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17339318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elides | Elides | Elides may refer to
The action of elision, omitting one or more sounds, in linguistics
The descendants of Eli the priest in the Hebrew Bible |
6906771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenton%20Brown | Brenton Brown | Brenton Gifford Brown (born 1 July 1973) is a dual South African and American Christian musician and worship leader. The title track "Everlasting God" on his solo album, Everlasting God was given an award at the ASCAP awards ceremony in 2008. Brenton Brown co-wrote "Soul on Fire", released by Third Day was nominated for a Grammy award after spending 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Christian Airplay charts. In 2019 Brown's song, "You Know My Name", co-written with Tasha Cobbs Leonard, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Gospel chart and was nominated for a Stellar Award.
Early life
He left South Africa for Oxford, England in his early twenties on a Rhodes Scholarship. While studying politics, philosophy and theology he joined Vineyard Music (UK), serving as worship pastor at the Oxford Vineyard, UK, and eventually as coordinator of the Vineyard (UK) Worship Development Team. His songs, "Lord Reign in Me", "All Who Are Thirsty", "Humble King", "Hallelujah [Your Love is Amazing]" and "Holy", were recorded on the popular Vineyard UK projects during this time.
Music career
Brown's music career began with the release of Vineyard UK worship records' Come Now Is the Time, Hungry, Surrender and Holy.
In 2006, he released his first solo album, Everlasting God released on Survivor Records in the UK and rest of the world, and with Sparrow Records in the United States and Canada. The title track, "Everlasting God", received an award at the ASCAP awards ceremony in London on 15 October 2008. The song, written by Brenton Brown and Ken Riley, was honoured as one of the most performed songs in the US, during 2007, across all genres. This is the first time that a Christian song has been recognised at this major music awards ceremony. "Everlasting God" has been recorded by other artists, including Lincoln Brewster, Jeremy Camp, and most notably by Chris Tomlin on his 2006 album, See the Morning. Brown has appeared on numerous live and compilation albums, including events such as Hope 2008 and Mission:Worship. He released his second solo album, Because of Your Love, in 2008.
After moving to California, Brown joined with bass player Daniel Ornellas and drummer Aaron Sterling to record side project Closer To Human under the band name Dreamseed.
In 2009, Brown was signed to Kingsway Communications and released the EP Introducing Brenton Brown, in October 2009. Followed in 2010 with full-length album, Adoration, which contained many of the songs from his independent release "Because of Your Love" plus the new song "A Thousand Stars". Later in 2010, Brown released his first album of all new material on Kingsway: Our God Is Near. He released his first live solo record, God My Rock, in 2012. The record was recorded at a Dare2share event in Dayton, Ohio and featured six new songs as well as some of Brown's songs including "Hosanna (Praise is Rising)" and "Everlasting God". It was released by Integrity Music.
Brenton is a co-writer on Third Day's single "Soul on Fire", the title of their 2015 tour. The song spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on Christian Hit Radio. This song was nominated for a Grammy award 2016 in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song category.
The song "Lion and the Lamb", co-written with Leeland Mooring and Brian Johnson was included on Bethel Music's Have It All (2016).
Worship songs
Brown is best known for his congregational worship songs. Beginning with Vineyard Music UK in the 1990s Brown co-wrote and recorded "All Who are Thirsty", "Lord Reign in Me", "Humble King", "Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)" and "Holy". In the 2000s, recording as a Kingsway artist, Brown co-penned and recorded "Hosanna (Praise is Rising)", "Everlasting God", "Because of Your Love" and "God My Rock". Most recently, Brown's song "Soul on Fire", has been recorded by Third Day,
Family life
Brown and his wife both suffer with chronic fatigue syndrome. He lives in Malibu, California with his wife and two daughters. After their home and most of their possessions were destroyed by a wildfire in November 2018 the Browns moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
Discography
Vineyard music albums
Come Now Is the Time (1998)
Hungry (1999)
Surrender (2000)
I Love Your Presence (2000)
Holy (2001)
Humble King (2002)
Songs 4 Worship: The UK Collection (2003)
Lord Reign in Me (2003)
Turn It All Down (2006)
Solo albums
Everlasting God (2006)
Because of Your Love (2008)
Our God is Near (2010)
Adoration (2010)
God My Rock (2012)
Kingsway/Integrity
Adoration (2010)
Our God Is Near (2010; 2011 US)
God My Rock (Live) (2012)
EPs
Introducing Brenton Brown (2009)
Impossible Things (2018)
References
External links
Because of Your Love album review
1973 births
South African Rhodes Scholars
South African evangelicals
American performers of Christian music
People with chronic fatigue syndrome
Christian music songwriters
Living people
Performers of contemporary worship music
Association of Vineyard Churches |
20480221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial%200264 | Uncial 0264 | Uncial 0264 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.
Descriptions
The codex contains small parts of the Gospel of John 8:19-20,23-24, on one parchment leaf (15 cm by 12 cm). It has survived in a fragmentary condition. The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page, in uncial letters.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.
Location
Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums (P. 14049) in Berlin.
Text
The text-type of this codex is unknown, as the text is too brief to determine its textual character. Aland did not place it in any of Categories of New Testament manuscripts.
See also
List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Kurt Treu, "Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung", APF 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38.
G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.
U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 146-149. [text of the codex]
Greek New Testament uncials
5th-century biblical manuscripts |
6906774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEQ | LEQ | LEQ may refer to:
Land's End Airport's IATA code
Lembena language's ISO 639-3 code
Leq or equivalent continuous sound level, see Sound level meter#LAT or Leq: Equivalent continuous sound level
Long essay question, a type of question on some Advanced Placement exams
See also
Less than or equal to, encoded as leq in some schemes |
17339334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawlaw%2C%20Chipwi | Sawlaw, Chipwi | Sawlaw 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 |
23577988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20site | Chi site | A Chi site or Chi sequence is a short stretch of DNA in the genome of a bacterium near which homologous recombination is more likely to occur than on average across the genome. Chi sites serve as stimulators of DNA double-strand break repair in bacteria, which can arise from radiation or chemical treatments, or result from replication fork breakage during DNA replication. The sequence of the Chi site is unique to each group of closely related organisms; in E. coli and other enteric bacteria, such as Salmonella, the core sequence is 5'-GCTGGTGG-3' plus important nucleotides about 4 to 7 nucleotides to the 3' side of the core sequence. The existence of Chi sites was originally discovered in the genome of bacteriophage lambda, a virus that infects E. coli, but is now known to occur about 1000 times in the E. coli genome.
The Chi sequence serves as a signal to the RecBCD helicase-nuclease that triggers a major change in the activities of this enzyme. Upon encountering the Chi sequence as it unwinds DNA, RecBCD cuts the DNA a few nucleotides to the 3’ side of Chi, within the important sequences noted above; depending on the reaction conditions, this cut is either a simple nick on the 3'-ended strand or the change of nuclease activity from cutting the 3’-ended strand to cutting the 5’-ended strand. In either case the resulting 3’ single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is bound by multiple molecules of RecA protein that facilitate "strand invasion," in which one strand of a homologous double-stranded DNA is displaced by the RecA-associated ssDNA. Strand invasion forms a joint DNA molecule called a D-loop. Resolution of the D-loop is thought to occur by replication primed by the 3’ end generated at Chi (in the D-loop). Alternatively, the D-loop may be converted into a Holliday junction by cutting of the D-loop and a second exchange of DNA strands; the Holliday junction can be converted into linear duplex DNA by cutting of the Holliday junction and ligation of the resultant nicks. Either type of resolution can generate recombinant DNA molecules if the two interacting DNAs are genetically different, as well as repair the initially broken DNA.
Chi sites are sometimes referred to as "recombination hot spots". The name "Chi" is an abbreviation of crossover hotspot instigator. In reference to E. coli phage lambda, the term is sometimes written as "χ site", using the Greek letter chi; for E. coli and other bacteria the term "Chi" is proper.
References
Amundsen SK, Sharp JW, Smith GR (2016) RecBCD Enzyme "Chi Recognition" Mutants Recognize Chi Recombination Hotspots in the Right DNA Context. Genetics 204(1):139-52.
Taylor AF, Amundsen SK, Smith GR (2016) Unexpected DNA context-dependence identifies a new determinant of Chi recombination hotspots. Nucleic Acids Res. 44(17):8216-28.
Smith GR. (2012). How RecBCD Enzyme and Chi Promote DNA Break Repair and Recombination: a Molecular Biologist's View. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 76(2): 217-28.
Dillingham MS, Kowalczykowski SC. (2008). RecBCD enzyme and the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 72(4): 642-671.
Amundsen SK, Taylor AF, Reddy M, Smith GR. (2007). Intersubunit signaling in RecBCD enzyme, a complex protein machine regulated by Chi hot spots. Genes Dev 21(24): 3296-3307.
Stahl FW. (2005). Chi: A little sequence controls a big enzyme. Genetics 170(2): 487–493.
External links
Homologous Recombination Interactive Animation, online artwork from Trun N and Trempy J, Fundamental Bacterial Genetics.
Biochemistry
Genetics |
17339344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawnkyawn | Sawnkyawn | Sawnkyawn 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 |
17339348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Championships%20at%20the%20Palisades | The Championships at the Palisades | The Championships at the Palisades is an event in the Outback Champions Series for senior tennis players. It was held from 2006 through 2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Finals results
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 2006
Champions Series (senior men's tennis tour)
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Sports competitions in Charlotte, North Carolina |
23577997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhiko%20Kashiwazaki | Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki | Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki (; born September 16, 1951, Kuji, Iwate) - Japanese judoka, champion and medalist of championships Japan and the world, author of books and one of the leading judo specialists in the world.
Biography
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki began to practice judo at the age of 10. His first coach was the 5th dan master of Shotaro Kubo. While in high school and before entering Tokai University train the future champion became the master Yuto Wayama. While studying at the University of Tokyo, preparation Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki became a two-time world champion in judo (in 1967 and 1973) and three-time Japanese champion Nobuyuki Sato. Three teachers became an example for Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki. He later noted that Shotaro Kubo taught him the spirit of judo, Yuto Wayama passed on the basics of neaza, and Nobuyuki Sato was an example of perseverance for him.
Master Nobuyuki Sato's Style influenced Kashiwazaki's projection tendency through throws and newaza. Indeed, Isao Okano notes Sato sensei's ability use hikkikomi gaeshi before taking control of your opponent on the ground. According to Kashiwazaki, his teacher also received the nickname "Newaza Sato" in connection with his military equipment.
Career
One of the first international achievements of Kashiwazaki was not in judo, but in sambo. He won a silver medal at the European Open in Riga in 1972 in the category up to 62 kg. Sato Sensei won the gold medal, whom Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki accompanied at the event. He soon won the SAMBO World Championship in 1975 in the same weight category. He performed in the featherweight category (up to 65 kg). Champion (1975 and 1978-1980), silver (1976) and bronze (1974, 1982) medalist of the Japanese championships. Winner and medalist of international tournaments. Winner (1982) and bronze medalist (1978) of the international tournament in memory of JKanō Jigorō in Tokyo. Silver medalist at the 1975 World Championship in Vienna. At the 1981 World Championships in Maastricht, he climbed to the highest step of the podium.
After Kashiwazaki completed his competition, he moved to London to teach at Budokwai. There he met and became friends with the famous photographer Terence Donovan, who trained in the club and with whom they later wrote the book Fighting judo. Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki was later the national judo coach in Canada, Germany and other countries. Since 2009, he became head coach at Budo International University in Japan.
Achievements
Bibliography
Katsuhiko Kashivazaki is the author of several books on judo, most of which ("Osaekomi", "Tomoenage", "Shimevaza", "Martial Judo") emphasize his thirst for shots and ground technicians Kodokan Judo.
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki (1997), Osaekomi, Ippon USA,
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki (1992), Tomoe nage, Ippon Books,
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki (1992), Shimewaza, Ippon books,
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki, Hidetoshi Nakanishi (1992), Attacking Judo: A guide to combinations and counters, Ippon Books,
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki (1985), Fighting judo
He is also the author of the introduction to the book "JUDO NEWAZA of Koji Komuro KOMLOCK" by judoist Koji Komuro, dedicated to ground technicians.
Links
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki
References
External links
Japanese male judoka
Sportspeople from Iwate Prefecture
Tokai University alumni
1951 births
Living people |
23578002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20Anangon%C3%B3 | Franklin Anangonó | Franklin Estebán Anangonó Tadeo (12 December 1974 – 13 June 2022) was an Ecuadorian football player and manager who played as a defender. He obtained seven international caps for the Ecuador national team in 1999.
Honors
Ecuador
Canada Cup: 1999
References
External links
1974 births
2022 deaths
Sportspeople from Quito
Ecuadorian footballers
Association football defenders
Ecuador international footballers
1999 Copa América players
C.D. ESPOLI footballers
C.D. El Nacional footballers
C.D. Técnico Universitario footballers
C.S.D. Macará footballers
Ecuadorian football managers
S.D. Aucas managers
Ecuadorian expatriate footballers
Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Expatriate footballers in Mexico |
23578024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female%20buddy%20film | Female buddy film | A female buddy film is a type of buddy film.
Characteristics
The main characters are females, and the film's events center on their situations. The main cast is often female, depending on the plot.
Background
The female buddy film is a recent trend in mainstream cinema. Thelma & Louise with its darker themes, remains one of the most notable female buddy films to date and had a similar popular impact as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the early 1990s. Similar films also paved the way for onscreen female friendships such as that between Evelyn Couch and Ninny Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes. Other popular duos include those in Waiting to Exhale and Walking and Talking.
Examples
Jonathan Rosenbaum has praised Jacques Rivette's 1974 film Céline and Julie Go Boating as an example of the genre and wrote that he knows "many women who consider Céline et Julie vont en bateau their favorite movie about female friendship." Dennis Lim sees the influence of Rivette's film in other female buddy films, such as Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. It was also influential on and referenced in Erick Zonca's 1998 film The Dreamlife of Angels.
The genre is crossed with the buddy cop film in the 2013 comedy The Heat, in which a brash police officer (Melissa McCarthy) is teamed with a straightlaced FBI agent (Sandra Bullock). Other later examples include Booksmart (2019) and the animated TV series Tuca & Bertie.
See also
Womance
Feminist cinema
Bromance
Notes
Film genres
1970s in film
1980s in film
1990s in film
2000s in film
2010s in film |
17339376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Moscow%20Victory%20Day%20Parade | 2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade | The Moscow Victory Parade of 2008 was held on Victory Day (9 May) on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the Great Patriotic War ending in the defeat of Nazi Germany. This was the first time the Russian Federation opened its vehicle showcase since 1991, and the airshow since the Cold War. The parade was commanded by Army General Vladimir Bakin, Commander of the Moscow Military District, and reviewed by Anatoliy Serdyukov of the Russian Ministry of Defence. A speech was made by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who took office just two days prior. This would be notable to be the first ever major Russian military parade seen on television worldwide when RT carried a live broadcast of the parade for the first time in its history.
Parade Program
Parade formations
Note: Those indicated in bold indicate first parade appearance, those indicated with italic indicate double or multiple parade appearances.
General of the Army Vladimir Bakin, Commander of the Moscow Military District (parade commander)
Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Anatoliy Serdyukov (parade inspector)
Military Bands in Attendance
Massed Military Bands led and conducted by Major General Valery Khalilov and composed of:
Headquarters Band of the Moscow Military District
Central Military Band of the MDRF
Central Band of the Russian Navy
Band of the Moscow Military Conservatoire, Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
HQ Band of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation
Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College
Infantry Column
154th Moscow Garrison Commandant's Honor Guard Regiment and Color Guards
Colors Party composed of:
Flag of Russia
Victory Banner
Banner of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Combined Honor Guard Company of the Armed Forces
Historical units
Representative units of the Armed Forced, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense, Federal Security Service as well as units of the Moscow Military District
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces
Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Gagarin Air Force Academy
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation
Military Technological University
Moscow Military Space Institute of Radio Electronics
Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation "Moscow City Council"
2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
4th Kantemir Guards Armored Brigade "Yuri Andropov"
27th Sevastopol Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
Ryazan Airborne Command Academy "Gen. of the Army Vasily Margelov"
98th Guards Airborne Division
ODON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
Baltic Naval Military Institute "Admiral Fyodor Ushakov"
336th Separate Bialystok Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Baltic Fleet
Nakhimov Naval School
Suvorov Military School
Moscow Military Commanders Training School "Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR/Russian Federation"
With more than 9,000 soldier, sailors, and airmen and 100 vehicles marching in the parade, this was the largest such parade held in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Unlike previous Victory Day parades, there were no units parading in Great Patriotic War uniforms, though the Victory Banner was paraded at the beginning of the ceremony. Training for the parade took two months in Alabino, Moscow Oblast. On 8 May, a temporary platform with a white-blue-red banner was erected on Red Square, covering the Lenin Mausoleum .
Ground vehicles at the Parade
This was the first time in the history of post-Soviet Russia when armoured fighting vehicles took part in the Red Square parade. In order of presentation:
Advanced guard flag group by three UAZ-469s
GAZ-2975
BTR-80
BMP-3
BMD-4
2S25 Sprut-SD
T-90
2S19 Msta
9K22 Tunguska
Tor Missile System
Buk-M1-2
BM-30 Smerch
S-300
Iskander M
RT-2PM Topol
Rear guard flag group by three UAZ-469s
On 22 April, the equipment was delivered to a training ground near Moscow. Before the parade, the tracked vehicles were delivered by rail. Due to the fact that in 1995 the Resurrection Gates were restored, military equipment entered the square on from one side of the State Historical Museum, and not from two as in previous parades.
Aircraft at the Parade
In order of presentation:
3 Mil Mi-8 (with flags)
Antonov An-124 and 2 Sukhoi Su-27
Tupolev Tu-160 and 2 Mikoyan MiG-31
Tupolev Tu-95, Ilyushin Il-78 and 2 Mikoyan MiG-29 (Il-78 and Tu-95 were imitating aerial refueling)
Ilyushin Il-78, Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-34, also imitating aerial refueling. The Su-34s came from the 4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel at Lipetsk air base.
3 Tupolev Tu-22M
4 Sukhoi Su-25
5 Sukhoi Su-27 and 4 Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian Knights and Strizhi)
Music
Inspection and Address
March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (Марш Преображенского Полка)
Slow March of the Tankmen (Встречный Марш Танкистов) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March to Carry the War Flag (Встречный Марш для выноса Боевого Знамени) by Dmitriy Valentinovich Kadeyev
Slow March of the Guards of the Navy (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
Slow March of the Officers Schools (Встречный Марш офицерских училищ) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Dmitry Pertsev
Slow March of the Red Army (Встречный Марш Красной Армии) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Evgeny Aksyonov
Glory (Славься) by Mikhail Glinka
Parade Fanfare All Listen! (Парадная Фанфара "Слушайте все!") by Andrei Golovin
State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Государственный Гимн Российской Федерации) by Alexander Alexandrov
Signal Retreat (Сигнал "Отбой")
Infantry Column
General Miloradovich (Марш "Генерал Милорадович") by Valery Khalilov
Farewell of Slavianka (Прощание Славянки) by Vasiliy Agapkin
To Serve Russia (Служить России) by Eduard Cemyonovich Khanok
Lefort's March (Лефортовский Марш) by Valery Khalilov
Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov
Combat March (Строевой Марш) by Dmitry Illarionovich Pertsev
Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
In Defense of the Homeland (В защиту Родины) by Viktor Sergeyevich Runov
March of the Cosmonauts/Friends, I believe (Марш Космонавтов /Я верю, друзья) by Oskar Borisovich Feltsman
March Kant (Марш "Кант") by Valery Khalilov
On Guard for the Peace (На страже Мира) by Boris Alexandrovich Diev
We Need One Victory (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
March Hero (Марш "Герой")
We are the Army of the People (Мы Армия Народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesya
Crew is One Family (Экипаж - одна семья) by Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak
On the Road (В Путь) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy
Victory Day (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
Mobile Column
General Miloradovich (Марш "Генерал Милорадович") by Valery Khalilov
Triumph of the Winners (Триумф Победителей)
"Katyusha" () by Matvey Blanter
March Victory (Марш «Победа») by Albert Mikhailovich Arutyunov
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о Солдате) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy
Flypast Column
Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
March Airplanes – First of all (Марш "Первым делом самолёты") by Vasili-Solovyov-Sedoi
Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
Conclusion
Long Live our State (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov
Song of the Russian Army (Песня о Российской Армии) by Alexander Alexandrov
Criticism
The parade has been criticized for returning to the Cold War-like display of weapons. Upon receiving personal criticism, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated the following: "This is not saber-rattling. We do not threaten anyone and are not going to do this, we do not impose anything on anyone". The military also allocated more than 1.3 billion rubles to the parade, many of which included the stones and asphalt concrete pavement for the mobile column, which came under criticism by opposition sources as well.
References
External links
Parade repetition photos
Aviation photos
Moscow Victory Day Parades
Moscow Victory Day Parade
Articles containing video clips
2008 in military history
2008 in Moscow
May 2008 events in Russia |
6906802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Benevento | List of municipalities of the Province of Benevento | The following is a list of the 78 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Benevento, Campania, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Benevento |
23578026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinari%20nonda | Parinari nonda | Parinari nonda is a shrub or small tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It occurs in northern Australia and New Guinea. The edible fruits are harvested in the wild. Common names include nonda plum, nonda tree, nunda plum and parinari.
References
nonda
Bushfood
Malpighiales of Australia
Flora of New Guinea
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Queensland
Rosids of Western Australia |
17339378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20Fran%C3%A7ais%20du%20Caire | Lycée Français du Caire | Lycée Français du Caire (LFC) is the French International School in Cairo.
Organization
Structure
There are three primary campuses, with one each in Maadi, New Cairo City, and Zamalek. The secondary classes are held in a campus in El Merag.
References
External links
Lycée Français du Caire website
Le site des anciens du Lycée Français du Caire website
The unofficial student newspaper
The Facebook page supporting the suspended teacher
International schools in Cairo
International schools in Greater Cairo
Cairo
Private schools in Cairo |
17339404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix%20du%20combattant%20volontaire | Croix du combattant volontaire | The Croix du combattant volontaire (Volunteer combatant cross) may refer to one of three French military decorations rewarding soldiers who spontaneously chose to serve with a fighting unit.
Croix du combattant volontaire 1914–1918 (Combatant Volunteer Cross 1914–1918) recognizes those who have volunteered to serve on the front in a combat unit during World War I.
Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance (Combatant Volunteer Cross of the Resistance) recognizes those who fought in one of the resistance groups, or have been deported or interned for acts of the Resistance, or have been killed or injured in acts of resistance during World War II.
Volunteer combatant's cross, originally awarded to those who volunteered to serve in a combat unit during World War II, but continued since
Military awards and decorations of France
Civil awards and decorations of France |
17339405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha-an | Sha-an | Sha-an 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 |
23578075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20UNIT | History of UNIT | UNIT (UNified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth.
As is common in long-running series whose backstories are not mapped out in advance, and are also the product of many different writers over the course of years, the fictional history of UNIT have seen retroactive changes which have caused some continuity problems.
Pre-UNIT
Following the canon of the television show only, the roots of the organisation in the history of the Doctor Who universe lie in one extraterrestrial incursion. As seen in the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear (1968), there was an attempt to take over London by a disembodied entity known as the Great Intelligence, using robotic Yetis and a deadly cobweb-like fungus. A small group of British infantrymen, ultimately led by Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of the Scots Guards (assisted by the Doctor), beat back the attempted conquest in the tunnels of the London Underground.
According to several sources outside of the television programme itself, UNIT also owes part of its existence to a much later television episode, the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks (1988). In that incident, two Dalek factions fought a battle in London over the Time Lord artefact known as the Hand of Omega in late 1963. They were defeated by detachment of soldiers from the 'Intrusion Counter-Measures Group', commanded by Group Captain "Chunky" Gilmore, along with help from the mysterious time traveller known as the Doctor. Gilmore also had the assistance of a Scientific Advisor, Dr. Rachel Jensen. According to non-canon sources, the ICMG was a special anti-terrorist group which drew its forces from the regular Army, and also the RAF Regiment. The Dalek incident was of course covered up. The ICMG was disbanded shortly afterwards; however, several of its training materials and procedures were adopted by UNIT. Gilmore later served as an advisor, often lecturing for UNIT personnel.
Following the Yeti Incident, the United Nations became aware that the world faced threats from extraterrestrial sources, and that with the space programme sending probes deeper and deeper into space, mankind had drawn attention to itself. Consequently, the United Nations established UNIT with the mandate to investigate, monitor and combat such threats. The United Nations was also given jurisdiction over first contact situations in 1968, as revealed in "The Sound of Drums". Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and put in charge of the British contingent of UNIT, which was apparently under the purview of the British government's Department C19. Department C19 was mentioned in the serial Time-Flight, being the department at whose behest the Fifth Doctor investigated the mystery of a Concorde aeroplane that had disappeared. Several of the spin-off novels explore the idea that C19 gathers up alien technology for their own ends, as revealed in The Scales of Injustice and Who Killed Kennedy. The canonicity of the novels in relation to the series is unclear.
Twentieth century
Four years after the incident in the London Underground, the newly formed UNIT's baptism of fire was an invasion by the Cybermen, in The Invasion (1968). UNIT repulsed this, once again with the Second Doctor's help. Following this, Lethbridge-Stewart became convinced of the necessity of scientific advice in battling extraterrestrial threats, and recruited Dr Elizabeth Shaw from Cambridge. Coincidentally, the recently regenerated Third Doctor had been exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, and he agreed to join UNIT as its Scientific Advisor just in time to help defeat the Autons (Spearhead from Space). The Doctor was later assisted by Jo Grant.
In addition to combatting alien threats, the British contingent has also been responsible for providing general security under the aegis of the UN. A significant example was the provision of security at the Styles peace conference.
UNIT first operated out of an office building in London and subsequently moved to a headquarters in the country that had been built over the ruins of a priory (Pyramids of Mars). Its main headquarters, mentioned but never seen in the television series, is with the United Nations in Geneva.
When the Third Doctor's exile was lifted, his association with UNIT became more sporadic, especially after his regeneration into his fourth incarnation. The last appearance of UNIT in the series for many years was in The Seeds of Doom (1976); however, the organisation continued to execute its mandate to investigate and combat alien activity.
Lethbridge-Stewart retired in 1976 (Mawdryn Undead, 1983), and was succeeded by Colonel Crichton (The Five Doctors). UNIT did not appear again in force until the Seventh Doctor serial, Battlefield (1989), where the British contingent (although it also has foreign members) was commanded by Brigadier Winifred Bambera, and Lethbridge-Stewart was called out of retirement to help defeat an other-dimensional invasion of armoured knights led by Morgaine.
Twenty-first century
UNIT was referenced by acronym and full name in the 2005 series episodes "Aliens of London" and "World War Three", where it sent a delegation to a gathering of experts at 10 Downing Street in response to a spaceship crashing in the River Thames. All of the experts were electrocuted by the alien Slitheen. None of the members of UNIT seen were from the original series, although one of them was originally said to be Doctor Who Magazine comic strip character Muriel Frost. They would appear again in "The Christmas Invasion"', with a facility in the Tower of London, access to alien language translation software, and awareness of Martians. Prime Minister Harriet Jones oversaw the Sycorax crisis from this facility alongside commanding officer Major Blake.
The UK contingent of UNIT has ties to Torchwood, while the United Nations are unaware of its existence; this may indicate that the UK contingent of UNIT keeps secrets from its parent organisation. Major Blake contacted Torchwood to assist against the Sycorax in "The Christmas Invasion"; in Torchwood episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts", Jack Harkness mentions putting together some documents for UNIT; in "End of Days", UNIT is one of the groups that have contacted Harkness about the events of that episode. There is rivalry between the two groups however; in "Reset", Jack derisively refers to UNIT in this episode as "the acceptable face of intelligence gathering about aliens", and Torchwood did not inform UNIT about the powerful Resurrection Gauntlet.
"Turn Left" revealed that UNIT was involved in investigating the attempted Racnoss invasion, independently of the Doctor. In the alternative universe created in that episode by the Tenth Doctor's death, one UNIT team discovered the Doctor's body, whilst another under Captain Erisa Magambo and Rose Tyler salvaged "surface technology" from the Doctor's dying TARDIS in order to send Donna Noble back in time and prevent the Doctor's death.
In "The Sound of Drums", UNIT is shown to have an aircraft carrier called the Valiant designed by Minister of Defence and later Prime Minister Harold "Harry" Saxon (alias the Master). UNIT assumes control of handling the Toclafane visitation, not knowing it has been secretly engineered by the Master. While brief radio reports can be heard near the end suggesting UNIT is being overwhelmed by the Toclafane invasion, the Paradox machine's destruction reverses time to just before the invasion began.
In The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Revenge of the Slitheen, Sarah Jane Smith telephones UNIT to tell them about the secret rooms around the world with alien machinery inside, located in schools constructed by the fictional Coldfire Construction. UNIT is also referred to in the serial The Lost Boy, where UNIT used its political clout to pull strings with the London police to have its former quasi-member Sarah Jane Smith (Sarah was never an official employee of UNIT in the way that her two predecessors were) released without charge after she was arrested for alleged child abduction.
In the Torchwood episode "Reset" it is established that the Doctor's former companion Martha Jones has joined UNIT as a qualified doctor (the Doctor having recommended her to UNIT) and when Jack Harkness was in need of some help he drafted her into the Torchwood Institute on a temporary basis. UNIT were working on the same mystery as the Torchwood Institute in that episode and the two organisations pooled their resources in order to solve it.
UNIT's first proper team-up with the Doctor in the new series occurred in the 2008 2-parter "The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky". They are now a larger, better-outfitted organisation, getting a large amount of legal powers (and of funding from the United Nations) — including the capability to command & co-ordinate the planet's nuclear weaponry in a single strike — in the name of "Homeworld Security". The UK branch is under the command of Colonel Mace. Under the codename Operation Blue Sky, UNIT (via Martha Jones) called in the Doctor and seized control of the central factory for ATMOS Systems, intending to investigate whether it was an alien front organisation. In the process, two soldiers were brainwashed by the Sontarans and Martha Jones replaced by a clone, while the Sontaran Tenth Battle Fleet (reacting to the Doctor's presence) advanced their invasion plans, attempting to change the atmosphere and disabling UNIT's nuclear strikes. Despite an initial massacre at the ATMOS factory, a change in weaponry and tactical use of the Valiant meant that UNIT retook the factory and defeated the Sontaran attack force there, giving the Doctor the opening to stop the Sontaran stratagem.
"The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" two-part episode showed that a major UNIT base in Manhattan had managed to create a rudimentary teleport device based on salvaged Sontaran technology, known as Project Indigo; Martha Jones had been promoted to Indigo's chief medical officer. UNIT had also created the Osterhagen Key, a doomsday weapon that would trigger over twenty-four nuclear warheads under the Earth's crust and destroy the planet in the event of a situation that left humanity in incredible suffering with no hope of survival. When the Earth was shifted to the Medusa Cascade by Davros and the Daleks, the Daleks attacked UNIT bases, destroying the Valiant and wiping out the Manhattan base. While the UN surrendered, Martha was ordered to use Project Indigo prototype to escape, and to attempt to find the Doctor and (if no other option remained) to use the Osterhagen Key. With her help, the Daleks were defeated and Earth returned to its proper place, and The Doctor asked that she destroy the Osterhagen Key.
In the Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Mark of the Berserker, Alan Jackson hacks into the UNIT database to find information on the alien Berserker. He is also able to use a UNIT tracking system to locate Clyde Langer via his mobile phone.
In the Sarah Jane Adventures story Enemy of the Bane, Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is seen in the company of a Major Cal Kilburne, who is attempting to debrief him on his 'recent mission in Peru' (in "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky" it was mentioned that 'Sir Alistair' was in Peru). Lethbridge-Stewart is apparently 'retired', but he still serves as UNIT's 'Special Envoy'. He later aids Sarah-Jane and Rani in breaking into UNIT's 'Black Archive' Facility, which is a repository of all extraterrestrial knowledge and artefacts that UNIT have amassed. The Brigadier questions the ethics of the modern UNIT's revised and more aggressive approach to dealing with alien threats, and Sarah Jane is concerned that UNIT would treat her son Luke as a test subject with no regard for his human rights should they discover him.
UNIT returned in the 2009 Easter special "Planet of the Dead" investigating the disappearance of the 200 bus. Captain Erisa Magambo makes a reappearance from her last in "Turn Left" as the commander of UNIT, aided by the new scientific adviser Malcolm Taylor. They appeared again during The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor which introduced a UNIT Base at Mount Snowdon.
In 2012, after a 3-year absence, UNIT returned in the episode "The Power of Three" when millions of black cubes appear around the globe. The UNIT force is headed by scientific adviser Kate Stewart, the daughter of the late Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor and Amy Pond are summoned to the Tower of London - where UNIT still have their headquarters - and are investigating various cubes and observing what they do. In this story, UNIT have a very different uniform to that last seen in "Planet of the Dead". There is no mention or references to any previous characters other than the Brigadier.
UNIT return in "The Day of the Doctor" in 2013. The Doctor and Clara are unexpectedly airlifted in the TARDIS to Trafalgar Square where they meet up with Kate Stewart and her new assistant Osgood. Kate gives the Doctor preserved instructions from his previous wife Elizabeth I of England that name him curator of Undergallery, a secret vault of forbidden art housed at the National Gallery. Kate and Osgood accompany the Doctor and Clara to this vault where they come across proof of the veracity of Elizabeth's message, a three-dimensional painting made with Time Lord stasis cubes. The painting depicts the fall of Gallifrey's second city, Arcadia, on the last day of the Time War. Once in the Undergallery, Kate shows the Doctor other paintings that have been broken from within. While examining the paintings, a fissure in time opens above them and the Doctor jumps into it. Osgood and McGillop stay in the National Gallery to investigate some missing statues whilst Kate and Clara travel to the Tower of London to UNIT's TARDIS-proofed Black Archive. Osgood and McGillop are captured and stored by the Zygons who subsequently take their appearance and follow Kate to the Black Archive, who is also revealed to be a Zygon. The real characters, along with the Zygons, end up together in the Black Archive and a countdown that will detonate a nuclear warhead underneath them begins. The Doctor(s) arrive and use the archive's mind-wiping equipment to render the UNIT members and Zygons temporarily unaware which of them are which so nothing is destroyed. What happens after this is as yet unclear.
UNIT, including Kate Stewart and Osgood, return in "Death in Heaven", the series 8 finale. Kate and UNIT reappeared in "The Magician's Apprentice" then appear along with Osgood yet again in the two part episode "The Zygon Invasion" and "The Zygon Inversion". Osgood is mentioned by when the Doctor contacts UNIT as they appeared in the ending in "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".
In the 2019 New Year special "Resolution", the Thirteenth Doctor attempts to call on Kate Stewart for assistance, but discovers UNIT operations have been suspended and replaced with an outsourced call centre, due to a diplomatic argument over funding.
In the 2020 New Year's Day episode, "Spyfall, Part 1", it is stated that UNIT and Torchwood no longer exist.
In other media
As well as various novels and audios depicting other events during the Doctor's exile in his third incarnation, UNIT have appeared with other Doctors in other novels. Deep Blue features the Fifth Doctor interacting with the UNIT of the Third Doctor's era, arriving in their time to assist in a crisis while his past self is travelling in the TARDIS.
The novel The Shadows of Avalon, set in 2012, sees the Eighth Doctor resign from UNIT to act as a magical advisor in a dimension linked to humanity's subconscious that has become accessible via a rift in Britain.
The organization's future is glimpsed in other novels. Alien Bodies reveals that UNIT had evolved into UNISYC- the United Nations Security Yard Corps- by the 2050s, with members suffering from far more psychological problems than UNIT soldiers presented in the show. In Cold Fusion, by the twenty-fifth century, UNIT has 'evolved' into Unitas, an all-male organization dedicated to protecting Earth from any perceived alien threat, to the extent that they attempt to pre-emptively prevent a perceived Time Lord invasion of Earth's Empire that nearly destroys history. According to the Seventh Doctor's companion Roz Forrester, by the thirtieth century the organisation now merely arranges bake sales and argues about whether or not Lethbridge-Stewart was hyphenated.
References
External links
"Official" UNIT website (BBC-sponsored) [Password="badwolf"]
- fan-written website
UNIT
Fictional intelligence agencies |
6906806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20%28Hear%27Say%20song%29 | Everybody (Hear'Say song) | "Everybody" is a song by British pop group Hear'Say, written by Martin Harrington, Ash Howes, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, and Andy Caine. Produced by Harrington and Howes, the track was recorded for the group's second studio album of the same name (2001), released nine months after their debut album, Popstars. "Everybody" was issued as the album's lead single on 26 November 2001 and was the final single released by the band before member Kym Marsh quit. Upon its release, the song peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart. The song's music video is set inside a space capsule and shows the five band members dancing on a stage.
Background and release
When Hear'Say's second single, "The Way to Your Love", debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, it sold 75,514 copies during its first week of release, considerably less the first-day total of 160,000 copies for the band's debut single, "Pure and Simple". The group's label, Polydor Records, concluded that the public was losing interest in the band following their Popstars formation and decided to rush the quintet into the studio to record a second album rather than release another single from the Popstars album. For this song, the two male members, Noel Sullivan and Danny Foster, sing lead vocals. "Everybody" was serviced to UK radio in October 2001 and was released as a single on 26 November 2001 across three formats: two CD singles and a cassette single.
Reception and aftermath
Following the song's release, many music critics began to speculate how much longer Hear'Say would last. Can't Stop the Pop wrote that "Everybody" is a catchy song, comparing it to "Keep On Movin'" by Five, but criticised the track for lacking the R&B influences of the group's earlier songs. British columnist James Masterton also likened the song to "Keep On Movin'", noting its harmonies and "singalong" chorus but writing that the band's charm was starting to diminish. Music Week called the track "pop-by-numbers" and wrote that the track would leave the charts immediately after appearing. The song stayed on the UK Singles Chart for 11 weeks, debuting and peaking at number four on 2 December 2001. The single also charted in Ireland, reaching number 23.
Two months after the song's release, Kym Marsh quit the band by announcing her departure through a newspaper, citing disputes with bandmate Myleene Klass. Marsh was replaced by Johnny Shentall from pop group Boom!, and the band released their final single, "Lovin' Is Easy", in August 2002, which peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart. Afterwards, plans to record the group's third studio album were cancelled, and in October 2002, the group disbanded.
Track listings
UK CD1
"Everybody" (single edit)
"Once in a Lifetime"
"The Way I'm Feeling Tonight"
"Everybody" (video CD-ROM)
UK CD2
"Everybody" (single edit)
"I Knew You Were Waiting"
"Everybody" (Almighty mix)
UK cassette single
"Everybody" (single edit)
"I Knew You Were Waiting"
Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from the UK CD1 liner notes.
Studios
Recorded and mixed at Biffco Studios (Dublin, Ireland)
Edited at 777 Productions (London, England)
Mastered at Transfermation (London, England)
Personnel
Martin Harrington – writing, all instruments, production
Ash Howes – writing, all instruments, production, mixing
Richard Stannard – writing
Julian Gallagher – writing
Andy Caine – writing, additional guitars
Sharon Murphy – backing vocals
Alvin Sweeney – additional recording
Jeremy – editing
Richard Dowling – mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2001 singles
2001 songs
Hear'Say songs
Polydor Records singles
Songs written by Ash Howes
Songs written by Julian Gallagher
Songs written by Martin Harrington
Songs written by Richard Stannard (songwriter) |
17339411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20of%20the%20Resistance%20Volunteer%20Combatant | Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant | The Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant () is a French decoration that recognizes, as its name implies, those who fought in one of the resistance groups, or who were deported or interned for acts of resistance, or who were killed or injured while taking parts in acts of resistance against the German occupation forces during World War II. This award was created by a special law in 1954 and awarded to those who had been designated and issued cards certifying them as voluntary resistance fighters.
Award statute
The Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance was created to honour those who voluntarily participated in acts of resistance, or by participating with a recognized resistance group, during which they put their lives at risk. It was issued to all cardholders of voluntary resistance fighter created in 1949, which itself is obtained using the following criteria:
Holders of the a card Resistant-Deported or Interned-Resistant.
Those executed, killed or injured in an act of resistance.
Those who were members of a resistance group, recognized as a fighting unit and who actually fought at least 90 days in the French Forces Combattantes (FFC) or French Forces of the Interior ( FFI) or the French Resistance Interior (RFI).
The people who have belonged for 90 days before June 6, 1944, the FFC, FFI, or RFI in an area occupied by the enemy, and have affidavits from two persons well known for their activity in the French Resistance.
The Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Résistance is not considered a war decoration, but is taken into account when reviewing applications for, firstly, the Croix du combattant volontaire 1939–1945 and secondly, the rank of Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (for quotas reserved for former resistance fighters).
A 1989 law removed all previously enacted time constraints for application of the status of resistance volunteer combatant.
Award description
The Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant, a design of engraver Frédéric de Vernon, is a 36 mm wide cross pattée made of gilt bronze. On the obverse, over the central medallion of the cross, a relief Cross of Lorraine overflowing onto the four cross arms which are covered in laurel leaves. On the reverse, the relief inscription on three lines on the central medallion COMBATTANT VOLONTAIRE RÉSISTANCE.
The cross is suspended by a ring through a suspension loop which is an integral part of the top of the upper cross arm. It hangs from a 36 mm wide black silk moiré ribbon with 5 mm wide red vertical edge stripes, it is further divided by four vertical 1 mm wide green stripes, two at centre spaced 2 mm apart and one on each side 2 mm from the red edge stripes.
Notable recipients (partial list)
Resistance fighter Paul Rivière
Resistance leader captain André Girard
Resistance leader Maxime Blocq-Mascart
Resistance fighter Léon Weil
Resistance leader Andrée Peel
Lieutenant-colonel Marius Guyot
Resistance fighter René Martin
Master corporal André Verrier
Resistance fighter Georges Toupet
Father Maurice Cordier
Resistance fighter Paul Gosset
Junior lieutenant Louis Cortot
Resistance fighter René Renard
Film maker resistance fighter Jean Devaivre
Jewish resistance fighter Yvette Lévy
Resistance fighter Henri Gallet
Resistance fighter Georges Caussanel
Resistance leader Roger Taillefer
Resistance fighter Didier Eloy
Major Yves de Daruvar
Resistance fighter Hélène Berthaud
Hilaire du Berrier
See also
French Resistance
Battle of France
Free France
Liberation of Paris
Ribbons of the French military and civil awards
External links
Museum of the Legion of Honour
References
Civil awards and decorations of France
Military awards and decorations of France
Awards established in 1953
French Resistance |
23578091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jairon%20Zamora | Jairon Zamora | Jairon Leonel Zamora Narváez (born 5 February 1978 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian football midfielder. He obtained a total number of seven international caps for the Ecuador national football team, making his debut in 1999.
Honors
Nation
Canada Cup: 1999
References
Profile at Playerhistory.com
1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Guayaquil
Association football midfielders
Ecuadorian footballers
Ecuador international footballers
1999 Copa América players
C.S. Emelec footballers
C.D. El Nacional footballers
C.D. ESPOLI footballers
L.D.U. Loja footballers
Barcelona S.C. footballers
Deportivo Azogues footballers
C.S.D. Macará footballers |
17339412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shachinpok | Shachinpok | Shachinpok 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 |
17339421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELH%20%28disambiguation%29 | ELH (disambiguation) | ELH may refer to:
ELH, a literary academic journal
Czech Extraliga (Czech: ), a Czech ice hockey league
Eastlake High School (Chula Vista, California), a four-year high school
El Hugeirat language
Elh Kmer (born 1995), Cameroon-born French rapper
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
North Eleuthera Airport, on Eleuthera, Bahamas |
23578102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20to%20dismiss%20in%20the%20interest%20of%20justice | Motion to dismiss in the interest of justice | The motion to dismiss in the interest of justice is a provision of the New York Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) § 210.40; since being interpreted in People v. Clayton, it has been known as a "Clayton motion".
Background
CPL 210.40 is a successor to section 671 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which in turn has been said to be merely a substitute for the ancient right of the Attorney-General to discontinue a prosecution. But section 671 allowed the court to dismiss an indictment "in furtherance of justice" either on motion of the District Attorney or on its own motion; moreover, the code removed the right of the prosecutor to abandon the indictment except in compliance with section 671. The early history of determinations under the statute evinces the inclination of the court to use its provisions sparingly; the statute was usually invoked to dismiss an indictment for the insufficiency of evidence before a grand jury after a defendant's motion to inspect the minutes had been granted. (The statute provided a method to afford relief to a defendant, who could not move to inspect the minutes of the grand jury without showing a reason to believe that the evidence before it was insufficient to support the indictment. Since the defendant could not know the nature of the proceedings before the grand jury, he was obviously at a disadvantage.)
More recently, the statute has been employed to reach cases in which the court found for a variety of reasons that the ends of justice would be served by the termination of the prosecution. Indeed, it has been stated that the use of the statute depended only on principles of justice, not on the legal or factual merits of the charge or even on the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
Terms
N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 210.40 grants the defendant (or the prosecutor or the court) the power to apply for relief:
First, it directs the court to find, under the general concept of the "furtherance of justice" stated in its provisions, that the "dismissal is required as a matter of judicial discretion by the existence of some compelling factor, consideration or circumstance clearly demonstrating that conviction or prosecution of the defendant upon such indictment or count would constitute or result in injustice."
Second, it directs that the procedure for the application is to be governed by N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 210.20. § 210.20, providing for the omnibus motion against an indictment, must be read with N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 210.45(6), which commands the court to conduct a hearing on the motion.
People v. Clayton
The provisions of N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law §§ 210.40 and 210.45 require a hearing when either the prosecution or the defendant moves to dismiss the indictment in the furtherance of justice.
In People v. Clayton, the Court held that when a trial court considers sua sponte a dismissal for the same reason, it should not do so until fair notice of its intention has been given to the parties and a hearing has been held. At the hearing the parties may, if they are so advised, present such evidence and arguments as may be pertinent to the interests of justice. Among the considerations which are applicable to the issue are (a) the nature of the crime, (b) the available evidence of guilt, (c) the prior record of the defendant, (d) the punishment already suffered by the defendant, (e) the purpose and effect of further punishment, (f) any prejudice resulting to the defendant by the passage of time and (g) the impact on the public interest of a dismissal of the indictment.
See also
Law of New York
Judiciary of New York
References
People v. Clayton, 41 A.D.2d 204 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dep't 1973)
Further reading
"Legal Developments: A Model Of Discretion: New York's 'Interests Of Justice' Dismissal Statute". 58 Alb. L. Rev. 175. (John F. Wirenius, Albany Law Review, 1994) - Through Google Scholar / HeinOnline
New York (state) law
U.S. state criminal procedure |
6906809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgwick%20station%20%28CTA%29 | Sedgwick station (CTA) | Sedgwick is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown Line, Purple Line Express trains also stop at the station during weekday rush hours. It is an elevated station with two side platforms, located in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The adjacent stations are Armitage, which is located about to the northwest, and Chicago, located about to the south.
History
The station was put into service in 1900 as part of Northwestern Elevated Railroad's initial route, and it is one of the oldest standing stations on the 'L'.
In 1979, a portion of The Hunter starring Steve McQueen was shot at Sedgwick as part of an action scene.
During 2007, the main station entrance was closed for extensive renovation and rebuilding as part of the CTA's Brown Line capacity expansion project. Throughout the renovation period, the station remained open on weekdays but experienced several weekend closures, with entrance to the station through a temporary entrance (which was later converted to an emergency exit) located one block west of the original entrance at Hudson Avenue.
As the outside express tracks had not been in service since 1963 they were removed and island platforms widened, converting them to side platforms. The platforms were also extended to allow eight-car trains to berth, and elevators were added along with other upgrades to meet ADA requirements. The historical station house was restored, and an extension was added behind it.
Bus connections
CTA
N9 Ashland Night Bus (Owl Service)
37 Sedgwick (Weekdays Only)
72 North
References
External links
https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/browntt_sedgwick.pdf at CTA official site
Sedgewick Street entrance (during reconstruction) from Google Maps Street View
CTA Brown Line stations
CTA Purple Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1900 |
20480238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Baltimore%20Bullet | The Baltimore Bullet | The Baltimore Bullet is a 1979 American comedy film based on the adventures of two pool hustlers in the United States.
It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starred James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner and Ronee Blakley. The screenplay was written by film and stage dancer John Brascia, from a story by Brascia and Robert Vincent O'Neil. Brascia also produced the film.
Various real-life notable professional players made cameo appearances, including Lou Butera, Willie Mosconi, Steve Mizerak, Mike Sigel and Jimmy Mataya.
As of January 2009, the film has been released on (now out-of-print) NTSC VHS video tape, and a Region-2 (European, PAL-format) DVD, but is not presently available in other DVD regions.
Plot
Nick Casey, whose nickname is the "Baltimore Bullet," is a legendary pool player whose best days are behind him. He decides to teach everything he knows to a young up-and-comer, Billie Joe Robbins, all leading up to a big winner-take-all match between Nick and The Deacon (Omar Sharif's character).
Cast
James Coburn as Nick "The Baltimore Bullet" Casey
Omar Sharif as "The Deacon"
Bruce Boxleitner as Billie Joe Robbins
Ronee Blakley as Carolina Red
Jack O'Halloran as Max
Calvin Lockhart as "Snow" White
Cisse Cameron as Sugar
Michael Lerner as Paulie
Rockne Tarkington as Gunner
Robert Hewes as Ricco
Shepherd Sanders as Robin Hood
Paul Barselou as Cosmo
Lou Wagner as Savannah Shorty
Shay Duffin as Big Al
Peter Jason as Bert
Eric Laneuville as Purvis
T. J. Castronovo as Ernie
Ed Bakey as Skinny
Charlie Picerni as The Dealer
George Fisher as Cardplayer
Walter Wyatt as Blindman Joe
John Alderman as Bookie
External links
1979 films
1979 comedy films
American comedy films
American films
Cue sports films
Embassy Pictures films
English-language films
Films directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Films scored by Johnny Mandel
Films set in New Orleans
Films shot in New Orleans |
20480275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebru%20Elhan | Ebru Elhan | Ebru Elhan (born 19 February 1982 in Kayseri) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 185 cm and plays as outside hitter.
She played for the Turkey women's national volleyball team, at the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
She plays for club team Ereğli Belediyesi.
See also
Turkish women in sports
References
External links
Telekom Ankara Official Website Profile
1982 births
Living people
People from Kayseri
Turkish women's volleyball players
VakıfBank S.K. volleyballers
Türk Telekom volleyballers
Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball) players |
6906816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20S.%20Bhabra | H. S. Bhabra | Hargurchet Singh Bhabra (7 June 1955 – 1 June 2000) was a British Asian writer and broadcaster who settled in Canada.
Bhabra was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to England with his family in 1957. The family eventually settled in Beare Green, Surrey. From 1966 to 1973, Bhabra attended Reigate Grammar School. He was the only boy of Asian origin in the school, was highly regarded by his teachers, and an accomplished actor in school productions such as Much Ado about Nothing. Regarded by his teachers as the most exceptional member of an exceptional year, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he read English Literature.
Publication
Bhabra worked for six years in financial advertising in the City of London. In 1984, he resigned to complete Gestures, a novel on which he had been working for years. He travelled and worked as a correspondent for a few years, which provided material for his career as a writer of fiction, under his own name and also as A M Kabal and John Ford. Gestures won a Betty Trask Award in 1987. It has been described thus: "With extraordinary force and subtlety, Gestures conducts the 'funeral rite over an entire way of life . . . a liberal, human, European culture which has finally disappeared'. The lines could stand as an epitaph for Bhabra himself. Infused with his own erudition, elegance and empathy, it was also—and to a great degree—an expression of his own sense of displacement." Indeed, although he published in quick succession three thrillers—The Adversary (1986) and Bad Money (1987), and Zero Yield—the next few years were spent largely on travels to Egypt, Mexico and Latin America.
The United States
In 1989, Bhabra was awarded the first Fulbright Chandler Fellowship in Spy and Detective Fiction Writing. This prize included a post as writer-in-residence at the University of California, Los Angeles, for one year. Bhabra stayed on in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1993, hoping to earn money as a scriptwriter. That did not work out, however, though his fund of esoteric knowledge did help him win a handsome sum as a contestant on a television quiz show, Jeopardy!, an accomplishment of which he remained proud. While there, he also developed an obsession with climbing bridges, which led to his arrest while making an assault on the Golden Gate, San Francisco. Bhabra also taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Canada
In 1994 Bhabra moved to Toronto, where his parents now lived. In Canada, Bhabra was perceived as an Asian-Canadian writer and broadcaster. He taught at the Humber School for Writers at Humber College and then joined TVOntario as co-host, with Marni Jackson, of the book show Imprint from 1995 to 1997. Knowledgeable and intelligent, Bhabra had interests ranging from food and fashion to films and books. His contract with Imprint was not renewed after the 1997 season.
After leaving Imprint, Bhabra struggled to make ends meet with occasional freelance magazine and television work. Television projects included the show Starting Up!, about the challenges and rewards of opening a business, which he created and produced for TVO. Bhabra also embarked on an ambitious fiction quartet: South, West, North, and East. By the spring of 1999, Bhabra had completed a draft of the first chapter of the first novel, South, a draft which failed to lead to the publishing contract he hoped for and much needed, in order to support himself financially. When opportunities at TVO dried up, Bhabra joined TFO, the French-language channel, where he worked, for a short time, on a new arts show, Ôzone. Bhabra left TFO in late 1999 as a result of artistic differences. He was sustained during these years by the support of his partner, Vee Ledson, daughter of educator Sidney Ledson. Bhabra had encouraged Ledson to pursue her dream of running her own school, Laurel Academy, which she established in Toronto in 1995.
On 1 June 2000, a week before his 45th birthday, he killed himself by jumping off the Prince Edward Viaduct on Toronto's Bloor Street. None around him knew of his debilitating writer's block; in the months and weeks leading up to his death, Bhabra had led some of those closest to him to believe he had, at last, completed the first novel and secured a book contract for it, and that he had begun work on the second book.
Bhabra wrote letters shortly before killing himself in which he revealed he had misrepresented important elements of his life. In addition to acknowledging that he had not been making any progress in his writing, he revealed he did not have legal residence status in Canada.
His death contributed to the argument for the Luminous Veil, a suicide barrier fence over the viaduct. In 2001, Bhabra, was posthumously nominated for a Gémeaux Award (Prix Gémaux), for his work on Ôzone. In 2003, the Luminous Veil was finally completed and in the same year Gestures was reprinted.
In December 2014 Maclean's published Marni Jackson's description of being sexually harassed by Bhabra. Jackson compared Bhabra's behaviour to the then recently publicised behaviour of Jian Ghomeshi:
I am struck by some of the similarities: the narcissistic "host" whose increasingly self-serving behaviour was tolerated by his bosses and co-workers, and an intelligent, talented man whose "charm" had a hidden element of misogyny.
Bibliography
Gestures - 1986
The Adversary - 1986 (as A.M. Kabal)
Bad Money - 1987 (as A.M. Kabal)
Zero Yield (as John Ford)
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930095343/http://brannan.org/2000/bhabra.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20051126141213/http://www.ryerson.ca/library/events/asian_heritage/bhabra.html
http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/jun/07us2.htm
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2001/minutes/committees/wks/wks010221.pdf
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Indian male novelists
British Asian writers
Canadian male novelists
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Canadian writers of Asian descent
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Canadian television hosts
20th-century British novelists
British male writers
20th-century Indian novelists
20th-century Canadian novelists
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Novelists from Maharashtra
20th-century Canadian male writers
Suicides by jumping in Canada |
17339422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3a%20%28complement%29 | C3a (complement) | C3a is one of the proteins formed by the cleavage of complement component 3; the other is C3b. C3a is a 77 residue anaphylatoxin that binds to the C3a receptor (C3aR), a class A G protein-coupled receptor. It plays a large role in the immune response.
C3a molecules induce responses through the GPCR C3a receptor. Like other anaphylatoxins, C3a is regulated by cleavage of its carboxy-terminal arginine, which results in a molecule with lowered inflammatory function (C3a desarginine).
C3a is an effector of the complement system with a range of functions including T cell activation and survival, angiogenesis stimulation, chemotaxis, mast cell degranulation, and macrophage activation. It has been shown to have both proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses, its activity able to counteract the proinflammatory effects of C5a.
Structure
C3a
C3a is a strongly basic and highly cationic 77 residue protein with a molecular mass of approximately 10 kDa. Residues 17-66 are made up of three anti-parallel helices and three disulfide bonds, which confer stability to the protein. The N-terminus consists of a fourth flexible helical structure, while the C terminus is disordered. C3a has a regulatory process and a structure homologous to complement component C5a, with which it shares 36% of its sequence identity.
Receptor
C3a induces an immunological response through a 482 residue G-protein-coupled receptor called C3aR. The C3aR is similarly structurally homologous to C5aR, but contains an extracellular domain with more than 160 amino acids. Specific binding sites for interactions between C3a and C3aR are unknown, but it has been shown that sulfation of tyrosine 174, one of the amino acids in the extracellular domain, is required for C3a binding. It has also been demonstrated that the C3aR N terminus is not required for ligand binding.
Formation
C3a formation occurs through activation and cleavage of complement component 3 in a reaction catalyzed by C3-convertase. There are three pathways of activation, each of which leads to the formation of C3a and C3b, which is involved in antigen opsonization. Other than the alternative pathway, which is constantly active, C3a formation is triggered by pathogenic infection.
Classical pathway
The classical pathway of complement activation is initiated when the C1 complex, made up of C1r and C1s serine proteases, recognizes the Fc region of IgM or IgG antibodies bound to a pathogen. C1q mediates the classical pathway by activating the C1 complex, which cleaves C4 and C2 into smaller fragments (C4a, C4b, C2a, and C2b). C4a and C2b form C4bC2b, also known as C3 convertase.
Lectin pathway
The lectin pathway is activated when pattern-recognition receptors, like mannan-binding lectin or ficolins, recognize and bind to pathogen-associated molecular patterns on the antigen, including sugars. These bound receptors then complex with Mannose-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Proteases (MASPs), which have proteolytic activity similar to the C1 complex. The MASPs cleave C4 and C2, resulting in C3 convertase formation.
Alternative pathway
The alternative pathway of complement activation is typically always active at low levels in blood plasma through a process called tick-over, in which C3 spontaneously hydrolyzes into its active form, C3(H2O). This activation induces a conformational change in the thioester domain of C3(H2O) that allows it to bind to a plasma protein called Factor B. This complex is then cleaved by Factor D, a serine protease, to form C3b(H2O)Bb, or fluid-phase C3-convertase. This complex has the ability to catalyze the formation of C3a and C3b after it binds properdin, a globulin protein, and is stabilized.
Functions
Anaphylatoxins are small complement peptides that induce proinflammatory responses in tissues. C3a is primarily regarded for its role in the innate and adaptive immune responses as an anaphylatoxin, moderating and activating multiple inflammatory pathways.
Role in innate immunity
The roles of C3a in innate immunity, upon binding C3aR, include increased vasodilation via endothelial cell contraction, increased vascular permeability, and mast cell and basophil degranulation of histamine, induction of respiratory burst and subsequent degradation of pathogens by neutrophils, macrophages, and eosinophils, and regulation of cationic eosinophil protein migration, adhesion, and production. C3a is also able to play a role in chemotaxis for mast cells and eosinophils, but C5a is a more potent chemoattractant.
Traditionally thought to serve a strictly pro-inflammatory role, recent investigations have shown that C3a can also work against C5a to serve an anti-inflammatory role. In addition, migration and degranulation of neutrophils can be suppressed in the presence of C3a.
Role in adaptive immunity
C3a also plays an important role in adaptive immunity, moderating leukocyte production and proliferation. C3a is able to regulate B cell and monocyte production of IL-6 and TNF-α, and human C3a has been shown to dampen the polyclonal immune response through dose-dependent regulation of B cell molecule production. C3aR signaling along antigen-presenting cells' CD28 and CD40L pathways also plays a role in T cell proliferation and differentiation. C3aR has been shown to be necessary for TH1 cell generation and regulates TH1 IL-10 expression, while an absence of active C3aR on dendritic cells upregulates regulatory T cell production. The absence of C3 has also been shown to decrease IL-2 receptor expression on T cells.
Regulation
Regulation of complement activation
Levels of complement are regulated by moderating convertase formation and enzymatic activity. C3 convertase formation is primarily regulated by levels of active C3b and C4b. Factor I, a serine protease activated by cofactors, can cleave and C3b and C4b, thus preventing convertase formation. C3 convertase activity is also regulated without C3b inactivation, through complement control proteins, including decay-accelerating factors that function to speed up C3 convertase half-lives and avert convertase formation.
Deactivation
C3a, like other anaphylatoxins, has a C-terminal arginine residue. Serum carboxypeptidase B, a protease, cleaves the arginine residue from C3a, forming the desArg derivative of C3a, also known as acylation stimulating protein (ASP). Unlike C5a desArg, this version of C3a has no proinflammatory activity. However, ASP functions as a hormone in the adipose tissue, moderating fatty acid migration to adipocytes and triacylglycerol synthesis. In addition, it has been shown that ASP downregulates the polyclonal immune response in the same way C3a does.
References
External links
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec13/ch163/ch163d.html
Complement system |
20480277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan%20Jamshidov | Ruslan Jamshidov | Ruslan Jamshidov (born 22 August 1979) is a retired Kyrgyzstani footballer who is a striker. He last played for Alga Bishkek. He was a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 28 July 2011
International goals
References
External links
ffkr.kg All National Team matches
1979 births
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
Kyrgyzstani expatriate footballers
Kyrgyzstani expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
FC Alga Bishkek players
Association football forwards |
23578136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%20Price | Naomi Price | Naomi Price is an Australian stage actress and singer, best known for appearing in the fourth season of the Australian version of The Voice, finishing in fifth place, and her roles in original cabarets Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele and Wrecking Ball
History
Price moved from England to Australia to study at Queensland University of Technology in 2003. Since moving to Brisbane, she appeared in numerous productions including Matilda Women and Tashi Stories for QUT, Into the Woods, Children of Eden, Alice, The Awfully Big Adventures of Peter Pan, Rent, Tell Me on a Sunday and The Wishing Well for Matrix Theatre/La Boite Theatre. In 2007, Price played the role of Cathy in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years co-starring The Voice Australia season 2 runner-up Luke Kennedy. She has performed alongside Guy Sebastian, Marina Prior, Troy Cassar-Daley and Broadway composer Scott Alan.
In August 2010 and June 2011, Price played Mary Magdalene in the critically acclaimed production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) Playhouse.
Price founded the little red company with co-devisor Adam Brunes in 2012 and together they have created original cabarets Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele and Wrecking Ball which have toured extensively around Australia. She recently made her debut with Queensland Theatre Company in their 2014 production of Gloria. Price also auditioned for season 4 of The Voice Australia. She was mentored by Ricky Martin throughout the series and placed 6th overall.
She is set to take part of the ensemble cast of a Carole King's hits-musical showcasing the US singer-songwriter's work, set to premiere in Brisbaneand. Price is an understudy for the role of Carole's friend and fellow songwriter Cynthia Weil.
Live performances
References
External links
Harvest Rain launches 2010 Season
Australian Stage Online - Peter Pan
Harvest Rain moves to QPAC
Living people
Australian stage actresses
People from Shoreham-by-Sea
Queensland University of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17339428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Championships | Stanford Championships | The Stanford Championships was an event in the Outback Champions Series for senior tennis players. It began in 2006 in Memphis, Tennessee, but relocated to Dallas, Texas in 2007. It is sponsored by the Stanford Financial Group.
Finals results
2006 establishments in Tennessee
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Champions Series (senior men's tennis tour)
Sports in Memphis, Tennessee
Sports in Dallas
Tennis in Tennessee
Recurring sporting events established in 2006
2008 disestablishments in Tennessee |
20480278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial%200265 | Uncial 0265 | Uncial 0265 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.
Description
The codex contains small parts of the Gospel of Luke 7:20-21,34-35, on one parchment leaf (27 cm by 22 cm). It is survived in a fragmentary condition. Probably it was written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page, in uncial letters.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
Location
Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums (P. 16994) in Berlin.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, though text is too brief for certainty. Aland with some hesitation placed it in Category V.
See also
List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Kurt Treu, "Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung", APF 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38.
G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.
Greek New Testament uncials
6th-century biblical manuscripts |
17339432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha-on | Sha-on | Sha-on 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 |
23578139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Davidson%20%28footballer%29 | Andrew Davidson (footballer) | Andrew Crawford Davidson (24 February 1878 – 1949) was a Scottish footballer who played at half-back for various clubs in the 1900s, spending most of his career with Middlesbrough.
Football career
Davidson was born in Auchinleck in East Ayrshire and started his professional football career with Ayr United before moving to England to join Middlesbrough in May 1900.
At Middlesbrough, he soon became a permanent fixture at left-half, making 32 league appearances in the 1900–01 season as Middlesbrough finished sixth in the Second Division table. The following season, he was ever-present as Middlesbrough finished as runners-up, thus gaining promotion to the First Division.
Davidson rarely missed a match over the next two years, but in 1904–05 he missed most of the season through injury, with Joe Cassidy dropping back to replace him. He was back to full fitness for the following season as Middlesbrough narrowly avoided relegation.
In the summer of 1906, he moved to fellow First Division side, Bury, having made over 200 appearances for Middlesbrough in the League and FA Cup.
Davidson spent two seasons with Bury, before moving on to join Grimsby Town in May 1908. At Grimsby, he gained a reputation as a quick centre-half and was appointed the team captain. In July 1909, he moved to Southampton of the Southern League, where he failed to reproduce the form he had shown at Blundell Park and, after only five appearances, he returned to Grimsby, where he played for the rest of the 1909–10 season before dropping down to non-league football.
Honours
Middlesbrough
Football League Second Division runners-up: 1901–02
References
1878 births
1949 deaths
Footballers from East Ayrshire
Scottish footballers
Association football defenders
Ayr United F.C. players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Bury F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Southern Football League players |
23578148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20peach | Wild peach | A wild peach is a wild growing form of the Peach (Prunus persica).
Wild peach may also refer to other flowering tree plants not closely related to the peach or each other:
Kiggelaria africana, native to southern and eastern Africa
Santalum acuminatum, also known as Quandong, a hemiparasitic plant widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia
Terminalia carpentariae, native to northern Australia
See also
Wild Peach Village, Texas |
6906818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Patterson%20%28California%20politician%29 | Jim Patterson (California politician) | Norwood James Patterson, Jr (born February 18, 1948) is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Republican representing the 23rd district, which encompasses eastern Fresno County and a slice of Tulare County. He is the former Mayor of Fresno, California.
Early career
Prior to being elected to public office, he was a business executive and broadcaster owning and operating radio stations in California and Idaho.
Mayor
Patterson was Mayor of Fresno between 1993 and 2001, defeating incumbent Democrat Karen Humphrey for reelection by a landslide, and being succeeded by Alan Autry.
2002 Congressional election
Patterson ran for the Republican nomination in California's 21st congressional district, a district with new boundaries created through reapportionment after the 2000 United States census. His opponents were State Assemblyman Mike Briggs and Devin Nunes, the California State Director for the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development section. Patterson came in close second place to Nunes, who would eventually win the general election.
2010 Congressional election
Patterson ran for the Republican nomination in California's 19th congressional district, to take over the seat of retiring Congressman George Radanovich. He finished second in the June 8, 2010 primary to state Senator Jeff Denham, who won the general election.
Political positions
In the wake of a 2018 shooting spree in Tulare County by an illegal alien, Patterson called on his fellow legislators to change California Sanctuary Law SB54 to allow local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Electoral history
See also
List of mayors of Fresno, California
References
External links
Campaign website
Members of the California State Assembly
Living people
Mayors of Fresno, California
California Republicans
21st-century American politicians
1948 births |
20480286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynn%20Chamberlain | Wynn Chamberlain | Elwyn Moody "Wynn" Chamberlain, (19 May 1927 – 27 November 2014), was an American artist, film maker and author. Described by The New York Times as a "pioneer realist painter", Chamberlain has two works, Interior: Late August (1955) and The Barricade (1958), on permanent exhibition in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Early life
Elwyn Chamberlain was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1927. After serving in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946, he studied art at the University of Idaho, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1949. He then took a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, while continuing to paint and studying with the Magic realist artist, John Wilde.
Art career
He had his first solo exhibition in Milwaukee in 1951, and three years later he had his first New York City solo exhibition at the Edwin Hewitt Gallery. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s his realist landscapes, interior scenes, and allegorical paintings were exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe. Although his work tended to become more abstract in the 1960s, he had a major exhibition of nude portraits at the Fischbach Gallery in 1965. The portraits were of New York literary and artistic figures of the time. One of the most famous of these is Poets Dressed and Undressed, two panels portraying Joe Brainard, Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur and Frank Lima. The exhibition also included a nude portrait of Allen Ginsberg who wrote the publicity flyer for the exhibition (Chamberlain's "Nakeds") as well as notes for the catalogue, wherein he equated Chamberlain's nudes with the ecstatic poetry of William Blake.
In the 1960s Chamberlain also became involved in Andy Warhol's circle. In the latter part of that decade he increasingly turned from painting to film and theatre. In 1967 he produced the premiere of Charles Ludlam's Conquest of the Universe at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, directed by John Vaccaro and starring several members of Andy Warhol's Factory, including Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet. Chamberlain also wrote, produced and directed the film Brand X which premiered in 1970. The film, a satire on American television commercials, included Taylor Mead, Candy Darling, Abbie Hoffman, Baby Jane Holzer and Sam Shepard in the cast.
On 7 September 1965, in Staatsburg, New York, Chamberlain married Sally Stokes, the former wife of John Sergeant Cram III and a daughter of Frederick Hallock Stokes. The couple had two children in 1968, fraternal twins Sara Ninigret Stokes Chamberlain and Samuel Wyandance Stokes Chamberlain.
Later life
In 1970, Chamberlain left the underground scene and the art world behind. He burned his paintings and left for India with his wife and children. The family were to live there for five years - in the Terai with a Tantric yogi, in the village of Kollur in Karnataka, and in Bangalore, in an old colonial mansion once owned by Arthur Wellesley. On their return to the United States in 1975, they bought land in California's Mendocino County, lived in a tent for three years, built their house and grew most of their own food. It was during this time that Chamberlain became a novelist. His first novel, Gates of Fire, was published by Grove Press in 1978. Gates of Fire, like his third novel, Then Spoke the Thunder, is set in India.
Chamberlain was living in Marrakech, Morocco.
Chamberlain died in New Delhi, India, of heart failure on 27 November 2014, at the age of 87.
Novels
Gates of Fire (1978) Grove Press, (also published in Spanish as El guru (1979) Martínez Roca, and in Dutch as Door een poort Van Vuur (1980) Omega, )
Hound Dog (1984) North Atlantic Press
Then Spoke the Thunder (1987) Grove Press (also published in French as La nuit tomba sur Kotagarth (1990) Laffont, )
Paradise (2006) Kadmos Publishing
References
Sources
ANP QUARTERLY, Volume 2, Number 4 '222 Bowery: The Bunker' by Ethan Swan, 2010
American Federation of Arts, Who's Who in American Art, R. R. Bowker, 1959, p. 98.
Banes, Sally, Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-garde Performance and the Effervescent Body, Duke University Press, 1993,
Chamberlain, Elwyn, "Boom Bangalore", Geographical, July 2000. Accessed via subscription 19 June 2009.
Chamberlain, Sally, "From Woodstock to Altamont: Sally Chamberlain says goodbye to 60s New York", Five Dials, No. 7, September 2009.
Chamberlain, Sally "Make Little Mistakes". Five Dials No. 13 July 2010
Cozzolino, Robert, In Memoriam: John Wilde (1919-2006), Wisconsin Visual Artists, 2006. Accessed 20 June 2009.
Cummings, Paul, A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, St. Martin's Press, 1971, p. 94.
Greenspun, Roger, Review: Brand X, New York Times, 19 May 1970. Accessed 19 June 2009.
Kadmos Publishing, Biography of Wynn Chamberlain. Accessed 19 June 2009.
McCarthy, David, "Social Nudism, Masculinity, and the Male Nude in the Work of William Theo Brown and Wynn Chamberlain in the 1960s", Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1/2 (1998), pp. 28–38. Accessed via subscription 19 June 2009.
Renfrue, Neff and Giorno, John, Love & Sleeze: Renfrue Neff Interviews John Giorno & Vice Versa, Smoke Signals, January–February 2009. Accessed 23 June 2009.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wynn Chamberlain (excerpt from Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987). Accessed 19 June 2009.Spokane Daily Chronicle, "Minnesota Artist Shows Work at UI", 24 February 1949. Accessed 19 June 2009.
Smith, Michael, "Theatre Journal: Conquest of the Universe , The Village Voice, 30 November 1967, p. 33
Stix, Harriet, "From Artist's Life to Austerity", Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1978, Orange County Edition, p. C1. Accessed via subscription 19 June 2009.
Thorton, Gene, "Male Nudes: Photographs, Paintings and Statues", New York Times, 11 November 1973, Section: AL, p. 179.
External links
Video interview with Wynn Chamberlain by Steven Watson, September 2001, on the official web site for Watson's book, Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties''.
Elwyn Chamberlain, Paradise (2006), complete novel in electronic form with permission granted by the author for free download, on the official web site of Kadmos Publishing.
Background information on Chamberlain's 1970 film, Brand X, including a lengthy video interview with Chamberlain, on the web site of the UK film company, Surreal Films.
American artists
American filmmakers
American male writers
1927 births
2014 deaths
University of Idaho alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni |
17339449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20immunoprecipitation%20chip | RNA immunoprecipitation chip | RIP-chip (RNA immunoprecipitation chip) is a molecular biology technique which combines RNA immunoprecipitation with a microarray. The purpose of this technique is to identify which RNA sequences interact with a particular RNA binding protein of interest in vivo. It can also be used to determine relative levels of gene expression, to identify subsets of RNAs which may be co-regulated, or to identify RNAs that may have related functions. This technique provides insight into the post-transcriptional gene regulation which occurs between RNA and RNA binding proteins.
Procedural Overview
Collect and lyse the cells of interest.
Isolate all RNA fragments and the proteins bound to them from the solution.
Immunoprecipitate the protein of interest. The solution containing the protein-bound RNAs is washed over beads which have been conjugated to antibodies. These antibodies are designed to bind to the protein of interest. They pull the protein (and any RNA fragments that are specifically bound to it) out of the solution which contains the rest of the cell contents.
Dissociate the protein-bound RNA from the antibody-bead complex. Then, use a centrifuge to separate the protein-bound RNA from the heavier antibody-bead complexes, keeping the protein-bound RNA and discarding the beads.
Disassociate the RNA from the protein of interest.
Isolate the RNA fragments from the protein using a centrifuge.
Use Reverse Transcription PCR to convert the RNA fragments into cDNA (DNA that is complementary to the RNA fragments).
Fluorescently label these cDNA fragments.
Prepare the gene chip. This is a small chip that has DNA sequences bound to it in known locations. These DNA sequences correspond to all of the known genes in the genome of the organism that the researcher is working with (or a subset of genes that the researcher is interested in). The cDNA sequences that have been collected will be complementary to some of these DNA sequences, as the cDNAs represent a subset of the RNAs transcribed from the genome.
Allow the cDNA fragments to competitively hybridize to the DNA sequences bound to the chip.
Detection of the fluorescent signal from the cDNA bound to the chip tells researchers which gene(s) on the chip were hybridized to the cDNA.
The genes fluorescently identified by the chip analysis are the genes whose RNA interacts with the original protein of interest. The strength of the fluorescent signal for a particular gene can indicate how much of that particular RNA was present in the original sample, which indicates the expression level of that gene.
Development and Similar Techniques
Previous techniques aiming to understand protein-RNA interactions included RNA Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays and UV-crosslinking, however these techniques cannot be used when the RNA sequence is unknown. To resolve this, RIP-chip combines RNA immunoprecipitation to isolate RNA molecules interacting with specific proteins with a microarray which can elucidate the identity of the RNAs participating in this interaction. Alternatives to RIP-chip include:
RIP-seq: Involves sequencing the RNAs that were pulled down using high-throughput sequencing rather than analyzing them with a microarray. Authors Zhao et al., 2010. combined the RNA immunoprecipitation procedure with RNA sequencing. Using specific antibodies (α-Ezh2) they immunoprecipitated nuclear RNA isolated from mouse ES cells, and subsequently sequenced the pulled-down RNA using the next generation sequencing platform, Illumina.
CLIP-seq: The RNA binding protein is cross-linked to the RNA via the use of UV light prior to immunoprecipitation. Authors Licatalosi et al., 2008 first combined the UV crosslinking coupled immunoprecipitation procedure (CLIP) with high throughput sequencing methods to determine Nova-RNA binding sites in the mouse brain. In addition, they found that this protocol could determine de novo protein interactions.
ChIP-on-chip: A similar technique which detects the binding of proteins to genomic DNA rather than RNA.
References
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Microarrays
RNA
Protein methods |
20480306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawhitton | Lawhitton | Lawhitton () is a village in the civil parish of Lawhitton Rural, in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated two miles (3 km) southwest of Launceston and half-a-mile west of Cornwall's border with Devon at the River Tamar.
Governance
The civil parish of Lawhitton was abolished in 1894 and the parishes of Lawhitton Urban and Lawhitton Rural were created. On the 1 April 1922 Lawhitton Urban was abolished into Launceston parish. In 1891 the civil parish of Lawhitton had a population of 361. The parish of Lawhitton Rural is in the Launceston registration district. It is a comparatively small parish and Lawhitton village is the principal settlement. The border with Devon forms the parish's eastern boundary; to the north, it is bounded by St Thomas by Launceston parish; to the west by Launceston parish; and to the south by Lezant parish. The population of Lawhitton Rural in the 2001 census was 270, decreasing to 232 at the 2011 census.
History
At the time of Domesday Book (1086) the manor was held by the bishop and had 11 hides of land and land for 40 ploughs. The lord had land for 2 ploughs with 7 serfs, and 27 villeins and 20 smallholders had land for 29 ploughs. There was 8 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture and 10 acres of underwood. The value of the manor was £17 though it had formerly been worth only £8.
Until 1261 the benefice of Lawhitton consisted of a vicarage and a sinecure rectory; they were then combined as a rectory. From then until 1924 there were 60 rectors, of whom probably only 19 were resident. The last of these rectors was Henry Du Boulay who was concurrently Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1892 to 1924 Du Boulay was ordained in 1864 and died in 1925; he was the son of an earlier rector of Lawhitton.
There is a Cornish cross at Treniffle; it was found built into an old barn at Tregada Farm about 1883 and then placed in her garden by Mrs. Morshead.
Parish church
The parish church of St Michael is in Lawhitton village at ; it is of various periods of English Gothic architecture. The plan is unusual and the tower stands in the position of a south transept. The tower is 13th century in date and there is a north aisle. The font is Norman, of the Altarnun type. Features of interest include the Jacobean pulpit, 1665, and two monuments, to R. Bennet (d. 1683) and in Coade stone to Richard Bennet-Coffin (d. 1796).
Bennett-Coffin family
Richard Bennet (d.1619), a Councillor at Law, built Hexworthy House as his seat within the parish. The Bennet family originated in Sussex and settled at Hexworthy during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). His son was Col. Robert Bennet (1605–1683) of Hexworthy, a Member of Parliament during the Civil War and a noted commander of the Parliamentarian forces. His descendant Richard Bennett-Coffin (d.1796) was the son of Edward Bennett of Lawhitton by his wife Honor Coffin (born 1682), 11th daughter of Richard Coffin (1623-1700) of Portledge in the parish of Alwington in North Devon, lord of the manor of Alwington and Sheriff of Devon in 1683. Richard Bennett-Coffin (d.1796) became heir to the Coffin estates following the death of his childless uncle Richard Coffin (1684-1766). The Coffin family had been established at Alwington since the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189), and remained there in unbroken male succession until 1766. He adopted the name and arms of Coffin, but died without progeny at Esher in Surrey and was buried at Lawhitton where survives his monument. His heir was Rev. John Pine-Coffin (1735-1824), eldest surviving grandson of Dorothy Coffin (1651-1690), eldest daughter of Richard Coffin (1623-1700), who in 1672 married Edward Pyne (1648-1675) of East Down. Her descendants remained seated at East Down manor house until 1866, the Pyne family having occupied it since the 13th century. The last in the Pine-Coffin family to occupy Portledge manor house was Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin (1908-1974).
References
Villages in Cornwall
Former civil parishes in Cornwall |
6906826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnie%20Hale | Sonnie Hale | John Robert Hale-Monro (1 May 1902 – 9 June 1959), known as Sonnie Hale, was an English actor, screenwriter, and director.
Early life
John Robert Hale-Monro was born in Kensington, London, the son of Belle Reynolds and actor Robert Hale. His sister, Binnie Hale, was also an actress. Hale was educated at Beaumont College.
Career
He worked chiefly in musical and revue theatre, but also acted in several films with occasional screenwriting or directing credits. He first performed on stage at the London Pavilion in 1921 in the chorus of the revue Fun of the Fayre. A major personal investment in a show to tour the country planned for late 1939 proved financially ruinous due to the outbreak of war and the subsequent closure of most theatres. His slight acquaintance Evelyn Waugh advised him against such an investment. His reply was reported to be the sardonic "War is good for business, don't you know!"
Hale's play The French Mistress premiered at Wimbledon Theatre in 1955. It later enjoyed a long West End run, before being adapted into the film A French Mistress.
Personal life and death
He was married three times, to:
The actress Evelyn Laye (1926–1930).
The actress and dancer Jessie Matthews (1931–1944).
Mary Kelsey (1945–1957)
He left his first marriage to Evelyn Laye for actress Jessie Matthews, an action which received backlash among the British and caused a scandal.
By his second marriage he had one son (died at birth) and one adopted daughter (born 1935); by his third marriage he had one son, John Robert Hale-Monro (born 1946, died 2013) and a daughter. He also had a daughter Joanna Monro (born 1956) from a subsequent relationship with the actress Frances Bennett.
He died on 9 June 1959 in London from myelofibrosis, aged 57.
Selected theatre performances
Little Nellie Kelly (London production) - 1923 (as Sidney Potter)
Mercenary Mary - 1925 (as Jerry Warner)
One Dam Thing After Another (revue) - 1927
This Year of Grace (revue) - 1928
Wake Up and Dream (revue) - 1929
Ever Green - 1930 (as Tommy Thompson)
Hold My Hand - 1931 (as Pop Curry)
Come Out to Play (revue) - 1940
Maid of the Mountains - 1942 (as Tonio)
One, Two, Three (revue) - 1947
The Perfect Woman - 1948 (as Freddie Cavendish)
Rainbow Square - 1951 (as Peppi)
Lady Be Good - 1955
The French Mistress - 1959 (as John Crawley)
Filmography
Actor
Happy Ever After (1932)
Tell Me Tonight (1932)
Early to Bed (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Evergreen (1934)
Wild Boy (1934)
Are You a Mason? (1934)
My Song for You (1934)
Mon coeur t'appelle (1934)
My Heart is Calling (1935)
Marry the Girl (1935)
First a Girl (1935)
It's Love Again (1936)
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
Let's Be Famous (1939)
Fiddlers Three (1944)
London Town (1946)
Director
Head Over Heels (1937)
Gangway (1937)
Sailing Along (1938)
References
"Oxford Companion to Popular Music" by Peter Grimmond - Publisher OUP 1991 -
"Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912–1976", Vol. 2 D–H - Publisher Pitman London -
External links
1902 births
1959 deaths
English male film actors
English film directors
English male screenwriters
English male stage actors
20th-century English male actors
Male actors from London
People educated at Beaumont College
Royal Army Service Corps officers
20th-century English screenwriters
20th-century English male writers |
23578154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20137%20Squadron%20RAF | No. 137 Squadron RAF | No. 137 Squadron RAF existed briefly as a day bomber unit in World War I but never became operational. During World War II it flew as one of the two Whirlwind squadrons before converting to Hurricane Mk.IV fighter-bombers and later the Hawker Typhoon in the same role. The squadron was disbanded in August 1945.
History
Formation and World War I
No. 137 Squadron RAF existed briefly as a unit working up to be a day bomber unit on Airco DH.9s during World War I, but it never became operational. It was formed at Shawbury on 1 April 1918 and was disbanded there on 4 July 1918, together with 12 other such units. Plans to reinstate the squadron in September as laid out in Air Organisation Memorandum 939 of 13 July 1918 came to nought as Air Organisation Memorandum 999 of 17 August 1918 cancelled these.
Second World War
The squadron was reformed at Charmy Down on 20 September 1941 and equipped with the then brand new two-engined Westland Whirlwind four-cannon fighter. The squadron became operational with them on 20 October and flew its first mission (a mandolin) four days afterwards. Unfortunately the new CO, S/Ldr Sample, was killed four days after this in a mid-air collision with a new pilot. Two days later another pilot crashed into the sea. After this bad start, No. 137 became non-operational for a period before resuming with coastal missions on 11 November. On one such mission on 12 February 1942, to escort some destroyers, they met by accident the fighter screen around the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, losing four pilots in the event.
In June 1943 the by now worn-out Whirlwinds were replaced with Hurricane Mk.IV fighter-bombers and in July the squadron flew operationally with them again until February 1944 when the Hurricane was exchanged for the more modern and higher performance Hawker Typhoon. 137 flew this new fighter-bomber operationally from 8 February 1944 until 25 August 1945, when it was disbanded at RAF Warmwell by being renumbered to 174 Squadron.
Organisation
Commanding officers
Squadron Bases
See also
List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
References
Notes
Bibliography
Bowyer, Michael J.F. and John D.R. Rawlings. Squadron Codes, 1937–56. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1979. .
Flintham, Vic and Andrew Thomas. Combat Codes: A full explanation and listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied air force unit codes since 1938. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 2003. .
Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918–1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. .
Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). .
Rawlings, John D.R. Fighter Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1969 (2nd edition 1976, reprinted 1978). .
External links
External links
History of squadron at RAF.mod.uk
RAFWeb - Air of Authority
137 Squadron |
20480311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khurshit%20Lutfullayev | Khurshit Lutfullayev | Khurshit Lutfullayev is a Kyrgyzstani footballer. He is a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team. He currently play for FC Abdish-Ata Kant.
Career
By the end of the 2013 season, Lutfullayev reached the milestone of scoring at least 100 goals in Kyrgyzstan League and Cup matches.
Career statistics
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 23 May 2015
International goals
References
External links
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
Kyrgyzstani expatriate footballers
1983 births
Association football forwards
Kyrgyz Premier League players
FC Abdysh-Ata Kant players |
6906836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Frey%20Jr. | Louis Frey Jr. | Louis Frey Jr. (January 11, 1934 – October 14, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 until 1979. He represented Florida's 5th congressional district from 1969 to 1973 and the 9th district from 1973 to 1979, until he ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the Republican nomination for governor to succeed the term-limited Democrat Reubin Askew of Pensacola.
Early life, education, and career
Frey was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, the son of Mildred (Engel) and Louis Frey. He graduated in 1951 from Rutherford High School, and received a B.A. in 1955 from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He served in the United States Navy in naval aviation from 1955 to 1958, and in the Naval Reserve from 1958 to 1978, where he retired as a captain. In 1961, he earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and he was admitted that same year to the Florida bar.
He worked as a lawyer in private practice, with a brief stint as assistant county solicitor in Orange County, Florida; became an associate, and then partner, in the law firm of Gurney, Skolfield & Frey in Winter Park, Florida, from 1963 to 1967; served as acting general counsel of the Florida State Turnpike Authority from 1966 to 1967; and became a partner in 1967 in the law firm of Mateer, Frey, Young & Harbert of Orlando.
Congress
Frey was first elected in 1968 to succeed Edward Gurney, who in turn became Florida's first Republican U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. Frey himself is the fourth Florida Republican to have been elected to the U.S. House in the 20th century. While in Congress, Frey served on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, the Science and Technology Committee, and the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. Frey received the "Watch Dog of the Treasury Award" in each of his terms for "voting to hold the line against inflation and to curb excess government spending." He also received the "Guardian of Small Business Award."
In 1970, Congressman Frey addressed the Florida Republican State convention in Orlando at a time when divisive primaries for governor and the U.S. Senate had seriously undermined GOP chances of victory in the general election. Senate nominee and U.S. Representative William C. Cramer of St. Petersburg had defeated the former judge G. Harrold Carswell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr., had topped two intraparty rivals, drugstore magnate Jack Eckerd of Clearwater and state Senator and later Congressman L. A. "Skip" Bafalis of Palm Beach. Then Cramer and Kirk, who were intraparty rivals themselves, faced a united Democratic ticket of Lawton Chiles of Lakeland, running for the Senate, and Reubin Askew, the gubernatorial nominee. Though Carswell and Eckerd endorsed Cramer and Kirk, the primary candidates were inactive in the fall campaign. Apprehensive Republicans cheered Frey, who implored the factions to forget their "family feud" and to unite. But Cramer and Kirk both went down to defeat at the hands of Chiles and Askew, respectively.
Frey served as chairman of the Florida Federation of Young Republicans. He was nominated and elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969 to January 3, 1979) from what was then the 5th congressional district but is now the 9th district. Frey was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978. Instead he launched an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for governor, having lost to Jack Eckerd, whom Kirk had beaten for the nomination in 1970.
Statewide campaigns
In 1980, Frey was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate, being defeated by the eventual winner, Senator Paula Hawkins of Maitland. He ran in 1986 for governor again, but he was defeated in the Republican primary by Bob Martinez, the former Republican mayor of Tampa.
Later career and death
Frey was a past president of The United States Association of Former Members of Congress and served as a member of its Executive Committee. He regularly provided political commentary on radio and television, co-hosting a show with former Democratic state representative Dick Batchelor on WMFE-FM and appeared on talk shows on WUCF-TV.
Frey resided in Winter Park until his death on October 14, 2019.
The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government
Frey was the founder of The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The institute is described as:
References
Some content from the Public Domain Biographical Directory of The United States Congress.
1934 births
2019 deaths
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida
Colgate University alumni
Florida lawyers
Florida Republicans
People from Rutherford, New Jersey
Rutherford High School (New Jersey) alumni
Military personnel from New Jersey
University of Michigan Law School alumni
People from Winter Park, Florida
United States Navy captains
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Candidates in the 1978 United States elections
20th-century American lawyers
United States Navy reservists |
6906846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWG | CWG | CWG may refer to:
CWG (repurposing company), New York State-based, recycles cell phones
Conversations with God, a series of books by Neale Donald Walsch
Commonwealth Games, sports event involving countries that generally were in the British Empire |
6906874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%27s%20Aircraft%20RV-11 | Van's Aircraft RV-11 | RV-11 is the Van's Aircraft designation for a proposed single-seat touring motor glider design similar in layout to the AMS Carat. The prototype RV-11 uses the wings of an HP-18 sailplane mated to a specially built fuselage.
References
Van’s Aircraft website
External links
Van's Aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Proposed aircraft of the United States
RV-11
Motor gliders
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft |
17339451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Hunte | Alan Hunte | Alan Christopher Hunte (born 11 July 1970) is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played between 1989 and 2003. He played rugby league (RL) at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 1009), St. Helens, Hull FC, Warrington Wolves and Salford City Reds as a three-quarter, and club level rugby union (RU) for Pontypridd RFC.
Background
Alan Hunte was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Playing career
Alan Hunte made his début for Wakefield Trinity during January 1989, and he played his last match for Wakefield Trinity during the 1988–89 season
Hunte was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, and would play for the Lions in the 1992 Rugby League World Cup Final at Wembley in October, though unfortunately it was his dropped ball which led to débuting Australian Steve Renouf scoring the only (and winning) try of the match. He played for St Helens from the interchange bench in their 1996 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Bulls.
Hunte played , i.e. number 2, in St. Helens' 4–5 defeat by Wigan in the 1992 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1992–93 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens, on Sunday 18 October 1992.
Hull paid £250,000 for Alan Hunte when he moved from St Helens in 1997 as part of a deal that also included Steve Prescott and Simon Booth, based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £430,400 in 2013.
Hunte, together with Anthony Sullivan was the 1997 St Helens season's top try scorer.
In the 1997 post season, Hunte was selected to play for Great Britain on the in all three matches of the Super League Test series against Australia. His speed was shown in the third test when he ran down Aussie speedster Andrew Ettingshausen over a 70m run after giving him a 10m start.
Hunte later moved to Warrington Wolves and Salford City Reds.
Hunte also switched codes to Rugby Union, joining Pontypridd RFC in 2000 in a blaze of publicity. Hunte's career at Pontypridd was short lived, however, as he struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of the Union code.
Coaching career
Hunte currently works within the coaching setup at Salford Red Devils as Head of Youth Development.
He took over as caretaker head coach in 2013 when Phil Veivers was sacked.
Genealogical information
Alan Hunte is the son of the rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s for Wakefield Trinity, Micheal B. Hunte, and Vera Hunte (née Holloway) (birth registered during first ¼ in Pontefract district), whose marriage was registered during first ¼ 1969 in Pontefract district, and he is the older brother of Alison Justine Hunte (birth registered during first ¼ in Wakefield district). Father to Morgan, Eden, and Paige.
References
External links
(archived by web.archive.org) Profile reds.co.uk
Profile at saints.org.uk
(archived by web.archive.org) Profile at ponty.net
1970 births
Living people
Doncaster R.L.F.C. coaches
England national rugby league team players
English rugby league coaches
English rugby league players
Footballers who switched code
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Hull F.C. players
Pontypridd RFC players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league players from Wakefield
Rugby league wingers
Rugby union players from Wakefield
Salford Red Devils coaches
Salford Red Devils players
St Helens R.F.C. players
Wakefield Trinity players
Warrington Wolves players |
20480350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talant%20Samsaliev | Talant Samsaliev | Talant Samsaliev (Kyrgyz: Талант Самсалиев; born 27 April 1980) is a retired Kyrgyzstani International footballer who played the majority of his career for Dordoi Bishkek.
Career
On 21 October 2017, Samsaliev played his last professional match against Khimik Kara-Balta, during his time with Dordoi Bishkek he made 393 appearances and scored 23 goals in all competitions.
Career Stats
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 12 November 2015
International Goals
Honours
Club
Dordoi Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan League Winner (9): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014
Kyrgyzstan Cup Winner (6): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
Kyrgyzstan Super Cup Winner (3): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
AFC President's Cup Winner (2): 2006, 2007
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
FC Dordoi Bishkek players
Association football defenders |
20480357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agia%20Effimia | Agia Effimia | Agia Effimia () is a village on the east coast of the island of Kefalonia (also spelled Cephalonia) in Greece. It was the seat of the former Pylaros municipality. It is a traditional fishing village centred on a small harbour. It contains a number of taverns, bars and shops, a traditional wood-fired bakery, as well as tourist accommodation and local residences. The main activity in the village is now centred on tourism. The harbour is popular with sailing holidays, and is the home to flotilla sailing groups. Many of the old buildings in Agia Efimia were destroyed in the 1953 earthquake, although a few original buildings survive. Population is listed as 432.
References
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17339457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Price | Theodore Price | Thedore Price ( – 15 December 1631) was a Welsh Anglican clergyman and academic. He served as Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford for 18 years and was also a prebend of Westminster Abbey. However, after falling out with his patron, John Williams, he sided with William Laud and was reputed to have converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism at the end of his life.
Life
Price was the son of Rees ap Tudor and his wife Margory, who was the daughter of Edward Stanley (constable of Harlech Castle). Price was born in about 1570 in the parish of Llanenddwyn, Dyffyn Ardudwy in Merioneth, North Wales. After attending All Souls College, Oxford as a chorister, he transferred to Jesus College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree on 16 February 1588 and obtaining his Master of Arts degree on 9 June 1591. After his ordination, he was appointed as rector of Llanfair, near Harlech, in 1591. He was appointed a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral in 1596 and rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbighshire in 1601. In 1604, he was appointed as Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford (the predecessor of Hertford College), holding this position until his resignation in 1622. He became rector of Launton, Oxfordshire in 1609 and obtained his Doctorate of Divinity, as a member of New College, Oxford, in 1614. He was one of the five commissioners appointed to draw up new statutes for Jesus College in 1621, and was made a Fellow of the college at that time.
Further positions came Price's way, with the influence of his kinsman John Williams, the future Archbishop of York: a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral, when Williams was the Bishop of Lincoln (1621), and a prebend of Westminster Abbey, where Williams was the Dean (1623). He was one of two clerics chosen in 1622 to serve on a commission sent to Ireland to explore grievances, including investigation of the state of the church. Although he was praised for his efforts, he did not receive further advancement, being passed over for appointment as Bishop of St Asaph in 1623 and 1629 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1624. He fell out with Williams over his failure to give Price full support in his attempt to become Archbishop of Armagh (the post going to James Ussher), with Williams pointing to Price's lack of preaching. Thereafter, Price sided with William Laud, the main opponent of Williams within the Westminster Abbey chapter, sharing Laud's like of ceremonial practices in religion.
Death and will
Price died at Westminster on 15 December 1631 in circumstances that confirmed to some contemporaries the close link between Laudian ceremonials and Roman Catholicism. After unsuccessful surgery for "the Torment of the Stone", Price received Catholic visitors and told them of his "affection and devotion" for the Catholic Church. He received Catholic rites and refused to be attended by Anglican clergyman before his death. Price was buried at Westminster Abbey on 21 December 1631. It was said that the delay in burying Price was the reluctance of the prebendaries to conduct a burial service after Price's reported conversion. It was alleged that the story of Price's conversion had been invented by Williams to attack Laud's reputation. The Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke was reported to have remarked to King Charles I, "Is this the Orthodox man your Majesty would have made a Bishop the last year? Do but mark him that recommended him unto you in that kind." However, at Laud's trial, when Laud was condemned for his familiarity with the "apostate" Price, Laud did not deny that Price had converted to Catholicism, but suggested that Williams had worked harder than he had for Price's advancement.
Price's religious preferences can be seen from his will in 1631, in which he bequeathed money to beautify the chancel of the church in Llanenddwyn and to add an altar rail, and to endow a sermon at Jesus College in support of bowing at the name of Jesus. He also left money to Hart Hall and Oriel College, Oxford. He referred to Laud as "my Noble Laud and worthie auntient friend", but did not refer to Williams.
References
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Principals of Hart Hall, Oxford
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1631 deaths
16th-century Welsh Anglican priests
17th-century Roman Catholics |
17339476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20Ireton | Kirk Ireton | Kirk Ireton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, 4 miles southwest of Wirksworth on a hillside near Carsington Water, 700 ft above sea level. The population at the 2011 Census was 518. Ireton is a corruption of the Saxon Hyre-Tun, meaning Irishman's Enclosure; Kirk was added after the Norman invasion and the building of the church. The village dates back to at least the Bronze Age.
Kirk Ireton remains what it has always been, an agricultural village. Following the Second World War the number of working farms dropped from over thirty to half a dozen in the space of 40 years. The last cow was turned down Main Street in the late 1980s, but Fords, Matkins, Rowlands, Walkers and Wards still farm locally as they have done for many generations. Many of the former farm buildings have been adapted into houses. Much of the older part of the village dates back to the 17th century and is mostly built from sandstone, quarried locally.
One of the oldest buildings in the village is the Barley Mow pub website, which was one of the last premises in the country to accept decimalization, as the 87-year-old landlady, Mrs Lillian Ford did not hold with the new money. The parish previously housed at least four other public houses; The Wheatsheaf, Old Bull's Head, The Windmill and The Gate.
Holy Trinity Church is Norman, with the earliest parts being the 3 bayed south and north arcades. The tower and the chancel are Perpendicular. It has an interesting custom known as roping for weddings, when the village children put a rope across the road and the bride and groom are not allowed to leave the church until a toll has been paid in silver by the groom.
The village still celebrates a Wakes week, which starts on Trinity Sunday, the church's patronal festival. A procession of villagers is led by a local brass band, from the Barley Mow pub to the church for thanksgiving. Various events take place during the week, with a major all-day event on Saturday.
The Post Office closed in 2008, before re-opening as a community shop. The premises were originally stables and the restored hay racks are still in place above shelving along one wall.
Notable residents
Anthony Blackwall - scholar was born here.
George Turner (1841-1910), landscape artist, lived at the Barley Mow Inn from 1900 to his death in 1910.
The Ram - male sheep 'Billy' or 'Randy Rambo', currently resident in field off Half Moon Lane.
References
External links
Villages in Derbyshire
Towns and villages of the Peak District
Derbyshire Dales |
6906881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Aurelia%20Reinhardt%20Redwood%20Regional%20Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park | Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park (formerly known as Redwood Regional Park) is a part of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in the hills east of Oakland. The park contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) found in the East Bay. The park is part of a historical belt of coast redwood extending south to Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve and east to Moraga.
Redwood forests are more commonly found closer to the coast where the air is cool and humid year-round. In the Bay Area, such forests are found in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Marin Hills. The unique geographical circumstances of the redwood forest in Redwood Regional Park create coastal conditions. Winds funneled through the Golden Gate flow directly across the Bay and are channeled into the linear valley in which the Montclair District of Oakland is situated. This valley is also well-watered all year round and is protected from extremes of temperature and high winds.
History
Up to the middle of the 19th century, the bulk of the redwood forest lay in the Redwood Creek valley, with extensions to the surrounding ridges. In 1826 British navy captain Frederick William Beechey used the "Navigation Trees", two particularly tall redwood trees along the ridges, to help them navigate in San Francisco Bay. However, logging from 1845 to 1860 wiped out the original trees, leaving only their stumps. A second logging occurred after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In this instance the second growth redwoods (approximately 50 years old) as well as the stumps from the first generation trees were logged, the site of which is registered as California Historical Landmark #962. The redwoods contained in today's regional park are third-growth trees, many of which are over 100 years old. Only one old-growth redwood remains in the area, a tall tree that seems to grow miraculously out of a rock on a cliff face near Merritt College, which may have survived because it was out of reach for loggers. Once home to a grove named for her, the entire park was named for Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt in 2019.
Activities
Popular activities for park visitors include picnicking, jogging, hiking, archery, and horseback riding along the of park trails. Fishing is not allowed inside Redwood Regional Park. The park offers four picnic sites that can accommodate groups of 50 to 150 people. Advance reservations are recommended. These are reservable and accessible to handicapped persons. Some overnight group camping areas are also available. Reservations are required. A play structure for children is a quarter mile down Stream Trail from the Canyon Meadow staging area.
Nature watching is another popular activity. The park is home to rare species, such as the golden eagle and the Alameda striped racer. More common fauna are deer, raccoons, rabbits, and squirrels.
The trails are sometimes closed due to severe weather or effects from it or the general maintenance of the park.
Chabot Center
In 1989 Chabot Observatory & Science Center was formed as a Joint Powers Agency with the City of Oakland, the Oakland Unified School District, and the East Bay Regional Park District, in collaboration with the Eastbay Astronomical Society, and in 1992 was recognized as a nonprofit organization. The project was led by Chabot's Executive Director and CEO, Dr. Michael D. Reynolds, breaking ground for the facility in October 1996 with construction of the new Science Center beginning in May 1998.
In January 2000, anticipating the opening of the new facility, the organization changed its name from Chabot Observatory & Science Center to Chabot Space & Science Center. The new name was chosen to better convey the organization's focus on astronomy and the space sciences, while communicating both the broad range and the technologically advanced nature of programs available in the new Science Center.
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an , state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a site in the hills of Oakland, California, adjoining the western boundary of Redwood Regional Park.
See also
Old Survivor
Notes
References
External links
Redwood Regional Park official web page
Redwood Regional full trail map
East Bay Regional Park District
Berkeley Hills
Parks in Oakland, California
Parks in Contra Costa County, California |
17339481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano%20Station | Murano Station | is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.
Lines
Murano Station is a station of the Keihan Katano Line, and is located 2.5 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hirakatashi Station.
Station layout
The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by an elevated station building.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened on July 10, 1929.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 4,840 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
Murano Public Housing
Murano Shrine
Murano Water Purification Plant
Osaka Prefectural Hirakata Support School
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Hirakata, Osaka |
20480367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomagnet | Nanomagnet | A nanomagnet is a submicrometric system that presents spontaneous magnetic order (magnetization) at zero applied magnetic field (remanence).
The small size of nanomagnets prevents the formation of magnetic domains (see single domain (magnetic)). The magnetization dynamics of sufficiently small nanomagnets at low temperatures, typically single-molecule magnets, presents quantum phenomena, such as macroscopic spin tunnelling. At larger temperatures, the magnetization undergoes random thermal fluctuations (superparamagnetism) which present a limit for the use of nanomagnets for permanent information storage.
Canonical examples of nanomagnets are grains of ferromagnetic metals (iron, cobalt, and nickel) and single-molecule magnets. The vast majority of nanomagnets feature transition metal (titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt or nickel) or rare earth (Gadolinium, Europium, Erbium) magnetic atoms.
The ultimate limit in miniaturization of nanomagnets was achieved in 2016: individual Ho atoms present remanence when deposited on a atomically thin layer of MgO coating a silver film was reported by scientists from EPFL and ETH, in Switzerland. Before that, the smallest nanomagnets reported, attending to the number of magnetic atoms, were double decker phthalocyanes molecules with only one rare-earth atom. Other systems presenting remanence are nanoengineered Fe chains, deposited on Cu2N/Cu(100) surfaces, showing either Neel or ferromagnetic ground states with in systems with as few as 5 Fe atoms with S=2. Canonical single-molecule magnets are the so-called Mn12 and Fe8 systems, with 12 and 8 transition metal atoms each and both with spin 10 (S = 10) ground states.
The phenomenon of zero field magnetization requires three conditions:
A ground state with finite spin
A magnetic anisotropy energy barrier
Long spin relaxation time.
Conditions 1 and 2, but not 3, have been demonstrated in a number of nanostructures, such as nanoparticles, nanoislands, and quantum dots with a controlled number of magnetic atoms (between 1 and 10).
References
Further reading
Magnetism |
6906887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20W.%20Stevenson | B. W. Stevenson | Louis Charles "B.W." Stevenson (October 5, 1949 – April 28, 1988) was an American country pop singer and musician, working in a genre now called progressive country. "B.W." stood for "Buckwheat". Stevenson was born in Dallas, Texas, United States, and attended W.H. Adamson High School with other musicians Michael Martin Murphey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Larry Groce.
Stevenson performed and was taped for the intended pilot of Austin City Limits on October 13, 1974. However, the recording quality was deemed too poor to broadcast. Willie Nelson's performance taped the following night was aired as the first episode of the program.
"My Maria"
Stevenson's biggest hit was "My Maria", co-written with Daniel Moore. "My Maria" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending September 29, 1973, and was covered later by Brooks & Dunn, for whom it was a three-week No. 1 country hit in mid-1996. Among Stevenson's other singles are "The River of Love" (No. 53), "Down to the Station" (No. 82), and the original version of Daniel Moore's "Shambala" (No. 66); a cover version of the latter by Three Dog Night, reached No. 3.
Stevenson recorded one contemporary Christian album titled Lifeline, produced by Chris Christian, his neighbor in Beverly Hills, and it had success on Christian radio with the hit "Headin' Home". His album Rainbow Down the Road was completed posthumously and included a duet with Willie Nelson on "Heart of the Country". Author Jan Reid devotes a chapter to Stevenson in his book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, dubbing him "The Voice".
Death
Stevenson died following heart valve surgery after developing a staph infection at the age of 38. Since his death, Poor David's Pub in Dallas has held an annual songwriting competition in his memory.
Discography
1972 B.W. Stevenson (RCA)
1972 Lead Free (RCA)
1973 My Maria (RCA)
1974 Calabasas (RCA)
1975 We Be Sailin''' (Warner Bros)
1977 The Best of B.W. Stevenson (RCA)
1977 Lost Feeling (Warner Bros)
1980 Lifeline (Home Sweet Home Records)
1990 Rainbow Down the Road (Amazing Records)
2000 Very Best of B.W. Stevenson (Collectables)
2003 Lead Free/B.W. Stevenson (Collectables)
2003 My Maria/Calabasas (Collectables)
2005 We Be Sailin'/Lost Feeling (Collectables)
2013 Southern Nights (Ameritz Music Ltd)
2018 Encore'' (Pedernales Records)
See also
List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
References
External links
Oldies.com bio
Bio of B.W.Stevenson including cause of death
L'Epopea del Country Rock
1949 births
1988 deaths
Musicians from Dallas
American country singer-songwriters
American male singer-songwriters
20th-century American singers
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Singer-songwriters from Texas
RCA Records artists
People from Oak Cliff, Texas
Country musicians from Texas
20th-century American male singers |
17339489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dzu%20Station%20%28Osaka%29 | Kōzu Station (Osaka) | is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Katano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.
Lines
Kōzu Station is a station of the Keihan Katano Line, and is located 3.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hirakatashi Station.
Station layout
The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by an underground passage.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened on July 10, 1929.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6,768 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
Maruyama Kofun
Kozu Shrine
Matsuzuka Park
Kozu Ekimae Post Office
Katano City Kozu Elementary School
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Katano, Osaka |
20480368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Watts | Vincent Watts | Vincent Challacombe Watts OBE (born 11 August 1940) is a British academic and businessman.
He was educated at Sidcot School, Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Molecular Biology), and at the University of Birmingham (MSc). He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 1997 to 2002, leaving to focus full-time on his role as Chairman of the East of England Development Agency. Prior to joining the University of East Anglia he was at Andersen Consulting.
References
1940 births
Living people
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Vice-Chancellors of the University of East Anglia
Academics of the University of East Anglia
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Sidcot School |
17339496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango%20Street | Mango Street | Mango Street () is a historic street in the Jabal Amman area near downtown Amman, Jordan. Officially named Omar bin al-Khattab Street (), the street derives its nickname from the Mango House, a building on the intersection between Mango and Rainbow Streets. Mango Street has an assortment of historic buildings, many being Ottoman, and across the street from the Mango House is Al-Mufti House. Books@Cafe and other locations such as Old View Cafe line the street.
References
Streets in Amman |
17339499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaotangpa | Shaotangpa | Shaotangpa 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 |
6906899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig.4.0 | Fig.4.0 | Fig 4.0 (pronounced "Figure Four") were a hardcore punk band from Leeds and Harrogate, England, formed in 1999 from the remnants of skacore act "Tinker's Rucksack". 2001 saw the release of the album Action Image Exchange which presented a series of short, sharp hardcore punk songs, characterising the band's sound. After several years as popular stars of the DIY/underground punk rock scene and growing underground success in the United States, the band split in 2004.
Alderdice and Hastewell of are currently active in the band The Dauntless Elite. Coy is currently playing in the band Himself.
Musical style
The band have been categorised as hardcore punk, thrashcore and melodic hardcore. At times their music borders the sound of pop punk and rock and roll. Their music makes use of extremely high tempos contrasted with slower subdued ones and melodic guitar lines. Bombed Out records have described their vocal melodies as "left-field" and compared them to those of Dillinger Four.
Members
Final line-up
Joe Alderdice - guitar, lead vocals (1999–2004)
Richard Storrow – guitar (2004)
Matt Coy - bass, backing vocals (1999–2004)
Steve Hastewell - drums (1999–2004)
Previous members
Andrew Kidd - guitar, backing vocals (1999–2004)
Discography
EPs
The Path the World Must Take to Avoid Total Annihilation (2000)
Ctrl+Alt+Del (2000)
Albums
Action Image Exchange (2001)
Split EPs
With Ensign (2002)
With Stand (2003)
With Twofold (2004)
References
Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom
Musical groups from Harrogate
Hardcore punk groups from Leeds |
20480381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionnel%20Franck%20Djimgou | Lionnel Franck Djimgou | Lionnel Franck Djimgou Tchoumbou (born 27 March 1989) is a Cameroonian footballer who last played for FC Daugava as a forward.
Club career
Tchoumbou began his career 1999 by Valencia CF and moved 2001 to Real Madrid, he played 7 years on youth side from Madrid. In July 2008 moved to Xerez CD, the club from Jerez, Andalusia loaned him in August 2008 for one year to CD San Fernando.
In July 2010 he was signed by the Latvian side FC Daugava. He played 5 matches there, scoring no goals and was released after the season.
Personal life
He holds a Spanish passport.
Notes
1989 births
Living people
Cameroonian footballers
Valencia CF players
Spanish people of Cameroonian descent
Spanish sportspeople of African descent
European sportspeople of Cameroonian descent
Xerez CD footballers
Spanish footballers
Naturalised citizens of Spain
Cameroonian emigrants to Spain
CD San Fernando players
Xerez CD B players
Sportspeople from Yaoundé
Cameroonian expatriate footballers
Spanish expatriate footballers
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
Expatriate footballers in Latvia
FC Daugava players
Association football forwards |
20480383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enipeus | Enipeus | Enipeus or Enipeas may refer to:
Enipeus (mythology), a river god in Greek mythology
Enipeus (Elis), a river in rising near Salmone (Elis), Elis, Greece
Enipeas (Thessaly), a river in Thessaly, Greece
Enipeas (Pieria), a small river in Pieria (regional unit), Greece
Enippeas, a town in Thessaly, Greece |
17339506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapok | Shapok | Shapok 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 |
17339509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapyi | Shapyi | Shapyi 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 |
20480388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakytbek%20Mamatov | Bakytbek Mamatov | Bakytbek Mamatov is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays for Alay Osh after leaving FC Abdysh-Ata Kant in 2014. He is a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
International Career Stats
Goals for Senior National Team
External links
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
1980 births
Association football midfielders |
20480405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paindong%20Union | Paindong Union | Paindong Union () is a union of Fatikchhari Upazila of Chittagong District.
Geography
Area : 7,209 acres (29.17 km2.)।
Location
North: Bhujpur Thana and Manikchhari Upazila
East: Kanchan nagar Union
South: Sundarpur Union
West: Harualchari Union
References
Paindong Union details, lcgbangladesh.org
Unions of Fatikchhari Upazila |
17339510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conradus | Conradus | Conradus is a masculine given name. It is often a latinisation of the name Conrad or Konrad, but is also a Dutch given name. People called Conradus include:
Conradus Celtis (AKA Conrad Celtes, 14591508), German humanist and poet
Conradus Dasypodius (AKA Cunradus, Konrad and Conrad Dasypodius, 15321600), Swiss mathematician
Conradus de Pistoria (), Italian composer
Conradus Eubel (AKA Konrad Eubel, 18421923), German Franciscan historian
Conradus Gesnerus (AKA Conrad Gessner, 151665), Swiss naturalist and bibliographer
Conradus Hirsaugiensis (AKA Conrad of Hirsau, ), German Benedictine monk and writer
Conradus Leemans (180993), Dutch Egyptologist
Conradus Megenbergensis (AKA Conrad of Megenberg, 130974), German Catholic writer and scholar
Conradus Mutianus (AKA Konrad Mutian, 14701526), German humanist
Conradus Sapientis (AKA Konrad Witz, 1400/14101445/1446), German painter
Conradus Saxo (AKA Conrad of Saxony and Conradus Holyinger, before 12451279), German Franciscan friar and writer
Conradus Viëtor (15881657), Dutch Lutheran minister whose portrait was painted by Frans Hals
Conradus Vorstius (AKA Conrad Vorstius and Conrad or Konrad Vorst, 15691622), German-Dutch Protestant theologian
See also
Conrad (disambiguation)
Konrad (disambiguation)
Dutch masculine given names |
17339512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesnerus | Gesnerus | Gesnerus, commemorating in its title the Swiss naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gessner, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice yearly in Basel, with editorial offices in Lausanne. Gesnerus covers the history of medicine and the History of science. It publishes original articles in the Helvetic languages, German, French and Italian and also English. Gesnerus is the official journal of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences (SSHMS). Its articles also focus on theoretical and social aspects of these subjects. Gesnerus likewise contains book reviews, reports on current developments and announcements.
Bibliography
Notes
History of science journals
History of medicine journals |
20480426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan%20Eilart | Jaan Eilart | Jaan Eilart (24 June 1933 – 18 May 2006) was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.
Eilart was born in Pala, Kirna Parish, Järva County. In 1957 he started teaching conservation as a subject in the Tartu State University. In 1958 he established the Tartu Students' Nature Protection Circle (; TÜLKR), which is allegedly the oldest student's community dedicated to conservation, and in 1966 he established the Estonian Nature Conservation Society (; ELKS). In 1969 Eilart led the establishment of Lahemaa National Park which was the first national park in the Soviet Union. Later he also instructed the establishment of national parks in Komi, Armenia and Tajikistan. Eilart held the chair of Eastern-European Committee of IUCN from 1982 to 1990. He died, aged 72, in Tartu.
References
1933 births
2006 deaths
People from Türi Parish
20th-century Estonian botanists
Phytogeographers
Estonian conservationists
Nature conservation in Estonia
Cultural historians
University of Tartu alumni
University of Tartu faculty
Burials at Raadi cemetery
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class |
23578163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%ADvar%20G%C3%B3mez | Bolívar Gómez | Bolívar Efrén Gómez Valencia (born July 31, 1977 in Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian football defender. He obtained one international cap for the Ecuador national football team, making his only appearance in 1999.
References
1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Association football defenders
Ecuadorian footballers
Ecuador international footballers
1999 Copa América players
C.D. El Nacional footballers
C.S.D. Macará footballers
Manta F.C. footballers |
20480434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynch%27s%20Brickyard%20House | Lynch's Brickyard House | Lynch's Brickyard House is a historic home located at Lynchburg, Virginia. It consists of a dwelling built about 1849 and two garages built about 1922, all of which are constructed directly on the lot line along Jackson Street. The dwelling is a one-story, three-bay frame structure with a stone pier foundation, weatherboard siding, and metal gable roof with exterior-end chimneys. The house is a rare surviving example of the modest, vernacular-style dwellings built in Lynchburg in the mid 19th century by artisans, tradesmen and other middle-class settlers.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1849
Vernacular architecture in Virginia
Houses in Lynchburg, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Lynchburg, Virginia
1849 establishments in Virginia |
6906913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%20discharge | Townsend discharge | The Townsend discharge or Townsend avalanche is a gas ionisation process where free electrons are accelerated by an electric field, collide with gas molecules, and consequently free additional electrons. Those electrons are in turn accelerated and free additional electrons. The result is an avalanche multiplication that permits electrical conduction through the gas. The discharge requires a source of free electrons and a significant electric field; without both, the phenomenon does not occur.
The Townsend discharge is named after John Sealy Townsend, who discovered the fundamental ionisation mechanism by his work circa 1897 at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
General description of the phenomenon
The avalanche occurs in a gaseous medium that can be ionised (such as air). The electric field and the mean free path of the electron must allow free electrons to acquire an energy level (velocity) that can cause impact ionisation. If the electric field is too small, then the electrons do not acquire enough energy. If the mean free path is too short, the electron gives up its acquired energy in a series of non-ionising collisions. If the mean free path is too long, then the electron reaches the anode before colliding with another molecule.
The avalanche mechanism is shown in the accompanying diagram. The electric field is applied across a gaseous medium; initial ions are created with ionising radiation (for example, cosmic rays). An original ionisation event produces an ion pair; the positive ion accelerates towards the cathode while the free electron accelerates towards the anode. If the electric field is strong enough, the free electron can gain sufficient velocity (energy) to liberate another electron when it next collides with a molecule. The two free electrons then travel towards the anode and gain sufficient energy from the electric field to cause further impact ionisations, and so on. This process is effectively a chain reaction that generates free electrons. Initially, the number of collisions grows exponentially. The total number of electrons reaching the anode is equal to 2n with n the number of collisions, plus the single initiating free electron. Eventually, this relationship will break down - the limit to the multiplication in an electron avalanche is known as the Raether limit.
The Townsend avalanche can have a large range of current densities. In common gas-filled tubes, such as those used as gaseous ionisation detectors, magnitudes of currents flowing during this process can range from about 10−18 amperes to about 10−5 amperes.
Quantitative description of the phenomenon
Townsend's early experimental apparatus consisted of planar parallel plates forming two sides of a chamber filled with a gas. A direct current high-voltage source was connected between the plates; the lower voltage plate being the cathode while the other was the anode. He forced the cathode to emit electrons using the photoelectric effect by irradiating it with X-rays, and he found that the current flowing through the chamber depended on the electric field between the plates. However, this current showed an exponential increase as the plate gaps became small, leading to the conclusion that the gas ions were multiplying as they moved between the plates due to the high electric field.
Townsend observed currents varying exponentially over ten or more orders of magnitude with a constant applied voltage when the distance between the plates was varied. He also discovered that gas pressure influenced conduction: he was able to generate ions in gases at low pressure with a much lower voltage than that required to generate a spark. This observation overturned conventional thinking about the amount of current that an irradiated gas could conduct.
The experimental data obtained from his experiments are described by the following formula
where
is the current flowing in the device,
is the photoelectric current generated at the cathode surface,
is Euler's number
is the first Townsend ionisation coefficient, expressing the number of ion pairs generated per unit length (e.g. meter) by a negative ion (anion) moving from cathode to anode,
is the distance between the plates of the device.
The almost constant voltage between the plates is equal to the breakdown voltage needed to create a self-sustaining avalanche: it decreases when the current reaches the glow discharge regime. Subsequent experiments revealed that the current rises faster than predicted by the above formula as the distance increases: two different effects were considered in order to better model the discharge: positive ions and cathode emission.
Gas ionisation caused by motion of positive ions
Townsend put forward the hypothesis that positive ions also produce ion pairs, introducing a coefficient expressing the number of ion pairs generated per unit length by a positive ion (cation) moving from anode to cathode. The following formula was found
since , in very good agreement with experiments.
The first Townsend coefficient ( α ), also known as first Townsend avalanche coefficient is a term used where secondary ionisation occurs because the primary ionisation electrons gain sufficient energy from the accelerating electric field, or from the original ionising particle. The coefficient gives the number of secondary electrons produced by primary electron per unit path length.
Cathode emission caused by impact of ions
Townsend, Holst and Oosterhuis also put forward an alternative hypothesis, considering the augmented emission of electrons by the cathode caused by impact of positive ions. This introduced Townsend's second ionisation coefficient ; the average number of electrons released from a surface by an incident positive ion, according to the following formula:
These two formulas may be thought as describing limiting cases of the effective behavior of the process: either can be used to describe the same experimental results. Other formulas describing various intermediate behaviors are found in the literature, particularly in reference 1 and citations therein.
Conditions
A Townsend discharge can be sustained only over a limited range of gas pressure and electric field intensity. The accompanying plot shows the variation of voltage drop and the different operating regions for a gas-filled tube with a constant pressure, but a varying current between its electrodes. The Townsend avalanche phenomena occurs on the sloping plateau B-D. Beyond D the ionisation is sustained.
At higher pressures, discharges occur more rapidly than the calculated time for ions to traverse the gap between electrodes, and the streamer theory of spark discharge of Raether, Meek, and Loeb is applicable. In highly non-uniform electric fields, the corona discharge process is applicable. See Electron avalanche for further description of these mechanisms.
Discharges in vacuum require vaporization and ionisation of electrode atoms. An arc can be initiated without a preliminary Townsend discharge; for example when electrodes touch and are then separated.
Penning Discharge
In the presence of a magnetic field, the likelihood of an avalanche discharge occurring under high vacuum conditions can be increased through a phenomenon known as Penning discharge. This occurs when electrons can become trapped within a potential minimum, thereby extending the mean free path of the electrons [Fränkle 2014].
Applications
Gas-discharge tubes
The starting of Townsend discharge sets the upper limit to the blocking voltage a glow discharge gas-filled tube can withstand. This limit is the Townsend discharge breakdown voltage, also called ignition voltage of the tube.
The occurrence of Townsend discharge, leading to glow discharge breakdown shapes the current–voltage characteristic of a gas-discharge tube such as a neon lamp in a way such that it has a negative differential resistance region of the S-type. The negative resistance can be used to generate electrical oscillations and waveforms, as in the relaxation oscillator whose schematic is shown in the picture on the right. The sawtooth shaped oscillation generated has frequency
where
is the glow discharge breakdown voltage,
is the Townsend discharge breakdown voltage,
, and are respectively the capacitance, the resistance and the supply voltage of the circuit.
Since temperature and time stability of the characteristics of gas diodes and neon lamps is low, and also the statistical dispersion of breakdown voltages is high, the above formula can only give a qualitative indication of what the real frequency of oscillation is.
Gas phototubes
Avalanche multiplication during Townsend discharge is naturally used in gas phototubes, to amplify the photoelectric charge generated by incident radiation (visible light or not) on the cathode: achievable current is typically 10~20 times greater respect to that generated by vacuum phototubes.
Ionising radiation detectors
Townsend avalanche discharges are fundamental to the operation of gaseous ionisation detectors such as the Geiger–Müller tube and the proportional counter in either detecting ionising radiation or measuring its energy. The incident radiation will ionise atoms or molecules in the gaseous medium to produce ion pairs, but different use is made by each detector type of the resultant avalanche effects.
In the case of a GM tube the high electric field strength is sufficient to cause complete ionisation of the fill gas surrounding the anode from the initial creation of just one ion pair. The GM tube output carries information that the event has occurred, but no information about the energy of the incident radiation.
In the case of proportional counters, multiple creation of ion pairs occurs in the "ion drift" region near the cathode. The electric field and chamber geometries are selected so that an "avalanche region" is created in the immediate proximity of the anode. A negative ion drifting towards the anode enters this region and creates a localised avalanche that is independent of those from other ion pairs, but which can still provide a multiplication effect. In this way spectroscopic information on the energy of the incident radiation is available by the magnitude of the output pulse from each initiating event.
The accompanying plot shows the variation of ionisation current for a co-axial cylinder system. In the ion chamber region, there are no avalanches and the applied voltage only serves to move the ions towards the electrodes to prevent re-combination.
In the proportional region, localised avalanches occur in the gas space immediately round the anode which are numerically proportional to the number of original ionising events. Increasing the voltage further increases the number of avalanches until the Geiger region is reached where the full volume of the fill gas around the anodes ionised, and all proportional energy information is lost. Beyond the Geiger region the gas is in continuous discharge owing to the high electric field strength.
See also
Avalanche breakdown
Electric arc
Electric discharge in gases
Field electron emission
Paschen's law
Photoelectric effect
Townsend (unit)
Notes
References
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Chapter 11 "Electrical conduction in gases" and chapter 12 "Glow- and Arc-discharge tubes and circuits".
External links
Simulation showing electron paths during avalanche
Electrical discharge in gases
Ionization
Ions
Molecular physics
Electron |
20480442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20of%20Biological%20Research%20%28Spain%29 | Centre of Biological Research (Spain) | The Centre of Biological Research (Spanish: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas) is a leading research centre in Spain, specialising in molecular genetics. It belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Created in 1958, the centre leads Spanish and European research in the fields of biology and biomedicine. Set up under the auspices of Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal, its first director was Gregorio Marañon. Leading scientists associated with the centre include Mariano Barbacid.
Originally located in the centre of Madrid, its new facilities at the Complutense University of Madrid campus were inaugurated on 26 January 2004 by Her Royal Highness Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca.
Research areas
The centre is divided into five departments corresponding to the scientific areas they specialise in:
Cellular and developmental biology
Plant biology
Protein science
Cellular]] and molecular physiopathology
Molecular microbiology
With 90 staff scientists and some 500 pre-and postdoctoral research fellows, technical and administrative staff, it has a high output in leading English-and Spanish language scientific reviews.
External links
Official web site - English version
Research institutes in the Community of Madrid
Science and technology in Spain
Research institutes in Spain
Government of Spain
Medical and health organisations based in Spain
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es:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
20480452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toomas%20Frey | Toomas Frey | Toomas Frey (13 December 1937 – 23 September 2020) was an Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist.
Frey was born in Põltsamaa. He was also a political leader, with the Estonian Greens. When he was named Minister of the Environment in 1990, it was the first time a member of a green party reached a national position in an Eastern European government.
References
1937 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Estonian botanists
Estonian ecologists
People from Põltsamaa
Forestry researchers
Environment ministers of Estonia
Estonian Greens politicians
Estonian University of Life Sciences alumni
Estonian University of Life Sciences faculty
University of Tartu faculty
Estonian foresters
21st-century Estonian botanists |
17339516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal%20for%20the%20War%20Wounded | Medal for the War Wounded | The Medal for the War Wounded () was originally a mere insignia in the form of an ribbon awarded for wounds received in the line of duty while facing an enemy. The insignia was established by the law of 11 December 1916, based on an idea by the nationalist writer Maurice Barrès. Although originally established as a temporary measure, the insignia survived for a century in some form or another. It could be awarded to wounded soldiers, prisoners of war, to World War II deportees and internees from the French resistance and to soldiers wounded in more recent conflicts. A variety of unofficial medals in the form of a red enamelled star suspended by the same ribbon appeared very early on and although tolerated for wear by the authorities, were not official until recently.
A provisional instruction of 14 April 2015 from the French Army High Command began the proceedings which were later ratified in the official decree n° 2016-1130 of 17 August 2016 making the Medal for the War Wounded a state decoration of the French Republic. A recent 2017 amendment further simplified the regulations of this award by allowing all past recipients to keep wearing it but strictly limiting any future award to military personnel.
Statute
The Medal for the War Wounded can be worn by:
Military personnel suffering from a physical or mental war wound, ascertained by the army health service and approved by the Minister of Defence;
Prisoners of war, physically or psychologically wounded during their detention.
Article 3 of the new regulation states that the wear of this medal is not subordinate to an official ceremony of award.
Article 4 of the new regulation further states that persons who were eligible for and wore the now defunct insignia as mentioned in Article 2 of the now abrogated 1952 law governing its wear (resistance deportees and internees), may wear the medal.
Award description
The Medal for the War Wounded is made of gilded bronze with a 30 mm diameter. It is mainly composed of a large bright red enamelled five pointed star atop a crown of half laurels (left) and half oak leaves (right).
The medal is suspended by a ring from a 35 mm wide silk moiré ribbon composed of vertical stripes in the following colours: white 1 mm - blue 5 mm - white 1 mm - blue 4 mm - white 1 mm - yellow 3 mm - white 1 mm - beginning ou the outer edge on both sides of a 3 mm wide central red stripe.
Small enamel red five pointed stars are added to the medal ribbon and undress ribbon for each additional wound.
Notable recipients (partial list)
Sergeant André Maginot
General Pierre Billotte
Major Hélie de Saint Marc
General Raoul Salan
Resistance fighter André Girard
General Edgard de Larminat
Foreign Legion Captain John Freeman "Jack" Hasey
Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Clostermann
Sergeant Eugene Bullard
Captain Pierre-Eugène Fournier
General Gilbert Henry
Lieutenant Jean Carrelet de Loisy
Major Jean-Edmond Lamaze
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Maurice Cazaud
Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Vérines
General Félix de Vial
See also
List of wound decorations
References
External links
Military Wounded Insignia on France Phaléristique (In French)
Military awards and decorations of France
Wound decorations
Awards established in 1916
Awards established in 2016 |
6906920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Torff | Brian Torff | Brian Q. Torff (born March 16, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz double-bassist, songwriter and composer.
Career
Teacher
Brian Q. Torff is a Professor of Music and the director of the music program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He has taught at New York University and makes frequent appearances at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts leading the Fairfield University Jazz Ensemble along with guest jazz artists including Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Bernard Purdie, Milt Hinton, Dave Samuels and Paul Wertico.
Performer
Brian Q.Torff is a bassist, songwriter, composer and educator. His album, 'Run With Scissors,' features his music in a 'Delta Electric' style, combining vintage southern style instruments with drum machines.Torff has performed as a featured bass soloist leading his own trio and has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center and Birdland in New York City. Torff performed at Carnegie Hall for Fiddle Fest, where he appeared with Mark O'Connor, Dave Grusin, Regina Carter, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. He served as co-chair person for the music advisory board for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992.
Brian Torff’s professional career began in 1974 when bassist Milt Hinton offered him the opportunity of touring with Cleo Laine. During the late 70’s, Torff recorded and performed with pianists Mary Lou Williams and Marian McPartland, and toured Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong with jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. He played in pianist Erroll Garner's last group and worked in the big bands of Oliver Nelson, and The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.
In 1979, Brian Torff joined in a duo with pianist George Shearing. In the course of their three-and-a-half year collaboration, they toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and South Africa and were featured on The Tonight Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and their own PBS special from the Cafe Carlyle in New York City. They received worldwide acclaim and were invited to perform at the White House in 1982 for President Ronald Reagan. Their third album won a Grammy Award for vocalist Mel Tormé.
Composer and author
Torff has composed works with George Shearing and Larry Coryell and orchestral scores that have been performed by the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has appeared as conductor, composer, and clinician for numerous high school and college jazz festivals. He is the author of the book In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir (2008), which chronicles his early musical roots and portraits of musicians he has worked with, including Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Erroll Garner, Benny Goodman, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland, Stephane Grappelli, and George Shearing.
Discography
Run with Scissors, Bassline Records, (202)
Post Authentic World, Brian Q. Torff and New Duke, (2016)
Life In East Bumblepuck, Bassline Records, (2006)
Workin' on a Bassline (Bassline, 1997)
Manhattan Hoedown (Audiophile, 1998)
Union (Naim, 1998)
Hitchhiker of Karoo (Optimism, 1985)
With George Shearing
On a Clear Day (Concord, 1980)
Blues Alley Jazz (Concord, 1980)
An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (Concord, 1982)
With Sonny Stitt
Dumpy Mama (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
References
External links
Brian Torff Website
In Love With Voices Site for Torff's memoir
New York Times Feature
Fairfield University Music Program
American jazz double-bassists
Male double-bassists
American jazz composers
American male jazz composers
Fairfield University faculty
American music educators
1954 births
Living people
21st-century double-bassists
21st-century American male musicians |
20480487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Ablakimov | Roman Ablakimov | Roman Ablakimov (born 28 August 1987) is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who is a midfielder for Sunkar and the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
International goals
External links
1987 births
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
Kyrgyzstani expatriate footballers
FC Alga Bishkek players
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Association football midfielders
Asian Games competitors for Kyrgyzstan |
17339521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katanoshi%20Station | Katanoshi Station | is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Katano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.
Lines
Katanoshi Station is a station of the Keihan Katano Line, and is located 4.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hirakatashi Station.
Station layout
The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by an elevated station building.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened on July 10, 1929 as . It was renamed November 1, 1977.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 10,295 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
Katano City Hall
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Katano, Osaka |
17339527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasting%20and%20Bombardiering | Blasting and Bombardiering | Blasting and Bombardiering is the autobiography of the English painter, novelist, and satirist Percy Wyndham Lewis. It was published in 1937. It was in this work that Lewis first identified the critically oft-mentioned "Men of 1914" group of himself, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce.
References
1937 non-fiction books
Books by Wyndham Lewis
British autobiographies |
20480488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal%20O%27Callaghan | Donal O'Callaghan | Donal O'Callaghan (23 June 1891 – 12 September 1962) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and Lord Mayor of Cork from 1920 to 1924.
He was born in Peacock Lane, Cork in 1891, and was educated at Eason's Hill primary school and the North Monastery secondary school. He was a member of several Irish republican organisations, including the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Sinn Féin.
He was elected to Cork Corporation in January 2020. He was also elected to Cork County Council in June 1920, and became chairperson of the county council. He was elected as Lord Mayor of Cork in November 1920. He was the third Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920, after the assassination of Tomás Mac Curtain by the Irish Constabulary in January 1920, and the death on hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney in October 2020.
After the Burning of Cork in December 1920, O'Callaghan who had received death threats, fled to America as a stowaway on board the steamship, West Cannon. After being discovered by the Master of the ship, he was put to work as a crew member. He was arrested on arrival in the US but eventually freed, and spent the next eight months there where delivered a series of speeches and helped to secure a loan for Dáil Éireann, acting as the emissary of Michael Collins. O'Callaghan returned to Cork in August 1921.
He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) to the Second Dáil at the 1921 elections for the Cork Borough constituency. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it.
At the 1921 elections, he was elected to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and as the Lord Mayor of Cork, he was automatically a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland. Article 18(4) of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 precluded anyone from sitting in both Houses at once, though O'Callaghan boycotted both, sitting instead in the Second Dáil.
He stood as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the 1922 general election but was not elected.
In June 1923, Éamon de Valera appointed O'Callaghan as the Republican envoy to the US, replacing Laurence Ginnell.
On 25 January 1924, he resigned his position as Lord Mayor of Cork. Later in 1924, he married Eibhlín Ní Shuilleabháin in London. They lived in London and later in Strasbourg before returning to Ireland in 1929. O'Callaghan secured a job as an accountant for the ESB. He died in Dublin in 1962, and is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery, Blackrock, Dublin.
References
1891 births
1962 deaths
Early Sinn Féin TDs
Members of the 2nd Dáil
Politicians from County Cork
Members of the Senate of Southern Ireland
Lord Mayors of Cork
Burials at Deans Grange Cemetery
People educated at North Monastery |
17339539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawachimori%20Station | Kawachimori Station | is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Katano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.
Lines
Kawachi-mori Station is a station of the Keihan Katano Line, and is located 6.1 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hirakatashi Station.
Station layout
The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by an underground passage.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened on October 21, 1930.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 11,320 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
The area around the station is a residential area.
Second Keihan Highway
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1930
Katano, Osaka |
20480501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullapur%20Union | Abdullapur Union | Abdullapur Union () is a union of Tongibari Upazila of Munshiganj District, Bangladesh. Abdullapur Union is in size.
Location
North: Mirkadim Pourasava
East: Rampal
South: Sonarong
West: Betka
Population
At the 1991 Bangladesh census, Abdullapur Union had a population of 4461.
References
Unions of Tongibari Upazila |
17339540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiothoracic%20anesthesiology | Cardiothoracic anesthesiology | Cardiothoracic anesthesiology is a subspeciality of the medical practice of anesthesiology, devoted to the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of adult and pediatric patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery and related invasive procedures.
It deals with the anesthesia aspects of care related to surgical cases such as open heart surgery, lung surgery, and other operations of the human chest. These aspects include perioperative care with expert manipulation of patient cardiopulmonary physiology through precise and advanced application of pharmacology, resuscitative techniques, critical care medicine, and invasive procedures. This also includes management of the cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung) machine, which most cardiac procedures require intraoperatively while the heart undergoes surgical correction.
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship (U.S.)
All anesthesiologists obtain either a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree prior to entering post-medical school graduate medical education. After satisfactory completion of an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA) accredited one year internship in either internal medicine or surgery and a three-year residency program in all subspecialties of anesthesiology, formal advanced training in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology is available via a one-year fellowship.Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship - Department of Anesthesiology - Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
The first Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology fellowship was formed at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1971. Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine - Fellowships Since then, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology has become an ACGME approved fellowship (2007), and there are 64 ACGME accredited programs and 212 match positions for the 2017-2018 application year.
This fellowship consists of at least eight months of adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, one month dedicated to transesophageal echocardiography, one month in cardiothoracic intensive care unit and two months of elective rotation which includes inpatient or outpatient cardiology or pulmonary medicine, invasive cardiology, medical or surgical critical care and extracorporeal perfusion technology.
Fellows are offered the opportunity to participate in clinical research and encouraged to present at national or international conferences after completion of a research project. The arenas of research can be as diverse as neuroprotection, myocardial protection, blood conservation strategies, and port access surgery.
Cardiac surgical training
Fellows are trained to provide perioperative anesthetic management for patients with severe cardiopulmonary pathology. Some of the cardiac surgeries they train for include the following: coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) both on cardiopulmonary bypass as well as on a beating heart, heart valve surgery, aortic reconstruction requiring deep hypothermic arrest, mechanical ventricular assist device (VAD) placement, thoracic aortic aneurysm repair, aortic dissection repair, heart transplants, lung transplants, heart/lung transplants, and adult congenital heart surgery.
Adequate exposure and experience provided in the management of adult patients for cardiac pacemaker and automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator placement, surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, and the complete gamut of invasive cardiologic (catheter-based) and electrophysiological procedures is expected as well.
Fellows also gain experience in perioperative medical (anesthetic) management of the cardiac patient, including management of intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP) and ventricular assist devices (VAD), post-operative ICU care, blood transfusion medicine, electrophysiology, and transthoracic echocardiography. Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine - Fellowships
Many fellowships also offer opportunity to become familiar with anesthetic techniques for pediatric cardiac surgery and minimally invasive cardiac surgery, however no formal case numbers for ACGME accreditation are required.
Thoracic surgical training
In addition to the focused cardiac training, additional clinical experience within the full one-year fellowship includes anesthetic management of adult patients undergoing thoracic and vascular surgery. Fellows are trained to manage all type of thoracic surgeries which include video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), open thoracotomy, and advanced airway procedures involving the trachea. Fellows achieve expertise in different techniques of lung isolation and ventilation
including double-lumen endotracheal tubes, bronchial blockers, univent tubes under guidance of fiber optic bronchoscopy, and advanced jet ventilation.
Advanced monitoring and invasive techniques
The complex nature of cardiothoracic surgery necessitates extra training to acquire the skills needed to be a cardiothoracic anesthesiology consultant. Fellows are trained to achieve expertise in the advanced monitoring techniques including invasive blood pressure, arterial blood gas analysis, cardiac output monitoring, jugular venous oxygen saturation, cerebral oximetry, Bispectral Index (BIS), Transcranial doppler (TCD), and Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).
Finally, invasive procedures completed by the cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellows include but are not limited to arterial line placement (femoral, axillary, brachial, radial), central venous cannulation (internal jugular, femoral, subclavian), pulmonary artery catheter placement, transvenous pacemaker placement, thoracic epidural analgesia, fiberoptic endotracheal tube placement, 2D/3D transesophageal echocardiography, intraspinal drainage placement, and advanced ultrasound guidance of vascular access.
Echocardiography (TTE and TEE)
Echocardiography produces a real-time image of the heart via ultrasound imaging, and can be performed in two or three dimensions. There are two ways of performing echocardiography depending on placement of echocardiography probe: transthoracic or transesophageal.
In transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), the probe is placed over the patient's chest wall, while in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE or TOE in the UK), the probe is placed into the esophagus.
Regardless of technique, each probe contains a transducer. While transmitting signals, it converts electrical energy to acoustic energy. When receiving signals, it converts acoustic energy to electrical energy, which is processed by the machine to form an image. Various techniques are employed to manipulate the data, including Doppler imaging.
Transesophageal echocardiography has rapidly become the most powerful monitoring technique and diagnostic tool for the management of cardiac surgical patients, primarily due to the transesophageal echocardiogram probe location and ability to be used intraoperatively. It provides the detailed information about the structure and function of the heart/great vessels in real time, allowing the cardiothoracic anesthesiologist to precisely manage patient physiology while providing updates and direction to members of the surgical team throughout the pre, intra, and post operative time frame of patient care.
After successful completion of the fellowship with subspecialty training in TEE, cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellows may sit for examination leading to board certification in echocardiography. The examination, also known as the Advanced PTEeXAM, is administered by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE).
National Board of Echocardiography - PTEeXAM. In addition to passing the test, fellows can become board certified only after performing 150 exams as well as reviewing an additional 150 exams with a board certified cardiologist/cardiothoracic anesthesiologist.
Cardio-pulmonary bypass
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a technique in which heart-lung machine temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs during surgery. The CPB is operated by the perfusionist. During the heart operation, the perfusionist takes over the heart function. The perfusionist works in close relation with the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.
Blood is drained from the venous (deoxygenated) circulation, and is cycled through the CPB machine. While in the machine, the blood is filtered, heated or cooled, and infused with oxygen. Subsequently, it is pumped back into the arterial (oxygenated) circulation, thereby bypassing the heart and lungs and maintaining the perfusion of the vital organs.
While the step by step process for preparation and initiation of CPB can vary between institution and type of surgery, a typical scenario is as follows.
After a median sternotomy, a surgical retractor is placed by the surgeon to optimize exposure of the heart. At this time, heparin is given to thin the blood to prevent thrombus from forming while on CPB. The surgeon places a cannula in the right atrium, vena cava, or femoral vein to withdraw blood from the venous circulation. The perfusionist uses gravity to drain the venous blood into the CPB machine, and a separate cannula, usually placed in the aorta or femoral artery, is used to return blood to the arterial circulation.
The process of preparation, initiation, and separation of cardiopulmonary bypass is a critical time during cardiac surgery. Some studies have even considered formalizing this period of time, much like the "sterile cockpit" process in critical steps of aviation Is the "sterile cockpit" concept applicable to cardiovascular surgery critical intervals or critical events? The impact of protocol-driven communication during cardiopulmonary bypass. The communication, while a team effort, is led and directed by the cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, as the surgeon is focused on acquiring and maintaining adequate exposure. This can even extend to placement of the cannulae for CPB preparation, as the cardiothoracic anesthesiologist often directs the surgical placement via real-time TEE data. As such, this responsibility demands that the cardiothoracic anesthesiologist have a thorough knowledge of the advanced physiology, principles, practical application and management of CPB.
After completion of the "on bypass" surgical correction, preparations are made to separate the patient from CPB. In other words, the heart and lung are prepared to receive, oxygenate, and pump the blood which had immediately previous been done by the CPB machine. Separation can be complicated by the CPB machine, the patient's inherent pathology/physiology, surgical correction, and the dynamic interaction of all three. Cardiopulmonary bypass has effects on the patient's hematology, physiology, and immunology, which must be acutely managed by the cardiothoracic anesthesiologist in order to ensure effective separation from CPB.
Role of cardiothoracic anesthesiologists in non-cardiac surgery
Patients with cardiothoracic pathology who present for non-cardiothoracic surgery are at increased risk for serious perioperative complications. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologists are often consulted by their colleagues to provide expert management during intraoperative hemodynamic instability or cardiac arrest by evaluating heart function with the aid of TEE and placement of other invasive advanced hemodynamic monitors, such as pacing swans.
References
External links
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (JCTVA)
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia (ACA)
Anesthesiology specialties
Cardiac surgery |
17339554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisaichi%20Station | Kisaichi Station | is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Katano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.
Lines
Kisaichi Station is a terminus of the Keihan Katano Line, and is located 6.9 kilometers from the opposing terminus of the line at Hirakatashi Station.
Station layout
The station has two ground-level dead-headed side platforms.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened on July 10, 1929.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 3,121 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Katano, Osaka |
20480505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal%20B.%20Stearns | Loyal B. Stearns | Loyal B. Stearns (May 2, 1853 – June 2, 1936) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist in Oregon. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Oregon, he became a lawyer and practiced in Portland. A Republican, he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and later a judge for several courts.
Early life
Loyal Stearns was born to Daniel W. Stearns and Almira Stearns (nee Fay) on May 2, 1853. One of five children, he was born in Swanzey, New Hampshire, and sailed with his family that year via the Isthmus of Panama route to San Francisco, California. In 1854, they continued north to the Oregon Territory. There they settled in Southern Oregon in Scottsburg. The younger Stearns was educated in Roseburg at the local schools and at Umpqua Academy. He also traveled around the state and into Idaho while working with his merchant father.
In 1871, Stearns relocated north to Portland where he attended Bishop Scott Academy until 1872. Stearns then enrolled at the Willamette University College of Medicine in Salem, Oregon, for one term before leaving to study law. He read law under the guidance of A. C. Gibbs and William Ball Gilbert at their law firm in Portland beginning in 1873. In December 1876, he passed the bar and began practicing law in Portland. Stearns started as a partner of Gibbs before practicing on his own.
Political career
Stearns was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1878 as a Republican. He represented District 38 which at that time was located entirely within Multnomah County, and included Portland. His father Daniel Stearns served in the House previously, and then served in the state senate following Loyal's one session in the Oregon Legislative Assembly. Loyal Stearns then served as Portland’s police judge from January 1879 to 1882 followed by election to the office of city attorney. After a short time in that position, he was elected to a seat on Multnomah County’s court, and served from June 1882 to 1885. In 1885, he became a judge for the Oregon circuit court where he remained until 1898. Governor Zenas Ferry Moody appointed him to the position, and Stearns won election to a full-term and then re-election until retiring from the bench.
Later years and family
On June 19, 1883, he married Mary Frances Hoyt, and they had one daughter together. Stearns worked in the real estate business following his judicial career. Mary, the daughter of Captain Richard Hoyt, died in 1933. Loyal Stearns died on June 2, 1936, at the age of 83.
See also
Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain (1941)
References
External links
Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain
The Bench and Bar
Picture of Stearns
The Story of Oregon
Members of the Oregon House of Representatives
1853 births
1936 deaths
Portland, Oregon Republicans
Oregon state court judges
Politicians from Roseburg, Oregon
Willamette University alumni
American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law
Oregon city attorneys
People from Cheshire County, New Hampshire
People from Scottsburg, Oregon
Willamette University College of Medicine alumni |
6906931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20of%20the%20Province%20of%20Caserta | List of municipalities of the Province of Caserta | The following is a list of the 104 municipalities (comuni) of the Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy.
List
See also
List of municipalities of Italy
References
Caserta |
20480507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkal%C4%8Di%C4%87eva%20Street | Tkalčićeva Street | Tkalčićeva Street (, formally: Ivan Tkalčić Street, ) is a street in the Zagreb, Croatia city center. Extending from the vicinity of the central Ban Jelačić Square to its northern end at the Little Street (), the street flows between the Gornji Grad in the west and Nova Ves in the east. The street is administratively within the Gornji Grad–Medveščak city district, constituting the former "August Cesarec" commune (abolished in 1994). According to the 2001 Croatian census, the street has 1,591 inhabitants.
History
Centuries before the today's street emerged, the route of Tkalčićeva Street was covered by the Medveščak creek. Medveščak (at that time also called Crikvenik or Cirkvenik) had been the center of Zagreb industry since the early days of the city, spawning numerous watermills. The watermills caused the development of Zagreb industry, leading in turn to the construction of Zagreb's first cloth, soap, paper and liquor factories and, later, animal skin industry. The watermills were often the subject of feuds between the twin cities, Kaptol and Gradec. A 1392 peace treaty forbade construction of new watermills along the shared city border, between today's southern end of Medvedgradska Street and Ban Jelačić Square, leaving only two mills within the city. Both mills were owned by a Cistercian monastery. However, they were both razed during the 1898 covering of the creek.
Although both sides of the creek had been inhabited before, the 1898 covering left a full-scale street, which was aptly named Ulica Potok (). Most of the houses were dated to 18th or 19th century and the street was surfaced with gravel from Sava River excavated in Trnje. Around the middle of the 20th century it was modernized and paved with asphalt. The creek-based industry was quickly transformed into small businesses and stores and the skin industry stopped working in 1938.
According to several records, the transformation of Medveščak creek valley was orchestrated in 1900 by Milan Lenucci, an architect. In 1908, Viktor Kovačić displayed some of his ideas about Ulica Potok in his studies of Gornji Grad, Kaptol and other city neighborhoods. In 1913, Ulica Potok's name is changed to Tkalčićeva Street in honor of the 19th century Zagreb historian Ivan Tkalčić, who was from nearby Nova Ves.
Red-light district
At the turn of the 20th century, prostitution was legal. In Zagreb it was advertised as a tourist attraction and contributed to the city's economy. Tkalčićeva Street was the main centre for brothels. At one stage every other building was a bordello. To open a brothel, the owner had to register at the town hall and received a licence. The licence required the brothel to be well run and provide a quality service. The women working in the brothels had to have a twice weekly medical examination. Brothels were not allowed to advertise their presence, but a discrete, uncommonly coloured lantern was allowed to be placed outside.
The best known brothel, and most expensive, was the Kod Zelene Lampe (Green Lantern’s). The street's brothels continued to operate until WW2.
References
Further reading
Gornji Grad–Medveščak
Streets in Zagreb
Shopping districts and streets in Croatia
Pedestrian malls
Red-light districts in Croatia
Pedestrian infrastructure in Croatia |
6906953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vom%20B%C3%A4umlein%2C%20das%20andere%20Bl%C3%A4tter%20hat%20gewollt | Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt | Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt ("Of the little tree which wished for different leaves") is a short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 in the Nazi movie studio Zeichenfilm GmbH.
The movie depicts a "golden tree" inhabited by little birds, whose leaves (all but one) are stolen by a caricature of a Jewish man: Aber wie es Abend ward, ging der Jude durch den Wald, er steckt sie ein, geht eilends fort und lässt das leere Bäumlein dort...
The cartoon is based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name. It was produced by Hubert Schonger and directed by Heinz Tischmeyer.
The poem
Rückert's poem begins,
Es ist ein Bäumlein gestanden im Wald
In gutem und schlechtem Wetter
A little tree stood in the forest
In good and bad weather
See also
List of German films 1933–1945
References
External links
Nazi antisemitic propaganda films
Nazi propaganda films
Films of Nazi Germany
German animated short films
1940 films
1940s animated short films
1940s German-language films |
20480542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Krasnov | Andrey Krasnov | Andrey Krasnov (born 6 July 1981) is a retired Kyrgyzstani footballer who played for various clubs in his country including Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn. He was a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
International career stats
Goals for senior national team
External links
1981 births
Living people
Kyrgyzstani footballers
Kyrgyzstan international footballers
FC Dordoi Bishkek players
Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent
Association football forwards |
17339565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Jeddah | SS Jeddah | SS Jeddah was a British-flagged Singaporean-owned passenger steamship. It was built in 1872 in Dumbarton, Great Britain, especially for the Hajj pilgrim trade, and was owned by Singapore-based merchant Syed Mahomed Alsagoff. In 1880, the officers onboard the Jeddah abandoned it when it listed and appeared to be sinking, leaving more than 700 passengers aboard. The event later inspired the plot of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. The vessel was retrieved and continued to sail, later being renamed Diamond.
Incident
On 17 July 1880, Jeddah left Singapore bound for Penang and subsequently Jeddah with 953 passengers – 778 men, 147 women, and 67 children – aboard. It also had 600 tonnes of general cargo, mostly sugar, garron wood, and general merchandise. The passengers were Muslim pilgrims travelling to Mecca and Medina for pilgrimage. A nephew of the ship's owner, Syed Omar al-Sagoff (Arabic: سيد عمر السقاف Saiyid ʿUmar al-Saqqāf) was among the passengers. Its multinational crew included the captain (Joseph Lucas Clark), two European officers (the first mate, named Augustine "Austin" Podmore Williams, and the second mate), and a European third engineer. The captain's wife, who was also a European, was also aboard.
On 3 August 1880, while off Ras Hafun in hurricane-force winds and heavy seas, the ship's boilers moved from their seatings. The crew used wedges to reseat the boilers. On 6 August, the weather worsened further and the wedges holding the boilers in place began to give way. Leaks developed and the ship was stopped to make repairs. Thereafter it proceeded slowly during the night of 6–7 August with only one boiler lit. However, the leaks increased and despite the efforts of the crew and passengers trying to bail out the water, it began to take on more water due to leaks in the supply lines in the bottom. It was again stopped for repairs, during which time it began to roll heavily, its boilers broke loose and all connection pipes were washed away, rendering its engines ineffective. Its crew rigged its sails to try to use wind power, but the sails blew away.
On 7 August, while Jeddah drifted in the Indian Ocean off Socotra and Cape Guardafui, Captain Clark and most of the ship's officers and crew prepared to launch the lifeboats. Upon discovering this, the pilgrims, who until then were helping bail out water from the engine room, tried to prevent the crew from abandoning them. A fight ensued, resulting in a few of the crew falling overboard and drowning.
The officers escaped in the starboard lifeboat, leaving the pilgrims to their fate. The Board of Trade inquiry proceedings note that a scuffle began while the lifeboat was being launched; the passengers threw whatever they could onto the lifeboat to prevent it from being lowered, and pulled away the first mate, who was lowering the boat from the ship, causing him to fall overboard. The first mate was later pulled into the lifeboat. Thus, the captain, his wife, the chief engineer, the first officer and several other crew members escaped in the lifeboat, leaving the passengers and a few of the officers and crew on their own aboard Jeddah. The British convict ship SS Scindian picked up the people in the lifeboat a few hours later at 10:00 a.m. on 8 August and took them to Aden, where they told a story of violent passengers murdering two of the ship′s engineers and reported that Jeddah had sunk near Yemen with great loss of life among its passengers.
However, Jeddah did not sink. Its passengers later reported that after the captain's lifeboat had been launched, the second mate had tried to escape in another lifeboat along with a few passengers. The other passengers had prevented this, and in the confusion that ensued, the lifeboat fell into the water, drowning the second mate and two passengers aboard the lifeboat with him. Thereafter the remaining 20 crew members, including two officers, with the help of the passengers, bailed the water out of the ship's engine room. They then hoisted distress signals, which the Blue Funnel Line steamship , sailing from Shanghai to London with 680 passengers aboard, sighted while Jeddah′s passengers and crew were trying to beach Jeddah off Ras Feeluk, near Bandar Maryah. Antenor approached Jeddah, assisted Jeddah′s crew and passengers in making her stable, and then towed her into the port of Aden, where she arrived on 11 August to much astonishment. Almost all the pilgrims had survived.
Fate of crew and passengers
In all, the official inquiry established the number of people rescued from Jeddah as 18 crew members (one of whom was working his passage), one second engineer, one supercargo, and 992 passengers (778 men, 147 women, and 67 children, not counting infants in arms). In all, 18 people died during the incident, including the second mate, three Khalasis, and 14 passengers.
Court of inquiry
A court of inquiry was held at Aden by the resident and sessions judge G. R. Goodfellow. The inquiry criticised Jeddah′s chief engineer for incorrect operation of the boilers, which aggravated matters. It also found the actions of Captain Clark in swinging out Jeddah′s lifeboats prematurely and subsequently launching the boats – dismaying the passengers – unprofessional and that he showed a "want of judgement and tact". It also found him "guilty of gross misconduct in being indirectly the cause of the deaths of the second mate and ten natives, seven crew and three passengers, and in abandoning his disabled ship with nearly 1,000 souls on board to their fate". His master′s certificate was suspended for three years. The court of inquiry also criticised the behaviour of the Chief Mate Williams. It commended the actions of the master and first mate of Antenor. The court was also critical that 1000 passengers could be allowed aboard a ship such as this during inclement weather.
Aftermath and Joseph Conrad's book Lord Jim
The incident was much publicised in the United Kingdom in general and London in particular. Newspapers had many reports and letters to the editors, from the public, from people who had actually sailed on pilgrim ships and described the grim conditions aboard, and from merchants and owners of pilgrim ships.
The Jeddah incident inspired Joseph Conrad, who had landed in Singapore during 1883, to write the novel Lord Jim. He used the name SS Patna for his fictional pilgrim ship.
See also
Augustine Podmore Williams
Costa Concordia disaster, the captain of which was accused of abandoning a wrecked ship
References
Steamships
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in August 1880
1872 ships
August 1880 events |
17339573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijang | Shijang | Shijang 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 |
20480547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enipeas%20%28Thessaly%29 | Enipeas (Thessaly) | The Enipeas () or Enipeus () is a river in central Greece, tributary of the Pineios near Farkadona. It is long. Its source is in the northern part of Phthiotis, on the plateau of Domokos. Its course runs through several of the tetrades of ancient Thessaly, from Achaea Phthiotis in South through Phthia to finally flow into the Pineios in Histiaeotis.
The banks of the Enipeas constituted the scene of several important battles of history, including those of Cynoscephalae (364 BCE and 197 BCE) and Pharsalus (48 BCE).
Namesake
Enipeus Vallis, a north-south valley on planet Mars is named for this river (and valley), located in the mid-south of the Arcadia quadrangle.
References
Rivers of Greece
Landforms of Phthiotis
Rivers of Central Greece
Landforms of Larissa (regional unit)
Rivers of Thessaly
Landforms of Karditsa (regional unit)
Landforms of Trikala (regional unit)
Geography of ancient Thessaly |
17339580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Dennis%20%28football%20commentator%29 | Ian Dennis (football commentator) | Ian Dennis (born 22 October 1971) is a commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live and the station's Chief Football Reporter.
Dennis grew up in West Yorkshire where he attended Ilkley Grammar School. He began working in radio with an unpaid Saturday job at BBC Radio York. In 1989, he began his professional career working for telephone publishing company Independent Media Services Limited (IMS), in Leeds, working as a football reporter on its TEAMtalk service and as cricket editor, managing an outside broadcast team that included Clive Lloyd, Alan Knott and Ralph Dellor.
IMS proved to be a strong training ground for sports broadcasters and among his colleagues were BBC Match of The Day commentator Guy Mowbray, talkSPORT presenter Adrian Durham and Sky Sports' football reporter Johnny Phillips. He returned to the BBC in 1995 to work for BBC Radio Cleveland, BBC Radio Leeds and BBC Radio Newcastle.
In 1998, he began commentating on Leeds United games for BBC Radio Leeds alongside Norman Hunter. In 2002, he left Radio Leeds to work as a football commentator for Radio 5 Live, for which he has covered four major international tournaments.
References
1971 births
Living people
People from Ilkley
BBC Radio 5 Live presenters
BBC people
British sports broadcasters
British association football commentators
People educated at Ilkley Grammar School |
17339581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimao%2C%20Chipwi | Shimao, Chipwi | Shimao is a small, remote 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 |
17339589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitzaw | Shitzaw | Shitzaw 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 |
20480550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi%20R15%20TDI | Audi R15 TDI | The Audi R15 TDI, commonly abbreviated to the R15, is a Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racing car constructed by the German car manufacturer Audi AG. It is the successor to the Audi R10 TDI.
Like its predecessor, the R15 TDI uses a turbocharged diesel engine, although the R15's V10 engine is physically smaller than the R10's V12. The smaller engine is pushed further toward the middle of the car than in the R10, resulting in a more neutral weight balance that gives the car better agility around the corners than its predecessor.
History
2009
The car was tested for the first time in December 2008, and made its competition debut at the 2009 12 Hours of Sebring race, 21 March 2009. The R15 got off to a perfect start by winning the 12 Hours of Sebring, setting a new race record in the process.
Three R15 TDIs participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2009, under the control of Joest Racing. Peugeot, its rival, with its 908 HDi FAP, took the top two spots in the 24-hour race, ending Audi's five-win streak that lasted back to 2004 with the gasoline-powered R8.
Audi did not defend their American Le Mans Series, or Le Mans Series titles with the R15 TDI.
The R15 TDI features a Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) turbodiesel V10 engine, rated at over and torque. The electrical system uses a lithium-ion battery, a first for Audi sports prototypes, as well as LED headlights, and a unique system of LED rear lights that are mounted on the rear wing endplate.
In the week running up to the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, rivals Peugeot lodged a protest against the R15, claiming that its bodywork did not comply with regulations stating that parts of the bodywork cannot be fitted with the sole purpose of generating downforce. However, after the Wednesday free practice session, the ACO rejected Peugeot's protest. At the 2009 Le Mans, Audi was unable to continue its winning streak that dated back to 2004. The No. 3 R15 ran off at Indianapolis corner in the beginning of the race but eventually finished 17th. The No. 2, driven by Luhr, crashed and retired. In the evening, the No. 1 Audi lost a lap to the leading Peugeot which was faster, and further technical issues dropped it a full 7 laps down the order. The No. 1 Audi clinched a podium finish, finishing in third place.
Audi announced on 25 August 2009 that two R15s would race at the 2009 Petit Le Mans. Both Audis led for approximately 90% of the race but a late spin during the final rain-soaked caution handed the victory to one of the Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs entered by Team Peugeot Total. This loss was Audi's first since competing in Petit Le Mans since their initial attempt at Road Atlanta back in 2000.
R15 TDI Plus (2010)
In response to losing the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Petit Le Mans to the Peugeot 908s, Audi updated their R15 for the 2010 season, creating the R15 plus. 2010 Regulations reduced the size of diesel LMP1 air restrictors and turbocharger boost pressure. However, despite this, Audi's engineering team led by Ulrich Baretzky were able to achieve engine power and performance that was comparable to the 2009 powerplant. Aerodynamic efficiency was also a major area of focus for 2010. The frontal area of the car was redesigned to reveal the raw crash structures. The front fenders were also lowered in an effort to reduce drag while the concept of air running through the car was abandoned for a more conventional design. The air channel that exited to the side of the car was redesigned resulting in a more conventional configuration, and a new headlight concept was introduced. Audi stated that they had improved the fuel tank and cooling system as well.
Racing history
The new vehicle was a success at the 2010 8 Hours of Le Castellet, winning five laps ahead of the next competitor Aston Martin. The Oreca Peugeot, which was supposedly its rival, dropped a full eight laps down the order because the airjacks failed to come off. Audi continue to go flat out and in the end finished ten laps ahead of the Peugeot. Audi had now been able to achieve both the speed and reliability combination that they considered sufficient to match the Peugeot challenge for Le Mans. A full squad of three cars was entered for the next race which was the 2010 Spa 1000 km, finishing third (#7, behind the two Peugeots – No. 3 took first, No. 2 took second), fifth (#9) and twelfth (#8) respectively. Audi treated the race as a setup exercise for car configuration at Spa that would then be used for the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans race got off to a tightly contested start with Peugeot occupying the top spots (as they did for qualifying) and for a large part of the race. However, it was apparent throughout the race that Audi were unable to match the pace with the Peugeots, but were working according to a different race strategy. By pushing the French manufacturer to the limit, three of the Peugeot cars experienced engine problems due to connecting rod failure towards the latter part of the race. With engine troubles for three of the Peugeots that forced the cars to retire before the end of the race, and an early exit by the No. 3 due to a suspension failure, the three Audis would finish 1–2–3 (the No. 9 took first, No. 8 took second and No. 7 took third), with all cars exceeding the previous distance record of set in the 1971 race by Dr Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep: the winning No. 9 car, led by Mike Rockenfeller and two Porsche factory drivers Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas, set not only a record-tying number of laps around Le Mans of 397 laps, but eclipsed the distance record outright at a distance of .
Post-Le Mans Audi did not collect any more victories and lost all three remaining races to the Peugeot 908, which happened to be part of the ILMC championship. Audi fielded two cars into the Silverstone 1000 km but the No. 7 crashed and retired. The sole remaining No. 8 finished third. At Petit Le Mans two cars were entered but both lost to a Peugeot 1–2 victory. At the R15's last race, two cars were entered into the Zhuhai 1000 km. Both cars were leading the 908s by thirty seconds after Sebastian Bourdais make contact with a GT2 Porsche. A late safety car session saw the Audi's lead shrink to thirteen seconds. Afterwards a controversial team-work by Peugeot saw the No. 1 908 slowed down the No. 7 Audi enough to let the No. two Peugeot come out of the pits just two seconds ahead. The race ended with Peugeot No. 2 winning four seconds ahead of the Audi. Audi did not win the LMP1 Le Mans Series team championship nor the ILMC LMP1 championship.
The R15's final race was at the 2011 Sebring 12 Hours. Both cars ran in 2010 configuration with new restrictors. The No. 1 Audi finished fifth overall after two consecutive tyre punctures and rear bodywork damage in the hands of Mike Rockenfeller. Later in the race the No. 1 had to serve a penalty for speeding in pitlane. The No. 2 ran at the front exchanging the lead with Peugeot until a shunt by one of the Peugeots at turn 17 put Capello out of contention with a suspension failure. The No. 2 finished fourth overall, albeit five laps down from the winning Oreca Peugeot.
Throughout its career the R15 won three of the ten races it entered; Sebring in 2009, Paul Ricard and Le Mans in 2010.
Replacement
With a change in Le Mans Prototype engine regulations planned for 2011, Audi developed the closed-top R18 to succeed the R15. Wolfgang Ullrich cited favourable changes to pitstop regulations and aerodynamic efficiency as the reasons for adopting a closed-cockpit design. The R18 was Audi's first-ever coupe since the failed Audi R8C in , although the Bentley Speed 8, which won in with an Audi-developed engine, was also a closed-cockpit car.
The R15 TDI's final start came at the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring, where it competed as an upgraded R15++, as the R18 was still being developed at the time.
Technical data
Additional images
References
External links
Audi.com – Audi R15 TDI: "second" generation diesel racing sports car
MulsannesCorner.com – Mulsanne's Corner's January/February 2009 R15 observations
MulsannesCorner.com – Mulsanne's Corner's March/April 2009 R15 observations
Le Mans Prototypes
R15
24 Hours of Le Mans race cars
Le Mans winning cars
Sports prototypes |
6906969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hyer | Tom Hyer | Tom Hyer (January 1, 1819 – June 26, 1864) was an American bare-knuckle boxer. He became a heavyweight boxing champion after defeating Country McCloskey in a long brutal fight in New York on September 9, 1841, though there was no sanctioning body to recognize his championship. Until he retired in 1851, he was widely celebrated as the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of America. His victory increased American participation in boxing, and made him a celebrity; generating fight coverage and publicity in hundreds of American newspapers.
Hyer was a brawler and engaged in several bar fights. The fights he had as a result of his political association with the nativist Bowery Boys' anti-immigration gang in 1855, were often particularly violent, and often involved weapons.
Early life and boxing strengths
Thomas Hyer was born in New York City, New York 1 Jan 1819. Proof documentation of his birth, his father's birth, along with his ancestors is found in 'Hyer and Allied Families' by Claudia E. Thomas, published 2022 Tom died 26 June 1864 in New York City, New York. The book also addresses the error of the 1944 article stating he was born in Pennsylvania.
He worked as a butcher at the old Washington Market in New York before entering boxing; staying with butchering as a sideline. After he had won several fights, he opened a bar on New York's Park Row attended widely by Know Nothing Party friends, New York natives, who were anti-immigration. He was of Dutch ancestry, a heritage common among New York's earliest settlers. His father Jacob Hyer also worked as a butcher, and briefly earned a living as a boxer, reportedly fighting an opponent named Tom Beasley in 1816, using the older Broughton rules of England, in what is now considered the first official boxing match known to have been held in America. Tom's father broke his arm in the fight, and never boxed again.
In his boxing prime, as seen at left, Tom Hyer had a huge chest, and long, muscular rangy arms with extremely wide shoulders, that gave him both strength and reach. His long legs and springy hips helped give speed, leverage, power, and placement to his punches.
His favorite blow was a crushing left to the collarbone. He was not known as a scientific boxer with exceptionally finessed defensive skills, but was more of a brawler who had to trade blows in order to deliver a blow of his own. A signature move was to lead with a left swing, which he sometimes feinted, in order to score with a well placed short right uppercut. He used this strategy to win his fights against both Country McCloskey and Yankee Sullivan. Fine scientific boxing with a calculated defense involving feints with the arms and forward foot were rarely a feature of bareknuckle boxing in the 1840s, nor necessary with the undisciplined nature of London Prize Ring Rules. Other than gouging, hitting a man when he was down, kicking, hitting or grabbing below the waist, most moves were permitted, including throwing a man down or holding him to inflict blows. Unlike London Prize rules where a round ended anytime a man's knee touched the ground, the Marquess of Queensberry rules used today required gloves, had fixed three minute rounds, and made it illegal to throw a man down or to hold him to inflict blows.
Heavyweight Champion of America, 1841
Hyer was recognized as the bare-knuckle boxing Heavyweight Champion of America after a 101-round victory over George McCheester, known as Country McCloskey, at Caldwell's Landing in New York City, on September 9, 1841. McClosky was one of several lieutenants to Isaiah Rynders who supported the Tweed Ring, backers of the corrupt Tammany Hall political machine and rivals of Hyer and his supporters. The intense battle in the scorching sun of the open air arena reportedly lasted 2 hours, fifty minutes before McCloskey's seconds threw up the sponge ending the bout in the 101st round. Hyer began with roughly an eight-pound weight advantage as well as an inch advantage in height. The first 11 rounds seemed to favor McClosky, but the tide turned by the 28th when Hyer unleashed a tremendous, left-hander on Country's nose, which caused serious bleeding. In the forty-fourth Hyer, with a tremendous blow, opened a deep gash in Country's head. After seventy-three rounds had been fought neither would give in, although McClosky was terribly injured. In the 74th, both men were knocked to the ground, and yet the fight continued. It was clear by the 90th round that McClosky could not win. In the ninety-fifth round McCloskey was knocked down again and was obviously badly injured. Again his seconds tried to stop the fight, but he begged to be allowed to fight while he still had sight. By the 100th round, in complete control, Hyer could hit McCloskey at will as he put up little defense. After the 101st, Yankee Sullivan, McCloskey's chief second exclaimed, "It is no use Country, banging at him. he's got you licked." In the brutal affair, McClosky was said to have been beaten til his friends could barely recognize him. Considering the intensity of the bout, it is not surprising, Hyer did not fight again for ten years.
The death of Tom McCoy following his loss to Chris Lilly in Westchester County on September 13, 1842, led to a more vigorous enforcement of the laws against prizefighting, and ultimately delayed the matching of Hyer with Yankee Sullivan. Sullivan had been arrested and imprisoned for nearly two years after the fight for working as its principal promoter.
In 1842, Hyer was challenged by the Heavyweight Champion of England Ben Caunt, but no fight was held. Caunt had come to America to look for bouts, but was not willing to make a match after his arrival. Believing he would not receive a favorable deal, he returned to England.
Bout with Yankee Sullivan, 1849
Factions behind the fight
Hyer first met "Yankee Sullivan", an Irishman with the real name James Ambrose, at an Oyster Bar at the corner of New York's Broadway and Park Place early in 1849. Sullivan had planned to meet him there for a brawl, possibly for publicity, but according to most newspapers of the day, with the clear intent of doing him harm. Hyer was reported to have won the brief encounter, and then loaded a pistol to protect himself from Sullivan's soon- to-arrive supporters. They arrived shortly after, but the police intervened and prevented any bloodshed. Sullivan had acted as a second to McClosky in his loss to Hyer in 1841, and had hoped to avenge McClosky by defeating Hyer. According to one source, Sullivan was a bit of a ruffian and petty criminal when he was boxing in London during his early fighting days, and was sent to a British penal colony in Australia, to serve time. His battle with Hyer was more than a prize fight. It was a statement by two warring factions in New York, in short "a proxy battle between anti-immigrant nativists represented by Hyer and his Bowery Boys gang, and the Irish immigrants backed by Tammany Hall, and represented by Sullivan and his followers. As noted by Chris Klein, "Boxing was closely involved with politics in America after the Civil War, and fighters forged close ties with corrupt urban political machines that relied on muscle (and often gangs) to help their candidates win elections". Opposing political factions often made up gangs and expressed their animosity using warfare in the streets, on occasion taking over balloting places to secure their candidates would win.
Maryland sends militia
Seeking to stop Sullivan and Hyer from fighting, George Richardson, the Attorney General of Maryland, where boxing was banned, sent two companies of state militia to Pooles Island, where the fight was originally intended to take place, but the boxers moved the bout East to Still Pond heights. Though 300 souls had first steamed to Pooles to observe the fight, only 200 or so spectators were said to attend the bout, as others may have been frightened of arrest by the Maryland militia, as a cornerman for Sullivan and George Thompson, the trainer for Hyer had earlier spent a brief stay in jail after being arrested on Pooles Island.
According to the Police Gazette, and other sources Hyer had nearly a four-inch height advantage, and as much as a thirty-pound advantage in weight over Sullivan: a disparity that would likely have prevented their being matched today. Hyer's advantage in reach gave him another important edge in the fight. On February 7, 1849, Hyer finally defeated Sullivan in a scorching battle that commenced around 4:00 pm. The match went 16 rounds at Still Pond Creek, a cold and snowy outdoor arena on the East Maryland shore, ten miles below Poole's Island where the fight was originally planned. The close betting gave the edge to Sullivan, 100 to 89. Despite his being the smaller man, Sullivan had been undefeated in eight fights, primarily in Australia and England, and had claimed the Middleweight Championship of England in February 1841, against Johnny "Hammer" Lane.
Details of the Sullivan fight
Sullivan hoped to use what he believed to be an advantage in grappling, to weaken the larger Hyer by way of hard throws, legal in London Prize Ring Rules. When this failed, Hyer's superior reach and height allowed him to dominate Sullivan. Several accounts do report that Sullivan attempted to throw Hyer early in the match with some success, and credited him with the first three. As the fight progressed, Sullivan was down in the fourth and again in the sixth, but arose. Within 17 minutes of the start of the bout, Sullivan was badly hurt, and had had his right eye lanced to prevent it from swelling shut. By the thirteenth round, Sullivan was flagging badly, taking almost two blows to each one he weakly delivered to Hyer. Sullivan's right arm was wrenched in the 15th.
According to the Milwaukee Sentinel, writing the day after the fight, once Sullivan was exhausted, Hyer caught his head under his arm before he could fall in the 15th, and punched him repeatedly. This attack ended the bout, and Sullivan could not return for the 16th. Several telegraphed reports received the day after the fight as well as the detailed written account by the reliable Brooklyn Daily Eagle confirm this account and it appears to be accurate. Published years later, the Police Gazette did not make mention of Hyer holding Sullivan around the head, but did accurately note that the fight ended after Hyer dropped Sullivan to the ground at the end of the 15th and fell on top of him. When Hyer stood up, it was clear, Sullivan could not continue. Sullivan, unable to rise at the end, had to be carted off by his seconds.
After being declared the winner, Hyer followed the tradition of London Prize Ring Rules, and tore Sullivan's green and white silk banner, representing the colors of Ireland, from its stake by the ring and triumphantly displayed it to the crowd. Hyer's banner was the American Stars and Stripes, in some ways representing his alliance with the nationalist, somewhat anti-immigrant, Whig Party; which was allied with the Know-Nothing Party. After the bout, Sullivan was taken to Mt. Hope Hospital where he was treated for his injured arm, badly blackened eyes and a slight skull fracture, but released the following day. The fight lasted 17 minutes, 18 seconds and Hyer won an exceptionally large $10,000 purse in a battle that he dominated, though Sullivan took his $10,000 as well. Much of the way back from Chesapeake Bay to New York, Hyer was greeted and cheered by large crowds that lined the streets of cities and towns, for parades of victory. This was a widely publicized boxing match at the time and helped to ignite the sport's popularity, despite the bout being illegal in Maryland, and clearly a brutal affair.
Two days later, Hyer was celebrated when he arrived in Philadelphia by a triumphal procession after his victory over Sullivan, and there were even exaggerated reports in the newspapers of his becoming a Whig candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Once the celebrations ended, Hyer was required to attend a hearing in Philadelphia before a judge who was waiting for a requisition from the Governor of Maryland to prosecute him for the fight. He was briefly held at Moyamensing Prison while waiting for the requisition from Maryland, but it never arrived.
In mid-April, 1849, Hyer appeared in a sold-out performance at Griffin's Mansion House in Albany, New York with his trainer, George Thompson, to perform the play "Tom and Jerry". The play was a theatrical adaptation of the boxing historian Pierce Egan's Life in London.
Vacating championship, 1851
In 1850, Hyer challenged the "Tipton Slasher", William Perry, reigning Heavyweight Champion of England, but no fight was held.
In 1851, Hyer retired from the ring and relinquished the Heavyweight Championship of America; whereupon Yankee Sullivan claimed the title. Hyer would not fully retire from the ring, and though he would continue to contract fights, very few would take place.
Boxing comeback attempt
On October 26, 1854 one source reports that Hyer lost to Pat McGowan in St. Louis in a little-known first round disqualification. The Evening Star noted that the boxer was not Tom Hyer but another boxer of the same name from California, and that the fight went a rough 64 rounds. On July 20, 1857 Hyer lost decisively to Tom Hunter in Washington, D.C. in his last known fight. To the knowledge of most Americans, he retired undefeated, as his last fight was very poorly publicized.
Association with "Bowery Boys", 1854-5
In 1854 Hyer was scheduled to fight Irishman John Morrissey, at one time the head of New York's mostly Irish Dead Rabbits gang, who were rivals of Hyer's anti-immigrant gang, the Bowery Boys, but Morrissey did not show for the fight. Morrissey and Hyer were later scheduled to fight a duel in mid-February 1855 over a sum of money, around $100, owed to Morrisey from Hyer as a result of the fight not taking place, but though Morrissey arrived, Hyer and Hughes, the party to duel Morrissey, did not.
Morrissey would defeat "Yankee" Sullivan, on September 1, 1853, and later become a United States congressman from New York in 1867, backed by New York's corrupt political machine, Tammany Hall. Like many Irish pugilists backed by Tammany Hall, Morrissey was a rival of William Poole, head of the Bowery Boys Gang, and on August 8, 1854, a fight was arranged between Poole and Morrissey at the corner of "West and Amos-street". Poole forced Morrissey to end the fight in an extremely brutal exchange.
Hyer was associated financially and politically with William Poole's Bowery Boys gang, native-born New Yorkers who generally supported the Know Nothing anti-immigrant political party, but opposed Catholics, the Irish, and the corrupt Irish political machine, Tammany Hall. On mid-January, 1855, Hyer was reported to have been struck and injured in the head twice by the butt of a heavy revolver in an incident at New York's Platt's Hall below Wallick's Theater, by the former boxer Lew Baker, a rival of the Bowery Boys gang. Also present was Henry Young and Jim Turner, a former boxer and friend of Baker, who also briefly assaulted Hyer. Hyer filed an assault charge against the three men two days later. Turner was also accused in the same month on January 6 of attempting to fire a shot at Hyer, at the Broadway Bar with his six shooter, though the gun missed, and when Hyer returned a shot at Turner it missed, preventing both men from serious injury. A few accounts record Hyer may have had his neck grazed by a bullet from Turner in the altercation.
Hyer was not known to have been present two weeks later at another gang incident at New York's Stanwix Hall at 1:00 on February 24, where Poole was shot and wounded in the leg by Lew Baker, and further assaulted by others He eventually died at his home. Also present at the February 24 incident was John Morrissey, well known to Hyer, a rival with whom he had previously scheduled a bout. The life of William Poole and the Bowery Bows gang is depicted in highly fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York.
In January 1855, Hyer was arrested and apprehended in New York on charges of running a gambling house on Park Place, in New York.
Life after boxing, 1857-64
Taking advantage of his political connections, in 1857 Hyer was appointed Superintendent of Lands and Places, by New York Street Commissioner Connor. Other pugilists were appointed to positions as well.
As late as 1860, Hyer was reported to have been in Washington D.C. offering to give sparring lessons to Congressmen. In the same year, according to one source, Hyer attempted to schedule fights with the "Benicia Boy", John C. Heenan, but satisfactory terms were not met.
After his full retirement from the ring, he lived briefly in Washington, D.C. According to one account, he became a good friend of both Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, which seems plausible considering his national prominence and his political connections with the Whig Party. Before the war he briefly ran a saloon near Laura Kern's Theater.
Union Army service
In the Civil War, Hyer worked as a sutler, selling wares including food from the back of a wagon or tent, and traveling with the Union Army as it went from field to field. He contacted rheumatism during the winter of 1862 while sutlering at Hooker's camp, and returned to Washington disabled. His condition may have been exacerbated by his boxing injuries and the wounds he received from James Turner in 1855.
Death from cardiac edema
He was ill for four months prior to his death. To help raise money for his care and his family, a benefit was given to him shortly before his death around June 21, 1864, at New York's Stuyvesant Hall, where thousands gathered to see him briefly address the crowd from his wheel chair, accompanied by thunderous applause.
Hyer died on June 26, 1864 at his home in Brooklyn, with a reported cause of death as "cardiac dropsy" or edema as it is now known. A few accounts report that his early demise was at least partly due to excessive drinking. His funeral took place on June 28. Hyer was survived by his mother and wife, the former Emma Beke of Maine and his one daughter, Charlotte, who later married Floyd Grant. After Hyer's funeral, which was poorly attended, John Morrissey, a former rival, contributed $250 to Hyer's widow and mother, with an additional $250 raised by others in attendance. He and his family were interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where a large monument marks his burial site.
He was inducted into Ring Magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954.
Selected fights and important brawls
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| style="text-align:center; border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
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| style="text-align:center; border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Duration
| style="text-align:center; border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
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| Win
| Country McCloskey
| 9 September 1841
| Caldwell Landing, New York
| 101 rounds, 2:55 minutes
| Bare knuckle Heavyweight Championship of America
|-
| Win
| "Yankee" Sullivan
| Early 1849
| Bar on New York's Broadway and Park Place
| Stopped when Sullivan was injured and police arrived
| Bar fight, backed by Hyer's No-nothing party nativist faction vs. Sullivan's Irish pro-immigrant faction
|-
| Win
| "Yankee" Sullivan
| 7 February 1849
| Still Pond Creek, Maryland
| 16 rounds, 17 minutes
| Defended heavyweight championship
|-
| style="background: #dae2f1"|Draw
| Lew Baker, later Jim Turner
| January–February 1855
| Platt's Hall, later Broadway Bar, New York
| Not professional contests
| Two Violent Bar room fights defending Bowery Boys gang
Gunfight w/Jim Turner January 6
|-
| Loss
| Tom Hunter
| 13 July 1857
| Washington, D.C.
| Duration unknown
| Not widely publicized; little known bout
|-
See also
William Poole
References
Achievements
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1864 deaths
Bare-knuckle boxers
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
American male boxers
Sportspeople from Brooklyn
Boxers from New York City
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References
External links
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