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6902174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Foley | Dominic Foley | Dominic Joseph Foley (born 7 July 1976) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
He played for nine clubs in England, finding stability in his late 20s and 30s in Belgium, where he represented two teams.
Football career
England
Foley was born in Cork. In 1995, at the age of 19, he was signed by English First Division club Wolverhampton Wanderers from St. James's Gate. He made his debut on 18 November as a substitute in a 1–3 away loss against Oldham Athletic, but never managed to earn a regular place, and appeared in just 29 competitive matches in four seasons combined at Molineux Stadium.
To gain playing time, Foley was loaned several times in the following years, to Watford, Notts County and Greek club Ethnikos Piraeus FC. He eventually moved to Watford, signed by Graham Taylor – who had originally brought him to Wolverhampton – on a free transfer.
Foley played 12 times in his first year with the Hornets (one goal), also making his Premier League debut. Even though the campaign ended in relegation, he received his first call-up to the Republic of Ireland national team; his debut came on 30 May 2000 in a 1–2 friendly defeat to Scotland; five days later, his second cap, against Mexico, saw him score the first of his two international goals, with all six appearances coming during the year.
Early into 2000–01, Foley netted a last-minute winner against Barnsley, but overall found playing opportunities scarce, being successively loaned by the Vicarage Road side to Queens Park Rangers (two spells), Swindon Town, Southend United and Oxford United.
Braga
Foley left England in 2003 for Portuguese club S.C. Braga, being scarcely used during one sole season, after which he returned to his country after one decade by signing for Bohemians.
He impressed in the team's 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup game against Belgium's K.A.A. Gent, who bought him soon afterwards.
Belgium and later years
Foley established at the Ghelamco Arena, scoring six goals in 25 Belgian First Division A appearances his first season and bettering his totals in the following two campaigns, netting in double digits (respectively ten and 11) as the Flemish club finished fourth and sixth in the table, respectively; additionally, he helped it reach the semi-finals of the Belgian Cup in 2007, scored three goals in that year's UEFA Intertoto Cup to help his team reach the third round, notably netting against Cliftonville F.C. in a 2–0 home win (6–0 on aggregate), and was named club captain at the start of 2007–08.
Foley helped Gent reach the final of the domestic cup in 2007–08, opening the score against R.S.C. Anderlecht after just six minutes but eventually losing the match 2–3. The next season, however, new coach Michel Preud'homme rarely used him in his starting eleven and, with the player's contract due to expire, he was sold during the winter break to fellow league side Cercle Brugge KSV.
On 22 February 2012, aged nearly 36, Foley returned to his homeland and joined Limerick FC, having been released by Cercle the previous day.
Transfer controversies
Foley caused controversy in 2005 when he successfully had his contract with Bohemians terminated over the failure of payment by the club of "bonuses". He then signed for Gent which had played against the Irish side only a few weeks before, sparking rumours of secret meetings between player and management after the match.
In 2009, Gent accused Cercle Brugge of secret reunions with Foley before he was allowed to engage in conversations in order to discuss his future. With his contract due to expire at the end of the season, the former's general manager, Michel Louwagie, claimed the player had discussed a contract before the allowed date of 1 January, saying: "I don't at all appreciate the way Cercle have behaved in relation to Foley. It is against the rules." On 21 January, Cercle announced that Foley had signed a three-year contract with the club, starting in June 2009. On the 27th, however, both clubs agreed on an immediate transfer during the winter transfer window.
Honours
Limerick
League of Ireland First Division: 2012
Munster Senior Cup: 2011–12
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
People from Cork (city)
Association footballers from County Cork
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Association football forwards
St James's Gate F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Watford F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Bohemian F.C. players
Limerick F.C. players
Super League Greece players
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players
Primeira Liga players
S.C. Braga players
Belgian First Division A players
K.A.A. Gent players
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
Republic of Ireland international footballers
Republic of Ireland under-21 international footballers
Republic of Ireland B international footballers
Republic of Ireland expatriate association footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
Irish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Irish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Irish expatriate sportspeople in Greece |
17334432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20O%27Neill | Marty O'Neill | Marty O'Neill (born June 6, 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former lacrosse player and former General Manager of the Minnesota Swarm (2004-2011) and Philadelphia Wings (2001-2004) of the National Lacrosse League (NLL). O'Neill, a goaltender, joined the Boston Blazers of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (predecessor of the NLL) in 1993.O'Neill played eight season of Pro lacrosse, five seasons with the Boston Blazers, one with the Syracuse Smash, and two with the Buffalo Bandits before retiring after the 2000 season. He was voted the Blazer's MVP by his teammates in Boston for both the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
O'Neill was hired as the General Manager of the Philadelphia Wings in June 2001, and assumed a Championship roster that was decimated by expansion of four teams and retirement of Dan Radebaugh and Jay Jalbert. He led the Wings to only one playoff appearance in three years with an overall record of 23-26 and was fired after the 2004 season. Only three months later, O'Neill was hired by the Minnesota Swarm to be their first-ever GM. The Swarm finished 5th and missed the playoffs in their first year, but improved their record and made the playoffs in each of the next three seasons. For his efforts, O'Neill was named NLL GM of the Year in both 2007 and 2008, becoming the first multiple winner of the award.
O'Neill played 11 seasons with the Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association Senior "A" League, one season in the Ontario Senior A Lacrosse League with the Six Nations Chiefs, and two seasons of Sr. B lacrosse is Ladner, British Columbia. With the Shamrocks, O'Neill won 2 Mann Cups (1997, 1999), and 1 with Six Nations (1995). As a Senior lacrosse player, O'Neill played 162 games in net with 110 assists and 193 penalty minutes. During this time, in the playoffs O'Neil played 82 games, scored 1 goal (1996), 51 assists, and had 148 penalty minutes. O'Neill did not play Junior Lacrosse and was a walk on for the Senior "A" Victoria Payless in 1987.
O'Neill has been involved in the design and production of equipment for the sport of indoor "box" lacrosse since 1997 with Maximum Lacrosse, also known as Maxlax.
Statistics
NLL
Junior/Senior
References
Awards
1964 births
Living people
Buffalo Bandits players
National Lacrosse League major award winners
Sportspeople from Winnipeg |
44497485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20French%20legislative%20election%20in%20Gabon%E2%80%93Moyen%20Congo | 1951 French legislative election in Gabon–Moyen Congo | Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Gabon and French Congo on 17 June 1951.
Results
First college
Second college: Gabon
Second College: Moyen Congo
References
Gabon
Elections in Gabon
Elections in the Republic of the Congo
1951 in Gabon
1951 in Moyen-Congo
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results |
17334438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot%20cell | Faggot cell | Faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB - M3). These promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from which the cells are given their name.
See also
Buttock cell
References
Human cells
Pathology
Hematology
Acute myeloid leukemia |
6902178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus%20moving%20group | Arcturus moving group | In astronomy, the Arcturus moving group or Arcturus stream is a moving group or stellar stream, discovered by Olin J. Eggen (1971), comprising 53 stars moving at 275,000 miles per hour, which includes the nearby bright star Arcturus. It comprises many stars which share similar proper motion and so appear to be physically associated.
This group of stars is not in the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, and has been proposed as a remnant of an ancient dwarf satellite galaxy, long since disrupted and assimilated into the Milky Way. It consists of old stars deficient in heavy elements. However, Bensby and colleagues, in analysing chemical composition of F and G dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood, found there was no difference in chemical makeup of stars from the stream, suggesting an intragalactic rather than extragalactic origin. One possibility is that the stream appeared in a manner similar to the Hercules group, which is hypothesized to have formed due to Outer Lindblad Resonance with the Galactic bar. However, it is unclear how this could produce an overdensity of stars in the thick disk.
Research from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, headed by Quentin Parker, was the first to quantify the nature of the group, though astronomers had known of its existence for some time. It was first discovered in 1971.
Other members include the red giant Kappa Gruis and the M-class stars 27 Cancri, Alpha Vulpeculae and RT Hydrae.
References
External links
Stellar streams
Boötes
Milky Way |
20470283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devrimci%20Yol | Devrimci Yol | Devrimci Yol (Turkish for "Revolutionary Path", shortly DEV-YOL) was a Turkish political movement (as opposed to a tightly structured organization) with many supporters in trade unions and other professional institutions. Its ideology was based on Marxism-Leninism but rejected both the Soviet and the Chinese model in favor of a more native Turkish model, although it was influenced by the latter. Devrimci Yol entered the political scene in Turkey on 1 May 1977 with its manifesto called bildirge. Its roots can be seen in a movement that called itself Devrimci Gençlik ("Revolutionary Youth", short DEV-GENÇ), and it followed the thesis of Mahir Çayan.
Self-portrayal
The defence in the central trial against members of Devrimci Yol at Ankara Military Court included the following lines:
"In many areas of life and many cities in Turkey Devrimci Yolcu's (follower of Devrimci Yol) can be found. They carry the name because they defend a common political view on the fight against fascism and the general problems of the revolutionary fight in our country."
The brochure published in Hamburg in November 1980 carried the emblem of the organization (fist on top of a star) and therefore the views expressed there reflect the attitude of the organization:
"Devrimci Yol calls the current regime in Turkey fascism of a colonialist type...We have seen that the anti-fascist fight is closely related to the fight against imperialism...The armed struggle merely means to systematize and extend the scattered resistance against fascism."(page 25)
External sources
In a report on the central trial against Devrimci Yol in Ankara Amnesty International wrote in June 1988:
Dev-Yol had no formal membership and gathered its supporters among people sharing the views expressed in a journal under the same name. Until the military coup in September 1980 this journal was legal like many other political publications."
In April 1997, the Swiss Refugee Support Organization (in German Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe, SFH) published a report simply called "Türkei - Turquie". The report included detailed information on many legal and illegal Turkish and Kurdish organization. On Devrimci Yol, it stated inter alia:
"The organization was led by a collective. In the indictments against Dev-Yol the members of the central committee were named as: , Nasuh Mitap, Ali Başpınar, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Akın Dirik, Melih Pekdemir, Ali Alfatlı, and Taner Akçam. Devrimci Yol quickly developed to a mass movement and had tens of thousands followers in a short time. Before the military coup its publication had a circulation of 115,000."
The question of violence
"The journal and supporters of Dev-Yol were not opposed to violence but tried to put into practice a defence policy centred around the idea of 'committees of resistance', which were to counter attacks against the population by right-wing militants known as the Grey Wolves." The first resistance committees (direniş komiteleri) were formed because Devrimci Yol believed that there was a civil war in Turkey. Arms were to be used in defence. One of the main goals of the committees was the establishment of cooperatives of production. In Fatsa, for instance, a hazelnut cooperative was founded.
Yet militants of Devrimci Yol were not only engaged in bitter fighting against right wing militants but also clashed with other left groups. In these fights, some 5,000 people lost their lives before the military coup of September 1980. Actually the defence in the central trial against Devrimci Yol presented more detailed figures. According to these figures, among the total of 5,388 victims, 2,109 had been left-wingers, 1,286 had been right-wingers, and 268 had belonged to other groups. Besides 94 children killed in these fights, 281 members of the security forces had been killed. In 1,350 cases it had been impossible to determine the background.
Resistance committees in practice
The resistance committees (organized in factories or quarters) were put to the test during the incidents in Çorum in July 1980. Just like the conflict in Kahramanmaraş in December 1978, the clashes in Çorum seemed to emerge from religious tensions between the dominant Sunnites and the minority of Alevites, but at the same time, they were a battle between right and left wing groups for domination in the town. The committees in the quarters erected barricades trying to avoid further losses.
Although a curfew was announced and the military intervened, some 50 people were killed. While the conflict in Çorum was still continuing, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel intervened by saying Çorum'u bırak, Fatsa'ya bak (Leave Çorum and look at Fatsa). He was referring to the district town at the Black Sea of (at the time some 20,000 inhabitants) who in 1979 had elected Fikri Sönmez, known as terzi Fikri ("Tailor Fikri") as mayor with 62% of the votes. The words of Demirel resulted in the so-called "point operation" (nokta operasyonu), a military operation that destroyed the project of self-administration in Fatsa (in German :de:Selbstverwaltung in Fatsa). More than 1,000 people were detained. The military operation in Fatsa was often termed rehearsal for the coup.
Prosecution of Devrimci Yol members
After the military coup of 12 September 1980, tens of thousands of men and women were taken into custody. More than 30,000 were jailed in the first four months after the coup. Alleged members of Devrimci Yol were detained in many parts of the country and tried at military courts. Many of these trials involved several hundred defendants.
Mass trials
The list of mass trials against alleged members of Devrimci Yol and the number of death penalties passed in these trials is based on press reports collected by the alternative türkeihilfe
Executions
Between 1980 and 1984 a total of 50 people including 27 political prisoners were executed in Turkey. Members of Devrimci Yol executed for violent activities were:
Veysel Güney in Gaziantep on 11 June 1981
Mustafa Özenç in Adana on 20 August 1981
İlyas Has in İzmir on 7 October 1984
Hıdır Aslan in Burdur on 25 October 1984
Deaths in custody
After the military coup of September 1980 the number of deaths in custody increased decisively. Many of them were alleged to be the result of torture. The victims included persons who had been detained on suspicion of being members of Devrimci Yol. They included:
Zeynel Abidin Ceylan in Ankara on 26 September 1980
Cemil Kırbayır in Kars on 9 October 1980
Behçet Dinlerer in Ankara on 15 October 1980
Himmet Uysal in Uşak on 30 October 1980
Cengiz Aksakal in Artvin on 12 November 1980
Zafer Müctebaoğlu in Ankara on 15 October 1982
Şerafettin Tırıç in Fatsa on 10 August 1985
Current situation
Some cadres of Devrimci Yol, who managed to leave the country formed an organization in Europe called Devrimci İşçi (Revolutionary Worker) and for some time published a paper called Demokrat Türkiye, but later dissolved. In April 1991 the Law to Fight Terrorism (Law 3713) entered into force in Turkey. Temporary Article 1 of this law provided that all death sentences would be commuted to 10 years' imprisonment. Subsequently most long-term prisoners including the leading members of Devrimci Yol were released. Most of them joined the Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi, ÖDP). Some people tried to revive Devrimci Yol. Attempts can be seen around journals such as Yön (Direction), Devrim (Revolution), Devrimci Gençlik (Revolutionary Youth), Liseli Genç Umut (Hope for Youth at School) or Halkın Sesi (Voice of the people). Other attempts of reorganizing the group have remained at a low level.
References
External links
Devrimci Yol Archive
1977 establishments in Turkey
1985 disestablishments in Turkey
Communist organizations in Turkey
Far-left politics in Turkey
Left-wing militant groups in Turkey
Organizations disestablished in 1985
Organizations established in 1977 |
20470321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Park%20%28Manchester%29 | Northwest Park (Manchester) | Northwest Park (Manchester) is a baseball field located in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. The field is the former home of the Manchester Silkworms of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. It played host to the Silkworms between 2000 and 2009. The field's location places Union Pond behind a stand of trees located past the outfield.
External links
Manchester Silkworms website
NECBL website
Notes
New England Collegiate Baseball League ballparks
Baseball venues in Connecticut
Sports in Manchester, Connecticut |
6902187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox%20Mystique | Matrox Mystique | The Mystique and Mystique 220 were 2D, 3D, and video accelerator cards for personal computers designed by Matrox, using the VGA connector. The original Mystique was introduced in 1996, with the slightly upgraded Mystique 220 having been released in 1997.
History
Matrox had been known for years as a significant player in the high-end 2D graphics accelerator market. Cards they produced were Windows accelerators, and the company's Millennium card, released in 1995, supported MS-DOS as well. In 1996 Next Generation called Millenium "the definitive 2D accelerator." With regard to 3D acceleration, Matrox stepped forward in 1994 with their Impression Plus. However, that card only could accelerate a very limited feature set, and was primarily targeted at CAD applications. The Impression could not perform hardware texture mapping, for example, requiring Gouraud shading or lower-quality techniques. Very few games took advantage of the 3D capabilities of Impression Plus, with the only known games being the three titles that were bundled with the card in its '3D Superpack' CD bundle: 3D fighting game, Sento by 47 Tek; 3D space combat game, IceHawk by Amorphous Designs, and Specter MGA (aka Specter VR) by Velocity.
The newer Millennium card also contained 3D capabilities similar to the Impression Plus, and was nearly as limited. Without support for texturing, the cards were very limited in visual enhancement capability. The only game to be accelerated by the Millennium was the CD-ROM version of NASCAR Racing, which received a considerable increase in speed over software rendering but no difference in image quality. The answer to these limitations, and Matrox's first attempt at targeting the consumer gaming PC market, would be the Matrox Mystique. It was based heavily on the Millennium but with various additions and some cost-cutting measures.
Overview
The Mystique was a 64-bit 2D GUI and video accelerator (MGA1064SG) with 3D acceleration support. Mystique has "Matrox Simple Interface" (MSI) rendering API. It was one of many early products by add-in graphics board vendors that attempted to achieve good combined 2D & 3D performance for consumer-level personal computers. The board used a 64-bit SGRAM memory interface (Synchronous Graphics RAM) instead of the more expensive WRAM (Window RAM) aboard the Matrox Millennium. SGRAM offered performance approaching WRAM, but it was cheaper. Mystique came in configurations ranging from 2 MB SGRAM up to 8 MB. Mystique also had various ports on the card for memory expansion and additional hardware peripherals. The 8 MB configuration used the memory expansion module. Add-on cards from Matrox included the Rainbow Runner Video, a board offering MPEG-1 and AVI video playback with video inputs and outputs. The other add-on was called Rainbow Runner TV, an ISA-based TV tuner card for watching TV on PC.
Mystique's 2D performance was very close to that of the much more expensive Millennium card, especially at XGA 1024x768 resolution and lower, where the SGRAM bandwidth was not a performance hindrance. The Mystique used an internal 170 MHz RAMDAC, reduced from the external 220 MHz RAMDAC onboard Millennium, making it the first Matrox video processor using an internal RAMDAC. The frequency reduction affected the maximum refresh rate the card could run at high resolutions, crippling the Mystique for users of displays running UXGA 1600x1200, for example. Its 2D performance was measured as excellent, beating its peers such as the S3 ViRGE-based and the ATI Mach64-based video cards.
Mystique was Matrox's most feature-rich 3D accelerator in 1997, but still lacked key features including bilinear filtering, fogging, and anti-aliasing support. Instead, the Mystique uses nearest-neighbor interpolation, causing heavy pixelization in textures, and stippled textures for transparency. Without mipmapping support, textures in the distance appear to "swim", waving around and appearing "noisy", because the texture detail wasn't being properly managed and this caused texture aliasing. The company's reasoning for not including the higher-quality features was that performance was more important than visual quality. At the time, semiconductor fabrication processes and 3D hardware architecture design expertise was limited. Including bilinear filtering would have incurred a significant cost in the chip's transistor budget for more computational resources and potentially reduce graphics core clock speed and performance due to a larger chip design. There was also the manufacturing cost consideration that comes with a larger processor size. Matrox's words were not without weight because the Mystique did handily outperform the other 2D/3D boards at the time, such as S3 ViRGE and early ATI Rage products, although its visual quality was lower than those accelerators.
In general, compared to its peers, the Matrox Mystique was a competent board with its own set of advantages and disadvantages as was typical in this era of early 3D accelerators. It performed well for an early 2D/3D combo card, but it had questionable 3D visual quality. Its 2D support rivaled the best cards available for performance and quality, however. It was not uncommon to pair up the Mystique or another Matrox card with a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 3D-only board because the Voodoo cards were the fastest and most well-supported 3D accelerators at the time. Detractors, however, referred to the card as the "Matrox Mystake".
Driver support for the Mystique was robust at launch. The card directly supported all of Microsoft's operating systems including MS-DOS, Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Mystique also supported IBM's OS/2 operating system. The retail version of Mystique included 3 3D game titles, including: MechWarrior 2 Mystique edition, Destruction Derby 2, and Scorched Planet.
Mystique 220
Matrox released a newer version of the Mystique in 1997. The name gives the only significant change, that being the RAMDAC running at 220 MHz . This made the Mystique equivalent to the original Millennium for high-resolution 2D resolution support. The chip on the board was called MGA1164SG instead of MGA1064SG (original Mystique) as well. Otherwise, the card was identical in feature-set to the original Mystique and offered almost identical performance.
A special business-oriented version of Mystique 220, called Mystique 220 Business, was launched as well. This card came with a different software bundle targeting business users and excluding the games. The actual hardware was identical.
Legacy
The memory and internal RAMDAC programming interface lived on in MGA-G100 and later processors, until the introduction of Matrox Parhelia.
Competing 2D/3D chipsets
ATI Rage
Rendition Vérité V1000
S3 ViRGE
NVIDIA NV1
References
External links
MatroxUsers Forum
Graphics chips
Graphics cards |
20470325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Serti%C4%87 | Ivan Sertić | Ivan Sertić (born 27 February 1985) is a retired Croatian football forward.
Career
Sertić start to play football in NK Rijeka. Between 2001 and 2003 Sertić is a part of Croatia national under-17 football team.
In 2005, he is loaned in NK Novalja for six months.
In season 2007/08 the forward played for NK Pomorac.
In summer 2008 he signed a contract with Bulgarian Belasitsa Petrich. Sertić made his official debut for the Bulgarian club on 10 August 2008 in a match against CSKA Sofia as a 74th min substitute. On 8 November 2008 he scored his first goal for Belasitsa in a match against Litex Lovech.
In July 2015, Sertić returned to his former club HNK Orijent 1919. Two years later, in June 2017, he announced his retirement from football.
References
External links
Ivan Sertić profile at Nogometni Magazin
Ivan Sertić at HNS
1985 births
Living people
Croatian footballers
Croatian expatriate footballers
Croatia youth international footballers
Croatian First Football League players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
HNK Rijeka players
PFC Belasitsa Petrich players
NK Pomorac 1921 players
NK Novalja players
HNK Orijent 1919 players
NK Jadran Poreč players
NK Grobničan players
Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Sportspeople from Rijeka
Association football forwards |
6902188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Red%20Telephone%20%28song%29 | The Red Telephone (song) | "The Red Telephone" is a song written by Arthur Lee and first released by Love on their 1967 album Forever Changes.
Lyrics and music
According to legend, the house that the members of Love lived in had a red telephone, although the song lyrics do not relate to this. "The Red Telephone" is built on a set of folk-inspired chords. The song has been compared to Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. Themes of the song include race, imprisonment, and death. It contains a harpsichord and 12-string guitar, and has an ominous feel. "Sometimes my life is so eerie," Lee sings, but then inverts the dark mood with "and if you think I'm happy / Paint me white."
Reception
Allmusic's Matthew Greenwald called "The Red Telephone" "exquisite" and wrote, "it's one of the more engaging and interesting songs on Love's Forever Changes album." Ken Barnes called it "bleakly philosophical" and "apocalyptic". Jim Bickhart of Rolling Stone gave it a mixed review, writing "it contains both excellent and mediocre portions."
Jocelyn Manchec listed the song among the 2000 songs for your MP3 Player. In 2002 the Italian Rock Magazine "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" listed the song on its 17 Critics & Their Top 50 Songs.
References
1967 songs
Love (band) songs
Songs written by Arthur Lee (musician)
Song recordings produced by Bruce Botnick |
17334494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20Combined%20Arms%20Army | 41st Combined Arms Army | The 41st Combined Arms Army () is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, currently part of the Central Military District. Originally, it was formed in 1942 as part of the Soviet Red Army, during World War II. It was reformed in 1998, when the Transbaikal Military District and Siberian Military District were amalgamated.
Soviet Union
The 41st army was created in May 1942, on the base of Nikolai Berzarin and German Tarasov's operational groups. Its structure also included the 134th, 135th, 179th and 234th Rifle Divisions, the 17th Guards Rifle Division, the 21st Tank Brigade, two separate Guards mortar battalions, and several other separate elements.
From May to November 1942, the army was focused on defending the South-Western approach to the city of Bely. In late November, the army joined the Rzhev offensive operation (also known as "Operation Mars"). During that time, the army was engaged with the Wehrmacht XLI Panzer Corps. The army's offensive failed, and they were surrounded by the German XXX Army Corps (Germany). By December 8, the surrounded forces were destroyed.
In March 1943, the newly reinforced 41st Army joined the Rzhev-Vyazma operation. The offensive was a success and German forces in the Rzhev-Vyazma area were annihilated. Following the operation, the forces of the army were transferred to the 39th Army and the 43rd Army, while the 41st Army itself was sent to the STAVKA reserves. On April 9, 1943, the army was disbanded and its remaining forces would form the Reserve Front.
Russian Federation
The 41st Army was reformed on 1 December 1998 from the former headquarters of the Siberian Military District at Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Military District. In 2002, the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated to Aleysk and became part of the army. During the Russian military reform in 2009, the division was converted into the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. On 1 September 2010, the army was transferred to the Central Military District after the Siberian Military District was disbanded.
A dedicated electronic warfare battalion is scheduled to be formed within the 41st Combined Arms Army by the end of 2019.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
In the context of the 2021 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, major elements of the 41st Army were reported to have deployed west to reinforce units in the Western and Southern Military Districts confronting Ukraine. These units were said to include elements of the 35th, 55th Mountain and 74th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigades, as well as elements of the 120th Artillery Brigade, and 119th Missile Brigade, and the 6th Tank Regiment of the 90th Tank Division. All told, some 700 MBTs, IFVs, and SPHs, as well as Iskander ballistic missile launchers were reported to have been repositioned to the west.
Starting during the early hours of February 24, 2022, elements of the 41st Army participated in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, entering from the area of tripartite border (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and heading towards Kyiv, forming part of the Kyiv offensive (2022). Along the general direction toward Kyiv, it is believed that the 41st Army participated in the operation to attack and occupy the working Chernobyl power station.
Major-General Andrei Sukhovetsky, the deputy chief of the 41st army, was killed during the invasion on February 28. Major-General Vitaly Gerasimov, chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st army, was also killed on March 7 according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.
Parts of the 41st Combinded Arms Army were part of the forces fighting in the Battle of Siverskyi Donets.
Structure
June 1, 1942:
17th Guards Rifle Division
134th Rifle Division
135th Rifle Division
179th Rifle Division
234th Rifle Division
21st Armoured Brigade
Separate Engineer and Artillery units
September 1, 1942:
17th Guards Rifle Division
134th Rifle Division
179th Rifle Division
234th Rifle Division
21st Armoured Brigade
104th Armoured Brigade
Separate Engineer and Artillery units
December 1, 1942:
6th Rifle Corps
150th Rifle Division
74th Rifle Brigade
75th Rifle Brigade
78th Rifle Brigade
91st Rifle Brigade
17th Guards Rifle Division
93rd Rifle Division
134th Rifle Division
234th Rifle Division
262nd Rifle Division
1st Mechanized Corps
19th Mechanized Brigade
35th Mechanized Brigade
37th Mechanized Brigade
65th Tank Brigade
219th Tank Brigade
47th Mechanized Brigade
48th Mechanized Brigade
104th Armoured Brigade
154th Armoured Brigade
Separate Engineer and Artillery units
March 1, 1943:
17th Guards Rifle Division
93rd Rifle Division
134th Rifle Division
262nd Rifle Division
75th Rifle Brigade
78th Rifle Brigade
Separate Engineer and Artillery units
2009 composition
Headquarters - Novosibirsk
85th Motor Rifle Division - Novosibirsk
122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division - Aleysk
74th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade - Yurga
many other storage bases
2016 composition
Army Headquarters (Novosibirsk)
35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Aleysk)
55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade (Kyzyl, Tuva Republic)
7th Tank Brigade (Chebarkul Oblast) (together with the 32nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade the 7th Tank Brigade was used to form the 90th Guards Tank Division in December 2016)
74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Yurga)
119th Rocket Brigade (Yelansky) Brigade location now reported as Abakan in Khakassia.
120th Guards Artillery Brigade (Yurga)
61st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Biysk)
35th Headquarters Brigade (Kochenyovo)
106th Separate Logistic Support Brigade (Yurga)
10th Separate NBC Protection Regiment (Topchikha)
Later (at least by 2020) the 24th (Kyzyl) and the 40th Engineer-Sapper Regiments (Ishim, Tyumen Oblast) were subordinated to the army.
Commanders
Soviet formation
Major General German Tarasov (May - December 1942)
Major General Ivan Managarov (December 1942 -March 1943)
Major General Iosif Popov (March - April 1943)
Russian formation
Lieutenant General Aleksandr Morozov (July 1998 - June 2001)
Lieutenant General Vladimir Kovrov (June 2001 - July 2003)
Major General (July 2003 - August 2004)
Lieutenant General Arkady Bakhin (October 2004 - January 2006)
Major General Aleksandr Galkin (January 2006 - April 2008)
Major General (May 2008 - June 2009)
Lieutenant General (June 2009 - October 2013)
Major General Khasan Kaloyev (October 2013 - January 2016)
Major General (January 2016 - November 2018)
Major General Yakov Rezantsev (November 2018 - August 2020)
Major General (August 2020 – present)
References
41st Army
60 лет Победы. 41-я армия
Russian Military Analisis, warfare.ru
041
Armies of the Russian Federation |
20470375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Tower%20%28Abuja%29 | Millennium Tower (Abuja) | The Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre project is one of a number of projects in the Central District of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja. At , it is the tallest artificial structure in Abuja. The tower was designed by Manfredi Nicoletti and is part of the Nigeria National Complex which also includes the Nigerian Cultural Centre, an eight-storey, low rise, pyramid shaped Cultural Centre. Construction for the tower started in 2006 and was topped out in 2014 whilst the cultural centre is still under construction.
The site is severed by a main road so the two structures will be linked via an underground arcade. The tower consists of three cylindrical concrete pillar-like structures varying in height and linked together near the towers first peak using a disc shaped section which is intended to house in its two floors, an observation deck and a viewing restaurant. Around the pillars of the tower three transparent stainless steel wings wrap around the base of the tower and gradually open outwards in a fan like fashion as they extend up the height of the tower.
See also
List of towers
References
External links
Manfredi Nicoletti Abuja National Complex project
Construction photo on Immaginionline.net
Abuja architecture
Buildings and structures under construction in Nigeria
Neo-futurism architecture |
20470383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices%20%28Henze%29 | Voices (Henze) | Voices is a musical composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.
Written between January and June 1973, it is a collection of 22 independent songs which may be performed individually, with alterations to the instrumentation. In its full version, it is written for mezzo-soprano, tenor, electronics and fifteen instrumentalists who are required to play about 70 different instruments from all over the world. The piece consists of two parts (11 + 11 songs) and lasts 90 minutes. The polystylistic conception of "Voices" results from the different origin and message of the poems.
The songs set a diverse range of words, almost all of which are from the twentieth century, the linking theme being alienation and oppression. Henze has said: The voices of the title are those of young and old artists whose work is politically committed. These people are concerned with their fellow human beings, with the contemporary human condition within the world around them and with all the problems of race and class in which they themselves often seem fated to be embroiled. : „'Stimmen' für Hans Werner Henze. Die 22 Lieder aus 'Voices'“. Editor Peter Petersen, Hanns-Werner Heister and Hartmut Lück, Mainz, Schott 1996.
It was premiered on 4 January 1974 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with soloists Paul Sperry and Rose Taylor, and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Henze. In 1978 it was recorded the same forces, except Sarah Walker who took the mezzo role.
Songs
'Los poetas cubanos ya no sueñan' ('Cuban Poets Do Not Sleep Anymore') (Heberto Padilla)
'Prison Song' (Ho Chi Minh)
'Keiner oder alle' ('All or None') (Bertolt Brecht)
'The electric cop' (Victor Hernandez Cruz)
'The distant drum' (Calvin C. Hernton)
'42 Schulkinder' (Schoolchildren) (Erich Fried)
'Caino' (Gino de Sanctis)
'Il Pasi' (Mario Tobino)
'Heimkehr' ('Homecoming') (Heinrich Heine)
'Grecia 1970' ('Greece 1970') (Giuseppe Ungaretti)
'Legende von der Enstehung des Buches Taoteking auf dem Weg des Laotse in die Emigration' ('Legend of the Origin of the Book Tao Te Ching on Lao Tzu's Way into Exile') (Brecht)
'Gedanken eines Revuemädchens während des Entkleidungsaktes' ('Thoughts of a Showgirl as She Strips') (Brecht)
'Das wirkliche Messer' ('The Real Knife') (Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
'Recht und Billig' ('A Fair Deal') (Fried)
'Patria' (Miguel Barnet)
'Screams - Interlude' (Walton Smith)
'The worker' (Richard W. Thomas)
'Para aconsejar a una dama' ('Advice to a Lady') (Padilla)
'Roses and revolutions' (Dudley Randall)
'Vermutung über Hessen' ('Conjecture about Hessen') (F.C. Delius)
'Schluss' ('An End') (Michalis Katsaros)
'Das Blumenfest' ('Carnival of Flowers') (Enzensberger)
References
1973 compositions
Compositions by Hans Werner Henze |
20470395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McGill | William McGill | William McGill is the name of:
William McGill (politician) (1814–1883), Scottish member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
Willie McGill (1873–1944), American major league baseball pitcher
William J. McGill (1922–1997), American psychologist and university administrator
Bill McGill (1939–2014), basketball player
Bill McGill (baseball) (1880–1959), American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball
See also
William Gill (disambiguation)
McGill (surname) |
44497498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johor%20Darul%20Ta%27zim%20III%20F.C. | Johor Darul Ta'zim III F.C. | The Johor Darul Ta'zim III or simply known as JDT III (formerly known as Johor Pasir Gudang FC), is an under-21 football team. Johor Darul Ta'zim III is a feeder team for Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C., which plays in the Malaysia Premier League.
The team currently plays in the Malaysia President Cup, the under-21 competition of the Malaysian football. JDT III is managed by Ervin Boban.
History
Club's names
2015: Johor Darul Ta'zim III Football Club (Johor Darul Ta'zim III FC) (U23)
2016: Johor Darul Ta'zim III Football Club (Johor Darul Ta'zim III FC) (U21)
Honours
Domestic
League
Cups
Current squad
Johor Darul Ta'zim IV
Transfers
For recent transfers, see List of Malaysian football transfers 2020
Current coaching staff
References
External links
Youth and Academy
Football clubs in Malaysia
Malaysian reserve football teams
Football academies in Malaysia
2014 establishments in Malaysia |
6902196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Highway%2088 | Arkansas Highway 88 | Highway 88 (AR 88, Ark. 88, and Hwy. 88) is a designation for five state highways in Arkansas. All routes are maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT).
Oklahoma to Washita
Highway 88 (AR 88, Ark. 88, and Hwy. 88) is a state highway of in Western Arkansas. The route begins at the Oklahoma state line at OK-1 and runs west to Highway 27 at Washita. Between the western terminus and Mena, the route passes through the Ouachita Mountains and is designated as part of the Talimena Scenic Drive, an Arkansas Scenic Byway and National Scenic Byway.
Route description
At Mena, it runs along the north direction of U.S. 71 (geographically east) for until U.S. 71 turns back to the north. From there, Highway 88 continues east for parallelling the Ouachita River and passing through the communities of Ink, Cherry Hill, Pine Ridge and Oden before intersecting U.S. Highway 270 at Pencil Bluff. Highway 88 then continues east another passing through the community of Sims before ending at Highway 27 at Washita.
Major intersections
Mile markers reset at some concurrencies.
Hot Springs
Route description
Highway 88 begins and ends at Highway 7 in Hot Springs. It runs about 3 miles and has an intersection with the U.S. 70-270 bypass of Hot Springs along its route.
Major intersections
Lonsdale
Route description
Major intersections
Benton
Route description
A second segment of Highway 88 begins at an intersection with Highway 35 in Benton, runs for a few blocks on Military Road (a former route of U.S. 67-70 and US 70C/I-30 Business Loop), then runs west approximately 2½ miles as Alcoa Road before ending at Benton Parkway.
Major intersections
Altheimer to Reydell
Route description
Highway 88 begins at U.S. Highway 79 at Altheimer and runs south and east passing through the communities of Cornerstone, Sweden, and Swan Lake before ending at Highway 11 at Reydell.
Major intersections
See also
List of state highways in Arkansas
References
External links
National Scenic Byways
088
Transportation in Garland County, Arkansas
Transportation in Jefferson County, Arkansas
Transportation in Montgomery County, Arkansas
Transportation in Polk County, Arkansas
Transportation in Saline County, Arkansas
Interstate 30
U.S. Route 67
U.S. Route 70 |
6902197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Sullivan | Fort Sullivan | Fort Sullivan may refer to:
United States
Florida
Fort Sullivan (see List of forts in Florida)
Maine
Fort Sullivan (Maine), near Eastport
Fort Sullivan (1775-1866), in Kittery, Maine opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire, now Portsmouth Naval Prison
Pennsylvania
Fort Sullivan from the Sullivan Expedition of the Revolutionary War, near Athens
South Carolina
Fort Sullivan (South Carolina) (see Fort Moultrie), on Sullivan's Island |
17334496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet%20carrier | Fleet carrier | A fleet carrier is an aircraft carrier designed to operate with the main fleet of a nation's navy. The term was developed during World War II, to distinguish it from the escort carrier and other less capable types. In addition to many medium-sized carriers, supercarriers, as well as some light carriers, are also classed as fleet carriers.
History
Aircraft carriers were designed in the years between World War I and World War II. Flight decks were installed on several different types of ships to explore the possibilities of operating naval aircraft without the performance limitations of flotation devices required for seaplanes and flying boats. The most successful of these early aircraft carriers were built from battlecruisers. Battlecruisers typically had a speed of about , which was several knots faster than the speed of contemporary battleships. Additional speed was not necessary for maintaining station with the battle fleet, but enabled the carrier to catch up with the battle fleet after temporarily leaving formation to turn into the wind for launch or recovery of aircraft. The speed of the carrier during launch effectively decreased the takeoff distance for embarked aircraft, so faster carriers could operate heavier aircraft with greater range and superior combat capability. As such naval aircraft became operational, no nation could risk fielding less capable aircraft; so the speed of later purpose-designed aircraft carriers was set by the speed of the converted battle cruisers. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 limited the displacement of purpose-designed aircraft carriers to 23,000 tons.
The idea of a modern fleet carrier was developed in 1931 by Admirals J.J. Clark and Harry E. Yarnell of the United States Navy. Fleet carriers, instead of operating as scouts for the fleet, would operate in unison with the fleet, to ward off air attacks and to strike opposing forces from the air. Cruisers and destroyers would protect fleet carriers. The fleet carriers would then displace battleships as the preeminent assets of the surface fleet. A fleet carrier would carry more than 50 aircraft, and be fast enough to keep up with other major elements of the fleet, such as cruisers and battleships.
As combat experience demonstrated the importance of aircraft carriers, numerous ships were rapidly converted to operate aircraft during World War II; and it became important to differentiate ships with the speed and size allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty from ships that were slower and/or carried fewer aircraft. Ships of similar speed carrying fewer aircraft were identified as light aircraft carriers (CVL) and ships of lower speed became known as escort aircraft carriers (CVE). Fleet aircraft carrier became the term to distinguish front-line aircraft carriers from the generic description of any warship carrying aircraft.
In the post-war era, the United States Navy sought to give aircraft carriers a strategic bombing capability in addition to their tactical role. The largest bombs carried by carrier aircraft during the second world war had been about but experience had indicated some hardened targets like submarine pens were impervious to bombs of less than . The fleet carriers of World War II were incapable of operating meaningful numbers of aircraft large enough to carry such heavy bombs over anticipated distances with performance characteristics to avoid defending aircraft. The term fleet carrier then evolved to differentiate the supercarriers designed for strategic bombing roles from the older fleet carriers delegated limited tactical roles like anti-submarine (CVS) or amphibious warfare (LPH).
Comparison of World War II fleet carriers
The following is not an exhaustive list, but does provide context by comparing some examples, from three types, of fleet carriers active during WWII.
Embarked aircraft
The earliest carrier aircraft were designed as fighters, scouts and gunfire observers. Torpedo bombers were developed to slow enemy ships so friendly battleships might catch and sink them. Dive bombing tactics were developed as aircraft strength improved through the 1930s, but limited aircraft capacity encouraged production of dual-purpose fighter-bombers or scout-bombers rather than dedicated dive bombers. Japanese and American fleet carriers usually carried fighter squadrons, torpedo bomber squadrons, and dive bomber squadrons through World War II; but British fleet carriers were less likely to include a dive bomber squadron. The fleet carriers' longer range bombers were often used for the scouting role.
By the time of the Korean War, the typical United States Navy fleet carrier embarked two squadrons of jet fighters, two squadrons of piston fighter-bombers, and a squadron of attack planes. Smaller numbers of specialized aircraft were also carried, including night fighters, night-attack bombers, and planes uniquely modified for aerial reconnaissance, airborne early warning and control (AEW), electronic countermeasures (ECM), and carrier onboard delivery (COD). When the supercarriers became operational, they carried a heavy attack squadron, two light attack squadrons, and two fighter squadrons with similar numbers of specialized aircraft, except the night fighters and bombers. As improved aircraft sensors became available, one or more full squadrons of fighters and bombers became capable of night operations.
Early United States 21st-century fleet carriers typically embarked 45 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet aircraft for traditional fighter, attack and ECM roles with twelve Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, four Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye AEW aircraft and two Grumman C-2 Greyhound COD aircraft.
See also
Escort carrier
Helicopter carrier
List of aircraft carriers
Seaplane tender
References
Aircraft carriers |
17334508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st%20Army | 41st Army | 41st Army may refer to:
Forty-First Army (Japan) (1944–1945), a part of the Imperial Japanese Army
41st Army (People's Republic of China), a former name of the 75th Group Army
41st Army (Russia), a field army of the Russian Ground Forces
See also
41st Army Corps (disambiguation)
41st Battalion (disambiguation)
41st Brigade (disambiguation)
41st Division (disambiguation)
41st Regiment (disambiguation)
41 Squadron (disambiguation) |
20470403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20United%20States%20Senate%20election%20in%20Florida | 2000 United States Senate election in Florida | The 2000 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 7, 2000, on the same date as the U.S. House of Representatives and presidential election. Incumbent Republican Senator Connie Mack III decided to retire instead of seeking a third term. Democrat Bill Nelson won the open seat, even as Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush narrowly triumphed over Al Gore in the state by a mere 537 votes.
Republican primary
Candidates
Hamilton A. S. Bartlett
Bill McCollum, U.S. Representative
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Newall Jerome Daughtrey, nominee for Florida State Comptroller in 1998
David B. Higginbottom, nominee for FL-10 in 1986 and 1988
Bill Nelson, State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative
Results
General election
Candidates
Major
Bill McCollum (R), U.S. Representative
Bill Nelson (D), State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative
Minor
Joel Deckard (Re), former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Willie Logan (I), State Representative
Andy Martin (I), perennial candidate
Darrell McCormick (I)
Joe Simonetta (NL)
Nikki Oldaker (WI)
Campaign
This election was in conjunction to the presidential election, where Bush narrowly defeated Gore after an intense recount. The Senate election was evenly matched, with two U.S. Congressmen named Bill in their mid-50s. Both parties heavily targeted this senate seat. The election became very nasty as Nelson called his opponent "an extremist who would sacrifice the elderly, the poor, and the working class to coddle the rich." McCollum called the Democrat "a liberal who would tax everything that moves, and some things that don't." The election advertisements were very negative, as both candidates talked more about each other than themselves.
Nelson raised only soft money, but had help from Gore and President Bill Clinton. Two days before the election, McCollum predicted he would win by a 6-point margin. On election day, he lost by a five-point margin.
Debates
Complete video of debate, October 12, 2000
Results
See also
2000 United States Senate elections
References
2000
Florida
2000 Florida elections |
17334510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpich%20v.%20Department%20of%20Defense | Perpich v. Department of Defense | Perpich v. Department of Defense, 496 U.S. 334 (1990), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court concerning the Militia Clauses of Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution, in which the court held that Congress may authorize members of the National Guard to be ordered to active federal duty for purposes of training outside the United States without either the consent of the governor of the affected state or the declaration of a national emergency. The plaintiff was Rudy Perpich, governor of Minnesota at the time.
In 1986, after governors George Deukmejian of California and Joseph E. Brennan of Maine refused to allow the deployment of their states' National Guard units to Central America for training, Congress passed the Montgomery Amendment, which prohibited state governors from withholding their consent. Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis had also challenged the law, but lost in U.S. District Court in Boston in 1988.
See Also
State defense force#Federal activation
References
Further reading
External links
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court
United States military case law
1990 in United States case law
National Guard (United States)
Governor of Minnesota
United States–Central American relations |
44497504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townpark | Townpark | In the history of land use in Ireland, a townpark or town park was a smallholding near a town and farmed by someone resident in the town. Typically, a major landowner provided a contiguous area near the town which was subdivided into multiple townparks, each rented on a short-term lease, for a higher rent than that paid by a full-time resident farmer.
Townlands
The Boundary Survey of 1825–44, associated with Griffith's Valuation and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, set down the names and denominations of subdivisions of land. Griffith often erected a contiguous block of townparks into a single townland named "Town Parks" or "Town Parks of [name of town]". The 1901 townland index recorded such townlands by the following towns: Ballycastle, Larne, Ballymena, Antrim, Ballymoney, Ballyhaise, Cavan, Cloyne, Midleton, Lifford, Ballyshannon, Newtownards, Skerries (Holmpatrick civil parish), Swords, Ballinasloe, Galway, Portumna, Castledermot, Athy, Birr, Daingean (then Philipstown), Carrick on Shannon, Longford, Newtown Forbes, Ardee, Dundalk, Navan, Athboy, Kells, Borris-in-Ossory, Mountmellick, Roscrea, Carrick-on-Suir, Cahir, Lismore, Delvin, Wexford, Lismore, Tallow, Tuam, Donaghadee, and Killeshandra. There were also "Town Fields" (Borrisokane), "Town Lands" (Clonakilty), "Town Lot" (Tipperary), "Town Lots" (Bantry), and "Townplots" (Kinsale and Killala). Town Parks was also the townland containing the centre of Belfast; it is listed in the 1861 index, but was entirely within the county borough boundary by 1901. Thurles Townparks is the townland, now almost entirely urbanised, around the historic centre of Thurles.
Land Acts
The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 and the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881, which were designed to enable tenant farmers to purchase their holdings from landlords, specifically excluded townparks from their terms. This led to case law interpreting the Acts' definition of "townpark", which had three components:
That they adjoin or are near a city or town;
That they bear an increased value as accommodation land beyond their ordinary letting value for merely farming purposes
That they are occupied by a person living in a city or town or its suburbs
A "town" need not be a municipality with town commissioners or other government, and conversely a place within the municipal boundary might yet be too far from the built-up area to be considered a townpark. Population was suggestive but not definitive: Portglenone with 800 people was held not to be a "town", whereas Timoleague was, with only 366.
See also
Allotment (gardening)
Sources
References
Further reading
Volume III: Index to Evidence and Appendices pp.131–132 "Townparks" refers to evidence in Volume II: Evidence and Appendices
External links
from the Placenames Database of Ireland:
Townlands called "Townparks"
Townlands called "Town Parks"
Urban agriculture
Geographic history of Ireland
19th century in Ireland
Land law
Farms in Ireland
Towns in Ireland
Townlands of Ireland |
20470456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20Reservation | Omaha Reservation | The Omaha Reservation () of the federally recognized Omaha tribe is located mostly in Thurston County, Nebraska, with sections in neighboring Cuming and Burt counties, in addition to Monona County in Iowa. As of the 2000 federal census, the reservation population was 5,194. The tribal seat of government is in Macy. The villages of Rosalie, Pender and Walthill are located within reservation boundaries, as is the northernmost part of Bancroft. Due to land sales in the area since the reservation was established, Pender has disputed tribal jurisdiction over it, to which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2016 that "the disputed land is within the reservation’s boundaries."
The reservation was established by a treaty dated March 16, 1854. The tribe chose the lands with the President's approval on May 11, 1855. A treaty on March 6, 1865, followed by two acts of Congress on June 10, 1872 and June 22, 1874, ratified the agreement.
On July 31, 1874, the tribe deeded part of its reservation to the Winnebago (also known as Ho-Chunk) to form the Winnebago Reservation just north of the Omaha Reservation. This action was ratified on August 7, 1882 and by an act on Congress dated March 3, 1893. were allotted to 1,577 Indians with the remaining land, , unallotted.
Boundary disputes
Boundary claims and areas of jurisdiction have continued to be issues for the Omaha Indian Reservation. In the late nineteenth century, Congress authorized sales of land to non-Omaha in the western portion of the reservation, where European-American farmers had settled. Due to the sales and federal legislation subsequent to the treaty establishing the reservation, a Nebraska state court in 2000 ruled that the western boundary of the reservation ended at railroad tracks east of Pender, Nebraska.
The Omaha Tribe contends that Pender is within tribal jurisdiction, as Congress did not change the boundaries of reservation, which includes most of Thurston County. The tribe says that the state does not have the power to redefine the boundary set by the Omaha treaty with the US government in 1865. It holds that although Congress authorized land sales in this area, it did not diminish the jurisdiction of the tribe within the reservation boundaries. "Under Supreme Court precedent, only Congress can diminish a reservation."
Asked for its opinion on a related matter related to the Omaha Tribe's law that liquor merchants on the reservation had to pay tribal license fees and sales taxes (see section below), the Nebraska state attorney general noted its opinion, based on Congressional laws and a field ruling during the Ronald Reagan administration, that Pender was outside the reservation boundaries. It also noted that ultimately this was a matter of federal jurisdiction.
There have been continuing issues related to tribal jurisdiction in Pender and other areas along its western boundary. For instance, in 2003 the tribal police tried to stop non-Omaha people from entering the reservation from Pender. The tribe negotiated with the state in 2003–2004 related to its policing functions in this area, but the parties signed no agreement. Prior to this period, the state generally had policing functions on the roads and in Pender.
On March 22, 2016, the United States Supreme Court held, in a unanimous decision, that Pender is within the reservation's boundaries.
Current issues
In December 2006, the Omaha Tribe issued notices to the seven liquor stores in Pender (which has a population of 1,000), as well as those in Rosalie and Walthill, Nebraska, informing them that as of January 1, 2007, the merchants would have to pay the Omaha Tribe liquor licensing fees and a 10 percent sales tax to continue to operate within the reservation. The executive director of the Nebraska State Liquor Commission said that he would be consulting with the state attorney general on the issue. Ben Thompson, an Omaha attorney who represents the tribe, notes that it has the legal right to establish such laws within the reservation. The Nebraska Attorney General offered the opinion that the Omaha Tribe had the authority to regulate liquor sales on its reservation and it did not interfere with the Nebraska Liquor Commission. While offering an opinion, he said the tribal boundary was a federal jurisdictional issue.
In April 2007, liquor merchants in Pender (later joined by the village) filed a federal lawsuit challenging the tribe's authority to demand the liquor taxes, based on their contention that Pender was outside the reservation boundaries. In October 2007 the US District Court ordered the parties first to take their challenge to the Omaha Tribal Courts, as part of the tribal exhaustion doctrine, and denied the plaintiffs' request for dismissal. Judge Richard Kopf said he may not be bound by the tribal court, but wanted to hear their opinion. He required the parties to report back to him regularly until a ruling was made by the Omaha Tribal Courts. While the case was pending, the judge ordered a temporary stay on the merchants' paying the liquor sales tax.
In January 2012, the plaintiffs in Pender v. Omaha Tribe filed a request with the Omaha Tribal Courts for a summary judgment due to the length of time the case had taken. The defendants had requested that no hearing be held before June 2012. The plaintiffs had submitted a report to them by an expert witness on transactions related to Pender and the western boundary. In 2008 the village had voted for a five-year, 1% sales tax to finance its lawsuit on the boundary and liquor tax, as well as to promote economic development in the town. Residents voted in May 2012 on whether to renew the sales tax, as the boundary issue continued.
See also
Native American tribes in Nebraska
Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital
Omaha Nation Public Schools
References
External links
"Nebraska Attorney General's Opinion on Omaha Tribe Liquor Tax", 15 February 2007, Liquor Control Commission website
Pender v. Omaha Tribe, US District Court of Nebraska, 4 October 2007
Omaha Reservation tract map, US Census.
Geography of Burt County, Nebraska
Geography of Cuming County, Nebraska
Geography of Monona County, Iowa
Geography of Thurston County, Nebraska
American Indian reservations in Nebraska
Omaha (Native American) people
1854 establishments in Nebraska Territory |
44497547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celier%20Aviation | Celier Aviation | Celier Aviation is an aircraft manufacturer, founded by Raphael Celier in France in 1993. The company was moved to Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 2006 and Safi, Malta in 2017. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of autogyros available in kit form and also as fully assembled aircraft.
The company established its reputation with the two-seat side-by-side configuration Celier Xenon 2 series of autogyros. By 2011 over 100 of these were flying. Celier subsequently developed a tandem-seat design, the Kiss, but it was not produced in large numbers. By 2014 the company was offering only the Xenon 4, a development of the Xenon 2.
The company also developed the XeWing, a fixed wing light aircraft using the fuselage and engine of the Xenon 2, but mounting a folding strut-braced parasol wing in place of the autogyro's main rotor. The design was shown at AERO Friedrichshafen in 2009, but was never offered for sale and it is unlikely it was ever developed beyond a single prototype.
Aircraft
References
External links
Aircraft manufacturers of Poland
Autogyros
Homebuilt aircraft |
6902198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s%20O%27Leary | Tomás O'Leary | Tomás O'Leary (born 22 October 1983) is an Irish former rugby union player who played as a scrum-half. O'Leary played most of his career in the United Rugby Championship with Munster, where he was part of the team that won the Heineken Cup in 2006 and again in 2008. He also played in the English Premiership with London Irish, and the Top 14 with Montpellier. Internationally, he represented Ireland, where he was a member of the team that won the 2009 Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam. Also in 2009, he was selected for the British & Irish Lions, though injury prevented him from touring with the squad. O'Leary retired from professional rugby in July 2017.
Early years
O'Leary was born in Cork, Ireland. The son of Cork hurler, Seánie O'Leary, O'Leary attended Saint Patrick's School on Gardiner's Hill before going to Christian Brothers College (CBC) for his second-level education. CBC has a rugby tradition and this is where O'Leary first started playing. He was recognised as a talent and played Munster Schools Senior Cup for the school. During this time he continued to play hurling and won minor Munster and All-Ireland titles with Cork in 2000 and 2001.
Club career
Munster
After he completed school, O'Leary chose to continue with his rugby career instead of playing within the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was a member of the Irish U-21 side that reached the final of the 2004 Under 21 Rugby World Cup. Munster announced that O'Leary would be a member of the squad for the following year in August 2005. An injury to Peter Stringer early in the 2005/2006 season meant O'Leary had a chance to play, making his Heineken Cup debut against Sale Sharks in October 2005. He played his club rugby in Ireland with a Munster club, Dolphin. O'Leary played a prominent role in Munster's Heineken Cup winning campaigns in 2005/06 and 2007/08, especially in the knockout stages of the 2007–08 tournament.
London Irish
French television channel Canal+ reported that O'Leary had signed for USA Perpignan on a two-year deal on 17 February 2012, but a spokesman for O'Leary said the player hadn't signed anything yet and would be making a decision shortly. It emerged that the deal with Perpignan collapsed and, having rejected a deal from Munster, O'Leary was in a state of limbo. However, Aviva Premiership side London Irish stepped in to secure O'Leary's services on a three-year contract, with O'Leary joining the English side for the start of the 2012–13 season. O'Leary made his full debut for London Irish on 1 September 2012, in their opening league fixture against Saracens.
O'Leary was ruled out of the rest of the 2012–13 season, after being forced to have surgery on a back injury in December 2012 which kept him out for the rest of the season. O'Leary returned from the injury at the beginning of the 2013–14 season.
Return to Munster
On 21 January 2015, it was announced that O'Leary would return to Munster on a two-year contract. O'Leary made his first appearance of his second spell with Munster on 17 October 2015, coming off the bench during the 35–17 win against Cardiff Blues. O'Leary came off the bench in Munster's opening pool game of the 2015–16 European Rugby Champions Cup against Treviso on 14 November 2015. On 24 January 2017, it was announced that O'Leary would not be returning to Munster after the completion of his short-term contract with Montpellier.
Montpellier
In October 2016, O'Leary joined French Top 14 side Montpellier Hérault Rugby as a medical joker replacement for the injured Benoît Paillaugue.
Ireland
O'Leary was named in the Irish squad to tour Argentina in the summer of 2007 where he earned his first cap as a sub on 26 May. He made his first test start for Ireland on 15 November 2008 against New Zealand.
O'Leary was a member of the victorious Ireland team that won the 2009 Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam, starting four of Ireland's five matches in that tournament.
O'Leary scored his first try for Ireland in the 29–11 2010 Six Nations Championship opener against Italy. O'Leary was awarded Man of the Match for his outstanding performance during Ireland's 27–12 win over Wales at Croke Park on 13 March 2010. He broke his thumb against Leinster in October 2010 and was ruled out for 6–8 weeks. O'Leary recovered to fitness and featured against Italy and France during the 2011 Six Nations, but a troublesome back and a freak eye injury sustained during training ruled him out of the remainder of the tournament. Injury and the form of Conor Murray kept him out of the Munster team for the rest of the 2010/11 season, but O'Leary was selected in Ireland's training squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup warm-ups in August. However, O'Leary did not make the final 30-man squad for the World Cup in New Zealand.
O'Leary was named in the Ireland Wolfhounds squad for their games against Scotland A and England Saxons in January and February 2012, missing out on selection for the 24-man squad for the 2012 Six Nations Championship. However, a knee injury suffered by Conor Murray meant that O'Leary was called into the Ireland squad for the remaining 2012 Six Nations games against Scotland and England.
British & Irish Lions
O'Leary was named to take part in the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa. On 24 April, however, during a Munster match against Scarlets, O'Leary was stretchered off the field with a broken ankle, which ruled him out of the tour of South Africa.
Statistics
International analysis by opposition
Correct as of 5 July 2017
See also
List of players who have converted from one football code to another
References
External links
Munster Profile
London Irish Profile
IRFU Profile
Ireland Wolfhounds Profile
1983 births
Living people
People educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork
Cork inter-county hurlers
Erin's Own (Cork) hurlers
Dual players
Gaelic footballers who switched code
Rugby union players from County Cork
Irish rugby union players
Dolphin RFC players
Munster Rugby players
London Irish players
Montpellier Hérault Rugby players
Ireland international rugby union players
Ireland Wolfhounds international rugby union players
Ireland international rugby sevens players
Rugby union scrum-halves |
20470462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Jos%20riots | 2008 Jos riots | The 2008 Jos riots were riots involving Christians and Muslims over the result of a local election on 28 and 29 November 2008 in Jos, a city in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Two days of rioting left hundreds injured and at least 761 dead. The Nigerian army was deployed and by 30 November order was restored.
Causes
Electoral workers did not publicly list the winners of the elections, and rumours began that the election was won by the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), barrister Timothy Gyang Buba, defeating the candidate for the All Nigerian Peoples Party. People from the largely Muslim Hausa community, began protesting even before the results were released, which results to clash that claims hundred of lives between the Muslims and Christians, who largely supported Buba.
Similar riots in 2001 between Christians and Muslims in Jos also killed hundreds. A 2004 riot in Yelwa, another town in Plateau State resulted in the so-called Yelwa Massacre. Fighting in the north-central Kaduna State when it tried to impose shari'a law in 2000, resulted in the partition of Kaduna. This was followed by the Kaduna riots of November 2002, resulting from Nigeria's hosting of the Miss World contest, which one of its contestants had won the previous year.
Riots
The two days of rioting led to the death of at least 761 people, and homes, mosques, churches and schools were damaged or burned by mobs. The Nigerian Red Cross Society reported that 10,000 people fled their homes due to the riots, and were living in government-provided shelters. Nigerian soldiers were sent into Jos to break up the fighting and create a buffer zone between the Christians and Muslims. Flights to and from Jos were cancelled and roads to the north were blocked.
Effects
Jonah Jang, the governor of the Plateau State, imposed a 24-hour curfew on four districts of the city, and soldiers were permitted to "shoot on sight" to prevent more violence. Human Rights Watch alleged that soldiers and police carried out more than 130 extrajudicial killings while responding to the riots. Many armed youths of both sides were arrested at military roadblocks. Police reported that more than 500 people were arrested as a result of the riots. But state officials said no one was successfully prosecuted.
See also
2001 Jos riots
2010 Jos riots
References
External links
Blench, R. M., Daniel, P. & Hassan, Umaru (2003): Access rights and conflict over common pool resources in three states in Nigeria. Report to Conflict Resolution Unit, World Bank (extracted section on Jos Plateau)
Human Rights Watch (2009), Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces: Submission to the Investigative Bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 Violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Human Rights Watch (2013), "Leave Everything to God": Accountability for Inter-Communal Violence in Plateau and Kaduna States, Nigeria
Nkwocha, Stanley (1 December 2008). Jos: Blood On Its Streets, Again, Leadership (Abuja)
Ostien, Philip (2009), [http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/ethno-religious-conflict-in-Jos-Nigeria/Ostien_Jos.pdf Jonah Jang and the Jasawa: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Nigeria], in Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa''
2008 murders in Nigeria
2008 in Nigeria
2008 riots
Political riots
Religious riots in Nigeria
2000s massacres in Nigeria
Riots and civil disorder in Nigeria
Jos
Attacks on religious buildings and structures in Nigeria
November 2008 events in Africa
2008 murders in Africa |
20470474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedroso%2C%20La%20Rioja | Pedroso, La Rioja | Pedroso, La Rioja is a small village in Spain.
References
Municipalities in La Rioja (Spain) |
17334512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4432%20McGraw-Hill | 4432 McGraw-Hill | 4432 McGraw-Hill, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 2 March 1981, by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. The likely S-type asteroid was named for the McGraw-Hill Telescope located at Kitt Peak, Arizona.
Orbit and classification
McGraw-Hill is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.9–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,346 days; semi-major axis of 2.39 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 0° with respect to the ecliptic.
The asteroid was first observed as at Purple Mountain Observatory in October 1964. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in February 1977, or four years prior to its official discovery observation at Siding Spring.
Physical characteristics
McGraw-Hill is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid, in agreement with the albedo (see below) obtained by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
Rotation period
During the Small Main-Belt Asteroid Lightcurve Survey, McGraw-Hill has been observed photometrically. The observations gave a small brightness variation of 0.06 magnitude but resulted in no useful rotational lightcurve (). As of 2018, the body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's WISE telescope, McGraw-Hill measures 3.042 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.254, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a stony asteroid of 0.20 and derives a diameter of 3.43 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 14.69.
Naming
This minor planet was named after the 1.3-meter McGraw-Hill Telescope located at the MDM Observatory at the Kitt Peak National Observatory site in Arizona, United States. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
004432
Discoveries by Schelte J. Bus
Named minor planets
19810302 |
17334513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20the%20Mud | In the Mud | In The Mud is the second studio album by the American bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).
It was the first album to include mandolin player Wayne Gottstine.
Critical reception
The Austin Chronicle wrote: "High-lonesome vocal harmonies and traditional instrumentation (except the trademark bass made from an auto gas tank) nominally bring this band under the 'bluegrass' category, but the ferocity of the playing and desperation of the lyrics would have Bill Monroe spinning in his grave like a chicken on a spit."
Track listing
All songs written by Kirk Rundstrom except where noted.
"13" – 2:09
"Wrong" – 2:26
"All I Got" (Gottstine) – 2:23
"In The Ground" (Mardis) – 2:39
"Family" – 2:24
"Devil" – 3:05
"Easy Street" (M. Montgomert, E. Montgomery; BMI) – 2:06
"Trouble" – 3:46
"3.2 Flu" (Gottstine) – 2:11
"Glory of the Sun" – 2:00
"Drinkin' Around" (Gottstine) – 1:21
"Hounds" (Mardis) – 3:12
"Strong" – 1:57
"Tennessee" – 2:17
"John" – 2:01
"Truckin' Song" (Gottstine) – 1:59
Personnel
Kirk Rundstrom - Guitar, Vocals, (Mandolin on "Glory")
Jeff Eaton - Gas Tank Bass, Vocals
Eric Mardis - Banjo, Dobro, Vocals
Wayne Gottstine - Mandolin, Vocals, (Guitar on "Wrong," "Glory," and "Drinkin")
References
1999 albums
Split Lip Rayfield albums
Bloodshot Records albums |
17334536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Markert%20%28physicist%29 | John Markert (physicist) | John T. Markert is a professor in The University of Texas at Austin physics department and was department chair from 2005 to 2009. His group has done extensive research on high temperature superconducting materials, high-q oscillator experiments, dynamics of ferromagnets, nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy and spectroscopy, and optically switchable metal hydride films. A textbook written by Dr. Markert and Hans Ohanian, Physics for Engineers and Scientists, was released in 2008 by Norton Publishers. The book is for a calculus-based introductory course. As of 2008 his H (Hirsch number) index is 30..
Markert was born in the Bronx in 1957, the youngest of seven. He attended Regis High School, an all male, all scholarship Jesuit high school. Afterward, he did his undergraduate study at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He received his graduate degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and did post-graduate work at the University of California, San Diego under Brian Maple. He was shortly afterward recruited by UT Austin to be an assistant professor in 1990.
References
1957 births
21st-century American physicists
Cornell University alumni
Bowdoin College alumni
Living people
University of California, San Diego alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty |
17334573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Adduci%20%281980s%20outfielder/first%20baseman%29 | Jim Adduci (1980s outfielder/first baseman) | James David Adduci (born August 9, 1959) is an American former left-handed outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies. He attended Southern Illinois University, where he played college baseball. He is the father of former MLB player Jim Adduci.
Career
On June 7, 1977, Adduci, after graduating from Chicago's Brother Rice High school, was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 28th round of the amateur draft. However, Adduci chose to continue his education instead. On June 3, 1980, Adduci was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 7th round of the amateur draft.
Adduci made his major league debut on September 12, 1983, with the Cardinals. Adduci was hitless in his only at bat in his debut. That year, Adduci had a batting average of .050 in 20 at bats. On October 2, 1984, he was traded with Paul Householder to the Milwaukee Brewers for three minor leaguers. Adduci made his Brewers debut in 1986, and had a batting average of .091 in 11 at-bats that season.
On April 19, 1987, Adduci was purchased by the San Francisco Giants from the Milwaukee Brewers, only to be sent back to Milwaukee a week later. On June 4, 1987, the Brewers released Adduci. Adduci finished 1987 playing for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in Japan.
Adduci re-signed with the Brewers on January 18, 1988. That season, he had a batting average of .266 in 94 at-bats. Since he had three sacrifice flies, his on-base percentage was lower than his batting average, which is a very rare occurrence in Major League Baseball.
Prior to the 1989 season, Adduci was sent to the Philadelphia Phillies, hitting .368 in 19 at-bats. Adduci played his final major league game on July 26, 1989. After the 1989 season, he was granted free agency and never returned to the major leagues.
Adduci had a career batting average of .236, in 144 at-bats over the course of 70 games. All 15 of his career runs batted in came in the 1988 season, as well as his only career home run.
Post-playing career
After retirement following a 1990 season spent in the minor leagues, the Chicago native Adduci entered DePaul University, and in 1991 he earned a communications media degree. He ran summer baseball camps for the cities of Evergreen Park and Oak Lawn. As parents requested private instruction for their children, Adduci decided to open a storefront children's baseball school in Chicago, and ran it there through the summer of 1992.
As of 1993, Adduci was living in Evergreen Park, with his wife, two daughters and a son. He was running the baseball school in a more spacious location in Tinley Park. Fellow ex-professionals Steve Otto and Tim Pyznarski were on staff helping Adduci as instructors.
Although feeling professional baseball was too much of a business and that he did not get a shot at a major-league career, Adduci said he loved baseball and building up kids' self-esteem by teaching them the sport. During his playing career, he befriended players like Paul Molitor and Andy Van Slyke, who named Adduci the godfather of his son.
Currently, Adduci works for the Chicago Bulls/Sox Training Academy as the director of the White Sox Elite baseball program and as a hitting instructor.
References
External links
Jim Adduci at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
1959 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball players from Chicago
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball first basemen
Milwaukee Brewers players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Southern Illinois Salukis baseball players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Yokohama Taiyō Whales players |
6902204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeper%20into%20Movies | Deeper into Movies | Deeper Into Movies is a collection of 1969 to 1972 movie reviews by American film critic Pauline Kael, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1973. It was the fourth collection of her columns; these were originally published in The New Yorker. It won the U.S. National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.
Summary
Containing reviews of individual films from the aforementioned time period, the collection also includes a long essay entitled "Numbing the Audience".
Directors
In the anthology, Kael praises the merits of then up-and-coming directors Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, in her reviews of MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and The Godfather. She pans Stanley Kubrick and his A Clockwork Orange for its brutality and moral convolutions.
Print Status
The book is now out-of-print in the United States, but is still published in the United Kingdom by Marion Boyars Publishers, an independent publishing company.
Films reviewed
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Bed Sitting Room
A Walk with Love and Death
de Sade
High School
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Paint Your Wagon
Lions Love
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Duet for Cannibals
Coming Apart
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Adalen 31
Hail, Hero!
In the Year of the Pig
Downhill Racer
The Arrangement
La Femme Infidèle
All the Loving Couples
Popcorn
The Comic
Z
Alfred the Great
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
John and Mary
Gaily, Gaily
The Reivers
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Topaz
Hello, Dolly!
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Marooned
The Damned
Hamlet
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
M*A*S*H
Anne of the Thousand Days
Patton
Hospital
The Milky Way
The Molly Maguires
The Kremlin Letter
The Honeymoon Killers
A Married Couple
End of the Road
Zabriskie Point
The Looking Glass War
Loving
The Only Game in Town
Start the Revolution Without Me
The Magic Christian
Tropic of Cancer
Fellini Satyricon
The Adventurers
Airport
The Boys in the Band
Women in Love
Trash
The Baby Maker
The Great White Hope
Monte Walsh
First Love
Ice
I Never Sang for My Father
Goin' Down the Road
This Man Must Die
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
C.C. and Company
Burn!
The Twelve Chairs
Cromwell
WUSA The Owl and the Pussycat Where's Poppa? The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Song of Norway Ryan's Daughter Perfect Friday The Pizza Triangle Bombay Talkie Scrooge Groupies I Walk the Line The Confession
The Act of the Heart Gimme Shelter Little Big Man Love Story Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Husbands Alex in Wonderland Brewster McCloud There Was a Crooked Man... The Music Lovers Bed and Board Promise at Dawn The Last Valley Puzzle of a Downfall Child Little Murders The Hour of the Furnaces Doctors' Wives The Sporting Club The Garden of Delights Claire's Knee Wanda A New Leaf The Conformist The Andromeda Strain McCabe & Mrs. Miller Klute Carnal Knowledge The Anderson Tapes Sunday Bloody Sunday The Last Picture Show The Last Movie Skin Game The Trojan Women Murmur of the Heart The Début T.R. Baskin The French Connection Long Ago, Tomorrow Is There Sex After Death? Fiddler on the Roof El Topo Billy Jack Born to Win Going Home King Lear Man in the Wilderness Bedknobs and Broomsticks''
References
External links
Pauline Kael on A Clockwork Orange
1973 non-fiction books
Books of film criticism
Books about film
National Book Award-winning works
Little, Brown and Company books
Books by Pauline Kael
American non-fiction books |
44497611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Terry | Don Terry | Don Terry (born Donald Prescott Loker, August 8, 1902 – October 6, 1988) was an American film actor, best known for his lead appearances in B films and serials in the 1930s and early 1940s. Perhaps his best-known role is probably playing the recurring character of Naval Commander Don Winslow in Universal Pictures serials of the early 1940s, including Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) and Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943).
Early life and background
Terry was born Donald Loker in Natick, Massachusetts, in 1902. He was a 1925 graduate of Harvard. Some sources give the family name as Locher, perhaps confusing him with actor Charles Locher who became famous as Jon Hall; the Loker spelling is correct, as many charitable enterprises bear the Loker name, as detailed below.
Don Terry was discovered while visiting Los Angeles as a tourist. During the visit, he hoped to see some film stars, but had been disappointed. Nearing the end of his trip, he decided to have lunch at Hollywood's Café Montmartre since it was a favorite of many in the film industry. Terry thought he might finally see a film star while having lunch, but found only other tourists who had the same hope. However, Fox screenwriter Charles Francis Coe was at the restaurant and happened to see Terry and thought of the screenplay he had just completed, based on his 1927 novel. Coe introduced himself and asked Terry if he was in the film industry. He gave Terry his business card and invited him to the Fox lot for a screen test. Terry went to the lot expecting only to be able to see some film stars. When Terry's screen test came out of the film laboratory, he was signed as the lead in the 1928 film Me, Gangster, the screenplay Coe had just written.
Film career
Known for his "typical clean-cut American hero roles", he was signed by Columbia Pictures as a possible replacement for the studio's veteran action star Jack Holt. Terry was one of several tough-guy heroes (including Victor Jory, Paul Kelly, and Charles Quigley) who portrayed "bare-knuckled, sleeves-rolled-up hard hats" in various films. Terry's Columbia "B" features include A Fight to the Finish (1937), Paid to Dance (1937), Who Killed Gail Preston? (1937), When G-Men Step In (1938), and Squadron of Honor (1938). Terry's portrayals are complemented by his distinct New England accent, which he never completely lost.
Don Terry also became a star of serials, his first chapter play being The Secret of Treasure Island, released by Columbia in 1938. His best-known role is probably playing the recurring character of Naval Commander Don Winslow in Universal Pictures serials of the early 1940s, including Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) and Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943), co-starring Elyse Knox. Knox previously worked with Terry in Top Sergeant (1942). Terry appeared in Danger in the Pacific (1942) as a scientist, co-starring Louise Allbritton. Other credits include Fugitives (1929), Border Romance (1929), Barnacle Bill (1941), Overland Mail (1942), Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) and White Savage (1943), his last screen appearance before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded the Purple Heart. He left the Navy in 1946 and never returned to film.
Post-film life and career
In 1941, Terry married Katherine Bogdanovich, a daughter of the founder of StarKist tuna. Bogdanovich, a 1940 graduate of University of Southern California (USC), shared an interest in Olympic competition with her husband. She tried out for the 1932 Olympics as a sprinter. The couple had two daughters, and after completing his World War II service, Terry dropped his screen name and went to work for StarKist as vice president of public and industrial relations.
Loker retired from the company in 1965, and the couple then devoted their time and energies to various philanthropic projects by establishing the Donald and Katherine Loker Foundation. The Foundation supported many projects, with a special emphasis on the colleges that were the Lokers' alma maters. They supported USC as board members of long standing, and with financial gifts of more than $30 million over a period of time. The Lokers were long-time friends of Richard and Pat Nixon and were also supporters of the Nixon Library. Despite the Lokers' lack of experience in chemistry, Carl Franklin, who was at the time USC's legal vice president, referred them to the university's hydrocarbon research institute, which was established in 1978 with the Lokers' financial aid. In 1983, it was renamed Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute in their honor. He died at Oceanside, California on October 6, 1988, aged 86. After his death, his widow continued the couple's philanthropic efforts until her death in 2008.
Partial filmography
Me, Gangster (1928) - Jimmy Williams
Blindfold (1928) - Buddy Brower
Fugitives (1929) - Dick Starr
The Valiant (1929) - Policeman (uncredited)
Border Romance (1929) - Bob Hamlin
Lady with a Past (1932) - Party Guest (uncredited)
Whistlin' Dan (1932) - Bob Reid
The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933) - Boxer in Fight Montage (uncredited)
Her First Mate (1933) - Purser, Albany Night Boat (uncredited)
A Fight to the Finish (1937) - Duke Mallor
A Dangerous Adventure (1937) - Tim Sawyer
Paid to Dance (1937) - William Dennis
Who Killed Gail Preston? (1937) - Tom Kellogg
When G-Men Step In (1938) - Larry Kent
The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) - Frederick 'Fred' Garth
Squadron of Honor (1938) - District Attorney Don Blane
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) - Ping-Pong Player (uncredited)
Barnacle Bill (1941) - Dixon
Mutiny in the Arctic (1941) - Cole
In the Navy (1941) - Reef (uncredited)
Tight Shoes (1941) - Haystack - Reporter (uncredited)
Hold That Ghost (1941) - Strangler (uncredited)
Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) - Cmdr. Don Winslow
Valley of the Sun (1942) - Lieutenant (uncredited)
Unseen Enemy (1942) - Canadian Army Captain William Flynn Hitchcock, aka Bill Flinn, posing as Captain Wilhelm Roering
Drums of the Congo (1942) - Captain Kirk Armstrong
Escape from Hong Kong (1942) - Rusty
Danger in the Pacific (1942) - Dr. David Lynd
Top Sergeant (1942) - Sgt. Dick 'Rusty' Manson
Overland Mail (1942) - Buckskin Billy Burke
Moonlight in Havana (1942) - Eddie Daniels
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) - Howe
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943) - Cmdr. Don Winslow
White Savage (1943) - Chris (final film role)
References
External links
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California
American male film actors
1902 births
1988 deaths
People from Natick, Massachusetts
Harvard University alumni
20th Century Fox contract players
Male actors from Massachusetts
20th-century American male actors |
17334584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Butler%20%28record%20producer%29 | George Butler (record producer) | George Butler (September 2, 1931 – April 9, 2008) was a prominent American jazz record producer, executive and A&R man. He worked for a number of well-known jazz record labels from the 1960s to the 1990s including Blue Note Records, Columbia Records and United Artists Records. He signed and launched the careers of a number of now famous artists including Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. and Nnenna Freelon.
Biography
Butler was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and studied at Howard University before going on to earn a master's degree in music education from Columbia University. In the early 1960s, he began working as an A&R executive for United Artists Records, where a few years later he was instrumental in establishing its Solid State Records jazz subsidiary.
He took over the running of subsidiary label, Blue Note, in 1972, helping to increase interest in the jazz format with numerous jazz-soul crossover projects aimed at a more mainstream audience, including albums by Donald Byrd, Earl Klugh, Ronnie Laws, and Bobbi Humphrey, as well as working with prominent jazz musicians from the 1960s, including Horace Silver and Bobby Hutcherson.
In the late 1970s, he became vice president for jazz and progressive artists and repertory at Columbia Records, staying into the mid-1990s. He helped to persuade Miles Davis to return to recording in 1980 and signed or was executive producer for fusion and soul-jazz acts, such as Bob James, Billy Cobham, and Grover Washington Jr.
Butler died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Castro Valley, California, at the age of 76.
References
2008 deaths
1931 births
American music industry executives
A&R people
Howard University alumni
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina |
6902221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20Boyars%20Publishers | Marion Boyars Publishers | Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent publishing company located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the humanities and social sciences. The company was formed in 1975. When
Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilgarriff took over and is currently the managing director of the company.
Imprints
Prospect Books
Prospect Books is a publisher of books and periodicals on cooking, food history and anthropology, and sometimes horticulture, notably Petits Propos Culinaires. It was founded in 1979 by Alan Davidson and his wife Jane Davidson. Prospect Books was owned by Tom Jaine from 1993 until 2014, when it was acquired by Marion Boyars Publishers.
References
External links
Marion Boyars Publishers (official site)
Catheryn Kilgarriff -- publisher (Marion Boyars) (8 January 2007) in Conversations in the Book Trade
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom |
44497617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20French%20legislative%20election%20in%20Gabon%E2%80%93Moyen%20Congo | 1956 French legislative election in Gabon–Moyen Congo | Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Gabon and French Congo on 2 January 1956.
Results
First college
Second college: Gabon
Second College: Moyen Congo
References
Gabon
Elections in Gabon
Elections in the Republic of the Congo
1956 in Gabon
1956 in Moyen-Congo
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results |
20470490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Porsche%20Centre%20Gold%20Coast%20500 | 2008 Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500 | The 2008 Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500 was the seventh 500km race held at Queensland Raceway. It was held on 15 November 2008, and only attracted nine entrants.
Results
Qualifying 1
Qualifying session 1 was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 10:30am.
Qualifying 2
Qualifying session 2 was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 11:40am.
Race
The race was held on Saturday, 15 November, at 3:45pm.
* Cars 11 and 29 finished first and second respectively, however were relegated to positions two and three after the race.
References
Porsche Centre Gold Coast 500
Queensland 500 |
20470508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Bailey%20%28rugby%20league%29 | Dennis Bailey (rugby league) | Dennis Bailey is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played at club level for Dewsbury, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.
External links
Dennis Bailey Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
Tetley's Yorkshire County Cup Final 2003
ĎŔƑ Dewsbury's Last Game, Ever
ĎŔƑ Memory Lane
Angry Leigh hit out at ref
RUGBY LEAGUE: Henare completes the Lynx
Cougars slump in Rams rampage
Video of try 1:39 -to- 1:59
Dewsbury Rams players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league wingers |
44497647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20mobilisation | Legal mobilisation | Legal mobilisation is a tool available to paralegal and advocacy groups, to achieve legal empowerment by supporting a marginalized issues of a stakeholder, in negotiating with the other concerned agencies and other stakeholders, by strategic combined use of legal processes along with advocacy, media engagement and social mobilisation. As per Frances Kahen Zemans (1983) the Legal mobilisation is "a desire or want, which is translated into a demand as an assertion of one's rights".
According to Lisa Vanhala (November 2011) Legal mobilisation in its narrowest sense, may refer to high-profile litigation efforts for (or, arguably, against) social change or more broadly, term legal mobilisation has been used to describe any type of process by which an individual or collective actors invoke legal norms, discourse, or symbols to influence policy or behavior. This typically means that there are policies or regulations to mobilize around and a mechanism by which to do so. Legislative activity does create an opportunity for legal mobilization. The courts become particularly relevant when petitioners have grounds to file suit.
History of conceptualisation
The use of the law and legal systems by disadvantaged people to contest the unfair distribution of power and resources is a real-world phenomenon that predates and exists independently of international law and justice assistance.
study and research
Tool to ensure statutory intervention
Particularly in circumstances where traditional power resources, in terms of bargaining power and worker solidarity, are not firmly established, Use of the legal mobilisation clearly offers important additional tactics.
See also
References
Activism by type
Practice of law |
17334608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hilliard%20%28artist%29 | John Hilliard (artist) | John Hilliard, (born 1945) is an English conceptual artist. Hilliard's ongoing body of work addresses the specificity of photography as a medium: its uncertainty as a representational device and its status within the visual arts, especially in relation to painting, cinema and commercial photography.
Education
Born in Lancaster, Hilliard studied at Lancaster College of Art from 1962 to 1964, and then at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, until 1967. He began his interest in photography as an art student in the 1960s, first using the camera simply to capture images of his site-specific art installations. Soon, he recognised there was bias inherent in photography—the camera could not be completely neutral—and he explored the manipulation of the photographic process and its results.
Art
In the 1970s, Hilliard examined how changes to the process of black and white photography could affect the outcome. His art showed how the camera's notional objectivity was vulnerable to decisions made by the photographer leading up to the instant of the exposure, as well as subsequent decisions made in the darkroom concerning paper selection and development techniques.
Hilliard's 1971 work, Camera Recording Its Own Condition consisted of a display of 70 snapshots taken by a camera aimed at a mirror, showing itself at the moment of exposure, the snapshots differing by film speed, exposure time, and aperture size. The 70 images were laid out in a rigid grid with one optimal "correct" image in the center. This changing of the mechanics of each shot revealed the intention of the unseen photographer. In 1974, Hilliard showed in Cause of Death four images of the same human body covered in a sheet. The images were taken from the same photographic negative but each one suggested a different cause of death, accomplished by cropping the print to modify context. Each image was given its own one-word title to indicate a narrative: "Crushed", "Drowned", "Burned", and "Fell". Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins wrote that, in Cause of Death, "framing affects the way a photograph is read", and that Hilliard provides the viewer with "elegant forensic evidence that, although the camera cannot lie, photographs tell different truths." University of Ulster photography professor Terence Wright noted that Cause of Death is a formalist piece in which the process is revealed, and that many of Hilliard's works fall into this classification.
In the 1980s colour photography in popular culture became the subject of Hilliard's semiotic scrutiny. He was especially interested in how photography targeted a desired result in advertising and media. He challenged the viewer to re-examine an Asian woman's portrait in East/West, 1986, showing how the stylised profile can be manipulated to represent different cultural attitudes. In response to a 1989 show, Chicago Tribune art critic Alan G. Artner wrote that Hilliard purposely clouds the difference between painting and photography, and that he "dramatize[s] issues specific to the photographic medium."
In the 1990s Hilliard's work evolved a stronger chroma, push processing, saturation, and seductive gloss, the subjects arranged to portray a narrative that was perhaps violent or erotic. At the same time, the viewer is prevented from complete comprehension of context by interposed objects obscuring portions of the scene. For instance his work Miss Tracy, 1994 shows what is assumed to be a nude woman face down on a bloody sheet, the center of the image blocked by a large rectangle leaving the peripheral region as the only source of understanding. In the mid-1990s Hilliard further expanded the scale of his photographic works by printing on canvas or vinyl, the size approaching that of a mural. He continued to present the viewer with a disruption of full understanding, a critical comment on the viewing process.
Exhibits
From Christmas 1983 to mid-June 1984, Hilliard's art was shown in Germany at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Kunsthalle Bremen, and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Art historian and critic Jean Fisher wrote a biographical piece and analysed the works for a 69-page museum book edited by art historian and publisher Peter Weiermair.
In early 1989, an exhibit of Hilliard's large scale works was featured for one month at Chicago's Renaissance Society museum. The works consisted of large Cibachrome and Scanachrome prints, the latter being saturated colour applied to canvas using dyes. A 30-page book on Hilliard's work to date was printed for the event, with 19 images by Hilliard, and critical art analysis written by Fisher.
In 1999, a major retrospective of Hilliard's works was mounted, and shown in three German art galleries.
In 2003, German publisher Verlag das Wunderhorn published a monograph of his works, entitled The Less Said The Better, with an accompanying solo exhibit in Amsterdam.
Career
Hilliard taught for a time at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. He was later associated with the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, serving as professor, the head of Graduate Fine Art Media, the director of Graduate Programmes, and a tutor of graduate students. Currently, Hilliard lives and works in London.
References
External links
List of Works held by Tate, with images
A Century of Artists' Film in Britain, exhibition, Tate Britain, 2004
Cause of Death
Jemima Stehli & John Hilliard, Untitled, 2002
John Hilliard at L.A.Galerie – Frankfurt
1945 births
Living people
Photographers from Lancashire
Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art
British conceptual artists
English contemporary artists
British installation artists
British video artists
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
Academics of Camberwell College of Arts |
20470510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Donovan%20%28baseball%29 | Mike Donovan (baseball) | Michael Beckam Donovan (October 18, 1881 – February 3, 1938) was a professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Naps in 1904 and the New York Highlanders in 1908, primarily as a third baseman. In seven career games, he had five hits and two RBIs, all of them with the Highlanders. He batted and threw right-handed.
Donovan was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in New York, New York. Donovan was working for Consolidated Edison as a security guard when he was accidentally shot and died, after a co-worker's gun accidentally discharged.
References
External links
Major League Baseball third basemen
Cleveland Naps players
New York Highlanders players
Hartford Senators players
Springfield Ponies players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Shreveport Pirates (baseball) players
Wilkes-Barre Barons (baseball) players
Troy Trojans (minor league) players
Fall River Indians players
Johnstown Johnnies players
Lancaster Red Roses players
Reading Pretzels players
Minor league baseball managers
Baseball players from New York (state)
Deaths by firearm in New York City
1881 births
1938 deaths
Firearm accident victims in the United States
Accidental deaths in New York (state)
Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Queens) |
17334609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Gate%20Theater | Golden Gate Theater | Golden Gate Theater is a California Churrigueresque-style movie palace built in 1927 on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, California. In 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theater closed in 1986; the retail building built around it was damaged in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake and demolished in 1992. The remaining theater building was left vacant for more than 20 years as preservationists fought with owners and developers over the future of the building. It was finally converted into a drugstore and reopened in 2012.
Theater building
The theater seated nearly 1,500 people and was located at one of the major intersections on the east side of Los Angeles, at the corner of Whittier and Atlantic Boulevards. The theater was built by Peter Snyder, known as the "Father of the East Side," and designed by architects William and Clifford A. Balch, creators of the El Rey Theater on Wilshire Boulevard and the Pomona Fox Theater in Pomona, California. It was designed in the ornate Churrigueresque style, and the entrance replicated the portal of Spain's University of Salamanca. When plans for the theater were announced in 1927, the Los Angeles Times reported:
This week will mark the beginning of building operations on the theater project on Whittier Boulevard in Golden Gate Square. The theater proper will seat about 1500 persons, it is declared and will contain thirteen stores. There will also be several apartment units. It is planned as a legitimate playhouse, but will be equipped for motion pictures as well.
The theater was originally located in the courtyard of the L-shaped Vega Building, a retail structure that wrapped around the theater. The Vega Building was known for its four-story octagon tower.
Los Angeles County records describing the basis for the landmark designation describe the complex as one with "a sense of time and place. The majority of its structural features, including its conformation, detailing and decorative elements, have been unaltered. As a result, the building has clearly retained a sense of architectural integrity and original design."
Closure and earthquake damage
The theater stopped showing movies in 1986, and in 1987 the Vega Building was damaged in the Whittier Narrows earthquake. From 1986-1988, a non-denominational Christian church named Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship occupied the building and held regular services with over 1,000 people. In 1987 the pastors, Mike and Donna Neville were forced to move their church because, according to the owner, the building was condemned following the Whittier earthquake. The Vega Building was demolished in 1992 after officials determined it to be a hazard. The remaining theater building was left sitting vacant in the middle of an otherwise empty lot. One writer notes that the remaining shell "only hints at what this theater was like in its heyday."
Preservation battles
The property has been vacant and the subject of attempted demolitions for many years. When the Whittier earthquake damaged the Vega Building, demolition efforts accelerated. County inspectors declared the building unsafe for occupancy, and businesses operating in the building, including a jewelry store, a shoe repair shop, and a bowling alley, were evicted.
In 1988, demolition commenced before officials led by then County Supervisor Ed Edelman halted the work with a stop-work order. Demolition crews had already begun to dismantle the walls when Edelman, then Los Angeles City Councilwoman Gloria Molina, sheriff's deputies and more than 50 concerned community members showed up at the site to ensure the demolition work was halted. Edelman blamed a "foul-up" in the Public Works Department for issuing the demolition permit and assured the gathered crowd that heads were going to roll and that he would "try and stop this damn demolition before it happens."
In 1992, the Vega Building was razed, and in 1994, the family that had owned the property for 20 years sought to have the building removed from the National Register of Historic Places to clear the way for potential demolition of the theater. The Mothers of East Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Conservancy fought the demolition plans. The Conservancy noted that the theatre was one of fewer than two dozen buildings in Los Angeles in the Spanish Churrigueresque style. In August 1994, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, on a motion by Supervisor Gloria Molina, designated the theatre as a "historical resource." The State Historical Resources Commission also rejected the owner's request to remove the theatre from the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2003, the property was acquired by M&A Gabaee, an affiliate of the Charles Co. Rumors spread that the new owner planned to convert the property into a Walgreens Drug Store. A representative of the owner told the Los Angeles Times: "We're in negotiations so everything is preliminary. We plan to keep the structure. The building is absolutely gorgeous. We want to maintain that but we also want to find what's going to work. We're looking forward to rejuvenating it." Preservationists expressed concerns that the new plans would preserve the outer shell of the building but gut or significantly alter the building's interior. In particular, concerns were raised that the theatre's soaring interior and proscenium arch would be replaced with a dropped ceiling. The founder of the East Los Angeles Center for the Performing Arts proposed converting the theatre into a performing arts venue: "It's an amazing theater. We were trying to get support to renovate and turn it into a performing arts venue. There's a drugstore on every corner here. I'd love to see the developer team up with us to preserve it."
As of 2008, the proposed conversion of the theatre was still the subject of ongoing preservation efforts by the Los Angeles Conservancy. The Conservancy stated that it sought to preserve historic interior features, including the proscenium, lobby, clamshell-shaped concession stand, and mezzanine level, while "encouraging the adaptive reuse of this long-vacant historic property."
On May 25, 2010, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the conversion of the theater into a 24-hour drug store. It opened as a CVS on August 19, 2012.
See also
List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
References
External links
More L.A. Theatres of Interest
Photographs of Golden Gate Theater from Los Angeles Public Library Photo Database
Cinemas and movie theaters in Los Angeles
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
Theatres completed in 1927
Event venues established in 1927
1927 establishments in California
Art Deco architecture in California
Spanish Revival architecture in California |
17334610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hilliard | John Hilliard | John Hilliard may refer to:
John Hilliard (American football) (born 1976), American football player
John Hilliard (artist) (born 1945), London-based conceptual artist, photographer and academic
John Kenneth Hilliard (1901–1989), American acoustical engineer and loudspeaker designer
John S. Hilliard (born 1947), American composer
John Northern Hilliard (1872–1935), author of a best-selling book on magic, Greater Magic |
6902223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Dominican%20Sisters | Adrian Dominican Sisters | The Adrian Dominican Sisters is a Catholic religious institute of Dominican sisters in the United States. Their motherhouse is in Adrian, Michigan.
Current Mission
The Congregation serves in ministries education, health care, pastoral and retreat ministry, the arts, social work, ecology, and peace and justice advocacy. Adrian Dominicans serve in these ministries in 22 U.S. states and three countries: Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and Norway.
The Adrian Dominican Sisters have an Associate Life program consisting of women and men who make a non-vowed commitment to the Congregation, sharing in the mission and vision of the vowed members and in the Dominican spirituality. The Congregation sponsors two universities, two hospitals in the Dignity Health system, an elementary school, a high school, and seven literacy centers.
History
The Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan trace their origin to Holy Cross Convent in Regensburg (Ratisbon), Bavaria, a convent established in 1233.
In 1853 four Sisters from this convent were sent to New York in response to a request for Sisters to provide religious education for German immigrant children. These Sisters settled on Montrose Avenue in the Williamsburg section of New York City. Another convent was later established on Second Street in Manhattan. From this congregation Sisters were sent to St. Mary Parish (1879) and St. Joseph Parish (1880) in Adrian, Michigan. In 1899, the Second Street convent moved to Newburgh, New York.
In 1884 additional Sisters were sent to Adrian to establish a hospital for injured railroad workers. Adrian became a province of the Newburgh Congregation, with Camilla Madden as the Provincial. As the need for the hospital diminished, Mother Camilla turned to education and opened St. Joseph Academy in 1896. Students came in large numbers to this boarding school and the province grew rapidly with new members. At the same time the Congregation was called upon to staff other schools in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and New Mexico.
In 1923, through the efforts of Mother Emmanuel Phelan of Newburgh and Mother Camilla Madden, canonical separation of the Adrian province from Newburgh was achieved. Bishop Michael Gallagher of Detroit and Archbishop (later Cardinal) Patrick Hayes of New York agreed to the separation. Mother Camilla Madden became the first Mother General of the new independent congregation in Adrian, a position she held for only six months prior to her death in 1924. At this time the Congregation numbered 440 members.
The Congregation and its ministries grew during this time. Education continued to be a major endeavor during these years. The Congregation also developed ministries in social service, particularly in parish visitation, and opened three hospitals, two in Santa Cruz, California (now consolidated at Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital) and one in Henderson, Nevada: St. Rose Dominican Hospital - Rose de Lima Campus. Today there are two additional campuses in Southern Nevada — the Siena (2000) and the San Martín (2006) campuses. Mother Camilla opened St. Joseph College in Adrian (now Siena Heights University) during her time as provincial. Mother Gerald Barry expanded the Congregation’s ministry in higher education by opening Barry University in 1940. She also built a House of Studies at The Catholic University of America to accommodate sisters studying for advanced degrees. The Congregation grew to over 2,000 members.
Under the leadership of Mother Gerald, the Congregation achieved pontifical status in 1944 and extended its ministries overseas — to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Peru. In 1959, as the Congregation grew in numbers, it was divided into five provinces with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan (2), Chicago, Illinois, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Santa Cruz, California. In addition there was an Overseas Vicariate and a Motherhouse Vicariate. Over the years of leadership of Mother Gerald and her successor, Mother Genevieve Weber, the Congregation served in the formation of two new Congregations: the Glenmary Sisters (originally located in Cincinnati, Ohio) and the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Remedies (Pampanga, Philippines).
Since Vatican II
The Adrian Dominican Congregation entered into its General Chapter of Renewal in 1968 after the Second Vatican Council. This was a time of transition as it was for all United States congregations of women religious. General Councilors became full-time participants with the Prioresses in directing the life in mission of the Congregation. Over the years, Sisters Nadine Foley and Donna Markham were elected president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States during their terms as Prioress. Sisters Nadine Foley and Patricia Walter have represented United States women religious on the Council of the International Union of Superiors General. Sister Nadine Foley also wrote chapter 15 of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude.
Acting upon the directives sent from Rome after Vatican Council II, the Congregation developed new Constitutions that received approval on April 29, 1989. This Constitution and Statutes replaced earlier ones approved in 1937 and 1944. The Constitution incorporated a new governance organization based on Mission Chapters (equivalent to provinces) headed by Chapter Prioresses (provincials). The latter, with the General Council, constitute a Leadership Council which directs the mission of the Congregation.
Since Vatican Council II, the Adrian Dominican Sisters have continued their ministries in education and healthcare and expanded to include professional ministries such as university presidents, hospital administrators, directors of literacy centers, directors of theological programs, theologians and professors of theology, liturgical artists, diocesan directors of schools, parish directors of religious education, and retreat directors. The Congregation's Ministry Trust fund helps to support projects and ministries of Adrian Dominican Sisters that aid economically poor people, and offer spiritual renewal.
Mergers
In 2003, the 55 sisters of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Edmonds, Washington merged with the Adrian Dominican Sisters. The Edmonds Dominicans share a common heritage with the Adrian Dominicans as they too were founded in 1923 by sisters from Holy Cross Convent in Regensburg.
In 2011, the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Remedies of San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines also merged with the Adrian Dominican Sisters, forming the eighth "Mission Chapter" or unit of governance of the Congregation. In a coming around full circle, the community in the Philippines that got its start in partnership with the Adrian Dominican Sisters decided to merge with the Congregation. The Sisters became a Mission Chapter of the Congregation in November 2011: the Our Lady of Remedies Mission Chapter.
Leadership
In 2016, the Congregation's General Chapter elected Sister Patricia Siemen, OP, as Prioress; Sister Mary Margaret Pachucki, OP, as Vicaress; Sister Frances Nadolny, OP, as Administrator; and Sisters Patricia Harvat, OP, and Elise D. Garcia, OP, as General Councilors. The Chapter delegates also approved four Enactments that they will focus on through General Chapter 2022: deepening their spirituality and engaging with others in prayer and presence; sacrificing to mitigate their impact on climate change and ecological devastation; facilitating and participating in resilient communities with people who are relegated to the margins; and deepening their relationships with one another, inviting others to vowed and Associate life, and expanding collaboration.
Membership and geographic scope
In December 2020, nine retired sisters died from COVID-19, six within a 48-hour period. While this made national news, it was not untypical of rest homes elsewhere in the United States.
As of January 2021, the Congregation has 507 Sisters and 215 lay Associates, who minister throughout the United States as well as in the Dominican Republic, Norway, and the Philippines.
Shareholder activism
The Adrian Dominican Sisters led shareholder activism efforts, including in the areas of executive compensation, climate change, the rights of indigenous peoples, and gun control. Sister Judith Byron, OP is a member with the Adrian Dominican Sisters and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and serves as a consultant to the Adrian Dominican Sisters' Portfolio Advisory Board and as director of The Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, a coalition of religious communities and health care systems. The Adrian Dominican Sisters introduced shareholder resolutions asking firearms manufacturers American Outdoor Brands Corporation (the parent company of Smith & Wesson) and Sturm, Ruger & Co. and retailer Dick's Sporting Goods to report to investors regarding the steps they are taking to reduce gun violence.
The Adrian Dominican Sisters purchased 200 shares of American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), the minimum holding needed to qualify to formally submit shareholder resolutions. American Outdoor Brands Corporation opposed the resolution. Investors approved the resolution. On February 8, 2019 American Outdoor Brands Corporation released a 20-page report, which said, in summary, "AOBC’s reputation among firearm buyers and Second Amendment supporters is more critical to the success of the Company and the enhancement of shareholder value than its reputation among industry detractors and special interest groups with a political agenda."
The Adrian Dominican Sisters purchased $2000 worth of shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. in order to qualify to formally submit shareholder resolutions. The resolution was co-filed by the Adrian Dominican Sisters and Catholic Health Initiatives. Ruger opposed the resolution. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager and Ruger's largest investor, and Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, the two most important shareholder advisory firms in the United States, supported the resolution. At Ruger's annual meeting on May 9, 2018 69% of shareholders voted in favor and Ruger said they would heed the resolution. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the vote a "first-of-its-kind victory."
The Adrian Dominican Sisters were among shareholders that helped influence retailer Dick's Sporting Goods to stop selling AR-15 style rifles at its Field & Stream stores.
Sponsored Institutions
Educational Institutions
Regina Dominican High School (Wilmette, Illinois)
Rosarian Academy (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Barry University (Miami Shores, Florida)
Siena Heights University (Adrian, Michigan)
Hospitals
Dominican Hospital (Santa Cruz, California)
St. Rose Dominican Hospitals (Henderson-Las Vegas, Nevada)
Literacy Centers
Adrian Rea Literacy Center (Adrian, Michigan)
All Saints Literacy Center (Detroit, Michigan)
Aquinas Literacy Center (Chicago, Illinois)
DePorres Place (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Dominican Literacy Center (Detroit, Michigan)
N.E.W. Life Literacy Center (Flint, Michigan)
Siena Literacy Center (Detroit, Michigan)
Mothers General/Prioresses
The following Sisters have served as either Mother General or Prioress of the Congregation:
Mother Camilla Madden 1923–1924 (Provincial, 1892–1923)
Mother Augustine Walsh 1924–1933
Mother Gerald Barry 1933–1961
Mother Genevieve Weber 1962-1968
Sister Rosemary Ferguson 1968–1978
Sister Carol Johannes 1978–1986
Sister Nadine Foley 1986–1992
Sister Patricia Walter 1992–1998
Sister Janet Capone 1998–2004
Sister Donna Markham 2004–2010
Sister Attracta Kelly 2010–2016
Sister Patricia Siemen 2016–2022
References
Congregations of Dominican Sisters
Religious organizations established in the 1230s
Adrian, Michigan
Barry University
Siena Heights University
Christian religious orders established in the 13th century
Catholic religious institutes established in the 20th century
Catholic organizations established in the 20th century |
17334617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Wilkes-Barre/Scranton%20Pioneers%20season | 2004 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season | The 2004 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season was the team's third season as a member of the AF2. The Pioneers finished with a 13–3 record under new head coach Les Moss, their fourth head coach in three seasons. The Pioneers clinched the Northeastern Division and secured their best first playoff appearance. The Pioneers lost in the third week of the postseason, ending their playoff run just short of the ArenaCup. Following the season, Moss signed a contract to remain the head coach for a second season, the first returning coach in team history.
Schedule
Regular season
Postseason
Final standings
Attendance
References
External links
ArenaFan Online 2004 Wilkes-Barre/Pioneers schedule
ArenaFan Online 2004 af2 standings
ArenaFan Online 2004 af2 attendance
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers seasons
2004 in American football
Wilkes-Barre Scranton Pioneers |
17334619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV300%20Series | FV300 Series | The FV300 series was a project for a series of lightweight armoured fighting vehicles by the United Kingdom between 1947–50, a few years after World War II.
History
The development and construction of the tank was carried out by Vickers. However, only two prototypes were built. The project ended in 1950 at the prototype stage.
Variants
FV301 21 ton tank with 77mm gun
FV302 GPO/CPO Command Vehicle
FV303 20pdr Self Propelled Gun - 20 pounder
FV304 25pdr Self Propelled Gun - 25 pounder gun/howitzer
FV305 5.5 inch Self Propelled Gun - BL 5.5 inch Medium Gun
FV306 Light Armoured Recovery Vehicle
FV307 Radar Vehicle
FV308 Field Artillery Tractor
FV309 Royal Artillery section vehicle
FV310 Armoured Personnel Carrier
FV311 Armoured Load Carrier
Gallery
References
External links
Arcane Fighting Vehicles
HenkofHolland
Light tanks of the United Kingdom
Cold War tanks of the United Kingdom
World War II tanks of the United Kingdom
Abandoned military projects of the United Kingdom
Trial and research tanks of the United Kingdom |
17334634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-L-Glutamyl-L-cysteine | Gamma-L-Glutamyl-L-cysteine | {{DISPLAYTITLE:gamma-L-Glutamyl-L-cysteine}}
γ -L-Glutamyl-L-cysteine, also known as γ-glutamylcysteine (GGC), is a dipeptide found in animals, plants, fungi, some bacteria, and archaea. It has a relatively unusual γ-bond between the constituent amino acids, L-glutamic acid and L-cysteine and is a key intermediate in the gamma (γ) -glutamyl cycle first described by Meister in the 1970s. It is the most immediate precursor to the antioxidant glutathione.
Biosynthesis
GGC is synthesized from L-glutamic acid and L-cysteine in the cytoplasm of virtually all cells in an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) requiring reaction catalysed by the enzyme glutamate-cysteine ligase (GCL, EC 6.3.2.2; formerly γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase). The production of GGC is the rate limiting step in glutathione synthesis.
Occurrence
GGC occurs in human plasma in the range of 1 – 5 µM and intracellularly at 5 – 10 µM. The intracellular concentration is generally low because GGC is rapidly bonded with a glycine to form glutathione. This second and final reaction step in glutathione biosynthesis is catalysed by the activity of the ATP dependent glutathione synthetase enzyme.
Importance
GGC is essential to mammalian life. Mice that have had the glutamate-cysteine ligase (GCL) gene knocked out do not develop beyond the embryo stage and die before birth. This is because GGC is vital for the biosynthesis of glutathione. Since the production of cellular GGC in humans slows down with age, as well as during the progression of many chronic diseases, it has been postulated that supplementation with GGC could offer health benefits. Such GGC supplementation may also be of benefit in situations where glutathione has been acutely lowered below optimum, such as following strenuous exercise, during trauma or episodes of poisoning.
Several review articles have been published exploring the therapeutic potential of GGC to replenish glutathione in age related and chronic disease states such as Alzheimer's disease.
GGC is also capable of being a powerful antioxidant in its own right.
Availability
GGC synthesis for commercial use is exceedingly difficult and, until recently, no commercially viable process for large scale production had been developed. The major drawback preventing the commercial success of chemical synthesis of GGC is the number of steps involved due to the three reactive groups on L-glutamic acid and L-cysteine molecules, which must be masked to achieve the correct regioisomer. Similarly, there have been numerous attempts at biological production of GGC by fermentation over the years and none have been successfully commercialised.
Towards the end of 2019, a biocatalytic process was successfully commercialized. GGC is now available as a supplement in the US under the trademarked name of Glyteine and Continual-G.
Bioavailability and supplementation
A human clinical study in healthy, non-fasting adults demonstrated that orally administered GGC can significantly increase lymphocyte GSH levels indicating systemic bioavailability, validating the therapeutic potential of GGC,
Animal model studies with GGC have supported a potential therapeutic role for GGC in both the reduction of oxidative stress induced damage in tissues, including the brain and as a treatment for sepsis.
In contrast, supplementation with glutathione is incapable of increasing cellular glutathione since the GSH concentration found in the extracellular environment is much lower than that found intracellularly by about a thousand-fold. This large difference means that there is an insurmountable concentration gradient that prohibits extracellular glutathione from entering cells. Although currently unproven, GGC may be the pathway intermediate of glutathione transportation in multicellular organisms
Safety
Safety assessment of GGC sodium salt in rats has shown that orally administered (gavage) GGC was not acutely toxic at the limit single dosage of 2000 mg/kg (monitored over 14 days) and demonstrated no adverse effects following repeated daily doses of 1000 mg/kg over 90 days.
History
In 1983, pioneers of glutathione research, Mary E. Anderson and Alton Meister, were the first to report on the ability of GGC to augment cellular GSH levels in a rat model [3]. Intact GGC, which was synthesised in their own laboratory, was shown to be taken up by cells, bypassing the rate-limiting step of the GCL enzyme to be converted to glutathione. Control experiments with combinations of the constituent amino acids that make up GGC, including L-glutamic acid and L-cysteine, were ineffective. Since this initial work, only a few studies using GGC were performed due to the fact that there was no commercial source of GGC on the market. Subsequently, GGC has become commercially available and studies investigating its efficacy have commenced.
References
Amino acid derivatives |
17334637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Selengut | Jesse Selengut | Jesse Selengut (born September 9, 1968, Dover, New Jersey) is a New York City-based trumpeter, composer, and singer. Selengut led the contemporary jazz group NOIR.
References
American jazz trumpeters
American male trumpeters
Musicians from New York City
1968 births
Living people
Jazz musicians from New York (state)
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
17334640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBBG | KBBG | KBBG (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve the community of Waterloo, Iowa. KBBG is owned by Afro American Community Broadcasting, Inc and is organized as a 501(C)3 tax-exempt organization. Jimmie Porter founded the corporation in 1977 with a group of 16 other Waterloo residents. He remained active in its leadership, along with a board of directors, until his death in 2007.
KBBG began broadcasting on July 26, 1978 using a 10 watt transmitter, and upgraded on December 27, 1980 to 9,500 watts of power.
KBBG is a member-supported station of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is an affiliate of American Urban Radio Network (SBN).
KBBG is broadcasting using the HD Radio digital format as well as traditional analog audio.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
BBG
NPR member stations
Community radio stations in the United States |
17334644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20S.%20Livingston | William S. Livingston | William Samuel Livingston (July 1, 1920 – August 15, 2013) was a political science professor who was the acting president of the University of Texas at Austin, a position he held from 1992 until 1993. Born in Ironton, Ohio, Livingston fought in World War II as a first lieutenant and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. In 1943 he obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from Ohio State University before transferring to Yale University, where he was award a PhD in 1950.
Livingston joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1949 and stayed with the political science faculty until his retirement in 2007. During his tenure, he received Ford and Guggenheim Fellowships, chaired two departments, developed numerous programs and served as Dean of the Graduate School and acting president of the University of Texas at Austin. In 1995 he was made senior vice president of the university.
Livingston was the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Politics and president of Pi Sigma Alpha. Among his numerous awards was the American Political Science Association's Daniel Elazar Award, an organization on whose council he had served twice. Since 2004, the William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award has recognized exemplary graduate student employees.
Early life
William Livingston was born on July 1, 1920 in Ironton, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1943, before getting his master's degree at the university in the same year. After his service in World War II he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in political science in 1950.
He served as a field artillery officer, in the capacity of First Lieutenant, during World War II. Fighting in Europe, he earned both the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. After the war, he married Lana Sanor and had two sons with her, Stephen and David.
Academic and administrative career
In 1949, Livingston joined the faculty of the political science department at the University of Texas at Austin. He began by teaching courses in American and British government, as well as comparative politics. He received a one-year Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1952 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, the same year he won the University of Texas Student Association's "Teaching Excellence Award." He lectured at Yale University in the 1955-56 academic year and at Duke University in the 1960-61 academic year. In 1982 he was named to the Jo Anne Christian Professorship in British Studies, a seat that, as of 2008, he continues to hold. During his tenure at the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote or edited six books and at least twenty-five articles on political science topics. He was also the voice of "TEX", the university's telephonic registration system (Telephone Enrollment eXchange).
In 1954 he was made assistant dean of the graduate school at the University of Texas, a position that he held until 1958. He later became the vice president and dean of graduate students in 1979, an appointment that lasted until 1995. He was the graduate adviser for the Government Department from 1958 until 1967 and its chair from 1966 through 1969. He became the vice chancellor for academic programs of the University of Texas System for the 1969-70 academic year. He chaired the comparative studies program from 1978–79 and spent six years as the chairman for the Faculty Senate.
In the 1960s he chaired the committee that helped establish the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. In addition, he helped develop the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the Normandy Scholars Program, the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, and the Faculty Seminar on British Studies. He also was instrumental in forming the Graduate Assembly for faculty members. From September 1992 through January 1993, while still the dean of graduate studies, he was named the acting president of University of Texas at Austin. After his retirement from the former position, he was made senior vice president of the university.
Later life
Livingston has been the president of both the Southern Political Science Association and the Southwestern Social Science Association, and for four years he was the chief editor for The Journal of Politics. From 1980 until 1982 he was the National President of the political science honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha. Livingston has won several university-based awards, including the Pro Bene Meritis Award from the College of Liberal Arts (1992) and the Award of Distinction from the Parent's Association (1994), and was recognized as a University Distinguished Educator by the Ex-Students' Association, followed by the second "Distinguish Service Award" in the organization's history. The Conference of Southern Graduate Schools honored his "Distinguished Service to Graduate Education" in 1995, which was followed a year later by the Texas Association of Graduate Schools' President’s Award for Distinguished Service. In 2005 he received a Presidential Citation for "extraordinary contributions to The University of Texas at Austin." On September 2, 2006, he received the American Political Science Association's Daniel Elazar Award for his work on federalism and intergovernmental relations, an organization on whose council he had served twice.
Livingston's successor, Robert M. Berdahl, referred to him as "the conscience, the soul, the memory, the wit, and the wise elder statesman" of the University of Texas. Since 2004, the William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award has recognized "outstanding performance by graduate student academic employees." Livingston retired from the University of Texas on August 31, 2007, at the age of 87, and died at a retirement home in Austin on August 15, 2013.
References
1920 births
2013 deaths
Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin
American political scientists
Ohio State University alumni
Yale University alumni
United States Army officers
United States Army personnel of World War II
People from Ironton, Ohio |
17334666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12345 | 12345 | 12345 may refer to:
The ZIP code exclusive to the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York
Saraighat Express, a superfast train in India with number 12345
The year 12,345 in the 13th millennium AD |
23573937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20Primera%20Divisi%C3%B3n%20transfers%20%282009%E2%80%9310%20season%29 | List of Argentine Primera División transfers (2009–10 season) | This is a list of football transfers involving teams from the Argentine Primera División for the 2009–10 season.
July–August (winter) transfer window
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References
General references
"Clausura '10 – Transferencias" Fútbol Pasión. Retrieved on March 6, 2010.
"Reforzados..." Olé. Retrieved on January 31, 2010.
"El Supermercado" Olé. Retrieved on August 16, 2009.
"La pelota está lista para rodar" El Día. Retrieved on August 18, 2009.
"Apertura '09 – Transferencias" Fútbol Pasión. Retrieved on August 20, 2009.
Specific references
2009-10
Football transfers summer 2009
Football transfers winter 2009–10
Transfers |
20470528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Japan%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships | 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships | The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.
Competition notes
The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.
Men
Ladies
Ice dancing
International team selections
World Championships
Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.
Four Continents Championships
External links
2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
Japan Figure Skating Championships
2004 in figure skating
2005 in figure skating
2004 in Japanese sport |
20470538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirakabaha | Shirakabaha | The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine Shirakaba, from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary society. Members included writers, artists, literary critics and others who rejected Confucianism and the strictures of traditional Japanese literary and artistic styles. In particular, the group emphasized idealism, humanism and individualism, over the naturalism that had been the dominant trend in Japanese literature of the Taishō period. The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan. Unlike many other literary circles, The Shirakaba-ha did not limit their interest to literature, but also delved into other art forms. However, the group remained deeply interested in Japanese culture, particularly in folk art, which had previously been disparaged by traditional art critics.
Early members included Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885-1976), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), Satomi Ton (1888-1983), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) and Nagayo Yoshirō (1888-1961). Their literature was typically of the ‘I novel’ genre, and was concerned with the life of individuals, often incorporating optimistic philosophy into their work. Some of these individuals came with wealthy families, and attempted to emulate Tolstoy in creating utopian agrarian communes in remote parts of Japan. The self-published monthly literary journal Shirakaba ("White Birch") was in circulation from April 1910 until 1923. The magazine reached its peak in popularity in 1918. However, publication was discontinued after the Great Kantō earthquake.
References
Suzuki, Tomi. Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. Stanford University Press. (1997)
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki. The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge University Press. (1980)
External links
Shirakaba Literary Society home page
The Circle, Red Circle Authors |
44497653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tallest%20buildings%20in%20Brooklyn | List of tallest buildings in Brooklyn | Brooklyn, the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, contains over 60 high-rises that stand taller than . The Brooklyn Tower, a condominium and rental tower in the Downtown neighborhood of the borough, is Brooklyn's tallest building at following its topping out in October 2021. The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene, at , was the tallest building in Brooklyn for 80 years from its completion in 1929 until 2009, when The Brooklyner was topped out at .
History
The construction of high-rise buildings in Brooklyn began during the late 19th century, following the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 and the building of elevated railroads and streetcar lines during the late 1880s. Increased accessibility to Downtown Brooklyn brought greater economic growth and propagated denser commercial development, which increased the heights of downtown buildings throughout the 1890s. This led to the 1891 construction of Brooklyn's first skyscraper, the 10-story Franklin Trust Company Building. By 1901, the 13-story Temple Bar Building was completed and was the borough's first steel-beam high-rise, its largest office building, and its tallest at . In the early 20th-century, the opening of multiple New York City Subway lines in Downtown Brooklyn spurred further development of tall commercial buildings. The Zoning Resolution of 1916, which required buildings to incorporate setbacks from the street to allow for sunlight, influenced the construction of taller, more slender buildings.
In 1918, the 22-story and building at 32 Court Street was completed and regarded as Brooklyn's first "true skyscraper", and thus initiated a skyscraper building boom in Brooklyn centered on Court and Montague Streets. Brooklyn's high-rise development continued unabated into the 1920s. The Court and Remsen Building, built in 1926 at in height, was the first of the major high-rises to be built in Brooklyn during the 1920s and briefly held the title of Brooklyn's tallest building until 1927, when the Montague–Court Building was completed and became Brooklyn's tallest building at . Brooklyn's skyscraper building boom ceased during the Great Depression, and the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene, which was completed in 1929, remained Brooklyn's tallest building until 2009.
In 2004, several portions of Downtown Brooklyn were rezoned to promote more commercial, residential, and retail development. This rezoning allowed for greater density of development, and combined with an increased demand for housing, these areas experienced a boom in the construction of tall buildings. In addition to Downtown Brooklyn, high-rise buildings are also concentrated in the Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and Williamsburg neighborhoods, although other Brooklyn neighborhoods have significant numbers of high-rises.
Tallest buildings
There are over 60 completed or topped out skyscrapers in Brooklyn that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement which includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings. An asterisk (*) indicates that the building is still under construction, but has been topped out. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed.
Tallest buildings under construction or proposed
Under construction
There are a number of buildings under construction in Brooklyn that are expected to rise at least in height. The Brooklyn Tower, which has started initial construction work relating to foundation preparation, is set to rise over 1,000 feet. If completed, the tower will become the tallest building in the NYC area outside of Manhattan, and the tallest building on Long Island.
Tallest buildings proposed
Tallest buildings cancelled
Timeline of tallest buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Brooklyn.
See also
Architecture of New York City
List of tallest buildings in New York City
List of tallest buildings in Queens
List of tallest buildings on Long Island
References
Explanatory notes
a. An asterisk (*) indicates that the building is still under construction, but has been topped out.
Citations
Sources
External links
Diagram of New York City skyscrapers on SkyscraperPage
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Tallest buildings in Brooklyn
Tallest in Brooklyn |
23573938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn%20Atkins | Finn Atkins | Finn Rosanna Atkins (born 21 June 1989) is a British film, television and stage actress.
Early life
Atkins was born in Nottingham and grew up in the Clifton area, where she attended Greencroft Primary School, Farnborough School and High Pavement College. She has been a member of the Television Workshop since she was at primary school.
Career
Atkins' breakthrough came early, in Shane Meadows' 2002 film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, in which she played Marlene, the daughter of Shirley (Shirley Henderson) and Jimmy (Robert Carlyle). Although opinions on the film were divided, everyone seemed to agree about Atkins' contribution. In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote of the film: "there is a cracking turn from Finn Atkins as Shirley's daughter… a bouquet is due." Whilst The Telegraph'''s Sukhdev Sandhu exclaimed: "Finn Atkins is superb as Shirley Henderson's whey-faced daughter."
In January 2009 she appeared as teenage prostitute Marissa in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She has since become a regular in Sky1's hit comedy drama 'Starlings' where she plays Charlie Starling; the football mad daughter to Jan & Terry Starling (Lesley Sharp & Brendan Coyle).
Filmography
FilmBale (2009) aka Haybales — Kelly; Elephant Gun Films Limited (director: Alastair Mackay)Eden Lake (2008) — Paige; Celador Films (director: James Watkins)This Is England (2006) — Skinhead Girl; Warp Films (director: Shane Meadows)Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) — Marlene; Midlands Films (director: Shane Meadows)Better or Worse? (2000) — Rachel; Lifesize Pictures (director: Jocelyn Cammack)To Walk Invisible - The Brontë Sisters (2016) Charlotte Brontë (director: Sally Wainwright)
TelevisionTo Walk Invisible (one off drama) … Charlotte Brontë 29 December 2016Starlings … Charlie in all 8 episodes; 13 May - 1 July 2012, Sky OneMoving On … Stacy in "Butterfly Effect" (#1.5); 22 May 2009, BBC OneEastEnders … Marissa in eight episodes; 13–29 January 2009, BBC OneCasualty … Sammy Malone in three episodes:
"The Line of Fire" (#23.9); 1 November 2008, BBC One
"Farmead Menace: Part 2" (#23.2); 14 September 2008, BBC One
"Farmead Menace: Part 1" (#23.1); 13 September 2008, BBC OneDoctors … three episodes:
"The Fires of Midwinter" ... Sophie Wakefield; 7 January 2014, BBC One
"The Hex" … Penny Harvey; 24 April 2008, BBC One
"Iron Man" … Gill Davies; 13 June 2005, BBC OneHolby City … Pheona Allen in "Looking After Number One"(#8.39); 25 July 2006, BBC OneDown to Earth … Kate Cooper in unknown episodes; 2005, BBC OneState of Play … Kelvin Stagg's Girlfriend in one episode (#1.1); 18 May 2003, BBC OneDangerville … Finn in ten episodes; 7 January – 25 March 2003, ITV1Peak Practice … Sarah Lloyd in two episodes:
"Hit and Run" (#10.2); 12 September 2000, ITV1
"For Love of the Child" (#10.1); 5 September 2000, ITV1
TheatreWe Happy Few … Gertrude; Nottingham Arts Centre, 25–28 February 2009 (author: Imogen Stubbs; director: Ian Smith)Who is Jesse Flood … Carlton Junior Television Workshop (director: Alison Rashley)Measure for Measure … Nottingham Galleries of Justice (director: Ian Smith)
Music VideosRichard Hawley ... Tonight The Streets Are Ours (2007)
References
External links
Talent Agency KenMcReddie.com''
1989 births
Living people
British film actresses
British stage actresses
British television actresses
People from Nottingham
Actresses from Nottinghamshire |
44497669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Leach | Maria Leach | Maria Leach (April 30, 1892 – May 22, 1977) was an American writer and editor of books on folklores of the world. A noted scholar, she compiled and edited a major reference work on folklore and was the author or editor of thirteen books for adults, young people, and children.
Early life, education, and marriage
Born in New York City, Maria Leach was the former Alice-Mary Doane, daughter of Benjamin H. Doane and Mary (Davis) Doane. Her father was a native of Nova Scotia, one of Canada's three Maritime provinces. Born in Barrington, in Shelburne County, he was a descendant of the venerable family called Doane (an Anglicized form of a Gaelic name common in southern Ireland since the 1500s). In Nova Scotia he had connections to seafaring through his own father, a ship's captain. In the late 1870s or early 1880s, Benjamin Doane and his wife Mary, a native of South Carolina and an unreconstructed Rebel, moved to New York and established a home in Manhattan, where they lived for some years and raised their children.
Alice-Mary Doane spent her youth and received her early education in New York City. Upon graduation from high school she went to Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, whose curriculum was shaped by the perspective of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She then went on to study for a master's degree in anthropology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. There she met MacEdward Leach, a student of medieval literature and philology with a strong interest in folklore. His fascination with the oral tradition of medieval folk tales was shared by Alice-Mary, who by then was known as Maria (pronounced "Ma-RYE-uh" in the British fashion), which she had adopted as a pen name. After MacEdward Leach earned a bachelor's degree in 1916 and completed his military service in World War I, he and Maria married in 1917 and moved to Baltimore, where both of them pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University.
MacEdward Leach earned a master's degree at Johns Hopkins that same year, 1917. Maria continued her studies toward a doctorate in folklore in 1918–19. In 1920 he entered the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and began teaching as an instructor of English. Not long after, in 1924, the Leaches became the parents of a son, Macdonald, their only child. As a young father, MacEdward Leach obtained his doctorate in English in 1930 and joined the faculty of the university in 1931 as an assistant professor of English.
Later life and professional career
In 1936, Maria Leach found employment in the Philadelphia offices of Funk & Wagnalls, a scholarly publishing firm. As working parents, the Leaches then set up house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and some years later, once their son was away at boarding school, decided to follow mostly independent pathways. While he remained in Pennsylvania, she moved back to New York, returning to their home in Bucks County for occasional weekends. MacEdward Leach would subsequently devote his entire career to teaching and working at the university, where, among other accomplishments, he founded the program in folklore.
Maria Leach also continued to work in the burgeoning field of folklore. Having resettled in Manhattan, in Greenwich Village, she worked in the New York offices of Funk & Wagnalls as a dictionary editor. There, after her amicable divorce from MacEdward Leach in the mid-1940s, she compiled and edited the major reference work on folklore, mythology, and legend for which she is best known. From 1953 to 1958 she was a textbook editor at McGraw-Hill Book Company. During this time, in 1954, she wrote the first of what would become a substantial list of published works. In the late 1950s, she decided to retire and move to Nova Scotia. Her connection to the people of Cape Breton led her to establish residence in Shelburne County, at first in Barrington, in the Doane's family home, and then, finally, at Coffinscroft. A folklorist of international renown, she was still actively engaged in writing at the time of her death in 1977.
During her lifetime, Maria Leach was a prominent member of the American Folklore Society, for which she served as councilor. She also held memberships in the American Anthropological Association, the American Dialect Society, the Northeast Folklore Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference, and the Religious Society of Friends. In Nova Scotia, she was active in the Canadian Folklore Society and the Cape Breton Historical Society.
Published works
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, 2 vols., edited by Leach (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949); reissued in a one-volume, unabridged edition by Harper & Row in 1972 – encyclopedic
The Turnspit Dog, illustrated by Winifred Bromhall (New York: Aladdin Books, 1952)
The Soup Stone: The Magic of Familiar Things, with decorations by Mamie Hannon (Funk & Wagnalls, 1954)
The Beginning: Creation Myths around the World, illus. Jan Bell Fairservis (Funk & Wagnalls, 1956)
The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends, illus. Marc Simont (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1958)
The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales, illus. Kurt Werth (World, 1959; London: Collins, 1959); reissued by Philomel Books in 1982
God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961)
Noodles, Nitwits, and Numbskulls, illus. Kurt Werth (World, 1961)
The Luck Book, illus. Kurt Werth (World, 1964)
How the People Sang the Mountain Up: How and Why Stories, illus. Glen Rounds (New York: Viking, 1967)
Riddle Me, Riddle Me, Ree, illus. William Wiesner (Viking, 1970); reissued by Puffin Books in 1977
Whistle in the Graveyard: Folktales to Chill Your Bones, illus. Ken Rincian (Viking, 1974); reissued by Penguin Books in 1982
The Lion Sneezed: Folktales and Myths of the Cat, illus. Helen Siegel (New York: Crowell, 1977)
The Importance of Being a Wit: The Insults of Oscar Wilde, compiled by Leach (New York: Carrol & Graf, 1997; London: Michael O'Mara, 1997) – published posthumously
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20th-century American writers
Folklore
1892 births
1977 deaths
Writers from New York City
20th-century American women writers |
23573940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Love%20You%2C%20Beth%20Cooper | I Love You, Beth Cooper | I Love You, Beth Cooper is a comedy novel written by former Simpsons writer Larry Doyle. I Love You, Beth Cooper follows a high school graduate who confesses his love for a cheerleader during his valedictorian speech. The novel was made in a 2009 film of the same name, starring Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust.
Plot summary
Upon graduation from Buffalo Grove High School, valedictorian Denis Cooverman states to the entire gymnasium that he's had a crush on cheerleader Beth Cooper for six years. During the speech, he singles out several members of the class including the class bully and a pretty but shallow party girl, and tells his movie-quoting best friend Rich to admit that he's gay. Denis' speech upsets everyone except Beth, who thinks it was "sweet", giving Denis the courage to invite her to a party at his house that night. After the speech, it is revealed that Beth in fact has a boyfriend, an off duty army soldier named Kevin who threatens Denis.
After his declaration, Denis' mother and father leave him and Rich alone at the house for their party, which no one attends, as they are social outcasts. Beth shows up in her tiny blue car with her friends Cammy and Treece (the group of three is known as "The Trinity") at Denis' house that evening. Things are awkward and become worse when Kevin shows up with his army buddies, and Denis and Rich are assaulted and Denis' house (the kitchen) is trashed. Beth and the Trinity help Denis and Rich get away.
Beth is meant to be a dream girl, but has glaring imperfections that shatter Denis' fantasy. Throughout the novel the real Beth shows that she is nowhere near the perfect girl that Denis has imagined.
They then travel out to Old Tobacco Road where Denis and Beth drink and converse about their roles in high school and why exactly Denis fell for Beth; he admits it was because she was pretty and he always sat behind her. Cammy, Treece, and Rich try to tip over a cow but fail miserably. The girls then proceed to tell a scary story to get the boys entranced then floor it. They eventually crash into Denis' parents car where his parents were having sex.
The group then heads to Valli Wooly's (the shallow rich party girl) party. Denis, feeling uninvited does not accompany the Trinity into the party but decides to enter in anyway later. After some mishaps involving getting hit on by a fat girl, meeting the ugly girl he once made out with, he is again confronted by Kevin. Kevin and his gang then proceed to beat Denis up in front of the entire party in the most humiliating fashion, pounding him to the beat of the song playing. Beth then crashes Kevin's Humvee into the house itself and the group escapes.
The group heads back to the high school where Beth, Cammy, and Treece show off their cheer leading act. After the act, the girls head to the showers and Rich and Denis follow. Rich immediately proceeds to enter in the showers with the girls but as Denis is taking off his pants, he sees Beth get out the shower. Rich and Denis fight off Kevin for a bit by using their wet towels to thrash them with; this they learned to do after a brutal beating Rich had in freshman year. The group escapes in Beth's original car which Kevin used to drive down to the high school from the party. After escaping, Beth reveals to Denis that she only came to his party because it would be "funny", leaving Denis disappointed. Denis gets a nose bleed and Treece gives him tampons to stick up his nostrils to stop the bleeding. Next, Beth tells Denis his shirt smells and forces him to take it off. Beth takes his shirt and holds it out the window to "air it off"; the shirt then flies out the window. They stop the car and Denis, in his underwear, goes to find his shirt, which he finds in a puddle of mud being eaten by a pair of raccoons. Denis gives up his attempt at retrieval and returns to the car in only his "lucky" (meaning holey) underwear. Beth lends him a poncho.
The gang arrives at Treece's father's cabin where they all share a drink. Beth goes out with Denis for a smoke and to watch the moon. They talk about their futures and the fact that Beth is resigned to the fact that her life after this is not going to get much better but that Denis has so many opportunities available to him. Back at the cabin Cammy and Treece imply that Rich is gay. He continues to deny he is. So they decide to test him. Cammy grabs a condom and they have sex, where it's revealed that he isn't gay but the two girls might be as the sex is mostly Cammy and Treece having sex with Rich just being a bystander. They all share what they plan to do once the summer's over realizing they are going to be in the same dorm with similar majors.
Beth and Denis talk about their plans after summer, and they make out. Beth breaks off before they go too far and Kevin and his gang show up again. After beating up Denis a bit more they are confronted by Rich who has a rifle belonging to Treece's father. However, before they can be driven off the rifle falls apart revealing that it was not functioning. Kevin then forces Denis to row a boat out to the middle of the lake. Denis hits Kevin with an oar knocking him out of the boat and unconscious. Denis, fearing for his college admittance, jumps over and rescues Kevin revealing that he is a champion swimmer. He pulls Kevin to shore and prepares to administer CPR. Kevin however, recovers and subdues him yet again. Before anything more happens, the police arrive. Fighting stereotypes of dumb teenagers Rich, Treece and Cammy had called the police. The police bring the whole group in. Kevin's father forgoes charging Beth with stealing his car if they don't charge Kevin with attempting to kill Denis. They are taken home. Beth is dropped off at an empty house. Beth and Denis share a moment where Denis promises to marry Beth if she isn't fat at their 10-year reunion. On the way home, Rich reveals that he thinks he might be gay. When they get home Denis's parents are there and inform him that he will have to be punished. After his mom goes in, Denis tells his dad it was worth it. His father tells him not to mention that to his mother.
In the conclusion, Denis grew seven inches in the summer and gained 40 pounds. Rich tried being gay and didn't much like being homosexual either and is waiting for the next thing. Treece and Cammy decided they were just good friends and they shouldn't drink so much around each other. Beth and Denis see each other a week before he intends to go off to school.
Film version
A film version of I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere as Beth and Paul Rust as Denis, opened in the summer of 2009 to scathing reviews and quickly flopped. The film was largely faithful to the novel, but made a significant change by making Beth more outwardly responsive at the end to Denis' feelings for her.
References
External links
New York Times review by Mark Sarvas
Vanity Fair Q&A with the author
Entertainment Weekly review
American comedy novels
2007 American novels
American novels adapted into films
HarperCollins books |
20470586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nysa%20Bridge | Nysa Bridge | The Nysa Bridge is a late imperial Roman bridge over the Cakircak stream in Nysa (modern Sultanhisar) in the ancient region of Caria, modern-day Turkey. The long substructure was the second largest of its kind in antiquity, after the Pergamon Bridge.
Dating
The Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC–AD 21), who lived in Nysa, mentioned a secret water conduit in the town, but it remains unclear whether he meant the existing tunnel-like bridge. An inscription at the northern wall of the tube, close to a bend after , indicates a construction date in late imperial times. It reads "Work of Praülos until this point".
Construction
The Nysa Bridge served as a substructure for the area in front of the city theatre which lay close to the Cakircak stream. It was built as a two-level structure: the bottom vault spanned the brook. On top of it a row of arches connected the two hills that formed the urban area. The ground arch spanned the stream on a length of some , giving the bridge the appearance of a tube or a tunnel, although it was constructed entirely above ground. It consists of a single, wide vault whose uphill mouth widens to . The overall height of its semi-circular arch is , featuring a rise of . The vault is made of rubble stone laid in mortar, resting on a substructure of ashlar stone blocks of varying size (0.3–0.9 x 1.0–1.4 m). Originally featuring a continuous vaulting, it is collapsed today between m 75 and 85, and again at the downhill exit. The remaining, isolated structure at the downstream side has often been incorrectly referred to as a bridge of its own. The Nysa Bridge was the second largest bridge substruction of its kind in antiquity, only surpassed by the nearby Bridge at Pergamon. By comparison, the width of a normal, free standing Roman bridge did not exceed .
In its further course, the Cakircak also ran through the city stadion, so that naumachia could be given. There are remains of two other ancient bridges both up- and downstream.
Discharge capacity
The capacity limit of the Nysa Bridge in case of floods has been the subject of hydraulic and hydrological research. The gradient of the tunnel was calculated as 3.3% with a maximum discharge capacity of 290 m³/s. Exceeding this limit puts the bridge under internal pressure and damages the structure in the process. Considering that the Cakircak is long, with a median gradient of 19% and a drainage basin of , the following median intervals were calculated, depending on the method employed:
7,500 years (Günerman method)
10,500 years (D.S.I. method)
13,000 years (Mockus method)
68,000 years (Snyder method)
The study came to the conclusion that statistically every 13,500 years, a value which has been referred to as the "arithmetic mean", floods are to be expected which would exceed the capacity of the bridge.
See also
List of Roman bridges
Roman architecture
Roman engineering
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Roman bridges in Turkey
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Turkey
Roman Caria
Tunnels in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Aydın Province
Arch bridges in Turkey |
23573942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims%20In%20Ecstacy | Victims In Ecstacy | Victims In were an unsigned rock band from Phoenix, Arizona who were active between 1998 and 2001.
History
Formation
Victims In were formed in 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona by Jim Louvau, Jared Bakin and Andy Gerold. Their style of music was, according to themselves, “New School Arena Rock”. They took influence from bands such as Mary's Window, Faith No More, Guns N' Roses and Plastic Princess. To stand out and differentiate themselves from other local bands in the area they often sported dresses and wore make-up onstage.
Discography
Chinese Pornography
April 2000 saw the band release their eagerly awaited debut album, “Chinese Pornography” to positive reviews.
Mark Matson of Sipping Soma worked alongside the band to produce the album. Both “Believe” and “New Taste” featured in the Top 10 (industrial/metal/new wave) on www.Mp3.com
In July 2000 VIE struck a deal with V&R distribution which made “Chinese Pornography” available in Best Buy stores across the United States.
Track listing:
1. New Taste
2. Injected
3. Nothing
4. Ass+Fuck=57
5. Believe
6. Fragile
White Box Therapy
Victims In spent most of 2001 at Sound Vision studios recording what was to be their second album, “White Box Therapy”, with producer/engineer Michael Beck. White Box Therapy was released in March 2002. This album saw Andy Gerold assume the position of drummer with Ken Bergeron taking over guitar duties.
Track listing:
Euphoria
Cold Again
Atmospheric Textures
sdrawkcaB
New Taste
Beautiful
untitled
White Box Therapy (Heroine)
White Box Therapy (Radio Edit)
Tribute albums
Victims In featured on two tribute albums.They appeared on “Mutations: A Tribute to Alice Cooper” where they did a version of “Welcome to My Nightmare” and on “Tribute of the Year: A Tribute to Faith No More” where they covered “Strip Search”.
Non-album tracks
Dresses, dolls & lollipops
Media
November 2001 saw them line up a sponsorship deal with Pepsi, which ran the song "New Taste" on radio ads for the company's energy drink Amp.
Live performances
VIE performed regularly at the Atomic Cafe in Phoenix. They performed at the opening of Phoenix club The Machine and while recording their second album, White Box Therapy, they were invited to play on the Preaching to the Perverted tour along with Pigface, Gravity Kills and Godhead.
VIE have also shared the stage with bands such as Linkin Park, Disturbed, KMFDM, Alien Ant Farm, Sinnistar, Guttermouth, Jack Off Jill, Life of Agony, The Genitorturers, Psychotica, Dope, Drain STH, Vanilla Ice, Pitchshifter, Primer55 and Switchblade Symphony.
On June 24, 2001, their concert was webcast by Hollywoodmusic.com.
Awards
1998 - New Times Showcase Award for “Best Industrial Band”
2000 – New Times Showcase Award for “Most Likely to Make it Big”
2001 – New Times Showcase Award for “Best Hard/Modern Rock”
2001 – New Times Showcase Award for “Most Likely to Make it Big”
2001 – Aim Award for “Best Fashion”
Band members
Jim Louvau– lead vocals
Andy Gerold– guitar, drums
Jim Kaufmann– guitar
Jared Bakin– bass, guitar
Ken Bergeron (credited as Ken Virii on Chinese Pornography) – bass, guitar
Danny Diaz – drums
References
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-03-30/music/driven-to-ecstacy/
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-12-03/music/kind-of-a-drag/
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-03-30/music/driven-to-ecstacy/
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-03-28/music/hello-goodbye/
http://www.mp3.com/artist/victims-in-ecstacy/summary/
http://www.thelyricarchive.com/album/609601/Chinese-Pornography
http://interlyrics.com/artist-lyrics/681171/Victims-in-Ecstacy
http://www.swaptree.com/CD/faith-more-tribute-tribute-year-various-artists/312605/
External links
Victims In
Rock music groups from Arizona
American industrial rock musical groups
Musical groups from Phoenix, Arizona
Musical groups established in 1998
Musical groups disestablished in 2001 |
6902234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram%20Dharma | Vikram Dharma | Vikram Dharma (born as R. N. Dharmaseelan in 1956 – 28 June 2006) was an Indian action choreographer in the Tamil film industry (also known as Kollywood) in Indian cinema. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Action for Yuva. He was the son of fight master R. N. Nambiar who was known for his works in MGR's movies. He worked with actor Kamal Haasan in many films. His working name of "Vikram" was assigned to him once he became acted in Kamal Haasan's movie of the same name in 1986. Stunt masters and Actors like Ponnambalam, Thalapathy Dinesh, K. Ganesh Kumar, Ram Laxman, Anbariv, Mahanadi Shankar, Besant Ravi, Rajendran, T. Ramesh, Indian Baskar, Rajasekhar and Sai Dheena have worked as fighters and assistants to him. He died of a heart attack in early 2006.
Filmography
1987 Vairagyam
1988 Sathya
1988 Poovukkul Boogambam
1988 En Thangai Kalyani
1988 Jeeva
1988 Puthiya Vaanam
1988 Soora Samhaaram
1988 Thaimel Aanai
1988 Poovizhi Raja
1988 Dhayam Onnu
1988 Katha Nayagan
1988 Kalicharan
1988 Kaliyugam
1989 Kuttravali
1989 Apoorva Sagodharargal
1989 Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
1989 Padicha Pulla
1989 En Thangai
1989 Andru Peytha Mazhaiyil
1989 Annanukku Jai
1989 Chinnappadass
1989 Uthama Purushan
1989 Vetri Vizha
1989 Vetri Mel Vetri
1989 Thiruppu Munai
1990 Arangetra Velai
1990 Madurai Veeran Enga Saami
1990 Kizhakku Vasal
1990 Ooru Vittu Ooru Vanthu
1990 Naangal Pudhiyavargal
1990 My Dear Marthandan
1990 Michael Madana Kama Rajan
1990 Sathriyan
1990 Nadigan
1990 Urudhi Mozhi
1990 Raja Kaiya Vacha
1991 Dharma Dorai
1991 Vaakku Moolam
1991 Thambikku Oru Paattu
1991 Ayul Kaithi
1991 Bramma
1991 Guna
1991 Paattondru Ketten
1992 Amaran
1992 Rickshaw Mama
1992 Unnai Vaazhthi Paadugiren
1992 Singaravelan
1992 Amma Vanthachu
1992 Magudam
1992 Naalaya Seidhi
1992 Pangali
1992 Thevar Magan
1992 Thirumathi Palanisamy
1993 Walter Vetrivel
1993 Dasarathan
1993 Kalaignan
1993 Ulle Veliye
1993 Pudhiya Mugam
1993 Uzhaippali
1993 Dharmaseelan
1993 Gentleman
1993 Uzhavan
1993 Rojavai Killathe
1994 Mahanadhi
1994 Rajakumaran
1994 Magalir Mattum
1994 Adharmam
1994 Vietnam Colony
1994 Kadhalan
1994 Nammavar
1994 Pavithra
1995 Sathi Leelavathi
1995 Chinna Vathiyar
1995 Indira
1995 Kuruthipunal
1996 Love Birds
1996 Mahaprabhu
1996 Indian
1996 Kadhal Desam
1996 Thuraimugam
1996 Nethaji
1997 Minsara Kanavu
1997 Nesam
1997 Ullaasam
1997 Abhimanyu
1997 Nerrukku Ner
1997 Ratchagan
1997 Roja Malare
1998 Kadhala Kadhala
1999 Ninaivirukkum Varai
1999 Kadhalar Dhinam
2000 Eazhaiyin Sirippil
2000 Hey Ram!
2000 Kandukondain Kandukondain
2000 Kushi
2000 Appu
2000 Sabhash
2000 Thenali
2001 Nila Kaalam
2001 Little John
2001 Asathal
2001 12B
2001 Aalavandhan
2002 Pammal K. Sambandam
2002 Kannathil Muthamittal
2002 123
2002 Panchathanthiram
2002 Baba
2002 Aadi
2002 Samurai
2002 Hey! Nee Romba Azhaga Irukke
2002 University
2002 Kadhal Virus
2003 Anbe Sivam
2003 Nala Damayanthi
2003 Boys
2003 Iyarkai
2004 Virumaandi
2004 Udhaya
2004 Arul
2004 Yuva
2004 Aaytha Ezhuthu
2004 Vasool Raja MBBS
2004 Chellamae
2004 Vishwa Thulasi
2005 Mumbai Xpress
2005 Maayavi
2005 Ullam Ketkumae
2006 Paramasivan
2006 Idhaya Thirudan
2006 Thambi
2006 Sillunu Oru Kaadhal
2007 Kuttrapathirikai
2007 Unnale Unnale
2007 Urchagam
Actor
1983 Adutha Varisu as Rogue (special appearance) (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1983 Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey as Peter (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1983 Thangaikkor Geetham as Henchman (special appearance) (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1984 Kai Kodukkum Kai as Henchman (special appearance) (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1984 Thambikku Entha Ooru as Rogue (special appearance) (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1984 Madurai Sooran as Dharma (in a special appearance as a CID officer)
1985 Raja Yuvaraja as Shetty (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1986 Jeevanadhi as Rogue (special appearance) (Credited as Dharman)
1986 Dharma Devathai as Henchman (special appearance) (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1986 Kaalamellam Un Madiyil as Rogue (Credited as Dharman)
1986 Vikram Henchman (Credited as Dharmaseelan)
1988 Jeeva as Henchman (special appearance)
1989 Chinnappadass as Waiter (special appearance)
1989 Apoorva Sagodharargal as David (in a special appearance as a Henchman)
1989 Vetri Vizha as Henchman (special appearance)
1990 Nadigan Henchman (special appreance)
1990 Sathriyan as Henchman (special appearance)
1992 Singaravelan as Dharman (special appearance)
1992 Amma Vanthachu as Himself (special appearance)
1992 Thirumathi Palanisamy as Police Inspector
1993 Uzhaippali as Coolie (special appearance)
1994 Nammavar (special appearance)
1996 Indian as Freedom Fighter
2000 Kandukondain Kandukondain as Himself (special appearance)
2001 Nila Kaalam as Police Inspector
2001 Aalavandhan as Drug Dealer (special appearance)
2002 Pammal K. Sambandam as Himself (special appearance)
2003 Nala Damayanthi as Australian NRI (special appearance)
2004 Singara Chennai 2005 Mumbai Xpress as Traffic Police (special appearance)
2005 Maayavi as Himself (special appearance)
Extra Fighter
1979 Kalyanaraman 1981 Kadal Meengal 1981 Savaal 1981 Netrikkan 1981 Ranuva Veeran 1982 Sakalakala Vallavan 1982 Pakkathu Veetu Roja 1982 Theeratha Vilayatu Pillai 1982 Pokkiri Raja 1983 Thudikkum Karangal 1983 Malaiyoor Mambattiyan 1983 Uyirullavarai Usha 1983 Soorakottai Singakutti 1983 Mundhanai Mudichu 1983 Thudikkum Karangal 1983 Valartha Kada 1984 Naan Mahaan Alla 1984 Nallavanukku Nallavan 1984 Thiruppam 1984 Naan Mahaan Alla 1984 Priyamudan Prabhu 1985 Uyarndha Ullam 1985 Paadum Vaanam Paadi 1985 Yaar? 1985 Chinna Veedu 1985 Nalla Thambi 1985 Ketti Melam 1985 Deivapiravi 1985 Arthamulla Aasaigal 1986 Viduthalai 1987 Anjatha SingamAwards
Won
1994 Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator – Mahanadi 2002 Cinema Express Award for Best Stunt Director – Kannathil Muthamittal 2004 Film Today Award for Best Stunt Master - Aaytha Ezhuthu''
References
External links
20th-century Indian male actors
Tamil male actors
1961 births
2006 deaths
Indian action choreographers
Filmfare Awards winners
Male actors from Tamil Nadu |
20470587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikopol%3A%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Immortals | Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals | Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals is a point and click adventure game developed by White Birds Productions and based on the graphics novels of Enki Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy.
Plot
The year is 2023 and Paris is governed by a power-hungry dictator. As Alcide Nikopol you try to find a way of joining the underground rebellion and help stop the dictator's iron fist rule. The history takes a turn towards the weird, as Nikopol finds out that his father - an astronaut sent into orbital exile in cryopreservation - may be alive and well in the city. At the same time, a strange pyramid hovers over Paris, and a rumour of Egyptian gods residing in it spreads like wildfire.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
(This website is no longer available as of April, 2012)
2008 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games developed in France
Cyberpunk video games
Windows games
Video games set in Paris
Video games based on comics |
6902242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapple | Dapple | Dapple may refer to:
Dapple, a book by Eleanor Arnason
DAPPLE Project, a pollution study
Dapple gray, a type of coat colour seen on horses
Silver dapple gene, also known as the "Z" gene, that dilutes the black base coat color in horses
Merle (dog coat), a pattern called "dapple" in the Dachshund dog breed
"Dapple" is also a common English translation of the Spanish name of Sancho Panza's donkey in Don Quixote; however, the Spanish name "Rucio" is perhaps more accurately translated as "gray-beige" or "taupe". |
6902248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Voz%20da%20P%C3%B3voa | A Voz da Póvoa | A Voz da Póvoa is one of the three main local newspapers of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Its current editor-in-chief is Ferreira de Sousa.
Newspapers published in Portugal
Newspapers established in 1938
Mass media in Póvoa de Varzim
1938 establishments in Portugal |
44497691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hinman | Charles Hinman | Charles Hinman born 1932 in Syracuse, New York is an Abstract Minimalist painter, notable for creating three-dimensional shaped canvas paintings in the mid-1960s.
Early years
Charles Hinman was born in 1932, in Syracuse, New York. He initiated his artistic education at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, now the Everson Museum of Art, where he attended classes. He went on to complete his BFA in 1955 at Syracuse University. Alongside his artistic talent, Charles Hinman was also dedicated to sports. While studying at university he was a professional baseball player for the Milwaukee Braves in the minor league. He moved to New York to study at the Arts Student League before serving two years in the army. Upon his return he was a mechanical drawing teacher at the Staten Island Academy from 1960 to 1962 and a carpentry shop instructor at the Woodmere Academy on Long Island.
New York art scene
In the early 1960s Hinman lived on Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan where he shared an abandoned sail-making loft with James Rosenquist. It was an ideal art studio offering large open spaces to work at an affordable rent. Along with Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Jack Youngerman and Agnes Martin who resided in the neighbouring buildings, they formed a small artistic community away from the Upper-East side and the Abstract Expressionists from whom they wished to differentiate themselves. They did not constitute an art movement as such, but rather a "support and critique family that helped each other go on their individual paths." Throughout the 1960s they produced works that prefigured Pop, Minimal and Feminist Art. In 1965, Charles Hinman and Robert Indiana left Coenties Slip for the Bowery where they shared a building at 2 Spring Street. In 1971, he moved a block away on the Bowery where he settled in an 8000 sq/ft studio where he has remained ever since. Below Hinman's studio was that of Tom Wesselmann and above worked Will Insley, across the street were the studios of Adolph Gottlieb and Roy Lichtenstein. In 2002, the New Museum became his neighbor when it was built on the adjacent lot.
Shaped canvas
In the 1960s Charles Hinman played a significant role in redefining the physical shape of paintings. The shaped canvas was born from the desire to break away from the traditional square or rectangular frame of painting. Rather than a formalized medium or window that contained the subject, the contours of the painting became part of the subject itself. In the mid-1960s several abstract minimalist painters were experimenting with its possibilities, the most famous of which is Frank Stella. Charles Hinman drove the concept further by pushing the canvas out from the wall; his works were a form of hybrid between painting and sculpture. This type of painting is known as a three-dimensional shaped canvas. As early as 1963-64 Charles Hinman created sculptural paintings with protruding geometric and undulating forms. While Sven Lukin and Richard Smith were also experimenting with the use of the three-dimensional canvas around the same time, Charles Hinman's defining particularity was his focus on the illusion of space and subtly suggested volume, embracing the use of color, shadow and reflection. He was influenced by Ellsworth Kelly in his flat and contrasting Hard-edge use of color but with the objective of generating and accentuating a perception of volume. In the subsequent years until the early 1970s, Hinman examined the possibilities offered by this new medium: strongly protruding canvases, geometric and sensual profiles, color contrasts, color reflections on the adjacent wall, shadows, monochrome canvases.
Early recognition
It was through James Rosenquist, that Charles Hinman caught the attention of prominent New York gallery owners and museum directors who visited the studio they shared. Two exhibitions in 1964-65 introduced Hinman's work to the grand public and to critical attention; "Seven New Artists" at the Sidney Janis Gallery and a solo exhibition at the Richard Feigen Gallery. In 1965 Frank Stella and Henry Geldzahler included Hinman's work in their group show "Shape and Structure" at Tibor de Nagy, alongside Donald Judd, Larry Bell, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre and Will Insley. His work was shown at the Whitney Museum's landmark show "Young America 1965" and the following year in "United States 1670-1966". Hinman was represented by Richard Feigen who showed his work at his New York and Chicago galleries. While major museums such as the MOMA, the Whitney Museum and the Albright–Knox Art Gallery soon bought his work for their permanent collections, his paintings also found a home in the collection of Nelson Rockefeller. From 1971 to 1973 the Parisian gallerist Denise René showed his work at her Paris and New York galleries.
Artistic concepts
Process
Throughout his career, Charles Hinman has developed a methodical process by which he creates his works. First, he draws sketches of the final shape he wishes to create. He then designs a minute blueprint of the frameworks he needs to construct to achieve this shape, comprising all the angles and lengths of the frame. His works are often composed of a juxtaposition of shaped canvases, which he bolts together into an integral form. He adds the third dimension to his paintings by fixing protuberant forms to the underpinnings. These shapes push the canvas out from the wall and create the volume in his paintings. He then paints various planes of his work in order to create volume and to play with the eye of the viewer. He sometimes paints the reverse side of the canvas which sits off the wall, so as to produce a halo effect around his work. The use of light and shadows as well as contrasting colors and reflections play an important role in his creations.
6 dimensions
Hinman's work focuses on the perception of volume as opposed to literal space. He uses an array of techniques to create volume in the eye of the viewer. It is a form of trompe-l'œil that constantly evolves depending on the spectator's vantage point. Hinman describes his concept as "My concept of my work is dynamic---never static. I think of my paintings as occupying a 6-dimensionnal space(…) the three dimensions of space and one each of time, light and color." According to him, space and time imply movement and the change of light: "As light moves across the object, the forms and the color appear to change with the rearrangement of the shadows. (…)The brightness causes a surface to move forward—the darkness causes the surface to recede. Further, the choice of adjacent colors causes a sensation of motion of the surfaces"
Series
Throughout his career, Hinman has continuously created works in series. His early works from the mid-1960s are voluptuous and organic with strongly contrasting hard-edge colors and projecting forms. He then moved to a two-dimensional, minimalist and geometric style in the early 1970s. By the late 1970s he was exploring the potential of arched "double curved" profiles to shape his canvases. These structures became increasingly complex throughout the 1980s, reaching for scale and color in leaf-like arrangements.
Since 2000, he has returned to a pure and minimal style working with light as much as with color. "A single facet or canvas may have its own color, or the shadow across it may serve as color (…) Sometimes the color solely belongs to the edge of a work, or so it seems, until one notices that Hinman has painted the back (…) He is not just shaping an object, but also taking it out from the wall."
The Shaped Canvas revisited
In 1964, the Guggenheim Museum organised the show "The Shaped Canvas". Laurence Alloway, the curator of the exhibition decided to focus on two-dimensional Minimal works only, de facto excluding three dimensional as well as Pop art works from this movement. This initial selection has been questioned and broadened over the years by several retrospective group shows that hosted a wider variety of shaped canvases. Frank Stella's 1965 group show "Shape and Structure" immediately refuted Olloway's position by including Charles Hinman's paintings. In 1979, The Visual Arts Museum in New York organised a show named "Shaped Paintings". It opened the scope of the shaped canvas to Pop Art works as well as to three-dimensional shaped canvases. Charles Hinman's work was presented alongside that of Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Bernard Venet and Tom Wesselmann. In 2014, Charles Hinman was included in the group show "Shaped Canvas Revisited" at the Luxembourg and Dayan Gallery in New York. This exhibition, which celebrated the fifty years of the original Guggenheim show, places Hinman among the fathers of the shaped canvas movement alongside artists such as Lucio Fontana, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella and Tom Wesselmann.
Reception
In recent years, Charles Hinman's work has garnered increasing attention both for his contemporary as for his "modern" (historic) works. According to some critics, his latest series of "Gems" and "Black Paintings" are arguably amongst his most interesting works. In 2013, the Marc Straus Gallery in New York organized a retrospective covering the six decades of his career.
Documentaries and videos
"The Art of Charles Hinman", Vimeo.com, Adam Ben Cohen, http://vimeo.com/89413358
"In the Studio with Charles Hinman", Vimeo.com, Ghostly International, Will Calcutt, http://vimeo.com/109732185
"Charles Hinman", Vimeo.com, Thomas Auriol, http://vimeo.com/112290770
Selected solo shows
2017 Charles Hinman - Shaped Paintings. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2013 Charles Hinman - 6 Decades. MARC STRAUS, New York, NY, USA
2011 GEMS at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
2004 Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, USA
1980 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
1971-5 Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA
1967 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1966 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Source:
Selected group shows
2014 Shaped Canvas Revisited, Luxembourg and Dayan, New York, NY, USA
2004 Blast from the Past, Pace Editions, New York, NY, USA
1989 American Painting Since the Death of Painting, curated by Donald Kuspit, Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR
1967 Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA
1965 Recent Acquisitions, MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, NY, USA
1965 Shape and Structure, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Source:
Selected institutional collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Musee' des Beaux Arts de l'Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Source:
Selected corporate collections
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, USA
The Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY, USA
Source:
Selected awards and honors
Guggenheim Fellowship
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Lee Krasner Award
Source:
References
American abstract artists
Minimalist artists
Artists from Syracuse, New York
1932 births
Living people |
44497693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20A.%20Taylor | Claude A. Taylor | Claude A. Taylor (1902-1966) was an American politician and jurist who served as chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in 1902 in Gilbert, South Carolina. He spent ten years serving in the General Assembly of South Carolina including as the House of Representatives' Speaker between 1935 and 1936. In 1944, Taylor gained election to the South Carolina Supreme Court and became its chief justice in 1961. Taylor began the practice of opening sessions of the court with a prayer. He died on January 21, 1966, and is buried in Spartanburg, South Carolina's Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
References
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1902 births
1966 deaths
20th-century American judges |
6902254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20Episcopal%20Church%20%28Tarrytown%2C%20New%20York%29 | Christ Episcopal Church (Tarrytown, New York) | Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 43 South Broadway (US 9) in Tarrytown, New York. Topped by a modest tower, the ivy-covered red brick church was built in 1837 and maintains an active congregation to the present day. The church also includes the San Marcos Mission, a Spanish-language ministry.
It was recognized as a landmark by the New York Department of Education in 1935. In 1987 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for both its association with early American author Washington Irving, who served as a vestryman, and its distinctive early Gothic Revival architecture. It has undergone several extensive renovations since its construction, and has had two outbuildings added, but maintains its historic character.
Building complex
The church complex includes three buildings: the original church, a rectory built later, and a parish hall on a 17,120 square-foot (514 m²) parcel at the intersection of South Broadway and Elizabeth Street. All date to the 19th century and are considered contributing resources to its status as a Registered Historic Place.
Church
The church itself takes the form of a traditional English parish church, with an engaged tower and transept at the three-quarters point, built of red brick. The front facade is currently covered with a heavy growth of ivy. The tower and turrets at the east front and north transept are castellated. Limestone, sandstone and molded brick are used for the various decorative elements in the facade. An iron fence encloses the small churchyard, and a chapel has been added to the south wing.
The tower forms a vaulted narthex at the main entrance in front. All walls there and within the chancel are white plaster, except around the altar. Its recess features marbleized Corinthian columns and gold paint. The altar itself is made of carved stone, painted a neutral brown, with decorations echoing its surrounding decor and the stained glass window behind it. To its right is a memorial tablet to Maria Phillips, an early member of the church during colonial times.
A similar memorial plaque to Irving is located on the wall next to a baptismal font in the north transept. It is made of Dorchester stone with columns of Aberdeen granite and Caen stone, depicting the symbolic holly of Irving's coat of arms. Displayed in front is Irving's pew, one of the church's original pine furnishings. The opposite wall memorializes Dr. William Creighton, founder and first rector of the parish. The south transept contains St. Mark's Chapel, from a church in Beekmantown consolidated with Christ in 1951.
Rectory
The rectory, built in 1875, is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular building abutting (and later linked to) the church. It has a large pavilion with corbel tables, brick corner pilasters and steeply pitched raking cornice. Entrance is through a single-bay vestibule adjacent to the pavilion. The building also has a small wooden porch.
Parish hall
The one-story-with-basement parish hall dates to 1898. It shows some Tudorbethan features, such as its arched windows, arranged singly in one-over-one sets. The side entrance porch has Tudor archways, and a half-timbered gable with triple window and a transom embellished with a pinnacle and scrolls.
History
The church was started by Nathaniel Holmes, a New York City bookseller and devout Episcopalian who retired to Tarrytown in 1835. He taught a Sunday school in the old schoolhouse on Franklin Street, and soon after taking up residence persuaded Dr. William Creighton, former rector of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in Lower Manhattan, to help him start a church in his new home. It was formally organized on August 8, 1836, with Holmes as senior warden.
Minutes from the vestry meeting two weeks later record a resolution to build a "church of brick, 40' X 55', in the Gothic style". Six weeks later those specifications were amended to say that the church tower should be 40 feet (12 m) high and 14 feet (4 m) square, with a "plain Gothic" window, and the rear of the church square. The conscious choice of a "Gothic" style for the church preceded by several years the debut of the Gothic Revival churches of Richard Upjohn, such as New York's Trinity Church. Alexander Jackson Davis would not publish his Rural Residences, which inspired similarly Gothic board-and-batten churches throughout rural New England, for another year. Christ Church was thus one of the earliest American churches in that style, taking a Picturesque interpretation.
The new church soon purchased the current property and by November of that year the cornerstone had been laid. Local construction firm Hall & Boyce received $5,377 to complete the church. It was opened and the first services held in 1837. Creighton served with distinction as rector not only at Christ but at Zion Church in nearby Greenburgh. He is believed to have persuaded Irving to join the church in 1848; the author's presence at services was a frequent attraction for visitors from out of town. He served as a vestryman until his death in 1859, and also contributed the ivy which grows on the church facade, from cuttings he took at Abbotsford House, the home of Sir Walter Scott. Due to the closure of his Sunnyside estate for many years afterwards, his pew in the church became the primary focus for visitors to Tarrytown looking to pay homage to him.
The early years saw some moderate improvements: a church bell, central heating, the iron fence and sidewalks on the grounds. In 1857 the first major alteration occurred when the church was lengthened and a recess chancel installed. This change, making the spatial separation between clergy and laity more pronounced, reflects the influence of the Cambridge Camden Society and Ecclesiology movement within Anglicanism, which advocated for more authentically medieval architecture in the denominations' churches. This philosophy would inform the design of Christ Church for the remainder of the century.
In 1868, three years after Creighton's death, local architect James Bird and his builder brother Seth were contracted to oversee some more major improvements as an alternative to demolishing the church, which had grown structurally unsound. They put in a new ceiling and sidewalls, added the south wing, removed the organ gallery and moving the organ itself to the new north transept, put in gas lighting and refitted the windows for stained glass. It is believed that the decorative wall painting was added at this time as well.
The last major alteration, in 1896, focused mainly on the interior decoration. The original pine benches were replaced with oak, and the pews arranged so that they had a single center aisle rather than just the two on the sides. All the new furnishing boasted carved wooden elements such as trefoil piercings that enhanced the Gothic feel of the church. They were complemented by the stenciled walls, polychrome tile floor and hanging brass lanterns. While this primarily reflects the ascendancy of Aestheticism in popular design at the time, the lingering Ecclesiological influence shows in the center aisle, which puts the nave and chancel along a single axis.
Later work on the building aimed to restore and preserve it. In 1931 all buildings were clean, revealing some of the brick additions, and the sanctuary restored to its original white in keeping with the then-popular Colonial Revival trend. Finally, in 1985, all the buildings were repainted with tinted mortar to preservation standards.
It was necessary to close the church in 1995 since the bell tower had deteriorated to the point where structural engineers it consulted recommended not using the main entrance. Church members also discovered it was necessary to replace the roof as well, since its three layers were decaying at different rates and the building code does not permit a fourth layer. Services were held in nearby Ackerman Hall until $500,000 could be raised to pay for the restoration and repair.
The church today
Christ Episcopal continues to be active part of the Tarrytown community. In 1993 it started San Marcos Mission, a program for the growing Latin immigrant population. It holds services in Spanish and other programs for that community. The church also provides space for the Tarrytown Nursery School for children ages 2–4. Other church programs include Godly Play, a Montessori-based Sunday school, and an annual chili cookoff.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York
References
External links
Church website
Episcopal church buildings in New York (state)
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Religious organizations established in 1836
Churches completed in 1837
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
U.S. Route 9
Tarrytown, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York
Churches in Westchester County, New York
1836 establishments in New York (state) |
44497694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asue%20Ighodalo | Asue Ighodalo | Asue Ighodalo is a Nigerian lawyer. He is alongside Femi Olubanwo, a founding partner of the law firm of Banwo-and-Ighodalo a corporate and commercial law practice in Nigeria specializing in advising major corporations on Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Energy & Natural Resources, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Securitization and Project Finance. He is the chairman sterling Bank, Director, NSIA - Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, Chairman NESG - Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
Early years
Asue Ighodalo is a product of King's College, Lagos. He obtained B.Sc degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan in 1981, an LL.B from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1984) and a B.L from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos (1985).
Later career
Upon graduation from Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Ighodalo worked as an Associate in the law firm of Chris Ogunbanjo & Co between 1985 and 1991, and in 1991 he set up Banwo & Ighodalo in partnership with Femi Olubanwo. The firm today is consistently ranked as a leading Nigerian law firm in the areas of Capital Markets, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions. Mr. Ighodalo's core areas of practice include Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Energy; Natural Resources, Mergers; Acquisitions, Banking; Securitization and Project Finance.
Ighodalo in 2014, successfully advised Zenith Bank Plc in connection with a US$500 million eurobond issuance and Diamond Bank Plc in connection with a US$200 million eurobond issuance respectively.
Publications and works
Ighodalo has presented several papers on capital markets issues both within and outside Nigeria, and also authored many articles in leading law publications. He sometimes lectures on corporate governance, directors' duties and responsibilities, and entrepreneurship at the Institute of Directors, Lagos Business School and FATE Foundation entrepreneurial training sessions, respectively.
Boards, memberships and awards
Asue is the Chairman, Board of Directors, Sterling Bank Plc, Dangote Flour Mills Plc and The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). He also sits on the boards of other public and private companies, Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGOs”) and a statutory body including the Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) FATE Foundation (an NGO committed to the development of entrepreneurs in Nigeria)
Ighodalo became the Chairman of Sterling Bank in August 2014. He is a member of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and is a past chairman of The NBA – Section on Business Law (NBA SBL) . He is also a member of Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), USA, Nigerian Economic Summit Group, International Bar Association (IBA), Nigerian Maritime Law Association, Commercial Law & Taxation Committee of the Lagos Chamber Of Commerce & Industry, London School of Economics Lawyers' Group and Associate Member Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Family
Asue is happily married to Ifeyinwa, and they are blessed with a daughter.
References
Living people
Nigerian lawyers
University of Ibadan alumni
King's College, Lagos alumni
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
Alumni of London Business School
Corporate lawyers
Nigerian chairpersons of corporations
Nigerian Law School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
6902258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty%20White | Thrifty White | Thrifty White Pharmacy (also known as White Drug and Thrifty Drug) is an American pharmacy chain with operations in six states, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa headquartered in Plymouth, MN. The firm specializes in filling prescriptions, long term care consulting, community outreach, and specialty services. As of September 2016, Thrifty White received full URAC accreditation for its specialty pharmacy.
History
The first White Drug opened in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1884 by Mr. and Mrs. H.E. White. There were 38 White Drug Stores when it merged with Thrifty Drug in 1985. Thrifty Drug was founded in Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1957 by Douglas Stark, Jack Lindoo, and Edward Olsen. White Drug and Thrifty Drug merged in 1985 to form Thrifty White Drugstores.
White Mart
White Mart was a chain of discount department stores serving mostly the Dakotas and Minnesota. Shortly after merging, the new Thrifty White began closing all White Mart locations, with the final locations closing in the early 1990s.
Thrifty White today
Thrifty White is an employee owned company that operates a total of 96 drugstores under the banners White Drug, Thrifty Drug, and Thrifty White Drug. In addition, there are 82 Independent Retailers that operate their own pharmacies but use Thrifty White tools and contracts. Its locations are typically found inside shopping centers or strip malls. Most Thrifty White stores offer a wide range of items found in the typical retail drugstore including, household items, greeting cards, cosmetics, and a large gift section. A typical Thrifty White also has a full service One Hour Photo Lab.
Most of the Thrifty White drugstores are located in small towns with a population of under 60,000 where they are often the only pharmacy within city limits.
Thrifty White partnered with North Dakota State University to open a concept pharmacy for students to learn and experience the way of a retail pharmacy. Students are able to practice the duties of a pharmacist within an instructional pharmacy setting.
Thrifty White has eight Telepharmacy Stores located in small communities where access to a pharmacist would not be available. First opened in 2003, these stores allow a pharmacist to communicate through an audio/video feed with a trained technician to fill and approve prescriptions. These stores allow for regular services such as MTM and patient counseling.
In 2013, Thrifty White purchased TheOnlineDrugstore, expanding its reach online.
In 2016, Thrifty White became a fully accredited specialty pharmacy through URAC with accreditation lasting until 2019. It has the ability to provide specialty products and services all 50 states. It claims adherence rates of over 93% for specialty patients.
Thrifty White was named the national "Pharmacy Innovator of the Year" for 2016 by Drug Store News. It won a similar award in 2012 by Chain Drug Review. Thrifty White was also names "#1 in Medication Therapy Management" by Mirixa in 2016 and "Most Innovative" by Outcomes in 2016. Thrifty White's Medication Synchronization program has 65,000 patients enrolled and is leading the nation in medication adherence scores.
In April 2021, Thrifty White has teamed up with Upsher-Smith to have a free on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic that follows the Moderna vaccine's recommended schedule.
External links
Thrifty White Homepage
References
Health care companies based in Minnesota
Economy of Montana
Economy of the Midwestern United States
Pharmacies of the United States
Online pharmacies |
6902276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%27s%20School%20of%20the%20Future | Microsoft's School of the Future | Microsoft School of the Future (commonly referred to as the School of the Future) is a public high school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the Philadelphia School District. The school opened on September 7, 2006.
History
After two and half years of planning, the School District of Philadelphia, Microsoft and The Prisco Group architectural firm designed "School of the Future." The school resides on in West Philadelphia's Fairmount Park and was designed as a template that can be replicated throughout the country and worldwide on a traditional budget. The design had to incorporate the principle of adaptation at any site, making it able to adjust to smaller or bigger student capacity and incorporate different curricula and programs. The design supports continuous, relevant and adaptive learning principles.
Recognitions
LEED Gold Certified
2006 DesignShare Award
2006 Reader's Digest: Best of America – Best High-Tech High
See also
Education
School
Classroom of the future
References
External links
Official website
School district section on HSOF and School of the Future's School Profile
Microsoft - Building the School of the future
Slashdot - "Microsoft's High School Opens in PA"
Microsoft - School of the Future Resource Kit
Schedule a visit to the School of the Future
School of the Future's BetaTech Computer Technology Club
High schools in Philadelphia
Educational institutions established in 2006
Public high schools in Pennsylvania
2006 establishments in Pennsylvania
West Philadelphia |
44497716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Geyer | Frank Geyer | {{Infobox police officer
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Frank Geyer (July 28, 1853 – October 4, 1918) was an American police detective from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his investigation of H. H. Holmes, one of America's first serial killers. Geyer was a longtime city employee of the Philadelphia Police Department, and in 1894 was assigned to investigate the Holmes-Pitezel Case. He published the story in his book The Holmes-Pitezel Case: a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children.
Son of Reuben K. Geyer and Camilla Buck, Frank Geyer died at the age of 65 due to La Grippe (Spanish Flu) and his funeral was attended by hundreds of policemen and detectives.
The Holmes–Pitezel Case
H.H. Holmes's recorded crimes began in Chicago in 1893 when he opened a hotel called The World's Fair Hotel for the World's Columbian Exposition. The structure, built by Holmes, would later be known as the 'Murder Castle', as demonstrably false press accounts averred that labyrinthine constructions on the top two floors were used by Holmes to torture and kill numerous victims. Reports by the yellow press claimed the structure contained secret torture chambers, trap doors, gas chambers and a basement crematorium; none of these claims were true. Even a 1937 article in the Chicago Tribune described: "There were rooms that had no doors. There were doors that had no rooms. A mysterious house it was indeed -- a crooked house, a reflex of the builder's own distorted mind. In that house occurred dark and eerie deeds.". While Holmes' "Murder Castle" is a total fabrication, it is true that he killed multiple times, partly in furtherance of an insurance fraud scheme. In doing so, Holmes left a complicated trail of evidence through several US states and the Canadian province of Ontario.
Boston police inspectors and a Pinkerton detective apprehended Holmes in 1894 in Boston on a coroner's warrant for insurance fraud perpetrated in Philadelphia; however, Boston officials did not find the warrant sufficient to hold Holmes so they contacted Fort Worth, Texas for an outstanding warrant of horse theft. Holmes volunteered to be extradited to Philadelphia for the insurance fraud as he felt he would receive a much lighter sentence. Texas was notorious for rendering harsh sentences to horse thieves. The City of Philadelphia Police Department sent Detective Thomas Crawford to Boston to bring H. H. Holmes and his accomplice, Mrs. Carrie Pitezel, to Philadelphia for a trial.
Philadelphia city detective Frank Geyer was tasked with investigating and the trail led him through the Mid West and Toronto, Canada, where he found the remains of two of the Pitezel children. They were the children of Benjamin Pitezel, Holmes's former partner in crime, whom he had murdered to commit life insurance fraud. Pitezel, however, was only involved in fraud and had no knowledge of the murders.
The initial investigation was concerned with the insurance fraud but it soon became apparent that Holmes had killed Pitezel. In June 1895 Frank Geyer left Philadelphia to retrace Holmes's steps. His findings in Toronto led to further investigations of Holmes's Chicago property, which sealed his fate. Geyer used information from the unsent letters written by the Pitezel children which, for an unknown reason, were kept by Holmes. In Toronto, he found the bodies of Alice and Nellie Pitezel. He continued his search and found the burnt remains of Howard Pitezel, the third child, in a house Holmes had rented in Irvington, Indianapolis.
Holmes was found guilty murder in the first degree and executed in May 1896 at the age of 34. Wildly exaggerated accounts have estimated Holmes' total number of victims at around 200, but with no sources to back up the figure. Erik Larson, who wrote extensively about Holmes in The Devil in the White City (2003), thought this was a gross exaggeration. Holmes himself confessed to 27 murders, although some of the people he claimed to have killed were still in fact alive. Modern thought links Holmes to the murders of Ben Pitezel and his three children, as well as very possibly (though by no means unquestionably) to five women he had various personal and business dealings with in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and who disappeared at various points and were never found. The murder of Ben Pitezel was the only murder for which Holmes was charged and convicted.
That same year Frank Geyer published his book detailing the case. In the book George S. Graham, District Attorney of Philadelphia, described the story as "one of the most marvellous [sic] stories of modern times".
False Claims of Geyer's Family Dying in Fire
Several popular books falsely claimed Detective Geyer's wife and twelve-year-old daughter died in a fire shortly after he was assigned to investigate H. H. Holmes and the three missing Pitezel children.
However, Geyer's beloved wife and daughter never died in a fire and continued to live well past his death in 1918.
Other Work by Detective Geyer
In 1896, Detective Geyer became an author and inventor. He authored the Holmes-Pitezel case: a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children, which became an instant best seller. Shortly after its release, his "Shutter or Door Fastener" patent application was approved by the United States Patent Office on March 10, 1896, Patent No. 556,141. After 27 years with the City of Philadelphia Police Department, Geyer opened the Frank P. Geyer Detective Agency, located at 1328 Arch Street in Philadelphia and investigated high profile cases, mostly in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey areas. In 1907, he invented the "Safety-Lock for Pocket Books and Hand Bags, which was approved by the Patent Office December 3, 1907, Patent No. 872,619.
References
1853 births
1918 deaths
Private detectives and investigators
People from Philadelphia
Philadelphia Police Department officers
19th-century American inventors
20th-century American inventors
Deaths from Spanish flu |
6902280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misterlee | Misterlee | Misterlee are an alternative rock band from Leicester, England. Centred on the talents of Lee Allatson they have released four albums.
History
Misterlee consisted of Allatson on vocals, drums and effects, augmented by guitarist Jamie Smith and Michael "Curtis" Oxtoby on electric violin and bass guitar. The debut album was released in 2002, called Chiselgibbon (2002) it largely written and performed solo by Allatson,
In 2005, the second album Night of the Killer Longface was released, like the previous one it has largely written and performed by Allatson. Circa that year, Misterlee played in the United States and were looking for American distribution for the second album.
Bootlegger/Misterlee Is Not A Lifestyle Sandwich was released late in 2006.
Oxtoby left in late 2007. In the same year, the band were featured on the compilation record AFUK & I (VOL. 1): UP THE ANTI! on AFUK (Anti-Folk UK) Records, with the track "Dim Lit". Though, their sound is not traditionally anti-folk (in the sense of 'acoustic punk').
The band has played with Hamell on Trial, Sebadoh, Jeffrey Lewis, Johnny Dowd, Simple Kid, and The Mountain Goats, and has also appeared at festivals such as In the City, Secret Garden Party and Summer Sundae.
The band has played anti-folk UK festivals in London.
In June 2009, Allatson announced that Misterlee were working on a new album. It was released in 2010, entitled This Disquiet Dog. The album features Allatson and Smith with a cameo performance by Oxtoby, and was recorded at Smith's Owlhouse Studio in South Leicestershire.
In 2018, This Disquiet Dog was made available as a digital download.
Other projects
Allatson has taught drums since 1991 in Leicester, and at the Dye House Drum Works facility since 2009.
Style
The Londonist described the band as "A world of anti-folk, Beck-like genre teasing played out in an English country garden on full band and ".
Though the vocal delivery is English, American influences can be heard in the music - Leonard's Lair describes them as "a man playing doomed country ballads in an American whisky bar".
Discography
Chiselgibbon (2002)
Night of the Killer Longface (2005)
Bootlegger/Misterlee Is Not A Lifestyle Sandwich (2006)
This Disquiet Dog (2010)
References
External links
Misterlee on MySpace
atomic duster review of Chiselgibbon
atomic duster review of Night of the Killer Longface
BBC Leicester feature
Misterlee at Drowned in Sound
People from Leicester
Musical groups from Leicester
Musicians from Leicestershire |
44497729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varam%20%28film%29 | Varam (film) | Varam is a 1993 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Haridas and produced by Hamsa Muhammed. The film stars Mukesh, Mohini, Sukumari and Thilakan in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Ouseppachan.
Cast
Mukesh as Eby Perera
Mohini as Neelima
Sukumari as Neelima's Aunt
Thilakan as Dr. Uncle
A. C. Zainuddin as Peter Fernadez
Ganesh Kumar as Daniel Dizuza
Janardanan as Gangadhara Menon (Neelima's Father)
Mamukkoya as patient
Beena Antony as Leena (Neelima's Friend)
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ouseppachan and the lyrics were written by Gireesh Puthenchery.
References
1993 films
Indian films
1990s Malayalam-language films
Films scored by Ouseppachan |
44497731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%20French%20legislative%20election%20in%20Gabon%E2%80%93Moyen%20Congo | 1945 French legislative election in Gabon–Moyen Congo | Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Gabon and French Congo on 21 October 1945, with a second round of voting on 18 November. Gabriel d'Arboussier and Jean-Félix Tchicaya were elected.
Electoral system
The two seats allocated to the constituency were elected on two separate electoral rolls; French citizens elected one MP from the first college, whilst non-citizens elected one MP in the second college.
Campaign
The election campaign was largely a contest between three large ethnic groups; the Fang of Gabon, the Mbochi in the north of Congo and the Vili from the Pointe-Noire coastal area. One other large group, the Kongo, refused to vote or wrote the name of the religious figure André Matsoua (who had died in prison in 1942) on the ballot paper.
The Fang candidate was Jean-Hilaire Aubame, whilst the Vili candidate was Jean-Félix Tchicaya.
Results
First college
Second college
Aftermath
Following the elections, Senegalese MP Lamine Guèye attempted to persuade all the African MPs to form an African Bloc, which would be affiliated with the SFIO. However, the attempt failed, and although Tchicaya did sit with the SFIO, d'Arboussier joined the MUR.
References
Gabon
October 1945 events
Elections in Gabon
Elections in the Republic of the Congo
1945 in Gabon
1945 in French Equatorial Africa
1945 elections in France |
6902303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skierniewice%20County | Skierniewice County |
Skierniewice County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Skierniewice, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county); there are no towns within the county.
The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 37,779.
Neighbouring counties
Apart from the city of Skierniewice, Skierniewice County is also bordered by Sochaczew County to the north, Żyrardów County to the east, Rawa County and Tomaszów Mazowiecki County to the south, Brzeziny County to the west, and Łowicz County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into nine gminas. These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Skierniewice |
17334684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%E2%80%93Texas%20A%26M%20football%20rivalry | Arkansas–Texas A&M football rivalry | The Arkansas–Texas A&M football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas A&M Aggies, which started in 1903. Between 1992 and 2008, the schools did not play each other when Arkansas left the Southwest Conference to join the Southeastern Conference. The rivalry was renewed as a neutral-site out-of-conference contest (and branded as The Southwest Classic) in 2009; in 2012 it once again became a conference rivalry when Texas A&M also joined the Southeastern Conference. Arkansas leads the series 42–33–3.
Series history
Arkansas and Texas A&M first played each other in 1903, and would play each other three times from 1903 to 1912, all as non-conference matchups.
Arkansas and Texas A&M would not meet on the field again until 1927, notwithstanding that both schools became charter members of the Southwest Conference twelve years earlier in 1915. The schools played annually from 1927 to 1930, but would not meet again until 1934. From 1934 to 1991, the two teams played annually as conference members. The annual matchup ceased in 1991 when Arkansas left the conference to join the Southeastern Conference.
On March 10, 2008, officials from both schools announced the series would recommence on October 3, 2009, under the name "Southwest Classic." The annual location for the game was announced as Cowboys Stadium (now called AT&T Stadium), located in Arlington. The attendance for the stadium was initially expected to be in the 80,000 range. Depending on ticket demand, temporary seating can be added to the stadium to increase the capacity up to 100,000 seats for the game. The tickets were said to be split 50/50 between the two schools. The initial agreement between the two schools allowed the game to be played for at least 10 years, followed by 5 consecutive, 4-year rollover options, allowing the game to potentially be played for a total of 30 consecutive seasons.
The rivalry once again became a conference matchup when Texas A&M joined the SEC on July 1, 2012, and became a member of the West Division of the conference alongside Arkansas. However, for Texas A&M's first two seasons in the SEC the series was played as a home-and-home series at the schools' campuses (Texas A&M hosted in 2012 and Arkansas hosted in 2013); the series resumed neutral-site play in AT&T Stadium for the 2014 season until at least 2024. Multiple athletic directors at Texas A&M have expressed a desire to move away from playing the game at AT&T Stadium, and on July 20, 2020, it was reported that the game would be played at Kyle Field due to precautions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, with a return trip potentially being played at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in 2021. That return trip to Fayetteville did not happen, and the series resumed being played in Arlington in 2021.
After joining the SEC in 2012, A&M went on a 9-game winning streak, which was its longest in the series and first winning streak of more than 2 games in the series for the Aggies since 1938–1943. Arkansas broke the streak in 2021 and improved its record against A&M in Arlington to 4-6.
Game results
Notable games
1903 – First meeting
Texas A&M 6 – Arkansas 0
In the first ever meeting, and only the 43rd game ever played by Arkansas and the 42nd ever played by Texas A&M, the Aggies won 6–0. The Aggies were coached by J. E. Platt and the Razorbacks were coached (in his only season as a head coach) by D. A. McDaniel.
1937 – First ranking in series
Arkansas 26 – Texas A&M 13
After the introduction of the AP Poll in the 1936 season, the first ranking in the series came just the next year, with defending conference champions Arkansas being ranked No. 20 prior to the matchup. Arkansas won 26–13, in the two teams' second meeting in Fayetteville as conference foes.
1939 – Texas A&M's national championship year
Texas A&M 27 – Arkansas 0
In 1939, after winning the game 27–0, the Aggies went on to an overall record of 11–0 and named the college football national champions in the Associated Press writers' poll for the 1939 college football season.
1964 – Arkansas's national championship year
Arkansas 17 – Texas A&M 0
In 1964, after winning the game 17–0 in College Station, Texas, the Razorbacks went on to an overall record of 11–0 and won the college football national championship by beating Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl Classic. The Aggies were coached (in his final season) by Hank Foldberg, and Arkansas was coached by Hall of Fame coach Frank Broyles. This game marked the beginning of a streak of three straight scoreless games in the series for the Aggies.
1975 – First ranked matchup
Arkansas 31 – Texas A&M 6
In 1975, Texas A&M was undefeated at 10-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation coming into the regular season finale at No. 18 Arkansas. The game was played in Little Rock at War Memorial Stadium in front of a national audience, broadcast on ABC. If the Aggies won, they would clinch the Southwest Conference championship outright, and would have a chance to win a national championship in the 1976 Cotton Bowl Classic. But it wasn't to be, as the Razorbacks defeated Texas A&M 31–6, forcing a three-way tie for the SWC crown between Arkansas, Texas, and Texas A&M, sending the Razorbacks to the Cotton Bowl. Arkansas would beat Georgia in the Cotton Bowl Classic, 31–10, finishing the season 10–2 and ranked No. 7 in the AP poll. Meanwhile, the Aggies would stumble in a Liberty Bowl loss to USC, 20–0, and also finish the season with a 10-2 record and No. 11 ranking in the AP poll.
1980
Arkansas 27 – Texas A&M 24
The 1980 contest won by Arkansas 27–24 was Texas A&M's 800th game ever played by the program. Arkansas was led by head coach Lou Holtz in his fourth year with the team, and went on to an overall record of 7–5 (3–5 in conference) for the season. The Aggies were led by Tom Wilson in his next to last season with the team, and finished the year 4–7 (3–5 in conference).
1986
Arkansas 14 – Texas A&M 10
In 1986, the No. 7 Aggies were the defending Southwest Conference champions when they rolled into Little Rock to face No. 17 Arkansas in front of a sell out crowd at War Memorial Stadium. The Razorbacks would jump out to an early 7–0 lead, but Texas A&M would tie the game with a touchdown of their own, and the teams would be tied at halftime, 7–7, due to a missed A&M field goal. Arkansas would take back the lead in the 3rd quarter on a Greg Thomas touchdown run. The Razorback defense played great all game long, holding the Aggies to a field goal in the second half. On fourth down from inside the Arkansas fifteen yard line, Arkansas's defense tipped away an Aggie pass into the end zone in the closing seconds of the game, securing the victory for the Razorbacks. Both teams would finish the season 9–3 after bowl losses.
1991 – Arkansas's last game in the Southwest Conference
Texas A&M 13 – Arkansas 3
In the last Southwest Conference meeting on November 16, 1991, at Kyle Field, Texas A&M won 13–3 in a game nationally televised by ESPN. The Razorbacks came out in the wishbone formation on offense, but the Aggie defense held the Hogs to only 121 yards of total offense. After the season, the Razorbacks went on to leave the Southwest Conference, and join the Southeastern Conference, thereby ending the yearly in-conference game with the Aggies.
2009 – Renewal
Arkansas 47 – Texas A&M 19
On October 3, 2009, the two teams met for the first time since 1991. The rivalry was originally slated to take place on a yearly basis at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Arkansas came back from a 10–0 deficit in the first quarter to win 47–19.
2011 – "Welcome to the SEC"
Arkansas 42 – Texas A&M 38
The Aggies, leading 35–17 at the half, blew their 18-point lead and only scored 3 points in the second half. As Broderick Green charged into the end zone on the final score of the game, Arkansas fans appeared on the Cowboys Stadium video holding a sign saying "Welcome to the SEC" (in recognition of A&M's announcement only six days earlier that it would join Arkansas as a member of the SEC in 2012).
2012 – First all-SEC game
Texas A&M 58 – Arkansas 10
On September 29, 2012, the Aggies and Razorbacks met on the gridiron as conference rivals for the first time since 1991, with A&M joining Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference. The Aggies won 58–10, which is the largest margin of victory in the series. The game moved from the neutral-site Cowboys Stadium venue of the last three years to Kyle Field as part of a planned home-and-home series with Arkansas for A&M's first two SEC seasons; the 2014 matchup returned to AT&T Stadium.
2014, '15 & '17 – 3 OT games in 4 years
The 2014 contest returned to AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) after a two-year "home-and-home" schedule the previous two seasons. Both the 2014 and 2015 contests went into overtime. These back-to-back years of overtime were also the first two overtimes between the two schools in the rivalry's history, after overtime was adopted by the NCAA for all games beginning with the bowl games following the 1995 regular season. The 2017 matchup also ended in overtime, with the two teams combining for a series record 93 points. Texas A&M won all three of these overtime matches.
See also
List of NCAA college football rivalry games
References
College football rivalries in the United States
Arkansas Razorbacks football
Texas A&M Aggies football
American football in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex |
6902317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonaise%20%28vodka%29 | Polonaise (vodka) | Polonaise is a Polmos Łańcut vodka made from quality rectified grain spirit and water. According to its producer it has a pleasant and delicate aroma and flavor with notes of the grain it is made from. It contains 40% alcohol by volume.
The vodka is named after the national Polish dance Polonaise.
See also
Distilled beverage
List of vodkas
External links
Polmos Łańcut
An article about the Polonaise vodka
Polish brands
Polish vodkas |
6902319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing%20Johnson | Jing Johnson | Russell Conwell "Jing" Johnson (October 9, 1894 – December 6, 1950) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics. He played in five seasons for the Athletics in three separate stints, –, and –. The first gap was due to Johnson's service in World War I, while the second, seven-year gap was precipitated by a salary dispute with Athletics owner Connie Mack, during which Johnson worked as a research chemist.
Jing was an alumnus of Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, where he later served as athletic director. He died in an automobile accident in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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6902337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%20Com%C3%A9rcio%20da%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | O Comércio da Póvoa de Varzim | O Comércio da Póvoa de Varzim, founded in 1903, is one of the three main local newspapers of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Unlike its rivals, Póvoa Semanário and A Voz da Póvoa, the paper is devoted to national and local news alike.
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6902340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnew%20baronets | Agnew baronets | There have been three Agnew baronetcies.
The first was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. The second and third were created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Agnew baronets of Lochnaw, Co. Wigtown (28 July 1629)
Sir Patrick Agnew, 1st Baronet (c. 1578–1661)
Sir Andrew Agnew, 2nd Baronet (died 1671)
Sir Andrew Agnew, 3rd Baronet (died 1702)
Sir James Agnew, 4th Baronet (c. 1660–1735)
Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th Baronet (1687–1771)
Sir Stair Agnew, 6th Baronet (1734–1809)
Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet (1793–1849)
Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet (1818–1892)
Sir Andrew Noel Agnew, 9th Baronet (1850–1928)
Sir Fulque Melville Gerald Noel Agnew, 10th Baronet (1900–1975)
Sir Crispin Hamlyn Agnew, 11th Baronet (born 1944)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son Mark Douglas Noel Agnew (born 1991)
Agnew baronets of Great Stanhope Street, London (2 September 1895)
Sir William Agnew, 1st Baronet (1825–1910)
Sir George William Agnew, 2nd Baronet (1852–1941)
Sir John Stuart Agnew, 3rd Baronet TD JP DL (16 September 1879 – 27 August 1957). Agnew was the son of Sir George William Agnew, 2nd Baronet and Fanny Bolton, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He rose to the rank of Major in the Suffolk Yeomanry, fought in the First World War, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. He was also deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for West Suffolk. Agnew married Kathleen White, daughter of Isaac William Hewitt White, on 14 April 1910. They had three sons: Sir John Anthony Stuart Agnew, 4th Baronet; Sir George Keith Agnew, 5th Baronet; Stephen William Agnew (1921–2001).
Sir John Anthony Stuart Agnew, 4th Baronet (1914–1993)
Sir George Keith Agnew, 5th Baronet (1918–1994)
Sir John Keith Agnew, 6th Baronet (19 December 1950 – 2011). Agnew was the son of Sir George Keith Agnew, 5th Baronet, and his wife Baroness Anne Merete Louise Schaffalitzky de Muckadell (1924–2005). He was the owner of the Rougham estates in Suffolk, England. Agnew was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1964 to 1969 and then at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He succeeded in the baronetcy in 1994. The Rougham estates include Rougham Airfield, where Agnew organizes a wide variety of annual fairs, rallies and events, including the Wings, Wheels & Steam Country Fair, the annual Rougham Air Display & Harvest Fair, and the East Anglian Medieval Battle & Fair. A Rougham Music Festival, of which Agnew's brother George Agnew is the Arts Director, is also held on the estate. Sir John Agnew of Rougham should not be confused with his cousin John Stuart Agnew of Rougham, farmer, a parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
Sir George Anthony Agnew, 7th Baronet (born 18 August 1953). He was educated at Gresham's School and at the University of East Anglia.
The heir presumptive is the present holder's cousin John Stewart Agnew (born 1949)
Agnew, later Agnew-Somerville baronets, of Clendry (1957)
Sir Peter Garnett Agnew, 1st Baronet (1900–1990)
Sir Quentin Charles Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet (8 March 1929 – 2010). Agnew-Somerville was the son of Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, and Enid Frances Boan. He attended Britannia Royal Naval College and became a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Since then, he pursued a career as an insurance consultant. He assumed by Royal Licence in 1950 the additional surname of Somerville, after that of Agnew, and the arms of Somerville quarterly with those of Agnew, in compliance with the will of his uncle (by marriage), James Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney; Quentin married 1963 Hon. (Margaret) April Irene Drummond, youngest daughter and co-heiress of John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange and Violet Margaret Florence Jardine, on 14 December 1963, and had issue, by whom he had two daughters, including the actress Geraldine Somerville, and one son.
Sir (James) Lockett Charles Agnew-Somerville, 3rd Baronet (born 1970)
Notes
References
'AGNEW, Sir John Stuart', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
'AGNEW-SOMERVILLE, Sir Quentin (Charles Somerville)', Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
1629 establishments in Nova Scotia
1895 establishments in the United Kingdom
Agnew
Agnew |
17334700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalan%20Segambut | Jalan Segambut | Jalan Segambut is a major road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is being expanded from a two-lane to a four-lane road leading to Segambut Dalam and Mont Kiara. The project was expected to complete in January 2013. Property prices along this road have increased because of this project.
List of junctions
Roads in Kuala Lumpur |
17334704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethany%20College%20%28Saskatchewan%29 | Bethany College (Saskatchewan) | Bethany College (formerly Bethany Bible Institute) was a Christian Bible college established in the town of Hepburn, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1927. Bethany was co-sponsored by the Mennonite Brethren Churches of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Saskatchewan Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference churches. The mission of Bethany College was to nurture disciples and train leaders to serve. It was named after the village of Bethany near Jerusalem, a location of several significant encounters with Jesus, as mentioned in the New Testament. It was announced by the board of directors on December 9, 2014, that Bethany's last year of operation "in its current iteration" would be academic year 2014–15.
The school reopened in 2017 as the Thrive Discipleship program. This is a one-year program with the theme of discipleship key to the program
Programs
Bethany College offered four programs of study:
The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Certificate (15 credits)
Diploma of Biblical Studies (2 years)
Bachelor of Christian Studies Degree (3 years)
Bachelor of Arts Degree (4 years)
Facilities
The Bethany College facilities included the Administration Building, which houses classrooms, the Learning Resource Centre (library), chapel, offices, faculty/staff offices, dining hall, and student lounge and mall area; Bethany Place, which houses the Gymnasium/Auditorium, and classrooms; and the Ministry Arts wing, housing music studios, and more teaching spaces. Residential facilities for men are named West and East Court, joined by a lounge; and for women are named North and Centre Court. There is a recreation area, Soccer Field and Courtyard.
References
External links
Bethany College at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO)
Colleges in Saskatchewan
Universities and colleges affiliated with the Mennonite Church
Mennonitism in Canada
Educational institutions established in 1927
1927 establishments in Saskatchewan
Educational institutions disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Saskatchewan |
44497732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galadriel%20Stineman | Galadriel Stineman | Galadriel Lynn Putthoff Stineman (born October 20, 1990) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Gwen Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Swarm and as Cassidy Finch in The Middle.
Early life
Stineman was born in Cincinnati and named after the character Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings, which her mother read while pregnant. She completed her high-school education at Newport Central Catholic High School, in Newport, Kentucky. She was a cheerleader, dancer and horseback rider while at school. Although she participated in the drama club, she never captured a starring role in any play at school level.
She grew up in Northern Kentucky, where her father was a tennis player as well as a teacher and her mother, a nurse. She then attended Northern Kentucky University. As a very involved undergrad, she was president of Delta Zeta sorority, vice president of student government and named "Outstanding Senior of the Year". It was during her time at NKU that she became involved in student films and eventually signed with a couple local talent agencies to pick up extra money. She graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from the College of Informatics.
Career
Stineman moved to Los Angeles after graduation and made her debut in Fame (2009) as a dancer. Her breakthrough came when she portrayed Gwen Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009), a science fiction action film by Alex Winter based on the Cartoon Network animated series Ben 10: Alien Force. She was the second actress to play the part of Gwen. Stineman had been involved in major projects since 2009. She played Audra in Junkyard Dog (2010) and Cassidy in The Middle (2012–14)
Personal life
Stineman is married to actor Kevin Joy and they have two sons, Atticus and Sawyer.
Filmography
Video games
References
External links
Living people
American television actresses
Actresses from Cincinnati
Actresses from Kentucky
American film actresses
21st-century American actresses
American voice actresses
American video game actresses
Northern Kentucky University alumni
Newport Central Catholic High School alumni
1984 births |
17334727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never%20Make%20It%20Home | Never Make It Home | Never Make It Home is the third studio album by the American Bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).
Track listing
All songs written by Kirk Rundstrom except where noted.
"Movin' To Virginia" (Gottstine) – 2:49
"Record Shop" – 3:41
"Never Make It Home" (Gottstine) – 3:10
"Thief" – 3:12
"Love Please Come Home" (E. Jackson) – 1:30
"Used To Call Me Baby" (Gottstine) – 3:34
"PB24SS" – 2:49
"Kiss of Death" (Mardis) – 4:16
"Drink Lotsa Whiskey" – 3:58
"Mister" – 2:21
"River" (Gottstine) – 4:04
"It's No Good" (Gottstine) – 3:46
"Dime Store Cowboy" – 1:56
"Day the Train Jumped the Tracks" (M. Carmody) – 2:15
Personnel
Kirk Rundstrom - Guitar, Vocals
Wayne Gottstine - Mandolin, Vocals, Harmonica
Eric Mardis - Banjo, Vocals
Jeff Eaton - Gas Tank Bass, Vocals, Kazoo
References
2001 albums
Split Lip Rayfield albums
Bloodshot Records albums |
17334759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Atkinson%20%28baseball%29 | Harry Atkinson (baseball) | John Harry Atkinson (January 19, 1874 – January 2, 1953) was an American professional baseball player who played for the St. Louis Browns in 1895.
Atkinson was born in Fulton, Missouri and attended Westminster College.
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1874 births
1953 deaths
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44497758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundian%20treaty%20of%201548 | Burgundian treaty of 1548 | The Burgundian treaty of 1548 (ratified on 26 June), also known as the Transaction of Augsburg, settled the status of the Habsburg Netherlands within the Holy Roman Empire.
History
Essentially the work of Viglius van Aytta, it represents a first step towards the emergence of the Netherlands as an independent territory. It was made possible politically by the French loss of Artois and Flanders. Administratively, a chancellery and tribunal was established at Mechelen which for the first time had as its jurisdiction "the Netherlands" exclusively.
The treaty resulted in a significant shift of territories from the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle to the Burgundian Circle. The newly formed administrative division of the empire now united all Burgundian territories, which were no longer subject to the Reichskammergericht.
To compensate for its territorial gain, the Burgundian Circle was now obliged to pay taxes equivalent to those of two prince-electorates, and in war taxes towards the Turkish Wars even equivalent to three prince-electorates.
To ensure that the Burgundian territory now united in the Burgundian Circle would remain under a single administration, Charles V in the following year promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 which declared the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands a single indivisible possession not to be divided in future inheritance.
The consequence of these attempts at reducing the fragmentation of the government of the Holy Roman Empire was the separation of the Netherlands as an entity apart from the remaining empire, forming an important step towards the formation of the Dutch Republic in 1581.
Territories
The treaty, written in New Latin, stipulates in Article 15 that the territories mentioned are to become a single unit that will be passed on undivided to the next generations after Charles V (speaking in majestic plural) through hereditary succession:
(original text) Nimirum, nos veros, haereditarios & supremos Dominos dictarum nostrarum provinciarum Patrimonialium Belgicarum, pro Nobis, nostris haeredibus & successoribus, simul dictae nostrae Provinciae Patrimoniales Belgicae, nominatim Ducatus Lotharingiae, Brabantiae, Limburgi, Luxemburgi, Geldriae; Comitatus Flandriae, Artesiae, Burgundiae, Hannoniae, Hollandiae, Selandiae, Namurci, Zutphaniae; Marchionatus S. R. Imperii, Dominia Frisiae, Ultraiecti, Transisalaniae, Groningae, Falcomontis, Dalhemii, Salinis, Mechliniae & Traecti, una cum omnibus eorundem appendicibus & incorporationibus, Principatibus, Praelaturis, Dignitatibus, Comitatibus, Baroniis & Dominiis ad ea pertinentibus Vasallis & appendicibus, futuros in posterum & semper sub protectione, custodia, conservatione & auxilio Imperatorum & Regum Romanorum & S. R. I. eosque fruituros libertatibus ac iuribus eiusdem, & per dictos Imperatores & Reges Romanorum, & status dicti S. R. I. semper, sicut alii Principes, status & membra eiusdem Imperii, defendos, conservandos, fovendos, & fideliter iuvandos.
(modern English) Evidently, our aforementioned Patrimonial Belgian Provinces, for Ourselves, our heirs and successors, us [being] the real, hereditary and supreme Lords of our aforementioned Patrimonial Belgian provinces, namely the Duchies of Lotharingia, Brabant, Limburg, Luxemburg, and Guelders; the Counties of Flanders, Artois, Burgundy, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, Namur, and Zutphen; the March of the Holy Roman Empire; the Lordships of Frisia, Utrecht, Overijssel, Groningen, Valkenburg, Dalhem, Salins, Mechelen, and Maastricht, along with all of their appendages and incorporations, princes, prelatures, dignitaries, counts, barons and lords that belong to certain vassals and appendices, will in the future be one, and always under the protection, custody, conservation and assistance of the Emperors and Kings of the Romans and the Holy Roman Empire, and will enjoy the liberties and rights of the same [Empire], and will forever after be faithfully defended, conserved, supported and assisted by the aforementioned the Emperors and Kings of the Romans and the Holy Roman Empire, just like the other princes, states and members of the same Empire.
Notes
References
Sources
1540s in the Habsburg Netherlands
Burgundian Circle
1548 in the Holy Roman Empire |
17334799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fording%20Canadian%20Coal%20Trust | Fording Canadian Coal Trust | Fording Canadian Coal Trust (NYSE: FDG; TSX:FDG) was a Canadian-based royalty trust which owned a 60% stake in the Elk Valley Coal Partnership (EVCP), which in turn produced hard-coking metallurgical coal, primarily for steel production, at its facility in Elk Valley, British Columbia. Through the EVCP it also owned a 46% interest in Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada) Ltd., which operates a dedicated coal berth at the Port of Vancouver. Its market capitalization was $11-billion USD in 2008.
The trust was formed in 2003 to assemble various assets from Luscar Ltd./CONSOL Energy Canada Ltd. joint ventures, Teck Cominco Ltd., and the former Fording Coal Ltd. (which was originally a unit of Canadian Pacific Railway until October 2001).
On July 29, 2008, Teck Cominco announced an agreement with Fording to purchase 100% of its assets; Teck Cominco had been the minority owner of the Elk Valley Coal Partnership, with a 40% stake. The purchase was closed on October 30, 2008, with a final cost of $14-billion USD to Teck. Elk Valley Coal Corporation will be renamed Teck Coal Limited.
References
External links
Fording website (Feb. 2, 2008 snapshot from the Internet Archive)
Elk Valley Coal website (Jan. 13, 2008 snapshot from the Internet Archive)
Coal companies of Canada
Royalty trusts
Energy companies established in 2003
Non-renewable resource companies established in 2003 |
23573947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20agility | Dog agility | Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles. The handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler.
An agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles laid out by a judge in a design of his or her own choosing in an area of a specified size. The surface may be of grass, dirt, rubber, or special matting. Depending on the type of competition, the obstacles may be marked with numbers indicating the order in which they must be completed.
Courses are complicated enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction. In competition, the handler must assess the course, decide on handling strategies, and direct the dog through the course, with precision and speed equally important. Many strategies exist to compensate for the inherent difference in human and dog speeds and the strengths and weaknesses of the various dogs and handlers.
Competition basics
As each course is different, handlers are allowed a short walk-through (ranging from 5 to 25 minutes on average) before the competition starts. During this time, all handlers competing in a particular class can walk around the course without their dogs, determining how they can best position themselves and guide their dogs to get the most accurate and rapid path around the numbered obstacles. The handler tends to run a path much different from the dog's path, so the handler can sometimes spend quite a bit of time planning for what is usually a quick run.
The walk-through is critical for success because the course's path takes various turns, even U-turns or 270° turns, can cross back on itself, can use the same obstacle more than once, can have two obstacles so close to each other that the dog and handler must be able to clearly discriminate which to take, and can be arranged so that the handler must work with obstacles between himself and the dog, called layering, or at a great distance from the dog.
Printed maps of the agility course, called course maps, are occasionally made available to the handlers before they run, to help the handlers plan their course strategy . The course map contains icons indicating the position and orientation of all the obstacles, and numbers indicating the order in which the obstacles are to be taken. Course maps were originally drawn by hand, but nowadays courses are created using various computer programs.
Each dog and handler team gets one opportunity together to attempt to complete the course successfully. The dog begins behind a starting line and, when instructed by their handler, proceeds around the course. The handler typically runs near the dog, directing the dog with spoken commands and with body language (the position of arms, shoulders, and feet).
Because speed counts as much as accuracy, especially at higher levels of competition, this all takes place at a full-out run on the dog's part and, in places, on the handler's part as well.
Scoring of runs is based on how many faults are incurred. Penalties can include not only course faults, such as knocking down a bar in a jump, but also time faults, which are the number of seconds over the calculated standard course time, which in turn is determined based on the competition level, the complexity of the course, and other factors.
Agility obstacles
The regulations of different organizations specify somewhat different rules and dimensions for the construction of obstacles. However, the basic form of most obstacles is the same wherever they are used. Obstacles include the following:
Contact obstacles
Contact obstacles are obstacles made of planks and ramps, they require dogs to ascend and descend the obstacle and to place a paw on a "contact zone", an area that is painted a different colour. The height, width and angle of the planks and ramps varies by the organisation running the competition.
A-frame
The A-frame comprises two ramps that meet in the middle forming an A shape, the ramps vary between and in length, and between and in height at the apex.
Dog walk
The dog walk is an elevated plank with ascending and descending ramps at each end, the ramps vary between in length and in height above the ground.
Crossover
The crossover comprises four separate ramps that each ascend at an elevated platform in the middle, the dog must ascend and descend the correct ramps in accordance with the judge's course plan, the ramps are in length and the platform is between in height.
Seesaw
The seesaw, sometimes called the teeter-totter, is a seesaw, that the dogs walks the length of, the seesaw varies between in length and the apex between in height.
Tower
The tower is similar to the crossover except it has a plank, a set of steps to ascend and descend, as well as a slide for the dog to slide down, as with the crossover the must ascend and descend in accordance with the judge's course plan.
Tunnels
The tunnel obstacles involve tunnels of different designs that the dogs run or crawl through.
Open or piped tunnel
The open or piped tunnel is an open flexible tube; they are usually in diameter and between in length.
Closed, collapsed or chute tunnel
The closed, collapsed or chute tunnel is a tube of light fabric with a rigid end for the dog to enter; the entrance is between in diameter and long.
Hoop tunnel
The hoop tunnel is a tunnel constructed from eight PVC hoops approximately in diameter arranged in a frame to form a tunnel approximately long.
Crawl tunnel
The crawl tunnel is a series of low hurdles forming a tunnel long that the dog must crawl under, the hurdles are set between high.
Jumps
Jump (hurdle) Two uprights supporting a horizontal bar over which the dog jumps. The height is adjusted for dogs of different heights. The uprights can be simple stanchions or can have wings of various shapes, sizes, and colors.
Double and triple jump (spread jump) Two uprights supporting two or three horizontal bars spread forward or back from each other. The double can have parallel or ascending horizontal bars; the triple always has ascending bars. The spread between the horizontal bars is sometimes adjusted based on the height of the dog.
Panel jump Instead of horizontal bars, the jump is a solid panel from the ground up to the jump height, constructed of several short panels that can be removed to adjust the height for different dog heights.
Broad jump (long jump) A set of four or five slightly raised platforms that form a broad area over which the dog must jump without setting their feet on any of the platforms. The length of the jump is adjusted for the dog's height.
Tire jump A torus shape that is roughly the size of a tire ( to inside diameter) and suspended in a frame. The dog must jump through the opening of the "tire"; like other jumps, the height is adjusted for dogs of different sizes. The tire is usually wrapped with tape both for visibility and to cover any openings or uneven places in which the dog could catch. Many organizations now allow or require a so-called displaceable or breakaway tire, where the tire comes apart in some way if the dog hits it hard enough.
Other hurdles UKC agility allows a variety of hurdles not found in other agility organizations: bush hurdle, high hurdle, log hurdle, picket fence hurdle, rail fence hurdle, long hurdle, window hurdle, and water hurdle.
Miscellaneous
Table (pause table) An elevated square platform about 3-foot-by-3-foot (1-meter-by-1-meter) square onto which the dog must jump and pause, either sitting or in a down position, for a designated period of time which is counted out by the judge, usually about 5 seconds. The height ranges from about depending on the dog's height and sponsoring organization.
Pause box A variation on the pause table. The pause box is a square marked off on the ground, usually with plastic pipe or construction tape, where the dog must perform the "pause" behavior (in either a sit or a down) just as he would on the elevated table.
Weave polesSimilar to a slalom, this is a series of 5 to 12 upright poles, each about tall and spaced about apart (spacing for AKC was until it was changed in January 2010. The extra three inches was to relieve stress on the dog's back.), through which the dog weaves. The dog must always enter with the first pole to their left, and must not skip poles. Dogs have 5 distinct gait styles when completing the weave pole obstacle. For many dogs, weave poles are one of the most difficult obstacles to master.
Other obstacles UKC agility allows the following obstacles not found in other agility organizations: swing plank, sway bridge, and platform jump. NADAC also uses a hoop obstacle. A Hoopers course consists entirely of hoops, but hoops may be used in other courses as well.
Organization in groups
Although each organization has its own rules, all divide dogs into smaller groups that are close to each other in size and experience for purposes of calculating winners and qualifying scores.
History
The history of dog agility can be traced to a demonstration at the Crufts dog show in the late 1970s in the United Kingdom. Dogs were run around a course designed similar to horse jumping courses during intermission as a way to entertain the audience. It has since spread around the world, with major competitions held worldwide.
Agility as an international sport
Globally, dog agility competitions are regulated and run by the FCI and its member organisations and a number of national kennel clubs and sport federations. Rules of each organisation, titles and selection process of national teams that represent the country at prestigious international events vary slightly. One reason alternatives to FCI organisations started to emerge is that FCI is an international pure-bred dogs federation and most of its members have restrictions for dogs without pedigrees. Such organisation as USDAA, UKI and IFCS and their members have opposed that and created their own international competitions that do not restrict participation for dogs without pedigrees.
International competitions
Fédération Cynologique Internationale Agility World Championships, the oldest and best-known, is held every year. It had been held in Europe every year until 2013, where it is to be hosted by South Africa. The event was held as a European championship until 1995, then a world championship from 1996, and is restricted to registered pedigree dogs only.
The International Mix & Breed Championship in Agility (IMCA), first held in Italy in 2000 as a response to the FCI pedigree-only championships. The competition is held annually with about 18 countries participating, including teams from outside Europe.
The International Federation of Cynological Sports (IFCS), has since 2002 organized a biannual world agility championship open to any breed or mixed-breed dog regardless of pedigree. Since 2013 it has been gaining more and more popularity and has been held every year.
The Cynosport World Games, officially named in 2003, as the consolidated venue for USDAA's three tournament series - Grand Prix of Dog Agility, $10,000 Dog Agility Steeplechase and Dog Agility Masters Three-Dog Team Championship — and exhibitions and competitions in other popular canine sports. USDAA tournaments were opened to invited overseas participants for the first time in 2001, which led to establishment of USDAA affiliates in other countries where qualifying events are now held each year.
The European Open. An informal annual championships since its foundation in 2002, open to all dogs regardless of origins. It rotates around a small number of countries in central Europe, though attracting competitors from all over world, with 25 countries participating in the 2006 event. From 2007, the competition is held under Fédération Cynologique Internationale regulations, but still allowing dogs without pedigrees.
The World Agility Open Championships (WAO) — is an event organized by the UKI committee, that is gaining popularity with accomplished competitors all over the world. In 2019 participants from 39 countries were taking part.
Junior Open Agility World Championships — the biggest international event for handlers under 18 years of age divided into several age groups. Before 2019 it was called European Open Junior Championships. Takes place annually and is considered to be very prestigious among competitors all over the world. Along with European Open Championship is supervised by the FCI committee.
Training
Dogs can begin training for agility at any age, but care is taken when training dogs under a year old so as to not harm their developing joints. Dogs generally start training on simplified, smaller, or lowered (in height) agility equipment and training aids (such as ladders and wobbling boards to train careful footing), but puppies who learn quickly must be finished growing before training on equipment at standard height to prevent injury.
Introducing a new dog to the agility obstacles varies in response. Each individual dog learns at its own pace; confident dogs may charge over equipment with little encouragement, while more timid dogs may take weeks to overcome their hesitations with much encouragement. Both scenarios present their own challenges, as dogs may be overconfident and sloppy to the point where they have a serious accident and teaching the dog self-control becomes one of the goals for the trainer. Timid dogs need extra support to boost their confidence. Given the right encouragement, a timid dog can gain confidence through learning the sport. The size of the dog can also have an effect on training obstacles, particularly with the chute, in which smaller dogs are prone to get trapped and tangled inside. A trainer will take great effort to ensure that the dog is always safe and has a good training experience for agility so that it does not fear the obstacles, and instead performs them willingly and with enthusiasm.
The teeter-totter (or see-saw) and the weave poles are typically the most challenging obstacles to teach to a dog. Many dogs are wary of the see-saw's movement, and the weave poles involve behavior that does not occur naturally to the dog. Contact obstacles in general are challenging to train in a manner that ensures that the dog touches the contact zone without sacrificing speed. Whether for competition or recreation, the most important skill for an agility team to learn is how to work together quickly, efficiently, and safely. Dogs vary greatly in their speed and accuracy of completing a course, as well as in their preferences for obstacles; therefore, the handler must adjust their handling style to suit and support the dog.
Training techniques for each piece of equipment varies. The techniques for training the weave poles include using offset poles that gradually move more in line with each other, poles that tilt outward from the base and gradually become upright, wires or gates around the poles forcing the dog into the desired path, and putting a hand in the dog's collar and guiding the dog through while leading with an incentive. It also includes teaching the dog to run full speed between two poles and gradually increasing the angle of approach and number of poles.
Agility may be trained independently (for instance at home) or with an instructor or club that offers classes. Seasoned handlers and competitors, in particular, may choose to train independently, as structured classes are commonly geared towards novices. Seasoned handlers often instead look to seminars and workshops that teach advanced handling techniques, and then practice on their own.
Common reasons for joining an agility class include:
Access to agility equipment, especially the larger contact obstacles, which can be expensive, difficult to build, and require a lot of space to use.
Seeking the guidance and expertise of more experienced handlers.
Enjoying the social venue that many classes provide.
Training in a more distracting environment, which is helpful in preparation for competition.
In addition to the technical and educational training, physical training must also be done. The dog must be fit enough to run and jump without causing stress or injury to its body. The handler can also benefit from being physically fit, but with some handling styles it is not necessary to keep up with the dog (nor is it possible with very fast dogs). Being able to handle a dog from a distance allows mobility-impaired handlers to participate in the sport on par with mobile handlers. Research has also demonstrated health benefits to handlers engaged in dog agility.
Competition process
Competitions (also called trials or matches or shows) are usually hosted by a specific local club. The club might be devoted solely to dog agility, or it might be primarily a breed club that wants to promote the working abilities of its breed, or it might be a club that hosts many types of dog sports. The club contracts with judges who are licensed by the sanctioning organization and applies to the organization for permission to hold a trial on a specific date or weekend; most trials are two-day weekend events.
Key trial jobs
The club designates a member to be the chairperson or show manager, who is responsible for ensuring that the trial takes place, and another member to be the secretary, who is responsible for providing competitors with the show premium or schedule—a document that describes the specific competition, summarizes the rules, describes the trial site, and includes an entry form—receiving completed entry forms, sending out running orders, producing running-order lists for the day of competition, and compiling the results from the trial to send to the sanctioning organization.
The designated chief ring steward or ring manager is responsible for finding and assigning workers, almost always volunteers, to perform the myriad tasks involved in putting on a trial. For example, if electronic timing is not being used, each class needs a timer, who ensures that the dog's running time is recorded, a scribe, who records the judge's calls as a dog runs the class, and pole setters (or ring stewards), who ensure that jump bars are reset when they are knocked off and change jump heights for dogs of different sizes.
Competition locations
Agility competitions require considerable space. Each ring is usually at least 5,000 square feet (I.e 465 square meters); however, exact dimensions vary according to the organizations. Competitions can have anywhere from one to a dozen rings. The ground must be non-slip and level, usually being either packed dirt, grass, carpeting, or padded matting.
Competitors additionally need space to set up quarters for their dogs and gear. When space permits, competitors often bring pop up canopies or screenroom awning tents for shade. Dogs, when not competing, are usually left to rest in exercise pens, crates, or dog tents familiar and enclosed environments in which they can relax and recover between runs. Handlers also bring reflective cloths to protect their dogs from sun exposure and to calm them down (by covering their crates with the cloths). There also needs to be space for many handlers with dogs on leashes to move freely around the rings without crowding, and space for warming up, exercising, and pottying dogs. Adjacent to the site, parking must be available for all competitors. At weekend or weeklong shows that offer camping, space needs to be provided both for competitors' caravans and tents, and for the small fenced enclosures or gardens that they set up around them.
In heavily populated areas, therefore, it is uncommon to find real estate inexpensive enough to devote entirely to agility, so sites are usually rented for the weekend. Even in more rural areas, agility-only sites are uncommon. Popular locations include large parks, covered horse-riding arenas, and in cold-winter areas, large, empty warehouses in which mats or carpet can be laid.
Course design
Before the trial, each judge designs the courses that he or she will judge at the competition. The sanctioning organization usually reviews and approves the courses to ensure that they meet the organization's guidelines. Guidelines include such issues as how far apart obstacles must be, how many turns are allowed (or required) on a course, which obstacles and how many of each must appear on the course, and so on. The rules vary by level of competition and by organization.
Building a course and calculating times
Before each class, or the evening before the first class, course builders use course maps provided by the judges to place equipment on the course. The chief course builder is usually an experienced competitor who understands what equipment is legal, how it must be configured, how each must be aligned compared to other obstacles, and can direct several course-building volunteers to efficiently move the equipment into place. To make the job easier, courses are often marked in some way to correspond to a grid: for example, if course maps are printed on a grid of 10-foot-by-10-foot squares, the posts that hold the ring ropes marking the course's four sides are often set 10 feet apart.
When the course builders finish, the judge walks through the course and double-checks that the obstacles are legal, that they are placed where the judge intended, and that there are no unintended hazards on the course (such as potholes, uneven ground, or mud puddles) around which the course must be adjusted. For many classes, the judge then measures the path through the course to determine the optimal running distance of a typical dog. The judge uses that measurement with a speed requirement determined by the rules to calculate the standard course time, which is the time under which dogs must complete the course to avoid time faults. For example, if the course is 150 yards (or meters) long, and the rules state that dogs must run the course at a rate of at least 3 yards (or meters) per second, the standard course time would be 50 seconds. Other organizations, though, leave the decision on course time to the judge's discretion
Running a course and determining results
The judge often holds a briefing for competitors before each class, to review the rules and explain specific requirements for a particular course. For Standard courses for experienced competitors, the judge's briefing is often minimal or dispensed with altogether. For novice handlers in classes with complex rules, the briefings can be much longer.
The competitors then walk the course (as described earlier). When the walk-through ends, the gate steward or caller ensures that dogs enter the ring in the running order previously determined by the trial secretary and manages changes to the running order for handlers who might have conflicts with other rings of competition. As each dog and handler team runs the course, the dog is timed either by a person with a stopwatch or with an electronic timer, and the scribe writes the judge's calls and the dog's final time on a scribe sheet or ticket, which is then taken to the score table for recording.
At the score table, scorekeepers compile the results in a variety of ways. Some organizations require or encourage computerized scorekeeping, while others require certain types of manual score sheets to be filled out. When all the dogs in a given height group, level, and class have run, the score table compares run times, faults, and any other requirements to determine placements (and, for classes that provide qualifying points towards titles, which dogs earned qualifying scores).
Each ring might run several classes during a day of competition, requiring multiple course builds, walk-throughs, and briefings.
Awards and titles
Awards are usually given for placements and for qualifying scores. Such awards are often flat ribbons, rosettes, commemorative plaques, trophies, medals, or pins. Some clubs award high-in-trial awards, calculated in various ways, or other special awards for the trial. Dogs who complete their final qualifying scores to become agility champions are often presented with special awards.
Many Kennel Clubs also award titles to those who manage to qualify enough times in a particular level. Most clubs require three qualifying scores in any level to get the corresponding title, however, other clubs may require more or less.
In the United States in most sanctioning organizations, there are a variety of titles that a dog and handler can earn by accruing sufficient qualifying runs—also called legs—that is, runs that have no more than a certain number of faults (typically none) and are faster than the maximum standard course time (SCT).
For example, under USDAA rules, a dog can earn novice-level titles in Standard, Jumpers, Gamblers, Snooker, and Pairs Relay classes by earning three qualifying runs in each of the classes. The dog can also earn intermediate-level titles and masters-level titles in the same classes. After earning all of the masters-level titles—five qualifying runs in each, with some that must be in the top 15% of dogs competing at each trial—the dog earns its Championship.
Other organizations have similar schemes; in AKC, to earn the Championship, the dog's qualifying runs must be earned two at a time on the same day. In NADAC, the quantity of qualifying runs is much larger; and so on. Most champion titles have "CH" in the title: NATCH (NADAC Agility Trial Champion), ADCH (Agility Dog Champion for USDAA), CATCH (CPE Agility Trial Champion), MACH (Master Agility Champion for AKC), TACH (Teacup Agility Champion), ATCH (ASCA Agility Trial Champion) and so on.
Injuries
Surveys of handlers indicates that between 32% and 41.7% of dogs incur injuries from agility related activities. The most common types of injuries were (in order) strains, sprains and contusions. Locations most commonly injured were shoulders, iliopsoas muscle, digits and lumbar spine/lumbosacral area. Border Collies are more likely to be injured than other breeds. Injury rate is reported to vary by country, with Australia reporting the highest percentage of injuries and the United States reporting the lowest percentage of injuries. Injuries were most commonly perceived as being caused by interactions with bar jumps (contact), A-frames and dog walk obstacles (contact and/or fall). There were no relationship between the use of warm-up and cool-down exercises and injuries.
See also
Championship (dog)
Dock jumping
List of United Kingdom dog agility champions
Rat agility
Show Jumping
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
Agility Association of Canada (AAC)
AKC Rules and Regulations
USDAA Rules and Regulations
NADAC Rules and Regulations
CPE Rules and Regulations
FCI Agility Regulations
IFCS Agility Regulations
ANKC Agility Trial Rules
The Kennel Club (UK) Agility Regulations
Dog sports
Dog equipment |
17334823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Should%20Have%20Seen%20It%20Coming | Should Have Seen It Coming | Should Have Seen It Coming is the fourth studio album by the American bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music).
Track listing
All songs written by Kirk Rundstrom except where noted.
"Hundred Dollar Bill" (Gottstine) – 2:21
"Truth & Lies" – 1:47
"Honestly" – 1:49
"Redneck Tailgate Dream" (Mardis) – 3:21
"Promise Not to Tell" (Gottstine) – 3:08
"A Little More Cocaine Please" (Gottstine) – 2:17
"C'mon Get Your Gun" – 1:49
"Used To Be" – 2:34
"Lonely Man Blues" – 1:46
"Don't Believe That You're Someone" (Gottstine) – 2:32
"Down South Sally" (Gottstine) – 2:29
"Should Have Seen it Coming" (Gottstine) – 3:02
"Out of Time" (Gottstine) – 3:49
"Union Man" – 1:53
"Lonesome Heart" – 1:55
"Just Like A Gillian Welch Song" (Gottstine) – 2:50
Personnel
Jeff Eaton - Gas Tank Bass, Vocals
Wayne Gottstine - Mandolin, Vocals
Kirk Rundstrom - Guitar, Vocals
Eric Mardis - Banjo, Vocals
2004 albums
Split Lip Rayfield albums
Bloodshot Records albums |
6902342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Varman | Ravi Varman | S. Ravi Varman (born 9 May 1972) is an Indian cinematographer, filmmaker, producer and writer. He has predominantly worked in films of Indian languages such as Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi. Known for his realistic and poetic framing sense, Ravi Varman began his career in Malayalam films. He has directed a romantic film in Tamil titled Moscowin Kavery and also filmed the music video for the song "Bird Flu" by British Tamil songwriter M.I.A.
Early life
Ravi Varman was born in a village called Poyyoundarkudikkadu near Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. Varman lost his mother at a young age. Just before she died there was a wedding in his neighborhood and his mother's image was accidentally captured by the wedding photographer in one of the photos. Varman went to the studio and asked for a picture to be enlarged and learnt what "out of focus" meant. Thus, he developed an interest in photography and grew up with a passion for watching movies – though at the time, he never considered working in film as a possible career.
Career
He started his career by assisting cinematographer Ravi K Chandran. After working in Malayalam films since 1999 for three years, he worked in Bollywood for the film Yeh Dil in 2003. He later worked in the Telugu film Jai and received more offers in Hindi, such as Armaan, Bee Busthar, Ramji Londonwale, and Phir Milenge, His next project is going to be with Maniratnam.
Though a Tamilian, it was not until 2002 when he started to work in Tamil films, with his first one being Susi Ganeshan's Five Star. He continued to work with popular directors as cinematographer in Tamil films, including S. Shankar's Anniyan, Gautham Vasudev Menon's Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, K. S. Ravikumar's Dasavathaaram and Villu, which was directed by Prabhu Deva. Besides feature films, he has credit of working on more than 500 Television Commercials, Music Albums, Short Films and Documentary. Nonetheless, his flair for literature has led him to embark on writing for an on-line literary magazine 'Yavarum kelir' for Tamiz studio.
Awards and honours
23rd EME France Film Festival Best Cinematographer Award for Santham Malayalam (2000)
Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award for Anniyan (2006)
Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2007)
Vikitan Best Cinematography Award (South) for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2007)
ITFA Best Cinematographer Award for Dasavathaaram (2009)
Star Guild Awards for Best Cinematography for Barfi! (2012)
Screen Awards for Best cinematography for Barfi! (2012)
TOIFA Awards for Best Cinematography for Barfi! (2012)
IIFA Awards for Best Cinematography for Barfi! (2012)
Zee Cine Awards for Best cinematography for Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2014)
Vijay Award for Best Cinematography for Kaatru Veliyidai (2017)
SIIMA Award for Best Cinematography for Kaatru Veliyidai (2017)
Filmography
As director
Moscowin Kavery (2010)
Treasure Music Video (2011) Also as Cinematographer and Lyricist
As producer
Azhagu (2010)
Vellaiya Irukiravan Poi Solla Maatan (2015)
As cinematographer
Films
As guest cinematographer
As partial cinematographer
Indian 2 (for only 1 schedule)
Music videos
"Bird Flu" by M.I.A. (2007)
"Aarachar" by Thaikkudam Bridge (2016)
Documentaries
Child Environment
Legacy
Ravi Varman is one of the finest cinematographer in India. Top stars like Shah Rukh Khan are ready to adjust their dates to work with Ravi.
SRK also advised his son Aryan to start his career by assisting Ravi Varman. He also directed a film (Moscowin Kavery).The film wasn't a great success at box office but the heroine he introduced, found her way to fame (Samantha Ruth Prabhu).
Notes
References
External links
Living people
Cinematographers from Tamil Nadu
Malayalam film cinematographers
Filmfare Awards South winners
People from Thanjavur district
Tamil film cinematographers
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards winners
21st-century Indian photographers
Film producers from Tamil Nadu
Film directors from Tamil Nadu
Telugu film cinematographers
Tamil film producers
Tamil film directors
1972 births |
6902349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Storyteller%20Sequence | The Storyteller Sequence | The Storyteller Sequence is a series of one act dramas written for young people by Philip Ridley. The plays, all set in east London, use fairytale stories and theatrical conventions to reveal the traumas of their young protagonists. To date there are five plays in the sequence, although Ridley has intimated there will eventually be seven. The five written to date are Karamazoo, Fairytaleheart, Moonfleece, Sparkleshark and Brokenville; note that although this is not the order in which the plays were written and performed chronologically, it is the order Ridley intends the finished "sequence" to run.
A collection bringing together the five plays produced so far in the sequence was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in late 2015.
Karamazoo (2004)
Karamazoo is a fifteen-minute monologue from an east London teenager called Ace. Two versions of the play exist, for male and female actors respectively. Ace is the most popular boy/girl at school, waiting at a bus stop for a date. Through his/her interaction with the audience, we discover that Ace's recent surge in popularity is the result of a personality "makeover" following the death of a parent; in recounting the fairytale stories told by the dead father/mother, Ace reveals how much the loss still haunts them and realises the vacuousness and selfishness.
The monologue was part of the National Theatre Shell Connections 2004 portfolio, with the first drafts of both the male and female version of the monologue being made available to download for free from the NT Shell Connections website.
Fairytaleheart (1998)
In Fairytaleheart, two 15-year-old youths deal with ruptured families and homelessness by embracing their hopes and fears in a derelict community centre.
Kirsty's mother died two years ago, but she is still grieving whilst watching her father announce his engagement to her 'stepmother' she flees her own birthday party and sits alone in the community centre that was once her mother's 'kingdom', where she then meets Gideon: the complete opposite to popular, pretty, pretentious Kirsty. He's a scruffy boy with 'rat tails' for hair. Together by the catharsis of storytelling they enter the magic world of karamazoo and search for the 'luminous butterfly'. Finally finding it in themselves to see their problems in a new light. The story ends seeming as though they are about to kiss.
Sparkleshark (1997)
Sparkleshark is a play about a teenage boy called Jake. As he is sitting alone, on top of the block of flats he lives in, writing stories, a troubled girl who is polly (she's a carer for her younger brother) who has started in his school, who recently moved into the block of flats comes up to quietly fix a satellite dish. At first he is abusive and defensive but lightens to her when she compliments his work. More people come up to the roof for different reasons. Natasha, the popular girl, goes up to find Polly; Carol, the wannabe, follows Natasha after getting bored. She then calls up Russell, the school Bully and his two friends Buzz and Speed Follow, as well as "emo" Shane, Natasha's ex-Boyfriend. As Russell and his boys go to dangle Jake over the roof they are stopped by the offer to hear a story by Jake, at first a little hesitant to tell one as it was Polly's idea, but eventually he does, and as he does the others start acting it out. It is a fairytale about a Prince (Russell) and his Horses (Buzz and Speed), a Princess (Polly) her father (Jake), a Witch (Tasha) and a Wizard (Shane) and a Frog (Carol) at the end of the story they are attacked by a dragon known as "Sparkleshark" due to its shiny scales, who is played by Finn, Polly's Grunge brother. The story has a happy ending with all being resolved and the play ends with all the group promising to meet up on a regular basis to read and act out stories.
Moonfleece (2004)
Moonfleece is the story of Curtis, a young right-wing activist in East London who arranges a meeting in a flat in a derelict tower block where he grew up. Years ago, when he was a child, Curtis lived happily here but, then, tragedy struck and his elder brother died. Now Curtis is seeing his brother’s ghost. With the aid of Gavin and Tommy, fellow members of the right wing political party of which he is a leading figure, Curtis aims to find out why this ghost is haunting him. Things, however, do not go as planned. For a start, there are two squatters now occupying the flat. And one of them has a story to tell. A story that will change Curtis’s life forever.
Moonfleece received a professional world premiere in March–April 2010, opening at Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road for the 2010 East Festival before touring the UK, produced by London-based independent theatre company Supporting Wall. The production stars Sean Verey (Skins, Dead Man Running) as Curtis and is directed by David Mercatali. The controversial play has been banned in Dudley, but afterwards was performed in Greenwich. Its poster was designed by photographer Adam Levy
Brokenville (2000)
Brokenville has had the longest gestation period of all Ridley's plays. It was first performed as Cavesongs and was part of Ridley's performance art work while he was a student at St Martin's School of Art. It was then done as an afternoon rehearsed reading at the Hampstead Theatre in London (with Jude Law playing one of the parts, fresh from doing Ridley's The Fastest Clock in the Universe) and subsequently presented as a work-in-progress for a short run under the name of Apocalyptica. Ridley continued working on the play, until it became Brokenville, and it subsequently became part of the National Theatre Connections plays for young people and performed at the Olivier Stage of the National Theatre in England in 2003. It was more recently performed in March 2015 by a drama group starring Rachel Price and Georgia Sloan. The background for Brokenville is an unknown disaster, which has left the play's seven characters with little knowledge of who they are or of what has happened. As an old woman and five teenagers begin to act out stories for a mute and frightened child, they begin to discover a little of who they were and what they can be.
References
Plays by Philip Ridley |
6902353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw%20Kittens%20%28album%29 | Chainsaw Kittens (album) | Chainsaw Kittens is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Chainsaw Kittens. It was released in 1996 through Scratchie Records.
Critical reception
Alternative Rock wrote that the "glitter roots still shine through boldly, but the punk intensity has disappeared, along with most of their jangly pop melodies." The Chicago Tribune called it "one of the sleeper pop records of '96" and "arguably the career high point" for the band.
Track listing
"Dorothy's Last Fling" – 3:17
"Heart Catch Thump" – 3:30
"Tongue Trick" – 3:40
"King Monkey Smoke" – 3:51
"Bones in My Teeth" – 2:55
"Waltz Across Debris" – 2:43
"Ballad of Newsman 5" – 3:06
"Mouthful of Glass" – 3:16
"Leash" – 3:19
"Bicycle Head" – 1:22
"All (No Surprise)" – 3:31
"Sounder" – 2:31
"Madhatter's Blues" – 2:40
"Speedway Oklahoma" – 3:34
Personnel
Tyson Meade - vocals, guitar
Trent Bell - guitar
Matthew Johnson - bass
Eric Harmon - drums
References
Chainsaw Kittens albums |
6902420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout%20Mountain%20%28disambiguation%29 | Lookout Mountain (disambiguation) | Lookout Mountain is a mountain ridge on the border of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
Lookout Mountain may also refer to:
Events
Battle of Lookout Mountain, a battle fought on that ridge during the American Civil War
Populated places
Lookout Mountain, Alabama, a census-designated place (CDP) in Alabama, U.S.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia, a city in Walker County, Georgia, U.S.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, a town in Hamilton County, Tennessee, U.S.
Locales
Lookout Mountain (Alberta), a ski resort in Banff, Alberta also known as Sunshine Village, Canada
Lookout Mountain Preserve, a part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, Arizona, U.S.
Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, once a secret film studio operating in Hollywood, California, U.S.
Lookout Mountain Park, a park overlooking Golden, Colorado, U.S.
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, an incline railway running to the summit of that mountain, Tennessee, U.S.
Summits
Lookout Mountain (Los Angeles County, California), a knob on Mount Baldy, California, U.S.
Lookout Mountain (Riverside County, California), a summit in Riverside County, California, U.S.
Lookout Mountain (Colorado), an eastern foothill of the Front Range in Colorado, U.S.
Lookout Peak (Colorado), a mountain in San Miguel County, Colorado, U.S.
Lookout Mountain (Idaho), a peak in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho, U.S.
Lookout Mountain (New Jersey), a mountain in Sussex County, New Jersey, U.S.
Lookout Mountain (Oklahoma), a large hill in west Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Lookout Mountain is the name of the following peaks in Oregon, U.S.
An 8,018-foot (2,444 m) peak in the Strawberry Range of northeastern Oregon;
The second-highest peak – at 6,536 feet (1,992 m) – in the Mount Hood National Forest in north-central Oregon;
The highest summit – at 6,926 ft (2,111 m) – of the Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon.
Lookout Mountain (Washington), a summit in Skagit County, Washington, U.S.
Lookout Summit, a mountain in Benton County, Washington, U.S.
See also
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, 2008 album by American indie rock band Silver Jews |
23573952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Arabian%20Gulf%20Cup | 1st Arabian Gulf Cup | The 1st Arabian Gulf Cup () was the first edition of the Arabian Gulf Cup, held every two years and organised by the AGCFF. The first tournament was held in Bahrain. It was won by the Kuwait, who defeated the hosts in the final match to finish first in the round-robin group. The tournament took place between 27 March and 3 April 1970.
Venues
Match officials
Tournament
The four teams in the tournament played a single round-robin style competition. The team achieving first place in the overall standings was the tournament winner.
All times are local, AST (UTC+3).
Matches
Result
Statistics
Goalscorers
Awards
Player of the Tournament
Khaled Ballan
Top Scorer
Mohammed Al-Masoud (3 goals)
Jawad Khalaf (3 goals)
Goalkeeper of the Tournament
Ahmed Eid Al-Harbi
References
External links
Official Site (Arabic)
RSSSF site
1970
1970
1970 in Asian football
1969–70 in Saudi Arabian football
1969–70 in Bahraini football
1969–70 in Kuwaiti football
1969–70 in Qatari football |
6902462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Ben%20Bulben | Under Ben Bulben | "Under Ben Bulben" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
Composition
It is believed to be one of the last poems he wrote, being drafted when he was 73, in August 1938 when his health was already poor (he died in January 1939).
Publication
"Under Ben Bulben" was first published in July 1939, six months after Yeats' death, as the first poem in the collection Last Poems and Two Plays in a limited edition released by his sister. The trade edition Last Poems & Plays, published in 1940, added the content of New Poems and three poems printed in On the Boiler. It also made "Under Ben Bulben" the final poem, a convention followed until the 1980s when it became clear that the original arrangement better reflected the poet's intentions.
References
Ben Bulben is a large flat-topped rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland. It is famous in Irish legend, appearing in The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, and was the site of a military confrontation during the Irish Civil War.
The phrase "Mareotic Lake", which appears in the second line of the poem, is used in the classical religious work De Vita Contemplativa to refer to Lake Mariout in Egypt which was the location of the Therapeutae, a community of religious hermits.
Phidias, mentioned in part IV of the poem, was one of the most influential sculptors in classical Athens. The Parthenon Frieze was probably sculpted under his direction.
Yeats's gravestone
Yeats is buried in the chuchyard of Drumcliffe church in Sligo, which stands at the foot of Ben Bulben. The last three lines of the poem are used as the epitaph on Yeats' gravestone, and they were composed with that intention:Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
Readings
The poem, read by actor Richard Harris, opens and closes an album of Yeats's poems set to music, entitled Now And In A Time To Be.
Related
The title of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's first novel, Horseman, Pass By, is derived from the last three lines of this poem. The same is true about the French writer Michel Déon's book Horseman, Pass By!
References
External links
Under Ben Bulben Summary at eNotes
Poetry by W. B. Yeats |
6902463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frescata | Frescata | Frescata was a registered trademark of Wendy's restaurants, and was used to refer to its now-discontinued line of cold sandwiches. The products were made in a "deli" style, and designed to compete with Subway and Blimpie's food offerings. The Frescata product did not offer the "watch while it's made" format as other sandwich shops offer. Due to poor sales and long preparation times, the product has been dropped. The sandwiches in the Frescata line included the Frescata Club, Roasted Turkey & Swiss, Black Forest Ham & Swiss and Chunky Chicken Salad Frescata. The original lineup had the Roasted Turkey with Basil Pesto in place of the Chunky Chicken Salad. The Frescata was introduced in April 2006, and disengagement began in December 2007.
Name
According to the St. Petersburg Times, the word "Frescata" does not appear to mean anything in any other language, including Italian, referenced in the name of the Frescata Italiana sandwich. According to the article, the word Frescata was coined to bring to mind the word "fresh".
References
External links
Wendy's.com(No longer including the discontinued Frescata range)
Wendy's foods |
23573955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suheil%20Dawani | Suheil Dawani | Suheil Salman Ibrahim Dawani (born Nablus, West Bank, 1951) is a Palestinian Anglican bishop.
He was the 14th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem from 15 April 2007, and Archbishop in Jerusalem from the restoration of the post in 2014, until his retirement in 2021. From 2017 to 2019 he was also the President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. He is married and has three daughters.
Ecclesiastical career
Dawani graduated with a B.A. at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1976 and a priest in 1978. He served for eight years at St. Andrew's parish in Ramallah, and St. Peter's in Bir Zeit, West Bank. He moved with his family to the United States in 1985, to study at Virginia Theological Seminary, where he completed his M.A. and began work on his Doctor of Ministry (D.Min). He was recalled to his diocese in 1987, and became priest at St. John's Episcopal Church in Haifa, Israel. He went to serve once again at the Ramallah and Bir Zeit parishes, from 1992 to 1997.
He was elected Secretary General of the Diocese of Jerusalem in 1997. He became then Canon for the Arabic-speaking congregation at St. George's Cathedral, in Jerusalem. He went to serve for a third time in Ramallah, from 2004 to 2007. He became Coadjutor Bishop on 15 June 2005 and was consecrated on 6 January 2006. He was enthroned as Bishop of Jerusalem on 15 April 2007. The same year he completed his D.Min at Virginia Seminary.
Dawani became Archbishop in Jerusalem in 2014 when synod voted to upgrade the concurrent role of representative of the Anglican Communion in the Holy Land from a bishopric to an archbishopric, as it had been previously from 1957 to 1976.
He was elected Primate of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East on 17 May 2017, for a two and a half year mandate, and served until the autumn of 2019.
He retired in 2021, having reached the compulsory episcopal retirement age of 70.
Views
He was critical of the Global Anglican Future Conference, that took place in Jerusalem, on 22-29 June 2008, stating that he believed that "reconciliation" was the way to solve divisions in the Anglican Communion. He addressed GAFCON III on its opening day, but wasn't a registered delegate of his province.
References
External links
Suheil Dawani Biography
1951 births
Living people
Anglican bishops of Jerusalem
Palestinian Anglicans
21st-century Anglican bishops in the Middle East
21st-century Anglican archbishops
People from Nablus |
17334827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20in%20Paraguayan%20football | 2008 in Paraguayan football | The following article presents a summary of the 2008 association football season in Paraguay. One of the most noticeable changes in the 2008 season is that the first division tournament will not longer have a single champion for the year; instead there will be two champions in the season, one being the winner of the Apertura tournament and the other being the winner of the Clausura tournament.
First division results
The first division tournament was divided in two sections: the Apertura and the Clausura and had 12 teams participating in a two round all-play-all system. The team with the most points at the end of the two rounds was crowned as the champion.
Torneo Apertura
Torneo Clausura
Aggregate table
Qualification to international competitions
Libertad qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores (by winning the Torneo Apertura and Clausura) and the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.
Club Guaraní qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores as the second best finisher in the aggregate points table.
Nacional qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores as the third best finisher in the aggregate points table.
Cerro Porteño qualified to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana as the fourth best finisher in the aggregate points table.
Relegation
The team with the worst average points over the last three years is automatically relegated to the second division league, and the second-worst team plays a playoff match against the second division runner-up.
The winner of the playoff match plays in the first division the following year.
Last Updated: December 24, 2008. * League Stats
Promotion game
The promotion was played between 3 de Febrero and the second division runner-up General Caballero ZC. The first game ended with a 3-0 score favorable to 3 de Febrero, while the second finished 2-1 in favor of General Caballero. Since the aggregate score was 4-2 for 3 de Febrero, they remain in the first division.
Paraguayan teams in international competitions
Paraguay national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Paraguay national football team in official competitions during 2008.
KEY: F = Friendly match; WCQ2010 = 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
References
External links
Paraguay 2008 by Eli Schmerler and Juan Pablo Andrés at RSSSF
Diario ABC Color
Seasons in Paraguayan football |
23573972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doln%C3%AD%20Krup%C3%A1%20%28Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav%20District%29 | Dolní Krupá (Mladá Boleslav District) | Dolní Krupá is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
23573975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doln%C3%AD%20Slivno | Dolní Slivno | Dolní Slivno 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 Slivínko is an administrative part of Dolní Slivno.
References
Villages in Mladá Boleslav District |
Subsets and Splits