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23571889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential%20Bank%20Limited | Prudential Bank Limited | Prudential Bank Limited (PBL), commonly known as Prudential Bank, is a private commercial bank in Ghana. It is licensed by the Bank of Ghana, the central bank and national banking regulator.
Location
The headquarters of the bank is located at 8 John Hammond Street, Ring Road Central, Kanda, Accra, Ghana's capital and largest city. The coordinates of the bank's headquarters are 5°34'24.0"N, 0°11'31.0"W (Latitude:5.573335; Longitude:-0.191949).
Overview
The bank was incorporated in 1993, and opened on 15 August 1996 with the first branch in Accra.
PBL is a medium-sized bank specializing in meeting the banking needs of small and medium-sized businesses and individuals.
As of 31 December 2012, the bank's total assets were GHS:676.61 million, with shareholders' equity of GHS:85.1 million.
Subsidiaries
As of April 2016, PBL maintained three wholly owned subsidiaries:
PBL Properties Limited - Accra, Ghana. Acquires, develops, and manages properties and auxiliary staff for the bank.
Prudential Securities Limited - Accra, Ghana. Wealth management, corporate finance, and business advisory services.
Prudential Stockbrokers Limited - Accra, Ghana. Stockbrokage, economic research, and advisory services.
Ownership
The bank's stock was owned by the following corporate entities and individuals as of 31 December 2012:
Branch network
As of June 2022, PBL had 43 branches and 2 agencies at the following locations:
Abeka Branch - Accra
Aboabo Branch - Kumasi
Abossey Okai Branch - Accra
Accra Branch - Accra
Adenta Branch - Accra
Afful Nkwanta Branch - Kumasi
Atonsu Branch - Kumasi
Cape Coast Branch - Cape Coast
East Legon Branch - East Legon, Accra
Gicel Branch - Accra
Kumasi Adum Branch - Kumasi
Kumasi Main Branch - Kumasi
Kwame Nkrumah Circle Branch - Accra
Madina Branch - Accra
Makola Branch - Accra
Mataheko Branch - Accra
Methodist University Agency Branch - Accra
North Industrial Area Branch - Accra
Odorkor Branch - Accra
Ring Road Central Branch - Accra
Spintex Road Branch - Accra
Suame Maakro Branch - Kumasi
Takoradi Harbour Branch - Takoradi
Takoradi Market Circle Branch - Takoradi
Tamale Branch - Tamale
Tema Community 1 Branch - Tema
Tema Fishing Harbour Branch - Tema
Tesano Branch - Accra
University of Cape Coast Branch - Cape Coast
Valley View Agency Branch - Accra
Weija Branch - Accra
Zongo Junction Branch - Accra
See also
List of banks in Ghana
Economy of Ghana
References
External links
Prudential Bank Limited Homepage
PBL launches "Susu" Financial Program for SME's
PBL opens new branch in Aboabo, Kumasi
Banks of Ghana
Companies based in Accra
Banks established in 1996
Ghanaian companies established in 1996 |
23571895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tismice | Tismice | Tismice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Limuzy is an administrative part of Tismice.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17329414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Vear | Percy Vear | Hermann "Percy" Vear (12 July 1911 – 16 March 1983), born in Crossflatts, Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was a British professional boxer during the 1920s and 1930s.
Brought up in Crossflatts during the First World War, Vear lived in Keighley all his adult life.
Boxers are among the most colourful athletes in all of sports, with names like "Hitman", "Bomber" and "Gentleman Jim", so it should come as no surprise that Vear was known as "Percy Vear". It is not known how or who gave Vear his fight name, but in this case it seems likely that "Percy Vear" is a play on the word to "Persevere" (Per·se·vere), which means,
1. to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.
2. to persist in speech, interrogation, argument, etc.; insist.
–verb (used with object)
3. to bolster, sustain, or uphold: unflagging faith that had persevered him.
Boxing career
Vear was one of the most colourful characters in Keighley's professional boxing scene in the 1920s and 1930s. Vear was one of three fighters under the management of Keighley boxing promoter Sam Scaife during those boxing boom years, who also managed locally based fighters Freddie Irving and Johnny Barrett. Perhaps overshadowed by the other two locally, Vear proved to be a bill topper in his own right in many boxing halls up and down the country.
Boxing first as a flyweight, then bantamweight and later as a featherweight the demand of the boxing boom proved so hectic that going on for 30 fights a year were common (more that a lot of boxers today have in a lifetime).
Vear had 131 bouts (many as a substitute) during his professional career, spanning from February 1929 to November 1934.
Professional debut
His first professional fight aged 17 saw flyweight Vear lose a six round contest on points to (Bradford born) Young Broadley at a packed Drill Hall, Keighley on Monday 11 February 1929.
His second and third professional fights were against Silsden fighter Maurice Emmott, both of which ended in respectful draws for both boxers. The local newspaper, the Keighley News reported "Vear took a lot of punishment in the first two rounds, and had his opponent not been more accurate with his blows Vear would most certainly have been knocked out. As it was, Emmott's methods were very crude, but he did the greater part of attacking. As the fight progressed Vear showed improvement, and the decision of a draw was well received".
His bout with Barrett in Workington was hailed by the local press as the best fight ever seen in the area.
The Big Fight: Vear -v- Irving
Two professional boxers from the same stable (run by Mr Sam Scaife) were both making names for themselves, Percy Vear and Freddie Irving.
In just three weeks during 1932 they both took on a formidable opponent called Young Tucker of Nelson. 17-year-old Irving forced him to a draw at Colne, while Vear brought off a points win in Keighley Drill Hall. These creditable performances by these two stable mates aroused the interest of the boxing public, and this inevitably led to a money-match being staged in the Drill Hall on 11 April 1932.
It was reported at the time "The contest was one of ten 2 minute rounds at 9st, under forfeit. There were side-stakes of £25, plus a substantial purse offered by the promoter".
The match was one of the biggest local attractions Keighley fight fans had even seen for many years. They responded well and there was a capacity crowd of 1,400. The cost per ticket was 2s. 4d. for reserved seats and 1s. 2d for the remainder. Mr Harry Jennings of Bradford refereed the match and held the purse. The local newspaper, the Keighley News, which gave considerable space to boxing, reported, "that it was not until the final two rounds that Vear really came into contention".
Vear had obviously been saving himself, but by the time he had reached the point of wearing down Irving's defence it was too late. Irving took the match and the purse on a points verdict and it was a fitting climax to the 1931–32 fight season.
Other sporting activities outside boxing
Following his boxing career, Vear was involved with his local association football club, Keighley Town.
He offered his services as fitness and exercise coach to the team. He helped structure the training and exercises on training nights and assisted in giving the embrocation muscle rubs before a game and at half-time.
The club played in the Old Yorkshire League for two seasons between 1946–47 and 1947–48 before folding.
The club was subsequently reformed in 1981 by ex-Wales and Bradford City footballer Trevor Hockey.
Personal life
Vear was born 12 July 1911 to parents Frederick Henry Vear & Eliza Vear (nee Heath).
He married Doreen Vear (Nee Grayston) on 16 July 1932 at Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme, Keighley, West Yorkshire and they had three children, 2 sons, Terence & Leslie & a daughter, Yvonne.
Vear worked as a store keeper in a Bakehouse and later in life as a shot blaster for a local firm in Keighley the "Rustless Iron Company Ltd" now known under the acronym Trico Vitreous Enamel, and moved to the nearby town of Bingley. He worked there until his retirement in the mid 1970s. The sole activity of the company was the vitreous enamelling of metal products and components with the ability to enamel anything from a bath to a cap badge. On 3 January 1974, Vear was presented by the "Rustless Iron Company Ltd" with an analogue "Gold Watch" for 25 years loyal service to the company.
Vear's wife died of cancer in March 1968, and in September 1971 Vear remarried. He lived with his second wife Florence May Vear (Nee Parkin) at Broomfield Road, Keighley. Vear became ill in his late 60s and spent the last year of his life being cared for at Holmewood Residential Home, Fell Lane, Keighley.
On 12 July 2007, 96 years to the day of Vear's birth, his great-grandson, from his youngest son Leslie's line of descendants, was born. He is aptly named Jenson Percy Leslie Vear.
In 2009, Christopher Dunn (illustrator) staged an exhibition of his watercolours entitled "Bingley Secrets". One of his pieces was of boxer Vear sitting on top of Damart UK Headquarters factory chimney overlooking Bingley.
In 2012, a 'Traditional Real Ale' public house was named after Vear in his home town of Keighley in Aireworth Street in honour of his achievements. There is a Pint of real ale beer named after Vear aptly named "Percy’s Pint", which may be found and consumed on the premise. This beer is specially brewed by Empire Brewery in Huddersfield. There is another pub in Leymoor road, Golcar, Huddersfield called Percy Vear.
Career record
|-
|align="center" colspan=8|43 Wins (3 knockouts, 38 decisions, 1 retired, 1 disqualifications), 28 Losses (1 knockouts, 23 decisions, 3 retired, 1 disqualifications), 14 Draws
|-
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res.
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location, UK
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-align=center
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-02-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-03-18
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-04-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Handbill misspelt as "Veer"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Dusty Young (Harrogate)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-08-21
|align=left|In the Woodlands Hotel Gardens, Harrogate
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Mack (Harrogate)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-09-11
|align=left|In the Woodlands Hotel Gardens, Harrogate
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mick Walsh (Harrogate)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-10-21
|align=left|Starbeck Physical Culture Room, Starbeck
|Handbill misspelt as "Vere"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Hargreaves (Dewsbury)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-10-27
|align=left|Batley Physical Culture Club, Batley
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|x
|6 (6)
|1929-10-28
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|2nd Fight in two days
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1929-11-29
|align=left|Gaiety Skating Rink, Castleford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1929-12-09
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Teddy Talbot (Warrington)
|Stopped
|8 (8)
|1929-12-25
|align=left|The Rink, Knaresborough
|Handbill marked as A.N.Other
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-01-15
|align=left|The Rink, Batley Carr, Dewsbury
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Boylan (Barrow)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-02-17
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Maurice Emmott (Silsden)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-02-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack Inwood (Birstall)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-03
|align=left|Birstall Physical Culture Club, Birstall
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dod Lockland (Bradford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-10
|align=left|Horton Green Social Club, Bradford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Mick Walsh (Harrogate)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-03-17
|align=left|Ideal Skating Rink, Harrogate
|Handbill misspelt as "Vere"
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|x
|8 (8)
|1930-03-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-04-06
|align=left|Horton Green Social Club, Bradford
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Broadley (Bradford)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-04-07
|align=left|Birstall Physical Culture Club, Birstall
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| John Barrett (Keighley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-05-05
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack White (Bradford)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-06-02
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Boy Gibson (Bradford)
|KO
|4 (8)
|1930-06-30
|align=left|The Black Swan, Harrogate
|Vear substitute for Alfred Buck
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Joe Speight
|KO
|8 (8)
|1930-07-15
|align=left|Gomersal
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jack Smith (Shipley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-09-01
|align=left|Victoria Hall, Saltaire
|Handbill misspelt as "Veare"
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Gallagher (Huddersfield)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-09-28
|align=left|Vulcan Athletic Club, Dewsbury
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Freddie Irving (Keighley)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1930-09-29
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear substitute for Young Haggas
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Kirkley (Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-11-10
|align=left|The Baths, Normanton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Dudley (Wakefield)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1930-11-16
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Harry Johnson (Macclesfield)
|x
|8 (8)
|1930-11-24
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Joe Speight (Birstall)
|Stopped
|4 (6)
|1930-12-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear substitute for Young Ogden
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Eric (Kid) Lawton (Goole)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1930-12-14
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Close (Holbeck, Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1930-12-21
|align=left|The Windsor Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Johnny Parker (Doncaster)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-01-18
|align=left|The Premier School of Boxing, Liversedge
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jim Burrows (Barnsley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1931-01-23
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mickey Ryan (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-03-09
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Ryan stand-in for Young Stafford
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Johnny Nolan (Bradford)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-03-23
|align=left|The New Stadium, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Eccles (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-04-06
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-05-04
|align=left|The Windsor Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Mick Howard (Liverpool)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-06-03
|align=left|Wigan
|controversial draw, Vear appeared to be easy Winner
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dickie Inckles (Sheffield)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-06-15
|align=left|Don Road Stadium, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Billy Sullivan (Silsden)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-07-05
|align=left|The Picture House, Streethouse, Pontefract
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jacky Skelly (Barnsley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-07-11
|align=left|The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Dickie Inckles (Sheffield)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-07-15
|align=left|Don Road Stadium, Sheffield
|Inckles had verdicts over Jackie Brown (British Champion) & Bert Kirby (Ex-Champion)
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jackie Webster (Normanton)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-07-29
|align=left|Newhall Sports Ground, Attercliffe, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Billy Gritt (Doncaster)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-08-01
|align=left|Open-air boxing at The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Joe Goodall (Castleford)
|x
|12 (12)
|1931-08-15
|align=left|Newhall Sports Ground, Attercliffe, Sheffield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Steve Firman (Swinton, Mexborough)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-08-23
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Steve Firman (Swinton, Mexborough)
|x
|10 (10)
|1931-08-28
|align=left|Denaby, Doncaster
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Dandy (Scunthorpe)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-09-20
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| George Aldred (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-10-12
|align=left|Olympia Skating Ring, Wakefield
|Aldred substitute for Joe Speakman
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Dyke Archer (Salford)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-10-22
|align=left|Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Mickey Callaghan (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-10-25
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Callaghan substitute for Jacky Barber
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Willie Walsh (Oldham)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-11-03
|align=left|British Legion Club, Huddersfield
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Seaman Dobson (Leeds)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1931-11-27
|align=left|Imperial Boxing Hall, Barnsley
|Vear Substitute for Johnny Regan
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Creasy (Newark)
|X
|10 (10)
|1931-12-03
|align=left|Victoria Baths, Nottingham
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| George Aldred (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1931-12-13
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Handbill misspelt as "Veir"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tiny Smith (Sheffield)
|Disqualification
|6 (10
|1931-12-13
|align=left|Rotherham
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| Young Kilbride (Leeds)
|X
|10 (10)
|1932-01-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Bob Healey (Bolton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-08
|align=left|Skipton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-15
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Kid Cassidy (Stockton)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-02-21
|align=left|The Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|Handbill misspelt as "Veir"
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Tucker (Nelson)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-03-21
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Tucker substitute for George Taylor
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tom Goodall (Castleford)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1932-03-29
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Freddie Irving (Keighley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-04-11
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-05-14
|align=left|Goit Stock Pleasure Grounds, Bingley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Tom Cowley (Thurnscoe)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1932-05-16
|align=left|The Racing Track, Goldthorpe
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Kennedy (Maltby)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-06-04
|align=left|Drill Hall, Workington
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Smith (Huddersfield)
|Disqualification
|5 (6)
|1932-06-18
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-07-01
|align=left|The Plant Hotel, Mexborough
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Sid Ellis (Manchester)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-07-22
|align=left|Nelson Football Ground, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-08-08
|align=left|Keighley RL Football Ground (Cougar Park), Keighley
|Vear substitute for Freddie Irving
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Billy Shaw (Leeds)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1932-xx-xx
|align=left|Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Quinn (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-07
|align=left|Windsor Hall, Bradford
|Vear substitute for Freddy Irving
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Dick Greaves (Salford)
|Retired
|10 (12)
|1932-11-10
|align=left|Alexandra Stadium, Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Barber (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-14
|align=left|Olympia, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Tommy Barber (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1932-11-27
|align=left|Leeds National Sporting Club
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Hyman Gordon (Manchester)
|Retired hurt – burst ear
|9 (10)
|1932-12-01
|align=left|Alexandra Stadium, Colne
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Young Monk (Dinnington)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-01-16
|align=left|Drill Hall, Halifax
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Bobby Thackray (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-06
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Darkie Carr (Glasgow)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-10
|align=left|Wakefield Boxing Stadium, Wakefield
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Danny Wakelam (Castleford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-02-24
|align=left|The Gaiety, Castleford
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Charlie Barlow (Manchester)
|Stopped by referee
|1 (10)
|1933-03-03
|align=left|Blackpool Tower Circus, Blackpool
|Barlow current contender for Lightweight Champion of Great Britain
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Mattie Hinds (Durham)
|Decision
|12 (12)
|1933-03-11
|align=left|Theatre Royal, Sunderland
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jackie Webster (Normanton)
|Stopped by Knockout
|7 (10)
|1933-03-17
|align=left|Drill Hall, Normanton
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Owen Moran (Leeds)
|Decision
|15 (15)
|1933-03-22
|align=left|Winter Gardens, Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Draw
|align=left| George Stead (Manchester)
|x
|15 (15)
|1933-04-12
|align=left|Winter Gardens,Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Clayton (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-05-01
|align=left|Olympia, Bradford
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Walter (Kid Chocolate) Melgram (Otley)
|Stopped
|x (8)
|1933-05-14
|align=left|Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Clayton (Bradford)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-06-07
|align=left|Goit Stock, Bingley
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Danny Veitch (Sunderland)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-06-24
|align=left|West Hartlepool
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Spud Murphy (Manchester)
|Stopped
|3 (15)
|1933-07-19
|align=left|Winter Gardens,Morecambe
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jim Driscoll (North Shields)
|Stopped
|7 (xx)
|1933-10-20
|align=left|North Shields Stadium, North Shields
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Bob Caulfield (Manchester)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-10-22
|align=left|Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
|
|-align=center
|Win
|align=left| Jim Holding (Leeds)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1933-11-03
|align=left|The Picture House, Streethouse, Pontefract
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Walt Jacques (Keighley)
|Decision
|8 (8)
|1933-11-13
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear & Jacques replaced Williams & Lee on the boxing card
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Crow (Halifax)
|Decision
|6 (6)
|1933-12-08
|align=left|Drill Hall, Halifax
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Bill Lambert (Burnley)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1934-01-11
|align=left|Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Young Tucker (Nelson)
|Decision
|10 (10)
|1934-02-08
|align=left|Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Jack Carrick (Hull)
|Stopped
|3 (10)
|1934-02-26
|align=left|Hull
|
|-align=center
|Loss
|align=left| Stan Hughes (Huddersfield)
|Stopped
|6 (10)
|1934-11-12
|align=left|Drill Hall, Keighley
|Vear Substitute for Jacques
|
References
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20110928165232/http://www.britishboxing.net/boxers_15178-Percy-Vear.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030929083016/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/boxer%20lists/V%20list.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216070434/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/records/danny%20wakelam.htm
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=318137&cat=boxer
http://archive.thisisbradford.co.uk/2001/12/14/132340.html
http://archive.cravenherald.co.uk/2001/12/14/132340.html
1911 births
English male boxers
Flyweight boxers
Bantamweight boxers
Featherweight boxers
People from Bingley
Sportspeople from Keighley
1983 deaths
Sport in the City of Bradford |
23571897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tou%C5%A1ice | Toušice | Toušice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Mlékovice is an administrative part of Toušice.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17329428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conanicut%20Battery | Conanicut Battery | The Conanicut Battery is a colonial and 20th century military battery in Jamestown, Rhode Island, west of Beaver Tail Road. The site offers a commanding view of the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
During the American Revolutionary War, local militia constructed an earthen battery on the site. The British occupied Jamestown later that year and took over the site, occupying the space until August 1778 when the French fleet arrived. Its principal surviving feature is an earthworks measuring about long and wide. The site is marked by a plaque placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1931. During the early 20th century, the U.S. military built large partially underground defensive batteries in the area, notably Fort Getty and Fort Burnside.
The 22-acre site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is now owned by the town and operated as Conanicut Battery National Historic Park. The Friends of Conanicut Battery and the Jamestown Historical Society are active in preserving the fort.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References and external links
Conanicut Battery information Spring 2012 (PDF)
Conanicut Battery information Spring 2017 (PDF)
Conanicut Battery at Jamestown Historical Society
Conanicut Battery at American Forts Network
Conanicut Battery at FortWiki.com
Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Jamestown, Rhode Island
Parks in Rhode Island
Conanicut
Conanicut
Conanicut
Protected areas of Newport County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
American Revolution on the National Register of Historic Places |
17329434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Gent%20from%20Bear%20Creek | A Gent from Bear Creek | A Gent from Bear Creek is a collection of Western short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1937 by Herbert Jenkins. The first United States edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1966. The stories continue on from each other, like chapters in a book.
Overview
The stories are humorously written as if told by Breckinridge Elkins, a hillbilly with no schooling. He and his kin live in the Humboldts in Nevada. Elkins is six feet six inches tall, is as strong as a grizzly bear, and he can be just as bad tempered if riled. And there is a lot to rile him, especially his relatives.
Though a dead shot, he prefers to use his fists, feet, teeth, etc. In numerous fights he attacks whole groups of armed men and commits mayhem. No one actually dies but limbs are broken, jaws shattered, faces are trod on, skulls fractured, ribs broken, and so on. Even buildings do not always survive such an attack. He picks up many injuries himself, but being shot, getting many cuts with Bowie knives, head bashed with numerous objects, having his ear chewed, scratched up by a mountain lion he then threw into a room full of feuding men and such are just minor nuisances to him.
He previously rode an old mule called Alexander, the only animal that could carry him till he came across Cap'n Kidd, his equine equivalent, and tamed him. Elkins is the only man tough enough to ride the giant, pugnacious horse. Glory McGraw (a local girl) is his sometimes love interest but he is often too dumb to see it.
Contents
"Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts"
"Mountain Man"
"Meet Cap'n Kidd"
"Guns of the Mountains"
"A Gent from Bear Creek"
"The Feud Buster"
"The Road to Bear Creek"
"The Scalp Hunter"
"Cupid From Bear Creek"
"The Haunted Mountain"
"Educate or Bust"
"War on Bear Creek"
"When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear"
References
1937 short story collections
Short story collections by Robert E. Howard |
23571899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Coolidge | Cornelius Coolidge | Cornelius Coolidge (August 30, 1778 - September 4, 1843) was a real estate developer in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, who constructed buildings in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, and elsewhere. As a young man he had been involved in maritime trade, and not always within the prescribed laws. During the War of 1812, the brig Dispatch owned by Coolidge and Francis Oliver was captured outside Boston Harbor by the Salem privateer Castigator on suspicion of having been trading with the enemy. Coolidge and Oliver manned two boats with 45 armed men, rowed down the harbor, and regained their brig after an exchange of gunfire. However, the brig was restored to the privateers by the district court.
Described variously as an architect, housewright, builder, designer, and real estate broker, Harvard-educated Coolidge brought many buildings into being. Clients of Coolidge & Co. included some of Boston's more prominent residents, such as David Sears and Charles Francis Adams. He conducted business with John Hubbard, Joseph Morton (brother of Perez Morton) and others. He was also a proprietor of the Boston Mill Corporation.
Around 1825, Coolidge and Nathaniel Amory began developing property in Nahant, Massachusetts, for construction of summer homes. The first homes sold in 1827. Clients included David Sears and others. On Beacon Hill, Coolidge built houses on Chestnut, Mount Vernon, Acorn, Joy and Beacon Streets, including Louisburg Square. Several remain in existence, including:
33 Beacon Street (George Parkman house), 1825.
50 Chestnut Street (Francis Parkman house), 1830s.
Coolidge led an active social life. He was one of the first subscribers the Boston Athenaeum. He attended the gala opening dinner party for the newly built Tremont House hotel on October 16, 1829, along with mayor Josiah Quincy, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Harrison Gray Otis, and others.
References
Further reading
Andrew Preston Peabody. A sermon preached in commemoration of the founders of the Nahant Church: at the dedication of a tablet erected to their memory, July 22, 1877. Press of John Wilson and Son, 1877.
Businesspeople from Boston
Architects from Boston
Harvard University alumni
19th-century American people
1778 births
1843 deaths
Place of birth unknown
Date of birth unknown
19th century in Boston |
23571900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%99ebovle | Třebovle | Třebovle is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Borek, Království and Miškovice are administrative parts of Třebovle.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17329437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene%20Society | Slovene Society | The Slovene Society (, also ) is the second-oldest publishing house in Slovenia, founded on February 4, 1864 as an institution for the scholarly and cultural progress of Slovenes.
History
The Slovene Society was founded upon the proposal of several Slovene patriotic associations and individuals from Maribor, who urged the establishment of an institution that would publish advanced scholarly literature in Slovene, foster the expansion of culture among Slovenes, and development of scientific terminology in Slovene. In 1864, the consortium Slovenska matica was founded in Ljubljana. Its work was based on the examples of similar institutions in other Slavic countries, such as the Matica hrvatska in Croatia, Matica srpska in Vojvodina, Matice česká in the Czech Lands, and Matica slovenská in Slovakia. The consortium was established with private capital, as well as with capital of the Duchy of Carniola and several cultural associations. The Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I also gave a substantial financial contribution for its founding.
The institution reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, it functioned as a regular publishing house on a free market, publishing books for a general public, many of which became bestsellers; at the same time, it also performed the role of an Academy of Sciences, fostering high culture and maintaining close contacts with the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, as well as similar institutions in Prague, Krakow, London and Sankt Peterburg.
During World War I, the SM was closed and its properties confiscated by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. The alleged cause was the publication of the book Gospodin Franjo ("Mister Franjo") by the Slovene author and officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army Fran Maselj (pen name: Podlimbarski), which was a strong satirical critique of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Slovene Society expanded its publishing work and in 1938 it was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. During the Italian occupation in World War II, the leadership of the Slovene Society collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovene People. In 1944, it was shut down by the Nazi German authorities. In the late 1945, the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Slovenia allowed the society to be re-established, although its editorial policies were considered "too conservative" by the new regime. Most of its properties were nationalized by the state, but the institution was allowed to continue functioning and later received substantial subsidies.
The work of the institution was reinvigorated again in the 1980s, when it started systemically publishing translations of major Western philosophers and political theorists, including authors regarded as subversive of the official Socialist ideology, such as Heidegger, Machiavelli, Jan Patočka, Unamuno, José Ortega y Gasset, Aurelius Augustinus, and the complete works of Nietzsche.
Chairmen
Since its establishment, the Slovene Society has been headed by important figures from Slovene cultural and public life.
1865: Anton Zois, politician and philanthropist
1865–1869: Lovro Toman, lawyer, author and politician
1869–1875: Etbin Henrik Costa, lawyer and politician
1875–1881: Janez Bleiweis, politician
1881–1882: Josip Marn, literary historian
1882–1885: Peter Grasselli, politician, mayor of Ljubljana
1885–1886: Josip Poklukar, editor
1886–1893: Josip Marn
1893–1907: Fran Levec, literary historian
1907–1914: Fran Ilešič, literary historian
1917: Peter Grasselli
1918–1920: Ivan Tavčar, author and politician, mayor of Ljubljana
1920–1947: Dragotin Lončar, historian and political theorist
1947–1949: Oton Župančič, poet
1950–1966: Anton Melik, geographer
1966–1975: France Koblar, art historian
1975–1978: Fran Zwitter, historian
1978–1987: Bogo Grafenauer, historian
1987–1994: Primož Simoniti, classical philologist, historian and translator
1994–2008: Joža Mahnič, literary historian
since 2008: Milček Komelj, art historian and critic
Editors and chancellors
Many prominent individuals served as editors and chancellors (chief secretaries) of the institution. The most prominent of these were Fran Levstik, Josip Vidmar, Juš Kozak, France Bernik, and Drago Jančar. Several others have collaborated with the institution, including philosophers Ivo Urbančič and Tine Hribar, historian Vasilij Melik and political theorist Albin Prepeluh.
Notes and references
External links
Official site
Learned societies of Slovenia
Organizations established in 1864
Organizations based in Ljubljana
Cultural history of Slovenia
Slovenian culture
Publishing companies of Slovenia
Scientific organizations in Ljubljana |
23571905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%99i%20Dvory | Tři Dvory | Tři Dvory is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuchoraz | Tuchoraz | Tuchoraz is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17329441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Jacobsson | Jonas Jacobsson | Jonas Jacobsson (born 22 June 1965) is a Swedish sport shooter who has won several gold medals at the Paralympic Games. He participated in ten consecutive Summer Paralympics from 1980 to 2016, winning a total of seventeen gold, two silver, and nine bronze medals. In 1996, he won two gold medals in the air rifle 3×40 and English match events and a bronze in the air rifle prone at the Atlanta Paralympics. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, he took two gold medals in the free rifle 3×40 and free rifle prone events and two bronzes in air rifle standing and air rifle prone events. Four years later, at the Athens Games, he competed in the same four events and won the gold medal in all of them.
On 10 September 2008 Jacobsson won his 16th gold medal in the Paralympic Games making him the best performing male Paralympics contestant so far. Later that year, he became the first athlete with a physical disability to receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, Sweden's most significant sports award.
See also
Athletes with most gold medals in one event at the Paralympic Games
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Swedish male sport shooters
Paralympic shooters of Sweden
Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
Paralympic silver medalists for Sweden
Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Paralympic medalists in shooting
Shooters at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
People from Norrköping
Sportspeople from Östergötland County |
23571910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuklaty | Tuklaty | Tuklaty is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Tlustovousy is an administrative part of Tuklaty.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhl%C3%AD%C5%99sk%C3%A1%20Lhota | Uhlířská Lhota | Uhlířská Lhota is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Rasochy is an administrative part of Uhlířská Lhota.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veletov | Veletov | Veletov is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velk%C3%BD%20Osek | Velký Osek | Velký Osek is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants.
Transport
Velký Osek is both road and railway hub. There is only one rail line leading off the main station: to Choceň and Prague.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitice | Vitice | Vitice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Chotýš, Dobré Pole, Hřiby, Lipany and Močedník are administrative parts of Vitice.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol%C3%A1rna | Volárna | Volárna is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vr%C3%A1tkov | Vrátkov | Vrátkov is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrb%C4%8Dany | Vrbčany | Vrbčany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zale%C5%A1any | Zalešany | Zalešany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Přebozy is an administrative part of Zalešany.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDabonosy | Žabonosy | Žabonosy is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvers%20Bay%20High%20School | Carvers Bay High School | Carvers Bay High School is a public high school in Hemingway, South Carolina serving students from parts of Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States. It is in the Georgetown County School District and has grades 9 to 12 . The school was established from a merger between Choppee High School and Pleasant Hill High School, and opened in 2000. In 2000 it enrolled nearly 800 students. It serves students from the towns of Pleasant Hill, Plantersville, Hemingway, Lanes Creek, Dunbar, Oatland, St. Luke, Pee Dee, Choppee and Browns Ferry.
Middle school
Carvers Bay Middle School is located on the same campus, in a separate building.
Timekeeping
There are no bells to mark the beginning or ending of class periods. Students and staff use watches and clocks.
Notable alumni
Clifton Geathers - National Football League (NFL) player, Philadelphia Eagles.
Kwame Geathers - NFL player, San Diego Chargers
Robert Geathers - NFL player, Cincinnati Bengals
References
Public high schools in South Carolina
Schools in Georgetown County, South Carolina |
23571940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDd%C3%A1nice%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Ždánice (Kolín District) | Ždánice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Gallery
References
Villages in Kolín District |
20467185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20representations%20in%20hip%20hop%20music | LGBT representations in hip hop music | LGBT representations in hip hop music have existed since the birth of the genre despite blatant discrimination. Hip hop has long been portrayed as one of the least LGBT-friendly genres of music, with a significant body of the genre containing homophobic views and anti-gay lyrics, with mainstream artists such as Eminem and Tyler, the Creator having used homophobia in their lyrics. Attitudes towards homosexuality in hip hop culture have historically been negative. Slang that uses homosexuality as a punchline such as "sus", "no homo", and "pause" can be heard in hip hop lyrics from some of the industry's biggest artists. However, since the early 2000s there has been a flourishing community of LGBTQ+ hip hop artists, activists, and performers breaking barriers in the mainstream music industry.
Labels such as homo hop or queer hip hop group all artists identifying as members of the LGBTQ+ community into a subgenre of hip hop based solely on their sexuality. These subgenre labels are not marked by any specific production style, as artists within it may simultaneously be associated with virtually any other subgenre of hip hop, or may also make music that falls outside the subgenre entirely. Rather, the terms are defined by a direct engagement with LGBT culture in elements such as the lyrical themes or the artist's visual identity and presentation.
Artists who have been labelled as part of the genre have, however, varied in their acceptance of the terminology. Some have supported the identification of a distinct phenomenon of "LGBTQ+ hip hop" as an important tool for promoting LGBTQ+ visibility in popular music, while others have criticized it for essentially ghettoizing their music as a "niche" interest that circumscribed their appeal to mainstream music fans.
Many artists have contributed to the increased visibility and social acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community's presence in hip hop music, most notably Frank Ocean, who penned an open letter addressing his sexuality in 2012. There has also been an increased presence of LGBTQ+ allies in the mainstream hip hop community, such as Jay-Z, Murs, Kanye West, XXXTentacion, Jack Harlow, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, and Ryan Lewis.
History
Origins (1970s)
Hip-hop was developed in the late 1970s following the popularity of disco. Disco music, which contains origins within Black American culture, had an impact on hip-hop from samples to early hip-hop fashion. The disco scene which was derived from disco music was known for its vibrant nightlife that was considered a haven for those in the LGBTQ+ community, particularly LGBTQ+ youth of color.
Despite these origins, early hip-hop artists expressed anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments and epithets common of the time in their music. Sugarhill Gang's 1979 song "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop record to become a top 40 hit, referred to fictional character Superman as a "fairy" for wearing a skin-tight garment.
1980s-1990s
In 1986, the hip hop trio Beastie Boys originally wanted to name their debut album Don't Be A Faggot, but their record label Columbia Records refused to release it under that title, so it changed the title to Licensed to Ill. Years later, the Beastie Boys formally apologized to the LGBT community for the "shitty and ignorant" things they said on their first record.
During what was considered third-wave feminism, there was an infusion of Black feminist thought into hip-hop by way of Black women in the genre who emphasized issues of race, gender, and sexuality. This included Black LGBTQ+ musicians like Meshell Ndegeocello whose 1993 album Plantation Lullabies is considered an example of the evolving attitudes and politics of the hip hop generation, specifically from younger Black feminists. According to Andreana Clay, "Ndegeocello's lyrics are a product of early Black feminism, radical lesbian feminism, and hip-hop feminism."
In her music, Ndegocello has addressed sexuality and Blackness as a Black bisexual woman, garnering a following from LGBTQ+ feminists of color. Her musical content and appearance also drew criticism from certain listeners and radio stations who refused to play her music. The ideas of Black queer and lesbian feminism influenced hip hop during a moment when politics surrounding sexuality, gender, and race were shifting.
Although more radical queer politics were influencing more mainstream areas of music and society, discrimination remained and LGBTQ+ artists continued to face marginalization and barriers in airtime and commercial success.
2000s-Present
Kanye West denounced homophobia in hip hop in an August 2005 interview with Sway Calloway for MTV News. He discussed how his environment led him to be homophobic, and how finding out his cousin was gay changed his perspective. This statement was radical at the time; it was the first major statement against homophobia in hip hop by a popular artist.
Homo hop
The homo hop movement first emerged in the 1990s as an underground movement spearheaded by the hip-hop group Rainbow Flava, particularly in California, in part as a reaction to the widespread acceptance of homophobia in the lyrics of mainstream hip hop performers such as Eminem. Lyrics in songs such as "Criminal" on The Marshall Mathers LP demonstrate this homophobia. Initially coined by Tim'm T. West of Deep Dickollective, the term "homo hop" was not meant to signify a distinct genre of music, but simply to serve as a community building tool and promotional hook for LGBTQ+ artists. According to West:
West's bandmate Juba Kalamka offered a similar assessment:
In a 2001 interview with SFGate.com, West elaborated on the movement's goals:
The genre received a mainstream publicity boost in 2002 and 2003 when Caushun was widely reported as the first openly LGBTQ+ rapper to be signed to a major label, although Caushun was later revealed to have been a publicity stunt engineered by heterosexual musician Ivan Matias.
Notable events in the 2000s included the PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival, which was founded in 2001 and mounted annually until 2008, and the 2006 documentary film Pick Up the Mic. However, some music critics in this era dismissed the genre as too often sacrificing musical quality in favour of a "didactic" political agenda.
The most commercially successful LGBTQ+ rapper in the 2000s was Cazwell, who emerged as a popular artist in gay dance clubs, and has scored at least six top 40 hits on Billboard'''s Hot Dance Club Songs chart, with a hybrid pop-rap style which he has described as "if Biggie Smalls ate Donna Summer for breakfast". Cazwell described his philosophy of music as "create your own space, your own music and have people come to you," and has noted in interviews that he achieved much greater success by "breaking" the rules of the hip hop industry than he ever did in his earlier attempts to pursue mainstream success with the 1990s hip hop duo Morplay.
One of the first mainstream artists to speak out publicly against anti-gay discrimination in hip hop was Kanye West in a 2004 interview with Sway Calloway on MTV News. In the interview Kanye says, "Hip-hop does discriminate against gay people. I want to just come on TV and tell my rappers, my friends, just stop it, fam. Seriously, that's really discrimination". Kanye criticized the hip-hop community, saying, "Hip-hop seemed like it was about fighting for your rights in the beginning, about speaking your mind, and breaking down barriers or whatever, but everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. To me, that's one of the standards in hip-hop is to be like, 'You fag, you gay'".
Later negative representations
In Byron Hurt's 2006 documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Hurt explores the nuanced relationships between hip-hop, masculinity, misogyny, and homophobia. Recognizing the presence of these issues in hip-hop, a genre he loves, Hurt felt a sense of hypocrisy and began working on the film. In the documentary Hurt travels around the country and interviews rap and hip hop artists, academics, and fans about their perceptions on these issues in the culture. After conducting dozens of interviews, Hurt sees a continued pattern of homophobia linked to the need to prove one's masculinity.
Through the objectification of women and domination of other men to assert another person's masculinity, a pattern of homophobia occurs in the hip hop and rap community. Rapper Busta Rhymes walks out of his interview when he is asked a question about homophobia in the rap community. Rhymes says, "I can't partake in that conversation," followed by, "With all due respect, I ain't trying to offend nobody. . . What I represent culturally doesn't condone [homosexuality] whatsoever." This reaction from Rhymes exemplifies part of the negative perception of homosexuality in the hip-hop community.
Rapper Boosie Badazz has faced criticism for his remarks directed towards artist Lil Nas X on Twitter. Boosie Badazz has repeatedly made homophobic remarks about Lil Nas X since his rise to superstardom.
Song lyrics
Ice-T stated on his autobiography that record-label executive Seymour Stein took exception to a line in his song "409": "Guys grab a girl, girls grab a guy / If a guy wants a guy, please take it outside". Ice-T later became one of the first rappers to condemn homophobia on raps such as Straight Up Nigga and The Tower in his album O.G. Original Gangster (1991).
Many songs by rapper Eminem have been considered homophobic for his frequent use of anti-gay slurs, especially the song "Criminal" from his third album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), which contains lines like: "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge, That'll stab you in the head, whether you're a fag or les', Or a homosex, hermaph or a trans-a-vest, Pants or dress, hate fags? The answer's 'yes'". In an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, Eminem denied being homophobic and explained the frequent use of the term "faggot" in his lyrics, that this word was "thrown around constantly" in battle rap, and that he does not use it to refer to gay people.The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards 2001, which led to protests due to the album's controversial content. At the show, Eminem performed "Stan" with openly gay musician Elton John in response. Eminem experienced more backlash in 2018, after he released his surprise album Kamikaze. On December 11, 2017, rapper Tyler, The Creator tweeted "dear god this song is horrible sheesh how the fuck", which fans quickly realised was directed at Eminem's new single at the time, "Walk On Water". On the track "Fall" from Kamikaze, Eminem responded to Tyler, The Creator's criticisms, where he raps "Tyler create nothin', I see why you call yourself a faggot, bitch / It's not because you lack attention, it's because you worship D12's balls, you're sacreligeous".
This is most likely in relation to Tyler's sexuality being a major spectacle within his fanbase, with a lot of his lyrics hinting at homosexuality. Before the album was released, however, the slur was censored. Eminem joined Sway Calloway in a series of interviews after Kamikaze's release, where he explained that he regretted using the slur against Tyler. "In my quest to hurt him, I realised that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it. At the time, I was so mad, it was just whatever...", "...it was one of the things I kept going back to, going 'I don't feel right with this.'" Justin Vernon, who provided the chorus for "Fall", publicly condemned Eminem's language on the song, tweeting "Was not in the studio for the Eminem track... came from a session with BJ Burton and Mike Will. Not a fan of the message, it's tired. Asked them to change the track, wouldn't do it...".
In 2020, Eminem released his album Music To Be Murdered By, in which he collaborated on a song with openly queer New York rapper Young M.A. In 2010, while being interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes, Eminem was challenged about his homophobic lyrics, to which he said: "The scene that I came up in, that word was thrown around so much. You know? 'Faggot', it was thrown around constantly to each other, like, in battling." When Anderson Cooper asked Eminem if he 'didn't like gay people', Eminem replied: "I don't have any problem with nobody [sic]."
In 2020, rappers Insane Clown Posse denounced past use of homophobic slurs in their lyrics, saying that their producer Mike E. Clark is gay, and that "We wanted to be like gangsta rap, and gangsta rap said it all the time" but "There was never a time when we had a problem with gay people."
In the lyrics of one song on rapper Trick-Trick's 2008 album The Villain, he refers to Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell as "dyke bitches" and says that he will send a "scud missile right through their fucking cruise ship". Trick-Trick expressed his dislike towards homosexuals in an interview with music site AllHipHop: "Faggots hate me and I don't give a fuck. I don't want your faggot money any goddam way."
The phrase "No Homo" is often used in today's hip hop lyrics and Black culture. It means "no gay things" or "nothing gay". One example of the term's usage is in the Jay-Z song, "Run This Town". Kanye West, one of the featured artists on the song, stated, "It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow / to everybody on your dick...no homo."
Evolution
By the early 2010s, a new wave of openly LGBTQ+ hip hop musicians began to emerge, spurred in part by the increased visibility and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, the coming out of mainstream hip hop stars such as Azealia Banks and Frank Ocean, and the release of LGBT-positive songs by heterosexual artists such as Murs, Macklemore, and Ryan Lewis.
Although inspired and empowered by the homo hop movement, this newer generation of artists garnered more mainstream media coverage and were able to make greater use of social media tools to build their audience, and thus did not need to rely on the old homo hop model of community building. Many of these artists were also strongly influenced by the LGBTQ+ African American ball culture, an influence not widely seen in the first wave of homo hop, and many began as performance art projects and incorporated the use of drag. Accordingly, many of the newer artists were identified in media coverage with the newer "queer hip hop" label instead of "homo hop".
In 2008, Jipsta released the single "Middle of the Dancefloor" which spent a total of 14 weeks (peaking at #6 for two consecutive weeks) on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart. This achievement was noteworthy for LGBTQ+ hip-hop as it marked the first time an openly gay white rapper earned a Top 10 single on the Billboard Club Play chart. The following year, Jipsta released a cover of the George Michael song "I Want Your Sex", which rose to the #4 position on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart in only 4 weeks time, resulting in the first Top 5 Billboard charting record by an LGBTQ+ hip-hop artist.
In March 2012, Carrie Battan of Pitchfork profiled Mykki Blanco, Le1f, Zebra Katz and House of Ladosha in an article titled "We Invented Swag: NYC Queer Rap" about "a group of NYC artists [who] are breaking down ideas of hip-hop identity".
In October 2012, Details profiled several LGBTQ+ hip hop artists "indelibly changing the face—and sound—of rap".
In March 2014, the online magazine Norient.com published a first overview of queer hip hop videos worldwide. The article talks about topics, aesthetics and challenges of LGBTQ+ hip hop in Angola, Argentina, Cuba, Germany, Israel, Serbia, South Africa and the USA."
Increasingly, focus on the development of Queer voices in the international hip-hop community has gained more precedent with articles published looking at how Queer rappers use the art-form as a type of therapy. A Winter 2016 article from Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education looked at how utilizing the art-form helped challenge traditional notions of hip hop and sexual identity.
In December 2016, Los Angeles-based rapper Thed Jewel, who raps "My skin is black, sexuality is Fuchsia" said: "There are a lot of rappers that are homosexuals and their day to be open with it will come one way or another".
In August 2018, openly gay member of Brockhampton, Kevin Abstract voiced his efforts to change hip hop's issue with homophobia in an interview with the BBC by stating: "I have to exist in a homophobic space in order to make change and that homophobic space would be the hip hop community. So me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids".
In June 2019, Lil Nas X, who performed the hit song "Old Town Road", took the opportunity to publicly come out during Pride Month, making him one of the most visible Black queer male singers to do so, especially in country or hip hop genres, which emphasize machismo and "historically snubbed queer artists". Black queer male artists in hip hop gaining mainstream acceptance are relatively new—preceding Nas X by less than a decade—including Frank Ocean (with his 2012 album Channel Orange), Tyler, the Creator, ILoveMakonnen, Brockhampton frontman Kevin Abstract and Steve Lacy. Black queer female artists have been accepted more readily; while the underground queer hip hop movement goes back to the 1990s.
Criticism
Some artists have criticized the genre as an arbitrary label that can potentially limit the artist's audience and may not actually correspond to their artistic goals or career aspirations. In 2013, Brooke Candy told The Guardian:
One unspecified artist declined to be interviewed for the Guardian feature at all, stating that he preferred to be known as a rapper rather than as a "gay rapper". Eric Shorey, author of "Queer Rap is Not Queer Rap", contests "queer rap" labeling, arguing that "comparisons between gay and straight rap (as if they were two distinct genres) simply doesn't make sense without implied bigotry". As Shorey writes, this subversive genre is steeped in racism and homophobia in and of itself, and merely serves to further marginalize the identities and narratives it allegedly gives a voice to.
Though Western society has a predisposition to impose socially construed labels and binaries, Shorey dismisses the notion of heteronormative categorical identification, insisting that listeners ignore these sexuality-based hip hop classifications and listen more closely to the quality of music being produced. He also suggests that queer artists should be booked alongside straight artists, showing that they are equally talented, and deserve the same amount of recognition.
Despite criticism, others have been more circumspect about the dichotomy. British rapper RoxXxan told the Guardian that "I want to be perceived as 'RoxXxan,' but if people label me as 'gay rapper RoxXxan' I'm not offended." Nicky Da B told Austinist'' that "Basically, I perform for a LGBTQ+ crowd but also for everyone. A lot of the bounce rappers that are rapping and touring at the moment are all gay. The LGBTQ+ community just capitalizes on that I guess, from us being gay, and they support us on it, so that's how it goes I guess."
Commercialization
Another criticism arises from the perceived commercialization of LGBTQ+ representation by hip hop artists. A good example of this is with Nicki Minaj and her approach to presenting sexuality and sexual orientation. She often presents queerness in her music videos and lyrics. This approach has been analyzed by critics of Nicki as "strategic queerness". Fly Young Red went viral on YouTube for his song "Throw That Boy Pussy" in 2014. Other artists, such as Azealia Banks, Angel Haze, and Young M.A. have openly discussed their sexuality in their lyrics and expression of style.
Notable artists
070 Shake
Abdu Ali
Angel Haze
Anye Elite
Backxwash
Azealia Banks
Bali Baby
BbyMutha
Big Dipper
Big Freedia
Big Momma
Brooke Candy
Cakes da Killa
Cazwell
Mike E. Clark
D. Smith
Deadlee
Deep Dickollective
D'Lo
Drebae
Drew Mason
Fly Young Red
Frank Ocean
God-Des and She
House of Ladosha
ILoveMakonnen
Jai'Rouge
Jay Dillinger (aka Marlon Williams)
Jesse Dangerously
Jipsta
Jonny Makeup
Jonny McGovern
Juba Kalamka
Katastrophe
Kae Tempest
Katey Red
Kaytranada
Kehlani
Kevin Abstract
K.Flay
Lady Sovereign
Le1f
Lil Darkie
Lil Nas X
Lil Peep
Lil Phag
Lucas Charlie Rose
Melange Lavonne
Mykki Blanco
Nicky da B
Oliver Twixt
ppcocaine
Princess Nokia
QBoy
Queen Pen
Rainbow Flava
Rainbow Noise
RoxXxan
Samantha Ronson
Saucy Santana
Saul Williams
Sissy Nobby
Sasha Sathya
Shorty Roc
Snow Tha Product
Soce, the elemental wizard
Solomon
Steve Lacy
Syd tha Kid
Taylor Bennett
Tim'm T. West
Titica
Tori Fixx
TT the Artist
Tyler, the Creator
Willow Smith
Will Sheridan
Yo Majesty
Young M.A.
Yves Tumor
Zebra Katz
See also
African-American culture and sexual orientation
Homophobia in ethnic minority communities
Misogyny in rap music
References
Criticism of hip-hop |
6900324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Baux | House of Baux | The House of Baux is a French noble family from the south of France. It was one of the richest and most powerful families of Medieval Provence, known as the 'Race d’Aiglon'. They were independent Lords as castellan of Les Baux and Arles and wielded very considerable authority at local level. They held important fiefs and vast lands, including the principality of Orange.
In Provençal, the word “Baux” ("li Baou" in provencal) means escarpment/cliff, and refers to the natural fortress on which the family built their castle, the Château des Baux and the village that surrounded it. The word is also seen in Bau-maniere, Bau-baisse, Bau-mirane, Bau-Cous-temple. In provencal to be from les Baux, des Baux, was "de Baucio". The natural defense provided by the escarpment, the raised and protected mountain valley that allowed them to have a protected food supply, and the natural ridge of the Alpilles that allowed them to control all the approaches to the citadel of Les Baux and the surrounding countryside, including the passage up and down the Rhone, and the approaches from the Mediterranean, made the fortress impervious to the military technology of the time.
The family of des Baux exists today in Naples in the person of several noble families ("del Balzo") descended from younger sons who followed Charles of Anjou south.
After the death of , the last sovereign of Baux, the chateaux and town were seized by King Rene, who gave it to his 2nd wife, Queen Jeanne of Laval. When Provence was united with the crown, almost 150 yrs of royal governors followed, including the lords, later counts and princes de Manville. Les Baux became a centre for Protestantism. Its unsuccessful revolt against the crown led Cardinal Richelieu in 1632 to order that the castle and its walls should be demolished. This was accomplished with the aid of artillery.
Lords of Baux
The earliest definite ancestor was one Pons (Poncius) (name could designate a trader from Greece) "Iuvenis" (the younger, meaning there was an older?). Pons The Younger was mentioned in 3 legal acts:
1st in the act of donation of 14 May 971 donating Montmajour to Boson & his wife Folcoare,
2nd in 975 in the act of donation of land to St Etienne d'Arles, now called St. Trophime (Arch. du chap. d'Arles, liv. autent. f. 22)
3rd with his wife Profecte in an act of donation in 981
The family descent then is:
Pons (971-?), father of
Hugh I (?-1059), father of
William I Hugh (1050–1110), father of
Raymond I (1110–1150), father of
Hugh II (1150–1167)
Bertrand I (1167–1181) also the first Baux prince of Orange, brother of Hugh II
Hugh III, lord of Baux, viscount of Marseille (1181–1240), eldest son of Bertrand I
Barral I of Baux (1240–1268), son of Hugh III, father of
Bertrand III (1268–1305), 9th Lord of Baux, father of
Raymond II (1305–1322), 10th Lord of Baux, father of
Hugh IV (1322–1351), father of
Robert (1351–1353)
Raymond III (1353–1372), brother of
John I (1372–1375)
Alice I (1372–1426), sister of
This branch of the House of Baux was declared extinct in 1426. The domains were inherited by Counts of Provence.
Lords of Berre, Meyragues, Puyricard and Marignane
, second oldest son of , lord of Berre, Meyragues and Puyricard, and Marignane (1181–1201)
...
From this branch originated the family branches of the , Lords of Meyrargues and Puyricard, who became extinct in 1349, and lords of Marignane, acquired by House of Valois-Anjou, as well as the Dukes of Andria.
Princes of Orange
(1171–1181)
Raymond II of Baux, (1218–1282)
William I, youngest son of (1181–1218)
William II, co-Prince (with brothers),1218-1239
Bertrand II, (1281–1314)
Raymond III (1314–1340)
Raymond V (1340–1393)
Mary of Baux-Orange (1393–1417), daughter, married John III of Châlon-Arlay
In 1417, the House of Ivrea or House of Châlon-Arlay succeeded as princes of Orange.
A brother of William I started the branch of the Lords of Courbezon (House of Baux-Courbezon), which became extinct in 1393. Another brother started the line of Lords of Suze, Solerieux and Barri (House of Baux-Suze-Solerieux-Barri), which became extinct and reverted afterwards to the counts of Orange.
Family Genealogy
The ancestors of the Lords of Baux
The ancestors of the Lords of Baux:
Leibulf de Provence (vers 750-835)
x Odda ?
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| → Leibulf des Baux (middle of the 9th century).
x ??
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| → Pons d’Arles (end of the 9th century)
x Blismodis de Mâcon
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| → Humbert, Bishop of Vaison-la-Romaine (890-933)
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| → Ison d’Arles (890-942),
x Princess ? of Benevento
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| → Lambert Ursus seigneurs de Reillanne
| x Galburge de Bénévent
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| | → Seigneurs de Reillanne
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| → Pons de Marseille (910-979),
x Judith de Bretagne, daughter d'Alain II de Bretagne
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| → Honoratus de Marseille (930-978), Bishop of Marseille
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| → William of Marseille (935-1004)
| x Bellilde, daughter d’Arlulf de Marseille
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| | → Vicomtes de Marseille
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x Belletrude
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| → (hyp) Pons de Fos (vers 945-1025)
x Profecta de Marignane
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| → Seigneurs de Fos
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| → (hyp) Hugues des Baux (981-1060)
x Inauris de Cavaillon (?)
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| → Guillaume Hugues de Baux (1060–1095)
x Vierne
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| → Raymond-Raimbaud des Baux (1095–1150)
x Étiennette de Gévaudan
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| → Bertrand des Baux
x Thiburge II d'Orange
Simplified Family Tree of the Lords of Baux
The family tree of the lords of Baux (per the references cited in the adjacent footnote, rather than footnote each person, as they are from all these sources):
See also
Les Baux de Provence
Les Baux de Provence AOC
Baussenque Wars (1144–1162)
Il signore di Baux
Notes
Bibliography
External links
GENEALOGY Maison del Balzo/des Baux by Gioacchino del Balzo with extensive bibliography
Grand Armorial du Comtat Venaissin by Jean Gallian
History of Les Baux en Provence
Bouches-du-Rhône
Baux
ca:Senyoria dels Baus
de:Les Baux (Adelsgeschlecht)
fr:Liste des seigneurs des Baux |
17329459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20United%20States%20presidential%20election%20in%20California | 1960 United States presidential election in California | The 1960 United States presidential election in California took place on November 8, 1960 as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose 32 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
California voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. Although California was Nixon's home state, which he represented in the House and Senate, and initial political base, his margin of victory over Kennedy turned out to be extremely narrow; in fact, it was the closest of the states that Nixon won and the fourth closest state in the election after Hawaii, Illinois and Missouri. On the morning of November 9, the NBC victory desk erroneously projected California to Kennedy.
Nixon would later win California again against Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and then against George McGovern in 1972.
Primaries
Democratic primary
Running unopposed, California governor Pat Brown won the state's Democratic primary as a favorite son.
While the primary itself was straightforward, the developments surrounding the primary were far more complex.
Kennedy had not come easily to his decision not to compete in the California primary, and had at one point tentatively filed to run in the primary.
Kennedy had begun to contemplate the state's primary at an early stage in the development of his campaign.
By early 1958 Kennedy's team had recognized the state to be a Democratic target for the midterm elections, since economic woes had weakened the Republican Party's strength in the state. This meant that the 1958 midterm election would serve to gauge the prospect of Democrats winning the state in the 1960 presidential election. In February 1958, Ted Sorensen spent $1,500 in order to commission a survey in California that would be conducted that March, coinciding with a two-day visit by Kennedy to the state. The survey showed Kennedy winning 55 to 45% in a then-hypothetical general election race against Nixon. The survey also demonstrated Kennedy to have a strong lead in California among Catholics, who constituted one-fifth of the state's populace.
Kennedy, however, remained undecided as to whether or not he would compete in the state's primary.
In November 1958, the midterm elections delivered encouraging signs for Democratic prospects of carrying the state in 1960. Pat Brown had defeated the Nixon-backed Republican candidate, outgoing U.S. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, in the state's gubernatorial election and Democrat Clair Engle defeated the Nixon-backed Republican candidate, outgoing governor Goodwin Knight, in the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Knowland.
California was one of several large state delegations to the Democratic National convention whose support the Kennedy campaign came to believe was integral when they mapped-out his path to secure the nomination.
The Kennedy campaign was concerned that Brown might run against Kennedy as a favorite son in the primary. Brown saw himself as a potential running mate on the Democratic ticket. However, he recognized that his chances of being selected would disappear if Kennedy were the presidential nominee, as Brown and Kennedy were both Catholics and a ticket composed of two Catholics was improbable. Thus. Brown recognized that he would need for Kennedy to lose the nomination if he were to stand a chance at securing the vice-presidential nomination for himself.
California's Democratic Party landscape at the time, stood largely divided between Brown loyalists and Adlai Stevenson supporters (many of whom had hopes of nominating Stevenson a third consecutive time).
Kennedy's campaign began to consider the possibility of pursuing a compromise with Brown in which he would run as a favorite candidate committed to Kennedy. Such a compromise would have granted Brown the profile and ego boost of winning the state's primary. It would have allowed Kennedy to eschew a scenario in which he could underperform or be defeated in one of the last primaries, which would weaken the momentum he needed to have heading into the convention. It would also have avoided the risk of dividing the state party, which was important since a divided state party would have decimated any chance Kennedy stood of carrying the state in the general election. At the same time, such a compromise would still have secured the support of California's delegation for Kennedy. Kennedy's campaign decided that, so long as their candidate still had momentum from having won primaries in other key states, there would be no problem in having Brown run as a surrogate candidate in California. To help persuade Brown to be inclined towards such an agreement, Larry O'Brien met with Brown on behalf of the campaign and showed him polling that Louis Harris had conducted for them which showed Kennedy winning the state 60% to 40% in a two-way race against Brown and was also beating him in a three-way matchup featuring Humphrey, polling 47% against Brown's 33% and Humphrey's 20%. The campaign ultimately reached an informal agreement with Brown to have him run, pledged to Kennedy, as a favorite son.
Despite their informal agreement with Brown, Kennedy's campaign continued to possess worries about the state's primary. They were uncertain as to what degree Brown was intent on honoring their agreement. They also recognized that there was a potential that Stevenson might run in the state's primary. Another concern involved the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey. Kennedy's team believed that there was a possibility that Humphrey might file to run in the state. While Kennedy's campaign strategy aimed to have killed Humphrey's candidacy well in advance of the California primary by dealing him critical defeats in earlier primaries, they were still somewhat concerned about a potential scenario in which Kennedy would have failed to knock Humphrey out of the race and Humphrey ran in the California primary. They were worried that, in such an instance, Brown might prove to be a much less effective an opponent to Humphrey than Kennedy himself would be.
To precautionarily leave open the campaign's options, on the March 9 deadline to file for the primary, Kennedy filed his own slate of prospective delegates which would be, at least tentatively, registered to run against Brown's slate. Humphrey filed a slate of his own later that day. This blindsided Brown, who believed that he had secured promises from both candidates that neither of them would run against him in the California primary.
By the time of the California primary, Humphrey had already ended his campaign. Since he had only filed as a precaution for the possibility of Humphrey competing in California, Kennedy attempted to make peace. Kennedy withdrew, granting Brown the opportunity to run unopposed.
Feeling betrayed by Kennedy, Brown did not publicly endorse him, much to the chagrin of the Kennedy campaign. Brown, ultimately, held weak control over a fractious state delegation, whose ranks included a number of Stevenson loyalists, and Stevenson had left open the possibility of being drafted as a candidate at the convention. After failing to secure a public endorsement from Brown ahead of the convention, Kennedy and his team ultimately resorted to courting individual members of its delegation for their support.
Republican primary
Nixon won California's Republican primary, in which he was unopposed.
General election
Results
Results by county
References
California
1960
1960 California elections |
6900330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua | Howqua | Wu Bingjian (; 17694 September 1843), trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.
Biography
A Hokkien by his paternal ancestry with ancestry from Quanzhou, Wu was known to the West as Howqua, as was his father, Wu Guorong, the founder of the family business or hong. The name "Howqua" is a romanization, in his native Hokkien language, of the business name under which he traded, "浩官" (). He became rich on the trade between China and the British Empire in the middle of the 19th century during the First Opium War. Perhaps the wealthiest man in China during the nineteenth century, Howqua was the senior of the hong merchants in Canton, one of the few authorized to trade silk and porcelain with foreigners. In an 1822 fire which burned down many of the cohongs, the silver that melted allegedly formed a little stream almost two miles in length. Of the three million dollars that the Qing government was required to pay the British as stipulated in the Treaty of Nanking, Howqua single-handedly contributed one million. He died the same year in Canton.
The founders of then world-renowned firms including James Matheson, William Jardine, Samuel Russell and Abiel Abbot Low all had a close relationship with Howqua. Portraits of the pigtailed Howqua in his robes still hang in Salem and Newport mansions built by American merchants grateful for his assistance.
Legacy
Following the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, which spelled the end of the Thirteen Factories, Jardine Matheson & Co continued to use "Ewo" as their Chinese name.
A settlement on the east bank of Lake Eildon, from Mansfield, in Victoria, Australia, is named after him, possibly by Chinese miners who passed through the area during the Victorian gold rush.
See also
Houqua, 1844 clipper ship
References
Further reading
External links
In Chinese – Howqua's Bio on NetEase
In Chinese – Howqua's Bio on Hudong
In English – The story of the merchant (site maintained by tea importer)
1769 births
1843 deaths
History of Hong Kong
History of foreign trade in China
Businesspeople from Fujian
People from Quanzhou
Hokkien people
Billionaires from Guangdong
18th-century merchants
19th-century merchants
18th-century Chinese businesspeople
19th-century Chinese businesspeople |
23571943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDehu%C5%88 | Žehuň | Žehuň is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
23571947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C5%BEelice%20%28Kol%C3%ADn%20District%29 | Žiželice (Kolín District) | Žiželice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. It is located on the Cidlina River.
Administrative parts
Villages of Hradišťko II, Končice, Kundratice, Loukonosy, Pod Vinicí and Zbraň are administrative parts of Žiželice.
References
Villages in Kolín District |
17329484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Democratic%20Association | Central Democratic Association | The Central Democratic Association, also known as the Democratic Association or the Democrats, was a political party of Chartists which was prominent in Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century.
Establishment
Sheffield Town Council was constituted in 1843. While the town had one of the less restrictive electoral franchises, only ratepayers of three years standing were permitted to vote. Tenants of cottages, including many workers in the city, typically paid their rates indirectly through their landlords and were therefore not permitted to vote. This set-up had been unproblematic until the Council was founded, but was now of concern, as the registered voters were generally the wealthier residents. In 1843, only 5,584 people were registered to vote, and this had risen to 8,000 in 1845.
In 1846, a committee of Chartists in the city met to discuss the problem of voter registration. They decided to focus their campaign for registration by putting up two candidates in the November elections: Thomas Briggs, a farmer, in Brightside in the annual election, and Isaac Ironside, an accountant and former support of Robert Owen, in Ecclesall in a by-election held soon afterwards. Briggs was easily elected, while Ironside won narrowly on a record turnout: 397 votes to 317 for his Liberal rival. Voter registration was also up, reaching 11,500 people.
The Liberals dominated the council, and portrayed the Chartists as socialists, and Ironside as a demagogue. The Liberal press in the shape of the Sheffield Independent was initially supportive, but as the group gain success, became increasingly hostile.
In 1847, Ironside was re-elected in Ecclesall, along with another Chartist councillor. Other Chartists were elected in Brightside, St George's, St Philip's and Nether Hallam wards, and by the end of the year they formed a group of nine councillors. In addition, Richard Otley was elected in Ecclesall, but was unseated because he failed to meet the property qualification. This required councillors to have resources worth £1,000 or to occupy property with a rental value above £30 a year. As a result, the Chartist councillors were mostly shopkeepers and craftsmen, with a couple of surgeons and a farmer. This was not representative of their electorate.
The Chartists joined a campaign against Wilson Overend, a local magistrate accused of anti-trade union bias, and later in the year, initiated a campaign in support of former police constable George Bakewell who had been banished from the town by his superintendent after being accused of stealing a pair of trousers. This campaign was supported by Liberal members of the Watch Committee, annoyed that they had not been consulted.
Policies and organisation
Chartist candidates had to give their broad support to Chartist goals, and in particular had to support universal male suffrage. The group was lightly whipped, a situation much criticised by the Sheffield Independent. Its main planks of policy were opposition to high civic salaries, and opposition to the Sheffield City Police, criticising its organisation and calling for a lower police rate. This was supported by the group's efficient administration of the Ecclesall board of highway surveyors.
In 1848, the Chartists won four of the six wards they contested, and by the end of the year had fifteen councillors. This rose to 22 the following year. They still opted not to run in the Park ward as they lacked registered supporters, but as the voter registration drive gained successes, in 1851 they came a close second to the Liberal, and in 1852 the Liberal association decided to avoid a repeat by adopting the Democrat candidate as official.
By this time, Ironside had become recognised as the leader of the group, and had persuaded the council to set up a health committee and to set up a model farm at Hollow Meadows.
The Chartists set up ward committees which met regularly and were responsible for selecting candidates, canvassing for them and for encouraging supporters to vote. These committees, known as "wardmotes" and open to all "burghers" (loosely defined as the skilled working classes), were inspired by Joshua Toulmin Smith's ideas. In 1851, Ironside formalised the network by launching the Sheffield Free Press as a party newspaper, followed by the Central Democratic Ward Association to co-ordinate the ward committees and decide borough-wide strategy. The Liberals largely failed to imitate these structures.
The Association allowed the wardmotes to select any candidate they chose, and while many were active Democrats, other radicals and independent Chartists were sometimes elected on to their slate. Ironside also saw the wardmotes as a venue for the resolution of local grievances. For example, they took up complaints against pollution and inadequate street maintenance, and even petty crimes. On one occasion, Ironside found five youths disturbing the peace and a wardmote passed a resolution calling for their parents to bring them before the body. When one youth attended the next meeting, he was reprimanded, while the body pressed for summons for the others. Members of the police force and other relevant bodies were also free to attend the wardmotes to justify their actions, and the Democrats were not universally critical of their actions.
By the 1840s, there was a general consensus in the city that a new Act of Parliament was needed to replace the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818. The council opposed the Public Health Act 1848 as centralising, adding expense and placing local boards under central governmental rather than local democratic control. The Chartists also opposed the additional property qualifications it introduced for voters and members of local boards, noting this would disenfranchise many of their supporters.
In 1851, Ironside seconded a council motion to call a public meeting to decide whether a local bill should be applied for that year. The meeting was little-attended, but supported the proposal. The bill claimed for Sheffield a wide range of powers, which would include the absorption of the Church Burgesses and the Town Trustees. These two measures were later dropped in order to minimise Parliamentary opposition. A public meeting was held in December and was dominated by Chartists. They opposed it on the grounds that it did not introduce a universal male franchise for the council, and that it would for the first time impose rates on housing with a rateable value of £7 or less per year. The meeting rejected the bill. Ironside also moved to oppose it, but his change in position alienated both colleagues in favour of it and members who had opposed it from the start.
Later activities
By 1852, the group was sufficiently successful that six of their candidates were elected without opposition, and a further four in contests, giving the group a total of twenty-six councillors. However, not all councillors stuck to the party line, and as a result, a non-Democrat Mayor of Sheffield was elected.
During the 1850s, the Democrats were easily the main opposition on the council. Under their influence, from 1854 to 1857, the council annually voted a petition for parliamentary reform, and also petitioned the monarch on taxation, the Poor Law and county administration. Ironside was the chair of the city's Highways Board from 1852 to 1854, and led a campaign of street paving and laying deep sewers.
Ironside attempted to get Toulmin Smith to stand for the Parliamentary seat of Sheffield at the 1852 general election, but Smith refused. Ironside also became a shareholder in the Sheffield Consumers Gas Company, which engaged in a rivalry with the established Sheffield Gas-Light Company. Disputes over these actions led some former allies to turn against him. In 1853, two former allies organised a campaign against Ironside, and he lost his seat in Ecclesall. He subsequently took a seat in St George's, but in 1854, only two of the nine Democrat candidates were successful, and Ironside again lost his seat.
The Democrats lost influence on the council, but remained influential on the highway and vestry boards. In 1858, they opposed a new bill, sponsored by George Calvert Holland, essentially a more limited version of the 1851 proposal. Ironside's support for former diplomat David Urquhart lost him further support, and by the 1860s, the group was defunct.
References
See also
London Democratic Association
Political parties established in 1846
Politics of Sheffield
1846 establishments in England |
17329496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Association | Democratic Association | Democratic Association may refer to:
Central Democratic Association
London Democratic Association |
17329502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallcarca%20i%20els%20Penitents | Vallcarca i els Penitents | Vallcarca i els Penitents is a neighbourhood in the northernmost part of Gràcia, a district of Barcelona. Locked between two hills, Putget and El Coll, it grew out of a few scattered settlements, namely L'Hostal de la Farigola, Can Falcó, Can Mas and Can Gomis.
The Parish Church, Virgen de Gracia y San José, popularly known as the “Josepets,” is the location of a Traditional Latin Mass, authorised by bishop Reig Casanova in 2021.
Transportation
Barcelona Metro stations Vallcarca and Penitents, both on L3.
Gràcia
Neighbourhoods of Barcelona |
23571954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1smuky | Zásmuky | Zásmuky is a town in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Doubravčany, Nesměň, Sobočice and Vršice are administrative parts of Zásmuky.
Notable people
František Kmoch (1848–1912), composer and conductor
References
Cities and towns in the Czech Republic |
17329535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Bateman%20Farm | Cook–Bateman Farm | The Cook–Bateman Farm is a colonial-era farmstead located at the intersection of Fogland, Puncatest Neck (or Neck) and Pond Bridge Roads in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The property was initially purchased in 1700 and reached its largest size, , in the last 25 years of the 18th century. It currently encompasses of rolling farmland.
The focal point of the farmstead is the 2 1/2 story house,, the oldest portion of which dates to c.1730–48, while the north kitchen was constructed or rebuilt c.1812-20. Both are now covered by the Second Empire high mansard rook, which was added c.1870. Also on the property is a gambrel-roofed frame barn dating from the late 19th or early 20th century; a two-story hip-roofed frame structure which might be the oldest building in the farmstead, possibly a heabily-altered original farm building from c.1700; a "farmers house"; and a number of other smaller outbuildings.
The property, which has evidence of earlier Native American occupation, including arrowheads and stone tools found in the fields, was purchased by John Cook in 1700, and remained in the hands of just two families for more than 200 years, until 1977.
The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Tiverton, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
23571960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva%20%28Russian%20Circles%20album%29 | Geneva (Russian Circles album) | Geneva is the third full-length album by the instrumental rock band Russian Circles, and was released on October 20, 2009. The album was recorded in May 2009 with Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines. The vinyl version of the album was released by Sargent House and was available on both a black 2x12" 45 rpm edition and a more limited clear 2x12" 45 rpm edition.
Tracks
Personnel
Mike Sullivan − guitar
Dave Turncrantz − drums
Brian Cook − bass guitar
Alison Chesley − cello
Susan Voelz − violin
Greg Norman − engineering, trumpet, trombone
Brandon Curtis − production, additional piano
Joe Lambert − mastering
Chris Strong − album photo
Sasha Barr − album layout
Charts
References
2009 albums
Russian Circles albums
Suicide Squeeze Records albums |
17329548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger%20Nikelis | Holger Nikelis | Holger Nikelis (born 15 January 1978) is a German table tennis player. He won a gold medal in the singles event and a bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He has also won other medals and championships in disabled table tennis. He was world number one in his category in September 2013.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
German male table tennis players
Paralympic table tennis players of Germany
Paralympic gold medalists for Germany
Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
Paralympic medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Sportspeople from Cologne |
23571963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerhenice | Cerhenice | Cerhenice is a market town in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,800 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Cerhýnky is an administrative part of Cerhenice.
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic
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20467208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Payne | Max Payne | Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Finnish Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and American Rockstar Studios (Max Payne 3). The series is named after its protagonist, Max Payne, a New York City police detective turned vigilante after his family was murdered by drug addicts. The series' first and second installments were written by Sam Lake, while Max Payne 3 was primarily written by Rockstar Games' Dan Houser.
The first game of the series, Max Payne, was released in 2001 for Microsoft Windows and in 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Apple Macintosh; a different version of the game was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. A sequel entitled Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne was released in 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. In 2008, a movie adaption, loosely based on the original game, entitled Max Payne, was released, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis in the roles of Max Payne and Mona Sax, respectively. Max Payne 3 was developed by Rockstar Studios and released on May 15, 2012 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and on June 1, 2012 for Microsoft Windows.
On November 15, 2021, Microsoft announced that in celebration of 20 years of Xbox, they would be adding over 70 more games to their backwards compatibility program. Headlining these games was the Max Payne trilogy, making the games available to play on Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S consoles.
The franchise is notable for its use of "bullet time" in action sequences, as well as being positively received by critics, although Max Payne 2s sales were considered underwhelming. , the Max Payne franchise has sold over 7.5 million copies. The film rendition received negative reviews but was commercially successful.
On April 6, 2022, Remedy announced that a remake of Max Payne and Max Payne 2 is in development, in a development agreement with Rockstar Games.
Games
Max Payne
Renegade DEA agent and former NYPD officer Max Payne attempts to hunt down the ones responsible for murdering his wife and child, as well as framing him for the murder of his NYPD partner, Alex Balder. As the story unfolds, he gains a number of "allies", including Vladimir Lem (a suave, old-fashioned Russian mobster) and Mona Sax (a vigilante who is out to avenge the death of her twin sister) and uncovers a major conspiracy involving the trafficking of a narcotic called V, or Valkyr—after the mythological figures in Norse mythology—which is somehow connected to the death of Max's family.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Two years after the first game, Max Payne has rejoined the NYPD and has been cleared of the charges for his killing spree thanks to his connection to Senator Alfred Woden, the leader of a secret society called the Inner Circle. During a routine murder investigation, Max finds himself face-to-face with the fugitive Mona Sax, who reluctantly joins him in his investigation. As the two work together to uncover the truth, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and come across another major conspiracy, which this time involves Vladmir Lem, the Italian Mob, and the Inner Circle.
Max Payne 3
Nine years after the second game, Max Payne has left New York and is working on a private security detail in São Paulo, Brazil. When the wife of his employer is kidnapped by a local street gang, Max and his old friend Raul Passos join forces in an attempt to rescue her, igniting a war that will lead them to confront a larger conspiracy.
Additional titles
Remedy, with funding from Rockstar who holds the rights to the series, announced plans to remake Max Payne and Max Payne 2 for personal computers, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and Series S in April 2022. At the time of the announcement, the remakes were at an early development state, and no planned release date was announced. It was confirmed that the two games will be released as a single title.
Film adaptation
Early in 2003, it was confirmed that 20th Century Fox had bought the rights to adapt the game to film. The Max Payne movie went into production in 2008 and was directed by John Moore. The movie was produced by Collision Entertainment and Firm Films in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis play the roles of Max Payne and Mona Sax respectively. Beau Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Nelly Furtado and Ludacris have roles as B.B. Hensley, Jason Colvin, Christa Balder and Jim Bravura respectively. On July 10, 2008, a teaser trailer was released, featuring an instrumental version of the Marilyn Manson song, "If I Was Your Vampire". The film was released to theaters in the U.S. on October 17, 2008 with a PG-13 rating. While it was ranked first on its opening weekend, grossing US$18 million at the box office, the film received mainly negative reviews, having a 16% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 129 reviews. In June 2022, 20th Century Studios announced that a Max Payne reboot movie is in development.
Characters
Note: A gray cell indicates that the character does not appear in that medium.
References
External links
Max Payne franchises at MobyGames
The History of Max Payne, The Escapist, May 12, 2012
Celebrate 20 years of Xbox with over 70 new Backward Compatible Games, Xbox Wire, November 15, 2021
Rockstar Games games
Rockstar Games franchises
Take-Two Interactive franchises
Video game franchises
Video game franchises introduced in 2001 |
23571964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi | Femi | Fẹ́mi is a common Nigerian given unisex name of Yoruba origin which means "love Me".
Femi is most commonly a diminutive form of "Olufemi" (or Olúfẹ́mi) which means "The Lord loves me" ("Olú" means Lord, Leader, or the "Prominent one," in the Yoruba language). "Olufemi" can also be diminutive of "Olúwafẹ́mi". Other full forms of the name include Olorunfemi (God loves me), Jesufemi (Jesus loves me), Nifemi (Have my love), Babafemi (Father loves me), Obafemi (The King loves me), Adefemi (Royalty loves me), Ifafemi (Ifa loves me) etc.
People
Acting
Femi Taylor, British dancer and actress
Femi Emiola, American actress
Femi Oyeniran, British actor
Art
Femi Ford, American Artist
Politics
Femi Fani-Kayode (born 1960), Nigerian politician
Femi Gbaja Biamila (born 1962), Nigerian politician
Femi Oluwole (born 1990), British political activist
Femi Pedro (born 1955), Nigerian politician
Femi Okurounmu, Nigerian politician, Senator for Ogun Central
Femi Adesina, Nigerian journalist and government official
Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician, statesman, and nationalist who played a key role in Nigeria's independence movement.
Sport
Femi, nickname of Oluwafemi Ajilore (born 1985), footballer now playing for FC Groningen
Femi Babatunde (born 1986), Nigerian footballer now playing for Kwara United F.C.
Femi Ilesanmi (born 1991), English professional footballer
Femi Joseph (born 1990), Nigerian footballer now playing for Liberty Professionals F.C.
Femi Opabunmi (born 1985), footballer now playing for Shooting Stars FC
Femi Orenuga (born 1993), English footballer now playing for Everton
Writing and journalism
Femi Osofisan (born 1946), Nigerian writer
Femi Euba, Nigerian actor and playwright
Femi Oguns, British playwright
Femi Oke (born 1966), British TV journalist, now in New York
Caleb Femi, British poet and former young people’s laureate for London.
Femi Johnson, Nigerian TV journalist with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)
Law
Femi Falana, Nigerian Lawyer and human rights activist.
Health
Femi Oshagbemi, Nigerian born Pharmacist, Epidemiologist and Public health expert
Femi Ojo, Nigeria born Psychiatric Registered Nurse, and Public Health Expert, in California
Other
Femi Otedola (born 1967), Nigerian billionaire businessman
Femi Kuti (born 1962), Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti
Femi John Femi (born 1945), Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force
Femi Temowo, British jazz musician
See also
La Fémis the École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son
References
Yoruba given names
Unisex given names |
23571965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cerven%C3%A9%20Pe%C4%8Dky | Červené Pečky | Červené Pečky is a market town in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Bohouňovice I, Bojiště, Bořetice, Dolany and Opatovice are administrative parts of Červené Pečky.
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic |
20467212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Devil%27s%20Game%20%28film%29 | The Devil's Game (film) | The Devil's Game (; lit. "The Game") is a 2008 South Korean film.
Plot
Struggling artist Min Hee-do (Shin Ha-kyun), is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik (Byun Hee-bong), who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers will be male or female. He loses the bet, and after a monthlong brain operation, he wakes up to find that they have swapped bodies.
Cast
Shin Ha-kyun ... Min Hee-do
Byun Hee-bong ... Kang No-sik
Lee Hye-young ... Lee Hye-rin, No-sik's wife
Son Hyun-joo ... Min Tae-seok, Hee-do's uncle
Lee Eun-sung ... Joo Eun-ah, Hee-do's girlfriend
Jang Hang-sun ... Park Chang-ha
Kim Hyeok ... Secretary Mr. Ahn
Choo Sang-rok ... Dr. Kim
Maeng Bong-hak ... Trustee Mr. Yoon
Jo Cheong-ho ... President Kim
Release
The Devil's Game was released in South Korea on 31 January 2008, and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 361,650 admissions. As of 31 March 2008 it had received a total of 1,496,215 admissions, and as of 16 March 2008 grossed a toal of .
References
External links
2008 films
2000s Korean-language films
South Korean films |
23571969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla%C5%88any | Plaňany | Plaňany () is a market town in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Blinka, Hradenín and Poboří are administrative parts of Plaňany.
History
The first written mention of Plaňany is from 1222, under its old name Plaňasy. Probably in 1572, during the rule of the Mírek of Solopysky family, the village was promoted to a market town.
Notable people
Wilhelm Würfel (1790–1832), composer
Bedřich Bernau (1849–1904), archaeologist and ethnographist, lived and died here
Josef Nádvorník (1906–1977), lichenologist
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic |
20467220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrabury%20and%20Minster | Forrabury and Minster | Forrabury and Minster is a civil parish on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish was originally divided between the coastal parish of Forrabury and inland parish of Minster until they were united on the 1st of April 1919.
The parish was in the Registration District of Camelford. It is bounded to the north by the Atlantic; to the east by the parishes of St Juliot, Lesnewth and Davidstow; to the south by Camelford parish (ecclesiastical parish of Lanteglos by Camelford); and to the west by Trevalga parish. The population of Forrabury and Minster parish in the 2001 census was 888, which decreased slightly to 838 at the 2011 census.
Settlements and churches
Boscastle is the principal settlement in the parish of Forrabury and Minster. It is 14 miles (23 kilometres) south of Bude and 5 miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Tintagel. Forrabury parish church, dedicated to St Symphorian, is in Boscastle at .
However, the mother church of Boscastle is dedicated to St Materiana and nestles among the trees of Minster Wood in the valley of the River Valency half-a-mile east of Boscastle at . The original Forrabury / Minster boundary crossed the river so the harbour end of the village was in Forrabury and the upriver area in Minster. The churches were established some time earlier than the settlement at Boscastle (in Norman times when a castle was built there). The Celtic name of Minster was Talkarn but it was renamed Minster in Anglo-Saxon times because of a monastery on the site. Until the Reformation St Materiana's tomb was preserved in the church. (Another spelling of her name sometimes used is 'Mertheriana' but the usual Latin form is Materiana.) In 1187 the advowson of Forrabury Church was granted to the newly founded Hartland Abbey by William de Botreaux of Boscastle, who also gave the Abbey the advowsons of other of his manors in Devon. For many years the Anglican parishes of Forrabury and Minster have been in the charge of a Rector who is responsible for a group of adjoining parishes as well as these. Minster Church was damaged by the flood of August 2004 and in the following year archaeological work was done at the church to obtain a clearer idea of the history of the building.
Notable buildings and antiquities
Minster church was built in Norman times (some late medieval additions and restoration work carried out in the 19th century): it is listed Grade I. Forrabury church also has some Norman work but the tower was added in 1750. The Rev R. S. Hawker wrote a poem on "The Bells of Forrabury": it was based on a local legend arising from the absence of a peal of bells in the tower. At Welltown in Forrabury parish is a manor house dating from about 1640 and at Worthyvale and Redevallen in Minster parish are two manor houses also of the 17th century. Not far from Worthyvale is an inscribed stone (Latini [h]ic iacit filius Macari = Latin son of Macarus lies here). This stone is popularly known as King Arthur's Grave due to the erroneous identification of Slaughter Bridge with the site of Camlann. At Waterpit Down (on the road towards Launceston in Minster parish) are the remains of a cross probably from the 10th century. Camelford railway station (now occupied by the British Cycling Museum) was built in 1893 and was closed in 1966. (Though named after nearby Camelford it was in Minster parish.)
Views in Forrabury and Minster
Bibliography
Maclean, Sir John, The Parochial and Family History of the Parishes of Forrabury and Minster in the County of Cornwall, 1873 (part of MacLean's Parochial and Family History of ... Trigg Minor)
Armstrong, W. J. C., A Rambler's Guide to Boscastle; Together with St Juliot, Lesnewth [and] Trevalga; 2nd ed., 1931, privately printed at Boscastle
References
External links
Parish council website
Information about an archeological project on the area
Civil parishes in Cornwall
Boscastle |
23571986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paldang%20Bridge | Paldang Bridge | The Paldang Bridge () crosses the Han River in South Korea and connects the cities of Hanam and Namyangju. Excluding the single-lane bridge built on top of the Paldang Dam, it is the easternmost bridge on the Han River.
Construction on the bridge began in May 1986 as the second concrete bridge over the Han River after Olympic Bridge. Construction was halted in March 1991, however, when a portion of the bridge collapsed due to strong winds and killed one construction worker on site. Inspections revealed structural damage, prompting a change in construction methods. Construction resumed in October 1991, but was halted again in May 1992 after further structural damage was discovered. Initial designs were scrapped, and the bridge was opened as a girder bridge on April 25, 1995.
References
Buildings and structures in Hanam
Buildings and structures in Namyangju
Bridges in Gyeonggi Province
Bridges completed in 1995 |
23571990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina%20Ricco | Carina Ricco | Carina Ricco (born November 27, 1968, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, singer, musician, producer and composer. In 2007 she opened her own music record company. She is the widow of Eduardo Palomo, father of her two kids, Fiona and Luca.
Biography
Born in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico of Spanish and Italian origin, Carina spent her childhood in Argentina, where she began exploring the world of music as a very young child. She started her professional musical career, in earnest, once back in Mexico as a teenager.
In 1993 she released her first solo album, Del Cabello a los Pies (Head to Toe), and toured Central and South America. She is most proud of her performances at the “Viña del Mar Festival”, where she was her country’s representative.
In 1997 she released Sueños Urbanos (Urban Dreams), the album in which we discover more about Carina as songwriter with themes composed by her. Her single Solo Quiero reached the pinnacle of popularity.
Despite interest from major record labels Carina chose to start her own record company. In 2007 Damselfly Records gives birth to Viaje Personal.
Carina is a singer, musician and composer with versatile talent who has also explored film, theatre and television, both as an actress and as a producer.
External links
http://www.carinaricco.com
1969 births
Living people
Mexican women singers
Mexican musicians
Mexican people of Italian descent
Mexican people of Spanish descent
Actresses from Veracruz
Singers from Veracruz |
20467265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose%20School | Montrose School | Montrose School is an independent school for girls in grades 6–12 located in Medfield, Massachusetts, USA.
History
Montrose was founded in 1979 in Brookline, Massachusetts, by a group of parents and educators with a vision of girls’ education inspired by the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and St. Josemaria Escriva. The founders asked the Prelature of Opus Dei to provide chaplains to oversee religious teachings, celebrate mass, hear confessions and lead reflections. One of the school's founders was marketing consultant Bill Bowman, later co-founder of the educational software company Spinnaker Software in 1982.
After its initial period in Brookline, the school spent a few years each in the towns of Westwood and Natick. In 2007, Montrose moved to its permanent location in Medfield.
Curriculum
Montrose offers a classical liberal arts curriculum, as well as character education integrated throughout the seven-year curriculum. Students participate in a mentoring program, daily enrichment opportunities for mass or non-academic individual reading, a guest speaker series, class and school service projects and the development of habits of heart, mind and character.
The upper school curriculum includes four years of English, mathematics, history, science and theology or philosophy, as well as at least three years of foreign language and fine arts. Languages offered include Spanish, French and Latin. During their senior year, students complete and present final capstone projects focusing on social issues or other interdisciplinary questions.
The middle school curriculum has two English classes in grade 6 and 7 and a full year of geography. In 7th grade, the girls study ancient civilizations. In 8th grade, the girls are introduced to the language program by taking a full year of Latin; they also take civics.
Montrose also offers study abroad trips for students: the "In the Footsteps of Dante" trip to Italy for upper school students. The school has recently introduced an exchange student program for 10 days with one of its sister schools, Rosemont in Ireland.
Other activities during school days
Girls have at least one study period on almost every day. During one day a week they have an all-school gathering which may consist of a speaker, a game, red and white team competitions, or a Big/Little sister activity.
At the beginning of the year, girls are sorted into either the red or white team, each representing one of the school's colors. These teams compete throughout the year in different activities with a winner announced on the annual themed field day.
The Big/Little sister program pairs one or more upper school (9-12th grade) students and one or more middle school (grades 6–8) students together to have someone to talk to or ask for advice from during the school year. The program is supposed to bond students across grades and create a cohesive environment.
Extracurricular
Sports
Montrose offers seven varsity sports, plus club sports and other athletic offerings. During fall, soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country are offered. Basketball, ski club and indoor track are offered during the winter season, and lacrosse, softball, and track and field club during the spring. Students are encouraged to start a club if they would like to see another sport on the Montrose campus.
Music and drama program
The Montrose Players put on three major productions each year: a middle school musical, an upper school play and an all-school musical. There are also two major music productions annually. These concerts include pieces from The Upper School and Middle School Chorus, Tone Chimes, Instrumental Ensemble and the school's a cappella groups. Montrose School has two a cappella groups, the Treblemakers (upper school) and the Clef Hangers (middle school).
Sources
Schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Private high schools in Massachusetts
Private middle schools in Massachusetts
Opus Dei schools |
20467276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20to%20Rejoin | Motion to Rejoin | Motion to Rejoin is the third full-length album by Brightblack Morning Light. It was released on September 23, 2008 by Matador Records.
Track listing
"Introduction" – 0:42
"Hologram Buffalo" – 5:18
"Gathered Years" – 8:00
"Oppressions Each" – 3:26
"Another Reclamation" – 7:05
"A Rainbow Aims" – 9:46
"Summer Hoof" – 5:27
"Past a Weatherbeaten Fencepost" – 6:49
"When Beads Spell Power Leaf" – 2:43
References
2008 albums
Brightblack Morning Light albums
Matador Records albums |
17329552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20gunboat%20Marques%20del%20Duero | Spanish gunboat Marques del Duero | Marques del Duero was a of the Spanish Navy which fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
Technical characteristics
Marques del Duero was a first-class gunboat, or "aviso", built by La Seyne in France. She was laid down on 20 January 1875, launched on 3 May 1875, and completed the same year. She was designed to fight against the Carlists in the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay during the Third Carlist War, patrolling off Carlist ports to intercept contraband and blockade the ports, and also providing despatch services between Spanish Navy forces operating off various ports, hence her Spanish designation of aviso, meaning "warning." She had an iron hull with a very prominent ram bow, was coal-fired, was rigged as a schooner, and could carry 89 tons of coal. She was reclassified as a third-class gunboat in 1895.
Operational history
The Spanish took delivery of Marques del Duero from her French builders at Marseilles, France. She set out on her first operational deployment from Marseilles on 27 July 1875, heading for San Sebastián Bay in northern Spain for blockade, patrol, and despatch duty. She served there beyond the end of the Third Carlist War on 27 February 1876, finally leaving after Spanish naval forces there began to leave for postwar duties after 5 April 1876.
On 29 July 1876, Marques del Duero departed Spain for the Philippines, where she was based at Zamboanga, assigned to the South Division of the Asiatic Squadron.
On 24 July 1880, Marques del Duero left Philippine waters for courtesy visits to the kings of Siam and Annam at Saigon and Singapore.
On 27 September 1895, Marques del Duero captured several pirate launches manned by Moros in Borneo. She later attacked a group of Moro and Tagalog pirates, killing 18 and wounding 30.
Marques del Duero was the oldest member of Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo de Pasaron's Pacific Squadron at Manila in the Philippine Islands when the Spanish–American War broke out in April 1898. She was anchored with the squadron in Cañacao Bay under the lee of the Cavite Peninsula east of Sangley Point, Luzon, eight miles southwest of Manila, when, early on the morning of 1 May 1898, the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey, found Montojo's anchorage and attacked. In the resulting Battle of Manila Bay, the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War, Marques del Duero took one , one , and about three other shell hits, which wrecked her bow gun, a side gun, and an engine. Her crew scuttled her in shallow water; part of her upper works remained above water, and a boarding crew from the gunboat went aboard and set these on fire at the end of battle.
After the war, a U.S. Navy salvage team raised and repaired Marques del Duero. She served briefly in the U.S. Navy as USS P-17, but was decommissioned and scrapped in 1900.
Notes
References
Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. .
Nofi, Albert A. The Spanish–American War. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books Inc., 1996. .
External links
The Spanish–American War Centennial Website: Marques del Duero
Gunboats of Spain
Ships of the Spanish Navy
1875 ships
Ships built in France
Spanish–American War gunboats of Spain
Maritime incidents in 1898
Scuttled vessels
Shipwrecks of the Spanish–American War
Shipwrecks in the South China Sea
Shipwrecks of the Philippines |
17329566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20NHK%20Trophy | 1995 NHK Trophy | The 1995 NHK Trophy was the final event of five in the 1995–96 ISU Champions Series, a senior-level international invitational competition series. This was the inaugural year of that series. It was held in Nagoya on December 7–10. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1995–96 Champions Series Final.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
External links
1995 NHK Trophy
Nhk Trophy, 1995
NHK Trophy |
17329587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide%20universal%20IDentifier | Nucleotide universal IDentifier | The nucleotide universal IDentifier (nuID) is designed to uniquely and globally identify oligonucleotide microarray probes.
Background
Oligonucleotide probes of microarrays that are sequence identical may have different identifiers between manufacturers and even between different versions of the same company's microarray; and sometimes the same identifier is reused and represents a completely different oligonucleotide, resulting in ambiguity and potentially mis-identification of the genes hybridizing to that probe. This also makes data interpretation and integration of different batches of data difficult. nuID was designed to solve these problems. It is a unique, non-degenerate encoding scheme that can be used as a universal representation to identify an oligonucleotide across manufacturers. The design of nuID was inspired by the fact that the raw sequence of the oligonucleotide is the true definition of identity for a probe, the encoding algorithm uniquely and non-degenerately transforms the sequence itself into a compact identifier (a lossless compression). In addition, a redundancy check (checksum) was added to validate the integrity of the identifier. These two steps, encoding plus checksum, result in an nuID, which is a unique, non-degenerate, permanent, robust and efficient representation of the probe sequence. For commercial applications that require the sequence identity to be confidential, encryption schema can also be added for nuID. The utility of nuIDs has been implemented for the annotation of Illumina microarrays, which can be downloaded from Bioconductor website . It also has universal applicability as a source-independent naming convention for oligomers.
The nuID schema has three significant advantages over using the oligo sequence directly as an identifier: first it is more compact due to the base-64 encoding; second, it has a built-in error detection and self-identification; and third, it can be encrypted in cases where the sequences are preferred not to be disclosed. For more details, please refer to the nuID paper. The implementation nuID encoding and decoding algorithms can be found in the lumi package or at
See also
Illumina Inc. and its beadArray technology
lumi Bioconductor package of processing Illumina expression microarray
References
External links
nuID annotation website
Official Lumi Website
Official Bioconductor Website
Microarrays |
20467282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian%20Potter | Vivian Potter | Vivian Harold Potter (23 October 1878 – 19 November 1968) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament, miner, trade unionist, and soldier.
Private life
Potter was born in Hamilton in 1878, the son of Albert Potter. His mother was Catherine Potter (née Whitehouse), Albert Potter's second wife. Albert Potter left his first wife in 1862 in Hobart when he discovered that both she and Catherine Whitehouse were pregnant with his children; he secretly took four of their five children with them to Auckland. His first wife tracked him down in Mount Eden in 1892.
Vivian Potter mostly lived in Auckland during his early life. He fought in the Second Boer War with the 7th Contingent for about two years; he was a Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant with registration number 4045.
After the Boer War, he married Lillah Coleman at Waihi in January 1904. He was a miner at Waihi and was a member of the Waihi Miners' Union, but opposed the 1912 strike. After the strike was over, he travelled the North Island and lectured on labour arbitration and conciliation.
He was a Second Lieutenant in World War I. He was granted indefinite leave from military service in March 1918 because he suffered from sciatica.
Political career
Potter served on the Waihi Borough Council. He chaired the Waihi school committee for some time, and was on the advisory committee for the Technical School.
Potter represented the Roskill electorate for the Reform Party in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1919 to 1928. In the , Potter stood in the electorate for the Reform Party but was beaten by Arthur Stallworthy. In the 1931 election, he was one of five candidates in Eden and came last. In the , he stood in Roskill electorate again, and came fourth of the five candidates.
He died on 19 November 1968 and was buried at Mangere Lawn Cemetery.
References
1878 births
1968 deaths
Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs
Local political office-holders in New Zealand
New Zealand military personnel of the Second Boer War
New Zealand military personnel of World War I
New Zealand miners
New Zealand trade unionists
People from Hamilton, New Zealand
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates
Burials at Mangere Lawn Cemetery
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1928 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1935 New Zealand general election |
17329600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronautalis | Astronautalis | Charles Andrew Bothwell (born December 13, 1981), better known by his stage name Astronautalis, is an American alternative hip hop artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
History
After gaining some recognition in local circles in Jacksonville, Florida and competing at Scribble Jam, Astronautalis self-released his debut album, You and Yer Good Ideas, in 2003. He eventually signed with Fighting Records and the record was re-released in 2005, followed by his second album, The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters, in 2006. He released the third album, Pomegranate, on Eyeball Records in 2008. In winter 2009, he toured with the Canadian indie rock band Tegan and Sara through Europe, and supported them again through the spring of 2010 in Australia. His fourth album, This Is Our Science, was released on Fake Four Inc. in 2011. His latest release, Cut the Body Loose, was released in 2016.
Astronautalis is a descendant of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, which is one of the reasons why his lyrics often deal with historical fiction.
Style
Astronautalis has been described as "if Beck were a decade or so younger and had grown up more heavily immersed in hip-hop," with his rapping style noted for "blending styles of indie rock, electro, and talkin’ blues" with hip-hop. He has described himself as "historical fiction hip-hop."
During live performances, Astronautalis often performs a freestyle rap based on topics chosen by members of his audience.
Controversies
In June 2020 Astronautalis was accused of sexual assault and physical abuse by a number of accounts on Instagram and Twitter. Astronautalis released a response admitting to this abuse and has since deleted all of his tweets and made his account private.
Discography
Studio albums
You and Yer Good Ideas (self-released, 2003; Fighting, 2005)
The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters (Fighting, 2006)
Pomegranate (Eyeball, 2008)
This Is Our Science (Fake Four Inc., 2011)
Cut the Body Loose (SideOneDummy, 2016)
Collaborative albums
6666 (with P.O.S, as Four Fists) (2018)
De Oro (Totally Gross National Product, 2014) (with S. Carey, Ryan Olson & Justin Vernon, as Jason Feathers)
Mixtapes
Dancehall Horn Sound!! (2010) (with DJ Fishr Pryce)
EPs
Meet Me Here (2004)
Texas Kinda Rhymes With Sexist (2005)
A Round Trip Ticket to China (2006)
Split EP (2006) (with Babel Fishh)
Gold Bones (2007)
Dang! Seven Freestyles in Seven Days (2008)
The Unfortunate Affairs of Mary and Earl (2008)
The Young Capitalist's Starter Kit (2008)
Daytrotter Sessions (2011)
This City Ain't Just a Skyline (2013)
SIKE! (2016)
Singles
"This Is the Place" (2013) (with Sims)
"The Rainmakers" b/w "Fallen Streets" (2013) (with Rickolus)
"MMMMMHMMMMM" b/w "Please Go" (2013) (with P.O.S, as Four Fists)
"The Dirt Bike" (2017)
"Sick" (2017)
"These Songs" (2017)
"Bella Ciao" (2020)
Vinyl releases
You and Yer Good Ideas (2003) [Dual 12' Vinyl: Black]
Split Series Vol. 2 (2006) (with BabelFishh]) [12' Vinyl: 500 Black]
Pomegranate (2008) [12' Vinyl: Black, Ltd: White]
This Is Our Science (2011) [12' Vinyl: Black]
Astronautalis & Rickolus (2013) (with Rickolus) [1st Pressing: 100 Mixed Color (Hand-Numbered), 150 Red, 150 White, 250 Black; 2nd Pressing: 175 Lavender, 175 Blue]
Four Fists (2013) (with P.O.S) [500 Clear, 500 Red, 500 White, 500 Blue]
Double Exposure Vol 3. (2013) (with Chuck Ragan) [100 Blue, 200 White, 300 Red, 400 Black]
The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters (2015) [Dual 12' Vinyl: 500 Swirled blue/white/clear]
Guest appearances & production credits
Guest appearances
Scott Da Ros - "They Made Me Do It" (2005)
Brzowski - "Roll My Bones" from Maryshelleyoverdrive (2005)
Input - "Now and Never More" from Elusive Candor (2006)
Noah23 - "They Made Me Do It" from Cameo Therapy (2007)
P.O.S - "Hand Made Hand Gun" from Never Better (2009)
Otem Rellik - "Warm Pockets" from Chain Reaction Robot (2008)
Oskar Ohlson - "Sea of Grass" from Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash (2008)
Sole and the Skyrider Band - "A Sad Day for Investors" from Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP (2009)
Sole - "Swagger Like Us" & "Juicy" from Nuclear Winter Volume 1 (2009)
Ceschi – "No New York" from The One Man Band Broke Up (2010)
Zoën - "Be Careful What You Wish For" from One Night Between (2010)
Mild Davis - "Prince of Mayport" from Bro-Sesh: Volume 1 (2010)
Andrre - "Learn to Listen" and "Keeping Memory Alive" from Learn to Love (2011)
The Hood Internet - "Our Finest China" from FEAT (2012)
Bleubird - "Hello Hollow" from Cannonball!!! (2012)
Marijuana Deathsquads - "Top Down" from Tamper Disable Destroy (2012)
P.O.S - "Wanted Wasted" from We Don't Even Live Here (2012)
Input & Broken - "When Darkness Looms" from Never Heard of Ya (2012)
Myka 9 & Factor - "Bask In These Rays" from Sovereign Soul (2012)
Culture Cry Wolf - "That's the Breaks" from The Sapient Sessions EP (2013)
Factor - "Let It Go" from Woke Up Alone (2013)
Sadistik - "Exit Theme" from Flowers for My Father (2013)
Giant Gorilla Dog Thing - "Bandaids Over Bulletholes" from Horse (2014)
Noize MC - "Hard Reboot" from Hard Reboot (2014)
P.O.S. - "Sleepdrone/Superposition" from "Chill, dummy" (2017)
Factor Chandelier - "Scratch-Off Lotto Tickets" from "Wisdom Teeth" (2018)
Ceschi - "Any War" from "Sad, Fat Luck" (2019)
Hurricane Party - "Kon@" from "Juice" (2019)
Production credits
Bleubird – Cannonball!!! (2012)
Videography
Trouble Hunters (2009)
The Wondersmith and His Sons (2010)
Contrails (2011)
This Is Our Science (2012)
Dimitri Mendeleev (2013)
SIKE! (2016)
Running Away From God (2016)
Kurt Cobain (2016)
Forest Fire (2017)
References
External links
Featured on MN Original Program from St. Paul, MN PBS Station: MN Original Video
21st-century American singers
1981 births
American hip hop record producers
American male rappers
Living people
Musicians from Jacksonville, Florida
Rappers from Florida
Rappers from Minneapolis
Underground rappers
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male singers |
20467291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum%20deficiency | Molybdenum deficiency | Molybdenum deficiency refers to the clinical consequences of inadequate supplies of molybdenum in the diet.
The amount of molybdenum required is relatively small, and molybdenum deficiency usually does not occur in natural settings. However, it can occur in individuals receiving parenteral nutrition.
Signs and symptoms
Descriptions of human molybdenum deficiency are few. A patient receiving prolonged parenteral nutrition acquired a syndrome described as ‘acquired molybdenum deficiency.’ This syndrome, exacerbated by methionine administration, was characterized by high blood methionine, low blood uric acid, and low urinary uric acid and sulfate concentrations. The patient suffered mental disturbances that progressed to a coma. Pathological changes occurring in individuals with a genetic disease that results in a sulfite oxidase (a molybdoenzyme) deficiency include increased plasma and urine sulfite, sulfate, thiosulfate, S-sulfocysteine and taurine; seizures, and brain atrophy/lesions; dislocated lenses; and death at an early age..
Diagnosis
Treatment
300 mcg Ammonium Molybdate per day can bring about recovery of “acquired molybdenum deficiency” [3]
See also
Molybdenum cofactor deficiency
References
Further reading
External links
Mineral deficiencies
Deficiency |
17329612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Arbuthnot | Michael Arbuthnot | Michael Alexander Arbuthnot (born 9 June 1970) is an archaeologist, instructor and archaeological filmmaker.
Education and awards
Michael A. Arbuthnot received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy and minor in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996. He holds a master's degree in Anthropology from Florida State University. He specialized in underwater archaeology and graduated magna cum laude.
Arbuthnot is an active member in many professional organizations, including: the Registry of Professional Archaeologists (RPA); the Florida Archaeological Council (FAC); the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC); the Florida Anthropological Society (FAS); the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS); and the St. Augustine Archaeological Association (SAAA).
In addition to being the author of many published articles and papers, Arbuthnot is considered an authority on submerged prehistoric sites. He focused his thesis on paleo-environmental change and the impact it has on archaeological sites in the Gulf of Mexico.
Arbuthnot's research has been presented at many conferences, including the Society for American Archaeology, the Northeast Florida Symposium on Underwater Archaeology, the annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. The results of his research in the Caribbean are now exhibited at the George Town Museum on Grand Cayman Island.
Titanic
Michael Arbuthnot is currently a faculty member at Flagler College, located in historic downtown St. Augustine, Florida. There, he teaches his students about the fascinating world of archaeology, which included a field expedition to the RMS Titanic. He hopes to set aside the boring impression people have of archaeology, saying, “People have this idea of archaeologists sitting there with a brush and a toothpick, but it can be exciting.”
Arbuthnot's trip to the Titanic took him 12,600 feet below the ocean's surface. James Cameron, the producer, writer, and director of the movie “Titanic” recruited Arbuthnot in 2005 to work on the first systematic archeological survey of Titanic's internal bow structure. Findings from this survey were shown in the Discovery Channel special “Last Mysteries of the Titanic” and will exhibited as part of the Titanic Legacy Database Project presently in development with the non-profit digital historic preservation organization, CyArk.
Team Atlantis
Arbuthnot founded Team Atlantis Productions in 1996. The name, of course, is a play on the mythical underwater city of Atlantis. Arbuthnot defines Team Atlantis, saying, “TA is a multi-disciplinary outfit whose mission is to explore archeological mysteries with an emphasis on those enigmas associated with underwater contexts.” Because underwater archeological sites usually have some connection with sites on land, Team Atlantis is not restricted to only underwater locations.
Team Atlantis has explored and surveyed many sites around the world, including:
Egypt (1996): Here, Arbuthnot and his team traveled extensively along the Giza Plateau. Arbuthnot developed his Orion Pyramid Theory while in Egypt.
Grand Cayman Island, Caribbean (1997): Arbuthnot participated in the mapping of the remains of the Geneva Kathleen, a schooner that sank in 1930.
Yonaguni, Japan (1998): In Japan, Arbuthnot organized an expedition that examined the Yonaguni Monument and created a film documentary of the experience.
Cat Island, Bahamas (2000): Team Atlantis journeyed to the Bahamas to explore the possibility of ancient shorelines submerged in the shallow water of the Great Bahama Bank.
The Gulf of Mexico (2000): Arbuthnot and other members of Florida State University's Program in Underwater Archaeology excavated submerged prehistoric sites and shipwrecks under the direction of Dr. Michael Faught.
Yucatán, Mexico (2000): Team Atlantis explored Mayan ruins at Tulum and Chichen Itza and digitally documented their trip.
La Jolla in San Diego, California (2005): Underwater artifacts were first discovered here in the early 1900s. Team Atlantis decided to make a trip to California to investigate. The team discovered a total of six artifacts, including a stone bowl, dated 4000 to 7000 years ago. This contributes to the already over 2000 artifacts recovered in this area of at least 34 submerged sites.
More about La Jolla
Team Atlantis Productions plan to open the eyes of the public to archaeological mysteries off the coast of San Diego through their show, “La Jolla’s Sunken City.” Michael Arbuthnot, the Writer/Producer of the show, paired with Director/Editor David Faires, to take underwater cinematography to new depths.
“Not only is Mike Arbuthnot the Writer/Producer, but he is rapidly becoming one of the most recognizable archaeologists in the United States. As a young professional archaeologist and former college professor, Arbuthnot has been featured on ABC, Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel. Most recently Arbuthnot conducted the first archaeological survey of the famous shipwreck R.M.S. Titanic with film maker and explorer James Cameron on Discovery Channel’s televised event, Last Mysteries of the Titanic. He continues to excite audiences and historians alike by blending ancient history and archaeology with filmmaking.”
As stated previously, artifacts were first found in the early 1900s. Children would return to the shore from playing in the shallow water with small stone bowls. Scuba diving became increasingly popular in the 1950s, leading to more exploring around La Jolla. Due to this exploration, more than 2000 artifacts have been recovered. Some date to more than 5000 years ago. At least 34 submerged sites have been discovered in places as deep as 30 meters. Some scientists believe that La Jolla is an entire sunken village. In “La Jolla’s Sunken City,” Arbuthnot and Faires explore several hypotheses concerning how these objects were originally deposited, and they reveal never before seen artifacts.
Arbuthnot had trouble at the beginning of the expedition, but was eventually successful in finding artifacts at La Jolla. According to the CineForm article on La Jolla:
Their success was aided by the help of a small octopus. A diver was tracking it, when the octopus stopped behind a round stone. This ‘stone’ turned out to be a beautiful stone bowl, which eventually led the team to discovering a total of six artifacts in 20 feet of water. Arbuthnot speculates that these ancient finds date to between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago!
Currently
Arbuthnot has worked on underwater archaeology projects in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and the Caribbean since 1997. He has surveyed, mapped, excavated, interpreted and analyzed artifacts, and published reports on a variety of diverse archaeological sites. He continues his work, based mainly in Florida. He also functions as Newsletter Editor for the Florida Archaeological Council.
Arbuthnot presently serves as a Senior Project Manager for SEARCH, a leading cultural resource company based in Florida.
Arbuthnot is working with the Discovery Channel to create the television show "America's Lost Vikings", about the location of the mythical Viking Vinland, and where they may have settled along Canada and the United States.
Secret Worlds with Michael Arbuthnot
Arbuthnot's documentary Secret Worlds with Mike Arbuthnot began airing on the travel channel in 2010.
Family
Born in Oakland, California, son of Robert Murray Arbuthnot, Michael is married to Serena Lynn Conrad who had two sons by her first marriage. They live in St Augustine, Florida.
References
Family tree
1974 births
Living people
American archaeologists
American underwater divers
People from Oakland, California
Underwater archaeologists
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Florida State University alumni |
17329625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monna%20Bell | Monna Bell | Ana Nora Escobar (January 5, 1938 – April 21, 2008), known professionally as Monna Bell, was a Chilean singer who enjoyed a successful career in Spain, Mexico and other parts of Latin America. She was reportedly one of Juan Gabriel's muses. Bell was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1938. In the mid-1950s, she was barely in her teens when she won a talent contest held at Radio Mineria in Santiago and became a regular at the station's live broadcasts. Her voice caught the attention of band leader Roberto Inglez who, in 1956, hired her as a vocalist for his group and took her on a three-week gig at New York's Waldorf Astoria. They went over so well that the band and its brand new singer stayed for a year. Next they toured Europe and in Madrid Monna had such a phenomenal reception that she decided to go solo becoming a big sensation at the Pasapoga, the city's most fashionable night club.
In 1959 she performed a jazzy novelty tune titled "Un Telegrama" at the First Benidorm International Song Festival. The song won all the top awards and became an international major hit when Monna recorded it for the Hispavox label. It was the first of many hits that made her a recording sensation both in Europe and Latin America. She toured the world and decided to settle down in Mexico where she branched out into films and married cinematographer Alex Phillips Jr. It was not an enduring marriage but it produced daughter Jennifer and son Alex III who is currently a rock musician.
In the late 1960s she continued recording highly successful albums for the Musart label and did a lot of television work in Mexico and abroad. In the 1970s she signed with Orfeon and her recordings began suffering due to mediocre material and backing, however she continued touring on the strength of her old hits. By the 1980s her career was over and she decided to retire. Singer-composer Juan Gabriel tried to remedy the situation by writing and producing Monna Bell Ahora, an album released in 1993 by Sony which went nowhere. Monna went back to retirement and in the 2000s moved next to her daughter in Tijuana, Baja California.
Diehard fans kept waiting for a successful return but their hopes where crushed when the singer died of cardiac arrest after a successful colon cancer surgery on April 21, 2008. After her death many of her old recordings were released in CD format and are the best witness of Monna Bell's greatness as one of the most creative Latin singers in history. Pedro Almodóvar used one of Bell's songs, "Estaba Escrito", in his 1980 film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas Del Monton).
Death
Monna Bell died of a stroke on April 21, 2008, in Tijuana, Mexico, at the age of 70.
References
External links
Chilean Singer Monna Bell, Dead at 70
El Economista: Monna Bell, muse of Juan Gabriel, dies
A Tribute to Monna Bell
1938 births
2008 deaths
People from Santiago
People from Tijuana
20th-century Chilean women singers |
20467301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSCO%20II%20process | TOSCO II process | The TOSCO II process is an above ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction, which uses fine particles of oil shale that are heated in a rotating kiln. The particularity of this process is that it use hot ceramic balls for the heat transfer between the retort and a heater. The process was tested in a 40 tonnes per hour test facility near Parachute, Colorado.
History
TOSCO II process is a refinement of the Swedish Aspeco process. The Tosco Corporation purchased its patent rights in 1952. In 1956, the Denver Research Institute performed research and development of this technology, including testing of a 24 ton per day pilot plant, which operated until 1966. Later the technology development was continued under Tosco's own directions. In 1964 Tosco, Standard Oil of Ohio, and Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company formed Colony Development, a joint venture company to develop the Colony Shale Oil Project and to commercialize the TOSCO II technology. The project was ended in April 1972.
Technology
The TOSCO II process is classified as a hot recycled solids technology. It employs a horizontal rotating kiln-type retort. In this process, oil shale is crushed smaller than and enters the system through pneumatic lift pipes in which oil shale is elevated by hot gas streams and preheated to about . After entering into retort, oil shale is mixed with hot ceramic balls with temperature from to . This increase the oil shale temperature to between and , in which pyrolysis occurs. In the pyrolysis process, kerogen decomposes to oil shale gas and oil vapors, while the remainder of the oil shale forms spent shale. Vapors are transferred to a condensor (fractionator) for separation into various fractions. At the kiln passage, the spent shale and the ceramic balls are separated in a perforated rotating separation drum (trommel). The crushed spent shale falls through holes in the trommel, while ceramic balls are transferred to the ball heater. Combustible shale gas is burned in the ball heater to reheat the ceramic balls.
The overall thermal efficiency of TOSCO II process is low because the energy of spent shale is not recovered and much of the produced shale gas is consumed by the process itself. The efficiency could be increased by burning char (carbonaceous residue in the spent shale) instead of shale gas as a fuel of the ball heater. The process' other disadvantages are mechanical complexity and large number of moving parts. Also the lifetime of ceramic balls is limited. Disposal of spent shale includes environmental problems because it is very finely crushed and contains carbon residue.
See also
Alberta Taciuk Process
Kiviter process
Petrosix process
Galoter process
Fushun process
Paraho process
Lurgi-Ruhrgas process
References
Oil shale technology |
20467313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riker%20Hall%20%28Gainesville%2C%20Florida%29 | Riker Hall (Gainesville, Florida) | Riker Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Collegiate Gothic style to provide housing for the student body. Known as South Hall for the first five decades of existence, it was named for Harold C. Riker in 2000.
References
Buildings at the University of Florida
Guy Fulton buildings
School buildings completed in 1950
Residential buildings completed in 1950
1950 establishments in Florida |
17329694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20Sites%20of%20HMS%20Cerberus%20and%20HMS%20Lark | Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark | The Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark are located in the waters of Narragansett Bay on the west side of Aquidneck Island near South Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
History
HMS Cerberus was a frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1758 and carrying 28 guns. HMS Lark, also a frigate, was built in 1762 and carried 32 guns. Cerberus had been stationed off Rhode Island as part of a blockade of its ports since April 1776, and was joined by Lark in February 1777. Upon the arrival of a large French fleet off Narragansett Bay in late July 1778, the two ships were among the twenty British vessels in the bay which were then tasked to defend British-occupied Newport. Stationed in the northern stretch of the East Passage (separating Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands), the two ships were ordered to Newport, with instructions to not surrender to the enemy. While en route to Newport on August 5, the two ships were sighted by French ships of the line. On 8, the 64-gun Fantasque and the frigates Aimable, Chimère and Engageante, under Pierre André de Suffren, entered the Bay. Rather than engage on a lopsided battle that would have ended in their surrender, the two captains decided to scuttle their ships. Captain Symonds ran Cerberus aground, put the crew ashore, and set fire to the ship, while Captain White did the same with Lark. Two other British frigates, Orpheus and Juno, suffered the same fate. When Larks gunpowder magazine was reached by the flames, it exploded, sending debris flying for miles around.
The wrecks of all four ships lay essentially undisturbed until the 1970s, when an archaeological team located portions of Lark, Cerberus, and Orpheus. As of 2008, the full extent of the wreck sites has not been established, and only fragmentary evidence of the ships has been recovered.
The site of the wrecks of Cerberus and Lark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
Other military sites associated with the 1778 French expedition to Newport:
Battle of Rhode Island Site
Conanicut Battery
Fort Barton
References
References
Bibliography
Shipwrecks of the Rhode Island coast
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Maritime incidents in 1778
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island |
20467330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elma%20Dienda | Elma Dienda | Elma Jane Dienda (born 16 November 1964 in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa) is a Namibian politician and teacher. Currently a member Democratic Turnhalle Alliance which she joined four years after her resignation from the CoD, Dienda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from taking CoD's final spot in 2004 until CoD did not receive enough votes for her re-election in 2009. She is of South African and Malawian descent.
Career
Dienda is a teacher by profession, having earned an education diploma at the Windhoek College of Education and worked at Eldorado High School in Khomasdal. She also has a paralegal diploma from the Legal Assistance Centre. She received training as a counselor at Catholic AIDS Action.
Political positions
Dienda joined the Congress of Democrats in 1999, the year of its foundation. She also held the position of the secretary of the Women Democrats Party. In 2007, she opposed the election of Ben Ulenga as party president.
Dienda led a drive in the National Assembly which called for the distribution of condoms to prison inmates as a means of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Dienda and other opposition politicians were shouted down, with Utoni Nujoma and Petrus Iilonga vocally opposing the idea. Several SWAPO members denied that sexual activities ever occurred in prisons.
References
1964 births
Living people
People from Upington
Congress of Democrats politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Namibian people of Malawian descent
Namibian people of South African descent
21st-century Namibian women politicians
21st-century Namibian politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Windhoek College of Education alumni |
20467347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Hall%20%28Gainesville%2C%20Florida%29 | North Hall (Gainesville, Florida) | North Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Collegiate Gothic style to provide housing for the student body.
See also
University of Florida
Buildings at the University of Florida
University of Florida student housing
References
Buildings at the University of Florida
Guy Fulton buildings
University and college buildings completed in 1950
Residential buildings completed in 1950
1950 establishments in Florida |
20467348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef%20Tajti | József Tajti | József Tajti (Jászapáti, 8 October 1943) is a Hungarian footballer, currently coaches Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC.
References
Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben? [Who's Who in the Hungarian Sports Life?], Volume 3 (S–Z). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, p 85,
1943 births
Living people
People from Jászapáti
Hungarian footballers
Hungarian football managers
Association football defenders
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Kaposvári Rákóczi FC players
Fehérvár FC managers
Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers
Sportspeople from Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County |
20467366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28It%27s%20Gonna%20Be%20a%29%20Lonely%20Christmas | (It's Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas | "(It's Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas" is a Christmas song recorded by The Orioles in 1948. It was their second hit (following "It's Too Soon to Know"), reaching position #8 on Billboard’s Juke Box charts in December 1948, and #5 the following Christmas.
References
American Christmas songs
Songs about loneliness
1948 songs |
17329709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20Calder%20Cup%20playoffs | 1982 Calder Cup playoffs | The 1982 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 7, 1982. The eight teams that qualified played best-of-five series for Division Semifinals and best-of-seven series for Division Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 10, 1982, with the New Brunswick Hawks defeating the Binghamton Whalers four games to one to win the Calder Cup for the only time in team history.
Playoff seeds
After the 1981–82 AHL regular season, the top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. However, since the fifth-placed team of the Southern division (Adirondack) earned more points than the fourth-placed team in the Northern division (Springfield), Adirondack played in the Northern division portion of the bracket in place of Springfield. The New Brunswick Hawks finished the regular season with the best overall record.
Northern Division
New Brunswick Hawks - 107 points
Maine Mariners - 101 points
Nova Scotia Voyageurs - 80 points
Southern Division
Binghamton Whalers - 98 points
Rochester Americans - 89 points
New Haven Nighthawks - 86 points
Hershey Bears - 78 points
Adirondack Red Wings - 77 points (Played in the Northern division part of the bracket in place of Springfield due to earning more points during the regular season.)
Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.
Division Semifinals
Note 1: Home team is listed first.
Note 2: The number of overtime periods played (where applicable) is not indicated
Northern Division
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (S5) Adirondack Red Wings
(N2) Maine Mariners vs. (N3) Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Southern Division
(S1) Binghamton Whalers vs. (S4) Hershey Bears
(S2) Rochester Americans vs. (S3) New Haven Nighthawks
Division Finals
Northern Division
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (N3) Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Southern Division
(S1) Binghamton Whalers vs. (S2) Rochester Americans
Calder Cup Final
(N1) New Brunswick Hawks vs. (S1) Binghamton Whalers
See also
1981–82 AHL season
List of AHL seasons
References
Calder Cup
Calder Cup playoffs |
20467374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until%20They%20Sail | Until They Sail | Until They Sail is a 1957 American black-and-white CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, and Sandra Dee. The screenplay by Robert Anderson, based on a story by James A. Michener included in his 1951 anthology Return to Paradise, focuses on four New Zealand sisters and their relationships with U.S. Marines during World War II.
Plot
The film opens in a Christchurch courtroom, where testimony prompts Barbara Leslie to flashback to the events that led to the trial. She and her sisters Anne, Evelyn, and Delia live in Christchurch, where most of the male residents, including their brother Kit and Barbara's new husband Mark, are preparing to leave for World War II duty. Delia announces her engagement to Phil "Shiner" Friskett, who is one of the city's few remaining bachelors, but word of Kit's death dampens the celebration. Repressed and judgmental spinster sister Anne disapproves of the upcoming nuptials, but Barbara defends Delia's decision.
Within weeks of the marriage, the sisters come to resent Shiner's abuse and are happy to see him leave for active duty. Delia moves to Wellington to work for the New Zealand Navy. When several hundred U.S. Marines are shipped to Christchurch following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the lonely local women are flattered by the attention they pay them. When Evelyn invites Capt. Richard "Dick" Bates to dinner, he declines the offer, but not without attracting Anne's eye.
Concerned about Delia, Anne sends Barbara to Wellington, where she discovers her sister is registered at the St. George Hotel under her maiden name. Shiner is now a prisoner of war, and Delia has become involved with an American lieutenant named Andy. She plans to divorce Shiner and emigrate to the United States. Andy introduces Barbara to his friend Jack Harding, a Marine reviewing the backgrounds of prospective New Zealand brides of American soldiers. Although Barbara intends to remain faithful to her husband, she finds herself attracted to Jack.
Back in Christchurch, Anne is outraged by the lewd comments made by American servicemen in the lingerie shop where she works and writes a letter of complaint to the local paper. Following its publication, Dick is sent to the Leslie home to deliver a formal apology on behalf of the Marine Corps. Anne invites him to dinner, and Dick arrives with a gift of perfume for each sister. Anne accuses him of trying to seduce them.
Soon after, Barbara and Anne learn of Mark's death in North Africa and Dick's departure for active duty. He eventually returns to New Zealand to recuperate from an injury, and a romance between him and Anne blossoms. He proposes, but before the required marital investigation can take place, he is given offshore duty, leaving Anne expecting their child and unsure of what the future holds for them.
Jack arrives at the Leslie home to conduct his investigation of Anne, and he advises her that wartime romances stem from loneliness rather than love. Barbara tells him his assessment is heartless. Shortly after, she discovers Dick's name on the latest casualty list. Weeks later, Jack runs into Barbara at a local dance, where she suggests he uses alcohol to avoid intimacy. He breaks down in her arms, and a strong friendship between the two blossoms.
Jack celebrates Christmas Eve with the Leslie family, which now includes Anne's newborn son. When he announces his imminent departure, he and Barbara share an amorous embrace. Months later, Evelyn's sweetheart Tommy returns from war and proposes to her. Barbara sees an item from Richard's mother in the personals section of the newspaper, containing a request from Dick's mother to hear from any New Zealand family who knew her son. After Barbara writes to her, Dick's mother sends money to finance Anne and her baby's move to Oklahoma to live with their family.
The day of Anne's departure coincides with the Japanese announcing the end of hostilities. Delia has arrived in Wellington to see Anne off and to ask Shiner, recently rescued from a P.O.W. camp, for a divorce so she can leave for America with her latest lover. Infuriated, Shiner kills his wife with a Japanese sword he brought back from the war.
Weeks later, during the murder trial, Jack is forced to reveal his investigation report detailing Delia's seven affairs with American soldiers. Upset that her sister's infidelities seemingly have justified her savage murder, Barbara refuses Jack's invitation to leave New Zealand with him. Upon reflection, she packs her belongings and arrives at Jack's hotel to tell him she's ready to embark upon a new life with him.
Cast
Jean Simmons as Barbara Leslie Forbes
Joan Fontaine as Anne Leslie
Paul Newman as Capt. Jack Harding
Piper Laurie as Delia Leslie Friskett
Charles Drake as Capt. Richard Bates
Sandra Dee as Evelyn Leslie
Wally Cassell as Phil Friskett
Alan Napier as Prosecution Attorney
Ralph Votrian as Max Murphy
John Wilder as Tommy
Tige Andrews as US Marine #1 (store customer)
Adam Kennedy as Lt. Andy
Mickey Shaughnessy as US Marine #2 (store customer)
Music
The score for the film was composed and conducted by David Raksin. The title song included lyrics by Sammy Cahn and was performed under the main titles by vocalist Eydie Gorme.
The complete score was issued on CD in 2009, on Film Score Monthly records.
Production
Robert Wise and Mark Robson had originally purchased the rights for Michener's story when they were at RKO. Casting problems forced them to delay the filming when the rights went to Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions who were going to cast Burt Lancaster. When the company made The Kentuckian instead, MGM acquired the rights, first intending their contract lead Glenn Ford playing the lead Marine. Robert Wise then reacquired the film through MGM in his last film of his contract with the studio.
Wise visited New Zealand to familiarise himself with the nation and the people, but filmed the movie on the MGM back lot.
He had originally intended to shoot the film in colour.
It was Sandra Dee's first film. (The 1957 Soviet animated feature The Snow Queen is often listed as Dee's first film credit, because she and other Hollywood stars did the voices for the English-language version, but that English-language audio was not actually made until 1959.)
Stewart Granger was once announced for the lead.
Box office
According to MGM records the film earned $745,000 in the US and Canada and $675,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,055,000.
Critical reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed, "The genuine tugs at the heart are few and far between in this bittersweet but basically restrained chronicle. Robert Anderson's adaptation . . . is honest and straightforward . . . Unfortunately there is a good deal of introspective soul-searching before this narrative arrives at its sad and happy endings."
William K. Zinsser of the New York Herald Tribune wrote that the film "has moments of genuine tenderness and truth."
See also
List of American films of 1957
List of films set in New Zealand
References
External links
1957 films
World War II films
Films set in New Zealand
1950s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films about the United States Marine Corps
1957 drama films
Films based on short fiction
Films directed by Robert Wise
Films scored by David Raksin
Films based on works by James A. Michener
Films set on the home front during World War II
Christchurch in fiction |
23572002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20European%20Athletics%20Championships | 2014 European Athletics Championships | The 2014 European Athletics Championships was held in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12–17 August 2014. It was the first time that Switzerland had hosted the European Athletics Championships since 1954.
Great Britain headed the medal table, with 12 gold medals, comfortably their best return from a European championships, despite winning only one field event medal. France, second on gold medals won with 9, won the most medals, 24.
Event schedule
Results
Men
Track
(*) Heat only.
In the 3000m steeplechase, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France won the race, but he was later disqualified after he took off his shirt while running down the home straight. Yoann Kowal (France) was then awarded gold, Krystian Zalewski (Poland) silver and Angel Mullera (Spain) bronze.
Field
Women
Track
(*) Heat only.
Field
Medal table
Participating nations
Athletes from a total of 50 member federations of the European Athletics Association are competing at these Championships.
(host)
See also
List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals
2014 African Championships in Athletics
References
External links
Official website
European Athletics Championships
International athletics competitions hosted by Switzerland
Athletics Championships
European Athletics Championships
Sports competitions in Zürich
European
21st century in Zürich
August 2014 sports events in Europe |
23572008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerocornea | Sclerocornea | Sclerocornea is a congenital anomaly of the eye in which the cornea blends with sclera, having no clear-cut boundary. The extent of the resulting opacity varies from peripheral to total (sclerocornea totalis). The severe form is thought to be inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, but there may be another, milder form that is expressed in a dominant fashion. In some cases the patients also have abnormalities beyond the eye (systemic), such as limb deformities and craniofacial and genitourinary defects.
According to one tissue analysis performed after corneal transplantation, the sulfation pattern of keratan sulfate proteoglycans in the affected area is typical for corneal rather than scleral tissue.
Sclerocornea may be concurrent with cornea plana.
References
External links
Congenital Clouding of the Cornea - eMedicine; by Noah S Scheinfeld, MD, JD, FAAD and Benjamin D Freilich, MD, FACS
Eye diseases |
17329712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Aguilar%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201987%29 | Pablo Aguilar (footballer, born 1987) | Pablo César Aguilar Benítez (born 2 April 1987) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Cruz Azul.
From March to July 2017, Aguilar served a ten-match suspension after head-butting a referee.
Club career
Early career
Aguilar won the Paraguayan Primera División title with his first club, Sportivo Luqueño, in 2007. He then transferred to Argentine Primera División side Colón de Santa Fe, where he played for one year. Subsequently, Aguilar played for San Luis of the Mexican Primera División, before joining Argentine Primera's side Arsenal de Sarandí.
Tijuana
In 2012, Aguilar was sent on loan to Club Tijuana. He started in 20 matches for the club during the Apertura tournament, which Tijuana won, defeating Toluca in the final, even scoring one of the goals himself.
América
On 18 December 2013, it was announced that Aguilar was transferred to Club América, with the announcement being made on the club's Twitter account.
On 8 March 2017, during the Copa MX round-of-16 match against Tijuana, Aguilar headbutted referee Fernando Hernández. Despite initially being given a ten-game suspension, a strike by the referee's association protesting the punishments of Aguilar and Enrique Triverio of Toluca ultimately led to a revised year-long ban for Aguilar from any official football activity. On 31 March, it was reported that both Aguilar and Triverio would appeal their bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Cruz Azul
In the summer of 2018, Aguilar officially became a player for Cruz Azul. On 21 July 2018, Aguilar debuted in a 3–0 victory against Puebla and played the 90 minutes.
International career
As of 3 June 2015, Aguilar has played in 22 games with the Paraguay national team, scoring four times. He scored his first goal on 17 October 2012 in the 1–0 victory against Peru.
International goals
Scores and results list Paraguay's goal tally first.
Personal life
In 2015, Aguilar became a naturalized Mexican citizen.
Honours
Sportivo Luqueño
Primera División: Apertura 2007
Tijuana
Liga MX: Apertura 2012
América
Liga MX: Apertura 2014
CONCACAF Champions League: 2014–15, 2015–16
Cruz Azul
Liga MX: Guardianes 2021
Copa MX: Apertura 2018
Campeón de Campeones: 2021
Supercopa MX: 2019
Leagues Cup: 2019
Individual
Liga MX Defender of the Year: 2018–19
Liga MX Best XI: Guardianes 2021
Liga MX All-Star: 2021
See also
Players and Records in Paraguayan Football
References
External links
Pablo César Aguilar – Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI
1987 births
Living people
Paraguayan footballers
Paraguayan expatriate footballers
Paraguay international footballers
Sportivo Luqueño players
Club Atlético Colón footballers
San Luis F.C. players
Club Tijuana footballers
Club América footballers
Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
Paraguayan Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Liga MX players
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
2015 Copa América players
Sportspeople from Luque
Association football central defenders
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Cruz Azul footballers |
23572015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C14H11Cl2NO2 | C14H11Cl2NO2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C14H11Cl2NO2}}
The molecular formula C14H11Cl2NO2 (molar mass: 296.15 g/mol, exact mass: 295.0167 u) may refer to:
Diclofenac
Meclofenamic acid
Molecular formulas |
20467381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice | Overchoice | Overchoice or choice overload is a cognitive impairment in which people have a difficult time making a decision when faced with many options. The term was first introduced by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book, Future Shock. This phenomenon in particular has come under some criticism due to increased scrutiny of scientific research related to the replication crisis and has not been adequately reproduced by subsequent research, thereby calling into question its validity.
Psychological process
The phenomenon of overchoice occurs when many equivalent choices are available. Making a decision becomes overwhelming due to the many potential outcomes and risks that may result from making the wrong choice. Having too many approximately equally good options is mentally draining because each option must be weighed against alternatives to select the best one. The satisfaction of choices by number of options available can be described by an inverted "U" model. In this model, having no choice results in very low satisfaction. Initially more choices lead to more satisfaction, but as the number of choices increases it then peaks and people tend to feel more pressure, confusion, and potentially dissatisfaction with their choice. Although larger choice sets can be initially appealing, smaller choice sets lead to increased satisfaction and reduced regret. Another component of overchoice is the perception of time. Extensive choice sets can seem even more difficult with a limited time constraint.
Examples of overchoice include increased college options, career options, and prospective romantic relationships. Many of these increased options can be attributed to modern technology. In today's society we have easy access to more information, products and opportunities.
Preconditions
Choice overload is not a problem in all cases, there are some preconditions that must be met before the effect can take place. First, people making the choice must not have a clear prior preference for an item type or category. When the choice-maker has a preference, the number of options has little impact on the final decision and satisfaction. Second, there must not be a clearly dominant option in the choice set, meaning that all options must be perceived of equivalent quality. One option cannot stand out as being better from the rest. The presence of a superior option and many less desirable options will result in a more satisfied decision. Third, there is a negative relationship between choice assortment (quantity) and satisfaction only in people less familiar with the choice set. This means that if the person making a choice has expertise in the subject matter, they can more easily sort through the options and not be overwhelmed by the variety.
Psychological implications
Decision-makers in large choice situations enjoy the decision process more than those with smaller choice sets, but feel more responsible for their decisions. Despite this, more choices result with more dissatisfaction and regret in decisions. The feeling of responsibility causes cognitive dissonance when presented with large array situations. In this situation, cognitive dissonance results when there is a mental difference between the choice made and the choice that should have been made. More choices lead to more cognitive dissonance because it increases the chance that the decision-maker made the wrong decision. These large array situations cause the chooser to feel both enjoyment as well as feel overwhelmed with their choices. These opposing emotions contribute to cognitive dissonance, and causes the chooser to feel less motivated to make a decision. This also disables them from using psychological processes to enhance the attractiveness of their own choices.
The amount of time allotted to make a decision also has an effect on an individual's perception of their choice. Larger choice sets with a small amount of time results in more regret with the decision. When more time is provided, the process of choosing is more enjoyable in large array situations and results in less regret after the decision has been made.
Reversal when choosing for others
Choice overload is reversed when people choose for another person. Polman has found that overload is context dependent: choosing from many alternatives by itself is not demotivating.
Polman found that it is not always a case of whether choices differ for the self and others at risk, but rather “according to a selective focus on positive and negative information."
Evidence shows there is a different regulatory focus for others compared to the self in decision-making. Therefore, there may be substantial implications for a variety of psychological processes in relation to self-other decision-making.
Among personal decision-makers, a prevention focus is activated and people are more satisfied with their choices after choosing among few options compared to many options, i.e. choice overload. However, individuals experience a reverse choice overload effect when acting as proxy decision-makers.
In an economic setting
The psychological phenomenon of overchoice can most often be seen in economic applications. There are limitless products currently on the market. Having more choices, such as a vast amount of goods and services available, appears to be appealing initially, but too many choices can make decisions more difficult. According to Miller (1956), a consumer can only process seven items at a time. After that the consumer would have to create a coping strategy to make an informed decision. This can lead to consumers being indecisive, unhappy, and even refrain from making the choice (purchase) at all. Alvin Toffler noted that as the choice turns to overchoice, "freedom of more choices" becomes the opposite—the "unfreedom". Often, a customer makes a decision without sufficiently researching his choices, which may often require days. When confronted with too many choices especially under a time constraint, many people prefer to make no choice at all, even if making a choice would lead to a better outcome.
The existence of over choice, both perceived and real, is supported by studies as early as the mid-1970s. Numbers of various brands, from soaps to cars, have been steadily rising for over half a century. In just one example—different brands of soap and detergents—the numbers of choices offered by an average US supermarket went from 65 in 1950, through 200 in 1963, to over 360 in 2004. The more choices tend to increase the time it requires to make a decision.
Variety and complexity
There are two steps involved in making a choice to purchase. First, the consumer selects an assortment. Second, the consumer chooses an option within the assortment. Variety and complexity vary in their importance in carrying out these steps successfully, resulting in the consumer deciding to make a purchase.
Variety is the positive aspect of assortment. When selecting an assortment during the perception stage, the first stage of deciding, consumers want more variety.
Complexity is the negative aspect of assortment. Complexity is important for the second step in making a choice—when a consumer needs to choose an option from an assortment. When making a choice for an individual item within an assortment, too much variety increases complexity. This can cause a consumer to delay or opt out of making a decision.
Images are processed as a whole when making a purchasing decision. This means they require less mental effort to be processed which gives the consumer a sense that the information is being processed faster. Consumers prefer this visual shortcut to processing, termed "visual heuristic" by Townsend, no matter how big the choice set size. Images increase our perceived variety of options. As previously stated, variety is good when making the first step of choosing an assortment. On the other hand, verbal descriptions are processed in a way that the words that make up a sentence are perceived individually. That is, our minds string words along to develop our understanding. In larger choice sets where there is more variety, perceived complexity decreases when verbal descriptions are used.
See also
Analysis paralysis
Buyer's remorse
Choice architecture
Information overload
Market cannibalism
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, a 2004 book by Barry Schwartz
Tyranny of small decisions
References
Further reading
Schwartz, Barry (2004). "Choice overload burdens daily life". USA Today.
Sociological terminology
Cognitive psychology
Consumer behaviour
Decision theory |
20467404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensor%20minor | Defensor minor | The Defensor minor is a work by Marsilius of Padua written around 1342. The Defensor minor is a restatement and defense of Marsilius's best known work, the Defensor pacis.
The text discusses civil and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the confession, penance, indulgences, the Crusades, pilgrimages, plenitudo potestatis, legislative power, the origin of the sovereignty, wedding, and divorce.
Civil jurisdiction
With regard to jurisdiction, Marsilius distinguishes between divine and human laws, the first event which is independent of any human will and on the conduct of man in view of the afterlife, the second which determines the will of the people, endowed with coercive power and not modifiable by any clergyman.
This applies also to the Pope that even with his decrees may waive the law, manifestation of the people's sovereignty. While the beneficiaries of the two laws are identical, its object and purpose are different. The one seeks the good of the soul and the other cares for earthly well-being, with the result that the church is denied the power to make laws, even in the persistent silence of human legislation. The same applies to amendments and changes, which should remain solely with the people. The only thing that is relevant to the clergy is the non-legal rules that affect morality and resolve themselves into simple counsels and take effect with counsellors.
The clergy
The task and the main function of the clergy is to teach the sacred texts and preparing souls for the afterlife. The Church has repeatedly stated that for the sinner there is no other system of redemption from sin but confession. Marsilius, in an effort to bring man to God, regardless of any broker, says that confession should be done directly to God and that salvation comes only by true repentance. This anticipates what will be one of the tenets of Protestantism. The necessity of this Sacrament, that is only recommended and not required, is not detected from the Holy Scriptures. Only sincere repentance to the outside of any denominational can give that peace in the soul that is the prelude of eternal salvation. Absolution from sin belongs only to God and the priest, who may do so, does so only within the Church. Sufficit soli Deo confiteri peccata ipsa, videlicet recognoscendo, et de ipsis poenitendo cum proposito talia alterius non committendi.
These words can be regarded as harbingers of what will be the principles of the Lutheran Reformation.
Marsilio does not exclude absolutely confession: he says only that it is useful but not essential, which it would be if it were a precept, therefore he also denies the priestly power to inflict penalties.
Only contrition frees from sin, not repentance of any material or spiritual character almost like a compensation for the sin.
Indulgences
Votes
Excommunication
"Plenitudo Potestatis" - papal jurisdiction
The Ecumenical Council
Divorce
References
Medieval literature
Political philosophy |
23572016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20Curtis | Jazz Curtis | Jacinta "Jazz" Curtis is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away, played by Rachel Gordon. The character made her first screen appearance on 18 June 2007. Jazz is introduced as the mother of established character Drew Curtis (Bobby Morley). Jazz made her final appearance on 21 May 2008.
Character development
Characterisation
Gordon "really enjoyed" the opportunity to play Jazz, a role she called "a lot of fun and very glamorous because the role’s shiny on the outside but gritty underneath." Jazz is very feminine and likes fashion and high heel shoes. Gordon told a reporter from Yahoo! 7 that "it's good to play a character that’s feminine and has a bit of fun."
Jazz has a complex persona and writers played her as the show's "super-bitch" who wants to do the right thing but wreaks havoc in the process. Gordon believed that Jazz made an effort to change her ways as her time in the show progressed. She added "I really like Jazz, initially she was just a full on bitch but over a period of time, a lot more complexity has evolved in her and it’s interesting to play a character that's trying to do the right thing but always, kind of, getting it really wrong, it’s been fun.” On the show's official website Jazz has been described as having weak morals and a trouble maker. Gordon told a reporter from Inside Soap that she liked the role because Jazz is a "strong woman" who can be "bitchy" but also has a "vulnerable side".
Relationships
Jazz is introduced as the mother of established character Drew Curtis (Bobby Morley). Gordon found it "suitably humbling" when she discovered that she had secured "the role of a mother to a guy in his 20s." Despite the actors being close in age, Gordon believed it worked well on-screen. She added "it actually really works for the character that I’m playing, although the mother-son relationship is reversed. He’s more the parent and she’s the irresponsible one. They’re more like buddies than mother and son."
Jazz has not been a good mother to Drew and has often failed to support him. Gordon believed that "Jazz doesn’t really have many good qualities as a mother." She explained that it is important to be loving and consistent to children, but Jazz would often fail to be that type of mother. She concluded that "Jazz is very inconsistent with her behaviour towards Drew. And to make kids feel valued is important." When Jazz arrives in Summer Bay, it becomes apparent that Jazz is hiding a secret about Drew's friend Jules Munroe (Joel Phillips). She uses their secret to exert power over him. Writers created an inheritance scam story for Jazz in which she tries to steal the money her mother set aside for Drew in her will. Jazz does not expect to enjoy spending time with Drew and the pair develop a bond. She is shocked when Drew offers to share the inheritance money equally with Jazz. He later discovers the truth and is left "mortified" and "betrayed" by her scheming.
Jazz moves in with Leah Patterson-Baker (Ada Nicodemou) and the pair end up sharing many arguments. Gordon told an Inside Soap reporter that "I love the relationship between Leah and Jazz. They're both feisty, but in different ways. We had lots of great scenes when Jazz was living with Leah." Writers created feud story between Jazz and Amanda Vale (Holly Brisley), both characters assumed the role of the show's "femme fatales". When Jazz was introduced into the series, an article published on the show's official website revealed that Jazz would fill the role Amanda played in the show. It stated that she took on the "sexy but manipulative lady with penchant for cheeky afternoon chardys" left vacant by Amanda.
When Amanda returns, they are depicted as enemies which stems from Amanda sleeping with Drew, which Jazz does not approve of. When they both try to support Leah following the death of her husband Dan Baker (Tim Campbell), they clash. They trade insults followed by slapping each other across the face. Gordon and Brisley struggled to film the scenes because they found them comical. Gordon told a Yahoo! 7 reporter that "it was so ridiculous trying to keep a straight face doing those scenes. We had a really good time, she’s a lovely girl and we are both very different from the characters we play." The pair were later featured in more sparring scenes in which they mock each other's parental skills.
Jazz gets caught up in Johnny Cooper's (Callan Mulvey) revenge plan against residents of Summer Bay. He takes Jazz hostage and ties her up. Gordon said that enjoyed filming the scenes and praised Mulvey's villainous portrayal. She added that she was not afraid during filming and quipped that she enjoyed being tied up.
Derparture
In September 2007, Gordon announced that she was leaving the role and would film her final scenes as Jazz in October 2007. When she finished filming she and her husband went to pursue acting roles in the United States.
Storylines
Jazz arrives in the bay to try to make amends with her son Drew, who she had sent to boarding school when he was only young. He rejects her at first, but he moves in with her after he uses her cheque book to buy himself a car. She begins a brief relationship with Tony Holden (Jon Sivewright). During this time she exposes the fact that Drew's friend, Jules made a pass at her when he was younger, prompting Jules to leave.
Jazz contacts her solicitor Dane Jordans (Myles Pollard) and later tries to seduce Dane into withholding her mother's inheritance from Drew. Morag Bellingham (Cornelia Frances) discovers Jazz had seduced a member of staff from her mother's care home and Dane refuses to support her in this legal battle. Jazz is also involved in a divorce case with her husband Kevin Freeman, who wants to reconcile with her. However, this falls through when Drew exposes Jazz's affair with Tony to him, and Kevin leaves taking his daughters, Bree and Essie with him. Drew tries to drive Jazz away from town after faking a powercut at her home, but it backfires when a fire starts, nearly killing Jazz. Drew agrees to give Jazz his inheritance, on the condition she leaves Summer Bay. Jazz takes the money and departs.
Several months later, following the death of Drew's uncle Dan, Jazz returns for his funeral and begins arguing with Dan's ex-wife Amanda much to the chagrin of Dan's widow, Leah. She tries restart her relationship with Tony but he tells her he is now involved with Rachel Armstrong (Amy Mathews). Jazz then takes a job at Summer Bay High working for Martin Bartlett (Bob Baines) as his secretary and begins dating Miles Copeland (Josh Quong Tart). In order to keep her job, She blackmails Martin when she spots him an underground fight. However, Miles finds out and dumps her.
Jazz later gets into a fight with Christine Jones (Elizabeth Alexander) at Jack Holden (Paul O'Brien) and Martha MacKenzie's (Jodi Gordon) engagement party. She confides in Tony that she still loves him and wants to change. He suggests she leaves Summer Bay to start a new life in the city near Drew, which she does.
Reception
For her portrayal of Jazz, Gordon received a nomination for "Best Newcomer" at the first Digital Spy Soap Awards. A writer from Yahoo! 7 branded Jazz a "femme fatale" and a "stunning leggy brunette". Of Jazz and Amanda's feud they added that "while their looks are at the opposite ends of the spectrum, they have both reigned as super-bitches and were fighting for supremacy."
References
Home and Away characters
Television characters introduced in 2007
Female characters in television
Fictional secretaries |
6900335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sikhs | List of Sikhs | Sikh ( or ; , ) is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit term , meaning "disciple, learner" or , meaning "instruction".
Historical importance to Sikh religion
Bhai Mardana (1459–1534) was Guru Nanak Dev's companion on all of his Udasis (travels) and he played kirtan.
Bebe Nanaki (1464–1518) is known as the first Sikh. She was the elder sister of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder and first Guru (teacher) of Sikhism. Bebe Nanaki was the first to realize her brother's spiritual eminence.
Sri Chand ( ਸ੍ਰੀ ਚੰਦ )(1494–1629) was the first son of Guru Nanak, raised by his sister. Sri Chand was a renunciate yogi. After his father left Sri Chand stayed in Dera Baba Nanak and maintained Guru Nanak's temple. He established the Udasi order who travelled far and wide to spread the Word of Nanak.
Mata Khivi ( ਮਾਤਾ ਖੀਵੀ ) (1506–1582) is the only woman mentioned in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. She was the wife of Guru Angad, and established the langar system, a free kitchen where all people were served as equals. Only the best possible ingredients were used, and everyone was treated with utmost courtesy. Her hospitality has been emulated over the centuries and has become the first cultural identity of the Sikhs. She helped her husband to establish the infant Sikh community on a stronger footing, and is described as good natured, efficient, and beautiful.
Baba Buddha (6 October 1506 – 8 September 1631) was one of the earliest disciples of Guru Nanak. He lived an exemplary life and was called on to perform the ceremony passing the guruship on to five gurus, up to Guru Hargobind. Baba Buddha trained the sixth Guru in martial arts as a young man to prepare him for the challenges of the guruship.
Bhai Gurdas ( ਭਾਈ ਗੁਰਦਾਸ ) (1551–1637) is one of the most eminent literary personalities in the history of the Sikh religion. He was a scholar, poet and the scribe of the Adi Granth. He was an able missionary and an accomplished theologian. Being well versed in Indian religious thought, he was able to elaborate profoundly the tenets of Sikhism.
Mata Gujri (1624–1705) joined the ninth Guru in his long meditation at Baba Bakala before he assumed the guruship. She gave birth to and raised the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Mata Gujri accompanied her youngest grandsons, Baba Fateh Singh and Baba Zorawar Singh to their martyrdom at Sirhind-Fategarh, and subsequently passed as well.
Mai Bhago (ਮਾਈ ਭਾਗੋ) is one of the most famous women in Sikh history. She is always pictured on horseback wearing a turban with her headscarf gracefully flowing in the wind, courageously leading an army into battle. A staunch Sikh by birth and upbringing, she was distressed to hear in 1705 that some of the Sikhs of her village who had gone to Anandpur to fight for Guru Gobind Singh had deserted him under adverse conditions. She rallied the deserters, persuading them to meet the Guru and apologize to him. She led them back to Guru Gobind Singh in the battlefield at Muktsar (Khidrana) Punjab. She thereafter stayed on with Guru Gobind Singh as one of his bodyguards, in male attire. After Guru Gobind Singh left his body at Nanded in 1708, she retired further south. She settled in Jinvara, where, immersed in meditation, she lived to an old age.
Bhai Mani Singh (1644–1738) was an 18th-century Sikh scholar and martyr. He was a childhood companion of Guru Gobind Singh[1] and took the vows of Sikhism when the Guru inaugurated the Khalsa in March 1699. Soon after that, the Guru sent him to Amritsar to take charge of the Harmandar, which had been without a custodian since 1696. He took control and steered the course of Sikh destiny at a critical stage in Sikh history. The nature of his death in which he was dismembered joint by joint has become a part of the daily Sikh Ardas (prayer).
Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) was the leader of the Sikh Empire which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. Ranjit Singh's reign introduced reforms, modernization, investment into infrastructure, and general prosperity. His government and army included Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and Europeans. Ranjit Singh's legacy includes a period of Sikh cultural and artistic renaissance, including the rebuilding of the Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar as well as other major gurudwaras, including Takht Sri Patna Sahib, Bihar and Hazur Sahib Nanded, Maharashtra under his sponsorship. He was popularly known as Sher-i-Punjab, or "Lion of Punjab".
Bhagat Puran Singh ( ਭਗਤ ਪੁਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ )(1904–1992) was a great visionary, an accomplished environmentalist and a symbol of selfless service to humanity. He was the founder of the All India Pingalwara charitable society which imparts service to the poor, downtrodden, the dying, and the mentally and physically handicapped people.
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa (1929–2004) spread awareness of Sikhism in the West. Through his influence, thousands of young people adopted the Sikh faith. Harbhajan Singh's interfaith work included meetings with popes and archbishops in the 1970s and 80s, when Sikhism was little known outside of India. A number of scholars have concurred that Harbhajan Singh Khalsa's introduction of Sikh teachings into the West helped identify Sikhism as a world religion while at the same time creating a compelling counter-narrative to that which identified Sikhs solely as race with a shared history in India.
Martyrs
Guru Arjun Dev was the first of two Guru's martyred in Sikh faith and fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus
Guru Tegh Bahadur was the second of two Guru's martyred in Sikh faith and ninth of the ten total Sikh Gurus]]
Bhai Dayala also known as Bhai Dyal Das was an early Martyr in Sikhism.He was martyred in Delhi.1675 along with his Sikh companions Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das and the ninth Guru Tegh Bahadur ji.
Bhai Mati Das was an early Martyr in Sikhism. He was martyred in Delhi in 1675 along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das and companion Bhai Dayala and the ninth Guru Tegh Bahadur ji,
Bhai Sati Das was an early Martyr in Sikhism.He was martyred in Delhi in 1675 along with his elder brother Bhai Mati Das and companion Bhai Dayala and the ninth Guru Tegh Bahadur ji
Baba Ajit Singh ji was the eldest son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji.He was martyred in battle during second battle of chamkaur along with his younger brother Jujhar Singh Ji,
Baba Jujhar Singh Ji was the second son of Guru Gobind Singh ji. He was martyred in battle during second battle of chamkaur along with his elder brother Baba Ajit Singh ji
Baba Zorawar Singh was the third son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji.He and his younger brother Baba Fateh Singh are among the most hallowed martyr in Sikhism.
Baba Fateh Singh was the fourth and youngest son of Guru Gobind Singh He and his elder brother Baba Zorawar Singh are among the most hallowed Martyr in Sikhism,
Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh worrier and a commander of Khalsa army.He was among one of most hallowed martyr in Sikhism. Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was executed at Delhi in 9 June 1716,
Baba Deep Singh is revered among Sikh as one of most hallowed martyrs in Sikhism.
Bhai Mani Singh was a one of most hallowed martyr in Sikhism. Bhai Mani Singh was executet in Nakhaas chowk in Lahore in December 1738 ca.the Nakhaas chowk since known as Shaheed Ganj-The place of Martyrdom
Bhai Taru Singh was a prominent Sikh Martyr known for sacrificing his life, in the name of protecting Sikh values,by having had his head scalped rather than Cutting his hair and converting to Islam.
Kartar Singh Sarabha was an Indian revolutionary
Bhagat Singh Lahore 1931
Udham Singh Barnsbury, England, 1940.
Fauja Singh Amritsar, 1979.
Other Religious Figures
Bhai Kanhaiya
Bhai Daya Singh
Bhai Dharam Singh
Bhai Himmat Singh
Bhai Mohkam Singh
Bhai Sahib Singh
Bhai Nand Lal
Randhir Singh
Babaji Singh
Gurbani Keertan
Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa – Performer of Sikh Keertan at Harimandir Sahib
Singh Kaur – Composer and performer of Sikh Keertan and New-age music
Snatam Kaur – Performer of Sikh Keertan and New-age music
Entertainment
Punjabi Cinema
Sonia Anand
Ammy Virk
Amrinder Gill
Anurag Singh
Babbu Maan
Baljit Singh Deo
Binnu Dhillon
Diljit Dosanjh
Gippy Grewal
Gugu Gill
Gurdaas Maan
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Harbhajan Mann
Harry Baweja
Himanshi Khurana
Jaspal Bhatti
Jaswinder Bhalla
Jimmy Shergill
Kulraj Randhawa
Mahi Gill
Mandy Takhar
Neeru Bajwa
Rana Ranbir
Shavinder Mahal
Sidhu Moosewala
Simran Kaur Mundi
Smeep Kang
Sonam Bajwa
Surveen Chawla
Yograj Singh
Bollywood
Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi
Arijit Singh
Diljit Dosanjh
Dharmendra
Sunny Deol
Om Puri
Abhay Deol
Amrita Singh
Bobby Deol
Chandrachur Singh
Gippy Grewal
Honey Singh
Neetu Singh
Manjot Singh
Minissha Lamba
Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Nimrat Kaur
Pamela Chopra
Geeta Bali
Gracy Singh
Gulzar
Guru Randhawa
Jagjit Singh
Jaspal Bhatti
Jimmy Shergill
Joginder
Kabir Bedi
Kanwaljit Singh
Kuldip Kaur
Kulraj Randhawa
Mangal Dhillon
Manjot Singh
Neetu Singh
Neha Dhupia
Poonam Dhillon
Priya Gill
Priya Rajvansh
Ranjeeta Kaur
Shaad Randhawa
Simi Garewal
Sukhwinder Singh
Sunny Leone
Sunny Singh Nijjar
Swaran Lata
Taapsee Pannu
Vikram Chatwal
Vimi
Vindu Dara Singh
Yogeeta Bali
Parmeet Sethi
Telugu Cinema
Rakul Preet Singh
Charmy Kaur
Mehreen Pirzada
Taapsee Pannu
Hollywood
Gurinder Chadha
Kulvinder Ghir
Namrata Singh Gujral
Parminder Nagra
Satinder Sartaj
Lilly Singh
Tarsem Singh
Waris Ahluwalia
British film, drama and entertainment
Alexandra Aitken (Uttrang Kaur Khalsa) – Environmental campaigner, model, actress, artist and socialite
Ameet Chana – Actor
Amrit Maghera – Professional model turned actress
Chandeep Uppal – Critically acclaimed starring role as Meena Kumar in the film Anita and Me.
Harnaam Kaur – Model, anti-bullying activist, body positive activist
Jassa Ahluwalia – Actor and presenter
Lena Kaur – Best known for her role as Leila Roy in Channel 4's Hollyoaks
Neelam Gill – Model, known for her work with Burberry, Abercrombie & Fitch and appearing in Vogue.
Paul Chowdhry – Comedian and actor
Perry Bhandal – Film director, screenwriter
Simon Rivers – English actor who played the role of Kevin Tyler in Doctors
Stephen Uppal – Known for playing Ravi Roy in the long-running British soap Hollyoaks
Mandip Gill – Actress
Internet celebrities
Lilly Singh
Jasmeet Singh
Pop and western Bhangra
B21 (Bally and Bhota Jagpal)
Bally Sagoo
Gippy Grewal
Amrinder Gill
Jassi Gill
Jaz Dhami
Jazzy B
Diljit Dosanjh
Bobby Friction
Dr. Zeus
Hard Kaur
Jas Mann (with Babylon Zoo)
Jay Sean
Juggy D
Navtej Singh Rehal of Bombay Rockers
Panjabi MC
Rishi Rich
Sahotas
Sukhbir
Taz
Bhangra and other Punjabi Artist
Diljit Dosanjh''''Amar Singh Chamkila
Amrinder Gill
Apna Sangeet
Asa Singh Mastana
Babbu Mann
Balkar Sidhu
Daler Mehndi
Gippy Grewal
Gurdas Mann
Hans Raj Hans
Harbhajan Mann
Harshdeep Kaur
Jagmeet Bal
Kamal Heer
Kuldeep Manak
Lal Chand Yamla Jatt
Lehmber Hussainpuri
Malkit Singh
Manmohan Waris
Mika Singh
Rabbi Shergill
Ravinder Grewal
Sangtar
Snatam Kaur
Sukhwinder Singh
Surinder Kaur
Surinder Shinda
Surjit Bindrakhia
Uttam Singh
Sikh nationalist leaders
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
Sada Kaur
Charat Singh
Maha Singh
Nawab Kapur Singh
Phula Singh
Ranjit Singh
Sham Singh Atariwala
Hari Singh Nalwa
Rulers
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur.was an commander of Khalsa Army
Nawab Kapur Singh was the organizer of Sikh Confederacy and the Dal Khalsa.He was also a founder of Singhpuria Misl
Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia,was a supreme leader of Dal Khalsa. He was also misldar of Ahluwalia Misl.He founded the Kapurthala state in 1772.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab was a founder of the Sikh Empire.He was also a Misldar of Sukerchakia Misl
Maharaja Kharak Singh, second emperor of the Sikh Empire
Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh, third emperor of the Sikh Empire.
Maharaja Sher Singh, was the fourth maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
Maharaja Duleep Singh was the last Emperor of the Sikh Empire
Ala Singh.was the first king of princely state of Patiala State
Maharaja Bhupinder Singh was the ruling maharaja of Princely state of Patiala State from 1900 to 1938.
Maharaja Yadavindra Singh was the 9th and last ruling maharaja of Patiala State from (1938-1947 titles abolished.titular from 1947-1971 death)
Raghubir Singh Jind was the maharaja of Jind State.
Hira Singh Nabha was the ruler of Nabha State.
Misl Period Notable Rulers
Baba Deep Singh, founder of the Shaheedan Misl
Nawab Kapur Singh, founder of Singhpuria Misl
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, founder of Ahluwalia Misl
Jassa Singh Ramgarhia, founder of Ramgarhia Misl
Jodh Singh Ramgarhia, second ruler of the Ramgarhia Misl
Phul Singh Sidhu, founder of the Phulkian Misl
Hari Singh Dhillon, ruler of Bhangi Misl
Bhuma Singh Dhillon, ruler of Bhangi Misl
Heera Singh Sandhu, founder of Nakai Misl
Ran Singh Sandhu, third ruler of Nakai Misl
Karmo Kaur Sandhu, regent of Nakai Misl
Datar Kaur Sandhu, princess of Nakai Misl
Kahan Singh Nakai was the last ruler of the Nakai Misl
Jai Singh Sandhu was the founder of Kanhaiya Misl
Gurbaksh Singh Kanhaiya was second chief of Kanhaiya Misl. He was the eldest son of Jai Singh Kanhaiya And the father of Maharani Mehtab Kaur
Sada Kaur Dhaliwal was the chief of Kanhaiya Misl and the mother-in-law of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Baghel Singh Dhaliwal, ruler of the Singh Krora Misl
Gulab Singh Rathore was the founder of Dallewalia Misl
Charat Singh was the father of Maha Singh and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh.He was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl
Desan Kaur Warrach, regent of Sukerchakia Misl
Maha Singh was second chief of Sukerchakia Misl.He was the eldest son of Charat Singh.He was the father of Ranjit Singh
Raj Kaur Sidhu, regent of Sukerchakia Misl
Ranjit Singh was the last chief of the Sukerchakia Misl and the founder of Sikh Empire
Indian revolutionaries and freedom fighters
Bhai Randhir Singh
Baba Gurdit Singh
Baba Gurmukh Singh
Baldev Singh
Bhagat Singh, also known as "Shaheed-e-Azam", was a charismatic Indian socialist revolutionary whose acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at age 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian independence movement
Captain Mohan Singh
Gurdan Saini
Kartar Singh Sarabha,Sikh Martyrs – Kartar Singh Sarabha . Searchsikhism.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-14. Indian Sikh revolutionary and the most active member of the Ghadar Party
Labh Singh Saini
Teja Singh Samundri
Udham Singh
Harnam Singh Saini
Sardul Singh Kavishar
Sardar Ajit Singh, was an Indian revolutionary, he was the uncle of sardar Bhagat Singh
Dharam Singh Hayatpur was an Indian revolutionary, he was a prominent member of the Sikh political and religious group the Babbar Akali Movement in India
Kartar Singh Jhabbar, was an Indian revolutionary, he was a Sikh leader known for his role in the Gurdwara Reform Movement of the 1920s
Ripudaman Singh, Indian revolutionary
Baba Kharak Singh
Bhai Balmukund was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter
Ram Singh, credited as being the first Indian to use non-cooperation and boycott of British merchandise and services as a political weapon.
Kishan Singh Gargaj
Sewa Singh Thikriwala
Sohan Singh Bhakna, was an Indian revolutionary, the founding president of the Ghadar Party
Sohan Singh Josh, was an Indian communist activist and freedom fighter
Diwan Mulraj Chopra
Gulab Kaur
Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, was a General of Akali Movement
Maya Singh Saini
Jagbir Singh Chhina
Achhar Singh Chhina
Sadhu Singh Hamdard, well-known freedom fighter and the journalist of Punjab
Darshan Singh Pheruman, Indian freedom fighter, Sikh activist and politician
Jaswant Singh Rahi
Giani Ditt Singh
Ganda Singh, was a prominent member of the Ghadar Party
Teja Singh Swatantar
Politicians
Canada
Gurbax Singh Malhi – former Liberal MP
Amrit Mangat – Liberal MPP, Brampton
Gulzar Singh Cheema – Manitoba and British Columbia Former MLA
Gurmant Grewal – former Conservative MP, half (with Nina, listed below)
Manmeet Singh Bhullar – former Progressive Conservative MLA, Calgary-Greenway, Alberta
Hardial Bains – founder and leader of the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada from 1970–1997
Harinder Takhar – Ontario Liberal MPP and Minister of Transportation
Harry Bains – British Columbia New Democratic
Herb Dhaliwal – former Liberal MP and the first Indo-Canadian cabinet minister
Jagmeet Singh – Ontario NDP MPP / Leader of the Federal New Democratic Party
Vic Dhillon – Ontario Liberal MPP
Harjit Sajjan – Liberal MP, Vancouver South and Minister of National Defence (Canada)
Navdeep Bains – Liberal MP, Minister of Education and Science
Amarjeet Sohi – Liberal MP, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
Bardish Chagger – Liberal MP, Minister of Small Business and Tourism and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Ujjal Dosanjh – former Premier of British Columbia, former MPP, former federal Minister of Health
Prab Gill – MLA, Calgary-Greenway, Alberta
Pakistan
Mahindar Pall Singh, Sikh MPA, politician and Business man from Multan
Fiji
Ujagar Singh Elected to the Legislative Council of Fiji in the 1968, representing the National Federation Party (NFP). He was also a member of independent Fiji's House of Representatives.
India
Amarinder Singh.former chief minister of Punjab
Baldev Singh
Bhagwant Maan.Current chief Minister of Punjab
Buta Singh
Charanjit Singh Channi
Darbara Singh
Giani Zail Singh
Gurcharan Singh Tohra
Gurdial Singh Dhillon
Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Manmohan Singh,
Master Tara Singh
Montek Singh Ahluwalia,Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia confirmed for Sikh Forum Annual Dinner . Journalism.co.uk (2008-11-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-14. Deputy Chairman, Planning commission of India
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Nirmal Singh Kahlon
Parkash Singh Badal
Pratap Singh Bajwa
Pratap Singh Kairon
Preneet Kaur Kahlon
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
Sant Fateh Singh
Sardar Ujjal Singh, former Governor of Punjab and Tamil Nadu
Sardul Singh Caveeshar
Simranjit Singh Mann
Sukhbir Singh Badal
Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
Surinder Singh Bajwa
Surjit Singh Barnala
Swaran Singh
Varinder Singh Bajwa
Malaysia
Gobind Singh Deo – Democratic Action Party Central Executive Committee, Current Member of Parliament, Minister of Communications and Multimedia
Karpal Singh – Chairman of DAP. Member of parliament (aka "Tiger of Jelutong")
Mauritius
Kher Jagatsingh – Minister of Education and Minister of Planning & Economic Development (1967-1982)
New Zealand
Kanwal Singh Bakshi, Member of Parliament from 2008 (first Indian and first Sikh MP in New Zealand)
Sukhi Turner, Mayor of Dunedin 1995-2005
United Kingdom
Parmjit Dhanda, former Labour MP
Tan Dhesi, Labour MP
Preet Gill, Labour MP
Indarjit Singh, non-party
Marsha Singh, former Labour MP
Parmjit Singh Gill, Liberal Democrats
Paul Uppal, former Conservative MP
United States
Ravinder Bhalla, New Jersey politician and Hoboken mayor elect
Preet Bharara (born 1968), former U. S. attorney
Harmeet Dhillon, Republican Party official in San Francisco
Preet Didbal, First Sikh Mayor in the United States. Mayor of Yuba City, CA
Kashmir Gill, banker and former mayor
Gurbir Grewal, 61st Attorney General of New Jersey
Martin Hoke (born 1952), Republican politician
Dalip Singh Saund (1899–1973), Democrat politician
G. B. Singh, periodontist and retired army officer
Bhagat Singh Thind (Bhagat Singh Thind (1892–1967) writer, scientist, and lecturer on spirituality, involved in legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship
Uday Singh Taunque (1982–2003) soldier, KIA, bronze star recipient
Athletes
Athletics
Milkha Singh,Milkha Singh. Mapsofindia.com; retrieved 2010-12-14.Milkha Singh The Flying Sikh . Sadapunjab.com; retrieved 2010-12-14.
Ranjit Bhatia
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
Kamaljeet Sandhu
Fauja Singh, a centenarian marathon runner
Basketball
Sim Bhullar, Canadian professional basketball player
Satnam Singh Bhamara
Boxing
Andrew Singh Kooner, current Bantamweight Champion of Canada
Akaash Bhatia, British featherweight professional boxer
Cycling
Alexi Grewal, Olympic Gold medalistThe Tribune – Windows – Taking note. Tribuneindia.com (2003-03-08). Retrieved on 2010-12-14. (1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles)
Cricket
Anureet Singh
Arshdeep Singh
Balwinder Sandhu
Bhupinder Singh, Sr.
Bishan Singh Bedi, former captain of Indian cricket team
Jasprit Bumrah
Gurkeerat Singh Mann
Gursharan Singh
Harbhajan Singh
Tanveer Sangha, member of Australia cricket team
Gurinder Sandhu, member of Australia cricket team
Harvinder Singh
Ish Sodhi, member of New Zealand cricket team
Simi Singh, member of Ireland cricket team
Mandeep Singh
Maninder Singh
Manpreet Gony
Monty Panesar, member of English cricket team
Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer and current MP
Ravi Bopara, member of English cricket team
Reetinder Sodhi
Sarandeep Singh
Simranjit Singh
Sunny Sohal
V. R. V. Singh
Yograj Singh
Yuvraj Singh
Equestrian
Amarinder Singh
Football
Inder Singh
Gurdev Singh Gill
Harmeet Singh
Sarpreet Singh
Association football
Harpal Singh
Harmeet Singh
Rikki Bains
Roger Verdi
Danny Batth
Mal Benning
Golf
Jyoti Randhawa
Arjun Atwal
Gaganjeet Bhullar
Ashbeer Saini
Jeev Milkha Singh
Vijay Singh
Hockey
Balbir Singh Dosanjh
Harmanpreet Singh
Ravi Kahlon
Ajit Pal Singh
Baljeet Singh Saini
Baljit Singh Dhillon
Balwant (Bal) Singh Saini
Gagan Ajit Singh
Garewal Singh
Gurdev Singh Kullar (field hockey)
Jujhar Khaira
Kulbir Bhaura
Pargat Singh
Prabhjot Singh
Prithipal Singh
Ramandeep Singh
Surjit Singh Randhawa
Sardar Singh
Sandeep Singh
Mixed martial arts
Kultar Gill
Muay Thai
Kash Gill
Powerlifting
Rajinder Singh Rahelu, Sikh paralympian and also 2004 Athens bronze medalist
Rally
Karamjit Singh, PRWC champion 2002, Asia Pacific Rally Championship champion 2001. A Malaysian known as the "Flying Sikh"
Rugby
Tosh Masson
Shooting
Abhinav BindraWSN-Sports News-Sikh shooter wins first ever individual gold for India at Olympics. Worldsikhnews.com (2008-08-11). Retrieved on 2010-12-14.Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal. Nriinternet.com; retrieved 2010-12-14. Olympic gold medalist in shooting
Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist in shooting
Manavjit Singh Sandhu, world champion in shooting
Heena Sidhu, world champion in shooting
Swimming
Pamela Rai, 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 1986 Commonwealth Games gold medalist
Wrestling
Dara Singh
Tiger Joginder Singh
Randhawa
Tiger Jeet SinghTiger Singh: Most feared man in Japan – Rediff Sports. In.rediff.com (2005-05-05); retrieved on 2010-12-14.
Gurjit Singh
Jinder Mahal
Ranjin Singh
Gadowar Singh Sahota
Arjan Bhullar
Tiger Ali Singh
Business
Nav Bhatia, businessman, First Sikh with NBA Championship Ring
Ajay Banga, President/COO, MasterCard; ex-CEO- Citi Group-Asia Pacific
Analjit Singh, founder/chairman, Max India Limited; chair, Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd; Max Healthcare Institute Ltd and Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd
Bob Singh Dhillon, founder/CEO, Mainstreet Equity Corp.
Dyal Singh Majithia, Indian banker
Gurbachan Singh Dhingra, owner of Berger Paints India
Gurbaksh Chahal
H. S. Bedi (entrepreneur), telecom
Jasminder Singh, British businessman
Jessie Singh Saini, founder of BJS Electronics and American industrialist of Indian descent.
Kamel Hothi, former banker at Lloyds Bank
Kuldip Singh Dhingra, owner of Berger Paints India
Malvinder Mohan Singh, Ranbaxy/Fortis Group
Mohan Singh Oberoi
M. S. Banga, ex-CEO, Hindustan Lever
Param Singh (property developer), property developer, entrepreneur
Sanjiv Sidhu, Founder and President of i2 Technologies
Sant Singh Chatwal, owner of the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants and Hampshire Hotels & Resorts
Satwant Singh, Le Meridien Hotel, DSS Enterprises, Pure Drink
Shivinder Mohan Singh, Ranbaxy/Fortis Group
Tom Singh, founder, New Look (Fashion chain)
Trishneet Arora, author
Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
Historians
Harbans Singh
Jodh Singh
Rattan Singh Bhangu
Max Arthur Macauliffe
Journalists
Khushwant Singh
Tavleen Singh
Sathnam Sanghera
Jagjit Singh Dardi (Punjab Rattan)
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi
Bhai Gurdas
Nanak Singh
Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Bhai Vir Singh
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Jaswant Neki
Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
Harbhajan Singh
Harcharan Singh (playwright)
Jaswant Singh Kanwal
Amrita Pritam
Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Kulwant Singh Virk
English
Rupi Kaur
Bali Rai
Jaspreet Singh
Khushwant Singh
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Ranj Dhaliwal
Shauna Singh Baldwin
Models
Jesse Randhawa
Humanitarians
Narinder Singh Kapany, known as the father of fibre optics.
Bhagat Puran Singh,A Selfless Life – Bhagat Puran Singh of Pingalwara: A Selfless Life – Bhagat Puran Singh of Pingalwara . Sikhfoundation-store.org (2009-06-02). Retrieved on 2010-12-14. founder of Pingalwara, Home of Disabled, Amritsar
Bhai Trilochan Singh Panesar, devoted his life to sewa (service to community and God) and simran (remembrance of God), the two tenets of Sikh life.
Harpal Kumar, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK
Ravi Singh, CEO, Khalsa Aid
Amanpreet Singh, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Khalsa Aid
Alex Sangha, social worker and documentary film producer and Founder of Sher Vancouver
Painters and artists
Amrita Sher-GilAmrita Sher-Gill. Mapsofindia.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-14.
Aman Singh Gulati
Sobha Singh
S. G. Thakur Singh
Sohan Singh
Prem Singh
Architects
Ram Singh, one of pre-partition Punjab's foremost architects
Health and wellness
David Shannahoff-Khalsa, prolific researcher on the psychiatric applications of Kundalini Yoga based at the Biocircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Harvard University-based researcher of Kundalini Yoga and an authority on the field of yoga research.
Science and technology
Medicine
Harvinder Sahota, cardiologist; invented the FDA-approved Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty and holds patents of 24 other medical inventions.
Harminder Dua, discovered a previously unknown layer lurking in the human eye named the "dua's layer".
Physics
Narinder Singh Kapany, physicist, specializing in fiber optics. He was named as one of the seven "Unsung Heroes" by Fortune Magazine in its Businessmen of the Century'' (November 22, 1999) edition.
Lawyers
Jasvir Singh - Family law barrister
Military leaders
Indian Army
General Joginder Jaswant Singh, former Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army.
General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army.
Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, GOC XV Corps, 1960–63
Lieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon
Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora
Indian Navy
Admiral Karambir Singh
Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema
Indian Air Force
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, former Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief, Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, former chief, Indian Air Force.
Harjit Singh Arora
Trilochan Singh Brar
Kulwant Singh Gill
Jasjit Singh
Jagjeet Singh
Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC
Singaporean Army and Navy
General Ravinder Singh
Pritam Singh
Colonel Gurcharan Singh Sekhon
Sikhs In US Military
Bhagat Singh Thind
Uday Singh Taunque
Akal Purakh Ki Fauj after 1947
Saint Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale
Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal
Bhai Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala
Talwindar Singh Babbar
Bhai Sukhdev Singh Babbar
Bhai Jugraj Singh Toofan
Maj Gen Shahbeg Singh
Bhai Amrik Singh
Military Gallantry Award Winners
British Indian Army
Victoria Cross
Ishar Singh, first Sikh to receive the Victoria Cross
Nand Singh
Gian Singh
Parkash Singh
Karamjeet Singh Judge
Indian Armed Forces
Param Veer Chakra
Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, only Indian Air Force officer to be awarded Param Vir Chakra
Subedar Bana Singh
Karam Singh
Joginder Singh Sahnan
Mahavir Chakra
Dewan Ranjit Rai, first Indian to receive Mahavir Chakra
Brigadier Rajinder Singh
Rajinder Singh Sparrow
Sant Singh
Ranjit Singh Dyal
Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala
Major General Kulwant Singh Pannu
See also
List of British Sikhs
List of Canadian Sikhs
References
Lists of people by religion
Sikhism-related lists
List |
6900336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespotted%20bullhead%20shark | Whitespotted bullhead shark | The whitespotted bullhead shark, Heterodontus ramalheira, is a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae found in the western and northern Indian Ocean between latitudes 22°N to 26°S, at depths between 40 and 305 m. It can grow up to a length of 83 cm.
Little is known about the whitespotted bullhead shark. It is found on the outer continental shelf and is thought to feed on crabs, based on the gut contents of two specimen. As a member of the genus Heterodontus, it is thought to be oviparous, but egg case of this species have never been seen.
References
Heterodontidae
Fish described in 1949 |
20467412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20P.%20Krick | Irving P. Krick | Irving P. Krick (1906 – June 20, 1996) was an American meteorologist and inventor, the founding professor of Department of Meteorology at California Institute of Technology (1933–1948), one of the U.S. Air Force meteorologists who provided forecasts for the Normandy Landings in 1944, a controversial pioneer of long-term forecasting and cloud seeding, and "a brilliant American salesman" who in 1938 started the first private weather business in the United States.
Early years
Krick was born in San Francisco in 1906. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, achieving a bachelor's degree in physics. However, his first career aspiration was music. Krick was an accomplished pianist and pursued music professionally but found it financially unrewarding. Still in early twenties he worked at the radio station and at a stock brokerage – until the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Finally, working for an airline and advice from his brother-in-law, Horace Byers, an MIT graduate, helped him find his true interest in weather.
Caltech
Around 1930, he began studying at the California Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautics, which provided only a few courses in meteorology, notably by Beno Gutenberg (atmospheric structure) and Theodore von Kármán (aeronautics), Krick's advisors in his doctoral studies. Caltech offered the first dedicated meteorology class in the 1933–34 season. Krick made his name known by a controversial paper asserting that the 1933 crash of USS Akron was a direct consequence of a mistaken forecast by the Weather Bureau. Krick's paper was instrumental to von Kármán's work explaining the actual cause of Akron disaster; he was also instrumental in determining the cause of the USS Macon crash in 1935. These publications brought Krick to the attention of the US Air Force; Krick befriended Air Force chief Hap Arnold, then a colonel stationed at March Field not far from Caltech.
Krick completed his doctoral degree in 1934 and remained at Caltech as an instructor. In 1937 he helped found the school's meteorology department and became its head. The department was unique in its commercial focus on the needs of profitable industries, including not just aviation, but almost anyone willing to pay, including the movie industry, for which Krick famously forecast the weather for the burning of Atlanta in Gone With The Wind. Krick was determined about making money; "weather forecasting was his product line, although, like many a great salesmen, his number one product was himself". He then stayed as a professor, offering a special curriculum for Arnold's nascent Air Force Weather Service.
Caltech terminated the meteorology department in 1948. In response, Krick left the school to start his own firm, taking with him most of the department staff.
World War II
With the outbreak of World War II Arnold recruited Krick into the United States Army Air Corps. Krick prevailed over other, scientifically inclined meteorologists: while they searched for causes of natural phenomena, Krick relied on analyzing historic patterns and cycles. He reused old weather maps that resembled current situation, arguing that future weather developments will most likely follow the recorded patterns - the same "weather typing" that brought him commissions from Hollywood studios. Critics called Krick's methods "canned memory". The primitive methods and aggressive salesmanship made Krick an enemy of scientific elite like George Cressman and Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Weather Bureau chief Francis W. Reichelderfer, who detested Krick as a "smug, supremely self-confident self-promoter". However, with Arnold's backing Krick was nearly invincible.
In 1944 Krick was engaged in meteorology support for the upcoming Allied Normandy Landings (see Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord), along with rival weather services from the United Kingdom. On May 28 Sverre Petterssen, a Norwegian meteorologist in British service, raised concerns that a coming storm would break out on June 2 and interfere with the landings planned on June 5. Krick argued to the contrary, asserting that there was no need to postpone the offensive – he envisaged nothing but continuously quiet weather over the following five days. Krick based his confidence on studies of 50 years of recorded weather; he was certain that the English Channel would be protected by the Azores High, a pressure pattern dominating over the eastern Atlantic. Unusually, as time passed by the uncertainties of the vital weather forecast did not dissolve, and consequently tension between Krick and Petterssen increased further. Finally, on June 3, Colonel Donald Yates (deputy to chief meteorologist James Stagg), a former student of Krick and one of the few people who could handle him, intervened in the rivalry and persuaded the Allied meteorologists to produce a joint weather forecast. In the end, Petterssen's opinion prevailed; despite Krick's initial objection, the landings were delayed by one day, saving the troops from a major disaster.
The controversy was fictionalised in the 2014 play Pressure by David Haig, with Krick appearing as a central character; the play however does not make reference to Petterssen's role, instead making an uncompromising Stagg the hero who, by persuading Eisenhower that he was right and Krick wrong, saved countless lives by insisting that the landing be postponed by a day.
Post-war practice
After leaving Caltech, Krick continued offering commercial long-term weather forecasts. He also added the service of cloud seeding, forcing precipitation in drought-affected areas.
In summer of 1948 Krick performed the first series of 27 airborne cloud seeding tests over central Arizona, dropping up to of ice particles on each flight. Indeed, the seeded clouds released rain, raising water levels in local reservoirs. The "rain makers" admitted that the result had other, natural, causes, but in a year that was one of the driest on record it was a significant success. Financially, the volume of water added by Krick's experiment cost only $2.50, compared to $14 going rate. In December 1949 Krick suggested cloud seeding without resorting to airborne devices; his proposal employed ground-based smoke generators dispersing vaporized silver iodide. A single smoke dispenser set, asserted Krick, could be moved by two wheelbarrows; it theoretically provided cloud-seeding particles for an area of . Tests demonstrated a fourfold increase in precipitation. By 1951 his cloud-seeding business had 120 employees and had been hired to seed clouds over in the western United States as well as parts of Mexico and San Salvador.
However, the American meteorological establishment opposed his practice, asserting his methods of cloud seeding were bogus and the weather could not be forecast for more than five days in the future. Krick decided to offer his long term forecasting to the Weather Bureau, but they too did not believe in his methods, so he started a private business. He successfully proved his basic premises, making a substantial profit from forecasts and weather making. Krick's practice caught the eye of many famous figures, and he was hired to forecast the weather for presidential inaugurations and movie shoots. He garnered attention in 1957 when his prediction of sunny weather for President Eisenhower's second inauguration, made 17 days before the event, came true. Of his most notable achievements, Dr. Krick also made rain in Israel after a severe drought, made it stop hailing in Alberta, Canada, and made enough snow for the 1960 Winter Olympics to take place.
During the mid-sixties, Irving P. Krick & Associates operated a successful cloud seeding operation in the area around Calgary, Alberta. This utilized both aircraft and ground-based generators that pumped silver iodide into the atmosphere in an attempt to reduce the threat of hail damage. Ralph Langeman, Lynn Garrison, and Stan McLeod, all ex-members of the RCAF, attending the University of Alberta, spent their summers flying hail suppression. A number of surplus Harvard aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuzees that were impregnated with silver iodide. These could be ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds with noticeable effect. Large, active CBs were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were reduced in intensity.
This effective program was funded by farmer contributions and government grants. The program was run each summer and did much to reduce crop damage by hail, otherwise the farm community would not have continued to finance the project.
In 1990 Krick sold his weather business to Strategic Weather Services, remaining with that company as chairman emeritus until his 1996 death from heart failure.
References
Fourth edition: Crest Publishers, 1997.
MIT Press.
MacMillan.
Notes
Bibliography
American meteorologists
1906 births
1996 deaths
California Institute of Technology faculty
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
People from San Francisco
Scientists from California |
23572024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20comedy%20films | List of Indian comedy films | This is a list of notable Indian comedy films.
Hindi films
Malayalam films
Tamil films
See also
List of Indian romance films
List of Indian horror films
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Comedy films
Indian |
20467421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20of%20Norwich | Dean of Norwich | The Dean of Norwich is the head of the Chapter of Norwich Cathedral in Norwich, England. The role is vacant since Jane Hedges' retirement on 1 May 2022.
List of deans
Early modern
1538–1539 William Castleton (last prior)
1539–1554 John Salisbury (deprived)
1554–1557 John Christopherson (afterwards Bishop of Chichester, 1557)
1557–1558 John Boxall (also Dean of Windsor, 1557–59 and Dean of Peterborough, 1557–1559) (deprived)
1558–1559 John Harpsfield (also Archdeacon of London, 1554–1559) (deprived)
1560–1573 John Salisbury (restored)
1573–1589 George Gardiner
1589–1601 Thomas Dove (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, 1601)
1601–1603 John Jegon (afterwards Bishop of Norwich, 1603)
1603–1614 George Montgomery (afterwards Bishop of Raphoe, 1605)
1614–1628 Edmund Suckling
1628–1654 John Hassal (deprived – Commonwealth)
1660–1670 John Crofts
1670–1681 Herbert Astley
1681–1689 John Sharp (afterwards Dean of Canterbury, 1689)
1689–1702 Henry Fairfax
1702–1714 Humphrey Prideaux
1724–1730 Thomas Cole
1731–1733 Robert Butts (afterwards Bishop of Norwich, 1733)
1733–1739 John Baron
1739–1761 Thomas Bullock
1761–1765 Hon. Edward Townshend
1765–1790 Philip Lloyd
Late modern
1790–1828 Joseph Turner
1828–1866 George Pellew
1866–1889 Meyrick Goulburn
1889–1909 William Lefroy
1909–1911 Henry Wakefield (afterwards Bishop of Birmingham, 1911)
1911–1919 Henry Beeching
1919–1927 John Willink
1927–1946 David Cranage
1946–1952 St Barbe Holland
1953–1969 Norman Hook
1970–1978 Alan Webster (afterwards Dean of St Paul's, 1978)
1978–1983 David Edwards (afterwards Provost of Southwark, 1983)
1983–1995 Paul Burbridge
1995–2003 Stephen Platten (afterwards Bishop of Wakefield, 2003)
2004–29 September 2013 (ret.) Graham Smith
21 June 20141 May 2022 (ret.): Jane Hedges
Sources
British History Online – An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 3: The History of the City and County of Norwich, Part I – Deans of Norwich
British History Online – Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 – Deans of Norwich
References
Norwich
Dean of Norwich |
6900337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Highway%20321 | Arkansas Highway 321 | Highway 321 (AR 321, Ark. 321, Hwy. 321) is a designation for two north–south state highways in central Arkansas. One route of runs from Highway 5/Highway 367 in Cabot north to Highway 38 east of Austin. A second route of begins at AR 31 north of Beebe and runs north to Highway 267.
Route description
Cabot to Austin
Highway 321 begins near an exit from US 67/US 167 (Future I-57) at Highway 5 and Highway 367 in Cabot. The route intersects Highway 89 in south Cabot before exiting the city and running due east. Near Oak Grove the route turns due north, with Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S) continuing east to Highway 31. A 2010 study of annual average daily traffic (AADT) by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) reveals that about 19,000 vehicles per day (VPD) use the route between its southern terminus and Highway 89/Highway 367, with the traffic count dropping to 7,000 VPD between that junction and the Cabot city limits. Traffic counts continue around 2,500 VPD until the Highway 321S junction, then drop to 2,100 VPD for the remainder of the route.
Beebe to Essex
Highway 321 begins north of Beebe at Highway 31. The route runs north, having a junction with Highway 321 Spur and passing through Essex. The highway continues north and terminates at Highway 267. An AHTD traffic count from 2010 reveals that the average annual daily traffic never exceeds 640 vehicles per day anywhere on the route.
Major intersections
Special routes
Lonoke County spur
Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S, Ark. 321S, and Hwy. 321S) is an east–west state highway spur route in Lonoke County. The route of serves as a connector between Highway 321 and Highway 31.
Major intersections
White County spur
Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S, Ark. 321S, and Hwy. 321S) is an east–west state highway spur route in White County. The route of serves as a short connector between Highway 321 and Highway 31.
Major intersections
See also
List of state highways in Arkansas
References
External links
321
Transportation in Lonoke County, Arkansas
Transportation in White County, Arkansas |
20467427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Force%20%28film%29 | Shadow Force (film) | Shadow Force is a 1992 American film. It was filmed in the San Antonio area of Texas and was released straight to video.
Plot
In the fictional town of Norman, close to San Antonio, the local police is composed of professional assassins. With one exception, the police chief down to the dispatcher are all on the payroll of a local racketeer who makes use of these paid killers to dispose of zealous law enforcement officials opposed to his operations. When the last remaining honorable member of the force (Glenn Corbett) is killed, his brother-in-law (Dirk Benedict), a homicide detective from an unidentified city in Kansas begins an investigation of his own.
Cast
Dirk Benedict as Detective Rick Kelly
Lise Cutter as Mary Denton
Lance LeGault as Norman Police Chief Thorpe
Dixie K. Wade as Maggie
Steve Carlson as Mike Gorman
Julius Tennon as Ron Fuller
Bob Hastings as Norman Mayor Talbert
Danny Spear as Sam Johnson
Rey David Pena as Emilio Vela
Glenn Corbett as Al Finch Sr.
External links
Shadow Force IMDB
1992 direct-to-video films
1992 films
English-language films
Films set in Texas
Films shot in San Antonio
1992 action films
American action films
American films |
23572027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangqian%20metro%20station | Gangqian metro station | The Taipei Metro Gangqian station is located in the Neihu District in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a station on Wenhu line.
Station overview
This three-level, elevated station features two side platforms, two exits, and platform elevators located on the north and south sides of the concourse level.
Public art for the station is situated on the wall above the escalators. The piece, titled "The Paradise of Neihu", is a large-scale mixed media artwork consisting of needlepoint created with the help of 83 artists and volunteers.
History
22 February 2009: Gangqian station construction is completed.
4 July 2009: Begins service with the opening of Brown Line.
Station layout
Gallery
Nearby Places
Guanshan Riverside Park
Neihu Technology Park
Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School
Neihu Community College
Taipei Flower Market
Lishan Elementary School
Lishan Junior High School
Lishan High School
Neihu Sports Center
References
Wenhu line stations
Railway stations opened in 2009 |
23572029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression%20of%20Heresy%20Act%201414 | Suppression of Heresy Act 1414 | The Suppression of Heresy Act 1414 (2 Hen. V St. 1, c. 7) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act made heresy an offence against the common law and temporal officers were to swear to help the spiritual officers in the suppression of heresy. Justices of the Peace were given the power of inquiry; to issue an order to arrest; and to hand over the suspected heretic to the ecclesiastical court for trial. It also enacted that
Notes
Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1410s in law
1414 in England
Christianity and law in the 15th century |
23572054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandstand%20Busking | Bandstand Busking | Bandstand Busking is a project based in London, England showcasing musicians on some of the city's underused bandstands. The sessions are recorded and shown for viewing on the Bandstand Busking website and YouTube channel. The first session was recorded in March 2008 with the artist Stars of Sunday League; dozens of acts have since performed in bandstands for the project, including local bands such as Fanfarlo and Alessi's Ark and some from further afield such as Of Montreal and Black Lips.
Initially the performances were recorded without an audience, but at the beginning of 2009 the time and location of forthcoming gigs started to be announced on the website.
The event developed into a monthly show at the bandstand in the Northampton Square in Islington. It has not taken place since May 2018, and the project has not been active since August of that year.
Artists (partial list)
Stars of Sunday League
School of Language
The Week That Was
Wet Paint
Johnny Flynn
Wild Beasts
David Karsten Daniels
Laura Groves
Frightened Rabbit (solo)
The Wave Pictures
Broadcast 2000
The Acorn
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Of Montreal
The Barker Band
Tap Tap
Nat Johnson
Hatchie
Chris Bathgate
Paul Marshall
Left With Pictures
Tom Brosseau
The Twilight Sad
Asobi Seksu
Psapp
Loney Dear
The Leisure Society
Emmy the Great
Esser
Gregory and the Hawk
Speech Debelle
Black Lips
Alessi's Ark
The Hours
Hauschka
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Slow Club
Brakes
Theoretical Girl
Fanfarlo
Kill It Kid
Lulu and the Lampshades
References
External links
Culture in London |
23572066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Sutherland | Thomas Sutherland | Thomas Sutherland may refer to:
Thomas W. Sutherland (ca. 1817–1859), early settler and attorney in San Diego, California
Thomas Sutherland (banker) (1834–1922), Scottish banker in Hong Kong
Thomas Sutherland (British Army officer) (1888–1946), British Army officer
Thomas Sutherland (academic) (1931–2016), former Dean of Agriculture in Lebanon, kidnapped by Islamic Jihad
Thomas Sutherland (cricketer) (1880–?), English first-class cricketer
Thomas Sutherland (artist) (1785–1838), painter of maritime and naval subjects
See also
Tom Sutherland (disambiguation) |
23572086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20San%20Carlos%20%281813%29 | Battle of San Carlos (1813) | The battle of San Carlos occurred on 15 May 1813, during the War of Chilean Independence.
Background
In May 1813, the Royalist forces, under the command of Juan Francisco Sánchez were retreating to their stronghold of Chillán. The Royalist army's situation during the retreat was desperate; their baggage train had advanced significantly ahead of the main force to avoid being attacked, and the rearguard were almost without supplies. In these circumstances, the patriot commander, Jose Miguel Carrera could potentially have just avoided battle by instead advancing along the left bank of the Ñuble river and have occupied Chillán without a fight. Instead he chose to intercept the Royalist army directly on the outskirts of San Carlos, Chile.
The battle
Carrera placed his infantry in the centre of his force, using his cavalry to flank the enemy positions, avoiding the Royalist artillery. Unfortunately, the patriot infantry appear to have been ordered to mount a sudden bayonet charge; they received a full volley from the Royalist guns, broke formation and fled from the field. Unsupported, the cavalry attacks also dispersed. Juan Mackenna brought up a fresh division later in the day, but could not make much impact on the Royalist infantry. By nightfall, the patriots had dispersed completely, and on the following morning neither Carrera nor Mackenna had any units left to continue the attack.
Aftermath
Carrera's failure to achieve a decisive victory at San Carlos, Chile resulted in the Siege of Chillan later that year; the siege, held in mid-winter, was a disaster both for the patriots and for Carrera personally, ultimately leading to his dismissal from office.
Conflicts in 1813
Battles involving Chile
Battles involving Spain
Battles of the Spanish American wars of independence
Battles of the Chilean War of Independence
Battles of the Patria Vieja Campaign
Battle of San Carlos
May 1813 events
Battle of San Carlos |
17329727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20Sharks | Buffalo Sharks | The Buffalo Sharks were a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association based in Buffalo, New York. The team played two seasons as the Buffalo Rapids and Buffalo Silverbacks before suspending operations. This team is not to be confused with the Buffalo Stampede of the Premier Basketball League.
History
Buffalo Rapids (2005–06)
The Buffalo Rapids were founded by Gary Nice and began play in the fall of 2005 as part of the ABA's Connie Hawkins Division. It was the first professional basketball team to play in Buffalo, New York since the Buffalo Braves. The team's name was chosen by a fan voting, with "Rapids" finishing second to "Braves". Trademark restrictions prevented the franchise from adopting the Braves name, but the Rapids team colors were identical to those of the Buffalo Braves.
Dan Robbie and Todd Wier became co-owners of the franchise in December 2005 following the league's removal of Gary Nice.
Initial games were played at Burt Flickinger Center, but a financial dispute left the team searching for a new permanent home. They played most home games at Park School of Buffalo until February 2006. The final home game of the 2005–2006 season was played at Buffalo State Sports Arena, with the team later utilizing the venue for most 2006–2007 home games.
Buffalo Silverbacks (2006–07)
It was announced in May 2006 that the franchise had changed its name to the Buffalo Silverbacks. Controversy arose in August 2006 when the Buffalo News ran an article condemning the team's logo, which featured a silverback gorilla, as racist. The team responded by adopting a new team logo featuring a tiger in October 2006.
Another bit of controversy involved the Silverbacks announcing that DayShawn Wright had been signed to the team in September 2006. Soon after this announcement, Wright signed with the Minot SkyRockets of the CBA.
Head coach Richard Jacob resigned from the team in November 2006 to focus on his job at Medaille College. Trevor Ruffin, a player from the team's inaugural season and an assistant coach during their 2006–07 training camp, replaced him as head coach.
In 2007, Weir sold the team to Vincent Lesh. Lesh has been an entertainment promoter in Western New York for 25 years and is the owner of Concerts Plus. On November 11, 2007, the Silverbacks announced that they were suspending operations. On their official MySpace page, the team stated "If you did not already know, the Silverbacks are not playing this fall in the ABA. New ownership has decided to take this season off after taking over the team with 5 weeks before tip off."
Buffalo Sharks (2008)
Lesh re-branded the team as the Buffalo Sharks and reactivated them to begin play in November 2008. Richard Jacob was named the Head Coach and General Manager as he was for both the Rapids and Silverbacks. The Sharks were to play at Koessler Athletic Center on the campus of Canisius College. However, on 2008-09-18, Lesh announced his folding of the Sharks, his leaving of the ABA, and his purchase of the former Buffalo Dragons.
The ABA would later return to Buffalo with the Buffalo 716ers, set to begin play in 2013; that team has since moved to the Premier Basketball League.
The ABA would again return to Buffalo with the Buffalo Blue Hawks, who began play in 2016.
Standings
Game results
2005–2006
2006–2007
Roster and staff
2005–2006
Team Captain – Tim Winn
All-Star Selection – Tim Winn
All-ABA Selection – Tim Winn
Released
Staff
Owners – Gary Nice (11/05 – 12/05), Dan Robbie and Todd Wier (12/05 – 11/07)
General Manager – Richard Jacob
Head Coach – Richard Jacob
Assistant Coach – Tyrone Thomas
Player Assistant Coaches – Modie Cox and Tim Winn
Strength and Conditioning Coach – Bob Bateson
Account Executive – Bryan Perry
Game Day Operation Manager – Timothy M. Simko
Media Relations – Nadia Fezzani
2006–2007
All-Star Selection – Antoine Sims
ABA Community Service Award – Modie Cox
Released
Staff
Owners – Dan Robbie and Todd Wier
Head Coach – Trevor Ruffin
Player Assistant Coach – Modie Cox
Strength and Conditioning Coach – Bob Bateson
References
Defunct American Basketball Association (2000–present) teams
Sports in Buffalo, New York
2005 establishments in New York (state)
2008 disestablishments in New York (state) |
17329753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Micka%C3%ABl%20Raymond | Jean-Mickaël Raymond | Jean-Mickaël Raymond is a French amateur boxer. He qualified for the 2008 Olympics as a middleweight.
In addition to Georgios Gazis, Raymond defeated three unknowns. He was then stopped in the meaningless final by Darren Sutherland.
At the Olympics, Raymond lost his first bout 2:8 to Asian champion, Elshod Rasulov.
External links
2nd Qualifier
Living people
Olympic boxers of France
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
French male boxers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
20467434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20DePaul | Steven DePaul | Steven DePaul is an American television director and producer. He has directed multiple episodes of "The Good Doctor", "The Gifted", Shades of Blue, NCIS-LA, CSI-NY, GRIMM, The Unit, Bones, as well as many episodes of one-hour dramatic television (updated list IMDB). He was a longstanding producer and director on NYPD Blue. In his capacity as producer of NYPD Blue he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1995. He was also nominated for NYPD Blue on five other occasions (in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999). Also wonGolden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama in 1993, and a George F. Peabody for "Raging Bulls" (Season 6, episode 8), an episode he directed for NYPD Blue.
DePaul was born in Washington Heights, NY. He is the son of Michael DePaola, (SSGT World War II in North Africa and Italy. Purple heart, BSM) who was a union organizer (District 65) and a bartender. His mother, Hermione (Billie), was a school teacher and librarian. Brother of David DePaul (1948-1969). Steven enrolled at Clark University, where he majored in English graduating in Dec. 1972. He was involved in booking artists to play concerts on campus and at the Clark Coffeehouse. Upon graduation, DePaul began working on Rock & Roll tours, first working as a roadie for Poco ('73-74). He spent the next 15 years touring with bands including Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, The Grateful Dead, Dan Fogelberg, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Boston, The Cars and The Faces. This career ended with a long stint, ('84-'92) with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, including the "Born in the USA" tour and the worldwide Amnesty International "Human Rights Now!" tour. DePaul then moved to Los Angeles to work for producer Steven Bochco on shows including Cop Rock, Civil Wars and NYPD Blue. He worked on NYPD Blue for 11 years, during which he directed multiple episodes. In 2004, he left NYPD Blue and became a freelance director, the position he currently holds. He has travelled extensively on six continents.
Filmography
Producer
Director
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20100610161232/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_book.php
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-21/entertainment/ca-26201_1_emmy-award-nominations
External links
American television directors
Television producers from New York City
Clark University alumni
Living people
People from Washington Heights, Manhattan
1952 births
Film directors from New York City |
17329763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintra%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cintra (disambiguation) | Cintra is an international operator of toll roads and car parks.
Cintra may also refer to:
People
Given name
Cintra Wilson (21st century), American celebrity writer
Surname
Adriano Cintra (born 1972), Brazilian multi-instrumentist and producer
Luís Lindley Cintra (1925-1991), Portuguese linguist
Sebastião da Silveira Cintra (1882-1942), Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
Sousa Cintra (21st century), Portuguese businessman
Places
Cintra Bay or the Gulf of Cintra on the coast of Western Sahara.
Cintra, Portugal, an alternate spelling for Sintra
Other uses
Cintra (ship), which wrecked on Porthminster Beach in 1893
Cintra (New Hope, Pennsylvania), a historic house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Corporación Internacional de Transporte Aéreo, the former parent company for Aeroméxico, Mexicana de Aviación and Aeroperú
See also
Cintray, Eure, a commune in France
Cintray, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in France
Convention of Cintra, an 1808 treaty between France and the United Kingdom in the first stages of the Peninsula War
da Cintra, a surname
Sintra (disambiguation)
The Elves of Cintra, a novel by Terry Brooks |
17329798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Noise%20from%20Winnetka | Big Noise from Winnetka | "Big Noise from Winnetka" is a jazz song co-written by composer and bass player Bob Haggart and drummer Ray Bauduc with lyrics by Gil Rodin and Bob Crosby, who were members of a sub-group of the Bob Crosby Orchestra called "The Bobcats". They also were the first to record it, in 1938. That recording is remarkable for its unusual duet feature: Haggart whistles the melody and plays the bass, while only Bauduc accompanies him on the drums. Halfway through the solo, Bauduc starts drumming on the strings of the double bass, while Haggart continues to play with his left hand, creating a percussive bass solo. The original version was just bass and drums (with the bass player whistling), but many other arrangements have been performed, including one by the Bob Crosby big band with the band's vocal group.
After the success of the initial recording, Haggart and Bauduc performed the song frequently for the rest of their careers, including in several films, most notably in 1941's Let's Make Music and 1943's Reveille with Beverly. The original recording was featured on the soundtrack of Raging Bull. Nick Nolte and Debra Winger danced to a version credited to Bob Crosby and the Bobcats in the 1982 film Cannery Row.
Composition
The song was a spontaneous composition, created at the Blackhawk in Chicago in 1938. When some of the band were late getting back from a break, Haggart and Bauduc started free improvising while they waited and "Big Noise" was the result. It was a joint composition, later formalized by arranger Haggart. Later, lyrics were written by Gil Rodin and Bob Crosby.
Winnetka is a North Shore suburb located approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of downtown Chicago.
Performances
1959: Jazz drummer Gene Krupa covered the song on his live album Big Noise from Winnetka.
1959: Jack Teagarden with drummer Ronnie Greb covered the song on his live album At the Roundtable.
1962: Kenny Ball, on his Midnight in Moscow album
1963: Jazz drummer Cozy Cole's version Bubbled Under in the American Billboard Charts at position 121.
1963: Eddy Mitchell sang a French version ("Quand une Fille me plaît") on his album Voici Eddy... c'était le soldat Mitchell.
1965: Chico Hamilton recorded his own version on the album The Dealer.
1966: Kenny Clare & Ronnie Stephenson, Drum Spectacular
1970: Scottish progressive rock band Clouds (60s rock band) performed a version on their album "Up Above Our Heads".
1974-1975 Spaghetti Head (Leslie George, William Hurdle) underground disco/house instrumental on Private Stock Records
1979: The song was covered by Bette Midler for her album Thighs and Whispers and released as a 12" single, the song lasting 6:56, and it peaked at No. 98 on the U.S. Dance Charts. The song was also performed in her concert film Divine Madness and is included on the soundtrack album (3:52). The song was included during her Las Vegas show, The Showgirl Must Go On (2008–2010).
1980: The song was featured in the field repertoire of the Bridgemen Drum & Bugle Corps (Bayonne, New Jersey). The Bridgemen missed winning that season's Drum Corps International world championship title by 0.55.
1984: The Australian teenage indie band the Lighthouse Keepers recorded a version of "Big Noise" featuring a C melody sax on their album Tales of the Unexpected.
1999: A cover of the opening few seconds of the song are sung by the character Phoebe Sparrow in episode 56 of the British TV series Goodnight Sweetheart, "Something Fishie".
2002: The Japanese jazz group Ego-Wrappin' covered the song on their album Night Food.
2005: Bassist Kyle Eastwood recorded an arrangement on his album Paris Blue.
2008: The Austin, Texas band Asylum Street Spankers covered the song on their album What? And Give Up Show Biz?.
2009: In the UK, the song has been used in advertisements for direct.gov.uk.
2013: Miss Florida did a baton routine to the song in the Miss America pageant.
2013: The song was featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band.
2015: Christine Ebersole, a singer and actress, brought her show Big Noise from Winnetka back to the Chicago area. The show included the jazz song and stories from her life in Winnetka, Illinois.
In popular culture
According to an interview with Canadian animator Danny Antonucci, the theme song for his hit Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n Eddy was inspired by "Big Noise" and includes a similar baseline and whistled melody.
References
External links
Audio of "Big Noise from Winnetka"
Bette Midler songs
Songs with music by Bob Haggart
1938 songs |
20467439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensphilosophie | Lebensphilosophie | (; meaning 'philosophy of life') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.
Its central theme was that an understanding of life can only be apprehended by life itself, and from within itself. Drawing on the critiques of epistemology offered by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, notable ideas of the movement have been seen as precursors to both Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian existential phenomenology. criticised both mechanistic and materialist approaches to science and philosophy and as such has also been referred to as the German vitalist movement, though its relationship to biological vitalism is questionable. Vitality in this sense is instead understood as part of a biocentric distinction between life-affirming and life-denying principles.
Overview
Inspired by the critique of rationalism in the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche, emerged in 19th-century Germany as a reaction to the rise of positivism and the theoretical focus prominent in much of post-Kantian philosophy. While often rejected by academic philosophers, it had strong repercussions in the arts.
The movement bore indirect relation to the subjectivist philosophy of vitalism developed by Henri Bergson, which lent importance to immediacy of experience.
Twentieth-century forms of can be identified with a critical stress on norms and conventions. The Israeli-American historian Nitzan Lebovic identified with the tight relation between a "corpus of life-concepts" and what the German education system came to see, during the 1920s, as the proper Lebenskunde, the 'teaching of life' or 'science of life'—a name that seemed to support the broader philosophical outlook long held by most biologists of the time. In his book Lebovic traces the transformation of the post-Nietzschean from the radical aesthetics of the Stefan George Circle to Nazi or "biopolitical" rhetoric and politics.
This philosophy pays special attention to life as a whole, which can only be understood from within. The movement can be regarded as a rejection of Kantian abstract philosophy or scientific reductionism of positivism.
List of notable theorists
See also
German Idealism, an antecedent philosophical movement to
German Romanticism, an antecedent intellectual movement to
People indirectly associated with the Lebensphilosophie movement
Henri Bergson, notable for his studies of immediate experience
Hannah Arendt, notable for her distinction between vita activa and vita contemplativa
Pierre Hadot, notable for his conception of ancient Greek philosophy as a bios or way of life
Giorgio Agamben, notable for his zoe–bios distinction
References
Philosophical movements
German philosophy
Philosophy of life
Criticism of rationalism |
20467454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverich%20Park | Leverich Park | Leverich Park is a park located in Vancouver, Washington. It is located along Burnt Bridge Creek in a natural area of Vancouver adjacent to Interstate 5. The park features a large picnic shelter, picnic tables, plenty of hiking trails and a twelve-hole Disc golf course.
History
The park is north of 39th St., E. of Pacific Highway, and the state of Washington's oldest Blue Star Memorial Highway marker and L-shaped area of about 33 ½ acres, lying partly within and just north of the city limits, was deeded to the city for park purposes by Mrs. Anna Leverich. It was established as a municipal park in 1931 and in the same year an obelisk was erected and a Douglas fir planted by the bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birth. In accordance with the terms of the deed, the natural environment of the area has been preserved as much as possible. Burnt Bridge Creek, branching out among low hills and small groves of native firs, deciduous trees, and occasional cedars, gives the park a truly sylvan charm. The construction of Interstate 5 through Vancouver split the park separating the Covington House historic cabin and Kiggins Bowl from the rest of the park.
Disc Golf
In 2008 a twelve-hole disc golf course was added to the park. The course was the result of a cooperative effort between Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation, Vancouver-Clark Disc Golf and Stumptown Disc Golf.
Sources
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090228151059/http://www.ci.vancouver.wa.us/parks-recreation/parks_trails/parks/central_vancouver/leverich.htm
[2] http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM39AP
[3] http://www.vcdg.org/courses/leverich
Parks in Washington (state)
Disc golf courses in Washington
Parks in Clark County, Washington
Geography of Vancouver, Washington
Tourist attractions in Vancouver, Washington |
23572092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore%20Street%2C%20Chard | Fore Street, Chard | Fore Street in Chard, Somerset, England was built in the late 16th and early 17th century, following a fire which destroyed much of the town in 1577.
Fore Street is a main shopping street and thoroughfare with open water channels on either side. Local folklore claims that one stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other reaches the English Channel. This situation changed when the tributary of the Axe was diverted into the Isle; the gutter in Holyrood Street, though, still flows into the River Axe and therefore it is still true it lies on the watershed and that two gutters eventually drain into the Bristol Channel and the English Channel.
Numbers 7A,7B,9,11,13 & 13A Waterloo House and Manor Court House have been designated as Grade I listed buildings. They are now on the Heritage at Risk Register. The Hamstone Waterloo House and Manor Court House were built in the late 16th or early 17th century. The history of the buildings is complex and not fully understood, although it is known that it was used as a court house at various periods. Worries about the condition of the buildings, and others in the row from 7 to 13 Fore Street, and the need for their preservation. has been expressed throughout the 20th century.
In 2010 when the Manor Court House, where Charles I signed a peace declaration during the English Civil War, was added to the Heritage at Risk Register one local trader complained that not enough was being done to maintain and conserve the building. Waterloo Court was built in the 16th century as a house, it has since been converted into a shop with a flat above it.
In 1834 the Guildhall was built with a doric portico with a double row of Tuscan columns along the front. It was built to replace an earlier 16th century guildhall and now serves as the town hall.
Chard Museum is housed in a 16th-century thatched building which was originally four cottages. The building was converted and restored for use as a museum in 1970, and later incorporated the building next door which had been the New Inn public house. It houses collections of exhibits about local history and displays related to the lives of notable local residents.
The L shaped school building was built in 1583 as a private house and converted into Chard Grammar School in 1671. It was damaged in the fire if 1727. It is a Grade II* listed building. In 1890 it became a boarding school and then in 1972 a preparatory school. Monmouth House, which was built between 1770 and 1790, and the 16th century chapel, are also now part of the school.
Pubs include the Dolphin Inn, which was built in 1840 and the George Hotel which was constructed in the late 18th century. The Weslyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1895 from Flemish bond brick.
The branch of Lloyds Bank was built as a house on the site of the Chard Arms Hotel in 1849. The branch of National Westminster Bank was two houses when it was constructed around 1820. In 1938 a bomb proof bunker was built behind the branch of the Westminster Bank. During World War II it was used to hold duplicate copies of the bank records in case its headquarters in London was destroyed. It was also used to store the emergency bank note supply of the Bank of England. There has also been speculation that the Crown Jewels were also stored there, however this has never been confirmed.
In 1991 the town council commissioned bronze sculpture from Neville Gabie which were erected in Fore Street they are entitled Ball and Whirl. An album detailing the work and its commissioning is held by the Chard Museum.
See also
List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset
References
Houses completed in the 17th century
Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset
Chard, Somerset
Streets in Somerset
Roads in Somerset
Structures on the Heritage at Risk register in Somerset
Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset
Grade II listed buildings in South Somerset |
20467488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Rogers | Jay Rogers | Jay Lewis Rogers (August 3, 1888 to July 1, 1964) was a Major League Baseball catcher. Rogers played for the New York Yankees in the season. In five games, he had no hits in 8 at-bats, playing catcher.
He batted and threw right-handed.
He was born in Sandusky, New York and died in Carlisle, New York.
External links
1888 births
1964 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
Baseball players from New York (state)
New York Yankees players |
20467501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratostoma%20foliatum | Ceratostoma foliatum | Ceratostoma foliatum is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.
This species lives in the Eastern Pacific.
References
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1791
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin |
23572093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Mandler | George Mandler | George Mandler (June 11, 1924 – May 6, 2016) was an Austrian-born American psychologist, who became a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
Career
Mandler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. He received his B.S. from New York University, and his Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 1953 after serving in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service and Counter Intelligence Corps in World War II. Later he studied at the University of Basel and taught at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. In 1965 he became the founding chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and the founding Director of the Center for Human Information Processing (CHIP) the home of scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton, Donald A. Norman and David E. Rumelhart. His Festschrift was published in 1991. He retired in 1994 and also became a Visiting Professor at University College London. In 2004, UCSD named Mandler Hall in recognition of his contributions to the university. Mandler had emigrated from Vienna to England and eventually to the US after the German invasion in 1938. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.
Mandler was a leader and participant in the so-called cognitive revolution in mid-twentieth century. His contributions related the fields of cognition and emotion and the importance of autonomic feedback, the development and use of organization theory for an understanding of memory storage, recall, and recognition (see "Organization and memory" in Spence & Spence, and, the development of dual process recognition theory, and the revival of the role of consciousness in modern psychology. A consequence of the structural and organizational approach to human information processing (Mandler, 1967) was the postulation of a general limit on the structures of human thought (Mandler, 2013), following Miller's initial foray (1956). Mandler discussed the limit of 4 ± 1 to working memory, categorization, subitizing, and reasoning. In the 1950s, together with S. B. Sarason, he initiated research on test anxiety. Among his books are Mind and Emotion, Mind and Body, Human Nature Explored, Consciousness Recovered, and A History of Modern Experimental Psychology. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Fellowship status in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Cognitive Science Society.
Mandler's professional contributions include the editorship of Psychological Review, Governing Board member and chair of the Psychonomic Society, president of two Divisions of APA (Experimental Psychology and General Psychology), chair of the Council of Editors of APA, chair of the Society for Experimental Psychologists, and founding president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.
He died in May 2016 at the age of 91.
Books by George Mandler
Mandler, G., and Kessen, W. (1959). The Language of Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Reprinted in Science Editions, 1964. Reprint edition: Huntington, N.Y.: Krieger, 1975.
Italian edition: Il linguaggio della psicologia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1977.
Mandler, Jean M., and Mandler, G. (1964). Thinking: From Association to Gestalt. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Reprint edition: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Mandler, G. (1975). Mind and Emotion. New York: Wiley. Reprint edition: Melbourne, Florida: Krieger, 1982.
German edition: Denken und Fühlen. Paderborn: Junfermann, 1980.
Mandler, G. (1984). Mind and body: Psychology of emotion and stress. New York: Norton.
Behavioral Sciences Book Club selection, 1985.
Japanese edition: Seishin Shobo Publishers, 1987.
Mandler, G. (1985). Cognitive psychology: An essay in cognitive science. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mandler, G. (1997). Human nature explored. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mandler, G. (2002). Interesting times: An encounter with the 20th century. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mandler, G. (2002). Consciousness recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Mandler, G. (2007). A history of modern experimental psychology: From James and Wundt to cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Reprint edition: Prentice-Hall.
References
Sources
Baars, B. J. (1986). The cognitive revolution in psychology. New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press.
Kessen, W., Ortony, A., & Craik, F. (1991). Memories, thoughts, and emotions: Essays in honor of George Mandler. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kintsch, W., Miller, J. R., & Polson, P. G. (1984). Method and tactics in cognitive science. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mandler, G. (2001). Interesting times: An encounter with the 20th century, 1924-. Mahwah, NJ: Larry Erlbaum Associates.
External links
George Mandler's home page
Descriptions of Mandler's books
1924 births
2016 deaths
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
American psychologists
United States Army personnel of World War II
Austrian emigrants to the United States
Austrian Jews
United States Army soldiers
Emotion psychologists
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellows
Ritchie Boys |
23572094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam%20Singhania | Gautam Singhania | Gautam Vijaypat Singhania (born 9 September 1965) is an Indian industrialist. He is the chairman and managing director of the Raymond Group, the world's largest producer of suiting fabric.
Biography
Gautam Singhania was born in an industrialist family, to Vijaypat Singhania and Ashabai Singhania.
He is an alumnus of St. Mary's School, Mumbai and Cathedral and John Connon School. He is also an alumnus of H.R. College in Churchgate, Mumbai
Gautam Singhania joined the Singhania family's JK Group of companies in 1986. He later joined the family's Raymond Group, becoming a director in 1990, the managing director in July 1999, and the chairman in September 2000. He restructured the group and sold Raymond's non-core businesses (synthetics, steel and cement). Under him, the group moved its focus to fabrics, apparel brands, prophylactics (KamaSutra condoms), and men's toiletries. He has also focused on international partnerships for Raymond, including joint ventures with UCO Textiles of Belgium (denim) and Gruppo Zambaiti of Italy (shirting). In 2005, Singhania opened a nightclub named Poison in Bandra, with DJ Aqeel.
As of 2012 Singhania's net worth is estimated to be around $1.4 Billion. Singhania is currently constructing a skyscraper ten stories taller than the Antilia constructed by Mukesh Ambani. The 30 story mansion, called JK House, will be a combination of a private residence and textile showroom.
Personal life
Gautam Singhania is married to Nawaz Modi Singhania, a Parsi. The couple has a daughter named Niharika (born December 2005)
He has suffered from vitiligo (loss of skin pigmentation) since a young age. Its progression accelerated when he was in his early 30s, as a side effect of medication.
Gautam Singhania's father gave him 27% of the company as per family understanding. After taking over the company a few years later he turned it around and turned it into a huge success.
He is entangled in a property dispute with his father Vijaypat Singhania, who had this message for parents across the country: "Love your children and care for them, but don't love them so much that you are blinded".
In 2015, his father handed over his shares, worth over Rs. 1,000 crore, to Gautam Singhania the younger of his two sons, and had this to say in 2017 to NDTV, "In the 79 years of my life, I'd never thought I would have to take a family dispute to court after giving away everything I had and that I wouldn't even have a roof over my head." His father is currently living in rented accommodation and is demanding to be reimbursed for the rent.
Hobbies
Gautam Singhania is passionate about fast cars, boats, planes and nightclubs. He has driven a Formula 1 car in France, a Ferrari 360 Modena in a road and track rally across Europe, and a Lamborghini Gallardo for Cannonball Run. He has also formed the first-ever Super Car Club in India. He owns a Tesla Model X that had been imported from the USA, at a time when Tesla cars were not available in India. He owns the only Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera in India, and a pre-2008 Gallardo which has been modified to have over 1,600 horsepower. He also owns a Ferrari 458 Challenge racing car. He also owns a lot of drift cars, including an S15 Silvia, a 240SX, an E46 M3, a WRX STI, and a Lancer Evo VI. He also does drag racing in a heavily modified R33 Skyline GT-R with over 1,000 horsepower. He is very passionate about cars and has won many races in his sports cars. Singhania owns M Y Ashena, a tri-deck luxury yacht constructed entirely out of Burma Teak wood. The yacht was designed by traditional boat builders from a village in Gujarat. The Ashena was later used by Liz Hurley for her wedding. He also owns the luxury yacht Moonraker, which later sunk due to leaks caused by external damage However nobody aboard was harmed., launched 2014, his second of that name after the Moonraker launched 1992, as well as a traditional three-masted Arabian sailing dhow Shazma, four speedboats named after the James Bond movies Octopussy, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Golden Eye, and some other speedboats called Smokin Joe and Raymond. Singhania also owns a Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet (VT-NGS) and three helicopters.
References
Businesspeople from Mumbai
1965 births
Living people
Indian billionaires
Indian businesspeople in textiles
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23572095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy%20Act%201382 | Heresy Act 1382 | The Heresy Act 1382 (5 Ric. II, St. 2, c. 5) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act stated that the Chancellor should issue commissions for the arrest of heretical preachers by the authority of certificates from the bishops. The Act was repealed in a later Parliament of the same year as the knights of the shires claimed it had not passed the House of Commons.
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Acts of the Parliament of England concerning religion
1380s in law
1382 in England
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Christianity in medieval England |
17329833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20cost | Search cost | Search costs are a facet of transaction costs or switching costs and include all the costs associated with the searching activity conducted by a prospective seller and buyer in a market. Rational consumers will continue to search for a better product or service until the marginal cost of searching exceeds the marginal benefit. Search theory is a branch of microeconomics that studies decisions of this type.
The costs of searching are divided into external and internal costs. External costs include the monetary costs of acquiring the information, and the opportunity cost of the time taken up in searching. External costs are not under the consumer's control, and all he or she can do is choose whether or not to incur them. Internal costs include the mental effort given over to undertaking the search, sorting the incoming information, and integrating it with what the consumer already knows. Internal costs are determined by the consumer's ability to undertake the search, and this in turn depends on intelligence, prior knowledge, education and training. These internal costs are the background to the study of bounded rationality.
There is an optimal value for search cost. A moderate amount of information maximises the likelihood of a purchase. Too much information to consumers may lead to negative effect. Too little information may not be enough to support consumers' purchasing decisions.
Search Cost Models
Numerous search cost models exist to depict the process of consumers searching for alternative goods and services.
Basic Price Search Model
The most basic search cost model serves as a foundation for subsequent models. Peter A. Diamond's Model of Price Adjustment illustrates that small search frictions have an important role in market structure, and a firm's capacity to deviate from Bertrand Competition.
Proposition of the model:
A unique nash equilibrium is: , where, s = Cost of obtaining price at quote with , CS = Consumer surplus and p = Price.
The model implies that search frictions can result in the perfectly competitive market price shifting to the monopoly price. However, Diamond's original model is rudimentary and ignores some empirical observations:
Agents in an economy only search once, whereas there is a continuous search for goods and services.
Few consumers search in equilibrium, which is inconsistent with empirical observation.
The model uses an alternative to the “law of one price”. The monopoly price is used as opposed to marginal cost, with no consideration for price dispersion in an equilibrium.
Heterogenous Search Model
Using Diamond's model as a base, a distinction is now made in the heterogenous search model. There are potential consumer heterogeneities for search costs being consistent with market observations (search costs can be 0 and negative). In 1989, Ingemar Stahl expanded on Diamond's model; the model has the same assumptions as Diamond's model with the additions of ‘shoppers’ (μ) having a range of search costs ().
Stahl's model addresses the three issues present in Diamond's basic price search model. Firstly, this model assumes that search costs are changing as ‘shoppers’ search costs change. Secondly, all searches are now assumed to be done in equilibrium with different qualities of searches being conducted by different consumers (refers to the changing fraction of ‘shopper’ and their changing search costs, as consumers search at different times). Finally, the model achieves price dispersion, which is consistent with empirical market observations.
Examples of Search Costs
Fuel Shortages
During the early and late 70s, The Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OAPEC, stopped all its exports to the US, South Africa, Portugal, and the Netherlands due to their support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Before the sanctions were imposed, the United States was receiving on average two thirds of its oil from OAPEC countries. This caused a big shortage of fuel. Motorists and business owners started having to spend more and more time looking for service stations with fuel in stock. Once a station was found motorists then had to wait in queues, sometimes as long as five miles, in order to fill up. In some areas odd-even rationing was even instated. This meant that on odd numbered days only vehicles with odd numbers as the last digit on their number plate would be allowed to buy fuel and vice-versa for even numbers. Activities such as searching for fuel (the product) over time is called intertemporal search behaviour and is often associated with cross-sectional search behaviour. Motorists comparing fuel prices at different service stations at a given point in time is an example of cross-sectional search behaviour. These search behaviours result in a search cost to the consumer through the disutility gained in lost time. During stages of fuel shortages, such as those mentioned above, there is an overall increase in these search behaviours and thus an increase in search costs. Increasing search costs decreases the price elasticity of demand and thus suppliers increase prices.
Labour Markets
Job seeking activities such as finding vacant positions, gathering information about a firm, preparing a résumé and cover letter, preparing for an interview, and travelling to and from the job interview are examples of activities that incur a search cost from the individual. The larger this search cost is the more likely the chance that an worker will exit the market before initiating a search for a job. This is brought about by a combination of the low probability of finding a permanent job, as low as 19% in some studies/areas, and a low level of current capital. These factors also often cause agents to cease their searching activities after a number of failed attempts, even when the worker has cash on hand that covers the search costs multiple times. To maintain saving in excess of this minimum threshold value, the worker participates in temporary employment while conducting their search. This increases the staff turnover of the these companies. With increased technological integration of the advertisement and management of job opportunities as well as worker information and the provision of accessible and affordable public transport these effects can be treated.
Technology and Search Costs
With the rise in popularity and sophistication of computers and other electronic devices, the Internet was expected to eliminate search costs. For example, electronic commerce was predicted to cause disintermediation as search costs become low enough for end-consumers to incur them directly instead of employing retailers to do this for them. The reduction in marginal search costs of obtaining pricing information from electronic marketplaces through the implementation of the internet results in a downward pressure for the price of merchandise. Consumer's also have the ability to undertake comparisons of homogeneous products amongst competing electronic vendors, allowing them to purchase products which maximises their consumption utility. This is another factor contributing to the reduction in consumer search costs. The marginal search cost of obtaining quality information available to consumers has conjunctionally decreased, resulting in a decrease in price sensitivity. But using the Internet on a mobile phone can increase the cost of searching. The small screen size on a mobile phone can increase the cost of browsing information. For example, links that appear at the top of the screen are particularly likely to be clicked on the phone. That means ranking effects are higher on mobile phones suggesting higher search costs.
Electronic marketplaces have hindered the ability of electronic merchants to implement hidden costs such as transport and handling costs to obscure quoted prices. Commodity markets will evolve to display characteristics of the classical ideal of a Walrasian auctioneer as a result of electronic marketplaces as consumers have costless access to retailer pricing information and are fully informed. The competitive price taking equilibrium is a result of fully informed buyers as described within the classical market model. In oligopolistic markets, this equilibrium point represents Bertrand's zero profit equilibria. The effects of these Electronic marketplaces will translate to commodity markets by inciting price competition amongst retailers and shifting power to the consumers though the reduction in market power of the vendors.
Interestingly, studies have found that user search behaviour, and thus search costs, differ significantly depending on which device they use to access electronic marketplaces. Personal computer (PC) users are much less sensitive to product rank. That is, they add more products to their evaluation pool before deciding on a product. This suggests that the cognitive effort it takes to process information, and thus the search costs, are much higher when users access the internet through their mobile phones. PC users are also more likely to choose a product that is geographically further away from their location than mobile phone users. These differences are mainly due to the smaller screen sizes in mobile phones and their ability to overcome the geographic and time sensitivity limitations of PC computers.
Obfuscation and Search Costs
Price obfuscation is a strategy online retailers are implementing to derive further profits within electronic marketplaces and position themselves to regain market power. Obfuscation strategies within the classical search theory models represents consumers who are not fully informed simultaneously within the competitive a market through incremental increases in search costs, allowing firms to generate additional profits. Strategies include the development of products requiring additional purchases, or add-ons, which have large unadvertised mark ups. The use of a loss-leader approach is also implemented by online vendors to establish additional profits through the use of purposeful websites and advertisements designed to lure consumers into purchasing cheaper inferior goods and then to upgrade and purchase superior goods for higher prices.
Customers are negatively affected by obfuscation because of the price increases and direct costs it imposes on them. Although obfuscation is beneficial to firms, excessive obstruction of pricing information can lead to the collapse of a market. Interestingly, even firms who do not obfuscate their pricing benefit from the obfuscation conducted by other firms in the market. Since none of the consumers can compare prices, they still behave as if future search costs will be higher and thus the transparent company benefits.
See also
Analysis paralysis
Satisficing
Search theory
Perfect Competition
Price dispersion
Cost
References
Costs |
20467561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi%20Orenuga | Femi Orenuga | Kenny Oluwafemi Gbolahan Ademola "Femi" Orenuga (born 18 March 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Career
Southend United
Born in Lewisham, London, Orenuga joined Southend United in 2006 after he impressed the club following his recommendation by an agent.
Not long after joining the club he helped Southend win the Norhalne Cup in Denmark, attracting interest from FC Copenhagen and Brøndby in the process. He became the youngest player to appear for Southend United when he came on as a 93rd-minute substitute in their 3–1 victory over Luton Town in the FA Cup second round on 29 November 2008.
Everton
In March 2009, Orenuga agreed to sign for Premier League team Everton on 1 July for an undisclosed fee believed to be £30,000, increasing based on first team appearances. He joined on a two-year academy scholarship.
He was released from the club on 18 May 2012.
Loan to Notts County
On 21 October 2011, it was confirmed by Notts County that Orenuga had joined on a month-long loan deal.
Sweden
On 9 November 2012 joined to Sweden and signed a two-year contract with AFC United.
Whitehawk
Following an unsuccessful trial with Crewe Alexandra earlier in the summer, Orenuga played for Northern Premier League First Division South side Carlton Town in pre-season as well as for Dagenham & Redbridge before signing for Whitehawk in August 2014. He left the club having appeared just once in September.
Norway
In September 2014, after a trial with the club, he signed for Norwegian second division side Raufoss. He featured for their first team four times, and three times for the reserves.
Back in England
He joined Gloucester City for the first time in January 2015, and played his part in the run-in towards the end of the 2014–15 season. He started the 2015–16 season at Enfield Town, before re-joining Gloucester City in October 2015. On 5 February 2016 he signed for Wealdstone, and on 19 March 2016 he joined Bedford Town on dual registration terms. On 16 May 2016 he signed a one-year deal with Corby Town.
He moved on to Farnborough, signing for them on 24 November 2016, however the spell was short-lived as he re-joined Bedford Town in December 2016.
Prior to the 2018-season of the Victorian State League Division 2 he joined Peninsula Strikers in Australia until the end of the season. He scored two goals in five league games before leaving the club in June 2018.
Personal life
His younger brother, Keith, is a student in Arsenal FC's Centre of Excellence. He attended Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School.
References
External links
Femi Orenuga profile at the Everton F.C. website
Femi Orenuga profile at the Aylesbury United website
1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Lewisham
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Southend United F.C. players
Everton F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
AFC Eskilstuna players
Whitehawk F.C. players
Raufoss IL players
Gloucester City A.F.C. players
Enfield Town F.C. players
Wealdstone F.C. players
Corby Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Expatriate footballers in Norway
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
English expatriate footballers |
23572104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Devlin%20%28fictional%20detective%29 | Harry Devlin (fictional detective) | Harry Devlin is a fictional detective created by the British crime writer Martin Edwards. He has appeared in eight novels and eight short stories, and was described by Marcel Berlins in ‘The Guardian’ as ‘a charming but down-at-heel Liverpool solicitor with bruised emotions, a nice line in self-deprecation, and a penchant for Mersey low life.’ The series has received consistently good reviews.
In All the Lonely People, the book which introduced Harry Devlin, his estranged wife Liz is murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Harry needs to clear his name and find who killed the woman he loved. The book was nominated for the John Creasey Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of 1991 (the winner being Walter Mosley).
The first seven novels appeared between 1991 and 1999. Harry Devlin returned in 2008 in Waterloo Sunset, a novel which reflects the changes in his life and in his native Liverpool during the intervening years.
Novels
All the Lonely People (1991)
Suspicious Minds (1992)
I Remember You (1993)
Yesterday’s Papers (1994)
Eve of Destruction (1996)
The Devil in Disguise (1998)
First Cut is the Deepest (1999)
Waterloo Sunset (2008)
Short stories
It's Impossible
The Boxer
When I'm Dead And Gone
Never Walk Alone
I Say A Little Prayer
My Ship Is Coming In
With A Little Help From my Friends
A House Is Not A Home
References
'Martin Edwards' in The Mammoth Encyclopaedia of Modern Crime Fiction ed. Mike Ashley (2002) (Robinson)
‘Martin Edwards’ in Whodunit?: a who’s who in crime & mystery writing ed. Rosemary Herbert (2003) (Oxford University Press)
‘Harry Devlin' in Great British Fictional Detectives by Russell James(2008) (Remember When)
External links
Martin Edwards Books.com – Official website
Fictional detectives
Fictional amateur detectives
Fictional lawyers |
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