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6907115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolium%20temulentum | Lolium temulentum | Lolium temulentum, typically known as darnel, poison darnel, darnel ryegrass or cockle, is an annual plant of the genus Lolium within the family Poaceae. The plant stem can grow up to one meter tall, with inflorescence in the ears and purple grain. It has a global distribution.
Growth
Darnel usually grows in the same production zones as wheat and was a serious weed of cultivation until modern sorting machinery enabled darnel seeds to be separated efficiently from seed wheat. The similarity between these two plants is so great that in some regions, darnel is referred to as "false wheat". It bears a close resemblance to wheat until the ear appears. The spikes of L. temulentum are more slender than those of wheat. The spikelets are oriented edgeways to the rachis and have only a single glume, while those of wheat are oriented with the flat side to the rachis and have two glumes. Wheat will appear brown when ripe, whereas darnel is black.
Darnel can be infected by an endophytic fungus of the genus Neotyphodium and the endophyte-produced, insecticidal loline alkaloids were first isolated from this plant.
The French word for darnel is ivraie (from Latin ebriacus, intoxicated), which expresses the drunken nausea from eating the infected plant, which can be fatal. The French name echoes the scientific name, Latin temulentus "drunk."
Literary references
The ancient Greek botanist Theophrastus stated in his De causis plantarum (8:7 §1) that wheat can transform (metaballein) into darnel (aira), since fields sown to wheat are often darnel when reaped.
Darnel is mentioned in Horace's Satire 2.6 (eaten by the Country mouse while he serves his guest fancier foods) and may have been the plant in the Parable of the Tares in the Gospel of Matthew:
In ordering the St. Brice's Day massacre of all the Danes in England, Æthelred the Unready observed that "all the Danes who had sprung up in this island, sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat, were to be destroyed by a most just extermination."
Darnel is also mentioned as a weed in Shakespeare's King Lear,
Darnel is one of the many ingredients in mithridate, which Mithridates, the king of ancient Pontus, is supposed to have used every day to render him immune to poisoning.
Darnel is mentioned in the Mishnah in Kilayim (1:1) as זונין (), similar to the Arabic زؤان ().
See also
Bromus tectorum
References
External links
"Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans For Centuries", Atlas Obscura, March 22, 2016
Pooideae
Medicinal plants
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Flora of Malta |
17339888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus%20%28comics%29 | Octopus (comics) | Octopus is a supervillain from the comic book The Spirit by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared in The Spirit on July 14, 1946, and became the primary nemesis in later stories.
Fictional character biography
The Octopus has never showed his face in the stories, but readers could always identify the character by the distinctive purple gloves he always wore. A master of disguise, The Octopus was involved in the epic fight with The Spirit, which left Denny Colt temporarily blind.
Appearances
14 July 1946 – "The Postage Stamp"
17 November 1946 – "Return to Caramba"
1 December 1946 – "The Portier Fortune"
6 July 1947 – "Wanted – Mortimer J. Titmouse"
10 August 1947 – "Sign of The Octopus" aka "Klink Versus The Octopus"
17 August 1947 – "The Picnic"
24 August 1947 – "Showdown with The Octopus"
28 December 1947 – "Umbrella Handles"
25 January 1948 – "Montabaldo"
1 February 1948 – "El Espirito"
1 August 1948 – "The Eisner Travel Agency"
31 October 1948 – "Hallowe'en Spirit"
5 December 1948 – "Stop the Plot"
26 December 1948 – "Will Eisner's Almanack" (cameo)
4 February 1951 – "Showdown with The Octopus" (reprint)
11 February 1951 – "Octopus Back in U.S.A."
18 February 1951 – "To The Spirit with Love"
25 February 1951 – "The Portier Fortune" (revised reprint)
18 March 1951 – "Darling Unmasks The Octopus"
15 July 1951 – "Heat" (cameo)
22 July 1951 – "Hospital Zone – Quiet"
25 November 1951 – "I Hate The Spirit Because Contest" aka "The League of Liars" (cameo)
Film
On July 19, 2006, The Hollywood Reporter reported that comic book writer/artist Frank Miller would write and direct the feature film adaptation of The Spirit with Samuel L. Jackson as the Octopus. Unlike the comics his face is seen in the film, depicted with eight "prison tears" under his eyes like octopus tentacles; he brags to have "eight of everything". In another departure from the comic, he holds a love of powerful firearms, including two Desert Eagles, two miniguns, two .500 S&W Magnums, two Sawed-off shotguns, and a pair of four-barreled shotguns. He also wears a series of outlandish costumes such as a long fur coat and hat inspired by blaxploitation films and Russians, a Nazi uniform, and a samurai robe and hairpiece inspired by classic kung-fu movies. The film combines elements of Dr. Cobra from The Spirit comics with the Octopus in that he is revealed to have been responsible for the Spirit's resurrection and immortality thanks to a regenerative formula he invented and injected himself with as well after succeeding. The Octopus is served by Silken Floss and a group of cloned henchmen (all portrayed by Louis Lombardi). His quest in the film is to get his hands on the Blood of Heracles to drink and become a god. Following a fight with the Spirit, the Octopus escapes but ends up with Jason's Golden Fleece desired by Sand Saref, now with the blood. After going to desperate measures trying to find Sand and kill the Spirit, the Octopus hires a beautiful assassin, Plaster of Paris, to take down his nemesis. At the end of the film, the Octopus is finally defeated in a manner similar to his demise in the comic, being blown up by a grenade. However, his severed finger is found by Silken Floss and two of his cloned henchmen, implying he may return.
Project Superpowers
The Octopus is mentioned in Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Project Superpowers series. In that series he has supposedly been killed by The Flame, and his criminal empire is now run by his widow.
References
Comics characters introduced in 1946
Superhero film characters
Golden Age supervillains
Comic strip supervillains
Fictional serial killers
Male characters in comics |
6907122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat-Sheva%20Zeisler | Bat-Sheva Zeisler | Bat-Sheva Zeisler is an Israeli vocalist, actress, and voice teacher. She sings in the soprano range.
Biography
Bat-Sheva Zeisler's father was the city architect of Rishon Lezion, where she still lives. Zeisler graduated from the Tel Aviv University, where she studied drama and literature. She then studied voice at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London College of Music.
She was married to Israeli artist Gideon Gechtman (1942–2008), whom she met in London. Their son, Noam, works in the advertising industry. Another son, Yotam, a film director, died in 1997.
Theater and acting career
Bat-Sheva Zeisler was a member of the original cast of You and Me and the Next War, a satirical cabaret by Hanoch Levin with songs set to music by Alex Kagan and Beni Nagari. An updated version was performed by the original cast from 2004 through 2008. The director of the play was Edna Shavit.
Other productions she participated in include Everything You Wanted to Know Often, and Didn't Dare to Ask Bach short one act plays by Offenbach, directed by Eran Baniel, with Dani Masseng co-acting, and stage choreography by the late Ya'akov Sommer and musical directing of Yitzhak Steiner; The Beggar's Opera at the Beersheba Theater, with new music by Alex Kagan and directed by Dan Ronnen; An Upside-Down Monument by Yossef Mundi, and directed by him at Yuval Theater; Intimacy directed by Tammar Lederer, at Hasimta Theater; My Fair Lady, The Imaginary Patient and The Star of Tears. The two latter were directed by Motti Averbuch. Star of Tears was written by him and put to music as an opera by Thierie Wieder.
Zeisler managed the Elharizi Theater in Tel Aviv.
Singing career
Zeisler has an extensive career as a soprano vocalist. Among her programs are Songs in Red and Yellow, Bat-Sheva and Simcha go to Broadway with Habimah singer-actor Simcha Barbiro and songs by Eric Satie and Francis Poulenc. In several of these programs she is accompanied by the Dutch-Israeli classical pianist Bart Berman. She works as a voice coach.
Discography
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady (Helicon, 1986)
Hanoch Levin: You, Me and the Next War (Ofir, 2004)
References
External links
Batsheva Zeisler at Notes on Franz Schubert
Living people
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
20th-century Israeli women singers
Israeli musical theatre actresses
Israeli operatic sopranos
Israeli stage actresses
Tel Aviv University alumni
People from Rishon LeZion
Jewish opera singers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17339891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachutaing | Wachutaing | Wachutaing 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 |
17339900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachyawn | Wachyawn | Wachyawn 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 |
17339906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakyang | Wakyang | Wakyang 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 |
17339914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Sheridan | James Sheridan | James or Jim Sheridan may refer to:
Jim Sheridan (politician) (born 1952), Scottish Labour Party politician
James Sheridan (footballer) (1882–1960), Irish footballer in England
James Sheridan (Medal of Honor) (1830–1893), American Civil War sailor
James E. Sheridan (1922–2015), professor of history and author
Jim Sheridan (born 1949), Irish film director
Jamey Sheridan (James Patrick Sheridan, born 1951), American actor
James Joseph Sheridan (1951–2014), Irish pianist, composer, arranger and music historian |
6907128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Chirac%27s%20second%20term%20as%20President%20of%20France | Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France | At age 69, Jacques Chirac faced his fourth campaign for the French Presidency in 2002. He was the first choice of fewer than one voter in five in the first round of voting of the presidential elections of April 2002. It had been expected that he would face incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin on the second round of elections; instead, Chirac faced controversial far right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of the law-and-order, anti-immigrant National Front, and won re-election by a landslide; most parties outside the National Front had called for opposing Le Pen, even if it meant voting for Chirac. Slogans such as "vote for the crook, not for the fascist" or "vote with a clothespin on your nose" appeared.
"We must reject extremism in the name of the honour of France, in the name of the unity of our own nation," Chirac said before the presidential election. "I call on all French to massively vote for republican ideals against the extreme right."
The left-wing Socialist Party being in thorough disarray following Jospin's defeat, Chirac reorganized politics on the right, establishing a new party — initially called the Union of the Presidential Majority, then the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The RPR had broken down - a number of members had formed Eurosceptic breakaways. While the Giscardian liberals of the Union of French Democracy (UDF) had moved sharply to the right. The UMP won the parliamentary elections that followed the presidential poll with ease.
On 14 July 2002, during Bastille Day celebrations, Chirac survived an assassination attempt by a lone gunman with a rifle hidden in a guitar case. The would-be assassin fired a shot toward the presidential motorcade, before being overpowered by bystanders. The gunman, Maxime Brunerie, underwent psychiatric testing; the violent far-right group with which he was associated, Unité Radicale was then administratively dissolved. Brunerie had also been a candidate for the Mouvement National Républicain a far-right party at a local election. Brunerie's trial for attempted murder began on 6 December 2004; a crucial question was whether the court found that Brunerie's capacity for rational thought was absent (see insanity defence) or merely altered. On 10 December, the court, exceeding the sentence pushed for by the prosecution, sentenced Brunerie to 10 years in prison.
Chirac emerged as a leading voice against US president George W. Bush's administration's conduct towards Iraq. Despite intense U.S. pressure, Chirac threatened to veto, at that given point, a resolution in the U.N. Security Council that would authorize the use of military force to rid Iraq of alleged weapons of mass destruction, and rallied other governments to his position. Russia, another permanent UN Security Council member, said it, too, would use its veto against such a resolution, (cf. Governments' pre-war positions on invasion of Iraq and Protests against the 2003 Iraq war). "Iraq today does not represent an immediate threat that justifies an immediate war", Chirac said on 18 March 2003. Chirac was then the target of various American and British commentators supporting the decisions of president Bush and prime minister Tony Blair. See also anti-French sentiment in the United States. Suspected French involvement in "under the table" deals with Saddam Hussein have led many supporters of the war to question Chirac's motives in opposing the invasion of Iraq.
During a state visit to the People's Republic of China on 21 April 2005 Chirac's Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin lent support to the new Anti-Secession Law, which justified an invasion of Taiwan by the PRC in the event of a declaration of Taiwan independence, and continued to push for a lift of the European Union arms embargo against China. France's position was seen as attempting to aid China in altering the balance of power against the U.S. in East Asia, in which the control of Taiwan is of utmost importance. This drew widespread condemnation from the U.S. which responded by threatening sanctions against the EU unless the embargo was continued.
On 29 May 2005 a referendum was held in France to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union. The result was a victory for the No campaign, with 55% of voters rejecting the treaty on a turnout of 69%, dealing a devastating blow to Chirac and the UMP party. Chirac's decision to hold a referendum was thought to have been influenced in part by the surprise announcement that the United Kingdom was to hold a vote of its own. Although the adoption of a Constitution had initially been played down as a 'tidying-up' exercise with no need for a popular vote, as increasing numbers of EU member states announced their intention to hold a referendum, the French government came under increasing pressure to follow suit.
French voters turned down the proposed document by a wide margin, which was interpreted by some as a rebuke to Chirac and his government. Two days later, Jean-Pierre Raffarin resigned and Chirac appointed Dominique de Villepin as Prime Minister of France.
In an address to the nation, Chirac has declared that the new cabinet's top priority would be to curb the unemployment level, which consistently hovers above 10%, calling for a "national mobilization" to that effect. One of the main promises of Jean-Pierre Raffarin when he became Prime Minister had been to spur growth and that "the end of President Chirac's term would be marked by a drop in unemployment". However, at the time of his dismissal, no such improvement could be seen. Villepin set himself a deadline of a hundred days to restore the French people's trust in their government (note that Villepin's first published book was titled The Hundred Days or the Spirit of Sacrifice).
Laïcité
The Law of Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools was passed in September 2004. This law stated all religious items could no longer be worn in public schools including but not limited to: kippah's, catholic crosses, and Muslim religious attire.
2012 Olympics
Chirac became the subject of controversy the day before the International Olympic Committee was due to pick a host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Chirac made comments stating that "the only worse food than British food is Finnish" and "the only thing the British have done for Europe's agriculture is mad cow disease". Not only were Chirac's comments considered unsportsmanlike where the normal etiquette is not to criticize rival cities, there was also the presence of two Finnish members on the International Olympic Committee who would vote in the final ballot. Out of the competing candidate cities, the bid was widely acknowledged as the front runner but Paris's narrow loss to arch-rival London led many to believe that Chirac's comments were at fault. It seems that the French public laid the blame of the failure on President Chirac, and not on the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, whose popularity had in fact risen according to polls.
Even longtime Chirac supporters had lost their faith. Jean-Louis Debré, president of the National Assembly and a faithful Chirac supporter, declared "I'm not sure that Jacques Chirac succeeded in his presidency. I'd at least like that he succeeds in his exit."
According to a July 2005 poll, 32% judge Jacques Chirac favorably and 63% unfavorably.
It is unclear whether Jacques Chirac will run for a third mandate in 2007 and, should he not run or should he fail in a re-election bid, whether he risks prosecution and jail time for the various fraudulent schemes he has been named in. While he is currently immune from prosecution as a president, prescription (i.e. the statute of limitations) does not apply. His authority was seriously weakened by the October–November 2005 Paris suburb riots in which hundreds of cars and numerous warehouses were set alight throughout France by thousands of alienated North African immigrants who complain of widespread discrimination and unemployment. The riots were triggered by the accidental deaths of two North African immigrants in a poor Paris suburb named Clichy-sous-Bois who were rumoured to be fleeing from police. Chirac later acknowledged that France had not done enough to integrate its Muslim North African citizens into French society or combat racism.
One issue seen of increasing importance with respect to a possible 2007 re-election bid is Jacques Chirac's age and health. Chirac has often been described to be extremely resilient and hard-working, and to have conserved a legendary appetite; before 2005, he had never had major health problems throughout his long political career. He used to be a heavy smoker but had given up many years ago. Nevertheless, it has become apparent that he is also careful of hiding signs that may betray declining health. In October 2003, there was an intense debate about French leaders' tradition of keeping secret their medical problems (for example Mitterrand's cancer was hidden for 14 years) : Jacques Chirac has gone slightly deaf in one ear, and a former Environment Minister Roselyne Bachelot had revealed that a small hearing aid had been fitted discreetly into Mr Chirac's left ear. This debate leading to accusations of secrecy and speculation emerged once again in September 2005 when Chirac following a suspected stroke ( which provoked "slight impairment in his field of vision"). making it increasingly unlikely that he will run for a third term in 2007 and stoking the undeclared succession battle between Villepin and Nicolas Sarkozy (Villepin was appointed to serve in Chirac's place in the United Nations 2005 World Summit in New York City).
On 19 January 2006, Chirac said that France was prepared to launch a nuclear strike against any country that sponsors a terrorist attack against French interests. He said his country's nuclear arsenal had been reconfigured to include the ability to make a tactical strike in retaliation for terrorism.
On 17 March 2006, Chirac, was involved in a controversy over a youth employment law after protests in Paris against the measure ended in violence and 187 arrests.
Unions and student groups were reported to be planning further action, claiming up to 600,000 university and high school students took part in Thursday's action. They have tied any talks to withdrawal of the employment law, which is opposed by 68% of French people, according to an opinion poll published in Le Parisien newspaper, a rise of 13 percentage points in a week. Critics say the legal reform will create a generation of "disposable workers", but ministers tried to conciliate growing opposition, one saying no worker could be laid off without justification. The first employment contract (CPE) was designed to cut youth unemployment by allowing employers to dismiss workers under 26 within their first two years in a job. This led to a turn around by Chrirac and his Prime Minister on the 10 April saying the controversial law was to be scrapped. Chirac took the unprecedented step of signing the bill into law while at the same time calling for not applying the CPE clauses, a move with no base in the French Constitution. Stating the 'palpable discontent' in his country Chirac promised a more popular law would be enacted.
During April and May 2006, President Chirac's administration was beset by a crisis as his chosen Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, was accused of asking General Rondot, a top level French spy, of asking for a secret investigation into the latter's chief political rival, Nicolas Sarkozy in 2004. This matter has been called the Clearstream Affair. On 10 May 2006, following a Cabinet meeting, Chirac made a rare television appearance to try to protect Prime Minister Villepin from the scandal and to debunk allegations that Chirac himself had set up a Japanese bank account containing 300 million francs in 1992 as Mayor of Paris. Chirac stated that "The Republic is not a dictatorship of rumours, a dictatorship of calumny." Some political commentators note that the president's authority and credibility is in serious decline due to this scandal and combined impact of the French voters rejection of the European Union constitution in May 2005 which Chirac had publicly championed.
In July 2006, the G8 met to discuss international energy concerns. Despite the rising awareness of global warming issues, the G8 focussed on "energy security" issues. President Chirac continued to be the voice within the G8 summit meetings to support international action to curb global warming and climate change concerns. He warned that "humanity is dancing on a volcano" and called for serious action by the world's leading industrialized nations.
References
Politics of France
Jacques Chirac |
44504241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20H%C3%B6%C3%9Fler | Elias Hößler | Elias Hößler (7 July 1663 in Crimmitschau, Saxony – 13 June 1746 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg) was from Saxony originally, active in the Upper Palatinate and Franconia as a pipe organ builder.
He began organ building teaching near Andreas Haß in Greiz in Vogtland, and later moved to Hersbruck. On 21 October 1704, he became a resident of Lauf in der Nähe near Nuremberg. He preferred to work in the Nuremberg area and in the western and central Upper Palatinate. In 1744, he retired to a hospital in Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
Proven works
Bibliography
Michael Bernhard: Orgeldatenbank Bayern. Version 5, 2009.
Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Orgeldenkmale in Mittelfranken. Schneider/Rentsch, Lauffen 2001, .
Geschichte der Orgeln in St. Marien. In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde St. Marien und Stadt Sulzbach-Rosenberg: 750 Jahre Pfarrgemeinde St. Marien. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2002, , S. 135–150.
Eberhard Kraus: Historische Orgeln in der Oberpfalz. Schnell und Steiner, München 1990, .
Jörg Schindler: Elias Hößler, Leben und Werk. Facharbeit im Leistungskurs Musik, Amberg 1981.
1663 births
1746 deaths
German pipe organ builders
People from Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
17339916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa-na | Wa-na | Wa-na 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 |
17339917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-effective%20minimum%20water%20network | Cost-effective minimum water network | Cost-effective minimum water network is a holistic framework for water conservation which considers all conceivable methods to save water based on the water management hierarchy.
This framework, which is applicable for industrial as well as urban systems was first developed by Wan Alwi and Manan. The framework is applicable for grassroots design and retrofit of water systems and ensures that a desired payback period for design of a water recovery system is satisfied using the systematic hierarchical approach for resilient process screening (SHARPS) technique.
References
See also
Water cascade analysis
Water pinch
Water conservation
Water reuse
Water conservation |
6907146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Layer%20Protocol | Packet Layer Protocol | Packet Layer Protocol or PLP is the Network Layer protocol for the X.25 protocol suite. PLP manages the packet exchanges between DTE (data terminal) devices across VCs (virtual calls). PLP also can be used on ISDN using Link Access Procedures, D channel (LAPD).
There are 5 modes of PLP: call setup, data transfer, idle, call clearing, and restarting.
Call setup mode is used to create VCs (virtual calls) between DTE devices. A PLP uses the 14-digit X.121 addressing scheme to set up the virtual call.
Data transfer mode is used to send data between DTE devices across a virtual call. At this level PLP handles segmentation and reassembly, bit padding, error control and flow control.
Idle mode is used when a virtual call is established but there is no data transfer happening.
Call clearing mode is used to end sessions between DTE devices and to terminate VCs.
Restarting mode is used to synchronize the transmission between a DTE device and its locally connected DCE (data communications) device.
There are 4 types of PLP packet fields:
General Format Identifier (GFI): Identifies packet parameters (whether it is data or control information), what type of windowing is being used, and whether delivery confirmation is needed.
Logical Channel Identifier (LCI): Identifies the virtual call across the local DTE/DCE interface.
Packet Type Identifier (PTI): Identifies the PLP packet type (17 different types).
User Data—Contains encapsulated upper-layer information when there is user data present, otherwise additional fields containing control information are added.
External links (broken)
Article in Cisco Systems' DocWiki, retrieved on 2015-02-21 09-37 UTC
ITU-T recommendations
X.25 |
44504247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gregory%20Jr. | George Gregory Jr. | George Tillman Gregory Jr. (1921-2003) was an associate justice and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He began practicing law in 1944, served in the 1950s in the South Carolina Statehouse, and became a state trial court judge in 1956. He was sworn in as the chief justice on February 26, 1988. Although his term was to expire in 1994, Gregory gave notice of his retirement in 1991. Gregory died on January 23, 2003, and is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Chester, South Carolina.
References
Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
1921 births
People from York County, South Carolina
2003 deaths
20th-century American judges |
17339923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanghte | Wanghte | Wanghte 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 |
17339930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasawng | Wasawng | Wasawng is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Myanmar.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
20480995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%20at%20the%202008%20World%20Women%27s%20Boxing%20Championship | Turkey at the 2008 World Women's Boxing Championship | Turkey (listed as TUR) participated in the 5th AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship held between November 22–29, 2008 at Ningbo Sports Center in Ningbo City, China.
With eleven women boxers participating, Turkey won two gold and two bronze medals. It ranked 2nd in the unofficial medal table after China.
Participants
Medals
Results by event
External links
AIBA Championships Ningbo City 2008 official website
References
Women's World Boxing Championships
2008 World Women's Boxing Championship
2008 in Turkish sport
2008 in Turkish women's sport |
6907156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Mica | Dan Mica | Daniel Mica (born February 4, 1944) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative from the state of Florida.
Education
Daniel Mica attended the University of Florida, but received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University in 1966. He was subsequently awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the same institution. He also holds an honorary law degree from Barry University.
During his time at FAU he served as the university's first student government president.
Career
Politics
From 1968 to 1978, Daniel Mica was the Chief of Staff to Congressman Paul Rogers. He succeeded Rogers in 1979 and subsequently served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Florida's 11th district
As a five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mica served his home state of Florida from 1979 to 1989 and made his mark as a bipartisan consensus-builder. He was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Select Committee on Aging, and Veteran's Affairs Committee. He also served in the House leadership as deputy whip; and he was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Commission on Terrorism (the "Inman Commission").
His accomplishments while in Congress include investigating management corruption at the largest government-funded health maintenance organization (HMO) in the country, authoring anti-terrorism legislation that was enacted into law and reorganizing the federal court system by adding a new court district that helped relieve the system's backlog of cases.
While serving in Congress, Mica was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be congressional representative to the United Nations. President Bush appointed him to the board for International Broadcasting in 1991, and President Bill Clinton selected him to serve as chairman of the board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in 1993.
In 1988 Mica ran for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Lawton Chiles. Mica finished 3rd in the Democratic primary.
After leaving Capitol Hill, Mica joined the American Council of Life Insurers in 1989 as an executive vice president specializing in Federal Affairs. He remained in this position until 1996.
Credit Union National Association
In July 1996, Mica was named president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA).
Family
Mica is married, has four children. He is the brother of politician John Mica, a Republican who represented Florida's 7th Congressional District from 1993 until 2017. His daughter, Christine, is the current Dean of University Admissions for The Catholic University of America.
References
External links
Daniel Mica Congressional Bio
Credit Union National Association Official Website
CUNA's Profile of Daniel A. Mica
The DMA Group Official Website
1944 births
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida
Living people
Florida Atlantic University alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Florida
University of Florida alumni
Politicians from Binghamton, New York
People from West Palm Beach, Florida
Florida Democrats
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives |
20481009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Virgin%20Digital%20Sessions | The Virgin Digital Sessions | The Virgin Digital Sessions was an internet-only EP release from the Hold Steady in early 2005. Versions of the album were distributed in the MP3 format by Amazon.com and SpiralFrog, among other online retailers. Alternate mixes of the first three tracks subsequently appeared in the Separation Sunday LP, with the notable exception of "212 Margarita".
Track listing
All songs were written by Craig Finn.
"Your Little Hoodrat Friend" – 3:52
"Don't Let Me Explode" – 2:29
"Crucifixion Cruise" – 1:32
"212 Margarita" – 3:42
External links
2005 EPs
The Hold Steady albums |
17339938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washawma | Washawma | Washawma 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 |
20481011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenzuela%20City%20Polytechnic%20College | Valenzuela City Polytechnic College | The Valenzuela City Polytechnic College, or simply referred to as Val Poly, is a technical college located in Parada, Valenzuela City, Philippines. It was founded in 1996 by Edison Nalo and is formerly called as Valenzuela Manpower.
Courses offered
Four-year courses
Bachelor of Technical Teacher Education
Major in Computer Technology
Major in Electrical Education
Major in Mechanical Education
Major in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology Education
Major in Electronics Education Science
Major in Food Service Management
Major in Civil Technology
Major in Garments Fashion Design
Major in Welding and Fabrication Technology
Major in Vulcanizing Technology
One-year courses
Electrical Engineering Technology
Electronics Engineering Technology
Automotive Engineering Technology
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering Technology
Six-month courses
Apparel and Fashion Technology (AFT)
Electronics Technology (ESET)
Mechanical Technology (MET)
Computer Technology (CT)
Universities and colleges in Metro Manila
Education in Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in the Philippines |
17339940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borovitskaya%20%28Moscow%20Metro%29 | Borovitskaya (Moscow Metro) | Borovitskaya () is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in January 1986. It is geographically located in the very centre of Moscow, although it is mainly used as a transfer station.
Transfers
The station provides transfers to the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina station of the Sokolnicheskaya Line, and the Arbatskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. It shares its ground vestibule and exit to Mokhovaya Street and Borovitskaya Square with the station Biblioteka Imeni Lenina. There is no direct transfer to the Aleksandrovsky Sad station which is a part of the same interchange point; it's accessible via each of the above two stations only.
Gallery
External links
Borovitskaya on metro.ru
Moscow Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1986
Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line
Railway stations located underground in Russia |
20481033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiiu%20Kull | Tiiu Kull | Tiiu Kull (born 26 August 1958) is an Estonian botanist. She specialises in the study of population dynamics in plant species and has published an extensive number of papers on the subject. In 1997 she conducted a study, "Population studies of native orchids in Estonia".
More recently Kull's research has seen her examine the irregularity of temporal patterns in perennial herbs as a phenomenon of intermodular interactions.
References
External links
Homepage
Profile in Estonian Research Information System (ETIS)
21st-century Estonian botanists
1958 births
Living people
Estonian University of Life Sciences faculty
20th-century Estonian botanists |
17339948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasok | Wasok | Wasok 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 |
17339953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactol | Lactol | In organic chemistry, a lactol is the cyclic equivalent of a hemiacetal or a hemiketal.
The compound is formed by the intramolecular nucleophilic addition of a hydroxyl group to the carbonyl group of an aldehyde or a ketone.
A lactol is often found as an equilibrium mixture with the corresponding hydroxyaldehyde. The equilibrium can favor either direction depending on ring size and other conformational effects.
The lactol functional group is prevalent in nature as component of aldose sugars.
Chemical reactivity
Lactols can participate in a variety of chemical reactions including:
Oxidation to form lactones
Reaction with alcohols to form acetals
The reaction of sugars with alcohols or other nucleophiles leads to the formation of glycosides
Reduction (deoxygenation) to form cyclic ethers
References
Functional groups |
17339954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhpatu | Wuhpatu | Wuhpatu 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 |
20481048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Labo | Mount Labo | Mount Labo, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the province of Camarines Norte, in the Bicol Region (Region V), on Luzon Island, in the Philippines. It is located at the northwest end of the Bicol Peninsula.
Physical features
Labo is a forested andesitic stratovolcano, surrounded by numerous andesitic to dacitic satellite lava domes. It has an elevation of asl. Base diameter of this complex volcano is . Labo is thermally active with both warm and hot springs.
Economic activities
Mount Labo has been the object of an extensive geothermal exploration program.
Eruptions
Mid-Pleistocene eruptions beginning about 580,000 years ago formed lava domes on the northern side of the complex. The present edifice was formed beginning about 270,000 years ago, and flank lava dome emplacement took place from about 200,000 to about 40,000 years ago.
The latest activity from Mt. Labo produced pyroclastic flows from the summit cone about 27,000 years ago. There have been no eruptions since.
Geology
Rock type is predominantly hornblende-biotite andesite to dacite. Tectonically, Labo is part of the Bicol Volcanic belt.
Listings
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program lists Labo as Pleistocene. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) lists Labo as Potentially Active.
See also
List of active volcanoes in the Philippines
List of potentially active volcanoes in the Philippines
List of inactive volcanoes in the Philippines
List of Ultras of the Philippines
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
Pacific ring of fire
References
External links
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), Labo page (archived)
Stratovolcanoes of the Philippines
Subduction volcanoes
Volcanoes of Luzon
Mountains of the Philippines
Landforms of Camarines Norte
Potentially active volcanoes of the Philippines
Pleistocene stratovolcanoes |
17339961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wusaohkao | Wusaohkao | Wusaohkao 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 |
17339968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutze | Wutze | Wutze 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 |
17339970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinchyingpa | Yinchyingpa | Yinchyingpa is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17339973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20of%20Bulgaria%2C%20Latin%20Empress | Maria of Bulgaria, Latin Empress | Maria of Bulgaria was the second Empress consort of Henry of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
Family
She was a daughter of Kaloyan of Bulgaria. Her mother may have been his wife Anna of Cumania, who went on to marry Boril of Bulgaria, a nephew of her first husband. Her paternal uncles included Peter IV of Bulgaria and Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria.
Empress consort
In 1213, Maria married Henry of Flanders of the Latin Empire. According to The Late Medieval Balkans (1987) by John V. A. Fine, the marriage was part of an alliance between her stepfather Boril and Henry. The alliance would benefit the Latin Empire by securing Thrace and Kingdom of Thessalonica from the threat of invasion from the Second Bulgarian Empire, allowing Henry to turn his attention to facing the Empire of Nicaea instead. On the other hand, Boril had suffered losses in both men and territory while the war continued. Unable at the moment to expand his borders, he might have seen the alliance as a way to secure his own borders from Latin invasion. In any case the marriage concluded the first phase of the Bulgarian–Latin wars.
On 11 June 1216, Henry died in Thessaloniki. Maria was reportedly suspected of having poisoned him. Her further fate is unknown. Their marriage was childless and Henry was succeeded by his brother-in-law Peter II of Courtenay.
References
Sources
12th-century births
13th-century deaths
12th-century Bulgarian people
13th-century Bulgarian people
13th-century Bulgarian women
Asen dynasty
Bulgarian princesses
Latin Empresses of Constantinople
12th-century Bulgarian women
People of Cuman descent
Daughters of emperors |
17339980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20management%20hierarchy | Water management hierarchy | Water Management Hierarchy (WMH) is a hierarchy of water conservation priorities. Levels of the hierarchy from the highest to the lowest in terms of the priority for water conservation include elimination, reduction, outsourcing/reuse and regeneration. The most preferred option is elimination, followed by reduction of water demand. After that, direct reuse/recycling and water outsourcing through method such as rainwater harvesting are preferred. This is followed by regeneration or treatment of wastewater before being reused. Freshwater will only be used when all water-saving options have been explored.
The WMH was used as an effective screening tool in cost effective minimum water network methodology to stretch the limits of water savings beyond those achievable using conventional pinch analysis approach.
See also
Cost effective minimum water network
Systematic Hierarchical Approach for Resilient Process Screening (SHARPS)
Water Pinch
Water conservation
Stormwater
References
Water conservation |
17339983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yindam | Yindam | Yindam is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
17339984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintura%20%28album%29 | Cintura (album) | Cintura (Portuguese for "waist") is the eighth album from the band Clã.
Most songs were written by Hélder Gonçalves and Carlos Tê. Also participated in writing Arnaldo Antunes (Vamos esta Noite, Pra Continuar) and Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (Fábrica de Amores). The album features the guest appearances from Paulo Furtado in Tira a Teima (voice), Fernanda Takai in Amuo (voice) and Mário Barreiros in Sexto Andar (drums).
Track listing
External links
Official Website, with info about this and other albums of the band
Official Myspace
2007 albums
Clã albums |
20481065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa%20Italia | Lufthansa Italia | Lufthansa Italia S.p.A. was an Italian airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Lufthansa Group headquartered in Milan and based at Milan–Malpensa Airport. Operations started on 2 February 2009 and ceased on 29 October 2011.
History
Foundation
On 28 April 2008 Lufthansa announced plans to commence intra-European flights out of Milan–Malpensa Airport using six Embraer 195 aircraft from its subsidiary Air Dolomiti.
On 26 November 2008 the new brand Lufthansa Italia was formed instead of the originally planned Air Dolomiti operations. Operations started on 2 February 2009 using the larger Airbus A319-100. The new subsidiary was established to allow Lufthansa to better tap into the lucrative North Italian market that was all but abandoned by Alitalia during a series of cutbacks. The airline's on board cuisine was aimed towards the Italian market, with Italian foods and drinks. For example, in business class, Italian espresso was served.
Shutdown
On 23 July 2011, Lufthansa reported in a press release that it would stop all Lufthansa Italia operations by 29 October 2011 as it had been proven too difficult to operate the Italian-based operations economically. As a replacement, the Lufthansa Group increased their flights from Italian destinations to their German hubs in Frankfurt and Munich instead. The last scheduled flight of Lufthansa Italia was LH3627 on 29 October 2011, which landed at 16:35, coming from Palermo to Milan-Malpensa, which was flown on the Airbus A319-100 with the registration D-AKNJ. The former Lufthansa Italia aircraft have been transferred back to other Lufthansa Group airlines.
Destinations
The following cities were served by Lufthansa Italia prior to its shutdown on 29 October 2011:
Fleet
The Lufthansa Italia fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
Five of the airline's aircraft came from Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings, and the other five came from Lufthansa's base at Munich. All aircraft were given names of Italian cities, such as 'Bologna' and 'Varese', and were painted in a modified Lufthansa livery. The aircraft retained their German registrations. In 2010, the airline planned to replace one A319 with two Airbus A320, but this never occurred. Two of the five daily flights to London were operated by a British Midland International Airbus A321 in a 31/118 configuration.
References
External links
- German version, Italian version linked from English page
Lufthansa
Defunct airlines of Italy
Airlines established in 2008
Airlines disestablished in 2011
Italian companies established in 2008
2011 disestablishments in Italy
Former Star Alliance affiliate members |
44504259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20Fremantle%20Prison | Architecture of Fremantle Prison | The architecture of Fremantle Prison includes the site of the former prison on The Terrace, Fremantle, in Western Australia. Limestone was quarried on-site during construction, and the south-western corner (the South Knoll) and eastern portion of the site are at a considerably higher ground level. The Fremantle Prison site includes the prison cell blocks, gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages, tunnels, and related infrastructure.
The Main Cell Block is the longest and tallest cell range in Australia, and a dominating feature of the prison. New Division, constructed between 1904 and 1907, continues the façade alignment of the main block. Service buildings were converted into the separate Women's Prison. Fremantle Prison is surrounded by limestone perimeter walls, while a two storey limestone gatehouse, with a central clock, presents an imposing entrance. North and south of the gatehouse, on The Terrace, are several cottages and houses – three of which are built in Victorian style in contrast to the Georgian style of the others.
A tunnel network exists under the prison, built to provide the prison, and later the town of Fremantle, with a supply of fresh water. Other elements of the site include the hospital building, prisoner workshops, open spaces, and a limestone ramp on the axis of the gatehouse, heading down towards the port area of Fremantle. Archaeological zones and sub-surface remains of varying levels of significance are found throughout the area of the convict grant.
Background
Fremantle Prison dates from the early years of European settlement, when it was constructed as the centre of the British Imperial Convict Establishment in Western Australia. While the colony was established as a "free settlement" in 1829, by the 1840s the early reluctance to accept Britain's convicts was overcome. Cheap convict labour could overcome the significant shortage of manpower in the colony. However, the arrival of the first convict ship on 2 June 1850 was unexpected. While a sailing ship had been sent ahead to inform of the pending arrival of seventy-five convicts, it had been blown off course. The Round House was full to capacity, almost overflowing, so the convicts had to be left on the ship. There was also no prepared accommodation for the warders, pensioner guards, Captain Edward Walcott Henderson, Comptroller General of Convicts, or his clerk, James Manning. Rents for accommodation in Fremantle quickly rose due to the sudden increase in demand, leaving Henderson paying more for his basic lodgings in Fremantle than for his house in London. Eventually Henderson leased two properties in Essex Street for £250 per year, at the site of the modern-day Esplanade Hotel. He used his convicts to convert the buildings into a temporary prison. Meanwhile, Henderson was looking for a site to build a permanent convict establishment. Whilst he favoured Mount Eliza (now known as Kings Park) due to its height, which gave it pleasing vistas and supposedly healthier air, Governor Charles Fitzgerald rejected that proposal. Henderson ultimately settled on the current site on a hill, in a raised and dominant position overlooking the port city of Fremantle.
Site
Description
Fremantle Prison was built on a land grant of about from limestone quarried on-site, and timber cut from Mount Eliza. The site exhibits considerable changes in ground level, natural and man-made, as a result of its location and former use. The ground level is considerably higher in the south-western corner of the site with what remains of the natural landform, formerly known as Church Hill, now referred to as the South Knoll. The eastern portion of the site is also considerably higher than the ground level established around the main cell block. It is a comparatively level terrace and is the highest part of the precinct.
Fremantle Prison comprises substantially intact convict era structures, including the limestone perimeter walls of exceptional heritage significance. Other structures, dating from the time the precinct was in use as a colonial and state prison, are also significant. The convict era complex includes the 1859 main cell block, chapel and wards, yards and refractory cells; perimeter walls, gate house complex and prison officer residences on the Terrace; service buildings and hospital; south-eastern workshops; ramp access tramway (Fairbairn Street) and Henderson Street Warder's Cottages. Other elements which contribute to the site's overall heritage significance include the western workshops (1900); new division (1907); and conversion of service building to the female division and the addition of an eastern range (1889–1909).
Layout
A boundary wall encloses the prison grounds, with a gatehouse in the centre of the western wall, facing The Terrace. Other roads bounding the site are Knutsford Street to the north, Hampton Road to the east, and Fothergill Street to the south. Cottages, which housed prison workers and officials, are located outside the wall either side of the gatehouse. Inside the walls, the parade ground is located east of the gatehouse. Beyond it is the Main Cell Block at the centre of the site, which contains two chapels. North of the main block is New Division, and west of that, in the north-western corner, is the former Women's Prison, previously the cookhouse, bakehouse and laundry. The hospital building stands in the north-eastern corner, while the former workshops are located in the south-eastern corner, as well as to the north of the gatehouse. A system of tunnels, constructed to provide fresh water from an aquifer, runs under the eastern edge of the site.
Archaeology
Archaeological zones and sub-surface remains of varying levels of significance are found throughout the area of the convict grant. In particular, the sites of the three former cottages to the east of the perimeter wall in the Hampton Road reserve, the site of the former 'cage' in the New Division courtyard and the features upon and under the knoll terraces. Other site features include those associated with the water supply system constructed in the 1890s: the brick-vaulted underground reservoir, the associated pumping station, a complex series of rock cut shafts, drives, weirs and the tunnel network. Graffiti and a tablet records the progress of the excavators.
Walls and gatehouse
The prison is surrounded by limestone perimeter walls, which define the extent of the depot and its original topography to the south, east and north. The walls are of random rubble limestone and lime mortar and range in height from . The additional four courses added in 1898 are of dark stone with a coping. Attached piers occur at approximately centres on the lee sides of the walls. There are a number of openings including both vehicular and pedestrian gates. The walls are of exceptional heritage significance being a vital part of the precinct defining its character. Sterile zones, inside the main perimeter walls and the walls encircling the female division and outside the prison wall, were standard prison practice for surveillance and contribute to the austere character of the prison.
The entry complex consists of a combined gate house and quarters, an entry court and military and civil guard houses with embrasures flanking the inner gate. The two storey limestone gatehouse, with a central clock, presents an imposing entry to the former prison. The gatehouse and associated entry complex was constructed between 1854 and 1855 using convict labour. It was designed by Royal Engineer Edmund Henderson, and constructed out of limestone. The gatehouse has two towers either side of a narrow gate, reminiscent of those found in 13th century English castles or walled cities. The gate was made from iron which had been scavenged from shipwrecks, while the clock at the top of the structure was imported from England. The clock was made in London in 1854, installed two years later, and as of 2004, was still sounding every hour.
The gatehouse also has a smaller, second, inner gate, engraved with the names of three significant figures: H. Wray RE, who designed the gate; J. Manning, clerk of works, who supervised its fabrication; and Joseph Nelson, the Royal Sappers soldier that wrought the iron. The complex was expanded and altered successively throughout the use of the entry complex for prison's functions. The entry complex was extended north to the female division as a workshop range, the western workshops, leaving a sterile zone beside the perimeter wall. The gatehouse has remained a significant feature and landmark since the closure of the prison, as the main entrance, and housing a café and office areas. Restoration was carried out in 2005, preserving the original stone facade and removing non-original rendering.
Cell blocks
Main Cell Block
Based on the English Pentonville Prison design model of Joshua Jebb, the site's key feature, the Main Cell Block, was designed by the Comptroller of Convicts Captain Henderson, and completed in 1859. Designed to hold up to 1000 prisoners, it is long and four storeys high, the longest and tallest cell range in Australia. It was constructed by convicts in the 1850s, and there have been few changes since that time. The 1859 main cell block has an impressive facade and is built of limestone ashlar blocks quarried from the site. It is significant for the ways in which its scale, position in the precinct, simplicity, material and near pristine character ensures that it is the focal and dominating feature of the prison; the evidence of its fabric, internal configuration and spaces reveals its functioning as a convict depot and subsequent prison and its atmosphere. It has come to symbolise the imperial convict era in colonial Western Australia.
The central, four-storey high cell block is flanked on either end by large dormitory wards, called the Association Rooms. Here, as many as 80 men slept in hammocks, either as a reward for good behaviour or because they would soon receive their Ticket of Leave. In contrast, the cells were a confining space measuring just . While each cell initially had a basin connected to running water, the installation was before the advent of S-bends; the smells coming up the pipes lead to their removal by the 1860s. Following a Royal Commission, the cells were made larger by removing a dividing wall from between two cells. Electric lighting was installed in the 1920s, but there were never any toilets – buckets were used for the duration of the prison's operation.
Since the prison's closure, six cells have been restored to represent the varying living conditions at different times in the prison's history. The main block also houses the gallows, solitary confinement cells, and two chapels.
The single storey 1855 refractory block is on the same axis as the main cell block to its east. It consists of twelve punishment cells and six dark cells with no light. The gallows chamber, built in 1888, is between this and the main cell block and relates to the colonial use of the prison. The gallows operated via a rope tied around a beam, over a trap door, on the upper level. Opening the trap door would cause the condemned prisoner fall, and thus be hanged.
At the centre of the Main Cell Block is the Anglican Chapel, whose windows were the only ones without bars. It occupies a prominent position in the projecting wing in the centre of the facade. It retains its original painted and stencilled wall patterns beneath later paint layers and is the most intact early prison chapel in Australia. Its interior features include an early and substantial example of a laminated arch construction in the colonies and the first in WA, handsome decalogue boards and some original and elegant joinery. Behind the Anglican chapel altar, there is a painted representation of the Ten Commandments. The words to the sixth commandment use the unusual translation of "thou shalt do no murder" rather than "thou shalt not kill," the more common interpretation in the Church of England. Given that the gallows were still in regular use, it was felt that "thou shalt not kill" would have been hypocritical. The Catholic Chapel was put into the upper northern Association Ward in 1861. The floor has evidence of its former use for communal prisoner accommodation, in the form of mortices for hammock rails and a convict painted mural which decorates its wall.
New Division
Fremantle Prison's New Division was constructed between 1904 and 1907, as a response to overcrowding. The division continues the façade alignment of the main block. The building, L shaped in plan, is three storeys high of regular coursed pale ashlar limestone blocks with rock-face. Openings are set in brick and freestone and it has a handsome lantern range above the main atrium. The building is visually significant as it complements the main cell block and completes the northern zone of the prison. The interior configuration and cells are significant as an example of an attempt to introduce the separate system to Western Australia, whereby prisoners were completely isolated for the first three months of their sentence. The division's exercise yard initially used a panopticon to facilitate this concept during the prisoners' hour of exercise each day. The system was not successful, and considered a dated prisoner management strategy, leading its removal within five years.
The New Division was the first to have electricity, with underground wiring. During World War Two, the Australian Army appropriated the New Division, to keep prisoners separate from the main population, and for those condemned to death. In 1994 the building was retrofitted to cater for offices, small business premises, and meeting rooms.
Women's Prison
The north-western complex was originally a service area with a cookhouse, bakehouse and laundry, built in the 1850s. A place for women prisoners was needed following the closure of Perth Gaol and the transfer of prisoners to Fremantle. The buildings were converted to a prison, and a wall built around them, creating Western Australia's first separate prison for women – a gaol within a gaol. Population and crime growth led to them being extended in the 1890s and 1910s. The single storey limestone building, also known as the female division, has a distinctive monitor roof and an upper storey addition to part of the eastern range in red brick. The construction of Bandyup Women's Prison saw Fremantle's Women's Prison close in 1970. The space was used for education and assessment until the main prison's closure in 1991, and has since been adapted for TAFE use as a visual arts facility.
Staff accommodation
A flat area, to the immediate west of the prison, is called The Terrace and was formed from rubble resulting from the levelling of the prison site. Adjoining the western perimeter wall, but outside the prison on the northern side of the terrace compound, is staff accommodation. Three adjoining residences were built in the 1890s as quarters for prison staff.
The cottages at 2, 4, and 6 The Terrace, at the northern end of the street, were built in a Victorian style, in contrast to the Georgian style of the other houses. Number 2 incorporates parts of an 1857 guard room and was converted in the 1890s to quarters, when Numbers 4 and 6 were built alongside as a duplex. Number 2 is a single storey house with random rubble limestone walls and corrugated iron roof separated from the perimeter wall by a rear yard. Numbers 4 and 6 are a pair of single duplex units with random rubble limestone walls, corrugated iron roofs and front verandahs, separated from the perimeter wall by a rear yard.
Four two storey residences, Numbers 8, 10, 16 and 18 The Terrace, were built during the 1850s for officer accommodation. Number 8, also known as the Chaplain's House, is a two storey house with rendered and painted limestone walls. The plan is roughly square with verandahs and balconies along the west and south sides. A single storey building connects the south-east side of the house to the main prison wall.
Number 10, also known as the Superintendent's House, is a two storey house with rendered limestone walls and a corrugated iron roof behind parapet walls. It is connected to the gatehouse with limestone walled buildings. The plan is roughly square and there is a door from the house into the prison from the north-east room of the ground floor. The house was initially built in 1853 for the Chaplain, but was taken over by the superintendent in 1878 and was later used by the prison administration.
Number 16 is a house is two storey building, roughly square in plan, with painted limestone walls and a corrugated sheet metal roof behind a parapet. It accommodated first the superintendent, later on the resident magistrate, and remained in-use as housing for prison officers until the 1970s. Number 18, also known as the Surgeon's House, is a two storey structure with limestone walls. It is the southernmost house on The Terrace. Numbers 18 and 8, the northernmost of the initial buildings, both featured two sitting rooms, three bedrooms, and two dressing rooms, as well as a kitchen, water closet and shed, but with mirrored layouts. Number 18 was expanded with additions built in the 1890s. A single storey limestone structure (former stables) is located to the south of Number 18.
Other buildings
Hospital
The hospital, built between 1857 and 1859, was a crucial component of Fremantle Prison. Public works during the convict era relied on convict labour, which could only be provided if the convicts were healthy. Located in the north-eastern corner of the prison compound, the building is H-shaped in plan, single storey with rendered and painted limestone walls. It features a wide verandah with timber posts. From 1886 to 1903, medical services were relocated to the main cell block, with the former building used to keep invalids and female prisoners. The hospital was refurbished, and reopened in 1904. It subsequently remained in continuous operation until the prison's closure in 1991.
Adjacent to the hospital building is the east reservoir. The brick vaulted reservoir and reticulation system, constructed in 1890 and about 1895, appear as a low brick structure. The reservoir roof consists of five rendered vaults each side of a central vault raised above those each side. The centre of the eastern terrace contains the subsurface remains of the 1850s bathhouse and well.
Workshops
The prison's workshops provided activities and training for the prisoners. They also reduced the cost of maintenance, repairs, and construction by providing an in-house service. The original workshop was a blacksmith's shop, one of the first buildings to be constructed on the prison site. Later known as the East Workshops, other workshops included carpenter's, plumber's and painter's, a printing office, and from the 1850s, a metal shop. The West Workshops were built at the start of the twentieth century, providing more work for prisoners through a paint shop, mat maker, shoe maker, book binder and tailor shop. The five western workshops are a single storey squared limestone rubble building with openings dressed in brick, with an open saw-tooth roof with southern skylights, concealed behind a parapet wall. In 1993 the western workshops were adapted for use as TAFE art workshops.
Buildings in the area south of the east workshops were used for a shower block, helmet workshop and associated sheds. The structures are recent and, with the exception of some terrace walling, are the last of a series that have been erected and dismantled since World War I.
Tunnels
At the south eastern corner of the eastern terrace is the former pumping station, associated tunnels and a set of 1850s workshops within an enclosing wall. Underneath parts of the eastern terrace, the adjacent Hampton Road, the pumping station and the workshops there are a complex series of shafts, drives and weirs cut from the rock during the 1890s and early twentieth century. The east workshops is a single storey limestone building on the western side with an enclosed area to the east. The entire workshops yard was roofed using a light steel truss on steel supports in 1960.
A tunnel network exists under the prison, including a connection to South Beach in South Fremantle. It was built by prisoners, but the purpose was not to enable escapes; their labour was used to provide the prison, and later the town of Fremantle, with a supply of fresh water. Guards in a gun tower adjacent to the tunnel entrance prevented any attempted escapes.
In 1852, during construction of the buildings, shafts were sunk into the limestone bedrock to provide the prison with fresh water from an aquifer. In 1874, the Fremantle's "Water House Well", used to supply ships, suffered storm damage. This prompted a tank to be installed at the prison, behind the main cell block, to offer the town an alternative water supply. Prisoners worked a pump to fill the tank, which was connected to the jetties through gravity-fed pipes.
Increasing demand led to the construction of a reservoir in 1876, from which water was drawn, still pumped by prisoners. From 1888 to 1894, additional wells were built, connected by a series of tunnels or horizontal drives under the north-east of the prison. A steam pump was implemented, which drew per hour of water into the new East Reservoir. In 1896, a town reservoir was constructed on Swanbourne Street, fed from the prison by a triple expansion steam-driven pump which could take more than per day from the prison tunnels. Prisoners, relieved of manual pumping, were employed to supply wood and stoke boilers.
The Metropolitan Sewerage & Water Supply authority took over control of the pumping station from 1901 until 1910, when both the prison and town were connected to Perth's metropolitan water supply. The tunnels were closed in 1910, but the groundwater continued to be used for the prison's gardens. In 1989, oil leaking from nearby tanks contaminated the water. The pollution was eventually cleared by 1996 through bioremediation.
Since the prison's closure the water supply system including the tunnels, were the subject of heritage studies, including a 2004 inspection by the Western Australia Maritime Museum. The tunnels were re-opened in mid-2005, and within one year the main shaft had been refurbished, including "installation of audio-visual equipment, railings and lighting as well as the removal of debris from the access shaft and tunnels, the creation of new steel platforms and ladders and the addition of extra limestone rocks in the tunnels to help lift users out of the water."
Open spaces and related elements
The open spaces of the precinct are significant as they provide impressive settings for the structures. They are also important spaces in their own right retaining the stark open character of a penal institution required for surveillance. The extensive forecourt of the main cell block, with its scale and secure location within the perimeter walls, is particularly impressive. Paths are bitumen with grassed garden beds delineated by raised brick edging. South Knoll comprises the remains of the high, natural ground level which at least by 1896 had been terraced to form flat, grassed areas. The former playing fields and tennis courts are still in evidence. There is a brick-vaulted reservoir located under the Knoll. The significant landscape presents an austere and formal quality within the perimeter walls. Generally the landscape is sparse and simple, comprising unobtrusive elements such as lawn, low plantings and pavement. Landscape elements outside the walls include the exotic almond and pine trees on the Terrace.
An inclined tramway, the ramp, was built from the front of the terrace, on the axis of the gatehouse, down towards the port area of Fremantle. The ramp, constructed between 1852 and 1853, is of limestone rubble from the cut and fill activities required to create the prison site and the terrace. The ramp is an integral part of the original design of the prison complex and is of exceptional heritage significance. It is now cut at its western end by a modern road which severs the historic visual link with Fremantle. On each side of the alignment of the ramp, where it intersects with Henderson Street, are three terrace houses for the accommodation of prison warders. These were erected between 1851 and 1858 and mark the boundary of the Convict Establishment at this point. The limestone used for the early prison and its associated housing was quarried on the site.
Other surviving elements of the early convict establishment include Henderson's house, "The Knowle", the three Henderson Street cottages (terrace housing) at numbers 7–17, 19–29, and 31–41 Henderson Street, a range of terraces at 3–9 Holdsworth Street, paths, roads and ramps, garden sites, walls, sub surface works and the more distant routes to the Asylum, the Commissariat Store and wharf site.
See also
List of executions at Fremantle Prison
History of Fremantle Prison
Riots at Fremantle Prison
Staff and prisoners of Fremantle Prison
Notes
References
Attribution
This article incorporates text from the source Australian Heritage Database – Fremantle Prison (former), 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WA, Australia, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (CC-BY 3.0 AU). Required attribution: © Commonwealth of Australia 2013.
External links
Fremantle Prison official site
Australia's Heritage – National Treasures: Fremantle Prison at the National Film and Sound Archive
Australia's Hardest Prison: Fremantle (video) from National Geographic Channel Australia
Fremantle Prison
Architecture in Western Australia |
6907178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e%20Houston | Renée Houston | Renée Houston (born Katherina Rita Murphy Gribbin; 24 July 1902 – 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles.
Biography
Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, into a theatrical family who performed as James Houston and Company, she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston (born Sarah McMahon Gribbin; 1906–1972) as the "Houston Sisters". They became a leading variety act in the 1920s, sometimes performing as two children in over-sized furniture; Billie played the part of a boy.
In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer). The sisters ended their working partnership in 1936, when Billie reportedly became ill, although it is suggested that the split may have been due to the sisters' frequent disagreements.
Renee Houston continued as a solo comedienne and actress, appearing in the Noel Gay revue Love Laughs!. She eventually revived her double act, this time with her third husband, the actor Donald Stewart, until his death in 1966.
In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She also worked for director Roman Polanski in Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In.
Houston was also in early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid, playing his Scottish mother in half a dozen 1958 broadcasts (but the role was quickly recast to use an English actress instead), and was a regular guest on radio panel show Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn. According to entertainment historian Richard Anthony Baker: "So many listeners found her forthright language unacceptable that she was eventually limited to two swear words per show."
She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980. Houston was married three times. The second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
Bibliography
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies HarperCollins
Renée Houston: Spirit of the Irresistibles by Miranda Brooke Tempest Time
External links
1902 births
1980 deaths
Scottish film actresses
Scottish television actresses
Scottish women comedians
Vaudeville performers
People from Johnstone
20th-century Scottish actresses
20th-century British comedians |
20481091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inachos%20%28river%29 | Inachos (river) | The Inachos (), also known as Panitsa (Πάνιτσα), is a river in the Peloponnese, southern Greece. Its source is in the mountains of western Argolis, near the village Kaparelli. It flows into the Aegean Sea in Nea Kios. The Inachos was named after Inachus, a mythical king of Argos, who introduced civilization to the area.
The Inachus rises, according to Pausanias (ii 25.3, 8.6.6), in Mt. Artemisium, on the borders of Arcadia, or, according to Strabo (viii. p.370), in Mt. Lyrceium, a northern offshoot of Artemisium. Near its sources it receives a tributary called the Cephissus, which rises in Mt. Lyrceium (Strab. ix. p.424; Aelian, Ael. VH 2.33.) It flows in a south-easterly direction, E. of the city of Argos, into the Argolic gulf. This river is often dry in the summer. Between it and the city of Argos is the mountain-torrent named Charadrus, which also rises in Mt. Artemisium, and which, from its proximity to Argos, has been frequently mistaken for the Inachus by modern travellers. It flows over a wide gravelly bed, which is generally dry in the summer, whence its modern name of Xerias, or the Dry River. It flows into the Inachus a little below Argos. It was on the banks of the Charadrus that the armies of Argos, on their return from military expeditions, were obliged to undergo a court of inquiry before they were permitted to enter the city. (Thuc. 5.60; comp. Paus. 2.25.2; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 364, Peloponnesiaca, p. 267; Mure, vol. ii. p. 161.)
References
Sources
William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854). s.v. Argos
Rivers of Greece
Landforms of Argolis
Rivers of Peloponnese (region)
Drainage basins of the Aegean Sea |
44504271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia%20Lin | Lucia Lin | Lucia Lin () is a Taiwanese academic administrator and politician. She was the Political Deputy Minister of Education from August 2014 until May 2016.
Education
Lin obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. She obtained another master's degree in education from Harvard University in the United States (US) in 1990. And finally she obtained her doctoral degree in instructional systems from Florida State University in the US in 1992.
Early career
Lin has held several positions in Fu Jen Catholic University, such as chair of the Graduate Institute of Education Leadership and Development from 2000 to 2005, vice president of Administrative Affairs from 2006 to 2008, dean of the College of Education in 2011 and vice president of Academic Affairs from 2008 to 2012. She was the president of Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages from 2013 to 2014.
References
Living people
Taiwanese Ministers of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
National Taiwan University alumni
Florida State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
17339985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Thursfield | James Thursfield | Sir James Richard Thursfield (16 November 1840 – 22 November 1923) was a British naval historian and journalist. As well as being an authority on naval matters, he was also the first editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
Thursfield was born in Kidderminster and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1863. He was appointed to a fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford in 1864, holding this until 1881, when he was obliged to resign because of his marriage in 1880. He was then appointed by Thomas Chenery, editor of The Times, as a leader writer. He soon established himself as an authority on naval matters, publishing works such as The Navy and the Nation (1897), Nelson and other Naval Studies (1909), and Naval Warfare (1913). He lectured on naval strategy to the Staff College, Camberley and the Royal United Service Institution.
Thursfield was close to successive First Lords of the Admiralty, of various political views, and to Jackie Fisher in Fisher's campaign for navy reforms. Fisher regarded Thursfield as "a great student of naval affairs", saying that his articles were "close and precisely reasoned, unadulterated by vituperation". Prince Louis of Battenberg, who served for a time as director of naval intelligence, praised Thursfield for never being afraid to state a contrary view.
Thursfield worked in other areas apart from naval matters, taking charge of The Times'''s "Books of the week" in 1891, which became the Times Literary Supplement in 1902, of which he was the first editor. He wrote a biography of Robert Peel in 1891. He was made an honorary fellow of Jesus College in 1908. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.
He died at his home in Golders Green on 22 November 1923. His son, Henry George Thursfield, became a Rear-Admiral and later followed his father as naval correspondent for The Times'' between 1936 and 1952.
References
External links
1840 births
1923 deaths
People from Golders Green
People from Kidderminster
People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
British historians
British male journalists
The Times people
Knights Bachelor |
6907181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Voss | Neil Voss | Neil Voss (born October 7, 1974) is a video game composer.
Voss' first recognized work was on Tetrisphere for Nintendo 64 in 1997, an acclaimed effort that earned him a "Best Soundtrack" award from Nintendo Power for that year. Later he composed tracks for The New Tetris in 1999, also for Nintendo 64. Voss later moved to working on the Game Boy Advance, producing soundtracks for Racing Gears Advance in collaboration with Orbital Media Inc. Many of his compositions for the Commodore 64 are available in The High Voltage SID Collection.
Background
At the early age of 12, Neil Voss began playing with electronic music on his Commodore 64 and this hobby soon became a big part of his life. He later became an underground electronic music developer, but saw his fellow composers signing to game developers, and so he joined H2O, a third-party developer for Atari's Jaguar. His first project was Phear, but after Jaguar failed, it was moved to Nintendo and expanded into Tetrisphere. As audio director, Voss produced, composed, and engineered the whole soundtrack for Tetrisphere, which some say made the game a hit. Voss went on to create more hit techno music in the N64 puzzle game, The New Tetris. This soundtrack became an instant favorite.
Later, in 2005, Voss worked on Racing Gears Advance for Game Boy Advance. which won for "Best Use of Sound" by IGN.
References
Composing Tetrisphere – Interview with Neil Voss (Part I) at IGN on June 15, 1998
Interview With Neil Voss (Part II) at IGN on June 16, 1998
Neil Voss: The Melody Behind the Addiction – Interview with Voss at Nintendojo
External links
Performing at Blip Festival in 2006 (video), courtesy of 2PlayerProductions
List of Neil Voss' songs at Last.fm
1974 births
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
Video game composers
People from Tampa, Florida
Musicians from Tampa, Florida
21st-century American male musicians |
20481112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20slice | Vertical slice | A vertical slice, sometimes abbreviated to VS, is a type of milestone, benchmark, or deadline, with emphasis on demonstrating progress across all components of a project. It may have originated in the video game industry.
The term "vertical slice" refers to a cross-sectional slice through the layers that form the structure of the software code base. It is mostly used in Scrum terminology where the work is planned in terms of features (or stories). For example, as a very basic approach, a software project may consist of three layers (or components):
Data access layer (bottom)
Business logic layer (middle)
User interface layer (top)
In this common approach, a vertical slice means a bit of every layer. Again as an example, a new feature request like "showing x information on main screen" would contain these work bits:
Work in the UX/UI that will display the information
Work in the service layer to transform the information
Work in the database layer to store / fetch the information.
So a vertical slice can be defined as "the sum of the work that has to be done in every layer that is involved in getting a specific feature working." A vertical slice doesn't necessarily affect every component in the software. For example, if the solution contains a web service, it would live in the same "floor" as the UI, and a feature like "supporting login/logout in webservice" that involves only the web service does not require a change in the UI, but the business and database access layers.
Vertical User Stories
A vertical user story encapsulates the action of one function.
An example of a vertical user story is:As an end user I must be able to log into my company portal so that I can perform the functions of my job.
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance criteria are conditions of satisfaction. This story is "done" when the detailed functionalities are completed.
Example
Verify that I can log into the system
Verify that my login credentials will be remembered
Verify that I can reset my own password by clicking the "Forgot Password" link
Verify that I cannot navigate back to the landing page without first logging in
Dissected by Layer
As a developer, you will need to think about every file encapsulated in each layer that needs to be created and/or extended in order to complete this "Login User" story.
Sources
Vertical Slicing Training Deck by Ben Clay (Enterprise Scaled Scrum 2009)
Built to Thrive by Jay van Zyl
Horizontal and Vertical User Stories - Slicing the Cake by Ned Kremic
INVEST IN GOOD STORIES, AND SMART TASKS by Bill Wake
6 Brilliant Ways to Slice User Stories by Dominic Krimmer
User Stories 2.0 by Jeff Sutherland
Project management techniques |
17339986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalaw | Shalaw | Shalaw 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 |
6907187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Seals | Leon Seals | Leon Seals, Jr. (born January 30, 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League.
Seals played college football at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, earning the nickname 'Dr. Sack', and joined the Buffalo Bills after the 1987 NFL Draft as a fourth round draft choice (number 109 overall). He played with the Buffalo Bills from 1987 until 1991. He started at defensive end in Super Bowl XXV and XXVI. He retired after the 1992 season with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Seals currently lives in Clinton, Mississippi. He has served as a member of the Hinds County Sheriff's Department.
References
American football defensive ends
Jackson State Tigers football players
Buffalo Bills players
Philadelphia Eagles players
1964 births
Living people |
17339996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Tennis%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20Champions%20Cup | International Tennis Hall of Fame Champions Cup | The International Tennis Hall of Fame Champions Cup is a professional tennis tournament which is part of the Outback Champions Series. It was formerly known as the Gibson Guitars Champions Cup. The 2008 event will take place August 13–17, 2008, in Newport, Rhode Island, hosted by the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Results
External links
Outback Champions Series official website
International Tennis Hall of Fame official website
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 2007
Champions Series (senior men's tennis tour)
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Tennis in Rhode Island |
6907191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockle | Cockle | Cockle may refer to:
Cockle (bivalve), an edible, marine bivalve mollusc
Lolium temulentum (also cockle), an annual plant of the family Poaceae
Berwick cockle, a white-coloured sweet with red stripes
Cockle, a codename for the folding kayaks used in World War II
Cockles (TV series), a 1984 British television series
Cockles (as in "warm the cockles of someone's heart"), the ventricles of the heart
People with the surname
Doug Cockle (born 1970), American actor and director
Dudley Cockle (1907–1986), English cricketer and Royal Air Force airman
Jackie Cockle (born 1950), British animation specialist
James Cockle (1819–1895), English lawyer and mathematician
John Cockle (1908–1966), Australian politician
See also
Cockle Bay (disambiguation)
Cockle Creek (disambiguation)
Cockleshell (disambiguation)
Cocles (disambiguation)
Cockley (disambiguation)
Cocklebur |
20481117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippy%20Noya | Nippy Noya | Nippy Noya (born 27 February 1946) is an Indonesian, Netherlands-based percussionist and songwriter, specialising in congas, kalimba, bongos, campana, güiro, cabasa, shekere, caxixi, triangle and the berimbau.
History
Son of Japanese Taiko drummer Fusao San Nakato, he was born on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and came to Europe in 1968. He began his professional career as a conga player in Amsterdam with percussion-rock band Massada. He played with them till 2016 on and off whilst becoming a sought-after musician; he made a one-off return for the recording of their 2018-released live dvd.
Artists he since played and recorded with include Peter Herbolzheimer, John McLaughlin, Jan Akkerman, Hellmut Hattler, Volker Kriegel, Earth and Fire, Stan Getz and Dick Morrissey. In addition he toured with Richard Tee, Eric Burdon, Billy Cobham, Miko Aleksic Chaka Khan, Peter Maffay, Udo Lindenberg, Gitte Haenning, John Hondorp and Herbert Grönemeyer. He also taught and performed with the young children of the Kelly Family, from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s. He appeared on several Kelly Family albums, VHSs and live shows.
Since 1992, he has been a lecturer at the Conservatory of Music in Enschede, Netherlands.
In 2001, Noya joined a Polish jazz/funky band The Globetrotters, consisting of vocalist Kuba Badach, vibrafonist Bernard Maseli, and saxophonist Jerzy Główczewski. The band has released several albums.
Discography
To the World of the Future - Earth and Fire (1975)
Eli - Jan Akkerman and Kaz Lux (1976)
Billy Cobham Live: Flight Time - Billy Cobham (1980)
Ark - The Animals (1983)
Live - The Kelly Family (1988)
Keep on Singing... - The Kelly Family (1989)
Live in East Germany - The Kelly Family (1989, VHS)
New World - The Kelly Family (1990)
Honest Workers - The Kelly Family (1991)
Streetlife - The Kelly Family (1992)
WOW - The Kelly Family (1993)
The Traveler - Billy Cobham (1993)
References
External links
Webpage at ArtEZ Conservatory
1946 births
People from Sulawesi
Jazz fusion percussionists
Jazz-rock percussionists
Indonesian session musicians
Living people
Indonesian expatriates in the Netherlands |
23578393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes%20and%20other%20water%20bodies%20of%20Victoria%20%28Australia%29 | Lakes and other water bodies of Victoria (Australia) | The following is a list of naturally occurring lakes and other water bodies in Victoria, Australia; outside the Greater Melbourne area, in alphabetical order, for those lakes with a surface area greater than :
See also
Lakes and Reservoirs in Melbourne
References
Victoria
Victoria
Lakes |
17340013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20Plate | Rhythm Plate | Rhythm Plate are predominantly a deep house production duo who formed in 1995. They consist of Matt 'Rhythm' and Ant 'Plate', who have infrequently DJed across the UK (Egg, Fabric), even less so, Europe (SONAR 2009 & 2010, Cork, Montpellier) and once around the world (San Francisco, Auckland, Brisbane, Thailand). In 2012, they played their first live gig at Fabric using extensive outboard gear; including a Roland Juno 60, a Minimoog Model D, a Korg DW-8000, various effects and mixers and two Yamaha samplers. In 2013, Rhythm Plate started a new 'vinyl only' record label called Pressed For Time Records which, despite its lack of paid publicity/PR machine interest, each of the releases have been well received by the deep/tech house community of DJs It still releases music today.
Rhythm Plate released their first, and only, studio album Off The Charts in September 2013. This saw them collaborate with several vocalists including Frank H Carter III, Clive Astin, Colin Mutchler, Mykle Anthony (14 Karat Soul), Lorna Bean (Sean Bean) and actor Johnny Ray Gill, as well working with as notable musicians, Matt Chandler (jazz guitar), Gary Reader (saxophone) and Richard Heacock (strings).
They have written incidental music that has been featured on several UK and US television shows, most notably CSI: Miami. They have also remixed other artists including Mark Ronson, The Frames, Amp Fiddler, Martin Iveson, Inland Knights and had tracks featured on music compilations released by Renaissance, Global Underground and Hed Kandi amongst others.
Discography
Singles and EPs
Remixes
References
External links
InternationalDJ Magagzine interview with Rhythm Plate
Fabric interview with Rhythm Plate
LeftLion Magazine interview with Rhythm Plate
Nu-disco musicians
English house music duos |
23578408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Trinity%20Cathedral%2C%20Karachi | Holy Trinity Cathedral, Karachi | Holy Trinity Cathedral is the seat of the Church of Pakistan, Diocese of Karachi, situated on Fatima Jinnah Road, near Zainab Market, in Karachi, Pakistan.
History
Established in 1844 and built in 1855, the Holy Trinity Church located on Fatima Jinnah Road, Karachi, is one of the first major churches built in the area. Designed by the Captain of the Bombay Engineers, John Hill, the church had a nave stretching 115 feet, followed by a tower standing at 150 feet tall. The church was built with buff colored Gizri stone and the architectural design made it unique. The church followed a Romanesque layout which made it stand out compared to the buildings located around. At the top of the tower, since there were no lighthouses, it was given beacons to help ships in the Karachi Harbour. In 1904, Captain John Hill and Chief Engineer John Brunton, reviewed the cathedral and found that the foundation was showing signs of weakness and removed the top two stories, giving the tower a new height of 115 feet. During World War I, the churches tower was used as a signaling station, and soon in 1970 the pitched roof from the original design was replaced with barrel vaulted roof. Since the church is a former garrison church for the British military, it was designed to accommodate 800 worshipers and memorialize British servicemen who died in various campaigns and their history.
References
External links
Church of Pakistan
Circa-1890 photos of Trinity church at Sindhisaan.com
Trinity Church, Karachi at the British Archives
Churches in Karachi
Karachi
Heritage sites in Karachi |
20481127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo%20at%20the%201999%20Summer%20Universiade | Judo at the 1999 Summer Universiade | The Judo competition in the 1999 Summer Universiade were held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Medal overview
Men's event
Women's event
Medals table
External links
Universiade
1999
1999 Summer Universiade
Judo competitions in Spain |
20481161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilochwala | Bilochwala | Bilochwala is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Faisalabad District at 31°17'0N 73°4'0E with an altitude of 171 metres (567 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Bismillapur to the west and Miranpur, Punjab to the east.
References
Cities and towns in Faisalabad District |
23578429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman%20Aghazamani | Saman Aghazamani | Saman Aghazamani (, born January 14, 1989) ) is a retired Iranian footballer who last played for Aluminium Arak and Perspolis among other clubs in Persian Gulf Pro League.
He has played for Saipa Tehran, Persepolis Tehran, Rah Ahan , Ararat Yerevan, Saba Qom, Naft Tehran.
Aghazamani was born in Tehran and participated in Iranian youth teams and Omid Iran.
Club career
He started his professional career with Saipa and moved to Persepolis June 2009 and was used as defensive midfielder, right back. He extended his contract with Persepolis for three years, kepping him in the team till 2015.
On 13 January 2014, Aghazamani joined Rah Ahan with signing a two-and-half-year contract.
Club career statistics
Last Update: 10 May 2016
International career
Aghazamani is also part of Iran U23. He was captain of Iran U20.
Honours
Persepolis
Hazfi Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11
References
External links
Saman Aghazamani at PersianLeague.com
1989 births
Saipa F.C. players
Persepolis F.C. players
Rah Ahan players
Iranian expatriate footballers
Living people
Iranian footballers
Association football fullbacks
Association football midfielders |
20481182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liivia%20Laasimer | Liivia Laasimer | Liivia-Maria Laasimer (21 June 1918 - 26 February 1988) was an Estonian botanist.
She was born in Tartu. In 1941 she graduated from Tartu University. 1941–1947 she worked at Tartu University's botanical institute. 1947–1988 she worked at Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany (1952–1986 being the head of its botanical section).
She was one of the authors of 11-volume "Eesti NSV floora" (1959–1984).
She died in Tartu.
References
20th-century Estonian botanists
1918 births
1988 deaths
Scientists from Tartu
University of Tartu alumni
20th-century Estonian women scientists |
20481189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismillapur | Bismillapur | Bismillapur is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Faisalabad District at 31°17'0N 73°3'0E with an altitude of 168 metres (554 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Bilochwala to the east and Rodasar to the north.
References
Cities and towns in Faisalabad District |
23578438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20C.%20Verma | K. C. Verma | Krishan Chander Verma (born 30 March 1949) was the Director of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the external intelligence agency of India, his official designation was Secretary (R). He did his schooling from Mayo College, Ajmer. He belongs to the 1971 Jharkhand IPS cadre. He started his career at the Intelligence Bureau, was appointed as head of the Narcotics Control Bureau in 2005, and was later elevated to the position of Secretary (Security) and also served as Internal Security Adviser to Home Minister. He was laterally transferred to head R&AW after Ashok Chaturvedi retired from the post on 31 January 2009. One of the major challenges for K. C. Verma had been professionalise and streamline the agency, which has been in news in recent times for various scandals and controversies.
Verma was scheduled to superannuate on 31 January 2011, whereas his No. 2, Sanjeev Tripathi was due to retire on 31 December 2010. Verma had relinquished charge of Secretary (R) on 30 December 2010 on voluntary retirement, to allow Tripathi to take over, under an informal government promise to post him as Chairman, NTRO, because of Tripathi's influential lobby (his father-in-law being Gauri Shankar Bajpai, former R&AW chief); but the government did not post Verma to NTRO. Subsequently, P. Vijay Kumar was made NTRO chief.
References
1949 births
Living people
Indian police officers
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6907193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Reptile%20Park | Australian Reptile Park | The Australian Reptile Park is located at Somersby on the Central Coast, New South Wales in Australia. It is about (a one-hour drive) North of Sydney, and is just off the M1 Pacific Motorway. The Park has one of the largest reptile collections in Australia, with close to 50 species on display. The wide variety of reptile species at the Park includes snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, Komodo dragons, American alligators and crocodiles.
In addition, the Park features Australian mammals such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, platypuses, Tasmanian devils, a wombat, quokkas, echidnas, and dingoes. Australian birds featured include cassowaries.
The park is heavily involved in snake and spider venom collection for use in the production of Antivenom and is credited for saving the lives of thousands. It is an institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA).
History
The park was founded by Eric Worrell in 1948 at the Ocean Beach Aquarium Umina Beach. In 1959, it was renamed the Australian Reptile Park and moved to Wyoming, north of Gosford.
A second move occurred in September 1996, to Somersby, adjacent to Old Sydney Town.
Brief chronology
1949 – Eric Worrell starts building Ocean Beach Aquarium at Umina Beach
1950 - Ocean Beach Aquarium opens to the public (includes a variety of marine fish, juvenile crocodile and snake and lizard pits). Eric Worrell begins his snake venom milking work to contribute to the anti-venom manufacturing by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
1955 – Ocean Beach Aquarium contributes to production of first antivenom to Taipan envenomation
1958 – The zoo moves to Wyoming, NSW and changes its name to the Australian Reptile Park (Ocean Beach remains open temporarily)
1959 - The Australian Reptile Park first opens to the public on the 3rd of October
1962 – The Australian Reptile Park contributes to availability of a full range of antivenoms
1963 – 'Ploddy' (originally named Dino), the dinosaur erected, the first of Australia's big icons
1968 – First nocturnal house in southern hemisphere opens
1970 – Eric Worrell receives MBE recognising his role in producing antivenom
1970 – The Park begins providing funnel-web spider venom to Seqiris (formerly bioCSL) in the long process of developing an antivenom
1972 – Captive breeding of cassowaries begins
1980 – The long-awaited funnel-web spider antivenom is made available
1985 – A management team is formed to steer the future of the Australian Reptile Park, which included future owners John and Robyn Weigel
1987 – Eric Worrell passes away, aged 62
1989 – 4.7-metre-long ‘Eric’ the saltwater crocodile is imported from the Northern Territory on a special jet freighter – named in honour of Eric Worrell
1992 – John and Robyn Weigel become principal owners of the business, and make the decision to relocate the Park.
1996 – A parade is held in Gosford celebrating the relocation of Ploddy the dinosaur to its new home. Over 15,000 well-wishers lined the streets and cheered as Ploddy was ceremoniously transported from Wyoming to her new home in Somersby
1996 – The Australian Reptile Park relocates to Somersby and reopens on 7 September
2000 – Just past midnight on 17 July, most of the main park building was destroyed when a faulty electrical wiring caused a fire. Park staff helped fire crews, but ultimately, the building was lost along with most of the hundreds of reptiles and frogs that had been maintained in the building. With a lot of work from the staff, and support from the city and from other zoos around Australia, the zoo was able to re-open its doors on 9 September 2000, just over seven weeks after the fire.
2007 – A main attraction to the park, Eric the Crocodile passes away. He is replaced by Elvis, a 4.5 metre male saltwater crocodile
2008 – Park Director, John Weigel, is awarded Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian Tourism and the production of snake and spider antivenoms.
2011 – John Weigel founds Devil Ark, a conservation breeding facility for the endangered Tasmanian devil in the Barrington Tops that is now part of the larger Aussie Ark.
2013 – The Australian Reptile Park remains the sole supplier of terrestrial snake and funnel-web spider venom to Seqiris (formally bioCSL) for the nation's antivenom program. Over its 60-year history, it is estimated that the Park has assisted in saving close to 20,000 lives.
2013 – In July, more than twenty reptiles were stolen from the Park. Lizards, geckos, snakes and one alligator were taken. A pair of Soloman Island skinks were recovered in August
2015 – Australian Reptile Park Director, Tim Faulkner, is named "Conservationist of the Year" for 2015 by The Australian Geographic Society
2016 – Tim Faulkner and Liz Gabriel named as co-directors alongside John & Robyn Weigel
2018 – New Komodo Dragon exhibit opened. Home to two Komodo dragons named Kraken and Daenerys
2018 – Australian Reptile Park wins NSW State Business of the Year awarded by the NSW Business Chamber
2019 – The Park wins Best Major Attraction at the NSW Tourism Awards
2019 – A new exhibit, housing a pair of endangered Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos, is opened
2022 – In April, three Komodo dragon babies are successfully hatched at the park and for the first time in Australia.
Animals
Reptiles at the Park include American alligators, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, skinks, Komodo dragons, monitor lizards, geckos, iguanas, pythons, taipans, brown snakes, death adders, and a King cobra.
Arachnids include tarantulas, funnel web spiders, trapdoor spider, huntsman spider, Goliath bird-eating spider, mouse spider, redback spider, wolf spider, and scorpions.
The Park also houses Australian mammals and birds including koalas, grey-headed flying foxes, eastern grey kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, wombats, wallabies, dingos, platypus, echidnas, ring tailed possums, quokkas and cassowaries. In late 2019, the Australian Reptile Park opened a new exhibit, displaying a pair of Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos.
REPTILES
Alligator snapping turtle
American alligator
Ball python
Bavay's giant Gecko
Black and white tegu
Black-headed python
Blotched blue-tongued lizard
Broad-shelled river turtle
Burmese python
Central netted dragon
Children's python (Stimson's variant)
Coastal taipan
Common death adder
Corn snake
Cunningham's skink
Diamond python
Eastern bearded dragon
Eastern blue-tongued lizard
Eastern brown snake
Eastern long-necked turtle
Eastern water dragon
Eastern water skink
Fierce snake (Inland taipan)
Fijian crested iguana
Freckled black-tailed monitor
Freshwater crocodile
Frilled-neck lizard
Galapagos giant tortoise
Gila monster
Green anaconda
Green iguana
Green tree python
Hosmer's skink
Indian star tortoise
Jungle carpet python
King brown snake
King cobra
Komodo dragon
Lace monitor
Land mullet
Leopard tortoise
Lowland copperhead snake
Madagascan giant day gecko
Mainland tiger snake
Manning River turtle
Merten's water monitor
Midline knob-tailed gecko
Murray river short-necked turtle
New Caledonian giant gecko
Night skink
Olive python
Perentie
Philippine sailfin lizard
Pig-nosed turtle
Pygmy bearded dragon
Pygmy mulga snake
Red-bellied black snake
Red-bellied short-necked turtle
Red-faced turtle
Reticulated python
Rhinoceros iguana
Rough-scaled python
Saltwater crocodile
Sheltopusik
Shingleback bobtail lizard
Short-tailed pygmy monitor
Solomon Islands skink
Southern forest dragon
Spotted python
Veiled chameleon
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Woma python
AMPHIBIANS
Australian green free frog
Blue poison dart frog
Cane toad
Dyeing poison dart frog
Green and golden bell frog
Magnificent tree frog
Northern corroboree frog
Peron's tree frog
Striped marsh frog
ARACHNIDS
Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating spider
Goliath bird-eating spider
Huntsman spider
Lychas marmoreus marbled scorpion
Mexican redknee tarantula
Mouse spider
Peruvian pink toe tarantula
Queensland whistling tarantula
Redback spider
Sydney funnel-web spider
Trapdoor spider
White-tailed spider
Wolf spider
BIRDS
Australian bustard
Australian king parrot
Banded lapwing
Barn owl
Black-winged stilt
Blue-faced honeyeater
Blue-winged kookaburra
Boobook owl
Brown cuckoo dove
Bush stone-curlew
Cape Barren goose
Common bronzewing
Eastern grass owl
Eclectus parrot
Emu
Green catbird
Laughing kookaburra
Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Rainbow lorikeet
Red-browed fig parrot
Regent honeyeater
Sacred kingfisher
Satin bowerbird
Scaly-breasted lorikeet
Southern cassowary
Tawny frogmouth
Topknot pigeon
Torresian imperial pigeon
White-browed woodswallow
White-headed pigeon
Wonga pigeon
MAMMALS
Bare-nosed wombat
Dingo
Eastern grey kangaroo
Eastern quoll
Eastern ringtail possum
Fat-tailed dunnart
Feathertail glider
Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
Greater bilby
Grey-headed flying fox
Kangaroo Island western grey kangaroo
Koala
Mountain pygmy possum
Parma wallaby
Platypus
Quokka
Red kangaroo
Rufous bettong
Short-beaked echidna
Tasmanian devil
Tiger quoll
Yellow-footed rock wallaby
Past Attractions
Eric the crocodile
A crocodile named Eric, born in 1947 in Australia's Northern Territory, was featured for many years at the park. He was a star attraction and had a fan club of over 10,000 members across the world. Every year, Eric consumed his own body weight by consuming various animals such as chicken, goat and fish.
Eric had been implicated in the disappearance of two indigenous children in the 1980s, and was captured for the safety of the community. He was first taken to Darwin Crocodile Farm, where he bit off the heads of two female crocodiles with whom he was supposed to mate, and lost his right rear foot in a duel with a fellow crocodile. In 1989, he arrived by special freighter jet at the Australian Reptile Park and became a major attraction. He was named after the Park's founder Eric Worrell who had died in 1987.
Eric the crocodile died on 30 June 2007 from a systemic infection, exacerbated because staff couldn't treat him due to power outages caused by storms in the area. His vet, Peter Nosworthy, believes age made him susceptible to the infection, while his size made it impossible to administer intensive care. At 5.6m long and 700 kg, Eric was the largest crocodile in New South Wales at the time of his death. A memorial to Eric is now at the rear of the park.
Education
Talks and presentations include Galápagos tortoise feedings, a reptile show, a Tasmanian devil talk, Koala talk, Spider talk, Dingo talk, and Alligator feeding.
The Australian Reptile Park also welcomes hundreds of school groups into the Park throughout each year for syllabus-based animal and conservation education.
Antivenom Programs
Snake venom-milking program
Since the 1960s, the Australian Reptile Park has been the sole suppliers of terrestrial snake venom for the purpose of making antivenom. It is estimated that 300 lives are saved by antivenom in Australia each year and since the program's inception, approximately 20,000 Australian lives have been saved by the program. The Australian Reptile Park is currently home to 250 venomous snakes that are a part of the venom program that are milked on a fortnightly basis.
Milking snakes for venom
Focused judgement and great dexterity are needed to obtain snake venom from the venomous species of snakes found in Australia. Keepers at the Australian Reptile Park use two different techniques depending on the species of snake.
For taipans, mulga (king brown snakes) and tiger snakes, keepers position the snake's fangs to penetrate a latex membrane stretched over a glass beaker. The snake then bites onto the beaker and the venom is dropped into the beaker and collected.
For Eastern brown snakes and death adders, a technique called “pipetting” is used. The procedure requires keepers to push a polypropylene pipette onto the snake's fang with the venom dropping into the pipette.
After drying, the venom crystals are carefully scraped from the beakers and pipettes for weighing and packaging. Trained staff, who work with the venom in its various stages of processing, work extremely carefully with the venom to ensure it is not contaminated.
Producing snake antivenom
Once the venomous snakes have been milked at the Australian Reptile Park, it is then freeze-dried and sent to Seqiris (formally bioCSL) in Melbourne to be made into antivenom.
The process at Seqiris starts with the snake venom being injected into Percheron horses. Over 250 horses take part in the antivenom program, all living the life of luxury. They undergo minimal stress during the inoculation and extraction processes. Inoculation is harmless for the horses and extraction is as simple as donating blood for humans.
The horses are given increasing doses of venom over a period of six-months (until they have built up sufficient antibodies to the venom). Blood is then drawn from the horse with the antibodies extracted from the blood, purified and reduced to a usable form – this becomes antivenom.
The antivenom taken from the horses is used to treat humans suffering from snake envenomation. Antivenom is injected into the human bloodstream, with the antibodies attacking the venom, neutralising its effects. The dose of antivenom given to a patient varies according to the species responsible for the bite and, when it can be ascertained, the amount of venom injected. The age and weight of the victim makes no difference to the dose of antivenom required in the treatment.
Funnel-web spider venom-milking program
Since the inception of the Australian Reptile Park's funnel-web spider antivenom program in 1981, zero deaths have been recorded due to a bite from a funnel-web spider. The Australian Reptile Park has played a massive role in this with assistance in the inventing the funnel-web antivenom as well as playing an ongoing role in providing the raw venom to Seqiris for antivenom to be made. The Australian Reptile Park's venom program houses over 2,000 spiders from baby spiderlings up to full grown adult male specimens; who are milked on a weekly schedule.
The Australian Reptile Park encourages the public to catch funnel-web spiders in their homes and backyards, if it is safe to do so, and bring the spiders to various drop-off locations in around the Central Coast, Sydney and Newcastle. These spiders will become part of the Park's funnel-web spider breeding and venom-milking programs.
Milking funnel-web spiders for venom
Spider keepers at the Australian Reptile Park must use steady hands and extreme focus to milk funnel-web spiders. Using a glass pipette on the end of a small vacuum, keepers encourage the funnel web spider to rear up in a defensive position and then gently suck the venom from the end of the spider's fangs.
Once all spiders have been milked, the venom is then removed from the pipette and frozen until shipment to Seqiris, where the venom is made into antivenom.
Producing funnel-web spider antivenom
The process of turning venom into antivenom is long and tricky but not impossible. Once the funnel-web spiders have been milked at the Australian Reptile Park, the venom is frozen and sent to Seqiris in Melbourne, Victoria.
The Seqiris team inject very small amounts of the venom into rabbits, increasing slowly over a six-month period until the rabbit is able to withstand six-times the lethal dose. Blood is then drawn from the rabbit and the blood is spun in a centrifuge. The spinning separates the antibodies from the blood, and it is these antibodies that make antivenom.
Television
Bondi Vet
The Australian Reptile Park was a frequent feature on Australian factual television series Bondi Vet, from 2010 until the show's completion in 2016. The episodes usually involved Director Tim Faulkner calling Dr. Chris Brown to the park, or taking an animal either to Chris' clinic or the closer clinic owned by Dr. Peter Nosworthy. As of 2014, Tim became a part of the regular cast with a segment airing in every episode. When the series was revived in 2019 as Bondi Vet: Coast to Coast, Faulkner was once again part of the cast.
The Wild Life of Tim Faulkner
The Australian Reptile Park is also shown in the spin-off show The Wild Life of Tim Faulkner, which focused primarily on Tim Faulkner's animal-related activities. "The Wild Life of Tim Faulkner" was shown on Channel 9 and the National Geographic Channel.
See also
Aussie Ark
Notes
Further reading
Markwell, Kevin. (2010). Snake-bitten : Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park. Sydney: University of New South Wales. . OCLC 704284884
External links
Tourist attractions in New South Wales
1958 establishments in Australia
Zoos in New South Wales
Central Coast (New South Wales)
Zoos established in 1958 |
6907247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnonpenh%20Model | Phnonpenh Model | Phnonpenh MODEL is an electronica band created by Hikaru Kotobuki, a former member of P-Model as somewhat of a joke in order to enter a P-Model cover band contest at a club. They continue to regroup from time to time and have released three studio albums and a live CD from their shows in Paris, Berlin and Tokyo. Key members are Hikaru Kotobuki, Lion Merry (ex-Yapoos and Metrofarce) and Masaaki Taniguchi.
Discography
Errors of P-MANIA! (1993, HIRASAWA BYPASS, various artists release)
Desk Top Hard Lock (1994, DIW/SYUN, as "Kotobuki Hikaru with Phnonpenh MODEL")
PATCHWORKS (1998, Club Lunatica/CAPTAIN TRIP RECORDS)
THE LAST FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL GLUTTONS (1998, Snowdonia, various artists release)
melting high/berlin～paris～tokyo (1999, Club Lunatica)
(2000, Club Lunatica)
General Midge (2007, IRQ, inc.)
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23578439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20MercedesCup | 2009 MercedesCup | The 2009 Mercedes Cup was a man's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Stuttgart Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Tennis Club Weissenhof in Stuttgart, Germany, from 11 July 11 until 19 July 2009. Jérémy Chardy won the singles title.
ATP entrants
Seeds
Seedings are based on the rankings of July 6, 2009.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw
Simon Greul
Stefan Koubek
Michael Berrer
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Łukasz Kubot
Pablo Andújar
Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava
Dominik Meffert
Finals
Singles
Jérémy Chardy defeated Victor Hănescu, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4
It was Chardy's first career title.
Doubles
František Čermák / Michal Mertiňák defeated Victor Hănescu / Horia Tecău, 7–5, 6–4
References
External links
Official website
Stuttgart Open
Stuttgart Open
2009 in German tennis |
6907250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takagi | Takagi | is a Japanese surname meaning "tall tree". Notable people with the surname include:
Akimitsu Takagi (1920–1995), Japanese crime fiction writer
Jon Mamoru Takagi (1942–1984), American martial arts instructor
, Japanese footballer
Hinako Takagi (born 1989), Japanese composer and pianist
Hitoshi Takagi (1925–2004), Japanese voice actor
, Japanese professional wrestler
Kaietsu Takagi (1883–1957), Japanese photographer
Kazumichi Takagi (born 1980), Japanese football player
Keizō Takagi (born 1941), Japanese writer, journalist and educator
, Japanese ice hockey player
Maria Takagi (born 1978), Japanese former AV star and TV actress
Miho Takagi (born 1994), Japanese speed skater
Mototeru Takagi (1941–2002), Japanese free jazz musician
Nana Takagi (born 1992), Japanese speed skater
Paul Takagi (1923–2015), American sociologist
Sadao Takagi (born 1932), Japanese entomologist
Sanshiro Takagi (born 1970), Japanese professional wrestler
Saya Takagi (born 1963), Japanese actress
Shingo Takagi (鷹木信悟, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
Takeo Takagi (1882–1944), Japanese vice admiral in World War II
Takuya Takagi, Japanese football player and football manager
Teiji Takagi (1875–1960), Japanese mathematician
Toranosuke Takagi (born 1974), Japanese race car driver
Wataru Takagi (born 1966), Japanese voice actor
Fictional characters
, titular character of the manga series Teasing Master Takagi-san
, a character in the manga series Tomie
, a character in the manga series Bakuman
, a character in the manga series Highschool of the Dead
Main character in Die Hard
References
Japanese-language surnames |
6907276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style%20UK | Style UK | Style UK was a television channel carried on Showtime Arabia's satellite service for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Levant territories.
Similar to BBC Prime and Granada UKTV, it carried British entertainment programming from ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, including Parkinson, The Bill, Father Ted and My Family.
On 1 April 2007, Showtime dropped the channel from their line-up and replaced it with a new channel called Series 2. Showtime stated that the new channel would be similar in content to UK Style.
See also
Showtime Arabia
External links
Showtime Arabia
Showtime Arabia network package
Showtime Networks |
6907282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Gwal | Yi Gwal | Yi Gwal (1587 – 15 February, 1624) was a general during the Joseon Dynasty, Korea. His family belonged to the Gosung Yi clan.
Perhaps he is best known for his rebellion against the government of King Injo in 1624, but prior to that date, he was a very able and brilliant commander.
Background
In 1622, he joined the Injo revolution, which was a movement in Korea to get rid of the government of King Gwanghaegun, who advocated evenhanded diplomacy between the Ming and the Qing. At that time, the Han Ming Dynasty had recently fallen to the invading Jurchen, who had renamed themselves the Manchu. Historically, Korea was in a long time conflict with the Jurchen tribes, who inhabited the wide plains of Manchuria. They took Liaoning during the late Ming and established the Later Jin dynasty.
Yi Gwal revealed his military genius during the revolution, and was one of the first to capture the capital of Hanyang and exile Gwanghaegun. However, despite his amazing victories in the revolution, he was rewarded only as a second class helper and neglected by the King.
As the relations with Later Jin deteriorated, the Korean government sent Yi Gwal to the border of Pyongan Province to ward off invasions. There, Yi strengthened the walls and fortresses around the border and maintained strict military order. Moreover, recent historians argue that the reason Injo sent Yi Gwal to the border was not due to political crisis. The popular argument states that Injo was very aware of Yi Gwal's talented skills and sent him north to give him the command of a powerful army of Korea.
Out of the fifteen thousand troops stationed in the northern border, Yi Gwal had command of ten thousand, stationed in Yongbyon while the five thousand stayed with General Jang Man in Pyongyang.
Yi Gwal's Rebellion
Korea's political stance at the time caused the downfall of this general. Since the establishment of a Confucian dynasty by King Taejo, there had been political disputes between the parties in the government. Some disputes even ended up in bloodshed, like the one which occurred in the time of King Yeonsangun. Also, during the time of King Seonjo just before the Japanese invasions of Korea, the political parties had been divided between East and West. The Eastern Party gradually split up into two parties called the Northern and Southern Parties.
In January 1624, the Western Party, recently unsatisfied with the success of Yi Gwal (who was part of the Northern Party), made a petition to the King stating that Yi Gwal and some members of the Northern Party were planning a rebellion. As these ministers all had a close relationship with the King, the petition was examined. However, the reports proved false, and the Western Party failed to condemn Yi Gwal. They tried again soon after, which provoked the suspicion of the King.
The government soon sent an examination and arrest party to Yongbyon to arrest Yi Gwal's son Yi Jeon. As he suspected that he himself would be condemned if his son confessed, he decided on a pre-emptive strike. Finally, he killed the arrest party and the rebellion officially began on January 22, 1624. He and his ten thousand troops headed straight for Hanyang, to relieve the capital and capture the King.
The first clash with the government troops happened on the Hamgyong province, where the government troops were being led by his close friends, Jeong Chung-sin and Nam Yi-hong. He tried to avoid these two generals and surpassed their troops. During the march to the capital, Yi Gwal met much opposition, but all were defeated. Injo soon abandoned the capital and Yi Gwal captured it on February 10. Since the establishment of the Joseon Dynasty, it was the first time a rebel army had captured the capital.
Yi Gwal then put Heungangun on the throne, a royal relative of the King. Moreover, he put fliers all over the city so the people would support his troops. However, the rebel occupation of the capital did not last long.
The Hanseong was soon threatened by Jang Man and other generals from the government forces. Yi Gwal sent Han Myeong-ryun to combat the enemy, but the rebels were defeated due to inferior geographical position. By this time, Yi Gwal tried to escape the capital as the rebel army had disbanded and separated. As Yi Gwal and Han Myeong-ryun tried to escape on February 15, they were murdered by their own troops led by Gi Ik-heon, who were seeking forgiveness from the government.
Aftermath
Therefore, the Rebellion of Yi Gwal had failed, but Joseon society effectively entered a period of chaos, which then provoked and facilitated the First Manchu invasion of Korea in 1627.
See also
History of Korea
Manchu invasion of Korea
Joseon dynasty
1587 births
1624 deaths
Goseong Lee clan |
20481209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette%20Escadrille%20%28film%29 | Lafayette Escadrille (film) | Lafayette Escadrille, also known as C'est la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory (UK) and With You in My Arms, is a 1958 American war film produced by Warner Bros. It stars Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau and features David Janssen and Will Hutchins, as well as Clint Eastwood, in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his original story.
Plot
Thad Walker (Tab Hunter), a spoiled, rich kid from Boston, who had gotten in serious trouble with the law, fled to France to join the French Foreign Legion in World War I. In Paris, with companions, "Duke" Sinclair (David Janssen), Dave Putnam (Will Hutchins), Tom Hitchcock (Jody McCrea) and Bill Wellman (William Wellman Jr.), the boys stop at a bar and learn of the recent formation of the Lafayette Escadrille made up of American volunteer pilots who fly for France. The group of expatriates join up and learn to fly on training aircraft before becoming combat pilots.
While off duty, Walker meets and falls in love with Renée Beaulieu (Etchika Choureau), a common streetwalker with some sensitivity; she quits the oldest profession and takes a job, reforming for her American lover's sake. Walker's father beat him, and he resents any kind of authority. When a strutting, arrogant French officer (Marcel Dalio), irritated by the young man's inability to understand commands in French, strikes him, he knocks the officer to the ground, a very serious offense. Before he can be jailed, his pals smuggle Walker out of camp. He then spends a great deal of time hiding in Paris in his sweetheart's apartment. His friends continue with their training while Walker works for the Madam (Veola Vonn), hoping to make enough money to run away to South America with his girlfriend.
Later, the now veteran pilots he had befriended come to the bar and Walker realizes he still wants to redeem himself. Convincing an American general that he is sincere, when the United States enters the war, he joins the American Air Service. Walker finally is able to fly a mission with the Lafayette Escadrille, where he proves to be a superb fighter pilot. Returning to Paris, Walker asks his friends to join him as he weds Renée.
Cast
Tab Hunter as Thad Walker
Etchika Choureau as Renée Beaulieu
Marcel Dalio as Drill Sergeant
David Janssen as "Duke" Sinclair
Paul Fix as U.S. General
Veola Vonn as The Madam
Will Hutchins as Dave Putnam
Clint Eastwood as George Moseley
Robert Hover as Dave Judd
Tom Laughlin as Arthur Blumenthal
Brett Halsey as Frank Baylies
Henry Nakamura as Jimmy
Maurice Marsac as Sgt. Parris
Raymond Bailey as Amos J. Walker
William Wellman Jr. as Bill/William A. Wellman
Jody McCrea as Tom Hitchcock
Denny Devine as Lawrence "Red" Scanlon
Ralph Guldahl as Dudley Tucker
Sam Boghosian as Booth
Cast notes:
The roles of "Duke" Sinclair (Reginald "Duke" Sinclaire), Dave Judd (Edward David Judd), Arthur Blumenthal and Frank Baylies (Frank Leamon Baylies) were also based by Wellman on actual members of the Escadrille
Craig Hill's uncredited role as Lufberry, based on Raoul Gervais Lufbery, is essentially a walk-on role.
Production
Relying on his own World War I service, Wellman wrote the original story, based on the actual exploits of a friend from the war years. Earning himself the nickname "Wild Bill", Wellman was first an ambulance driver in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, then joined the French Foreign Legion. On December 3, 1917, assigned as the first American fighter pilot to join N.87 escadrille in the Lafayette Flying Corps, Wellman went on to score three recorded "kills", along with five probables and to receive the Croix de Guerre with two palms.
Although he considered Lafayette Escadrille a "personal project", the studio did not give Wellman the budget he demanded and continued to interfere with the project, to the extent that the decisions on starring roles, title, ending and other important aspects of the production were taken out of his hands, including the title of the film: Wellman's original title was C'est la Guerre which the studio, despite his objections, changed to Lafayette Escadrille. In casting, Wellman wanted Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood as the leads; studio head Jack L. Warner refused, and substituted teen idol Tab Hunter and David Janssen, with Eastwood moved to a minor role. Warner also insisted Wellman make Darby's Rangers as a condition of financing Lafayette Escadrille.
The use of mocked-up Nieuport 28 and Thomas-Morse Scout fighters along with other period aircraft such as one real Fokker D.VII and the ubiquitous Travelair "Wichita Fokkers" were "lifted" from Wellman's earlier 1938 production, Men with Wings, an early color feature also directed by Wellman. Principal photography took place primarily at the Hancock Santa Maria, California airport. Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz, built a number of Blériot XI "Penguin" clipped-wing and full span training aircraft, used in the training sequences.
According to information in the Warner Bros. Archive, the original script—with the tragic ending in which Walker dies in combat and Renée commits suicide—was written by Paul Fix. A later script, dated October 1956 and attributed to A. Fleischman (with story credit to Wellman) has the happy ending. Shooting took place October 19 to December 8, 1956.
Reception
In the original cut of the film Tab Hunter's character died at the end. However this was poorly received at previews and a new ending was shot in April–May 1957 where he lived.
While the aviation scenes in Lafayette Escadrille were well received (William Clothier filmed the spectacular aerial sequences, evocative of those he shot in Wellman's earlier silent classic Wings), critics said the film falls far short of the classic status of the 1928 Oscar winner. The flying sequences were not enough to overcome a mediocre story and flat acting, aspects roundly panned by critics. Howard Thompson, reviewer for The New York Times called it a "flapdoodle" in his blistering review.Variety echoed other reviews, noting, "What could have been an reasonably good actioneer ... has been badly marred by a flat predictability in plot, intrusion of an inept and, at times, ludicrously irrelevant romance and some quite dreadful dialog.The Lafayette Escadrille was also totally disowned by those still alive who had flown as part of the fabled Lafayette Escadrille and the Lafayette Flying Corps, who were understandably upset at their portrayal, including Wellman who insisted that his producer's credit be removed. This was to be William Wellman's last directorial effort; it had started out to be a paean to his memories of the storied squadron, but ended up a target for insults, accusations and lawsuits, not the least of which were directed against Jack Warner and Warner Brothers Studios for their heavy-handed interference. The film was shelved for two years, partly because of the wrangling between the two Hollywood heavyweights. TCM.com reports that a modern source suggests that the delay was at least partly due to the studio’s hopes that Hunter would succeed as a singer. So a "pollyanna" ending grafted into the film. Wellman was "heartbroken" with his treatment at the hands of Jack L. Warner, and kept his word that Lafayette Escadrille would be his last film.
See also
The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
Flyboys (2006)
References
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies". The Making of the Great Aviation Films, General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989.
Hunter, Tab and Eddie Muller. Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. New York: Algonquin Books, 2005. .
Parish, James Robert. The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare on the Screen. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. .
Silke, James R. "Fists, Dames & Wings." Air Progress Aviation Review, Volume 4, No. 4, October 1980.
Thompson, Frank T. William A. Wellman (Filmmakers Series). Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1983. .
Wellman, William A. Go, Get 'em! The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps. Boston: The Page Company, 1918.
Wellman, William A. A Short Time for Insanity: An Autobiography. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974. .
Wellman, William Jr. The Man And His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture''. New York: Praeger Publishers, 2006. .
External links
Lafayette Escadrille at Rotten Tomatoes
1958 films
1950s romance films
1958 war films
Warner Bros. films
American aviation films
World War I aviation films
American black-and-white films
War romance films
Films scored by Leonard Rosenman
Films about prostitution in France
Films set in Paris
Lafayette Escadrille
1950s English-language films |
20481213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodasar | Rodasar | Rodasar is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°19'0N 73°4'0E with an altitude of 172 metres (567 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Hari Singwala to the north and Bismillapur to the south.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
17340018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Warwick | City of Warwick | The City of Warwick was a local government area administering the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The City covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1861 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with Shire of Allora, Shire of Rosenthal and Shire of Glengallan to form the Shire of Warwick.
History
The Borough of Warwick came into being on 25 May 1861 under the Municipalities Act 1858, a piece of New South Wales legislation inherited by Queensland at its separation two years earlier.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the Borough of Warwick became the Town of Warwick.
On 4 April 1936 it was proclaimed as the City of Warwick.
On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the City of Warwick was merged with the Shires of Allora, Glengallan and Rosenthal to form a new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the City of Warwick was abolished.
Mayors
1861-1862: James Jones Kingsford
1863: Thomas McEvoy
1864: William Marshall
1865: S. W. Alfred
1866: Thomas McEvoy
1866-1867 James Morgan, father of Arthur Morgan (mayor 1886-1889 and Premier of Queensland)
1868: John Liddell Ross
1869: Edmund L. Thornton
1870 John Liddell Ross
1871-1872: Samuel Evenden
1873-1874: John Liddell Ross
1875: Frederick Morgan
1876: Frederick Hudson
1876-1877: Jacob Horwitz, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Warwick
1878: John W. Quinn
1879-1880: James M'Keachie
1881-1884: Thomas Alexander Johnson, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council and father of W.G. Johnson (mayor in 1912)
1885: W.D. Wilson
1886-1889: Arthur Morgan, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Warwick, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council, Premier of Queensland
1890: John Archibald, also Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
1891: John Healy, a council member for 33 years and father of John Healy, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Warwick
1892: Francis Grayson, also Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cunningham
1893: William Morgan
1894: William Collins
1895: Jeremiah Allman, father of John Allman (mayor in 1933)
1896: Francis Grayson (2nd term)
1897: John Archibald (2nd term)
1898: Arthur Morgan (2nd term)
1899: William Wallace
1900-1901: William Morgan
1902: Jeremiah Allman (2nd term)
1903: C.B. Daveney
1904: Francis Grayson (3rd term)
1905: J.D. Connellan
1906: J.S. Morgan
1907: B.T. De Conlay
1908-1909: R.J. Shilliday
1910: Daniel Connolly
1911: John Healy (2nd term)
1912: W.G. Johnson, son of Thomas Alexander Johnson (MLC and mayor in 1881-1884)
1913: John Allman
1914: John Lamb
1915: John Anderson
1916: D.J. Hutchings
1917-1918: John W. Gilham
1919: A.P. Jutsum
1920: R.E. Gillam
1921-1923: John Anderson
1924: Daniel Connolly
1927: Daniel Connolly
1933-1936: John Allman, son of Jeremiah Allman (mayor in 1895)
1988: Stanley Richard Walsh
Town clerks
1861: Edward Jones
1861: C. F. Bell
1861-1863 :John Oxenham
1863-1865: George Kennedy
1865-1868: J. M. Garrett
1868-1903: F. B. Woods
1903-1916: J. Spreadborough
Population
References
External links
Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994
Former local government areas of Queensland
Warwick, Queensland
1861 establishments in Australia
1994 disestablishments in Australia |
6907283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Eisenkappel | Bad Eisenkappel | Bad Eisenkappel, also known as Eisenkappel, () is a municipality located in the Vellach Valley in the Karawanken mountain range with the nearby peaks: Obir, Peca, and Olševa. It is the population center of the market township of Eisenkappel-Vellach (population 3,038) of the Völkermarkt district in the State of Carinthia, Austria near the border of Slovenia.
Bad Eisenkappel was first referred to by the name Kappel in 1267. It was officially renamed in 1890 to Eisenkappel.
The area is known for its hiking and cycling trails, as well as for the extensive Obir cave system, which has been mined for lead ore since at least 1171, and has been open to the public since 1991. Frommers says "Eisenkappel is the major stopover in the Vellach Valley. This town is surrounded by centuries-old forests and mineral springs, and because of its position as a frontier town only 15km (10 miles) from the Austro-Slovenian border's Jezersko Pass, it also offers many cultural and historical attractions. ... There are many sky-blue lakes and white mountain peaks near Eisenkappel. Lake Klopeiner ..., to the north of this town, is the warmest lake in Carinthia and 8km (5 miles) to the southwest you'll see Trögerner Gorge."
The International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) has stated that Bad Eisenkappel is highly affected by a growing trend of "out migration" where services and basic infrastructure are leaving the area. As such the town has attempted to counterbalance this loss by starting events to keep the youth within. Currently, as noted in the report, much of the youth travel to nearby Klagenfurt.
Its sister community is Jezersko across the Austria-Slovenia border.
Notable residents
Cvetka Lipuš, poet
Maja Haderlap, writer
Florjan Lipuš, writer and Prešeren laureate
Angela Piskernik, botanist and head of the Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana
:de:Gerald Florian Messner Gerald Florian Messner, Musicologist
See also
Seeberg Saddle
Pavlič Pass
Slovenian exonyms
References
Further reading
Eisenkappel Vellach homepage in German with photo of town taken from near mountainside
Details of surrounding mountains and includes map
planetware.com Tourist data
Cities and towns in Völkermarkt District |
17340029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20Forge%2C%20York%20County%2C%20Pennsylvania | Valley Forge, York County, Pennsylvania | Valley Forge is a village in the southwest corner of Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located just to the northeast of the city of York near the intersection of US Route 30 and North Sherman Street. Harley-Davidson's York plant is nominally located in Valley Forge.
Two Valley Forges
This Valley Forge is one of two communities in Pennsylvania with the same name. The other Valley Forge is roughly east, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The other village is the one associated with the pivotal winter encampment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Since the Continental Congress spent that same winter in York, near this Valley Forge, there is room for confusion. The other Valley Forge is also the control city used on Interstate 76.
Valley Forge is located at .
Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in York County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania |
20481232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari%20Singwala | Hari Singwala | Hari Singwala is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Faisalabad District at 31°21'0N 73°3'0E with an altitude of 166 metres (547 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Sahibnagar to the east and Pollard Kot to the north.
References
Cities and towns in Faisalabad District |
17340032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20Treatment%20Centers%20of%20America%20Championship%20at%20Surprise | Cancer Treatment Centers of America Championship at Surprise | The Cancer Treatment Centers of America Championship at Surprise is a professional tennis tournament which is part of the Outback Champions Series. Its inaugural event took place on November 5–9, 2008, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona.
Finals results
External links
Official website
Champions Series (senior men's tennis tour)
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Cancer awareness
Cancer fundraisers
Sports in Surprise, Arizona
2008 establishments in Arizona |
23578454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20censorship%20in%20New%20Zealand | Internet censorship in New Zealand | Internet censorship in New Zealand refers to the Government of New Zealand's system for filtering website traffic to prevent Internet users from accessing certain selected sites and material. While there are many types of objectionable content under New Zealand law, the filter specifically targets content depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of children and young persons. The Department of Internal Affairs runs the filtering system, dubbed the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System (DCEFS). It is voluntary for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to join.
History
In August 1993, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, which made it the responsibility of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to restrict objectionable content in the country. It didn't include any provisions for Internet content. Then, in February 2005, the New Zealand Parliament amended the 1993 act to explicitly prevent ISPs from being prosecuted for their users transmitted objectionable content.
In March 2009, the Minister for Communications and IT, Steven Joyce, stated that the government had been following the controversy surrounding Internet censorship in Australia, and had no plans to introduce something similar in New Zealand. He acknowledged that filtering can cause delays for all Internet users, and that those who are determined to get around any filter will find a way to do so. Later in July of the same year, it was reported that the Department of Internal Affairs had plans to introduce Internet filtering in New Zealand. The project, using Swedish software, cost $150,000. February 2010 saw the first meeting of the Independent Reference Group, who are tasked with overseeing the responsible implementation of the DCEFS. In March 2010, a year after Joyce stated that there were no plans to do so, the Department of Internal Affairs stated that the filter was operational and in use. Tech Liberty NZ objected to the launch of the filter, but DIA defended the system and noted that trials over two years showed that the filter did not affect the speed or stability of the internet.
In March 2019, several websites disseminating footage of the Christchurch mosque shooting were censored by major ISPs in Australia and New Zealand, including 4chan, 8chan, and LiveLeak.
Technical details
The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a hidden list of banned URLs and their internet addresses on a NetClean WhiteBox server, which as of 2009 contained over 7000 websites. The DIA then uses the Border Gateway Protocol to tell ISPs that they have the best connection to those internet addresses.
When a user tries to access a website, the ISP will automatically send their data through the best connection possible. If the user is trying to access a website hosted at an internet address that the DIA claims to have the best connection to, the ISP will divert the traffic to the DIA.
If the website the user is trying to access is on the DIA's list of banned URLs, then the connection is blocked by the WhiteBox server. The user instead sees a filter notice page and has the option of getting counselling or anonymously appealing the ban.
If the website is not on the list of banned URLs, then the DIA transparently passes on the data to the actual website and the user is left unaware that the request was checked.
ISPs using the system
Some of the largest ISPs in New Zealand, including Spark New Zealand, Vodafone, 2degrees, Compass, Kordia, Maxnet, Now, and Xtreme Networks are using the DCEFS, which as of 2017 make up over 75% of the domestic market, as well as 100% of cellular carriers.
Legal backing
The Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act of 1993 (FVPC Act) makes it the responsibility of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to administer the restriction of objectionable content in the country. This includes the power to seize the offending publication, which was later interpreted to include images and video posted online, given that the original FVPC Act gave no guidelines for Internet content.
However, while the FVPC Act was interpreted to include the search and seizure of Internet content hosted in New Zealand, it wasn't possible for the DIA to directly take down the website in another jurisdiction. Furthermore, the FVPC Act doesn't give the DIA the right to mandate a block of objectionable content hosted in other jurisdictions, meaning that they can't create a compulsory filter.
The FVPC Act defines many forms of objectionable content, such as depictions of torture, degrading sexual acts, bestiality, sexual violence, abuse of children, and necrophilia, especially in conjunction with the promotion of discrimination, crime, terrorism or dehumanization. Given the fact that the DIA couldn't make the filter compulsory for ISPs, they chose to choose to limit the filter to block the exploitation of children rather than targeting all objectionable content, as it is easy to garner public support for fighting child abuse.
Positions
Support
The DIA implemented the DCEFS with that stated intent of preventing child predators from accessing child abuse images, thereby preventing their spread as much as possible. Proponents of the system tout its over one million blocks per month as evidence of its necessity as part of a multifaceted approach to combating child exploitation.
The DIA claims the system is helpful in educating users about this type of child abuse. The system also prevents innocent users from accidentally accessing images of child abuse, which the DIA claims is a public expectation of the government and ISPs.
In addition, supporters of the system argue that there is nothing inherently bad in ISPs offering internet filtering, as many ISPs offered it before the DCEFS was even built.
Against
Critics of the DCEFS have cited numerous problems including performance, transparency, and security concerns. While the DIA claims that the filter will not cause issues, opponents of the system claimed that it has made major missteps, such as catching a Google-owned internet address in the filter, causing significant slowdowns. There are also concerns that the filter simply won't work, as it can be bypassed by commonly available technologies such as using encryption or non-HTTP based file sharing methods.
Civil rights groups, such as TechLibertyNZ have criticized the system for its lack of transparency due to their refusal to release the list of what is being banned, as well as what they view as a purposefully hidden launch of the system. TechLibertyNZ claims that the government could secretly add other sites they want to restrict to the hidden list.
Finally, there are concerns over the security of such a system, mainly due to its use of the trust-based BGP protocol. If someone got access to the system, they could redirect any internet traffic in between New Zealand ISPs. The DIA argues this is not a vulnerability unique to the DCEFS and that their security is industry standard.
See also
Internet censorship
Internet in New Zealand
Censorship in New Zealand
References
External links
Internet and website filter - Department of Internal Affairs
Internet Filtering FAQ - Tech Liberty NZ
The filtered notice page
New Zealand
New Zealand
Censorship
Censorship in New Zealand |
17340059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20hierarchical%20approach%20for%20resilient%20process%20screening | Systematic hierarchical approach for resilient process screening | Systematic hierarchical approach for resilient process screening (SHARPS) is a cost-screening technique to assist designers achieve a desired investment payback period during preliminary design of water-using systems. Heuristics involving equipment substitution and intensification are used to guide process changes. SHARPS method has been used to yield cost-effective minimum water network for water-intensive facilities.
See also
Water management hierarchy
Cost-effective minimum water network
References
Mechanical engineering
Chemical engineering
Building engineering |
6907285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao%20Fumei | Mao Fumei | Mao Fumei (, 9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939) was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Mao was born in Fenghua, Ningpo (Ningbo), Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, and, like most women of the era, she was illiterate. She married Chiang Kai-shek in an arranged marriage in 1901. When Chiang came back from Japan, he divorced her in 1921. She was killed in 1939 in a Japanese air raid on the in Xikou.
References
1882 births
1939 deaths
Chiang Kai-shek family
People from Ningbo
People killed in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Deaths by Japanese airstrikes
Deaths by airstrike during World War II
Spouses of Chinese politicians |
23578469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroomi%20Fujita | Hiroomi Fujita | is a Japanese judoka.
Fujita is from Goshogawara, Aomori. He began judo at the junior high school days and won gold medal at World Junior Championships in 1994, World University Championships in 1996, East Asian Games in 1997, and so on.
After graduation from Tokai University, He belonged to Asahi Kasei.
Fujita retired in 2000.
References
Japanese male judoka
People from Goshogawara
Sportspeople from Aomori Prefecture
1976 births
Living people
Tokai University alumni |
20481244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary%20Couple | Legendary Couple | Legendary Couple, also known as Story of a Robber (), is a 1995 Hong Kong action film directed by Peter Ngor and starring Simon Yam and Chingmy Yau.
Plot
Ko Tin-lap (Simon Yam) is an honest and dutiful accountant. One day, his superior, Lui Chan-sam (Wan Yeung-ming) gives him the duty to escort HK$5 million to the bank. Ko encounters robbers on his way and the entire sum of money is stolen. Lui and the police believe the theft was planned by Ko in order to take the money for himself. Because of this, Ko not only loses his job, but his entire savings which are claimed by Lui.
Angry at his boss, Ko kidnaps Lui's daughter, Chi-lan (Chingmy Yau), and demands a ransom of HK$10 million. On the way to the ransom exchange, an accident happens and by chance, Ko saves Chi-lan. Afterwards, Chi-lan learns about the truth of Ko's misfortune and sympathizes with him. Later, a series of events leads Chi-lan to discover her father's greed and cold-bloodedness. Disappointed at her father, Chi-lan and Ko become a pair of vigilantes and battle against evil forces.
Cast and roles
Simon Yam as Ko Tin-lap
Chingmy Yau as Lui Chi-lan
Wan Yeung-ming as Lui Chan-sam, father of Lui Chi-lan
Gregory Charles Rivers as Officer John
Kingdom Yuen as Tin-lap's wife
Ng Yip-kwong as Lui Yau-choi
Tam Suk-mui as Wai-ling
Stuart Ong as Lam Tak-sing
Wong Lai-mui as Wong Lai-mui
Chan Chi-fai as Gangster injured by saw
Nam Yin as Wai
Frankie Ng as Wing
Jack Wong as Wing's fellow
Tanigaki Kenji as Wing's fellow
Raven Choi as Man who robs Yau-choi
Yiu Man-kei as Yau-choi's bodyguard
So Wai-nam as Yau-choi's bodyguard
Kong Foo-keung as Policeman
Terrence Fok as Protesting tenant
Tong Wai-hung
William Leung as Parking warden
Tony Chow as Man robbed by Tin-lap on yacht
Leung Kwok-wai
Kai Cheung-lung as Wai's dining associate
Simon Cheung as Policeman
Cheuk Man as Policeman
Hon Ping as Policeman
Woo Wing-tat
Kwan Yung
Mak Wai-cheung
External links
IMDb entry
HK cinemagic entry
LoveHKfilm entry
HKMDB entry
Hong Kong films
1995 films
1995 action films
Hong Kong action films
Gun fu films
Hong Kong vigilante films
1990s Cantonese-language films
Films set in Hong Kong
Films shot in Hong Kong |
17340068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A4rtum | Hjärtum | Hjärtum is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 367 inhabitants in 2010.
It is situated on the western side of the Göta älv, a main river on the west coast of Sweden. The name Hjärtum originates from the words "hjort" (deer) and "hem" (home), meaning "home of the deers" and was first written down in the 13th century. From the same century is the oldest parts of the church, from which a great view of the river valley can be seen.
Hjärtum parish reaches from Ström, opposite of Lilla Edet, in the south, to Åkerström in the north and had 3202 residents 2004.
References
Populated places in Västra Götaland County
Populated places in Lilla Edet Municipality |
20481263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahibnagar | Sahibnagar | Sahibnagar is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°21'0N 73°4'0E with an altitude of 167 metres (551 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Hari Singwala to the west and Rodasar to the south.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
6907290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard%20Schiemer | Leonhard Schiemer | Leonhard Schiemer (c. 1500 – 14 January 1528) was an early pacifist Anabaptist writer and martyr whose work survives in the Ausbund.
Background
Schiemer was born around 1500 in Vöcklabruck, where he grew up in a religious environment and trained to be a tailor. He originally wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest but as an adolescent joined the Franciscan monastery in Judenburg. Six years later he left he monastery and arrived at Nürnberg, where he — disappointed with monastic life — returned to tailoring.
Anabaptist encounters
Biographers disagree whether Schiemer first made contact with Anabaptists in Nürnberg. Schiemer may have made arrangements to travel to Nikolsburg in Moravia, where Balthasar Hubmaier was an important Anabaptist leader. Here he witnessed the May 1527 disputation between the Stäbler (shepherd's staff) und Schwertler (sword) Anabaptist groups. While the Stäbler under the leadership of Hans Hut held a position of absolute nonviolence, Hubmeier and the Schwertler professed that Christians were permitted defend themselves and others with the sword. It is unknown which of these positions Schiemer adopted. Some biographers think he probably adopted Hubmeier’s view, because later in Vienna he was reluctant to accept Hans Hut.
Conversion
Only a few weeks after the Nikolsburg disputation, Leonhard Schiemer went to Vienna. There he again met — as already mentioned — Hans Hut and the Anabaptist congregation at Kärntnerstraße. Within two days, Schiemer was won over to the Anabaptist view and at the same time convinced of the pacifist beliefs of the Stäbler. He was baptized and became a member of the Vienna congregation.
Schiemer immediately began an extensive missionary endeavor. Next he worked a short time in Steyr und Salzburg, taking part in the August 1527 Augsburg Martyrs' Synod and was sent from there as a messenger to Tyrol, where he settled in Rattenberg on the Inn. He joined an existing Anabaptist congregation there, which called him to serve as bishop shortly after his arrival.
Arrest
A few weeks later, Schiemer was arrested at the instigation of the Roman Catholic authorities. An Anabaptist bishop present at the interrogation reported on his activities: within six months of his baptism he preached in 28 cities, winning more than 200 converts to Anabaptism.
Schiemer used the short stay in prison (until January 1528) for composing and publishing a number of works including:
Was die Gnade sei (What Grace Is)
Vom Fläschl (Just as a bottle is narrow at the top and wide below, the way to heaven is narrow and difficult … but the Lord comforts those in extreme misery. Suffering is nothing other than the price of eternal life.)
Von der Taufe im Neuen Testament (About Baptism in the New Testament).
Ein Bekenntnis vor dem Richter zu Rotenburg (A Confession before the Judge of Rattenburg; January 1528).
Schiermer's writings were widely circulated and after his death had a significant influence on the development of Austrian and south German Anabaptism.
Teachings
Schiemer appears to have confirmed the doctrine of the Trinity.
Schiemer separated the outer word of God, the Bible, received through one's ear, from the inner word, the direct word of God, that only a spirit-possessed person is able to hear. The inner word leads to loving God and following Christ, while the outer word is used only to devise external rules and regulations. It makes people merely good citizens, but not devoted and sacrificial followers of Jesus.
The followers of Schiemer also renounced private property. He was fascinated with early Christian communism and taught this as a sign of the true Christian. The Hutterites have made this ideal a principle of their community.
The central message of Schiemer's writing is on the theology of the cross and Passion mysticism of the Late Middle Ages: Christ suffered for the faithful of this world. His theology also appears in the hymns he composed, which have been passed down in the Ausbund, which is still used by descendants of the Anabaptists, the Amish.
Martyrdom
In January 1528 Leonhard Schiemer began looking for a way to escape, but failed. He was arrested again and subsequently handed over to the executioner. After extensive torture he was ultimately beheaded on 14 January 1528 in Rattenberg.
Schiemer's martyrdom was not the only in Rattenberg. Between 1528 and 1540 the Roman Catholic authorities ordered the execution of another 70 Anabaptist men and women who testified to their religious beliefs with their blood.
Significance
Leonhard Schiemer is counted — in spite of his short career — as the most important representative of the Anabaptists associated with Hans Hut. In spite of his intellectual relationship with Hut, Schiemer remained an independent thinker. He deemphasized the apocalyptic teachings of Hut, promoting the ideal community, which is prepared for suffering and sacrifice in this world and consciously renounces the use of power and force. His ideas can be found in avant-garde and modern pacifist movements.
Notes
References
R. Friedmann u. L. Müller (Hrsg.):Quellen zur Gesch. d. Täufer: Glaubenszeugnisse oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter, Bd. 2, Gütersloh 1967
J. Hofer, Elie, Manit (Hrsg.): Die Hutterischen Episteln 1527-1763, 1988
Johann Loserth: Der Anabaptismus in Tirol, in: Archiv f. österr. Gesch. 78, 1892, 427-604; 79, 1893, 127-276
R. Wolkan: Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer, Berlin 1903;
W. Wiswedel: Bilder u. Führergestalten aus dem Täufertum, Bd. 2, Kassel 1930, 174-186;
Ders.: Zum Problem: inneres u. äußeres Wort bei den Täufern, in: Archiv zur Religionsgeschichte 46, 1955, 1-19
R. Friedmann: Leonhard Schiemer and Hans Schlaffer: Two Tyrolean Anabaptist Martyr-Apostles of 1528, in: Mennonite Quarterly Review 33, 1959, 31-41;
Daniel Heinz: Artikel Leonhard Schiemer, in: Bautz, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
1500s births
1528 deaths
German Christian pacifists
People executed by Austria by decapitation
Austrian Anabaptists
Executed Austrian people
16th-century Protestant martyrs |
23578479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassytha%20melantha | Cassytha melantha | Cassytha melantha is a parasitic vine. Common names include coarse dodder-laurel and large dodder-laurel. The fruits are about in diameter and are green, drying to black. These are edible and are harvested in the wild.
The species occurs in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales in Australia.
The name has sometimes been misapplied to Cassytha filiformis.
References
melantha
Laurales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Flora of Tasmania
Angiosperms of Western Australia
Parasitic plants
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) |
20481292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard%20Kot | Pollard Kot | Pollard Kot is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°23'0N 73°1'0E with an altitude of 167 metres (551 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Risalewala to the west, Rampur and Jamalpur to the north, Goughabad to the east and Aruri Nawan to the south.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
23578483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clouds%20%28composition%29 | The Clouds (composition) | "The Clouds" is a 1959 instrumental by The Spacemen, an instrumental studio group. The single released on the Alton label, was the only chart hit by The Spacemen. "The Clouds" hit number one on the R&B chart for three non consecutive weeks, and also peaked at number forty-one on the Hot 100.
References
1959 singles
1950s instrumentals
1959 songs
Song articles with missing songwriters |
17340069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimotsu%20Station | Daimotsu Station | is a railway station in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
Hanshin Electric Railway
Main Line
Hanshin Namba Line
Layout
There is an island platform with two tracks between two side platforms with a track each.
Adjacent stations
All rapid express trains pass Chidoribashi, Dempo, Fuku, Dekijima, and Daimotsu every day from March 20, 2012, and suburban semi-express trains run to Amagasaki instead.
References
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1905
Railway stations in Hyōgo Prefecture |
23578492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalmann | Thalmann | Thalmann is a surname of:
Alexander E. Thalmann (1992-2014), American police officer
(1919–1975), German politician (LDPD)
Carmen Thalmann (born 1989), Austrian female alpine skier
Clara Thalmann, née Enser (1910–1987), Swiss female anarchist
Dionysius "Dionys" Thalmann (born 1953), Swiss sprint canoeist
Edward D. Thalmann (1945–2004), American Naval officer and hyperbaric medicine specialist who developed algorithms for deep-sea diving
Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), German communist politician
Gaëlle Thalmann (born 1986), Swiss footballer
(born 1963), German motocross racer
(born 1953), German musician, musicologist and journalist
Kerry L. Thalmann, American landscape photographer
(1890–1944), German painter, woodcarver, graphic artist, illustrator and book artist
Paul Thalmann (anarchist) (1901–1980), Swiss author, editor, resistant, communist and anarchist
Paul Thalmann (footballer) (born 1884), Swiss footballer
(1915–2002), Swiss Catholic theologian and priest
Sophie Thalmann (born 1976), French model, Miss France (1998)
Other
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, NYSE Amex-listed company (LTS), a diversified financial services company
Thalmann algorithm (VVAL 18), a decompression model originally designed for the U.S. Navy, in wide use by military and civilian dive computers
Thalmann Mountains, group of mountains in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains
See also
Thalman
Thälmann
German-language surnames
Jewish surnames |
6907301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20State%20Route%20352 | Georgia State Route 352 | State Route 352 (SR 352) is a southeast-to-northwest state highway in northwestern Marion County in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. Its entire length is located just to the east of Fort Benning.
Route description
SR 352 begins at an intersection with SR 41 north-northwest of Buena Vista, just to the east of Brantley. The highway travels to the northwest through generally rural parts of the county, until it meets its northern terminus, an intersection with SR 355 south-southwest of the community of Juniper.
History
SR 352 was built along its current alignment between 1960 and 1963. By 1966, the entire length of road was paved.
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
Georgia Roads (Routes 341 - 360)
352
Transportation in Marion County, Georgia |
23578527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stock | James Stock | James Stock may refer to:
James H. Stock (born 1955), American economist
James Henry Stock (1855–1907), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton |
17340100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekijima%20Station | Dekijima Station | is a railway station in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
Hanshin Electric Railway
Hanshin Namba Line
Layout
Adjacent stations
|-
!colspan=5|Hanshin Railway
All rapid express trains pass Chidoribashi, Dempo, Fuku, Dekijima, and Daimotsu every day from March 20, 2012, and suburban semi-express trains run to Amagasaki instead.
References
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Stations of Hanshin Electric Railway
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1930 |
17340112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selke | Selke | Selke may refer to:
People
Davie Selke (born 1995), German footballer
Frank J. Selke (1893–1985), Canadian ice-hockey manager and trainer
Margrit Selke (1900–2004), agriculturist
Ruth Eissler-Selke, née Selke (1906–1991), psychologist, author
Sebastian Selke (born 1974), German footballer
(b 1967 as Stefan Guschker), professor of sociology in the Faculty for Digital Media at the Furtwangen University im Schwarzwald
Walter Selke (born 1947), German professor of theoretical physics at the RWTH Aachen
(1901–1971), German agricultural chemist
Awards
Frank J. Selke Trophy (National Hockey League), awarded annually to the National Hockey League forward who demonstrates the most skill in the defensive component of the game
Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League), awarded annually to the most sportsmanlike player in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Places
Selke (river), a river in the Harz Mountains of Germany
Ballenstedt/Bode-Selke-Aue, a collective municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Other uses
Selke Valley Railway, a German steam railway in the Harz Mountains that runs along the Selke valley |
17340114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuku%20Station | Fuku Station | is a railway station in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
Hanshin Electric Railway
Hanshin Namba Line
Layout
Adjacent stations
|-
!colspan=5|Hanshin Railway
All rapid express trains pass Chidoribashi, Dempo, Fuku, Dekijima, and Daimotsu every day from March 20, 2012, and suburban semi-express trains run to Amagasaki instead.
References
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Stations of Hanshin Electric Railway
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924 |
6907302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel%20General%20%28France%29 | Colonel General (France) | A Colonel General was an officer of the French army during the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration.
The positions were not military ranks, but rather offices of the crown. The position was first created under François I. The Colonels General served directly below the Marshals of France, and they were divided by their branch of service. By the end of the Ancien Régime, the Colonels General were:
Colonel General of the Infantry
Colonel General of the Cavalry
Colonel General of the Dragoons
Colonel General of the Hussards
Colonel General of the Cent-Suisses and Grisons
Colonel General of the Gardes Françaises
Judging the position of Colonel General of the Infantry to be too powerful, Louis XIV suppressed the position in 1661 and only appointed Colonels General of honorific branches like the Colonel General of the Dragoons (created in 1668), the Colonel General of the Cent-Suisses and Grisons, who oversaw the Swiss regiments of the Maison du Roi, and the Colonel of the Gardes Françaises. The position was reinstated under Louis XV.
Most of these offices were eliminated at the time of the French Revolution, during which there was a Colonel General of the National Guard, but they were reinstated by Napoleon I. Under the Bourbon Restoration, certain titles were accorded to members of the royal family. After 1830, the position was eliminated.
Colonels General of the Ancien Régime
Infantry
1546 : Jean de Taix
???? : Charles de Cossé-Brissac
1547 : Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France
1555 : François de Coligny, seigneur d'Andelot
1558 : Blaise de Montluc, Marshal of France
1560 : Charles de La Rochefoucauld, seigneur de Randan
1562 : Sébastien de Luxembourg, duc de Penthièvre
???? : Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac
1569–1581 : Philippe Strozzi, seigneur d'Épernay and de Bressuire
1581–1642 : Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d'Épernon
1642–1661 : Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon
1721–1730 : Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
1780–1790 : Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé
Cavalry
1548–1549 : Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac
1549 : Claude de Lorraine, duc d'Aumale
1558 : Jacques, Duke of Nemours
1569–1571 : François de Lorraine, duc de Guise
1571–1572 : Charles de Montmorency-Damville, Admiral of France
1572–1574 : Guillaume de Montmorency, seigneur de Thuré
1574–1585 : Jacques, Duke of Nemours
1585–1586 : Charles, Duke of Aumale
1586–1588 : Jean-François, maréchal de La Guiche
1588–1589 : Charles de Valois, comte d'Auvergne
1589–1595 : duc des Ursins
1595–1604 : Charles de Valois, comte d'Auvergne
1604–1616 : Jacques, Duke of Nemours
1616–1618 : Charles de Valois, duc d'Angoulême
1618–1618 : François de Valois, comte d'Alès
1618–1626 : Henri, Duke of Rohan
1626–1643 : Louis de Valois, comte d'Alès
1643–1653 : Louis Emmanuel de Valois, duc d'Angoulême
1653–1657 : Louis de Lorraine, duc de Joyeuse
1657–1675 : Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne-Bouillon, vicomte de Turenne
1675–1705 : Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne
1705–1740 : Henri Louis de La Tour d'Auvergne
1740–1759 : Godefroy Charles Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne
1759–1790 : marquis de Béthune
Dragoons
1668–1672 : Antonin Nompar de Caumont, duc de Lauzun
1672–1678 : Nicolas d'Argouges, marquis de Rannes
1678–1692 : Louis François de Boufflers, Marshal of France
1692–1703 : René de Froulay, comte de Tessé, Marshal of France, général des Galères
1703–1704 : Antoine V de Gramont, Marshal of France, colonel général des Gardes Françaises
1704–1734 : François de Franquetot de Coigny, Marshal of France
1734–1748 : Jean Antoine François de Franquetot, duc de Coigny, killed in a duel
1748–1754 : François de Franquetot de Coigny, Marshal of France
1754–1771 : Marie Charles Louis d'Albert, duc de Chevreuse and de Luynes
1771–1783 : François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny
1783–1790 : Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert, duc de Chevreuse and de Luynes
Hussards
1778–1790 : Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Cent-Suisses et Grisons
1568–1596 : Charles de Montmorency-Damville, Admiral of France
1596–1605 : Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy
1605–1614 : Henri, duc de Rohan
1614–1632 : François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France
1632–1642 : César, marquis de Coislin
1642–1643 : marquis de La Châtre
1643–1647 : François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France
1647–1657 : Charles de Schomberg, Marshal of France
1657–1674 : Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons
1674–1710 : Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine
1710–1755 : Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes
1755–1762 : Louis Charles, Count of Eu
1762–1771 : Étienne François de Choiseul-Stainville, duc de Choiseul
1771–1790 : Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, brother of Louis XVI
Gardes-Françaises
1661–1671 : Antoine, duc de Gramont
1672–1692 : François d'Aubusson de La Feuillade
1692–1704 : Louis François, duc de Boufflers
1704–1717 : Antoine de Gramont, duc de Guiche
1717–1741 : Louis Antoine Armand, duc de Gramont
1741–1745 : Louis, duc de Gramont
1745–1788 : Louis Antoine de Gontaut, duc de Biron
Colonels General of the Revolution
National Guard: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Colonels General of the Napoleonic era
Carabiniers à Cheval: Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland and Constable of the Empire
Chasseurs à cheval: Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, then Emmanuel, comte de Grouchy
Chasseurs à Pied of the Imperial Guard: Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duc de Dalmatie
Cuirassiers: Laurent, comte Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, then Augustin, comte Belliard
Dragoons: Louis, comte Baraguey d'Hilliers, then Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion, Comte de Nansouty (1813-1814)
Imperial Guard: Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, then Louis Gabriel Suchet
Grenadiers à pied of the Imperial Guard: Louis Nicolas Davout
Hussards: Jean Andoche Junot
Suisses: Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Vice-Constable of the Empire, then Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello
Colonels General of the Restoration
Royal Carabiniers: Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, eldest son of Charles X
Chevau-légers-lanciers: Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of Charles X
Cuirassiers: Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
Garde Nationale: Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, brother of Louis XVIII
Suisses: Henri, grandson of Charles X
See also
Great Officers of the Crown of France
References
This article is based in part on the article Colonel général from the French Wikipedia, retrieved on September 8, 2006.
External links
Great Officers of the Crown
Court titles
Court titles in the Ancien Régime
Military history of the Ancien Régime
Military ranks of France |
17340125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demp%C5%8D%20Station | Dempō Station | is a railway station in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. There were station signs with the spelling "Denpō" from the opening until December 2008, then they were replaced the new ones with the spelling "Dempō" in February 2009.
Lines
Hanshin Electric Railway
Hanshin Namba Line
Layout
Adjacent stations
|-
!colspan=5|Hanshin Railway
All rapid express trains pass Chidoribashi, Dempo, Fuku, Dekijima, and Daimotsu every day from March 20, 2012, and suburban semi-express trains run to Amagasaki instead.
References
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Stations of Hanshin Electric Railway
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924 |
20481301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akitoshi%20Tamura | Akitoshi Tamura | Akitoshi Tamura (born May 31, 1980) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He competed almost exclusively in the Shooto organization, before making his debut at the WEC 37. In 2007, he was the lightweight champion of Shooto. He was once ranked as the #5 Bantamweight in the world by the MMAWeekly Worldwide Ranking System. Tamura is a freestyle fighter.
In 2004, Tamura became the first foreigner to beat a Burmese Lethwei fighter in an official match.
Mixed martial arts career
Tamura made his professional debut in the Shooto organization in a fight against Eiji Murayama, in August 2001, and lost on a technical decision (he later returned to face Murayama in 2004, only for the match to end in a draw). He has made MMA headlines when he defeated Takeshi Inoue in 2007, which won him the title of Shooto lightweight champion. He has also participated in GCM and MARS events, achieving a TKO over Masaomi Saito in the former, and a first round submission over Ian Loveland in the latter.
Akitoshi Tamura made his WEC debut at WEC 37. Although Akitoshi had a reputation of being one of the world's best in his weight class, he lost to former IFL featherweight champion Wagnney Fabiano, for whom it was also his WEC debut. For his next fight, Tamura made his 135 lb. debut in the bantamweight division at WEC 40 against former world title challenger Manny Tapia. Tamura defeated Tapia by unanimous decision.
On October 10, 2009, he was scheduled to fight Damacio Page at WEC 43, but pulled out with an undisclosed injury. He was replaced in the bout by WEC newcomer Will Campuzano.
On January 10, 2010, Tamura was defeated by WEC veteran Charlie Valencia via split decision at WEC 46.
Lethwei
Tamura competed in a Lethwei tournament on July 10 & 11, 2004 at the Thuwunna National Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar against Aye Bo Sein. The event also showcased three other Japanese fighters, Tamura, Yoshitaro Niimi, Takaharu Yamamoto and Seiji Wakasugi against Burmese fighters. The other Burmese fighters competing in the tournament were Naing Wan Lay, Win Tun and Shwe Sai.
Tamura knocked out local fighter Aya Bo Sein in the fourth round becoming the first foreigner to beat a Lethwei practitioner in an official match and received a challenge fight belt that was created specifically for the event.
Lethwei record
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| Jul 10, 2004 || Win || align="left" | Aye Bo Sein || Myanmar vs. Japan Lethwei Challenge Fights || Yangon, Myanmar|| KO || 4
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:
Mixed martial arts record
|-
| Win
| align=center| 19–16–2
| Satoshi Inaba
| Decision (split)
| Pancrase: 267
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 18–16–2
| Guy Delumeau
| Decision (split)
| Pancrase: 264
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 18–15–2
| Andy Main
| TKO (punches)
| Pancrase: 262
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 4:34
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 18–14–2
| Motoshi Miyaji
| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: 258
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 17–14–2
| Brian Choi
| Decision (majority)
| Shooto: 4th Round 2013
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 16–14–2
| Yoshifumi Nakamura
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Gig Tokyo 14
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 16–13–2
| Yusuke Yachi
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: 8th Round
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 16–12–2
| Yuji Hoshino
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: 3rd Round
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 16–11–2
| Shigeki Osawa
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Shooto the Shoot 2011
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–11–2
| Tetsu Suzuki
| Submission (triangle kimura)
| Shooto: Shootor's Legacy 3
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:45
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–10–2
| Taiyo Nakahara
| DQ (low blows)
| World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:07
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 15–9–2
| Shoko Sato
| Decision (split)
| World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku Raiden Championships 15
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–9–2
| Masakatsu Ueda
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: The Way of Shooto 3: Like a Tiger, Like a Dragon
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–8–2
| Charlie Valencia
| Decision (split)
| WEC 46
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Sacramento, California, USA
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 14–7–2
| Manny Tapia
| Decision (unanimous)
| WEC 40
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Chicago, Illinois, USA
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 13–7–2
| Wagnney Fabiano
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| WEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 4:48
| Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 13–6–2
| Rumina Sato
| Submission (north-south choke)
| Shooto: Shooto Tradition 1
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:37
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–6–2
| Hideki Kadowaki
| Decision (majority)
| Shooto: Back To Our Roots 8
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 12–5–2
| Takeshi Inoue
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Back To Our Roots 3
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 11–5–2
| Tenkei Oda
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Back To Our Roots 1
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Yokohama, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 10–5–2
| Akiyo Nishiura
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Rookie Tournament Final
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–5–2
| Sakae Kasuya
| Submission (armbar)
| Shooto 2006: 9/8 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:16
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 8–5–2
| Tenkei Oda
| KO (punch)
| Shooto: The Devilock
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:10
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 8–4–2
| Masaomi Saito
| TKO (knees)
| GCM: D.O.G. 5
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:02
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–4–2
| Ian Loveland
| Submission (triangle choke)
| Martial Arts Reality Superfighting
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:40
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 6–4–2
| Takeshi Inoue
| Decision (majority)
| Shooto 2005: 11/6 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 6–3–2
| Hayate Usui
| Technical Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Shooto: 9/23 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 4:51
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–3–2
| Fanjin Son
| Decision (majority)
| Shooto 2005: 7/30 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 4–3–2
| Hideki Kadowaki
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: 3/11 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–2–2
| Guseyn Aliev
| Submission (armbar)
| WAFC: Pankration Open Cup 2004
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:53
| Khabarovsk, Russia
|
|-
| Draw
| align=center| 3–2–2
| Eiji Murayama
| Draw
| Shooto: 3/22 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–2–1
| Yohei Nanbu
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2003
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 2–2–1
| Masatoshi Kobayashi
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: 3/18 in Korakuen Hall
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 1–2–1
| Hiroshi Komatsu
| Technical Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Gig East 10
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:33
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Draw
| align=center| 1–1–1
| Jin Kazeta
| Draw
| Shooto: Treasure Hunt 2
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 1–1–0
| Koichi Tanaka
| Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: GIG East 5
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 0–1–0
| Eiji Murayama
| Technical Decision (unanimous)
| Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2001
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| N/A
| Tokyo, Japan
|
References
External links
Living people
Japanese male mixed martial artists
Bantamweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
Mixed martial artists utilizing Lethwei
Japanese Lethwei practitioners
Japanese male judoka
1980 births
Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture |
23578552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%201971%20%28France%29 | List of number-one singles of 1971 (France) | This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1971.
Summary
Singles Chart
See also
1971 in music
List of number-one hits (France)
References
1971 in France
1971 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in France |
20481322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Maldaner | Bruno Maldaner | Bruno Maldaner (August 4, 1924 – November 16, 2008) was a Brazilian Bishop for the Catholic Church.
Maldaner was ordained a Priest at the age of 26 and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil and Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania on April 15, 1966. He was later appointed Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Brazil on May 27, 1997. He retired in 2001.
Maldaner died on November 16, 2008.
See also
References
External links
Catholic-Hierarchy
1924 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil
Roman Catholic bishops of São Paulo |
17340127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20FM%20%28radio%20network%29 | Power FM (radio network) | The Power FM Network is a radio station network owned by media company ARN, who also own the Classic Hits Network.
In November 2021, Power FM, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal will allow Grant's stations, including Power FM, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022. It is expected the Power FM Network stations will integrate with ARN's KIIS Network, but will retain their current names according to the press release from ARN.
Stations
References
Power FM
Power FM
Australian Radio Network |
20481335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampur%2C%20Lahore | Rampur, Lahore | Rampur is a town located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in Lahore District at 31°24'0N 73°0'0E with an altitude of 169 metres (557 feet) and lies near to the city of Lahore. Neighbouring settlements include Narwala to the west, Awan Baluch to the north, Jamalpur to the east and Risalewala to the south.
References
Populated places in Lahore District |
20481346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie%20Waldorfschule%20Wetterau | Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau | The Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau is a private Waldorf school located in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
The Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau is a general-education school starting with class 1, with an officially recognised senior high school until the Abitur in class 13 (diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation). The school is based on the Waldorf education. Parents and teachers are the financiers of the school. Therefore, the parents are highly integrated into all themes concerning the school. At this time (2008), the Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau has around 450 students taught by about 50 teachers.
During summer 2002 the Varieté AG was founded. Once a year they have a huge show. The very first performance was in July 2003.
Curriculum
The school specialises in music, all kinds of art, Eurhythmy and gardening.
English and French starting with class 1.
Several projects in lower grade classes like building a house or organic farming in the school's own garden.
Choir and orchestra of junior high school and senior high school for all pupils.
Various internships:
9th class: Farming and business internship
10th class: surveying
11th class: social internship
12th class: art historical school trip
Drama in 6th, 8th and 12th class
Partnership between 1st and 9th class,
Zirkus-AG (circus consortium) and Varieté-AG (AG=consortium)
Waldorf schools in Germany
Buildings and structures in Wetteraukreis |
17340136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chidoribashi%20Station | Chidoribashi Station | is a railway station in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
Hanshin Electric Railway
Hanshin Namba Line
Layout
Adjacent stations
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All rapid express trains pass Chidoribashi, Dempo, Fuku, Dekijima, and Daimotsu every day from March 20, 2012, and suburban semi-express trains run to Amagasaki instead.
References
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Stations of Hanshin Electric Railway
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924 |
20481350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodor%20Lippmaa | Teodor Lippmaa | Teodor Lippmaa (17 November 1892 in Riga – 27 January 1943 in Tartu) was a noted Estonian botanist. He was the president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society in 1939–1942.
There is a monument honoring him in Tartu where he lived for much of his life. It was erected in 1982.
Lippmaa is buried at the Rahumäe cemetery in Tallinn. He was the father of Endel Lippmaa, also a well-known scientist.
References
20th-century Estonian botanists
1892 births
1943 deaths
Scientists from Riga
University of Tartu faculty
Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Protection of Natural Amenities Medal, Rank II
Burials at Rahumäe Cemetery |
20481354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch%20Brown | Mitch Brown | Mitch Brown, Mitchell Brown or Mitchel Brown may refer to:
Mitch Brown (rugby league) (born 1987), Australian rugby league player
Mitch Brown (snowboarder) (born 1987), New Zealand Olympic snowboarder
Mitchell Brown (rugby union) (born 1993), New Zealand rugby union player
Two Australian rules footballers:
Mitch Brown (footballer, born 1988), player with the West Coast Eagles
Mitch Brown (footballer, born 1990), player with Melbourne
Mitchel Brown (born 1981), Honduran footballer |
17340143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Wish%20%28for%20Christmas%29 | One Wish (for Christmas) | "One Wish" is a 1994 Christmas song by American R&B singer Freddie Jackson, from his album At Christmas.
Whitney Houston version
American R&B singer Whitney Houston covered the song for her 2003 Christmas album, One Wish: The Holiday Album. Her cover, titled "One Wish (for Christmas)", was the only single released from the album and reached number 20 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. A lyric video was released for the song on December 11, 2020.
Charts
References
1994 songs
2003 singles
American Christmas songs
Whitney Houston songs
Songs written by Gordon Chambers
Songs written by Barry Eastmond
Songs written by Freddie Jackson
Freddie Jackson songs |
20481359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Skerries%2C%20Northern%20Ireland | The Skerries, Northern Ireland | The Skerries are a small group of rocky islands (skerries) just off Portrush, County Antrim, on the north coast of Northern Ireland. Winkle Isle is the local name for the large Skerry island, the small Skerry being known as Castle Isle. The islands are part of an Area of Special Scientific Interest.
Local boat trips from Portrush pass the Skerries en route to the Giant's Causeway.
Area of Special Scientific Interest
In 1996 the islands were designated as part of the Ramore Head and The Skerries Area of Special Scientific Interest. The islands are a habitat for breeding by a range of seabirds including kittiwake, black guillemot and eider duck. The temperature of the Skerries during the summer months is warmer than other parts of Northern Ireland, and so the rocks are home to particularly interesting fauna; it is the only place many southern species such as the cotton spinner sea cucumber Holothuria forskali are found in Northern Ireland. There are several protected habitats located around the Skerries, notably for seagrass (Zostera marina) and horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus). In addition, recent surveys have found numbers of the spiny spider crab (Maja brachydactyla), which is new to Northern Ireland.
Shipwrecks
On 28 December 1879 the sailing vessel, Thomas Graham, owned by John and Thomas Candlish of Palnackie in Scotland, and captained by John Candlish, was stranded at the Skerries and lost.
References
Landforms of County Antrim
Northern Ireland coast
Islands of County Antrim
Skerries
Portrush |
23578557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20MercedesCup%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles | 2009 MercedesCup – Doubles | Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber were the defending champions, but Kohlschreiber chose not to compete that year.Kas partnered with Mischa Zverev, but lost in the first round to František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák.
Seeds
Draw
Draw
External links
Draw
Stuttgart Open Doubles
Doubles 2009 |
Subsets and Splits
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