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23573877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%C5%88 | Boseň | Boseň is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages and hamlets of Mužský, Zápudov and Zásadka are administrative parts of Boseň.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23573884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradlec | Bradlec | Bradlec is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has a population of about 1,300.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20469996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20O%27Conor | Eugene O'Conor | Eugene Joseph O'Conor (23 February 1835 – 5 July 1912) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Buller electorate, in the South Island.
Private life
Born in Ireland in 1835, O'Conor went to Victoria, Australia in 1854, and came to New Zealand in the early 1860s. He was a cattle dealer and storekeeper. O'Conor had 'several useful inventions patented' and lectured on his opinion that Francis Bacon (Baconian theory) was the author of Shakespeare's plays. He was a significant land owner on the West Coast.
Member of Parliament
O'Conor was a member of the Nelson Provincial Council. From November 1869 to October 1873, he represented the Buller electorate. From May 1874 until the abolition of the Nelson Province in October 1876, he represented the Westport electorate. From June 1874, he was on the Nelson Executive Council for a time (the source does not record an end date).
Eugene O'Conor represented the Buller electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1871 to 1875 and again between 1884 and 1893. He was known as the 'Buller Lion' for his strong advocacy of local interests and was opposed to 'party government'. O'Conor had advanced ideas and promoted democratic measures, including removing the property qualification for the franchise and having the Legislative Council directly elected by the people.
Death
O'Conor died on 5 July 1912 in Nelson. His wife had pre-deceased him in 1890. They had no children, and he left the majority of his estate to destitute children and old people in Westport.
See also
The Karamea Special Settlement 1874
Notes
References
Karamea: A Story of Success. The Karamea District Centennial 1874-1974 by Dulcie Harmon (2007 Reprint, Buller Printing, Westport)
Independent MPs of New Zealand
Members of the Nelson Provincial Council
Members of Nelson provincial executive councils
New Zealand businesspeople
New Zealand farmers
New Zealand inventors
Irish emigrants to New Zealand (before 1923)
People from Westport, New Zealand
1835 births
1912 deaths
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
19th-century New Zealand politicians |
17334193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20San%20Jose%20Stealth%20season | 2005 San Jose Stealth season | The San Jose Stealth are a lacrosse team based in San Jose, California playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the 2nd in franchise history.
The Stealth finished 2nd in the West in 2004, but did not fare so well in 2005. They started with a 3-2 record, beating division rivals Calgary, Colorado, and Arizona, but then lost 10 of their last 11 games to finish 4-12 and last place overall.
Regular season
Conference standings
Game log
Reference:
Player stats
Reference:
Runners (Top 10)
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty minutes
Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals against; Sv% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Awards
Transactions
Trades
Roster
Reference:
See also
2005 NLL season
References
San Jose
San Jose Stealth |
6901987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla%20television | Guerrilla television | Guerrilla television is a term coined in 1971 by Michael Shamberg, one of the founders of the Raindance Foundation; the Raindance Foundation has been one of the counter-culture video collectives that in the 1960s and 1970s extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies.
History of the term
In 1969 Michael Shamberg, Paul Ryan and others co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation. From 1967 to 1969 Ryan had been a close assistant to Marshall McLuhan. While in 1970 McLuhan spoke of World War III as a "guerrilla information war," in the same year Ryan wrote for Radical Software, a journal of the Raindance foundation, the article Cybernetic guerrilla warfare. This article inspired Shamberg, in 1971, to coin the term Guerrilla television.
As early as 1967, Umberto Eco used similar terminology in a lecture he gave in New York City, coining the term "semiological guerrilla" and using expressions like "communications guerrilla warfare" and "cultural guerrilla."
Ideas
Paul Ryan was a student and research assistant of Marshall McLuhan, who believed modern technology, such as television, was creating a global village and challenging cultural values, and coined the term "Cybernetic guerrilla warfare" to describe how the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s should use communication technology to get its message to the public. Despite a bias in the counter-culture movement towards anti-technology, people like Ryan and former Time-Life correspondent Michael Shamberg believed new technology wanted social change.
Shamberg preferred the term Guerrilla television (the title of his 1971 book), because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, Guerrilla television is non-violent. He saw Guerrilla television as a means to break through the barriers imposed by Broadcast television, which he called beast television.
They urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, released in 1965 to be merged with the documentary film style and television. The group later became TVTV, or Top Value Television, one of the medium's most influential video collectives.
See also
Lord of the Universe (documentary), won DuPont-Columbia Award, 1974
Public access television
Radical Software
Vineland, a novel by Thomas Pynchon prominently featuring a guerrilla television collective
Notes
References
Eco, Umberto (1967) Per una guerriglia semiologica (English tr. Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare) first given as a lecture at conference Vision '67 in New York.
Greenwald, Dara (2007) "The Process Is in the Streets: Challenging Media America" in MacPhee, Josh and Reuland, Erik (2007) Realizing the impossible: art against authority
Greenwald, Dara (2007) "The Grassroots Video Pioneers" in The Brooklyn Rail, May 2007
Marshall McLuhan (1970) Culture is our business
Ryan, Paul (1970) "Cybernetic guerrilla warfare" in Radical Software, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1971
Shamberg, Michael, Raindance Corporation (1971) Guerrilla television Chapter "process notes"
Strangelove, Michael (2005) The empire of mind: digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement
External links
Citizen media |
6901997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout | Lookout | A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
Naval application
Lookouts have been traditionally placed in high on masts, in crow's nests and tops.
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972) says in part:
Every vessel must at all times keep a proper look-out by sight (day shape or lights by eyes or visual aids), hearing (sound signal or Marine VHF radio) and all available means (e.g. Radar, ARPA, AIS, GMDSS...) in order to judge if risk of collision exists.
Lookouts report anything they see and or hear. When reporting contacts, lookouts give information such as, bearing of the object, which way the object is headed, target angles and position angles and what the contact is. Lookouts should be thoroughly familiar with the various types of distress signals they may encounter at sea.
Criminal definition
By analogy, the term "lookout" is also used to describe a person who accompanies criminals during the commission of a crime, and warns them of the impending approach of hazards: that is, police or eyewitnesses. Although lookouts typically do not actually participate in the crime, they can nonetheless be charged with aiding and abetting or with conspiracy, or as accomplices.
Railway use
A lookout may be used when performing engineering works on an operational railway. They will be responsible for ensuring that all staff are cleared of the track in advance of an approaching train.
References
Crime
Marine occupations |
23573887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhtelecom | Kazakhtelecom | Kazakhtelecom JSC (, Qazaqtelekom; ) is the largest telecommunication company in Kazakhstan.
Shareholders
51.00% - AO Samruk-Kazyna JSC - fund of national wealth
16.90% - Bodam B.V. (Amsterdam, Netherland)
14.60% - Bank of New York
9.60% - Deran Services Limited
3.00% - Optimus Ltd
0.70% - shares traded on KASE
4.20% - other shareholders
KazakhTelecom subsidiaries
K-Cell
51% Fintur Holdings B.V.
58.55% TeliaSonera
41.45% Turkcell
49% KazakhTelecom JSC
Altel
100% KazakhTelecom JSC
Neo-Kazakhstan
51% KazakhTelecom JSC
49% AsiaNet Kazakhstan LLP
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region#Kazakhstan
References
External links
KazakhTelecom - Official site in Kazakh, Russian and English
Communications in Kazakhstan
Companies based in Nur-Sultan
Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Companies of Kazakhstan
1994 establishments in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstani brands
Companies listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange |
17334206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20Bologna | Enrique Bologna | Enrique Alberto Bologna Gómez (born 13 February 1982 in Claypole, Buenos Aires), known as Enrique Bologna, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Banfield.
Career
Bologna began playing for Banfield in 2003, he spent 2008 on loan to Peruvian side Alianza Lima. He returned to Banfield in 2008 and was a non playing member of the squad that won the Apertura 2009 championship.
Honours
Banfield
Argentine Primera División: Apertura 2009
Primera B Nacional: 2013–14
Peñarol
Uruguayan Primera División: 2012–13
River Plate
Recopa Sudamericana: 2016
Copa Argentina: 2015–16
Supercopa Argentina: 2017
Copa Libertadores: 2018
See also
List of goalscoring goalkeepers
Notes
External links
1982 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Argentine expatriate footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine people of Italian descent
Club Alianza Lima footballers
Club Atlético Banfield footballers
Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Peñarol players
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Peruvian Primera División players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Peru
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay
Expatriate footballers in Peru
Expatriate footballers in Uruguay |
23573898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran%C5%BEe%C5%BE | Branžež | Branžež is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Nová Ves are Zakopaná are administrative parts of Branžež.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20S%C3%A1nchez | Ana Sánchez | Ana Belén Sánchez (born 16 February 1976) is a Spanish golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She represented Spain in the 1996 Espirito Santo Trophy and turned professional the following year. She has one Ladies European Tour win, which came at the 2004 BMW Ladies Italian Open, and was a member of the European team at the 2003 Solheim Cup.
Professional wins
Ladies European Tour wins
2004 BMW Ladies Italian Open
Other wins
2005 Lalla Meryem Cup
Team appearances
Amateur
European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Spain): 1995 (winners), 1997
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Spain): 1996
Professional
Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2003 (winners)
World Cup (representing Spain): 2005, 2007
External links
Ana Sánchez personal blog
Ana Sánchez Academy
Spanish female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
Solheim Cup competitors for Europe
Mediterranean Games medalists in golf
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Sportspeople from Málaga
1976 births
Living people |
23573899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodce | Brodce | Brodce () is a market town in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants.
Brodce is located south of Mladá Boleslav and northeast of Prague.
History
The first written mention of Brodce is from 1130.
Gallery
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic |
17334207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton%20Village | Carleton Village | Carleton Village is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centered along Davenport Road, south of St. Clair Avenue West and surrounded on the other three sides by railway lines. The CNR/CPR mainline to the west, the CNR railway lines to the east, and the CPR east–west railway lines to the south.
Character
The neighbourhood is an extremely mixed neighbourhood. The residential area is primarily single-family semi-detached homes, occupying the centre of the neighbourhood area. Along all of the rail lines are light industrial areas. Along St. Clair Avenue West is an area of commercial storefronts and service industries, tied together by the St. Clair Gardens Business Improvement Area. The 512 St. Clair streetcar provides transit access through the neighbourhood.
History
Carlton and Davenport villages
The first European settlement in the area was the village of Carlton, at the intersection of St. Clair Avenue and today's Old Weston Road. Carlton was established in the late 1840s around the carriage and wagon-making shop of William Bull and appears in the 1851 Browne's Map of the Township of York. It was named after governor Guy Carleton. The settlement was not large, consisting of approximately thirty buildings. Carlton railway station was opened in 1857 and Carlton Post Office opened in 1858. By 1865, it was listed as having 150 residents. A new Carlton & Weston Road railway station was built in 1885 on the east side of the CNR tracks. It was renamed West Toronto Station and additions were added in 1902 and 1912. It still stands.
Along Davenport at today's Perth Avenue, the settlement of Davenport developed. When the Northern Railway line was built, a Davenport Station was built. Davenport was also small, having only a population of 120 by 1875. The two villages grew steadily and more building lots were developed, all getting their water from wells. The neighbouring village of West Toronto Junction was incorporated in 1887. Rather than join the junction, villagers proposed forming a new merged village of 'Stanley', after Lord Stanley the Governor General of Canada at the time. The plan failed and Carlton and Davenport were later annexed into West Toronto Junction in 1889.
Connolly Street in the area was first laid out as Carlton Avenue and renamed when West Toronto was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1909 (likely to avoid confusion with Carlton Street).
At the centre of the neighbourhood is Wadsworth Park, named after long-serving Alderman and Controller William J. Wadsworth.
Most development dates from the era of the building of St. Clair Avenue after the annexation by Toronto.
Demographics
Carleton Village falls within the City of Toronto's "Weston-Pelham Park" neighborhood. According to the 2016 Neighborhood Profile, the median family income is $78,988 (5% below the City average of $82,859).
Census tract 0108.00 of the 2006 Canadian census overlaps exactly with Carleton Village. According to that census, the neighbourhood has 6,544 residents. The ten most common language spoken at home, after English, are:
Portuguese - 17.0%
Spanish - 5.7%
Italian - 4.4%
Cantonese - 2.5%
Vietnamese - 2.1%
Punjabi - 2.0%
Unspecified Chinese - 1.7%
Hindi - 0.5%
Korean - 0.5%
Tagalog - 0.4%
Education
Three public school boards operate within Carleton Village, the public secular Toronto District School Board (TDSB), and Conseil scolaire Viamonde (CSV), and the public separate Toronto Catholic District School Board. All three school boards operate a public elementary school within the neighbourhood. They include:
Blessed Pope Paul VI Catholic School (TCDSB)
Carleton Village Junior and Senior Sports Academy (TDSB)
École élémentaire Charles-Sauriol (CSV)
Previously, the TCDSB operated Brother Edmund Rice Catholic Secondary School from 1977 to 2001.
In 2001, the south building of the school at 2054 Davenport Road closed. Some efforts were made by the local community to preserve elements of the old building, and as of 2009, early plans to completely demolish the existing structure and erect a new home for the local police division have been significantly altered. The architecture of the 1913 building will be preserved in the new plan for the station, with a contemporary wing replacing the addition from the 1960s.
References
Notes
External links
Weston-Pellam Park neighbourhood profile
Toronto's BIAs: St. Clair Gardens
Toronto Neighbourhood Guide - Carleton Village
Neighbourhoods in Toronto |
23573902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%99ezina%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Březina (Mladá Boleslav District) | Březina is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Honsob is an administrative part of Březina.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20the%20Right | Minister of the Right | was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the udaijin in the context of a central administrative body called the Daijō-kan (Council of State). This early Daijō-kan was composed of the three ministers—the daijō-daijin (Chancellor), the sadaijin (Minister of the Left) and the udaijin.
The udaijin was the Junior Minister of State, overseeing all branches of the Daijō-kan. He would be the deputy of the sadaijin.
The post of udaijin, along with the rest of the Daijō-kan structure, gradually lost power over the 10th and 11th centuries, as the Fujiwara came to dominate politics more and more. The system was essentially powerless by the end of the 12th century, when the Minamoto, a warrior clan and branch of the imperial family, seized control of the country from the court aristocracy (kuge). However, it is not entirely clear whether the Daijō-kan system was formally dismantled prior to the Meiji era.
See also
Daijō-kan
Kugyō
Sesshō and Kampaku
List of Daijō-daijin
Kōkyū
Kuge
Imperial Household Agency
Notes
References
Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons.
Hall, John Whitney, Delmer M. Brown and Kozo Yamamura. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (cloth)
Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: Routledge Curzon.
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press.
Government of feudal Japan
Japanese historical terms
Meiji Restoration |
23573905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%99ezno%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Březno (Mladá Boleslav District) | Březno is a market town in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants.
Administration
The village of Dolánky is an administrative part of Březno.
History
The first written mention of Březno is from 1255.
References
Market towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillie%20Cooper | Jillie Cooper | Jillie Cooper (born 9 May 1988) is a professional badminton player (BWF player id: 53127) who plays for Scotland.
Career
Cooper began her professional career in 2007. She first started playing senior international tournaments when she got to round '1/32' in the Scottish Open 2003 with her doubles partner in November 2003. Since then she had entered many other competitions building up to quarter and semi final stages. More recently she had become the winner of women's doubles for the first time in November 2008 in the Scottish Open, exactly 5 years after her first start there. Cooper then went on to win the Welsh International doubles and mixed Doubles titles one week after her Scottish Open success in December 2008.
As a mixed doubles player, she had reached semi finals stages in 5 competitions to date and the final of Belgian International in September 2008 (29 November 2008). Cooper was also a member of Team Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Edinburgh
Scottish female badminton players
Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
Badminton players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games |
17334214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th%20Estonian%20Rifle%20Corps | 8th Estonian Rifle Corps | The 8th Estonian Rifle Corps (2nd formation) (, ) was a formation in the Soviet Army, created on 6 November 1942, during World War II.
An 8th Rifle Corps (but not made up of Estonian personnel) had been previously formed, taking part in the Soviet invasion of Poland as part of the 5th Army, and, on the outbreak of war on 22 June 1941, this first formation was part of the 26th Army in the Kiev Special Military District, consisting of the 99th, the 173rd, and the 72nd Mountain Rifle Divisions. The first formation of the 8th Rifle Corps was destroyed in the first three months of the German invasion and is not present on the Soviet order of battle after August 1941.
The 8th Estonian Rifle Corps was formed of mobilized ethnic Estonians, who were at first brought in Russia (where many of them died because of poor conditions); the battalions created in Estonia and incorporated former personnel of the Republic of Estonia's army. In the order of battle, the corps appears in the Stavka Reserves by 1 November 1942 and is subordinated to the Kalinin Front by 1 December 1942.
When 2nd formation was formed in 1942, the corps' structure consisted of the 7th and 249th Rifle Divisions stationed in Estonia, reinforced by volunteers from the Estonian Communist Party organisation. In an effort to increase overall formation experience, the battle-hardened 19th Guards Rifle Division later joined the 8th Rifle Corps. As a result, the corps was briefly re-designated as 8th Guards Rifle Corps. Throughout its entire existence, the rifle corps was commanded by Lieutenant General Lembit Pärn.
War service
The corps fought a total 916 days in the war, and at different times it was in service on the Kalinin, the Leningrad and the 2nd Baltic Front. For 344 days, parts of the corps were engaged with German forces, but no significant gains were made. For the next 123 days, the formation was engaging in the Battle of Velikiye Luki where 13,000 of the 27,000 men were killed or wounded. Then, 37 days were spent in the Battle of Narva, and the final 88 days were devoted to the Battle of Courland. During the Battle of Narva in 1944, the artillery of the rifle corps fired on the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian), consisting of Estonians fighting in the Waffen SS. The infantry of the corps was engaged in direct battle with the Estonians on the German side in the battles of Porkuni and Avinurme on 20 and 21 September 1944, where a detachment of the rifle corps murdered a number of wounded prisoners of war. On 22 September elements of the 7th Rifle Division, along with the 45th Estonian Tank Regiment and the 952nd SU Regiment (SU-76s), formed the forward detachment of the corps and entered Tallinn, for which all three units received the name of that city as a battle honor.
The corps appears to have spent the last of its World War II service in the 42nd Army.
Post-war
In total, 4100 settlements were captured by the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps. Of the whole rifle corps, one division, six regiments, and one battalion were decorated with an order. The 8th Estonian Rifle Corps was also given the honorific "Tallinn", and on 28 June 1945, the corps was renamed the 41st Guards Estonian Tallinn Rifle Corps. The two component divisions were also honored; the 7th became the 118th Guards Rifle Division and the 249th became the 122nd Guards Rifle Division. In 1946, both divisions were inactivated to provide personnel for other Soviet activities in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
According to the 23 June 1945 decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, demobilization of the Red Army started. The first 8th Rifle Corps fighters were demobilized on 16 July 1945. By the end of 1946, 16,550 men were demobilized. Of those, 3,425 (20.7%) started to work in the administrative or legal bodies of the Soviet occupation regime (Communist Party, Komsomol, trade unions etc.).
See also
Estonia in World War II
Citations and references
Cited sources and further reading
Боевой путь Эстонского стрелкового гвардейского корпуса / сост. В. Кюлаотс. — Таллин, 1945. — 251 стр.
И. Курчавов. Эстонская гвардия. — Таллин, 1946.
Эстонский национальный корпус Советской армии в Великой Отечественной войне, 1941—1945. — Таллин, 1949.
Ф. Паульман. Огонь и маневр: Артиллеристы эстонского стрелкового корпуса в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945. / вст. слово: К. Ару. — Таллин: Ээсти Раамат, 1968.
Pokrovsky, Gen. Col., Perecheni No.4: Headquarters of corps included in the structure of the active army during the years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Military-Scientific Directorate of General Staff, Moscow, 1954
Галицкий К. Н. Годы суровых испытаний. 1941—1944 (записки командарма) — М.: Наука, 1973.
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Military history of Estonia during World War II
Military units and formations established in 1942
Military units and formations disestablished in 1946
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic |
6902013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20the%20Left | Minister of the Left | The was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702.
The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the sadaijin in the context of a central administrative body called the Daijō-kan (Council of State). This early Daijō-kan was composed of the three ministers—the daijō-daijin (Chancellor), the sadaijin and the udaijin (Minister of the Right).
The sadaijin was the Senior Minister of State, overseeing all functions of government with the udaijin as his deputy.
Within the Daijō-kan, the sadaijin was second only to the daijō-daijin (the Great Minister, or Chancellor of the Realm) in power and influence. Frequently, a member of the Fujiwara family would take the position in order to help justify and exercise the power and influence the family held.
The post of sadaijin, along with the rest of the Daijō-kan structure, gradually lost power over the 10th and 11th centuries, as the Fujiwara came to dominate politics more and more. The system was essentially powerless by the end of the 12th century, when the Minamoto, a warrior clan, seized control of the country from the court aristocracy (kuge). However, it is not entirely clear when the Daijō-kan system was formally dismantled prior to the Meiji era.
See also
Imperial Household Agency
Kōkyū
Kugyō
List of Daijō-daijin
Sesshō and Kampaku
References
Related bibliography
Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons.
Hall, John Whitney, Delmer M. Brown and Kozo Yamamura. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (cloth)
Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press.
Government of feudal Japan
Japanese historical terms
Meiji Restoration |
17334262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gealtacht%20Mael%20M%C3%B3rdha | Gealtacht Mael Mórdha | Gealtacht Mael Mórdha is the second full-length studio album by Irish celtic doom metal band Mael Mórdha.
Track listing
"Atlas of Sorrow" – 10:37
"Godless Commune of Sodom" – 6:01
"A Window of Madness" – 5:50
"Curse of the Bard" – 4:47
"The Struggle Eternal" – 7:22
"Gealtacht Mael Mórdha" – 5:23
"Minions of Manannan" – 4:32
Personnel
Roibéard Ó Bogail – Vocals, piano, whistle
Gerry Clince – Guitars
Anthony Lindsay – Guitars
Dave Murphy – Bass
Shane Cahill – Drums
External links
Gealtacht Mael Mórdha @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
Gealtacht Mael Mórdha @ metalstorm.ee
2007 albums
Mael Mórdha albums |
17334264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against%20the%20Current | Against the Current | Against the Current may refer to:
Film
Against the Current (film), a 2009 film starring Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth Reaser and Justin Kirk
Print media
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, 1979 book
Against the Current (journal), the journal of the American socialist group Solidarity
Against the Current: How Albert Schweitzer Inspired a Young Man's Journey, 2014 book about Mark Huntington Higgins
Music
Against the Current (band), a band signed by Fueled By Ramen
Against the Current, also known as Contra La Corriente, a 1997 album by Marc Anthony
Boats Against the Current, a 1977 album by Eric Carmen
See also
Countercurrent (disambiguation) |
17334291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20Lip%20Rayfield%20%28album%29 | Split Lip Rayfield (album) | Split Lip Rayfield is the First studio album by the American Bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).
Track listing
All songs written by Kirk Rundstrom except where noted.
"Coffee" – 2:07
"Outlaw" – 2:57
"Long Haul Weekend" (E H Ebner/B Spears/ J Rhodes) – 1:16
"Combine" (Rundstrom/Eaton/Mardis) – 3:02
"Barnburner" (Rundstrom/Eaton) – 2:26
"Blue Tick Hound" (Dermer/Rundstrom) – 1:22
"Sunshine" (Rundstrom/Eaton/Mardis) – 2:20
"Pinball Machine" (L L Irving) – 3:09
"Judas" – 1:58
"Cutie Pie" (Rundstrom/Eaton) – 2:43
"Flat Black Rag" (Rundstrom/Eaton) – 1:57
"Freckle Faced Liza Jane" (Trad.) – 2:11
"No Idea" – 2:11
"San Antone" – 2:43
"Tiger In My Tank" (J T Nesbitt Jr.) – 1:58
Personnel
Kirk Rundstrom - Guitar, Vocals
Jeff Eaton - Gas Tank Bass, Vocals, Kazoo
Eric Mardis - Banjo, Vocals
Additional personnel
Mandolin on "Coffee" and "Blue Tick Hound" by Craig "Big Country" Dermer
Bass Drum on "Pinball" by Colin Mahoney
References
1998 albums
Split Lip Rayfield albums
Bloodshot Records albums |
6902014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen%20Murphy | Cullen Murphy | John Cullen Murphy, Jr. (born September 1, 1952) is an American writer, journalist and editor who was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine from 1985 to 2006.
He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1952, a son of illustrator and cartoonist John Cullen Murphy. He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His family moved to Dublin, Ireland for several years, including 1966, the 50th anniversary of the Easter Revolution.
He was educated at Amherst College, from which he graduated with honors in medieval history in 1974. Murphy's first magazine job was in the paste-up department of Change, a magazine devoted to higher education.
He became an editor of The Wilson Quarterly in 1977. From the mid-1970s until 2004 he worked with his father, John Cullen Murphy, as writer for the comic strip Prince Valiant, for which his father produced the artwork. He is also the author of The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (1999); Are We Rome? (2007), which compares the politics and culture of Ancient Rome with that of the contemporary United States; God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (2012); and Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe (2017), a history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School.
He currently serves as editor at large for Vanity Fair and lives in Massachusetts. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. He has three children: Jack, Anna, and Tim.
Publications
References
External links
Murphy bio at TheAtlantic.com
Archive of stories by Murphy at TheAtlantic.com
Video of debate/discussion with Cullen Murphy and Rod Dreher on Bloggingheads.tv
1952 births
Living people
American comics writers
American magazine editors
American male journalists
Amherst College alumni
Writers from New Rochelle, New York
The Atlantic (magazine) people
Vanity Fair (magazine) people
Writers from Connecticut
Journalists from New York (state) |
6902018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%20Television | Turkey Television | Turkey Television is a Canadian teen sketch comedy originally aired on Nickelodeon. The show was created by Roger Price and Geraldine Laybourne at the request of Nickelodeon in response to the popularity of You Can't Do That on Television, another Canadian children's sketch comedy airing on Nick. It was originally broadcast in 1985 for one season.
The series was about an animated turkey named Thurman T. Turkey (voiced by Jim Thurman), who traveled around the world filming television shows from other countries, then "bringin' it home to Hollywood and puttin' it on the air". The cast featured Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Kevin Kubusheskie, and Adam Reid, all of You Can't Do That on Television fame, as well as several newcomers from Toronto: Steven Aiken, T.J. Criscione, and Craig Warnock. McGlade was also credited as a producer and a director. The cast also included John Koensgen as "Ivan Telaly" the Russian news announcer. John also co-hosted at least one episode as himself. Some of the most notable skits include parodies of Dr. Joyce Brothers and a parody of Hands Across America in which meat-waving children sing "Hams Across America." Actor Tom Riis Farrell appeared in a frequent segment called "The Uncle Hogram Program", a parody of Mr Bill.
The series also presented material from outside sources of varying vintage, from public domain footage (often re-edited and given new sound tracks, similar to Jay Ward's Fractured Flickers) to not so old clips presented as is (e.g., scenes from Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday) to more recent excerpts (skits from the New Jersey Network's Uncle Floyd Show) to offbeat music videos such as "Fish Heads". Animation was also featured on the show, outside of the opening and interstitials, featuring Thurman in very Looney Tunes-like scenarios, there were also international cartoons including the works of Mordillo. Australian comedy character Norman Gunston appeared often, as well. Videos by "Weird Al" Yankovic also appeared from time to time.
References
External links
1980s Canadian sketch comedy television series
1980s Nickelodeon original programming
1985 Canadian television series debuts
1986 Canadian television series endings
Television series about television
Comedy franchises |
6902024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Cowan%20%28broadcaster%29 | Barry Cowan (broadcaster) | This page is on the Irish broadcast journalist. For the former English tennis player see Barry Cowan (tennis).
Barry Cowan (1 February 1948 – 16 June 2004) was a high-profile journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland. In 1974, he became the anchor of BBC Northern Ireland's flagship evening television news programme Scene Around Six, which established him as a household name in Northern Ireland. This involved bringing the news into people's homes during some of the worst years of the Northern Irish Troubles.
In 1986, he became the first presenter of BBC Radio Ulster's popular Talk Back programme (he was succeeded by his close friend David Dunseith in 1989) and also presented the station's Good Morning Ulster, Evening Extra and Seven Days programmes. In the early 1980s he left the BBC for a short period to present Today Tonight on RTÉ, for which he won a Jacob's Award.
Cowan died at the age of 56 after a long illness.
References
1948 births
2004 deaths
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Jacob's Award winners
RTÉ newsreaders and journalists
Place of birth missing |
20470017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bengali%20poets | List of Bengali poets | This List of Bengali poets includes poets who write in Bengali language who produce Bengali poetry. This list classifies poets into three groups based on geographical location. These are poets from Bangladesh, poets from West Bengal of India and poets from other parts of the world including Bengali Diaspora and non-Bengali people writing poetry in Bengali. However, the list starts with early Bengali poets to be followed by those who are identified not only with Indian sub-continent before partition in 1947, but also as founders of Bengali poetry. The list also contains separate sub-lists of "rhyme composers" and "song writers". Finally, there are two sub-sets of woman poets and poets in exile.
Early poets
Siddhacharyas (6th to 12th CE)
The poets of the Charyāpada (Bengali: চর্যাপদ), known as the Siddhacharyas, lived in eastern India and Nepal. The names of the Siddhacharyas in Sanskrit (or its Tibetan language equivalent), and the raga in which the verse was to be sung, are mentioned prior to each pada (verse). The surviving 50 manuscripts contains the name of 24 Siddhacharyas including Lui Pa, Kukkuri Pa, Birua Pa, Gundari Pa, Chatil Pa, Bhusuku Pa, Kanha Pa, Kambalambar Pa, Dombi Pa, Shanti Pa, Mahitta Pa, Bina Pa, Saraha Pa, Shabar Pa, Aryadeb Pa, Dhendhan Pa, Darik Pa, Bhade Pa, Tadak Pa, Kankan Pa, Ja’anandi Pa, Dham Pa, Tanti Pa and Loridombi Pa. Most of these names were pseudonyms as the poets rejected Vedic Hinduism and profess Sahajayana Buddhism. Lui Pa is considered as the earliest poet of Charyapadas. Kanha Pa's 11 poems survived which is the largest number among these poets.
The poets and their works as mentioned in the text are as follows:
Medieval Poets
Founders of modern Bengali poetry
Amiya Chakravarty
Bishnu Dey
Sudhindranath Dutta
Buddhadev Bose
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Ahsan Habib
Farrukh Ahmad
Syed Ali Ahsan
Shamsur Rahman
Al Mahmud
Abul Hasan
Quazi Johirul Islam
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
Girindramohini Dasi
Bengali poets from other parts of the world
Abdul Gaffar Choudhury
Shamim Azad
Taslima Nasrin
Abid Azad
Hungryalist poets
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Binoy Majumdar
Samir Roychoudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury
Subimal Basak
Metrical poets
Annada Shankar Ray
Sukumar Ray
Farrukh Ahmad
Shamsur Rahman
Motiur Rahman Mollik (1950–2010)
Abu Zafar Obaidullah
Rafiqul Haque
Fayez Ahmed
Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
Abdur Rahman
Nirmalendu Goon
Asad Chowdhury
Bimal Guha
Shahabuddin Nagari
Song composers
Lalon Shah
Rabindranath Tagore
Dwijendralal Ray
Atulprasad Sen
Rajanikanta Sen
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Hason Raja
Kangal Harinath
Shah Abdul Karim
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
Shahabuddin Nagari
Motiur Rahman Mollik
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
Anjan Dutt
Kabir Suman
Nachiketa
Gobinda Haldar
Poets of Kolkata
Joy Goswami
Sunil Gangopadhyaya
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Ekram Ali
Subodh Sarkar
Srijato
Poets of North Bengal
Bikash Sarkar
Bibliography
Biletey Bishsotoker Bangla Kobi, Rabbani Choudhury, Agamee Prakashani, Dhaka 2000
Bangladesher Gronthoponji Boimela 2009, Rabbani Choudhury, Agamee Prakashani, Dhaka 2009
Shanghati Tritio Banglar Lekok Porichithi Boimela 2009, Shanghati Literary Society, UK
See also
উইকিসংকলন:লেখক
References
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Bengali |
44497180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBVA%20Foundation%20Frontiers%20of%20Knowledge%20Award | BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award | The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento, in Spanish, are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards respond to the knowledge map of the present age. As well as the fundamental knowledge that is at their core, they address developments in information and communication technologies, and interactions between biology and medicine, ecology and conservation biology, climate change, economics, humanities and social sciences, and, finally, contemporary musical creation and performance. Specific categories are reserved for developing knowledge fields of critical relevance to confront central challenges of the 21st century, as in the case of the two environmental awards.
The awards were established in 2008, with the first set of winners receiving their prizes in 2009. The BBVA Foundation – belonging to financial group BBVA – is partnered in the scheme by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country’s premier public research organization.
Categories
There are eight award categories: basic science, biology and biomedicine, climate change, ecology and conservation biology, information and communications technologies, economics, finance and management, music and opera, humanities and social sciences (a new category in the 11th edition). Previously, in the first 10 editions, there was a category in development cooperation.
Juries
Eight juries, one for each category, analyze the nominations put forward by international academic and research institutions.
To reach their decision, the juries meet during January and February in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation.
The day after the jury’s decision, the name of the winners(s) and the achievements that earned them the award are revealed at an announcement event in the same location.
Ceremony
The awards are presented in June each year at a ceremony held, from the 11th edition, in the Euskalduna Palace at Bilbao, in the Basque Country.
BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation engages in the promotion of research, advanced training and the transmission of knowledge to society, focusing on the emerging issues of the 21st century in five areas: Environment, Biomedicine and Health, Economy and Society, Basic Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Humanities. The BBVA Foundation designs, develops and finances research projects in these areas; facilitates advanced specialist training through grants, courses, seminars and workshops; organizes award schemes for researchers and professionals whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge; and communicates and disseminates such new knowledge through publications, databases, lecture series, debates, exhibitions and audiovisual and electronic media.
Prizes
Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative artwork, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per category. Awards may not be granted posthumously, and when an award is shared, its monetary amount is divided equally among the recipients.
The commemorative artwork is created by Madrid sculptor Blanca Muñoz, B.A. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Holder of scholarships at Calcografia Nazionale (1989), awarded by the Italian Government, at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (1990), and in Mexico City (1992), awarded by the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs, her numerous distinctions include the 1999 National Print Prize.
Laureates
References
External links
BBVA Foundation
Science and technology awards
Awards established in 2008 |
44497191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevitt | Trevitt | Trevitt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gavin Trevitt
Simon Trevitt (born 1967), English footballer
William Trevitt (1809–1881), American doctor, politician, diplomat, and newspaper publisher
William Trevitt (dancer), British dancer and choreographer
Harry Smith Trevitt, organist and composer |
23573909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Istanbul%20bombings | 2003 Istanbul bombings | The 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four different locations in Istanbul, Turkey on November 15 and 20, 2003.
On November 15, two truck bombs were detonated, one in front of the Bet Israel Synagogue in Şişli at around 9:30 a.m. local time (UTC+2.00) and another in front of the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Beyoğlu at around 9:34 a.m. As a result of these bombings, 28 people died, included the attackers, and more than 300 people were wounded. Five days after the first attacks, on November 20, two different attacks were perpetrated against the British Consulate General at around 10:55 a.m. and the HSBC General Headquarters in Beşiktaş at around 11:00 a.m., again using truck bombs. In the second round of attacks, 31 people lost their lives and more than 450 were injured. In total, 59 people died, including the four suicide bombers, and more than 750 were wounded in the bombings.
Investigations launched in the wake of the attacks determined that Al Qaeda had orchestrated the bombings. The criminal case that began with 69 defendants and, with additions, included 76 defendants in February 2004 regarding the attacks concluded in April 2007 with the sentencing of 49 defendants, of whom seven were sentenced to life in prison, to various periods of incarceration. Some of the figures allegedly from the upper echelons of the militant organization fled to Iraq after the attacks and died there, while a portion were captured by security forces. After a retrial held because the Court of Cassation reversed some of the verdicts delivered in the initial trial, 16 defendants were not sentenced to prison.
First bombings and aftermath
The first attacks were carried out on November 15, 2003 against two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey. At approximately 9:30 a.m. local time (UTC+2.00), a bomb-laden truck that had parked in front of the Bet Israel Synagogue on Nakiye Elgün Street in Şişli was detonated. Many of the worshippers praying at the synagogue that Saturday, a day considered sacred by Jews, and those near the temple lost their lives, and the area surrounding the synagogue was badly damaged.
Approximately four minutes after the first explosion, at around 9:34 a.m., a second attack occurred with the detonation of another bomb-laden truck passing by the Neve Shalom Synagogue on Büyük Hendek Avenue in Beyoğlu. Prayers were being held in three separate rooms of the synagogue, and a child's bar mitzvah ceremony was being held with 400 people in attendance. Because the walls of the synagogue had been fortified after previous attacks, the internal walls of the structure were not badly damaged, but the external wall and surrounding shops and buildings were damaged, and passers-by were killed by the blast. A hole approximately three meters wide and two meters deep appeared at the spot where the bomb exploded.
Teams from the Istanbul Metropolitan Fire Department, Health Department, Directorate of Road Maintenance, and Directorate of Cemeteries; the Istanbul Gas Distribution and Trade; and the Istanbul Water and Sewage Administration arrived at the scenes of both attacks. Search-and-rescue teams dug survivors out from beneath the debris resulting from the explosions and sent them to nearby health institutions. A team from ZAKA coming from Israel that comprised seven people who were experts in search-and-rescue and identification participated in the work after the explosions.
An Islamic militant group, IBDA-C, claimed responsibility for the blasts, but it was later determined that the attacks had been carried out by Al Qaeda.
Second bombings and aftermath
Five days later, on November 20, as US President George W. Bush was in the United Kingdom meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair, two more truck bombs exploded. The first attack occurred at around 10:55 a.m. (UTC+2.00) with the detonation of a bomb, comprising 700 kilograms of ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and compressed fuel oil, in a truck that had parked in front of the HSBC Bank AS building on Büyükdere Avenue in the Levent neighborhood of Beşiktaş. There were fatalities and injuries inside and near the building, and after the explosion, the first six aboveground stories of the building became unusable and the front side of the building was badly damaged. Inside the building, an elevator that had been in motion at the time of the bombing collapsed. Body parts were flung from the site of the explosion, some even being found as far as 400 meters away at a petrol station.
Approximately five minutes later, at around 11:00 a.m., another bomb-laden truck drove through security and detonated in front of the British Consulate on Meşrutiyet Avenue in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district. Deaths and injuries were immediately reported from the explosion, and the outer wall of the consulate's front garden collapsed onto cars driving by in the street, and a fire burned in the garden itself. Buildings nearby the consulate, including the entrance to the Çiçek Passage market, and cars on the street were also badly damaged.
After the attack perpetrated against the HSBC building, police cordoned off the area and began collecting evidence. Electrical and gas lines were shut off, and metro services were stopped. The wounded and other personnel were evacuated from the rear entrance of the building. The fire department, civil defense, provincial health directorate, police, and consulate officials dispatched to the area began search-and-rescue operations. Police also cordoned off the area surrounding the consulate. Within a day, Interior Minister Abdülkadir Aksu, Istanbul Governor Muammer Güler, and Istanbul Provincial Security Director Celalettin Cerrah participated in the investigations. Shortly after the two attacks, a warning of an additional bombing at the Galleria Shopping Center in Bakırköy began to spread; the Akmerkez, Galleria, and Carousel shopping centers were evacuated, although the warnings ended up being baseless.
The bombers appeared to have waited for the traffic lights in front of the HSBC headquarters on the Büyükdere Avenue in Levent to turn red to maximize the effects. Police say that the bombers may have timed the attacks to coincide with Bush's visit to the UK.
Casualties
First attacks
On the day the attacks were carried out, the Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate issued a statement at 4:00 p.m. that 20 people had died and 257 were injured in the bombings. A few hours later, Health Minister Recep Akdağ announced that the number of deaths was 20 and that 302 people had referred to various hospitals because of the bomb attacks. Interior Minister Abdülkadir Aksu, however, stated that the identified number of injured people was 277. Later the evening of the attack, a statement issued by the Istanbul Security Directorate increased the number of casualties to 23, it shortly thereafter brought the number back down to 20. The following day, Istanbul Provincial Health Director Erman Tuncer reported, again, that 23 people had died and that about 71 people, of whom four were in critical condition, continued to received medical attention at various hospitals. The number of casualties rose to 24 on November 17 when the body of a woman was found at the scene of the bombing and later to 25 when a victim receiving treatment at a hospital succumbed to their injuries. In a statement he made on November 19, Istanbul Governor Muammer Güler announced that 25 people had died and approximately 300 people were injured as a result of the attacks. On November 28, Istanbul Deputy Security Director Halil Yılmaz reported, in a press release riddled with inaccuracies, that 23 people had died from the first bombings but later corrected the mistakes in a statement to the press and changed the number of casualties to 27. This number rose to 28 on February 9, 2004 when Celal Dilsiz, a patient who had been receiving care in a hospital for almost three months, died from his injuries.
The funeral ceremonies for six Jews who died in the attacks—Yoel Ülçer Kohen, Berta Özdoğan, Yona Romano, Annette Rubinstein, Anna Rubinstein, and Avram Varol—were held at the Ulus Ashkenazi Jewish Cemetery. The six people were laid to rest in the front section of the mausoleum where 23 people killed in the 1986 attack on the Neve Shalom Synagogue were buried.
Second attacks
A statement issued by the Office of the Istanbul Governor Public Order Operations Center on the day of the second attacks reported that 27 people had died—11 in the attack in front of the HSBC General Directorate and 16 at the British Consulate—and more than 450 people were injured in the bombings. According to a written statement on November 24 from the Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate, 432 people had been treated and discharged from the hospital and 30 people, of whom six were in intensive care, were still receiving treatment. On November 28, Istanbul Deputy Security Director Halil Yılmaz reported that 28 people had died in the second attacks, shortly thereafter later raising this figure to 30. Two months later, on January 13, 2004, the number of casualties in the second two attacks rose to 31, when Sefer Gündoğdu, a 35-year-old father of three, passed away at around 5:00 p.m. at Şişli Etfal Hospital after undergoing a series of surgeries.
Famous Turkish actor and singer Kerem Yılmazer died in the HSBC bombing as he was going to the NTV building, where worked as a voice actor on the Life Style program at the TV channel. Yılmazer's wife Göksel Kortay, the famous Turkish actress, was on a live program on TV8 when the news of the bombings broke. The 58-year-old British consul general and career diplomat Roger Short also perished in the attack.
Damage
Istanbul Governor Muammer Güler, in a statement on November 19, announced that inspections of 58 buildings in Beyoğlu after the synagogue attacks revealed nine buildings that were severely damaged, three that were moderately damaged, and eight that were somewhat damaged, amounting to damages of 37 billion Turkish lira (equivalent to approximately US$25 million in November 2003). In Şişli, of the 52 buildings examined, none were severely damaged, seven were moderately damaged, and 12 were somewhat damaged, with damages totaling 33 billion Turkish Liras (about US$22.5 million in November 2003). There was a total of 110 billion Turkish Liras (approximately US$75 million in November 2003) in damages and 33 cars—15 in Beyoğlu and 18 in Şişli—were made unusable due to the first bombings.
A total of 113 buildings were damaged in the second round of attacks. Beyloğlu Municipal Mayor Kadir Topbaş announced that 38 buildings, of which 25 were considered historic, were damaged in Beyloğlu. Beşiktaş Municipal Mayor Yusuf Namoğlu reported that 75 buildings were damaged in Levent, including a historic school building in the nearby Zincirlikuyu quarter.
Reactions
Various nations condemned the attacks and offered their condolences, including the US and Germany.
Responsibility
Initially, a militant Turkish Islamic group, the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front took responsibility.
Turkey charged 74 people with involvement in the bombings, including Syrians Loai al-Saqa and Hamid Obysi, and a Turk, Harun Ilhan. Ilhan admitted that he and two other suspected ringleaders — Habib Akdaş and Gurcan Bac — were responsible; Ilhan referred to himself as ‘an al-Qaeda warrior'. Akdas fled to Iraq, where he was reportedly involved in a kidnapping, and was later killed by coalition forces in Fallujah. Bac's location remains undetermined. Other reporting indicates that Bac was suspected of preparing the bombs with Fevzi Yitiz, and that Akdas and Ibrahim Kus participated in a meeting with bin Laden in 2002. Al-Saqa had already been tried in absentia in Jordan for his part, along with al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in the failed poison gas attack in 2002. On February 16, 2007, Al-Saqa and Ilhan were convicted and sentenced to 67 consecutive life sentences, one for every victim for the bombing plus additional terms for terrorism and conspiracy, as were five other Turkish men convicted of organising the bombing: Fevzi Yitiz (for helping to build the truck bombs) and Yusuf Polat, Baki Yigit, Osman Eken and Adnan Ersoz. Seyit Ertul was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for leading an al-Qaeda cell, and Obysi was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months for al-Qaeda membership, forgery and bomb-making. Of the other individuals who were charged, 29 were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months for aiding and abetting al-Qaeda, 10 were sentenced to 3 years and 9 months membership in al-Qaeda, and 26 were acquitted.
A Turkish intelligence official who was part of the investigation said: "They planned and carried out the attack independently after receiving the blessing of bin Laden."
However, in 2010, Turkish investigators accused three of the highest-ranking military leaders at the time of the bombing of orchestrating the attacks in the hopes of destabilising the government and prompting a military coup. Gen Çetin Dogan, head of the 1st Army and then deputy chief of the military staff, Gen Ibrahim Fırtına, ex-air force chief, and former naval commander Admiral Özden Örnek, along with 35 other ex-military personnel were arrested and questioned concerning their roles in Operation Sledgehammer, of which the bombings were reportedly a part.
See also
1999 Istanbul bombings
2008 Istanbul bombings
List of terrorist incidents, 2003
References
External links
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New Sefer Torah for the Istanbul Community—November 2006
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23573910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%99ezovice | Březovice | Březovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. The village of Víska with valuable examples of folk architecture is protected as a village monument reservation.
Administrative parts
The village of Víska is an administrative part of Lobodice.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23573912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukovno | Bukovno | Bukovno is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Líny is an administrative part of Bukovno.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44497209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation%20%28Jaco%20Pastorius%20album%29 | Invitation (Jaco Pastorius album) | Invitation is the third album by Jaco Pastorius, released in 1983. This is a live album recorded at various venues during a tour of Japan in September 1982, featuring his "Word of Mouth" big band. While his debut album showcased his eclectic and impressive skills on the electric bass, both Invitation and his previous album, Word of Mouth focused more on his ability to arrange for a larger band.
This album features mostly numbers written by other artists. The exceptions are new arrangements of "Continuum", from his debut album, and "Liberty City", from Word of Mouth, as well as "Reza", an original number bookending his version of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps".
The band's all-star cast included Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Toots Thielemans, Peter Erskine, Othello Molineaux, and Don Alias.
Track listing
"Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) – 6:57
"Amerika" (Traditional) – 1:09
"Soul Intro/The Chicken" (Jaco Pastorius/Pee Wee Ellis) – 6:49
"Continuum" (Jaco Pastorius) – 4:28
"Liberty City" (Jaco Pastorius) – 4:35
"Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 5:17
"Reza/Giant Steps/Reza (Reprise)" (Jaco Pastorius/John Coltrane) – 10:23
"Fannie Mae" (Buster Brown, Clarence Lewis, Morgan Robinson) – 2:38
"Eleven" (Miles Davis, Gil Evans) – 0:49
Personnel
Jaco Pastorius — electric bass
Don Alias – percussion
Randy Brecker – trumpet
Peter Erskine – drums
Bob Mintzer – tenor and soprano saxophone
Othello Molineaux – steel drum
Jean "Toots" Thielemans – harmonica (listed as a "special guest")
Also featuring:
Elmer Brown, Forrest Buchtel, Ron Tooley – trumpet
Jon Faddis – trumpet (solo on "Reza")
Wayne Andre – trombone
Dave Bargeron – trombone, tuba
Peter Graves – bass trombone, co–conductor
Bill Reichenbach – bass trombone
Mario Cruz – tenor and soprano saxophone, clarinet, alto flute
Randy Emerick – baritone saxophone, clarinet
Alex Foster – tenor, alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, piccolo
Paul McCandless – tenor saxophone, oboe, English horn
Peter Gordon, Brad Warnaar – French horn
See also
Jaco Pastorius discography
References
External links
Official Jaco Site
Family Tribute Site
Jaco Pastorius albums
1983 live albums
Warner Records live albums |
44497214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Ford | Ellen Ford | Ellen Ford may refer to:
Ellen Ford, one of the first women in WAVES
Ellen Ford, fictional character in Self Help (The Walking Dead)
See also
Helen Ford, actress |
20470023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Penella | Manuel Penella | Manuel Penella Moreno (July 31, 1880, in Valencia – January 24, 1939, in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso; through her, he was the grandfather of actresses Emma Penella, Elisa Montés and Terele Pávez.
Although his most popular work at home and abroad is the oft-revived opera española El gato montés (a special favourite of Plácido Domingo, who has revived it several times and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon), several of his other works still enjoy popularity in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, notably the chamber opera Don Gil de Alcalá (scored in Mexican style for strings and harp), some of his revues and the ambitious, late zarzuela La malquerida (1935), based on the masterpiece by Jacinto Benavente.
Works (not exhaustive)
Operas
1893 El queso de bola, sainete lírico, Valencia
1906 Las niñas alegres, entremés lírico, Barcelona
1907 Amor ciego, zarzuela
1907 El dinero, sainete lírico, Barcelona
1907 El día de reyes "apropósito en un acto"
1908 El padre cura, entremés lírico, Valencia
1908 La perra chica, parody of La Patria chica by Ruperto Chapí, Barcelona
1908 El arrojado, astracanada
1908 Sal de espuma, zarzuela en un acto, Barcelona
1908 La tentación, humorada lírica
1909 Corpus Christi, drama lírico en un acto
1909 Las gafas negras, sainete lírico en un acto
1909 La noche de las flores, idilio en un acto
1909 Entre chumberas, zarzuela en un acto, Zaragoza
1910 La niña mimada, opereta en tres actos
1910 Los vencedores, zarzuela en un acto
1910 Gracia y justicia, "exposición" en un acto
1910 Las romanas caprichosas, opereta en un acto
1910 La reina de las tintas, humorada en un acto
1911 Huelga de señoras, chirigota en un acto
1911 La niña de los besos, opereta en un acto
1911 El ciego del barrio, sainete lírico en un acto
1911 El viaje de la vida, opereta en un acto
1911 El género alegre, humorada lírica en un acto
1911 La novela de ahora, aventura en un acto
1912 Los pocos años, sainete lírico en un acto
1912 Las musas latinas, revista en un acto, Valencia
1914 Galope de amor, opereta en un acto
1914 La muñeca del amor, capricho en tres actos
1914 La isla de los placeres, astracanada en un acto
1914 La España de pandereta, españolada en un acto
1916 El gato montés, ópera en tres actos, Valencia, Teatro Principal.
1917 La última españolada, revista en un acto
1917 El amor de los amores, revista en un acto
1917 La cara del ministro, zarzuela en un acto, composed in collaboration with Enrique Estela
1918 Frivolina, opereta en tres actos
1918 El teniente Florisel, vaudeville en tres actos
1918 Bohemia dorada zarzuela en tres actos
1925 El paraíso perdido, cudro en un acto
1926 La última carcelera, zarzuela en dos actos
1927 El milagro de San Cornelio, cuento en un acto
1927 El espejo de las doncellas, pasatiempo en un acto
1927 Entrar por uvas o Feliz año nuevo, lírico en un acto
1928 Ris-Ras, humorada en un acto
1930 Los pirandones, zarzuela en un acto
1930 La reina jamón, zarzuela en dos acteos
1930 Me caso en la mar, zarzuela en dos actos
1930 La pandilla
1931 Ku-Kus-Klan, revista en dos actos
1931 ¡Viva la República!, revista en dos actos
1931 Don Amancio el Generoso, zarzuela en tres actos, Madrid
1931 El huevo de Colón, sainete-vodevil-revista en dos actos
1932 Don Gil de Alcalá, ópera en tres actos, Barcelona, Teatro Novedades.
1933 Jazz Band, Zarzuela en tres actos, Madrid, Teatro de la Comedia
1933 El hermano lobo, zarzuela en tres actos, Barcelona
1934 Tana Fedorova, zarzuela en tres actos, Barcelona
1934 Curro Gallardo, zarzuela en tres actos, Barcelona
1935 La malquerida, zarzuela en tres actos, libretto after the play by Jacinto Benavente, Barcelona, Teatro Victoria.
ReferencesThe sources given in that article were: Historia de la Música de la Comunidad Valenciana. Editorial Prensa Valenciana, S.A. 1992.
Programa de la representación de Don Gil de Alcalá'' en el Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid. 1999. D.L. M-37624/99
External links
1880 births
1939 deaths
19th-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Spanish musicians
Male opera composers
People from Valencia
Spanish classical composers
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish opera composers
20th-century Spanish male musicians
19th-century Spanish male musicians |
20470034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengari%20Dam | Sengari Dam | Sengari Dam is a dam in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan.
Dams in Hyogo Prefecture
Dams completed in 1919 |
23573913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Cool%20Kids | Teenage Cool Kids | Teenage Cool Kids were an American indie rock group from Denton, Texas.
History
Teenage Cool Kids was established in summer 2006 by Andrew Savage, later joined by Daniel Zeigler whom Savage met while attending the University of North Texas in Denton.
The band's earlier material, from the self-released demo and "Remember Me as a Silhouette" 7", was lo-fi, poppy and often compared to early '90s indie rock. The band's first full length was Queer Salutations, released in 2007. Shortly after the release of Queer Salutations, the band embarked on its first tour. The band adhere to a DIY methodology, keeping all recording, songwriting, booking and visual art within the band.
Teenage Cool Kids spent much of 2008 touring the United States and recording their next album. In 2009, the band was issued a cease and desist by Chicago hip-hop duo The Cool Kids over alleged trade mark infringement. The dispute ended with a settlement initiated by the Cool Kids. The dispute delayed the band's second LP release by several months, but in June 2009 Foreign Lands was released by Protagonist Music.
The group officially disbanded in 2011, shortly after the release of their final album, Denton After Sunset. Savage had previously formed Parquet Courts with his brother, Max, in 2010.
Discography
Albums
Queer Salutations, 2007, Protagonist
Foreign Lands, 2009, Protagonist
Denton After Sunset, 2011, Dull Tools
Singles
Remember Me As a Silhouette, 2007, C&C Music Factory
Speaking in Tongues b/w Crucial Talk, 2009, Copper Lung
Poison Sermons, 2009, Leroy St. Records
See also
Musicians from Denton, Texas
Parquet Courts
References
External links
Teenage Cool Kids on Last.fm
Indie rock musical groups from Texas
Musical groups from Denton, Texas |
17334297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20reservoirs%20by%20volume | List of reservoirs by volume | The classification of a reservoir by volume is not as straightforward as it may seem. As the name implies, water is held in reserve by a reservoir so it can serve a purpose. For example, in Thailand, reservoirs tend to store water from the wet season to prevent flooding, then release it during the dry season for farmers to grow rice. For this type of reservoir, almost the entire volume of the reservoir functions for the purpose it was built. Hydroelectric power generation, on the other hand, requires many dams to build up a large volume before operation can begin. For this type of reservoir only a small portion of the water held behind the dam is useful. Therefore, knowing the purpose for which a reservoir has been constructed, and knowing how much water can be used for that purpose, helps determine how much water is in possible reserve.
Terminology
The following terms are used in connection with the volume of reservoirs:
Nominal Volume or Capacity is the total volume of all water held behind a dam at the maximum level possible.
Initial or Design Volume refers to the possible volume within the reservoir after it first opens. Many rivers are high in silt that over time deposits behind a dam reducing capacity.
Active or Live volume equals the total capacity minus the dead pool volume. This is the volume that can serve some downstream purpose. For example, it is the volume available to make hydroelectric power or provide drinking water to a city.
Dead pool or Minimum volume refers to the amount of water left in a reservoir that cannot be used for the general purpose the reservoir was constructed. At this state, the reservoir is termed fully drawn down. For example, if built to supply water in the dry season, it is the water left behind when no more water can be extracted. Frequently, the effective minimum volume is greater if the water is needed for a purpose behind a dam.
Available capacity may require knowing the reservoir's primary purpose. If it is designed to prevent flooding, it may be the volume of water that can be retained before reaching maximum or top water.
Actual or Current when coupled with another term reflects the fact the level behind the dam is not constant.
Expanded versus artificial lakes
The list below largely ignores many natural lakes that have been augmented with the addition of a relatively minor dam. For example, a small dam, two hydroelectric plants, and locks on the outlet of Lake Superior make it possible to artificially control the lake level. Certainly, the great majority of the lake is natural. However, the control of water that can be held in reserve means a portion of the vast lake functions as a reservoir.
Recognition of lakes like Lake Superior greatly changes the list below. For example, the Francis H. Clergue Generating Station and Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant, which are both on the lake's outlet, operate with just 5.9 meters total head. This is short compared to other dams. However, when viewed against the 81,200 km2 area of the lake, even a small range in Lake Superior's water level means its active volume is greater than the largest nominal in the table below.
List
See also
List of reservoirs by surface area
List of conventional hydroelectric power stations
List of largest reservoirs in the United States
References
Lists of buildings and structures
Lists of bodies of water |
17334301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20photography | Social photography | Social photography is a subcategory of photography focusing upon the technology, interaction and activities of individuals who take photographs. Digital cameras, photo sharing websites and the Internet have enabled new tools and methods of social networking while consumer trends such as flashpacking and adventure travel have led to a worldwide increase in socially connected photographers.
The proliferation of easy-to-use open source blogging methods, inexpensively-priced equipment and content management system applications has led to an increase in photography for social change and amateur photojournalism.
Some extensions of social photography include geotagging and online mapping, while online social networking destinations like Facebook have led to an increase in the popularity of technology employing the real-time transfer of images. Where Facebook allows for users to instantly upload a picture from their mobile phone to their profile, there have recently been a number of services sprouting up that allows users to create real time photo streams.
A wireless digital camera enables photographers to connect to cellular networks or other hotspots to share photos, print wirelessly and save photos directly to an image hosting website. Geographic areas serviced by outdoor WiFi networks permit extended applications for geocaching which can include the use of Global Positioning Systems and smartphones.
Some news networks and online broadcasters encourage viewers to send in photographs of live, breaking and current events, enabling citizen journalists and amateur photographers to participate in the news gathering process.
See also
Photojournalism
Social networking
Gallery Project
Travel journal
Image sharing
External links
Photographers and Photography Meetups
References
Photography by genre
Technology in society |
20470045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20United%20States%20Senate%20election%20in%20Michigan | 2000 United States Senate election in Michigan | The 2000 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham ran for re-election to a second term, but he was defeated by his Democratic opponent, congresswoman Debbie Stabenow. Stabenow subsequently made history as the first woman to represent Michigan in the United States Senate. By a margin of 1.6%, this election was the second-closest race of the 2000 Senate election cycle, behind only the election in Washington.
General election
Candidates
Matthew R. Abel (Green)
Spencer Abraham, incumbent U.S. Senator (Republican)
Michael Corliss (Libertarian)
Mark Forton (Reform)
John Mangopoulos (Constitution)
William Quarton (Natural Law)
Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Representative from East Lansing (Democratic)
Campaign
Abraham, who was first elected in the 1994 Republican Revolution despite never running for public office before, was considered vulnerable by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Major issues in the campaign included prescription drugs for the elderly. By September 4, Abraham still had failed to reach 50% in polls despite having spent over $6 million on television ads. In mid-October, he came back and reached 50% and 49% in two polls respectively.
Debates
Complete video of debate, October 22, 2000
Results
The election was very close with Stabenow prevailing by just over 67,000 votes. Stabenow was also likely helped by the fact that Vice President Al Gore won Michigan on the presidential level. Ultimately, Stabenow pulled out huge numbers out of the Democratic stronghold of Wayne County, which covers the Detroit Metropolitan Area. Stabenow also performed well in other heavily populated areas such as Ingham County home to the state's capital of Lansing, and the college town of Ann Arbor. Abraham did not concede right after major news networks declared Stabenow the winner; he held out hope that the few outstanding precincts could push him over the edge. At 4:00 AM, Abraham conceded defeat. Senator Abraham called Stabenow and congratulated her on her victory. As a result of the historic election, Stabenow became the first woman to represent Michigan in the United States Senate.
See also
2000 United States Senate elections
References
2000
Michigan
2000 Michigan elections |
44497219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal%20bottleneck | Nocturnal bottleneck | The nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain several mammalian traits. In 1942, Gordon Lynn Walls described this concept which states that placental mammals were mainly or even exclusively nocturnal through most of their evolutionary story, starting with their origin 225 million years ago, and only ending with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While some mammal groups have later evolved to fill diurnal niches, the approximately 160 million years spent as nocturnal animals has left a lasting legacy on basal anatomy and physiology, and most mammals are still nocturnal.
Evolution of mammals
Mammals evolved from cynodonts, a group of superficially dog-like synapsids in the wake of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. The emerging archosaurian groups that flourished after the extinction, including crocodiles and dinosaurs and their ancestors, drove the remaining larger cynodonts into extinction, leaving only the smaller forms. The surviving cynodonts could only succeed in niches with minimal competition from the diurnal dinosaurs, evolving into the typical small-bodied insectivorous dwellers of the nocturnal undergrowth. While the early mammals continued to develop into several probably quite common groups of animals during the Mesozoic, they all remained relatively small and nocturnal.
Only with the massive extinction at the end of the Cretaceous did the dinosaurs leave the stage open for the establishment of a new fauna of mammals. Despite this, mammals continued to be small-bodied for millions of years. While all the largest animals alive today are mammals, the majority of mammals are still small nocturnal animals.
Mammalian nocturnal adaptions
Several different features of mammalian physiology appear to be adaptations to a nocturnal lifestyle, mainly related to the sensory organs. These include:
Senses
Acute sense of hearing, including coiling cochleae, external pinnae and auditory ossicles.
Very good sense of smell, well developed nasal turbinates. Most have a large olfactory bulb.
Well-developed sense of touch, particularly the whiskers.
With the exception of higher primates, very large cornea, giving a less acute visual image compared to birds and reptiles.
Limited colour vision.
Physiology
Unique type of brown adipose tissue, allowing mammals to generate heat quickly.
Mitochondria with five to seven times higher respiration rates compared to reptiles of similar sizes.
Fur to assist in thermo-regulation in a cold (night) environment.
Lack of an ocular shielding mechanism against (diurnal) ultraviolet light.
The photolyase DNA mechanism, which relies on visible light, does not work in the placental mammals, despite being present and functional in bacteria, fungi, and most other animals.
Behaviour
Circadian rhythm and behaviour patterns in all basal groups are nocturnal, at least in placentals.
Burrowing lifestyle allowing sheltering from climate and diurnal predators appears to be a basal mammalian trait.
References
Behavioral ecology
Biology theories
Chronobiology
Circadian rhythm
Evolutionary biology
Night
Prehistoric mammals
Sleep |
20470071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Montella | Francesco Montella | Francesco Montella (born April 23, 1987 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian footballer who plays as defender for Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione team Brindisi.
External links
Profile at aic.football.it
Italian footballers
U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
A.S. Roma players
1987 births
Living people
S.S.D. Città di Brindisi players
Association football defenders |
17334339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre%20Dame-Siena%20College%20of%20Polomolok | Notre Dame-Siena College of Polomolok | Notre Dame-Siena College of Polomolok is a private, Catholic, non-stock basic and higher education institution run by the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines. It was founded by the (Siena Sisters) in 1957 and was named Notre Dame of Polomolok (NDP) but changed its name to Notre Dame-Siena College of Polomolok at the opening of its college department in 2004. Notre Dame-Siena College of Polomolok is a member of the Notre Dame Educational Association, a group of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The college offers a complete basic education and selected college education programs as follows:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS)
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT)
Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED) major in Content Areas
Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSED)
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) major in Business Management
Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship (BSE)
Bachelor in Technical and Vocational Education (BTVE)
ND-SCP is administered by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena.
Presidents
2004-2005 ----- Sr. Lina G. Tuyac, OP, Ph.D.
2005-2008 ----- Sr. Anna Marie Gatmaytan, O.P., Ph.D.
2008-2011 ----- Sr. Mercedes R. Lalisan, O.P., Ph.D.
2011-2014 ----- Sr. Lina G. Tuyac, O.P., Ph.D.
2014-2019 ----- Sr. Gina M. Galang, O.P., Ph.D.
2019–present - Sr. Pinlyn B. Dahili, OP., Ph.D.
See also
Siena College of Quezon City
Siena College of Taytay, Rizal
External links
ND-SCP web site
High schools in the Philippines
Universities and colleges in South Cotabato
Notre Dame Educational Association |
44497223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platano%20Macho | Platano Macho | Plátano Macho was a hip-hop, rap and funk band in Uruguay. The band formed in the mid 1990s and was produced by Gabriel Casacuberta (Clecter) and Andres Perez Miranda (Androoval). The band consisted of SPD Gonzalez, Choniuk, LSPiano aka. 'Supervielle', A/PM aka Androoval and Clecter.
Their 1998 album 'The Perro Convention' with the Argentinean label PolyGram included the single, "Pendeja", which was included in the regular programming of radio Rock & Pop, MTV latino channel and also on MTV Lingo compilation, where they included bands like Cyprus Hill, Molotov and Control Machete.
Among its members were LSPiano and Clecter, current participants of the collective Bajofondo Tango Club and Androoval, current music producer Androoval Trio, Family Doctors and DubAlkolikz.
Discography
The Perro Convention (1998)
Track list:
Pinorton
That Is A Way
Inspector Clouseau Theme (I - Life In Hell)
Maestro Ninja
Pendeja
No Tiren
Roberto
T-Musculo
Monarca
La Granja
XQ'Tan Pesado
Pull Me On
Dr Pa Dig
Chimp Onassid
Inspector Clousseau Theme (II - Life In Heaven)
Poligarcha
Phreacs '69
Come Now
Funky Cousins
References
Uruguayan musical groups |
17334342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%20Herpin | Théodore Herpin | Théodore-Joseph-Dieudonné Herpin (27 August 1799 – 17 July 1865) was a French and Swiss neurologist who was a native of Lyon. He studied medicine at the Universities of Paris and Geneva, and spent most of his medical career at Geneva.
Herpin is remembered for his extensive contributions made in the study of epilepsy. He examined hundreds of epileptic patients, and noticed that all epileptic episodes, whether they be complete or incomplete, started the same way, and surmised that they originated in the same location in the brain. Herpin's primary focus of epileptic research was to instruct other physicians to be able to recognize and treat the condition in its early stages. His pioneer research predated John Hughlings Jackson's (1835-1911) similar findings of the disorder.
Herpin is also credited for his comprehensive description of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Written works
Du pronostic et du traitement curatif de l’épilepsie (1852).
Des accès incomplets d’épilepsie, (published posthumously in 1867).
References
European Neurology Théodore Herpin: Neglected Contributions in the Understanding of Epilepsy
1799 births
1865 deaths
University of Paris alumni
University of Geneva alumni
French neurologists
Swiss neurologists
Physicians from Lyon |
44497236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%20University%20Library | Helsinki University Library | The Helsinki University Library () is the largest multidisciplinary university library in Finland. It was established on 1 January 2010. The Helsinki University Library is an independent institute of the University of Helsinki and open to all information seekers.
The Helsinki University Library includes the Main Library in the Kaisa House, Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries, as well as internal library services. The library offers information and library services in the fields of science of all four campuses of the University of Helsinki.
Key information
About 1.9 million customers visit the Helsinki University Library annually. There are about 40,400 active borrowers per year, and of them 11,000 are new customers.
Everyone has the right to use the library, and persons over the age of 15 who live in Finland have the right to borrow books. Electronic materials are available for use to all customers in the library facilities and for the university community also online.
The library offers its customers wide collections of printed and electronic materials. There are altogether about 73.5 shelf-kilometres of printed books and journals. Printed materials are borrowed and renewed altogether 2.6 million times annually. There are about 33,000 licensed electronic journals and 356,000 electronic books available.
The Meilahti Campus Library Terkko is the WHO Documentation Center in Finland. One of the European Documentation Centres in Finland is located in the Main Library in the Kaisa House.
The Embassy of the United States to Finland maintains the American Resource Center, which operates in connection with the Helsinki University Library at the Kaisa House.
Sources
Helsinki University Library Website
Helsinki University Library Annual Report 2013
References
External links
University of Helsinki
Libraries in Finland
2010 establishments in Finland |
44497257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20Audit%20Service | Internal Audit Service | The Internal Audit Service is the title of several government bodies responsible for internal audit:
Philippines
At the Department of the Interior and Local Government
At the Department of Health (Philippines)
At the Department of Budget and Management
At the Department of National Defense (Philippines)
At the Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines)
Elsewhere
Internal Audit Service (European Commission)
At the Ministry of Defence (Slovenia)
The United States Army Audit Agency
The South African Army Inspector-General
See also
Audit Commission (disambiguation), any of several national governments' internal audit bodies
Auditor general
Comptroller general (disambiguation) |
6902038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Wilkin | Karen Wilkin | Karen Wilkin (born 1940) is a New York-based independent curator and art critic specializing in 20th-century modernism.
Biography
Educated at Barnard College (1962) and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, to Rome. Wilkin has organized numerous exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann. Her recent projects include a Hofmann retrospective for the Naples Art Museum, Naples, Florida, and, with William C. Agee, the introductory essays for the Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné.
Wilkin met Clement Greenberg in the early 1970s. When the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, acquired the critic’s collection, she was asked to contribute the main essay to the catalogue, because of her long friendship with Greenberg and her expertise on his writings, his studio practices, and the artists with whom he was closely associated. Recently, she was curator of the Syracuse exhibition “Clement Greenberg: Then and Now” that examines some of the Syracuse painters influenced by Greenberg. In 2009 Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of the painter Cleve Gray at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Wilkin teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program of the New York Studio School. She is the Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Art in America, and the Wall Street Journal.
Select publications
2007 - The Paintings of Cynthia Polsky . Karen Wilkin and John Yau. Published: Phillip Wilson Publishers; 1 edition (February 15, 2007). ,
2007 - Color As Field:American Painting, 1950-1975. Karen Wilkin and Carl Belz. Published: Yale University Press; 1 edition (November 29, 2007). ,
2007 - Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné (3 volumes) by William Agee (Editor), Karen Wilkin (Editor), Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski ()
2005 - Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color by Kenneth Noland (Author), Alison De Lima Greene (Author), Karen Wilkin (Author) ()
2003 - Hans Hofmann ()
2001 - Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection by Bruce Guenther, Karen Wilkin (Editor) ()
2000 - David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions ()
1999 - Stuart Davis in Gloucester ()
1998 - Isaac Witkin ()
1998 - Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series) ()
1995 - Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984 ()
1992 - Georges Braque (Modern Masters Series) ()
1986 - Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada ()
1984 - David Smith (Modern Masters Series) ()
Sources
Syracuse University - Newhouse School
External links
Karen Wilkin At New Criterion
1940 births
Living people
Barnard College alumni
Columbia University alumni
American art critics
American women journalists
American women critics
American expatriates in Italy
21st-century American women
American women curators |
44497271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroone%20House | Caroone House | Caroone House was an office block at 14 Farringdon Street, London EC4, which was built in 1972 on the site of the Congregational Memorial Hall which had been demolished in 1968.
History of Site
The Memorial Hall and Caroone House were built on the site of the old Fleet Prison. The prison was burnt down during the Great Fire of London and while the prison was being rebuilt, the prisoners were relocated to Caron House, South Lambeth, a large mansion house which had been built by Noel de Caron the Netherlands ambassador to England in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. In 1685 Caron House was demolished but the name survived and in the 19th century there was a "Carroun House" on the estate - which has been known as Vauxhall Park since 1890. As a consequence of this rich history, "Caroone House" was adopted as an appropriate name for the new building in Farringdon Street.
A Greater London Council plaque commemorating the foundation of the Labour Party at the Memorial Hall in 1900 was displayed at the main entrance to Caroone House.
BT
The building was used by Post Office Telecommunications - from 1981 British Telecom (BT) - as the headquarters for its Post Office International Telephones division (designated as ITp) for operating their international business and for telephone tapping. Among other things it was the HQ for managing the operation of ITps International Control Centres (ICCs) in London, Brighton and Glasgow. It was also HQ for what was, at the time, the world's largest international telecoms exchange located on the site of the old Stag Lane Aerodrome in Edgware. The Stag Lane exchange was later superseded by BTs new international switching centre (ISC) at Mondial House.
Closure
In 2001 Caroone House was purchased by The British Land Company plc for £24.5 million. The building was demolished in 2004 to be replaced by the Ludgate West development. British Land commenced construction in 2005 with completion in 2007 and today 5 Fleet Place stands on the site. The Labour Party plaque has been reinstated on the wall of the redevelopment.
References
1972 establishments in England
British Telecom buildings and structures
Buildings and structures demolished in 2004
Demolished buildings and structures in London
Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Camden
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Office buildings completed in 1972
Office buildings in London
Telephone exchange buildings
Telephone tapping |
23573915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester%20Rows | Chester Rows | Chester Rows are a set of structures in each of the four main streets of Chester, in the United Kingdom, consisting of a series of covered walkways on the first floor behind which are entrances to shops and other premises. At street level is another set of shops and other premises, many of which are entered by going down a few steps. .
Dating from the medieval era, the Rows may have been built on top of rubble remaining from the ruins of Roman buildings, but their origin is still subject to speculation. In some places the continuity of the Rows has been blocked by enclosure or by new buildings, but in others modern buildings have retained the Rows in their designs. Undercrofts or "crypts" were constructed beneath the buildings in the Rows. The undercrofts were in stone while most of the buildings in the Rows were in timber.
Today about 20 of the stone undercrofts still exist, but at the level of the Rows very little medieval fabric remains. Many of the buildings containing portions of the Rows are listed and some are recorded in the English Heritage Archive. The premises on the street and Row levels are used for a variety of purposes; most are shops, but there are also offices, restaurants, cafés, and meeting rooms. Chester Rows are one of the city's main tourist attractions.
Description
At street level the shops and other premises are similar to those found in other towns and cities, although many of the premises are entered by going down a few steps. On the first floor level are more shops and other premises, set back from the street, in front of which is a continuous walkway. The storey above this overlaps the walkway, which makes it a covered walkway, and this constitutes what is known as the "Row". On the street side of the walkways are railings and an area which was used as shelves or stalls for the display of goods. The floors above the level of the Rows are used for commercial or domestic purposes, or for storage. The Rows are present, to a greater or lesser degree, in all the streets radiating from Chester Cross, namely Watergate Street, Northgate Street, Eastgate Street and Upper Bridge Street. They are continuous on both sides of Upper Bridge Street, along most of Watergate and Eastgate Street, but only for a short stretch along the east side of Northgate Street. Originally there were also Rows in Lower Bridge Street but these were blocked during the 17th and 18th centuries.
As the ground floor buildings are usually lower than the street level, they are sometime known as "crypts". However, as the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner points out, this is not a strictly accurate description because the level of the floors of the buildings is a half-storey rather than a full-storey level below the street.
Origins
Rows were built in the four main streets leading from Chester Cross, each of which originated during the settlement's early development. In the Roman period the main street, now Watergate Street and Eastgate Street, lay on an east–west axis. It was joined at what is now Chester Cross by the main road from the south, present-day Bridge Street. During the Saxon period a road to the north was added, now called Northgate Street. Dendrochronological evidence shows that the Rows go back as far as the 13th century, but it is unlikely that they originated before 1200. The first record of the Rows appears in 1293, although it is uncertain whether it refers to a Row as it would be recognised today. The "earliest unambiguous instance" of the use of the term for an elevated walkway is in 1356.
Because the Chester Rows are unique and their precise origins are unknown, they have been the subject of speculation. Chester has suffered from a series of fires. In 1278 the fire was so severe that almost the entire town within the walls was destroyed. It has been suggested that following this fire, the owners were ordered to make their ground floors fireproof, leading to the stone-lined undercrofts. From this, the suggestion has been made that there was "a general undertaking by the citizens of Chester ... to improve the commercial potential of their property by providing two-level access for customers".
Daniel Defoe, writing around 1724 in A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, describes the Rows of Chester as “long galleries, up one pair of stairs, which run along the side of the streets, before all the houses, though joined to them, and is pretended, they are to keep the people dry in walking along. This they do effectually, but then they...make the shops themselves dark, and the way in them is dark, dirty, and uneven.”
The 19th-century writer George Borrow makes the following claim in his book Wild Wales, published in 1862: "All the best shops in Chester are to be found in the rows. These rows, which you ascend by stairs up narrow passages, were originally built for the security of the wares of the principal merchants against the Welsh. Should the mountaineers break into the town, as they frequently did, they might rifle some of the common shops, where their booty would be slight, but those which contained the most costly articles would be beyond their reach; for at the first alarm the doors of the passages, up which the stairs led, would be closed, and all access to the upper streets cut off, from the open arches of which missiles of all kinds, kept ready for such occasions, could be discharged upon the intruders, who would soon be glad to beat a retreat."
Another theory links the Rows with the debris left from the Roman occupation of Chester. The rubble from the Roman buildings which had fallen into ruin was piled up alongside the streets. One theory suggests that in the medieval period buildings were constructed along the top of this debris. The buildings were set back from the street, a footpath passed in front of them, and wheeled vehicles passed along the street below. In time, the properties were improved and, possibly during the 13th century, cellars or undercrofts were excavated in the debris beneath them. When the buildings were further improved, upper stories were built which overlapped the lower storey, providing a covered walkway. Stalls or shelves were added on the street side of the walkway for the display of goods, and so the system of Rows was developed. In a few places, for example at the corner of Eastgate Street and Northgate Street, another building was constructed between the walkway and the street. It is thought that, apart from a relatively small number of later buildings, the system of the Rows had reached its full extent by about 1350.
Medieval period
During the medieval period the Rows gave access to living accommodation. The doorway led into a hall, which was usually at right angles to the street. In some cases the front portion of the hall was used as a separate shop, and in other cases the whole hall was the shop. In the storey above the hall was the solar, a room providing private accommodation for the residents. In some cases, where the hall was larger, there were several shops on its frontage. Below the Rows, at street level, were crypts or undercrofts. Many of these were stone-lined with ribbed vaults, and they were used for storage or for selling more valuable goods. Behind the hall, on the level of the Rows, was more domestic accommodation. Normally the kitchen was a separate building in the yard behind the house. The back yard was also used for cesspits and for the disposal of rubbish.
Subsequent development
Although many of the Rows are still continuous, in some areas they have been blocked. In Lower Bridge Street there was originally a continuous Row; the first building to break the sequence was at the north end of the street, the public house now known as The Falcon. In the 17th century this was the town house of the Grosvenor family. It was rebuilt in 1626, maintaining its section of the Row. However, in 1643, during the Civil War siege of Chester, Sir Richard Grosvenor moved his family there from his country estate at Eaton Hall. In order to increase the size of the house he gained permission to enclose the Row. This set the fashion for other houses in Lower Bridge Street to enclose their sections of the Row. Later, completely new houses were constructed which did not incorporate the Row. One of these was Bridge House, built by Lady Calveley in 1676; it was the first house in Chester to be designed in neoclassical style. In 1699 John Mather, a lawyer, gained permission to build a new house at 51 Lower Bridge Street, which also resulted in the loss of part of the Row. In 1728 Roger Ormes, rather than building a new house, enclosed the Row at his home, Tudor House, making it into an additional room.
During the Georgian era more sections of the Rows were blocked, especially by commercial development on the north side of Watergate Street. In 1808 Thomas Harrison designed the Commercial Coffee Room in Northgate Street in neoclassical style, with an arcade at the ground-floor level, rather than continuing the Row on the first floor. In 1859–60 Chester Bank was built in Eastgate Street, again obliterating its part of the Row. However other architects continued the tradition of maintaining the Rows in their designs; examples include the Georgian Booth Mansion of 1700 in Watergate Street, T. M. Penson's Gothic Revival Crypt Chambers of 1858 in Eastgate Street, and buildings in modern style constructed in Watergate Street in the 1960s.
Today
About 20 stone undercrofts still exist, some of them vaulted, dating from the 13th or early 14th century. One of the finest is Cowper House at No. 12 Bridge Street, with an undercroft of six bays built in sandstone rubble. It has plain rib-vaulting on plain corbels; the ribs are single-chamfered.
On the other side of Bridge Street, at No. 15, is another undercroft, this one having two double-chamfered arches. The Falcon, in Lower Bridge Street, has an undercroft which formerly had three bays but which has now been divided into two chambers. At No. 11 Watergate Street is a two-naved undercroft with four bays. Also in Watergate Street are undercrofts at Nos. 23 and 37, the latter having 5½ bays. Crypt Chambers, at No. 28 Eastgate Street, has a four-bay undercroft.
At the Row level, the medieval building was usually built in timber, and few examples remain. One which does remain is the building known as Three Old Arches. Consisting of three arches, the frontage of this shop is stone and is probably the earliest identified shopfront in England. The building also retains its undercroft and hall, the latter also built in stone.
According to the records in the English Heritage Archive, 14 buildings incorporate sections of Chester Rows. The records in the National Heritage List for England show that at least 95 of the buildings containing sections of the Rows are listed; 9 of these are listed as Grade I, 20 as Grade II*, and 66 as Grade II. The National Heritage List for England records the uses made by the premises at street level and in the Rows. Most of these are shops, but other uses include offices, restaurants and cafés, and private dwellings. The building at No. 1 Bridge Street has shops at both street and Row levels. A department store occupies the street and Row levels (and the storey above) of Crypt Chambers. Bishop Lloyd's House in Watergate Street has a shop at the street level and above this there are meeting rooms, and the office of Chester Civic Trust. As of 2010, Booth Mansion, also in Watergate Street, contains a solicitors' office. The former St Michael's Church, which is now a heritage centre, includes part of Bridge Street Row in the lowest stage of its tower. A remaining example of a section of a Row with a building between the walkway and the street is No. 22 Eastgate Street.
Since 1995 access to the Rows has been improved by a pedestrianisation scheme, which affects all the streets containing Rows. Most vehicles are prohibited from using the area between 08:00 and 18:00, although unloading is allowed until 10:30 and from 16:30. Chester Rows are a major tourist attraction in the city because of their unique nature, their attractive appearance and the covered shopping they provide.
On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Chester Rows were being considered as an applicant for the new United Kingdom Tentative List for World Heritage status by the Department of Culture Media and Sport.
See also
Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester
Loggia: a similar Italian architectural element
References
Notes
Citations
Sources
Buildings and structures in Chester
History of Chester
Retail buildings
Tourist attractions in Cheshire
Timber framed buildings in Cheshire
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20470082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20A%C3%AFt-Fana | Karim Aït-Fana | Karim Aït-Fana (; born 25 February 1989) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a striker. Having represented France at various youth levels, he has made three appearances for the senior Morocco national team.
Aït-Fana can play in a variety of attacking positions, which include playing in the hole, as a winger, and in the attacking midfield position. Though born in France, Aït-Fana's father is from Azrou and his mother is from Meknes.
Club career
Montpellier
Aït-Fana was born in Limoges and began his career playing for his local club, Air Limoges. At the age of thirteen, he was selected to attend the Centre de Formation de Châteauroux, a regional youth academy that is comparable to that of the Clairefontaine academy, in order to receive further training. While training at Châteauroux during the week, he played with hometown club Limoges FC on the weekends. After spending two years at the academy, he joined Montpellier.
Aït-Fana made his professional football debut on 12 May 2006, the final match day of the 2005–06 season, coming on as a late-match substitute playing nine minutes in a 1–0 loss to Le Havre. The following season, his playing time increased to 13 matches. He also scored his first goal during this season on 27 April 2007 against LB Châteauroux in a 3–1 defeat. Aït-Fana's role in the team was greatly expanded for the 2007–08 season as he appeared in 37 total matches. He scored his only two goals for the season in the final league match of the season against FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin, which Montpellier won 5–0.
Montpellier earned promotion to Ligue 1 following the club's successful campaign during the 2008–09 season with Aït-Fana having an influential role. He scored a career-high six goals during the campaign including the winner against Guingamp late in the season with the club in the midst of a promotion battle. Due to his successful season, Aït-Fana was given a contract extension with the club until the year 2012. In his first season with Montpellier in Ligue 1, Aït-Fana was a revelation in the team, which reached as high as secondnd position in the league. He has scored impressive goals against Sochaux, Boulogne, Le Mans, and Marseille. Montpellier went undefeated in the five league matches Aït-Fana has scored in.
In Montpellier's last home game of the 2011–12 campaign, Aït-Fana scored a last minute goal in a 1–0 win over Lille after coming off the bench.
Nîmes Olympique
Consolat GS
In early January 2018, Aït-Fana left Championnat National side GS Consolat.
Wydad Casablanca
In late January, Aït-Fana joined reigning African champions Wydad AC, agreeing a 1.5-year deal. In August 2018 Aït-Fana revealed, that few days after signing the contract, he learned that his contract was not certified for an administrative history and he then went back to France.
Gallia Lucciana
In January 2019, Aït-Fana joined Gallia Club Lucciana in the Championnat National 3.
International career
Aït-Fana has been active on the international youth circuit for France. He has earned limited caps with the under-16s, under-17s, under-18s, and the under U-19 squad. After not representing France for over a year and a half, it was speculated that he would follow in the footsteps on fellow French-born Moroccan Marouane Chamakh and play for Morocco, his country of origin. However, on 1 October 2009, he was called up to the France under-21 team by coach Erick Mombaerts for their 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification matches against Malta on 9 October and Belgium on 13 October. He made his debut in the Malta match appearing as a substitute in the 76th minute. Despite being on the pitch for mere seconds, he scored France's second goal of the match ensuring them a 2–0 victory.
Aït-Fana made his debut with the national team of Morocco in a friendly match against Senegal held on 25 May in Marrakech.
Personal life
Aït-Fana is Muslim.
Career statistics
Club
Honours
Montpellier
Ligue 1: 2011–12
References
External links
Living people
1989 births
French Muslims
Moroccan Muslims
Sportspeople from Limoges
Association football midfielders
French footballers
Moroccan footballers
French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
Montpellier HSC players
Nîmes Olympique players
Athlético Marseille players
Wydad AC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Footballers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
6902042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20Oil | Madagascar Oil | Madagascar Oil SA is an oil company operating in Madagascar. It is the principal onshore oil company in Madagascar in terms of oil resources and land.
Madagascar Oil's operational office is in Antananarivo, Madagascar and its administrative offices are in Singapore. Its Chairman is Indonesian national Al Njoo. Prior to this, the company was based in Houston, Texas and earlier in London, England. The company's flagship oil field is Tsimiroro in the Morondava Basin of western Madagascar. Madagascar Oil wholly owns its subsidiary, Madagascar Oil S.A.
History
Madagascar Oil was founded in 2004 by Canadian engineer Sam Malin and Australian businessman Alan Bond. Its parent company was originally Madagascar Oil Limited (Mauritius).
In March 2006, simultaneous with a US$60m fund raising to North American managed hedge funds, the parent company was reorganised as Madagascar Oil Limited in Bermuda. In 2006, Madagascar Oil launched its first licensing round involving 44 offshore blocks in the Morondava Basin.
In 2008, a joint venture agreement was executed with Total S.A. granting it operatorship and a 60% interest in the Bemolanga tar sands. In 2010, it raised £50 million in its IPO to finance a pilot project in the Tsimiroro Field.
Madagascar Oil was listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange from 2010 until 2016. In December 2010, the trade of company's share was suspended after the Malagasy government announcement that the most of the company's oil licenses would be annulled. The dispute was solved and the trade at the AIM restarted in June 2011. The company delisted in 2016, as a condition of its lenders recapitalising the company.
On 15 April 2015, the Madagascar government granted to the company a 25-year license on the oil production at the Tsimiroro block 3104. In February 2019, the new Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina cancelled an ongoing licensing round involving 44 blocks in the Morondava basin until further notice.
Description
Madagascar Oil focuses on the development, exploration and production of petroleum. In 2008, Madagascar Oil held the largest licensed onshore acreage in Madagascar. Madagascar Oil holds the large heavy oil fields of Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, which are the island's major onshore oil fields.
The company operates the 100%-owned Tsimiroro heavy oil field, while Total S.A., its farm-in partner, operates the 40%-owned Bemolanga bitumen field. Tsimiroro has 2P reserves of 614 million barrels and 3C resources of 1.6 billion barrels, in tar sands at depths between 100m and 200m. In addition to the Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, the company holds three exploration blocks: Manambolo, Morondava and Manandaza. On Madagascar Oil's blocks, previous exploration examples include the Manambolo West #1 well, drilled in 1987 that flowed gas at per day on a drill stem test and abandoned as non-commercial partially due to a lack of infrastructure; and the Manandaza well drilled in 1991 that flowed 41° API light crude oil.
Madagascar Oil's projects are governed by production sharing agreements signed with OMNIS, the relevant Malagasy government agency, in 2004. These agreements provide the Government of Madagascar with a significant stake in future production.
The company's controlling shareholder is the Singapore-based Benchmark Group. Other shareholders are Outrider Management LLC, SEP African Ventures Limited (formerly Persistency Capital LLC), and the John Paul DeJoria Family Trust.
References
External links
Official website
Oil and gas companies of Madagascar
Oil and gas companies of Bermuda |
44497322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffer%20Mafoumbi | Christoffer Mafoumbi | Christoffer Henri Mafoumbi (born 3 March 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Mosta in the Maltese Premier League. Born in France, Mafoumbi represents the Congo national football team.
Club career
Born in Roubaix, Mafoumbi joined Lille OSC's youth setup in 2005, aged 11. In 2010, he moved to RC Lens, being later assigned to the reserves in Championnat de France amateur the following year.
Mafoumbi made his senior debut on 26 May 2012, starting in a goalless home draw against AC Amiens. On 12 April 2013, he appeared with the main squad in a goalless away draw against SM Caen for the Ligue 2 championship, but remained as an unused substitute.
On 23 July 2014, Mafoumbi joined US Le Pontet, also in CFA.
On 25 November 2015, Mafoumbi signed a contract with Bulgarian side Vereya.
On 20 July 2017, Mafoumbi signed a two-year contract with English League One side Blackpool.
He joined League Two club Morecambe on loan for the second half of the 2019–20 season on 15 January 2020.
Mafoumbi was released by Blackpool in June 2020.
International career
Mafoumbi made his international debut for Congo on 12 October 2012, playing the entire second half in a 0–3 friendly loss against Egypt. On 8 January 2015, he was included in Claude Le Roy's 23-man squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. Mafoumbi made his debut in the competition on 17 January, starting in a 1–1 draw against Equatorial Guinea.
Mafoumbi started the first two games of Congo's appearance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
Lens official profile
1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Roubaix
Republic of the Congo footballers
Republic of the Congo international footballers
French footballers
French sportspeople of Republic of the Congo descent
Association football goalkeepers
US Pontet Grand Avignon 84 players
FC Vereya players
Blackpool F.C. players
Morecambe F.C. players
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
French expatriate footballers
Republic of the Congo expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria
Expatriate footballers in England
French expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in England |
6902071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Soxaholix | The Soxaholix | The Soxaholix is a comic-based blog published by pseudonymous Hart Brachen (similar to heartbroken) for Boston Red Sox fans to discuss the team and other sports-related news. Occasionally during the television season the blog also discusses the television drama Lost. The site began just prior to the 2004 baseball season. The author references many different sources of classic literature, modern literature, television shows, popular culture, and internet culture through the characters' dialogue. The setting for the comic revolves around a group of office co-workers in Boston and each daily strip focuses on the conversation of two of the characters in a back-and-forth manner similar to the comic Get your war on.
Readership averaged 1,600 visitors per day in 2005 with sometimes as many as 12,000 readers in a single day. The site has been recognized by a number of prominent online award committees and sports websites for incisive wit and mix of high-brow as well as low-brow humor, including a 2005 article in The Wall Street Journal. It was also mentioned in the March 2, 2007 All Things Considered story concerning baseball fandom on NPR.
History
Hart Brachen, a pseudonym to cover the author's true identity, grew up in New Hampshire and attended college in Boston. He then attended graduate school at a university in the South. Always a Red Sox fan, the author found the comic style of Get your war on appealing and chose to use the method to describe his thoughts about the Red Sox, especially given their heart-breaking end at the hands of the New York Yankees in the 2003 postseason.
One of the first entries included a discussion of blogger Ana Marie Cox and a link to her blog, Wonkette. She linked to the entry from her popular website and The Soxaholix received a large amount of attention very quickly. Readership remains high and the website garners more attention when the team is doing well, such as during and after the 2004 World Series. The author was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article shortly after the Red Sox lost to the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 postseason. The characters are not real people. Readers comment on the strips, following the lows and highs of the season. Readers and commenters are divided between real and not real, with no clear line of demarcation.
With the sustained success of the Boston Red Sox since 2004, a strip based upon failure, sadness and schadenfreude might have been expected to wither away. Not so. Despite considering a "retirement" or hiatus from the strip after the successful 2013 season, the author continues to post pithy entries nearly every weekday. (With rare exceptions- marked by life-changing events or outrageous fortune—weekend strips are rare). During the 2013 season, in the interest of his (or her) sanity, the author also announced that henceforth there would be no strip on a Friday when the Red Sox were under .500 in wins and losses.
In November 2014, Brachen announced that he was bringing The Soxaholix to an end. Among his own comments on retiring The Soxaholix, he invited the fans to contribute ideas on how to keep the community alive since the strip concluded.
Format
Style
The TypePad blog entries are written in a comic-strip style using only one or two positions for each character's appearance. The dialogue is written in plain HTML above the character's "talk bubble" instead of incorporated into the images; this allows for alternate browsing such as cell phones and RSS syndication. The strip is created in BBEdit and Fireworks MX on an Apple iMac. The original blog used clipart directly from Microsoft Office, but the current artwork is obtained from completely original sources.
Awards and recognition
Blogdom's Best: Boston Red Sox - named the best Red Sox-related blog by Deadspin.
2005 Webby Worthy Selection - awarded to sites and teams demonstrating a standard of excellence and outstanding caliber of work.
2005 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival Finalist - "Best Blog".
2005 Bloggie Awards Finalist - "Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site".
See also
Get your war on
References
Boston Red Sox
American blogs
American webcomics
2004 webcomic debuts
2016 webcomic endings
American sport websites
Sports webcomics |
23573917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%20ICF%20Canoe%20Slalom%20World%20Championships | 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships | The 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Lipno nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 10th edition. The mixed C2 team event was not held after having been done so at the previous championships.
Medal summary
Men's
Canoe
Kayak
Mixed
Canoe
Women's
Kayak
Medals table
References
External links
International Canoe Federation
Icf Canoe Slalom World Championships, 1967
ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
International sports competitions hosted by Czechoslovakia
Icf Canoe Slalom World Championships, 1967 |
20470117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion%20coffee | Dandelion coffee | Dandelion 'coffee' (also dandelion tea) is a tisane made from the root of the dandelion plant. The roasted dandelion root pieces and the beverage have some resemblance to coffee in appearance and taste, and it is thus commonly considered a coffee substitute. Dandelion root is used for both medicinal and culinary purposes and is thought to be a detoxifying herb.
History
The usage of the dandelion plant dates back to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Additionally, for over a thousand years, Chinese traditional medicine has been known to incorporate the plant.
Susanna Moodie explained how to prepare dandelion 'coffee' in her memoir of living in Canada, Roughing it in the Bush (1852), where she mentions that she had heard of it from an article published in the 1830s in New York Albion by a certain Dr. Harrison.
Dandelion 'coffee' was later mentioned in a Harpers New Monthly Magazine story in 1886. In 1919, dandelion root was noted as a source of cheap 'coffee'. It has also been part of edible plant classes dating back at least to the 1970s.
Harvesting
Harvesting dandelion roots requires differentiating 'true' dandelions (Taraxacum spp.) from other yellow daisy-like flowers such as catsear and hawksbeard. True dandelions have a ground-level rosette of deep-toothed leaves and hollow straw-like stems. Large plants that are 3–4 years old, with taproots approximately 0.5 inch (13 mm) in diameter, are harvested for dandelion coffee. These taproots are similar in appearance to pale carrots.
Dandelion roots that are harvested in the spring have sweeter and less bitter notes, while fall-harvested roots are richer and more bitter.
Preparation
The dandelion plant must be two years old before removing the root. After harvesting, the dandelion roots are dried, chopped, and roasted. After harvesting, the dandelion roots are sliced lengthwise and placed to dry for two weeks in a warm area. When ready, the dried roots are oven-roasted and stored away. To prepare a cup, one will steep about 1 teaspoon of the root in hot water for around 10 minutes. People often enjoy their dandelion coffee with cream and sugar.
Health claims and uses
People often use dandelion root for medical purposes, as the herb is thought to contain detoxifying properties that aid in clearing waste from the body. In efforts to reduce inflammation and occasional constipation, dandelion root is often consumed.
Dandelion root also has prebiotic properties, which are known to support a healthy gut. People with an early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have been recommended to use dandelion root, as it is thought to help with insulin release.
Health risks associated with dandelion root are uncommon; however, directly consuming the plant by mouth could lead to stomach discomfort, heartburn, allergic reactions, or diarrhea.
Research
Dandelion root has been linked to a possible treatment for cancer.
A 2016 study result's suggests that colon cancer cell's metabolic activity can be reduced with doses of dandelion root extract. Research points towards a potential decrease in colon tumors with a scheduled and consistent dose of dandelion root extract.
However, in a November 30, 2017 interview, Caroline Hamm, the oncologist running the study, shared her concerns regarding premature internet hype surrounding these studies. She specifically expressed alarm over individuals contacting her who wanted to abandon standard care.
Chemistry
Unroasted Taraxacum officinale (among other dandelion species) root contains:
Sesquiterpene lactones
Taraxacin (a guaianolide)
Phenylpropanoid glycosides: dihydroconiferin, syringin, and dihydrosyringin
Taraxacoside(a cylated gamma-butyrolactone glycoside)
Lactupircin
Carotenoids
Lutein
Violaxanthin
Coumarins
Esculin
Scopoletin
Flavonoids
Apigenin-7-glucoside
Luteolin-7-glucoside
Isorhamnetin 3-glucoside
Luteolin-7-diglucoside
Quercetin-7-glucoside
Quercetin
Luteolin
Rutin
Chrysoeriol
Phenolic acids
Caffeic acid
Chlorogenic acid
Chicoric acid (dicaffeoyltartaric acid)
ρ-hydroxyphenylacetic acids
Polysaccharides
Glucans mannans
inulin (8)
Cyanogenic glycosides
Prunasin
Sesquiterpene lactones (of the germacranolide type)
11β, 13-dihydrolactucin
Ixerin D
Ainslioside taraxinic acid
β-glucopyranosyl
Taraxinic acid
Glucosyl ester
11-dihydrotaraxinic acid and 13-dihydrotaraxinic acid
l'-glucoside
Lactucopicrin
Lactucin
Cichorin
Eudesmanolides
Tetrahydroridentin-B
Taraxacolide-O-β-glucopyranoside
Prunasin
Dihydroconiferin
Syringin
Dihydrosyringin
Taraxasterol
ψ-taraxasterol
Homo-taraxasterol
Stigmatsterol
Triterpenes
Cycloartenol
α-amyrin
β-amyrin
Arnidiol
Faradiol
Lupeol
Taraxol
Taraxaserol and
3β-hydroxylup-18-ene-21-one
Sterols
Taraxasterol
ψ-taraxasterol
Homo-taraxasterol
β-sitosterol
Stigmatsterol
Campesterol
Other
Lettucenin A
Taraxalisin, a serine proteinase
Amino acids
Choline
Mucilage
Pectin
See also
Chicory#History/Camp Coffee
References
Coffee substitutes
Herbal tea |
23573919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctim%C4%9B%C5%99ice | Ctiměřice | Ctiměřice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44497332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Church%20%28Manila%29 | San Francisco Church (Manila) | The San Francisco Church (Spanish:Iglesia de San Francisco) is a defunct church along San Francisco and Solana Streets in the walled city of Intramuros, Manila, Philippines. The church, which used to be the center of the Franciscan missions in the Philippines, was destroyed during the Second World War. The site has been occupied by Mapúa University since the war.
History
When the Franciscans arrived in the Philippines in 1578, they built a church made of nipa, bamboo and wood, which was inaugurated on August 2 and was dedicated to the Our Lady of Angels. On November 5, 1739, the cornerstone of a new stone church was laid. It was destroyed in the bombings of Manila during the Second World War. The statue of Saint Anthony of Padua in the courtyard of Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati, was the lone survivor of the ravages of the war. Since World War II, the site has been occupied by the Mapúa Institute of Technology.
See also
San Ignacio Church of Intramuros
Notes
Bibliography
Roman Catholic churches in Manila
Buildings and structures in Intramuros
Former buildings and structures in Manila
Destroyed churches
Francisco Manila |
6902078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20House%20Is%20Not%20a%20Motel | A House Is Not a Motel | "A House Is Not a Motel" is a song written by Arthur Lee and first released by Love on their 1967 album Forever Changes.
Lyrics and music
The song was likely inspired by the song A House Is Not a Home written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, given that Arthur Lee was a fan of their work. It features a descending/ascending psychedelic melody and a folk-rock rhythm. Lee's vocal performance has been described as snarling. According to a friend, Lee got the line about blood mixing with mud turning grey from a Vietnam War veteran.
The song begins with a 12-string guitar playing a riff in E minor. An electric guitar comes in after the second verse, playing a phrase on the top two strings. After the third verse, there is a drum break and twin guitar solo with strange vocal noises. It is one of the sparsest arranged songs on the album.
Reception
AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald called "A House Is Not a Motel" " another one of Arthur Lee's meditations of his own personal world, and it's both beautiful and brutal at the same time." He praised the "acid-magnified imagery" and considered it to be one of the standouts on the album. Considered to be "wonderfully dark" by The AV Club's Kyle Fowle, he wrote that it was "the most rock-oriented song, complete with blazing guitar solos that underscore the lyrical exploration of the chaos and inhumanity of war." David Barker considered the song to be an inversion of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones and believed that the house Lee was referring to was a church while the motel symbolised the decrepitude of the world.
Treble magazine ranked the song as the 13th best song of the 1960s, calling it "an increasingly escalating series of apocalyptic visions sandwiched between folk-rock plucks and a fiery electric freakout." The German magazine Musikexpress ranked "A House Is Not a Motel" number 429 in its list of the 700 best songs of all time. Uncut listed the song as one of its 50 essential songs from the Summer of Love. The Spanish magazine Hipersonica ranked the song 23rd best of the 1950s and 1960s.
References
Songs about hotels and motels
Song recordings produced by Bruce Botnick
Love (band) songs
Elektra Records singles
1967 songs
Songs written by Arthur Lee (musician) |
23573924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cachovice | Čachovice | Čachovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Struhy is an administrative part of Čachovice.
Notable people
František Čáp (1913–1972), film director
References
External links
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
6902084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E21 | E21 | E21 may refer to:
BMW E21, an automobile platform
HMS E21
European route E21
DRG series E 21, different locomotives of the German National Railroad
E21 - Code that it designates the Astronomical observatory of Norm Roses, Leyburn
E21 - code ECHO of the Nimzo-Indian Defence, opening of chess
Eyeshield 21, a manga based on American Football
Economics21, or e21, web portal of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Kajang–Seremban Highway, route E21 in Malaysia |
20470131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Quin | Jesse Quin | Jesse Joseph Quin (born 3 September 1981) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer best known as the bass player of the British pop rock band Keane. Jesse also founded and runs an arts centre on an abandoned U.S. Air Force base in the English countryside called Old Jet.
Biography
Jesse Joseph Quin was born on 3 September 1981 in Bedford, England. His mother, Charity Quin, is a folk singer; his father, Rob Quin, was a sound engineer. Jesse has a sister named Amber.
Quin began his musical life at an early age. The first instrument he learned to play was the drums. He officially began his musical career in 2007 by forming Jesse Quin & The Mets along with some friends. Later that same year he joined Keane on tour as a roadie. Quin performed with Keane at a concert for Warchild in 2007. He played bass on Keane's cover of "Under Pressure". Quin was invited by Keane to help record their album Perfect Symmetry and then toured with them on the Perfect Symmetry World Tour. He recorded with Keane on Night Train and eventually became an official member of the band (which was announced on their official website on 3 February 2011).
Personal life
Quin married longterm girlfriend Julia Dannenberg in 2009.
Discography
With Keane
Studio albums
Perfect Symmetry (2008)
Strangeland (2012)
Cause and Effect (2019)
EPs
Retrospective EP1 (2008)
Night Train (2010)
Retrospective EP2 (2010)
Compilations album
The Best of Keane (2013)
With Mt. Desolation
Studio albums
Mt. Desolation (2010)
When the Night Calls (2018)
References
External links
Old Jet website
Keane official website
1981 births
Living people
English male guitarists
Male bass guitarists
English composers
Keane (band) members
People from Bedford
21st-century English bass guitarists
Mt. Desolation members |
23573925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cist%C3%A1%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Čistá (Mladá Boleslav District) | Čistá is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44497333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20S.%20L.%20Swamy | K. S. L. Swamy | Kikkeri Shamanna Lakshminarasimha Swamy (21 February 1939 – 20 October 2015), popularly known as K. S. L. Swamy / Lalitha Ravee / Ravee, was an Indian film director, producer, actor and playback singer. He entered cinema at an early age as an assistant to popular directors of the time such as G. V. Iyer and M. R. Vittal. He debuted as an independent film director with the 1966 film, Thoogudeepa. His other films such as Gandhinagara (1968) and Bhagya Jyothi (1975) and Malaya Marutha (1986) proved successful. His 1989 film Jamboo Savari won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film at the 37th National Film Awards.
Swamy was a close associate of director Puttanna Kanagal, and completed two of his films – Masanada Hoovu (1984) and the long delayed Saavira Mettilu that released in 2006, following the latter's death, which also turned out be his own last directorial venture. Recognizing his contribution to cinema, Swamy was awarded the Dr. B. Saroja Devi National Award in 2013. He was married to actress B. V. Radha.
Swamy was also an adept singer well known for the track "Suryangu Chandrangu" for the film Shubhamangala and "Ille Swarga Ille Naraka" for Nagarahole. Swamy died on 20 October 2015 due to breathing complications at Bangalore.
Filmography
As director
Thoogudeepa (1966)
Lagna Pathrike (1967)
Gandhinagara (1968)
Bhagyada Bagilu (1968)
Manku Dinne (1968)
Anna Thamma (1968)
Arishina Kumkuma (1970)
Lakshmi Saraswathi (1970)
Aaru Mooru Ombhatthu (1970)
Bhale Adrushtavo Adrushta (1971)
Sri Krishna Rukmini Satyabhama (1971)
Kulla Agent 000 (1972)
Devaru Kotta Thangi (1973)
CID 72 (1973)
Bhagya Jyothi (1975)
Makkala Bhagya (1976)
Thulasi (1976)
Devara Duddu (1977)
Maagiya Kanasu (1977)
Mugdha Manava (1977)
Banashankari (1977)
Aluku (1977)
Driver Hanumanthu (1980)
Bhoomige Banda Bhagavantha (1981)
Jimmy Gallu (1982)
Matthe Vasantha (1983)
Kranthiyogi Basavanna (1983)
Mutthaide Bhagya (1983)
Karune Illada Kanoonu (1983)
Huli Hejje (1984)
Pithamaha (1985)
Malaya Marutha (1986)
Mithileya Seetheyaru (1988)
Jambu Savari (1989)
Harakeya Kuri (1992)
Maha Edabidangi (1999)
Savira Mettilu (2006)... co-directed
References
Further reading
External links
1939 births
2015 deaths
Male actors from Bangalore
Kannada screenwriters
Kannada film directors
Kannada film producers
Indian male playback singers
Indian male film actors
20th-century Indian film directors
People from Mandya district
Film directors from Bangalore
Singers from Karnataka
Film producers from Bangalore
Producers who won the Best Children's Film National Film Award
Directors who won the Best Children's Film National Film Award
Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2004 |
23573926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrixspermum%20centipeda | Thrixspermum centipeda | Thrixspermum centipeda, commonly called the centipede thrixspermum, is a species of orchid widespread across southern China, the Himalayas, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
References
centipeda
Orchids of Asia
Plants described in 1790 |
44497347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Leonard%20%28bishop%29 | John Leonard (bishop) | Right Rev. John Leonard, D.D., was an Irish born priest who served in Ireland and South Africa. Born in Dublin on 15 January 1829, he matriculated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth in 1849. He was ordained a priest in 1855 by Archbishop of Dublin Paul Cullen.
Dr. Leonard was curate at Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin, when appointed to succeed Dr. Grimley in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town, as Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Home and Titular Bishop of Corada, serving from 1872 until he died on 19 February 1908, he was succeeded by Dr. John Rooney as Bishop.
References
1829 births
1908 deaths
Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Irish expatriate Catholic bishops
Roman Catholic bishops of Cape Town |
20470175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velchanos | Velchanos | Velchanos is an ancient Minoan god associated with vegetation, and whose cult influenced that of Zeus.
Origins
According to Arthur Evans, a tree cult played one of the most important aspects of the Minoan religion in ancient Crete. In this cult, two deities were worshipped; one male and one female. In this tree cult, while the Mother Goddess was viewed as a personification of tree-vegetation, the male god formed a "concrete image of the vegetation itself in the shape of a divine child or a youth", with the two forming a mother and child relationship. Given the role of the hieros gamos between the two, it has been theorized that Velchanos was partially based on the Mesopotamian Dumuzid.
Worship
Mycenaean period
The Minoans viewed Velchanos as less powerful than the goddess.
At some point, the Mycenaean civilization came in contact with the Minoans, who identified their own god Zeus with the Cretan god. This religious syncretism led to Zeus obtaining some of Velchanos' traits, with his mythology also being affected; henceforth, Zeus was stated to have been born in Crete and was often represented as a beardless youth. He was also venerated as Zeus Velchanos.
Hellenistic period
In the 4th century BC, during the beginning of the Hellenistic era, Hagia Triada fell under the control of the polis of Phaistos and was reinstated as a place of worship. In this period, an aedicula was installed over a Minoan stoa in honor of Zeus Velchanos. In the same location, a bull protome was also found, built around the 2nd century BC, which is attributed to the shrine of Velchanos. Velchanos appears to have been worshipped in Gortyna as well, as coins depicting him have been found.
Velchanus' main festival, the Velchania, was likely celebrated in the Cretan polis Gortyna, Lyttos, and Knossos.
Iconography
Symbols
Coins from Phaistos depicted Zeus Velchanos with a cock in his lap. These coins also depicted him with an oak tree. He was also depicted with a bull. At other times, Velchanos was depicted as an eagle.
Influences on other cultures
Given the similarities in naming, it has been suggested that Velchanos was an influence on Vulcan from Roman mythology.
References
Bibliography
Chthonic beings
Greek mythology
Minoan religion
Minoan art
Nature gods
Zeus
Vulcan (mythology) |
44497353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opistophthalmus%20pugnax | Opistophthalmus pugnax | The pugnacious burrowing scorpion (Opistophthalmus pugnax) is a species of South African scorpion.
Description
These muddy-looking scorpions are characterized by corrugations on the last sternite, stiff hairs (setae), and highly recurved tarsal claws. Males have corrugations on the last two sternites. They grow up to 70 mm in length.
Distribution and habitat
A fan-shaped burrow with an enlarged part for resting or consuming prey is constructed under rocks and other surface debris. It is a very common species on rocky outcrops and ridges in the north-central Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.
Behaviour
Despite its species name, it is not particularly aggressive and very rarely enters houses. The female gives birth to litters of up to 25.
References
http://www.afpmb.org/sites/default/files/pubs/guides/field_guide.pdf
Leeming, Jonathan 2003. Scorpions of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 88pp.
Scorpionidae
Scorpions described in 1876
Scorpions of Africa |
23573928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalovice%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Dalovice (Mladá Boleslav District) | Dalovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The municipal part of U Česany is an administrative part of Dalovice.
Notable people
Josef Ludl (1916–1998), footballer
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20International%20Documentary%20Film%20Festival | Chicago International Documentary Film Festival | The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival (CIDF) is a festival of documentary films in the United States. The film event was established in 2003 and is dedicated to the celebration and cultivation of the documentary film. Over $50,000 in unrestricted cash plus other prizes are awarded by the jury.
CIDF is presented by the Society for Arts.
External links
Homepage
Documentary film festivals in the United States
Film festivals in Chicago
Film festivals established in 2003 |
23573930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dlouh%C3%A1%20Lhota%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Dlouhá Lhota (Mladá Boleslav District) | Dlouhá Lhota is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
20470210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Virden | Claude Virden | Claude Felton Virden (born November 25, 1947) is a former American basketball player from Akron, Ohio.
Career
Virden played college basketball for Murray State University. Virden was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1970 NBA Draft and by the Kentucky Colonels in the 1970 American Basketball Association draft.
After a stint in the United States Army, Virden signed with the Kentucky Colonels. Virden played for part of the 1972–73 season for the Colonels, averaging 9.9 points per game as the team made it to the ABA Finals before losing the championship to the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 3. A knee injury ended Virden's season and mediocre career.
References
1947 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Akron, Ohio
Kentucky Colonels draft picks
Kentucky Colonels players
Murray State Racers men's basketball players
Seattle SuperSonics draft picks
United States Army soldiers |
44497365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone%20Boys%27%20School | Marylebone Boys' School | Marylebone Boys' School is a free school set up by parents, teachers and local people of Marylebone in Central London. It opened on Wednesday 3 September 2014 in temporary accommodation in Priory Park Road, London NW6 7UJ, but later moved to a permanent site in North Wharf Road, near Paddington Station.
The secondary school is for boys aged 11 – 16 years, then there is a co-educational Sixth Form, 200 metres away for young adults aged 16 – 18 years.
History & Location
The main school building was opened in 2014 as a new, purpose-built secondary school, with a separate Sixth Form Centre opened in November 2021.
The school was inspected by Ofsted in 2017 and judged to be Good.
GCSE Results
75 per cent of the pupils received a grade 5-9 in English and Math, 27 per cent of all grades awarded were 9 or 8, 43 per cent of all grades awarded were 9-7. In English, 88 per cent of pupils were awarded a 9-5 grade, In Maths, 82 per cent of pupils were awarded a 9-5 grade, In Science, 76 per cent of pupils were awarded a 9-5 grade.
Notable People
The Marylebone Boys’ School Chair of Governors is Margaret Mountford.
References
External links
Boys' schools in London
Educational institutions established in 2014
Free schools in London
Secondary schools in the City of Westminster
2014 establishments in England |
17334365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anataboshi | Anataboshi | is the sixth opening theme song from the Japanese anime Kirarin Revolution. The song was released on April 30, 2008 and is performed by MilkyWay, a Japanese project group consisting of Morning Musume member Koharu Kusumi, Hello Pro Egg member Sayaka Kitahara, and Hello Pro Egg member You Kikkawa as their characters, Kirari Tsukishima, Noel Yukino, and Kobeni Hanasaki. The song was released as MilkyWay's first single.
Background and release
"Anataboshi" is the sixth opening theme song to Kirarin Revolution and is performed by Koharu Kusumi from Morning Musume, Sayaka Kitahara, and You Kikkawa from Hello Pro Egg, who play the characters Kirari Tsukishima, Noel Yukino, and Kobeni Hanasaki. The song was released as MilkyWay's debut single.
The single was released on April 30, 2008 under the Zetima label. "Sansan Gogo", the tenth ending theme song to Kirarin Revolution, was included as a B-side and is also performed by MilkyWay.
A video single, referred as a "Single V", was released on May 8, 2008.
Music video
The music video was directed by Hideo Kawatani and produced by Tetsushi Suehiro. The Starlight Headset and Starlight Tambourine featured in the music video were produced as toys by Takara Tomy. The Starlight Headset Mini and Starlight Tambourine Mini were also produced for toddler-sized children.
Reception
The CD single debuted at #3 in the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart and charted for 12 weeks. The video single charted at #22 on the Oricon Weekly DVD Charts.
Track listing
Single
DVD single
Charts
Single
DVD single
References
External links
Anataboshi (Japanese) entry on the Up-Front Works official website
2008 singles
2008 songs
Anime songs
Children's television theme songs
Hello! Project songs
Kirarin Revolution
Animation theme songs
Zetima Records singles |
23573931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dob%C5%A1%C3%ADn | Dobšín | Dobšín is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Kamenice is an administrative part of Dobšín.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
44497383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Woodrow%20Lewis | James Woodrow Lewis | James Woodrow Lewis (1912-1999) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Lewis was born in the Swift Creek area of Darlington County, South Carolina on March 8, 1912. Although he began law school in 1931, economic conditions during the Depression forced him to return home to Swift Creek to run a country store owned by his father. He continued studying the law under the tutelage of a local lawyer, and he was admitted to practice on December 6, 1935. At the age of 22, he was elected to the Statehouse. Legislators were exempt from the draft during World War II, but he resigned in midterm to enter the military.
Lewis served for sixteen years as a trial court judge before he was elected as an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on February 21, 1961. He was elected chief justice on January 21, 1975 to fill the unexpired term of Joseph Rodney Moss; was sworn in on August 14, 1975; and served until his retirement in 1984. Chief Justice Lewis retired upon reaching the state's mandatory retirement age of 72.
References
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1912 births
People from Darlington County, South Carolina
1999 deaths
Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
20th-century American judges |
44497387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr%20Fluffy | Mr Fluffy | Mr Fluffy relates to widespread asbestos contamination of houses in the suburbs of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Two companies were referred to collectively as "Mr Fluffy", a nickname coined in the 1990s for Asbestosfluf Insulations, and its successor J&H Insulation. The former was run by Canberra businessman Dirk Jansen, and the latter owned by a relative of his. The business only took on that name "Mr Fluffy" after he sold it.
The companies imported and installed fibrous, loose-fill amphibole asbestos, in most cases brown amosite from South Africa, although blue crocidolite has been detected. It was blown into the roof spaces of homes during the 1960s and 1970s, to provide thermal insulation. The companies are also believed to have sold sacks of asbestos fibre direct to home owners to insulate their own homes, and other operators may have also used the hazardous material, trying to copy Jansen's business model.
Medical dangers
At the time, there was limited public knowledge about the dangers of exposure to asbestos. Subsequently, cases of mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, and other asbestos-related diseases have become well publicised. Testing in the affected houses revealed the ongoing possibility of exposure to loose asbestos fibres. The loose-fill amosite asbestos used by Mr Fluffy was especially hazardous, because its lack of a bonding agent allowed it to migrate easily to hidden corners and cracks inside a residence.
Affected areas
In 2015, the Government of the Australian Capital Territory released a list of places affected by Mr Fluffy insulation contamination, which totalled 1,022 properties. It is believed that up to 30,000 people may have been affected over the years.
A significant number of the houses were developed in the Radburn scheme suburbs, Charnwood, Curtin and Garran, and a small part of Hughes. In 2014, with plans for demolition of houses under the Mr Fluffy asbestos home demolition scheme being developed, it was realised that a significant number of the houses treated with loose asbestos, and thus affected, were in the Radburn areas. This was recognised as having the potential to degrade the remaining legacy of the Radburn scheme.
Loose-fill asbestos has also been found in locations far removed from Canberra, including three confirmed locations in Lithgow, New South Wales, which is approximately 200 kilometres from Canberra. The New South Wales Government announced a buyback scheme for affected properties.
Dirk Jansen ran his company from his family home in Lyons and stored bags of asbestos fluff under his house.
Investigation and clean-up
Jansen started using asbestos as an insulation as early as 1967, and began using it in loose form in 1968, prompting a Commonwealth Government investigation within months. However, despite a subsequent report that indicated community exposure to asbestos was potentially "undesirable", he kept working until 1978. Jansen died in 2001 in a nursing home from a heart attack after suffering from Alzheimers for several years..
Prompted by growing public concern about the hazards of asbestos in general, and Mr Fluffy's product in particular, a Commonwealth audit in 1988 identified most of the homes in the ACT containing the insulation. Between 1989 and 1993, a clean-up program was conducted by the new ACT Government, and was thought to have remediated the problem in about 1,040 homes identified in the audit. However, residual asbestos was later found in some of the cleaned houses and others were missed altogether. That led to the creation of a community action group of affected home owners, that campaigned for a change in the policy relating to the future of their residences.
In response, a home demolition scheme was negotiated between the Government of the Australian Capital Territory and the Government of Australia in 2014. It involved a loan of about A$1 billion from the Australian Government to the ACT Government to fund the purchase of houses treated with loose-fill asbestos fibre insulation in the 1960s and 1970s, the safe demolition of those houses, and the sale of the land for redevelopment. The proceeds of the sales were to be used to assist the repayment of the loan. The first demolitions under the scheme began in July 2015. In 2021, 2 houses with Mr Fluffy asbestos insulation have been found in Canberra.
A number of heritage homes have also been affected and will be lost, including Deasland, one of Canberra's most important historic homesteads, which was built by George Harcourt in 1893 and was demolished in early 2022.
No legal case was ever brought against the Jansen family and the use of amosite asbestos was not banned in Australia until 1989.
References
External links
ACT Asbestos Taskforce
Mr Fluffy Action Group
Canberra
Asbestos disasters
Industrial accidents and incidents in Australia
Health disasters in Australia
Environmental disasters in Australia |
17334375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20L.%20Smith | Geoffrey L. Smith | Geoffrey Lilley Smith (born 1955) FRS FMedSci FRSB is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses. Since 1 October 2011 he is Head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge and a Principal Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. Before that, he was Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London.
Education
Smith was educated at the Bootham School in York and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds in 1977. In 1981 he was awarded a PhD in Virology for research completed at the National Institute for Medical Research.
Career and research
Between 1981 and 1984, while he was working in the United States under the National Institutes of Health, Smith developed and pioneered the use of genetically engineered live vaccines. Between 1985 and 1989 he lectured at the University of Cambridge. During 2002 Smith sequenced a strain of Camelpox showing how close it was to human Smallpox.
Prior to 2002, he was based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. Between 1988 and 1992 his work was funded by the Jenner Fellowship from The Lister Institute; he became a governor of the Institute in 2003.
Smith was editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Virology up until 2008 and chairs the World Health Organization's Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research. In 2009 Smith was elected as one of the founding members of the new European Academy of Microbiology and the following year was elected as a corresponding member of the . Until 2011 he was the Head of the Department of Virology at Imperial College London. As of 2011 Smith became president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.
Andrew H. Wyllie had been the previous holder of the Head of the Department of Pathology at Cambridge until retirement in September 2011.
Publications
Awards and honours
In 2002, Smith was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2005 was awarded the Feldburg Foundation Prize for his work on poxviruses. Since 2010, he is a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology. In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In June 2012 Smith was awarded the 2012 GlaxoSmithKline International Member of the Year Award by the American Society for Microbiology.
Personal life
His maternal grandfather was Ralph Lilley Turner, director of the School of Oriental Studies and a philologist of Indian languages.
References
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
British virologists
National Institute for Medical Research faculty
1955 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology |
17334417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Miller%20%28film%20editor%29 | Jim Miller (film editor) | Jim Miller (born 1955) is an American film editor. Along with Paul Rubell, Miller was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Collateral (directed by Michael Mann – 2004).
A native of Chicago, Miller began his film career as an editor and then producer of television commercials and industrial films. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he began editing such television films as Alice in Wonderland and Two Fathers.
Miller's first screen credit was for The Breakfast Club (directed by John Hughes – 1985); he was the associate editor for the distinguished, veteran film editor Dede Allen. Miller's first three editing credits were also for films co-edited by Allen, commencing with The Milagro Beanfield War (directed by Robert Redford – 1988). Following Let It Ride (directed by Joe Pytka – 1989), he and Allen co-edited The Addams Family (1991), which was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Miller then worked (without Allen) as the editor for five more of Sonnenfeld's films, including Men in Black (1997) and Wild Wild West (1999).
In addition to their Academy Award nomination, Miller and Rubell's editing of Collateral was honored by nominations for the ACE Eddie Award, BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the Satellite Award for Best Editing, which they won.
References
External links
American film editors
Living people
Artists from Chicago
1955 births |
6902085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandown%20Raceway | Sandown Raceway | Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in the suburb of Springvale in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. Sandown is considered a power circuit with its "drag strip" front and back straights being and long respectively.
History
Sandown Racecourse was first built as a horse racing facility, dating back into the 19th century, but closed in the 1930s in a government run rationalisation program. Redevelopment began not long after World War II. A bitumen motor racing circuit was built around the outside of the proposed horse track (which was not completed until 1965) and was first opened in 1962 and held the race which became the Sandown 500 for the first time in 1964. The circuit hosted its first Australian Touring Car Championship race in 1965.
Motor racing
The opening meeting, held on 11 and 12 March 1962, featured the 1962 Sandown International Cup, which was contested by world-famous international drivers including Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and John Surtees. A second Sandown International Cup was held in 1963, the two races serving as the forerunners of the Sandown round of the annual Tasman Series from 1964 to 1975. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the race meetings continued to attract international stars along with the best of Australia's drivers.
Australia's traditional Holden/Ford rivalry really surfaced at the track in the late 1960s and through the 1970s with drivers such as Norm Beechey, Ian Geoghegan, Allan Moffat, Bob Jane, Colin Bond and Peter Brock and continues to the present day. From 1968 to 1980 almost every major touring car race held at the circuit was won be those driving either a Holden or a Ford.
1984 saw an extension of the track to to comply with FIA regulations for minimum track length for World Championship events. It also saw the first 500 km race held at the circuit, the Castrol 500, being Round 3 of the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship. Along with the circuit changes, some AUD$600,000 had been spent relocating the pits from its original place between what was turns one and two (now turns one and four) to its now permanent place coming onto the main straight. Peter Brock and Larry Perkins took their Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore to a one lap victory in the 1984 Castrol 500; it was to be the last of Brock's record nine wins in the Sandown enduro events.
In 1989, the International Circuit was abandoned and the track reverted to , though not by using the original 8 turn layout, but a modified 13 turn course. This was achieved by simply bypassing the largely unpopular tight and twisty infield section that had been in use since 1984 and using only the re-configured International (outer) Circuit. The effect was also to bring the cars closer to the spectator area on the outside of the esses to bring back spectators to the area. The esses at the end of the back straight was a popular spectator area during the 1970s and 1980s with several converted Double-decker buses frequenting race meetings.
Sandown continued to host both the 500 kilometre race and a sprint round of the championship, the Sandown Challenge, throughout the majority of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In 2001 and 2002, the circuit hosted the Grand Finale as the closing round of the season. When the Sandown 500 returned in 2003, the sprint round was removed from the calendar and Sandown no longer hosts two major V8 Supercars events per year.
The infield section was still used for motorcycle racing at the track until about 2000 as the high speed esses (turns 6–9) at the end of the back straight were deemed too dangerous for the bikes at high speed (the entry speed off the straight was close to with very little runoff area between the track and the outside fence. Using the infield section not only bypassed the esses but slowed the bikes down and allowed them to continue using the circuit for the series such as the Australian Superbike Championship.
In late 2007 the Melbourne Racing Club, owner of the venue, brought the management of the motor circuit in house. As part of securing the future of motorsport at the venue Sandown's Manager Wade Calderwood negotiated a long-term deal with V8 Supercars. Under this deal the MRC invested significant funds as part of a 3-year upgrade to the pits and circuit safety.
Under the local Council permit, Sandown Raceway is limited to running five motorsport events per year, at no louder than 95 decibels. Currently these events include the Sandown 500, Historic Sandown, Shannons Nationals and two Victorian State Race Series events.
The long term future of this historic circuit is unclear as the owners of Sandown Park want to have it rezoned so that that they can sell it to a property developer who would then demolish the venue and turn it into high density housing.
Sandown 500
The circuit is home to the famous Sandown endurance race which was first held in 1964 through to 2007, with a return to the V8 Supercars calendar in 2012.
Traditionally the domain of touring cars, the race has also been held for Series Production cars from 1968–1972 and GT Sports Cars in 2001 and 2002. Peter Brock is the most successful driver of the Sandown enduro with nine outright wins including seven in a row from 1975 to 1981. The race itself wasn't always run over a 500 km distance. The first two races ran for six hours while the next two ran for just three hours. The race distance was 250 km from 1970 until 1975. This was increased to 400 km in 1976 and stayed that way until 1983. It was changed for the last time in 1984 with an increase to 500 km.
The 1990, 1993 and 1994 events had no major sponsor and were underwritten by circuit promoter and former Formula 5000 star Jon Davison.
V8 Supercars
With the creation of V8 Supercars in 1997, the Sandown 500 event remained as part of their calendar for that year and 1998. Sandown became a sprint round of the V8 Supercars Championship Series for 1999 and 2000, then as three 150 km races with pit stops in 2001 and a 150 km race on the Saturday and 300 km race on the Sunday in 2002. The event was won by Todd Kelly in 2001 and by Marcos Ambrose in 2002. The 500 km format returned in 2003 with a sponsorship deal with Betta Electrical and have been a large part of the series since. The 2003 event was won by Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly for the Holden Racing Team. In 2004 it was won by Marcos Ambrose and Greg Ritter in a Pirtek-backed Stone Brothers Racing Falcon. In 2005, it was won by Craig Lowndes and Frenchman Yvan Muller in a Betta Electrical backed Falcon. In 2006, Ford Performance Racing got its maiden endurance victory with Mark Winterbottom and Jason Bright. In 2007, the major sponsor of the Sandown 500 is Just-Car Insurance and the event is called the Just Car Insurance 500, and was won by Craig Lowndes, his fourth victory, and Jamie Whincup.
For the 2008 season, the 500 kilometres endurance race was moved to the Phillip Island circuit. Sandown remained on the calendar as a venue, but hosted a regular multiple sprint race format event earlier in the year. The event returned to its single 500 kilometres roots in September 2012 as an enduro precursor to the Bathurst 1000, with the inaugural Dick Smith Sandown 500 won by the Holden Commodore Team Vodafone pairing of Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff.
World Sportscar Championship
On 2 December 1984, Sandown held the last round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship. The race, known as the Sandown 1000, was won by Stefan Bellof and Derek Bell in their Rothmans Porsche 956. This race was the first FIA World Championship road racing motor racing event to be held in Australia. As the race name suggests, the race distance was to be long. However, under WEC rules, with the exception of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, races also had a time limit of 6 hours. The six-hour mark was reached when the Bellof/Bell Porsche had run only 206 laps (803.4 km), thus the race was declared at the time limit some 51 laps short of the 1000 km distance.
The next (and only other) FIA World Sportscar Championship race held in Australia was also held at Sandown on 20 November 1988. This was the 1988 360 km of Sandown Park, the final round of the 1988 World Sports-Protype Championship, which was won by Jean-Louis Schlesser and Jochen Mass driving their Sauber Mercedes C9. This race would prove to be the final top level motor race on the 3.9 km International Circuit, with Schlesser setting the circuit's outright lap record with a time of 1:33.580.
Easternats
Easternats was a car festival held at the race track annually. It attracted a large number of entrants for the show'n'shine and various other events. It comprised usually a turn out of 750 entered vehicles. This event has since been discontinued.
Historic Sandown
Historic Sandown is an annual event held at the circuit on the first weekend of November. Promoted by the VHRR (Victorian Historic Racing Register) and run by the MG Car Club of Victoria, it is a highly successful event which in 2009 attracted a record 400+ historic racing cars including touring cars, MG racers and Formula Fords and was also headlined by the Biante Touring Car Masters. 2009 was the 18th running of the event and was attended by the patron of the VHRR, Sir Jack Brabham.
Cycling Victoria
Several Melbourne cycling clubs hold regular races over the summer season.
Athletics Victoria
Annually, Athletics Victoria hold a road race (sometimes a team relay) as a part of the AV Cross Country season.
Australian Grand Prix
Sandown Raceway has held the Australian Grand Prix on six occasions, the last being in 1978, seven years before the event became part of the FIA Formula One World Championship in 1985. Two World Drivers' Champions were winners of the AGP at Sandown, Jack Brabham in 1964 and the late Jim Clark in 1968, with Clark's winning margin being only 0.1 seconds from the Ferrari of New Zealand's Chris Amon being one of the closest finishes in the race's history. John Goss' 1976 victory saw him become the first, and so far only winner of both the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000 touring car race.
The winners of the Australian Grands Prix held at Sandown Raceway are:
Special Guest at the 1978 Australian Grand Prix, the 50th anniversary of the event (and the final time it would be held at Sandown), was Argentina's five-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio. Following the race Fangio, Australia's own three-time World Champion Jack Brabham, Bob Jane and former racer turned Holden dealer Bill Patterson, staged a spirited three-lap demonstration/race. Fangio and Brabham cleared out and swapped the lead many times. Fangio was driving a Mercedes-Benz W196 that he raced in and , while Brabham (not yet Sir Jack) drove the Repco V8 powered Brabham BT19 in which he won the Formula One World Championship to become the first and only person to win the Drivers' championship in a car of his own design and build. Brabham 'won' the demonstration, just ahead of Fangio, with Patterson (driving a Cooper) and Jane (driving a Maserati) some distance behind in 3rd and 4th.
Upgrades
Sandown was repaved and received many new safety features in 2013 in accordance with new FIA rules. More tyre barriers were added, and new catch fencing was also added during big events like Historic Sandown and the Wilson Security 500. The main grandstand was also upgraded to feature a new bar and food complex. Along with the grandstand, the pits were also upgraded. Following a spate of major accidents at the end of the back straight between 2010 and 2017, the run-off area was also extended in early 2019.
Lap records
As of August 2016. Unless otherwise stated records are for the current circuit.
Notes
References
External links
Sandown Raceway
Map and circuit history at RacingCircuits.info
Easternats
Motorsport venues in Victoria (Australia)
Supercars Championship circuits
Sports venues in Victoria (Australia)
Australian Grand Prix
1962 establishments in Australia |
17334422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden%20Mountain | Hayden Mountain | Hayden Mountain may refer to the following peaks or locations in the United States. These features are generally named after Ferdinand Hayden, an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.
Peaks
Hayden Mountain (Alabama)
Hayden Mountain (Colorado)
Hayden Mountain (New York)
Hayden Mountain (Oregon)
Hayden Mountain (Texas)
Hayden Peak (San Miguel County, Colorado)
Hayden Peak (Utah)
Other
Hayden Mountain Summit, in Klamath County, Oregon
Hayden Mountain Airport, in Washington County, Oregon |
6902091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20the%20Dream%20%28Jennylyn%20Mercado%20album%29 | Living the Dream (Jennylyn Mercado album) | Living the Dream is the first solo album by the StarStruck winner Jennylyn Mercado, released in 2004.
Track listing
Personnel
Buddy C. Medina - executive producer
Rene Salta - in charge of marketing
Kedy Sanchez - A&R supervising producer
GMA Artist Center - artist management
Jimmy Antiporda
Aji Manalo
Arnold Jallores
Boggie Manipon
Dominique Benedicto
Alexi Corbilla
Ramil Bahandi
Marlon Silva
Dong Tan - cover concept, cover design & execution
Claude Rodrigo - cover design & execution
Jake Versoza - photography
Mariel Chua - hair & make-up
Ana Kalw - wardrobe
See also
GMA Records
GMA Network
2004 albums
Jennylyn Mercado albums
GMA Music albums |
6902100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionanthus%20virginicus | Chionanthus virginicus | Chionanthus virginicus (white fringetree) is a tree native to the savannas and lowlands of the southeastern United States, from New Jersey south to Florida, and west to Oklahoma and Texas.
Growth
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to as much as tall, though ordinarily less. The bark is scaly, brown tinged with red. The shoots are light green, downy at first, later becoming light brown or orange. The buds are light brown, ovate, acute, long. The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate or oblong, long and broad, with a petiole long, and an entire margin; they are hairless above, and finely downy below, particularly along the veins, and turn yellow in fall. The richly-scented flowers have a pure white, deeply four-lobed corolla, the lobes thread-like, long and broad; they are produced in drooping axillary panicles long when the leaves are half grown, in mid- to late May in New York City, earlier in the south.
It is usually dioecious, though occasional plants bear flowers of both sexes. The fruit is an ovoid dark blue to purple drupe long, containing a single seed (rarely two or three), mature in late summer to mid fall.
Etymology
The species name was originally cited by Linnaeus as Chionanthus virginica, treating the genus as feminine; however, under the provisions of the ICBN, the genus is correctly treated as masculine, giving the species ending as virginicus. Other English names occasionally used in the Appalachians include Grancy Gray Beard and Old Man's Beard.
Cultivation and uses
Although native in the southeastern United States, it is hardy in the north and is extensively planted in gardens, where specimens are often grown with multiple trunks. The white flowers are best seen from below. Fall color is a fine, clear yellow, a good contrast with viburnums and evergreens. It prefers a moist soil and a sheltered situation. It may be propagated by grafting on Ash (Fraxinus sp.). The wood is light brown, sapwood paler brown; heavy, hard, and close-grained.
Traditional uses
The dried roots and bark were used by Native Americans to treat skin inflammations. The crushed bark was used in treatment of sores and wounds.
Threats
In 2014, white fringetrees in Ohio were reported to be hosting infestations of the emerald ash borer, an insect native to Asia that has become a highly destructive invasive pest of ash trees in North America. Since then, emerald ash borer has been found in white fringetrees in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, indicating to researchers that white fringetrees are being utilized by emerald ash borers throughout the range where the species overlap. Symptoms of infestation include crown dieback and epicormic sprouting.
References
virginicus
Trees of the Eastern United States
Plants used in traditional Native American medicine
Trees of the Southeastern United States
Ornamental trees
Dioecious plants
Trees of the Northeastern United States
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
6902101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billings%20Refinery%20%28Phillips%2066%29 | Billings Refinery (Phillips 66) | The Billings Refinery is an oil refinery located in Billings, Montana. The refinery is currently owned and operated by Phillips 66. Completed in 1947, the refinery covers .
See also
List of oil refineries
Phillips 66
References
External links
Phillips 66 website
Buildings and structures in Billings, Montana
Energy infrastructure completed in 1947
Energy infrastructure in Montana
Oil refineries in the United States
Phillips 66
1947 establishments in Montana |
20470213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobrara%20Reservation | Niobrara Reservation | The Niobrara Reservation is a former Indian Reservation in northeast Nebraska. It originally comprised lands for both the Santee Sioux and the Ponca, both Siouan-speaking tribes, near the mouth of the Niobrara River at its confluence with the Missouri River. In the late nineteenth century the United States government built a boarding school at the reservation for the Native American children in the region. By 1908 after allotment of plots to individual households of the tribes under the Dawes Act, were reserved for an agency, school and mission for a distinct Santee Sioux Reservation; the neighboring Ponca Reservation had only reserved for agency and school buildings.
Santee Sioux
In 1884, John Lenger organized an all-Indian brass band on the Niobrara Reservation, the Santee Sioux Band. The group
demonstrated the musical ability of the Santee and presented them in a favorable light to their white neighbors. The band, led by Lenger, appeared at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha in 1898 .. [and] ... a special command performance for President Benjamin Harrison.
In 1890, Special Agent Reuben Sears described the land as unsuitable for farming without irrigation. "Perhaps half of the lands on this reservation would produce half a crop usually, while the other half is absolutely worthless, except for grazing, and 10 acres of this would be requisite to sustain 1 steer ... Timber is not abundant on this reservation. A sufficient quantity is found for fuel and posts, and for present use only." The Indian population at the Santee and Flandreau Agency at that time was 869. The Santee were described as a community that raised ponies and horses and lived in log or frame houses with barns, but did not like to keep milk cows or hogs. The Santee displayed aptitude for music and carpentry, and continued their customs of moving between summer and winter homes and "congregating together." Sears concluded that "The Santees are practically self-sustaining, although occupying an almost barren reservation."
Sears noted that the Santee simply stopped talking altogether if asked about their tribal history or religious beliefs. Their unwillingness to discuss their history is understandable, given that memories of the Dakota War of 1862 were still relatively fresh. After the war, thirty-nine Sioux were killed in a mass execution in Mankato, Minnesota, and a third of the Indians imprisoned at Camp McClellan died of disease; some of these survivors were sent to Nebraska. Three hundred of the women, children, and old men at the post-war internment camp on Pike Island, near Fort Snelling, Minnesota, died due to poor conditions; in May 1863 Dakota survivors were forced aboard steamboats and relocated to the drought-stricken Crow Creek Reservation. Many of the survivors of Crow Creek moved three years later to the Niobrara Reservation.
Ponca
By contrast, the Ponca on the reservation numbered about 217 people, raised cattle and hogs, and were willing to discuss their history and religion. They lived in small frame houses, and had adequate rainfall and well water to maintain well-kept farms.
1930s archaeological survey
In the 1930s, an archeological survey was begun on the Ponca/Niobrara Reservation south of the Niobrara River and Lynch, Nebraska. In an effort to identify and save prehistoric artifacts before they were destroyed during agricultural development, the University of Nebraska and the Smithsonian Institution undertook a joint project. The team excavated a prehistoric Ponca village; the ten laborers on the project were paid by the Works Progress Administration of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression. The project was to survey, identify and protect ancient resources. The Ponca village included large circular homes up to sixty feet in diameter; their residences were located for almost two miles (3 km) along the south bank of the Niobrara River.
Niobrara Island was included in the original reservation.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
List of Indian agencies in Nebraska
Sioux
Notes
Former American Indian reservations in Nebraska
Geography of Knox County, Nebraska
Ponca
Dakota |
20470216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labio-palatalization | Labio-palatalization | A labio-palatalized sound is one that is simultaneously labialized and palatalized. Typically the roundedness is compressed, like , rather than protruded like . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this secondary articulation is , a superscript , the symbol for the labialized palatal approximant. If such sounds pattern with other, labialized, consonants, they may instead be transcribed as palatalized consonants plus labialization, , as with the = of Abkhaz or the = of Akan.
A voiced labialized palatal approximant occurs in Mandarin Chinese and French, but elsewhere is uncommon, as it is generally dependent upon the presence of front rounded vowels such as and , which are themselves not common. However, a labialized palatal approximant and labio-palatalized consonants appear in some languages without front rounded vowels in the Caucasus and in West Africa, such as Abkhaz, and as allophones of labialized consonants before , including the at the beginning of the language name Twi. In Russian, and trigger labialization of any preceding consonant, including palatalized consonants, so that нёс 'he carried' is phonetically .
Iaai has a voiceless labialized palatal approximant .
Labial–palatal consonants
Truly co-articulated labial–palatal consonants such as are theoretically possible. However, the closest sounds attested from the world's languages are the labial–postalveolar consonants of Yélî Dnye in New Guinea, which are sometimes transcribed as labial–palatals.
See also
Labio-palatal approximant
References
Place of articulation
Assimilation (linguistics)
Secondary articulation |
17334430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Wollesen | Kenny Wollesen | Kenny Wollesen (born 1966) is an American drummer and percussionist.
Wollesen has recorded and toured with Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a member of the Sex Mob and Himalayas groups.
He grew up in Capitola, California, studying at Aptos High School, and spending many teenage years playing with Donny McCaslin. He spent quality classroom time with flugelhornist and arranger Ray Brown at Cabrillo College. He also arranges and studied vibraphone at Cabrillo.
Discography
As leader or co-leader
Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness (New Artists, 2011)
The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor (Tzadik, 2012)
John Zorn: The Mysteries (Tzadik, 2013)
Rasa Rasa (Tzadik, 2014)
With the Himalayas
Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (ANTI-, 2013)
With Myra Melford
2000 Dance Beyond the Color, Myra Melford's Crush
2004 Where the Two Worlds Touch, Myra Melford's the Tent
With New Klezmer Trio
Masks and Faces (Nine Winds, 1991 / Tzadik, 1996)
Melt Zonk Rewire (Tzadik, 1995)
Short for Something (Tzadik, 2000)
With Sexmob
1998 Din of Inequity
2000 Solid Sender
2000 Theatre & Dance
2001 Sex Mob Does Bond
2003 Dime Grind Palace
2006 Sexotica
2013 Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti: Sexmob Plays Fellini
2009 Sex Mob Meets Medeski: Live in Willisau
With others
1997 Interpretations of Lessness, Andy Laster's Lessness
1997 The Loan, Brad Shepik
1998 At Home, Slow Poke
1998 Fabulous, Drop Curlew
2000 Hidden Gardens, Lan Xang
2000 Redemption, Slow Poke
2006 Ways Not to Lose, The Wood Brothers
As sideman
With Steve Beresford
Signals for Tea (Avant, 1995)
With David Byrne
Grown Backwards (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)
With Nels Cline
Lovers (Blue Note, 2016)
With Crash Test Dummies
I Don't Care That You Don't Mind (Cha-Ching, 2001)
Jingle All the Way (Cha-Ching, 2002)
With Sylvie Courvoisier
Double Windsor (Tzadik, 2014)
With Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant
Debutantes & Centipedes (Buzz, 1998)
With Bill Frisell
Blues Dream (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2001)
Unspeakable (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2004)
East/West (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2005)
Further East/Further West (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2005)
History, Mystery (Elektra/Nonesuch, 2008)
All We Are Saying (Savoy Jazz, 2011)
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (2012)
Guitar in the Space Age! (OKeh, 2014)
With Ben Goldberg
The Relative Value of Things (33¼, 1992)
Orphic Machine (2015)
With Jesse Harris
2003 The Secret Sun
2004 While the Music Lasts
2006 Mineral
2010 Cosmo
With Rickie Lee Jones
2003 The Evening of My Best Day (2003)
2009 Balm in Gilead
With Julian Lage
ARCLIGHT (Mack Avenue, 2016)
Modern Lore (Mack Avenue, 2018)
With Sean Lennon
Into the Sun (Grand Royal, 1998)
With Rudy Linka
2002 Simple Pleasures
2007 Beyond the New York City Limits
With Kate McGarry
2001 Show Me
2005 Mercy Streets
With Ruper Ordorika
Dabilen Harria (Nuevos Medios, 1999)
Hurrengo goizean (Metak, 2002)
Kantuok jartzen ditut (Metak, 2004)
Memoriaren Mapan (Elkar, 2006)
Haizea Garizumakoa (Elkar, 2009)
Hodeien azpian (Elkar, 2011)
Lurrean etzanda (Elkar, 2014)
Guria ostatuan (Elkar, 2016)
Amour et toujours (Elkar, 2021)
With Ellen Reid
2001 Cinderellen (Mr. Friendly)
With Carrie Rodriguez/Chip Taylor
2005 Red Dog Tracks
2006 Seven Angels on a Bicycle
2007 Live from the Ruhr Triennale
2010 The New Bye & Bye
With Jenny Scheinman
2002 The Rabbi's Lover
2004 Shalagaster
2008 Crossing the Field
2008 Jenny Scheinman
With Tony Scherr
2002 Come Around
2007 Twist in the Wind
With John Scofield
2000 Bump
With Leni Stern
2000 Kindness of Strangers
2004 When Evening Falls
With Rufus Wainwright
2003 Want One
2007 Release the Stars
With Tom Waits
1993 The Black Rider (Island)
With John Zorn
Bar Kokhba (Tzadik, 1994–96)
Filmworks VIII: 1997 (Tzadik, 1998)
Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide (Tzadik, 2002)
Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (Tzadik, 2003)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 (Tzadik, 2004) with Electric Masada
Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003)
Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness (Tzadik, 2005) with Electric Masada
Filmworks XVII: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls (Tzadik, 2006)
Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment (Tzadik, 2006)
The Dreamers (Tzadik, 2008)
Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum (Tzadik, 2008)
O'o (Tzadik, 2009) with The Dreamers
Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner (Tzadik, 2010)
Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 (Tzadik, 2010) with The Dreamers
Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15 (Tzadik, 2010) with Ben Goldberg Quartet
In Search of the Miraculous (Tzadik, 2010)
Dictée/Liber Novus (Tzadik, 2010)
Interzone (Tzadik, 2010)
The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days (Tzadik, 2010)
The Satyr's Play / Cerberus (Tzadik, 2011)
Nova Express (Tzadik, 2011) with the Nova Quartet
At the Gates of Paradise (Tzadik, 2011)
A Dreamers Christmas (Tzadik, 2011) with The Dreamers
Mount Analogue (Tzadik, 2012)
The Gnostic Preludes (Tzadik, 2012) with the Gnostic Trio
Rimbaud (Tzadik, 2012)
A Vision in Blakelight (Tzadik, 2012)
Music and Its Double (Tzadik, 2012)
The Concealed (Tzadik, 2012)
The Mysteries (Tzadik, 2013) with the Gnostic Trio
Dreamachines (Tzadik, 2013) with the Nova Quartet
In Lambeth (Tzadik, 2013) with the Gnostic Trio
On Leaves of Grass (Tzadik, 2014) with the Nova Quartet
The Testament of Solomon (Tzadik, 2014) with the Gnostic Trio
Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula (Tzadik, 2015) with The Dreamers
The Mockingbird (2016)
The Painted Bird (2016)
With others
1990 And Then There's This, Jessica Williams
1996 Dreamland, Madeleine Peyroux
1996 The Sun Died, Ellery Eskelin
1998 Dopamine, Mitchell Froom
1999 Thoroughfare, Rebecca Martin
1999 Work in Progress 89-98, Wolfgang Muthspiel
2000 Shebang, Steve Cardenas
2001 Buttermilk Channel, Adam Levy
2002 Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
2008 The Living and the Dead, Jolie Holland
2009 Trombone Tribe, Roswell Rudd
2011 Everything is Alive, Hank Roberts
2011 Graylen Epicenter, David Binney
2012 Howie 61, Wayne Krantz
2013 Another Life, James Maddock
2013 Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine
2014 Natalie Merchant, Natalie Merchant
2015 Didn't He Ramble, Glen Hansard
References
American jazz drummers
Jewish American musicians
Living people
Avant-garde jazz drummers
1966 births
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
The Lounge Lizards members
Sexmob members
Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant members
21st-century American Jews |
6902127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20Politics | Sexual Politics | Sexual Politics is a 1970 book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. Sexual Politics analyses the subjugation of women in prominent art and literature in the 20th century, specifically looking at the ubiquity of male domination in culture.
Summary
Millett argues that "sex has a frequently neglected political aspect" and goes on to discuss the role that patriarchy plays in sexual relations, looking especially at the works of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Millett argues that these authors view and discuss sex in a patriarchal and sexist way. In contrast, she applauds the more nuanced gender politics of homosexual writer Jean Genet. Other writers discussed at length include Sigmund Freud, George Meredith, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill.
Influences
Sexual Politics was largely influenced by Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex, although Beauvoir's text is known for being more intellectually-focused and less emotionally invigorating than Millett's text.
Reception
Sexual Politics has been seen as a classic feminist text, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire", though like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970), its status has declined. Sexual Politics was an important theoretical touchstone for the second wave feminism of the 1970s. It was also extremely controversial. Norman Mailer, whose work, especially his novel An American Dream (1965), had been criticised by Millett, wrote the article "The Prisoner of Sex" in Harper's Magazine in response, attacking Millett's claims and defending Miller and Lawrence, and later extensively attacked her writings in his non-fiction book of the same name.
The psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell argues that Millett, like many other feminists, misreads Freud and misunderstands the implications of psychoanalytic theory for feminism. Christina Hoff Sommers writes that, by teaching women that politics is "essentially sexual" and that "even the so-called democracies" are "male hegemonies," Sexual Politics helped to move feminism in a different direction, toward an ideology that Sommers calls "gender feminism." The author Richard Webster writes that Millett's "analysis of the reactionary character of psychoanalysis" was inspired by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949). The critic Camille Paglia called Sexual Politics an "atrocious book", which "reduced complex artworks to their political content". She accused it of spawning what she sees as the excesses of women's studies departments, especially for attacks on the alleged pervasive sexism of the male authors of the Western canon.
The historian Arthur Marwick described Sexual Politics as, alongside Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970), one of the two key texts of radical feminism. Doubleday's trade division, although it declined to reprint it when it went out of print briefly, said Sexual Politics was one of the ten most important books that it had published in its hundred years of existence and included it in its anniversary anthology.
The New York Times published a review of the book in 1970 that predicted it would become "the Bible of Women's Liberation." The article was written by Marcia Seligson and praised the book as "a piece of passionate thinking on a life-and-death aspect of our public and private lives."
Editions (incomplete list)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (London: Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd., 1971)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (London: Virago, 1977)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016)
References
1970 non-fiction books
Books by Kate Millett
Doubleday (publisher) books
English-language books
Feminist criticism of marriage
Radical feminist books
Second-wave feminism |
6902141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3voa%20Seman%C3%A1rio | Póvoa Semanário | Póvoa Semanário is one of the three main local newspapers of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Its current editor-in-chief is Catarina Pessanha.
Newspapers published in Portugal
Mass media in Póvoa de Varzim |
20470229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial%200260 | Uncial 0260 | Uncial 0260 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century. The manuscript has survived in a very fragmentary condition.
Description
The codex contains some parts of the Gospel of John 1:30-32, on 2 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, 16 lines per page, in uncial letters. Coptic text is in Fayyumic dialect.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
Location
Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums (P. 5542) in Berlin.
Text
The text-type of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III. The manuscript was examined by Kurt Treu and Horseley. Iw was used in 26. edition of Novum Testamentum Graece of Nestle-Aland.
See also
List of New Testament uncials
Coptic versions of the Bible
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Kurt Treu, "Griechisch-koptische Bilinguen des Neuen Testaments", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität (Halle/Wittenberg, 1965), pp. 95-123.
G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.
U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), p. 145. [text of the codex]
Greek New Testament uncials
6th-century biblical manuscripts
Greek-Coptic diglot manuscripts of the New Testament |
20470231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Arts | Society for Arts | The Society for Arts is an American 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit arts organization focused on furthering cultural communication between Europe and the United States. It was established in 1981, and is located in the East Village, what is considered to be one of Chicago's more artistic communities along Milwaukee Avenue in the heart of the old Polish Downtown. The organization is best known for organizing the Chicago International Documentary Festival.
Building
The structure housing the Society was originally designed as a neighborhood bank by the architectural firm of Whitney & Williams. It was built in 1920, and purchased along with adjacent lots for the Society in December 1993. It was officially opened on November 3, 1994. The Society currently operates two galleries within the building, with exhibits ranging from painting, sculpture, graphics and photography to three-dimensional installations, as well as gallery talks, workshops and lectures by visiting artists and scholars.
External links
Homepage
Arts organizations established in 1981
1981 establishments in the United States
Arts organizations based in Illinois
Culture of Chicago
Art museums and galleries in Chicago
Polish-American culture in Chicago |
20470254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20Ever%20Happens | Nothing Ever Happens | "Nothing Ever Happens" is a song by the Scottish rock band Del Amitri.
Released as a single on 1 January 1990, it reached #11 in the UK Singles Chart and was the band's biggest hit in the UK; and was also a top-10 hit in Ireland, peaking at #4. It is the last track on the album Waking Hours.
Track listing
A-side
"Nothing Ever Happens"
B-side
"So Many Souls To Change"
"Don't I Look Like The Kind Of Guy You Used To Hate"
"Evidence"
References
External links
"On The Record: Justin Currie – Nothing Ever Happens by Del Amitri" at .bbc.co.uk
1989 singles
1990 singles
Del Amitri songs
1989 songs
A&M Records singles
Song recordings produced by Hugh Jones (producer) |
6902145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andmoreagain | Andmoreagain | "Andmoreagain" is a song written by Arthur Lee and performed by Love. It was first released on their 1967 album Forever Changes. The song was always a part of Lee's concert repertoire, even after disbanding Love.
Composition
"Andmoreagain" is considered to be a reminiscent of the work of Burt Bacharach, as well as Neil Young's composition "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing." It has a folksy melody and contains major-7th chords. The lyrics consist of free association on Lee's defense mechanisms. Lee has stated that the song is about addiction and sensual temptations. The song is heavily orchestrated with string instrumentation. Lee sings in a crooning voice that has been compared to Johnny Mathis. As on "The Daily Planet,"
Lee is the only band member to appear. He is joined by Wrecking Crew players Carol Kaye on bass, Don Randi on keyboards, Billy Strange on guitar, and Hal Blaine on drums.
Critical reception
Critic Matthew Greenwald of AllMusic, called "Andmoreagain" as a "another example of Arthur Lee letting the song he was writing lead him, rather than the other way around". He wrote that "its calm, infectious beauty is, in a word, mesmerizing." Ken Barnes called it "bleakly philosophical" and "apocalyptic". Jim Bickhart of Rolling Stone considered it to be one of the better tracks on the album.
Mark Ellingham included the song in The Rough Guide Book of Playlists - 5000 Songs You Must Download in 2007. Dave Thompson ranked "Andmoreagain" number 564 in his list of "1,000 Songs That Rock Your World". In 2002, the Italian Rock Magazine "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" listed the song on its 17 Critics & Their Top 50 Songs. "Rumore" ranked it as the number 296 song of all time.
References
1967 songs
Love (band) songs
Songs written by Arthur Lee (musician)
Song recordings produced by Bruce Botnick |
6902155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20and%20Let%20Live | Live and Let Live | Live and let live, describes a philosophical principle and, in short, means to live as one pleases, but also to be tolerant and let others live their way. "Live and let live" may refer to:
Film
Live and Let Live (2013 film), a 2013 documentary film about veganism
Live and Let Live (1921 film), a 1921 silent American melodrama film
Music
"Live and Let Live", a song by Love from their 1967 album Forever Changes
Live and Let Live!, a 1988 album by Bobby King and Terry Evans
"Live and Let Live", a song by Souls of Mischief from their 1993 album 93 'til Infinity
Live and Let Live, an album by South Korean singer Shin Hye-sung
Live and Let Live (Twelfth Night album), 1984
Live and Let Live (10cc album), 1977
Other uses
Origin or literary use: In "Wallenstein's Camp," the 1798 first part of Friedrich Schiller's "Wallenstein" trilogy, it is said of the imperial general Tilly: "His saying was: live and let live."
"Live and Let Live", the official motto of Liberland
Live and let live (World War I), a system of conflict avoidance used in trench warfare in World War I
Live and Let Live, an 1837 novel by Catharine Sedgwick
Live and Let Live is also considered the political concept of the Habsburg ruling family, with which they successfully organized their communities for centuries with tolerance and balance in terms of peoples, ethnic groups, languages and religions.
See also
Live and Let Die (disambiguation) |
44497394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20I-League%202nd%20Division | 2015 I-League 2nd Division | The 2015 I-League 2nd Division was the eighth season of the I-League 2nd Division, the second division of football in India. Eight clubs participated this season, including Mohammedan, after they were relegated from the I-League last season. Aizawl F.C. won the league and will be the first team from Mizoram to play in I-League in 2015–16 I-League season.
Venues
The double-leg league was held in two venues Kanchenjunga Stadium, Siliguri and SSB Ranidanga Stadium, Golaghat respectively.
The initial seven rounds of matches were held in Siliguri, the return legs were held in Golaghat.
Team overview
Location and coaches
League table
Results
References
External links
Table, Fixtures, and Results at I-League website.
I-League 2nd Division seasons
3 |
20470277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa%20Mont%C3%A9s | Elisa Montés | Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella (born 15 December 1934, in Granada), known as Elisa Montés, is a Spanish actress who took her pseudonym from the celebrated work of her grandfather, Manuel Penella, El gato montés.
Montés is the sister of actresses Emma Penella (1930–2007) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017), daughter of Magdalena Penella Silva and the law politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso, and granddaughter and great-granddaughter to composers Manuel Penella and Manuel Penella Raga. She was married to actor Antonio Ozores. The daughter of this marriage, Emma Ozores, has also dedicated herself to acting.
On October 12, 2017 she received the ASFAAN award by Alberto Dell'Acqua and Emma Ozores.
Selected filmography
Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)
Noi siamo le colonne (1956)
The Battalion in the Shadows (1957)
Faustina (1957)
Gibraltar (1964)
Django the Condemned (1965)
Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1965)
I due toreri (1965)
Erik, the Viking (1965)
Texas, Adios (1966)
Return of the Seven (1966)
Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Mutiny at Fort Sharpe (1966)
Maneater of Hydra (1967)
The Cobra (1967)
99 Women (1969)
The Girl from Rio (1969)
Captain Apache (1971)
Ambitious (1976)
Awards
Valladolid Festival. Best actress for La vida en un bloc (1956).
Prize of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers (1955). Best supporting actress for Últimas banderas.
Prize of the National Syndicate of the Spectacle for Abiciosa (1975).
References
External links
Filmography at Hoycinema (in Spanish)
Biography (in Spanish)
Entry in Dictionario del teatro at Google Books
1934 births
Living people
People from Granada
20th-century Spanish actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses |
44497396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Hours | Bernard Hours | Bernard Hours, born on 5 May 1956 in Strasbourg, is a French businessman. He was the managing director of Danone and a member of the board of directors of the company. He was also a member of the executive committee of Danone.
Education
Hours graduated from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in 1978.
Career
Hours began his career at Unilever in 1979 as Product Manager and Brand Manager. He progressively became an expert in the food sector.
In 1985, he joined the Danone marketing group at Kronenbourg. From 1989 and 2001, he was the Director of Sales of Evian, and then Director of Marketing for Danone France, later becoming the President of Danone Hungary (1994), Danone Germany (1996) and finally President of LU France in 1998.
In November 2001, Hours was named the Vice-President of the Fresh Dairy Products division and became the President in March 2002. In November 2006 he also took charge of the Research and Development at Danone.
In 2008, Hours was managing director of Danone, responsible for four operating divisions of the group: fresh dairy products, waters, baby nutrition, and medical nutrition, as well as of research and development.
Hours contributed significantly to sales growth between 2007 and 2013, which amounted to an increase of 36.4% (from 14 to 22 billion euros) during this period. He exercised is responsible for all activities of Danone, encompassing around 100,000 people in and 100 countries.
In 2014, at the time of a change of governance, Hours ended his position as managing director of Danone, by the decision of the Administrative Counsel.
Other Activities
Hours is a member of the Administrative Counsel of Essilor as an independent director and a member of the Administrative Counsel of the investment holding Verlinvest and its participation Vita Coco. He is also e member of the Supervisory Board of Somfy.
References
1956 births
Living people
People from Strasbourg
French businesspeople |
44497398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight%20Music%20Hall | Gaslight Music Hall | Gaslight Music Hall is an Australian television series which aired from 1959 to 1960. Originally aired on ABC, it later moved to TCN-9. Produced in Sydney, it was a live variety show spoofing Victorian music hall. Cast included Henry Gilbert, John Bluthal, June Salter, and Michael Cole. According to a section of TV Merry-Go-Round in the 27 September 1959 edition of Sydney Morning Herald, the first episode included a comedy sketch spoofing melodrama.
References
External links
Gaslight Music Hall on IMDb
1959 Australian television series debuts
1960 Australian television series endings
Australian variety television shows
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Australian live television series |
20470280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Colgan%20Hut | Neil Colgan Hut | The Neil Colgan Hut is an alpine hut located at an altitude of on the Fay Glacier in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, Canada. It is in a col between Mount Little and Mount Bowlen, one of the peaks overlooking the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The hut is maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada and is the highest permanent structure in Canada. It is named for hiker and adventurer Neil M. Colgan (1953–1979).
The hut can accommodate 18 in the summer and 16 in the winter and is equipped with propane-powered lamps and a stovetop. There is one outdoor drum toilet at the facility.
Reaching the hut from Fay Hut requires approximately 4 to 6 hours of glacier travel, or 8 to 12 hours climbing the Perren Route from Moraine Lake.
Nearby
Fay Hut
Valley of the Ten Peaks
Further reading
Lynn Martel, Tales and Trails: Adventures for Everyone in the Canadian Rockies, P 76, 90,
The American Alpine Club Golden, The American Alpine Club Banff, Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2004, P 7
Andrew Hempstead, Moon Canadian Rockies: Including Banff & Jasper National Parks
References
External links
Neil Colgan Hut at the Alpine Club of Canada
Mountain huts in Canada
Kootenay National Park
Buildings and structures in British Columbia |
44497403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tynan | Michael Tynan | Michael John Tynan MD FRCP (born 18 April 1934) was Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Guy’s Hospital (1982-99) and is a member of Cambridge University’s Paediatric Cardiology Hall of Fame.
Tynan was born on 18 April 1934, the son of Jerry Joseph Tynan (a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force) and Florence Ann Tynan. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the London Hospital.
Tynan was a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Medical School (1962)
and a Senior Assistant Resident at the Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts (1962). He was Registrar of Westminster Hospital (1964) and Registrar (later Lecturer) at Great Ormond Street Hospital (1966). Tynan was also consultant paediatric cardiologist at Newcastle University Hospitals (1971) and at Guy’s Hospital (1977) before taking up his professorship at Guy’s Hospital in 1982.
Tynan married Eirlys Pugh Williams in 1958. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club, London.
Publications
Paediatric Cardiology, a Textbook, 1983 (jointly)
Articles on Nomenclature and Classification of congenital heart diseases and on heart diseases in children
References
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
British cardiologists
1934 births
People educated at Bedford Modern School
Living people |
44497450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne%20znam%20%C5%A1ta%20%C4%87u%20majko | Ne znam šta ću majko | Ne znam šta ću majko (I Don't Know What I'll Do Mother) is the fifth release by Bosnian folk singer Zehra Deović. It was released 11 May 1966 through the label PGP-RTB.
Track listing
Personnel
Ansambl Miodraga Todorovića – ensemble
References
1966 EPs
Zehra Deović albums
PGP-RTB EPs |
44497451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1cio | Estácio | Estácio may refer to:
Estácio de Sá, a Portuguese soldier who was a founder of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Estácio Coimbra, a Brazilian politician
Estácio, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Estácio Station, a subway station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Estácio S.A., an education company in Brazil |
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