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Evacuate is an American six piece punk rock band from Southern California, founded in 2007. With influences ranging from the Sex Pistols, Chelsea, U.K. Subs, Broken Bones, Negative Approach and the English Dogs, Evacuate's releases and live sets cover a wide range of the punk rock spectrum.
History
Beginning: 2007-2008
Started by founding members vocalist Mike Virus (ex- The Virus/Cheap Sex) and lead guitarist Karlos Evacuate (ex-Lab Rats), also featuring ex Cheap Sex members Brock on bass and guitarist Phil, and Ryan on drums. The original lineup wrote the first two Evacuate songs, "Convenience Killed Mankind" and "In My Dreams". Months later Phil, Brock and Ryan left to form side projects, and Mike and Karlos carried on recruiting bass player Sean, guitarist John A. (All Out Attak) and Danny (2nd Hand Justice) on drums. This lineup wrote songs “What Happened to Hardcore” and “Give You Nothing”, which were recorded along with the first two songs to complete Evacuate's first demo "Evacuate 2007". This lineup also wrote part of the first LP and played the first handful of shows. John A. left and was replaced by Tony on second guitar and helped finish writing the first LP. After a few shows Danny left and was replaced by John C on drums.
Foundation: 2008-2010
This lineup recorded the band's first official release - the self-titled "Evacuate" CD/LP, which was released in 2008 on Taang/Joe Pogo, and the Endless War EP on Czech label Voltage Records in 2010. They shared the stage with Fear, The Germs, U.K. Subs and Bad Religion. This incarnation of Evacuate lasted two years until 2010 when Sean was replaced by Kevin Sayaka on bass.
Endless War Across Europe: 2010-2011
This lineup recorded Evacuate’s second full length offering 2012 also on Voltage released in late 2011, this lineup played regularly throughout 2010 and 2011 including a full tour of Europe with the Mad Pigs, also sharing the stage with SS-Kaliert, Vox Populi and Normahl! Evacuate also put together a benefit show for the victims of Japan's catastrophic tsunami.
Trials and Tribulations: 2012-2013
2012 brought some adversity to the band with members Kevin Sayaka and Tony taking a hiatus from the band. Evacuate continued on as a four piece with Kevin Kane joining on bass. This lineup played a handful of shows including a debut show with the Vibrators, Kevin Sayaka returned on second guitar from his hiatus and Evacuate continued as a five piece, this came with the announcement that Evacuate would be playing the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, England, the band worked all of mid 2013 playing shows and raising funds to head across the pond. Then things took a bad turn with longtime drummer John C, having to leave the band to fight personal demons, leaving Evacuate with a commitment to play in England with no drummer, it seemed like all hope was lost until longtime friend Alan from the band Destruct offered to fill in for the trip. This coincided with Tony's return from hiatus and adding a third guitar adding an extra layer to Evacuate’s sound.
Anarchy in the UK: 2013 Continued
Evacuate complete with the updated six-man lineup finally ventured out to the UK. This saw the boys playing two critically acclaimed sets, the first a surprise set replacing Mad Sin supporting the Defects in the arena stage, which saw members of Chelsea join Evacuate on stage to play a cover version of Chelsea's hit single "Evacuate", which is where the band's name came from. The second set, which was their originally advertised stage time, back in the arena stage. As the boys returned, a new drummer Raul "Riff-Raff" Cuellar was recruited, and it was back to work until a near tragedy struck one of the guy's family members; this situation hit close to home with everyone in the band and threatened the existence of the band, but with the help of loyal fans, friends and family all over the world, the situation improved enough for the boys to continue moving forward.
2014 and beyond
As 2013 drew to a close the news broke of Evacuate joining up with The Virus and The Bad Engrish for a West Coast tour in the spring of 2014. Evacuate will release a limited-edition orange colored flexi with two new songs complete with a special fanzine sleeve/packaging. This was a preview of Evacuate's next album, Blood Money.
Discography
Demo 2007
Evacuate LP 2009
Endless War EP 2010
2012 LP 2011
"Our Lives" / "Rage" single 2014 500 copies
Blood Money LP 2014
Current members
Mike Virus (Vocals) 2007–present
Karlos - (Lead guitar) 2007–present
Riff Raff (Drums) 2013–present
Tony (Rhythm guitar) 2008–present
Kevin Nguyen (Rhythm guitar) 2010–present
Kevin Kane (Bass) 2012–present
Past members
John Arias - (Rhythm guitar) 2007-2008
Sean Swales - (Bass)2007-2010
Danny - (Drums)2007-2008
John Cesena - (Drums)2008-2013
Phil Robles 2007 (Rhythm guitar) 2007
Brock Anderson 2007n(Bass) 2007
Ryan - (Drums) 2007
External links
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Punk rock groups from California
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Jeff Jordan may refer to:
Sports
Jeff Jordan (defensive back) (1943–2022), American football player
Jeff Jordan (running back) (born 1945), American football player
Jeff Jordan (bobsleigh) (born 1956), American Olympic bobsledder
Others
Jeff Jordan (painter), American surrealist painter
Jeff Jordan (venture capitalist), American venture capitalist
See also
Jeffrey Jordan (born 1988), American former basketball player |
Gilbert Lake is a small lake in Otsego County, New York. It is located northwest of Laurens within Gilbert Lake State Park. Lake Brook flows through the lake, then flows southeast before converging with Otego Creek. Lake of the Twin Fawns, located northwest of Gilbert Lake, drains south via Lake Brook into Gilbert Lake.
Fishing
Fish species present in the lake are largemouth bass, rainbow trout, pumpkinseed sunfish. The lake is accessed by a state-owned carry down boat launch in Gilbert Lake State Park.
References
Lakes of New York (state)
Lakes of Otsego County, New York |
Trochus fultoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898, which is currently in use for a species from the Gulf of Oman is a junior homonym of Trochus fultoni G.B. Sowerby III, 1890 (which has become a synonym of † Jujubinus suarezensis fultoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1890), described from South Africa.
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and off Kuwait (intertidal zone of Ras Al-Zour).
References
Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp
External links
fultoni
Gastropods described in 1898 |
The Vicariate Apostolic of Unyanyembe () was an Apostolic vicariate located in German East Africa. It was promoted to the Diocese of Tabora in 1925 and to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tabora in 1953.
Creation and boundaries
It was separated from the Vicariate Apostolic of Nyanza by a Decree of Propaganda on December 30, 1886. Its limits, as fixed on December 10, 1895, were:
North - the Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Nyanza
East - a line drawn from Lake Manjara (36°E.) along the mountain ridges to the North West of Ugago
South - the northern limits of Ujanzi, Ugunda, Ugetta, Uvenza, and Ujiji
West - Lake Tanganyika and the eastern boundary of the Congo Free State to the village of Ruanda.
History
This district was originally included in the Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika. In 1879, R.P. Ganachan of the White Fathers penetrated this previously unknown region and endeavoured to settle at Tabora, but was unsuccessful. Two years later R.P. Guillet succeeded and opened an orphanage there, which was shortly afterwards transferred to Kipalapala one league distant. In 1844 R.P. Lourdel settled at Djiue-la-Singa, but the post was abandoned on 13 March 1885. On 11 January 1887, the mission of Unyanyembe was separated from Tanganika, with R.P. Girault as superior of the provicariate. On 23 August 1887, Mgr Jean Charbonnier was consecrated bishop in the Kipalapala orphanage chapel by Mgr. Léon Livinhac of Uganda. This was the first episcopal consecration in Equatorial Africa. The station at Kipalapala was destroyed in 1889 by the natives. Two years later it was restored, and another was opened at Uchirombo. Towards the close of 1897 five Sisters of Notre-Dame d'Afrique arrived at Uchirombo. In 1900 there were in this mission 20 priests, 6 nuns, 49 catechists, 1842 neophytes, 6000 catechumens, and 150 children in the schools. A German scientist, Dr. Richard Kandt, a Protestant, was so impressed by the good work of the Catholic missionaries that he presented his estate at Tabora to the vicar Apostolic to found a school and hospital. The first vicar Apostolic, Mgr François Gerboin, of the White Fathers, born in 1847 and consecrated titular Bishop of Turbubto in 1897, resided at Ushirombo.
Mission statistics in 1905
33 priests
7 lay brothers
6 nuns
72 catechists
26 schools with 966 pupils
11 hospitals
5 leper houses
17 orphanages with 325 children rescued from slavery
3,000,000 infidels
678 Catholics
2889 catechumens.
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Unyanyembe
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Charlestown railway station is a disused railway station close to the village of Charlestown in County Mayo, Ireland. The station was originally opened in 1895, as part of the route between Claremorris and Sligo. It was closed to passenger traffic in 1963, with goods traffic ending in 1975.
As part of the Irish government's Transport 21 plan, it was proposed that the station would re-open as part of the second stage of the Western Railway Corridor project. This second stage, currently unfunded, would see the line restored between Claremorris and Sligo, with Charlestown as an intermediate stop.
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Disused railway stations in County Mayo
Proposed railway stations in the Republic of Ireland
Railway stations opened in 1895
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in the 1890s
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Sergeant Larry Wayne Maysey (May 18, 1946 – November 9, 1967) was a United States Air Force pararescueman who was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, the Air Force's second-highest decoration (after the Medal of Honor).
Early life
Maysey grew up in Chester Township, New Jersey and graduated from West Morris Regional High School (since renamed as West Morris Central High School). Soon after he graduated high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and 2 years later was sent to Vietnam.
Air Force Cross
Action
On 8 November 1967 two HH-3E Jolly Green Giants of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron were launched on a night mission to extract five survivors of a Special Forces reconnaissance team. The site was known to be hot, surrounded by a well-disciplined, People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) battalion. A Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) and a United States Army helicopter had already been shot down and destroyed. Illuminated by a C-130 Hercules flare ship dropping LUU-2 parachute flares, Jolly 29 made a pickup of three survivors before being driven off by intense enemy fire. Jolly 29, with heavy battle damage, landed at the USMC Khe Sanh Combat Base. Maysey's helicopter Jolly 26 then attempted to pick up the remaining two survivors, both now wounded. Fighting, both in the air and on the ground, was intense. Maysey jumped from the safety of Jolly 26, and ran down a steep slope rescuing the two remaining men. Jolly 26 was now being hit with small arms fire. Just after Maysey had helped both survivors safely on board, a rocket propelled grenade struck the number one engine, fatally crippling the craft. The engine exploded, inverting the aircraft, which rolled and skidded down a deep ravine and burst into flames; a pilot and one other man survived the crash. Maysey received the Air Force Cross posthumously. The pilot Captain Gerald Young was rescued later that day and subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor.
Citation
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title 10, Section 8742, United States Code, takes pride in presenting the Air Force Cross (Posthumously) to Sergeant Larry Wayne Maysey (AFSN: 12751422), United States Air Force, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force as an HH-3E Rescue Specialist (Pararescueman) of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, 3d Air Rescue and Recovery Group, DaNang Air Base, Vietnam, in Southeast Asia on 9 November 1967. On that date, Sergeant Maysey attempted the night extraction of a ground reconnaissance team after his helicopter had been severely damaged. Two other helicopters had been shot down and a third extensively damaged in previous attempts. During the rescue attempt, Sergeant Maysey unhesitatingly exposed himself to the hail of hostile fire to assist wounded survivors into the helicopter. The hostile forces closed in quickly, and as the damaged helicopter departed, it was shot down. Though his extraordinary heroism, superb airmanship, and aggressiveness in the face of the enemy, Sergeant Maysey reflected the highest credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
Commendations
The following awards have been awarded to Sergeant Maysey:
References
External links
Air Force Link entry: PJ Chief Master Sergeant Duane D. Hackney
Air Force Link entry: PJ Airman First Class William H. Pitsenbarger
Air Force Link entry: PJ Technical Sgt. Tim Wilkinson
United States Air Force Pararescue Association
A1C Bill Pitsenbarger posthumously awarded Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam in 1966
POW/MIA Remembrance Page for Larry Wayne Maysey
United States Air Force airmen
1967 deaths
Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United States)
People from Chester Borough, New Jersey
1946 births
Military personnel from New Jersey
West Morris Central High School alumni
United States Air Force personnel killed in the Vietnam War |
PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canadian Tour, was a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The United States based PGA Tour took over operation of the tour on November 1, 2012, at which time it was renamed PGA Tour Canada. In 2015, Mackenzie Investments became the umbrella sponsor of the tour, branding it as the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada.
The PGA Tour Canada used to be one of three international PGA Tour-sanctioned tours, along with the PGA Tour Latinoamérica and PGA Tour China (all now defunct). These tours provided access to the Korn Ferry Tour and are part of the path to the PGA Tour.
In April 2023, the PGA Tour announced that the 2023 PGA Tour Canada season would be the last, as from 2024 the tour would merge with the PGA Tour Latinoamérica, creating the PGA Tour Americas.
History
The origins of the current Canadian Tour can be traced back to the Carling of Canada Golf Tour, which ran for four years from 1966 to 1969. In 1970 Carling Brewery reduced their sponsorship commitments to just a handful of the main tournaments and the tour became less coordinated. Later in the year Imperial Tobacco Canada, under the Peter Jackson brand, signed on as title sponsor and brought scattered Canadian professional events back under one umbrella. The Peter Jackson Tour started in 1971 bringing together seven provincial opens, with each purse reaching C$15–20,000 by 1977. The Tour developed predominantly Canadian touring pros but also welcomed players from around the world. Canadian Golf Hall of Fame members Dave Barr and Dan Halldorson – both two-time PGA Tour winners – competed on the circuit in the 1970s and made several appearances once they were established on the big tour. Fellow Canadians and PGA Tour winners Al Balding and George Knudson also returned home several times in their career to play the circuit.
As the 1970s continued, government legislation began restricting the amount of advertising and sponsorship that tobacco companies were allowed to participate in. In 1978, anticipating future legislation that would ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship in Canada, Imperial Tobacco withdrew its title sponsorship of the circuit. Several tournaments disappeared and although a few carried on, there was no longer any cohesion to the circuit. In 1982, Canadian touring professionals formed the Tournament Players Division (TPD) within the Canadian Professional Golfers Association (CPGA) and proposed a reorganized circuit under the guidance of Ken Tarling.
In 1985, TPD members selected Bob Beauchemin as president with the mandate to "build, promote and conduct tournaments of the Canadian Tour to develop Canadian professional golfers to a world-class level." The reborn Canadian Professional Golf Tour began play in 1985 and had six events. Nevertheless, the Tour was still linked with the CPGA (PGA of Canada). In January 1986, Beauchemin convinced the CPGA's Board of Directors to grant the TPD autonomous status within the CPGA and to be responsible for its own funding.
The next step involved organizing tournaments in such a way as to maximize the benefit for the players. At the time, most tournaments were 36- or 54-hole events and several were pro-am formats. To prepare players for the PGA Tour, they set a goal for all tournaments to be 72 holes with no pro-ams during the actual competition. Prize money, exemptions and draws would need to mimic the format used on the PGA Tour and European Tour. Although it took until 1989 for all tournaments to play 72 holes, the Canadian Tour began attracting players from not only the United States, but from around the world in the mid-1980s.
The Canadian Tour has sent many players on to PGA Tour success. Canadian Mike Weir, the winner of eight PGA Tour titles – including the 2003 Masters - earned Rookie of the Year honours on the Canadian Tour in 1993. In 1997, Weir captured the 1997 Canadian Masters and BC Tel Pacific Open as well as the Order of Merit. He first qualified for the PGA Tour in 1998. Other PGA Tour winners who played the Canadian Tour include 2005 U.S. Open winner Michael Campbell, 2004 Open Championship winner Todd Hamilton, Steve Stricker, Stuart Appleby, Peter Lonard, Scott McCarron, Tim Herron, Chris DiMarco, Nick Watney, Stephen Ames, Paul Casey, Arron Oberholser, D. A. Points, Ken Duke, Mackenzie Hughes, and 2008 RBC Canadian Open winner Chez Reavie.
The former Canadian Tour became an associate member of what was at the time the trade body of the world's main men's tours, the International Federation of PGA Tours, in 2000. In 2009, it became a full member when the Federation expanded to include all of the main women's tours. It is one of a number of lower-level tours at which Official World Golf Ranking points are available, with a minimum of six given to the winner and points to the top six plus ties.
The Canadian Open, which is the richest golf event in Canada, is a PGA Tour event. The top three from the PGA Tour Canada Order of Merit the week before the Canadian Open are given entry. The prize money does not count toward Order of Merit earnings.
PGA Tour Canada offices are at Golf House in Oakville, Ontario, on the grounds of the Glen Abbey Golf Course. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course has hosted more than 20 Canadian Opens since 1977.
In 2011, the Canadian Tour made history when Isabelle Beisiegel became the first woman to earn a Tour card on a men's professional golf tour.
In October 2012, the PGA Tour acquired the Canadian Tour, renaming it PGA Tour Canada effective November 1, 2012, for first use in the 2013 season. Under the new system, the top five players on the PGA Tour Canada Order of Merit earn Web.com Tour cards, with the money leader fully exempt and those 2nd-5th conditionally exempt. Players ranked 2nd through 10th are exempt through to the finals of qualifying school and those who finish 11th–20th are admitted to the second stage. The re-tooled tour offered at least eight tournaments per season, with total purses of about $150,000 apiece. For 2015, the purses were increased to $175,000 for the first eleven events. Those who finish in the Top 60 earn entry into season-ending Freedom 55 Financial Championship, with a $200,000 purse and are guaranteed at minimum full PGA Tour Canada status for the next season. In 2018, the purses were increased to $200,000 and $225,000 respectively.
Like many smaller tours, PGA Tour Canada has its own series of qualifying schools at various sites. The medalist at each of the six sites is fully exempt for the season. Those in the top 14 (not including ties) are exempt through the first six events, when a reshuffle occurs. In the event of a tie, a playoff determines the final exempt position. Those in the top 40 including ties are conditionally exempt.
In 2015, Mackenzie Investments became the tour's umbrella sponsor. For the next six years, the tour was named Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada. Through various PGA Tour Canada's initiatives, over $4.1 million has been raised for charities throughout Canada since 2013.
In 2020, PGA Tour Canada originally planned an expansion into border states with the United States. On January 16, 2020, officials announced a six-year deal with the Cragun's Golf Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota for the Cuyuna Regional Medical Center Championship. In March, the tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although four tournaments, the Canada Life Series, were played in August and September to provide Canadian-based players some playing opportunities. In response to travel restrictions, the Forme Tour was created for 2021 to allow non-Canadian members to earn Korn Ferry Tour privileges.
In 2022, PGA Tour Canada rebranded the Order of Merit as the Fortinet Cup, which was modelled after the FedEx Cup points system used by the main PGA Tour, and was sponsored by network security company Fortinet.
Order of Merit winners
Records
Lowest winning total score – 256 (−28) Brian Unk, 2009 Seaforth Country Classic, Seaforth Golf Club, Seaforth, Ontario.
Lowest 18-hole score – 58 (−13) Jason Bohn, 2001 Bayer Championship, Huron Oaks Golf Club, Sarnia, Ontario.
Lowest 36-hole score - 123 (-19) Zach Wright, 2018 Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Longest playoff – 11 holes Lee Chill defeated Chris DiMarco in the 1992 Willows Classic.
Largest playoff – 6 players (Steve Scott defeated Roger Tambellini, Jess Daley, Steven Alker, Mark Slawter, and Scott Hend). Scott won on 6th playoff hole.
Largest winning margin – 11 strokes Arron Oberholser in the 1999 Ontario Open Heritage Classic.
Notes
References
External links
Professional golf tours
Golf in Canada
1970 establishments in Canada |
Silhouettea sibayi, the Barebreast goby or the Sibayi goby, is a species of goby endemic to southern Africa where it is known from lakes Sibhayi and St. Lucia and Kosi Bay in South Africa, as well as from Piti Lake in Mozambique. It inhabits areas with sandy substrates down to depths of about where it lives mostly buried in the sand. This species can reach a length of SL.
References
Silhouettea
Freshwater fish of South Africa
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish described in 1970 |
Badula platyphylla is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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platyphylla
Critically endangered plants
Endemic flora of Mauritius
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Plants described in 1976 |
Sarab-e Sheykh Hasan (, also Romanized as Sarāb-e Sheykh Ḩasan; also known as Sarāb) is a village in Panjeh Ali-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Qorveh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 257, in 57 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Towns and villages in Qorveh County
Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province |
L. G. Havanur (March, 1927–15 September 2006) was the former Law Minister in the Sri Devaraj Urs government of Karnataka, India during 1972-73. Mr. Havanur headed the Backward Classes Commission set up by the Devaraj Urs Government in the mid 1970s and authored Karnataka's Backward Classes Report. It is believed that his report was extensively referred to for the drafting of the Mandal Commission Report.
Early life
Laxman Havanur was born to Gulappa and Durga Devi Havanur in Ranebennur district Haveri on 25 March 1927. While in school he demonstrated a talent for painting and was sent to the J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai by the principal. He then went on to do a degree in law.
Career
Havanur began his career as an advocate in the then Mysore State High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He practiced law as a senior advocate until his death in 2006.
Havanur Report
The Backward Classes Report, also called the Havanur Report, was submitted to the Karnataka Government on 19 November 1975. Soon after, Havanur was inducted into the Devaraj Urs Ministry and played a major role in the implementation of the report.
The report profiles, classifies and favours reservation for backward classes. It also lays down guidelines for the apportionment of the reservation for the various backward classes in India. The Havanur Report was instrumental in constituting a reservation policy to be implemented in government organisations, educational and other institutions.
Devaraj Urs, the then Chief Minister of Karnataka was so impressed by Havanur's report that he called it the "Bible of Backward Classes". The Supreme Court of India also praised the report as a comprehensive scientific study of the Backward Classes.
Havanur's work provided impetus for politicians from the backward classes to achieve greater success in the political arena. A few prominent politicians from Backward classes are Bangarappa (Ediga community), Deve Gowda and Veerappa Moily ( community: valga oodavaru).
Havanur was not inclined to politics but was compelled to join politics because of the popularity that ensued after the submission of his report on backward classes. He was a legal luminary and a social reformer who used his legal prowess for the upliftment of backward classes in other ways with a great sense of commitment.
Havanur founded the Socio-Legal Services and Research Foundation in 1979 to provide legal assistance to socially backward communities. The Havanur College of Law is also managed by the foundation.
In 1991, Havanur was invited as an advisor to the Constitutional Advisory Committee of South Africa to draft the country's constitution.
Death
Havanur died in Bangalore on 15 September 2006. He is survived by his wife, four daughters and three sons.
External links
Police custody of Kanchi Acharya surprising: Havanur - The Hindu (20/11/2004).
Urs recognised Havanur's abilities - The Hindu (16/09/2006).
L.G. Havanur is dead - The Hindu (16/09/2006).
Havanur grasped those paradoxical truths - The Deccan Herald (21/09/2006).
1927 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Indian judges
People from Haveri district |
The 2004 Christmas Eve United States winter storm was a rare weather event that took place in Louisiana and Texas in the United States on December 24, 2004, before the storm moved northeast to affect the coastal sections of the Mid-Atlantic states and New England in the succeeding few days. This was a different storm from the historic event that struck the Midwest and southern Canada around December 23 from another cyclone which preceded this storm. The event involved a thin band of snowfall with unusually cold temperatures for the middle Texas coast, and caused dozens of varied weather records to be shattered. It was the most significant snow for the Texas Gulf Coast, and deep South Texas, since February 1895.
Anticipation of the event
There had been indications for up to a week before the event that a frontal wave in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to track far enough to the south (along roughly the 26th parallel) to lead to snow along the Gulf of Mexico coastline of the United States.
Synoptic history
A surface cyclone formed in the western Gulf of Mexico on December 24 due to a shortwave aloft, and moved eastward through the western Gulf of Mexico, bringing banded snowfall to the middle Texas coast. The extratropical cyclone moved east, then northeast, tracking across the northern peninsula of Florida early on December 26 before moving about 100 miles (200 km) offshore the Southeast, paralleling the coast. Continuing to deepen, the developing storm moved about 200 miles (300 km) offshore the Mid-Atlantic states, New England, and Atlantic Canada on December 27 before moving out to sea.
Effects
Texas and Louisiana
The most noticeable, and unusual, event associated with the storm was the snowfall it produced. Much of the snow fell in southern Texas, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, but some snow, albeit less deep, fell across southern Louisiana. Any snowfall in these areas is extremely unusual, perhaps occurring once every twenty years, and these events are usually airborne flurries which melt on contact with the ground. In many places the snow stuck to the ground and accumulated to an appreciable depth. In Brownsville, Texas, snow fell to a depth of , the first measurable snowfall at the city in over 100 years, since the Great Blizzard of 1899.
The fact that the snow accumulated overnight on Christmas Eve led to a White Christmas the next morning, something completely foreign to the region. Across all of southern Texas and in southwestern Louisiana, snow fell in places where it had not for anywhere from 15 to 120 years. Near the coast, in Corpus Christi, Texas, of snow fell, more snow than in all previous recorded years combined. This was also the case in Victoria, Texas, where a significant fell. New Orleans, Louisiana had its first white Christmas in 50 years. In addition to the unusual occurrence of snow inland, moderate to heavy snow was also reported over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the first significant snow fall in Houston since February 12, 1960, when a snowstorm hit central and south Texas with eight to 10 inches of snow.
Some snow totals:
Alice, Texas: 12 inches (30.48 cm)
Beeville, Texas: 10.0 inches (25.4 cm)
Brownsville, Texas: 1.5 inches (3.8 cm)
Corpus Christi, Texas: 5.2 inches (13.2 cm)
El Campo, Texas: 11.0 inches (27.9 cm)
Galveston, Texas: 4.0 inches (10.16 cm)
Houston, Texas: 1.0 inches (2.5 cm)
Kingsville, Texas: 6.0 inches (15.24 cm)
Lake Charles, Louisiana: 1.2 inches (3.1 cm)
Laredo, Texas: 2.0 inches (5.07 cm)
Mathis, Texas: 11 inches (27.9 cm)
McAllen, Texas: 4.0 inches (10.16 cm)
New Orleans, Louisiana: 0.7 inches or more (1.8 cm)
Pearland, Texas: 2.8 inches (7.3 cm)
Sandia, Texas: 12 inches (30.48 cm)
Victoria, Texas: 13.0 inches (33.0 cm)
Georgia and South Carolina
As the cyclone tracked through Florida offshore the Southeast, up to an inch of freezing rain and sleet fell at Augusta and Aiken.
North Carolina
Several inches of snow fell across portions of the state, with the highest amount noted of at Ahoskie.
Virginia
Several locations across the Tidewater reported over a foot of snow, with the highest amount of reported at Quinby and Tabb. Frontogenesis (strengthening temperature gradient) within the comma head of the extratropical cyclone between the 500 hPa and 700 hPa layers (or 10-20 kft) contributed to the banded snow seen across this region. It led to the snowiest December across the Norfolk area since 1958.
Maryland
Light to moderate snow fell on the Eastern Shore, with the highest amount of measured at Shelltown.
New Jersey
On December 25, 2004, there was light to moderate snows fall across portions of the state, with the highest amount of falling at Mount Holly.
New York
Southeastern sections of the state saw the snowfall. The highest amount reported was at East Hampton.
Connecticut
Moderate to heavy snow fell across much of the state. The highest total reported was at East Killingly.
Rhode Island
Heavy snow fell statewide. The highest total was at Tiverton.
Massachusetts
The heaviest snowfall from the storm fell across Massachusetts. Brewster measured during the event.
New Hampshire
Central and southern sections of the state saw moderate to heavy snow. The highest amount was at Salem.
Vermont
Snow fell across portions of the state during this storm, with falling at a dairy farm in Franklin.
Maine
Heavy snow fell across portions of Maine. The highest amount reported was from Whiting where was measured.
See also
Cyclogenesis
Extratropical cyclone
Pre-Christmas 2004 snowstorm that impacted the Midwest
Snowstorm
Surface weather analysis
References
External links
Information about the storm from the Houston / Galveston National Weather Service Office.
Images from Houston, Upper Gulf Coast, and Corpus Christi
Images from Bay City and Baytown, Texas
Images from Galveston, Texas
Images from New York
Christmas
History of Corpus Christi, Texas
Natural disasters in Texas
Natural disasters in North Carolina
Natural disasters in Virginia
Natural disasters in New York (state)
Natural disasters in Connecticut
Natural disasters in Rhode Island
Natural disasters in Massachusetts
Natural disasters in Vermont
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Kastelbell-Tschars (; ) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano.
Geography
As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 2,387 and an area of .
Kastelbell-Tschars borders the following municipalities: Latsch, Naturns, Schnals and Ulten.
History
Coat-of-arms
The emblem is a gules mill wheel, with eight paddles, on argent background. It retakes the insignia of Counts Hendl owners of the castle from 1531 to 1949.
Society
Linguistic distribution
According to the 2011 census, 98.72% of the population speak German and 1.28% Italian as first language.
Demographic evolution
References
External links
Homepage of the municipality
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Gino H. Polidori (July 23, 1941 – January 26, 2014) was an American politician from the State of Michigan. He served a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was a Democrat and he represented the 15th district, which is located in Wayne County and includes the city of Dearborn.
Early life through 1996
Born in Dearborn, Michigan, Polidori attended Fordson High School. He received his bachelor's degree from Wayne State University. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1964. He served for two years. He was Dearborn's fire chief from 1974 through 1996. He was a member and president of the Dearborn Goodfellows, Italian American Fraternal Club, Dearborn Pioneers Club, the Fordson Varsity Alumni Club and the American Legion Post 364.
Political career
He served on the Dearborn City Council from 1996 to 2004. He was first elected to the Michigan House in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006, and served until 2010. He served as the Chairman of the Military and Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee in the House, and as a member of the Education, Government Operations, and Insurance Committees.
Electoral history
2006 campaign for State House
Gino Polidori (D), 76%
Abbas Ghasham (R), 24%
2004 campaign for State House
Gino Polidori (D), 64%
Doug Thomas (R), 35%
Death
Polidori battled prostate cancer for the last 12 years of his life. His health declined in 2013 and he died at the age of 72 in 2014. He was survived by his wife Betty and their three children. The Michigan House of Representatives adopted a memorial resolution for Polidori on February 20, 2014.
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Acacia Winery, also known as Acacia Vineyard or simply Acacia, is a winery in the Carneros Valley appellation in Napa County, California, United States. Acacia Winery was founded in 1979 by co-founder Michael Richmond and others on Las Amigas Road. The winery primarily produced pinot noir and Chardonnay wines including the following lines: Reserve, SVS Wines, Carneros Blend, A, From Acacia (fruit from the central coast), and Estate Pinot (2001-2002). Paul Perret became the sole general partner of Lakeside Winery, the owner of Acacia, and sold the winery to Chalone in July, 1986.
History
Acacia was co-founded in 1979 by Michael Richmond and Jerry Goldstein. The two met while Richmond was a winery tour guide and apprentice at Freemark Abbey. Larry Brooks was their founding winemaker.
In 1987, Michael Richmond represented Acacia Winery in the International Pinot Noir Celebration by Linfield Events. It was noted in the event that 1/3 of Acacia's Chardonnay production was grown on its estate and their Pinot Noir was outsourced to other vineyards in the Carneros area.
Acacia was an important influence in establishing the Los Carneros wine region and has reputation for being the first winery in California to make "vineyard-designated" pinot noir from outside fruits. The winery has been described as a Pinot Noir "cult" winery during this period.
Acacia was involved a series of purchases. In 1986, Acacia was sold to Chalone for $8 million. Since the 1990s, Acacia, producing under Chalone, has focused on Chardonnay wines, as well as some sparkling wine. Acacia also bottles under the Caviste label. The annual production is around 55,000 cases. In 2005, the Chalone Wine Group was purchased by Diageo, one of the largest wine and spirits company in the world, for $260 million. In 2016, Treasury Wine Estates purchased the Diageo wine portfolio, including Acacia. Soon afterwards, the winery building was purchased by Peju Province Winery. Treasury Wine Estates retained the brand and continues to produce and sell Acacia wines.
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Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, (4 December 1888 – 3 June 1939) was a British politician, art collector, and socialite, entertaining many celebrity guests at his homes, Port Lympne Mansion, Kent, and Trent Park, North London. He served as a staff officer during the First World War, from July 1914 to November 1918.
Family
Sassoon was a member of the prominent Jewish Sassoon family and Rothschild family. He was born in his mother's mansion on Avenue de Marigny, Paris. His father was Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, MP, son of Albert Abdullah David Sassoon; his mother was Aline Caroline, daughter of Gustave Samuel de Rothschild. His sister was Sybil Sassoon, who married the Marquess of Cholmondeley. He was a cousin of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. He was descended from the banking family of Frankfurt. When aged only nineteen years old his great-grandfather, James Rothschild was sent to Paris to set up the family business in France. James became wealthy. When he died in 1868 he was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. His branch of the Sassoon-Rothschild family kept the Jewish faith, donated to Jewish charities and founded synagogues.
His great-grandfather David Sassoon had been imprisoned in Baghdad in 1828, and in 1832 he established his business David Sassoon & Co. at Bombay. He took advantage of British rule to return to Baghdad to trade. The family eventually established a Head Office at 12, Leadenhall Street, London and a company branch in Manchester. The Sassoons became assimilated Jews, dressing, acting and thinking like Englishmen. The Sassoon Brothers, David and Albert were friends of the Prince of Wales, built the 'Black Horse' brand. The business came with a baronetcy of Kensington Gore. His father bought Shorncliffe Lodge, in Sandgate Kent, where his cousin Mayer Rothschild was the MP. His father was not a successful backbencher, but the political influences had a profound effect on young Philip.
He was educated at Farnborough Prep school and Eton before going up to Oxford. Old Etonian Arthur Balfour recommended the Debating Society to him. His father was also friendly with Frances Horner, wife of Sir John Horner, a longtime friend of Gladstone who lived at Mells Manor in Somerset. His house master was a member of the secret society of liberals, the Young Apostles. Also a near contemporary was Osbert Sitwell, the Yorkshireman and author. A French scholar, he learned the language doing classes at Windsor Castle. Sassoon was taught aesthetics by Henry Luxmoore giving an insight into philosophy and social realism. However he chose to read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of only 25 Jewish undergraduates, but was invited to join the Bullingdon Club. He joined the East Kent Yeomanry while still at Oxford and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
Philip Sassoon entered Parliament in 1912. After the death of his relative David Gubbay (1865–1928), Sassoon became chairman of his family's company, David Sassoon & Co., although his participation in the management of it was only nominal. However, he continued to be a shareholder.
A 2016 biography, Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon by Damian Collins, his successor as Member of Parliament for Hythe, provides a great deal of additional information about Sassoon. A summary by The Guardian includes this comment:Sassoon enjoyed witty gossip, but was never spiteful. He spoke with a clipped sibilant lisp, and liked to relax in a blue silk smoking jacket with slippers of zebra hide. He had fickle, moody fascinations with young men with whom he soon grew bored, but was loyally appreciative of female friends and kept an inner court of elderly, cultivated, ironical bachelors. His sexuality was central to his character and activities, but there is never any hint of sexual activity in the many memories of him. One hates to think that he was as sublimated as he sounds. His restlessness and fatalism, which were notorious among his friends, killed him at the age of 50 in 1939: although his physicians ordered bed rest after a viral infection, he hurtled about in unnecessary gaieties until his body was beyond recovery.
First World War
Sassoon served as private secretary to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. Sassoon was present at the meeting on 1 December 1914 at the Chateau Demont at Merville in France, when King George V and Edward Prince of Wales met with Raymond Poincaré, President of France, and the Generals Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch and Sir Henry Rawlinson. The allies showed their determination to fight Germany and the Central Powers. Because of his "numerous social and political connections", Sassoon, at that time a second lieutenant in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry, was in attendance. A square bronze plaque commemorating the occasion was auctioned in 2012.
Political career
He was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Hythe from 1912, succeeding his father, initially as the "Baby of the House". As an MP, he advocated aviation and bought his own aeroplane in 1919. In his role as undersecretary in the air ministry, he promoted civilian air travel.
Sassoon was Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Lloyd George in 1920. Between 1924 and 1929 and again from 1931 until 1937 he served as Under-Secretary of State for Air, and gained much prominence in political circles. He was appointed a Privy Councillor in the 1929 Dissolution Honours. In 1937 he became First Commissioner of Works, a post which he held until his death, aged fifty, two years later.
He idolised the Prince of Wales, and supported the King during the abdication crisis of 1936. According to a review of the 2016 biography, "he wanted international peace at any cost, and convinced himself that Hitler's promises were dependable."
Trent Park
He had a reputation for being one of the greatest hosts in Britain. Although he owned a house at Park Lane, Sassoon arranged for Herbert Baker to design another home for him in 1912, Port Lympne in Kent. (Decades later, it became the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.) "It was a unique building, Italianate and Moorish in its influence, built for a voluptuary of the senses who wanted his rooms to be a rapturous medley of strong, exotic colours and filled with the luscious fragrance of flowers. The formal grounds at Port Lympne were like a Hollywood version of Tuscany," according to a summary of his 2016 biography.
He also owned Trent Park and hired Philip Tilden to largely rebuild that mansion located in Cockfosters. Stylistic differences between the two houses illustrate changes in taste among members of British high society of the period. Trent Park possessed a landscape designed by Humphrey Repton but the existing house was Victorian and undistinguished. Sassoon had the Victorian additions demolished or altered, except for the west service wing, between 1926 and 1931. The projecting wings were added to the entrance (south) front. These modifications led to a large mansion in early Georgian-style. It became one of the houses of the age according to one report, "a dream of another world – the white-coated footmen serving endless courses of rich but delicious food, the Duke of York coming in from golf... Winston Churchill arguing over the teacups with George Bernard Shaw, Lord Balfour dozing in an armchair, Rex Whistler absorbed in his painting... while Philip himself flitted from group to group, an alert, watchful, influential but unobtrusive stage director – all set against a background of mingled luxury, simplicity and informality, brilliantly contrived..."
This atmosphere, as Clive Aslet has suggested, represented a complete about-face from Sassoon's earlier extravagance at Port Lympne to what Aslet called "an appreciation of English reserve." In the words of Christopher Hussey, at Trent Sassoon caught "that indefinable and elusive quality, the spirit of a country house... an essence of cool, flowery, chintzy, elegant, unobtrusive rooms that rises in the mind when we are thinking of country houses."
Sassoon conducted excavations of Camlet Moat at Trent Park in the 1920s and was reported to have found oak beams which formed the basis of a drawbridge, Roman shoes and daggers as well as mosaic tiles depicting a knight mounted on a white horse. The foundations of a large stone building were also found. English Heritage refilled the excavations in 1999.
Port Lympne Mansion
Neither the eye-popping interiors nor the extravagant gardens at Port Lympne Mansion could be described as in any way "reserved", or even "English". In fact, one reviewer of a 2016 bio about Sassoon described it as a "sybaritic mansion". Mark Girouard has written of the "quiet good taste expected of a country gentleman" against which Philip may have chafed in his younger years, apparently torn between the standards of Country Life and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His Ballets Russes-inspired dining room at Port Lympne with its lapis walls, opalescent ceiling, gilt-winged chairs with jade-green cushions, all surmounted by a frieze of scantily-clad Africans, suggests the outsider confidence of a Rothschild and of an openly gay man.
Philip Tilden added a bachelor's wing with Moorish courtyard, which Lady Honor Channon, (wife of Chips), unkindly likened to a Spanish brothel, to accommodate young airmen from nearby Romney Marsh flying field – among his other enthusiasms, Sir Philip was himself an aviator – and Tilden's twin swimming pools and monumentally classical garden staircase were in much the same theatrical spirit.
One frequent guest was Lawrence of Arabia.
Flying
As Secretary of State for Air, Sassoon was Honorary Air Commodore of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron. The squadron was nicknamed "The Millionaires’ Squadron" because it was reported to have six millionaire members. In 1932 he was enthusiastic about the new Percival Gull monoplane and ordered his own model powered by a Napier Javelin 111 six cylinder engine, with the interior finished in red leather. In this luxurious Gull Four G-ACGR (currently on display at the Brussels Military Museum) he competed in the King’s Cup and the Folkestone Aero Trophy Race. He later became the owner of the first Percival Petrel two-engine monoplane, completed in 1938. As Under-secretary of State for Air, Sassoon carried out the first general inspection of British overseas air stations, flying the Blackburn Iris. Afterwards he wrote The Third Route, published by Heinemann in 1929, recounting the story of the development of the air route from England to India.
Honours and decorations
Sassoon was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1917. On 7 October 1919, it was announced that Sassoon had been awarded the French Croix de Guerre "for distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign". In 1923 he was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE).
In 2012 Sassoon's set of decorations was sold at auction. The decorations included the GBE, made by the court-jeweller Garrard, the CMG neck badge, also by Garrard, 1914–15 Star (engraved Lieut. Sir P.A.D.G.Sassoon. R.E.Kent Yeo.); British War Medal and Victory Medal (engraved Major Sir P.A.D.G.Sassoon. R.E.Kent Yeo.); 1935 Jubilee Medal and 1937 Coronation Medal (both engraved A/Cdre Sir Philip Sassoon 601 Squ. A.A.F.); France, a decoration of a Knight of the Legion d’Honneur, a decoration of a Knight of the French Colonial Order of the Black Star; Belgium, Officer of the Order of the Crown; French Croix de Guerre and Belgian Croix de Guerre; mounted in the court style.
The arts
He was Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery from 1933 to 1935, and as Minister for Works in the 1930s he was responsible for embellishing many of London's monuments and parks. As a collector Philip Sassoon was, like many of the Rothschilds, drawn mainly to the English and French 18th century, but he also collected contemporary artists such as John Singer Sargent and William Orpen. A Mamuluk glass mosque lamp, once belonging to Sassoon can be found in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
Personal life
Sassoon was said to have lived an openly homosexual life. According to a reviewer of a 2016 biography of Sassoon, "his personal life was something that he shut away from the world". There was only a single intimate letter among his personal papers, to "Jack", a travel companion. The reviewer adds, "despite his many gay and bisexual friends, away from 'bohemian circles' it was still a taboo subject (homosexual acts were illegal). Sassoon was consequently regarded as an enigmatic solitary figure". Another reviewer offered that, "His sexuality was central to his character and activities, but there is never any hint of sexual activity in the many memories of him".
Death
Sassoon died on 3 June 1939, aged 50, of complications from influenza. He left an estate valued at £1,980,892 () on which death duty of close on £800,000 was paid. His cousin Hannah Gubbay (1885–1968), the widow of David Gubbay, was the main beneficiary, inheriting Port Lympne, Trent Park and an annuity of £11,000 ().
After Sassoon's death, he was described by his friend Noël Coward as "a phenomenon that would never recur". According to biographer Damian Collins "I think because he died just three months before the Second World War started, he became part of that lost golden era; war had closed a chapter on that".
References
Sources
Peter Stansky. Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (2003) Yale University Press
Robert Boothby. I Fight to Live (1947) Gollancz London
Clive Aslet. The Last Country Houses (1982) Yale University Press New Haven and London
Christoper Hussey Country Life article, 17 January 1931 issue, pp. 66–7
Mark Girouard. Life in the English Country House (1978) Yale University Press New Haven and London
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East of Eden () is a 2008 South Korean television series, starring Song Seung-heon, Yeon Jung-hoon, Lee Da-hae, Han Ji-hye, Park Hae-jin and Lee Yeon-hee. It was produced by Chorokbaem Media as a 47th Anniversary Special Project Drama for MBC, on which it aired from August 25, 2008, to March 10, 2009, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 56 episodes. The drama tells the story of the brothers Dong-chul (Song) and Dong-wook (Yeon). Their fates diverge after the murder of their coal miner father, with one joining the mob and the other becoming a successful lawyer.
Plot
A period epic that spans the years 1960 to 2000s, East of Eden tells a saga of the bitter rivalry between two men who are eternally bound by fate. Historic events are referenced, such as the rapid industrialization of the 1970s and 1980s, Taebaek coal miners' strikes and student-led democracy movements.
Shin Tae-hwan (Jo Min-ki) is the managing director of a coal mine in Taebaek. The true embodiment of ruthless ambition, he strives to inherit the coal mining company Taesung Group. In the process, he kills Lee Ki-chul (Lee Jong-won), a miner crusading for worker's rights who has been blocking his path to success. He also seduces Yoo Mi-ae (Shin Eun-jung), a nurse at Taebaek Hospital, only to coldly brush her away after he's tired of her.
At the same moment that Yang Chun-hee (Lee Mi-sook), wife of the deceased Ki-chul, is giving birth to a son at Taebaek Hospital, Shin Tae-hwan's wife also gives birth to a baby boy. Filled with rage at Shin Tae-hwan's betrayal, the nurse Mi-ae comes up with a scheme to fulfill her own revenge. She switches the two babies. By doing so, she viciously transforms the fates of not just two lives, but those around them.
Years later, Chun-hee's sons Lee Dong-chul (Song Seung-heon) and Lee Dong-wook (Yeon Jung-hoon) have taken different paths in life. To alleviate their poverty, Dong-chul becomes a gangster, while the younger Dong-wook dreams of becoming a prosecutor to avenge his family by using the law against Shin Tae-hwan. Two women enter Dong-chul's life: the smart and sensible Min Hye-rin (Lee Da-hae), and Gook Young-ran (Lee Yeon-hee), the willful daughter of his gang boss (Yoo Dong-geun). Meanwhile, Shin Myung-hoon (Park Hae-jin), who's been molded in his father Tae-hwan's spiteful, selfish image, sets his eye on Kim Ji-hyun (Han Ji-hye), Dong-wook's sweetheart.
Although Dong-chul is on the other side of the law, he remains protective of Dong-wook, but a revelation shakes him to his core: that his nemesis Shin Myung-hoon is actually his biological brother while the beloved brother that had been beside him all these years is actually the biological son of his enemy.
Cast
Main characters
Song Seung-heon as Lee Dong-chul
Shin Dong-woo as Dong-chul (5 years old)
Kim Bum as Dong-chul (15 years old)
Yeon Jung-hoon as Lee Dong-wook
Park Gun-woo as Dong-wook (10 years old)
Lee Da-hae as Min Hye-rin
Han Ji-hye as Kim Ji-hyun
Nam Ji-hyun as Ji-hyun (10 years old)
Park Hae-jin as Shin Myung-hoon
Won Deok-hyun as Myung-hoon (10 years old)
Lee Yeon-hee as Gook Young-ran / Grace
Jo Min-ki as Shin Tae-hwan (Myung-hoon's father)
Lee Mi-sook as Yang Chun-hee (Dong-chul and Dong-wook's mother)
Yoo Dong-geun as Gook Dae-hwa (Young-ran's father)
Supporting characters
Dennis Oh as Mike Packard (Young-ran's fiancé)
Lee Jong-won as Lee Ki-chul (Dong-chul and Dong-wook's father)
Jeon Mi-seon as Jung-ja (Ki-soon's mother)
Park Hyun-sook as Yang Ok-hee (Chun-hee's sister)
Jeon So-min as Lee Ki-soon
Jin Ji-hee as Ki-soon (9 years old)
Kim Sung-kyum as resident Oh
Na Hyeon-hui as Oh Yoon-hee
Lee Won-jae as Kyung-tae
Shim Hye-jin as Young-ran's mother
Yoon Dong-hwan as lawyer Kim Tae-seon
Jung Hye-young as Janice / Jae-hee
Shin Eun-jung as Yoo Mi-ae / Rebecca
Hwang Jung-eum as Kim So-jung
Kang Eun-tak as Han Soo-jae
Jeon Sung-hwan as stationmaster Kim Gab-soo (Ji-hyun's grandfather)
Lee Seok-joon as Father Han
Kim Hyung-min as Wang-geon
Go Yoon-hoo as Dok-sa
Park Chan-hwan as Uncle Chang
Kim Hak-chul as Kang Gi-man
Park Geun-hyung as President Min (Hye-rin's father)
Jung Young-sook as Bae Hwa-mi (Mr. Min's wife)
Jung So-young as Min Hye-ryung (Hye-rin's sister)
Park Sung-woong as Baek Sung-hyun
Lee Sol-gu as Choi Hak-sung
Jung Yoon-seok as Yo-seob
Awards and nominations
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The 1926 Detroit Panthers season was their fourth in the league and final season as the Panthers. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 8–2–2, winning only four games. They finished twelfth in the league.
Schedule
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John Barrett, center, 11 games, 170 pounds, 5-6, Univ. of Detroit
John Cameron, guard, 8 games, 175 pounds, Kalamazoo, Central Michigan
Jimmy Conzelman, back, 12 games, 175 pounds, 6-0 Washington (MO)
Al Crook, center, 8 games, 190 pounds, 5-10, Washington & Jefferson
Dinger Doane, fullback, 12 games, 190 pounds, 5-10 Tufts
Tom Edwards, tackle, 12 games, 185 pounds, 5-11, Central Michigan, Michigan
Jack Fleischman, guard, 11 games, 184 pounds, 5-6, Purdue
Bruce Gregory, tailback, 12 games, 170 pounds, 5-10, Michigan
Charlie Grube, end, 2 games, 175 pounds, 5-10, Michigan
Al Hadden, wingback, 12 games, 186 pounds, 5-9, Washington & Jefferson
Norm Harvey, tackle, 8 games, 196 pounds, 6-0, Univ. of Detroit
Vivian Hultman, end, 10 games, 178 pounds, 5-8, Michigan St.
Dutch Lauer, end, 10 games, 185 pounds, 5-10, Univ. of Detroit
Eddie Lynch, end, 12 games, 191 pounds, 6-0, Catholic
Dutch Marion, fullback, 12 games, 180 pounds, 5-9, Washington & Jefferson, Michigan
Tom McNamara, guard, 11 games, 210 pounds, 5-10, Tufts, Univ. of Detroit
Eddie Scharer, back, 12 games, 165 pounds, 5-6, Univ. of Detroit, Notre Dame
Gus Sonnenberg, tackle, 12 games, 196 pounds, 5-6, Dartmouth, Univ. or Detroit
Dick Vick, wingback, 6 games, 167 pounds, 5-9, Washington & Jefferson
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Oliver Cary (1752 - 1846) was an Irish Anglican priest.
Cary was born in County Roscommon and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Archdeacon of Elphin in 1798. He resigned in 1809 for the Prebendal Stall of Kilcooley in Elphin Cathedral.
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Lars Osa (13 August 1860 – 9 February 1958) was a Norwegian artist. He also worked with church decoration and restoration and was a noted fiddle player.
Biography
Lars Andersen was born in the village of Ulvik in Ulvik municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. When Lars Osa was five years old, the family moved from the (larger) village of Ulvik into the (very small) village of Osa, located about away, at the end of the Osa Fjord, an arm of the Hardangerfjord. He grew up in an environment characterized by a living folk tradition. He visited Knud Bergslien in Eidfjord and received his first art lessons from him. That same year he went to Christiania and was a pupil at Tegneskolen. In 1882 he was admitted as a student at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. He studied there until 1885, and continued as a student under the Danish painters Laurits Tuxen (1853–1927) and Peder Severin Krøyer until 1886. He used a travel scholarship for trips to Paris during the autumn and winter of 1897 and 1898.
Since so much of what Osa had studied underlined the continuity between medieval and folk art decorations, it was natural for him to examine Norwegian frescoes. He did research in several Norwegian medieval churches: Kinsarvik Church, Old Tingelstad Church, Tingvoll Church, and Slidre Church. Among his notable church decorations are Ulvik Church, which he decorated with rose painting in 1923, and Heddal Stave Church, where in 1908 Lars Osa painted The Resurrection. Additional works of note include Haram Church and Granvin Church.
His work is characterized by a strong commitment to the national in different cultural expressions. The most notable example of this was Faderen, which was shown during 1889 at the World Exhibition in Paris (Exposition Universelle). During the summer 1894, he traveled to Setesdal, where there were many of the old traditions still maintained in a fairly authentic setting. The next year he returned to Setesdal, and in 1896 he moved to Kristiansand. From there it was not far to Valle in Aust-Agder county, where he spent the summers.
He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the painting Tjenestepiken (1889). A memorial of him by the Norwegian-American sculptor Lars Fletre was unveiled in 1967 at the Ulvik National Museum. Osa wrote the memoir book Med pensel og feleboge in 1954, when he was 94 years old.
Personal life
Lars Osa was married twice. In 1891 he married Hermine Bernhoft (1865–1929), an author of children's books. In 1944 he married Bertha Sivertsen (1883–1968). He was the father of folk musician Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa (1910–1990).
Select works
Tjenestepiken (1889)
Ola Mosafinn (1887)
Faderen (1889)
Ivar Aasen (1895)
Barnebegravelse i Valle (1895)
Et menneske (1897)
Et bryllup i Setesdal (1903)
Oppbyggelse i Valle (1904)
Ein trøyt spelemann (1912)
Barnedåp i Valle (1916)
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The Baldovin is a right tributary of the river Crișul Alb in Romania. It discharges into the Crișul Alb in Baia de Criș. Its length is and its basin size is .
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Bryan Hines (May 14, 1896 – September 10, 1964) was an American wrestler and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he won a bronze medal in freestyle bantamweight.
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Alexandra Elizabeth Gouldie (born May 13, 1991) is a former American Paralympic volleyballer.
Biography
Gouldie was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. She took part at 2008 Paralympics which were held in Beijing, China where she got her silver medal by leading her team to win 3–0 against Latvia. The same year she participated at World Organization Volleyball for Disabled at Ismaïlia, Egypt where she won a bronze one.
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Paralympic medalists in volleyball
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Highland is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 2,196 at the 2020 census. The town's name denotes its location on elevated ground north of the Delaware River. The town is in the southwestern part of the county.
History
The town was formed from the Town of Lumberland in 1853. Barryville is named for William T. Barry, postmaster general under President Andrew Jackson. The community grew up around the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which opened in 1828 and operated until 1898. The canal ran through what is today the center of the hamlet, and the canal company operated a number of stores, an office and a dry dock there.
The Delaware River also served as the conduit for timber cut in the area and rafted to Philadelphia for use in the ship building industry. Men made fortunes in the timber business, and when the industry died in the middle of the 19th century, many river communities died with it. In fact, writing in 1899, John Willard Johnston, lawyer, historian, and the town of Highland's first supervisor, predicted a dire future for Barryville.
"Barryville is a small, poor village now," he wrote, "but at one time supported an active business. The lumber of the region being exhausted, the business of canaling declining and now abandoned, it has for the last 25 years been waning, until now it seems to have reached a bottom of hardpan. Human imagination can hardly reach anything in the future likely to improve it; but it will probably remain indefinitely the small poor place it now is."
Geography
The southwestern town line, marked by the Delaware River, is the border of Pennsylvania.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (3.25%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,404 people, 951 households, and 646 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 1,558 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 93.93% White, 3.29% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.37% Pacific Islander, 0.92% from other races, and 0.79% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.95% of the population.
There were 951 households, out of which 28.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.0% were non-families. 28.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.3% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 29.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $40,676, and the median income for a family was $50,134. Males had a median income of $36,250 versus $27,273 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,908. About 8.8% of families and 15.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.4% of those under age 18 and 3.4% of those age 65 or over.
Communities and locations in Highland
Barryville – A hamlet in the southern part of the town, located on Route 55 by the Delaware River.
Eldred – A hamlet in the central part of the town, located along Route 55, and the location of the Highland Town Hall.
Highland Lake – A hamlet east of Eldred, located by the lake, "Highland Lake."
Lake DeVenoge – A private community east of Highland Lake.
Minisink Ford – A hamlet in the southwestern part of the town by the Delaware River.
Yulan – A hamlet in the western part of the town on Routes 21 and 23.
Notable people
Notable current and former residents include:
Albert Hammond Jr., musician and guitarist of The Strokes; lived in Eldred in the 2010s.
References
External links
Town of Highland
Town of Highland, NY historical photos
Towns in Sullivan County, New York
Towns in New York (state)
New York (state) populated places on the Delaware River |
Ince is an electoral ward in Wigan, England. It forms part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, as well as the parliamentary constituency of Wigan.
Councillors
The ward is represented by three councillors; David Molyneux (Lab), James Moodie (Lab), and Janice Sharratt (Lab)
indicates seat up for re-election.
Notes and references
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council Wards |
Sandeep Singh Brar is a Sikh historian, internet pioneer and photographer.
He is the creator of the world's first Sikh website, sikhs.org, which was launched in December 1994. In September 1995, The Sikhism Home Page was included into the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, and continues to be one of the mostly highly referenced sources of information about the Sikh religion. He is also the first person to put the Sikh Scriptures on the Internet with the full English translation of The Guru Granth Sahib by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa and first to put the Sikh Code of Conduct - The Sikh Rehat Maryada on the Internet. In addition to this site, Sandeep Singh Brar is also the creator of the SikhMuseum.com website, whose purpose is to preserve the heritage of the Sikh people in a way that is accessible to all.
In 2008, Sandeep Singh was responsible for uncovering the history and life of Private Buckam Singh, one of only a handful of Sikh soldiers that served in the Canadian military during World War I. It was the acquisition of a forgotten World War I medal that prompted Sandeep Singh to research its ownership, thus bringing to light the story of the brave Canadian Sikh. A ceremony was held at Buckam Singh's grave in Kitchener, Ontario on November 11 (Remembrance Day) to commemorate his service and life.
In addition to being a historian, Sandeep Singh is also a noted photographer whose works have been featured in a number of exhibits:
September 2006 – January 2007: Rubin Museum of Art, New York
I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion
Photographs incorporated as part of the exhibit
2004–2007: Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab
Photographs incorporated as part of the exhibit
1999: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Centennial Foundation Gala
Solo exhibit of photographs
See also
Sikhism
Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Punjabi people
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Punjabi descent
Canadian Sikhs |
Mustoja Landscape Conservation Area is a nature park is located in Võru County, Estonia.
The area of the nature park is 3488 ha.
The protected area was founded in 1998 to protect rare landforms and forest ecosystems near Mustoja River.
References
Nature reserves in Estonia
Geography of Võru County |
WATIAC was a virtual computer developed for teaching the principles of assembly language programming to undergraduates.
WATIAC, and the WATMAP assembly language that ran on it were developed in 1973 by the newly founded Computer Systems Group,
at the University of Waterloo, under the direction of Wes Graham.
In the 1970s most programming was conducted through batch stream processing, where the operating systems of the day, like IBM`s OS-360, would allow a single program to use all the resources of a large computer, for a limited period of time.
Since student programs were only run a few times, possibly only once, after they had been successfully written, and debugged, efficient running of those programs was of relatively little importance, compared with quick compilation and relatively good error messages.
Waterloo had been a leader in writing single pass, compile-and-go teaching compilers, with first its WATFOR FORTRAN compiler, and its WATBOL COBOL compiler.
WATMAP was developed to be a similar compile-and-go teaching compiler.
References
Computers |
Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module published in Q3 1991 by White Wolf Publishing for use with their tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.
Plot summary
Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module connecting to the story included in the first edition of the game's corebook. The player characters are ordered to present themselves to Lodin, the Prince of Chicago, and find themselves involved in deadly vampire intrigue between two competing groups.
Publication history
Ashes to Ashes was the first adventure module published by White Wolf Publishing for Vampire: The Masquerade, released in Q3 1991. The 80-page adventure was written by Stewart Wieck. In 1996, it was re-released as part of the compilation Chicago Chronicles Volume 3, together with the supplements Milwaukee by Night and Blood Bond. A French edition of the adventure was published by Hexagonal in January 1993.
Reception
Dragon Rick Swan called this "an excellent first adventure for the quirky Vampire game." Swan thought the adventure "packed a lot of punch into 80 pages", but found that "the investigations are more successfully staged than the action scenes, and the finale is a bit underwhelming." Nonetheless, he recommended the product, saying that the author had served up "a gallery of the creepiest non-player characters this side of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu." Saga thought it was a good introductory story, and appreciated how it helps introduce players to the vampire community in Chicago.
Looking back on it in 1997, Backstab called Ashes to Ashes one of the three most essential Vampire: The Masquerade supplements, along with The Players Guide and Chicago by Night, and Dragon called it the best of the early Vampire: The Masquerade material. Casus Belli thought it would be particularly useful together with the books Chicago by Night and The Succubus Club.
Notes
References
External links
Ashes to Ashes at Guide du Rôliste Galactique
Role-playing game adventures
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1991
Vampire: The Masquerade |
Thomas Francis Gleeson (born 2 June 1974) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, television and radio presenter. Gleeson formerly co-hosted The Weekly with Charlie Pickering alongside Judith Lucy and currently hosts Hard Quiz and Taskmaster Australia.
In 2019, Gleeson won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Television.
Early life
Gleeson was born in Gunnedah, New South Wales, and lived at nearby Tambar Springs before boarding at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, in Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics. During his degree, Gleeson played the drums and occasionally sang vocals in an Australian band, The Fantastic Leslie, before leaving for a career in comedy.
Career
Comedy
Gleeson's first stage appearance was as the character "Malcolm" (for two years) dressed in a flannelette shirt, tracksuit pants and a wig. He later went on to perform at major comedy events including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Brisbane Comedy Festival, Perth Fringe World, Edinburgh Fringe and Montreal Comedy Festival.
In December 2007, Gleeson entertained Australian troops on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wrote of this experience in his book Playing Poker with the SAS: A comedy tour of Iraq and Afghanistan, which was published in October 2008.
Three of Gleeson's stand-up shows have been nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer: Tom On! (2007), Up Himself (2011) and Quality (2014).
His stand up show Joy (2019) won Best Comedy at Perth Fringe World.
His stand up show Lighten Up (2020) also won Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe.
Radio
From 2004 to 2005, Gleeson presented the Sydney and Melbourne evening radio program Tom & Subby with Subby Valentine on Triple M.
During 2009, Gleeson presented the Melbourne radio breakfast program Mix Mornings with Brigitte Duclos on Mix 101.1.
Television
In 2003 and 2004, Gleeson appeared in Network Ten's comedy sketch program skitHOUSE, playing various characters including the "Australian Fast Bowler", a parody of Dennis Lillee. In 2006, Gleeson won Australia's Brainiest Radio Star. In 2008, he was a panelist on the short-lived Big Brother's Big Mouth. In 2009, Gleeson was in the "They don't get it in Australia" advertising campaign, where he asks people in the United States about Red Rooster. Gleeson also made several appearances on Good News Week between 2008 and 2011.
In 2013, Gleeson co-hosted Australian comedy chat show This Week Live with Tommy Little, Dave Thornton and Meshel Laurie. In 2015, Gleeson appeared on the ABC satirical television news program The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, hosting the segments "This Is What You Think", "Go Away" and "Hard Chat". In 2016, he began presenting Hard Quiz, a spin-off of his "Hard Chat" segment from The Weekly. It is theorised that in 2017, one of Gleeson's interviews may have led to the decision to cast Sophie Monk as the lead in The Bachelorette Australia. Gleeson is the main host of the Australian version of Taskmaster, working alongside his assistant, comedian Tom Cashman.
In 2022 he performed in a celebrity tribute to Australian comedian and actor Paul Hogan, Roast of Paul Hogan, which was broadcast on Australia’s Seven Network.
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards are a set of annual ceremonies presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987.
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References
External links
Official website
1974 births
Australian stand-up comedians
Australian male comedians
Comedians from Melbourne
Gold Logie winners
Living people
People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
Comedians from Sydney
University of Sydney alumni |
The 2015 Tyrepower Tasmania Super Sprint was a motor race for V8 Supercars held on the weekend of 27–29 March 2015. The event was held at the Symmons Plains Raceway in Launceston, Tasmania, and consisted of two sprint races, each over a distance of and one endurance race over a distance of . It was the second round of fourteen in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship.
Prior to the start of the event, DJR Team Penske's Marcos Ambrose decided to step down from the driver's seat. He announced that he will work with the team and further practice with the car before he returns for the Endurance Cup. Scott Pye, who raced for the team in 2014, was announced as the replacement for Ambrose. David Reynolds and Andre Heimgartner transferred over to the Ford FG X Falcon for the event and the rest of the 2015 season.
Saturday was a good day for Triple Eight Race Engineering's Craig Lowndes, who managed to secure pole position for both races to be held later in the day. Lowndes then proceeded to win the first race of the weekend, ahead of Mark Winterbottom and James Courtney. Erebus Motorsport's Will Davison, who started fourth on the grid, missed out on a potential podium finish after being spun around by Courtney at turn 4 on the first lap. After Davison commented that Courtney's performance was 'stupid' and 'arrogant', no further action on the incident was decided by the race stewards. Lowndes again led home the field in Race 5, ahead of teammate Jamie Whincup.
Lowndes took a clean sweep of pole positions on Sunday taking pole for the Race 6, alongside Reynolds. The two managed to tangle at turn 2 on the first lap; Lowndes received a pit lane penalty for spinning Reynolds around in the incident. Whincup took the lead and led until the finish line. Chaz Mostert finished second and Shane van Gisbergen finished third. The two wins for Lowndes meant that he moved to 99 ATCC/V8 Supercar wins in his career, while Whincup moved into second place on the all-time wins list with 91, passing Mark Skaife's tally of 90 wins.
Results
Race 4
Qualifying
Race
Race 5
Qualifying
Race
Race 6
Qualifying
Race
Championship standings
After Race 6 of 36.
Drivers' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
External links
Event page on V8 Supercars' official website
Tasmania
March 2015 sports events in Australia |
"Made It Back" is a song by Beverley Knight, released as the first single from her second studio album, Prodigal Sista. It was also the first single Knight released on EMI controlled Parlophone Records after she signed a four album deal with the label in 1997 after disagreements with her previous label, Dome Records. The release instantly proved that Knight had made the right decision after it entered the UK Singles Chart at #21 – her highest charting single up to that point. Featuring US rap star Redman, the song was nominated for Best Single at the 1998 MOBO Awards in London, which Knight lost out on to Another Level's "Freak Me". However, Knight went on to win Best R&B Act.
Track list
CD:
"Made It Back" (featuring Redman)
"Made It Back" (C Swing Mix)
"Made It Back" (Brooklyn Funk Club Mix)
"Made It Back" (Without Rap)
The single also included an enhanced section featuring the video for Made It Back.
Music video
The video for "Made It Back" was filmed in New York City and sees Knight walking through deserted streets. The deserted streets depict the lyrics "I made it back, from a place called nowhere". This version was directed by Matt Broadley.
Charts
Personnel
Written by Knight, Drakes, Shorten, Noble
Lyrics written by Beverley Knight
Melody created by Beverley Knight
Produced by Dodge
All vocals performed and arranged by Beverley Knight
Additional vocals provided by Redman
Recorded at Inside Sound Studio, Roundhouse Recording Studios and Mirror Image West NYC Studios
Engineered by Sheridan Tongue, Tommy Uzzo and Jon P.
Mixed by Dodge and Jon P.
Made It Back 99
"Made It Back 99" is a remixed version of the first single from the Beverley Knight's second studio album, Prodigal Sista. The song, released in April 1999, was the first to be taken from a re-packaged version of the album. Made It Back 99 contained the same lyrics and vocals of the original release, but instead featured a more funk/R&B induced production provided by TNT and Mike Spencer, who introduced a sample of Chic's "Good Times" into the song. The single became Knight's first top 20 single in the United Kingdom when it peaked at #19 upon its release. It was supported by a re-released version of Prodigal Sista, which contained the single and two other remixes. A second promotional video was also created, but like the original, did not feature Redman.
Track list
CD 1:
"Made It Back '99" (featuring Redman) (TNT Good Times Mix)
"Think"
"Flavour of the Old School"
CD 2:
"Made It Back '99" (Featuring Redman & Specialist) (TNT Good Times 12" Mix)
"Made It Back '99" (TNT Good Times 7" Mix – video version, without rap)
"Made It Back '99" (Booker T Night Time Dub)
"Made It Back" (featuring Redman) (Original Album Version)
Charts
Music video
The video for "Made It Back 99" was filmed in an underground club, seemingly in a deserted warehouse with many extras dancing, creating a party atmosphere. This version was shot by Jake Nava.
Personnel
Written by Knight, Drakes, Shorten, Noble
Lyrics written by Beverley Knight
Melody created by Beverley Knight
Produced by TNT aka Definition of Sound and Mike Spencer
All vocals performed and arranged by Beverley Knight
Additional vocals provided by Redman
Recorded at Inside Sound Studio, Roundhouse Studios and Mirror Image West NYC Studios
Engineered by Sheridan Tongue, Tommy Uzzo and Jon P.
Mixed by Dodge and Jon P.
"Made It Back 99" contains a sample of "Good Times", performed by Chic and written by Edwards & Rodgers (1979)
See also
Beverley Knight discography
References
1998 singles
Beverley Knight songs
Parlophone singles
Redman (rapper) songs
Music videos directed by Jake Nava
Music videos directed by Matt Broadley
Songs written by Beverley Knight |
Santa Chiara is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located between corso Roma and Via Savelli, in the town of Antrodoco, province of Rieti, region of Lazio, central Italy. The church was once part of a Clarissan cloistered monastery, which included a hospital.
History
The adjacent hostel, dedicated to St Antony or St John, was built to service the often ill pilgrims en route on the Via Salaria to Rome, dates to the 14th century; but the clarissan monastery was not founded until 1607. The hostal closed in 1906. It is not clear when the monastery was closed. The church was reconsecrated in 2012.
The exterior is plain, and the entrance portal is through side doors, with only high windows providing light.
Over the last centuries, the restorations removed earlier frescoes, but the altars and nave have Baroque style. The lateral altars have 18th-century altarpieces and statues of Saints John the Baptist and Antony. Above the entrance was the cloistered cantory used by the cloistered nuns to attend service. The "Via Crucis" were painted by Lin Deija, for whom is named a museum of sacred art is located in the former convent.
References
Chiara
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Baroque architecture in Lazio
Churches in the province of Rieti |
Evan Siegel is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Biography
Evan Siegel received his PhD in Mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2000, his MSc in Mathematics from New York University, and his BSc in Mathematics from MIT. He is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at New Jersey City University. In addition to his interest in Mathematics, Siegel is interested in the history of the Middle East and has numerous publications on this topic. Siegel does research in sources in Persian, French, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, German, and Georgian.
In 1998-2000 he was an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, and in 1994-2002 a Corresponding Secretary of the International Society for Azerbaijani Studies.
Books
An annotated translation of Ahmad Kasravi's History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. (2007)
"Akinchi and Azerbaijani Self-Definition" in Michael Ursinus, Christoph Herzog, & Raoul Motika (ed.), Heidelberger Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Vorderen Orients, vol. 27 (Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang, 2001)
"An Azerbaijani Poets' Duel over Iranian Constitutionalism" in Michael Ursinus, Raoul Motika, & Christoph Herzog (eds.), Presse und Öffentlichkeit im Nahen Östen (Istanbul: ISIS Yayinlari, 2000)
"The Politics of Shahid-e Javid" in Werner Ende and Rainer Brunner (eds.), The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture and Political History (Leiden: Brill (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, vol. 72), 2000)
"Negahiye Kutahi be Bargozidehayi az Mollah Nasr od-Din/Montakhebiye az Nashriyeye Molla Nasr od-Din" in Janet Afary et al., Negareshi bar Zan va Jensiat dar Dawran-e Mashrute (Chicago: Historical Society of Iranian Women, 2000)
"The Turkish Language in Iran by Ahmad Kasravi" (translated from Arabic), Journal of Azerbaijani Studies (vol. 1, no. 2, 1998)
"A Woman's Letters to Molla Nasr od-Din(Tbilisi)" in Christopher Herzog et al. (eds.), Presse und Öffentlichkeit im Nahen Östen (Heidelberg: Heidelberg Orientverlag, 1995)
"Chand Maqale az Mulla Nasr ud-Din", Nimeye Digar no. 17 (Winter 1993)
Articles, papers, etc
"A risala by Sheikh Fazlollah Nuri denouncing the Iranian constitutional movement," Images, Representations and Perceptions in the Shia World, Geneva, Switzerland, (2002)
"Debates in Georgian Historiography on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution", Society for Iranian Studies Conference (2001)
"The Uses of Classical Iranian Literature in Early Modern Azerbaijani Satire", International Conference on "The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature, Bamberg, Germany (October 2001)
"Negahiye Kutahi be Bargozidehayi az Mollah Nasr od-Din/Montakhebiye az Nashriyeye Molla Nasr od-Din" in Janet Afary et al., Negareshi bar Zan va Jensiat dar Dawran-e Mashrute (Chicago: Historical Society of Iranian Women, 2000)
"The Mullah and the Commissar: Mirza Jalil Muhammadquluzada in the Land of the Soviets", Middle East Studies Association (2000)
"Soviet Georgian Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution", Society for Iranian Studies Conference (2000)
"A Debate on Women and the Shariat, Baku 1907", Middle East Studies Association (1999)
"Some Aspects of the Shahid-e Javid Debate in Iran", Die Zwölfershia in der Neuzeit, Freiburg, October 1999
"Armenophilia among the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia", Association for the Study of Nationalities (1999)
"Shahid-e Javid as an Alternate Huseynology", Middle East Studies Association (1998)
"Azerbaijani Identity in the first Caucasian Muslim Press: The Case of Ekinchi", Die Anfänge der Press im Nahen Östen, Aachen, October 1998
"The Turkish Language in Iran by Ahmad Kasravi" (translated from Arabic), Journal of Azerbaijani Studies (vol. 1, no. 2, 1998)
"Iranian Historical Survival", An Evening of Persian Literature, Music, and Poetry (hosted by Encyclopædia Iranica) (Naw Ruz, 1997)
"Taza Hayat (Baku) and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution", Middle East Studies Association (1997)
"Taza Hayat between Ottoman Pan-Islam and Iran", Iran and the Ottoman Empire (Germany, 1997)
"Ahmad Kasravi: From Nationalism to Internationalism", L'Association Française pour l'Étude du Monde Arabe et Musulman (France, 1996)
"Ahmad Kasravi and the 1946 Azerbaijan Autonomous Government", Middle East Studies Association (1996)
"Women's Letters to the Editor in Mulla Nasr ud-Din", Newspaper and Public Opinion in the Islamic World Seminar (Germany, 1996)
"Ahmad Kasravi between Iranism and Azerbaijanism," Middle East Studies Association (1995) [Link in Persian]
"Mulla Nasr ud-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution", Baku International Symposium (Republic of Azerbaijan, 1995)
"Mulla Nasr ud-Din's Impact on the Iranian Constitutionalist Press", Middle East Studies Association (1994)
"Mulla Nasr ud-Din and Sattar Khan's Uprising", Middle East Studies Association (1993)
"Mulla Nasr ud-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution, 1906-1907", Middle East Studies Association (1992)
"Mulla Nasr ud-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution, 1906-1907", Baku, Azerbaijan
"A Palestinian View of the Iranian Revolution", Middle East Studies Association (1990)
"Mehdi Hashemi and the Iranian Revolution", Middle East Studies Association (1998)
"A Palestinian View of the Iranian Revolution", Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (1987)
Notes
External links
Evan Siegel's Website
Siegel's work on Middle East
Siegel's Review of Shaffer's book
1954 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
CUNY Graduate Center alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
New Jersey City University faculty
New York University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American mathematicians |
Frank Hougaard (born 29 December 1963) is a former Danish footballer who played as a winger and fullback from 1986 to 2005.
Hougaard spent the vast majority of his professional career at Næstved Boldklub, totalling 507 league appearances, a club record. Although retiring several times, Hougaard was approached to help out his club when they faced relegation.
In his youth Hougaard played for Herlufsholm Gymnastikforening, a smaller club in Næstved. He made his league debut in the 1986 season on May 14, 1986 for Næstved IF in an away game against AGF. 19 years later he made his final appearance on June 4, 2005 at the age of 41 as Næstved Boldklub lost 3-4 against Dalum in the 2004–05 Danish 1st Division. Although previously retired, he had agreed to help out his old club facing relegation. But his efforts were not enough, and Næstved Boldklub was relegated to the Danish Second Division.
At 22 years old his debut at Næstved Boldklub came quite late, making his total appearances for the club even more impressive. During his time in Næstved Boldklub he became somewhat of a cult figure among the fans, especially due to his never-ending loyalty to the club.
Hougaard spent almost his entire career at Næstved Boldklub, with a season as playing assistant manager for Erik Rasmussen at Skælskør BI and a short period with youth club Herlufsholm Gymnastikforening as the only exceptions.
Records
Hougaard has the most appearances at Næstved Boldklub, with 507 league appearances spanning 19 years. On May 23, 1993, Hougaard scored the 1000th goal in the Danish Superliga.
In his first season at Næstved Boldklub he won bronze as the club finished third in the Danish league. In 1988, he won silver medal as Næstved Boldklub finished runners-up. In 1994, he won the silver medal as Næstved Boldkub lost the Danish Cup final against Brøndby IF.
Notes
1963 births
Danish men's footballers
Næstved Boldklub players
Living people
Men's association football defenders |
Mitchell Arts Centre is in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Formerly known as the Mitchell Memorial Youth Theatre and Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre and referred to locally as The Mitch. It was opened by Group-Captain Douglas Bader on 28 October 1957, 14 years after Lord Mayor Councillor Charles Austin Brook launched a public appeal in February 1943 with the support of Florence Mitchell, Reginald Mitchell's widow.
History
Charles Austin Brook was the lord mayor of Stoke-on-Trent between 1942 and 1943. He had, along with the whole of the country witnessed the Battle of Britain, the fight that took place in the skies against the German Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. It was here that the Spitfire came into its own and on 12 October 1940 Hitler halted his invasion of Britain
It was while Brook was mayor of Stoke-on-Trent he suggested that the city should construct a building that would be a lasting memorial to Reginald Mitchell, the Stoke-on-Trent born designer of the Spitfire. The suggestion was greeted with great enthusiasm. Many suggestions were made, the most impressive from Mr J.F. Carr, the director of education, being to build a Youth Centre. Charles Austin Brook said of the appeal:
Initially the vision for the Youth Arts Centre was huge, the City wanted to raise £100,000 and building work was to commence immediately after the war. The plan was for the Youth Centre to have a games room, gym with full-sized boxing ring, photographic studios, and theatre as well as art and music rooms.
The Spitfire Mitchell Memorial Fund was launched nationwide in June 1944 in London. The fund had already raised £40,000 locally. In 1957 the Evening Sentinel Supplement stated that the fund's Executive Committee wanted to raise £250,000, £100,000 of this would be to build the Youth Centre and the rest of the money would be to enable the University of Southampton to endow scholarships to students studying at the School of Engineering. Despite the nationwide appeal, by 1953 the fund had reached £67,431. This was however viewed as a commendable amount considering the hardships of war time and the post-war years. £20,000 was put into the RJ Mitchell Endowment fund for the University of Southampton, this funding ceased but in 2006 scholarships in Mitchell's name have been funded from tuition fees.
Cartwright House
Adjoining the main theatre building is Cartwright House, which was for many years the home to the Hanley branch of the Workers Educational Association providing access to education for adults across the city.
Refurbishment
In April 2009 the Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre closed to undergo a major £4.3 million refurbishment of the theatre facilities. The building re-opened in 2011.
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Stoke-on-Trent
Monuments and memorials in Staffordshire
1957 establishments in England
Theatres in Staffordshire
Arts centres in England |
Reference data is data used to classify or categorize other data. Typically, they are static or slowly changing over time.
Examples of reference data include:
Units of measurement
Country codes
Corporate codes
Fixed conversion rates e.g., weight, temperature, and length
Calendar structure and constraints
Reference data sets are sometimes alternatively referred to as a "controlled vocabulary" or "lookup" data.
Reference data differs from master data. While both provide context for business transactions, reference data is concerned with classification and categorisation, while master data is concerned with business entities. A further difference between reference data and master data is that a change to the reference data values may require an associated change in business process to support the change, while a change in master data will always be managed as part of existing business processes. For example, adding a new customer or sales product is part of the standard business process. However, adding a new product classification (e.g. "restricted sales item") or a new customer type (e.g. "gold level customer") will result in a modification to the business processes to manage those items.
Externally-defined reference data
For most organisations, most or all reference data is defined and managed within that organisation.
Some reference data, however, may be externally defined and managed, for example by standards organizations. An example of externally-defined reference data is the set of country codes as defined in ISO 3166-1.
Reference data management
Curating and managing reference data is key to ensuring its quality and thus fitness for purpose. All aspects of an organisation, operational and analytical, are greatly dependent on the quality of an organization's reference data. Without consistency across business process or applications, for example, similar things may be described in quite different ways. Reference data gain in value when they are widely re-used and widely referenced.
Examples of good practice in reference data management include:
Formalize the reference data management
Use external reference data as much as possible
Govern the reference data specific to your enterprise
Manage reference data at enterprise level
Version control your reference data
References
Further reading
See also
Master data
Data modeling
Master data management
Enterprise bookmarking
Data architecture
Transaction data
Code (metadata)
External links
Microsoft MSDN, Reference Data Services in DQS, 2012
Data management |
Panchayat is an Indian Hindi-language streaming television series created by The Viral Fever for Amazon Prime Video. The series scripted by Chandan Kumar, was directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra, which features Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Sanvikaa, Chandan Roy, Durgesh Kumar, Ashok Pathak, Faisal Malik and Sunita Rajwar. It chronicles the life of an engineering graduate who joins as a Panchayat secretary in a remote fictional village of Phulera of Uttar Pradesh due to lack of better job options.
The series was shot in a real panchayat office located in village Mahodiya of district Sehore Madhya Pradesh. Sehore is about 40 kilometres from Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. Mahodiya is about 10 kilometres from Sehore district headquarters. The soundtrack and score of the series are composed by Anurag Saikia, whilst cinematography and editing were performed by Amitabh Singh and Amit Kulkarni respectively. This series is Mishra's full-fledged attempt at direction after directing the respective second seasons of Permanent Roommates and Humorously Yours!.
Panchayat was premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 3 April 2020. The series received mostly positive response from critics, with the performances of the leading actors, scripting, direction and major technical aspects were praised, critics also appreciated TVF, its producers to come up with a rural village setting as compared to the previous projects, which is mostly based on the urban atmosphere. At the inaugural ceremony of Filmfare OTT Awards, the series won all the nominations under the Comedy Series category, except for Best Actress. The series was also nominated for Best Original Story, Screenplay, and Dialogues for Chandan Kumar, although it did not receive a win.
The second season of the series was scheduled to be released on 20 May 2022. However, all the episodes were released two days before the actual release date. In this season, Abhishek is seen taking more interest in village politics and developments alongside preparing for CAT exam.
The series has been renewed for a third season.
Premise
The series deals with the experiences of an urban engineering graduate, unfamiliar with village cultures, who on completing his degree gets a low-salary position as a secretary of a Gram panchayat in a remote village called Phulera in Uttar Pradesh.
Cast and characters
Main
Jitendra Kumar as Abhishek Tripathi, Panchayat Secretary
Neena Gupta as Manju Devi Dubey, Pradhan Rinky's mother, Brij’s wife
Raghubir Yadav as Brij Bhushan Dubey, Manju Devi's Husband, Pradhan-Pati Rinky’s father
Faisal Malik as Prahladchand "Prahlad" Pandey, Upa-Pradhan
Chandan Roy as Vikas, Office Assistant
Sanvikaa as Rinki, daughter of Pradhan
Recurring
Biswapati Sarkar as Prateek, Abhishek's friend (season 1)
Satish Ray as Siddharth Gupta aka Siddhu, Abhishek's Friend (season 2)
Sunita Rajwar as Kranti Devi, Bhushan’s wife and Manju Devi’s rival (season 2)
Subendhu Chakraborty as Mangal
Shrikant Verma as Parmeshwar
Ashok Pathak as Vinod (season 2)
Pankaj Jha as MLA Chandra Kishore Singh (season 2)
Diwakar Dhyani as Sudhir Jaiswal BDO ( Season 2)
Sushil Tondon as Bhindeshwar
Mubarak Khan as Ward Member 1
Kamal Rai as Ward Member 2
Govind Lobhani as Ward Member 3
Bal Mukund Rai as Ward Member 4
Salim Ansari as Ward Member 5
Mohd. Shakir as Ward Member 6
Dinesh Tiwari as Ward Member 7
Kailash Karoshiya as Ward Member 8
Durgesh Kumar as Bhushan aka Banrakas, Kranti’s husband and Brij and Abhishek’s rival
Aanchal Tiwari as Raveena, Parmeshwar's daughter, Rinki's bestfriend
Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish as Photographer
Sandeep Shikhar as Deenbandhu
Jyoti Dubey as Sushma
Rajesh Jais as Virendra Gupta (BDO)
Aasif Khan as Ganesh, Bride Groom (season 1)
Prateek Pachauri as Babloo
Dipesh Binyani as BDO's Assistant
Ebaabdullah Khan as Dabloo
Ankit Motghare as Theka Shopkeeper
Usha Nagar as Deenbandhu's Mother
Aditya Sharma as Groom's Father/Ganesh's Father
Shashie Verma as Master Ji
Vishwanath Chatterjee as Sub Inspector
Kusum Shastri as District Magistrate
Shubham as Goon 1
Prayag Sahu as Goon 2
Arvind Bhagwat as DM's Assistant
Maya Gannote as a Female ward member
Gaurav Gawai as Goon
Chinta Loungre as a Female ward member
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Production
Development
In late 2019, The Viral Fever signed a deal with the streaming platform Amazon Prime Video to produce a new streaming television series for their platform, after the success of their previous collaboration Hostel Daze. Sameer Saxena, the creative head of TVF picked Chandan Kumar and Deepak Kumar Mishra to script the show and direct the series. Mishra earlier directed theatre shows and drama in the past, and in his meeting with the founder and then-creative head of TVF, Arunabh Kumar, he expressed his interest in scripting, acting, and direction. Later, he went on to direct the respective second season of Permanent Roommates and Humorously Yours. This was his first maiden attempt at directing a full-fledged streaming series for the media.
Mishra drew inspiration from the classic Doordarshan shows Malgudi Days, Potli Baba Ki, Swami and Tenali Rama, and decided to make one of them relatable to the current scenario stating that the kinds of shows are not present in this period. He and Chandan did extensive research and travelled across villages for an idea about the script, which was progressed in 2017, but had been delayed due to the research work. Chandan finally drafted the script whose one-line is about an engineering graduate who joins a low-paid salary job in a remote village and initially titled SDO Saheb, before they changed the title to Panchayat.
Casting
For the main character Abhishek Tripathi, Sameer Saxena picked Jitendra Kumar, who opined that his similarities to the character of the protagonist and the regular collaborations with TVF made it possible. His character had strong similarities with that of Mohan Bhargav, portrayed by Shah Rukh Khan in the 2004 film Swades. About the contrast differences Kumar stated that "The comparisons were inevitable. But I am very happy about it, as I am a huge fan of the film. It left a deep impact on me. I even have a framed poster of the film — the one with SRK sitting in a boat surrounded by local villagers — in my home itself".
Neena Gupta plays the role of Manju Devi, the village Pradhan, and a homemaker. She initially accepted the script on the basis of the response to TVF's previous projects as well as their collaboration with Raghubir Yadav and Jitendra (in her second collaboration after Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, in which she played the latter's mother character). Yadav played the role of Brij Bhushan Dubey, husband of Manju Devi, and on the connection with his co-star, he stated "It was a great experience to work with Neena Gupta. She used to get into the character entirely. With her, it didn't feel we are here for acting".
Yadav's student Chandan Roy played the role of Vikas, the office assistant. He initially confessed that he used to go to auditions every day and one of his friends at the casting bay called him for a small role in the series, which was supposed to be shot in a single day. He initially travelled to Bhopal to shoot for the same series and met one of the assistants in TVF, where the creative team sent a script for Vikas and also got the role, whereas Deepak Kumar Mishra shot the one-day portion which was initially offered to Roy.
Filming
The series was shot in a real panchayat office located at Mahodiya Village, Sehore district in Madhya Pradesh, whereas the script was set in a fictional backdrop in Uttar Pradesh. According to the lead actor Jitendra Kumar, the series was shot in the month of March and April 2019, which wrapped within two months. However he opined as, during the time period, the temperature was extremely hot and was difficult to shoot, further adding that it was a tough time for the crew members who were 150 in number, as many used to stand in the fields holding umbrellas or lights. Raghubir Yadav eventually said about shooting in real locations, stating that "It turned out to be really well as the aesthetics and the vivid hues of the village life can be clearly seen in the show."
In an interview with Hindustan Times, Jitendra stated "My initial understanding of a panchayat was a big tree with five PANCH or sarpanch and other people sitting in its shade. They are usually fighting over a land dispute and come up with a solution right there. But actually, a Panchayat is like an office and every panchayat follows a process. The show talks about the problems of villagers which appear to be very funny for us."
Soundtrack
Season 1
Anurag Saikia composed the soundtrack and background score for Panchayat. The background score and songs include the use of acoustic guitars, a pianist, an accordion, and the kora, despite the setting in rural India. Saikia initially noted that "The creative producer Abhijeet Singh Parmar wanted "anything but the usual music. So we initially tried symphony, then rock, and even jazz. The music for episode one took a month or two to be locked in. Once that was in place, we decided to keep the music acoustic and minimalist".
He initially added that the biggest challenge for him is to feature an ambient sort of music, with a bit of rock. However, the score featured only acoustic instruments. Saikia, in an interview with Scroll.in opined that "When an entire score for a scene got chucked, I had to bring the musicians back to the studio, and they often played for the same scene thrice a week. This happened with the theme that is used to introduce the village pradhan's husband."
One of the songs in the series Hiya Tho, was received positively by the audience for producing a soulful tune with gibberish lyrics. The word "Hiya", stands for heart in Assamese. Due to his early exposure to Assamese and Western classical music, Anurag Saikia stated that "the song is inspired by the chants we have grown up hearing in monasteries in the North East". He recruited fellow Assamese singer Shankuraj Konwar for vocal duties since he would understand the song's Assamese roots.
The original soundtrack album for the series was unveiled on 10 April 2020, followed by the original score on 1 May 2020. The soundtrack features five songs and theme music, all have been performed and written by Saikia, whereas Vivek Hariharan, Raghav Chaitanya, Vinnie Hutton, and Shankuraj Konwar sang the vocals. The background score which released as a separate album format features sixteen tracks
Release
Season 1
Amazon Prime Video announced the release of eight new Indian originals in January 2020, with Panchayat being one of them. The official trailer of Panchayat was released on 29 March 2020. The eight-episode series premiered on 3 April 2020. In May 2020, the makers released the Tamil and Telugu dubbed versions of the series after fans request.
Season 2
On 28 April 2022, the second season was announced after the completion of the production. On 2 May 2022, it was announced that the second season will premiere on 20 May 2022. However, Prime Video released all the episodes on 18 May 2022, two days earlier than its actual premiere date.
Season 3
Deepak Kumar Mishra revealed to social media that there would be a Panchayat Season 3.
Panchayat season 3 will involve eight episodes and is set to be released in late 2023 on Amazon Prime Video.
Reception
Critical response
Season 1
Sreeparna Sengupta of The Times of India rated four out of five stars and wrote "What keeps Panchayat ticking are the well-timed dialogues and situations that keep you chuckling all along." Nandini Ramanath of Scroll.in wrote "The series is better placed to explore the foibles of its handful of characters. Panchayat unfolds as a comedy of mofussil manners. A proposal to install solar-powered lights teaches Abhishek the art of negotiating with the locals. A poorly phrased slogan for family planning leads to the discovery of hidden allies. The theft of a computer monitor is a sign that Abhishek is finally settling into his role." Ruchi Kaushal of Hindustan Times stated "Panchayat is a perfect example that what you really need to make a series sing is a solid script. If you are looking for something beyond the good old Ramayan and Mahabharat during the lockdown, Panchayat should definitely be on your must-watch list."
Ektaa Malik of The Indian Express gave three-and-a-half out of five stating "Panchayat incisively breaks the dual-tone presentation of the Indian small town in mainstream narratives. Jitendra Kumar is continuing his fine form after Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and his 'hairan-pareshan' expression has only gotten better. Though we wonder how long will he keep doing these underdog-needs-to-be-rescued roles." Nairita Mukherjee of India Today summarised "Panchayat teaches us why rural India is possibly more equipped to handle isolation compared to its urban counterparts. Jitendra Kumar and Raghuvir Yadav drive the show, but we wanted to see much more of Neena Gupta." Saraswati Datar of The News Minute stated "There are plenty of laughs but just as many genuine moments of emotion which force you to pause and feel for the people in this quirky tale. Go ahead and watch Panchayat, it's exactly the ray of sunshine we need in gloomy times like these."
Rahul Desai of Film Companion stated "The TVF show has one of the finest ensembles of recent times with Chandan Kumar's screenplay ensuring characters don't come across as caricatures." Udita Jhunjhunwala of Firstpost gave three-and-a-half out of five stating "On-target casting, immersive production design, crafty dialogue, and situations handled with a light touch to make Panchayat a satisfying watch. And who would have thought lauki (bottle gourd) could be such an effective peace offering!" Tanisha Bagchi of The Quint gave four out of five stating "Panchayat scores in its opening credits too, and by the time the sun sets on the worn-down office, we know one thing for sure - it takes a village to drive away from the fatigue that has crept in owing to Bollywood's obsession to set every other film in a small town."
Priyanka Sinha Jha of News18 reviewed "City-slickers, small-town audience or country hicks, whichever category you may fall in, Panchayat is a must-watch for those who enjoy India stories." Shilajit Mitra of Cinema Express reviewed "Though the show progresses quickly, with a new distraction emerging every episode, Abhishek stays focused on his goal. He's least bothered about Phulera and its going on. All he wants to do is study, bide his time and clear out. Writer Chandan Kumar and director Deepak Kumar Mishra steer clear of obvious heroism. When Abhishek gets into a scuffle and his ego swells, the scene quickly turns to slapstick." Tanul Thakur of The Wire wrote "Panchayat has a constant lightness of touch, and that is reflected in the aesthetics, too. Its scenes aren't hurried; a consistent relaxed rhythm informs the entire show."
Accolades
Season 1
References
Panchayat Season 3 Release Date 2023, Star https://sportscrico.com/panchayat-season-3-release-date/
External links
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2020 Indian television series debuts
Hindi television content related lists
Amazon Prime Video original programming
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Child laundering is a tactic used in illegal or fraudulent international adoptions. It may involve child trafficking and child acquisition through payment, deceit or force. The children may then be held in sham orphanages while formal adoption processes are used to send them to adoptive parents in another country.
Child laundering rings are often large and involve the black market. With Westerners willing to spend thousands of dollars to adopt a child, there is a monetary incentive to extend the laundering ring from the middle classes to societies' more affluent groups. These "baby broker" families subsequently forge a new identity for the laundered child, "validating" the child's legal status as an orphan and ensuring the scheme will not be uncovered.
Child laundering is highly controversial; while many argue that these children are being treated as a commodity and stripped of family contact, others argue that, ultimately, the children will live in a more affluent environment and will have more opportunities in life.
Hierarchy of involvement
There is a complex hierarchy within the child laundering business which includes governments, orphanages, intermediaries, birth families, and adoptive families. The people who oversee these child laundering rings are estimated to make $2,000 to $20,000 per overseas adoption. Intermediaries are crucial because their job is to locate extremely impoverished parents who may be willing to sell their children out of necessity. Often, the people involved in recruiting and managing these rings are local middle or upper class citizens who have a negative view of the impoverished. Therefore, recruiters can rationalize taking these children from the biological family on the grounds that the child will be better off in the West. In some cases, members of foreign governments are bribed to hasten these illegitimate adoptions.
Process of illegal adoptions
People involved in illegal child laundering adoptions
manipulate the legal system for profit. The process begins when recruiters gain physical custody of children, who are then often taken to orphanages which arrange the adoptions, where they are sometimes severely mistreated. Finally, after documents are forged to falsify a child's identity, the child is sent to the West to be united with their adoptive parents.
Child acquisition
There are several different ways by which "orphans" are acquired and later sold within the adoption system. Parent nations are almost always poor, and may have a system where impoverished parents can find temporarily care for their children by placing them in orphanages, hostels or schools. This community provides poor children with care, housing, and food until the family is in a better economic situation. In these cases, parents may have no intention to sever their parental rights or abandon their children. However, these institutions may take advantage of the family's economic and social vulnerability to illegally profit by making the child available to overseas adoption markets, netting orphanage owners thousands of dollars per child.
Children who become lost or separated from their families can be, wrongly, deemed orphans, and although institutions are required by law to make an effort to locate the family, there is virtually no way to assess whether they actually do. If these initial efforts to locate the family fail, or are declared as failures, the institution then has the opportunity to capitalize on this by putting the child up for adoption.
Another way in which "orphans" are acquired is through an outright purchase of the child. The recruiters for these adoption rings seek out poor pregnant women and offer to pay for their child. These parents may be led to believe that they will be able to keep in contact with the child and receive financial support from the adoptive parents. Likewise, they may be told that they will eventually be able to migrate to live with their child once he or she is grown, presumably in a more economically developed nation. Through these methods and more, recruiters lead the birth parents to believe that giving up their child will provide a better future for the child.
Treatment of children in orphanages
After investigations, United States ICE agents observed inhumane conditions in many foreign orphanages involved in child laundering. One investigation found that the children were unwashed and unclothed, unprotected from malaria, and lying in rusty cribs. Additionally, there was no experienced nurse caring for the children, and the investigator termed it a "stash house". As these orphanages receive thousands of dollars for each adoption the conditions the children are kept in could be vastly improved for just a fraction of the racketeers' profits.
Intercountry adoption
The United States is responsible for most intercountry adoptions in the world: 20,000 out of the total 30,000 total annual adoptions. The Westerners who adopt from developing nations pay thousands of dollars to process the paperwork of one child. This provides a lucrative incentive for those involved in the process. In many cases, the prospective adoptive parents are motivated by a sense of altruism, coupled with their desire to overcome infertility and fulfill the Western standard of the nuclear family. These adoptive parents create a demand for healthy infants that will be able to assimilate into their new home, cutting off ties to their birthplace and culture of origin. Prospective adoptive parents are matched with the children through adoption agencies, brokers, or online agencies. As most of the children adopted overseas are very young, they will not have any memories of their birth families; without a paper trail or input from the child, it is nearly impossible to determine whether a child is truly an orphan.
International legislation
Hague Adoption Convention
The Hague Adoption Convention has been widely adopted to regulate international adoptions. The Convention seeks to establish certain rules for international adoptions to combat child laundering, as an indirect solution to abuses. However, the Hague Convention fails to require any effort to preserve the family before turning to international adoption, and therefore the Convention mostly represents an anti-trafficking treaty. In 2000, the U.S. Congress enacted the Intercountry Adoption Act in order to implement the ideas of the Hague Convention. However, this Act is limited in the fact that the United States cannot enforce any measures against the country of origin if corruption in the adoption process is discovered.
Stance of the United States
The US State Department does not consider child laundering to be a form of human trafficking, as it is a non-exploitative result. Furthermore, it is sometimes seen as a humanitarian act, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the child. The adoption agencies in the West are operating within the law, and as they have no way of knowing whether the children are truly orphans, they have no way of knowing whether they are a party in this human rights violation. While the United States does not have the jurisdiction to prosecute agencies working in the developing countries the children come from, the Department of State does caution that international adoption should only be considered when it is in the best interest of a child and domestic adoption options have already been evaluated.
Case studies
Child laundering is a global issue, and there have been highly publicized cases in the past decade. Guatemala, China, and Cambodia highly exemplify the problems associated with international adoptions.
Guatemala
From 1999 to 2011, there have been:
29,731 adoptions of Guatemalan children
15,691 females and 14,040 males
20,829 children aged under 1 year
6,557 children aged 1–2 years
2,749 children aged 3–18 years
Before Guatemala's adoption of the Hague Convention in 2007, child laundering was a widespread and notorious issue in Guatemala. The recruiters are called jaladoras or buscadoras, and often work with medical personnel who give them information about the locations of vulnerable women. For every child procured, the buscadora earns anywhere from $5,000 to $8,000. Some of the methods used include telling women that their baby did not survive childbirth, or the outright purchase of a child. These women never receive much compensation for their child, as most of the money goes to the "baby brokers" who process most of the adoption paperwork.
Since signing of the Hague Convention, Guatemala passed laws to create standards for the adoption process. All adoption agencies have to be accredited and accountable for their actions, as well as keep detailed and accurate financial records. Additionally, foster care is now accountable to the Secretaria de Binestar Social, and the Central Authority (CA) was established in order to ensure Guatemala's compliance with Hague Convention rules. Children a judge has legally approved for adoption are matched with a prospective adoptive family by a team made up of a CA social worker and a psychologist.
Following the restructuring of the Guatemalan government, Guatemala ceased all foreign adoptions. In 2011, the government announced that authorities would be reviewing cases started before 2007, but they would not be accepting new applications. As of 2011, the United States was no longer processing adoptions from Guatemala, joining the ranks of countries who had placed moratoriums on Guatemalan adoptions.
China
From 1999–2011 there have been:
66,630 adoptions of Chinese children
60,431 females and 6,199 males
25,605 children aged under 1 year
33,566 children aged 1–2 years
6,904 children aged 3–18 years
China has experienced rampant child laundering in past decades, although now it is considered to be better regulated than most other originating countries. China reports about 10,000 children kidnapped or sold a year, although demographers consider the true numbers to be much higher. The official statistics are based only on those cases which have been but it is very difficult to prove that any individual child has been kidnapped and then laundered. Most of these children are from poor families in the rural areas, and are taken to sell to Western adoptive families. The Hunan adoption scandal brought many of these issues to light, as orphanages were sending intermediaries into rural areas to acquire children, who were then moved around Hunan and given fraudulent documents in order to cover up their origins.
Some argue that the issue of child laundering in China stems from the one-child policy, which created what was once a surplus of children needing adoption. However, since the demand for Chinese children has increased, institutions have resorted to methods like kidnapping in order to meet customer demand and maintain profitability; the system of international adoptions has created a mechanism whereby poor families in China are exploited in order to feed the Western demand for Chinese children, and the Western ethnocentric view that the child will have a better life in the West, without any connection to their biological family.
Cambodia
From 1999–2011 there have been:
2,355 adoptions of Cambodian children
1,369 females and 986 males
1,370 children aged under 1 year
677 children aged 1–2 years
308 children aged 3–18
While international adoptions usually take two or more years to process, Cambodia has made a policy of expediting this process, with it often taking as little as three months. Human rights activists consider Cambodia one of the most corrupt countries in regards to international adoption. LICADHO, a Cambodian human rights group, has said that recruiters target poor women and families in their efforts to gain access to young children. Their tactics include purchasing babies, sometimes for as little as US$20, or deceiving parents into relinquishing physical custody. One particular case that gained media attention focused on a child laundering scheme run by American Lauryn Galindo. Galindo was prosecuted in the United States and convicted of "material misrepresentations as to the orphan status and identities" of infant adoptees over the period of 1997 through 2001. Galindo was sentenced to 18 months in prison, a fine, and mandatory community service. The United States, formerly one of the most common destinations for Cambodian adoptees, no longer processes adoptions from Cambodia.
Sri Lanka
Between 1970 and 2017, 11,000 babies from Sri Lanka were exported to Western Countries, mainly those in Europe, including The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany. The Netherlands received the most children, including over 4,000 babies. Many Sri Lankan families have been forced to give up their children due to poverty and other social and cultural problems. As the demand for infants was high, many adoption agencies, and their intermediates, started "baby farms" where birth mothers and stolen infants were held. Many hospitals in Sri Lanka, especially those in districts like Ratnapura, Galle, Kandy, Colombo, Kegalle and Kalutara, either stole infants or coerced mothers into putting their children up for adoption. Government officials, tour guides, lawyers, and medical staff have all been implicated in unethical international adoption scandals; the babies were bought for around $30 and then sold to foreign couples for double the amount. Starting in 2000, many babies who were adopted internationally returned to Sri Lanka to meet their biological parents, only to find that the documents used in their adoptions had been falsified and the parents they had hoped to meet did not exist. In 2017, after the Dutch TV program Zembla revealed the adoption fraud, both the Dutch and Sri Lankan governments opened investigations, during which the Sri Lankan Government admitted to the existence of baby farms. Since then, many additional adoptees have gone to court to ask for investigation into their adoption.
See also
Child-selling
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
International adoption
List of international adoption scandals
Trafficking of children
References
Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement
Crimes against children
Crimes against humanity
Document forgery
Human trafficking
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is the thirteenth and final studio album by Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five. The album was released on January 1, 2001 by Readymade Records. Like many of the band's later albums, Çà et là du Japon is set in a famous city of the world during a specific time of the year, in this case Tokyo in winter. Çà et là du Japon differs from other Pizzicato Five albums in that it features several guest vocalists and songwriters, and lead vocalist Maki Nomiya appears on only a few of its songs.
Çà et là du Japon was reissued on March 31, 2006.
Track listing
Notes
"Gatta Call'em All!" is a re-recording of , written by Akihito Toda and Hirokazu Tanaka and originally performed by Imakuni? and Raymond Johnson.
Personnel
Additional musicians
Takashi Nagazumi – vocals on "1 Janvier"
Shigeru Matsuzaki – vocals on "Nonstop to Tokyo" and "À Tokyo"
Izumi Yukimura – vocals on "Sakura Sakura" and "In America"
Masumi Arichika – vocals on "Kimono"
Sparks – vocals on "Kimono"
Scott Addison – vocals on "Fashion People"
Ben Human – vocals on "Fashion People"
Duke Aces – vocals on "In America"
Imakuni? – vocals on "Gatta Call'em All!"
Raymond Johnson – vocals on "Gatta Call'em All!"
Hiroko Ohashi – vocals on "Gatta Call'em All!"
Pokémon Kids – vocals on "Gatta Call'em All!"
Yossie – vocals on "Gatta Call'em All!"
Rocketman – vocals on "24 Decembre"
Ronnie – vocals on "24 Decembre"
Ken Yokoyama – vocals on "Sukiyaki Song"
You the Rock – vocals on "À Tokyo"
Bertrand Burgalat – vocals on "Çà et là"
Clémentine – vocals on "Aiueo"
Charts
References
External links
2001 albums
Pizzicato Five albums
Nippon Columbia albums
Japanese-language albums |
Charalampos Tsoulfas (; born 2 July 2000) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Greek side Ifestos Peristeri.
References
2000 births
Living people
Greek men's footballers
Greek expatriate men's footballers
Serie D players
Super League Greece 2 players
SEF Torres 1903 players
Apollon Smyrnis F.C. players
Akritas Chlorakas players
Men's association football goalkeepers |
Hydrorybina violascens is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found on Borneo.
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are cupreous-red brown with a purplish gloss. There is an oblique dark brown antemedial line and a dark discoidal bar. The postmedial line is black brown and the termen is black brown with a silvery gloss. The hindwings are cupreous-red brown with a purplish gloss. The costal area is whitish with some dark irroration (speckling) below the end of the cell, as well as a black postmedial line.
References
Moths described in 1917
Odontiinae |
The following is a list of the 426 communes in the French department of Haute-Marne.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
Communauté d'agglomération de Chaumont
Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dizier Der et Blaise (partly)
Communauté de communes d'Auberive Vingeanne et Montsaugeonnais
Communauté de communes du Bassin de Joinville en Champagne
Communauté de communes du Grand Langres
Communauté de communes Meuse Rognon
Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Vosgien (partly)
Communauté de communes des Savoir-Faire (partly)
Communauté de communes des Trois Forêts
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The scorpion mud turtle or Tabasco mud turtle (Kinosternon scorpioides) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. It is found in Mexico, Central and South America. It is a medium to large kinosternid (mud turtle) with a domed, oval upper shell 92–270 mm (3.6–10.6 in) long. Males regularly exceed 200 mm. The scorpion mud turtle is a highly aquatic, adaptable kinosternid that will live in almost any body of water. It is primarily omnicarnivorous, a glutton, and feeds on a wide variety of aquatic invertebrates (such as insects and their larvae, spiders, shrimp, crabs, snails and worms) and vertebrates (such as fish and frogs), as well as carrion and bird eggshells. It also feeds on plant material such as algae, fruits, flowers, nuts, seeds and aquatic plants. In captivity, poorly fed K. scorpioides can be cannibalistic, biting off the toes and limbs of conspecifics. Females probably lay 1 to 6 hard-shelled eggs. Like many kinosternids, they probably construct a shallow terrestrial nest with little cover.
Subspecies
Scorpion mud turtle (subspecies) – Kinosternon scorpioides scorpioides (Linnaeus, 1766)
White-throated mud turtle – Kinosternon scorpioides albogulare (Duméril and Bibron, 1870)
Red-cheeked mud turtle – Kinosternon scorpioides cruentatum (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1851)
References
Linnaeus, 1766 : Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio duodecima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, Holmiae, p. 1–532.
Pritchard, P. C. H. 1979. Encyclopedia of Turtles. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune, New Jersey. 895 pp.
Pritchard, P. C. H., and P. Trebbau. 1984. The Turtles of Venezuela. Contributions to Herpetology 2. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca. 403 pp., 47 plates, 16 maps.
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James W. Griffin, Sr. (February 13, 1935 - June 25, 2023) was an American politician in the state of Iowa.
Griffin was born in Dow City, Iowa. He attended Omaha University and is an insurance executive. He served in the Iowa State Senate from 1969 to 1977 as a Republican.
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Langtry is an English surname of habitational origin which derives from three settlements in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Lancashire called Langtree, from the Old English lang, long ‘long’, ‘tall’ + treow ‘tree’.
Notable Langtrys include:
Albert P. Langtry (1860–1939), Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Brian Langtry (born 1976), lacrosse player for the Colorado Mammoth and the Denver Outlaws
Henry Langtry (1841–1892), English cavalry colonel
Henry V.M. Langtry (1869–1935), British Army lieutenant-colonel
James I. Langtry (1939–2021), government official and educator
James MacKay Langtry (1894–1971), British footballer and technical adviser on shipbuilding
John Langtry (1834–1906), M.A., D.C.L., member of the Anglican Church in Canada
Joe Langtry (1880–1951), Australian politician
Joseph Langtry (1805–1862), Royal Navy captain
Lillie Langtry (1853–1929), born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, renowned British actress
Jeanne Marie Langtry Malcolm (1881–1964), illegitimate daughter of Lillie Langtry
Roberta Langtry (1916–2005), Canadian philanthropist
Arthur Langtry (the Merlin), a fictional character in Jim Butcher's novel series The Dresden Files
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Langtry (disambiguation)
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Aon PLC () is a British-American professional services and management consulting firm that offers a range of risk-mitigation products. The firm also provides data and analytics services, strategy consulting through Aon Inpoint and investment banking advisory through Aon Securities. Aon has approximately 50,000 employees across 120 countries.
Founded in Chicago by Patrick Ryan, Aon was created in 1982 when the Ryan Insurance Group merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America. In 1987, that company was renamed Aon from aon, a Gaelic word meaning "one". The company is globally headquartered in London with its North America operations based in Chicago at the Aon Center. Aon is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under AON with a market cap of $65 billion in April 2023.
History
W. Clement Stone's mother bought a small Detroit insurance agency, and in 1918 brought her son into the business. Mr. Stone sold low-cost, low-benefit accident insurance, underwriting and issuing policies on-site. The next year he founded his own agency, the Combined Registry Co.
As the Great Depression began, Stone reduced his workforce and improved training. Forced by his son's respiratory illness to winter in the South, Stone moved to Arkansas and Texas. In 1939 he bought American Casualty Insurance Co. of Dallas, Texas. It was consolidated with other purchases as the Combined Insurance Co. of America in 1947. The company continued through the 1950s and 1960s, continuing to sell health and accident policies. In the 1970s, Combined expanded overseas despite being hit hard by the recession.
In 1982, after 10 years of stagnation under Clement Stone Jr., the elder Stone, then 79, resumed control until the completion of a merger with Ryan Insurance Co. allowed him to transfer control to Patrick Ryan. Ryan, the son of a Ford dealer in Wisconsin and a graduate of Northwestern University, had started his company as an auto credit insurer in 1964. In 1976, the company bought the insurance brokerage units of the Esmark conglomerate. Ryan focused on insurance brokering and added more upscale insurance products. He also trimmed staff and took other cost-cutting measures, and in 1987 he changed Combined's name to Aon. In 1992, he bought Dutch insurance broker Hudig-Langeveldt. In 1995, the company sold its remaining direct life insurance holdings to General Electric to focus on consulting.
Aon built a global presence through purchases. In 1997, it bought The Minet Group, as well as insurance brokerage Alexander & Alexander Services, Inc. in a deal that made Aon (temporarily) the largest insurance broker worldwide. The firm made no US buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea.
Responding to industry demands, Aon announced its new fee disclosure policy in 1999, and the company reorganised to focus on buying personal line insurance firms and to integrate its acquisitions. That year it bought Nikols Sedgwick Group, an Italian insurance firm, and formed RiskAttack (with Zurich US), a risk analysis and financial management concern aimed at technology companies. The cost of integrating its numerous purchases, however, hammered profits in 1999.
Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company. Later in that year, however, the company decided to cut 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort. In 2003, the company saw revenues increase primarily because of rate hikes in the insurance industry. Also that year, Endurance Specialty, a Bermuda-based underwriting operation that Aon helped to establish in November 2001 along with other investors, went public. The next year Aon sold most of its holdings in Endurance.
In the late 2007, Aon announced the divestiture of its underwriting business. With this move, the firm sold off its two major underwriting subsidiaries: Combined Insurance Company of America (acquired by ACE Limited for $2.4 billion) and Sterling Life Insurance Company (purchased by Munich Re Group for $352 million). The low margin and capital-intensive nature of the underwriting industry was the primary reason for the firm's decision to divest.
This growth strategy manifested in November 2008 when Aon announced it had acquired reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Benfield Group Limited for $1.75 billion. The acquisition amplified the firm's broking capabilities, positioning Aon one of the largest players in the reinsurance brokerage industry.
In 2010, Aon made its most significant acquisition to date with the purchase of Hewitt Associates for $4.9 billion. Aside from drastically boosting Aon's human resources consulting capacity and entering the firm into the business process outsourcing industry, the move added 23,000 colleagues and more than $3 billion in revenue.
In January 2012, Aon announced that its headquarters would be moved to London, although North American operations and jobs remained in Chicago.
On 10 February 2017, Aon announced that it was selling its employee benefits outsourcing business to private equity firm The Blackstone Group for US$4.8 billion (£3.8 billion).
In February 2020, Aon named Eric Andersen as president of Aon after co-president Michael O'Connor departed the company to pursue new opportunities. He will be reporting to Greg Case, the firm's CEO.
In June 2020, Aon announced it was planning to repay the temporary 20% pay cut from 70% of employees that was published in a statement in April 2020 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. On 30 June 2020, Aon announced it would repay staff in full, plus 5% of the withheld amount.
In June 2020, Willis Towers Watson called its shareholders to two meetings to discuss its acquisition with Aon for August 26, 2020. It was revealed that the US Department of Justice has requested more information on the deal under antitrust rules.
September 11 attacks
Aon's New York offices were on the 92nd and 98th–105th floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11 attacks. When the North Tower was struck by American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m., an evacuation of Aon's offices was quickly initiated by executive Eric Eisenberg, and 924 of the estimated 1,100 Aon employees present at the time managed to get below the 77th floor before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed between Floors 77 and 85 at 9:03 a.m.
Many, however, did not manage to get beneath in the 17 minutes they had between the two impacts. As a result, 176 employees of Aon were killed in the crash or died in the eventual collapse of the tower or from smoke inhalation. At 9:59 a.m., the tower finally collapsed, killing any survivors still within, including Eisenberg and Kevin Cosgrove.
Spitzer investigation
In 2004–2005, Aon, along with other brokers including Marsh & McLennan and Willis, fell under regulatory investigation under New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other state attorneys general. At issue was the practice of insurance companies' payments to brokers (known as contingent commissions). The payments were thought to bring a conflict of interest, swaying broker decisions on behalf of carriers, rather than customers. In the spring of 2005, without acknowledging any wrongdoing, Aon agreed to a $190 million settlement, payable over 30 months.
UK regulatory breach
In January 2009, Aon was fined £5.69 million in the UK by the Financial Services Authority, who stated that the fine related to the company's inadequate bribery and corruption controls, claiming that between 14 January 2005 and 30 September 2007 Aon had failed to properly assess the risks involved in its dealings with overseas firms and individuals. The Authority did not find that any money had actually made its way to illegal organisations. Aon qualified for a 30% discount on the fine as a result of its cooperation with the investigation. Aon said its conduct was not deliberate, adding it had since "significantly strengthened and enhanced its controls around the usage of third parties".
US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations
In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $16.26 million penalty to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Aon's subsidiaries made improper payments of over $3.6 million to government officials and third-party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, to obtain and retain insurance contracts.
Major acquisitions
On 5 January 2007, Aon announced that its Aon Affinity group had acquired the WedSafe Wedding Insurance program.
On 22 August 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group. The acquiring price was US$1.75 billion or £935 million, with US$170 million of debt.
On 5 March 2010, Hewitt Associates announced that it acquired Senior Educators Ltd. The acquisition offers companies a new way to address retiree medical insurance commitments.
On 12 July 2010, Aon announced that it had agreed to buy Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Hewitt Associates for $4.9 billion in cash and stock.
On 7 April 2011, Aon announced that it had acquired Johannesburg, South Africa-based Glenrand MIB. Financial terms were not disclosed.
On 19 July 2011, Aon announced that it bought Westfield Financial Corp., the owner of insurance-industry consulting firm Ward Financial Group, from Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. Financial terms were not disclosed.
On 22 October 2012, Aon announced that it agreed to buy OmniPoint, Inc, a Workday consulting firm. Financial terms were not disclosed.
On 16 June 2014, Aon announced that it agreed to buy National Flood Services, Inc., a large processor of flood insurance, from Stoneriver Group, L.P.
On 31 October 2016, Aon's Aon Risk Solutions completed acquisition of Stroz Friedberg LLC, a specialised risk management firm focusing on cybersecurity.
On 14 November 2016, Aon acquired CoCubes an online Indian Assessment firm, facilitating hiring of entry-level engineering graduates.
On 10 February 2017, Aon plc agreed to sell its human resources outsourcing platform for US$4.8 billion (£3.8 billion) to Blackstone Group L.P. (BX.N), creating a new company called Alight Solutions.
In September 2017, Aon announced its intent to purchase real estate investment management firm The Townsend Group from Colony NorthStar for $475 million, expanding Aon's property investment management portfolio.
On 9 March 2020, Aon announced its merger with Willis Towers Watson for nearly $30 billion in an all-stock deal that creates the world's largest insurance broker. As of 21 May 2020, Willis board was under probe over merger agreement with Aon. The deal was called off in July 2021.
Operations
Manchester United
On 3 June 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four-year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United. On 1 June 2010, Aon replaced American insurance company AIG as the principal sponsor of the club. The Aon logo was prominently displayed on the front of the club's shirts until the 2014/2015 season when Chevrolet replaced them. The deal was said to be worth £80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time.
In April 2013, Aon signed a new eight-year deal with Manchester United to rename their training ground as the Aon Training Complex and sponsor the club's training kits, reportedly worth £180 million to the club.
Awards
Aon was awarded Investment Consultancy of the Year and Fiduciary Manager of the Year at the FT's 2014 Pension and Investment Provider Awards
Aon received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's 2013 Corporate Equality Index
Aon was named to Working Mother's list of the 100 Best Companies for 2012
Aon Risk Solutions was the most recommended broker in 2012 for service and expertise by middle market buyers in Business Insurance's Buyers Choice Awards
Aon Risk Solutions was named Broker of the Year and Training Programme of the Year in 2012 by Insurance Times
Aon Benfield was named 2012 European Reinsurance Broker of the Year, Best European Property Reinsurance Broker and Best European Casualty Reinsurance Broker at the European Intelligent Insurer Awards
Aon Benfield was named Best Global Reinsurance Broking Company for Analytics at Reactions Global Awards 2012
Aon Hewitt was named Top Retirement Consultant of 2012 by PLANSPONSOR Magazine2
Aon Hewitt was named Actuarial and Investment Consultant of the Year for 2012 at the Professional Pensions Awards
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Stanley and His Monster is an American comic-book humor feature and later series from DC Comics, about a boy who has a monster as his companion instead of a dog. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Winslow Mortimer as a backup feature in the talking animal comic The Fox and the Crow #95 (January 1966), it went to its own 1960s title and a 1990s revival limited series.
Publication history
The backup feature "Stanley and His Monster" appeared in DC Comics' comic The Fox and the Crow #95–108, upon which the series became Stanley and His Monster from #109–112 (May–Nov. 1968), the final issue.
The characters' next major appearance was in a 1993 four-issue mini-series, Stanley and His Monster vol. 2, by writer-artist Phil Foglio, who had previously done their origin in Secret Origins #48 (April 1990). This humorous adventure series, revealing the monster as a demon from Hell who had turned good and was cast out by Lucifer, incorporated and parodied elements of DC Comics' mature-reader Vertigo imprint in a lighthearted, general-audience fashion. Among the characters who appeared are Remiel, Duma, the Phantom Stranger, and the John Constantine-like Ambrose Bierce.
The characters appeared in 1999's Conjurers, a limited, three-issue, Elseworlds series. The run was written by Chuck Dixon, et al., and drawn by Eduardo Barreto, et al.. The series was later collected in the compendium, Elseworlds: Justice League, Vol. 3. Wise-cracking, self-possessed Stanley appears to be in his mid-teens. His monster is said to have arrived on earth having been sent to retrieve a device stolen from the monster's people ("the Elders") a million years prior, and with which the "Father of Magic" (i.e., the thief) created the first generation of humans possessed of magical abilities. At the same time, he removed all evil from the monster. In the present, their magical descendants now comprise ten percent of the world's population. The crisis to be overcome is that the Elders still want their device back and want the Father of Magic brought to them so that they may consume his soul.
The title characters returned in 2001 as supporting players in the Green Arrow series, written by filmmaker Kevin Smith, but in a much darker tone than any previous appearance, and with Stanley by now a young teenager. They next appeared in the 2005–06 miniseries Infinite Crisis, where, in issue #6, they are part of a gathering of supernatural characters attempting to summon the mystical spirit of vengeance, the Spectre, for aid.
The characters next appeared from April to July 2011 in Batman/Superman: Sorcerer Kings as members of a mostly magical Justice League in a dystopian future. Stanley appeared as a young adult.
Fictional character biographies
Stanley Dover is a six-year-old boy who finds his monster companion in a sewer. In a twist on monster lore, the creature – a tall, bulky, pink-furred behemoth with small tusks – proves as scared of the world as the world is of it. The monster, whom Stanley names Spot, comes home to live with the boy, with many hijinks ensuing. These occasionally include the bickering leprechaun Shaugnessy Poltroon, a gremlin named Schnitzel (sold to the Dovers as toys in issue #99), the ghost of French emperor Napoleon (introduced in issue #97) and teenaged babysitter Marcia. Comedian Jerry Lewis once visited them as well (issue #110).
The monster, unbeknownst to Stanley, is in fact a demon known as "The Beast With No Name", banished from Hell by Lucifer for being "too nice" for Hell. Lucifer had hoped that frightened and bigoted humans would embitter the Beast and make him accept his destiny as a being of evil, a plan that almost succeeded. However, when Stanley meets the monster and takes him in as his friend, the monster chooses the path of good and continues living on Earth. The first name the Beast took was "Massachusetts", because the Massachusett were the first people who were kind to him, but since the closest Stanley could struggle out was "Mathatoothis", readers were encouraged to send in a new name that Stanley could say.
Stanley's middle-class parents, Mitch and Sheila, firmly believe their child's companion to be imaginary until eventually learning otherwise. They initially want the monster gone, but after becoming aware of the creature's good nature decide that in a world of superheroes, magic, and alien invasions, they decide that having a benign demon companion for their son seems rather normal and allow him to stay.
Years later, it is revealed that other arcane forces have played into the monster's arrival on Earth (events of this telling of the story fundamentally invalidate any earlier versions, to the extent that tying them together becomes impossible). The monster had accidentally been bonded to Stanley by Stanley's demon-worshiping grandfather, also named Stanley Dover.
Some time later, Stanley and his monster appear with the several other of the world's magic users to help summon the Spectre during the Infinite Crisis.
Stanley and his monster also appeared in a possible future/alternate timeline as members of the Justice League. With Aquaman, Scream Queen, Klarion the Witch Boy, Traci Thirteen, Batman, and Superman, they fight to prevent an Armageddon of magical proportions.
A version of Stanley and his Monster appears on Earth-13 in the Tavern of Mystery.
In other media
Stanley Dover and Spot appear as character summons in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
Further reading
"Stanley and His Monster" in Rue Morgue Magazine's Blood in Four Colours: A Graphic History of Horror Comics by Pedro Cabzuelo, Marrs Media Inc (2016), page 39
The Encyclopedia of Monsters by Jeff Rovin, Facts on File (1989), pg 290
Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideals by M. Keith Booker, ABC-CLIO (2014), pg 521
"Man Behind the Bat (Lash)" by Jon B. Cooke, in Comic Book Artist Collection: Volume 2, TwoMorrows Publishing (2002), pg 96-101
References
External links
Stanley and His Monster series at the Grand Comics Database
Stanley & His Monster at Don Markstein's Toonopedia verified March 9, 2006
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Bartholomew Thomas Duhigg (1750?–1813) was an Irish legal antiquary.
Duhigg was called to the Irish bar in 1775. He was for a long period librarian to King's Inns, Dublin, and also held the post of assistant barrister for the county of Wexford. He also wrote, but never published, A Completion of King's Inns Remembrancer, giving an Account of the most Eminent Irish Lawyers, and a History of the Union with Ireland (History of the King's Inns, page 614). In a letter from Dr. Anderson to Bishop Percy, dated 3 September 1805, Duhigg is noted as "a writer of curious research and information", but as writing "a bad English style".
In addition to his legal investigations, Duhigg appears to have studied with much care the old Irish language. He was married, and had one son, an officer in the army.
Publications
Duhigg wrote:
Observations on the Operation of Insolvent Laws and Imprisonment for Debt, republished Dublin, 1797.
Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Abbot on the Arrangement of Irish Records, &c., Dublin, 1801.
King's Inns Remembrancer, an Account of Irish Judges on the Revival of the King's Inns Society in 1607, Dublin, 1805.
History of the King's Inns, or an Account of the Legal Body in Ireland from its connection with England, Dublin, 1806.
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Attribution
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Dedication to History of King's Inns
Notes and Queries, 2 July 1859, page 9, 10 November 1860, page 419
British Museum Catalogue
1813 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Irish antiquarians |
Jane Evelyn Watson Mitchell (1921 - November 13, 2004) was an American nurse. Mitchell was the first African-American to work as a nurse in Delaware. Mitchell went on to work as the director of nursing at the Delaware State Psychiatric Hospital. Mitchell was also a civil rights activist and volunteer.
Biography
Mitchell was born in 1921 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. Mitchell graduated from the all-black Howard High School school of nursing training at Provident Hospital in 1944. Mitchell wanted to come back to Delaware to work, but couldn't find employment. She was told by hospitals in the state that they did not hire African-American nurses. Instead, she worked at a Jewish hospital in Philadelphia.
In 1949, Dr. Mesrop A. Tarumianz who was looking for nurses with a background in psychology, hired Mitchell to come work for him at the Governor Bacon Health Center. Mitchell was the first African-American nurse to work in a Delaware hospital. She was also the first black nurse to work with patients of all races in a state hospital. After working at Bacon Health Center, she was transferred to the Delaware State Psychiatric Hospital in 1963. Mitchell earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware in 1963 and eventually received a master's degree from Washington College. In 1969, she was appointed as director of nursing for the hospital. Mitchell retired from the Psychiatric Hospital in 1979. She continued to work as a volunteer for the Delaware State Board of Nursing after her retirement.
A new addition to the Psychiatric Hospital was added in 1998 and named "the Jane Mitchell building." In March 2000, Mitchell was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women. During her life, Mitchell also worked with her husband, Littleton P. Mitchell, as a civil rights activist. She was involved with sit-ins and protests. Littleton was a long-time leader of the NAACP in Delaware. The couple were married in 1943 and had one child Philip, together. Mitchell died in her home in Delaware City on November 13, 2004. Senator Joe Biden gave her eulogy at the funeral. The Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage in Delaware is named for both Mitchell and her husband.
References
External links
Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage - Big Picture (2016 video)
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Cydnus aterrimus is a species of burrowing bug in the family Cydnidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and Southern Asia.
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José Ayerve (born April 28, 1974) is a recording artist/singer and songwriter and the front man for northeast-based indie rock groups Spouse and Nuclear Waste Management Club. He has released a number of singles and albums on vinyl and CD and is a frequent collaborator with a number of musicians and bands (see Discography).
In addition, Ayerve is a recording engineer and producer for not only his own projects, but also for artists that include Winterpills, Lo Fine, Sometymes Why, Pernice Brothers, Katie Sawicki Dennis Crommett, New Radiant Storm King, Michael Merenda, and Kristen Gass.
He has also helped co-write the single "Pega Luna Manny" along with Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers, a song about former Boston Red Sox player Manny Ramírez. which enjoyed moderate success when the Boston Red Sox won the world series that year, for the first time in 86 years. It was included in the credit roll at the end of the 2005 film, Fever Pitch.
Biography
José Ayerve was born in Bogotá, Colombia on April 28, 1974, though his family soon relocated first to Springfield, Massachusetts, then Quito, Ecuador before again returning to Springfield.
Ayerve began studying music at the age of nine. He transitioned from piano to guitar at 13, and became a multi-instrumentalist by the time he reached college in 1992. After 1992 he relocated to Portland, Maine and would eventually join the Portland-based group Bullyclub in 1999. Though Ayerve has performed with innumerable bands throughout his career, his main pursuit since 1995 has been the schizophrenic, indie-pop group, Spouse. He currently resides in Western Massachusetts, but spends much of his time touring and/or collaborating on various projects.
Discography
Albums
Cinco Pesos (as José Ignacio Ayerve, released: 01/02, Pigeon Records)
Nozomi (with Spouse) released: 09/00, Pigeon Records)
Love Can't Save This Love (with Spouse released: 02/02, Pigeon Records)
Catch 22 (with Spouse released: 01/04, Pigeon Records)
Are You Gonna Kiss or Wave Goodbye? (with Spouse, released: 09/2004, Pigeon Records)
Relocation Tactics (with Spouse, released 3/07, Pigeon Records)
The Nuclear Waste Management Club (as José Ayerve, released: 11/08, Pigeon Records)
Singles
Marvel to DC (7" vinyl single, released: 04/99, Pigeon Records)
Wonder Woman
X-Man (I Want To Be an...)
Superman)
Focus 7" vinyl single, released: 04/99, Pigeon Records)
Focus
Harry Crooker, FLA
Marbles
With other artists
Sometymes Why
Your Heart is a Glorious Machine (released: 03/10/2009, Signature Sounds)
produced by José Ayerve, engineered by Max Feldman
Haunt
The Deep North (10/2008, Nine Mile Records)
J.Ayerve: producer, bass, electric guitars, sk-5, backing vocals
Katie Sawicki
Time Spent Lost (05/2008, self-release)
J.Ayerve: producer, bass, backing vocals, sk-5
Bullyclub
Like Songs (released: 06/2001, Pigeon Records)
Tender Hooks (released: 02/2003, Pigeon Records)
Chappaquiddick Skyline
Chappaquiddick Skyline, released: 2000
J.Ayerve: b.vocals on "Knights of the Night, Vol III"
Lo Fine
Slow To a Crawl (released: 11/2002, Pigeon Records)
recorded & produced by José Ayerve, Kevin O'Rourke, & Bruce Tull
J. Ayerve: bass, sk-5, charango
Not For Us Two (released 4/2008, Pigeon Records)
recorded & produced by Kevin O'Rourke and Mark Alan Miller.
J. Ayerve: b.vocals on "Damage Twins", "Over My Shoulder", "My Favorite Illusion (Not For Us Two)".
New Radiant Storm King
Winters Kill (released: 04/2002, Rainbow Quartz)
recorded by Thom Monahan, Mark Alan Miller, and José Ayerve
J. Ayerve: b.vocals on "Golden Parachute", tape manipulations on "Constellation Prize"
Winterpills
Winterpills (released: 11/08/2005, Signature Sounds/Soft Alarm)
recorded, produced, and mixed by José Ayerve, additional mixing by Dave Chalfant
The Light Divides (released: 02/27/2007, Signature Sounds/Soft Alarm)
J.Ayerve: co-production, bass, backing vocals
External links
Jose Ayerve's official site
Spouse official site
Pigeon Records official site
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Living people
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The 1986 Paris–Nice was the 44th edition of the Paris–Nice road cycling stage race and was held from 2 March to 9 March 1986. The race started in Paris and finished at the Col d'Èze. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the Kas team.
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Satuiatua is a village on the island of Savai'i in Samoa. It is situated on the south coast of the island in the district of Palauli and the electoral district of Palauli 1. The population is 291.
The Satuiatua Beach Fales was one of the first locally owned tourism ventures on the island and attracted all types of visitors, especially surfers, for the reef break off the coast.
References
Populated places in Palauli |
Amelio Robles Ávila (3 November 1889 – 9 December 1984) was a colonel during the Mexican Revolution. Assigned female at birth with the name Amelia Robles Ávila, Robles fought in the Mexican Revolution, rose to the rank of colonel, and lived openly as a man from age 24 until his death at age 95.
Early life
Robles was born on 3 November 1889 in Xochipala, Guerrero to Casimiro Robles and Josefa Ávila. Casimiro Robles was a wealthy farmer who owned 42 hectares of land and a small mezcal factory. Robles had two older siblings Teódulo and Prisca. Robles was three years old when Casimiro died and a few years later Josefa married Jesús Martinez, one of the ranch workers who took care of the livestock. Josefa and Jesús had three more children, Luis, Concepción and Jesús Martínez Avila. They raised the children in the Catholic religion. Robles studied until the fourth grade at the school for young ladies in Chilpancingo.
From a young age, Robles showed an interest in activities that were considered masculine, learning to tame horses and handling weapons, and becoming an excellent marksman and rider. Before joining the army, he was treasurer in a Maderistas club in Xochipala.
Army life
Robles joined the army in 1911 or 1912, perhaps when General Juan Andreu Almazán passed through Xochipala in 1911 as pressure mounted against Porfirio Díaz to resign as president.
Between August and November 1911, Robles was sent to the Gulf of Mexico on a commission in order to obtain money from oil companies for the revolutionary cause. Two years later, Robles began to dress as a man and demanded to be treated as such. (Robles was not alone as a person assigned female presenting as male in the Mexican army at the time. Maria de la Luz Barrera and Ángel(a) Jiménez also adopted male identities during the war.) From 1913 to 1918, Robles fought as "el coronel Robles" with the Zapatistas under the command of Jesús H. Salgado, Heliodoro Castillo, and Encarnación Díaz. Robles gained the respect of peers and superiors as a capable military leader, and was eventually given his own command.
In 1919, some time after Emiliano Zapata was killed, Robles and 315 men under his command joined the forces of Alvaro Obregón, and in 1920 fought with them in the Agua Prieta Revolt which brought an end to the government of Venustiano Carranza. In 1924, Robles supported General Alvaro Obregón against the Delahuertist rebellion under the command of General Adrian Castrejón, where the Delahuertista general Marcial Cavazos died and Robles was hurt.
Following the military phase of the Revolution, Robles supported revolutionary general Álvaro Obregón when the latter was president of Mexico in 1920–1924; Robles fought with Obregón's forces to put down the 1923 rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta. When Robles settled in Iguala for a time after the revolution, a group of men are said to have attacked him wanting to reveal his anatomy; he killed two in self-defense. In 1939 he supported Almazán in the presidential election.
In 1948, Robles received the medical certificate required to officially enter the Confederation of Veterans of the Revolution. The medical revision confirmed that Robles had received six bullet wounds.
Awards
In 1970, the Mexican Secretary of National Defense recognized Robles as a veteran (veterano) of the Revolution. Toward the end of his life, Robles received various decorations acknowledging distinguished military service: a decoration as a veteran of the Mexican Revolution, and the Mexican Legion of Honor; in 1973 or 1974, Robles was also decorated with the Revolutionary Merit award (Medalla al mérito revolucionario).
Personal life and death
Robles met Ángela Torres in Apipilulco in the 1930s, and they later married. They adopted a daughter together, Regula Robles Torres. Horacio Legrás says that both later became estranged from Robles.
On his deathbed Robles supposedly made two requests, to receive honors for his military service and to be dressed as a woman in order to commend his soul to God. Neither request was ever confirmed to be true, and Robles had already received several military honors. Furthermore, Robles' death certificate notes that he lost the ability to speak more than a year before dying.
Robles died 9 December 1984, aged 95.
Gender identity and legacy
According to historian Gabriela Cano Ortega, Robles adopted a male identity not as a survival strategy but because of a strong desire to be a man. Robles' male identity was accepted by family, society, and the Mexican government, and Robles lived as a man from the age of 24 until his death. According to a former neighbor, if anyone called Robles a woman or (an honorific for women, similar to English Mrs.), he would threaten them with a pistol. Robles has therefore been described by historians as transgender.
Robles is documented using both the masculine and feminine versions of his name and pronouns. Robles is both commemorated as a male hero of the Mexican revolution and iconized as a female warrior.
A public school was named after him using the masculine version of his name, confirming the official recognition of his identity by the local government. His tombstone bears the feminine version of his name and there is a museum in Xochipala celebrating "Coronela Amelia Robles," recognizing him as a "woman fighter."
A 1951 children's book entitled El Coyote: Corrido de la Revolución creates an image of "La Coronela Amelia Robles" through both visual and written elements.
The image of Robles in his uniform was drawn on as inspiration for a section of a drag performance depicting soldaderas.
See also
Albert Cashier, civil war soldier
James Barry (surgeon)
Mexican Armed Forces
References
Further reading
1889 births
1984 deaths
Mexican transgender people
Mexican military personnel
People from Guerrero
Transgender men
Transgender military personnel
Mexican revolutionaries
20th-century Mexican LGBT people |
Ryan Harding (born 27 April 1984 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish semi-professional footballer who plays for Civil Service Strollers as a defender.
Over the course of his career he played for Livingston, Greenock Morton and East Stirlingshire before leaving for Malta. On his return he played for Alloa and Peterhead, before joining Civil Service Strollers in 2013.
Playing career
Harding began his senior career with Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. From there he moved into another SPL side, Livingston. Ryan made just three league appearances and one other appearance in the C.I.S. Insurance Cup for Livingston. This appearance was against his future club Greenock Morton. During a match played in terrible weather conditions at Almondvale Stadium, he scored a diving header in to his own net that was strangely ruled out for offside.
Ryan signed on at Cappielow towards the end of the 2004–05 season on a short-term deal. He signed a longer deal at the start of the next season and continued to play for the club. He plays in the centre back position and formed partnership with fellow centre back Stewart Greacen, although was sidelined by the arrival of Dominic Shimmin for season 2007–08. Harding suffered a serious injury in October 2008, and missed the rest of the season due to it. He was released in November 2009.
Harding signed for East Stirlingshire on amateur forms on 3 December 2009 but was released at the end of the season.
Harding left Scotland to sign for Maltese side Birkirkara on 31 August 2010, making his début against Sliema Wanderers on 13 September 2010, but retired through injury early in 2011.
Despite this, he returned to Scotland to sign for Alloa Athletic in June 2011. In September 2012, Harding went on loan to Peterhead to cover their defensive injury crisis. It was the third time he had played under Jim McIntyre.
He left Alloa in 2013 and signed with Civil Service Strollers.
Honours
Greenock Morton
Scottish Football League Second Division: 1
2006–07
Alloa Athletic
Scottish Football League Third Division: 1
2011–12
References
External links
1984 births
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
Footballers from Edinburgh
Living people
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Livingston F.C. players
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Football League players
Men's association football defenders
East Stirlingshire F.C. players
Birkirkara F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
Alloa Athletic F.C. players
Peterhead F.C. players
Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale F.C. players
People educated at Forrester High School
Civil Service Strollers F.C. players |
Madurai Tamil Nāganār (Tamil: மதுரைத் தமிழ்நாகனார்) was a poet of the Sangam period to whom verse 29 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.
Biography
Madurai Tamil Nāganār was a poet belonging to the late Sangam period that corresponds between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE. He hailed from Madurai.
View on Valluvar and the Kural
Madurai Tamil Nāganār has authored verse 29 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. He opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus:
See also
Sangam literature
List of Sangam poets
Tiruvalluva Maalai
Citations
References
Tamil philosophy
Tamil poets
Sangam poets
Tiruvalluva Maalai contributors |
Rob Schiller is an American television director and producer.
Since 1984, Schiller has amassed a number of directorial credits namely A Different World, Ned and Stacey, Living Single, Ellen, Malcolm & Eddie, The King of Queens, Two and a Half Men, 'Til Death, Anger Management, $#*! My Dad Says and other television series.
In 1990 and 1991, Schiller won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for directing soap opera Santa Barbara.
In 2010, Schiller directed the stage play Greater Tuna at Boulder's Dinner Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.
In 2011, Schiller's first feature film, And They're Off was released.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Director Rob Schiller- And They're Off Review via LA Times
Rob Schiller Increases Commitment to Philanthropic Activities via Business Wire
Rob Schiller, President of R&B Jaamz, Inc. Supports Homeless Woman And Their Infants In Los Angeles
R&B Jaamz, Inc. Rob Schiller Serves As Mentor And Educator For Young Filmmakers
Rob Schiller Increases Commitment to Philanthropic Activities
Director Rob Schiller Supports Children at Brad Garrett's Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament
Director Rob Schiller Takes Part in Santa Monica Charity Poker Tournament
Hollywood Director Rob Schiller Continues Supporting Children's Rights
'Wendell&Vinnie' Director Rob Schiller Supports the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica
Director Rob Schiller Teams Up With Warner Theater
'Happily Divorced'Director Rob Schiller Gives Back to LA's Less Fortunate
'Wendell & Vinnie' Director Rob Schiller Joins Jason Alexander For Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament Benefiting weSPARK
American television directors
American television producers
American theatre directors
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Robert Graham Dunlop (October 1, 1790 – February 28, 1841) was a British naval officer and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Keppoch, Scotland in 1790 and joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13. He became a lieutenant while serving during the Napoleonic Wars; he later reached the rank of captain. He retired from the Navy in 1823 and came to Upper Canada in 1833 with his brother William "Tiger" Dunlop who was a general superintendent for the Canada Company. He was appointed a justice of the peace in the London District in the same year. In 1835, he was elected to the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada for the new riding of Huron. He tended to support the province's administration, including Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis Bond Head and was reelected in 1836. In 1837, he joined the Orange Lodge and became a member of its provincial executive in 1838. He was named a colonel in the Huron militia during the Upper Canada Rebellion, but his unit was not called to serve. He supported the redistribution of the clergy reserves among the Protestant churches and promoting immigration to Upper Canada. He also supported the campaign against slavery in the province.
He died on the family estate near Goderich in 1841.
Royal Navy Career
Robert Graham Dunlop joined the Royal Navy in 1803. In 1810 he took the exam for the rank of Lieutenant. he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1812 and later to Commander in 1822.
Napoleonic Wars
In 1813, Lieutenant Dunlop, in command of HMS Porcupine, captured or destroyed a number of French craft which had run ashore near Talmont-sur-Gironde. With orders from Captain Trevenen Penrose Coode, Lieutenant Dunlop commanded the boats of HMS Porcupine (1807) in pursuit of a French flotilla. After the French flotilla ran ashore, Dunlop landed with a party of seamen and marines and captured significant French naval assets.
Political Career in Canada
In 1833 Robert Dunlop emigrated to Upper Canada with his brother William "Tiger" Dunlop. The two brothers settled in Goderich, Ontario and shortly after Robert Dunlop was appointed to two offices:
Justice of the Peace, London District (later the Huron Tract)
As a justice of the peace in Upper Canada, one could be expected to issue warrants, conduct preliminary inquiries, investigate misdemeanours, try a variety of summary offences, and commit the convicted to jail.
Commissioner of the Court of Requests, London District (later the Huron Tract)
A Court consisting of two or more Justices of the Peace authorized to try any claim not exceeding 40 shillings, Quebec currency. The system of Court of Requests was repealed in 1841, by 4 & 5 Vict., ch. 3, which
provided for Division Courts. Regardless of the changes, many of the same people continued in the similar capacities in these positions; Robert Dunlop being of them.
Parliamentary Voting Record
Robert Dunlop's political career in the assembly was predominantly supportive of the Family Compact, although some of his views and votes were supportive of the Colborne Clique.
supported the Huron Fishing company,
supported improvements to Goderich Harbour.
supported increased immigration.
supported an extended franchise in Canada Company land grants for War of 1812 veterans and to extend the definition of a United Empire Loyalist.
supported improved jails .
supported improved treatment of the insane.
supported the establishment of a Mechanics' Institute.
supported a geological survey.
belonged to the anti-slavery campaign.
Tombstone
Robert Dunlop and his brother "Tiger" Dunlop have a joint tombstone, in Goderich, Ontario.
See also
List of cities and towns of Upper Canada
The Canadas
Former colonies and territories in Canada
Timeline of Ontario history
References
1790 births
1841 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Sea captains
Canadian justices of the peace |
Toni Wieser (23 January 1921 – 30 January 1993) was an Austrian ski jumper. He competed in the individual event at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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1921 births
1993 deaths
Austrian male ski jumpers
Olympic ski jumpers for Austria
Ski jumpers at the 1948 Winter Olympics
People from Bischofshofen
Skiers from Salzburg (state)
20th-century Austrian people |
This article is a list of banks in San Marino. Banks are to be listed alphabetically in order of name, its official website, if a bank has one, and its 8-letter SWIFT code. The list is based on information from the Central Bank of San Marino, which is responsible for financial supervision in San Marino.
Notes
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San Marino
San Marino |
Madrid (/ˈmædrɪd/, Spanish: [maˈðɾið]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 149 at the 2000 census and 204 in 2010. Today, Madrid has become an artists' community with galleries lining New Mexico State Road 14 (the Turquoise Trail). It retains remnants of its history with the Mineshaft Tavern and the Coal Mine Museum.
History
Beginnings
Lead mines in the area around Madrid captured the interest of Roque Madrid in the 17th century. It is unclear whether the current name of the community comes from that of earlier residents or the capital of Spain. The dominant English pronunciation of the name differs from that of the Spanish capital, with emphasis on the first syllable: MAD-rid. Coal mining began in the area around 1835.
The coal deposits were called the Cerrillos Coal Bank following the arrival in early 1880 of the New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad (as the AT&SF in New Mexico was organized), named after the nearby mining and railroad town of Cerrillos Station. After a dozen years at the Coal Bank of wildcat, unpermitted, and unorganized mining the AT&SF acquired the property on December 10, 1891, and through purposefully-created subsidiaries solidified its control. The Cerrillos Coal & Iron Co. developed the layout for the town, mines, and facilities, and the Cerrillos Coal Railroad Co. built the standard gauge spur from the AT&SF main line at Waldo Junction.
In late August 1892, the spur finally terminated at the relatively new mining camp of Keeseeville (an illegal trespass settlement, however one whose 20-acre plat had been approved by Santa Fe County). At the site of Keeseeville, which the Cerrillos Coal Railroad co-opted, the town of Madrid was built. More accurately the Cerrillos Coal Railroad transported-in, section by section, prefabricated wooden miner's cabins from as far away as Topeka, Kansas; there were insufficient carpenters and suppliers in the region to provide the instant infrastructure that was needed for the town.
Madrid celebrated its "founding" in 1895. Since the town was for the next 80 years wholly owned by a series of corporations, the town itself was never incorporated. In the late 1940s, the demand for coal withered: Natural gas gradually replaced coal as the preferred home-heating fuel, and the AT&SF was replacing its coal-fired steam locomotives with diesel-electrics. By 1954 the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company ceased to operate and most of the residents moved away. The railroad spur was removed shortly thereafter.
Madrid Miners semi-pro baseball team
The Miners were started by the Madrid Employees Club and won many pennants. The Oscar Huber Ballpark was the first lighted ballpark west of the Mississippi in the 1920s.
Geography
Madrid is located at (35.405833, -106.154498).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land.
Environmental issues
Black "gob piles" of accumulated spoil, the waste rock removed during coal mining, cover the hillsides and stain the red earth in the arroyo that runs between rows of Madrid's historic miners’ cabins. These visible traces of the past bring money from tourists and filmmakers to the town, but they also create difficulty for many of the residents as rains cause abandoned mine drainage to flow down the hills in rivulets, covering roads and driveways, and flooding backyards, crawlspaces, and basements. The Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Program has worked with residents to create some barricades to redirect the water flowing down the hills without removing or covering the coal piles that are an historic resource to the town. Residents disagree on what else should be done.
Demographics
As of the 2010 census, there were 204 people, 134 households, and 33 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 167 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.1% White, 0% African American, 0% Native American, 0.5% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.4% of the population.
There were 134 households, out of which 9.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 13.4% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a male householder with no wife present, 5.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 75.4% were non-families. 64.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.52 and the average family size was 2.33.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 7.4% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 45.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 102 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.7 males.
According to the 2016 American Community Survey, the median income for a household in the CDP was $32,813. The per capita income for the CDP was $28,675. 20.5% of the population was living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 37.1% of those over 65.
Education
It is within Santa Fe Public Schools.
It is zoned to Amy Biehl Elementary School, Milagro Middle School, and Santa Fe High School.
Previously it was zoned to Capital High School. In 2017 the district recommended changing the boundary of the area to Santa Fe High.
In popular culture
Film
The ending of the film Wild Hogs (2007) was set and filmed in the town.
In the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth, starring David Bowie, the miners' houses on New Mexico Highway 14 can be seen.
Literature
Belinda Vasquez Garcia's novel, The Witch Narratives: Reincarnation (2012), is set in Madrid during the 1920s and 1930s when Madrid was a company-owned coal-mining town.
Madrid and details about the town's attractions are mentioned in chapter 15 of A.J. DeWall's novel, Forever Man (2014).
Television
In the opening scene of Breaking Bad ("Ozymandias"), Walter White takes a break after his first methamphetamine cook to call his wife, Skyler, to suggest the family do something the show's creator (Vince Gilligan) says he and his girlfriend did, "head up to Turquoise Trail and stop at Tinkertown, maybe grab some lunch in Madrid".
In the A&E series Longmire, the interior scenes at the Red Pony Bar were filmed at The Mine Shaft Tavern in Madrid.
Notable people
Mae Marsh, actress
Daniel Quinn, author
References
External links
History of Madrid New Mexico
Census-designated places in Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Census-designated places in New Mexico
Populated places established in the 1850s
1850s establishments in New Mexico Territory
Company towns in New Mexico
Coal mining in the United States |
Charles Drew (24 April 1888 – 19 February 1960) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for South Australia in 1925/26.
See also
List of South Australian representative cricketers
References
External links
1888 births
1960 deaths
Australian cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Adelaide |
Vanadium(III) sulfate is the inorganic compound with the formula V2(SO4)3. It is a pale yellow solid that is stable to air, in contrast to most vanadium(III) compounds. It slowly dissolves in water to give the green aquo complex [V(H2O)6]3+.
The compound is prepared by treating V2O5 in sulfuric acid with elemental sulfur:
V2O5 + S + 3 H2SO4 → V2(SO4)3 + SO2 + 3 H2O
This transformation is a rare example of a reduction by elemental sulfur.
When heated in vacuum at or slightly below 410 °C, it decomposes into vanadyl sulfate (VOSO4) and SO2. Vanadium(III) sulfate is stable in dry air but upon exposure to moist air for several weeks forms a green hydrate form.
Vanadium(III) sulfate is a reducing agent.
References
Vanadium(III) compounds
Sulfates |
Gert "Charly" Dörfel (born 18 September 1939) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker or winger.
Playing career
Dörfel won the 1960 West German championship and spent nine seasons in the Bundesliga after its introduction with Hamburger SV, where he appeared in 224 matches and scored 58 goals. In 1972, he went abroad to South Africa to play with Highlands Park F.C. After one season in the National Professional Soccer League he returned to Germany to play with HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst. Within a year he returned to South Africa, and went overseas to Canada in 1976 to play with London City in the National Soccer League.
International career
He represented West Germany 11 times, including at the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland (scoring two goals) and Greece (scoring one goal), the 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Sweden, and eight friendlies.
Personal life
His brother Bernd Dörfel also played for Germany (they are among 14 sets of siblings to have played for the national team). After retiring as a footballer, he worked for many years as a clown with engagements at among others Circus Krone.
Honours
Hamburger SV
German football championship: 1960
DFB-Pokal: 1962–63; runner-up: 1966–67
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup runner-up: 1967–68
References
External links
1939 births
German circus performers
German clowns
Living people
Footballers from Hamburg
German men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Germany men's international footballers
Bundesliga players
Hamburger SV players
London City Soccer Club players
Canadian National Soccer League players
West German expatriate men's footballers
West German expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
West German expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Highlands Park F.C. players
West German men's footballers |
Melina Petriella (born March 2, 1976) is an Argentine movie and television actress.
Filmography
Besos en la frente (1996)
Esperando al Mesías (2000) aka Waiting for the Messiah
Nocturno (2001)
El Abrazo partido (2004) aka Lost Embrace
Dolores de casada (2004)
Miss Tacuarembó (2010)
Quiero morir en tus brazos (2013)
Television
Inconquistable corazón (1994)
R.R.D.T (1998)
Gasoleros (1998)
Calientes (2000)
Luna salvaje (2000) aka Wild Moon
El Sodero de mi vida (2001)
Tiempofinal (2001)
El Precio del poder (2002)
Son amores (2002) aka Sweethearts
Rincón de luz (2003) aka Little House of Light
Dolores de casada (2004)
Padre Coraje (2004) aka Brave Father John
Amor en custodia (2005)
Collar de esmeraldas (2006)
Don Juan y su bella dama (2008)
Volver a nacer (2012)
Cuatro Reinas (2015)
Awards
Nominations
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor, Best New Actress, for Esperando al mesías; 2001.
External links
1976 births
Argentine film actresses
Argentine Jews
Jewish Argentine actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people) |
Matthew Collins, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, formerly as a Niels Bohr professor, and also holds a McDonald Chair in Palaeoproteomics at the University of Cambridge.
Prior to joining Cambridge he was professor of biomolecular archaeology at the University of York where he founded BioArCh, a collaboration between the departments of biology, chemistry and archaeology (BioArCh: Biology Archaeology, Chemistry).
His research focuses on the persistence of proteins in ancient samples, using modelling to explore the racemization of amino acids and thermal history to predict the survival of DNA and other molecules Using a combination of approaches (including immunology and protein mass spectrometry) his research detects and interprets protein remnants in archaeological and fossil remains.
With former PhD student Mike Buckley he developed ZooMS (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry) a way to rapidly identify bone and other collagen based materials using peptide mass fingerprinting.
In 2022 Collins received the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America. Collins was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014 in 2014, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2021 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2022.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British archaeologists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Academics of the University of York
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Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Before the Fall (, literally "Napola – Elite for the Führer") is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel. It is set in a National Political Institutes of Education or "NaPolA" school developed by the Nazi Germany government. The military academies were designed as preparatory schools for the future Nazi elite.
Plot
In 1942, the boxing skills of Friedrich Weimer earn him a place at a National Political Academy (NaPolA), a boarding school that serves as an entry into the Nazi elite. His father, an anti-Nazi factory worker, refuses to allow Friedrich to enroll. Friedrich, who sees the school as his ticket to a better life, forges his father's signature on the permission slip and leaves. He makes his way to the town of Allenstein, where the institute is located. He is introduced to his roommates Christoph, Hefe, Tjaden and Siggi. That evening, they gain another new roommate, Albrecht Stein, with whom Friedrich becomes fast friends.
The two boys help each other in class and through the school's harsh culture, which includes rigid discipline and older students bullying younger students, with teachers turning a blind eye or encouraging this behavior. In particular, Siggi is mocked and humiliated for his bedwetting.
The school teaches the Nazi Party doctrine, with sections of Hitler's speeches and works being analyzed in classes. "Survival of the fittest" is advocated as a natural way of life, and Jews and enemies of the state are presented as treacherous and inferior. The boxing trainer who helped to admit Friedrich teaches him to be ruthless in fights, dismissing compassion for opponents as "bullshit". Later, Friedrich receives a letter from his mother, informing him that his father was paid a visit by the Gestapo.
Albrecht confides in Friedrich about his passion for writing and the arts, areas that his Gauleiter father deems unfit for men. He begins writing for the school newspaper, taking feedback from Friedrich.
When Friedrich has his first boxing match against another NaPolA school, he overpowers the other boy and knocks him down into a corner. Urged on by the shouts of his trainer, officials and other students, he delivers a brutal knockout and wins the match. Friedrich is congratulated by staff and students alike, but Albrecht scolds him for his act of cruelty.
One day, the boys are taken to the trenches on school grounds, where the sports instructor demonstrates use of live stick grenades. Each boy in Friedrich's year makes the throw successfully until one boy, Martin, panics and drops it. The sports instructor screams at him, flees the trench and leaves his students to their fate. Siggi then dives onto the grenade before it explodes, sacrificing himself to save his classmates. Siggi is given a grand funeral at the school and is hailed as a martyr of the Fatherland.
Albrecht invites Friedrich to visit the Stein family's mansion for the weekend. Gauleiter Heinrich Stein returns home with his friends from the German Army and Waffen-SS. He openly criticizes Albrecht for his sensitivity, artistic endeavors and lack of athleticism. A boxer himself, Stein shows far more interest in Friedrich than in his own son. He delights in Albrecht's inability to compete with Friedrich when the two are forced to fight a boxing match. The events of the weekend temporarily strain the boys' friendship.
In winter, a group of military vehicles arrive at the school. Friedrich's class is called outside, where Gauleiter Stein informs them that a group of Soviet prisoners-of-war have stolen weapons and escaped from a nearby village. The boys are armed with Karabiner 98k rifles and sent into the woods to search for them. Friedrich and Albrecht, assigned to the same group, spot a group of figures coming out of hiding and fleeing. The boys open fire and shoot each of the Soviets. Upon closer inspection, they are shocked to find that the prisoners are children. A horrified Albrecht tries to bandage the wounds of a surviving prisoner, but his father arrives with a search party and shoots him. As the boys are taken back to Allenstein, they see the rest of the prisoners-of-war being rounded up and executed.
In class the next day, Albrecht reads aloud an essay in which he condemns the execution of the prisoners-of-war; he describes it as a criminal act and that his own participation in it is "evil". Outraged, the school authorities summon his father, who tries to force Albrecht to apologize and retract his previous statements. The boy instead condemns his father for ordering the executions. As a result of this, Albrecht is expelled and Gauleiter Stein drafts him to fight on the Eastern Front. Friedrich hears the news and rushes to meet Albrecht. Devastated at the prospect of them being separated and Albrecht being sent to his death, the two friends begin to fight before holding each other in an emotional embrace.
The next morning, the sports instructor takes the class out onto a frozen lake. Two holes have been made in the ice, and each boy must dive in one and swim to the other, using a rope as a guide. Friedrich makes the swim through the freezing water and Albrecht dives in next. When Albrecht does not emerge, Friedrich runs over and finds him halfway between the holes. Realizing that Albrecht deliberately stopped under the ice with the intention to commit suicide, Friedrich screams for his friend. Hearing Friedrich's shouts, Albrecht looks up and gives him a shake of his head. Albrecht lets go of the rope and sinks, vanishing from sight. Deeply grieved, Friedrich writes an obituary for Albrecht and asks the headmaster to publish it in the school newspaper. The headmaster refuses and states, "Amidst people who have died for Fuhrer, Fatherland and Nation, there is no place for suicides".
Friedrich is due to fight in a boxing match against the NaPolA school in Potsdam. He is informed that his future at Allenstein is tied to the outcome of this match. Scouts from German universities are in the audience as well as Gauleiter Stein, who dismisses his son's suicide as an act of weakness. Despite overpowering his opponent, Friedrich decides not to deliver the final strike, having now become disillusioned with the school and its ideology. The other boy recovers and punches Friedrich, who stands impassively until he is knocked out, leaving the Allenstein school bewildered and humiliated.
The next day, the headmaster expels Friedrich, stripping the boy of his uniform and forcing him to walk naked back to his room. The boy is forbidden to speak to any of his roommates as he hastily dresses in his summer clothes and packs his belongings. He is promptly escorted out of the school gates. Friedrich looks back at Allenstein one more time before walking out into the falling snow.
The closing narration states:
Until 1945, there were in the German Reich around 40 National Political Educational Institutes with more than 15,000 students. When the war was finally acknowledged as being lost, they were sent out into the "Final Struggle". Blinded by instructed fanaticism and insufficiently armed, they still offered bitter resistance in many battles. Half of them died.
Cast
Production
Bouzov Castle, in the Czech Republic, was used as the location for the fictitious school named Allenstein in the film. Gansel's goal was for the film to feel very authentic and was advised by a former student of a Napola. Gansel drew inspiration from his right-wing grandfather who was a teacher in a Napola. Gansel's grandfather explained that it was the feeling of endless opportunities that came along with wearing the teachers military uniform and his own failed dream of becoming an architect that had attracted him to the movement. The character of Friedrich ended up being partly based on Gansel's grandfather. Dennis Gansel named Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist as an influence.
Reception
The film gained an approval rating of 68% on Rotten Tomatoes with 26 out of 38 reviews calling it fresh.
Awards
Best direction, Bavarian Film Awards, 2005
Best international film, Hamptons International Film Festival, 2004
Best actor, Max Riemelt, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2004
Best film, Viareggio EuropaCinema, 2004
References
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2004 films
2000s war drama films
German boxing films
Films directed by Dennis Gansel
Films about Nazi Germany
Films set in the 1940s
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German coming-of-age films
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2000s German-language films
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Janówka may refer to the following places in Poland:
Janówka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
Janówka, Gmina Biała Podlaska in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Janówka, Gmina Piszczac in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Janówka, Chełm County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Janówka, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Janówka, Bełchatów County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Janówka, Łódź East County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Janówka, Piotrków County in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Janówka, Włodawa County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Janówka, Zamość County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Janówka, Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
Janówka, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland) |
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Bulacan (IHMS, Bulacan) is a Catholic school owned and managed by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart whose apostolate is the sanctification and formation of children and young people through educational apostolate. It is located inside the Basilica of Lourdes Grotto Compound at the City of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. The land for the school site was a donation from the Guanzon Family.
The community of sisters and 30 lay members of the Immaculatinian Learning Community is taking care of the nearly 200 students from Kinder to High School including the Orphanage (Father Simpliciano of the Nativity).
History
1977 - The arrival of the first five (5) Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts from Italy headed by Mother Flora Zippo, who at present is the Provincial Delegate to the Philippines.
1979 - The first Immaculate Heart of Mary School was established in Parañaque. This became the Main when it has its first branch in Bulacan.
1989 - The arrival of the first group of Sisters in Grotto to manage an orphanage headed by Sr. Estrella Villaran.
1992 - Mary Immaculate Learning Center opened with its Nursery, Kinder, Prep and Grade One with Sr. Lydia Cañon as its Educational Consultant. The DepEd permit was granted to the Elementary Department.
1993 - The opening of Grade Two with Sr. Alma Mangahas as its First Principal.
1994 - The opening of the Grade Three with Sr. Francesca Bailosis as its Second Principal.
1996 - The school obtained Government Recognition and Permit.
1998 - The first Commencement Exercises in the Grade School Department with 20 graduates.
The completion of the school's main building with its canteen, library, science laboratory, computer center, eleven spacious classrooms and administrative offices.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Park was put up by the PTA Ex-Board S.Y. 1996-1998.
The High School Department opened with 26 first year students and with the implementation of the New Secondary Education Curriculum intended to provide general education.
The name of the school was changed to Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Bulacan with Sr. Mary Edna G. Liamzon as its Third Principal.
1999 - The opening of the Second Year class.
The four-year computer program of the Fourth-R was introduced from Grade III to High School for the improvement and upgrading of Computer Education.
2000 - On the Occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Lord, the Third Year class was opened with Sr. Arminda D. Hobrero as its Fourth Principal.
2001 - The opening of the Fourth Year class.
The graduation of the First batch of High School.
2002 - The start of the construction of the school stage.
The renovation of the basketball court was started by the PTA board S.Y. 2002-2003.
2003 - The putting up of the Speech and Language laboratory.
2004 - Speech classes in the Elementary and High School department.
Upgrading of all computer units and adding 10 units of computers.
2006 - The opening of the S.Y. 2006-2007 with Sr. Monica U. Navarro, former Principal of IHMS in Bacon, Sorsogon, as its Fifth Principal.
The school obtained two (2) dozen of brand new computers and replaced the old ones used in the computer center and administrative offices.
2007 - The school celebrated its Crystal 15th Foundation Anniversary with a week-long celebration.
The first set of ImmAlumni officers were elected, coming from the high school graduates of S.Y. 2006-2007.
The school published its first and own school paper: Immazette .
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Nicolas Walsh is a Scottish football referee, currently a referee in the SPFL and a FIFA referee.
Refereeing career
Walsh's first Scottish Professional Football League game as a referee came at the beginning of the Scottish League Two campaign, when he oversaw Clyde against Queen's Park.
On 22 October 2022, Walsh refereed the second Scottish Premiership match with the video assistant referee (VAR), which saw Celtic beat Hearts 4–3.
References
External links
Nick Walsh Referee Statistics Soccerbase
Living people
Scottish football referees
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scottish Professional Football League referees |
The 1988–89 Stuttgarter Kickers season is the 89th season in the club's football history. In 1988–89 the club play in the Bundesliga, the first tier of German football. It is the club's first season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1988. The club also takes part in the 1988–89 edition of the DFB-Pokal.
Squad information
Squad and statistics
External links
1988-89 Stuttgarter Kickers season at Kickersarchiv.de
1988–89 Stuttgarter Kickers season at Weltfussball.de
1988–89 Stuttgarter Kickers season at kicker.de
1988–89 Stuttgarter Kickers season at Fussballdaten.de
Stuttgarter Kickers
Stuttgarter Kickers seasons |
Żebrówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kałuszyn, within Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kałuszyn, north-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki, and east of Warsaw.
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Flying Heavy Metal is a five-part British television series produced by Ricochet and originally broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel, premiered on 19 January 2005, and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It is presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson.
In the series, Dickinson looks at, and often flies, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There are some quite "surprising" aerobatics done in rather large aircraft.
Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.
Episodes
Episode 1 - "Jet Race"
Air date: 19 January 2005
The development of the de Havilland Comet and the Boeing 707 herald the end of an era for propeller-driven airliners such as the Douglas DC-3.
Episode 2 - "Jet Set"
Air date: 26 January 2005
Jet travel becomes available to the masses with the development of the Hawker Siddeley Trident and the Boeing 727.
Episode 3 - "Size Matters"
Air date: 2 February 2005
Europe develops Concorde while Boeing develops the 747 jumbo jet.
Episode 4 - "Safer Skies"
Air date: 9 February 2005
Jetliner safety enhancements, including the automatic landing capabilities of the Hawker Siddeley Trident, the fly-by-wire capabilities of the Airbus A320 (and lack thereof in the Boeing 737) as well as other safety features currently in development.
Episode 5 - "Watch This Space"
Air date: 16 February 2005
New records in airliner size, fuel economy, and passenger comfort with the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 (known as the 7E7 at the time). Also explores the wisdom of space airliner travel.
Programme credits
Series Producer - James Bates
Producer - Dan Peirson
Assistant Producer - Greg Chivers
Production Manager - Amanda Rohan
Flying Heavy Metal - Najam Ul Saqib
External links
Flying Heavy Metal at discoverychannel.co.uk
Aviation television series
Bruce Dickinson
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Documentary television series about aviation
2005 British television series debuts
2005 British television series endings
2000s British documentary television series
English-language television shows |
Danny Morris (PKA Mr. Morris) is an American songwriter and music producer. Morris has written songs for artists including Nicole Scherzinger (featuring 50 Cent), Wiz Khalifa, Pitbull (featuring Jamie Foxx), and Mary J. Blige (featuring Drake), among others. In 2011 Usher was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the song "There Goes My Baby", which was co-written by Danny Morris. Danny Morris received a BMI Urban Award for the song. His work with Usher also includes the song "Lemme See", which reached the number one position on the Billboard Urban/R&B Chart, and was produced by Morris. In 2012 Lil Wayne received the Songwriter of the Year award at the Urban Awards for work that included his song "Motivation", co-written by Morris. The song was also awarded a 2012 Billboard Music Award.
In addition to songwriting, Morris has also performed as a keyboardist on the albums of artists including Eminem, Usher, Fantasia, Nelly, and Yelawolf. He has also worked as a producer on albums by Nelly and Monica. Morris was signed as a producer and songwriter with Jim Jonsin's Rebel Rock Entertainment, from 2010 to 2013.
Awards and nominations
"There Goes My Baby" (Usher) – 2010 BMI Award for songwriting
"Motivation" (Kelly Rowland, Lil Wayne) – 2011 BMI Award for songwriting
"There Goes My Baby" (Usher) – Billboard#1 Urban Radio Award 2010 for songwriting
"Motivation" (Kelly Rowland, Lil Wayne) – Billboard#1 Urban Radio Award 2011 for songwriting
"Motivation" (Kelly Rowland, Lil Wayne) - 2012 Billboard Music Award – Best R&B Song
Singles
References
Living people
American male songwriters
American record producers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Eugene Levy (December 1, 1926 – July 12, 1990) was a member of the New York State Senate for the 38th District covering all of Rockland County and parts of Orange County, New York. He was elected to the New York State Senate in 1984, where he remained for three terms.
During his undefeated political career, Levy was elected into office 13 times. Before he was elected to the New York State Senate, Levy was twice elected as councilman of the town of Ramapo, New York. He held this position from 1964 to 1968. He then served in the New York State Assembly from 1969 until 1984.
Levy died of leukemia in July 1990. At the time of his death, he had been elected to the New York State Senate three times, and he was getting ready to run for a fourth Senate term.
Early life
Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 1, 1926. He graduated from Spring Valley High School in 1944. During his high school career, Levy played basketball and football, and ran track. After high school, Levy served for two years in the Navy Medical Corps; he returned to New York in 1946 after receiving an honorable discharge.
Levy attended NYU and Queens College, but left to help with the family business, the Plaza Restaurant in Spring Valley, New York.
Levy married Geraldine (Schack) Levy in 1950. They had two children, William Levy and Felicia Alice Levy. The family home is located in Montebello (formerly Suffern), New York.
Political career
In 1963, Levy was working in the family owned restaurant when he was approached to run for the position of Councilman of the town of Ramapo, New York. He ran against incumbent Democratic Councilman James Izzo, and won by more than 1,500 votes. After his first term as Councilman, Levy successfully ran for re-election in 1967. Levy held the position until he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1968 defeating incumbent Democrat Joseph St. Lawrence.
Levy was a politically moderate Republican who described himself as "pro-choice and pro-death penalty". Throughout his career, Levy was involved in issues related to consumer protection, education, mental health, and the environment.
New York State Assembly
Levy, a Republican in a heavily Democratic county, ran successfully for State Assembly in 1968. Levy was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1969 to 1984, sitting in the 178th, 179th, 180th, 181st, 182nd, 183rd, 184th and 185th New York State Legislatures. During his time as Assemblyman, he became the Republican minority assistant whip. In August 1973, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Levy to the Temporary State Commission on Living Costs and the Economy.
Levy served on several committees during his time in the New York State Assembly:
Chairman of Select Committee on Consumer protection
Chairman of Assembly Minority Program Committee
Ranking Minority Member of Assembly Education Committee
Assistant Minority Whip on Rules and Assembly Education Standing Committees
Ranking Minority Member of Special Committee on Nuclear Safety
Ranking Minority Member on the Housing Committee
Member of Special Task Force on Correctional Services
Member of Legislative Task Force on the Disabled
During his time in the New York State Assembly, Levy helped pass legislation requiring that all New York counties employ full-time district attorneys. This legislation also established a minimum salary for district attorneys in counties with a population over 100,000 and lengthened the term of office for district attorneys in all counties.
In 1970, Levy helped secure funding for the construction of interchange 14B on the New York State Thruway on Airmont Road in Ramapo.
In 1971, Levy helped defeat a bill that would have allowed the Department of Health to close Haverstraw Rehabilitation Hospital. The hospital was later renamed Helen Hayes Hospital, in honor of actress and philanthropist Helen Hayes MacArthur, the "First Lady of American Theater".
New York State Senate
Levy was elected to the New York State Senate in 1984. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1985 until his death in 1990, sitting in the 186th, 187th and 188th New York State Legislatures. He successfully sponsored and cosponsored more than 280 pieces of legislation, including several bills that protected consumers, children, and the elderly. Levy sponsored legislation that raised the minimum age for correctional officers in New York from 18 to 21. He also sponsored legislation to protect consumers from "embarrassing" and "threatening" debt collection practices.
Levy sponsored several bills related to mental health, including bills to establish new state hospitals for the mentally ill; to develop comprehensive requirements for staffing inpatient wards at adult psychiatric centers; bills to protect patient confidentiality and patients' rights; housing programs for homeless; AIDS care; education for handicapped children.
The committees that Levy served on during his time in the New York State Senate included consumer protection; banks; commerce; economic development and small business; education; environmental conservation; mental hygiene; tourism; recreation and sports; and transportation. He was also a member of a Special Task Force on Drunk Driving.
In 1988, Levy and 17 other GOP senators from New York officially endorsed George H. W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination.
Community Involvement
Levy was especially involved in consumer protection, education, people with disabilities, and environmental issues. He was also active in issues related to veterans' affairs.
In 1969, Levy helped found Camp Venture, Rockland County's first day camp for mentally handicapped children. Levy helped the camp obtain matching funds from the State Department of Mental Hygiene.
In 1983, after the death of his 24-year-old daughter Felicia in an automobile accident, Levy contributed funds donated in her memory to help with the construction of a new dialysis center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York. The waiting room at the facility is named for Felicia. A portrait of Felicia hangs in the waiting room.
Levy helped raise funds to establish the JCC Rockland, which opened in 1988.
Levy held a variety of positions and memberships in community organizations throughout his political career:
Master of the Athelstane Lodge No. 839
President, Master and Wardens Association of Rockland County
Member, Knights of Pythias
Vice-Commander, American Legion, Moscarella Post
Member, Spring Valley Rotary
Member, Advisory Board of the Rockland State Hospital Guild
Member, Rockland County Boy Scout Council
Board member, Mid-Hudson Valley Chapter National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Advisory member, Rockland County Committee for Hearing Impaired
Board member, Rockland County Mental Health Association
Board member, Haitian Community Council of Rockland
Associate director, Rockland Advisory Board of Help Me, Inc.
Member, Fred Hecht Jewish War Veterans
Associate director, Rockland County Center for the Physically Handicapped
Member, Advisory Board of Directors Rockland County Association for Children with Learning Disabilities
Member, Executive Board Ramapo P.A.L. Center
Member, Advisory Board, CANDLE
Honorary member, Board of Directors of the Rockland County Association for Retarded Children (ARC)
Member, Advisory Committee of the Rockland County Association for the Visually Impaired
During his political career, Levy received the following awards and recognition related to the causes he supported:
Distinguished Service Award, Spring Valley Jaycees
Friend of the Handicapped Award, Rockland County Exceptional Child PTA
Man of the Year Award, Jewish War Veterans
Annual Public Service Award, Jewish War Veterans
Humanitarian Award, New City Lions Club
Friend of Education Award, Rockland County Teachers Association
Friend of Education Award, Ramapo School District No. 2 Principals Association
Appreciation Award, Welfare League of Letchworth Village
Outstanding Service Award in the Field of Educational Professionalism, School Administrators Association of New York State
Humanitarian Efforts Award, Cooley's Anemia Committee of the Order of Sons of Italy in America
Outstanding Leadership Award, Rockland County Shields Association
Special Tribute Award and Lifetime Membership, NAACP
B'nai B'rith Youth Services Award, Rockland Educators Group
Hans Schoenberger Humanitarian Award, High Tor Lodge of B'nai B'rith
Youth Donor Award, Temple Beth El Men's Club
Man of the Year Award, Monsey Rotary and Temple Shaarey Tfiloh
Life Membership Award, New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers from the Central Hudson District PTA
Annual Award, Reform Temple of Suffern
Distinguished Citizen Award, Rockland Council, Boy Scouts of America
Man of the Year Award, Citizens for a Clean Government
Life Membership Award, New York State Association for Retarded Children, Rockland County Chapter
Anatoly Scharansky Humanitarian Award, Rockland County Committee for Soviet Jewry
Community Service Award, Yeshiva University
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award, Zionist Organization of America
Honorary Doctor of Laws, St. Thomas Aquinas College
Award from the Rockland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Man of the Year, Rockland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Distinguished Public Service Award, Hudson Valley Political Action Committee
Annual Recognition Award, The Council for Young Children
Award from Rockland County Police Athletic League
Outstanding Legislator Award, New York State Association of Counties
"Friend of Tuxedo" award, Town of Tuxedo
Good Scout Award, Kakiat District, Hudson Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America
Key to the Vacation Camp for the Blind
Humanitarian of the Year, Association for Retarded Children (ARC)
Special Award from the Rockland County A.O.H and the Rockland R.S.V.P.
Distinguished Service Award, Dads Against Drunk Drivers
At the time of his death, Levy had been nominated by the West Hudson District Branch of the American Psychological Association for the APA's Jacob Javits Public Service Award for his involvement in mental health issues.
Death
Levy died of leukemia in the Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, on July 12, 1990. At the time of his death, Levy was getting ready to run for a fourth state senate term.
More than 2,000 mourners came to Levy's funeral service at Temple Beth-El in Spring valley, New York. During the service, a group of Clarkstown police officers gave a final salute, and a color guard of Jewish war veterans placed an American flag on Levy's casket. Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Rockland Pipe and Drum Corps played bagpipes as they escorted the senator's motorcade from the temple.
The Levy family received a condolence letter from then-President George H. W. Bush.
Mario Cuomo, the Governor of New York, called Levy a "great public servant" and noted Levy's "efforts on behalf of those challenged with disabilities."
On July 13, 1990, flags on all Rockland municipal buildings were flown at half-staff in memory of Levy. On the same day, US Representative Benjamin Gilman (R-NY) spoke to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, about Levy's death, calling Levy a "humanitarian" and an "outstanding public servant".
On March 6, 1991, the New York State Assembly adopted Legislative Resolution 409, "Commemorating the Life and Achievements of the Honorable Eugene Levy".
Levy was also honored by the New York State Senate. On March 12, 1991, the New York State Senate adopted Legislative Resolution 523 in Levy's honor.
Legacy
Landmarks
Several landmarks and buildings throughout Rockland County are named in honor of Levy, including:
Senator Eugene Levy Memorial Park in Ramapo, New York. The park was dedicated on September 3, 1995. The dedication included two color guard salutes and a flag-raising ceremony. The park also contains a plaque that Levy's son Bill inscribed to memorialize his father.
Senator Levy Drive in Montebello, New York.
Senator Gene Levy Municipal Plaza in Spring Valley, New York.
Senator Eugene Levy Education Center, East Ramapo Central School District Board of Education, Ramapo, New York. A museum case inside the building holds a display of several photos, trophies, and other mementos of Levy's life and accomplishments. The museum case also houses the Levy Trophy, which is awarded to the winner of the Eugene Levy Memorial Game, an annual football game between the Ramapo and Spring Valley high school varsity football teams. The school district also retired Levy's high school basketball and football jersey numbers, which were 16 and 42, respectively.
Eugene Levy Fieldhouse, Rockland Community College (SUNY Rockland), Suffern, New York.
A meditation bench at the New City County Courthouse War Veterans' Memorial. An inscription on the bench reads, "Let this memorial stand as a tribute to the compassionate leadership of Senator Eugene Levy." The bench was dedicated in 1990, on Veteran's Day.
A plaque at George Washington's Headquarters, The Dewint House in Tappan, New York. The plaque, which rests under a flowering Kwanzan cherry tree, reads, "Dedicated Oct. 11, 1992 by Athelstane Lodge #839 F & AM. In memory of Worshipful Eugene Levy. Past Master; New York State Senator."
The Senator Eugene Levy Memorial Center, Camp Venture, Stony Point, New York. Levy's daughter Felicia, who died in 1981 at age 24, is also commemorated at Camp Venture. Camp Venture's Felicia Levy Campus and a workshop on the property are also named after her.
The Sen. Eugene Levy Respite Apartment, Rockland Association for Retarded Children (ARC), Suffern, New York
The Jawonio Sen. Eugene Levy Home, an independent living facility for mentally challenged adults in Montebello, New York.
A plaque and memorial tree at the Nanuet Public Library in Nanuet, New York. The plaque, which was dedicated on October 14, 1990, reads, "In memory of Senator Eugene Levy." In 1969, Levy conducted the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the dedication of the library.
The Village of Chestnut Ridge, New York named its meeting room after Levy.
Scholarships
After Levy's death, several scholarships were established in his name, including:
The Senator Eugene Levy Scholarship, which is rotated among senior high schools in Rockland County, New York
The Senator Eugene Levy Memorial Award at Suffern High School
The Eugene Levy Memorial Scholarship at Dominican University (New York)
The JCC Scholarship Fund
The Alumni of Spring Valley Senior High School offers two college athletic scholarships to graduating seniors in Levy's honor.
The Eugene Levy Scholarship (named for Levy during his lifetime) is awarded to students at Pearl River High School in Pearl River, New York, by Citizens for Clean Government.
Posthumous Honors
On July 30, 1990, the senator's home village of Montebello, New York, named December 1, Levy's birthday, as "Gene Levy Day".
Rockland Independent Living Center, Inc. gives an annual award called The Senator Eugene Levy Independent Living Award. The award is given each year to "an individual who advocates on behalf of persons with disabilities and promotes the philosophy of independent living".
The library at Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, created a living memorial for Levy with funds donated in his memory. The funds were used to purchase a volume of children's Bible stories.
The New York Library Association passed a resolution honoring Levy's contributions at its October 1990 conference.
On February 7, 1991, Meals on Wheels of Rockland County dedicated the Eugene Levy Memorial Room at its facility in Nanuet, New York.
Levy was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dominican College (New York) on May 19, 1991.
In 1991, a benefit was held for Levy by the Helen Hayes Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, New York. During the benefit, Levy's widow, Geraldine Levy, was presented with a seat plaque that was to be installed in the theater.
In 1992, the PFC Frederick Hecht Post No. 425 of the Jewish War Veterans established the Eugene Levy Humanitarian Award.
The Rockland Symphony Orchestra performed a concert in memory of Levy on March 29, 1992. New York composer Arthur Cunningham wrote a piece titled "Suncatcher" for the occasion.
In 1994, The Senator Eugene Levy Memorial Fund of the Leukemia Society of America was established and cosponsored by Rockland radio station WRKL and the Clarkstown South High School Future Business Leaders of America. To launch the fund, the two groups held a fundraiser called "Pennies for Patients." The goal of the fundraiser was to collect one million pennies during the month of April 1994.
On April 18, 2004, Levy was posthumously inducted into the Association for Retarded Children (ARC) of Rockland's 50th Anniversary Hall of Fame, for his support and involvement in causes related to people with disabilities. Certificates of Merit from the New York Senate, New York State Assembly and the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County accompanied this honor.
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Abortion in the Marshall Islands is only legal if the abortion will save the pregnant woman's life. In the Marshall Islands, even if physicians determine an abortion is life-saving for the woman, she must receive consent from her spouse, undergo counseling, and she must sign a form consenting to use family planning services after the medical procedure. Before any treatment related to reproductive health, minors need consent from a parent or guardian.
Out of the 24 inhabited atolls, only 2 (Majuro and Kwajalein) have facilities providing information about pre and postnatal care, contraception, and skilled delivery assistance. Because abortions are not readily available as an elective procedure, some women attempt to carry out a self-induced abortion (through local or traditional methods) or have someone punch them in the stomach.
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Marshall Islands
Health in the Marshall Islands |
The Blue Yonder EZ Flyer is a Canadian-designed-and-built, tandem two-seat, open cockpit, pusher configuration, recreational and training aircraft provided as a completed aircraft or in kit form by Blue Yonder Aviation.
It can be constructed in Canada as a basic ultra-light, an advanced ultra-light or amateur-built aircraft.
Development
The EZ Flyer was the first aircraft design of Wayne Winters of Indus, Alberta. In 1991 Winters set out to design a high performance kit plane that he intended to produce commercially. While considering the design parameters of that proposed aircraft he saw a picture of a Breezy homebuilt and decided instead to design a smaller and lighter aircraft inspired by the Breezy instead. Winter's own past experience flying Ultraflight Lazairs provided the motivation for the design of a slow, easy to handle aircraft with an open cockpit.
Winters designed a new open lattice, "N" girder fuselage constructed from 4130 steel tube along with a new tail to be fitted with wings from the Merlin EZ. The aircraft retained the Junker's ailerons of the Merlin along with the Clark "Y" airfoil that produces docile handling characteristics. The wing also features the Merlin's leading edge "D" cell construction, with foam ribs. The prototype has two seats in tandem and is powered by a Rotax 503 two stroke engine of .
The first prototype of the new design flew in October 1991 and was initially unnamed. Winters allowed several pilots to fly the new design and all remarked on its docile handling, its suitability as a trainer and the ease with which pilots mastered it. As a result, Winters initially named it Easy Flyer and later EZ Flyer (pronounced in the American way as "Eezee Flier").
The EZ Flyer can be equipped with a variety of powerplants, all mounted in pusher configuration:
Rotax 503
Rotax 582
Rotax 912
Rotax 912S
Operational history
The prototype proved robust and easy for students to learn to fly on and has been used since new as a trainer at the Blue Yonder Ultralight Flight School. By May 2001 the prototype had 2500 hours accumulated in student training and showed little signs of wear. Over 30 aircraft have been built for private owners and other flight schools.
In November 2016 there were eight EZ Flyers registered in Canada and eight in the USA.
Operators
Blue Yonder Aviation – flight school
Specifications (Rotax 582)
See also
References
External links
Blue Yonder Aviation
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
EZ Flyer
1990s Canadian ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft |
Bērzkalne Parish () is an administrative unit of Balvi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
References
Balvi Municipality
Parishes of Latvia
Latgale |
Mirabad (, also Romanized as Mīrābād) is a village in Sumay-ye Shomali Rural District, Sumay-ye Beradust District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 342, in 49 families.
References
Populated places in Urmia County |
Housemarque Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki. The company was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen in July 1995, through the merger of their previous video game companies, Bloodhouse and Terramarque, both of which were founded in 1993 as Finland's first commercial developers. Housemarque is the oldest active developer in Finland and has about 110 employees as of 2023. It was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2021, becoming a part of PlayStation Studios.
History
Bloodhouse and Terramarque (1993–1995)
Bloodhouse and Terramarque were founded in 1993, becoming Finland's first commercial video game developers. Bloodhouse was led by Harri Tikkanen, and released their first game, Stardust in 1993, with a version updated for the Amiga 1200, titled Super Stardust, released the following year. Terramarque was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Stavros Fasoulas, and hired Miha Rinne in 1994. Fasoulas, at the time, was working on a clone of Bubble Bobble titled Galactic, but failed to find a publisher, wherefore the game ended up on a covermount in British magazine The One. The first game from Terramarque was Elfmania, released in 1994 to mixed reception. The company started work on a second game, P.I.D. (short for Private Investigator Dollarally), to be published by Renegade Software. When the Amiga was discontinued mid-development, production on P.I.D. was halted; when Terramarque members discussed whether the game should be ported to PlayStation, Fasoulas decided not to and quit game programming. A demo of the game has been released, but the game itself was not finished.
Housemarque (1995–present)
In December 1994, Kuittinen began working closely with Tikkanen, and their two companies formally merged in 1995 to form Housemarque. Housemarque Oy, the legal entity, was registered on 19 July 1995. Housemarque is the oldest active video game developer in Finland. Both Bloodhouse and Terramarque were developing games for personal computers (PCs) at the time, with the joint team deciding to focus specifically on the evolving PC gaming market. The company started out by freelancing, and after setting up their first office in the Punavuori area of Helsinki, started hiring employees and ceased freelance work.
The first PC games developed by Housemarque were the MS-DOS conversion of Bloodhouse's space shooter Super Stardust (1996), adventure game Alien Incident (1996), and shooter game The Reap (1997), all of which gained favourable reception but failed to succeed commercially.
In February 2014, Housemarque had over 50 employees. In November 2017, the company announced that it would be stepping away from the arcade genre, which it had incorporated in all of its games since Super Stardust, as it was not generating enough revenue to justify developing further games in the genre. The following April, it announced Stormdivers, a battle royale game, anticipating a 2019 release. In December 2018, Housemarque's staff count was approaching 70 people. Housemarque eventually put all of its in-development projects, including Stormdivers, on halt in January 2020. Instead, it shifted its focus on a project the company considered to be its most ambitious thus far and had been in pre-production for three years. At the time, Housemarque had close to 80 staff members.
At the PlayStation 5 reveal event on June 11, 2020, Housemarque announced its first AAA title Returnal. The title was developed for and released exclusively on the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021, with the game selling over 560,000 copies by July 18, 2021. Returnals commercial performance and Housemarque's increased collaboration with Sony Interactive Entertainment for this game led the latter to acquire the studio by June 29, 2021, becoming a part of SIE Worldwide Studios.
Games developed
Bloodhouse
Terramarque
Housemarque
Unreleased games
Stormdivers
References
External links
1995 establishments in Finland
2021 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Helsinki
First-party video game developers
Golden Joystick Award winners
PlayStation Studios
Video game companies established in 1995
Video game companies of Finland
Video game development companies |
Rita Oraá Larrazabal (born 27 July 1963) is a Spanish former volleyball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was born in the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, but she lived in the nearby village of Nanclares de la Oca during her whole childhood and adolescence.
Oraá was a member of the Spanish women's national volleyball team that took part in the 1992 Summer Olympics. The team got an Olympic Diploma (8th place).
To this day, she is the only Basque volleyball player to have taken part in an Olympic Games.
References
1963 births
Living people
Spanish women's volleyball players
Olympic volleyball players for Spain
Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Álava |
Neocollyris schereri is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
References
Schereri, Neocollyris
Beetles described in 1994 |
John LaRoche (1700–1752) of Pall Mall, and Englefield Green, Surrey, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1752.
Early life
LaRoche was the eldest son of Peter Crothaire (afterwards LaRoche), a Huguenot of Bordeaux, the barber of Queen Anne's husband Prince George of Denmark. He was admitted at the Middle Temple on 12 September 1717 and at Queens' College, Cambridge on 28 October 1717. He married before 1731, Elizabeth Garnier, the daughter of Isaac Garnier of St. James's, Westminster, apothecary to the army.
Career
LaRoche worked initially as a steward for the Robartes family, who had a controlling interest in the Bodmin Parliamentary seat. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as Bodmin at a by-election in June 1725, but was returned as Whig Member of Parliament for Bodmin at another by-election on 31 January 1727. He was returned again shortly after at the 1727 British general election. He regularly voted with the Administration except against the Hessians in 1730. In 1732 he became one of the original trustees, as listed in the charter, for the newly formed colony of Georgia on the east coast of America. He was also an assistant at the Royal Africa Company from 1732 to 1746. He progressively built up a strong electoral interest of his own in the corporation of Bodmin. He was returned again for Bodmin at the 1734 British general election. One of his recorded speeches was made on 15 April 1736 in favour of a bill designed to check the alienation of lands to charities, while others were made on 4 February 1740 and 21 January 1741 in defence of the trustees of the board of Georgia. He was returned again in 1741 but was frequently absent through illness and did not vote on the chairman of the elections committee and on the Westminster election petition in December 1741. After the fall of Walpole in 1742, he supported successive Administrations. In 1745 he succeeded his father. He was returned again at the 1747 British general election.
Death and legacy
LaRoche died on 20 April 1752 and was buried in Paddington Church, leaving three sons and four daughters. His younger son James was created baronet in 1776. His children were left Cornish estates by John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor.
See also
Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America
References
1752 deaths
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
Members of the Middle Temple
English merchants
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bodmin
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
British MPs 1741–1747
British MPs 1747–1754
Year of birth uncertain |
Time Flies is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott. The screenplay concerns two music hall performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to Elizabethan times using a time machine.
Plot
A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and introduce them to jazz culture.
They also meet Captain John Smith and a very heavy-drinking Pocahontas. The main female character meets William Shakespeare and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down.
A costume-production, (many of which are immaculate), which makes extensive use of the Gainsborough wardrobe.
Cast
Tommy Handley – Tommy
Evelyn Dall – Susie Barton
George Moon – Bill Barton
Felix Aylmer – The Professor
Moore Marriott – A Soothsayer
Graham Moffatt – His Nephew
John Salew – William Shakespeare
Leslie Bradley – Captain Walter Raleigh
Olga Lindo – Queen Elizabeth
Roy Emerton – Captain John Smith
Iris Lang – Princess Pocahontas
Stéphane Grappelli – A Troubadour
Critical reception
Sky Cinema gave the film two out of five stars, its review stating: "Despite the subject and the cast, the treatment lacks vivacity". TV Guide rated it similarly: "A well-tuned script takes full advantages of the possibilities for comedy, but radio star Handley is a bit of a disappointment, looking sourly out of place on the screen"; The Radio Times rated it three out of five stars, concluding: "Some of the jokes have travelled less well and it falls flat in places, but it's a thoroughly entertaining romp".
References
External links
1944 films
British historical comedy films
1940s historical comedy films
Films directed by Walter Forde
Gainsborough Pictures films
Films about time travel
British black-and-white films
Films set in London
Films set in the 16th century
Films set in Tudor England
1940s English-language films
1940s British films |
Schottius may refer to:
Andreas Schott (Andreas Schottius)
Gaspar Schott (Caspar Schottius) |
Monadic may refer to:
Monadic, a relation or function having an arity of one in logic, mathematics, and computer science
Monadic, an adjunction if and only if it is equivalent to the adjunction given by the Eilenberg–Moore algebras of its associated monad, in category theory
Monadic, in computer programming, a feature, type, or function related to a monad (functional programming)
Monadic or univalent, a chemical valence
Monadic, in theology, a religion or philosophy possessing a concept of a divine Monad
See also
Monadic predicate calculus, in logic
Monad (disambiguation) |
The Real Housewives of Melbourne (abbreviated RHOMelbourne) is an Australian reality television series that premiered 23 February 2014 on Arena. It was developed as one of the international installments of The Real Housewives, an American television franchise. The series chronicles the lives of several women living in Melbourne, Australia.
The series originally focused on Gina Liano, Jackie Gillies, Andrea Moss, Janet Roach, Chyka Keebaugh and Lydia Schiavello; the lineup currently consists of Gillies, Roach, Gamble Breaux, Cherry Dipietrantonio, Kyla Kirkpatrick and Simone Elliott. Of the original housewives, Moss left after the first season, whilst Keebaugh departed after the third and Liano and Schiavello after the fourth. The remaining housewives joined in later seasons: Breaux in the second, Dipietrantonio, Kirkpatrick and Elliott in the fifth. Other housewives include Pettifleur Berenger (seasons 2–3), Susie McLean (season 3), Sally Bloomfield (season 4),Venus Behbahani-Clark (season 4) and Anjali Rao (season 5).
Its success allowed for the development of The Real Housewives franchise by Matchbox Pictures and similar spin-off series based in Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand.
Foxtel announced 10 September 2019 that the show had been renewed for a fifth season to be aired on Arena in 2020. This was later pushed to 2021 due to production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Overview and casting
Seasons 1–4
The Real Housewives of Melbourne was first announced by Matchbox Pictures as The Real Housewives of Australia and was set to air in 2013. On 28 July 2013, it was announced that the series had been renamed The Real Housewives of Melbourne, along with the full cast of six women. The six women include Jackie Gillies, Chyka Keebaugh, Gina Liano, Andrea Moss, Janet Roach, and Lydia Schiavello. They were handpicked by the producers, from over one hundred women during an eight-month process. Filming for the series began in July 2013. On 21 January 2014, the official cast photo and premiere date of 23 February 2014 were announced. The series at the time was the second biggest local series launch following SoHo's Wentworth.
Moss departed the series after the first season.
On 8 May 2014, the series was renewed for a second season. Brian Walsh, an executive director of Foxtel, discussed the renewal, "There is no doubt that The Real Housewives of Melbourne has been a game changer for Foxtel. The incredible reaction to our Housewives, including the blockbuster ratings, the huge social media impact and the overall buzz surrounding the series has meant the decision for another season was a very easy one." In season two, two newcomers joined the show, Gamble Breaux and Pettifleur Berenger, and premiered 22 February 2015. Manuela Pless-Bennett joined the series in a recurring capacity as a friend to Janet. Pless-Bennett was featured in interviews and attended the reunion.
Friend to the wives Lisa Tonkin made more frequent guest appearances throughout the season and returned to her guest role for the second and third seasons.
The series was subsequently renewed for a third season. All the housewives returned from the previous season, along with newcomer with Susie McLean joining the cast and without Pless-Bennett. The third season premiered 21 February 2016. Prior to the conclusion of the third season, on 8 May 2016, original housewife Chyka Keebaugh confirmed that she would not be returning to the series.
On 11 May 2016, Lydia Schiavello revealed there would be a fourth season but filming may be delayed to film The Real Housewives of Sydney first. A month later in June 2016, Liano also confirmed there would be a season four and the filming delay for the Sydney series, adding that "the original girls are out of contract now. They haven't approached us to renegotiate contracts yet." In December 2016, season four was officially confirmed by Foxtel, also being reported that filming is set to begin in early 2017. On 29 April 2017, it was announced that Berenger would not return to the series. On 17 May 2017, the season 4 cast was announced, with Venus Behbahani-Clark and Sally Bloomfield joining the cast. This also confirmed the departures of Keebaugh, Berenger and McLean. However, Keebaugh did make a guest appearance during one episode in the fourth season.
Season 5–present
In September 2019, Foxtel announced a fifth season, set to premiere in 2020. Foxtel Executive Brian Walsh also confirmed the upcoming fifth season would include 'a big cast shake up.' In February 2020, Bloomfield, Gillies & Behbahani-Clark announced they were departing the show, while Schiavello confirmed her return. On 19 February, the cast was released, confirming the return of Liano, Roach and Breaux, alongside the previously confirmed Schiavello, as well as the addition of Anjali Rao, Kyla Kirkpatrick and Cherry Dipietrantonio. According to cast member Janet Roach, Gillies was set to return to the show, however by deciding to leave and to start a family, she was replaced by Schiavello who wasn’t originally set to return to the series.
On 18 March 2020, Foxtel has announced that filming for season 5 had temporarily been paused due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement released by Foxtel and Matchbox Pictures, “The Health and Safety of our cast and crew is our top priority”.
On 11 June 2020, it was confirmed by cast member Janet Roach that filming for season 5 was to resume in July, however she announced that Foxtel had decided to push the filming dates back to January 2021.
On 14 April 2021, Foxtel re-confirmed the cast of the fifth season with Roach and Breaux reprising their roles as well as the additions of Anjali Rao, Kyla Kirkpatrick, Cherry Dipietrantonio (who all had been previously announced). Gillies (who had previously departed) also returned to the series with new addition Simone Elliott. This also confirmed the departures of Liano and Schiavello (who had been previously set to return). The fifth season premiered on 10 October 2021. Following the conclusion of the season's seventh episode, Rao departed the series after one season. An all cast reunion was not filmed for the fifth season, marking the first time in the series history to not feature a reunion.
Timeline of housewives
Episodes
International broadcast
In the United States, the series premiered 3 August 2014, on Bravo, the same network that initiated The Real Housewives franchise. The series returned for a second season on 5 March 2015. However, unlike season one which aired during daytime on Sunday, season two aired during prime time – the first of the international The Real Housewives series to do so. In the United Kingdom, the series premiered 6 November 2014, and airs on ITVBe. In Sweden TV3 started airing the first series in early January 2016. The series returned to Bravo for a third season on 22 July 2016, but now airing during prime time on a Friday. In Canada, the series started airing on Slice in August 2016. In New Zealand, the series premiered 25 October 2016 on Bravo, the same network that initiated The Real Housewives franchise by Matchbox Pictures.
On January 19, 2022, the first four seasons have become available in the United States on Discovery+ with a subscription. While the first three seasons have in the past aired in the U.S. on Bravo, this marks the first time season 4 has officially premiered albeit on a streaming service.
Reception
In the United States, the premiere episode attracted 414,000 viewers, a 39% increase to the timeslot compared to the month prior. The second-season premiere, which for the first time saw the series air in primetime, grew on the prior season's premiere scoring 534,000 viewers.
Awards and nominations
Spin-offs
In September 2014, Real Housewives producer Matchbox Pictures announced that they were considering filming Real Housewives in a second location – namely Sydney or the Gold Coast. In addition, a Judge Judy-type show has been considered starring Real Housewives star Gina Liano, with a pilot episode filmed in December 2014. In September 2015, it was again reported that producer of the series, Matchbox Productions, was possibly searching for potential candidates for a The Real Housewives franchise to be based in Sydney, or the Gold Coast. On 27 February 2016 it was revealed that the producers were looking for potential cast mates in Brisbane. In June 2017, it was planned that Gina Liano would receive a Judge Judy style spin-off entitled "Judge Gina". The series was to contain 40 episodes of 30 minutes. This series didn't eventuate.
References
External links
New faces stir up Housewives
Gamble Breaux from RHOM reveals Sydney summers with a RHOS
2014 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne
Arena (TV network) original programming
Television series by Matchbox Pictures
Australian television series based on American television series
Women in Australia
Television shows filmed in Australia
2020s Australian reality television series |
The College of Europe (; ) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading historical European figures and founding fathers of the European Union, including Salvador de Madariaga, Winston Churchill, Paul-Henri Spaak and Alcide De Gasperi as one of the results of the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague to promote "a spirit of solidarity and mutual understanding between all the nations of Western Europe and to provide elite training to individuals who will uphold these values" and "to train an elite of young executives for Europe". It has the status of Institution of Public Interest, operating according to Belgian law. The second campus in Natolin (Warsaw), Poland opened in 1992. The College of Europe is historically linked to the establishment of the European Union and its predecessors, and to the creation of the European Movement International, of which the college is a supporting member. Federica Mogherini, former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, was appointed as the Rector to start in September 2020; former President of the European Council Herman, Count Van Rompuy is chairman of the board.
Each academic year is named after a patron and referred to as a promotion. The academic year is opened by a leading European politician. Alumni of the College of Europe include the former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb, the former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Enzo Moavero Milanesi. Many of its alumni go on to serve as diplomats and senior civil servants in European institutions.
The College of Europe was the most represented alma mater (university attended) among senior EU civil servants, based on a sample compiled by Politico in 2021.
Politico even dedicated a section of their website to news related to the College of Europe.
History
Hague Congress initiative to create a College of Europe
The College of Europe was the world's first university institute of postgraduate studies and training in European affairs. It was founded in 1949 by leading European figures, such as Salvador de Madariaga, Winston Churchill, Paul-Henri Spaak and Alcide De Gasperi, in the wake of the Hague Congress of 1948, that led to the creation of the European Movement. At the Congress, the Spanish statesman Salvador de Madariaga strongly advocated for the creation of a College of Europe, where graduates from different European states could study together as a way to heal the wounds of the World War II. Although the cultural resolution adopted at the end of the Congress did not include explicit references to the establishment of a College of Europe and only advocated for the creation of a "European Cultural Centre and a European Institute for Childhood and Youth Questions", the idea of establishing a European University was put forward by Congress attendees immediately after the Congress.
A group of Bruges citizens led by the Reverend Karel Verleye succeeded in attracting the college to Bruges. Professor Hendrik Brugmans, one of the intellectual leaders of the European Movement and the President of the Union of European Federalists, became its first Rector (1950–1972). John Bowie, Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, was appointed Director of the first session held by the college, in 1949. Henri van Effenterre, who was a Professor of Ancient History at Caen University and Alphonse de Vreese, International Law professor at the University of Ghent, also contributed to that first session. The topic of that first session taught to the first promotion of the college (frequently called , for it is the only promotion not named after any prominent figure) was "Teaching history and the development of a European spirit in universities".
In the decades that followed the establishment of the institution, students were hosted at the Navarra Hotel in the historic centre of Bruges until 1981.
The College consolidated itself as an institution specialized in studies focused on the newly established European Communities (the college was founded in 1949, before the communities were established).
Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher
In 1988, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivered a speech that became known as the Bruges speech at the College of Europe as part of the opening ceremony for that academic year. The Bruges speech is considered by observers as the cornerstone of the Eurosceptic movement that eventually led to Brexit. Thatcher laid down her vision for Europe, claiming that the European Community should remain an economic union, refusing the claims for a closer political integration made by Commission President Jacques Delors. Thatcher outlined her opposition to any attempts to create "a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels." The speech was perceived as not only an attack on European federalism but an attack on the European project, as such.
Post-Cold War history
After the fall of communism and changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the College of Europe campus at Natolin (Warsaw, Poland), was founded in 1992 with the support of the European Commission and the Polish government. According to former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, "this College of Europe at Natolin is more than the symbol of Europe found once again, it is the hope represented in this beautiful historic place. The hope that exchanges can multiply for greater mutual understanding and fraternity". The establishment of a second campus in eastern has been frequently regarded as part of an effort aiming to train young students from eastern countries under the auspices of eastern enlargement. Since the establishment of that second campus in Poland, the college operates as "one College – two campuses," and what was once referred to as the "", is now known as the "".
In 2012, the College of Europe became a supporting member of the European Movement International. The academic year 2018–2019 marked the first time in which a promotion was named after a College alumnus, Manuel Marín, Spanish Statesman, EU Commissioner and acting President of the Commission (known as the "father of the Erasmus Programme"), who had passed away early that year. In 2015, three years before the election of Marín as Patron, former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb was the first College alumnus to be invited to be the Orateur at the opening ceremony of that academic year.
Former Spanish Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, 9th Baron of Claret, served as chairman of the board from 2009 to 2019; in 2019 former Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council Herman, Count Van Rompuy was appointed the new chairman of the board. In May 2020 Federica Mogherini, former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, was appointed rector of the College, the first high ranking political figure from the European Commission to hold the post.
Campuses
Bruges campus
The Bruges campus is situated in the centre of Bruges since its establishment in 1949, which was appointed European Capital of Culture in 2002. Bruges is located in the Flemish Region of Belgium, a Dutch-speaking area, although the college does not use Dutch as one of its working languages.
The college has a system of residences in the centre of Bruges and not far from the Dijver, where the main administrative and academic building and the library are situated. None of the residences lodges more than 60 students so that each residence in fact has its own small multinational and multicultural environment.
It consists of the following campus buildings:
Dijver
The Paul Henri Spaak Building (named after the Belgian socialist politician, and popularly known as Dijver) is the College's main administrative building on the Bruges campus. It hosts the college's main reception, some of its offices, classrooms and the library. It is located on the Dijver Canal. A white classic façade stands at the front of the main building (where the European, Belgian, Flemish and Brugeois flags hang together), while there is a garden in its back side. The garden is used by the students, who frequently spare their break time there due to its proximity to the library (which is connected to the main building by a corridor). Signed portraits of all the orateurs hang in the walls of the main corridor of the building.
The library building was built in 1965. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (later Queen Beatrix) laid the first stone of the library in a special commemorative event. Almost three decades after its completion, the library was reformed and enlarged (the works were completed in 1992). Most of the library funds are devoted to European Studies, together with law, economics, and political and administrative sciences. Access to the library is restricted to College students and academic staff. A bust of Salvador de Madariaga presides over the library main reading hall.
Verversdijk
Following the increase in the number of students attending the College each year, the College of Europe (with the support of different entities and institutions, including the Flemish Government and the City of Bruges) reformed the 17th century protected monument of Verversdijk to provide additional lecture theatres (auditoria), teaching rooms and offices for academics, research fellows and staff; and to extend its activities. The reform was led by the office of Xaveer De Geyter Architects (XDGA), and the project was nominated for the Mies van de Rohe award in 2009. The Verversdijk premises began to be used by College students in 2007. Besides its academic and administrative use throughout the course, a cocktail is served in its garden to each promotion, following their graduation ceremony at St. Walburga Church (Bruges).
The historical site of Verversdijk owes its name to fact that the owners of the houses standing there at medieval times were dyers who used wool traded with Scotland, as the area was populated by several Englishmen during the Middle Ages. During the Spanish rule, it hosted the schooling houses and the monastery established by the Jesuits in the 17th century. In 1792, the monastery auditorium was used as a meeting place by the Jacobin Club. The main monastery wing (dating back to 1701, and whose façade was plastered in 1865) was built along the canal, and was used as an athenaeum since 1851. its long inner corridor is an outstanding example of the rococo style in Bruges, whereas, the ashlar staircase is also an element of artistic relevance. The attic of the building, with a total length of 45 meters and a surprisingly well-preserved oak canopy, is currently used as a study room. During the First World War occupation of Belgium, the attic was used as a sleeping room for soldiers of the German Marine.
The monastery wing was also home to the Museum of Modern Painting from 1898 to 1931 (when they were transferred to the newly established Groeninge Museum). Since 2008, following and agreement between the College and the Groeninge Museum, the college hosts the 'Extraordinary Groeninghe Art Collection', an installation of contemporary works of art featuring international artists at Verversdijk's hallways. Members of the Groeninghe Art Collection meet every two months at the College to discuss art, attend lectures by art experts and consider possible purchases.
In March 2014, the so-called China Library was established at the Verversdijk compound. A project sponsored by the Information Office of the State Council of the Chinese Government, the library (decorated in Chinese style) is home to ten thousand books and documents in more than six languages, as frequently hosts events related with Sino-European relations or the Chinese culture.
Garenmarkt
The Hotel Portinari in Garenmarkt 15 with its classical façade was formerly home to Tommaso Portinari, the administrator of the Florentine "Loggia de Medici" in the 15th century in Bruges. It contains eleven apartments for professors and forty student rooms, two "salons" in 19th-century style, the "salon du Recteur" with 18th-century wall paintings and a modern "Mensa" for students. A room dedicated to Winston Churchill (who was among the voices calling for the establishment of the College during The Hague Congress in 1948 and was one of its founders the year after) was inaugurated by his grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, and the British ambassador in 2017. Garenmarkt also hosts the canteen for all College students.
Biskajer
The residence is located in a home built in classicist style during the 19th century. The building is located in Biskajersplein, a small square named after the Spanish region of Biscay (the square is located on the side the dock where ships coming in from that region unloaded their merchandise in the 15th and 16th centuries). The actual residence is located on the lot occupied by the Mareminne house, which hosted the consulate of Biscay in the past, although the original building was demolished. Traces of the old consulate building can be found in the inner garden of the residence, which kept the shape of the consulate's horse stable. The residence hosts 53 students every year.
Gouden Hand
The Gouden Hand residence is housed in a Bruges-style building dating back to the 17th century. It is a listed monument. It was renovated during the 2005–2006 academic year. The name of the residence, directly translates from Dutch to "Golden Hand", after a Medieval legend about the canal bordering the residence. Gouden Hand is also the name of two streets along the same canal. The 15th century painter Jan Van Eyck lived and owned a studio in the Gouden-Handstraat nr. 6, behind the current residence.
The Gouden Hand student bar is situated in the cellar. The building has been a backdrop for many films and documentaries.
Natolin campus
The Natolin Warsaw campus of the college was established in 1992 responding to the revolutions of 1989 and ahead of Poland's accession negotiations with the EU.
The Natolin Campus is located in a historic palace, part of a 120-hectare park and nature reserve—formerly the Royal hunting palace of Natolin—situated in the southern part of Warsaw about 20 minutes by metro from the city centre. The Natolin European Centre Foundation takes care of the complex and has conducted restoration of the former Potocki palace, making it available for the college.
The old historical buildings, including the manor house, the stables and the coach house, were converted to the needs of modern times and new buildings were constructed in a style preserving the harmony of the palace and its outlying park.
In 2022, the Natolin campus of the College of Europe hosted one of the four European citizens’ panels, organised as part of the EU's Conference on the Future of Europe.
Albania Campus
In 2023, the College announced the opening of a new campus in Albania
Student life
The College of Europe is bilingual. Students are expected to be proficient in English and French. Students receive an advanced master's degree following a one-year programme. Students specialise in either European Political and Administrative Studies, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, European Law, European Economic Studies, or European Interdisciplinary Studies (at the Natolin campus). For much of its history, the college only admitted a few students, the number has increased since the 1990s.
Admissions
Application may be made to national selection committees or by direct application to the College of Europe for individuals from a country where no selection committee exists. As of 2014, there are 28 national selection committees. Regarding scholarships, the national selection committees can grant a scholarship; approximately 70% of students receive a scolarship from either national governements or other public and private institutions. Students have the choice between four masters at Bruges campus:
European Economic Studies
EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies
European Legal Studies
European Political and Governance Studies
Master in Transatlantic Affairs, which is a 2 year program unlike the other degrees.
In Natolin Campus, there is only one degree which is the European Interdisciplinary Studies.
Traditions
The College of Europe has developed several traditions. Some are shared with the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in France. Both the College and ENA name their promotions after a historical figure, being in the College of Europe an outstanding European figure, which is called "patron". Besides the choice of a prominent historical figure to name each promotion, each academical year is traditionally inaugurated by a prominent European figure. Furthermore, each year, College of Europe students are named honorary citizens of Bruges prior to their departure. Another tradition dating back to the first years of existence of the college is the visit to Flanders fields during the first weeks of the academic year. During that visit, students lay a floral tribute at the Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres.
Promotions
Academic years at the College are known as promotions. Each promotion is named after an outstanding European, referred to as the promotion's patron.
The opening ceremony each year is presided over by a prominent politician, referred to as the Orateur; they have included Angela Merkel, David Miliband, Jean-Claude Juncker, Javier Solana, José Manuel Barroso, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand. Being invited as the college's Orateur is considered a high honour.
Notable alumni
Many former students of the college, referred to as anciens (French for alumni), have gone on to serve as government ministers, members of various parliaments, diplomats and high-ranking civil servants and executives.
A list of all alumni from 1949 to 1999 is included in the book The College of Europe. Fifty Years of Service to Europe (1999), edited by Dieter Mahncke, Léonce Bekemans and Robert Picht.
Alumni of note of the College of Europe (from 1949) include
Gaetano Adinolfi, former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Alberto Alemanno, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and HEC Paris, CEO of eLabEurope
Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau, Dutch legal scholar and diplomat
Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, French-Irish economist, Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick
Peter Arbo, Norwegian academic
Árni Páll Árnason, Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs. Promotion Mozart.
Ioanna Babassika, Greek human rights lawyer, member of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Yuriko Backes, Luxembourgish diplomat and politician, Minister for Finances
María Angeles Benítez Salas, Spanish European civil servant, director-general of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Ledi Bianku, judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Margunn Bjørnholt, Norwegian sociologist
Iwo Byczewski, former Polish Deputy Foreign Minister (1991–1995), Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to the European Union
Geert Van Calster, Belgian lawyer and legal scholar
Sofie Carsten Nielsen, Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science. Promotion Aristotle
Franz Ceska, Austrian Ambassador to Belgium and France, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Danish Permanent Representative to the European Institutions, Special Advisor to The Right Honourable Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Nick Clegg, British politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leader of the Liberal Democrats and member of the European Parliament
Luc Coene, Belgian economist and Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB)
Karl Cox, Vice President of the Oracle Corporation
Martin Donnelly, British civil servant
Niels Egelund, Danish diplomat, former Permanent Representative to NATO and Ambassador to France
Jonathan Faull, Director General for the Internal Market and Services
Monique Pariat, Director-General for the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs and previously Director-General for the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
Mary Finlay Geoghegan, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
Nigel Forman, British MP and Minister of Higher Education (1992), a member of the Conservative Party
Gabriel Fragnière, Swiss academic
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Francesco Paolo Fulci, former Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations (1993–1999), currently serving as President of Ferrero SpA
Otto von der Gablentz, German diplomat and academic
Luis Garicano, Professor of Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics
Miriam González Durántez, Spanish lawyer and wife of Nick Clegg
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Irish academic, visiting professor at the college since 2001
Chris Hoornaert, Ambassador of Belgium to the Netherlands
Simon Hughes, British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
Marc Jaeger, judge at the General Court of the EU
Josef Joffe, German editor and publisher of Die Zeit and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University
Claudia Kahr, judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court
Alison Kelly, Irish ambassador to Israel
Stephen Kinnock, Director at the World Economic Forum
Berno Kjeldsen, Danish ambassador
Lars-Jacob Krogh, journalist
Sabino Fornies Martinez, European Commission Civil Servant, Head of task force at DG FISMA and EU Diplomat in Beijing
Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute
Jo Leinen, German member of the European Parliament, former president of the Union of European Federalists
Christian Lequesne, Professor of European Politics at Sciences Po, the College of Europe and the London School of Economics
Leif Terje Løddesøl, former Chair of Statoil
Sylvie Lucas, Luxembourg's ambassador to the United Nations and president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (2009–2010)
Aude Maio-Coliche, Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to Venezuela
Helena Malikova, EU civil servant and academic
Manuel Marín, former President of the European Commission
Thomas Mayr-Harting, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Ian McIntyre, British journalist
David McWilliams, Irish economist, journalist and documentary-maker
Holger Michael, German ambassador
Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet
Juan Moscoso del Prado, Spanish socialist Member of Parliament, spokesman in the European Union Committee
Jon Ola Norbom, former Minister of Finance of Norway
Jim Oberstar, member of the United States House of Representatives
Mary O'Rourke, barrister
David O'Sullivan (civil servant), Chief Operating Officer of the European Union's diplomatic corps, former Secretary-General of the European Commission and Director General for Trade
Valerie Plame, former United States CIA Operations Officer
Ursula Plassnik, former Foreign Minister of Austria, a member of Austrian People's Party (European People's Party)
Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union
Xavier Prats Monné, EU official
Torolf Raa, former Norwegian ambassador
Carine Van Regenmortel, Belgian corporate lawyer
Philippe Régnier, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Ottawa
Prince Albert Rohan, former Permanent Secretary of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, UN envoy
Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the European Commission
György Schöpflin, a Hungarian academic and politician, Member of the European Parliament for Fidesz and the European People's Party
Guy Spitaels, Belgian politician and Minister-President of Wallonia
Alexander Stubb, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, a member of politician of the National Coalition Party (European People's Party)
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of the Social Democrats (Denmark)
Didrik Tønseth, former Norwegian ambassador
Count Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austria's ambassador to Prague
Loukas Tsoukalis, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens and President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
Andrew Tyrie, Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester and Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, a member of Conservative Party
Helmut Türk, judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, former Ambassador of Austria to the United States
Werner Ungerer, German diplomat, Permanent Representative to the European Communities from 1985 to 1990 and rector of the college from 1990 to 1993
Robert Verrue, Director-General for Employment of the European Commission
Alexander Walker, British film critic
Helen Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, British expert in European studies and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Bruno de Witte, Professor of EU Law at the European University Institute
Marc van der Woude, judge at the European Court of Justice
Adrien Zeller, former French minister in the second Jacques Chirac government (1986–1988), former President of Alsace Regional Council, a member of the Union for a Popular Movement
Jaap de Zwaan, Dutch diplomat and negotiator of several European treaties, Professor of EU Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alexander Stubb, prime minister of Finland
Alumni of note of the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland (from 1993) include:
Gert Antsu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to Ukraine
Jarosław Domański, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Islamic Republic of Iran
Marija Pejčinović Burić, Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
Alyn Smith, Scottish member of the European Parliament
Olesea Stamate, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Moldova
Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw, former member of the Polish Sejm, former Polish member of the European Parliament, former Polish Minister of Administration and Digitization, former Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Faculty and organisation
The College of Europe originally had no permanent teaching staff; the courses were taught by prominent academics and sometimes government officials from around Europe. Especially in the last couple of decades, the college has increasingly employed professors and other teaching staff on a permanent basis.
Academics
Dominique Moïsi, co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and the Chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe.
Bronisław Geremek, Chairholder of the Chair of European Civilisation until his death
Leszek Balcerowicz, economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government. He implemented the Polish economic transformation program in the 1990s, a shock therapy commonly referred to as the Balcerowicz Plan
Andrea Biondi, co-Director of the Centre for European Law at King's College London
Aleš Debeljak, cultural critic, poet, and essayist
Alyson Bailes, a former English diplomat and British Ambassador to Finland who lives in Iceland
Valentine Korah, Emeritus Professor of Competition Law at University College London
Jacques Rupnik, professor at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris i.e. Sciences Po
Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy, International Chief Economist of the Centro Europa Ricerche, founder of Euro Asia Forum at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, he served as Deputy Director General for Europe in the Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany) 1999–2000.
John Usher, legal scholar
Guy Haarscher, legal and political philosopher
Geoffrey R. Denton, head of economics
Jan de Meyer (1958–1970)
Dieter Mahncke
Léonce Bekemans
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw
Gerhard Stahl
Shada Islam
Christian Lequesne
Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Italian Minister for Europe and Professor in the Legal Studies Department
Alexander Stubb, Finnish Minister for Europe, former Foreign Minister, and Professor at the college since 2000
Norman Davies, Historian; Honorary fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, Oxford University; Professor, Jagiellonian University
Jean de Ruyt, Ambassador; Senior European Policy Advisor, Covington & Burling ; Professor, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL); ex-Belgian Permanent representative to the European Union
Organisation
Rectors
The rector directs and coordinates the college's activities.
Hendrik Brugmans (1906–1997) (1949–1971)
Jerzy Łukaszewski (°1924) (1972–1990)
Werner Ungerer (°1927) (1990–1993)
Gabriel Fragnière (1934-2015) (1993–1995)
Otto von der Gablentz (1930–2007) (1996–2001)
Piet Akkermans (1942–2002) (2001–2002)
Robert Picht (1937–2008) (a.i. 2002–2003)
Paul Demaret (2003–2013)
Jörg Monar (2013–2020)
Federica Mogherini (2020–present)
Vice rectors
The vice rector is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Natolin (Warsaw) campus.
Ettore Deodato (1993)
David W. P. Lewis (1994–1996)
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (1996–1999)
Piotr Nowina-Konopka (1999–2004)
Robert Picht (a.i. 2004–2005)
Robert Picht (2005–2007)
Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka (2007– present)
Presidents of the Administrative Council
Salvador de Madariaga (1950–1964)
Jean Rey (1964–1974)
François-Xavier Ortoli (1974–1975)
Daniel Coens (1985–1990)
Manuel Marín (1990–1995)
Jacques Delors (1995–2000)
Jean-Luc Dehaene (2000–2009)
Íñigo Méndez de Vigo (2009 – 2019)
Herman Van Rompuy (2019–present)
Controversies
Controversy concerning Saudi Arabia
In February 2019, a series of press pieces published by EUobserver revealed that the Bruges-based institute was paid by the Saudi government to set up private meetings between Saudi ambassadors, EU officials, and MEPs. Although EU lobby transparency rules say that academic institutions should register if they "deal with EU activities and policies and are in touch with the EU institutions", the College of Europe is not listed in the EU joint-transparency register. On 13 February, MEP Alyn Smith of Greens/EFA wrote to ask Jörg Monar, Rector of the College of Europe, to provide assurances that the institute has not received "financial contributions from the Saudi authorities in any form" in its efforts to set up meetings with the EU institutions. On 20 February, Marietje Schaake of the ALDE group presented a written question to the European Commission on this issue. This written question was the subject of a response from the European Commission published on 17 May in which it explained not having any direct evidence as to the facts reported, nor being able to comment on the sources of revenue of the College of Europe beyond European subsidies. A group of College alumni collected signatures to demand the institution to stop organising private meetings between MEPs and the Saudi government.
In a letter to the President of the European Parliament's Budget Control Committee Ingeborg Gräßle, Jörg Monar, Rector of the College of Europe, confirmed the organization of trainings for Saudi officials and criticized the media for reporting them as lobbying. The rector indicated that these meetings had no lobbying dimension but sought to show to the Saudis the reasons why the Union defended certain values, privileging communication over isolation to defend European values.
Inside Arabia Online, an online publication, characterised the lobbying by Saudi Arabia as part of a concerted effort to reverse the Kingdom's inclusion on the EU's "blacklist", which intends to penalize countries failing to combat terrorism financing and money laundering.
Allegations of sexual harassment and misogyny
The French language weekly news magazine Le Vif/L'Express published an article on 21 February 2019 based on the testimony of former students from recent years. The article reported a culture of sexual harassment and misogyny at the College of Europe. Cases of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour were described in the magazine, including frotteurism, forced kisses and groping. Various students reported to Le Vif/L’Express that the administration observes a code of silence on this issue. Cases of inappropriate behaviours by the academic staff were also reported. Contacted by Le Vif/L’Express magazine, the administration replied that: "In some occasions in the past, some students have crossed the personal barriers of other students". On 5 March 2019, a former student of the College of Europe, published an opinion in Le Vif/L’Express magazine, stating that a culture of sexual harassment and misogyny existed at the College of Europe when she was studying there.
Jungle comments by Josep Borrell
In October 2022, EU's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell made controversial comments in a speech to the College of Europe's new European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges. In his speech Borrell designated Europe as “a garden” and he called most of the world a “jungle” that “could invade the garden”. Federica Mogherini, the rector of the College of Europe was hosting Josep Borrell, who succeeded her in the function of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the EU did not express any disagreement.
See also
École nationale d'administration
Europa-Institut of Saarland University
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
European University Institute
List of College of Europe presidents
List of College of Europe rectors and vice-rectors
List of Jesuit sites
References
Further reading
Karel Verleye, De stichting van het Europacollege te Brugge, Stichting Ryckevelde, 1989.
Dieter Mahncke, Léonce Bekemans, Robert Picht, The College of Europe. Fifty Years of Service to Europe, College of Europe, Bruges, 1999. . Includes a list of all graduates 1949–1999.
Paul Demaret, Inge Govaere, Dominik Hanf (eds), Dynamiques juridiques européennes. Edition revue et mise à jour de 30 ans d'études juridiques européennes au Collège d'Europe, Cahiers du Collège d'Europe, P. I. E. Peter Lang, Brussels, 2007.
External links
Politico – College of Europe section
Alumni Association – College of Europe
The Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation
Behind the Walls, article by a College alumnus – Europe&Me Magazine
Universities and colleges established in 1949
Buildings and structures in Bruges
Universities and colleges in Warsaw
Universities in Belgium
Schools of international relations
Education in Bruges
1949 establishments in Belgium |
James Lewis Brock (December 9, 1917 – May 7, 1989) was an American football player who played college football for Purdue. He was drafted in the third round of the 1940 NFL Draft and played his entire six-year career with the Green Bay Packers. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1982.
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"Come Over" is a song written by Sam Hunt, Shane McAnally, and Josh Osborne and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney. It was released in May 2012 as the second single from Chesney's 2012 album Welcome to the Fishbowl.
Content
The song is set in the key of D major with a main chord pattern of Bm7–Gsus2–D/F-Dsus-D–A.
Co-writer Josh Osborne said that when writing the song, he and the co-writers were composing melodies when co-writer Sam Hunt suggested to make it a "kind of desperate thing, like the guy is pleading with this girl to come over." Upon reaching the chorus, they decided to repeat the phrase "come over" five times to "[get] into the emotion of the situation."
Critical reception
Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song three and a half stars out of five, writing that "the songwriters show power in efficiency, yet the singer never really conveys the physical need for this woman that the repetition begs for." Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song four stars out of five, saying that it "shows off a completely different side for Kenny Chesney and it manages to feel immediate and current in ways that 'Feel Like a Rock Star' didn't."
Music video
The music video was directed by Shaun Silva and premiered in June 2012. The music video alternates between scenes featuring Chesney and scenes featuring Courtney McCann. It was filmed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with some ocean scenes near Miami Beach, Florida. Chesney has described the music video as a "classy booty call." It is entirely in black-and-white, and features a cameo from his dog, Poncho, standing on a paddleboard alongside Chesney.
Chart performance
"Come Over" debuted at number 24 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of June 2, 2012. After spending eleven weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart, "Come Over" became Chesney's twenty-second number one single for the week of August 11, 2012. The song has sold over a million copies in the US.
Year-end charts
Certifications
Other versions
Co-writer Sam Hunt recorded a version of "Come Over" for his acoustic mixtape Between the Pines (2013). This recording entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at number 42 following the mixtape's 2015 re-release on MCA Nashville. As of November 2015, Hunt's version has sold 14,000 units.
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2012 singles
Country ballads
2010s ballads
Kenny Chesney songs
Sam Hunt songs
Songs written by Shane McAnally
Song recordings produced by Buddy Cannon
Music videos directed by Shaun Silva
Columbia Nashville Records singles
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Pantodonta is an extinct suborder (or, according to some, an order) of eutherian mammals. These herbivorous mammals were one of the first groups of large mammals to evolve (around 66 million years ago) after the end of the Cretaceous. The last pantodonts died out at the end of the Eocene (around 34 million years ago).
Pantodonta include some of the largest mammals of their time, but were a diversified group, with some primitive members weighing less than and the largest more than .
The earliest and most primitive pantodonts, Bemalambda (with a skull probably the size of a dog) and Hypsilolambda, appear in the early Paleocene Shanghuan Formation in China. All more derived families are collectively classified as Eupantodonta. The pantodonts appear in North America in the middle Paleocene, where Coryphodon survived into the middle Eocene. Pantodont teeth have been found in South America (Alcidedorbignya) and Antarctica, and footprints in a coal mine on Svalbard.
Description
The pantodonts varied considerably in size: the small Archaeolambda, of which there is a complete skeleton from the Late Palaeocene of China, was probably arboreal, while the North American, ground sloth-like Barylambda was massive, slow-moving ("graviportal") and probably browsed on high vegetation.
Dentition
The pantodonts have a primitive dental formula () with little or no diastemata. Their most important synapomorphy are the zalambdodont (V-shaped ectoloph opening towards lip) P3–4 and (except in the most primitive families) dilambdodont (W-shaped ectoloph) upper molars. Most pantodonts lacked a hypocone (fourth cusp) and had small conules (additional small cusps). The incisors are small but the canines large, occasionally sabertooth-like. On P3-M3 there is normally an ectoflexus (indentation on the outer side). Asian families can typically be distinguished from the American because their paracone and metacone (bottom of W on side of tongue) tend to be closer together.
The cheek teeth in the lower jaw are also dilambdodont, with broad, high metalophids (posterior crest) and tall metaconid (posterior-interior cusp) with much lower paracristids and small paraconids.
Postcranial skeleton
Pantodonts have plesiomorphic (unaltered) and robust postcranial skeletons. Their five-toed feet are often hoofed with the tarsals similar to those of ungulates, which feature had led to previously suggested ties to arctocyonid "condylarths", but this similarity is now considered primitive.
Classification
The pantodonts were previously grouped with the ungulates as amblypods, paenungulates, or arctocyonids, but since they have been allied with the tillodonts and considered to be derived from the cimolestids. The interrelationship within Pantodonta is controversial, but, following , it contains about two dozen genera in ten families. Most of the families are known from the Paleocene of either Asia or North America. The pantolambdodontids and coryphodontids survived into the Eocene and the latter are known from across the northern hemisphere. Some dental features can possibly link the most primitive pantodonts to the palaeoryctids, a group of small and insectivorous mammals that evolved during the Cretaceous. Recently a close relationship with Periptychidae has been suggested. This would make pantodonts crown-group ungulate placentals and not related to cimolestids at all.
Genera from North America tended to be large and robust, starting with Pantolambda and Caenolambda in the Middle Paleocene epoch, and later in the epoch started to get larger, with Barylambda as the largest Paleocene form of pantodont. However, Asian forms, such as Archaeolambda, tended to be thinner and less robust, around the size of a medium-sized dog. Only later in the Eocene, with Hypercoryphodon, did Asian pantodonts get large and robust.
Timeline of genera
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The Lion Capital Series were a series of currency notes issued after India declared its independence from Great Britain and used until the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 1996 with banknotes in denominations of 10 and 500 rupees, and were designed with the image of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, the National Emblem which replaced the George VI banknote series. The first banknotes printed after India achieved its independence was a 1-rupee note.
Lion Capital Series Banknotes I
Lion Capital Series Banknotes II
Gallery
See also
Indian rupee
Mahatma Gandhi Series
Mahatma Gandhi New Series
References
Banknotes of India
Portraits on banknotes
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Haplochromis saxicola is a species of cichlid found in Lake Victoria and may possibly occur in the adjacent reaches of the Nile. This species reaches a length of SL.
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saxicola
Fish described in 1960
Fish of Lake Victoria
Taxa named by Humphry Greenwood
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Bagar, or Baggar, is a town and municipal council in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, a northwestern state in India. Known for its heritage havelis (mansions with frescoes), it is located from Jhunjhunu city on NH 8 towards Chirawa-Loharu.
Geography
Bagar is located at in the semi-arid, historical Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, from Jhunjhunu city on National Highway 8 towards Chirawa-Loharu. It has an average elevation of Bagar is on State Highway 8, which connects the district headquarters of Jhunjhunu to the towns of Pilani and Chirawa.
Demographics
, Bagar has a population of 14,238. Males constitute 7,307, or 51% of the population, and females 6,931, or 49%. Bagar has an average literacy rate of 79.81%, higher than the state average of 66.11%, with 89.98% of the males and 68.20% of females being literate. 1,729, or 12.14% of the population, are under 6 years of age.
Events
One of the many different important events in Bagar is the festival of Gangaur, arranged by the Rajput families.
Temples
Bagar has some beautiful and renowned temples:
Havelis
Bagar contains many havelis (mansions) with frescoes on the walls.
The Piramal Haveli, currently run by Neemrana Hotels, is also in Bagar.
Education
Strategically situated between Jhunjhunu city and Chirawa city, and with a population of over 10,000, Bagar is known as an education hub. The town is the ancestral home of many Marwari business families who have invested heavily in schools, and it has 32 educational institutions for local citizens and students from neighboring towns and cities.
The growing willingness by villagers to pay for private education has led to the creation of many new schools in recent years. The town population fluctuates with the advent of each academic year.
Bagar is home to the Piramal, B. L. (Maheshwari), Chavo Veero, Swaroop senior secondary schools, and K.S. International Academy, Krishna Devi Maheshwari Pharmacy College, Seth GDSB Patwari College, Shivonker Maheshwari Technical Institute, and Sanskrit College.
Pratham is the largest non-governmental organization (NGO) working to provide high-quality education to the under-privileged children of India. It has nationwide programs, such as Balwadis (Read India and ASER), and other vocational skills and computer-aided literacy programs.
The ISKCON Food Relief Foundation oversees the government of India's midday meal scheme, a school lunch project that reaches many children, to feed them and keep them in school. The Piramal Foundation pledged to feed 50,000 additional children every day.
See also
Baggar
Bagar (disambiguation)
Gita Piramal
References
External links
Bagar website
Cities and towns in Jhunjhunu district |
The Ensuring Quality Information and Transparency for Abroad-Based Listings on our Exchanges Act (EQUITABLE Act) was a proposed bill to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to require the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to de-list foreign companies traded on U.S. stock exchanges that do not comply with oversight and audit rules. Under the bipartisan bill, foreign companies traded on U.S. stock exchanges that refused to allow the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to inspect their financial records would face de-listing. The bill was introduced in 2019 by Marco Rubio and co-sponsored by Bob Menendez, Tom Cotton, and Kirsten Gillibrand. The bill was a response to the lack of financial transparency of Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, often resulting from reverse mergers, and defrauding of investors.
See also
Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act
The China Hustle
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External links
Text of the act
United States federal securities legislation
United States federal financial legislation
Proposed legislation of the 116th United States Congress
China–United States relations |
Szelągowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jonkowo, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, and in 1772–1945 it belonged to Prussia and Germany (East Prussia).
References
Villages in Olsztyn County |
Phitryonus cyanipennis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Phitryonus. It was described by Fairmaire in 1903.
References
Dorcasominae
Beetles described in 1903
Monotypic beetle genera |
A pill organiser (or pill organizer), pill container, dosette box, pillcase or pillbox is a multicompartment compliance aid for storing scheduled doses of medications. Pill organisers usually have square-shaped compartments for each day of the week, although other more compact and discreet versions have come to market, including cylindrical and pen-shaped cases. Some organisers have sections corresponding to times of the day. Pill organisers are viewed as a way to prevent or reduce medication errors on the part of the patient, though evidence of effectiveness is not strong and they have been linked to medication errors.
Usage
Pill organisers are useful for all types of patients, including the elderly, those who have memory deficiencies, and those taking multiple medications as an aid in remembering to take proper doses of their medications in compliance with their doctor's recommended dose. They allow a patient to know whether or not they have taken a particular dose of their medication; if a pill still remains in its compartment, it is apparent that it has not yet been taken, whereas if it is missing, it has already been taken.
Pill organisers often have various features to make them easier for special-needs patients to use, such as color-coding, Braille for the blind, or a locking mechanism to prevent double dosing. Some organisers used for diabetes patients have sections for insulin and hypodermic syringes.
Some pharmacists will pre-load pills into pill organisers for their patients, as a convenient service.
Electronic pill organisers
Electronic pill organisers, pill dispensers, and pill reminders have been developed that alert patients when their prescription medication, OTC medication, or daily food supplements must be taken. These devices have been credited with saving lives and saving money in the health care system. Advanced models can be linked via the Internet to a medical facility, to aid in monitoring and reminding a patient to take his/her medications.
Legality
In some jurisdictions in the United States possession of prescription drugs in a pill organiser is a crime, and people have been prosecuted for it. The legal theory is that since the drug is not in the package it was dispensed in by the pharmacy, and since it is not "in use" (e.g., swallowed), it is unlawfully possessed. The affirmative defence, that the possessor has a valid prescription for the drug in question, is not always accepted by the court.
References
Clinical pharmacology
Dosage forms
Pharmacy
Medicine storage containers |
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