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23579022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur%20Avila | Artur Avila | Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician naturalized French working primarily on dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such an award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one). He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
Biography
At the age of 16, Avila won a gold medal at the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad and received a scholarship for the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) to M.S. while still attending high school in Colégio de São Bento and Colégio Santo Agostinho in Rio de Janeiro. Later he enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), earning his B.S in mathematics.
At the age of 19, Avila began writing his doctoral thesis on the theory of dynamical systems. In 2001 he finished it and received his PhD from IMPA. That same year he moved abroad to France to do postdoctoral research. He works with one-dimensional dynamics and holomorphic functions. Since 2003 he has worked as a researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, later becoming a research director in 2008. His post-doctoral supervisor was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz.
Mathematical work
Much of Artur Avila's work has been in the field of dynamical systems. In March 2005, at age 26, Avila and Svetlana Jitomirskaya proved the "conjecture of the ten martinis," a problem proposed by the American mathematical physicist Barry Simon. Mark Kac promised a reward of ten martinis to whoever solved the problem: whether or not the spectrum of a particular type of operator is a Cantor set, given certain conditions on its parameters. The problem had been unsolved for 25 years when Avila and Jitomirskaya answered it affirmatively. Later that year, Avila and Marcelo Viana proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture that the non-trivial Lyapunov exponents of the Teichmüller flow on the moduli space of Abelian differentials on compact Riemann surfaces are all distinct.
Honours and recognition
Later, as a research mathematician, he received in 2006 a CNRS Bronze Medal as well as the Salem Prize, and was a Clay Research Fellow. He became the youngest professorial fellow (directeur de recherches) at the CNRS in 2008. The same year, he was awarded one of the ten prestigious European Mathematical Society prizes, and in 2009 he won the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand from the French Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "One-frequency Schrödinger operators and the almost reducibility conjecture") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.
In 2011, he was awarded the Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. He received the Early Career Award from the International Association of Mathematical Physics in 2012, TWAS Prize in 2013 and the Fields Medal in 2014.
He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.
Avila is a member of World Minds.
Diplomas, titles and awards
1993: Gold medal at the Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática, Brazil
1994: Gold medal at the Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática, Brazil
1995: Gold medal at the Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática, Brazil
1995: Gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, Canada
2001: PhD Thesis (advisor Welington de Melo)
2005: Cours Peccot at the Collège de France
2006: Invited address at the ICMP
2006: Bronze medal of the CNRS
2006: Salem Prize
2008: Wolff Memorial Lectures, Caltech
2008: Invited address at the European Congress of Mathematics
2008: European Mathematical Society Prize
2009: Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences
2010: Porter Lectures, Rice University
2010: Plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians
2011: Blyth Lecture Series by the University of Toronto
2011: Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems
2012: International Association of Mathematical Physics Early Career Award
2013: Prize of the Brazilian Mathematical Society
2013: TWAS Prize
2014: Bellow Lectures by the Northwestern University
2014: Fields Medal
2015: TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize
2017: Łojasiewicz Lecture by the Jagiellonian University: One-frequency Schrödinger operators and the almost reducibility conjecture
Extra-academic distinctions
2013: Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
2015: Knight of the Legion of Honor
2019: Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Notes and references
Further reading
Moreira Salles, João. "Artur has a problem" (translated from the Portuguese by F. Thomson-Deveaux). Piauí Magazine.
External links
Artur Avila's home page
Artur Avila's home page
Artur Avila's page at University of Zurich
Artur Avila's Lattes Platform
Claymath fellow page
Interview with Artur Avila Chalkdust Magazine
1979 births
Living people
21st-century French mathematicians
Fields Medalists
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Mathematical analysts
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Dynamical systems theorists
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada alumni
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers
Brazilian expatriate academics
French people of Brazilian descent
21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
TWAS laureates
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Naturalized citizens of France |
23579023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koranga%20River | Koranga River | The Koranga River is a river of the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It lies to the east of Te Urewera National Park, to the southwest of the settlement of Matawai, and flows northwest to reach its outflow into the Waioeka River.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Bay of Plenty Region
Rivers of the Gisborne District
Rivers of New Zealand |
26717734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20Jenkins | Alejandro Jenkins | Alejandro Jenkins (born 17 October 1979, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican theoretical physicist. He is currently a professor at the University of Costa Rica and a member of Costa Rica's National Academy of Sciences. He has worked on applications of quantum field theory to particle physics and cosmology, as well as on self-oscillating dynamical systems and quantum thermodynamics.
Education and employment
Jenkins entered the University of Costa Rica in 1997, studying mathematics. He later attended Harvard College, where he resided in Currier House. In 2001 he graduated from Harvard with an A.B. degree in physics and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Caltech in 2006, working with Mark Wise on "Topics in particle physics and cosmology beyond the Standard Model". Some of the work in Jenkins's doctoral dissertation concerned models of dark energy in cosmology.
Jenkins was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech (2006), at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (2006-09), and at Florida State University's high-energy physics group (2009-12). He became a professor of physics at the University of Costa Rica in 2013 and was elected as a member of Costa Rica's National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Research
Quark mass and congeniality to life
The anthropic principle
In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the collective name for several ways of asserting that the observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the life observed in it. The principle was formulated as a response to a series of observations that the laws of nature and its fundamental physical constants remarkably take on values that are consistent with conditions for life as we know it rather than a set of values that would not be consistent with life as observed on Earth. The anthropic principle states that this apparent coincidence is actually a necessity because living observers would not be able to exist, and hence, observe the universe, were these laws and constants not constituted in this way.
Jenkins's contributions
To test this hypothesis, Robert Jaffe, Jenkins, and Itamar Kimchi used models to "tweak" the values of the quark masses and examined how that would affect the ability of stable isotopes of carbon and hydrogen to form, making organic chemistry possible. They found that, within the various potential universes they examined, many had very different qualities from our own, but that nonetheless life could still develop. In some cases, where forms of carbon we find in our universe were unstable, other forms of stable carbon were identified as possible.
The work by Jaffe, Jenkins, and Kimchi on anthropic constraints on quark masses was highlighted by the American Physical Society's Physics magazine. That work, along with research by other theorists on the possibility of an anthropically-allowed "weakless universe", was summarized in Scientific American magazine's January 2010 cover story, which Jenkins co-authored with Israeli particle physicist Gilad Perez. Jenkins also explained his work in a 2015 appearance on the TV show Through the Wormhole.
Self-oscillation and thermodynamics
Jenkins's review of the physics of self-oscillators was published by Physics Reports in 2013. Jenkins has also collaborated with mathematical physicist Robert Alicki and theoretical chemist David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky on applying related ideas in order to arrive at a better understanding of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, with a particular application to the microscopic physics of solar cells and the triboelectric effect.
See also
Quantum physics
Inflation (cosmology)
Quark
Anthropic principle
Multiverse
Feynman sprinkler
Many-worlds interpretation
References
External links
Personal website
Costa Rican scientists
Living people
1979 births
Harvard University alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Costa Rica alumni |
44505725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna%20McFarlane | Donna McFarlane | Donna McFarlane (born 1958) is a Canadian writer, who was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1994 Governor General's Awards for her novel Division of Surgery. Published by Women's Press of Canada, Division of Surgery was an autobiographical novel about McFarlane's own experience in the medical system after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
Born in Quebec and raised in Ottawa, McFarlane graduated from York University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and was working as a librarian at the time of her Crohn's diagnosis. The novel began life as a journal that she kept during her hospital stays, and later submitted to CKLN-FM after Arnie Achtman's documentary series Life Rattle broadcast a story about another woman battling chronic illness. Achtman helped McFarlane organize her notes into a novel, and later became McFarlane's partner.
The doctor in the novel, known only by the name "The Prophet", was based on Mount Sinai Hospital surgeon Zane Cohen.
At the time of her award nomination, she was working as a program coordinator for Windfall, a charity organization that distributed clothing to needy women. She subsequently published a number of short stories in literary magazines, but has not published any further books.
References
1958 births
Living people
Canadian women novelists
20th-century Canadian novelists
Canadian magazine writers
Canadian women short story writers
Writers from Ottawa
Writers from Quebec
Writers from Toronto
20th-century Canadian women writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers |
26717763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%20Society%20of%20Independent%20Filmmakers | Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers | The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers was formed in 1978 and is operated on a non-profit basis out of Calgary, Alberta in Canada. Four decades ago, twelve local filmmakers and artists collaborated to form the Society of Filmmakers in response to a growing interest in film production and need for equipment and resources. The organization is commonly known by its members as CSIF.
25th anniversary
In 2003, the Society celebrated its 25th anniversary. Many local filmmakers got their start in the 70s and 80s taking classes and are now working in the industry including producers Wendy Hill-Tout, Gary Burns and directors Mike Dowse, Robert Cuffley and David Winning.
References
External links
Official Website
Organizations based in Calgary
Film organizations in Canada |
23579028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowhai%20River | Kowhai River | The Kowhai River is a river of the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. It flows south from the slopes of Manakau in the Seaward Kaikōura Range, turning southeast as it reaches its narrow coastal plain. The Kowhai River flows to the ocean to the west of the Kaikōura Peninsula, three kilometres west of the town of Kaikōura.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Kaikōura District
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
6908226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Wells | Carolyn Wells |
Life and career[edit]
Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells.
After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of literary charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry.
Carolyn Wells wrote a total 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), she heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green's mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which—according to Allen J. Hubin's Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749–2000 (2003)—number 61 titles. Wells's The Clue (1909) is on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. She was also the first to conduct a (brief, in this case) annual series devoted to the best short crime fiction of the previous year in the U.S., beginning with The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931) (though others had begun a similar British series in 1929).
In addition to books, Wells also wrote for newspapers. Her poetry accompanies the work of some of the leading lights in illustration and cartooning, often in the form of Sunday magazine cover features that formed continuing narratives from week to week. Her first known illustrated newspaper work is a two part series titled Animal Alphabet, illustrated by William F. Marriner, which appeared in the Sunday comics section of the New York World. Many additional series ensued over the years, including the bizarre classic Adventures of Lovely Lilly (New York Herald, 1906–07). The last series she penned was Flossy Frills Helps Out (American Weekly, 1942), which appeared after her death.
She died at the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942.
Wells had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by H.O.Houghton. Wells also had an impressive collection of volumes of poetry by others. She bequeathed her collection of Walt Whitman poetry, said to be one of the most important of its kind for its completeness and rarity, to the Library of Congress.
Adult fiction
Before 1900
at the sign of shinx (1896)
the jingle book(original version) (1899)
the story of betty (1899)
Fleming Stone mysteries
The Clue (1909)
The Gold Bag (1911).
First published Lippincott's Magazine, February 1910
A Chain of Evidence (1912)
The Maxwell Mystery (1913)
Anybody But Anne (1914)
The White Alley (1915)
The Curved Blades (1915)
The Mark of Cain (1917)
Vicky Van (1918)
The Diamond Pin (1919)
Raspberry Jam (1920)
The Mystery of the Sycamore (1921)
The Mystery Girl (1922)
Feathers Left Around (1923)
Spooky Hollow (1923)
The Furthest Fury (1924)
Prillilgirl (1924)
Anything But the Truth (1925)
The Daughter of the House (1925)
The Bronze Hand (1926)
The Red-Haired Girl (1926)
The Vanity Case (1926)
All at Sea (1927)
Where Emily (1927)
The Crime in the Crypt (1928)
The Tannahill Tangle (1928)
The Tapestry Room Murder (1928)
Triple Murder (1929)
The Doomed Five (1930)
The Ghosts' High Noon (1930)
Horror House (1931)
The Umbrella Murder (1931)
Fuller Earth (1932)
The Roll-Top Desk Mystery (1932)
The Broken O (1933) (also published as Honeymoon Murder)
The Clue of the Eyelash (1933)
The Master Murderer (1933)
Eyes in the Wall (1934)
The Visiting Villain (1934)
The Beautiful Derelict (1935)
For Goodness' Sake (1935)
The Wooden Indian (1935)
The Huddle (1936)
In the Tiger Cage (1936)
Money Musk (1936)
Murder in the Bookshop (1936)
The Mystery of the Tarn (1937)
The Radio Studio Murder (1937)
Gilt Edged Guilt (1938)
The Killer (1938)
The Missing Link (1938)
Calling All Suspects (1939)
Crime Tears On (1939)
The Importance of Being Murdered (1939)
Crime Incarnate (1940)
Devil Work (1940)
Murder On Parade (1940)
Murder Plus (1940)
The Black Night Murders (1941)
Murder at the Casino (1941)
Murder Will In (1942)
Who Killed Caldwell? (1942)
Alan Ford
The Bride of a Moment (1916)
Faulkner Folly (1917)
Pennington Wise
The Room with the Tassels (1918)
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919)
In the Onyx Lobby (1920)
The Come-Back (1921)
The Luminous Face (1921)
The Vanishing of Betty Varian (1922)
The Affair at Flower Acres (1923)
Wheels Within Wheels (1923)
Kenneth Carlisle
Sleeping Dogs (1929)
The Doorstep Murders (1930)
The Skeleton at the Feast (1931)
Other mysteries
The Adventure of the Clothes-Line (The Century magazine, May 1915)
More Lives Than One (1923)
The Fourteenth Key (1924)
The Moss Mystery (1924)
Face Cards (1925) (features Tony Barron)
The Deep-Lake Mystery (1928) (features Blake Norris)
Other novels
Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel (1902)
The Emily Emmins Papers (1907)
The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady (1912) (a fictional guidebook)
Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat (1921)
Story collections
The Omnibus Fleming Stone (1923) (Includes Vicky Van, Spooky Hollow, The Mystery of the Sycamore, The Curved Blades)
Children's fiction
Patty Fairfield
Patty Fairfield (1901)
Patty at Home (1904)
Patty in the City (1905)
Patty Summer Days (1906)
Patty in Paris (1907)
Patty Friends (1908)
Patty Pleasure Trip (1909)
Patty Success (1910)
Patty Motor Car (1911)
Patty Butterfly Days (1912)
Patty Social Season (1913)
Patty Suitors (1914)
Patty Romance (1915)
Patty Fortune (1916)
Patty Blossom (1917)
Patty-Bride (1918)
Patty and Azalea (1919)
How to Tell a wild animal
Marjorie Maynard
Marjorie Vacation (1907)
Marjorie Busy Days (1908)
Marjorie New Friend (1909)
Marjorie in Command (1910)
Marjorie Maytime (1911)
Marjorie at Seacote (1912)
Dorrance Family
The Dorrance Domain (1905)
Dorrance Doings (1906)
Two Little Women
Two Little Women (1915)
Two Little Women and Treasure House (1916)
Two Little Women on a Holiday (1917)
Other novels
Folly in Fairyland (1901)
In the Reign of Queen Dick (1904)
Dick and Dolly (1909)
Dick and Dolly Adventures (1910)
The Story of Betty (1911)
Collections
Mother Goose's Menagerie, illustrated by Peter Newell (Noyes, Platt & Co., 1901) – e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library
Children of Our Town by E. Mars and M. H. Squire with verses by Wells (R. H. Russell, 1902) – e-copy at Library of Congress
Nonfiction prose
The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913)
On Finishing Collector (1926)
The Rest of My Life (1937)
Verse
At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896)
Rubaiyat of a Motor Car (Dodd, Mead, 1906), illustrated by Frederick Strothmann
The Re-Echo club (1913)
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club (1936)
Ballade of Baker Street (1939)
A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906)
Anthologies (as editor)
A Parody Anthology (1904)
A Satire Anthology (1905)
A Whimsey Anthology (1906)
A Vers de Société Anthology (1907)
A Nonsense Anthology (1910)
Such Nonsense!: An Anthology (1918) (different than A Nonsense Anthology)
The Book of Humorous Verse (1920)
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931, 1932)
References
External links
Discussion of Wells mystery writing
Carolyn Wells, "Why Women Read Detective Stories", True Detective Mysteries(September 1930) pp. 18–19, 105-06
1862 births
1942 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
American women poets
American mystery writers
American children's writers
People from Rahway, New Jersey
Novelists from New Jersey
American women children's writers
Women mystery writers
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American poets |
23579030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuaotunu%20River | Kuaotunu River | The Kuaotunu River is a short river on the eastern Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. It flows north towards the coast at Kuaotunu.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Thames-Coromandel District
Rivers of Waikato
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumengamatea%20River | Kumengamatea River | The Kumengamatea River is a river of the Northland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows southwest into the Awaroa River close to the latter's outflow into the Wairoa River.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Northland Region
Rivers of New Zealand
Kaipara Harbour watersheds |
23579033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratau%20River | Kuratau River | The Kuratau River is a river of the centre of New Zealand's North Island. It flows generally eastwards, initially flowing southeast from its sources in rough hill country south of the Pureora Forest Park before turning northeast to reach the small Lake Kuratau. From here it flows east further before flowing into the southwest of Lake Taupo close to the settlement of Kuratau.
Waters from the river are used for power generation at the Kuratau Power Station.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Taupo District
Rivers of Waikato
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurow%20River | Kurow River | The Kurow River is a river of North Otago, New Zealand. A tributary of the Waitaki River, it rises in Saint Marys Range and flows into that river downstream of Kurow.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Otago
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20at%20the%201920%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20Greco-Roman%20light%20heavyweight | Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight | The men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight was a Greco-Roman wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event. Light heavyweight was the second heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing up to 82.5 kilograms.
A total of 18 wrestlers from 11 nations competed in the event, which was held from August 16 to August 20, 1920.
Results
Gold medal round
Silver medal round
References
External links
Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics |
23579037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%20II%20River | L II River | The L II River is a small river in Canterbury, New Zealand. It rises near Lincoln and flows through very flat farmland, mostly fed by land drainage ditches before emptying into Lake Ellesmere just east of the mouth of the Selwyn River.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20River | Lambert River | The Lambert River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows north from the Lambert Glacier in the Southern Alps, joining with the Wanganui River southeast of Harihari.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand
Westland District |
44505739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use-of-force%20law%20in%20Missouri | Use-of-force law in Missouri | Use-of-force law in Missouri refers to the law & legal doctrine which determine whether a member of law enforcement in the state of Missouri is justified in the amount of force used to gain control of an unruly situation or person, including situations involving death. In the United States, doctrine about use of force is primarily defined by the individual states, although there have been some Supreme Court decisions of limited scope.
Missouri's legal experts have said the use of force laws in Missouri are considered more officer-friendly than that in other states. Such laws have come under national scrutiny in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
Current law governing use of force is specified in Missouri Revised Statutes chapter 563, which differ substantially from the laws of neighboring states.
Background
Use of force
In the course of their duties, law enforcement personnel use force to subdue suspects. The use of force consists of two parts: the amount of force that may lawfully be used on a continuum that includes deadly force; and the circumstances under which it may be used, including the level of imminent threat reasonably perceived by the member of law enforcement and the concern that a fleeing felon may harm the public. Doctrines are intended to balance security needs with ethical concerns for the rights and well-being of intruders or suspects. In the event that members of the public are injured, this may give rise to issues of self-defense as a justification. In the event of death during a reasonable use of force, this may be legally considered a justifiable homicide. The application of excessive force is considered Police brutality.
Use of force national guidelines
State police in the United States are generally given considerable leeway in making the decision about the amount of force needed to save themselves or others. While there is no national definition, the United States Supreme Court has created legal standards for use of force through two key decisions. "Objective reasonableness" is a concept from the 1985 Tennessee v. Garner decision that stated that police officers could not shoot at a fleeing suspect simply to prevent their escape but only if the suspect posed a significant threat of death or serious harm to the community. In the 1989 decision of Graham v. Connor, the court ruled that "the reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and its calculus must embody an allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions about the amount of force necessary in a particular situation." Current local and state doctrines vary in defining these decisions and are tested in civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions on a case-by-case basis. If a case where the use of force has been applied unevenly based on a suspect's race, sex, disability, religion, or national origin, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice is empowered to bring charges for breaking Federal law governing civil rights. When the Department of Justice investigates a pattern of use of force abuses, it can work with a state or agency to create new policies that align with national law and precedent.
Missouri doctrine
Law enforcement agencies in Missouri exist at the town, county, and state levels and are subject to national guidelines, state laws, and applicable local or county policies. Use of force doctrine is defined in Missouri by state law as well as local policy. From the 1860s, when Missouri became a state, until the 1960s, individual states wrote their own codes, often using common law as a basis. In 1962, the Model Penal Code was published with recommendations to modernize and standardize penal law and criminal law nationally. The code served and continues to serve as a basis for the replacement of existing criminal codes in over two-thirds of the states. Missouri did not incorporate the recommendations. The statutes concerning use of force in Missouri included the stipulation that police officers could use deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect of a felony including the event that the felony was not of a violent nature, such as a crime against property. In 1977, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down these statutes in Mattis v. R Schnarr. The court found that the Missouri statute authorizing the use of deadly force by police attempting to arrest any fleeing felon was unconstitutional as "an arbitrary imposition of death" and violation of due process.
In Tennessee v. Garner, Justice White wrote for the Majority opinion addressing the legal issue as whether the totality of the circumstances justified the deadly force. Because it deprives the suspect of his life, White concluded that deadly force should be applied only when there is a "reasonable suspicion" that a suspect is armed or dangerous. The legal concept derives from a prior decision in Terry v. Ohio (1968) where court recognized law enforcement's right to stop a possible suspect for a brief time and take additional steps to investigate further. In 1989, Graham v. Connor, a similar finding was held; ""the reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and its calculus must embody an allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions about the amount of force necessary in a particular situation." Although Missouri statute still stated that law enforcement could use force including deadly force on any suspect that "has attempted to commit or has committed a felony," the concept of reasonableness was included. "...An officer may only use deadly force as permitted by other justifications such a self defense or when he reasonably believes that such use of deadly force is immediately necessary to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested a)Has committed or attempted to commit a felony; or b)
Is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon; or c) May otherwise endanger life or inflict serious physical injury unless arrested without delay."
Investigation into possible use of force violation is first conducted internally. A state prosecutor can also apply to judge or grand jury to decide whether there is enough evidence to pursue a prosecution. The application of the standard is interpreted by a jury in criminal cases.
See also
Police accountability
References
Legal concepts
Missouri law
Law enforcement in Missouri
Shooting of Michael Brown |
17341094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbourne%20Heights%2C%20Baltimore | Woodbourne Heights, Baltimore | Woodbourne Heights, Baltimore is a community in northern Baltimore, Maryland. It is served by the Woodbourne Heights Community, the Woodbourne-McCabe Neighborhood and the Beauregard Neighborhood Associations.
Points of interest
Woodbourne Heights, Baltimore includes several historically and culturally significant places of interest including: Chinquapin Park, the McCabe Mansion, the Belvedere Square Shopping Centers and City Garden plots on Woodbourne Avenue.
Demographics
According to the 2000 US Census, 2,880 people live in Woodbourne Heights/Woodbourne McCabe, Baltimore with 92% African-American and 5% White. The median family income is $40,948. 85% of the houses are occupied and about 50% of those are occupied by the home's owner.
Schools
Woodbourne Heights, Baltimore has three public elementary schools: Yorkwood and Leithwalk elementary schools. The area is served by the Chinquapin Middle School. High school students generally attend Mervo, City, DuBois or Lewis high schools.
Notes
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Northern Baltimore |
6908228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Hill%20High%20School | Science Hill High School | Science Hill High School is a public high school in Johnson City, Tennessee, United States.
Music
Science Hill High School's marching band appeared in the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
Participants in Bands of America.
Notable alumni
Lara Ballard (Attorney), Privacy and Intelligence Oversight Officer for U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Bill Bain, management consultant known for being a founder of management consultancy Bain & Company
John Bowers, author
Ernie Ferrell Bowman, Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder
Larry Butler, Canadian Football League (CFL) player
Jonny Campbell, professional soccer player
Will Craig, MLB first baseman
Matt Czuchry, actor
Lindsay Ellis, film critic, author (Axiom's End)
Aubrayo Franklin, National Football League (NFL) player
Wyck Godfrey, film producer and executive
Will Little, baseball umpire
John Alan Maxwell, American artist and illustrator
Joe McClain, MLB pitcher
Daniel Norris, MLB pitcher
Mo Sabri, recording artist
Steve Spurrier, football coach, athlete, and Heisman Trophy winner
Van Williams, NFL player
References
External links
Johnson City Schools website
Public high schools in Tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee
Educational institutions established in 1867
International Baccalaureate schools in Tennessee
Schools in Washington County, Tennessee
1867 establishments in Tennessee |
44505742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEV%20%28disambiguation%29 | IEV (disambiguation) | IEV is the IATA code of Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany).
IEV may also refer to:
International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, technical term collection, managed by IEC
Indo Europeesch Verbond, a social movement and political organisation founded in 1919 |
23579039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20River | Lawrence River | The Lawrence River is a river of inland Canterbury in New Zealand's South Island. One of the headwaters of the Rangitata River system, it flows south from its source north of Mount Arrowsmith, before joining with the Clyde River and Havelock River to become the Rangitata.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
44505751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arayoor%20Sree%20Mahadevar | Arayoor Sree Mahadevar | Arayoor Major Sree Mahadevar Temple (ആറയൂർ ശ്രീ മഹാദേവർ) is one of the major worship places in Arayoor in Thiruvananthapuram district, very close to Tamil Nadu border. It is a Shiva temple. Arayoor Shiva is fondly called Arayoorappan. The temple comes under the control of Travancore Devaswom Board.
The Upaprathistas are Sree Ganesh, Durga, Murugan, Nandikesan, Lord Ayyappa, Bhoothathan, Nagaraja, and Yakshiyamma.
Festivals
Arayoor Temple festival is one of the grandest festivals in Neyyattinkara Taluk, normally celebrated during February and March months.
The festivities starts with Thrikkodiyettu (Hoisting of the Temple Flag ) on the first day. The traditional Ghoshayathra is on the 9th-day of the festival. Aarattu festival is the closing ceremony of the ten-day festival. On the Tenth day around evening, in a Solemn Ceremony the Flag is lowered and the Deity is then taken for the Aarattu (Holy Bath) in the nearby temple pond. A variety of cultural programmes are also arranged during these days.
Temple timings
The temple opens daily at 04:30 AM, closes at 10:30 AM, reopens at 05:30 PM and closes at 8.30 PM
External links
http://indiankshetras.com/aarayoor-major-sree-mahadevar-temple-Thiruvananthapuram-kerala-indiankshetra-360degree-photography-panorama?filter_name=arayoor
https://web.archive.org/web/20150403222049/http://ambalangal.com/Thiruvananthapuram.asp?PageNum=4&place=Thiruvananthapuram&district=
http://www.shaivam.org/gallery/image/temples/spke-tvm-araiyur.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20150403131817/http://arayoorsreemahadevatemple.in/
http://www.facebook.com/arayoorsreemahadevar
ആറയൂർ ശ്രീ മഹാദേവക്ഷേത്രം
Shiva temples in Kerala
Hindu temples in Thiruvananthapuram district |
23579040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatham%20River | Leatham River | The Leatham River is a river of the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. It is the main tributary of the Branch River, itself a tributary of the Wairau River. The Leatham flows north in a parallel valley to the Branch for most of its length before turning northwest to join with the Branch from its outflow into the Wairau south of Richmond, New Zealand.
The Leatham River was named after George Leatham, an agriculture laborer who did tree felling and other timber work in the area during the 1800s. He died in Wellington at the age of 59 in 1894. He is buried in the Karori Cemetery Much of the Leatham Region was part of the Birch Hill Station, an early Wairau Sheep station, once owned by Dr Thomas Renwick, member of the New Zealand Legislative Council.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Marlborough Region
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capt.%20John%20Mawdsley%20House | Capt. John Mawdsley House | The Captain John Mawdsley House, located at 228 Spring Street, is one of the oldest houses in Newport, Rhode Island.
The earliest rear part of the house was built on Spring Street before 1680, probably by Jireh Bull. Bull married Godsgift Arnold, daughter of Gov. Benedict Arnold. Captain John Mawdsley, a privateer, lived in the house in the eighteenth century and constructed the large front addition to the house. The Mawdsley House is located on 228 Spring Street and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The house was owned by Historic New England (SPNEA) until it was sold in the late twentieth century.
See also
List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island
Henry Bull House
Jireh Bull Blockhouse
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Images
External links
Houses completed in 1680
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
1680 establishments in Rhode Island |
44505774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20So-ang | Jo So-ang | Jo So-ang (조소앙, 30 April 1887 – 10 September 1958) was a politician and an educator in Korea under Japanese rule. He participated in the Korean independence movement.
He participated in drawing up a draft of the proclamation of the independence of Korea in 1918 while he was studying in Japan, and after 1919, worked for the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea as the secretary of the provisional government and head of the Korean Independence Party. He also organized the society of policies on current affairs with Kim Gu and Yeo Unhyeong, contributing to establish the theories on diplomacy of the provisional government. In the political scene of liberated Korea, he was one of the right politicians, who stuck to the legitimacy of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. In 1948, he visited Pyongyang to attend the joint conference of leaders of parties and social groups in the entire nation with Kim Gu and Kim Gyusik, which was turned out to be a failure. He abandoned his direction for North-South Korea's cooperation, leading to one-sided establishment of Republic of Korea in favor.
He ran for a representative of the national assembly and was elected in 1950. In the same year when the Korean war broke out, he was abducted and taken to North Korea.
Role in the Independence Movement
Diplomatic Activity
Jo So-ang served roles in the national government, the political structure of the Provisional Government, and in public relations. The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established on April 13, 1919, following the March 1st movement. The interim government resisted Japan's colonial rule of Korea and supported the Korean independence movement. In the midst of dividing political alliances, Jo So-ang remained loyal to the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and was elected as their secretary and diplomatic correspondent. Making him in charge of the interim government's remittances, propaganda, and public relations work. In May 1919, Jo traveled to Europe in order to attend the International Socialist Conference to appeal international support and recognition for South Korea's independence movement. In March 1921, after attending the Communist Party Congress in Moscow, Russia, he returned to Beijing with critical views on communism. Jo would incorporate his views and experience with communism when writing his political theories and teachings.
Legislative Activity
In 1930, based on his “Three Principles of the Equality” Jo So-ang wrote up a draft establishing what is renowned as a national and social democracy. He argued that in order to achieve social democracy, equality between individuals, equality between ethnicities, as well as the equality between nations must be attained. Following this principle, he suggested that to acquire equality amongst individuals it must be through immediate political equality such as free and equal elections. Next, in his theory, he advocated for the equality between ethnicities. Equality between ethnicities would be achieved through equal economic developments and equal educational opportunities. For the betterment of the nation as a whole, Jo so-ang presumed that the political system should be based on a parliamentary democracy in which the execution of the assimilation of lands, production of facilities/institutions, along with a mandated educational regime should be held at the expense of the socio-economic system. In 1941, not long after the “Three Equality Principles” was accepted by the Korean Provisional Government, the theory became known as the “Fundamental Governing of National Reconstruction”. Not only did his theories guide the Korean Independence Party during the occupation, but also served as the main foundations of legislation for the country post-liberation.
1887 births
1958 deaths
Hongik Ingan
Korean politicians
Liberalism in South Korea
Members of the National Assembly (South Korea)
Haman Jo clan
Three Principles of the People |
44505776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20truncatus | B. truncatus | B. truncatus may refer to:
Bulinus truncatus, a freshwater snail species found in Senegal
Boreotrophon truncatus, the bobtail trophon, a sea snail species
See also
Truncatus (disambiguation) |
23579041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20River | Leslie River | The Leslie River is a river of the northwest of New Zealand's South Island located in the Buller District. A tributary of the Karamea River, the Leslie flows west from the Arthur Range, meeting the Karamea east of the town of Karamea. The river's entire length is within Kahurangi National Park.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20River%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Light River (New Zealand) | The Light River is a river of Fiordland, New Zealand. It rises west of Lake Quill and flows westward into Te Hāpua / Sutherland Sound.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Fiordland |
26717821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20L.%20Narayana | P. L. Narayana | P. Lakshmi Narayana (10 September 1935 – 3 November 1998) was an Indian actor, dialogue writer, and playwright, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few Tamil films. He has received one National Film Award and five state Nandi Awards.
Awards
National Film Awards
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor - 1992 - Yagnam (Telugu)
Nandi Awards
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal in Kukka.
Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal in Neti Bharatam in 1983.
Special Jury Award for his performance in Mayuri in 1985.
Best Supporting Actor for his acting skills in Repati Pourulu in 1986.
Best Dialogue Writer for his writing skills in Dandora in 1993.
Selected filmography
References
Male actors in Tamil cinema
1935 births
1998 deaths
Telugu male actors
Best Supporting Actor National Film Award winners
Nandi Award winners
20th-century Indian male actors
Indian male film actors
Male actors in Telugu cinema
People from Guntur district |
44505781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardar%20Fateh%20Muhammad%20Muhammad%20Hassani | Sardar Fateh Muhammad Muhammad Hassani | Sardar Fateh Muhammad Muhammad Hassani (Urdu: سردار فتح محمد محمد حسنی) is a Pakistani Politician and was member of Senate of Pakistan, was serving as Chairperson-Senate Committee on Ports and Shipping.
Political career
He belongs to Baluchistan province of Pakistan, and was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in March 2012 on a general seat as Pakistan Peoples Party candidate. He is the chairperson of Senate Committee on Ports and Shipping and member of senate committees of Interior and Narcotics Control, Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization and Industries and Production.
See also
List of Senators of Pakistan
List of committees of the Senate of Pakistan
References
External links
Senate of Pakistan Official Website
Pakistan Peoples Party Official Website
Living people
Pakistani senators (14th Parliament)
Pakistan Peoples Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
6908244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20L.%20Green | Roger L. Green | Roger L. Green (born June 23, 1949) is an American legislator who served in the New York State Assembly for 26 years, from 1981 to 2007 (with a brief interruption in 2004), representing District 57 which, allowing for redistricting adjustments, has primarily comprised the New York City borough of Brooklyn neighborhoods Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Park Slope and Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was the first Muslim member of the Assembly.
Early years
A native of Brooklyn, Roger L. Green was raised in a family with a long history of participation in the struggles to advance human rights and economic justice. He was educated in the New York City public school system and graduated from Southern Illinois University, where he attained a triple major in Cultural Anthropology, International Affairs and Government. After graduation and return to Brooklyn, he became involved in local politics, joining several civil rights groups and community organizations concerned with the elimination of racism and social injustice. He was raised Baptist but converted to Islam in the early 1970s.
Member of New York State Assembly
After a historic election that required him to win an unprecedented three primary runoffs, Roger Green was elected to the New York State Assembly in November 1980. He was a member of the State Assembly (57th D.) from 1981 to 2006 (with an interruption in 2004), sitting in the 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 194th, 195th and 196th New York State Legislatures. During his tenure in public office, he distinguished himself as an architect of laws, policies and institutions that defined his commitment to civil and human rights within New York State, the nation, and the world community. Beginning in 1981, he participated in numerous mass mobilizations and legislative mobilizations dedicated to the abolition of police brutality. In response to the deaths of Luis Baez, Randolph Evans and Eleanor Bumpurs, Green authored legislation creating the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. This social justice advocacy organization has become a renowned transformative vehicle for the abolition of racial injustice. The Center worked with the New York City Council to author the disparity study, which quantified discriminatory practices within the construction industry.
In 1983, Coretta Scott King and labor leader Cleveland Robinson asked Green to serve as the New York State Political Coordinator for the Memorial March on Washington. It was during this period that Green authored the bill that established the New York State Martin Luther King Holiday Commission and the bill establishing the New York State Martin Luther King Institute. In 1985 and 1986, in conjunction with the founding of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Governor Cuomo signed these bills into law.
From 1986 to 1988, Green served his first tenure as Chair of the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus. During his term, the Caucus was viewed as the preeminent voice in support of laws designed to reduce and prosecute racial violence. Following the racial killing of Michael Griffith in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, Green joined the Reverend Al Sharpton, Reverend Timothy Mitchell and Reverend Herbert Daughtry in citywide protests entitled the Day of Outrage. Following his arrest for civil disobedience, Green returned to Albany and worked with Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve in the co-authorship of the New York State Anti-Bias Bill. This bill was the first comprehensive legislation to include prosecution for violence against members of the gay community. In 1994, Ralph J. Marino, the Senate Majority Leader of the Republican Caucus presented Green and Eve with an opportunity to pass their bill if they would agree to drop "gay rights" language from their proposal. Green, Eve and other members of the Caucus considered this an unprincipled compromise. During a debate within the Assembly, Green quoted Martin Luther King Jr.'s admonition that "an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"… Six years later, following a major "March for Justice" and lobbying effort, the anti-bias bill, authored by Green and Eve, was signed into law by the Governor. From 1986–1991, the New York State Martin Luther King Institute trained more than 1000 high school and college students through its Ella Baker Academy. Students participating in this program learned the theory and practice of non-violent conflict resolution. Students were also provided with an opportunity to study civil rights and human rights social history.
South Africa and Rwanda
In 1982–1992, Green was actively involved in the global struggle to dismantle apartheid and to establish a free democratic South Africa. Green served as co-sponsor of the State Divestiture Bill, which was authored by Albert Vann. He also served as political coordinator for the June 14 March Against Apartheid. This was the largest anti-apartheid demonstration in the history of the U.S. Following this march, the U.N. Special Commission on Human Rights appointed Green as one of eight U.S. delegates to the World Conference Against Apartheid in Paris, which was organized to develop strategies to eliminate this injustice. Upon the release of Nelson Mandela, Green worked directly with the leadership of the African National Congress, Harry Belafonte, and labor leaders Cleveland Robinson, and Jim Bell to formulate the Nelson Mandela Welcoming Committee for the historic visit of Mandela to the U.S.
From 1989 to 2005, Green served with distinction as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Children and Families in the New York State Legislature. During his tenure, he authored numerous groundbreaking laws dedicated to protecting the rights of children. During the height of the genocidal conflict within Rwanda, Dr. Vera Makonde, representing survivors of this tragedy who lived in the U.S., urged Green to serve as the Chair of the Rwanda Children's Aid Committee. He accepted this responsibility. As Chair of the Committee, he raised moral and material support for the children who were orphaned or made refugees as a result of this crisis.
Resignation
Green resigned his seat on June 1, 2004, after pleading guilty to petty larceny in connection with $3,000 in false travel reimbursement claims. As part of a plea deal, he served three years' probation, was fined $2,000, and had to pay $3,000 in restitution.
Later than same year, he ran and was re-elected to the same seat.
2006 Congressional campaign
In 2006, Green campaigned to unseat 10th congressional district Representative Edolphus Towns On September 12, 2006, Green came in third, losing to both incumbent Ed Towns and City Councilman Charles Barron. On the same day, Hakeem Jeffries, Green's long-time political opponent, was elected to succeed him in the Assembly district he retired from in order to launch his unsuccessful bid for Congress.
Medgar Evers College
In 2007, shortly after the end of Green's term in the State Legislature, the Chancellor of the City University of New York and the President of Medgar Evers College, appointed him as a Distinguished Lecturer, teaching a course that explores the historical significance of the freedom amendments, 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments, and their influence on state and local government. Green is also the Director of the Dubois-Bunche Center on Public Policy, a think tank dedicated to advancing best practices in law, policy, and community covenants that advance social and economic justice for urban communities within the U.S. and throughout the African Diaspora.
Family
Roger Green is married to labor rights and human rights advocate, Coraminita Mahr, is the father of three children, Corlita, Khalid and Imani, and has one grandchild, Belle. He spends his spare time writing poetry and essays that explore, among other things, the commonalities between diverse people and cultures and the physical, mental, and spiritual well being of the world's children.
References
External links
New York State Assembly Website
Green For Change Official campaign website
Hope For The Good Guys
Medgar Evers College
1949 births
Living people
African-American state legislators in New York (state)
Politicians from Brooklyn
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) Democrats
Southern Illinois University alumni
New York (state) politicians convicted of crimes
Politicians convicted of corruption in New York (state)
African-American Muslims
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people |
23579043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilburne%20River | Lilburne River | The Lilburne River is a river of northern Canterbury, New Zealand. Formerly known as the Lillburn River, its spelling was corrected in 2003. It rises in the Puketeraki Range, flowing south then east to join Ashley River / Rakahuri.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Waimakariri District
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Was%20All%20a%20Dream%20%28Lil%27%20Keke%20album%29 | It Was All a Dream (Lil' Keke album) | It Was All a Dream is the third studio album by American rapper Lil' Keke from Houston, Texas. It was released on July 13, 1999 via Jam Down Records. It was reissued in 2003 by another Houston-based record label Rap Classics. The album features guest appearances from 8Ball, Big Hawk, Big Pokey, B-Legit, Juvenile, Krazy, Madd Hatta, South Park Mexican, and more.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
1999 albums
Lil' Keke albums |
23579049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Akatarawa%20River | Little Akatarawa River | The Little Akatarawa River is a river of the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is a tributary of the Akatarawa River, which it meets northwest of Te Mārua.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Wellington Region
Rivers of New Zealand |
26717833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo%20station%20%28Via%20Rail%29 | Nanaimo station (Via Rail) | Nanaimo station is a former railway station in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The station was a stop on the Via Rail Dayliner service, which closed indefinitely in 2011. The station is located at 336 Prideaux Street, Nanaimo.
History
The one/two-storey stucco and wood building station building featuring a central square tower, was built in 1920 to replace an earlier station building. The building is a more complex version of the CPR Standard Plan No. 9 design. The original design was intended to support commercial operations on the main floor with living quarters for railway employees on the second floor.
Closure
On March 19, 2011, Via Rail suspended service indefinitely due to poor track conditions on the line outside Nanaimo and replaced it with a bus service. Eventually, on August 12, 2011, the bus service ended and the station closed indefinitely.
References
External links
City of Nanaimo The city the station serviced.
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1920
Railway stations closed in 2011
Disused railway stations in Canada
Buildings and structures in Nanaimo
Transport in Nanaimo
Designated Heritage Railway Stations in British Columbia
1920 establishments in British Columbia
2011 disestablishments in British Columbia |
23579051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Awakino%20River | Little Awakino River | The Little Awakino River is a river of North Otago, New Zealand. A tributary of the Waitaki River, it flows into that river a short distance downstream of Lake Waitaki.
Near its headwaters, the river is less than from the Awakino River West Branch, which joins with its East Branch to form the Awakino River and join the Waitaki between the Little Awakino and Kurow.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Otago
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQs%20%28film%29 | FAQs (film) | FAQs is a 2005 LGBT-themed independent film written and directed by Everett Lewis. The film tells the story of a group of young queer kids who have been discarded by straight society. They come together to form a de facto family under the wing of an African American vigilante drag queen named Destiny.
FAQs premiered at the 2005 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release in 2006. While mainstream critics praised a number of the performances and certain aspects of the film, generally critical response was negative.
Plot
After filming a porn video and being ripped off by the producer (Arthur Roberts), India (Joe Lia) meets a street hustler. Moments later they are attacked by a pair of gay bashers. They split up and run and the bashers pursue India in their Jeep. They stop short at the sight of India standing next to Destiny (Allan Louis) a vigilante African American drag queen pointing a gun at them. Destiny vandalizes the Jeep and takes the coat from one of the bashers. Destiny invites the homeless India to live with her. There he meets Lester (Minerva Vier), a young lesbian and another of Destiny's "orphans."
The next morning, upon learning that Destiny is a porn director India panics and plans to leave. He tells Destiny about being ripped off and she asks if he wants to kill the producer. He says yes, and that he wants to kill all straight people. India goes to the producer's home with a gun. He finds the producer and pulls the trigger, but the gun is not loaded.
A few days later, as they discuss plans to foment the collapse of the straight world, Destiny, India and Lester meet Spencer (Lance Lee Davis), a graffiti artist and self-proclaimed "bomber," They immediately "adopt" him. After spending the night together, Spencer and India discover the basher's address inside his coat and decide they want to go bash him.
As Destiny and her friend Matinee (Tara Nova) socialize in Destiny's car, Officer Vic Damone (Vince Parenti) comes to warn them that the police are on the lookout for roving bands of vigilante drag queens and to watch out for themselves. Destiny (realizing that Vic is attracted to her) advises him that they're already always watching out for themselves.
Spencer and India are approached on the street by a photographer. As the pair pose together nude on a bed, Spencer recites a litany of injuries he has received at the hands of his parents and other straights. India tries to comfort him but Spencer says he no longer has feelings and doesn't let anyone in. India vows to protect him from the straights.
The next morning, on the way to the basher's house, India discovers a detonator in Spencer's backpack. Spencer tells him that he plans to blow up his parents. India tries to dissuade him but Spencer is not convinced that bombing straights isn't the way to go.
India and Spencer spot the basher in his neighborhood and argue over whether they should bash him as Spencer wants or try to "save" him as India wants. India has adopted Destiny's theory, that all gay bashers are themselves repressed gays who need to be saved.
India returns the basher's jacket. The basher, Guy (Adam Larson), admits that he's gay. He packs his things and tells the other basher, his roommate Quentin (Josh Paul) that he's gay, he loves him and believes Quentin loves him too.
Quentin has a gun to his head, contemplating suicide, but is interrupted by his brother. Quentin angrily acknowledges that he is gay and drives away.
Destiny tells Vic she's in love with him and Vic tells Destiny he's in love with her too. As Vic leaves for work, he passes India, Spencer and Guy with his gun pointed in their general direction. They confront Destiny about being involved with a cop, until Destiny realizes who Guy is and orders him out. India and Spencer threaten to leave with him, but Guy agrees to go. India appeals to Destiny and she relents. India and Spencer chase after him but can't find him. Meanwhile, Guy returnes to the apartment and apologizes for attacking them. Destiny accepts him and Lester nicknames him "Killer."
India wants to make plans for the evening with Spencer but Spencer already has plans, to blow up his parents. India begs him not to go, saying that he won't come back from it.
Destiny interrupts another gay bashing. The basher strikes her with a baseball bat and Destiny shoots him. Later, Vic comforts her and Destiny tells him he has to be careful around her kids. They all have "police stories."
Quentin, in response to a message from Guy, arrives at Destiny's apartment, where he finds Guy in bed with India and Spencer. Quentin orders him to come away with him, giving him the choice of "straight or dead." The boys argue that Quentin is in love with Guy and Quentin breaks down, admitting how much in love with Guy he is. Quentin again points the gun at his own head but Guy stops him and they kiss.
India appeals again to Spencer not to blow up his parents. He says that if Spencer really wants to kill them, he will help, but if Spencer really wants to blow them away, he will stay with India. "All we have to do is kiss, because when two guys kiss it's like a bomb going off in the straight world. Our kisses are louder than bombs." Spencer admits that he has fallen in love with India but is terrified because he's losing control. But he also feels safe, like he's home. India tells him that wherever they are, as long as they are together they're home. They kiss, and with each kiss they call out a target that their kiss has destroyed like a bomb, finally declaring that they will blow up the whole straight world.
Cast
Joe Lia as India
Allan Louis as Destiny
Lance Lee Davis as Spencer
Adam Larson as Guy
Josh Paul as Quentin
Arthur Roberts as Pornographer
Minerva Vier as Lester
Vince Parenti as Officer Vic Damone
Tara Nova as Matinee
Critical response
FAQs was generally poorly received by mainstream critics. The Los Angeles Times, while calling Louis' Destiny a "striking mix of Grace Jones and Catwoman," found that the "campier aspects are not enough to make up for its lapses into melodrama and just plain silliness." The Philadelphia City Paper largely concurred, finding the film hard to take seriously with its premise that every gay basher is really a closet homosexual and the concept of Destiny's character completely unbelievable. While finding a "reasonable tale" in Lewis' story and praising the performances, particularly those of Louis and Lia, nonetheless the conclusion is that the film is "awash in aimless, campless hyperbole and hysteria." The LA Weekly offered kudos to Lewis for his "adept[ness] at modulating both tension and free-flowing interpersonal relationships" and praising cinematographer Kelly, but notes that the film "seems less comfortable in its own skin than his other work...the dialogue is blunter, and harder for his amateur cast to pull off, while Lewis’ stridency, however justified, ultimately jars against the film's tender, all-is-love fantasia."
Notes
External links
2005 films
American films
American LGBT-related films
Films directed by Everett Lewis
American vigilante films
2000s vigilante films |
26717875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Caroline%20of%20Nassau-Usingen | Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen | Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (; 4 April 176217 August 1823) was the elder daughter of Karl Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, and wife of Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel.
Early life
Caroline was born at Biebrich, Nassau-Usingen the second child and first daughter of Karl Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1735–1803), and his wife, Countess Caroline Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg (1734–1810), daughter of Christian Karl Reinhard, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim.
Caroline, via her mother's roots among the Alsace lords of Leiningen, was a cousin of the Danish aristocrat, the Duke of Augustenborg, they both being direct descendants of the important Danish and Sleswicker magnate and statesman , 1st HRR Reichsgraf zu Rixingen, 1st Lensgreve of Langeland (1623-1686). This Danish connection played a role in Caroline's marriage.
Marriage and family
Caroline married on 2 December 1786 in Biebrich to Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747–1837), youngest child of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain, daughter of George II of Great Britain.
The Landgrave and Prince Frederik was born a German (Hessian) aristocrat, a cadet son of a Landesfürstliche house, but had lived since his youth in Denmark, as had his two elder brothers. Frederik's two elder brothers married daughters of the deceased King of Norway and Denmark. However, there was no Danish royal daughter left to marry the youngest boy, Frederik, so he married a cousin of the Duke of Augustenborg, being Caroline of Nassau. Frederik was an infantry general in Danish service.
They had eight children:
William (24 December 1787 – 5 September 1867), married Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864) and was the father of Louise of Hesse-Kassel (wife of Christian IX of Denmark).
Karl Friedrich (9 March 1789 – 10 September 1802)
Friedrich Wilhelm (24 April 1790 – 25 October 1876)
Ludwig Karl (12 November 1791 – 12 May 1800)
Georg Karl (14 January 1793 – 4 March 1881)
Luise Karoline Marie Friederike (9 April 1794 – 16 March 1881)
Marie Wilhelmine Friederike (21 January 1796 – 30 December 1880), married Georg, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779–1860)
Augusta Wilhelmine Luise (25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889), married Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850) and was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck (wife of George V of the United Kingdom).
Ancestry
Notes and sources
L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: vol III page 427
The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C.
Europäische Stammtafeln, Band I, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von
1762 births
1823 deaths
18th-century German people
18th-century German women
19th-century German people
19th-century German women
German princesses
House of Hesse-Kassel
House of Nassau
House of Nassau-Weilburg
Landgravines of Hesse-Kassel
Royal reburials |
6908253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20family%20features | Microsoft family features | Microsoft family features (includes family safety features formerly known as Microsoft Family Safety, formerly Parental Controls in Windows 7 and Vista) is a free set of features available on Windows 10 PC and Mobile that is bundled with the Windows 10, Home edition operating system. On 17 July 2020, Microsoft released Microsoft Family Safety on Google Play and App Store (iOS) as well.
Starting in Windows 10, a Microsoft Account is required to use the Microsoft family features. A parent can manage settings for a child if both of their Microsoft Accounts are in the same family. When parents turn on settings for their child, these settings are applied to every device that the child logs into with that Microsoft Account.
Other changes to family safety features in Windows 10 include Windows Store purchase controls and the ability to find a child's Windows 10 Mobile device on a map.
History
Microsoft has offered family safety features since March 2006 when a preview of Windows Live OneCare Family Safety was first offered to 3000 beta testers. After over a year and a half of testing, the final version was released on November 6, 2007. On 15 December 2008, Microsoft released an updated version 2009 of the software, and rebranded it as Windows Live Family Safety, removing it from the discontinued Windows Live OneCare family of products. Web Filtering and Activity Reporting were previously features in Windows Vista Parental Controls. They were removed from the Windows 7 release when they were moved to Windows Live. On September 30, 2010, Windows Live Family Safety 2011 (Wave 4) was released as part of Windows Live Essentials 2011.
On May 14, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Live Family Safety will be renamed to Microsoft Family Safety and will be built-in as part of its Windows 8 operating system.
In August 2015, Microsoft Family Safety was renamed Microsoft Family Features and the family features offering was expanded beyond that of just family safety to include Windows Store funding.
On December 16, 2015 Microsoft added new features to Windows 10 which included screen time extensions and the ability to manage settings for both Windows 10 PC and Mobile in one place.
In addition, Microsoft added a unified management center for recent activity, browsing history, app and game purchasing and downloading history and made it possible for a parent account to locate their child's Windows 10 phone.
Windows 8 features
Web Filtering – Family Safety has a Windows Filtering Platform driver to filter web browsing. The service filters in 18 different languages and contains the following levels:
Allow List Only – Only allows websites that a parent has added to the Allow list.
Warn on adult content – Allows all websites but warns when the site contains suspected adult material. This setting was designed for older children who are trusted to make good decisions when the web filter incorrectly categorizes a site.
Activity Reporting – Parents can obtain a list of the websites visited. They can also obtain a list of the following: computer usage time, programs run, files downloaded, and games run, which will be reported via Windows Parental Controls.
Enforce the adult filter of Google Search, Bing, Yahoo!, and other popular search engines. For Google, this means locking SafeSearch.
Control of Family Safety settings to set time limits, and game restrictions ala ESRB as well as general application restrictions.
Control of which programs a user is allowed to run.
Family Safety allows remote access to its features via the web interface. Windows Live Family Safety 2011 added support for using the web filtering/blocking controls without the child having a Windows Live ID.
Family Safety blocks InPrivate browsing in Internet Explorer 8 and 9.
Image Filtering – When Family Safety's SafeSearch is enabled, this filter looks for adult content in images. The filter is only run on websites which do not do an adequate job of filtering the images and only on computers with sufficient performance capabilities. When an image is blocked, Family Safety blurs it out.
Windows 10 features
Partial Web Filtering – Web filtering is restricted to Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers. Turning on web filtering for a child blocks access to adult websites and enables safe search, which filters out adult content in search results from Bing, Google, Yahoo! and other popular search engines. When Web Filtering is enabled, the safe search setting blurs out adult content in images. The web filter provides blacklisting and whitelisting of websites by a parent account. Web Filtering blocks InPrivate browsing in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. When the child is blocked from visiting a website, they can send a request to the parent asking for permission. Upon approval the child can visit the website. Most other commonly used browsers are automatically blocked, but can be enabled if required.
Activity Reporting – Parents can obtain a list of the websites visited, device usage time, and apps used for any Windows 10 PC or Mobile devices.
Screen time - Parents can restrict the amount of time a child can use the PC, and specify the time intervals that PCs can be used as well as a maximum time allowance per PC. A parent can approve extensions when time runs out.
App, games & media limits (Store only) - In Windows 10 it is no longer possible to block non-Windows Store applications. Only Windows Store apps can be restricted. Parents can set an age rating for content that a child can acquire in the Windows Store. This applies to apps, games, music, and movie content that a child can browse or acquire in the Windows Store. Parents can explicitly block Store apps or games but only after they have been used by the child.
Purchase & spending features - Parents can add money to their child's account that the child can then use to buy content in the Windows Store. This feature allows parents to give their children spending allowances without having to attach a credit card to the child's account. Parents can see a child's recent purchases in the Windows Store.
Find your child - Parents can find their child's Windows 10 Mobile phone on a map.
References
External links
(Windows 7) (Windows 8, Windows RT) FAQ
Arstechnica: Family Safety is compared to Mac OS X Parental Controls, and it wins hands down
Wired: 7 Things to Like about Parental Controls in Windows 7
Softpedia: Microsoft Introduces Windows Live Family Safety Beta
Microsoft Family Feature Complete Beginners Guide
Family Safety
Content-control software
Family Safety |
44505783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana%20%C3%81vila | Mariana Ávila | Mariana Ávila (born Mariana Ávila de la Torre on April 15, 1979) is a Mexican actress and singer.
Early life
Ávila was born in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. She started her acting career when she was six years old in a stage play called El pájaro azul. At 12, she got the starring role in Little Orphan Annie" in which she had to sing and dance. At 14, she performed in Cinderella and in the TV show El club de Gaby''.
She studied acting in the juvenile workshop of Pedro Damián and in 1996 in the CEA (Artistic Training Center at Televisa). Currently she is part of a musical group called "Mamá no sabe nada" produced by the record company Melody.
Filmography
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
Mexican child actresses
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican film actresses
Actresses from Mexico City
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
Singers from Mexico City
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican women singers |
26717878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Szajner | Bob Szajner | Bob Szajner (12 September 1938 – 9 November 2019) was an American jazz pianist.
Early life
Born on September 12, 1938, Bob Szajner grew up listening to talented relatives playing various instruments. His mother taught him the basics of music and how to play piano at a very early age.
In 1948, he won first prize in the "Frankie Carle Piano Contest". This entitled him to one weeks performance at the Fox Theater in Detroit. He was one of the opening acts on the bill (a vaudeville theme) for Billie Holiday along with a comedian and an acrobatic duo. He enjoyed listening to Billie Holiday's style of music and accompaniment for her. This was the beginning of his quest for his own personal style.
Ten years later, for at least ten years, he started writing and performing "Modern Jazz" later known as "Bebop" and then later as "Hard Bop". He performed with many musicians from the "Detroit jazz" scene at various sessions, venues and jazz clubs throughout the Detroit metropolitan area. He often worked with Donald Byrd, Charlie McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer, Roy Brooks, Yusef Lateef, Pepper Adams, Frank Isola, and others as a back-up piano player.
Later career
For the next ten years, he wrote some tunes, but really became quite dismayed and disappointed with the business of music, especially, the lack of audience. Then on October 8, 1978 (his 18th wedding anniversary), he recorded material for an album with his old school friend, drummer Roy Brooks and Roy's bass man Ray McKinney. "The Bob Szajner Triad" was a three record set of his original compositions. A twenty-seven tune recording session performing original music never played before or rehearsed and without second takes. This was the "Triad" concept. This led to performances at "The Cafe Detroit", "The Detroit Jazz Center", and the "Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival 1981".
Later albums featuring Ed Pickens on bass and Frank Isola on drums (The Bob Szajner Triad II), were recorded in 1981 at "The Detroit Jazz Center World Stage".
References
1938 births
2019 deaths
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
21st-century American pianists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
23579052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Beveridge%20%28bishop%29 | William Beveridge (bishop) | William Beveridge (1637 – 5 March 1708) was an English writer and clergyman who served as Bishop of St Asaph from 1704 until his death.
Life
Son of the Rev. William Beveridge, B.D., he was born at Barrow, near Leicester, and baptised on 21 February 1637 at Barrow, Leicestershire, of which his grandfather, father, and elder brother John were successively vicars. He was first taught by his learned father and for two years was sent to Oakham School, Rutland, where William Cave was his school fellow.
On 24 May 1653 he was admitted a sizar in St John's College, Cambridge, with Bullingham as his tutor.
Dr. Anthony Tuckney was then head of the college, and took a special interest in young Beveridge. Beveridge specially devoted himself to the learned languages, including the oriental. In his twenty-first year he published a Latin treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan, together with a Grammar of the Syriac Language, (1658; 2nd ed. 1664). In 1656, he proceeded H.A., and in 1660 M.A. On 3 January 1660-1 he was ordained deacon by Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln.
He was rector of Ealing, 1661–72, and of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, 1672–1704, when he became bishop. On 22 December 1674 he was collated to the prebend of Chiswick in St. Paul's, London. In 1679 he proceeded D.D. On 3 November 1681 he was appointed Archdeacon of Colchester. On 27 November 1681 he preached a sermon on the Excellency and Usefulness of the Common Prayer. It rapidly went through four editions. In 1683 he preached another popular sermon on the anniversary of the Great Fire of London in 1666. On 5 November 1684 he was made prebendary of Canterbury in succession to Peter du Moulin. In 1687-8 he joined with Dr. Horneck and others in forming religious societies for 'reformation of manners.' In 1689 he became president of Sion College. He was installed bishop of St. Asaph on 16 July 1704.
He died in apartments in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey in London on 5 March 1708.
During his lifetime Beveridge refused to sit for his portrait, but following his death Benjamin Ferrers, a relative, painted one, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from his corpse.
Works
In his day he was styled "the great reviver and restorer of primitive piety" because in his sermons and other writings he dwelt on the Church of the early centuries. His collected works (incomplete) are in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology in 12 volumes (Oxford, 1842–48). They contain six volumes of sermons, and in addition:
The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and the Fathers: A Complete System of Divinity (2 vols.);
[https://books.google.com/books?id=mzWuhCgih08C&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru#v=onepage&q&f=false Συνοδικόν, sive pandectae canonum ss. Apostolorum, et conciliorum ab ecclesia Graeca receptorum; nec non canonicarum ss. patrum epistolarum; nec non canonicarum SS. patrum epistolarum: una cum scholiis antiquorum singulis eorum annexis, et scriptis aliis huc spectantibus; ... Totum opus in duos tomos divisum Guilielmus Beveregius ... recensuit, prolegomenis munivit, & annotationibus auxit],. Codex canonum ecclesiæ primitivæ vindicatus ac illustratus, with the appendices, I. Prolegomena in Συνοδικὸν, sive pandectas canonum; and II. Præfatio ad annotationes in canones apostolicos (2 vols.);
Private Thoughts on Religion, and Church Catechism Explained.
His Institutionum chronotogicarum libri duo, una cum totidem arithmetices chronologicæ libellis (London, 1669) was once an admired treatise on chronology. In it he also includes a full explanation of the Chinese remainder theorem for the case in which the moduli are relatively prime. This was the first general proof of the ta-yen rule. It is also said by Francis Fauvel Gouraud that a discussion on Hebrew linguistics inspired Richard Grey to create his system of mnemotechniques which later evolved in to the Mnemonic major system.
References
External links
1637 births
1708 deaths
People educated at Oakham School
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Bishops of St Asaph
Chronologists
18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops |
44505794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncatus | Truncatus | Truncatus may refer to:
The common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Bulinus truncatus, a freshwater snail species found in Senegal
Boreotrophon truncatus, the bobtail trophon, a sea snail species
Neuroxena truncatus, a moth species found in Ghana
Notonomus truncatus, a ground beetle species
See also
C. truncata (disambiguation) |
6908281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliaksandr%20Kurliandchyk | Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk | Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk, (born November 25, 1971) is a Belarusian sprint canoer who competed from 2001 to 2006. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (C-4 200 m: 2005, C-4 1000 m: 2002, 2006).
Kurliandchyk also finished sixth the C-2 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
References
Sports-reference.com profile
1971 births
Belarusian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Belarus
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian |
23579053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Boulder%20River | Little Boulder River | The Little Boulder River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows from its sources within Kahurangi National Park to reach the Aorere River south of Collingwood.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Kahurangi National Park
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20cricket%20team%20in%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand%20in%201863%E2%80%9364 | English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1863–64 | An England cricket team toured Australia and New Zealand in the 1863–64 season. This was the second tour of Australia by an English team, the first having been in 1861–62, and the first to visit New Zealand. Like the 1859 team in North America, this team is sometimes referred to as George Parr's XI.
Squad
The team was captained by George Parr (Nottinghamshire) who was joined by William Caffyn, Julius Caesar, Tom Lockyer, (all Surrey); Alfred Clarke, Cris Tinley, John Jackson (all Nottinghamshire); George Tarrant, Robert Carpenter, Thomas Hayward (all Cambridgeshire); George Anderson (Yorkshire); and E. M. Grace (amateur; West Gloucestershire CC). Grace was the sole amateur in the party, all the other players being professionals.
Tour
The first match started on 1 January 1864 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the last ended on 24 April, also at the MCG. Parr's team played 14 matches in Victoria and New South Wales but only one is recognised as a first-class fixture. They also played five matches in the South Island of New Zealand during February.
The first-class match was held at the MCG in March. The two teams combined the tourists and local players on each side: in a close match G. Anderson's XI beat G. Parr's XI by four wickets.
References
Further reading
Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
External links
"The Old England Eleven in Australia" in Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, 30 April 1864
1864 in Australian cricket
1864 in English cricket
1864 in New Zealand cricket
1863
1864
1864
International cricket competitions from 1844 to 1888
New Zealand cricket seasons from 1863–64 to 1889–90 |
17341153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artnet | Artnet | Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City, in the United States, and is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly traded company based in Berlin that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company increased revenues by 24.3% to 17.3 million EUR in 2015 compared with a year before.
Company history
The company was founded as Centrox Corporation in 1989 by Pierre Sernet, a French collector who developed database software which allowed images of artworks to be associated with market prices. Hans Neuendorf, a German art dealer, began to invest in the company in the 1990s; he became chairman in 1992 and chief executive officer in 1995. In the same year the name was changed to Artnet Worldwide Corporation. It was taken over by Artnet AG in 1998. Neuendorf's son Jacob Pabst became chief executive officer in July 2012.
Website
Artnet operates an international research and trading platform for the art market, including works of fine art, decorative arts and design. It provides services that promote accessibility, allowing users to research art, contact galleries directly, and to attain price transparency in the art market. The platform caters specifically to art dealers, as well as buyers.
In 2008, Artnet launched the first online auctions platform exclusively for works of art. In 2015, artnet.com saw a 120% increase in new registrations, rising sell-through rates and a notable increase in numbers of lots sold.
In October 2008, Artnet launched a French website, artnet.fr. It also included a French language magazine which offers a critical overview of the French art market.
In February 2014 the company launched Artnet News, a 24-hour news site. Benjamin Genocchio, former editorial director of Louise Blouin Media, was appointed editor-in-chief. In November 2017 Genocchio was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, primarily originating during his time as editor-in-chief at Artnet.
Services
The primary service of this business is Artnet online auctions. The Artnet Fine Art and Design Price Database and the Artnet Decorative Art Price Database contain over 10 million auction sale results dating back to 1985 from over 1700 international auction houses. Market value and long-term price developments of artworks can be researched online.
An additional key product is the Artnet online Gallery Network, an online platform that connects galleries and collectors from around the world. With over 35,000 artists and 2,200 international galleries worldwide, it is the largest network of its kind, drawing a broad audience and generating inquiries from both serious collectors and first-time buyers.
Subscribing galleries can list works for sale on the site.
Collaborations
In 2004, Artnet and the international auction house Sotheby's began a collaboration.
A collaboration with Art Basel/Art Basel Miami Beach was launched in 2007.
References
External links
Companies based in Berlin
Companies based in New York City
Online databases
Art websites |
26717886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrod%20Kayler-Thomson | Jarrod Kayler-Thomson | Jarrod Kayler-Thomson (born 26 July 1985) is an Australian rules footballer. He had played in the Australian Football League with the Hawthorn Football Club. He currently plays with the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League.
Kayler-Thomson was teammate of Jordan Lewis, when the two were underage players at the Geelong Falcons in 2003.
Kayler-Thomson joined the Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and played 88 games for them between 2005 and 2009. He won the Vince Pendal Award for best clubman in 2009. Kayler-Thomson was the leading goalkicker for Perth in 2007 with 41 goals.
In the 2008 Queensland versus WAFL match in Townsville, Kayler-Thomson was listed as best on ground.
Drafted to the Hawks with the 29th selection of the 2010 AFL Rookie Draft, Kayler-Thomson was elevated to the senior list prior to the opening round of the 2010 AFL season due to a spate of injuries to senior players.
He debuted against Melbourne in the opening game of the 2010 season collecting 6 marks and 17 disposals.
Hawthorn delisted him at the end of the 2010 season so he returned to Perth.
He reached his 100th game upon returning in 2011 before then missing all but two matches in 2012 due to a shoulder injury. That gave him a chance to reflect and realise he wanted a fresh start in the WAFL, and that's how he ended up at Subiaco.
Statistics
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References
External links
Hawthorn Football Club players
Perth Football Club players
Subiaco Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club players
1985 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Geelong Falcons players
Mansfield Football Club players |
6908288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Vincent%27s%20Medical%20Center%20%28Bridgeport%29 | St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) | St. Vincent's Medical Center is a 473-bed tertiary care Catholic hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It caters to a large population in Southern Connecticut and provides comprehensive and advanced medical services. The hospital is now controlled by Hartford HealthCare, who acquired it from Ascension in 2019.
Size and services
The hospital has a medical staff of 450 physicians and has a total of more than 1,800 employees.
St. Vincent's has an angioplasty program, a bariatric surgery center, and cancer and orthopedic services.
The hospital also has a Family Birthing Center with private rooms for labor, delivery and recovery, a private bathroom and sleeping accommodations for the father, and an entertainment center.
Psychiatric services include an on-site psychiatric unit for acute care and the Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services (formerly the independent Hall-Brooke Hospital) an inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facility in Westport, Connecticut.
St. Vincent's is affiliated with Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. In 2016 St. Vincent's announced a deal with the Veterans Choice Program to provide health care to veterans.
St. Vincent's College
St. Vincent's Medical Center ran St. Vincent's College, which offered associate degrees in General Studies, Medical Assisting, Nursing, and Radiography. St. Vincent's College also offered a Bachelor of Science degree in Radiologic Sciences and a RN to BSN program.
The school also offered certificates (less than one year of study) in the following subjects: Central Sterile Processing Technician, Healthcare Management (online), Healthcare Reimbursement Specialist, Health Promotion (online), Hospital Coding Specialist, Medical Assisting, Medical Office Assistant, Multi-Skilled Assistant, Navigator Certificate Program,
Pharmacy Technician and an RN Refresher.
In 2017, the college was acquired by neighboring Sacred Heart University of Fairfield. It is now known as St Vincent's College at Sacred Heart University.
History
The hospital was founded by the Daughters of Charity religious order and incorporated on May 19, 1903. Its first building had 75 beds and was built at a cost of $250,000. It opened its doors on June 28, 1905; more than 70 patients were treated by the end of that first day.
On Easter Sunday, April 17, 1976, a new hospital building opened just behind the original one. That day, William J. Riordan, then president and chief executive officer of the hospital, directed the transfer of 209 patients to the new structure, a building nearly twice the size of the old one.
When the move was made to the new building, the hospital's name was changed from St. Vincent's Hospital to St. Vincent's Medical Center.
See also
List of hospitals in Connecticut
Bridgeport Hospital
Norwalk Hospital
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Stamford Hospital
Greenwich Hospital
Hartford Hospital
Notes
External links
St. Vincent's Medical Center
Hospital buildings completed in 1905
Hospital buildings completed in 1976
Teaching hospitals in Connecticut
Ascension Health
Buildings and structures in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Catholic hospitals in North America
Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport
NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System
1905 establishments in Connecticut |
17341173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20College%20for%20Women%20Dhoke%20Kala%20Khan | Government College for Women Dhoke Kala Khan | Government College for Women Dhoke Kala Khan is situated in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established for women in 2004, and is located just a kilometer away from Faizabad, Islamabad.
Science is taught at intermediate level and arts at graduation and intermediate level.
The students are around 500 and the number of staff is 15.
Government College for Women Dhoke Kala Khan, Rawalpindi was inaugurated by Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad. The then Federal Minister who made a lot of girls schools in Rwp. Source : Junaid Sultan Resident of Dhok kala Khan Rawalpindi.
See also
Government College Asghar Mall Rawalpindi
External links
A news
Public universities and colleges in Punjab, Pakistan |
23579055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Crow%20River | Little Crow River | The Little Crow River is a river of the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It flows south from the southern end of the Arthur Range to join with the waters of the Crow River. The entire length of the Little Crow River is within Kahurangi National Park.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Kahurangi National Park
Rivers of New Zealand |
44505796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G3%20Misa | G3 Misa | Guillermo Vicente Misa III, nicknamed "G3" is a Filipino singer/songwriter and recording artist based in Los Angeles. He is also the former lead guitarist of the band Introvoys.
He is known for the song "Habangbuhay", his carrier single from his 2014 solo album "Never Look Back". The music video for "Habangbuhay" features singer/actress Geneva Cruz as his leading lady.
G3 comes from a family of musicians. Jim Paredes of APO Hiking Society is his uncle. G3 started playing acoustic guitar at the age of 13 when his dad, GV Misa (singer/actor/commercial model) taught him some 3 chord Beatles and Beach Boys songs. At age 15, he played the electric guitar and formed his first band 'Trial and Error' along with his classmates from De La Salle Santiago Zobel School. He continued on to play in various bands during his college days. G3 was a member of the bands Violent Playground, Spinning Jenny, Mystery and Shanghaied. He would occasionally play guitar for the band Rivermaya whenever Rico Blanco would get sick.
In 1991, G3 along with Vanessa Garcia of the band Prettier Than Pink put up a studio called "Session Band Rehearsal & Recording Studio" located at the basement parking of Makati Cinema Square. It was where bands like Rivermaya formed. Razorback and Wolfgang also rehearsed and recorded demo material at Session Studio.
Violent Playground (1993)
In 1993, G3 was invited to be the guitarist of Violent Playground. The line up was RJ Oca on vocals, Raton del Gallego on guitar, Boom Jose on drums and Mali Andres on bass. They played regularly at "Weekends Live" at the Atrium of Makati.
Shanghaied (1994)
In 1994, G3 joined the alternative rock band "Shanghaied", which recorded a cover of the hit song, "Batugan", by Labuyo from the compilation album "Mga Himig Natin – Pinoy Rock Revisited" under Vicor Records. Batugan became the number one song for 6 straight weeks at DWLA 105.9 radio. Other chart toppers included "Laklak" by The Teeth and "Lakas Tama" by Siakol. They also released their own version of "Little Drummer Boy" as part of a Christmas compilation album called "Christmas on the Rocks" under Viva Records.
Mystery (1997)
In 1997, G3 got a call from his former classmate, Paco Arespacochaga to join his band Mystery. He went to Pink Noise recording studio thinking he would audition for guitars but he was asked to sing instead. His vocal audition made it straight into Mystery's album "Jigsaw" released under Star Records. They also released a music video for their single "Someday me and you" produced by Star Cinema. G3 also appeared as a guest along with his bandmates in the TV show Gimik.
Career change (2000)
G3 had a passion for computer programming. He would always bring a programming book to a gig and read it during breaks. In 1995, he developed a Billing and Collection system as well as a Payroll system for his own business, Session Band Rehearsal and Recording Studio. In 2000, G3 left Mystery to pursue a software engineering career. He started as a software developer in Fujitsu Philippines where he learned Java, C# and SQL. In 2002, he became the Application Development Manager for Jollibee Foods Corporation, one of the biggest companies in the Philippines. In 2007, he migrated to Los Angeles to become a Lead Software Developer for Myspace. In 2012, he worked for Fandango, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal as a Software Architect. In 2015, he joined ADP as a Principal Applications Developer. Currently, G3 is a Senior Software Engineer at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. In 2017, he married Sharmila Benedicto, a dentist.
Introvoys (2008 - 2016)
In Los Angeles, G3 got a call again from Paco Arespacochaga, asking if he could be the guitarist for Introvoys which was also now based in Los Angeles. G3 gladly agreed and is now actively writing songs, recording and performing with the band Introvoys. They released their latest album called "Where we left off" in January 2015. G3 wrote the songs "I don't wanna lose you" and "Sekreto" and co-wrote "Paradise", "Let's Dance", "Healing Hearts", "Why" and "Swim to the Sky".
Solo album (2014)
On November 12, 2014, G3 released his debut solo album entitled "Never Look Back" published by Claymind Music. His carrier single "Habangbuhay" featured Filipina singer and actress Geneva Cruz on its music video which was filmed in Los Angeles. G3 and Geneva are long time friends. Way back in 1999, G3 composed the song "How Can I Forget?" which was part of her album "On Fire". The Habangbuhay music video was directed and edited by Paco Arespacochaga. All 10 tracks in G3's album were composed, arranged, performed and recorded by G3 himself in his home studio.
Gear and Equipment
G3 Misa mainly uses a Fender Telecaster and a Fender Stratocaster for live shows. He is also seen using a PRS Custom, a Gibson Les Paul, a Gibson ES-335 and a Gibson ES-175 on some occasions. For acoustic playing, he uses a Taylor 314CE. His guitar pedals include a Wampler Dual Fusion, a Wampler Tape Echo, a Wampler Faux Spring Reverb, a Dunlop 535Q Crybaby Wah, an Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, a Digitech Harmony Man and a Digitech Drop. G3 plugs into an Avalon VT-737sp Tube Preamp which goes straight into a Behringer X32 mixer. When not using In-Ear monitors, G3 uses a Fender Twin Reverb '65 Reissue or a Mesa Single Rectifier with 4x10 Mesa oversized cab.
Live Session Performances
See also
Introvoys
References
External links
21st-century Filipino male singers
Filipino musicians
Living people
Musicians from Manila
De La Salle University alumni
Filipino songwriters
Filipino expatriates in the United States
Filipino people of Basque descent
20th-century Filipino male singers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
23579056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Devil%20River | Little Devil River | The Little Devil River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows southeast to reach the Devil River 15 kilometres southwest of Tākaka.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
44505808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Creek%20Settlement%2C%20Indiana | Indian Creek Settlement, Indiana | Indian Creek Settlement is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Indiana, in the United States.
The community took its name from Indian Creek.
References
Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana |
17341179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812%20Homestead%20Farm%20and%20Museum | 1812 Homestead Farm and Museum | The 1812 Homestead Farm and Museum, sometimes known as the 1812 Homestead or the 1812 Homestead Inn, is a historic house located in Willsboro, New York, that currently operates as a living history museum.
Originally constructed in 1813 as an inn, the homestead now offers tours and programming allowing the visitors to experience what life was like at that time and educates visitors on 19th-century heritage. It is also the current home of the Burt School, which was originally located in Essex.
References
External links
1812 Homestead Educational Foundation
Hotel buildings completed in 1813
Museums in Essex County, New York
Historic house museums in New York (state)
Houses in Essex County, New York
Living museums in New York (state) |
6908290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Trench | Tim Trench | Tim Trench is a fictional comic book detective in the DC Comics universe. He was first introduced in Wonder Woman v1 #179 (November–December 1968). He met his demise in 52 Week 18 (September 2006).
Fictional character biography
Introduced as an ally of the pre-Crisis Wonder Woman, Timothy Trench's first appearance (seen as a shadowy figure on page 23) was in Wonder Woman vol. 1 #179 (November–December 1968) and his first formal appearance was the next issue. A middle-aged tough guy and private eye, Trench carried a single gun, which he lovingly referred to as "Lulu". He was intended as a knockoff of Sam Spade, from the Maltese Falcon, using the word "gunsel" as Spade did to refer to low-level hoodlums and mentioning his late partner Archie Miles (Spade's partner was Miles Archer). Tim aided Wonder Woman and I Ching in defeating the terrorist Doctor Cyber, but Wonder Woman's long-time boyfriend Steve Trevor was killed in the process. Trench exited with issue #182 (May–June 1969), taking with him a box of gems stolen from Doctor Cyber.
Trench was reintroduced in Detective Comics #460 (June 1976) with a two-part back-up feature in Detective Comics. Appearing considerably younger, the tough-talking gumshoe Trench was located in St. Louis with an office above a repertory theatre, overseen by Box-Office Sadie, that consistently screens Humphrey Bogart films. Trench had abandoned "Lulu" for twin .357 Magnums housed in shoulder holsters.
Twenty years later, Trench resurfaced having joined the superhero team Hero Hotline. Trench was costumed in brown hat and gloves, green jacket, domino mask and a shirt with a big red "T" on it. The only chronicled mission Trench underwent as a member of the team was witnessed in the Vertigo title Swamp Thing and Trench was absent from all the action, having been caught in traffic.
52
After his death in 52 Week 18, Trench was revealed to have been a member of the Croatoan Society. Its members included Ralph Dibny, Detective Chimp, Edogawa Sangaku, and Traci Thirteen. It was at a scheduled meeting of these detectives at the House of Mystery that his body was discovered, wearing the helmet of Doctor Fate. When his body was touched, it turned to liquid.
Investigation by Dibny, Detective Chimp and the Shadowpact revealed that Trench's death came as a result of his attempt to assume the mantle of Dr. Fate without paying due sacrifice first. Later, this was revealed to be a deception by Felix Faust, who intentionally killed Trench to lead Dibny on a quest.
References
External links
Thrilling Detective: Timothy Trench
DC Universe Guide: Tim Trench
Obscure Characters Index: Tim Trench
Trench, Tim
Trench, Tim
Comics characters introduced in 1968
Characters created by Dennis O'Neil |
23579057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Hohonu%20River | Little Hohonu River | The Little Hohonu River is a river of New Zealand's West Coast Region. It flows northwest from its origins in the Hohonu Range southwest of Lake Brunner, reaching the Greenstone River / Hokonui 20 kilometres southeast of Greymouth.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Grey District
Rivers of New Zealand |
44505810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20truncatus | N. truncatus | N. truncatus may refer to:
Neuroxena truncatus, a moth species found in Ghana
Notonomus truncatus, a ground beetle species
See also
Truncatus (disambiguation) |
23579060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Hope%20River | Little Hope River | The Little Hope River is a river of the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It flows from the western flank of the Hope Saddle, meeting with the waters of the Hope River after seven kilometres at the settlement of Glenhope. follows the valley of the Little Hope River immediately after crossing the saddle.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
44505823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Lewtas | Ian Lewtas | Ian Lewtas (born 25 February 1954) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
Geelong Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) |
23579061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Kowai%20River | Little Kowai River | The Little Kowai River is a river of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows generally south from the Torlesse Range to join with the Kowai River two kilometres north of Springfield.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Lottery%20River | Little Lottery River | The Little Lottery River is a river of the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. It flows southwest through the Amuri Range, flowing into the Lottery River, part of the Waiau River system.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
26717933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghurajpur | Raghurajpur | Raghurajpur is a heritage crafts village out of Puri district, India, known for its master Pattachitra painters, an art form which dates back to 5 BC in the region and Gotipua dance troupes, the precursor to the Indian classical dance form of Odissi. It is also known as the birthplace of one of the finest and Legendary Odissi exponents Padma Vibhushan Guru, Kelucharan Mohapatra and Gotipua Dancer Padma Shri Guru, Maguni Charan Das. It is also the birth place of Shilp Guru
Dr. Jagannath Mahapatra who is a prominent Pattachitra Artist and has a huge contribution on the development of Pattachitra art and Raghurajpur village. Apart from that, the village is also home to crafts like Tussar paintings, Palm leaf Engravings, Stone carvings, Wood carvings, Cowdung toys and Papier mache toys, and masks.
In 2000, after a two-year research and documentation project by INTACH, starting 1998, the village was chosen to be developed as state's first heritage village and developed as a Crafts village, soon the village had an interpretation centre, commissioned artwork on the walls of the artists’ homes and a rest house.
It also has the distinction of the only place where the traditional decoration called Patas, used under the throne of Lord Jagannath and on the three chariots during the annual Rath Yatra festival, that takes place at pilgrimage town of Puri, some 14 km away, known for the Jagannath Temple.
Governmenet and other stakeholders should use online campaigns to promote Pattachitra art of Raghurajpur village.
Overview
Situated amidst groves of coconut, palm, mango and jack fruit, the main village has two streets with over 120 houses, most decorated with mural paintings, where the painters reside and practice their pattachitra craft, besides many other that practices throughout the village, including traditional masks, stone idols, papier mache, sculptures, wooden toys. The village also has a series of temples dedicated not only to Bhuasuni, the local deity but also to various Hindu gods including, Radha Mohan, Gopinath, Raghunath, Laxminarayan and Gouranga.
Around, 2000 it was developed as a heritage village by INTACH, and soon became a major rural tourist destination of the state, drawing tourist, both domestic and foreign to the village. Villagers were also trained to provide heritage walks to the visitors by the organisation, and has since become a template for heritage tourism in the region.
Today it is also the venue of the annual Basant Utsav – Parampara Raghurajpur (Spring Festival), which was first organised in 1993 under the aegis of State Tourism Department and Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata, held in the month of February/March and an important tourist draw.
Pattachitra
The pattachitra paintings are made over a piece of cloth known as Patta or a dried palm leaf, which is first painted with a mixture of chalk and gum. Over the prepared surface, colourful and intricate pictures of various Gods, Goddesses, and mythological scenes with ornamentation of flowers, trees and animals are then painted. The paintings on Tussar saris, especially the Sambalpuri Saree depicting Mathura Vijay, Raslila and Ayodhya Vijay owe their origin to ‘Raghurajpur Pattachitra paintings’.
Location
It is situated 14 km away from Hindu pilgrimage town of Puri, on the southern banks of river Bhargabi (Bhargavi). Visitors from Puri take the Bhubaneswar road, near Chandanpur, on NH-316, and upon reaching the Chandanpur Bazaar, they can take a right turn to reach Raghurajpur. The village is then around 1.5 km from Chandanpur.
Notes
References
External links
Raghurajpur Crafts village Orissa Review, Government of Orissa, November 2004.
Raghurajpur Crafts village Rural tourism, Govt. of India
Myths on a cloth at Mint
Villages in Puri district
Odia culture
Tourist attractions in Puri district
Indian painting
Articles containing video clips |
17341180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking%20in%20Strings | Speaking in Strings | Speaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film directed by Paola di Florio. The film is based on the life of Italian-born violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and it received a nomination for Best Feature Documentary Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
Content
The film is based on the life and career of Italian-born classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and provides an insight into the style of the artist - who is noted by critics for pouring her own emotions into her musical performances. The film started from Salerno-Sonnenberg's birth in Rome, and followed her story as she moved to United States at age 8 and was brought up by her mother in New Jersey. She grew up with her brother who is also a musician. The film concentrates on the violinist's difficult childhood as she had to experience scorn and laughter by her friends when she played a recording of Brahms in front of the class. This is among the incidents that caused the artist to develop her overly emotional performing style and personality as she became a professional violinist and rose to stardom. In the documentary, Salerno-Sonnenberg talks about periods of depression in her life and her suicide attempt; she also discusses her views on how music is connected to human emotions.
Production and release
The documentary was directed by Paola di Florio, a childhood friend of Salerno-Sonnenberg. Salerno-Sonnenberg appeared as herself in the film. Speaking in Strings was co-produced by two companies, Asphalt Films and CounterPoint Films.
Speaking in strings premiered at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in 1999. This same year, the documentary appeared in several film festivals, including Florida Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Newport International Film Festival, and Seattle International Film Festival. The film was released theatrically on October 29, 1999. A DVD version was released on June 26, 2001.
Reception
Box office
The film earned $1,519 in its opening weekend in one theater, and went on to gross $6,859 domestically within two weeks from release.
Critical reaction
The documentary received mixed response from critics. It got a score of 56 out of 100 based on 10 reviews at Metacritic, and 3.5 out of 4 stars at TV Guide. In general, critics agreed on the point that the film lacked information on the private life of Salerno-Sonnenberg, particularly her romance relationship which was mentioned during the documentary. Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave generally positive reviews, stating that the film "takes us inside Salerno-Sonnenberg's experience, challenging us to respect a woman so naturally intense that she can't help wearing out friends and colleagues, and alienating members of her audience."
Meanwhile, San Francisco Examiner 's critic Allan Ullrich criticised that, due to the musical excerpts used in the documentary, "the movie can't help looking like a prolonged promotional video." Critic Robert Hilferty of Village Voice called the documentary "a clumsy labor of love with unforgivable lapses", and noted that it "fails to show why Salerno-Sonnenberg's controversial interpretations are so original and valid." However, he added that it "sometimes rises to a compelling portrait of a neurotic personality". According to Hilferty, the documentary leaves an impression that music is the factor that "ruined" the life of the violinist.
Nominations and awards
Despite the mixed reviews by critics, Speaking in Strings received a nomination for Best Feature Documentary at the 72nd Academy Awards. The film won a Jury Award for Documentary Competition at the Newport International Film Festival and the same year, won a cable Ace Award.
References
External links
Speaking in strings at Internet Movie Database
Speaking in Strings at CounterPoint Films
Speaking in Strings at Seventh Art Releasing
1999 films
American films
English-language films
American documentary films
Documentary films about classical music and musicians
1999 documentary films |
23579063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20%C5%8Cnahau%20River | Little Ōnahau River | The Little Ōnahau River is a river of the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It has its sources close to the track in Kahurangi National Park that follows a ridgeline to Parapara Peak, near the source of the Ōnahau River. From here, it flows initially southwest and then northwest, passing underneath State Highway 60 just west of the Tākaka Aerodrome. Shortly before reaching the sea, it flows into the Ōnahau River, reaching Golden Bay via a small estuary to the west of Rangihaeata.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
26717942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starks%20station | Starks station | The Starks station was a railway station in Starks, British Columbia. It was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
17341195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Bank%20of%20Tarlac | Cooperative Bank of Tarlac | The Cooperative Bank of Tarlac (CBT) is a cooperative bank in the Philippines, operating out of the province of Tarlac. Its main base is Tarlac City, with branches in Paniqui, Concepcion, Capas and Camiling. The bank, formerly the Cooperative Rural Bank of Tarlac, was established in 1977 following the merger of 108 cooperatives and samahang nayons in the province into one financial institution. It provides banking services not only to the residents of Tarlac and its farmers in particular, but also to cooperatives that likewise operate in the province.
In 2009, the provincial government of Tarlac was commended by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for providing the level of assistance that it did to the bank, which was unmatched by any other local government unit.
On 24 October 2014 the Monetary Board made a resolution prohibiting the bank from continuing its business. It was then put under the receivership of the state-run PDIC.
References
External links
Cooperative Bank of Tarlac
Cooperative banking in Asia
Banks of the Philippines
Banks established in 1977
Tarlac City
Cooperatives in the Philippines |
6908344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanwood%20Duval | Stanwood Duval | Stanwood Richardson Duval Jr. (born February 8, 1942) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Early career
Duval was born to Stanwood Richardson Duval Sr. (1913–2001), and the former Bonnie Parker Faught. He was raised in Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish, where his father operated a successful insurance business and was prominent in community affairs. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from the Louisiana State University Law School in 1966 with a Bachelor of Laws. He practiced law from 1966–1994 in Houma eventually becoming a senior partner of Duval, Funderburk, Sundbery and Lovell, LP. At the age of 31, Duval served as an elected delegate to the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention, where he served on committees for rules of procedure and for the executive branch. In 1994, he assumed his seat of the federal bench having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 28, 1994. Duval succeeded Judge George Arceneaux, who was Duval's former law partner, who died in office in 1993. He was also the assistant city attorney of Houma from 1970 to 1972 and the attorney for the consolidated Terrebonne Parish government from 1988 to 1993.
Federal judicial service
Duval was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 15, 1994, to a seat vacated by Judge George Arceneaux He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 1994, and received commission on September 29, 1994.
He served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules to the Judicial Conference of the United States Courts from 1997 to 2003, the Council of the Louisiana Law Institute from 1996 to 2000, and the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council from 2004 to 2007.
Attorneys evaluating his time on the bench commented that he was "an extremely bright guy and he's very knowledgeable about complex litigation as well as complex business transactions." Some noted that he was "courteous, patient and approachable." "Lawyers who represent both plaintiffs and defendants in civil cases said Duval is neutral. . . . 'He has no leanings that are apparent.'"
He assumed senior status on December 15, 2008. His service terminated on January 31, 2017, due to retirement.
Family connections
A Democrat, Duval is a nephew of former state Senator Claude B. Duval, (1914–1986), a conservative Democrat who represented mostly Terrebonne and neighboring St. Mary Parish between 1968 and 1980 and ran unsuccessfully in 1964 for lieutenant governor. Stanwood Duval's brother, C. Berwick Duval II (born November 1, 1955), is a prominent Houma attorney.
Notable rulings
Duval issued an injunction in 2000 which barred the State of Louisiana from issuing "Choose Life" vanity automobile license plates, as the legislature had approved in 1999. Duval ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood of America, which took the view that the choice of displaying the plates violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution because there was no alternative display available for supporters of abortion. Duval's opinion was unanimously reversed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on April 13, 2005. A petition for rehearing en banc was filed by the plaintiffs and was denied by an eight to eight vote.
The judge became an object of political consideration in the 2003 gubernatorial campaign, when Republican candidate, Bobby L. Jindal, lashed out at "liberal" judges. According to WWL-TV's website: "A campaign mailing by supporters of . . . Jindal has a New Orleans-based federal judge and members of his Houma family seeing red. The literature, though it doesn't specifically name him, labels U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval II, as a 'left-wing' jurist."
Most significantly, Duval presided over the litigation arising out of the Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levee system. The court consolidated over 1,200 cases comprising hundred of thousands of claims and systematically adjudicated the lawsuits." Duval issued rulings in 2005 and 2006 in reference to the constitutional rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina. He extended the time that hurricane evacuees could continue receiving taxpayer-funded hotel stays. In addition to the Katrina rulings, on November 19, 2009, Duval ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was negligent in maintaining flood protection that resulted in significant flooding during Katrina. On March 3, 2012, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Duval's ruling, agreeing that the Corps had failed to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.
In 2008, Duval assumed senior status. He was succeeded in his position in 2011 by Nannette Jolivette Brown, an appointee of President Barack Obama. He retired from active service on January 31, 2017.
Notes
References
1942 births
Living people
People from Houma, Louisiana
Lawyers from New Orleans
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
Louisiana State University alumni
Louisiana Democrats
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges |
23579064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Opawa%20River | Little Opawa River | The Little Opawa River is a river of the south Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows generally east from a ridge southwest of Fairlie, joining with its southern neighbour, the Ōpaoa River very close to their joint outflow into the Tengawai River, close to the settlement of Albury.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Cruz%20%28disambiguation%29 | Nelson Cruz (disambiguation) | Nelson Cruz (born 1980) is a baseball outfielder from Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.
Nelson Cruz may also refer to:
Nelson Cruz (pitcher) (born 1972), baseball pitcher from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Nelson Cruz (athlete) (born 1977), long-distance runner from Cape Verde |
23579066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Pokororo%20River | Little Pokororo River | The Little Pokororo River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. Like its neighbour the Pokororo River it is a tributary of the Motueka River, which it meets 15 kilometres southwest of Motueka.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
26717996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Wellington%20station | South Wellington station | The South Wellington station is a former railway station in South Wellington, British Columbia. The station was a stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
17341227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Baptist%20Yi%20Kwang-nyol | John Baptist Yi Kwang-nyol | John Baptist Yi Kwang-nyol (c. 1800 – July 20, 1839) was one of the 103 Korean Martyrs. His feast day is July 20, and he is also venerated along with the rest of The Korean martyrs on September 20.
John embraced Roman Catholicism with his elder brother when he was 28 years old. His fervor attracted the attention of the catechists, who sent him to Beijing to negotiate affairs of religion. The priests of the capital, in admiration of his piety, conferred upon him baptism and the other sacraments. John Baptist, after his return to his country, abstained from eating meat throughout the rest of his life, and made a resolution to live in celibacy. He was noted for his holy exterior appearance. He was martyred at the age of 39, severely tortured with torturing instruments and at last beheaded with an axe.
References
Bibliography
The Lives of the 103 Martyr Saints of Korea: Saint John Baptist Yi Kwang-nyol (1795~1839), Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea Newsletter No. 56 (Fall 2006).
1800 births
1839 deaths
19th-century Christian saints
19th-century executions by Korea
19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Converts to Roman Catholicism
Executed Korean people
Korean Roman Catholic saints
People executed by Korea by decapitation
Christian martyrs executed by decapitation
Catholic martyrs
Canonizations by Pope John Paul II
Joseon Christians |
6908350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Lewis%20%28boxer%29 | Andrew Lewis (boxer) | Andrew Lewis (December 14, 1970 – May 4, 2015) was a Guyanese professional boxer in the Middleweight division and the WBA World Welterweight Champion. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
On June 5, 2007 his uncle Abdel Nur surrendered in Trinidad as a suspect in the John F. Kennedy International Airport terror plot. Lewis called his uncle a good Muslim and said he couldn't believe his uncle was involved in the plot. "It must be the wrong person," and also said "My uncle was never into terrorism. He condemned the World Trade Center attacks"
Pro career
Nicknamed "Six Heads", Lewis turned pro in 1993.
WBA Welterweight Championship
Andrew beat James Page in 2001 to capture the Vacant WBA Welterweight Title. Due to his exciting style and power in both hands, Lewis quickly became a popular fighter on HBO. After defending the title against Larry Marks, he took on Ricardo Mayorga and the bout ended in the 2nd round and was ruled a No contest due to a nasty cut on Lewis caused by accidental headbutt. Lewis's lost the title in a rematch to Mayorga in 2002 via 5th-round TKO.
WBO Welterweight Championship
In 2003 Lewis challenged WBO Welterweight Champion Antonio Margarito, but was TKO'd in the 2nd round.
Guyanese Light Middleweight Title
From 2005 to 2007 Lewis battled Denny Dalton in a series of 3 fights for the Guyanese Light Middleweight Title. These fights are most notable due to the controversial and bizarre nature of the ending of the second fight. Ahead on points in the 7th Round Lewis retired from the fight due to an extreme need to defecate blamed on consumption of a pre-fight milkshake.
Lewis returned to the ring almost 12 months to the day from this embarrassment to defeat Dalton and claim the Guyanese Light Middleweight Title. This would prove to be the final victory of his career, which ended in October 2008 when he dropped a split decision to Howard Eastman.
Death
On 4 May 2015, Lewis, on his bicycle, collided with a Premio car at Hope on the East Bank of Demerara in Guyana. He later succumbed to his severe head injuries at a local hospital.
See also
List of WBA world champions
References
External links
1970 births
2015 deaths
Welterweight boxers
World boxing champions
Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana
Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Guyana
Guyanese male boxers
Road incident deaths in Guyana
Cycling road incident deaths
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Guyana
Competitors at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games
Olympic boxers of Guyana
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing |
17341232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miantonomi%20Memorial%20Park | Miantonomi Memorial Park | Miantonomi Memorial Park is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park (and the hill it is on) is named after Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi. This hill was Miantonomi's seat of power until it was purchased by English colonists in 1637. The settlers used the hill as a lookout and in 1667 built a beacon on the hill. During the American Revolutionary War fortifications were built on the hill, fragments of which still survive. In 1921, the City of Newport received the property from the local Stokes family.
Miantonomi Memorial Park's became part of the Aquidneck Land Trust through an easement in 2005.
Tower
The Park Commission built a stone tower in 1929 as a World War I memorial. On September 27, 2017, the Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower was named an official WWI Centennial memorial and will receive grant funds towards restoration and maintenance.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Park Information
Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Parks in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
1637 establishments in Rhode Island
Geography of Newport, Rhode Island
Tourist attractions in Newport, Rhode Island
Protected areas of Newport County, Rhode Island |
26718004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevchenko%20Transnistria%20State%20University | Shevchenko Transnistria State University | Two universities claim the succession of the Taras Shevchenko State University of Tiraspol: Pridnestrovian State University () located in Tiraspol, Transnistria, and Tiraspol State University () located in Chișinău, Moldova.
History
The original university in Tiraspol was founded in 1930 as the State Pedagogical Institute in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR), then being a constituent part of the Ukrainian SSR located in Transnistria region. The institution was renamed in 1939 to honor the Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, on his 125th birthday.
In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, part of the territory of the MASSR, including the city of Tiraspol, was allocated to the new Moldavian SSR formed by the Soviets.
In July 1992, as a result of the Transnistria War, the university was officially moved to Chișinău, where it continues to function under the name of Tiraspol State University (UST), while in Tiraspol it was reorganized as the Pridnestrovian State University (PSU). Thus the university was split in two, both claiming to be the original institution founded in 1930.
PSU
In Tiraspol, the university consists of 12 buildings. It offers internationally accredited courses in partnerships with universities in Russia. Students can study both internally and in absentia. Not only citizens of Transnistria can study there but also people from abroad. Education can be both free and paid. The university employs over 1,000 teaching staff including 36 Doctors and 220 Masters of Science. Among its publications, the Atlas of Pridnestrovie is often used as a source for data, specialized maps and statistics on Transnistria.
The university has 8 faculties and 84 chairs, offering 54 different majors. Classes are taught mainly in Russian, with only a few programs in Romanian (called "Moldavian in Cyrillic script") and Ukrainian.
Agrarian and Technological Faculty
Faculty of Natural Geography
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
Faculty of Physical Education and Sports
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Economics
There are also four institutes and branches.
Institute of Public Administration, Law and Social Sciences and Humanities
Engineering and Technical Institute
Bender Polytechnic Branch
Rîbnița branch
UST
In Chișinău, the university has 5 faculties and 7 departments, offering studies in 42 specialties, 17 specializations, and 5 scientific specialties.
Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Information Technologies
Faculty of Biology and Chemistry
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of Pedagogy
References
Shevchenko Transnistria State University
Educational institutions established in 1930
Tiraspol
Education in Chișinău
1930 establishments in the Soviet Union |
23579067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonia%20%C5%9Awidnica | Polonia Świdnica | MKS Polonia Świdnica is a Polish football club based in Świdnica, Poland. The club currently plays in IV liga.
History
The club has had many names since its foundation in 23 July 1945. They are listed below;
23.07.1945 – KS [Klub Sportowy] Polonia Świdnica
1949 – KS Budowlani Świdnica
1951 – ZKS [Zakładowy Klub Sportowy] Kolejarz Świdnica
1952 – ZKS Stal Świdnica
1953 – MKS [Międzyzakładowy Klub Sportowy] Polonia Świdnica
19?? – MKS [Miejski Klub Sportowy] Polonia Świdnica
01.07.2005 – MKS Polonia/Sparta Świdnica (after a merger with KP Sparta Świdnica)
08.08.2014 – MKS Polonia-Stal Świdnica (after a merger with KP Stal Świdnica)
Since 1946 Polonia Świdnica took part in the Polish championship. Polish Championships were played then knockout system up to 1948. The club first won promotion from the district of Wroclaw OZPN, and then lost in the 1/16 finals of the Polish Championship. In the 1947–1948 season first the team advanced to the qualifying tournament, which took third place in Group III and received the right to play in 1949 in the newly formed Second League (D2). After two spent seasons team was ranked the 9th place in 1950 season and was relegated to the regional league. In 1966/67 club played in the third league, group I (Silesia), but the inheritance took 15th place and returned to the regional tournament. After a long break, it was only in 1991/92 the club was again played in the third league, group VII (Lower Silesia), where he finished high 3rd place. Over the next few seasons, players were fighting for promotion to the second league and were close to repeating the success from the past. In the 1997/98 season the team took 15th place in group II (Lower Silesia) III League (D3) and was relegated to the regional league. At the turn of the century club had financial problems. In the 2003/04 season the team won the Class B Świdnica II (D7), and in 2004/05 won the 2nd place in group II Class A, group Wałbrzych II (D6). As another football club from Świdnica Sparta Świdnica (founded in 1995) played in the group of Lower Silesia IV League (D4), Polonia has decided to promote in the class by combining with it. As a result of the merger 1 July 2005, was created a club Polonia/Sparta Świdnica. The club continued with the tradition of the Polonia (front name of the club, date of creation and logo), though he played instead of the Sparta in League IV. In the 2007/08 season the team won a group of Lower Silesia IV League, but in the play-offs for promotion to the new second league defeat of the Czarni Żagań (2:3, 1:2), the following season 2008/09 won the runners-up in group of Lower Silesia-Lubuska III League but in the play-offs for promotion to the second league, again lost, this time with Zagłębie Sosnowiec (0:0, 0:1). August 8, 2014, once again merged, this time with the club in a lower league Stal Świdnica (founded in 1986), who last season took 8th place in the Class District, group Walbrzych (D5). The merger club was renamed to Polonia-Stal Świdnica. Data of foundation – 1945 and the logo of the club reflects the continuation of the history of the Polonia.
Supporters
The club has undergone many name changes as a result of mergers, in 2005 despite fan protests the club was renamed KP Polonia/Sparta Świdnica after a merger with KP Sparta Świdnica. After a merger with another local club Stal Świdnica and creating Polonia-Stal Świdnica in 2014 supporters protests too. There are efforts to return to its historical name and logo.
Honours
Second League (D2)
7th place (1): 1949
Runner-up (3): 1977–78, 1981–82, 2010–11
Polish Cup
1/16 finals (1): 1950–51
Polish Cup OZPN Wałbrzych
Winner (1): 1992–93
Stadium
The Municipal Stadium OSiR in Świdnica, Poland, is located on Śląska Str in the eastern part of the city. It is the home stadium of the Polonia Świdnica football team playing in the Polish Third League. The stadium has a capacity of 3,500 spectators, incl. 1,096 seated.
References
External links
Info on www.90minut.pl
Association football clubs established in 1945
1945 establishments in Poland
Świdnica |
23579074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Pomahaka%20River | Little Pomahaka River | The Little Pomahaka River is a river of New Zealand, a tributary of the Pomahaka River which it joins east of the Whitecoomb Range.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Otago
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%20%40%20War | 16 @ War | "16 @ War" is the debut single from Karina from her debut album First Love. It is produced by Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, and written by them. It has spent 8 weeks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and peaked at #51. It debuted at #93. The song expresses hardships of life from a sixteen-year-old girl's point of view.
Charts
References
2008 debut singles
Karina Pasian songs
Def Jam Recordings singles
Songs with feminist themes
Songs written by The-Dream
2008 songs
Song recordings produced by Tricky Stewart
Songs written by Tricky Stewart |
23579079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Slate%20River | Little Slate River | The Little Slate River is a river of New Zealand's Tasman Region. As with its neighbour, the Slate River, it is a tributary of the Aorere River. The Little Slate meets the Aorere 15 kilometres southwest of Collingwood.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
26718026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassidy%20station | Cassidy station | The Cassidy station is located in Cassidy, British Columbia. The station was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner which ended in 2011. The station is on the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island mainline.
The Cassidy railway station was established on March 31, 1924 being named after Thomas Cassidy, a local farmer who homesteaded in the area and delivered milk and supplies to the railway.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1924
Disused railway stations in Canada |
17341245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magasa%2C%20Crete | Magasa, Crete | Magasa () is a Neolithic settlement on the eastern part of the island of Crete in present-day Greece. Magasa is notable as a Neolithic Cretan settlement for some use of large room sizes in its multi-roomed residences. The ben-and-but style of housing design with some use of mud-dried brick has been noted as similar to that found in Neolithic Knossos.
See also
Lato
Kydonia
References
Sources
British School at Athens, British School at Athens Managing Committee (1894) The Annual of the British School at Athens, Macmillan Publishers
C. Michael Hogan, Knossos fieldnotes, Modern Antiquarian (2007)
Arnold Walter Lawrence and Richard Allan Tomlinson (1996) Greek Architecture, Yale University Press, 243 pages
Neolithic settlements in Crete
Former populated places in Greece |
23579080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Totara%20River | Little Totara River | The Little Totara River is a river of the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It rises on the northern slopes of Mount Euclid in the Paparoa Range, flowing northwest to its confluence with the Tōtara River at the latter's mouth on the Tasman Sea seven kilometres north of Charleston.
It was designated as a nationally protected area in 1987 by the Department of Conservation.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Buller District
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Waingaro%20River | Little Waingaro River | The Little Waingaro River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is a tributary of the Waingaro River, which it meets 10 kilometres south of Tākaka.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Tasman District
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Wanganui%20River | Little Wanganui River | The Little Wanganui River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows generally west from the slopes of Mount Allen, reaching the Karamea Bight close to the small settlement of Little Wanganui. It is home to a large number of trout.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Buller District
Rivers of New Zealand |
17341258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian%20Universalist%20Service%20Committee | Unitarian Universalist Service Committee | The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is a non-profit, nonsectarian associate member organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association that works to provide disaster relief and promote human rights and social justice around the world.
UUSC was founded in May 1940 as the Unitarian Service Committee with the intended purpose of assisting European refugees endangered by Nazi persecution. The founding director was Robert Dexter, who had served in a diplomatic role for the American Unitarian Association for more than a decade and had been moved, in particular, by the plight of refugees in Czechoslovakia, a country with a large Unitarian congregation. The organization established an office in Lisbon and the first American Unitarians to be posted there were Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp, a minister of the Unitarian Church in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, and his wife Martha. Later, Rev. Charles Joy, Elisabeth Anthony Dexter and Noel Field were recruited to work in the organization's Lisbon and Marseille offices and they, along with many refugee volunteers, expanded the relief and emigration programs. The Sharps were posthumously honored by Israel in 2006 as the second and third Americans to be added to the list of Righteous among the Nations.
The organization’s first board of directors was chaired by William Emerson, the former dean of the MIT School of Architecture. Other board members included Harold Hitz Burton, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a future Supreme Court justice; Percival Brundage, senior partner in the Price Waterhouse and future budget director for President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Louise Wright, chairwoman of the voters department of government and foreign policy for the League of Women Voters.
Today, UUSC is active in coordinating relief efforts around the world and investigating reports of human rights abuses. UUSC has four program areas: Rights in Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, and Civil Liberties. Its recent activities have focused on the conflict in Darfur, organizing volunteers to help survivors of the Gulf Coast hurricanes, workers' rights and the human right to water. The organization is also active in lobbying corporations engaged in business with governments that it has identified as abusing basic human rights.
See also
References
External links
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee web site
Recent press coverage of the UUSC
Coverage of UUSC headquarters relocation
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1940
Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
Unitarian Universalist organizations |
23579089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochy%20River | Lochy River | The Lochy River is a river of New Zealand, flowing into lower Lake Wakatipu.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Otago
Rivers of New Zealand |
26718061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becharaji | Becharaji | Becharaji or Bahucharaji is a Hindu temple town and taluka capital in Mehsana district of Gujarat state, India. The temple of Hindu goddess Bahuchara Mata in the town is major pilgrimage centre.
History
The name of the town is derived from Bahuchar Mata or Bahucharaji, a Hindu goddess. The region around the town is known as Chunwal. The Bechar village is located 1 km south of the temple while Sankhalpur village is located 2 km north of the temple. The modern town developed around the temple between these two villages.
The ruler Sayajirao Gaekwad had extended the Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway (GBSR) to the town for its development.
Demographics
According to 2011 Census of India, Becharaji has a population of 12,574 including 6,540 males and 6,034 females.
Bahuchar Mata Temple
Legends
According to Tantra Chudamani, the left hand of the Goddess fell in the Boruvan when the Shiva performed the Tandava dance. The temple was built on the place. According to a legend, the goddess has appeared to help the saints who were harassed by Bhundasur or Dandhasur demon.
Alexander Kinloch Forbes gave an account of the origin of the temple in Ras Mala: According to the tradition, some Charan women were travelling from Sankhalpur a neighbouring village when the Kolis attacked and plundered. One of the women whose name was Bahuchara snatched a sword from a boy who attended her and with it cut off both her breasts. She died and her sisters But and Bulal also committed suicide. They reincarnated as goddesses. So Bahuchara is worshiped in the Chunwal.
Another legend tells that the shepherd boys had cooked rice in small earthen pot which became inexhaustible and fed the whole army of a skeptic king with the grace of the goddess.
According to , a Gujarati book published by the temple trust in 1968, mentions a legend that a Solanki princess Tejpal turned into a prince. The story is also mentioned in one Garba song.
History
According to the legend, Manaji Rao Gaekwad of the Baroda State was suffering from carbuncle. He visited the shrine in 1781 and vowed to spent 1.25 lakh rupees to built the temple if he was cured by the grace of the goddess. He was cured and, as promised, the construction of the large stone temple started in Samvat 1839 or 1783 CE which is mentioned in the inscription in one of the halls of the temple. It was installation ceremony was held on Shravan Sud 9th in Samvat 1847 or 1791 CE. The temple measured 50 feet by 30 feet with two domes and a spire (shikhara). The temple in the open space is protected by the fort with three gates. The principal south gate built in sandstone is two storeyed, 100 feet in length and 50 feet in height. He also built the lamp-post (deepmala) in front of the temple as well as a dharmashala (rest house). He granted Bechar, Dodiwada and Sankhalpur villages for the maintenance of the temple. These villages were subsequently taken over by the Baroda State and the annual allowance of Rs. 10,500 was paid. The temple is now managed by the state government. The original temple is renovated recently. The raised platform in the temple has a niche behind it where a balayantra (object of worship) is kept with a golden cover which is worshiped.
Other temples
Another adyasthan (original) temple is built around the varakhadi tree when the goddess first appeared. The small shrine, 15 feet by 19 feet, was originally built by Sankhal Raj in Samvat 1208 (1152 CE). The Sankhalpur village is named after him. Another madhyasthan (middle) temple was built by Maratha Fadnis built no other information is known about him. It measures 10 feet by 12 feet.
Worship and festivals
The Kamalias, the Solanki Rajputs of Kalri and the Pavaiyas (eunuchs) claim themselves the hereditary worshipers of the deity. The eunuchs are well respected in the region and one lakh of them gather during the fairs. If a eunuch child is born in a family, their parents leave them in the temple where the eunuchs adopt and anoint them as a eunuch after a surgical ritual and confinement period of 45 days.
On an average, around 20,000 devotees visit the temple every day. It visited by around 2,00,000 devotees on the full moon days and around 20 lakh (2 million) devotees during the special fairs. The devotees offer presents of gold and silver jewelry, clothes and cash to the goddess. Many conducts tonsorial ceremony of their children at the Mansarovar lake near the temple. A major fair is held on the full moon day of Chaitra month of Hindu calendar. Parents desirous of children and parents of new born children having physical disability or for their well being offer various offerings to goddess.
Amenities and economy
There are large number of guesthouses, dharamshalas and other facilities for the devotees in the town. There is a post office and government hospital in the town. The Mandal Becharaji Special Investment Region has number of major automobile companies like Maruti Suzuki Gujarat plant which produces 10 lakh (one million) cars every year.
Transport
Bahucharaji is well connected by Railways and state transport (ST) buses. There are many private vehicle operators as well. It is connected with Mehsana, Chanasma and Viramgam by state highways. It is located on Ahmedabad-Rantej-Patan metre gauge rail route. State highway no. 7 connects NH-14 from Deesa, Patan, and Chanasma to Becharaji, from where it further goes to Viramgam, Dhrangadhra, Halvad and Maliya. From Maliya, one can connect to NH-8A and reach Kutch. Whereas state highway no. 19 connects Mehsana, Kalri to Becharaji, from where it further goes to Dasada, Zainabad, Patdi, and Surendranagar. Another state highway, SH134, connects Mehsana, Modhera and Kalri to Becharaji.
See also
Patan, Gujarat
Sun Temple, Modhera
References
External links
Official Website of Gujarat Tourism
Hindu temples in Gujarat
Shakti temples
Cities and towns in Mehsana district
Devi temples in India |
17341260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abia%20Nale | Abia Nale | Abia Nale (born 5 October 1986 in Sebokeng, Gauteng) is a South African football player who plays as an attacking midfielder.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Sebokeng
South African soccer players
Association football midfielders
Association football forwards
Cape Town Spurs F.C. players
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. players
Manning Rangers F.C. players
Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C. players
Maritzburg United F.C. players
Platinum Stars F.C. players
South Africa international soccer players
Sportspeople from Gauteng |
26718086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20on%20TV | Nothing on TV | Nothing on TV is the debut album by Australian band Cassette Kids.
Track listing
"Insomnia" - 4:04
"Spin" - 3:36
"Lying Around" - 3:25
"Coming Back" - 3:44
"Big Jerk" - 4:22
"Freaky Sweetie" - 3:34
"Game Player" - 3:34
"You Shot Me" - 3:43
"Nothing on TV" - 3:29
"Wherever You Are" - 3:57
"Hey Baby" - 3:34
"Fatal Attraction" - 3:41
"Outro" - 1:40
"By the Roadside" - 3:17
References
2010 debut albums |
23579090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashi-Nakagami%20Station | Higashi-Nakagami Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Akishima, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Higashi-Nakagami Station is served by the Ōme Line, and is located 2.7 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Tachikawa Station.
Station layout
This station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks, connected by an elevated station building. The station is staffed.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 1 July 1942. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 7,186 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Surrounding area
Showa Memorial Park
Akishima Middle School
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR East - Station Information
Railway stations in Tokyo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1942
Akishima, Tokyo
Ōme Line |
26718127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAP-AM | DYAP-AM | DYAP (765 AM) Radyo Patrol was a radio station owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. The station's studio and transmitter were located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Mabini St. cor. Valencia St., Brgy. Masipag, Puerto Princesa.
Established in 1965 as DYPR, it is the pioneer station in Palawan. It was formerly owned by Palawan Broadcasting Corporation until 2011, when it was acquired by ABS-CBN and rebranded as Radyo Patrol. Since then, the former staff of DYPR established DZIP.
On May 5, 2020, the station suspended its broadcasting activities, following the cease-and-desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission due to the expiration of ABS-CBN's legislative license to operate. On May 8, 2020, most of its programming resumed via online feed.
References
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1965
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radyo Patrol stations
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
17341265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesi%20Shroff | Pesi Shroff | Pesi Shroff (b. 1965) is a former Indian champion jockey. He has ridden 5614 races and won 1,751 of them including 106 classic races and 29 Derbys. Born to a Parsi family, he began his career at 16 years old when he was licensed to ride by the Royal Western India Turf Club in Mumbai in the 1981. He won his first race on My Squaw.
Pesi had a long association with Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya having been a retainer for him for several years. Apart from Mallya, he has also ridden for leading owners of the Indian turf like M.A.M. Ramaswamy, Deepak Khaitan, and Khushroo Dhunjibhoy
.
To date, he is the only jockey to have piloted eight Derby winners at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai and has ridden a classic winner in each of the five major racing centres of India.
On 31 October 2004, he retired from the profession to become a trainer.
Pesi is married to childhood sweetheart Tina (sister of Karl Umrigar) with whom they have had two children, Yohann and Anya. He also likes to play golf and is a cricket fan.
Career wins as a Jockey
References
1965 births
Living people
Indian jockeys
Parsi people from Mumbai
Sportspeople from Mumbai |
23579091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords%20River | Lords River | The Lords River, officially Lords River / , is a river of Stewart Island, New Zealand. It is called (sometimes ) in Māori. Named Port South East by Owen Smith when he first charted the island in 1804, John Grono later renamed it Lords River in 1809.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Stewart Island |
26718181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYCU | DYCU | DYCU (99.9 FM), broadcasting as MOR 99.9 For Life!, was a radio station owned and operated by the ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and broadcast facilities are located along Valencia St. cor. Mabini St., Puerto Princesa.
It was formerly owned by Palawan Broadcasting Corporation from its inception in 1981 to 2011, when ABS-CBN bought the station and its sister stations. On May 5, 2020, the station, along with the other My Only Radio stations, went off the air due to the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission as its the network's legislative franchise to operate expired the day before. It currently operates as an online platform.
References
External links
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1981
MOR Philippines stations
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
17341279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshav%20Prasad%20Mainali | Keshav Prasad Mainali | Keshav Prasad Mainali () is a Nepalese politician. He currently belongs to Nepali Congress. He was the chairman of the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal. He joined the Nepal Student Union in the late 1960s. He later became the president of the Nepali Congress Sarlahi District committee. He left the Nepali Congress, and founded the Chure Bhawar Ekta Samaj in 2006. This organization later became the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal.
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party won 1 seat through the Proportional Representation vote. Mainali became the representative of the party in the assembly.
In 2010, Mainali was expelled from the Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal and he founded a new party, Chure Bhawar Rastriya Party.
References
Living people
Nepali Congress politicians from Madhesh Province
Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party Nepal politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepalese political party founders
Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly |
17341286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magasa | Magasa | Magasa may refer to places in:
Greece
Magasa, Crete, a neolithic settlement
Italy
Magasa, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Brescia |
23579095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery%20River | Lottery River | The Lottery River is a river of the north Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It rises on the slopes of Mount Tinline, flowing generally south to meet with the Mason River northeast of Waiau.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand |
23579098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lud%20River | Lud River | The Lud River is a river of the Nelson Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows north from a ridge east of Nelson city centre, reaching the Wakapuaka River close to the latters outfall into Delaware Bay, an indentation in the eastern shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the Nelson Region
Rivers of New Zealand |
26718224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladysmith%20station | Ladysmith station | Ladysmith station is a former railway station in Ladysmith, British Columbia. It was a flag stop on Via Rail's Dayliner service, from 1979 to 2011. While the station's condition has deteriorated significantly since service was indefinitely suspended, volunteers continue to perform basic maintenance the station as of September 2019.
Footnotes
External links
Via Rail Station Description
Via Rail stations in British Columbia
Disused railway stations in Canada |
17341307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre%20Point%E2%80%93Cliffs%20Historic%20District | Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District | The Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes a significant subset of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District, including all of the major Gilded Age mansions on the waterfront facing Easton Bay between Memorial Boulevard and Marine Avenue. The district is home to famous mansions such as the William Watts Sherman House and The Breakers, one of the largest houses in the area built by the Vanderbilt Family. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Historic districts in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island |
26718284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringway | Ringway | Ringway can mean:
Ringway, Greater Manchester, a civil parish within the city of Manchester, England
Manchester Airport, initially known as Ringway Airport, located near Ringway.
RAF Ringway, the name for Manchester Airport during the second world war
London Ringways, a series of proposed ring roads
See also
Route 1 (Iceland), a road all round the edge of Iceland |
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