album, The Golden Age of Song. Australian R&B singer Jessica Mauboy recorded a cover version of the track and released it as a single exclusively in Australia in 2013. Blues vocalist Beth Hart and guitarist Joe Bonamassa included the track on their 2011 album of blues and soul covers, Don't Explain. They also released a live version recorded at the Royal Theater Carré in 2013 on their Live in Amsterdam DVD. Doi-Oing was the first artist to sample "Something's Got a Hold on Me" in his 1991 song "Good Feeling". In 2006, electronic music artist Pretty Lights sampled the song again in his track "Finally Moving" from the album Taking Up Your Precious Time. In 2011, two smash hits sampled "Something's Got a Hold on Me": "Levels" by Swedish DJ Avicii and Flo Rida's "Good Feeling". Jessica Mauboy version "Something's Got a Hold on Me" was covered by Australian R&B singer Jessica Mauboy. It was released as a digital download single on 27 February 2013. Reception "Something's Got a Hold on Me" by Jessica Mauboy received mainly positive reviews from music critics. Brad Stern of MTV Buzzworthy Brad Stern called Mauboy's version a "power-pop anthem". Daisy Dumas of The Age was positive toward the track, noted it as a "sassy, pop-heavy spin on the Etta James classic". Simone Ubaldi of Beat magazine described the cover as "grotesque dance pop bastardisation", while a writer for radio station 96.5 Wave FM thought that it sounds impressive. A writer for Take 40 Australia called it energetic, while Fox Sports' Anthony Costa wrote that the song does not feel like "a potential rugby league anthem" but "it suits Mauboy's vocal talents". "Something's Got a Hold on Me" won Single Release of the Year at the 2013 Deadly Awards. The song entered the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number 26 on March 11, 2013. The following week, it fell down to number 50. Promotion On 27 February 2013, the Australian Rugby League Commission released a television advertisement, which features Mauboy singing her version of "Something's Got a Hold on Me", as well as highlights from previous rugby league matches and fans playing rugby league in backyards, on beaches and running down streets. That same day, Mauboy performed the song during the official launch for the 2013 NRL season, held at The Star Casino in Sydney. NRL director of marketing and commercial operations Paul Kind said her version "is very contemporary" and "has a really broad appeal". Mauboy is the second female artist (the first being Tina Turner) to be featured in a NRL theme song. "Something's Got a Hold on Me" is also the first theme song in major Australian sport to feature an Indigenous Australian artist. Charts References External links 1962 songs 1962 singles 2013 singles Etta James songs Christina Aguilera songs Jessica Mauboy songs Sony Music Australia singles Argo Records singles 2010 singles
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a museum located on the sixth floor of the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository) in downtown Dallas, Texas, overlooking Dealey Plaza at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets. The museum examines the life, times, death, and legacy of United States President John F. Kennedy, and the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as the various conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination. The museum's exhibition area uses historic films, photographs, artifacts, and interpretive displays to document the events of the assassination, the reports by government investigations that followed, and the historical legacy of the tragedy. The museum is self-sufficient in funding, relying solely on donations and ticket sales. It rents the space from the County of Dallas. The museum was founded by the Dallas County Historical Foundation. It opened on Presidents' Day, February 20, 1989. A museum webcam features a live view from the sixth floor sniper's nest. It is not meant to glorify the shooting in any way. In December 1999, the Zapruder family donated the copyright to the Zapruder film to The Sixth Floor Museum, along with one of the first-generation copies made on November 22, 1963, and other copies of the film. The Zapruder family no longer retains any copyrights to the film, which are now controlled entirely by the museum. The original camera negative, however, is in possession of the National Archives and Records Administration. On February 19, 2007, the previously unreleased 8 mm film footage of Kennedy's motorcade, donated to the museum by George Jefferies and his son-in-law, was shown publicly for the first time. The 40-second film, silent and in color, showed the motorcade before the assassination, as well as part of Dealey Plaza the following day. The Jefferies film was described as capturing "a beaming Jacqueline Kennedy," as well as showing Kennedy's suit jacket bunched-up in the back at that moment, about two minutes before Kennedy entered Dealey Plaza. References Further reading External links live webcam, EarthCam, from the southeast corner window of the sixth floor in the former Texas School Book Depository Museums in Dallas Buildings and structures associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy History museums in Texas Museums established in 1989 Monuments and memorials to John F. Kennedy in the United States Presidential museums in Texas 1989 establishments in Texas
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, in Scotland, was a university constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It was merged with the Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities constituency to form the Combined Scottish Universities constituency. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1900s Elections in the 1890s Elections in the 1880s Elections in the 1870s Caused by Gordon's appointment as a Lord of Appeal, becoming Lord Gordon of Drumearn. Caused by Gordon's appointment as Lord Advocate. Elections in the 1860s Caused by Moncreiff's appointment as Lord Justice Clerk and elevation to the peerage, becoming Lord Moncreiff. References Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster) Politics of Aberdeen Politics of Glasgow Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1868 University constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom University of Aberdeen University of Glasgow
Roger Bamber (31 August 1944 – 11 September 2022) was a British photojournalist whose subjects included war, politics and music for both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers. He won both the British Press Photographer of the Year and News Photographer of the Year twice. In 2023, a book of his work was published—Out of the Ordinary—to coincide with an exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery until 3 September 2023. Early life and education Bamber was born in Leicester on 31 August 1944 to Vera (nee Stephenson) and Fred Bamber. He had an older sister Valerie. His mother had a job in the local textile industry and his father was a telephone operator. He grew up near the Great Central Railway line which created a lifelong interest in steam trains. Bamber left Beaumont Leys secondary school in 1960 aged 16, without any O levels. His first camera was a Kodak Brownie. He enrolled in a graphic art class at Leicester College of Art and spent £80, his entire year's student grant, on a Nikon camera. He graduated in 1963, and joined Fleetway Publications, a local advertising agency as a junior photographer. In 1964, Leicester College of Art started its first photography course and Bamber was asked to teach on it. Career In 1965, Bamber sought work as a photographer in London. He was offered his first Fleet Street role by the Daily Mail on his first day of job hunting, covering news as well as features for the then broadsheet newspaper. In 1967 he was honored as "commercial and industrial photographer of the year" in the British Press Awards for his work at the Mail. In November 1969, he moved to the newly launched tabloid The Sun, and worked for the publication for the next 19 years covering hard news and softer features. He travelled the globe, recording armed conflicts, royalty, pop and rock stars. In 1973 he won another photographer of the year award for a photograph of the immediate aftermath of the IRA bombing at the Old Bailey law courts in London. In 1976 the Rolling Stones gave him permission to photograph their first night of rehearsals at the Festhalle, Frankfurt, during their European tour. The agreement was recorded in a handwritten note on hotel letterhead. Bamber's 1985 photograph of Freddie Mercury performing at Live Aid became an iconic image of the singer. By 1988, Bamber had moved to work as a freelance photographer for The Observer, followed by The Guardian shortly thereafter. In 1992, he won a photographer of the year award from the Guardian. Bamber's images were part of the successful bid made by Brighton and Hove to gain city status in 1999. In 2009, Bamber retired from mainstream newspaper photography but continued to photograph a wide variety of subjects which interested him. He was working on the proofs of a book, Out of the Ordinary until shortly before his death. Personal life In 1982, Bamber met Shân Lancaster, a journalist, while they were both covering the Falklands conflict for the Sun newspaper. They were married in 2004 after being together for 40 years. Bamber settled in Brighton in 1973. Bamber died of lung cancer at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 11 September 2022. Publications Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary. Lewes: Unicorn, 2023. . With a foreword by Eamonn McCabe. Exhibitions Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton and Hove, 1 April – 3 September 2023 Awards and recognition 1967: Daily Mail, commercial and industrial photographer of the year 1973: Photographer of the Year 1992: The Guardian, Photographer of the Year 2005: University of Brighton, honorary master's degree "for his distinguished photojournalism and the wealth of images of Brighton inspired by the city" References 1944 births 2022 deaths British photographers People from Leicester
Cenchrus elegans is a species of plants in the grass family. It is found in Malesia. References External links Cenchrus elegans at IPNI Cenchrus elegans at Tropicos elegans Plants described in 2014
Long Valley, California may refer to several places: Long Valley, Lassen County, California Long Valley Caldera, a depression in eastern California adjacent to Mammoth Mountain Long Valley, California, former name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California
Werner Pöls (March 15, 1926 – February 21, 1989) was a German historian and politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union. Literature Wolfgang Weber: Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Die Lehrstuhlinhaber für Geschichte von den Anfängen des Faches bis 1970. Frankfurt/M. u. a. 1984, S. 449, Das Historische Seminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig 1969–1982. Braunschweig 1982 [Werner Pöls anlässlich seiner Emeritierung gewidmet; verfielfältigtes Typoskript, vorhanden in der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig] Günther Grünthal und Klaus Erich Pollmann: Einleitung. In: Werner Pöls, Studien zur Bismarckzeit. Aufsatzsammlung zum 60. Geburtstag. [darin zehn wieder abgedruckte Aufsätze von Pöls], hrsg. von Günther Grünthal und Klaus Erich Pollmann, Hildesheim u. a. 1986, S. VII-XI, Franz J. Bauer: Geschichte des Deutschen Hochschulverbandes. München 2000, S. 181–187 u. öfter, See also List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians References External links Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands web site Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians 1926 births 1989 deaths 20th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hawke is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies within the larger Grotrian, located to the north of the huge walled plain Schrödinger, within the radius of that formation's outer blanket of ejecta. The crater's name was approved by the IAU on 16 March 2018. It is named after the American lunar scientist Bernard Ray Hawke (1946-2015). References External links Hawke Crater, LRO Camera team, Posted by David Portree on May 3, 2018 20:18 UTC. Impact craters on the Moon
Omar Jalil Flores Majul (born 11 September 1975) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Guerrero. References 1975 births Living people Politicians from Guerrero People from Taxco Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Guerrero
Innovation management measurement helps companies in understanding the current status of their innovation capabilities and practices. Throughout this control areas of strength and weakness are identified and the organizations get a clue where they have to concentrate on to maximize the future success of their innovation procedures. Furthermore, the measurement of innovation assists firms in fostering an innovation culture within the organization and in spreading the awareness of the importance of innovation. It also discloses the restrictions for creativity and opportunity for innovation. Because of all these arguments it is very important to measure the degree of innovation in the company, also in comparison with other companies. On the other hand, firms have to be careful not to misapply the wrong metrics, because they could threaten innovation and influence thinking in the wrong way. Historical Development of Innovation Metrics Innovation has been viewed as an activity on the micro-level for a long time. It was concentrated on individual inventors and firms and therefore, on the related products and production systems. However, in the past few years, there has been a development towards a macro-level view concerning innovation measurement. For example, in the European Union the innovation capabilities of the different countries are measured on the basis of objective economic numbers. There has also been a development from a one-dimensional view of innovation to a multi-dimensional view that considers other innovation indicators such as the different meaning of innovation in service sectors, the innovators’ dependence on the global competitive market and the socio-economic and institutional environment. Generally we can classify the progress of innovation metrics and the related indicators into four generations. The first generation (1950s-60s) focused on input indicators like R&D expenditures and capital. The following generation (1970s-80s) had its core area in the measurement of output indicators such as patents, products and publications. In the third generation (1990s) came along specific innovation indicators like innovation surveys and benchmarking and since the beginning of the new millennium process indicators such as networks, system dynamics and intangibles have played a major role in the diverse metrics. Innovation Metrics Diamond model The Diamond Model is a measurement framework that considers five dimensions for the assessment of the degree of innovation: Strategy, process, organization, linkages and learning. In the assessment of the strategy three areas are being tested. First the model needs to know, whether the company has a well-managed strategic planning process in place, afterwards, whether innovation is incorporated within the entire corporate strategy and ultimately, whether the company has put in place mechanisms that assist the implementation of the corporate strategy. The assessment of the process area considers the robustness and flexibility of the organization's new product development process and the organization's ability to manage its internal processes. In the third area organization is being analyzed, if the structure of the organization allows innovation processes and if the management encourages employees to create and develop new ideas. Concerning the linkages area the model examines the firm's networking ability and the last major area of the Diamond Model explores the organization's commitment and ability to learn from its successes and failures and the willingness to train and develop its employees and to spread these learning to the entire organization. The more distinctive these five areas are as a combination the more innovative is a company. Innovation Funnel The Innovation Funnel Framework consists of nine stages in an innovation process. These nine single elements that are part of three major steps form an end to end innovation process. The first major step contains the input factors of the innovation process. In this model they are described as strategic thinking and portfolio management and metrics. The second step is the main part of the process with the single stages research, ideation, insight, targeting, innovation development and market development. In the final step the output of the process is analyzed through the selling numbers. The model suggests a feedback loop from the output step back to the input step as a learning loop to improve future results. Innovation Value Chain – IVC The Innovation Value Chain is a measurement framework developed by Hansen and Bikinshaw and presents innovation as a three-phase process that involves idea generation, idea conversion and idea diffusion. The idea generation can take place in-house or can also come from external influences. In the conversion phase the innovation is selected and built and in the diffusion phase it is spread and commercialized. The Innovation Value Chain is easy to scale and can therefore be used for inter-sectoral comparisons. Roper et al. (2008) extended this model by rebuilding the three phases into the three innovation activities accessing knowledge, building innovation and commercializing innovation. Oslo Manual Innovation Measurement Framework To compare innovation data in an internationally comparable way the OSLO Manual Innovation Measurement Framework is very useful, since it considers approaches that view innovation as a whole system of different theories of innovation based on diverse firms. The model examines the degree of innovation in a single firm, the linkages with other firms and public research institutions, the institutional framework in which firms operate and last but not least role of demand in the specific industry. All these areas combined build a measurement tool to compare the firms with each other. Innovation Audit Tools InnoCERT InnoCERT is a tool developed in Malaysia with the aim to test innovative companies through a standardized compliance process. The firms get a certification if they are rated as an innovative organization after a process of online self-assessment and verification and evaluation of the four basic dimensions innovation ability, commercialization ability, innovation management ability and innovation result. Inno-Biz assessment The Inno-Biz assessment is a two-phase Korean Model based on the OSLO Manual. The first phase consists of an online self-diagnosis with an assessment of the technology innovation system of a firm containing four fields: technology innovation capability, technology commercialization capability, technology innovation management capability and technology innovation achievements. The second phase concentrates on the four fields management owner's technical capability, technological viability, marketability as well as business viability and profitability and is an on-site assessment of a technology guarantee fund that hands out a rating based on a 10-grade system from AAA to D. NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) NESTA is the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts in the UK with the goal to test and transform UK's capacity for innovation. Therefore, it has launched the “innovation index project” in 2008 to analyze the innovation capability of each sector. It aims to develop a framework to compare innovation capability between sectors to establish an adequate policy and strategy. Like in the Innovation Value Chain Model the process consists of the three phases assessing knowledge, building innovation and commercializing innovation. IMP³rove – Europe Innova The European Commission created this tool to improve the Innovation Management Performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Europe. It is based on all dimensions of the “A.T. Kearney House of Innovation” and measures the performance of the key factors for successful Innovation Management. These are innovation strategy, innovation organization and culture, innovation lifecycle processes, enabling factors and innovation results. The tool is divided into four steps. In the first step the SMEs go through an online assessment. Afterwards a benchmarking report is developed before the companies get a consulting workshop on innovation that should lead to a continuous improvement. Innovation Radar The Innovation Radar is a tool based on research into the innovation habits of Fortune 500 companies. It observes four main dimensions, which are, first of all, the offerings a company creates (WHAT), secondly the customers it serves (WHO), furthermore the processes it employs (HOW) and finally the points of presence it uses to take its offerings to market (WHERE). This tool takes a business model perspective on innovation based on the belief that this perspective is more useful than the focus only on product or process innovation. Selecting the right Innovativeness Measure Generally, an innovation measurement tool should precisely measure what matters according to the current phase of innovation in a particular industry or company. Therefore, it has to fulfill the following points: First of all, it has to generate value for the company. Another important issue is the focus on the innovation process capability to ensure the performance sustainability. Additionally, it should provide decision makers with information about the barriers of innovation within the organization and it should help to make better decisions. A measurement tool has to be as simple and effective as possible and the results have to be confidential and should be comparable to enable benchmarking. So, selecting the appropriate innovativeness measure depends on different factors that vary across firms, industries, countries and cultures. References Economic stimulus programs Innovation
The Holdfast Chronicles is a series of science fiction books by American author Suzy McKee Charnas. The series consists of four books: Walk to the End of the World (1974) Motherlines (1978) The Furies (1994) The Conqueror's Child (1999). Reception Salon.com reviewer Polly Shulman declared that "the Holdfast tetralogy offers a fascinating look back at the permutations of the feminist imagination in recent years, and it underlines the ideals and challenges faced by feminists ..." Awards The entire series was inducted into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame in 2003. Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World won a retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and The Conqueror's Child won the award in 1999. The Furies was nominated for the 1994 Lambda Literary Award for science fiction and fantasy. References Sources Mohr, Dunja M. Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2005. [extensive chapter on the Holdfast series] External links The web site of Suzy McKee Charnas. Interview at SFFWorld.com Novel series 1974 American novels 1978 American novels James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning works Feminist science fiction Novels by Suzy McKee Charnas Single-gender worlds Science fiction book series LGBT speculative fiction novels
Estadio Calixto García Íñiguez is a multi-use stadium in Holguín, Cuba. It is currently used mostly for baseball games and is the home stadium of the Sabuesos de Holguín. The stadium holds 30,000 people. The stadium is named after Cuban patriot Calixto García. History The Estadio Calixto García Íñiguez was inaugurated on 10 February 1979 with a match between the local Holguín baseball team and the Villa Clara team. The stadium hosted the 2003 Baseball World Cup. References Baseball venues in Cuba Buildings and structures in Holguín Buildings and structures in Holguín Province
Nuwara Eliya Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Nuwara Eliya District, of Central Province, Sri Lanka. References Divisional Secretariats Portal Divisional Secretariats of Nuwara Eliya District Geography of Nuwara Eliya District
Aanachandam is a 2006 Indian Malayalam language film directed by Jayaraj and starring Jayaram, Remya Nambeesan, Sai Kumar, Innocent, Cochin Haneefa, Salim Kumar and Jagathy Sreekumar. It was released in 2006. This film was a commercial success and critically acclaimed.. It ran for about 100 days in the central Kerala regions of Thrissur, Thripunithura and Ottappalam. It was the second highest-grossing Malayalam films of 2006, though it was released along with the movie Classmates during Onam holidays that year. Plot Aanachandam is about Krishna Prasad who is crazy about elephants. When he was a ten-year-old, his father had taken him to the village temple to attend the festival. An elephant which ran amok during the festival knocked the boy over, placed his front foot on the lad's chest, but then spared him. His love for elephants started on that day. He started studying about elephants and their habits. His regular education suffered upsetting his people at home. He failed in several jobs in which elephants had a role to play. Debts began to mount. It is at this juncture that Gowri and her mother come to stay with him. He gives them shelter. Anirudhan is the very opposite of what Krishna Prasad is. An owner of seven elephants, he has hardly any love for the animals and uses them only as a means to earn income. Cast Soundtrack The film's soundtrack contains 8 songs, all composed by Jaison J. Nair. Lyrics by Kanesh Punoor and P. C. Aravindan. References External links 2006 films Films shot in Palakkad Films shot in Thrissur 2000s Malayalam-language films
This is a list of Croatian television related events from 1999. Events Debuts Television shows Ending this year Births Deaths
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a long time rivalry with the 18th Street gang. Many MS-13 members were deported to El Salvador after the end of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992, or upon being arrested, facilitating the spread of the gang to Central America. The gang is currently active in many parts of the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Most members are Central Salvadorans in particular. As an international gang, its history is closely tied to United States–El Salvador relations. In 2018, the gang's US membership of up to 10,000 accounted for less than 1% of the 1.4 million gang members in the United States, and a similar share of gang murders. The gang is often referenced by the United States' Republican Party to advocate for stricter immigration policies. Description Etymology There is some dispute about the etymology of the name. Some sources state the gang is named for La Mara, a street in San Salvador, and the Salvatrucha guerrillas who fought in the Salvadoran Civil War. Additionally, the word mara means gang in Caliche slang and is taken from marabunta, the name of a fierce type of ant. "Salvatrucha" may be a combination of the words Salvadoran and trucha, a Caliche word for being alert. The term "Salvatruchas" has been explained as a reference to Salvadoran peasants trained to become guerrilla fighters, referred to as the "Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front." The '13' is believed to stand for the letter M, the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, but it is also rumored to pay homage to the Mexican Mafia prison gang. Characteristics Membership in Mara Salvatrucha consists primarily of Salvadorans and Salvadoran Americans, but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and other Central and South Americans. Central Americans are the primary targets of violence and threats of violence by MS-13. Many of the victims are minors. Minors also make up the majority of suspects arrested for killings attributed to MS-13. MS-13 gang members typically arrive the United States from Central America as unaccompanied minors. Many school districts receiving Central American migrants were reluctant to admit unaccompanied teenagers when they arrived from Central America, which left them at home and vulnerable to gang recruitment. Recruitment is often forced. In El Salvador, children are recruited while traveling to school, church, or work. Youth who are arrested for whatever reason are usually impressed into some gang or another during incarceration. MS-13 are notorious for their violence and a subcultural moral code based on merciless retribution. Aspirants are beaten for 13 seconds as an initiation to join the gang, a ritual known as a "beat-in". At least one faction of MS-13 – the Fulton clique in Los Angeles – has required prospective members to commit a murder in order to be considered for full-fledged membership. Mara Salvatrucha gang members are typically impoverished young men and teenagers, who are often homeless and estranged from family, and who subsist on minor drug dealing, theft and extortion of street vendors and other small-time criminals. MS-13 members use abandoned buildings in urban areas, known as "destroyers", as places of residence and to host clandestine meetings, parties and drug deals. Gang members who are employed usually work in the construction, restaurant, delivery service, and landscaping industries, presenting false documentation to employers. The gang is often public in its violence. Infanticide and femicide are common, with El Salvador hosting the third-highest femicide rate in the world. In 2016, one in 5,000 Salvadoran women were killed. Legal impunity is a key factor. In femicide cases, only 5% result in convictions. Violent retributions target both enemy gangs as well as their families, friends, and neighbors. Entire families will be wiped out in a single attack, regardless of age. Buses full of passengers from the wrong parts of town will be burned in broad daylight, passengers still aboard. Police officers, government officials, and community organizations are frequent targets. Attacks like these have led the Supreme Court of El Salvador to authorize the classification of gangs as terrorist organizations. This cruelty of the distinguished members of the "Maras" or "Mareros" resulted in some being recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel battling against Los Zetas in the Mexican drug war. Their wide-ranging activities have drawn the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who have initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members, arresting hundreds across the United States. In an interview with Bill Ritter in late 2017, Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas, referring to crimes committed by MS-13 gang members, stated: "The crimes that we're talking about are brutal. Their weapon of choice is a machete. We end up seeing people with injuries that I've never seen before. You know, limbs hacked off. And that's what the bodies look like that we're recovering. So they're brutal. They're ruthless, and we're gonna be relentless in our attacks against them." The choice of a machete is in contrast to other gangs, which prefer to use guns. Officials state the gang has ambitions to become a 'national brand' with an organization to match the Mafia or Mexican drug cartels and estimate its membership has grown by several thousand in the last decade, with a presence in forty states. Many Mara Salvatrucha members cover themselves in tattoos, including the face. Common markings include "MS", "Salvatrucha", the "Devil Horns", and the name of their clique. By 2007, the gang was moving away from face tattoos to make it easier to commit crimes without being noticed. Members of Mara Salvatrucha, like those of most modern American gangs, utilize a system of hand signs for purposes of identification and communication. One of the most commonly displayed is the "devil's head" which forms an 'M' when displayed upside down. This hand sign is similar to the symbol commonly displayed by heavy metal musicians and their fans. Founders of Mara Salvatrucha adopted the hand sign after attending concerts of heavy metal bands. Mara Salvatrucha has traditionally consisted of loosely affiliated cells known as cliques. MS-13 gangs in the United States are loosely affiliated with one another and their specific activities are primarily determined by local circumstances. However, law enforcement officials have reported an increased coordination of criminal activity among the gang's cliques in the Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York metropolitan areas. In El Salvador, the gang is more centralized and cohesive. In 2002, several high-ranking MS-13 members began establishing the Ranfla Nacional, the gang's "command and control structure", which has directed acts of violence and murders in El Salvador and the United States. Presence According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment, Mara Salvatrucha "is estimated to have 30,000 to 50,000 members and associate members worldwide, 8,000 to 10,000 of whom reside in the United States." Other estimates put it at around 30,000 members internationally. MS-13 is one of the largest Hispanic street gangs operating in the United States. The gang has cliques in approximately ten U.S. states, with activity in at least 42 states and the District of Columbia. Mara Salvatrucha has around 15 to 20 cliques active in Los Angeles, with the gang claiming parts of Westlake, Pico-Union, Koreatown, East Hollywood, North Hollywood, Panorama City and Van Nuys as its territory. In New York, MS-13 is based primarily in the Woodhaven, Jamaica, Flushing and Rockaway areas of Queens, as well as on Long Island, according to one 2008 report. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported in 2008 that the highest threat from Mara Salvatrucha was in the Western and Northeastern U.S., coinciding with elevated Salvadoran immigrant populations in those areas. MS-13 activity in the Southeast was increasing at the time due to an influx of gang members. In early 2018, the district attorney for Nassau County, New York, stated that an investigation had "uncovered a structured network of MS-13 operations in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, from within a Mississippi prison cell, and in countries around the globe including Mexico, Colombia, Korea, France, Australia, Peru, Egypt, Ecuador and Cuba." Mara Salvatrucha also operates in Central America and Mexico. The gang is strongest in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. In El Salvador, it is estimated that MS-13 and the 18th Street gang employ some 60,000 between them, making them the largest employers in the country. Mara Salvatrucha expanded significantly in Mexico at the direction of Ranfla Nacional, the gang's "board of directors". Robert Morales, a prosecutor for Guatemala, indicated in 2008 to The Globe and Mail that some Central American gang members were seeking refugee status in Canada. "We know that there are members of Mara 18 and MS-13 who are in Canada and are seeking to stay there," and added, "I came across a gang member who was working in a call centre here. He'd just returned from a long stint in Ontario. We're hearing about Canada more and more often in connection with gang members here." Superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) integrated gang task force, John Robin, was quoted in the same article as saying "I think [gang members] have a feeling that police here won't treat them in the harsh manner they get down there." Robin noted that Canadian authorities "want to avoid ending up like the U.S., which is dealing with the problem of Central American gangsters on a much bigger scale". In May 2018 Canadian federal authorities warned Canadian police services of gangs members attempting to flee the United States into Canada. Prior to a 2014 crackdown on the gang by the Spanish National Police Corps, MS-13 operated five cliques in Spain, located in Madrid, Girona, Barcelona, and Ibi. Mara Salvatrucha's operations in Spain were provided with financial and logistical support by the gang's El Salvador-based leadership as part of MS-13's expansionist agenda known as Programa 34 ("Program 34"). History The Mara Salvatrucha gang originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union, Westlake and Rampart neighborhoods who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Salvadoran asylum seekers were refused asylum in the U.S. and instead classified as undocumented immigrants. As such, Salvadorans began to immigrate without documents in increasing numbers. They mostly settled in cities with large undocumented populations, like Los Angeles. Salvadoran asylum claims were neglected until the 1991 case American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh. The case's settlement agreement required Guatemalan and Salvadoran asylum claims to be reevaluated, as long as they had entered the U.S. by 1990. By this point, the civil war was already drawing to a close after more than a decade of fighting. Before American Baptist Churches v. Thornburg and even after, Salvadoran immigrants were left highly vulnerable to exploitation. In the very beginning, MS-13 was a group of young, delinquent, heavy metal fans who lived in Los Angeles. However, the undocumented community in Los Angeles was subject to severe racial prejudices and persecution. Under these conditions, MS-13 began to mutate into a gang. Originally, the gang's main purpose was to protect Salvadoran immigrants from the other, more established gangs of Los Angeles, who were predominantly composed of Mexicans, Asians, and African-Americans. Some of the original members of the MS-13 adhered to Satanism, and while the majority of contemporary MS-13 members do not identify as Satanists, the Satanist influence is still seen in some of their symbolism. The gang became a more traditional criminal organization under the auspices of Ernesto Deras. Deras was a former member of Salvadoran special forces, trained in Panama by United States Green Berets. On gaining leadership of an MS-13 clique in 1990, he used his military training to discipline the gang and improve its logistical operations. It was after this point that the gang began to grow in power. MS-13's rivalry with the 18th Street Gang also began in this period. MS-13 and 18th Street were initially friendly, since they were some of the only gangs to allow Salvadorans to join. What exactly caused their alliance to fall apart is uncertain. Most versions point to a fight over a girl in 1989. In the incident, an MS-13 gangster was killed, which led to a cycle of vengeance that has escalated into an intense and generalized animosity between the two gangs. Many MS-13 gang members from the Los Angeles area have been deported after being arrested. For example, Jose Abrego, a high-ranking member, was deported four times. As a result of these deportations, members of MS-13 have recruited more members in their home countries. The Los Angeles Times contends that deportation policies have contributed to the size and influence of the gang both in the United States and in Central America. There was no significant gang activity in El Salvador until after MS-13 gangsters were deported there from Los Angeles. Large-scale deportations began shortly after the close of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992. The war had lasted for more than 12 years and included the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians by US-trained government death squads including the targeting of prominent clergy from the Catholic Church. The war saw the recruitment of child soldiers and other human rights violations, mostly by the military, which left the country susceptible to gang infiltration. As a part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords, the post-war Salvadoran government was required to stop using the standing army as a police force and form a new national police service. However, the ruling political party, ARENA, was a descendant of the wartime military government. To favor military allies, it delayed the formation of the National Civil Police of El Salvador (PNC). When the PNC was finally organized 1993, parts of the police force were created by integrating the armed forces. Some of the members of the nascent police force were known war criminals. The lack of a proper police force meant that deported gangsters faced little opposition when establishing MS-13 in El Salvador. To compound the issue, the post-war period was marked by the existence of a large number of uncontrolled arms left over from the conflict, which allowed MS-13 to become a significant arms trafficker. This remains one of its primary revenue sources today, alongside extortion and assassination. In addition, the economic struggles of the post-war period, alongside neoliberal trade reforms, likely contributed to the growth of MS-13. Attempts at suppression Gang violence in El Salvador peaked in the 1990s, then declined in the early 2000s. Even so, they became a key part of political discourse. ARENA presidencies implemented the Mano Dura and Super Mano Dura policies to combat gangs. External observers and gangsters themselves believe these policies increased the power of gangs in El Salvador. In 2004, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) created the MS-13 National Gang Task Force, which facilitates cooperation among local and state law enforcement agencies in order to dismantle MS-13. The strategies of the Task Force include the deportation of Mara Salvatrucha members to their home countries, an effort which has instead exacerbated the gang problem by excelling its proliferation internationally. The Mano Dura policies were followed by a truce between MS-13 and their perpetual rivals, the 18th Street Gang. Under the direction of the president Mauricio Funes, the first Salvadoran President representing the FMLN party, government and gang representatives negotiated unofficially. The terms required gangs to lower the homicide rate in exchange for transfers to lower security prisons. In addition, gangs would receive benefits from the government for every firearm they surrendered. While homicides fell during the truce, gangs no longer had to worry as much about turf wars. Instead, they focused on recruitment, organization, and extortion. The truce did not protect most Salvadorans from extortion. This, along with reports of government leniency towards imprisoned gangsters, led to the truce being highly unpopular and controversial. Funes's successor as the FMLN presidential candidate, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, campaigned on returning to a tough approach on gangs. After Sánchez Cerén took the Presidency in 2014, the truce was understood to be over. Since the gang truce ended, the number of extrajudicial killings by police forces has grown dramatically. Throughout the truce, Salvadoran gangs were able to focus on expansion and internal regulation instead of inter-gang conflict. When the truce ended, the gangs had built up their forces significantly. As such, the truce breakdown saw a return to record levels of violence, with the gangs being much stronger and better organized than before. In 2015, El Salvador had the highest national homicide rate per capita in the world, largely due to escalating violence between MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang. Participants in the original truce negotiations have since been prosecuted. The trials revealed significant corruption, such as government negotiators encouraging gangs to increase the homicide rate to keep everyone at the negotiating table. Opposition to MS-13 in the U.S. has taken varied forms. In 2004, the FBI created the MS-13 National Gang Task Force. The FBI also began cooperating with law enforcement in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, and set up its own office in San Salvador in February 2005. The following year, the FBI helped create a National Gang Information Center (NGIC), and outlined a National Gang Strategy for Congress. In addition, the Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated Operation Community Shield. In 2008, the MS-13 Task Force coordinated a series of arrests and crackdowns in the U.S. and Central America that involved more than 6,000 police officers in five countries. Seventy-three suspects were arrested in the U.S.; in all, more than 650 were taken into custody. By 2011, this operation had made over 20,000 arrests, including more than 3,000 arrests of alleged MS-13 members. In October 2012, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a freeze on American-owned assets controlled by the organization and listed MS-13 as a transnational criminal organization. While the three leaders (José Luís Mendoza Figueroa, Eduardo Erazo Nolasco, and Élmer Canales Rivera) were imprisoned in El Salvador, they continued to give orders. As a result, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed further sanctions in 2015, allowing the government to seize all assets controlled by these men; any business with these leaders would be closed down. In January 2016, over 400 Boston police officers were involved in the arrests of 37 MS-13 members; 56 were charged altogether. Weapons and funds were also seized at the homes of the gang members. Massachusetts State Police Lt. Col. Frank Hughes commented in a public conference, "In my 30 years of law enforcement, I've never seen a more violent gang out there. These are very very violent individuals. The violence is unspeakable." The charges included immigration violations, racketeering, and firearm and drug trafficking. On November 16, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced that they arrested a total of 267 alleged MS-13 gang members and associates in Operation Raging Bull, which was carried out in two phases. The first phase was in September 2017, and resulted in 53 arrests in El Salvador. The second phase was between October 8 and November 11, 2017, and resulted in 214 arrests in the U.S. Charges included drug trafficking, child prostitution, human smuggling, racketing, and conspiracy to commit murder. On July 27, 2017, 113 suspected MS-13 gang members were arrested by Salvadoran authorities. On June 4, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario, police executed search warrants, made 21 arrests, and laid dozens of charges following a five-month investigation. In January 2021, Acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen announced terrorism charges against fourteen MS-13 leaders known as “Ranfla Nacional” imprisoned in El Salvador. In June 2022 during the 2022 Salvadoran gang crackdown, one of the gang's leaders, César Alfredo Romero Chávez, was sentenced to 1,090 years imprisonment in El Salvador after being convicted of 24 counts of aggravated homicide between 2017 and 2018. He was sentenced to 20 years for each case. U.S. pursuit of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias On November 3, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a press release stating that Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias was being added to the FBI's list of Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives with a $100,000 reward for information leading to his capture. Archaga Carias is the alleged leader of MS-13 for all of Honduras. According to the FBI, Archaga Carias is charged federally in the Southern District of New York with racketeering conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns. On February 8, 2023, the United States federal government ramped up pressure on Archaga Carias. The United States Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs offered a reward offer of $5 million USD through its Narcotics Rewards Program. The same day, the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control announced his sanctioning through placement on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List pursuant to . Political discourse MS-13 has been a theme in the Republican Party's, in particular former President Donald Trump's, discourse during political campaigns and debates on immigration. Republicans have accused Democrats of being responsible for violence by MS-13 gangs and have called for stricter immigration policies to deal with MS-13. Republican politicians have argued that sanctuary cities (jurisdictions which do not prioritize enforcement of immigration law) contribute to MS-13 activity, however studies on the relationship between sanctuary status and crime have found that either sanctuary policies do not affect crime or that they decrease crime rates. During the Trump administration, MS-13 became a top priority for the Department of Justice. Trump falsely claimed that towns had been "liberated" from MS-13 rule during his presidency. In 2018, Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address included Evelyn Rodriguez, the mother of a child who was slain by MS-13 members. Rodriguez died soon after from a non-MS-13 related case. Trump also falsely claimed on multiple occasions that his administration had deported "thousands and thousands" of MS-13 gang members. In justifying the Trump administration's implementation of a family separation policy of migrants accused of crossing the border illegally, Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said that child migrants were being used by MS-13 to cross the US-Mexico border; there is no evidence that MS-13 members have falsely claimed custodianship of children crossing the U.S. border. A number of Republican politicians, including President Trump, have falsely accused Democrats of supporting MS-13 or shielding MS-13 gang members from deportation. In the United States, there were an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in 2018, showing stable membership numbers for more than a decade. The gang accounts for less than 1 percent of total gang members in the United States (1.4 million according to FBI data), and a similar share of gang murders. However, an FBI assessment has reported that "Sureño gangs, including mara salvatrucha (MS-13), 18th street, and Florencia 13, are expanding faster than other national-level gangs, both in membership and geographically." The Trump administration has stated that there is a "surge in MS-13 gang members" and that weak immigration enforcement contributes to greater MS-13 crime activity; there has been no evidence to corroborate either of those claims. Publicized crimes Mara Salvatrucha members are involved in the trafficking of narcotics, primarily cocaine and marijuana, into the United States, as well as the transportation and distribution of illicit drugs throughout the U.S. Conversely, the gang is engaged in the trafficking of stolen vehicles from the U.S. to Central America. MS-13 also utilizes intimidation and violence to extort payment from legal and illegal businesses operating in its territory. Members partake in additional criminal activities including alien smuggling, weapons trafficking, assault, homicide, rape, kidnapping, identification theft, home invasions, carjackings, prostitution, robbery, and vandalism. MS-13 is affiliated with the Sureño coalition of gangs which pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia. The gang has colluded with the Mexican Mafia in drug trafficking. Mara Salvatrucha leaders in Mexico have brokered deals with the Zetas, Gulf, Jalisco New Generation, and Sinaloa cartels in order to obtain narcotics and firearms. As of 2007, the gang was being violent to migrants on the southern border of Mexico. MS-13's biggest rival internationally is the 18th Street gang. Other rival gangs include the Bloods and the Latin Kings. Infighting among Mara Salvatrucha cliques has also taken place. Cases On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old former MS-13 member turned informant, was found stabbed to death on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. She was four months pregnant at the time, prior to being killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha's criminal activities; two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder. On December 23, 2004, one of the most widely publicized MS-13 crimes in Central America occurred in Chamelecón, Honduras, when an intercity bus was intercepted and sprayed with automatic gunfire from assault rifles, killing 28 and wounding 14 civilian passengers, most of whom were women and children. MS-13 organized the massacre as a protest against the Honduran government for proposing a restoration of the death penalty in Honduras. Six gunmen raked the bus with gunfire. As passengers screamed and ducked, another gunman climbed aboard and methodically executed passengers. In February 2007, Juan Carlos Miranda Bueso and Darwin Alexis Ramírez were found guilty of several crimes, including murder and attempted murder. Ebert Anibal Rivera was arrested over the attack after fleeing to Texas. Juan Bautista Jimenez, accused of masterminding the massacre, was killed in prison; according to the authorities, fellow MS-13 inmates hanged him. There was insufficient evidence to convict Óscar Fernando Mendoza and Wilson Geovany Gómez. On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, a former high-ranking soldier and one of the founders of Mara Salvatrucha, was murdered at his home in El Salvador a few hours after declining to attend a party for a gang member who had just been released from prison. He had begun studying law and working to keep children out of gangs. On June 6, 2006, a teenage MS-13 gang member named Gabriel Granillo was stabbed to death at Ervan Chew Park in the Neartown district in Houston, Texas. Chris Vogel of the Houston Press wrote that the trial of the girl who stabbed Granillo, Ashley Paige Benton, gave attention to MS-13. In 2007, Julio Chavez, a Long Island, New York, MS-13 member, allegedly murdered a man because he was wearing a red sweatshirt and mistaken for a member of the Bloods gang. On June 22, 2008, in San Francisco, California, a 21-year-old MS-13 gang member, Edwin Ramos, shot and killed a father, Anthony Bologna, 48, and his two sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, as they were returning home from a family barbecue. Their car had briefly blocked Ramos from completing a left turn down a narrow street. Authorities believe the killing was in retaliation for the shooting of an MS-13 member earlier that day, and that the Bolognas were mistaken for gang members. On November 26, 2008, Jonathan Retana was convicted of the murder of Miguel Angel Deras in Hamilton County, Ohio, which the authorities linked to an MS-13 initiation. In February 2009, authorities in Colorado and California arrested 20 members of MS-13 and seized 10 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds) of cocaine, a small amount of heroin, 12 firearms, and $3,300 in cash. In June 2009, Edwin Ortiz, Jose Gomez Amaya, and Alexander Aguilar, MS-13 gang members from Long Island who had mistaken bystanders for rival gang members, shot two innocent civilians. Edgar Villalobos, a laborer, was killed. On November 4, 2009, El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Daily News learned. The plot to assassinate the unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was revealed in an arrest warrant for reputed gang member Walter "Duke" Torres. Torres tipped authorities to the plan after he and four MS-13 members were stopped by NYPD detectives for hassling passersby on Northern Boulevard in Queens, New York. He told police he had information to pass on; he was debriefed on October 22 at Rikers Island, where he was being held on a warrant issued in Virginia, according to court papers. Torres said "the order for the murder came from gang leadership in El Salvador", ICE agent Sean Sweeney wrote in an affidavit for a new warrant charging Torres with conspiracy. Torres, who belonged to an MS-13 "clique" in Virginia, said he was put in charge, and traveled to New York in August "for the specific purpose of participating in the planning and execution of the murder plot", Sweeney wrote. Gang members were trying to obtain a high-powered rifle to penetrate the agent's bulletproof vest. Another MS-13 informant told authorities the agent was marked for death because the gang was "exceedingly angry" at him for arresting many members in the past three years, the affidavit states. The murder was supposed to be carried out by the Flushing clique, according to the informant. Federal prosecutors have indicted numerous MS-13 gang members on racketeering, extortion, prostitution, kidnapping, illegal immigration, money laundering, murder, people smuggling, arms trafficking, human trafficking and drug trafficking charges; the targeted special agent was the lead federal investigator on many of the federal cases. In August 2011, six San Francisco MS-13 members were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy, including three murders, in what was the city's largest-scope gang trial in many years. Another 18 defendants reported to have ties to the gang pleaded guilty before trial. Two of the men murdered had been mistaken for rival gang members because of their red clothing, and another was described by prosecution witnesses as a seller of fake documents who refused to pay ‘taxes’ to MS-13 in its territory In 2011, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in New Haven, Connecticut, was vandalized several times with the "MS-13 tag" and "kill whites" in orange spray paint. In February 2012, a federal judge convicted three MS-13 gang members of murder. Their victim, Moises Frias Jr., was killed, and two of his companions severely wounded, after MS-13 members mistook them for members of the rival Norteños gang because of their red clothing. Danilo Velasquez, the former leader of the San Francisco branch of MS-13, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 10 years, and is incarcerated at USP Hazelton. In October 2016, Jordy Mejia was kidnapped and murdered in Maryland. On February 1, 2019, 23-year-old Reynaldo "Fuego" Granados-Vasquez, 22-year-old Neris Moreno-Martinez, and 21-year-old Jose "Liar" Melendez-Rivera pleaded guilty to using a fake Facebook account to lure Mejia from New Jersey. The three MS-13 members, natives of El Salvador, were in the United States illegally. On March 27, 2017, Raymond Wood was discovered dead on the road in Bedford, Virginia. Six individuals have been charged with his robbery, abduction and murder. They are also charged with being members of MS-13. On August 13–14, 2017, New Jersey MS-13 faction member Walter Yovany Gomez, who was added to the FBI most wanted list in April 2017, was apprehended and charged with the brutal 2011 murder of his friend, Julio Matute, for associating with another gang. After a night of drinking, Gomez and another MS-13 member smacked Matute on the head with a baseball bat, sliced his throat with a knife, and stabbed him in the back with a screwdriver 17 times. Gomez managed to evade arrest but was later captured in Virginia, where he was hiding out with other MS-13 gang members. The Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Immigration Studies released a report that listed 506 cases of MS-13 criminal acts in the United States between 2012 and 2018. In 2017, two MS-13 members, Miguel Alvarez-Flores and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, were arrested for kidnapping, raping, torturing, and drugging a 14-year-old girl for over two weeks in Houston, Texas. According to the 14-year-old, the members also held another victim, "Genesis", hostage in the same apartment. The East Coast kingpin of the MS-13, Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, of Laurel, Maryland (of Prince George's County), was arraigned April 19, 2018, in Nassau County Court in Mineola, New York, on charges including conspiracy to commit murder. He could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted. He was one of seventeen defendants in a 21-count indictment in January that charged him with several counts of conspiracy to commit murder and operating as a high-level trafficker of controlled substances. He was extradited the week of April 23, 2018, from Prince George's County, Maryland, where he was held since October. The earlier jailing was in lieu of $125,000 bail. The gang reportedly issued a call to "take out a cop" in retaliation for Diaz's arrest. An MS-13 member, René Pacheco, boasted in Canada of being a member. In 2018 he faced a deportation order. In another case, gang members were arrested threatening a Toronto, Ontario justice official. In 2018, Jose Villanueva was lured to his death by several MS-13 members. Karla Jackelin Morales was an MS-13 member and escaped by removing her ankle bracelet. A $5,000 reward is being given for information leading to her capture. In a January 6, 2020 court filing, the United States Department of Justice sought the death penalty against Elmer Martinez, an MS-13 gang leader in Virginia. Court documents charged Martinez with the 2016 murders of two minors, 17-year-old Edvin Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Trimino. Martinez, known by the alias "Killer," was accused of luring Mendez and Trimino to a park in Alexandria, Virginia, where they were killed and buried. Long Island, New York cases, 2010s In 2010, Rene Mejia allegedly murdered a Long Island 2-year-old baby. According to a confession by a fellow gang member, Adalberto Guzman, MS-13 members decided to "drop", or murder in their slang, the baby's mother because she had "disrespected" the gang by trying to have rival gang members beat up her former MS-13 boyfriend. According to Guzman, after the mother was lured into the woods with an invitation to smoke cannabis, he killed her, and the baby then began screaming and crying and was executed with two shots to the head. On June 30, 2015, Jonathan Cardona-Hernandez was discovered shot dead on a street in Central Islip, New York. MS-13 member William Castellano was accused of murdering him on the suspicion that Cardona-Hernandez was a member of a rival gang. Castellano was sentenced in the Eastern District of New York federal court to 27 years in prison for the crime on January 24, 2019. The NYPD said that MS-13 were responsible for 17 murders between January 2016 and April 2016 in Long Island. In August 2017, two undisclosed members were charged with the January murder of 19-year-old civilian Julio Cesar Gonzales-Espantzay, who was lured with promises of cannabis and sex to a forest in Long Island, where he was attacked with machetes and stabbed with knives. Nassau County police also said the two members were responsible for 21 murders in New York in just short of two years. Authorities said the motive was to gain reputation. On August 20, 2018, Josue Portillo, a 17-year old member of MS-13 from Long Island, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. Portillo participated in the murder of four young Latino men assumed to be in a rival gang. Portillo, along with several other of his fellow gang members, lured the four young men into the woods behind a soccer field in Central Islip on April 11, 2017, then proceeded to kill the victims using machetes, knives, and wooden clubs. Although he was 15 years and 11 months old at the time of the murders, he was prosecuted as an adult and faces life in prison. On January 9, 2019, three high school students who came to the United States illegally as youths were arrested and charged with the stabbing of another teen after school in Central Islip, New York; they were also charged with being members of MS-13. On January 29, they were arraigned. On February 2, 2019, an MS-13 member fatally shot a member of the rival 18th Street Gang on the New York City Subway's 90th Street–Elmhurst Avenue station in Queens. On the same day graffiti with the gang's name was scrawled on the wall outside the district office of local city council member Francisco Moya. President Trump mentioned the incident in his 2019 State of the Union Address. Immigration Customs and Enforcement confirmed that the suspected murderer was an undocumented immigrant. Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini announced on December 20, 2019, that nine leaders and 45 members of MS-13, plus 19 drug dealers, have been arrested after a 23-month investigation. Twenty-three others were arrested elsewhere in New York State, and 134 in El Salvador. Child prostitution In 2011, Alonso "Casper" Bruno Cornejo Ormeno, an associate of MS-13 from Fairfax, Virginia, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for child prostitution. Ormeno recruited juvenile females into a prostitution ring by locating runaway children. Rances Ulices Amaya, a leader of MS-13, of Springfield, Virginia, was convicted in February 2012 for trafficking girls as young as 14 into a prostitution ring. He was sentenced in June 2012 to 50 years in prison for child prostitution. The girls were lured from middle schools, high schools, and public shelters. Once acquired by Amaya, they were required to have sex with as many as ten men per day. In September 2012, Yimmy Anthony Pineda Penado (also known as "" and "") of Maryland, a former "clique leader" of MS-13, became the eleventh member of the gang to be convicted of child prostitution since 2011. Charlotte, North Carolina In the first decade of the 21st century, U.S. authorities investigated MS-13 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The work eventually led to charges against 26 MS-13 members, including seven trial convictions in January 2010, 18 guilty pleas, and 11 multi-year prison sentences. Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña, also known as "Wizard", was the first MS-13 member sentenced to the federal death penalty. In 2005, in Los Angeles, according to a jury in a later sentencing phase, Umaña murdered Jose Herrera and Gustavo Porras on July 27, and participated in and aided and abetted the killing of Andy Abarca on September 28. He later came to Charlotte, North Carolina, according to witnesses, as a veteran member of MS-13, to reorganize the Charlotte cell of the gang. According to witnesses at his trial on December 8, 2007, while in the Las Jarochitas, a family-run restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, Umaña shot Ruben Garcia Salinas fatally in the chest and Manuel Garcia Salinas in the head. Witnesses testified that the shootings took place after the Garcia Salinas brothers had "disrespected" Umaña's gang signs by calling them "fake". Firing three more shots in the restaurant, according to trial testimony, Umaña injured another person with his gunfire. Trial testimony and evidence showed that Umaña later fled back to Charlotte with MS-13 assistance. Umaña was arrested five days later in possession of the murder weapon. Additional evidence and testimony from the trial revealed that Umaña coordinated attempts to kill witnesses and informants while he was incarcerated awaiting trial. Umaña was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 23, 2008. During the trial, he attempted to bring a knife with him into the courtroom, which was discovered by U.S. Marshals before he was transported to the courthouse. Thousands of hours were spent on the case over several years. International work was also involved. On April 19, 2010, the jury convicted Umaña of multiple charges of murder, and additionally found him responsible for the 2005 murders during the sentencing phase. On April 28, a 12-person federal jury in Charlotte voted unanimously to impose the death penalty. On July 27, 2010, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., of Charlotte, North Carolina, formally imposed the federal death penalty sentence. The case was automatically appealed under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The sentence was upheld in April 2014. Terrorism charges On July 15, 2020, during a White House press conference, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Department of Justice had filed terrorism charges against Armando Eliu Melgar Diaz, a Honduran native who moved from the United States back to his home country in 2016. The announcement marked the first time the DOJ had used terrorism charges against MS-13 according to a Washington Post story. At the same press conference, Barr also announced the arrests of 21 other suspected MS-13 gang members in New York and Nevada. During the session, Barr told the press while MS-13 was involved in drug dealing, making money from drugs was neither a substantial source of revenue for MS-13 nor one of their objectives, "MS-13 is somewhat unique in this sense: they have the street savagery that you would see in a gang is not driven by commercial interests the way, for example, the mafia traditionally was. It's about honor of being the most savage, bloodthirsty person you can be and building up a reputation as a killer." President Trump, during the same press conference, stated that "We're using 'terrorism' which gives us extra strength. We've done a great job with MS-13, but now we're stepping it up to an even higher level." Developments in Spain Under the coordination of the gang's leadership in El Salvador, Mara Salvatrucha formed five clicas in Spain as part of the gang's Programa 34 ("Program 34") expansionist program. The cliques – "Providence" in Madrid, "Normandi" in Girona, "Dementes Locos" and "Demonios Locos" in Barcelona, and "Big Crazy" in Ibi – were provided with financial and logistical support by MS-13's leaders and were focused on operating legitimate businesses, such as bars and restaurants, which could be used for money laundering and to provide employment and visas in Spain for formerly incarcerated Salvadoran gang members. The gang's Spanish-based operations were financed primarily by the sale of marijuana and cocaine, as well as with monthly dues paid by members. The National Police Corps began an investigation, known as operation Cruasan ("Croissant"), into MS-13 in late 2012 after a young man was stabbed in a fight involving rival gangs. On March 24, 2014, the investigation culminated with the arrests of 35 Mara Salvatrucha members in the provinces of Alicante, Barcelona, Girona, Madrid and Tarragona in an operation involving approximately 300 officers of the Civil Guard. The gang members were charged with various offences, including money laundering, attempt and conspiracy to murder, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession. The most significant charges in the case were brought against Esteban Arnulfo Naviti Mejía, aka "Darkin", and Pablo Antonio Naviti Mejía, aka "Big Man", who led the "Big Crazy" clique and allegedly ordered the murder of a rival gang member in late 2013 as well as the murder of a witness in a case that implicated MS-13 in early 2014. The trial of the 35 accused commenced in Alicante on February 20, 2018. 2021 MacArthur Park attacks In 2021, two transgender women in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, had been assaulted and stabbed at night within the park. The attacks drew condemnation from a multitude of advocacy groups, and, with the two attacks so closely linked, resulted in heavy police presence within MacArthur Park. The women had been forced to pay MS-13 members a weekly "tax" for permission to be in the park, according to police reports and victim interviews, for the right to be left alone by the gang. MS-13 reportedly had been extracting this fee over numerous people to regulate illicit commerce within the area, as MacArthur Park is a significant source of revenue in the center of the gang's territory. Violence against trans women in the area had largely started with the closure of a nearby bar, frequented by Latina transgender immigrants who had turned to sex work to survive, and their relocation of operations to the much more dangerous MacArthur Park after said closure. The victim, Daniela Hernandez, herself a Salvadorean who had immigrated to the city illegally, had struggled to pay the weekly fee of $20 after losing her job as a janitor, and had believed the gang singled her out due to her status as a transgender woman. This continued for about three months, until she had eventually decided to stop paying the fee for the gang, where afterwards she was assaulted and stabbed near a lake and discovered with numerous wounds near Union Station. Surviving, she resumed paying the weekly fee, until four weeks afterwards she had been in the park with her throat slit and with 15 stab wounds. The resulting publicity of the attacks led to increased police activity in the park, to a point where much of MS-13 operating in the area had relocated to 10th Street. In film Principal characters of the feature movie Sin Nombre (2009) are members of MS-13 in Chiapas, Mexico, and many of the traditions and practices of MS-13 are depicted. Violence by MS-13 against immigrants on the Guatemala–Mexico border is portrayed in the movie La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas (2012). National Geographic created a documentary in 2005 titled World's Most Dangerous Gang, portraying MS-13. The 2007 season of the History Channels television series Gangland included two full episodes covering MS-13: Episode 2, "You Rat, You Die", about former gang member turned informant Brenda Paz, who had been supplying the authorities with firsthand accounts of MS-13's operations and was later found dead; and episode 13, "Root of All Evil", about the drugs and prostitution rackets run by MS-13. See also Gangs in the United States List of California street gangs List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates Organized crime Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) References Further reading Adams, Jennifer J. and Jesenia M. Pizarro, PhD. "MS-13: A GANG PROFILE" (Archive). Journal of Gang Research. Volume 16, Number 4. Summer, 2009. De Amacis, Albert (MPMM, MPIA). "Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) And Its Violent World" (Archive). University of Pittsburgh Graduate School for Public and International Affairs, Independent Study October 9, 2010. Dudley, Steven. 2020. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang. Blackstone. Federico Brevé "The Maras: A Menace to the Americas", Military Review, July–August 2007. Tom Diaz No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Samuel Logan This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang, 2009 UNODC, May 2007; Washington Office on Latin America and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Transnational Youth Gangs in Central America, Mexico and the United States, March 2007. External links "Gangs, Terrorists, and Trade" April 12, 2007 in Foreign Policy In Focus National Geographic post-investigation essay. 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Équevillon () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population See also Communes of the Jura department References Communes of Jura (department)
The Greatest Gift is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life. The Greatest Gift may also refer to: Film and television The Greatest Gift (TV series), an American soap opera broadcast from 1954 to 1955 The Greatest Gift (film), a 1974 American television drama film starring Glenn Ford The Greatest Gift (2018), film by Juan Manuel Cotelo "The Greatest Gift", the 13th episode of the third season of Warehouse 13 Music Albums The Greatest Gift (Scratch Acid album), a 1991 album by Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift, a 1999 album by Liberty 37 The Greatest Gift: An Album Of Christmas Classics, a 2004 album by Charlie Landsborough The Greatest Gift: Songs of the Season, a 2009 album by Alexis Cole The Greatest Gift (mixtape), a 2017 mixtape by Sufjan Stevens Songs "The Greatest Gift", a 1966 song by Cassietta George "The Greatest Gift", a 1975 song by Henry Mancini "The Greatest Gift", a 1976 song by Narvel Felts "The Greatest Gift", a 1993 song by Robert Plant from his album Fate of Nations "Greatest Gift", a 1994 song by Tina Arena
Çeltik is a village in the Biga District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 266 (2021). References Villages in Biga District
Holothrips notialis is a species of thrips in the Phlaeothripinae subfamily, first described in 2014 by Laurence Mound and Desley Tree. This thrips is found in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, and is endemic to Australia. This thrips, like others of its genus, is fungus feeding and not usually found in large colonies. References Phlaeothripidae Thrips Taxa named by Laurence Alfred Mound Insects described in 2014
The Battle of the Nobles () was an important confrontation in the Berber Revolt in c. 740 AD. It resulted in a major Berber victory over the Arabs near Tangier Morocco. During the battle, numerous Arab aristocrats were slaughtered, which led to the conflict being called the "Battle of the Nobles". Zenata Berber chieftain Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati led the revolting Berber soldiers. Background The Maghreb in the early eighth century was under Umayyad rule. The Berber Revolt broke out in early 740 in western Morocco, in response to the oppressive, unfair (and, by Islamic law, illegal) tax-collection and slave-tribute policies imposed upon Muslim Berbers by the governor Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab of Kairouan, governor of Ifriqiya and overlord of the Maghreb and al-Andalus. The Berber rebellion was inspired by Kharijite activists of the Sufrite sect, who held out the promise of a new puritan Islamic order, without ethnic or tribal discrimination, a prospect appealing to the long-suffering Berbers. The revolt began under the leadership of the Berber chieftain (alleged water-carrier) Maysara al-Matghari. The Berber rebels successfully seized Tangiers and much of western Morocco by the late summer of 740. The Berbers had timed their uprising carefully. The bulk of the Ifriqiyan army, under command of the general Habib ibn Abi Obeida al-Fihri, was at that moment overseas, on an expedition to conquer Sicily. The governor Obeid Allah ibn el-Habhab immediately dispatched instructions ordering Habib to break off the expedition and ship the army back to Africa. But this would take time. So, in the meantime, Obeid Allah assembled a cavalry-heavy column composed of much of the aristocratic elite of Kairouan, and placed it under the command of Khalid ibn Abi Habib al-Fihri (probably Habib's brother). This column was dispatched immediately to Tangiers and instructed to serve as the vanguard and to keep the Berber rebels in check, until the Sicilian expeditionary force disembarked and caught up with them. A second, smaller reserve army, under Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Mughira al-Adhari, was sent to Tlemcen, and instructed to hold there in case the Berber army should break through to Ifriqiya. First Encounter Maysara's Berber forces encountered the vanguard Ifrqiyan column of Khalid ibn Abi Habib somewhere on the outskirts of Tangiers. After a brief skirmish, Maysara ordered the Berber armies to fall back. Rather than give pursuit, the Arab cavalry commander Khalid ibn Abi Habib held the line just south of Tangiers, blockading the Berber-held city while awaiting the reinforcements from the Sicilian expedition. Regrouping after these skirmishes, the Berber rebels deposed and killed their leader, Maysara al-Matghari, and elected the Zenata Berber chieftain, Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati, as the new Berber commander. The reasons for Maysara's fall are not altogether clear - possibly because his sudden cowardice shown before the Arab cavalry column proved him military unfit, possibly because the puritan Sufrite preachers found a flaw in the piety of his character, or simply because the Zenata tribal chieftains, being closer to the Ifriqiyan frontline, felt they should be the ones leading the rebellion. The chronicler Ibn Khaldun claims Khalid ibn Abi Obeida encountered the Berber forces and held his position at the 'Shalif' river, which many commentators have taken to be the well-known Chelif river (Wadi ash-Shalif) in central Algeria. However, it is highly improbable that the Berber rebel army would have been that far east by then. Modern historians have suggested Ibn Khaldun or his transcribers made a mistake here. Julien (1961: p. 30) suggests Ibn Khaldun actually meant to say the Sebou River, whose upper reaches would indeed appropriately place the Ifriqiyan column close to Tangiers. The chronicler En-Nuweri indeed reports the skirmish was outside the walls of Tangiers. The battle Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati opted to immediately attack the Ifriqiyan army mulling around the 'Shalif' (or the outskirts of Tangiers) before the arrival of the reinforcements from Sicily. The Berber rebels under Khalid ibn Hamid overwhelmed and completely defeated the army of Khalid ibn Abi Habib, massacring the cream of the Ifriqiyan Arab nobility. Aftermath News of the slaughter of the Ifriqiyan nobles spread like a shock-wave. The reserve army of Ibn al-Mughira in Tlemcen fell into a panic. Seeing Sufrite preachers everywhere around the city, the troops launched a series of indiscriminate massacres, provoking a massive uprising in the hitherto-quiet city. The Sicilian expeditionary army of Habib ibn Abi Obeida arrived too late to prevent the massacre of the nobles. Realizing they were in no position to take on the Berbers by themselves, they retreated to Tlemcen to gather the reserves, only to find that that city too was now in disarray and the troops killed or scattered. Habib ibn Abi Obeida entrenched what remained of the Ifriqiyan army in the vicinity of Tlemcen (perhaps as far back as Tahert), and called upon Kairouan for reinforcements. The request was forwarded to Damascus. Hearing of the defeat of the nobles, Caliph Hisham is said to have exclaimed "By God, I will most certainly rage against them with an Arab rage, and I will send against them an army whose beginning is where they are and whose end is where I am!". In February, 741, the Umayyad Caliph Hisham appointed Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi to replace the disgraced Obeid Allah as governor in Ifriqiya. Kulthum was to be accompanied by a fresh Arab army of 30,000 raised from the Syrian regiments (junds in Arabic) of the east. This would set up the even more momentous Battle of Bagdoura in late 741. See also Berbers and Islam Umayyad conquest of North Africa Notes References Nobles Berber Revolt
Damion Darrel Warren (born 21 September 1980), best known as Teacha Dee, is a Jamaican reggae singer and former educator. He is best known for his hit singles "Smoke and Fly", "Reggae Souljahs" and "Smuggling Weed". He was a full-time employee for the Ministry of Education Youth and Culture in Jamaica when he recorded all three songs. His stage name was derived from the Jamaican creole for "teacher" and a shortening of his childhood nickname "Demus". Early life and education Warren was born on 21 September 1980 in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He grew up in a little district called Bath where he attended the Unity Primary School. Being successful in his Common Entrance Exams, he was rewarded a place at the prestigious Manning's School from which he graduated in 1997 before relocating to Montego Bay to live with his mother. Warren then attended the Sam Sharpe Teachers College, where he attained a Diploma in Education at the secondary level. Teaching career In September 2000, Warren was employed by the Ministry of Education Youth and Culture to teach Mathematics, Integrated Science and Information Communication Technology. He worked at the Glendevon Primary and Junior High School located in Montego Bay, up until his resignation in May 2012, to pursue entertainment. Music career 2005 - 2010: Early career in Europe and name change In May 2005, Teacha Dee began his professional career by recording "Life Goes On" for The Mighty Powpow Productions, a major reggae production label based in Germany. This song was sung in the melody of The Beatles hit "[Ob La Di]" and was released in 2006 as part of a compilation project titled "First Sight Riddim". However, "life goes on" was not published under the pseudonym "Teacha Dee" but as his given name, "Damian Warren. In late 2006, Warren recorded a song titled "Them A Play" which was released on a riddim compilation called Gloria Riddim, produced by Dasvibes also based in Germany. This single was the first song to be officially released under the name "Teacha Dee". In 2007, he recorded "Smuggling Weed" for Powpow Movements which became his first popular song within the European scene. However, his most successful song at that time was "Smoke and Fly". This was recorded as a sound system dub on the "Kingston Town" instrumental made popular by an Italian reggae superstar Alberto Dascola aka Alborosie. This song" quickly became a sound system's favorite and a huge hit within the reggae clubs. Early 2008, Teacha Dee recorded "Blaming Game" for Master J Productions, a record label based in Montego Bay, Jamaica. "Blaming Game" was the first single that was in circulation on the radio stations in Jamaica. Prior to this, his music was gaining a lot of attention outside of Jamaica without the knowledge of many Jamaicans and the Ministry of Education. Teacha Dee recorded "Reggae Souljahs" for Rootdown Records later that same year. This song was released on a various artiste compilation called "Ilove Riddim" and it quickly became one of his popular reggae anthems in Germany. In August 2008, Teacha Dee started his own label called "Tenfloor Records" based in Montego Bay, Jamaica. 2010 - 2014: Becoming Rasta and touring Europe After some years of study, Teacha Dee accepted the Ras Tafari way of life in June 2010. This brought about a remarkable change in the messages in his music as well as his overall image. In August 2010, he began to focus on his own production company and produced his first collaboration titled "what i pray". This song features 'Determine', an artiste famous for a massive hit with Beenie Man. Teacha Dee released two various artiste compilations quickly after on his label. These were "Hot Box Riddim" and "Thirteen Riddim" both released in late 2010 and early 2011 respectively. In the summer of 2011, Teacha Dee embarked on his first European tour during his vacation leave from teaching. This tour gave a strong boost to his career on the international scene. The people who loved his songs, could now put a face to his music. His first tour included appearances at Yaam and Insel Clubs in Berlin, Faust in Hannover, Magnapop in Krefeld, Petit Prince and Lüxor in Köln, Rude 7 in Mannheim, Kulturfabrik in Hildeshiem, Wagen Bau in Hamburg and U-club in Wupertal. The highlight of his tour was his performance at the prestigious Reggaejam Festival in Bersenbrück, Germany. During this trip Teacha Dee recorded for several producers. "Symbiz Productions" based in Germany, "Catchy Grezzly" based in Italy and "Soul Force Music" also based in Germany. In October 2011 immediately after his first tour, Teacha Dee released his debut album entitled "Reggae Souljahs: Beating Babylon With Music". This album was released on his own independent record label. In April 2012, Teacha Dee returned to Europe for a mini tour. On this trip, he performed in Cantu Italy, Bern Switzerland and Oldenburg Germany. He also did repeated performances in Osnabruck and Mannheim. It was during this time he recorded a collaboration with 'Skarra Mucci' entitled "Summer Time" for "Weedy G SoundForce" a Swiss-based label. This was how his affiliation with Weedy G Soundforce for whom he recorded many singles began. In May 2012, Teacha Dee recorded "Sound System" for Reggaeville/Oneness Productions both based in Germany. He also worked with producers such as "Catchy Greezly" based in Italy, Jugglers Music and Deebuzz Music both based in Germany. A total of 12 singles were released that same year for various producers including his own record label. In August 2013, Teacha Dee and Utan Green collaborated on a single entitled "Reggae Show" on the " Reggae Jam Riddim" which was released at the 19th staging of the Reggae Jam festival held in Bersenbruck, Germany. Teacha Dee was a headliner for this festival. 2014 - 2017: German reggae charts and sophomore album On 4 July 2014, "Party Day" recorded for Germany-based upcoming producers "Dancehallrulerz" made it to the number one spot on the official German reggae charts. This chart presented by Jugglerz radio and Riddim Magazine, was the official Reggae chart of Germany. "Party Day" held the number one spot on two separate occasions. It went down the charts for a short time before returning to number one spot a few days later. These charts numbered 30/2014 and 33/2014 were posted on 26 August and 22 September respectively. In July 2015, Teacha Dee released his first artiste mix-tape titled "Rasta Ting". It consisted of 26 tracks which were released within the European market and was presented by Europe's female sound sensation, Big Mama Sound. In that same month at the 21st staging of the Reggae Jam Festival in Bersenbruck, Teacha Dee's performance was reviewed as "one of the most reviting" by irieites.de. Their list of highlights also included David Rodigan, Anthony B, Alpheus, Ken Boothe, Winston Francis and Bitty McLean. In 2016, Teacha Dee released a total of ten singles. The most successful of these were; "Jah Jah is calling" on the Pac Man Riddim, "Concrete Grave" on the After Berlin Wall Riddim and "Rastafari Way" on the Horn of Africa Riddim. Teacha Dee's major hit of 2016 was "Rastafari Way" which spent 14 days on Beatport's top 100 reggae/dub chart peaking at 44. Another solid performer was "Concrete Grave" which was selected in the top 100 reggae hits of 2016 by Zonareggae.ro based in Romania. 2017 - Present: Latin American tour and movie placement deal In July 2017 Reggaeville identified Teacha Dee's performance on Reggaejam as a highlight of the event. Shortly after, he went to Denmark as a headliner and closing act for the Aarhus Reggae Festival held at Voxhall, Aarhus. In July 2018, Teacha Dee was a headliner at the LB27 Reggae Camp Festival held in Cegléd, Hungary. In May 2019 Teacha Dee went on his first Latin American tour, and was one of the headliners on the International Reggae Festival held in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. This was his closing performance of the Red Jacket Tour, which also had appearances in Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland. In February 2021, it was announced that the title track from Teacha Dee's sophomore album Rastafari Way was selected to be featured in No Time to Die. This is the 25th film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. In March 2021 Teacha Dee appeared on VERA, a prestigious talk show hosted by award winning Television Presenter and Actress,Vera Russwurm. This programme was aired on one of the four main Austrian public television channels, ORF 2. There he spoke about Jamaica's long relationship with James Bond and the story behind the song, Rastafari Way. Discography Albums Singles Various Artists Compilations {\| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%" \|+ Various Artists Compilations \|- !Artist !Title !Song/s !Release date !Label \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Gloria Riddim\| align=left \|”Them a Play" \| align=left \|2006 \| align=left \|Dasvibes \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|First Sight Riddim\| align=left \|"Life Goes On" \| align=left \|2006 \| align=left \|Pow Pow Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Wes Roc Riddim\| align=left \|”Revolution" \| align=left \|2007 \| align=left \|La Familia Wes \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Wild West Riddim\| align=left \|”If yuh have it hard" \| align=left \|2007 \| align=left \|Master J. Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Ovastand Riddim\| align=left \|”Smuggling Weed" \| align=left \|2007 \| align=left \|Pow Pow Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Ice Ice Riddim vol. II\| align=left \|”Leading Cause of Death" \| align=left \|2007 \| align=left \|Reggae Town Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|True Life Riddim\| align=left \|”Blaming Game" \| align=left \|2008 \| align=left \|Master J Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|ilove Riddin Pt.2\| align=left \|”Reggae Soljahs" \| align=left \|2008 \| align=left \|Rootdown Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|TNT Riddim\| align=left \|”The System" \| align=left \|2009 \| align=left \|Dasvibes \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Hotbox Riddim\| align=left \|”Within My Soul" \| align=left \|2010 \| align=left \|Tenfloor Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Thirteen Riddim\| align=left \|”Everywhere", ”Mr. Thirteen" \| align=left \|2010 \| align=left \|Tenfloor Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Napoli Riddim\| align=left \|”Jah Guide and Keep You" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Vaporetto Sound \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Dark Fader Riddim (German Edition)\| align=left \|”Rasta Ting" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Boomrush Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Dark Fader (Acoustic Edition)\| align=left \|”Rasta Ting (Acoustic)” \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Boomrush Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Reggaeville Riddim\| align=left \|”Sound System" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Oneness Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Sweet Sour Riddim\| align=left \|”I Will Try Again" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Greezzly Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Roadster Riddim\| align=left \|”Welcome to the Summer"(with Skarra Mucci) \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Zero Degreez Riddim\| align=left \|”Gal Dem Wha We" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Tenfloor Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Naughty Wifey Riddim\| align=left \|”Freedom" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Dee Buzz Sound \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Kickdown Riddim\| align=left \|”Spliff and Beer" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Jugglerz Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Jump Up Riddim\| align=left \|”Just Weed" \| align=left \|2012 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Event Riddim\| align=left \|”So Me Like It" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy g Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Love Is Universal Riddim\| align=left \|”High Hopes" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Soulove Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Come Down Again Riddim\| align=left \|”Can’t Kill Easy" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|OneFourFive\| align=left \|”All Alone"(with Symbiz) \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Rootdown Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Arise and Shine Riddim\| align=left \|”Lady in Black" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|The War Riddim EP\| align=left \|”The Blessings" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Blazing Faya Riddim\| align=left \|”Change Within" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|GMC Music Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|OneFourFive\| align=left \|”All Alone"-(Feat. Symbiz) \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Rootdown Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|The Nairobi Riddim\| align=left \|”War Big Business" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|MKZWO-RECORDS \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Big Vibez Riddim\| align=left \|”Blaze A Fire" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce/VPAL Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Reggae Jam Riddim\| align=left \|”Reggae Show"-(feat. Utan Green) \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|House of Riddim Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Casiotone Riddim\| align=left \|”One Champion" \| align=left \|2013 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Sleng Teng 2014\| align=left \|”Mash Up The Club" \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|New Boxing Riddim\| align=left \|”Help" \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Soulove Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Swing Heavy Riddim\| align=left \|”Forward Inna Di Dance"-(Feat. Skarra Mucci) \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Itation Records/Bizzarri Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Rise\| align=left \|”We Nuh Fraid"-(Feat. Perfect Giddimani) \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundfore/VPAL Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Boat Riddim\| align=left \|”Haters Gwey" \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Francesco Salteri (Greezzly Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Sunscreen Riddim Selection\| align=left \|”Party Day" \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|DancehallRulerz \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Onion Jerk Riddim\| align=left \|”Shell it down" \| align=left \|2014 \| align=left \|Bikini Ape \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Squeeze Riddim\| align=left \|”Evil Ones" \| align=left \|2015 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce/VPAL Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Joyful Soul Riddim\| align=left \|”Dwello" \| align=left \|2015 \| align=left \|Francesco Salteri (Greezzly Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Better Run Riddim\| align=left \|”Medication"-(Feat. Skarra Mucci, Don Tippa) \| align=left \|2015 \| align=left \|Dub Inc \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Believe Riddim – EP\| align=left \|”See Saw" \| align=left \|2015 \| align=left \|Sazzah Studio Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Aquarious Riddim\| align=left \|”Easy To Love" \| align=left \|2015 \| align=left \|Francesco Salteri (Greezzly Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Surfer’s Big Wave Motivation Soundtrack\| align=left \|”See Saw" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Peace Tunes \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Pac Man Riddim\| align=left \|”Jah Jah Is Calling" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Kathmandu Productions/House of Riddim \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Bay Area Riddim\| align=left \|”Traffic Light Dread" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Colorful Side Riddim\| align=left \|”Power Hungry" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Tidouz Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Roots & Kulcha Riddim\| align=left \|”Suppen Nuh Right" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Francesco Salteri (Greezzly Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|After Berlin Wall Riddim\| align=left \|”Concrete Grave" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Martin Kugler (Papa Noah Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Reelz\| align=left \|”Get So High"-(With Perfect Giddimani, Don Tippa, Skarra Mucci) \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Weedy G Soundforce/VPAL Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Sicknature Riddim Selection\| align=left \|”Stones and Gems" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Boomrush Productions \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Horn of Africa Riddim\| align=left \|”Rastafari Way" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Lionrock Riddim\| align=left \|”Show Respect" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Liontown Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Zion Bound Riddim\| align=left \|”Lightning Earthquake and Thunder" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|Francesco Salteri (Greezzly Productions) \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Danger Zone Riddim\| align=left \|”Do Today" \| align=left \|2016 \| align=left \|House of Riddim \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Burnhard Spliffington Riddim\| align=left \|”Emperor Selassie" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Nike Ear Riddim\| align=left \|”Home Owner" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Kenyakibera Riddim\| align=left \|”Walk Away" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Agogo Riddim\| align=left \|”Poor People" (Don Tippa) \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Roots Rebel Sound \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Nugs & Kisses Riddim\| align=left \|”Calm Down" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Like The Wind Riddim\| align=left \|”Mankind" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Catchy Record \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Hot Fire Riddim\| align=left \|”One Big Stone" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Evidence Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Jah Sazzah Presents Get Up Riddim\| align=left \|”Fed Up" \| align=left \|2017 \| align=left \|Sazzah Studio Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Digital Alliance, Vol. 1\| align=left \|”Help Everyone" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Napem Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Time and Tide Riddim\| align=left \|”What a Feeling" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Greezzly \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Old Jack Plug Riddim\| align=left \|”Mental Problem" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Chalice Geezas Riddim - EP\| align=left \|”Keep Me Away" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Mighty Roots Riddim - EP\| align=left \|”Ego" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Ambassador Musik Production \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Civil Rights Riddim\| align=left \|”Forward Black Man" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Anti-Racism Riddim\| align=left \|”Rastafari Warning" \| align=left \|2018 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|My Favorite DJ Riddim\| align=left \|”Rescue" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Carry Beyond Riddim - EP\| align=left \|”Too Late" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Sazzah Studio Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Inna We Heart Riddim' - EP' \| align=left \|”First Man" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Ragatac Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Vinyllionaires Club Riddim \| align=left \|”Attitude of Gratitude" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Windrush Generation Riddim \| align=left \|”Rat Trap" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Abaddown \| align=left \|”Jah Say" \| align=left \|2019 \| align=left \|Evidence Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Angry Beast Riddim \| align=left \|”Inspired" \| align=left \|2020 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Dub Club Riddim \| align=left \|”World Crisis" \| align=left \|2020 \| align=left \|Giddimani Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Mama Afrika Riddim \| align=left \|”Train Delay" \| align=left \|2020 \| align=left \|Nyah Bless Music \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Catch Me Riddim \| align=left \|”Burn Some Marijuana" \| align=left \|2020 \| align=left \|Kathmandu Productions. \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Rate Who Rate You Riddim \| align=left \|”Band Mind" \| align=left \|2020 \| align=left \|Wilmac Records \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Magnifico Riddim \| align=left \|”Lyrical Don Dada" \| align=left \|2021 \| align=left \|Greezzly \|- \| align=left \|Various Artists \| align=left \|Serious Time Riddim \| align=left \|”The Golden Rule" \| align=left \|2021 \| align=left \|Kathmandu Productions \|- \|} Appearances Official Mixtapes 2015: Rasta Ting – present by Big Mama Sound Mixtapes Appearances 2005: Young and Sexy Vol 9 – DJ L and DJ Suss one 2006: Young and Sexy Vol 10 – DJ L and DJ Suss One 2008: Bad Boys, We Run This – Urban World Wireless and Bad Boy Records 2009: Rise to the top – DJ Mess and Ghetto Youth Sounds 2009: Austriamaica Vol 1 – by Chiquitaman and San Clemente External links Damian Warren a.k.a. Teacha Dee surprises with a fine take on the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di" "Life Goes On", on First Sight Riddim Reggaeville artiste profile for Teacha Dee Energy God, Elephant Man Hosts The "Bad Boys: We Run This" Mixtape Overstand review – Jamaican singer Damian Warren a.k.a. Teacha Dee with his entertaining "Smuggling Weed". Teacha Dee slated for Ocean Splash on James bond Beach on 20 December 2009 Teacha Dee's latest news blog Teacha Dee – Rasta Ting – Mixtape – Free Download! References 1980 births People from Westmoreland Parish Jamaican Rastafarians Reggae fusion artists Jamaican reggae musicians Living people Jamaican male singers Performers of Rastafarian music Jamaican dancehall musicians Converts to the Rastafari movement People educated at Manning's School
Ghenada is a town and commune in the Monastir Governorate, Tunisia. See also List of cities in Tunisia References Populated places in Monastir Governorate Communes of Tunisia
The Women's 800 metres event at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Tampere, Finland, at Ratina Stadium on 11 and 12 July. Medalists Results Final 12 July 2013 Intermediate times: 400m: 1:02.65 Olha Lyakhova 600m: 1:32.17 Mirela Lavric Heats Qualified: First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final Summary Details Heat 1 11 July 2013 / 17:00 Intermediate times: 400m: 1:03.27 Anastasiya Tkachuk 600m: 1:33.79 Anastasiya Tkachuk Heat 2 11 July 2013 / 17:08 Intermediate times: 400m: 1:02.40 Olha Lyakhova 600m: 1:33.21 Olha Lyakhova Heat 3 11 July 2013 / 17:16 Intermediate times: 400m: 1:01.27 Ayvika Malanova 600m: 1:32.37 Ayvika Malanova Participation According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event. References 800 metres 800 metres at the European Athletics U23 Championships
Tazeh Kand-e Jadid (, also Romanized as Tāzeh Kand-e Jadīd) is a village in Tazeh Kand Rural District, Tazeh Kand District, Parsabad County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 748, in 158 families. References Towns and villages in Parsabad County
Refuge du col de la Croix du Bonhomme is a refuge in the Alps. Mountain huts in the Alps Mountain huts in France
František Mořic Nágl (28 May 1889, Kostelní Myslová – October 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech landscape and genre painter of Jewish ancestry. He and his entire family were murdered in the Holocaust. Biography His family owned a farm and the local mill. He began his education in Telč. On the recommendation of his secondary school teachers, he was enrolled at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he studied from 1905 to 1908. He then transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts and became a student of Hanuš Schwaiger. After graduating, he took up residence in Vienna. During World War I, he was called up for service, fought on the Balkan Front, and was seriously wounded in the right shoulder. Following surgery, he was able to recover the use of his hand, but always required a prop to hold up his arm. Despite this, he was determined to continue painting but, as the only son, his ailing father wanted him to take over the family farm. Nágl deferred to his father's wishes and settled into a farmer's life. He still made time for painting, however, and was able to participate in an exhibition at the Rudolfinum not long after. In 1920, he married a violinist named Vlasta Nettelová. He drew his inspiration from the countryside and village life and his reputation as a "peasant painter" increased during the 1920s and 1930s. This led to major exhibitions in Brno in 1933 and Ostrava in 1937. In 1939, he and his family were evicted from the farm and their property was seized. For two years, they rented an apartment in Telč then, in 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo while working at his easel in the town square. He was imprisoned in Brno until May, 1942, when his entire family was transported to Theresienstadt. Later, they were transferred to Auschwitz, where they were all murdered over the course of two years. During his time at Theresienstadt, he continued to create drawings and watercolors, but no one knew of their existence until 1950, when they were discovered in the bricked-up attic of a house that was undergoing reconstruction. A year later, they were presented at a major exhibition sponsored by the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Exhibitions have also been held in Telč and Prague. A plaque in his honor has been placed where he was arrested in the Telč town square. References External links Memorial plaque, with brief biography @ Spolek pro vojenská pietní místa (Vets.cz) Nágl's farmhouse @ Wildtramper 1889 births 1944 deaths People from Jihlava District Artists from the Margraviate of Moravia 20th-century Czech painters Landscape painters Jewish painters Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust Czech people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Czech male painters 20th-century Czech male artists Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague alumni
Anajás is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 29,688 people. The area of the municipality is 6,921.709 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of Furos de Breves. The municipality is contained in the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region. References Municipalities in Pará
Rajyavardhana, also known as Rajya Vardhan, was the eldest son of Prabhakarvardhana and member of the Pushyabhuti dynasty. He ascended the throne after his father's death and was succeeded by his younger brother, Harsha. Contemporary information regarding the life of Rajyavardhana is limited in scope and utility. He is mentioned by Xuanzang, the Chinese traveller, and in Harshacharita, a seventh-century CE work by the poet and bard Bāṇabhaṭṭa. Neither offer impartial accounts and they differ in substantive details. The military historian Kaushik Roy describes Harshacharita as "historical fiction" but with a factually correct foundation. Rajyavardhana was the elder of two sons of Prabhakarvardhana and his queen, Yasomati. The couple also had a daughter, Rajyashri, who married Grahavarman, a member of the Maukhari ruling family at Kannauj. Prabhakarvardana was the powerful ruler of the Thanesar region around 585-606 CE, although exact dates are uncertain. The historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar says he died and was succeeded by Rajyavardhana in 604 CE but Kaushik Roy gives 606 CE as the year, and some sources say 605. Prabhakarvardhana had expanded his territory by defeating rulers in Gujarat, Gandhara and Sind, and he had also resisted the invasion of the Huna people. He died while his sons were fighting the Hunas. The marriage alliance of Grahavarman and Rajyashri had strengthened ties between the families to a point that Shashanka, the ruler of the Gauda kingdom in Bengal, found unacceptable. He retaliated by allying with the Malava kingdom and the forces appear to have launched a successful surprise attack on the Maukhari capital at Kannauj. Grahavarman was killed and Rajyashri captured at this time, which caused Rajyavardhana to retaliate in turn. He commanded a 10,000-strong cavalry force that was successful in defeating the Malava ruler, with the main army of infantry and war elephants supporting it under the charge of his younger brother, Harsha. Rajyavardhana's success was against an advance guard of his enemy. He died later in 606 as he made his way onwards to press an action at Kannauj itself. He was perhaps murdered by Shashanka, who may have invited him to a meeting with treachery in mind, although the only sources for this claim are Bāṇabhaṭṭa and Xuanzang, who both had reasons to write unfavourably of Shashanka. Harsha succeeded Rajyavardhana as ruler of Thanesar and vowed to avenge his brother's death. References Citations Bibliography Further reading 6th-century Indian monarchs 7th-century Indian monarchs Pushyabhuti dynasty
Oneta is a small unincorporated community in Wagoner County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The post office opened July 7, 1905, and closed November 30, 1922. Oneta is located at . Near Oneta is the Tulsa Tower Joint Venture broadcast tower, a cable-stayed VHF/UHF television transmission tower (also used for cellphone signals) with a height of 559 meters (some sources say 560.5 meters). References External links Unincorporated communities in Wagoner County, Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek) Nation
The American College of Sofia (ACS) (Bulgarian: ) is a school in Bulgaria, located in the capital city of Sofia. The college was founded in 1860 and is regarded as the oldest American educational institution outside the United States. American pedagogical methods are used and the primary language of instruction is English. History Founded in 1860 in the then-Ottoman Empire, it was initially a boys' school in Plovdiv, established by American missionaries of the Congregational Church. By co-operating with a girls' school in Stara Zagora founded by the same people, the American College was established and moved to Samokov in 1871. They were the first boarding schools in the country. The teachers were mostly American and many of the school's Bulgarian students went on to become ministers and important social figures. As the Mission Boards decided to close the schools at Samokov and leave Bulgaria, a decision met with protests and discontent among Bulgarian alumni and American donors alike, the schools were transferred to another organization, Sofia American Schools, Inc., merged and moved to Sofia in 1926. The construction of a campus in Simeonovo began the same year to start accommodating 119 girls in 1928, 63 boys in 1929, as well as the remaining 130 a year later. With Bulgaria initially being on the side of the Axis Powers during World War II, many of the teachers left and only a handful had remained when Bulgaria declared war on the United States in December 1941. They continued to operate the college until ousted by the pro-Axis authorities in the autumn of 1942. As the war ended and Bulgaria became a communist state, the American College's entire property was confiscated in 1947 and the campus was used as the office of the Bulgarian State Police during the times of socialism. The college was reopened in September 1992, enrolling 50 boys and 50 girls from over 3,000 that signed up to take the specified test. Much of the old campus and many of the pre-World War II American College buildings have since then been given back to the college, yet parts of the campus are still occupied by the Police Academy. , the American College of Sofia has 606 Bulgarian and 33 foreign students and has enrolled over a thousand, with 848 graduating. Since June 2005, the college also offers the IB Diploma Programme, only for the international students. The former president of the American College of Sofia is Thomas Cangiano, former Cleve Housemaster and History Master at the Lawrenceville School. The current president is Emily Sargent-Beasley. The first class of the reopened school celebrated their 10-year reunion in June 2007. Campus The school operates in eight recently renovated classical buildings, including the new America for Bulgaria Campus Center, all located on 52 park-like acres. It includes seven academic buildings, 62 classrooms, four computer labs, three science labs, a Student Computer Innovation and Fabrication Institute (SCIFI), Audio-Video Studio, a 435-seat theater, a 180-seat concert hall, a 28-bed student dormitory, a large 1276-square-meter multi-purpose gymnasium, several small indoor sports facilities that include a dance studio, and a fitness center, as well as outdoor basketball courts and playing fields. Curriculum The American College of Sofia integrates the values and best practices of American pedagogy with the rich educational traditions of Bulgaria and Europe. ACS has 5 academic grades: 8th or “prep” grade and the 4 high school grades, 9th-12th. IB Program At ACS, the IB program is available only to international students. International members receive an IB diploma, as well as the American High School Diploma. American High School Diploma All students at ACS, receive an American High School Diploma. Bulgarian students at ACS also earn a Bulgarian Diploma. Bulgarian Diploma Bulgarian students at ACS receive a Bulgarian Diploma and an American High School Diploma. Innovative Schools Status In 2017 the Bulgarian Ministry of Education granted ACS with a "innovative school" status. References External links ACS Official website Educational institutions established in 1860 International Baccalaureate schools in Bulgaria American international schools in Bulgaria 1860 establishments in the Ottoman Empire International schools in Sofia
David Essex is the second studio album by British singer David Essex. It was released in 1974 and was produced, arranged and conducted by Jeff Wayne. It peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and was the Christmas number two album that year. Track listing All tracks written by David Essex. "Gonna Make You a Star" - 3:29 "Window" - 4:03 "I Know" - 3:34 "There's Something About You Baby" - 3:48 "Good Ol' Rock & Roll" - 4:41 "America" - 3:21 "Dance Little Girl" - 3:03 "Ooh Darling" - 2:56 "Miss Sweetness" - 4:37 "Stardust" - 4:05 Background to Album Release and Album Production The album was released in late Autumn of 1974 following Essex's considerable success in the lead role in two films That'll Be the Day (1973) and its sequel Stardust (1974), plus his first recording successes with Rock On and the single "Lamplight". The lead track from the album was released as a single: "Gonna Make You a Star" on 27 September 1974 and topped the UK charts by 10 November 1974, remaining at the top for 3 weeks. This allowed for the album to achieve outstanding sales heading into Christmas 1974. By Christmas, CBS had released a third single, "Stardust" which became UK top 5 by New Year 1975. The first single to be released officially from the album was 'America' but this did not chart well. The cassette release of the album included an instrumental rendition of "Gonna Make You a Star" which commenced as 'Stardust' faded on Side Two, presumably added to the cassette version of the album with the length of tape on side two being shorter than on side one. This instrumental was largely the production work of Jeff Wayne, who would continue to work with Essex notably on the musical War of the Worlds. The album version of "Stardust" differed to the version used for the closing credits of the film of the same name. The album version is slower and the vocal is slightly more forward in the mix at the start. Also the heartbeat at the beginning of the album version was not used in the end-credits to the film. The album version is considered to be a second alternative take of the song with more overdubbing and studio production influence from Jeff Wayne; which left the film version faster as originally recorded and much grittier. All three singles contained three additional album tracks as B-sides: "America" b/w "Dance Little Girl"; "Gonna Make You a Star" b/w "Window"; "Stardust" b/w "Miss Sweetness". On the album the lead track "Gonna Make You a Star" was segued into the second track "Window". In October 1975, Essex released "Hold Me Close" as a single from his next studio album All The Fun of the Fair. On the B-side of the single was a live version of "Good Ol' Rock and Roll". The David Essex 1974 album is available as a CD, Download/Streaming, MP3 and vinyl. Personnel Drums - Barry de Souza Bass Guitar - Mike Thorn, Herbie Flowers Guitar - Chris Spedding (Courtesy of Chrysalis), Mark Griffiths Percussion - Ray Cooper, David Essex (Courtesy of his Mum) Keyboard - Peter Wood (Courtesy of Island Records) Synthesisers - Ken Freeman, Jeff Wayne Woodwinds - The English Saxophone Consort (Courtesy of Jeff Wayne Music), Alan Wakeman Backing vocals Julie Covington Doreen & Irene Chanter Paul Vigrass & Gary Osborne Billy Lowrie (Courtesy of RCA) The Persuasions (Courtesy of A&M) Nathan Dambuza Production Producer - Jeff Wayne Recorded at Advision Studios by Gary Martin. Assistant Engineer - Rockette Album Photography - Colin Davey & Brian Aris Charts Certifications References David Essex albums 1974 albums CBS Records albums
Ann(e) Butler may refer to: Ann Butler (painter), American painter Anne Butler, Countess of Ormond Annie Butler, English supercentenarian Ann Butler (camogie); see All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1980 Anne Butler (engineer), Irish Engineer Anne Butler (actress), British-born Canadian actress
Valencia's Simple Tasker (VSTa) is an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode. It mostly complies with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), except where such compliance interferes with extensibility and modularity. It is conceptually inspired by QNX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Written by Andy Valencia, and released under a GNU General Public License (GPL). As of 2020, the licensing for VSTa is Copyleft. It was originally written to run on Intel 80386 hardware, and then was ported to several different platforms, e.g., Motorola 68030 based Amigas. VSTa is no longer developed. A fork, named Flexible Microkernel Infrastructure/Operating System (FMI/OS), did not make a release. User interface The default graphical user interface provided as a tar-ball with the system was ManaGeR (MGR). References External links http://www.vsta.org/distro/ download site Free software operating systems Unix variants Discontinued operating systems Microkernel-based operating systems Microkernels
Arcade Smash Hits is a video game compilation of published by Virgin Games in 1992 for the Master System. It is a compilation of three games in one cartridge, all of which were originally released in arcades by Atari, Inc. The games are Breakout (1976), Centipede (1980), and Missile Command (1980). They have significant graphical upgrades over the originals. The visuals in Breakout look more like Arkanoid.(1986). Reception The compilation was negatively reviewed by Mean Machines magazine mainly for the slow responsiveness of the games and the lack of new features. Legacy In 1996, Sega released a similar collection for the Genesis and Game Gear called Arcade Classics, but with Pong instead of Breakout. References External links 1992 video games Sega video games Master System games Master System-only games Atari video game compilations Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games scored by Matthew Simmonds
Two explosions targeting tourists in Yemen took place in mid-March 2009. Sixteen South Korean tourists were in Shibam, Yemen, at the time of the first blast. Four Korean tourists alongside their local Yemeni guide were killed in the first attack on 15 March, while three more tourists were injured. Relatives of the victims were involved in the second blast on 18 March but the only fatality was the bomber. The initial attack followed numerous calls by members of the Al-Qaeda military network to attack visitors in the region. 15 March attack The 15 March blast took place when a series of tourists were posing for photographs on a hill overlooking Shibam. Five were killed and three were injured. 18 March attack The 18 March attack took place when a convoy of South Korean investigators and the relatives of the victims of the previous attack were journeying from their Sana'a hotel to an airport. A young man walked between two cars and detonated his explosive vest, killing himself. According to AFP, Yemeni security officials stated that they had found a fragment of the bomber's identity card. The fragment revealed his address and showed that he was a 20-year-old student. See also List of terrorist incidents, 2009 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan References 2009 murders in Yemen Attacks in Asia in 2009 Suicide bombings in Yemen Mass murder in 2009 Terrorist incidents attributed to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Terrorist incidents in Yemen in 2009 Attacks on tourists in Asia South Korea–Yemen relations March 2009 crimes Attacks in Yemen
Marion is a unisex given name from a French diminutive form of Mary. It may refer to: Women Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928), Scottish novelist Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman Marion Aizpors (born 1961), German swimmer Marion Allemoz (born 1989), French ice hockey player Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet Marion Arnott, Scottish author Marion Aunor (born 1992), Filipino singer-songwriter Marion Aye (1903–1951), American actress Marion Bailey (born 1951), British actress Marion Bartoli (born 1984), French tennis player Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic Marion Barter (born 1945), Australian missing teacher who has not been seen since 1997 Marion Babcock Baxter (1850–1910), American lecturer, author, financial agent Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935), American journalist, editor, lecturer, clubwoman Marion Corbett, pen name of the Misses Corbett Marion Cotillard (born 1975), French actress Marion Cunningham (author) (1922–2012), American cookbook author Marion Davies (1897–1961), American actress and mistress of William Randolph Hearst Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician Marion Hall (born 1972), Jamaican musician Marion Jones (born 1975), American sprinter Marion Jones Farquhar (1879–1965), née Jones, American tennis player Marion Kracht (born 1962), German actress Marion Lüttge (born 1941), former East German javelin thrower Marion Mann (singer) (1914–2004), American singer Marion Maréchal (born 1989), French politician Marion Marlowe (1929–2012), American singer and actress Marion Shilling (1910–2004), American actress Marion Simon Misch (1869–1941), American activist, teacher, writer and businesswoman Marion Stokes (1929–2012), American activist and archivist Marion Raven (born 1984), Norwegian singer and songwriter Marion Ross (born 1928), American actress Marion Ross (physicist) (1903–1994), Scottish physicist Marion Tuu'luq (1910–2002), Canadian Inuk artist Marion Tylee (1906–1969), New Zealand artist Men Marion Barber Jr. (born 1959), American former National Football League player Marion Barber III (1983–2022), American former National Football League player, son of the above Marion Barry (1936–2014), former mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion M. Bradford (1946–2021), American scientist known for his protein quantification method Marion Broadstone (1906–1972), American National Football League player Marion Butts (born 1966), American National Football League player Marion Cox (1920–1996), NASCAR car owner Marion Knight Jr (born 1965), birth name of Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records Marion Mann (1920–2022), American physician and pathologist Marion Morrison (1907–1979), birth name of John Wayne, American film actor Marion Motley (1920–1999), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player, member of the Pro Hall of Fame Marion Albert Pruett (1949–1999), American spree killer Marion Pugh (1919–1976), American National Football League player Marion Pat Robertson (1930–2023), American televangelist Marion Mike Rounds (born 1954), U.S. Senator from (and former Governor of) South Dakota Marion Silva Fernandes (born 1991), Brazilian footballer known simply as "Marion" Marion Spielmann (1858–1948), English journalist and art critic Fictional characters Lieutenant Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, in the movie Cobra, played by Sylvester Stallone Mr. Moseby, played by Phill Lewis in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck Marion Ravenwood, in the Indiana Jones franchise Marion "Bill" Williamson, in the video games Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 Marion, in the videogame Gunbird Marion, an anthropomorphic steam shovel in the British preschool TV series Thomas & Friends Marion Dunby, a chief police officer in the video game Lego City Undercover and its prequel, Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins Marion Hill, a former professional football player in the TV series In the House, played by L L Cool J. See also Marian (given name), another unisex given name References Unisex given names
MindPlay was a technology designed to monitor blackjack players' actions while playing in a casino, first released in 2003 and discontinued in 2007. Monitoring a person's play traditionally is done visually, by the dealer, floorperson, pitboss, and the eye in the sky (video surveillance). If one of these observers notices something unusual in a person's play, they will do what they can to either determine if the person is a cheat or a card counter, or change the game to turn the odds back in favor of the casino, through more frequent card-shuffling or other methods, or bar a player they think is a card counter, even though the practice is legal. Operation MindPlay utilizes a specially-designed blackjack tabletop that incorporates many features to monitor players' actions: Specially encoded playing cards, using invisible ink and barcodes; see card marking. 14 tiny cameras built into the dealer's chip tray (which is now slightly elevated to account for the cameras). These cameras can read every card in play by reading the invisible ink printed on them. Special chips, so that sensors embedded in the table can automatically calculate each player's bet more accurately than a dealer or pitboss could visually. As MindPlay monitors every card that has been played along with players' betting habits, it is also counting cards just as a card counter would do while sitting at the table. If MindPlay notices that bets are changing dramatically at the same time that a card counter would typically make those bets, MindPlay will notify casino officials that they may want to investigate further. MindPlay tables cost around 20,000 USD. Results Because MindPlay tends to thwart their efforts to beat a blackjack game, card counters generally avoid casinos which use the system and its competitors, and often circulate news of such installations on various Internet sites. Some card counters have tried to make the general public aware of the use of these systems, in an effort to convince others not to patronize the games. Indeed, MindPlay has been somewhat slow to spread among American casinos, partly because of the cost (which must be weighed against that of card-counters) and partly because of negative reaction by players. On the other hand, there were many problems with the systems and some players were able to exploit them. Problems and end of support In 2007 Bally stopped supporting MindPlay. The product was plagued by a host of problems, from the cameras not staying calibrated, to the controller boards malfunctioning. These technical problems along with the need for constant software maintenance by Bally staff contributed to the phasing out of this system. See also Technology for detecting card counters Notes Further reading USA Today: MindPlay technology tracks cards, bets External links Bally Technologies Blackjack
The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana is the Jewish cultural and historical collection of the University of Amsterdam Special Collections. The foundation of the collection is the personal library of Leeser Rosenthal, whose heirs presented the collection as a gift to the city of Amsterdam in 1880. In 1877 the city library had become the University Library, so the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana was essentially given to the University. The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana has since expanded to become the largest collection of its kind in Continental Europe, featuring manuscripts, early printed books, broadsides, ephemera, archives, prints, drawings, newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference books. Historical background Leeser Rosenthal (1794-1868) Leeser (Elieser) Rosenthal was born in Nasielsk, Poland on 13 April 1794 (13 Nisan 5554) to a family of rabbis and teachers. He moved to Germany at a young age, working as a teacher in Berlin and Paderborn before settling in Hanover as a financially independent Klausrabbiner at the Michael David'sche Stiftung. It was in Hanover that Rosenthal met and married Sophie (Zippora) Blumenthal, with whom he had three children, George, Nanny, and Mathilde. Rosenthal was fascinated by books on Jewish subjects, and developed an enthusiasm for collecting them. So much so that he spent his wife's dowry on purchasing more works to add to his growing collection. By the time of his death in 1868, Rosenthal's collection was considered the largest private library in this field in Germany, consisting of more than 5,200 volumes that included 32 manuscripts, 12 Hebrew incunabula, and a selection of rare Hebraica and Judaica on the subjects of religion, literature, and history. Amsterdam Leeser Rosenthal's son George (1828-1909) was a banker in Amsterdam when he inherited his father's library. George Rosenthal housed the library in his home on Amsterdam's Herengracht and commissioned the Dutch-Jewish bibliographer Meijer Roest (1821-1889) to compile a catalogue of the collection. The catalogue, entitled Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L.Rosenthal'schen Bibliothek was published in two volumes in 1875 with Leeser Rosenthal's own catalogue, Yodea Sefer as an appendix. Leeser Rosenthal's children wanted the library to remain undivided and serve as a public resource in memory of their learned father. To this end, they offered the collection to Chancellor Bismarck to be housed in the Kaiserliche und Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin, but he declined the offer. Offers to other European and American libraries also came to nothing. In 1880, the library of the city and university of Amsterdam moved to the former archery ranges on Singel canal, where there was space for the library to expand. Following this, Rosenthal's heirs decided to present their father's library to the city of Amsterdam. It was accepted 'with warmest thanks for a princely gift' and Meijer Roest was appointed curator the year after. Since the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana became part of the University of Amsterdam's library, the collection has been continually expanded in keeping with its assumed role as a modern, functional library covering all fields of Jewish study. Roest was succeeded as curator by Jeremias M. Hillesum (1863-1943), who made significant additions to the library. He, in turn, was followed by Louis Hirschel (1895-1944), who in 1940 completed a subject catalogue for the library. World War II The occupation of the Netherlands led to the dismissal of curator Hirschel and his assistant M.S. Hillesum (1894-1943) in November 1940, and the closing of the reading room in the summer of 1941. The reading room was closed and a number of seals had been attached, but most of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana was kept in the book storage depot. Some of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana's manuscripts and incunables had already been placed in crates below the book depot since they were part of a single organisational unit along with those of the University Library. Herman de la Fontaine Verwey, the University librarian during the war, made plans with Hirschel to smuggle the most valuable books out of the reading room, using old seals discarded when new ones were applied. To their advantage, the only complete catalogue was a handwritten card index in Hebrew that they shuffled thoroughly in order to render it useless. Furthermore, the reading room was overstocked and had no shelf numbers, so they were able to remove a number of books without leaving noticeable gaps. These books were then placed with the University's other valuable books in a shelter in Castricum. Nevertheless, in June 1944 the order came for the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana to be removed. Through a fortunate combination of the enterprising nature of de la Fontaine Verwey, the cooperation of library staff, and the ignorance of those sent to pack up the library, the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana's journals, brochures, pictures and prints were saved. The collection was earmarked for the Institute for Study of the Jewish Question and was transported to Germany. Thankfully nothing had yet been done with the books by the time the war ended, and most of the boxes of books were recovered in storage in Hungen, near Frankfurt am Main, and sent back to Amsterdam. The same could not be said for the curator, his assistant, and their families, who had also been deported. Material available online The Special Collections’ archival collections are available online, and this includes Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana archives. Other digitised material from the library can be found on the Special Collections image database and book and manuscript database. The Encoded Archival Descriptions of the Special Collections are all searchable (in Dutch). Some of the war diaries and clandestine print work in the collection have been made available through het Geheugen van Nederland‘s war heritage site. Almost all the Hebrew and Yiddish manuscripts in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana have been digitised and uploaded by the National Library of Israel’s Department of Manuscripts and Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, and are available here. The Royal Library of the Netherlands’ site Delpher also holds digital material from the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. A digitised copy of one of the highlights of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, the Esslingen Mahzor, is available online along with its New York counterpart. The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana's collection of Menasseh ben Israel books was the first to be digitised in 1999, and has its own site. The Pekidim and Amarkalim archive can also be accessed online. The library also maintains the Dutch Jewish Biographical Dictionary. A short digital variation of the 1994 Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana publication Treasures of Jewish Booklore is also available online. Highlights of the collections Pekidim & Amarkalim collection The Pekidim and Amarkalim (officers and treasurers) formed an international organization whose purpose was to coordinate the fundraising to support impoverished Jews in Palestine. The organization maintained close contacts with the leaders of the Jewish communities in the cities of Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias. The archive, which contains 10,100 incoming letters, is a very important source for the early history of the Jewish settlement in Palestine in modern times. Jacob Israël de Haan archive Jacob Israël de Haan was not one to keep things. He was prolific in his correspondence, but destroyed almost every letter he received and requested the recipients of his letters do likewise. He also did away with all manuscripts and preparatory stages of his books once they were published. That his archive, comprising four boxes of handwritten material and three with copies and clippings, exists is partially due to the fact that he was murdered, after which his house was sealed and his papers returned to his widow. De Haan also presented the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana with material during his lifetime, and more has been added to the archive since it was acquired. The archive contains varied material dating from 1904-1984 (mostly 1904-1924), including correspondence, publications, lectures, poems, and photos. The archive contains few letters from De Haan's wife and family, mostly written after 1919. Meanwhile, all surviving business letters are from after 1923. The notes of the law lectures De Haan gave at the University of Amsterdam and the Law School in Jerusalem remain, as well as notebooks with drafts of hundreds of poems, published and unpublished. Esslingen Machzor Arguably the most well known manuscript of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana is the Esslingen Machzor. Completed by the scribe Kalonymos ben Judah on 12 January 1290 in Esslingen, it is a machzor for Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The manuscript is of a type of prayer book created in Ashkenaz in the mid-1200s and produced for about a century. These codices are all very large, suggesting they were made for community use. This is confirmed by the inscriptions in some volumes, their luxurious execution, and their profuse decoration. The Esslingen Machzor has been digitised and made available online together with its counterpart, held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Sefer Or Zarua The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana holds a late thirteenth century copy of Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna's famous work, Sefer Or Zarua. It was his magnum opus, and he is therefore often referred to as Isaac Or Zarua. Despite its nature as a halakhic work, Sefer Or Zarua provides plenty of historical information in the form of everyday traditions and local customs across Europe that makes it an interesting source for both religious and medieval historians. This manuscript is one of only two extant medieval copies, the other being held at the British Library in London, and the basis for the first published edition of the work, published in 1862 in Zhytomyr. The Sefer Or Zarua preserves one of the earliest versions of the story of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz. Sefer Mitzwot Katan The Sefer Mitzwot Katan, SeMaK, or Small Book of Precepts, was composed by Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil in 1280, and is an abridged copy of the Great Book of Precepts by Moses ben Jacob of Coucy. The manuscript in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana was copied by Hannah, daughter of Menachem Zion. It was extremely rare for women to write Hebrew medieval manuscripts. Indeed, fewer than ten female scribes are known compared with over four thousand known male scribes. However these figures can be misleading as the majority of manuscripts remain anonymous. Many girls were taught to read, but only those in families of scholars or scribes were taught to write, so there can nevertheless only be few more female scribes of medieval manuscripts. It cannot be ascertained whether Hannah was from a scholarly family, but given the quality of her writing, it is highly likely. Upon finishing her copy of the SeMaK, Hannah signed and dated it on 10 June 1386. Leipnik Haggadah The Hamburg-Altona school of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts was part of the revival of Hebrew manuscript illumination in the eighteenth century, and one of its most influential scribes was Joseph, son of David of Leipnik. Only thirteen manuscripts, all Haggadot written by Jodeph of Leipnik have been found, of which the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Leipnik Haggadah is one. This Haggadah appears to have been intended as a personal gift, and includes an abridged version of Abravanel's commentary on the Haggadah, and a short mystical commentary. The Leipnik Haggadah was based on the two editions of the Amsterdam Haggadah (1695 and 1712), as was standard for eighteenth-century Haggadah manuscripts. References University of Amsterdam Jewish Dutch history Jews and Judaism in Amsterdam 19th century in Amsterdam Libraries in Amsterdam Jewish organisations based in the Netherlands Libraries established in 1880 Jewish libraries
This is a list of notable Indian comedians, sorted by country or area of notability. India Abhishek Upamanyu 2 Foreigners In Bollywood Ahsaan Qureshi Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) Akaash Singh Ali Allu Ramalingaiah Amit Bhadana Anubhav Singh Bassi Anup Kumar Appurv Gupta Atul Khatri Bharti Singh Bhuvan Bam Binnu Dhillon Biswa Kalyan Rath Brahmanandam (Kanneganti Brahmanandam) Charle Chinmoy Roy Goundamani Gurpreet Ghuggi Gursimran Khamba Harisree Ashokan Harsha Chemudu Jagathy Sreekumar Janagaraj Jaswinder Bhalla Jaya Prakash Reddy Johny Lever Janumala Kader Khan Kanan Gill Kaneez Surka Kapil Sharma Karthik Kumar Kenny Sebastian Keshto Mukherjee Kishore Kumar Kunal Kamra Mallika Dua Mehmood Mubeen Saudagar Munawar Faruqui Mir M. S. Narayana Santhanam Santhanam Nishant Tanwar Prudhvi Raj Padmanabham Papa CJ Rabi Ghosh Raghu Babu Rahul Dua Raja Babu Rajendra Nath Rajpal Yadav Rao Gopal Rao Rehman Khan Rohan Joshi Rudranil Ghosh Samay Raina Sanjay Rajoura Santosh Dutta Sapan Verma Saswata Chatterjee Satish Kaushik Saanand Verma Senthil Shyam Rangeela Sivakarthikeyan Sorabh Pant Sumona Chakravarti Sumukhi Suresh Sunil Sunil Grover Sunil Pal Sundaram (Being Sundaram) Tanmay Bhat Tulsi Chakraborty Upasana Singh Utpal Dutta V.I.P. Vadivelu Varun Grover (writer) Vasu Primlani Vennela Kishore Venu Madhav Vir Das Vivek Zakir Khan (comedian) Bollywood (Hindi cinema) Ahsaan Qureshi Akshay Kumar Ali Asgar Anupam Kher Ashok Saraf Asit Sen Asrani Bhagwan Dada Bharti Singh Bharti Singh Bomman Irani Dada Kondke Deven Verma Govinda I. S. Johar Jagdeep Jaspal Bhatti Johnny Lever Johnny Walker Kader Khan Kapil Sharma Keshto Mukherjee Kiku Sharda Kishore Kumar Krishna Abhishek Laxmikant Berde Manorama Mehmood Mukri Navin Prabhakar Om Prakash Paintal Paresh Rawal Preeti Ganguly Rajendra Nath Rajpal Yadav Raju Srivastav Rakesh Bedi Satish Kaushik Satish Shah Shakti Kapoor Sudesh Lehri Sumeet Raghavan Sunil Grover Sunil Grover Sunil Pal Tiku Talsania Tun Tun Vir Das Tollywood (Telugu cinema) Brahmanandam (Kanneganti Brahmanandam) Kota Srinivasa Rao Sunil (Indukuri Sunil Varma) Tanikella Bharani Rajendra Prasad (Gadde Rajendra Prasad) Rao Gopal Rao Jaya Prakash Reddy Mallikarjuna Rao AVS (Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam) L.B. Sriram (Lanka Bhadradri Sri Ram) Ali (Basha Ali) M.S. Narayana (Mailavarapu Surya Narayana) Naresh Allari Naresh (Edara Naresh) Venu Madhav Babu Mohan Krishna Bhagavan Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam Sudhakar (Betha Sudhakar) Saptagiri Bithiri Sathi Hyper Aadi Vennela Kishore Rahul Ramakrishna Dhanraj Priyadarshi Pulikonda Kovai Sarala Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Sudigali Sudheer Raghu Babu (Yerra Raghu Babu) Rajababu (Punyamurthula Appalaraju) Giri Babu (Yerra Seshagiri Rao) Chandramohan Kallu Chidambaram Girija Khayyum (Khayyum Ali; brother of Ali) Krishnudu (Alluri Krishnam Raju) Sri Lakshmi Allu Rama Lingaiah Nagesh (Ceiyur Krishna Gundu Rao) Padmanabham Rama Prabha Nutan Prasad (Tadinada Varaprasad) Chitti Babu Punyamurthula Thagubothu Ramesh Gundu Hanumantha Rao Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao Relangi (Relangi Venkata Ramayya) Suthi Veerabhadra Rao Ramana Reddy (Thikkavarapu Venkata Ramana Reddy) Srinivasa Reddy Ironleg Sastri (Gunupudi Viswanath Shastri) Srihari (Raghumudri Srihari) Suryakantham Suthivelu (Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao) Viva Harsha Venu Thottempudi Srinivas Avasarala Uttej Fish Venkat Chitram Seenu Chalam Kollywood (Tamil cinema) Vadivelu Chitti Babu Cho Ramaswamy Crazy Mohan Ennatha Kannaiya Ganja Karuppu Goundamani Idichapuli Selvaraj Imman Annachi J.P. Chandrababu Janakaraj Jangiri Madhumitha K.A. Thangavelu Kaali Venkat Kalabhavan Mani Kalaivanar NS Krishnan Kali N. Rathnam Karunakaran Karunas Kovai Sarala Loose Mohan M. Saroja M.S. Baskar Madhan Bob Manivannan Manorama Mayilsamy Santhanam Nagesh (Ceiyur Krishna Gundu Rao) Omakuchi Narasimhan Rajendran RJ Balaji Chachu Sathish Sathyan Senthil Sivakarthikeyan Soori Suruli Rajan Thengai Srinivasan Vadivel Balaji Chinni Jayanth Vaiyapuri Vennira Aadai Moorthy Vidyullekha Raman Vivek Yogi Babu Sandalwood (Kannada cinema) Balakrishna Janardhan Bhanu Bandopadhyay Bullet Prakash Chikkanna Dheerendra Gopal Dinesh Dingri Nagaraj Doddanna Dwarakish Girija Lokesh Honnavalli Krishna Jaggesh Karibasavaiah Kashinath Komal Kumar Kunigal Nagabhushan Lokesh M. N. Lakshmi Devi M. S. Umesh Mandya Ramesh Mimicry Rajagopal Mithra Mukhyamantri Chandru Musuri Krishnamurthy Mysore Lokesh Narasimharaju Rangayana Raghu Ravishankar Gowda Rekha Das Sadhu Kokila Sharan Srujan Lokesh Tennis Krishna Umashree Vaijanath Biradar Vaishali Kasaravalli United Kingdom Papa CJ Sindhu Vee Anuvab Pal See also List of Indian YouTubers References Lists of comedians Comedians comedians

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