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44503858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20a%20Believer%20and%20Other%20Hits | I'm a Believer and Other Hits | I'm a Believer and Other Hits is a budget-priced Monkees compilation released in 1997. It contains 10 of The Monkees' greatest hits. Many tracks are in their stereo single mixes; thus, "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" is without handclaps, and "Listen to the Band" has a shorter organ bridge. The album includes one track from the 1980s reunion, along with one previously unreleased track "Ceiling in My Room", taken from The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees sessions.
Unlike Daydream Believer and Other Hits, this 10-track album is relatively easy to locate and it remained inprint for several years after it was released.
Track listing
"I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond) - 2:47
"The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (Michael Nesmith) - 2:39
"Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 3:24 (Mis-credited to Goffin and King)
"Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:41 (Mis-credited to Boyce and Hart)
"A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" (Diamond) - 2:53
"Heart and Soul" (Simon Byrne, Andrew Howell) - 3:45
"Someday Man" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) - 2:41
"Ceiling in My Room" (Dominick DeMieri, Robert Dick, Davy Jones) - 3:13
"Listen to the Band" (Nesmith) - 2:29
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) - 2:21
References
1997 greatest hits albums
The Monkees compilation albums
Rhino Records compilation albums |
17338418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20European%20Left%20Group | Unified European Left Group | Unified European Left Group (UEL) is a group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, formed by 34 MPs from various leftwing parties in 16 countries. Georgios Katrougalos (Greece) is the president of the group, Andrej Hunko (Germany), Ioanetta Kavvadia (Greece) and Pablo Bustinduy (Spain) are vice-presidents of the group.
The UEL operates in the framework set out by PACE: to promote and protect human rights, rule of law and democracy. The Group is in particular inspired by the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter and by other conventions, arrangements and activities which promote and protect human dignity, social and gender equality, organized solidarity and sustainable development of the planet.
Members
As of May 2021.
Reports of former members
See also
European United Left–Nordic Green Left
European Anticapitalist Left
Party of the European Left
External links
Page on the PACE website
References
Political groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Left-wing politics |
44503871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucban%20Church | Lucban Church | The San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Parish Church (also Saint Louis of Toulouse Parish Church), commonly known as the Lucban Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Lucban, Quezon, Philippines under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucena. Its titular is Saint Louis of Toulouse.
History
Franciscan priests Father Juán Portocarrero de Plasencia and Father Diego de Oropesa de San José, known as the Apostles of Laguna and Tayabas, established the visita of Lucban in 1578 and started evangelizing the people of the town. It was elevated as a parish in 1595 under Father Miguel de Talavera alongside the construction of its first church made of wood, dedicated to Saint Louis of Toulouse.
The first church was ruined in 1629 and a second church was established on the present site. Construction of the second church, made of stone, masonry, and nipa, proceeded from 1630 to 1640 and the convent was finished in 1650. Church roofing was changed to tiles in 1683 under the supervision of Father Francisco Huerta.
Fire destroyed the building in 1733. That same year, Father Pascual Martinez began construction of a third building, the present one, which was completed in 1738. The rebuilt convent was completed in 1743. On April 4, 1945, the day American soldiers liberated Lucban during World War II, the church was partially damaged by a bomb. It was immediately reconstructed under the supervision of Monsignor Antonio Radovan.
In July 2014 Typhoon Glenda destroyed the roof over the altar, causing flooding inside the church. Under the supervision of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the church underwent a full-scale exterior restoration in 2019.
Patron saint
Saint Louis of Toulouse was born in Brignoles, Provence (or in Italy, at Nocera, where he spent a part of his early life), the second son of King Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary. Charles became king of Naples in 1285. When Charles was taken prisoner in Italy, during the war with King Peter III of Aragon that followed the Sicilian Vespers, he obtained his own freedom by giving over his three sons as hostages. The boys were taken to Catalonia, where they were placed under the care of Franciscan friars for their education and held for seven years. Impressed by one of the friars in particular, Arnauld de Villenueve, Louis took up the study of philosophy and theology. Though still held in captivity, Louis was made archbishop of Lyon as soon as he reached his majority. When his older brother died of plague in 1295, Louis also became heir apparent to his father's kingdom; however, when he was freed that same year, Louis went to Rome and gave up all claims to the Angevin inheritance in favor of his brother Robert and announced that instead he would take the Franciscan vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
On 5 February 1297, Louis was also consecrated Bishop of Toulouse by Boniface VIII, where his uncle Alphonse had until recently been count, but had died in 1271 leaving no heir. In this ambivalently dynastic and ecclesiastical position, in a territory between Provence and Aquitaine that was essential to Angevin interests, despite the princely standing that had won him this important appointment at the age of about 22, Louis rapidly gained a reputation for serving the poor, feeding the hungry, and ignoring his own needs. After just six months, however, apparently exhausted by his labors, he abandoned the position of Bishop. Shortly thereafter he died at Brignoles of a fever, possibly typhoid, at age 23. Procedures for the canonization of Louis were quickly urged. His case was promoted by Pope Clement V in 1307, and he was canonized by John XXII on 7 April 1317 with the bull Sol oriens.
Features
The church follows the baroque design. It has a three-story facade. The second level features semi-circular windows flanked by Corinthian columns and niches containing statues of saints. The church also has an octagonal, three-story belltower standing on a square base.
Administration
San Luis Obispo Parish Church is within the jurisidiction of the Vicariate of Saint Thomas of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucena. Presently, it is administered by Rev. Msgr. Melecio Verastigue, PC and is assisted by Rev. Fr. Roy Cal as parochial vicar.
Lucban Catholic Cemetery
Locally known as Campo Santo, it was built in 1848 during the time of Fray Manuel Sancho, OFM and Capt. Simeon de Ramos. Its construction was paused briefly until Don Casimiro Antonio de Leon decided to complete the project. In 1882, in order to control the spread of cholera and reduce the number of deaths, Don Victor Eleazar oversaw the building of a small chapel (capilla) within the cemetery complex in such a way that will prevent the people from passing-by the parish church to get the priest's final blessing. On a positive note, the impact of cholera on the town wasn't grave as was expected. Because of the building's distinct and eerie character, various horror movie shots were filmed here.
Pahiyas Festival
A 6:00 AM mass at the church marks the start of the colorful Pahiyas Festival every May 15, at 7:00 AM a procession leaves the church carrying the images of San Isidro Labrador and Beata María de la Cabeza on a route around the town.
Other popular devotions
Santo Entierro De Lucban
The Santo Entierro De Lucban is regarded by the locals as a miracle-worker. Every Good Friday procession, the image is processed throughout the town in a custom similar to that of Quiapo's Traslacion. According to Pantaleon Nantes' account, it ended up in a pawnshop in Manila causing many illnesses to the townspeople. Later on, two prominent families — the Lukban-Villaseñor Clan and the present owners, the Rañola clan — have contested the image's original ownership to the extent that they fought all the way to the Corte Suprema (Supreme Court). The high court ruled in favor of the latter. It happened in 1892.
Kalbaryo
It is a local commemoration of Saint Helena and Bishop Macarius' discovery of Christ's real cross that is held every May 3.
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Interior photos of church
Roman Catholic churches in Quezon
Baroque architecture in the Philippines
Marked Historical Structures of the Philippines
Spanish Colonial architecture in the Philippines |
17338439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NJCAA%20Region%2023 | NJCAA Region 23 | Region XXIII of the National Junior College Athletic Association consists of two conferences, the MISS-LOU Junior College Conference (MLJCC) and Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges (MACJC).
MLJCC Members
Baton Rouge Community College
Bossier Parish Community College
Delgado Community College
Louisiana State University at Eunice
Nunez Community College
Southern University at Shreveport
MACCC Members
Coahoma Community College
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
East Central Community College
East Mississippi Community College
Hinds Community College
Holmes Community College
Itawamba Community College
Jones County Junior College
Meridian Community College
Mississippi Delta Community College
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Northeast Mississippi Community College
Northwest Mississippi Community College
Pearl River Community College
Southwest Mississippi Community College
See also
National Junior College Athletic Association
MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
Resources
NJCAA Website
Region 23 |
17338440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Rosenthal | Shire of Rosenthal | The Shire of Rosenthal was a local government area south and west of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Rosenthal Heights, a Warwick suburb, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1886 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with City of Warwick, Shire of Allora and Shire of Glengallan to form the Shire of Warwick.
History
The Inglewood Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 1378.
Following a petition by residents, the Rosenthal Division was created on 18 April 1889 under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 from Subdivision No. 1 of Inglewood Division.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Rosenthal Division became the Shire of Rosenthal on 31 March 1903. Its offices were located at Willi Street, Rosenthal Heights.
On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the Shire of Rosenthal was merged with the Shires of Allora and Glengallan and the City of Warwick to form a new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Rosenthal was abolished.
Towns and localities
The Shire of Rosenthal included the following settlements:
Rosenthal Heights
Allan
Cunningham
Dalveen
Greymare
Karara
Leslie
Leyburn
Palgrave
Pratten
Rosehill
Thane
Wheatvale
Chairmen
1927: J. A. Costello
1959: J. A. Costello
Population
References
External links
Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994
Former local government areas of Queensland
1886 establishments in Australia
1994 disestablishments in Australia |
23577549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor%20Mercury | Sailor Mercury | is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is the alternate identity of , a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar System from evil.
Sailor Mercury is the first Sailor Guardian to be discovered by Sailor Moon. She serves as the "brains" of the group, as she is highly intelligent and can also use a supercomputer to collect useful information in battles. She possesses powers associated with water and ice.
Aside from the main body of the Sailor Moon series, Ami features in her own short story in the manga, Ami's First Love. Originally published in volume fourteen of the manga, this was the only of three "Exam Battle" stories to be made into a special for the anime which makes her one of the most recognizable and popular characters in the series. A number of image songs mentioning Ami's character have been released as well, including the contents of three different 3-inch CD singles.
Profile
Ami's most emphasized character trait is that she is extremely intelligent—in the anime and manga she is rumored by other characters to have an IQ of three hundred, while in the stage musicals this is stated as a fact. She is adept at English in both the musicals and the anime, and in the live action it was clearly, although briefly, demonstrated by the actress portraying her (actress Chisaki Hama was speaking to an English speaking character as her character was visiting the United States as a medical intern). Her peers view her with a mixture of awe and distaste, misinterpreting her inherent shyness as snobbery, and so she tends to have a difficult time making new friends. Ami is depicted as kind, sweet, gentle, and loyal, as well as slightly insecure. She also dislikes the fights of Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. Anne Allison describes her as "a smart girl who needs to relax", calling her "conscientious" and "studious", "everything Usagi is not". Early on in the story, she relies heavily on the approval of her mother, teachers, and friends, but as the series progresses she becomes stronger and more confident in herself. She is generally the most sensible of the main characters, and is often the only one embarrassed when the group has a dull-witted moment. As the story begins, she attends Azabu Jūban Junior High along with Usagi Tsukino and, later, Makoto Kino.
Throughout the series, much of Ami's free time is spent studying. She loves to read, and dreams aloud of one day being a doctor like her mother and becomes one in both Parallel Sailor Moon and the live action series. In the musicals, Ami's dream of being a doctor and leaving Japan to study abroad is a recurring theme. The first part of the song shows Ami's conflict between studying abroad and growing up or being with everyone else and staying a young girl. She faces a similar dilemma in the anime, but very directly; given the opportunity to study in Germany, she gets as far as the airport before deciding to stay in Japan and fight evil alongside her friends.
Ami has a great appreciation for art as well as science, and, contrary to the usual depiction of a bookworm, enjoys pop culture and romance novels (though she is usually embarrassed to admit it). In both the anime and the manga, Ami's diligence in her studies becomes a running gag; she often comically scolds Usagi and the others for not doing their homework, and she can become obsessive about being the best student. Her character has been interpreted as a political commentary on the education system of Japan. She sometimes displays attraction to boys her age, and other times aversion to the idea. Love letters are listed as the one thing she has most trouble with, and when she later receives one, it gives her a rash. In the anime, a classmate named Ryo Urawa learns her identity and expresses attraction to her, but this is never resolved, as he disappears after just two appearances in the first series.
Besides reading, Ami is shown playing chess and swimming in order to relax. As the team scholar, computers are listed her strong point; she even belongs to the club at school. She loves all her classes, especially mathematics. Her favorite foods are given as sandwiches and anmitsu, with her least favorite being yellowtail. Other loves include cats, the colors aquamarine and blue, the flower Water Lily, and the gemstone sapphire.
Ami is one of the few girls in the series whose family situation is explicitly mentioned in the anime. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, a busy doctor who is not home very often, named Saeko in the live-action series. They look very similar, and Ami admires her mother and longs to live up to her example. Besides her workaholic tendencies, Dr. Mizuno is portrayed as a good person who openly resents not having more time to spend with her daughter. Ami's father is never named, but is stated in the manga and anime to be a painter. The manga says that he never visits them, having decided one day not to come home from the forest where he was relaxing and painting, but he sends her postcards on her birthday. Thinking about this, Ami sometimes resents her parents' selfishness in separating, partly because divorce in Japan is taboo. However, in the anime Ami seems to appreciate her father and seems to share some of his artistic traits, at one point even composing matching lyrics for a tune that had none. In the manga, Ami's mother is revealed to be fairly rich, as they live in a condominium. Ami is shown testing the strength of a sword that the Sailor Soldiers received on the Moon by using it to chip a diamond ring. (Classically, a diamond is the hardest mineral.) When the girls panic, she calms them by saying that her mother has many more.
In the live-action series, Ami is especially shy and usually wears glasses while in public, even though she does not need them. At her middle school, she has no friends before meeting Usagi and always eats lunch alone on the roof so she can study. Usagi seems to be the only one to realize that Ami is merely shy, not truly standoffish, and in befriending her gradually helps Ami to learn that she is more than just a bookworm. By Act 34, when Ami's mother attempts to transfer her to another school because she thinks Ami's friends are bad influences, Ami rebels, avoiding the admission interview and spending the night at the Sailor Guardians' hideout with Rei Hino. Later she tells her mother that what she's doing in her life right now is more important than studying, and her mother understands.
Ami is a kind and gentle girl who dislikes quarrels and abhors harming innocent people. These traits are even cited in the title of an anime episode, "Believe in Love! Ami, a Kind-Hearted Soldier", where she persuaded Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune not to kill Hotaru. Like her comrades, her loyalty to Sailor Moon is unwavering, and she would sacrifice her life for her princess if necessary.
Aspects and forms
As a character with different incarnations, special abilities, powers, transformations, and ageless extended longevity; an extremely long lifetime virtually spanned between the Silver Millennium era and the 30th century, Ami gains multiple aspects and aliases as the series progresses.
Sailor Mercury
Ami's Sailor Soldier identity is Sailor Mercury. She wears a uniform colored in shades of blue. In the manga and live-action series, her outfit is initially sleeveless and she has three blue studs in each of her ears. Her Sailor Moon Crystal design is largely faithful to her manga design, with the exception of having one blue stud on her right ear, and three on the left. In contrast, the original anime initially depicted her with sleeves and a single blue stud in each ear. Sailor Mercury is given specific titles throughout the various series, including Soldier of Water and Wisdom, Soldier of Intelligence, Soldier of Justice and Wisdom, and Soldier of Love and Exams. Her personality is no different from when she is a civilian, although certain special abilities are unavailable to her in that form.
In Japanese, the name for the planet Mercury is , the first kanji meaning "water" and the second indicating a celestial object. Although the Roman planet-name is used, Sailor Mercury's abilities are water-based due to this aspect of Japanese mythology. Initially most of her powers are strategic rather than offensive, and she possesses various pieces of computerized equipment to help her study the enemy.
As she grows much stronger and more powerful, Sailor Mercury gains additional powers, and at key points her uniform changes to reflect this. The first change takes place in Act 35 of the manga, when she obtains the Mercury Crystal and her outfit becomes similar to that of Super Sailor Moon. She is not given a new title. A similar event is divided between episodes 143 and 151 of the anime, and she is given the name Super Sailor Mercury. A third form appears in Act 42 of the manga, unnamed but analogous to Eternal Sailor Moon (sans wings). In the official visual book for Sailor Moon Eternal, this form was named "Eternal Sailor Mercury".
Dark Mercury
In the live action series, Ami is briefly taken over by the power of the Dark Kingdom and becomes . This form first appears in Act 21, as a servant of Kunzite. Her sailor suit has black tulle and lace on the back bow and sleeves, and tribal designs appear on her tiara and boots. She also gains a chain with a black charm on it around her waist. Her transformation phrase is Dark Power! Make-up! and is said in a much darker tone. She wields a sword fashioned from an icicle, which she creates herself the first time her transformation is displayed. In promotional photos prior to her premiere, she was shown with a different sword, which seemed to have strings on it like a harp or violin; the latter seems more likely, as she is also seen holding a bow. This bow was redecorated and given to Zoisite for use as a sword.
Dark Mercury is created when Kunzite manages to kidnap Ami in a moment of vulnerability while the other Sailor Guardians are busy. He exposes her directly to the power of Queen Metaria, causing drastic personality changes as well as the alterations to her uniform. She is self-confident to the point of egotism, and continues to attend school in civilian form, mainly to antagonize Usagi by brainwashing all of her former friends. Dressing predominantly in black, evil-Ami tends to move about slowly and dramatically, and when confronting the Sailor Guardians gives a sense of sadistic glee.
Dark Mercury has no intention of being a follower to anyone, and is always trying to pursue her own agenda, which is to kill her friends and become as strong as possible. She shows blatant disrespect to Kunzite and the other Kings of Heaven, even to Queen Beryl, perhaps because, unlike even the Four Kings of Heaven, she had been directly exposed to Metaria's power during her conversion, as opposed to having Queen Beryl or another intermediary filtering it.
Despite these alterations, certain aspects of the real Ami still remain. She still wants to do well in school, and wants friends, hence the brainwashing of her classmates. She seems to retain a sense of sympathy, which is evident when she repairs Nephrite's cape for him, stating that she does not like to see him alone.
Periodically, Sailor Moon attempts to heal her friend with the power of the Silver Crystal. Mercury is always snatched away before this can be completed, but it has some effect, ultimately resulting in her recovery. In Act 28, the catalyst for her finally returning to normal is when, having defeated Sailor Moon in battle, the sight of her injured friend causes her to realize she cares about Usagi, and to remember who she really is. After being healed, she has no memories of what happened while she was Dark Mercury. This haunts her, as she becomes terrified of what she may have done to her friends while not in control.
Princess Mercury
According to the manga, during the age of Silver Millennium, Sailor Mercury was also the Princess of her home planet. She was among those given the duty of protecting Princess Serenity of Silver Millennium. As Princess Mercury, she dwelt in Mariner Castle and wore a light blue gown—she appears in this form in the original manga and in supplementary art. Naoko Takeuchi once drew her in the arms of Zoisite, but no further romantic link between them was established in the manga or the first anime adaptation. However, in Sailor Moon Crystal, it is clearly stated that Sailor Mercury and Zoisite were in love during the Silver Millennium.<ref>Sailor Moon Crystal act #12 "Enemy –Queen Metalia"</ref> This is also established in the first stage musical, and in the later Eien Densetsu, where Ami and a disguised Zoisite share a duet, .
Special powers and items
In the manga, Ami can dowse without any aids. Otherwise, she is not shown using any special powers in her civilian form, and may not be able to. She must first transform into a Sailor Guardian by raising a special device (pen, bracelet, wand, or crystal) into the air and shouting a special phrase, originally "Mercury Power, Make-up!" As she becomes more powerful and obtains new transformation devices, this phrase changes to evoke Mercury Star, Planet, or Crystal Power. In both anime, Sailor Mercury's transformation sequence evolves slightly over time, whether to update the background images or to accommodate changes to her uniform or a new transformation device, but all of them involve a stream of water which she whirls around her body as she spins, forming her outfit with a ripple-like effect.
Sailor Mercury has the power to create and manipulate water. For the entire first story arc, she uses her water-manipulating capabilities only to create solid and dense clouds of mist and fog, chilling and blinding the enemy while her allies prepare more direct attacks. In the manga she usually does this without speaking, while in the anime it is given the name Shabon Spray. In the updated renewal manga, this power is renamed Mercury Aqua Mist to match the live-action series and the second anime series, in which she has an offensive beam attack by that name, capable of destroying weaker enemies. She uses a total of five attacks in this series, most of which are variations on the first.
Sailor Mercury's first major offensive attack is Shine Aqua Illusion, introduced in the second story arc, which can be used as a projectile, to freeze the enemy in solid ice, or to create a defensive barrier out of solid ice. Aside from variations on her other powers (mostly improving their strength with the addition of "Freezing" or "Snow"), her next named attack is Mercury Aqua Mirage, used during the third arc of the manga and again in the special side-story "Ami's First Love" (manga and anime) and she also uses this attack in second anime series. Her final and greatest strength and power comes in the fourth story arc, when she takes on her second Sailor Soldier form (Super Sailor Mercury in the anime). At this stage she acquires a special weapon, the Mercury Rod, and with it Mercury Aqua Rhapsody, which is her primary attack for the duration of the story. In the anime, Mercury gains the rod deep within her subconscious. The manga took a different approach with the Mercury Rod making it more of an item rather than a rod formed due to the attack. Furthermore, Sailor Mercury gained the rod through her power guardian. In the manga the Mercury Rod, as well as the other Sailor Soldiers' weapons have their own "wills" and can even speak and give input.
In addition to her own powers, Sailor Mercury has more non-magical items than any other Sailor Soldier. Early on in the series she makes frequent use of an extremely powerful "Micro-miniature Super Computer" that enables her to make special calculations, scan her surroundings, track the movements of allies as well as foes, and determine her enemies' weak points. The computer works in sync with her Mercury Goggles, which analyzes the area around her and displays information in front of her eyes and on the Computer. The visor may be a hologram of some sort; it materializes across her face when she touches her earring. The manga sometimes shows her wearing a small microphone connected to her earring, which she uses to communicate with Luna at the Sailor Guardians' hideout during the manga's first arc. All of these devices gradually fall out of use as the series progresses. She is one of two Sailor Guardians to use it for a named attack (Mercury Aqua Storm), and later can transform it into a sword. She also creates swords out of water, both as Sailor Mercury and as Dark Mercury.
In the manga, the Mercury Crystal and Mercury Rod are among her most significant magical possessions. The former is her Sailor Crystal and the source of all of her power, which becomes especially important in the fifth story arc.
Development
Ami was not included in the original proposal for a hypothetical Codename: Sailor V anime, which instead featured Minako's very similar-looking best friend from that series, Hikaru Sorano. She was present, however, by the time the concept was expanded to center on Sailor Moon.
Creator Naoko Takeuchi designed Ami as the "team brain", giving her genius-level intelligence to create the impression that she was not quite human—in fact, the character was originally intended to be a cyborg with an accelerator. One possible storyline involved her losing an arm or being injured in some other way and dying from it, but Takeuchi's editor objected, so Ami became a fully human character.
Sailor Mercury's original costume design, like the others', was fully unique. It featured full-length sleeves, pink ribbons, shoulder guards, green accents, buttons on the stomach, and high-tech goggles. Later, Takeuchi was surprised by these sketches and stated that she did not remember drawing them. She also describes Ami as looking like Noriko Sakai, a J-pop idol of the early 1990s, and in Ami's original debut, Usagi thinks to herself that Ami resembles Miss Rain, a character from another Takeuchi series. This reference was removed in the 2003 renewal manga.
The kanji in Ami's last name translate as and ; and her first name translates as and . It is structured as a pun, as the syllable "no" indicates a possessive, so that her name can also be understood as "Beauty of Water." It is frequently mistranslated as "Friend of Water" because of the French word ami, which is included in some Japanese dictionaries.
Actresses
In the original anime production of Sailor Moon, Ami was voiced by veteran voice actress Aya Hisakawa. After the show's conclusion, Hisakawa wrote in an artbook that she was "raised by" the character of Ami, and was "really, greatly happy" to have met her.
In the Sailor Moon Crystal anime, Ami is voiced by Hisako Kanemoto.
In the DIC/Cloverway English adaptation, Ami's name is changed to "Amy". Her voice was provided first by Karen Bernstein, for the original and R series and the movies, and later by Liza Balkan for the S and SuperS series. In the Viz Media English dub Ami's voice is supplied by Kate Higgins.
Ami has been portrayed by 11 actresses in the stage musicals: Ayako Morino, Yukiko Miyagawa, Hisano Akamine, Mariya Izawa, Chieko Kawabe, Manami Wakayama, Miyabi Matsura, Momoyo Koyama, Yume Takeuchi, Riria Itou, Miria Watanabe, Cocona, Umino Kawamura and Momoko Kaechi.
In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, she is played by Rika Izumi. Child actress Kanki Matsumoto portrays Ami in flashback sequences and childhood photographs.
Reception and influence
The official Sailor Moon character popularity polls listed Ami Mizuno and Sailor Mercury as separate entities. In 1992, readers ranked them at seventh and fourth respectively, out of thirty eight choices. One year later, now with fifty choices, Ami was the eighth most popular while Mercury was ninth. In 1994, with fifty one choices, Ami was the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was sixteenth. In early 1996, with fifty one choices, Ami was again the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was the nineteenth. Ami was the most popular female character in Animage's May 1993 poll, and an episode featuring her, "Love for Ami?! A Boy Who Can Predict the Future", was the eleventh favorite episode. The following year she came second behind Belldandy, and in 1995 she came fifth. In 1995, an episode featuring Ami, "The Labyrinth of Water! Ami the Targeted", was the ninth favorite episode. In 1996, after the debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, she came sixteenth, and in 1997 she came twentieth.
A five-book series was published, one book on each of the Sailor Soldiers and Sailor Moon. Ami's was released in 1996. This book was later translated into English by Mixx. The episode where Sailor Mercury gained her powers was novelised by Mixx.
She was popular with the male audience of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon'' due to her computer use and skills.
See also
Mercury in fiction
Mercury (mythology)
Elsa (Frozen)
Enki
References
Comics characters introduced in 1992
Mercury
Fiction set on Mercury (planet)
Fictional characters with ice or cold abilities
Fictional characters with water abilities
Mercury
Teenage characters in anime and manga |
17338452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltham%20Town%20Lock | Waltham Town Lock | Waltham Town Lock (No 11) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation at Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. The lock is located in the River Lee Country Park which is part of the Lee Valley Park. The adjoining Showground site now known as the Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre has been chosen to host the canoeing event in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Flowing close to the lock is the River Lee Flood Relief Channel known as the Horsemill Stream at this point.
Public access
Vehicular access from A121 Station road to car parking close to lock.
Pedestrian and cycle access via the towpath which forms part of the Lea Valley Walk
Public transport
Waltham Cross railway station
Bus services; 211, 212, 213, 240, 250, 251, 506.
References
External links
Waltham Town Lock - a history
Locks in Hertfordshire
Locks in Essex
Locks of the Lee Navigation
Waltham Cross |
17338471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20of%20the%20Devil | Art of the Devil | Art of the Devil ( or Khon len khong) is a 2004 Thai horror film directed by Tanit Jitnukul. It has two titular sequels, Art of the Devil 2 (2005) and Art of the Devil 3 (2008), but these films feature a different story with new characters.
Plot
Art of the Devil tells the story of Boom (Supaksorn Chaimongkol), a young Thai girl who meets a married man named Prathan (Tin Settachoke) at a country club. The two soon begin an affair, and Boom finds herself pregnant. When she breaks the news to Prathan, he appears to settle for giving her a sum of money in exchange for her silence, reassuring her that he will not leave her. However, he then wakes her up in the middle of the night, informing her that for that large an amount of money, he had the right to share her. While Prathan wields a video camera, his friends chase a terrified and screaming Boom out of the room and onto the beach, where they apparently gang-rape her.
After getting an ultrasound at the hospital, Boom shows up at the restaurant where Prathan's daughter is celebrating her birthday and informs him that the sum of money he had given her was not enough. He pulls her outside and hits her, tossing a wad of cash at her and warning her not to come near his family again.
Furious, Boom enlists the aid of a black magic user to exact revenge on her ex-lover and his entire family, notably causing the eldest son to shoot his girlfriend and his little sister before turning the gun on himself.
After their deaths, Boom visits a temple and finds that if she donates coffins for the spirits, they will not bother her. She makes some offerings. While leaving the temple, she sees the ghosts of her victims in the back of a car and steps off of the sidewalk to get a better look, whereupon she is hit by a car. The resulting accident causes her to lose her baby.
Prathan's first wife inherits his fortune. She and her four children move into the house. Boom again uses black magic to kill this new family off. However, her motive this time is not for revenge, but in order to claim the inheritance. A young newspaper reporter becomes suspicious, so Boom arranges for his death, as well. Throughout this, the ghost of Boom's dead daughter is seen around the house.
The story ends with only the youngest son and eldest daughter surviving the massacre. Boom voluntarily falls to her death from the roof of the hospital after seeing her daughter's ghost.
Cast
Arisa Wills as Nan
Supakson Chaimongkol as Boom
Krongthong Rachatawan as Kamala
Tin Settachoke as Prathan
Somchai Satuthum as Danai
Isara Ochakul as Ruj
Nirut Sutchart as Neng
Krittayod Thimnate as Bon
Reception
Art of the Devil premiered on June 17, 2004, and was the No. 4 film its opening weekend, behind Around the World in 80 Days, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and The Punisher. It stayed in the No. 4 spot for two more weeks before moving to No. 5 in its fourth week at the box office.
See also
List of ghost films
References
External links
2004 films
2004 horror films
Five Star Production films
Thai films
Thai-language films
Thai horror films
Thai ghost films
Films about witchcraft
Thai supernatural horror films |
23577557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rous%20River | Rous River | Rous River, a perennial river of the Tweed River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rous River rises below Mount Hobwee on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, near Numinbah on the New South Wales-Queensland border, and flows generally east by south, and then east, joined by four minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Tweed River at Tumbulgum, northeast of Murwillumbah. The river descends over its course.
In its upper reaches, Rous River is fed by a minor tributary, Hopkins Creek, on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, south of Mount Merino; and downriver of Numinbah near the small villages of Chillingham, Jacksons Creek enters the river. In its lower reaches, Rous River is fed by two minor tributaries, Nobbys Creek and Crystal Creek that emerge from the Numinbah Nature Reserve, south of Springbrook.
Adjustments to the natural flow of the river
In January 2006, partially treated sewerage entered the river from emergency tanks and ponds after storage at the Murwillumbah treatment plant, which had been off-line due to damage, was filled beyond capacity. Biological testing indicated the river water was hazardous which led to a temporary swimming ban.
In 2007, the federal government proposed damming the Rous River, Oxley River and Byrrill Creek. Local opposition to the plan was formed via the Save the Caldera Rivers Campaign, in an effort to stop the proposed dams from being built.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers
Tweed Shire |
17338476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Valdez | Sergio Valdez | Sergio Valdez (born September 7, 1964 in Elias Piña, Dominican Republic) is a former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through with the Montreal Expos (1986, 1992–93), the Atlanta Braves (1989–90), the Cleveland Indians (1991–92), the Boston Red Sox (1994), and San Francisco Giants (1995).
Career
On September 10, 1986, Valdez made his major league debut against the New York Mets giving up five earned runs and nine hits through six innings to record his first major league loss. In 1986, he started five games and lost four of them.
He returned to the majors after leaving in 1989 as a reliever, starting just one in 19 appearances, and earning a 6.06 ERA with a 1-2 record.
He was selected off waivers from the Braves by the Indians on April 30, 1990. The Indians used him as a starter and reliever (13 of 24 appearances with the Indians were starts) and overall that year he went 6-6 with a 4.85 ERA.
He had his best year in 1992, when he went 0-2 with a 2.41 ERA. His WHIP was a microscopic 0.991. However, in 1993 he only pitched three innings.
The Giants used Valdez as a starter once again, despite his having been used as a reliever throughout most of his career. He went 4-5 with a 4.75 ERA.
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Atlanta Braves players
Boston Red Sox players
Calgary Expos players
Cleveland Indians players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Canada
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
Indianapolis Indians players
Jamestown Expos players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Montreal Expos players
Ottawa Lynx players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
People from Elías Piña Province
Phoenix Firebirds players
San Francisco Giants players
Sarasota Red Sox players
Utica Blue Sox players
West Palm Beach Expos players |
17338512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Cristina%20G%C3%B3mez | María Cristina Gómez | María Cristina Gómez (5 May 1942–5 April 1989) was a Baptist primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador who was abducted and murdered on 5 April 1989.
Christian Mission
A member of Emmanuel Baptist church in San Salvador, Gómez was a national leader both of Baptist women and in the teachers' union. She was a founder of the National Coordination of Salvadoran Women (CONAMUS), an organization of women founded in 1986. Since then, CONAMUS has addressed the issues which directly affect poor women in El Salvador, including domestic violence and rape, economic survival, lack of political participation, and social inequality. In 1989 CONAMUS opened a clinic to respond to women who were victims of domestic violence and rape. In her spare time Gómez went out into the local villages and taught the peasant women how to read. She did this so that they in turn could teach their children how to read but also so that they could read health and farming leaflets in order to improve the quality of their lives. However, some in authority became concerned that the previously illiterate peasants would now be able to read about their rights, and would begin to demand them. She was found dead on the side of the road after being abducted.
Abduction and murder
According to witnesses, on April 5, 1989 as Gómez was returning from the John F. Kennedy School in Ilopango, El Salvador, heavily armed men dressed in civilian clothing forced her into a van. Two hours later she was found dead on the side of a main road. On examination, her body showed signs of torture and burns, most likely caused by chemicals such as acid; she had been beaten in the face, and acid marks on her shoulders were found. There were four bullets in her indicating that she had been shot.
The murdered teacher had been taken from an area that was the operational base for the Salvadoran Air Force. General Juan Rafael Bustillo, the then-head of the Salvadoran Air Force, has been implicated in the murder. The National Association of Salvadoran Educators (ANDES) has stated that General Bustillo had publicly threatened Gómez on previous occasions.
ANDES ordered a two-day shutdown of all educational activities to protest Gómez's murder and demanded that the country's chief prosecutor begin proceedings to bring those responsible to justice. Leaders of the National Union of Salvadorean Workers (UNTS) also said they believed Bustillo had ordered the killing.
An organisation known as the Movement for Bread, Work, Land and Liberty (MPTL) staged a protest, calling on the people to resist the new nationwide wave of repression that marked the weeks following the Nationalist Republican Alliance's (ARENA) electoral victory. The protesters ended their march at the vigil that was held for the murdered schoolteacher.
In its defense, the Salvadoran government denied any involvement, stating instead that the apparent intent behind Gómez's abduction and murder was primarily to discredit the Air Force (which is in charge of the area in which the murder occurred). Government officials added that Gómez had never been officially arrested by any government agency, and that she had never even been questioned by the authorities.
Legacy
After her death, her church commissioned a local artist to paint a wooden cross with scenes from Gómez's life, portraying her work among the poor women of El Salvador. Images of this cross have become internationally recognized, as they are used by churches and schools around the world to tell the story of Gómez's life and death.
Gómez was married to Salvador Amaya and had four grown children.
References
External links
Gómez on the Official Voice of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front from El Salvador
Gómez on The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions website
Gómez in the New York Times.
Gómez on the School of the Americas website
Gómez on the EPICA website
Gómez in Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible.
International Socialist Review Issue 9, Fall 1999
1942 births
1989 deaths
Assassinated Salvadoran people
Assassinated activists
Salvadoran Baptists
People murdered in El Salvador
People of the Salvadoran Civil War
Deaths by firearm in El Salvador
Women in war in Central America
Women in warfare post-1945
1989 crimes in El Salvador
1989 murders in North America
1980s murders in El Salvador
20th-century Baptists |
23577559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowleys%20River | Rowleys River | Rowleys River, a perennial river of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rowleys River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, southeast of Yarrowitch, and flows generally south southeast, joined by two tributaries including the Cells River, before reaching its confluence with the Nowendoc River, southeast of Nowendoc. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands
Mid North Coast
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Walcha Shire |
17338531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5l%20Grotnes | Pål Grotnes | Pål Grotnes (born 7 March 1977 in Lørenskog, Norway) is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player, who plays for Stjernen and Norway's national team as a goaltender.
Playing career
Grotnes was born in Norway and raised in Sweden, where his mother was from. He began playing hockey at the age of four as his brother, two years older than Grotnes, wanted to play.
Prior to the 2008–09 season he signed with Stjernen in the Norwegian GET-league, after having played two seasons with Comet. In 2008 he backstopped Comet to the semifinals for the first time in franchise history. Since then he has played two seasons for the Stjernen Hockey team, which he led to the quarter-finals in 2009-10. Stjernan was defeated by Sparta.
International career
2006
Grotnes is the starting goaltender for Norway in the 2006 IIHF World Championship. He played in a 3-1 loss to the United States and part of a 7-1 loss to Canada, being pulled in favor of Mathias Gundersen. Norway finished 3rd in Group D.
2007
Grotnes is the starting goaltender for Norway in the 2007 IIHF World Championship. He went 2-4-0 in 6 games in net, posting a GAA of 3.51 and a save percentage of 0.886.
2008
Grotnes played 7 games for Norway in the 2008 IIHF World Championship. He posted a Goals Against Average of 4.51 and a save percentage of 0.877 while going 1-6-0 in the tournament.
2009
Grotnes played in the 2009 IIHF World Championship. He had a stellar tournament posting a save percentage of 0.906 and a GAA of 3.97 after playing in 6 games for Norway. In games he started he went 1-4-0.
2010
Grotnes was the starting goaltender for Norway in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. He surrendered 4 goals in his first game against Canada before leaving the game with an injury. He returned in his next game against the United States, allowing 6 goals. In his third game of round robin play, Grotnes allowed 4 goals (many of which were rebounds or tap ins) and lost 5-4 to Switzerland in overtime. Grotnes received critical acclaim for his outstanding play. Grotnes was also named starting goaltender for Norway at the 2010 IIHF World Championship in Germany. Grotnes made 39 saves in a 5-2 loss to Sweden, and stopped 44 in Norway's shocking 3-2 upset against the Czech Republic. In Norway's final game of the round robin Grotnes made 26 stops on 27 shots in a 5-1 win over France to send Norway past the Preliminary Round. In the tournament's qualifying round, Grotnes did not play in a 12-1 loss to Canada and was replaced by Ruban Smith as starting goaltender. He did play in Norway's next game against Latvia, and recording 24 saves in a 5-0 loss. Grotnes has one of his best performances of the tournament in Norway's final game against Switzerland. He stopped 43 shots en route to a 3-2 victory. Grotnes finished the tournament with a record of 3-2-0, a GAA of 3.00 and a save percentage of .921 to cap off an impressive tournament.
2011
Grotnes was named to the 2011 IIHF World Championship rosters for Norway as one of the goaltenders. Before the game against Canada, Grotnes has not played a game.
References
External links
1977 births
Frölunda HC players
Norwegian ice hockey goaltenders
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
IK Comet players
Living people
Norwegian expatriate ice hockey people
Norwegian people of Swedish descent
Olympic ice hockey players of Norway
People from Lørenskog
Stjernen Hockey players
Sportspeople from Viken (county) |
23577561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20River | Rufus River | Rufus River, a watercourse of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in south western New South Wales, Australia.
The river leaves Lake Victoria, flowing generally west and then south-west, before reaching its confluence with the Murray River, at Lock 7, near Rufus.
Rufus River was visited by European explorer, Charles Sturt, in 1830, and named after his red-haired (or rufus) travelling companion, George Macleay.
A number of conflicts between European and Aboriginal people in 1841 led to the Rufus River massacre.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Map of Rufus River – Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
Rivers in the Riverina |
17338532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junda%20Iman%20Gunda | Junda Iman Gunda | Junda Iman Gunda is a 2007 Assamese language romantic comedy film starring Bikram Rajkhowa and Angoorlata in the lead. The film was directed by Chandra Mudoi and released on 7 September 2007. The songs from this movie received good appreciation, including one by Debojit Saha.
Cast
Bikram Rajkhowa
Angoorlata
Abdul Mazid
Bhaskar Das
Chabi Bhoralee
Juri Sarma
Kalpana Kalita
Upasana Bhoralee
Soundtrack
The music of Junda Iman Gunda is composed by Dr Hitesh Baruah.
Note
Track 8, 9 and 10 are Bonus Track and was not featured in the film.
See also
List of Assamese films of the 2000s
References
External links
2007 films
2007 romantic comedy films
Indian films
Films set in Assam
Indian romantic comedy films
2000s Assamese-language films |
23577563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20Libyan%20Premier%20League | 2001–02 Libyan Premier League | The 2001–02 Libyan Premier League was the 34th edition of the competition, since its inception in 1963. The league was made up of 16 teams, with the first round of matches being played on September 7, 2001, and the last round of matches being played on May 16, 2002.
Ittihad won the championship, on goal difference from Nasr, for their first league title since 1991 and their 9th overall.
Four teams were relegated this season, including two-time champions Mahalla, as the league was reduced from 16 teams to 14 teams. Sawa'ed managed to retain their top flight status by defeating Akhdar 7–3, while rivals Sweahly lost 1–5 to Ittihad, ensuring the Benghazi club stayed up on goal difference.
However, due to suspicions that the Sawa'ed – Akhdar game was thrown, the LFF decided to relegate Sawa'ed and keep Sweahly up.
League standings
Top scorers
Al-Saadi Gaddafi (Ittihad) - 19 goals
Abdulrazaaq Jlidi - 18 goals
Ali al Milyaan - 15 goals
References
Libya - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
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Libyan Premier League |
23577570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20strictum | Ius strictum | Ius strictum means "strict law", or law interpreted without any modification and in its utmost rigor. It is a very rare term in the materials of classical Roman law. It is really a Byzantine term, occurring in Justinian’s Institutes in reference to the strict actions of the law, primarily describing the rigid limitations of the forms of action available under the law, particularly with older laws. It is often used by later commentators to distinguish it from the moderating influence of the praetors, or judges who expanded the law through actions ex fida bona, or what we would now call equity.
See also
Ius
Ius scriptum
Letter and spirit of the law
Pardon
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
6906042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%203%3A%20The%20Redemption | Terminator 3: The Redemption | Terminator 3: The Redemption is an action-adventure video game based on the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. It was developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Atari, Inc. in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. Terminator 3: The Redemption received "mixed or average" reviews according to Metacritic. It was praised for its graphics and was considered an improvement over an earlier game (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines); however, the gameplay was criticized as linear, repetitive and difficult.
Gameplay
Terminator 3: The Redemption features several gameplay styles presented from a third-person perspective across 14 levels, which are partially based on the film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, while expanding the film's backstory. The player takes the role of a T-850 Terminator. Several levels are played on foot as the player fights against other Terminators. The player can use various guns against enemies, and can also engage them in hand-to-hand combat. The player can also use detached road signs as weapons. In addition, the player can utilize the T-850's red-colored scan mode, during which it can deal increased damage to enemies. Points, known as "Terabytes", are spread throughout the game and can be collected to upgrade the scan mode.
In addition, the game features driving levels which include a variety of different vehicles, including a hearse, a pickup truck, and a police car. Also featured are rail shooter levels in which the player is in a travelling vehicle and must shoot oncoming Terminator enemies. As in the film, the T-X is the primary enemy encountered throughout the game. A two-player co-op mode is included as a rail shooter game in which the players must defend against oncoming Terminators.
Plot
The story starts in the year 2032 with a squad of Tech-Com soldiers storming a Skynet facility in order to stop a T-X from entering a time displacement machine. However, they are no match for the T-X's superior capabilities and all are gruesomely killed.
Meanwhile, Katherine Brewster and the Human Resistance ambush the T-850 that was responsible for the death of John Connor. A Tech-Com technician reprograms the cyborg to be sent back to July 23, 2003 to protect Kate and John's earlier selves. The T-850, with the assistance of several Tech-Com soldiers manages to fight its way to the main gate of the Skynet bunker and it enters the time displacement machine.
In the past, the T-850 rescues John and Kate from the T-X, and informs them that Judgment Day is to begin within the next few hours. It plans to acquire a plane from a nearby military base, and fly the pair to Crystal Peak, a bunker that will ensure their survival during the nuclear blasts. As they arrive at the base, the T-X reappears, and hits the T-850 into a prototype time machine; it is sent back into the future, arriving in a new, alternate future where Skynet has triumphed.
The Terminator once again fights its way through Skynet and sends itself back to 2003. It appears just in time to fight off the T-X while John and Kate escape to Crystal Peak. At the bunker, the T-850 prevents the T-X from reaching John and Kate by blocking its route to them. The T-850 places its damaged fuel cell into the T-X's mouth, resulting in a large explosion that seemingly destroys both Terminators.
Following Judgment Day, John removes the CPU from the heavily damaged T-850's metal skull, deactivating it. The story then shifts further into the war, where John is leading the Resistance. He uses the CPU to reactivate the Terminator, who is revealed to have been rebuilt as an extensively modified FK Reaper. The Terminator then stomps out into battle, aiding John Connor once again, as the game closes with the final caption: "The battle has just begun...".
Development and release
Terminator 3: The Redemption was developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Atari. The game was developed simultaneously with the video game Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which was developed by Black Ops. Both development teams took pictures of the film set to aid in development of the games. Black Ops' game was released alongside the DVD release of the film in November 2003, while Paradigm was unable to make the date due to the bigger design of their own game. Atari agreed to give Paradigm more time to work on Terminator 3: The Redemption. Paradigm had previously developed The Terminator: Dawn of Fate (2002), and the same concept team returned to work on The Redemption.
Despite the poor reception of Black Ops' Terminator 3 game, Atari chose to proceed with The Redemption. Atari acquired the rights to use the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kristanna Loken, who portray the Terminators in the film. Scans of the actors were taken in 3D to create their in-game counterparts. Paradigm also worked with C2 Pictures on the game's enemy designs and story elements.
Lead game designer Shawn Wright said that working on a film license provided many advantages such as an existing universe and characters, but also said that a disadvantage is that content needed to be sent out to California to be approved. The game includes footage from the film. Aspects of the game were influenced by Grand Theft Auto III though the development team were careful not to create a GTA clone. Paradigm stated that 50 percent of the gameplay is vehicle-based, 25 percent with rail-shooter action and the final 25 percent is character combat. The fast pace of the game was a conscious decision by the developers of the game. Producer Josh Hackney said, "We didn't want to take the gameplay and player control away from the player for more than five seconds." A feature developed for the game, but removed in the final version was the use of mission timers. The timer required the player to finish certain levels within a set time. Otherwise, they will not progress to the next level. The final game uses timers but they are unnecessary to finish the level. Instead, the player can progress at their own pace. If the mission is completed within the time limit then the player will be rewarded. The targeting system was also changed during development. Schwarzenegger provided some voice acting for the game and the rest was voiced by a soundalike, Mark Mosley.
Development was concluded as of August 2004, and the game was shipped to North American retailers on September 9, 2004, less than 10 months after the previous Terminator 3 game. In Japan, the game was released for PlayStation 2 and GameCube on January 20, 2005.
Reception
Terminator 3: The Redemption received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The game was seen as an improvement over the original Terminator 3 game, and some critics considered the "Redemption" title an appropriate one, with Alex Navarro of GameSpot writing "the name The Redemption seems all too apt when describing this latest Terminator title, because it turns out that this one is actually pretty good."
Jeremy Dunham of IGN considered it the first good game in the series since The Terminator: Future Shock. Louis Bedigian of GameZone favorably compared the game's action to that of the Terminator 2: Judgment Day arcade game. Other reviewers for GameZone concluded that it was the best Terminator game yet. However, critics generally recommended the game as a rental rather than a purchase. GamePro wrote that "although Redemption has its moments, it merits a cautionary rental. Redemption gives some luster back to the Terminator name, but not much." Russ Fischer of GameSpy wrote, "Atari and Paradigm have put together a title that nails the tone of the source, without entirely capturing the appeal."
Praise went to the graphics, including the character models. Game Informer called Schwarzenegger's character "eerily perfect" in appearance. Bennett Ring of The Sydney Morning Herald stated that "The levels are so big and detailed that it's a wonder they don't bring your console to a crashing halt." Some critics believed that the graphics looked best on the Xbox version. The film footage featured in the game received some criticism for its low quality.
The gameplay was criticized as linear and repetitive. Some critics also believed the game lacked replay value. However, praise went to the variety of gameplay styles, which Dunham found to be "surprisingly addictive." Reviewers also criticized the gameplay for its trial-and-error element. The difficulty was criticized as well, including the lack of save points, forcing the player to start a level from the beginning if they lose. Eduardo Zacarias of GameZone wrote, "If there's a game that could have used a checkpoint, this is it." However, Dunham enjoyed the difficulty. Navarro stated that despite the difficulty, the missions "are usually good enough that you will want to keep coming back to try again." Some reviewers were critical of the game's targeting system, although Fischer considered it easy to use.
Critics praised the driving and rail shooter levels, which were generally considered to be the best parts of the game. Mike Reilly of Game Revolution wrote that the on-foot levels "are a bit drab in comparison." GameZone's Natalie Romano wrote "it's the driving parts that keep this from being just a simple shooter". GamePro opined that the film-based levels were not as fun as those created specifically for the game.
The music and sound was praised, although GamePro considered the music to be monotonous. The voiceovers were also generally praised, although Andrew Reiner of Game Informer was critical of Schwarzenegger's "horrifying one-liners", and Navarro was critical of Schwarzenegger's substitute voice actor: "To say that this substitute actor is merely subpar would be something of an understatement. Fortunately, this is really the only blemish on the game's audio." GamePro stated that Schwarzenegger's "one-liners couldn't sound more uninspired", although Romano enjoyed them.
References
External links
2004 video games
Sony Pictures video games
Atari games
Terminator (franchise) video games
GameCube games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games scored by Cris Velasco
Video games set in 2003
Video games set in 2032
Video games set in California
Video games set in Los Angeles
Video games developed in the United States
Xbox games
Action-adventure games
Single-player video games |
17338549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Jackson%20%28Australian%20rules%20footballer%29 | Jim Jackson (Australian rules footballer) | James Jackson (28 April 1890 – 29 August 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League.
Family
The son of Thomas Charles Jackson (1856–1905) and Martha Anne Jackson, nee Cheetham (1861–1933), Jim Jackson was born at Maidstone in the north-west of Melbourne on 28 April 1890.
Football
Jackson was a wingman and had a long career with 17 years between his first and last season.
He started his career at St Kilda in 1909 but after managing just one game crossed to Collingwood the following year. He was unlucky not to play in a premiership team during his time at the Magpies as he was on military service when they won in 1917 and 1919.
He finished his career at Hawthorn, firstly in the VFA and then when the club joined the VFL in 1925 when he was appointed their inaugural VFL captain.
In 1932 Jackson returned to Hawthorn as their non-playing coach but the Hawks finished with just three wins and the wooden spoon.
References
External links
Collingwood FC profile
1890 births
1976 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
St Kilda Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club players
Hawthorn Football Club (VFA) players
Hawthorn Football Club players
Hawthorn Football Club coaches
Australian military personnel of World War I |
23577572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandon%20River | Sandon River | Sandon River, an open mature wave dominated, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sandon River rises of the eastern slopes of the Summervale Range, west of Blue Gum Flat and flows generally northeast before reaching its mouth at the Coral Sea of the South Pacific Ocean below Sandon Bluffs; descending over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
Rivers in Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers |
23577573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20River | Sara River | Sara River, a perennial stream that is part of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the New England and Northern Tablelands districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sara River rises on the southern slopes of Mount Mitchell on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, east of Ben Lomond, and flows generally to the east, joined by three tributaries, including Oban River, before forming its confluence with the Guy Fawkes River to form the Boyd River within Guy Fawkes River National Park and Chaelundi National Park. Sara River descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands |
23577581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20of%20Canada%20Regulations | Defence of Canada Regulations | The Defence of Canada Regulations were a set of emergency measures implemented under the War Measures Act on 3 September 1939, a week before Canada's entry into World War II.
The extreme security measures permitted by the regulations included the waiving of habeas corpus and the right to trial, internment, bans on certain political and cultural groups, restrictions of free speech including the banning of certain publications, and the confiscation of property.
Section 21 of the Regulations allowed the Minister of Justice to detain without charge anyone who might act "in any manner prejudicial to the public safety or the safety of the state."
The Regulations were used to intern opponents of World War II, particularly fascists (like Adrien Arcand) and Communists (including Jacob Penner, Bruce Magnuson and Tom McEwen) as well as opponents of conscription such as Quebec nationalist and Montreal mayor Camillien Houde. It was under the regulations that Japanese Canadians were interned and their property confiscated for the duration of the war. German Canadians were required to register with the state and some German and Italian Canadians were detained. The Regulations were also used to ban the Communist Party of Canada in 1940 as well as several of its allied organizations such as the Young Communist League, the League for Peace and Democracy, the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association, the Finnish Organization of Canada, the Russian Workers and Farmers Clubs, the Polish Peoples Association and the Croatian Cultural Association, the Hungarian Workers Clubs and the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation. Various fascist groups were also banned such as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party and the Canadian Union of Fascists. Non-communist labour leaders like Charles Millard were also interned.
A number of prominent Communist Party members were detained until 1942, the year after the Soviet Union joined the Allies. Fascist leaders such as Adrien Arcand and John Ross Taylor were detained for the duration of the war.
Further reading
References
External links
Human Rights in Canada - Defence of Canada Regulations
They Fought for Labour—Now Interned! (Political pamphlet about interned labour leaders, including an extensive list of names) at Memorial University Library
Canadian federal legislation
Emergency laws
Legal history of Canada
1939 in Canadian law |
23577582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewarts%20River | Stewarts River | Stewarts River, a mostly perennial stream of the Mid North Coast region, is located in New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Stewarts River rises on the northern slopes of Big Nellie within Coorabakh National Park, west of the village of Hannam Vale, and flows generally east by south and then east, joined by the Camden Haven River, before reaching its mouth at Watson Taylors Lake, south of Camden Haven. The river descends over its course.
Stewarts River is transversed by the Pacific Highway north of the village of Johns River, between Coopernook and Kew.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid North Coast
Mid-Coast Council |
17338551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Lutz | Hartmut Lutz | Hartmut Lutz (born April 26, 1945) is professor emeritus and former chair of American and Canadian studies: Anglophone literatures and cultures of North America at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He is the founder of the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, a research centre for Canadian and American literature studies at Greifswald. Beginning in the 1980s, he pioneered the field of Indigenous literary studies by establishing intercultural bridges and trans-Atlantic connections with leading Indigenous authors, scholars, educators, activists and intellectuals from Canada and the United States. He initiated studies on "Indian" stereotyping and coined the term "Indianthusiasm" to describe the fascination Germans have with all things "Indian". Throughout his career, Lutz put in practice the "nothing about us without us" principle set forth by Indigenous people and devoted himself to asking for their thoughts and to collaborating on bringing their words to a wide public in North America and Europe.
Career
Lutz was born in Rendsburg, Germany. Between 1966 and 1969, he earned a general teaching degree (up to 9th grade) and a special teaching diploma in English for high school from the Pädagogische Hochschule Kiel (PHK), a teacher training college, later merged with the University of Kiel. He earned his doctorate in English literature at the University of Tübingen, and subsequently taught English and American literature as well as North American and minority studies at the University of Osnabrück from 1975 to 1994.
Throughout his career, he has held guest professorships in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United States. Namely,
As an American Council of Learned Societies and Fulbright scholar, in 1979-1980, he taught Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, while conducting research for his 1983 habilitation at the University of Osnabrück on Indian stereotyping.
In California, Lutz also taught at Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University.
In 1990-1991, he was a DAAD guest professor at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, in Regina, Saskatchewan. The establishment is now known as the First Nations University of Canada.
In 1987, during his first visit to Canada, Lutz learned of the diary kept by Abraham Ulrikab, a Labrador Inuk who died in Paris while he was touring throughout Europe in one of Carl Hagenbeck's ethnographic exhibition (a human zoo). With his students, Lutz translated and contextualized the diary. In 2003, Lutz received the John G. Diefenbaker Award from the Canada Council for the Arts which brought him to the University of Ottawa's Institute of Canadian Studies for one year. During that period, the University of Ottawa Press showed interest in Lutz's work on Ulrikab's diary. His and his students' work was published in 2005 (The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context). At the time, Lutz had no way of knowing that this publication would be the catalyst to the discovery, in 2011, of Ulrikab's remains in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, France.
In 1989, Lutz was the founding editor of OBEMA (Osnabrück Bilingual Editions of Minority Authors), which published twice a year bilingual editions of works by authors of colour until 1998. He remained editor until 1994.
On April 1, 1994, he assumed a professorship at the University of Greifswald, where he established the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, a research centre of Canadian studies with a particular focus on Canadian Aboriginal literature and other minority literature in Canada. His academic interests also included issues of race, class and gender in North America. Lutz facilitated speaker series, guest professorships and annual international Canadian studies conferences for Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics from Canada throughout the years he taught at Greifswald, and especially from 2009 to 2011, when he was president of the Association for Canadian Studies in the German speaking countries (Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS) in den deutschsprachigen Ländern; GKS) (Austria, Germany, Switzerland).
For the year 2011-2012, he was a professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland.
In 2018, Hartmut Lutz donated over 1000 books by Canadian Indigenous authors and on Indigenous subjects to the Simon Fraser University.
He continues to promote understanding of Indigenous literature through interviews, translations, lectureships and critical essays.
On November 19, 2021, he was inducted as an international fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Awards
Publications
Selection of books authored and/or edited by Harmut Lutz.
References
External links
"'Indianthusiasm': Romanticized ideas about First Nations life offer escapism for Germans". National Post. October 17, 2012.
Living people
University of Greifswald faculty
People from Rendsburg
1945 births |
6906060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Christian%20Miller | T. Christian Miller | T. Christian Miller is an investigative reporter, editor, author, and war correspondent for ProPublica. He has focused on how multinational corporations operate in foreign countries, documenting human rights and environmental abuses. Miller has covered four wars — Kosovo, Colombia, Israel and the West Bank, and Iraq. He also covered the 2000 presidential campaign. He is also known for his work in the field of computer-assisted reporting and was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 2012 to study innovation in journalism. In 2016, Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project. In 2019, he served as a producer of the Netflix limited series Unbelievable, which was based on the prize-winning article. In 2020, Miller shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with other reporters from ProPublica and The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller co-won the 2020 award for his reporting on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.
Career and biography
Miller grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother, Linda Miller, was a member of the local school board who focused on integration issues. His father, Donald H. Miller, was a research biochemist at the Medical University of South Carolina. Miller graduated from Bishop England High School.
Miller began his career in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He majored in English and minored in French while becoming the University Editor of the Daily Californian, an independent campus newspaper. After college, he worked for the St. Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times.
In 1997, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times. While at that paper, he covered local, national and international news, opening the newspaper's first bureau in Bogota, Colombia. Miller was briefly held prisoner by the leftist Colombian guerrilla group known as the FARC, or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, an episode later documented in a short animated news feature. Two of his reporters were later held captive by a second Colombian leftist group, the ELN, or Ejército de Liberación Nacional.
Miller's investigative reporting in Colombia uncovered that a contractor for an American oil company, Occidental Petroleum, had helped to coordinate the bombing of civilians by the Colombian Air Force of a small town in northeastern Colombia which left 17 dead. His coverage of the Santo Domingo bombing led to the U.S. suspending military aid to the Colombian Air Force and to a judgement by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemning the Colombian government.
Miller became a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Washington, D.C. While there, Miller served as the only journalist in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to covering the Iraqi reconstruction. Miller published a book on the subject, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq.
In 2008, Miller was one of the founding employees of ProPublica, an independent, non-profit start-up dedicated to investigative reporting. While at ProPublica, Miller has published investigative projects with various news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, National Public Radio, This American Life, ABC News 20/20 and PBS' Frontline.
Miller is a leading figure in innovation in journalism, especially in transparency, trust and data-driven journalism. He delivered the U.S. Army Creekmore Lecture in 2007, and has taught at the University of Southern California, Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the College of Charleston. He spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow, studying transparency and new models of journalism. Miller has served as treasurer and board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, or the IRE, the nation's largest organization of investigative journalists.
Honors and awards
Miller has won numerous local, national and international awards. In 1999, he won the John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism for his coverage of runaway growth in the Santa Monica Mountains. In 2004, he was awarded the Livingston Award for international reporting, one of the most competitive and prestigious reporting prizes in American journalism, for his coverage of children and war. In 2005, he won an Overseas Press Club award. In 2009, he won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award. In 2010, he won a George Polk award with Daniel Zwerdling of National Public radio for his work covering traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. military. In that same year, he was also given the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting on private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2015, Miller, Marcela Gaviria, and colleagues from ProPublica and Frontline were awarded two News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights award for their work documenting the support given by the Firestone Company to Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president and a convicted war criminal, during that country's civil war. In 2016, Miller, along with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an article on the Washington and Colorado serial rape cases. In 2020, he and several other ProPublica reporters shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with members of The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller had received the award for their report on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.
Selected works
(with Ken Armstrong)
References
Living people
Los Angeles Times people
American reporters and correspondents
1970 births
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American investigative journalists
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
Livingston Award winners for International Reporting
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism faculty |
20478995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20Luge%20World%20Cup | 2008–09 Luge World Cup | The 2008–09 Luge World Cup was a multi race competition over a season for luge. The season started on 29 November 2008 and ended on 21 February 2009. The World Cup was organised by the FIL and sponsored by Viessmann. These cups served as qualifiers for the 2010 Winter Olympics luge events in Vancouver.
Calendar
Standings
Men's singles
Doubles
Women's singles
References
FIL-Luge.org December 19, 2008 on number of athletes allowed to participate for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. - accessed December 19, 2008.
Luge World Cup
2008 in luge
2009 in luge |
23577583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike-a-Light%20River | Strike-a-Light River | The Strike-a-Light River, a perennial stream that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council area of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Jerangle, and flows generally north north-west, north-west, south-west and then south, joined by three minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Bredbo River, east of Bredbo; descending over its course.
Flora and fauna
Strike-a-Light River flows through the Strike-a-Light Nature Reserve.
The Strike-a-Light River is inhabited by a number of amphibian species Bibron's toadlet (Pseudophryne bibronii), common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera), pobblebonk (Limnodynastes dumerilii), spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) and Verreaux's tree frog (Litoria verreauxii).
Vegetation communities through which the river passes include Scribbly Gum/Apple Box – Dry Shrub Forest, Ribbon Gum – Valley Forest as well as partially cleared areas of natural vegetation.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin |
23577590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20suavis | Trichopilia suavis | Trichopilia suavis is a species of orchid found from Central America to Colombia. The plants will blossom in the seasons of Spring and Winter at intermediate warm temperatures. The flowers will be available in white, purple, green and red colors.
suavis |
20479011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka%20Rauhala | Jukka Rauhala | Jukka Matti Rauhala (born March 1, 1959 in Muurame) is a former wrestler from Finland, who claimed the bronze medal in the Men's Freestyle Lightweight Division (– 68 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
He's married to Jaana, with whom he has son Jaakko and daughter Johanna.
On 18 March 2013 he was chosen to European Council of Associated Wrestling board of directors.
Results
1980 European Championship — 62.0 kg Freestyle (11th)
1981 European Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (4th)
1982 European Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (5th)
1983 World Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (10th)
1986 European Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (4th)
1986 World Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (5th)
1987 European Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (4th)
1987 World Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (11th)
1988 European Championship — 68.0 kg Freestyle (14th)
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
People from Muurame
Olympic wrestlers of Finland
Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Finnish male sport wrestlers
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Central Finland |
23577591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant | Oliphant | Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
Geography
Oliphant, Ontario, Canada, a community
Oliphant Islands, South Orkney Islands
Olifants River (Limpopo), South Africa
Olifants River (Southern Cape), South Africa
Olifants River (Western Cape), South Africa
Olifants Water Management Area, South Africa
Olyphant, Pennsylvania, a borough
People
Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name
Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
Arts, entertainment, and media
Oliphant (band), a Finnish band
Oliphant, a type of monster in the Index of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition monsters
Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", in The Canterbury Tales
Eleanor Oliphant, protagonist of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Titles
Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
Oliphant baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Vehicles
Olifant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank
Others
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians
Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
D'Oliphant, a Dutch mansion originally built near Nieuwesluis, later moved to Rotterdam
De Olifant, Burdaard, a windmill in the Netherlands
See also
Elefant (disambiguation)
Elephant (disambiguation) |
23577599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20utendi | Ius utendi | Ius utendi (or usus), a term in civil law and Roman law, is an attribute of ownership (dominium): the right or power to use the property—particularly by residing there—without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the ius abutendi, the right of disposal.
See also
Ius
Ius abutendi
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
17338567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Verity | Hugh Verity | Hugh Verity, (6 April 1918 – 14 November 2001) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. He landed many times at clandestine airfields in occupied France to insert and extract SOE agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.
Early life
Verity was born in Jamaica the son of Dorothy and the Reverend George Beresford Verity. Pre-war he was a frequent traveler by sea between England, Kingston, Jamaica, Bermuda and South America where he spent some time and learned to speak Spanish. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Queen’s College, Oxford where he joined Oxford University Air Squadron. After graduation he taught in schools in Northern Ireland.
He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was commissioned pilot officer on 8 November 1938.
Royal Air Force
On 8 May 1940 he was promoted flying officer, and in September 1940 was serving with No. 608 Squadron RAF flying Avro Ansons and Blackburn Bothas primarily in a general reconnaissance role. He joined No. 252 Squadron RAF in February 1941 as it reequipped with Bristol Beaufighters and served on Malta. In late 1941 returning to England in very poor weather he force landed in Ireland, at the Leopardstown Racecourse. He was interned by the Irish, being held until freed about five weeks later by British Military Intelligence MI9. After his return to England, Verity wrote to the officer in charge of the camp from which he escaped, to thank him for "looking after us so fairly . . . I always found the Irish army extremely courteous and considerate and extremely impartial . . . I will be delighted to tell my friends over here how well we were fed and housed."
Promoted flight lieutenant on 6 November 1941 he served with No. 29 Squadron RAF at the end of 1941 flying night fighter operations before becoming Staff Officer (Night Operations) at No. 11 Group RAF and then Staff Officer (Night Operations) at HQ RAF Fighter Command.
Special Operations
Verity was promoted temporary squadron leader on 1 June 1942. In his role as Night Operations Officer he learned of the use of the Westland Lysander in the Royal Air Force Special Duty Service. He arranged an interview with P. Charles "Pick" Pickard, the new commanding officer of No. 161 Squadron RAF. In October 1942 he was given command of A-Flight, which used the Lysander aircraft for SOE missions into occupied France, inserting and extracting agents, resistance members and Allied prisoners. Verity noted he had to lead an eclectic group of pilots, all of whom were very capable, including Frank Rymills, Peter Vaughan-Fowler and Jim McCairns.
His first flight for SOE was on 23 December 1942 in a Lysander. The mission was to France, but he had to return empty handed due to heavy fog in the landing area. Verity undertook at least 29 and possibly as many as 36 night flights into France, perhaps the most of any RAF pilot. His role was to drop off and pick up resistance workers, SOE agents and other figures at secret locations inside France. Records from the Imperial War Museum indicate Verity flew Westland Lysander Mark IIIA (SD), (serial number "V9673" with squadron fuselage codes 'MA-J') bearing the nose-art of 'Jiminy Cricket' for twenty operations to occupied France while serving with No. 161 Squadron at RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire.
Verity was instrumental in introducing the larger Lockheed Hudson into pick-up operations. With Pickard, he worked out the operating procedures that enabled this twin-engined aircraft to operate from French occupied fields, giving them the ability to carry in and bring out more people in one mission.
On 25 May 1943 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and on 31 August 1943 the Distinguished Service Order. His record of successful operations continued to grow. Most of his flights were in Lysanders, but he worked out with Pickard the use of the Hudson for the same purpose. Though larger and heavier, the Hudson could carry more passengers. Among his passengers were Jean Moulin, Nicolas Bodington, Peter Churchill, Henri Frager, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and future president of France, François Mitterrand. His last special operation was on the night of 16–17 November 1943. On 14 January 1944 he was awarded a Bar the Distinguished Service Order, and promoted Squadron leader on 14 March 1944.
Later in the war he performed the role of SOE air operations manager for western Europe and Scandinavia, coordinating the SOE requirement for air support with the available pilots and aircraft of primarily No. 138 Squadron RAF and No. 161 Squadron. In late 1944 Verity was commanding SOE air operations in South East Asia and following the end of hostilities served with the Recovery of Allied Prisoner-of-War and Internees Organisation.
Postwar service
Verity was granted a permanent commission as squadron leader on 25 March 1947.
Verity served on Staff at the Army Staff College, Quetta until being invalided home with polio. From 1948 to 1949 he commanded No. 541 Squadron RAF flying the Supermarine Spitfire Mark XIX photo reconnaissance variant and then served as wing commander (weapons) at the Central Fighter Establishment 1949 to 1951. He was promoted full wing commander on 1 July 1951, serving at Joint Services Staff College until appointed wing commander (flying) at RAF Wahn from 1954 to 1955. Verity commanded No. 96 Squadron RAF flying Gloster Meteor jet night fighters in 1955 and was appointed group captain on 1 July 1958 ready for a series of postings as Staff Officer (Bomber Operations) at the Air Ministry, a posting to Turkey and commanding RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and then Staff Officer (Special Duties) back at the Air Ministry.
Verity requested retirement and was released from the service on 2 June 1965 to take up a position with the Printing and Publishing Industry Training Board.
In 1978, Verity's history of all the RAF's secret landings in France, 1940–1944, was published as We landed by moonlight (Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd, 1978). A revised edition appeared in 1995 (Airdata Pubns Ltd) and this was later updated (Manchester: Crecy Publishing, 2000, ).
Awards
Distinguished Service Order as squadron leader commanding "A-Flight" of No. 161 Squadron.
Bar to the Distinguished Service Order as squadron leader commanding "A-Flight" of No. 161 Squadron.
Distinguished Flying Cross as squadron leader commanding "A-Flight" of No. 161 Squadron.
Officier de la Légion d'honneur (France) – 1946.
Croix de Guerre avec palme (France).
Notes
Verity flew a number of his SOE operations from RAF Tangmere where the museum has unveiled a bust of him.
Verity married on 27 August 1940 at All Saints' Church, Bisley, Audrey Geraldine Northcliffe Stokes, who was, as Verity had been, a student at Oxford. They had 3 daughters and 2 sons.
References
Bibliography
1918 births
2001 deaths
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Royal Air Force officers
English autobiographers
British expatriates in Jamaica
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished
British Special Operations Executive personnel
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
People educated at Cheltenham College
British World War II bomber pilots
Royal Air Force pilots of World War II |
23577604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregaussian%20class | Pregaussian class | In probability theory, a pregaussian class or pregaussian set of functions is a set of functions, square integrable with respect to some probability measure, such that there exists a certain Gaussian process, indexed by this set, satisfying the conditions below.
Definition
For a probability space (S, Σ, P), denote by a set of square integrable with respect to P functions , that is
Consider a set . There exists a Gaussian process , indexed by , with mean 0 and covariance
Such a process exists because the given covariance is positive definite. This covariance defines a semi-inner product as well as a pseudometric on given by
Definition A class is called pregaussian if for each the function on is bounded, -uniformly continuous, and prelinear.
Brownian bridge
The process is a generalization of the brownian bridge. Consider with P being the uniform measure. In this case, the process indexed by the indicator functions , for is in fact the standard brownian bridge B(x). This set of the indicator functions is pregaussian, moreover, it is the Donsker class.
References
Stochastic processes
Empirical process
Normal distribution |
23577622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20tortilis | Trichopilia tortilis | Trichopilia tortilis is a species of orchid found from Mexico to Central America. It is the type species of the genus Trichopilia.
References
tortilis
Orchids of Mexico
Orchids of Central America |
6906094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battlecruiser%20Admiral%20Nakhimov | Russian battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov | Admiral Nakhimov () is the third battlecruiser of the Russian Navy's . The ship was originally commissioned into service with the Soviet Navy in the 1980s, known back then as Kalinin (Калинин), a name the ship kept until 1992. From 1997 Admiral Nakhimov is undergoing a repair and a refit to receive new and improved weaponry and had been scheduled to re-enter service with the Russian Navy in around 2022. In 2021 it was reported that the ship's return to service would be delayed until "at least" 2023. However, in February 2022 it was reported that Sevmash CEO Mikhail Budnichenko noted that the warship was planned for delivery in 2022.
Differences from lead ship
Kalinin was constructed differently from the lead ship of the class. On the forward part of the ship, the twin SS-N-14 ASW missile launcher was replaced with eight SA-N-9 surface-to-air missile vertical launchers (not installed). The forward 30 mm CIWS cannons were replaced by CADS-N-1. On the aft part, a single twin AK-130 130 mm gun, similar to the guns used on Slava and Sovremennyy, was used instead of two 100 mm guns. Near the flight deck, the 30 mm CIWS cannons were replaced by Kashtan CIWS and moved to the aft superstructure and replaced with eight SA-N-9 vertical launchers (not installed).
History
Kalinin was laid down on 17 May 1983 at Baltiysky Naval Shipyard, Leningrad, launched on 25 April 1986, commissioned on 30 December 1988. It joined the Northern Fleet on 21 April 1989 though GlobalSecurity noted the cruiser was a Pacific fleet unit. On 4 January 1991 she went on long voyage to the Mediterranean Sea. After the end of the Cold War the cruiser was rarely deployed and by 1999 it was permanently docked in Sevmash awaiting repairs.
Reactivation
In 2006, a decision was made to modernize this ship instead of completing the construction of the submarine . Later in 2006, she was undergoing refit at Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, but was reported finished ahead of schedule and was announced to again be in service with the Northern Fleet. However, later reports state that the cruiser has been docked at Sevmash since 1999 without any activity. On 30 October 2008, Russian Navy representatives of the Northern Fleet announced that the first modification on Admiral Nakhimov had been started and that the ship would re-join the Russian fleet by 2012. In November 2010 the director of Sevmash, Nikolai Kalistratov, repeated this statement confirming that the Russian government had appropriated money for Admiral Nakhimov to be repaired in 2011 (costing over 50 billion rubles.) However he also said that the funds were insufficient and more were needed to bring the ship back to active service. After finishing repairs, Admiral Nakhimov was reported as likely to join the Russian Pacific Fleet. However, by 2020 it was reported that she would remain with the Northern Fleet.
In December 2011 the Sevmash shipyard stated that the refit of the ship would not be finished until after 2012. According to Sevmash General-Director Andrei Dyachkov the repairs were stopped because it was senseless to continue without having determined the final variant of modernization.
Work on modernizing Admiral Nakhimov was resumed in January 2014 with the vessel being projected to rejoin the Russian Navy in 2018. Admiral Nakhimov is slated to carry 60 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles and a navalized variant of the S-400 (missile) SAM system, among other weapons. According to Sevmash as of 2 November 2015 work on removing the battlecruiser's old equipment had been completed, and work to install its replacement was about to be commenced.
In 2018, Aleksey Rakhimov, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, stated that the end date of the reconstruction remained 2021 or 2022, but additional changes made by the Ministry of Defense had made would require an amendment to the contract or a new contract. Trials are due to begin in 2020. In September 2019, state news agency TASS quoted Russian deputy defense minister Alexsey Krivoruchko that "It will be the most powerful navy warship. We inspected the project, the ship is now about 50% ready. As was agreed with Sevmash shipyard, we expect to receive the ship in late 2022." as reported by Jane's.
She was relaunched in August 2020 and was then expected to start sea trials in about 2023. It is expected to receive 174 VLS tubes: 80 for anti-surface and 94 for anti-air warfare. In early 2022, Sevmash CEO, Mikhail Budnichenko, noted that weapons systems for the cruiser would include: the Fort-M (NATO reporting name: SA-N-6 Grumble) and Pantsyr-M (SA-22 Greyhound) air defense systems and Paket-NK and Otvet antisubmarine warfare weapons. It was also reported that the cruiser would potentially be armed with up to 60 3M22 Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
References
External links
Kirov-class battlecruisers
Cold War cruisers of the Soviet Union
1986 ships
Nuclear ships of the Soviet Navy
Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard |
17338570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovans%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Kosovans in the United Kingdom | Kosovo Albanians in the United Kingdom refers to Kosovo Albanians who have settled or are temporarily living in the United Kingdom. The earliest arrivals from Kosovo settled in London in the 1990s, with pockets of arrivals in other cities. The 2011 Census recorded 28,390 Kosovo-born residents (of all ethnicities) in England and 56 in Wales. The censuses of Scotland and Northern Ireland recorded 215 and 44 Kosovo-born residents respectively.
During the Kosovo War, some Kosovans claimed asylum in the UK. During 1998, there were 7,980 applications from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia citizens, of whom most were Kosovo Albanians. The number of asylum applications received from Kosovo (excluding dependants) was 140 in 1996, 600 in 1997, 4,580 in 1998 and 9,850 in 1999. Between 15 June and 13 September 1999, consideration asylum claims from the FR Yugoslavia was suspended, with asylum seekers who had applied prior to 24 March 1999 given one year's exceptional leave to remain. On 13 September 1999, the Home Secretary announced that due to the improved security situation in Kosovo, all asylum claims by Kosovo Albanians would be judged on individual merits again. In the majority of cases, claims would now be refused unless there were exceptional circumstances.
In addition to asylum seekers, 4,346 refugees were evacuated to the UK between 25 April and 25 June 1999 as agreed with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and were either granted family reunification rights, if they had family members who had been through the asylum process, or were given leave to remain in the UK for one year. 68 people arrived through later medical evacuations. The first request from the UNHCR was received by the Home Office on 20 April and was agreed within an hour. The first plane of refugees from Kosovo arrived in the UK at Leeds-Bradford Airport on Sunday 25 April. There were 161 refugees, mainly women and children, including three cases in need of medical treatment. The second plane of 169 refugees arrived at East Midlands Airport on 29 April. Return flights enabling refugees to return home commenced on 19 July 1999.
Notable people
Dua Lipa - English singer and songwriter. After signing with Warner Music Group in 2015, she soon released her first single "New Love"
Geraldo Bajrami - footballer
DJ Regard - musician
Rita Ora - singer, songwriter and actress
See also
Albanians in the United Kingdom
Kosovo–United Kingdom relations
References
Kosovan diaspora
Immigration to the United Kingdom by country of origin |
23577631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand%20Lights%20Mosque | Thousand Lights Mosque | Thousand Lights is a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place of worship and azadari for Shia Muslims in the city.
History
The mosque was built in 1810 by Arcot Nawab Umdat ul-Umara. It was constructed in medieval architecture. The site of the mosque was previously occupied by an assembly hall. There was a tradition of lighting thousand oil lamps to illuminate the assembly hall. The mosque thus gets its name from this tradition.
The chief Shia Qazi of Chennai functions from the mosque, and the post has been continuously held by the same family.
References
External links
chennai.org.uk
indiafascinates.com
Mosques in Chennai
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1810
Shia mosques in India |
23577677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosalpinx%20ciliaris | Trichosalpinx ciliaris | Trichosalpinx ciliaris is a species of orchid found from Mexico, Belize, Central America and down to Brazil (Roraima).
References
ciliaris
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of Roraima |
6906103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20%28Qualification%20of%20Women%29%20Act%201918 | Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 | The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament.
At 27 words, it is the shortest UK statute.
Background
The Representation of the People Act 1918, passed on 6 February 1918, extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as the right to vote, to women aged 30 and over who resided in the constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value above £5, or whose husbands did.
In March 1918 Swire Smith, the Liberal MP for Keighley died, causing a by-election on 26 April. There was doubt as to whether women were eligible to stand for parliament. Nina Boyle made known her intention to stand as a candidate for the Women's Freedom League at Keighley and, if refused, to take the matter to the courts for a definitive ruling. After some consideration, the returning officer stated that he was prepared to accept her nomination, thus establishing a precedent for women candidates. However, he ruled her nomination papers invalid on other grounds: one of the signatories to her nomination was not on the electoral roll and another lived outside the constituency. The Law Lords were asked to consider the matter and concluded that the Great Reform Act 1832 had specifically banned women from standing as parliamentary candidates and the Representation of the People Act had not changed that.
Parliament hurriedly passed the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act in time to enable women to stand in the general election of December 1918. The act ran to only 27 operative words: "A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected to or sitting or voting as a Member of the Commons House of Parliament", and is the shortest UK statute.
Effects
In the 14 December 1918 election to the House of Commons, seventeen women candidates stood, among them well-known suffragette Christabel Pankhurst, representing the Women's Party in Smethwick. The only woman elected was the Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin St Patrick's, Constance Markievicz. However, in line with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy, she did not take her seat.
The first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons was Nancy Astor on 1 December 1919. She was elected as a Coalition Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton on 28 November 1919, taking the seat her husband had vacated.
As Members of Parliament, women also gained the right to become government ministers. The first woman to become a cabinet minister and Privy Council member was Margaret Bondfield who was Minister of Labour in the Second MacDonald ministry (1929–1931).
Age limits
During the debate of the bill, Lord Islington explained the apparent discrepancy that women could sit in Parliament at 21 but could not vote until they were 30:
"...the age of thirty, which was prescribed for enfranchisement of women, was made not because women of a younger age were considered less competent to exercise the vote, but rather because the inclusion of women between the ages of twenty-one and thirty might lead to women-voters being in a majority on the Register, and this was considered, too drastic a departure in the realms of constitutional experiment. Therefore the embargo on any woman below the age of thirty was placed in that measure.
In the case of eligibility to Parliament, this age condition is not necessary. The whole question of age, suitability, and competence can safely be left, and should be left, in the hands of the electorate to decide..."
See also
Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945)
Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Women in the House of Lords — allowed from 1958 (life peers), 1963 (hereditary peers), 2015 (Church of England bishops)
References
External links
Text of the Act as originally enacted
Spartacus Educational: 1918 Qualification of Women Act
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1918
Election law in the United Kingdom
Election legislation
History of women in the United Kingdom
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's rights in the United Kingdom
Women's rights legislation
1918 in women's history |
6906106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Top | Round Top | Round Top is an extinct volcano in the Berkeley Hills, just east of Oakland, California. The peak lies entirely within the bounds of Contra Costa County. In 1936, the area surrounding the peak was established as Round Top Regional Park, one of the first three parks of the East Bay Regional Parks District. The park was renamed Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve for the second president of the park district (1948 to 1958), Robert Sibley, shortly after his death in 1958.
The eruptions that lead to Round Top started 10.2 Million years ago and ended more than a million years later. Two main vents of the old volcano are known, one is now under the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the other is Round Top. The Round Top vent has, over the years, fallen sideways.
See also
Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area
References
External links
Volcanoes of California
Berkeley Hills
Landforms of Contra Costa County, California
Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area
Extinct volcanoes
East Bay Regional Park District
Parks in Contra Costa County, California |
17338587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%20Chaozhu | Ji Chaozhu | Ji Chaozhu (July 30, 1929 – April 29, 2020) was a Chinese diplomat who held a number of important positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC), most notably as English interpreter for Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping; later as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (United Kingdom); and lastly as an Under-secretary General of the United Nations, a post from which he retired in 1996. He played a central role in the talks leading up to and during President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China.
His memoir, The Man on Mao's Right, was published in July 2008, by Random House.
Early years in U.S.
Ji was born on July 30, 1929, in Shanxi Province to an affluent family who were also sympathetic to the Communist Party. His father was a wealthy landlord, lawyer, and provincial official, while his eldest brother, Ji Chaoding, was a noted economist who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Ji and his family fled their home in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, in the late 1930s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. At the urging of Zhou Enlai, a young revolutionary at the time, Ji's family emigrated to New York City in 1939, when Ji was nine years old. He earned a high school diploma from Horace Mann-Lincoln High School (now known as Horace Mann School), and attended Camp Rising Sun in 1944. He was a sophomore at Harvard University in 1950 when the Korean War broke out, which saw his native homeland and his adopted country fight on opposite sides. Ji described how he "was torn between [his] love for two countries", but knew that he "was fundamentally Chinese".
Return to China
Ji left Harvard in the middle of his studies and returned to the newly formed People's Republic of China. He studied chemistry at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with the goal of being a scientist and developing nuclear weapons for the PRC. He was instead selected to be an interpreter and notetaker at the negotiations in Panmunjom that would eventually bring an end to the Korean War, due to his English-language skills. After two years in Korea, he returned to Beijing where he was recruited to become Zhou's English interpreter, accompanying the Premier to the 1954 Geneva Conference, and on Zhou's many other international trips. For most of the next two decades, he was a close aide to Zhou, and a frequent interpreter for Mao, often appearing on Mao's right on the reviewing stand at Tiananmen Square during public celebrations when English-speaking dignitaries were present. He holds the distinction of having been interpreter for Mao Zedong's last two official visits with English-speaking dignitaries, in 1976, months before the chairman's death.
Role in Sino-American relations
During his long career, Ji's first-hand knowledge of American culture made him a valuable member of the Chinese diplomatic corps. This was especially showcased during Henry Kissinger's secret visit to Beijing in 1971, which led to President Nixon's visit to China the following year. Zhou Enlai chose Ji to head the first diplomatic mission to the U.S. in 1973. Ji went on to establish the PRC's first liaison office in Washington, and was subsequently assigned to its embassy staff in the US after full diplomatic relations were established. He served as interpreter for Deng Xiaoping during his visit to the US in 1979. The New York Times observed how – from the time of Nixon's visit to China until Deng's visit to the US – Ji was the only person from either country capable of interpreting from English to Chinese. The newspaper consequently labelled him "The Indispensable Mr. Chi". He was highly respected by US officials, so much so that in 1981, then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig specifically asked the PRC to send Ji to meet with Ronald Reagan in an attempt to defuse tensions between the two sides. This arose as a result of president's plans to sell sophisticated weapons to Taiwan. Ji met with every American president from Nixon to Clinton.
Family and political life
In 1956, Ji married Wang Xiangtong, an English translator working for the International Red Cross. Both Ji and Wang experienced periodic political problems during the many purges and other upheavals that marked the Mao years. In spite of his close association with Zhou and Mao, Ji was considered suspect because he had been educated in the U.S., and an elder brother had stayed behind when Ji returned to China. Wang had a similar problem, as her father and mother had become separated at the end of the civil war when the Communists took control and the Nationalists fled to Taiwan. Her father and three brothers were stranded and could not return to the mainland, and her mother was in Beijing and could not leave. Ji was able to join the Chinese Communist Party in spite of his overseas connections, but Wang could not. They had two sons: Xiaotan lives in Beijing with his wife and a daughter, and Xiao-bin lives in the U.S., where he had attended high school and college while Ji was working in China's Washington embassy, and Wang was working at the United Nations. In his final years, Ji divided his time between Beijing and the island of Hainan.
Death
Ji Chaozhu died on April 29, 2020, at the age of 90 from an undisclosed illness. News of his death was first announced by the China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a brief notice to the Associated Press.
Ambassadorial appointments
From 1985 to 1987, Ji was Chinese Ambassador to Fiji with concurrent nonresident Diplomatic accreditation as Chinese Ambassador to Kiribati and Chinese Ambassador to Vanuatu.
From 1987 to 1991 he was Ambassador to the Court of St James (United Kingdom).
References
Further reading
"[http://h-diplo.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-22.pdf Chaozhu Ji. The Man on Mao’s Right]," H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews. X.22 (2009). Introduction by Yafeng Xia Reviewers: James Z. Gao, Charles W. Hayford, Lorenz M. Lüthi, Raymond P. Ojserkis, Priscilla Roberts, Patrick Fuliang Shan, Qiang Zhai.
External links
City and Country
Horace Mann School
1929 births
2020 deaths
Camp Rising Sun alumni
People from Taiyuan
Diplomats of the People's Republic of China
Under-Secretaries-General of the United Nations
Ambassadors of China to the United Kingdom
Ambassadors of China to Kiribati
Ambassadors of China to Fiji
Ambassadors of China to Vanuatu |
20479012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmal%20Kholmatov | Akmal Kholmatov | Akmal Kholmatov (born 4 April 1976) is a former Tajikistani footballer.
Career
Club
Kholmatov played for Regar-TadAZ between 1993 and 1996. During 1996 Kholmatov moved to Uzbekistan, signing for Neftchi Fargʻona, and becoming an Uzbek citizen in 2001. After 12 years at Neftchi Fargʻona, Kholmatov moved to fellow Uzbek club Pakhtakor Tashkent for three seasons, before joining Iranian side PAS Hamedan in 2011. A year later Kholmatov returned to Uzbekistan with Lokomotiv Tashkent before rejoining Neftchi Fargʻona in 2014. Kholmatov left Neftchi Fargʻona at the end of the 2015 season. After leaving Neftchi Fargʻona, Kholmatov featured for FC Istiklol in the pre-season friendlies, scoring in a 3–1 defeat to Várda SE in February 2016. In June 2016, Kholmatov left FC Istiklol returning to Neftchi Fargʻona.
Name controversy
Kholmatov came under scrutiny in 2007, when the Asian Football Confederation launched an investigation into the identities of two Central Asian players who they believed had falsified documentation to play in AFC competitions. The investigation showed that the two players registered "Akmal Kholmatov" and "Akhmal Holmatov" were actually the same person.
International
Kholmatov played for Tajikistan between 2003 and 2007, taking part in their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign.
Career statistics
Club
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 18 November 2007
International goals
Goals for Senior National team
Honours
Club
Neftchi
Uzbek League (1): 2001
Pakhtakor
Uzbek Cup (1): 2009
Istiklol
Tajik Supercup (1): 2016
Individual
Gennadi Krasnitsky club: 121 goals (as of 30 October 2016)
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Tajikistani footballers
Tajikistani expatriate footballers
Tajikistan international footballers
Expatriate footballers in Iran
Expatriate footballers in Uzbekistan
Tajikistani expatriate sportspeople in Uzbekistan
Tajikistani expatriate sportspeople in Iran
FK Neftchi Farg'ona players
Pas players
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent players
FC Istiklol players
Association football midfielders
Uzbekistan Super League players |
6906120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Runners%20%28production%20duo%29 | The Runners (production duo) | The Runners are an American electronic and hip hop production duo from Orlando, Florida, consisting of Andrew "Dru Brett" Harr and Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson. They came together to form the team in 2000, but they have known each other since they were in kindergarten. They both have been influenced their entire lives by producers Timbaland and the Neptunes. Their trademark is an exhale sound effect ringing "Ahhh" at the beginning of their songs.
They are best known for producing the hit singles "Go Hard" and "Hustlin'", by rappers DJ Khaled and Rick Ross respectively. They have produced songs for artists like Keyshia Cole, Kevin Cossom, Ace Hood, Chris Brown, Fat Joe, Juelz Santana, Nelly, Trip Lee, Jim Jones, Lil Wayne, Fabolous and Usher.
History
The Runners first met as toddlers in Vero Beach, Florida. In 2000, they named themselves the Runners and set up shop in Orlando, where they launched Trac-N-Field Entertainment. In 2008, the Runners were nominated for Producer of the Year at the BET Awards.
They produced two tracks on Rihanna's fifth studio album Loud, "Cheers (Drink to That)" and "California King Bed". They have also produced British singer-rapper Cher Lloyd's debut single "Swagger Jagger". On March 31, 2012, they went in the studio to produce for Shakira. Although their work is primarily hip hop they have recently created several songs for TV including John Walsh's Americas Most Wanted intro. On October 7, 2014, they released their first original dance music track "We Will Stand" on Track Team Records.
Production discography
Singles
2006: "Where Da Cash At" (Curren$y featuring Lil Wayne & Remy Ma)
2006: "Hustlin'" (Rick Ross)
2006: "Born-N-Raised" (DJ Khaled featuring Trick Daddy, Pitbull, & Rick Ross)
2007: "All the Above" (Beanie Sigel featuring R. Kelly)
2007: "Go Getta" (Young Jeezy featuring R. Kelly)
2007: "Bet That" (Trick Daddy featuring Chamillionaire & Gold Rush)
2007: "Dreamin'" (Young Jeezy featuring Keyshia Cole)
2007: "I'm So Hood" (DJ Khaled featuring Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Plies, & T-Pain)
2007: "Slap" (Ludacris)
2007: "Speedin'" (Rick Ross featuring R. Kelly)
2008: "Cash Flow" (Ace Hood featuring T-Pain & Rick Ross)
2008: "Out Here Grindin" (DJ Khaled featuring Akon, Rick Ross, Plies, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood & Lil Wayne)
2008: "Baby Doll" (Girlicious)
2008: "Go Hard" (DJ Khaled featuring Kanye West & T-Pain)
2009: "Cause A Scene" (Teairra Mari featuring Flo Rida)
2009: "Overtime" (Ace Hood featuring Akon & T-Pain)
2009: "My Time" (Fabolous featuring Jeremih)
2009: "Champion" (Ace Hood featuring Rick Ross & Jazmine Sullivan)
2009: "Thinkin' About You"(Mario)
2009: "Fed Up" (DJ Khaled featuring Usher, Rick Ross, Drake, & Lil Wayne)
2010: "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)" (Usher featuring Plies)
2010: "Lowkey Poppin" (Kid Ink)
2011: "California King Bed" (Rihanna)
2011: "Swagger Jagger" (Cher Lloyd)
2011: "Cheers (Drink to That)" (Rihanna)
2012: "Take It to the Head" (DJ Khaled)
2013: "Ready" (Fabolous, Chris Brown)
2017: Sounds Good To Me (Nelly)
References
External links
American hip hop record producers
American musical duos
African-American record producers
Hip hop duos
Musical groups established in 2000
Musical groups from Orlando, Florida
Record production duos
Southern hip hop groups |
20479053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojan%20Banjac | Bojan Banjac | Bojan Banjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојан Бaњaц, born 24 October 1971 in Inđija) is a former Serbian association footballer.
After playing with FK Zemun in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, Banjac moved to France in 1996 where he played 23 Ligue 1 games for Lille OSC in 1996-97 season.
External links
1971 births
Living people
People from Inđija
Serbian footballers
Serbian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in France
FK Zemun players
Lille OSC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Association football midfielders |
6906121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterovaginal%20plexus%20%28nerves%29 | Uterovaginal plexus (nerves) | The Uterovaginal plexus is a division of the inferior hypogastric plexus. In older texts, it is referred to as two structures, the "vaginal plexus" and "uterine plexus".
The Vaginal Plexus arises from the lower part of the pelvic plexus. It is distributed to the walls of the vagina, to the erectile tissue of the vestibule, and to the cavernous nerves of the clitoris. The nerves composing this plexus contain, like the vesical, a large proportion of spinal nerve fibers.
The Uterine Plexus accompanies the uterine artery to the side of the uterus, between the layers of the broad ligament; it communicates with the ovarian plexus.
References
External links
Nerve plexus
Vagina |
17338637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B8ren%20Line | Løren Line | The Løren Line () is a line of the Oslo Metro. Located entirely underground, it runs through the neighborhoods of Sinsen, Løren and Økern in Bjerke, creating a connection between the Ring Line with the Grorud Line. The line features one station, Løren. It is served by metro trains which run down the Grorud Line and then connect to the Ring Line. It allows for higher capacity on the metro as more passengers a transported via the Ring Line instead of through the congested Common Tunnel. Construction started in June 2013 and the line opened on 3 April 2016.
Route
The Løren Line is a long section of Oslo Metro between Sinsen and Økern, connecting the Ring Line with the Grorud Line. It consists of one intermediate station, Løren. The line runs entirely in a tunnel, consisting of of tunnel through bedrock and in a concrete culvert. The line runs north a mostly parallel to the mainline Alna Line. In the west the line branches off the Ring Line in a tunnel section south of Sinsen. Each track of the Løren Line forks off in a separate tunnel and then head east while the Ring Line turns southwest. The line runs in two tubes to Løren Station, after which they merge into a single tube. The station is situated below the surface in the redevelopment area of Lørenbyen. The station has an area of and has an entrance from each end. The line then makes a U-turn and branches into the Grorud Line between the stations of Hasle and Økern.
Service
The line receives a service which runs along the Grorud Line, cuts along the Løren Line and then runs through the Ring Line. The trains run every fifteen minutes—half the departures along the Grorud Line. The Løren Line allows for ten minutes saved for riders heading from the Grorud Line to stations on the Ring Line, and allows the same travel time to Majorstuen. Løren Station is estimated to receive six thousand daily passengers, making it among the ten busiest on the metro network. The changes will reduce the number of services from the Grorud Line to the Common Tunnel. The increased capacity will allow the Østensjø Line to double the number of services.
History
The Grorud Line was built as part of the original metro network and opened on 16 November 1966. The Ring Line was built in two stages between 2000 and 2006. Oslo Sporveier announced in 2005 that it planned to double the number of services on the Grorud Line, to eight per hour. However, the bottleneck of the system is the Common Tunnel through the city center and services on all branches of the metro are limited by the capacity of that line. With the Ring Line under way, planners started to look at how it could be used to increase traffic flow and capacity of the metro. This would allow traffic to be diverted around the Ring Line instead of through the Common Tunnel, increasing capacity on the system as a whole.
Five alternatives were proposed in 2007, which considered various ways to connect the Grorud Line and the Ring Line. Variations included building part of the line with single track and whether or not to construct a station at Løren. The latter would increase the price, but would give the area a significantly better transit service. As of 2007 the area was only served by a bus every twenty minutes. Funding of the Løren Line was secured as part of Oslo Package 3. During planning the line was variously known as the Løren Curve () and the Hastle Curve ().
An alternative or supplemental proposals has been to use the Alna Line as a cross-town services of the Oslo Commuter Rail. Both the Norwegian National Rail Administration and Ruter have investigated the possibility to run services from the Trunk Line across the Alna Line and up the Gjøvik Line, but have found a too low traffic potential to carry out the proposal.
The Løren Line is being built at the same time as the Løren, Hasle and Økern area is undergoing a major redevelopment. While the area previously has had some residential areas and has mostly been dominated by industry, it has now been designated a primary site for urban development in Oslo. The area has a potential for 25,000 residences and 2.5 million square meters (25 million sq ft) of commercial area. Oslo Municipal Council approved in May 2013 the construction of 730 apartments in the immediate vicinity of the station.
Planning of the Løren Line is part of a wider concept of building additional rail-based services across Groruddalen. There are three lines, two metro lines and the mainline Trunk Line, which run down the valley, but there is no good system for crossing the valley. This is in part caused by both railways and motorways creating barriers. The municipal authorities are therefore looking at future connections between the metro's Grorud Line and the Furuset Line, with a possible transfer station with the Trunk Line.
The zoning plan allow the line was passed on 14 December 2011.
The contract for the ground work of the line was awarded by Sporveien to Skanska on 13 May 2013 and had a value of 357 million Norwegian krone and construction commenced in June. The project also included upgrade of the stations Rommen, Romsås and Vestli on the Grorud Line. The lower parts of the Grorud Line was closed from September through December to allow construction work on the connection. The Ring Line from Sinsen to Carl Berners plass is similarly proposed closed from June 2014 to March 2015. Construction is scheduled for completion in October 2015 and to be opened in early 2016. Construction was carried out with two crossections, from Anders Winsvoldsvei and Båhusveien at Bilia. In addition, Løres Station was built with the cut-and-cover method, doubling as a crossection.
The line opened on 3 April 2016.
References
Oslo Metro lines
Railway lines in Norway |
17338699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINZ | WINZ | WINZ may refer to:
WINZ (AM), a radio station in Miami, Florida
WZTU, an FM radio station in Miami, Florida, formerly known as WINZ-FM
Department of Work and Income, formerly known as Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ), an agency within the Ministry of Social Development (New Zealand)
Victor Winz, a professional chess player
See also
WINS (disambiguation)
Winze, a type of mining shaft |
20479054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence%20%28film%29 | Adolescence (film) | Adolescence is a 1966 French short documentary film directed by Marin Karmitz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1966 films
1966 documentary films
1966 short films
1960s French-language films
French short documentary films
Films directed by Marin Karmitz
1960s short documentary films
Documentary films about adolescence |
20479074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malygina%20Strait | Malygina Strait | Malygina Strait or Malygin Strait in Siberia, Russia is an 9 to 30km wide, approximately 60 km in length sound which is frozen most of the year. It separates Bely Island from the Yamal Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast. The strait is named after explorer Stepan Malygin, who was the first
to make an instrumental mapping of its coasts during the Great Northern Expedition in the 18th century.
Bodies of water of Tyumen Oblast
Bodies of water of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Straits of Russia |
17338716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lontin | Lontin | Lontin is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20the%20Darkness | Into the Darkness | Into the Darkness may refer to:
"Into the Darkness" (song), a song by the band Kittie
Into the Darkness (novel), the first book in Harry Turtledove's Darkness series
Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness, a 2007 documentary film about urban exploration
Star Trek Into Darkness, a 2013 film in the Star Trek franchise |
20479097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain%E2%80%93Albania%20Friendship%20Association | Spain–Albania Friendship Association | Spain–Albania Friendship Association () was an organization based in Spain. The association was recognized by the government of Socialist Albania. The organization was linked to the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist). In 1979, the organization began publishing Drita Albania (La Luz de Albania).
References
Albania friendship associations
Spanish friendship associations
Albania–Spain relations |
17338722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchang | Luchang | Luchang is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20479112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapio%20Sipil%C3%A4 | Tapio Sipilä | Tapio Olavi Sipilä (born November 26, 1958 in Kiiminki, Oulu), nicknamed Tapsa, is a former wrestler from Finland, who claimed the silver medal in the Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight Division (– 68 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won the bronze medal four years later in the same weight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Results
1980 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd)
1981 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd)
1981 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (2nd)
1983 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd)
1983 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (1st)
1986 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (6th)
1986 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (2nd)
1987 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd)
1988 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (4th)
References
sports-reference
External links
1958 births
Living people
People from Kiiminki
Olympic wrestlers of Finland
Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Finnish male sport wrestlers
Olympic silver medalists for Finland
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Olympic medalists in wrestling
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from North Ostrobothnia |
17338726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukpwi | Lukpwi | Lukpwi is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20479124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20Thine%20Own%20Way%2C%20Lord | Have Thine Own Way, Lord | "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" is a Christian hymn with lyrics by Adelaide A. Pollard and music by George C. Stebbins. It was first published in 1907 in the "Northfield Hymnal with Alexander's Supplement". Later that year, it also appeared in two other popular hymnals, Ira Sankey's "Hallowed Hymns New and Old" and Sankey and Clement's "Best Endeavor Hymns".
Background
In 1902, Adelaide A. Pollard was hoping to go to Africa as a missionary but found herself unable to raise the needed funds to make the journey. Greatly discouraged, she attended a prayer service one evening and as she sat there, she overheard an elderly woman say "It really doesn't matter what you do with us, Lord, just have your own way with our lives." The elderly woman inspired Pollard and she contemplated the story of the potter from Jeremiah 18:3 and, upon her return home that evening, wrote all four stanzas before retiring for the night.
Five years later George Stebbins wrote a tune titled "Adelaide" to accompany the text.
Lyrics
Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will;
While I am waiting, yielded and still.
Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.
Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me, I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.
Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o’er my being absolute sway!
Fill with Thy Spirit ’till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.
Recordings
"Have Thine Own Way, Lord" remains popular and has been recorded by such artists as: Mahalia Jackson, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Eric Copeland, Cristy Lane, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, John Fogerty, Ned Beatty and most, recently by, Ronnie Milsap on his 2009 gospel album, Then Sings My Soul.
References
Barrows, Cliff and Husted, Don. Crusader Hymns and Hymn Stories. Chicago, Illinois: Hope Publishing Co., 1967; pp. 90–92.
Payne, Dillion. The Pioneer History of Davis County, Iowa. Bloomfield, Iowa: The Bloomfield Democrat, 1927; pp. 255–258.
External links
Words & music at the Cyber Hymnal
"Have Thine Own Way, Lord" at Glimpses of Christian History
1907 songs
American Christian hymns
20th-century hymns |
6906129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battlecruiser%20Admiral%20Lazarev | Russian battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev | Admiral Lazarev () was the second . Until 1992 she was named Frunze () after a Project 68 cruiser (named after Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze); at that time she was renamed after Russian admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev. Scrapping of the ship began in April 2021.
Construction and design
She was laid down on 27 July 1978 at Baltiysky Naval Shipyard, Leningrad, launched on 26 May 1981, and commissioned on 31 October 1984.
Differences from lead ship
Admiral Lazarev was constructed differently from the lead ship of the class. On the forward part of the ship, the twin SS-N-14 ASW missile launcher was replaced with 8 octuple SA-N-9 surface-to-air missile vertical launchers (planned, but not installed). On the aft part, a single twin AK-130 130 mm gun, similar to the guns used on Slava and Sovremennyy, was used instead of two 100 mm guns. Near the flight deck, the 30 mm CIWS cannons were moved to the aft superstructure and replaced with place for 8 octuple SA-N-9 vertical launchers (not installed). There were also some differences in the sensors, ESM/ECM suite and communication systems.
Career
In August to November 1985 she sailed from the North via the Cape of Good Hope and the Malacca Strait to join the Soviet Navy's Pacific Fleet. She visited Luanda, Aden, and Vietnam along the way. Holm writes that the ship only conducted local-waters training from 1987 to 1992, and was inactive from 1994 onwards.
In 1999 the cruiser was taken out of service and prepared for scrapping as no money was available for its overhaul. In 2004–2005 the cruiser's nuclear fuel was unloaded.
As of 2009 it was reported that the ship was moored near Vladivostok, in conservation status. The Russian Navy planned to modernize the ship and return it to active service, provided that the necessary funds were found. In 2012 it appeared unlikely modernization would occur, as the ship was "considered to be beyond repair... will be scrapped, a source in the military complex says".
Admiral Lazarev has appeared in aerial imagery from 2006 to 2014 moored in the Abrek Bay mothball fleet, near Fokino, Primorsky Krai. Its berth is around from the Russian nuclear-powered vessel decommissioning facility at the Chazhma Bay naval yard. In northern summer 2014, Admiral Lazarev was painted at "30 судоремонтного завода" (roughly 30th Ship Repair Factory) in the Chazhma Bay drydock to extend preservation time in the reserve fleet. The latest aerial imagery shows the ship located at 42°55'46.0"N 132°25'08.0"E in the Bukhta Abrek.
In April 2019, Russia decided to scrap and recycle the Admiral Lazarev in 2021. A contract for ship recycling was signed in February 2021.
Updated scrapping photos were posted in October 2021.
References
Kirov-class battlecruisers
Cold War cruisers of the Soviet Union
1981 ships
Nuclear ships of the Soviet Navy
Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard |
20479138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy%20%281966%20film%29 | Cowboy (1966 film) | Cowboy is a 1966 American short documentary film directed by Michael Ahnemann and produced by Ahnemann and Gary Schlosser. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
See also
List of American films of 1966
References
External links
Cowboy at the National Archives and Records Administration
1966 films
1966 documentary films
1966 short films
1966 independent films
American short documentary films
American independent films
English-language films
1960s short documentary films
United States Information Agency films |
17338729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%20City%20metropolitan%20area | Iowa City metropolitan area | The Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Iowa anchored by the city of Iowa City.
The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had a population of 171,491 people in the 2017 US Census Bureau population estimate. growing 12.39% compared to 2010.
The Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is also a part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the nearby Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). This CSA plus two additional counties are known as the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids (ICR) region and collectively have a population of nearly 500,000.
Counties
Johnson and Washington make up the Iowa City metropolitan area with Johnson County being the second fastest growing county in Iowa.
Communities
Places with more than 50,000 inhabitants
Iowa City (Principal city)
Places with 5,000 to 50,000 inhabitants
Coralville
North Liberty, at 20% fastest growing city in Johnson County (2010-2017)
Washington
Places with 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants
Kalona
Lone Tree
Riverside
Solon
Tiffin
Wellman
West Branch (partial)
University Heights
Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants
Ainsworth
Brighton
Hills
Oxford
Shueyville
Swisher
Places with less than 500 inhabitants
Coppock (partial)
Crawfordsville
West Chester
Unincorporated places
Cosgrove
Elmira
Frytown
Joetown
Morse
Oasis
River Junction
Sharon Center
Sutliff
Windham
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 131,676 people, 52,136 households, and 29,213 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 91.22% White, 2.49% African American, 0.27% Native American, 3.52% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.08% from other races, and 1.38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.54% of the population.
2013 demographic estimates
As of the 2013 US Census Bureau population estimate there were 161,170 people, an increase of 2800 people or 1.8% compared to 2012, due to 2,059 births, 651 international migrants and 889 from domestic migration. This compares favorably to nearly two thirds of Iowa counties who have lost population over 2012–2013.
Socioeconomic data
The median income for a household in the MSA was $39,582, and the median income for a family was $52,874. Males had a median income of $32,936 versus $26,306 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $20,221, as of the census of 2000.
See also
Iowa census statistical areas
References
External links
Iowa City government- Official site
Geography of Johnson County, Iowa
Geography of Washington County, Iowa |
6906155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20speed%20limit%20enforcement%20in%20Australia | Road speed limit enforcement in Australia | Road speed limit enforcement in Australia constitutes the actions taken by the authorities to force road users to comply with the speed limits in force on Australia's roads. Speed limit enforcement equipment such as speed cameras and other technologies such as radar and LIDAR are widely used by the authorities. In some regions, aircraft equipped with VASCAR devices are also used.
Each of the Australian states have their own speed limit enforcement policies and strategies and approved enforcement devices.
Methods
Mobile Gatso speed camera
This mobile camera or speed camera is used in Victoria and Queensland and can be operated in various manners. Without a flash, the only evidence of speed camera on the outside of the car is a black rectangular box, which sends out the radar beam, about 30 cm by 10 cm, mounted on the front of the car. On the older models of the camera, and on rainy days or in bad light, a cable is used to link it to a box with a flash placed just in front of the vehicle. The operator sits in the car and takes the pictures, which are then uploaded to a laptop computer. In both states unmarked cars are used. In Victoria these cameras are operated by Serco contractors, while in Queensland uniformed police officers operate them.
Many of the modern Gatso cameras now feature full capability, flashless operation. The advent of infra-red flash technology has provided Gatsos with the capacity to capture vehicles exceeding the limit in varying conditions - without emitting a bright flash, which in many cases can be considered distracting to the driver, especially if taken head-on. Infra-red light is invisible to the human eye, but when paired with a camera with an infra-red sensor, can be used as a flash to produce a clear image in low light conditions.
Mobile Multanova speed camera
Used only in Western Australia, this Doppler RADAR-based camera is mounted usually on a tripod on the side of the road. It is sometimes covered by a black sheet and there is usually a "anywhere anytime" sign following it chained onto a pole or tree. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "Multinova". Multanovas are manufactured by a Swiss company of the same name - Western Australia utilises the 6F and the 9F models.
During the daytime, the Multanova unit uses a standard "white" flash, but in low light or night time, a red filter is added to the flash so as to not dazzle the driver.
The camera is always accompanied by a white station wagon or by a black or, more commonly a white, silver or brown Nissan X-Trail, staffed by an un-sworn police officer (not a contractor) who is responsible for assembling and disassembling the unit, supervising it and operating the accompanying laptop in the car for the few hours that it is deployed at a location. The Nissan X-Trail usually has a bull bar and spotlights on it and a large, thick antenna. The camera stays usually for about 4 to 5 hours. There were 25 in use in Perth at the beginning of 2008.
As of late 2011 Multanova use in WA has been discontinued in favour of LIDAR exclusively.
Fixed speed-only camera
These cameras come in many forms, some free standing on poles; others mounted on bridges or overhead gantries. The cameras may consist of a box for taking photographs, as well as a smaller box for the flash, or only a single box containing all the instruments. Recently introduced infrared cameras, do not emit a blinding flash and can therefore be used to take front-on photographs showing the driver's face.
Most states are now starting to replace older analogue film fixed cameras with modern digital variants.
Fixed speed cameras can use Doppler RADAR or Piezo strips embedded in the road to measure a vehicle's speed as it passes the camera.
However ANPR technology is also used to time vehicles between two or more fixed cameras that are a known distance apart (typically at least several kilometres). The average speed is then calculated using the formula: . The longer distance over which the speed is measured prevents drivers from slowing down momentarily for a camera before speeding up again. The SAFE-T-CAM system uses this technology, but was designed to only targets heavy vehicles. Newer ANPR cameras in Victoria are able to target any vehicle.
Fixed dual speed and red light camera
These cameras are used in the Northern Territory, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. They detect speeding at the intersection as well as running a red light. They look the same as red light cameras, except they are digital and look slightly more modern. Some of the Victorian cameras are Traffipax brand.
In New South Wales and South Australia dual redlight/speed cameras are identified by a "Safety Camera" sign.
Queensland is in the process of investigating conversion to dual redlight/speed cameras as the current system is reaching end-of-life.
Other speed checking devices
Police also use other technology that does not rely photographs being taken of an offence, typically where officers enforce the speed limit in person.
'Silver Eagle'
New South Wales police used the Silver Eagle vehicle-mounted unit. This radar device is typically mounted on the right hand side of the vehicle just behind the driver, and is operated from inside the vehicle. The units are approved for use only in rural areas where traffic is sparse, and may be used from a stationary or moving vehicle.
'Stalker'
Police vehicles in New South Wales have recently been fitted with a dual-radar known as the Stalker DSR 2X, which is able to monitor vehicles moving in two different directions at the same time.
Other
NSW police also use LIDAR devices as well as vehicle speedometers and speed estimates to prosecute speeding motorists.
The TIRTL device is deployed as a speed measurement sensor in Victoria and New South Wales. The device consists of a pair of sensors embedded in the curb that use a series of infrared beams to monitor vehicles at wheel height. Although the sensors themselves are very difficult to see, they are accompanied by a standard Traffipax camera to capture images of the offence. The state of New South Wales approved the device in November 2008 for use in the state as dual red light / speed cameras (named "safety cameras" under the RTA's terminology).
Motorcycle and bicycle-mounted police in New South Wales are equipped with the binocular-styled "Pro-Lite+" LIDAR device.
History
Victoria
Started with a small trial in 1985 using signed cameras with minimal effect. The major introduction was at the end of 1989 with hidden speed cameras starting at around 500 hours/month increasing to 4000 hours/month by 1992. During the testing of the cameras the percentage of drivers speeding (over the speed camera thresholds) was 24% and by the end of 1992 this had dropped to 4%. The revenue collected by each camera dropped from $2000/hour to $1000/hour over 18 months. The road toll dropped from 776 in 1989 (no cameras) to 396 in 1992 (49% drop).
New South Wales
Mobile speed cameras were first used in New South Wales in 1991. In 1999 the authorities began to install fixed cameras, and signs warning of their presence, at crash black spots.
Western Australia
The government of Western Australia started using speed cameras in 1988.
See also
Point system
References
External links
State-published speed camera locations
Transport for NSW page of speed camera locations - NSW
Red Light and Speed Camera Locations Victoria - Victoria
Transport Department - Red Light / Speed Camera Locations - South Australia
SA Police Speed Camera Locations - South Australia
Speedometers and Speeding Fines
Driving in Australia
Road transport in Australia
Road safety in Australia
Traffic enforcement cameras |
17338734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luksang | Luksang | Luksang is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungpang | Lungpang | Lungpang is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20479144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kika%20Edgar | Kika Edgar | Kika Edgar (born January 9) is a Mexican actress and singer.
Biography
Sandra Erika Edgar Garza was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Beginning her career primarily in theater and musicals, she has become well known in Mexico, starring in telenovelas such as Amor Real and Contra Viento y Marea. She began her singing career in 2006 after her appearance in the Mexican reality show Cantando por un Sueño. Since then, Kika has released five solo albums, and has been called La Nueva Gran Intérprete de México ("The New Great Performer of Mexico").
Early career
Edgar began her career by studying acting and singing at the Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa (CEA). She specialized in ballet dancing, as she aspired to become a professional artist.
Television career
Albums
Cantando Por Un Sueño (2006) (Duets with her Cantando por un Sueño partner Raul Juárez)
Kika (2007)
Lo Siento mi Amor (2008) (Tribute album to legendary Mexican singer Lupita D'Alessio)
Señor Amante (2009)
Broadway (2011)
Nuevas Canciones (2016)
Colección de Antaño (2021)
References
External links
Mexican television actresses
Living people
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican women singers
1985 births |
17338743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machulo | Machulo | Machulo is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
44503874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroBasket%201993%20squads | EuroBasket 1993 squads | The following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams competing in the EuroBasket 1993, held in Germany between 22 June and 4 July 1993. Each team selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament.
Group A
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Group B
Bulgaria
Croatia
France
Turkey
Group C
Greece
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Group D
Belgium
Estonia
Germany
Slovenia
References
1993 European Championship for Men, FIBA.com.
European Championship 1993 - National Squads, LinguaSport.com.
1993 |
20479172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine%20Hermine%20K%C3%B8lle | Catharine Hermine Kølle | Catharine Hermine Kølle (29 February 1788 – 27 August 1859) was a Norwegian adventurer, writer and artist.
Biography
Catharine Kølle was born at Snarøya in the parish of Bærum in Akershus, Norway. She was one of three daughters of Christian Kølle (1736–1814) and Elisabeth Monrad (1758–1829). Her father was a language teacher and theologian. In 1803 the family moved to Kopervik on the island of Karmøy in the county of Rogaland, Norway. In 1807 the family moved to Holmen in Ulvik in the district of Hardanger, which became the permanent basis for her life. She received the customary education of young ladies from professional families. She later taught German and French, and some Latin and Italian at a small learning institution which had been founded by her father. Her family lived mostly on fruit growing and farming.
She is known principally as a hiker and artist, as well as for her travel journals. Between 1826 and 1858, Catharine Kölle carried out at least fifteen long journeys at home and abroad. She twice traveled by foot to Italy, including trips to Venice in 1841 and Genoa in 1858. She chronicled her travels in journals which provided documentary material about the places she visited. Her travel journals totaling over 400 pages are maintained at the library of the University Museum of Bergen.
She also painted at least 251 watercolor paintings of which over 200 watercolors are also maintained at the University Museum of Bergen. The total list of works contains not only scenes from places she has visited. She also painted the images in the travel descriptions from inaccessible destinations including North America, Guinea, Istanbul, Sri Lanka and Jakarta. Additionally she painted biblical and mythological scenes. Her works are painted in bright, bold colors. They have a naive expression, with accuracy in description of the topography and architecture.
References
Further reading
1788 births
1859 deaths
People from Bærum
Norwegian explorers
Norwegian educators
Norwegian travel writers
Norwegian women non-fiction writers
19th-century Norwegian painters
Norwegian women painters
19th-century Norwegian women artists
People from Ulvik |
17338748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawng | Magawng | Magawng is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20479208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Grinstead%20CC | East Grinstead CC | East Grinstead Cycling Club is a cycle touring club that engage in road racing championships.
History
East Grinstead Cycling Club was formed in 1950, and was initially a cycle touring club. Club members quickly found a love for racing, and the club enjoyed many successes, including numerous Sussex championships in road racing and time trialling.
Many well-known names have passed through its ranks, including Brian Phillips, Stephen Elms, Steven Dennis, and Belgian Women's National champion Natacha Maes.
Sean Yates and his brother Christian both started their cycling careers with the club. Sean famously went on to become one of Britain's most well-known continental professionals with a stage victory and wearing of the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France. He is still a member today, and it's not unknown for a member of the Yates family to show up to a club midweek Time Trial
The Club Today
Today the club enjoys some local success in Time Trials and is a regular promoter of cyclo-cross, individual time trial & reliability trial rides. During the summer months, the club promotes a full evening program of Time Trials, on Tuesday evenings, across a range of sporting courses and distances in Surrey & Sussex.
The club's official website link is here, where details of results, upcoming rides, club records, and how to become a member are available
The club is affiliated to British Cycling, Cycling Time Trials, Audax UK, Sussex CA, East Sussex CA, and the Southern Counties Cycling Union.
References
Cycling teams established in 1950
Sport in East Sussex
1950 establishments in England |
17338755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mang-ai | Mang-ai | Mang-ai is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20479283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Odds%20Against | The Odds Against | The Odds Against is a 1966 American short documentary film directed by Lee R. Bobker. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
See also
Psychiatric Nursing
The Revolving Door
References
External links
Watch The Odds Against on YouTube
1966 films
1966 documentary films
English-language films
American short documentary films
1960s short documentary films
Documentary films about incarceration in the United States
Films directed by Lee R. Bobker |
17338757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Esplen | John Esplen | Sir John Esplen, 1st Baronet, KBE (1863 – 7 February 1930) was an English shipbuilder.
Esplen was born in Liverpool, England, the son of William Esplen, a consulting engineer and naval architect. He was educated at Liverpool College and then joined the Liverpool engineering firm of Fawcett Preston, afterwards transferring to Earles' Shipbuilding Co of Hull. He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches of the office in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo. He finally became chairman of Esplen & Sons Ltd of Liverpool and Esplen, Son & Swainston Ltd of London, and was a director of many other shipbuilding and shipping companies.
During the First World War he served as director of oversea ship purchase at the Ministry of Shipping, and continued as chief professional adviser into the 1920s. For his work for the Ministry of Shipping he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1918 and in the June 1921 civil service honours, he was created a baronet of Hardres Court in the County of Kent, with the letters patent issued on 14 July 1921.
His name lives on in Esplen Avenue, Crosby.
Arms
Footnotes
References
Obituary, The Times, 8 February 1930
1863 births
1930 deaths
People educated at Liverpool College
English shipbuilders
British businesspeople in shipping
English engineers
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Civil servants in the Ministry of Shipping (United Kingdom)
Businesspeople from Liverpool |
20479292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-S%C3%A9bastien%20C%C3%B4t%C3%A9 | Jean-Sébastien Côté | Jean-Sébastien Côté is a musician and sound designer based in the Ottawa area, Canada. Originally a percussionist and accompanist for modern dance, he became interested in composing in the early 1990s and began collaborating with various choreographers in Quebec City. Since 1999, he has been working with Canadian director Robert Lepage, designing the sound and / or composing the music for many of his plays like 887, Playing Cards, Needles and Opium, The Blue Dragon, The Andersen Project, The Far Side of the Moon and Zulu Time.
He was also involved in Lepage's foray into other art forms: cinema (The far side of the moon), opera (1984) and dance (Eonnagata) and also composed music or did the sound design of various multimedia experiences and VR projects.
In 2017, he composed the music for Something about Wilderness, a choreography by Melanie Demers and Laïla Diallo for Swedish dance company Skånes Dansteater.
He received a Gascon-Roux award in 2006 and an Elliot Norton Award in 2012 for his work on The Andersen Project, another Gascon-Roux in 2014 for Needles and Opium and a Toronto Theatre Critic Award for 887.
He also released a record with musical partner François Therriault under the name crashride in 2015 to positive reviews.
Notes
References
Interview (in French) in La Scena Musicale
lacaserne.net
www.jscote.com
Radio-Canada
Canadian percussionists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17338759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangpyaw | Mangpyaw | Mangpyaw is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
44503878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper%20Cravath | Prosper Cravath | Prosper Cravath, Jr., (May 28, 1809May 20, 1886) was an American lawyer and Wisconsin pioneer. He was one of the original settlers of Whitewater, Wisconsin, and helped lay out the town plat. He represented Whitewater in the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1st Wisconsin Legislature (1848). He is the namesake of Cravath Lake in Whitewater.
Biography
Cravath was born in Cortland, New York, on May 28, 1809. He read law in the office of a prominent lawyer in Cortland for two years, but abandoned the study to pursue other work. He moved to Huron County, Ohio, sometime in the 1830s. In March 1839, he came to the town of Lima, in Rock County, Wisconsin Territory, near the site that would become the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin. He was soon joined by his parents and other family. During 1839, he participated in the first lawsuit in what would become the town of Whitewater, though he was not yet a practicing attorney. He was counsel for the plaintiff in a dispute over compensation for labor, and won the case for his client, William Birge.
In August 1840, the neighboring town was formalized and named "Whitewater" by an act of the territorial legislature. Later that year, he was summoned by Dr. James Tripp for his expertise to survey the site of a planned village in the neighboring town. Together with David J. Powers, who planned to set up a hotel in the new village, the men devised a plat for a settlement that would become the city of Whitewater. He became a large landowner in the new village and later sold dozens of lots for residential and commercial use.
During this time, he resumed the study of law; he was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1843 and set up a legal practice. He moved into the town of Whitewater in 1845 and served eight terms on the town board of supervisors in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.
On February 1, 1848, the people ratified the Constitution of Wisconsin and elected representatives to the 1st Wisconsin Legislature. Prosper Cravath was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly as representative of Walworth County's 2nd Assembly district–then comprising the towns of Whitewater, Richmond, and La Grange, in the northwest corner of the county. At the time, he was a member of the Whig Party. Rather than run for re-election in 1848, he ran for county judge, but was defeated. He subsequently ran for district attorney in 1850, but lost again. Like many northern Whigs, he became a member of the Republican Party when that party was organized in the 1850s. He did not run for state office again, but was appointed postmaster at Whitewater under President Ulysses S. Grant.
During the Civil War, he was a member of the county committee to assist in raising volunteers for the Union Army. Later in life, he helped organize the Historical Society of Walworth County. He served several years as an officer of the society, and contributed his own writings on the early days of Whitewater.
He died at his home in Whitewater on May 20, 1886, after a long illness.
Personal life and family
Prosper Cravath, Jr., was the eldest son of Prosper Cravath, a Presbyterian deacon, and his wife Miriam ( Kinney). Prosper Cravath would ultimately have fifteen siblings.
He married Maria Prudence Noble on March 27, 1834. Maria was a daughter of Solomon Noble, a blacksmith who had served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. They had two children. Their son, Pitt Cravath, also became a lawyer and was editor and owner of the Whitewater Chronicle. Pitt Cravath also served as a private in the 40th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and after the war gave two years service to reconstruction in Louisiana as assistant secretary of state.
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1809 births
1886 deaths
Farmers from Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
People from Cortland, New York
People from Whitewater, Wisconsin
Wisconsin lawyers
Wisconsin Whigs
Wisconsin Republicans
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers |
44503884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe%20Creek | Axe Creek | Axe Creek is a small community outside of Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. It is located in the City of Greater Bendigo local government area. The McIvor Highway passes through to the north of Axe Creek.
Axe Creek is named after a nearby creek of the same name. Most residents visit Bendigo for access to amenities. There is no commercial area.
References
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Bendigo
Suburbs of Bendigo |
20479299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenad%20Bjekovi%C4%87%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201974%29 | Nenad Bjeković (footballer, born 1974) | Nenad Bjeković, Jr. (born 17 February 1974) is a former Serbian footballer who played mainly as a striker.
Club career
After starting his career with Partizan, Bjeković made a move to French giants Marseille in 1995, but failed to make an impression and he left the club after only one season. Over the next two seasons, Bjeković had short spells with Nantes and Châteauroux, before returning to Partizan in the 1998–99 season.
In the summer of 1999, Bjeković moved to Greece by joining his former head coach and compatriot Ljubiša Tumbaković at AEK Athens, but he stayed in the Greek capital only one season. Bjeković also played in the Dutch Eredivisie with Fortuna Sittard and in the Belgian First Division with Lommel.
Personal life
His father Nenad was a renowned footballer who played for Partizan and Nice in the 1970s.
Honours
Partizan
FR Yugoslavia First League:1992-93 1993-94 1998-99
FR Yugoslavia Cup:1991-92 1993-94
AEK Athens
Greek Cup:1999-00
External links
LFP.fr profile
1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Belgrade
AEK Athens F.C. players
Association football forwards
Belgian First Division A players
Eredivisie players
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
FC Nantes players
FK Partizan players
Fortuna Sittard players
LB Châteauroux players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Olympique de Marseille players
Serbian expatriate footballers
Serbian footballers
Super League Greece players
K.F.C. Lommel S.K. players |
17338767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Gillois | André Gillois | Maurice Diamant-Berger (8 February 1902 – 18 June 2004), known as André Gillois, was a French writer, radio pioneer and - during the Second World War - general Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London.
Life
Before the war he worked for the cinema (with René Clair and his brother Henri), as a radio journalist and producer on Le Poste Parisien (with Jean Nohain, meeting Georges Feydeau, Edmond Rostand, Henri Bergson, Georges Courteline, Tristan Bernard or Sacha Guitry), and as an editor with François Bernouard (editing Jules Renard, Courteline, Zola). In 1940, he left Paris and spent two years in the Midi, establishing the first Résistance networks and links with the British. On 31 August 1942, he left from Cannes for Gibraltar at night on the sail-boat Seadog, then went by plane to London, with Nicholas Bodington.
From 17 May 1943 to 24 September 1944, he was the daily presenter of Honneur et patrie, the programme for the French resistance, creating le Chant des partisans and announcing every day "Ici Londres, les Français parlent aux Français" ("This is London, the French talk to the French"). On 1 June 1944, he replaced Maurice Schumann as general de Gaulle's spokesman.
After the war, he dedicated himself to writing plays and novels, as well as television and radio scripts. In the 1950s he, Emmanuel Berl and Maurice Clavel presented the radio series Qui êtes-vous ?. In 1954, Gillois created one of the first French TV gameshows, Télé Match, with Jacques Antoine and Pierre Bellemare, and in 1958 a jury (including Georges Simenon) awarded him the prix du Quai des Orfèvres for his crime novel 125, rue Montmartre.
In 1973, André-Gillois he published La Vie secrète des Français à Londres de 1940 à 1944, and in 1980 his memoirs were published as Ce siècle avait deux ans. He died in Paris in 2004 and is buried at Passy cemetery.
Family
He was the son of Dr Mayer Saül Diamant-Berger and Jenny Birman, and his brother was Henri Diamant-Berger. He married Suzon.
Works
c.1945. De la Résistance à l'Insurrection, preface by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, Éditions Sève, s.d.
1947. La Corde raide, Nouvelles Éditions Latines.
1950. La Souricière, Les Éditions de Minuit.
1953. Les grandes Familles de France, André Bonne.
1953. Qui êtes-vous ?, texte des émissions de radio (1949–1951), Gallimard.
1954–55. L'Art d'aimer à travers les âges, 3 vol., André Vial.
1957. Polydora, pièce en 3 actes, L'Avant-Scène, fémina-théâtre, n° 150.
1958. 125, Rue Montmartre, coll. Le Point d'interrogation, Hachette.
1959. Le petit Tailleur de Londres, roman, Julliard.
1959. Le Dessous des Cartes, pièce en 4 actes, L'Avant-Scène, fémina-théâtre, n° 194.
1963. La Corde pour le pendre, coll. Le Point d'interrogation, Hachette.
1966. La France qui rit... La France qui grogne, Hachette.
1967. Filous et Gogos, Hachette.
1968. Les petites Comédies, Julliard.
1970. Information contre X, Julliard.
1973. La Vie secrète des Français à Londres de 1940 à 1944, Hachette Littérature.
1980. Ce siècle avait deux ans. Mémoires, préface de Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, Belfond ; rééd. Mémoire du Livre, 2002.
1981. Voyage surprise. Les folles vacances de 20 Français, with Jean Nohain, Alain Lefeuvre.
1982. Un Roman d'amour, récit, Pierre Belfond.
1985. Gallifet, le fusilleur de la Commune, France Empire.
1986. Boulevard du Temps qui passe ; de Jules Renard à de Gaulle, Le Pré aux Clercs.
1986. Le Secret de la Tsarine, Payot.
1990. Le Mensonge historique, Robert Laffont.
1992. La Mort pour de rire, Le Cherche Midi.
1995. L'Homme éberlué, chronique du XXe siècle (1940–1975), Les Éditions de Paris.
1997. Le Penseur du dimanche, Éditions de Paris.
2000. Adieu mon siècle, Ornican.
Selected filmography
My Aunt from Honfleur'' (1931)
Writers from Paris
1902 births
2004 deaths
Burials at Passy Cemetery
20th-century French novelists
French radio personalities
French television presenters
French Resistance members
20th-century French screenwriters
French centenarians
Men centenarians
20th-century French journalists |
6906164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Troienne | La Troienne | La Troienne (1926–1954) was one of the most famous and influential Thoroughbred broodmares in twentieth century America. She produced 10 winners including two Hall of Fame inductees while at stud, while her daughters in turn produced many notable offspring. In 2000, pedigree expert Janeen Oliver designated her as the taproot of family 1-x, a designation that was implemented by the Pedigree Online Thoroughbred Database in 2003. Recent matrilineal descendants include 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail (2020), Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones (2004) and Super Saver (2010), Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality (2021), and Sussex Stakes winner Alcohol Free (2021).
She was a bay filly born in 1926 in France, and was sired by the French stallion Teddy. Her dam was the winner Helene de Troie, by imported British stallion Helicon. Her breeder and first owner was Marcel Boussac.
Racing career
In France, La Troienne raced twice as a two-year-old, finishing unplaced. At age three, she was unplaced in the Prix Chloé and Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. Shipped to England, she managed a third in the five furlong Snailwell Stakes at Newmarket, and a second in the Freckenham Stakes at seven furlongs. In her final start, the Welter Handicap at six furlongs, she again ran unplaced. In total, La Troienne started seven times with no wins, just one second and a third. Her earnings were equivalent to $146.
Breeding career
Sent by Boussac to England to the December 1930 Newmarket Sales, she sold for 1,250 guineas. At the time, she was in foal to Chef-de-Race Gainsborough. She was purchased by Colonel E. R. Bradley of the Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky and exported to the US in 1931. The Gainsborough filly was born deformed and had to be killed.
La Troienne produced 14 named foals. Twelve raced and ten were winners, including five stakes winners and two Hall of Fame inductees.
Black Helen (1932), a filly by Black Toney. Won four principal races, including the American Derby, the Florida Derby, the Maryland Handicap, and the Coaching Club American Oaks. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991. Black Helen's offspring were not successes on the track, but her daughters went on to become prominent producers. The most notable branch of her family descends from her eleventh foal, Hula Hula by Polynesian. This branch has produced major winners in North America, Australia and New Zealand, including Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin and champion older male Pleasant Tap.
Biologist (1934), a gelding by Bubbling Over. Stakes winner
Baby League (1935), a filly by Bubbling Over. Winner of one race, she became the dam of four stakes winners: the Hall of Fame filly Busher, Mr. Busher, Striking (3 wins, including Schuylerville Stakes), and Harmonizing. Striking was named broodmare of the year in 1961, and her family is still very active. Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones (in 2004) and Super Saver (in 2010) both trace back to her. More recently, Striking's branch of the family produced Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail and 2021 Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality.
Big Hurry (1936), a filly by Black Toney. Won four races, including the Selima Stakes, and was the dam of 10 winners including Be Fearless, Bridal Flower, The Admiral, Great Captain, and Searching. Searching also became a major producer whose family includes Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero and the great Allez France. Other daughters of Big Hurry include: Allemande, who was the third dam of Belmont Stakes winner Easy Goer; Blue Line, the fifth dam of Kentucky Oaks winner Pike Place Dancer and No Fiddling, the fourth dam of Prix du Jockey Club winner Caerleon.
Bimelech (1937), a colt by Black Toney. Bimelech won 11 races including the Belmont and Preakness Stakes. He was a Champion at ages two and three, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Bimelech sired 30 stakes winners.
Big Event (1938), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winner and dam of stakes winner Hall of Fame.
Businesslike (1939), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winless, she became the dam of two stakes winners: Auditing and Busanda, who in turn became the dam of champion and leading broodmare sire Buckpasser. Her family includes Preakness Stakes winner Prairie Bayou.
Besieged (1940), a colt by Balladier. Winner of 1 of 4 starts.
Broke Even (1941), a colt by Blue Larkspur. Winner of 11 of 44 starts.
Back Yard (1942), a gelding by Balladier. Unraced.
Bee Ann Mac (1944), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winner of the Selima Stakes.
Belle Histoire (1945), a filly by Blue Larkspur. Winless herself, she became the dam of 8 winners, including stakes winner Royal Record.
Belle of Troy in 1947, a filly by Blue Larkspur. Unraced, dam of stakes winner Cohoes, exported to the United Kingdom. Her family includes Breeders' Cup winner Stephanie's Kitten and major sire More Than Ready.
Trojan War (1948) a gelding by Shut Out. Winner of two races.
Owing to the success of her descendants, La Troienne was listed as a Cluster Mare, which is a Thoroughbred brood mare that has produced two or more winners of five or more of the eight most important and valuable races, within six generations. When writing about American Classic Pedigrees in 2003, Avalyn Hunter identified six winners of American Triple Crown races descended from her in the female line: Bimelech, Personality, Easy Goer, Sea Hero, Prairie Bayou, and Go for Gin, plus four winners of similarly prominent races for fillies: Princess Rooney, Lite Light, Pike Place Dancer and Tweedside. The list has only continued to grow, including 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Kentucky Derby winners Smarty Jones and Super Saver, Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail, plus Breeders' Cup winners Folklore, Judy the Beauty and Stephanie's Kitten. Essential Quality is both a Classic winner and a Breeders' Cup winner.
Beyond the success of her female line, La Troienne appears in the pedigrees of numerous other stakes winners, often through a form of inbreeding. One of pedigree analyst Les Brinsfield's favorite axioms was: "If a pedigree lacks La Troienne, get some in there. If it has La Troienne, get more in there." For example, La Troienne appears three times in the pedigree of 1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy. Leading sire Tapit is a descendant of A.P. Indy on the male side, and has an additional four strains of La Troienne from his dam, Tap Your Heels. Similarly, California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, traces to A.P. Indy on the male side, and has four additional strains of La Troienne through his dam, Love the Chase. Even American Pharoah, the 2015 Triple Crown winner, has five strains of La Troienne, in his case through grand-sire Empire Maker.
La Troienne's influence is not limited to North America. For example, she appears in the pedigrees of both Galileo and Danehill, leading sires in Great Britain and Ireland, through her great-grandson Buckpasser. The unbeaten Frankel, who descends from both Galileo and Danehill, thus has two strains of La Troienne.
La Troienne came in time to be described as "the most important producer to be brought across the Atlantic Ocean in [the twentieth] century." Pedigree expert Avalyn Hunter says she is "arguably the foremost American taproot mare of the modern era."
Later life
In 1938, at the age of 13, La Troienne was frightened by a thunderstorm and due to a loss of vision in her right eye, she bolted and collided with a tree. Her right shoulder was badly damaged and the veterinarians who examined her assured Colonel Bradley she would have to be destroyed. Col. Bradley said, "Put ten men with her night and day if it will help. We'll never get another like her." At the time La Troienne was carrying the filly Businesslike.
When Col. Bradley died in 1946, his stock was sold off. A syndicate including Greentree Stables, King Ranch, and Ogden Phipps received La Troienne.
After her foaling days had ended, La Troienne lived out her life in comfort. She died at Greentree Stud at the age of 28 on January 30, 1954. Her grave still stands at Greentree, now a part of Gainesway Farm.
Honors
The Grade II 7½ furlong La Troienne Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs was named after her for many years, until the name was changed for the 2009 running to the Eight Belles Stakes. Somewhat fittingly, Eight Belles was a member of La Troienne's female family. Churchill Downs then renamed the Louisville Distaff Handicap, for fillies and mares 3 years old and up, in La Troienne's honour. The new La Troienne Stakes became a Grade I stake in 2014.
La Troienne never received the title of Kentucky Broodmare of the Year as her best foals raced prior to the creation of the award in 1946. However, four of her female family descendants have been so honored: Striking (1961, a noted "blue hen" in her own right), Relaxing (1989, dam of Easy Goer), Glowing Tribute (1993, dam of Sea Hero), and Prospectors Delite (2003, dam of Mineshaft).
Pedigree
La Troienne was sired by Teddy, who is commonly considered the best three-year-old of 1916 in France and Spain, although his racing career was disrupted by World War I. He was the leading sire in France of 1923, and finished second in 1926, 1928 and 1932. Among his leading offspring were Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III, who both became outstanding sires when imported into the United States. Teddy was also an outstanding broodmare sire, leading the French list in 1935. Teddy was inbred 5x3 to Bend Or and 5x4x5 to Galopin.
La Troienne's dam, Helene de Troie, also produced Adargatis, who won the Prix de Diane and herself became a Classic producer. Her dam, Lady of Pedigree, was a half sister to the notable broodmare Absurdity, who produced two Classic winners, Jest and Black Gesture. This branch of the family is also still active around the world, producing Classic winners such as Lawman and Cape Blanco. Helene de Troie was inbred 4x5 to Bend Or.
La Troienne's pedigree thus shows multiple crosses (6X4X5X6) to Bend Or, and even more crosses farther back (6X5X6X5X7) to Galopin. The first nine generations of her pedigree show fourteen crosses to Stockwell. Pedigree consultant Les Brinsfield felt that the secret to her success as a broodmare traces to the first winner of the Epsom Derby, Diomed, who had limited success at the beginning of his stud career in England but left behind the outstanding producer Young Giantess before exported to America. Young Giantess produced a thriving family and literally hundreds of crosses to her accumulated in the pedigree of La Troienne. Meanwhile, in America, Diomed established the most dominant sire line of the 19th century, including 16-time leading sire Lexington, and those sires were often inbred to Diomed. Upon arrival in North America, La Troienne was bred to stallions who descended from this male line of Diomed. Brinfield concluded, "Every foal from La Troienne was the result of the reunion of male and female strains of Diomed after segregation for over a century. Barring an error in our pedigrees, this is undeniable. Equally undeniable, these foals were superior to the norm and the cumulative impact of their offspring is astounding."
References
External links
Pedigree Online Thoroughbred Database
Bloodlines – La Troienne (FR)
Family 1-x (table showing notable descendants of the family)
La Troienne's 7 generation pedigree
1926 racehorse births
1954 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in France
Racehorses trained in France
Thoroughbred family 1-s
Thoroughbred family 1-x
Blue Hen Broodmare |
17338771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandola | Jandola | Jandola () is the main town of Tank Subdivision (formerly known as "Frontier Region Tank") in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located at the boundary of South Waziristan. It has a population of 9,126 according to the 2017 Census of Pakistan. It also acts as the junction point that connects Tank-Makeen road with Tank-Wana road. Jandola is the origin of the Bettani tribe.
References
Populated places in Frontier Region Tank |
6906194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostatic%20plexus%20%28nervous%29 | Prostatic plexus (nervous) | The Prostatic Plexus is continued from the lower part of the pelvic plexus. It lies within the fascial shell of the prostate.
The nerves composing it are of large size.
They are distributed to the prostate seminal vesicle and the corpora cavernosa of the penis and urethra.
The nerves supplying the corpora cavernosa consist of two sets, the lesser and greater cavernous nerves, which arise from the forepart of the prostatic plexus, and, after joining with branches from the pudendal nerve, pass forward beneath the pubic arch. Injury to the prostatic plexus (during prostatic resection for example) is highly likely to cause erectile dysfunction. It is because of this relationship that surgeons are careful to maintain the integrity of the prostatic fascial shell so as to not interrupt the post-ganglionic parasympathetic fibers that produce penile erection.
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Nerve plexus |
20479302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio%20Pisati | Maurizio Pisati | Maurizio Pisati (born in Milan in 1959) is an Italian musician and composer.
He composes and performs his works with his group ZONE. He founded the LArecords label in 1997, he is artistic director of pactaSOUNDzone festival in Milan, and leads CSR-centro studi e ricerche and INCROCIlab at Conservatorio G. B. Martini Bologna.
Education
Maurizio Pisati graduated with highest marks in Composition, Analysis, History, Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatorio G. Verdi of Milan under A. Guarnieri and G. Manzoni, and in the same time studying at summer courses Darmstadt and with S. Sciarrino at Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan, and at Specialisation Courses Città di Castello. He graduated in Guitar (again at Milan) and had a fruitful performing career between 1983 and 1989 establishing and playing in the Laboratorio Trio. Plays his own music on ElectricGuitar and LiveElectronics in his group ZONE.
Teaching
He is Professor in Element of Composition, "Invention&Interpretation", "Composition for applied music" at Conservatorio G. B. Martini in Bologna, where is also leading "CSR-centro studi e ricerche" and "INCROCIlab".
Since 1994 to 1996 he has taught at Corsi di Perfezionamento in Bobbio and in 2004 at summer courses Novantiqua in Frascati. He has given lectures and masterclasses at Toho Gakuen University-Tokyo, Tokyo Music College, Arts Academy Reykjavik, Politecnico delle Arti-Milano, Irino Foundation-Tokyo and Universities of Vaxjö, Brisbane, Melbourne.
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Discography
Ab Sofort - CD Edipan1992, Flute and Piano; Duo Zurria-Pizzo
FFA - CD RCA/ BMG Ariola1993, Tenor Recorder, Flute, Arpa; Ensemble Alter Ego
The Running Quartet - CD Ricordi/Fonit Cetra1994, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Alto, Cello; Ensemble Contrechamps
S - CD RCA/BMG Ariola1995, Tenor Sax, Tape, Live Electronics; Sax: Federico Mondelci
TAXI! - CD LArecords 1997, Words by R. Sanesi, El-MIDI Guit. M. Pisati, Recorder A. Politano,
Perc. P. Strinna, Voices E. Callegari, R. Sanesi
Il Copiafavole - CD LArecords 1998, Voices, acoustic and electronic instruments and copy machines
Ricorda I Giochi - CD “Shin-On” LArecords1999, Cymbals T. Kasuya, Fl. M. Zurria; Voice Reiko Takashi Irino, El. MIDI Guit. M. Pisati
Spiegelkontaktfabrik - CD ArsPublica2001, Didjeridoo/Oboe M. Rinaldi; AudioTrack, Mix and Editing M. Pisati
Spiegelkontaktfabrik - CD Stradivarius 2003, Electric Guitar Elena Càsoli; AudioTrack, Mix and Editing M. Pisati
ZONE-Tarkus / ZONEpopTRAIN - CD Victor Japan 2004, Aki Kuroda, Quartetto Prometeo, Elena Càsoli, Maurizio Ben Omar, Cond. Yoichi Sugiyama
TheRunningDuo-Tenor & DoubleBass Recorder. Duo Recordronik, CavalliRecords2006
CHAHACK-Guitar and AudioTrack, Sergio Sorrentino Guitar, SiltaRecords2013
Set7- Seven studies for classical guitar and seven duo for cl. guitar and seven instrument, Ruben Mattia Santorsa guitar, various artist, Kairos 2018
Works
Umbra, Bühnenwerk für Ensemble, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 1988
Ermengarda Bühnenwerk, 1989
-70mV für Orchester, 1989
Sette Studi für Gitarre, 1990
Ö für Tenorsaxophon und Posaune, 1991
Ab sofort für Flöte und Klavier, 1991
FFA für Recorder, Flöte und Harfe, 1993
The Running Quartet für Bassklarinette, Violine, Viola und Cello, 1994
7 für Klavier, Schlagzeug und Live-Elektronik, 1994
S für Tenorsaxophon, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 1995
ZONE I für Flöte, Elektrogitarre und LIve-Elektronik, 1995
ZONE II für Stimme, Schlagzeug und Live-Elektronik, 1995
TAXI! Bühnenwerk für Ensemble, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 1995
HACK für Flöte und Schlagzeug, 1996
San Moku Sen Gan für Ensemble, Tonband und Film, 1996
ZONE-Franche, Happening in Padua für Cello, Klavier, Glocken, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 1996
ZONE II Suite für Ensemble, Tonband und Film, 1997
FUEYE für Blasorchester, 1997
ShiKaShi für zwei Recorder, Schlagzeug und Live-Elektronik, 1997
Vormittagsspuk Stummfilmmusik für Rekorder und Gitarre, 1997
SaxStories für vier Saxophone, 1998
ZONE-Alp für Flöte und Gitarre, 1998
L’Autore a chi legge für Schauspielerin, Elektrogitarre, Schlagzeug und Live-Elektronik, 1998
ZONE-d'Amore für Stimme, Elektrogitarre, Schlagzeug und Film, 1998
La Stanza degli Indizi Terrestri (nach Texten von Marina Cvetaeva und Leonardo da Vinci) für Ensemble, Tonband und Film (von Marcos Jorge), 1998
3HATSconcert für Stimme, Elektrogitarre, Schlagzeug und Film, 1998
Senti? für Gitarre und Streichorchester, 1999
STOCK ZONE-TakuHon, Bühnenwerk für Cello, Schlagzeug, Streichorchester und Tonband, 1999
Ricorda i Giochi für Frauenstimme, Flöte, Elektrogitarre, Cymbal und Live-Elektronik, 1999
CATVLLVS für Laute, Schlagzeug und Live-Elektronik, 2000
SpiegelKontaktFabrik für Oboe, Didgeridoo, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 2000
TEI für Koto und Klavier, 2000
Samblana für Saxophon und Gitarre, 2000
Tamatebako für Schlagzeug, 2001
Il Copiafavole-ZONE, Bühnenwerk, 2001
PURPLE H für Ensemble, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 2001
Sì, cos’è? für Schlagzeug und Streichorchester, 2003
ZONE-popTRAIN für Ensemble, 2003
Passacaglia Mit Albert für Recorder, Tonband und Live-Elektronik, 2005
QUESTIO mit der Stimme des Dichters Thor Vilhjalmsson für Trompete, Schlagzeug und Elektronik, 2006
References
Official website
Kairos Page: https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0015052kai
Musicians from Milan
Italian composers
Italian male composers
1959 births
Living people |
17338779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangtong%2C%20Chipwi | Mangtong, Chipwi | Mangtong is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6906225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%20Buckles | Jess Buckles | Jesse Robert Buckles (May 20, 1890 – August 2, 1975), nicknamed "Jim", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games, both in relief, for the New York Yankees near the end of the 1916 season.
Buckles made his major league debut on September 17, 1916, against the Cleveland Indians at League Park. His second and final appearance (October 3) was in a home game against the Washington Senators at the Polo Grounds. In his two games he pitched a total of four innings and gave up just one earned run, giving him an ERA of 2.25.
External links
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from California
New York Yankees players
1890 births
1975 deaths
Harrisburg Islanders players
Holyoke Papermakers players
Medicine Hat Hatters players
Troy Trojans (minor league) players
Scranton Miners players
Moose Jaw Robin Hoods players |
6906230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Act%201989 | Representation of the People Act 1989 | The Representation of the People Act 1989 (c. 28) is an act by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It extended the time that a British citizen could have lived abroad and still vote from 5 years to 20 years, and extended this right to people who were too young to vote at the time of leaving Britain.
See also
Representation of the People Act 1969
Representation of the People Act 1985
References
External links
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1989
Representation of the People Acts
1989 in law |
17338796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhkaung | Mukhkaung | Mukhkaung is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6906244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesical%20nervous%20plexus | Vesical nervous plexus | The vesical nervous plexus arises from the forepart of the pelvic plexus.
The nerves composing it are numerous, and contain a large proportion of spinal nerve fibers.
They accompany the vesicle arteries, and are distributed to the sides and fundus of the bladder.
Numerous filaments also pass to the seminal vesicles and vas deferens; those accompanying the vas deferens join, on the spermatic cord, with branches from the spermatic plexus.
Additional images
References
External links
Nerve plexus |
20479308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Eugene%20Harper | Edward Eugene Harper | Edward Eugene Harper (born March 1, 1946) is an American former fugitive who was wanted for sex crimes against children. Harper was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on November 29, 2008. After 15 years on the run, he was captured in Wyoming by the FBI on July 23, 2009.
Background
Early life and family
Edward Eugene Harper was born in New Mexico to Nell Trimue Harper, a Baptist from Forrest City, Arkansas. Edward Harper has at least three sisters, he has been married twice and has two children.
Personal life
Harper had little formal education.
He reportedly subscribed to Sovereign Citizen Movement ideology and claimed to be a member of the Montana Freemen, although authorities have never been able to confirm his affiliation with the group.
Harper was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder by a behavioral psychologist in Mississippi, shortly after his 1994 arrest. The disorder is characterized by a desire for social isolation, social anxiety and odd behavior. Harper is described as a survivalist, who has lived outside of modern society, but according to FBI Special Agent Ryan Arton he "could distinguish right from wrong".
Child molestation accusations
From fall of 1993 to March 1994, Harper molested two girls in Hernando, Mississippi. In 1993, Harper, who was forty-eight years old, lived with his eighteen-year-old wife, Debra Busby, in a trailer park in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
According to Arton, the FBI Special Agent, Harper and his then-19-year-old wife began to look after one of his victims, a three-year-old girl, whose homeless mother could not take care for her. Sexual abuse by Harper and his wife Debra began within a month. The second victim was an eight-year-old girl who lived in the neighborhood. Arton said Harper threatened his wife and victims with violence if they ever told anyone of the abuse.
In March 1994, after the girls told their parents about the sexual abuse, police obtained a search warrant. When Harper's trailer home was raided, he had already fled. After the raid, a highway officer in Utah performed a routine traffic stop and pulled over Harper and his wife. When the officer ran his name, the warrant came to his attention. Harper was arrested and extradited back to Mississippi. Harper was indicted on April 27, 1994 and released on $20,000 bond, but he failed to appear for a court hearing and his bond was revoked. A state warrant was issued for his arrest on October 31, 1994, in DeSoto County, Mississippi. Subsequently, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Harper by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, after he was charged in violation of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on February 5, 1999.
Fugitive
During Harper's time on the run, his mother received several letters from "Ed Harmon" - an alias used by Edward Harper. The letters mentioned him doing ranch work in Montana and Wyoming.
Harper's phone calls to his half-sister mentioned "cattle work", but he did not reveal his location. His mother died in 1998, and her obituary mentioned that her son Edward E. Harper was living in Montana.
He was placed on Oprah Winfrey's Child Predator Watch List and was profiled on the television program America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back.
On November 29, 2008 Harper was named by the FBI as the 491st fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He replaced Michael Registe on the list. There was a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to Harper's capture being offered by the FBI. The reward will be paid to the tipster.
Harper lived a nomadic lifestyle, living in a truck with a camper top, moving from place to place, and earning a living by doing odd jobs and herding sheep. He would make trips to buy groceries and tobacco to the general store in Kaycee, which was said to be the nearest town to his camp. Harper himself told the judge he had been living on and off for 15 years in the Broken Horn Creek area.
Capture
The FBI received a telephone tip in June at the Denver office regarding Harper, and brought a SWAT team and a hostage negotiation team to apprehend him. He was captured in Washakie County, Wyoming in the southern portion of the Big Horn Mountains on July 23, 2009 by FBI and Wyoming Game and Fish Department officers after nearly 15 years on the run. Harper surrendered without an incident and admitted his identity. He had an unspecified number of handguns and rifles in his truck but was not carrying them when he was apprehended.
Harper was transported to Casper, where he was being held at the Natrona County jail and extradited to Mississippi in September 2009.
Trial and conviction
Harper was convicted by the DeSoto County Circuit Court of six counts of sexual battery, two counts of fondling, and two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual battery in October 2010. Harper was sentenced to a total of fifty years to serve in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
References
External links
FBI press release announcing Harper's addition to the list
FBI press release announcing Harper's capture
Harper's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
Harper's profile on America's Most Wanted
1946 births
American nomads
American prisoners and detainees
American ranchers
American truck drivers
Criminals from New Mexico
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Living people
People extradited within the United States
People from Hernando, Mississippi
People from New Mexico
People with schizotypal personality disorder
Prisoners and detainees of Mississippi
People convicted of sex crimes |
23577700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Streamy%20Awards | 1st Streamy Awards | The 1st Annual Streamy Awards was the first ever awards ceremony dedicated entirely to web series and the first installment of the Streamy Awards. The awards were held on March 28, 2009, at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The event had over 1,300 audience members in attendance and was simultaneously broadcast live online. The Official Red Carpet Pre-Show was hosted by Shira Lazar and the award show was co-hosted by Tubefilter, NewTeeVee and Tilzy.TV. The web series The Guild and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog were the biggest winners of the night, winning four and six awards, respectively, out of the 25 award categories. The show was met by positive reception by celebrities in attendance and the media.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on March 13, 2009 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series were announced on March 17. The Streamy Craft Award winners were announced in a ceremony held on March 26, 2009. The remaining award categories were announced during the main ceremony at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28. Winners of the categories were selected by the International Academy of Web Television except for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series which was put to a public vote.
Winners are listed first, in bold.
Web series with multiple nominations and awards
Reception
The New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan called the show "a goofy and a powerful experience." Heffernan, alongside Alexia Tsotsis writing for LA Weekly, were impressed by the celebrity presence at the show, with Tsotsis calling it "an Emmys for Web TV." Maria Russo, writing for TheWrap, and Patrick Orndorff, writing for Wired, praised the quality of the nominees. Russo opined of the show that although "[in] the big scheme of things it all feels very fledgling", the existence of the awards felt "like a cool glimpse into the future". Heffernan, Tsotsis, and Jill Weinberger of Gigaom, singled out the speeches of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog writer Joss Whedon and The Guild star Felicia Day as particularly memorable with Whedon praising the online content creators in attendance and Day saying of her awards "this is for everyone who ever said no to me." YouTuber and singer Tay Zonday was enthusiastic about the awards saying that they show "that people don't have to play the system to have their art acknowledged," and actor David Faustino said of the show "we're at a baby stage of something that's going to be amazingly giant and I'm excited to be on ground floor." Brian Lowry writing for Variety called the Streamys the "Worst Award Name Ever".
See also
List of Streamy Award winners
References
External links
Streamy Awards website
Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards
2009 in American television |
20479347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Matthew%20Passion%20%28film%29 | Saint Matthew Passion (film) | Saint Matthew Passion () is a 1966 Hungarian short documentary film directed by Tamás Czigány. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
References
External links
1966 films
1966 documentary films
1966 short films
Hungarian-language films
Hungarian short documentary films
1960s short documentary films |
6906268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessie%20Baker | Dessie Baker | Desmond "Dessie" Baker (born 25 August 1977 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer who plays for Leinster Senior League side Edenderry Town.
He has three children.
Early career
From Tallaght Baker was a graduate of Dublin youth clubs Marks Celtic and Stella Maris, before spending his late teens as a trainee at Manchester United. Baker enjoyed a fruitful career at youth level, winning the FA Youth Cup and Youth League with Manchester United and numerous schoolboy international caps for Republic of Ireland. Baker played for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 football team in the 1996 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship finals in Luxembourg and scored against Italy . Although he was named the FAI Youth Player of the Year in 1995 he failed to earn a professional contract at Old Trafford, however, and after a brief detour to Oldham returned to Ireland in the summer of 1996, having been offered a contract by League of Ireland club, Shelbourne.
League of Ireland career
He made his League of Ireland debut at UCD on 15 December 1995 and would remain a fixture in the Shels line-up for the remainder of the decade, but rose to wider prominence as a member of Brian Kerr's Republic of Ireland squad which placed third at the 1997 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Baker famously headed the opening goal of Ireland's 2–1 victory over Ghana in the third/fourth place play-off after less than a minute of play had elapsed .
He had already represented his country at U16 and U18 levels.
Baker (who scored another memorable goal against Kilmarnock F.C. in the 1997–98 Cup Winners' Cup, although Shels eventually lost the tie) was an integral member of the Shelbourne team which won the League of Ireland championship under Dermot Keely in 1999–2000, frequently operating on the left-hand side of a forward trident which also featured his brother Richie on the opposite flank.
Another league title followed in 2001–02, but this time Shels were crowned champions under contentious and unsatisfactory circumstances, while Baker himself hardly muddied his boots all season. Keely, bemoaning the pressures of full-time football management, vacated his position, and his successor Pat Fenlon consigned Baker almost permanently to the substitutes' bench.
Baker served out the remainder of his contract during two frustrating and largely inactive seasons under Fenlon (incorporating a brief loan spell at UCD), before signing a two-year contract with Longford Town in January 2004. Longford manager Alan Matthews (formerly attached to the coaching staff at Shels) declared that "[Baker is] a good asset to us and he has something to prove to people after his last two seasons which have seen him play very little football." Baker himself was of the opinion that "the squad of players he [Matthews] has should see us challenging for more silverware next season."
This view was instantly vindicated as Longford won their maiden FAI Cup in 2003, a feat they remarkably reprised in 2004, when the additional conquest of the League of Ireland Cup reinforced the club's status as connoisseurs of knockout football.
Despite participation in the UEFA Cup and newly instituted Setanta Sports Cup, Longford's form deteriorated markedly resulting in relegation at the end of the 2007 season despite reaching the FAI Cup Final.
Baker signed for Shamrock Rovers in December 2007. He made his league debut for the Hoops on 8 March 2008, and scored his first goal on 21 March against Bray Wanderers. Despite a positive start to his Rovers career, Baker fell out of favour with Rovers manager Pat Scully and in July 2008 Baker was loaned to First Division title challengers Dundalk for the remainder of that season. Baker won a First Division winners medal with Dundalk as they pipped his former club Shelbourne to the title on a dramatic ending to the final night of the season.
Baker returned to Shamrock Rovers for the 2009 season and his faltering Rovers career was given a new lease of life by new manager Michael O'Neill. Baker re-established himself in the Rovers starting XI after instantly developing a formidable partnership with Gary Twigg as Rovers finished 2nd in the Premier Division. During the season Baker appeared as a second-half substitute in a friendly match against Real Madrid at Tallaght Stadium on 20 July 2009. The game was noted for Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid debut. Baker missed an opportunity to put Shamrock Rovers ahead, and soon after Karim Benzema grabbed a late winner for the Spanish outfit.
In 2010, numerous injuries hampered Baker over the course of the season resulting in him announcing his intention to retire from football at the end of the season. He capped off his League of Ireland career by winning his fourth title as Shamrock Rovers won the 2010 Premier Division title on the final day of the season.
In his time at the Hoops, Baker scored a total of 19 goals in 75 total appearances.
Honours
Club
Shelbourne
League of Ireland: 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2003
FAI Cup: 1997, 2000
Shamrock Rovers
2010
Longford Town
2004
League of Ireland Cup: 2004
Dundalk
League of Ireland First Division: 2008
International
FIFA World Youth Championship: Third Place 1997
References
1977 births
Living people
Association footballers from Dublin (city)
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Republic of Ireland youth international footballers
Manchester United F.C. players
Shelbourne F.C. players
University College Dublin A.F.C. players
Longford Town F.C. players
Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
Dundalk F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Republic of Ireland under-21 international footballers
Republic of Ireland B international footballers
Stella Maris F.C. players
Leinster Senior League (association football) players
Association football midfielders |
23577705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosalpinx%20egleri | Trichosalpinx egleri | Trichosalpinx egleri is a species of orchid native to southern tropical America (Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and the Caribbean).
References
External links
egleri
Orchids of Bolivia
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Guyana
Orchids of French Guiana
Orchids of Peru
Orchids of Suriname
Orchids of Venezuela
Flora of the Caribbean
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
20479412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument%20to%20the%20Dream | Monument to the Dream | Monument to the Dream is a 1967 American short documentary film about the Gateway Arch National Park directed by Charles Guggenheim and narrated by Paul Richards. At the time of the film's production, the park was known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
See also
List of American films of 1967
References
External links
Monument to the Dream at the National Archives and Records Administration
1967 films
1967 documentary films
1967 short films
1967 independent films
1960s short documentary films
English-language films
American short documentary films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Charles Guggenheim
American independent films
Documentary films about architecture
Films set in St. Louis
Films shot in St. Louis |
17338798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal%20El%20Najjarine | Bilal El Najjarine | Bilal Mohamad Saada Cheikh El Najjarine (; born 8 February 1981), or simply Bilal El Najjarine, is a Lebanese former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
At club level he most notably played for Nejmeh, also playing in India and the United Arab Emirates. He represented Lebanon internationally between 2004 and 2015.
Club career
El Najjarine joined Nejmeh on 18 August 2003. After eight years, he moved to NSW Premier League side Bankstown City Lions in June 2011, making his debut on 19 June in a 1–0 win over Rockdale City Suns. He played three league games in total.
In 2012, El Najjarine moved to Indian I-League side Churchill Brothers on a one-year contract. He made his debut on 6 October 2012, in their 2–0 defeat to Dempo. He appeared in fifteen league matches and scored a goal during the 2012–13 I-League season, as the club clinched its second league title under the guidance of manager Mariano Dias.
Career statistics
International
Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each El Najjarine goal.
Honours
Nejmeh
Lebanese Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2008–09
Lebanese FA Cup: 2015–16; runner-up: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2011–12
Lebanese Elite Cup: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2016
Lebanese Super Cup: 2002, 2004, 2009, 2016
AFC Cup runner-up: 2005
Churchill Brothers
I-League: 2012–13
Individual
Lebanese Premier League Best Player: 2011–12
Lebanese Premier League Team of the Season: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
See also
List of Lebanon international footballers
References
External links
Bilal El Najjarine at RSSSF
1981 births
Living people
Lebanese footballers
Association football central defenders
Sportspeople from Tripoli, Lebanon
Nejmeh SC players
Bankstown City Lions Football Club players
Churchill Brothers FC Goa players
Dibba FC players
Al Dhafra FC players
Lebanese Premier League players
I-League players
UAE Pro League players
Lebanon international footballers
Lebanese expatriate footballers
Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in India
Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate soccer players in Australia
Expatriate footballers in India
Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates |
17338800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukkaung | Mukkaung | Mukkaung is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17338810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukyaw | Mukyaw | Mukyaw is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
6906270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20governors%20of%20the%20Leeward%20Islands | List of governors of the Leeward Islands | This is a list of governors of the Leeward Islands.
The Leeward Islands was originally created as a colony of England in 1671, continuing in existence until its dissolution in 1816.
In 1833 a number of island colonies were grouped together under a single governor once again. These islands were reconstituted as a federal colony in 1872. The federal colony was dissolved in 1956 with its constituent territories becoming colonies of the United Kingdom in their own right but still under a single governor. The office of Governor of the Leeward Islands remained in existence after the establishment of the Federation of the West Indies in 1958 until finally being abolished with effect from 1 January 1960.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1671–1816)
1671–1686: Sir William Stapleton
1686-1689: Sir Nathaniel Johnson (Made Governor of South Carolina 1689)
1689-1699: Christopher Codrington, the Elder
1699–1704: Christopher Codrington, the Younger
1704: John Johnson (first time, acting)
1704: Sir William Mathew
1704–1706: John Johnson (second time, acting)
1706–1710: Daniel Parke
1710–1711: Walter Hamilton (first time, acting)
1711–1714: Walter Douglas
1714–1715: William Mathew, Jr. (first time, acting)
1715–1721: Walter Hamilton (second time)
1721–1728: John Hart
1728–1729: The Earl of Londonderry
1729: William Cosby (acting)
1729: George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard
1729–1752: William Mathew, Jr. (second time)
1753–1766: George Thomas
1766–1768: James Vercild
1768–1771: William Woodley (first time)
1771–1776: Sir Ralph Payne
1776–1781: William Mathew Burt
1781–1788: Sir Thomas Shirley (first time)
1788–1790: John Nugent
1790–1791: Sir Thomas Shirley (second time)
1791–1793: William Woodley (second time)
1795–1799: Charles Leigh
1799–1807: The Lord Lavington
1808–1814: Hugh Elliot
1814–1816: Sir James Leith
In 1816 the colony was dissolved.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1833–1872)
In 1833 the colonies of Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St Kitts, and the Virgin Islands were brought together under the Governor of Antigua.
In 1872 the Governor of Antigua became the first Governor of a new federal colony of the Leeward Islands.
Governors of the Leeward Islands (1872–1959)
1872–1873: Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
1873–1874: Sir Henry Turner Irving
1874: Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1875–1881: Sir George Berkeley
1881: Henry James Burford Buford-Hancock (acting)
1881–1884: Sir John Hawley Glover
1884–1885: Sir Charles Cameron Lees
1885: Charles Monroe Eldridge
1885–1888: The Viscount Gormanston
1888: Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell (acting)
1888–1895: Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
1895–1901: Sir Francis Fleming
1901–1902: Sir Henry Moore Jackson
1902–1904: Sir Gerald Strickland.
1904–1905: Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys
1906–1912: Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
1912–1916: Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
1916–1921: Sir Edward Marsh Merewether
1921–1929: Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
1929–1936: Sir Thomas Reginald St. Johnston
1936–1941: Sir Gordon James Lethem
1941–1943: Sir Douglas James Jardine
1943–1947: Sir Brian Freeston
1947–1948: William Alexander Macnie (acting)
1948–1950: The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
1950–1956: Sir Kenneth Blackburne
1957–1959: Sir Alexander Thomas Williams
References
External links
http://www.rulers.org/rula2.html#antigua_and_barbuda
Cassiques (A list of Governors from Indies that also went to Carolina)
Leeward Islands, Governors
Leewards
Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands |
44503889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20churches%20in%20Kalundborg%20Municipality | List of churches in Kalundborg Municipality | This list of churches in Kalundborg Municipality lists church buildings in Kalundborg Municipality, Denmark. The municipality is situated on the northwestern part of the island of Zealand and also comprises the smaller islands of Sejerø and Nekselø.
Overview
Kalundborg Municipality belongs to the Diocese of Roskilde, a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. It is divided into 34 parishes. The parish of Gierslev contains two churches, Gierslev Church and Vester Løve Church. Ubberup Church belongs to a so-called valgmenighed.
The municipality's largest and most notable church is the five-towered Church of Our Lady which stands on a hill above the historical centre of Kalundborg. Apart from that, the area is characterized by its many white-washed parish churches from the 13th century. The churches in Gørlev, Rørby, Sæby, Tømmerup, Viskinge and Ørslev all feature medieval church frescos.
List
See also
List of churches in Odsherred Municipality
List of churches in Næstved Municipality
References
External links
Nordens kirker: Nordvestsjælland
Churches
Kalundborg |
23577707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanizaki%20Prize | Tanizaki Prize | The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen.
Winners
Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works.
1965 Kojima Nobuo for Embracing Family (Hōyō kazoku, 抱擁家族)
1966 Endō Shūsaku for Silence (Chinmoku, 沈黙)
1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for The Silent Cry (Manen gannen no futtoboru, 万延元年のフットボール)
1967 Abe Kobo for Friends (Tomodachi, 友達)
1968 (no prize awarded)
1969 Enchi Fumiko for Shu wo ubau mono; Kizu aru tsubasa; Niji to shura (朱を奪うもの/傷ある翼/虹と修羅)
1970 Yutaka Haniya for Black Horse In The Midst Of Darkness (Yami no naka no kuroi uma, 闇のなかの黒い馬)
1970 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for The Dark Room (Anshitsu, 暗室)
1971 Noma Hiroshi for Seinen no wa (青年の環)
1972 Maruya Saiichi for A Singular Rebellion (Tatta hitori no hanran, たった一人の反乱)
1973 Kaga Otohiko for Kaerazaru natsu (帰らざる夏)
1974 Usui Yoshimi for Azumino (安曇野)
1975 Minakami Tsutomu for Ikkyū (一休)
1976 Fujieda Shizuo for Denshin ugaku (田紳有楽)
1977 Shimao Toshio for Hi no utsuroi (日の移ろい)
1978 Nakamura Shin'ichirō for Summer (Natsu, 夏)
1979 Tanaka Komimasa for Poroporo (ポロポロ)
1980 Kono Taeko for Ichinen no banka (一年の牧歌)
1981 Fukazawa Shichiro for Michinoku no ningyotachi (みちのくの人形たち)
1981 Goto Akio for Yoshinodayu (吉野大夫)
1982 Oba Minako for Katachi mo naku (寂兮寥兮)
1983 Furui Yoshikichi for Morning Glory (Asagao, 槿)
1984 Kuroi Senji for Life in the Cul-de-Sac (Gunsei, 群棲)
1984 Takai Yuichi for This Country's Sky (Kono kuni no sora, この国の空)
1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando, 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)
1986 Hino Keizo for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni (砂丘が動くように)
1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yumenokizaka bunkiten (夢の木坂分岐点)
1988 (no prize awarded)
1989 (no prize awarded)
1990 Hayashi Kyoko for Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae (やすらかに今はねむり給え)
1991 Inoue Hisashi for Shanghai Moon (Shanhai Mūn, シャンハイムーン)
1992 Setouchi Jakucho for Hana ni toe (花に問え)
1993 Ikezawa Natsuki for The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili (Mashiasu giri no shikkyaku, マシアス・ギリの失脚)
1994 Tsujii Takashi for Rainbow Cove (Niji no misaki, 虹の岬)
1995 Tsuji Kunio for Saigyō kaden (西行花伝)
1996 (no prize awarded)
1997 Hosaka Kazushi for Kisetsu no kioku (季節の記憶)
1997 Miki Taku for Roji (路地)
1998 Tsushima Yūko for Mountain of Fire: Account of a Wild Monkey (Hi no yama - yamazaruki, 火の山―山猿記)
1999 Takagi Nobuko for Translucent Tree (Tokō no ki, (透光の樹)
2000 Tsujihara Noboru for Yudotei Maruki (遊動亭円木)
2000 Murakami Ryū for A Symbiotic Parasite (Kyoseichu, 共生虫)
2001 Hiromi Kawakami for The Briefcase aka Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban, センセイの鞄)
2002: (no prize awarded)
2003: Tawada Yoko for Suspect On The Night Train (Yōgisha no yakōressha, 容疑者の夜行列車)
2004: Horie Toshiyuki for Yukinuma and Its Environs (Yukinuma to sono shūhen, 雪沼とその周辺)
2005: Machida Kō for Confession (Kokuhaku, 告白)
2005: Amy Yamada for Wonderful Flavor (Fūmizekka, 風味絶佳)
2006: Yōko Ogawa for Meena's March (Mīna no Kōshin, ミーナの行進)
2007: Seirai Yuichi for Bakushin (爆心)
2008: Natsuo Kirino for Tokyo-jima (東京島)
2009: (no prize awarded)
2010: Kazushige Abe for Pistils (Pisutoruzu, ピストルズ)
2011: Mayumi Inaba for To the Peninsula (半島へ)
2012: Genichiro Takahashi for Goodbye, Christopher Robin (さよならクリストファー・ロビン)
2013: Mieko Kawakami for Dreams of Love (Ai no Yume to ka, 愛の夢とか)
2014: Hikaru Okuizumi for The Autobiography of Tokyo (Tōkyō jijoden, 東京自叙伝)
2015: Kaori Ekuni for Geckos, Frogs, and Butterflies (Yamori Kaeru Shijimichō, ヤモリ、カエル、シジミチョウ)
2016: Akiko Itoyama for Hakujyō (薄情)
2016: Yū Nagashima for San no Tonari wa Gogōshitsu (三の隣は五号室)
2017: Hisaki Matsuura for honour and trance (Meiyo to Kōkotsu, 名誉と恍惚)
2018: Tomoyuki Hoshino for
2019: Kiyoko Murata for
2020: Kenichiro Isozaki for Nihon Momai Zenshi (日本蒙昧前史)
2021: Kanehara Hitomi for Unsocial Distance'' (Ansōsharudisutansu, アンソーシャルディスタンス)
See also
List of Japanese literary awards
References
1965 establishments in Japan
Awards established in 1965
Japanese literary awards
Japanese-language literary awards |
20479465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oye%20Lucky%21%20Lucky%20Oye%21 | Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! | Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! is a 2008 Indian comedy film starring Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Neetu Chandra, Manu Rishi, Richa Chadda, Manjot Singh and Archana Puran Singh. It was directed by Dibakar Banerjee. The film won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film. The film is inspired by the real life shenanigans of Devinder Singh alias Bunty, a real-life "super-chor", originally from Vikaspuri, Delhi.
Plot
A boy from a poor, dysfunctional family from suburban West Delhi grows up to become a charismatic and fearless man who robs the elite of several major cities in India in a unique fashion, often not out of necessity, but just for fun. After being arrested by Special Crime Branch Inspector Devender Singh, Lovinder ‘Lucky’ Singh reflects upon his life: his childhood, his father's second marriage, his siblings; his entry into crime and association with Gogi Arora; his romance with and subsequent marriage with the lovely Sonal; and his subsequent betrayal by his hanger-on and a business partner. Meanwhile, the media speculates on how he got away with stealing 140 TV sets, 212 Video cassette recorders, 475 shirts, 90 music systems, 50 jewellery boxes, 2 dogs, and a greeting card – in a spree of burglaries that included households in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Mumbai, and other cities in India.
Cast
Abhay Deol as Lovinder 'Lucky' Singh / Sunny Arora
Paresh Rawal as Lucky's Father / Gogi Arora / Dr. B. D. Handa (lookalikes triple roles)
Neetu Chandra as Sonal
Manu Rishi as Bangali
Richa Chadda as Dolly
Archana Puran Singh as Kamlesh Handa
Anurag Arora as Inspector Devender Singh / Yuvraj
Manjot Singh as the Young Lovinder ‘Lucky’ Singh
Kamlesh Gill as Chaai Ji (Chadha's Mother)
Soundtrack
Reception
Critical reception
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! received positive critical acclaim. Raja Sen of Rediff gave it 4.5/5 stars, saying that "All I can say is – after very gratefully handing it four and a half stars, in case you asked – that this is a movie to love. And one that makes the audience feel just like the hero: really, really lucky." Naresh K. Deoshi of Apun Ka Choice gave the movie 3.5/5 stars, concluding that "Grab a ticket. If you're broke, steal it." Nikhat Kazmi of Times of India gave the movie 3.5/5 stars, commenting that "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! works perfectly as a simple story of a young boy (Abhay Deol) who is driven to crime not because he is hungry, poor, starving." Syed Firdaus Ashraf of Rediff gave 3/5 stars, concluding that "The film only fails in the music department, by Sneha Khanwalkar. The dhols and drums get too loud from time to time, and get very annoying. If you can overlook this minor discomfort, go for it!" Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 3/5 stars, stating that "Watch it because it's a film that respects your intelligence. And films like that are hard to find."
Sonia Chopra of Sify gave it 2.5/5 stars, saying that "Writer-director Dibakar Banerjee cannot live down the expectations Khosla Ka Ghosla brings with it. Banerjee does meet those expectations, however Oye Lucky! is a different product altogether. More than a beginning-middle-end story, Oye Lucky! is more a peek into Delhi's belly, into the characters' lives, and into complex bitter-sweet relationships." Martin D'Souza of Glamsham gave 2.5/5 stars, concluding that "A film with a feel of the eighties, OLLO will identify well with the viewers from the North. But yes, if you want a quiet, funny outing to lighten your mood, watching OLLO is not a bad option." Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the movie 2/5 stars, saying that "On the whole, OYE LUCKY! LUCKY OYE! is a well-executed enterprise, which has its share of limitations. At the box-office, the film caters to the Northern audience mainly – Delhi and Punjab specifically. Besides North, the plexes in Mumbai should fare slightly better."
Box office
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! was an average grosser, with nett in its lifetime, releasing two days after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Production
Originally, Paresh Rawal was only approached by Dibakar Banerjee to play the role of Gogi. He was then convinced by the director to also take on the role of Dr. Handa, and finally the role of Lucky's father. Despite his initial hesitation to sport a beard in the role of Lucky's father, Paresh Rawal called working on this film the most satisfying experience of his career.
Awards
2009: National Film Award
Best Popular Film
2009: Filmfare Award
Critics Award for Best Actor: Manjot Singh
Best Dialogue: Manu Rishi
Best Costumes: Rushi Sharma / Manoshi Nath
2009: IIFA Award
Best Dialogue: Manu Rishi
2009: Star Screen Award
Best Story: Dibaker Banerjee: Nominated
References
External links
2000s Hindi-language films
Indian films
2008 films
Films about con artists
Films set in Delhi
2000s crime comedy films
Films about organised crime in India
Films directed by Dibakar Banerjee
Films shot in Delhi
Films scored by Sneha Khanwalkar
UTV Motion Pictures films
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment National Film Award winners
2008 comedy films |
23577715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McCann | James McCann | James or Jim McCann may refer to:
James McCann (baseball) (born 1990), American baseball player
James McCann (bishop) (1897–1983), Anglican Bishop of Meath 1945–59, Archbishop of Armagh 1959–69
James McCann (businessman), American entrepreneur who founded 1-800-Flowers
James McCann (drugs trafficker) (born 1939), Irish drugs trafficker, known as Jim
James McCann (Drogheda MP) (died 1873), Member of Parliament for Drogheda 1852–65
James McCann (St Stephen's Green MP) (1840–1904), Member of Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green 1900–04
James McCann (Wisconsin politician) (1924–2009), American politician
James Joseph McCann (1886–1961), Canadian politician
Jim McCann (musician) (1944–2015), Irish folk musician and entertainer
Jim McCann (writer) (born 1974), American comic book writer
Jim McCann (scientist) (born 1983), American robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University |
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