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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Weiss
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Jerry Weiss
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Jerry Weiss (born May 1, 1946 in New York City) is an American trumpet and flugelhorn player, best known as a founding member of the jazz fusion band Blood, Sweat & Tears. He appeared on their critically acclaimed 1968 debut album, Child Is Father to the Man.
Weiss left soon afterwards to help form the short-lived horn-band, Ambergris, where he played bass guitar and piano and was the principal arranger. He also contributed three songs on the album and co-wrote another. Weiss has made infrequent appearances on recordings by other artists, including Al Kooper, a fellow Blood, Sweat & Tears member.
References
External links
[ Jerry Weiss at AllMusicGuide.com]
Blood, Sweat & Tears band member information
Jimmy Maeulen
Charlie Camilleri
Tony May
1946 births
Living people
American trumpeters
American male trumpeters
Musicians from New York City
Blood, Sweat & Tears members
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century American male musicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Audio%20Injected%20Soul
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The Audio Injected Soul
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The Audio Injected Soul is the second album by Danish metal band Mnemic, and the last album to feature original singer Michael Bøgballe. It has gone on to sell almost 35,000 copies in North America.
This is the last album to feature former singer Michael Bøgballe who left the band exactly one year after the release of the album.
Track listing
Note: The German edition of the album does not include the introduction ("The Audio Injection"), and the track "Deathbox" does not include the AM3D technology.
AM3D technology
The tracks "The Audio Injection" and "Deathbox" are the only two tracks from the album to include the AM3D technology, developed by Mnemic themselves. The back and in the inlay of the album states: "The AM3D positional headphone technology presents a way of improving the sound experience. Using binaural techniques, the sound is processed to localize a single sound to a specific location in three-dimensional space around the listener."
Personnel
Michael Bøgballe – vocals
Mircea Gabriel Eftemie – guitar, keyboards
Rune Stigart – guitar, keyboards
Tomas Koefoed – bass
Brian Rasmussen – drums
References
2004 albums
Mnemic albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Albums produced by Tue Madsen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20World%20of%20Sports%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29
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Wide World of Sports (Australian TV program)
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Wide World of Sports was an Australian sports television program. It is broadcast on the Nine Network.
The show originally aired from 23 May 1981, until the end of 1999. After a nine-year hiatus, it returned on 16 March 2008 and had its last episode in 2016 following Ken Sutcliffe's retirement. It was replaced by a new sport talk show Sports Sunday airing its first episode on 5 March 2017.
History
1981-1999 - Weekly shows
Wide World of Sports (WWoS) is a long-used title for Nine's sport programming. All sports broadcasts on Nine air under the WWoS brand. It was also the name of a popular sports magazine program that aired most Saturdays and Sundays. This program filled many of the summer daytime hours. The program premiered at 1:00 pm on Saturday, 23 May 1981, and was initially hosted by Mike Gibson and Ian Chappell, before being hosted in the 1990s by Max Walker and Ken Sutcliffe. Ian Maurice was the regular anchor at the WWOS Update Desk. The show ended in 1999, due in large part to the rise of Fox Sports (which Nine's owner owned half of) and other subscription sport channels, but the show returned in 2008 on Sunday mornings.
It was unrelated to the series Wide World of Sports aired by ABC in the United States, which started in 1961.
In the early 1980s, well-known hosts and presenters on Wide World of Sports included Mike Gibson and Ian Chappell, both the inaugural hosts of the Saturday afternoon program in 1981. Billy Birmingham in 1984 released a comedy album that satirized cricket "and in particular Channel Nine’s iconic commentary team with Richie Benaud the central figure," which became popular in Australia, A later album was called The Wired World of Sports. Among the hosts satirized were his friend Mike Gibson. The television show won "Most Popular Sports Program" at the Logie Awards in 1986.
In 1990s, the Wide World of Sports marketed sports paraphernalia such as signed and framed bats, and items from the Australian Rugby League. Paul Sheahan hosted Nine's Wide World of Sports program until 1999. Max Walker hosted until it ended in 1999.
2008-2020 - Show's return to TV
After a ten-year hiatus, it was announced that the Wide World of Sports weekly television program would return to Nine on 16 March 2008, using the same theme song as the old version, as well as accessing old footage for replays. This show was hosted by the previous host Ken Sutcliffe, with footy show star James Brayshaw as well as former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist. Revolving co-hosts included former swimmers Giaan Rooney, Nicole Livingstone and former cricketer Michael Slater. The show originally aired for 90 minutes but was recently extended to two hours. It aired on Sunday mornings at 9am till 11am.
In 2009, Grant Hackett and Michael Slater joined the team as co-hosts alongside Sutcliffe and Rooney.
After she was fired in 2014 as a cost-cutting measure, in 2016 Emma Freedman again signed up with Channel Nine's Wide World of Sports as an announcer. The weekly show was no longer airing as of 2017. Sports Sunday replaced the show in the Sunday 10am time slot.
In 2019, it broadcast the Australian Open with its own team of commentators.
Macquarie Media in 2020 began airing an hour-long Wide World of Sports radio broadcast hosted by Mark Levy.
Hosts
Current
Michael Slater
Emma Freedman
John Steffenson
Clint Stanaway
Sally Fitzgibbons
Past
Ian Chappell
Lisa Curry
Ian Maurice
Mike Gibson
Tony Greig
Max Walker
Adam Gilchrist
Giaan Rooney
Yvonne Sampson
Ken Sutcliffe
Richie Calendar
Awards
The show won the Logie Award for the Most Popular Sports Program in 1987, and was nominated for every year from 2009 to 2017.
See also
References
External links
Wide World of Sports home page.
Nine's Wide World of Sport
1981 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
2008 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Australian sports television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAFM
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KAFM
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KAFM Community Radio is an FM radio station located in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States. KAFM broadcasts at 88.1 MHz.
History
Grand Valley Public Radio Company (GVPRC) incorporated on June 22, 1992. The first board of directors included Mickey Krakowski, Martin Krakowski, Marilyn Jones, Greg Jouflas, Char Shoffner, Elizabeth Thompson and Peter Trosclair. On April 12, 1994, the FCC granted a license to GVPRC for 88.1 at 16 watts and assigned call letters KAFM.
In mid 1995 KAFM filed an application with the FCC to transmit at 46,000 watts at 100.7, asking FCC to allow KAFM to swap frequencies as per published FCC rules. In January, 1996 the FCC denied KAFM's request but decided to open up 100.7 for operation. In mid 1996 KAFM and twelve other broadcast companies, including Colorado Public Radio and almost every Grand Junction commercial broadcaster, applied for 100.7, leading the FCC to freeze the process while it determined how to proceed. In 1997 KAFM negotiated with KCIC, 88.5 to move to 88.7 which would allow both stations to raise power levels but in 1998 the existence of the CPR station in Montrose, KPRH, precluded deal with KCIC and KAFM was stuck at 16 watts. In mid 1998 the FCC told all 100.7 applicants to decide who would get the 100.7 frequency or the FCC would auction off the frequency to the highest bidder and put the funds into the FCC budget. In a unique situation, the twelve 100.7 applicants agreed to hold a private auction and split the funds among the losing bidders; bidding to increase in $5,000 increments. The auction resulted in a price of $440,000 for the 100.7 license. KAFM received 1/11th of the proceeds, after expenses, amounting to approximately $40,000
In mid-1998 the KAFM board decided to put 88.1 at 16 watts on air, not knowing if many would be able to hear the station or would support it. Transmitter site facilities on Black Ridge were constructed in 1998 and the original studio facilities on West Independent were constructed in 1999. KAFM went on the air March 5, 1999.
In November, 2001 KAFM moved to 1310 Ute Avenue, purchasing building after their landlord decided to triple rent on existing studios.
In 2004 KAFM received funding to build 'Studio D,' a volunteer-run recording and sound studio for the 'Radio Room', an 80-person concert hall in the new building at 1310 Ute Ave. KAFM began monthly Radio Room concerts, highlighting local musicians and national acts.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
AFM
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitsville
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Orbitsville
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Orbitsville is a science fiction novel by British writer Bob Shaw, published in book form in 1975. It is about the discovery of a Dyson sphere-like artefact surrounding a star.
The novel had previously appeared in three instalments in Galaxy Science Fiction, in June, July and August 1974. After its publication as a book it won the British Science Fiction Award for the best novel in 1976.
Shaw wrote two sequels, Orbitsville Departure (), published in 1983, and Orbitsville Judgement, published in 1990.
External links
1975 British novels
1975 science fiction novels
Novels by Bob Shaw
Victor Gollancz Ltd books
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Good Boy Bad Boy is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Ashwini Chaudhary, starring Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Tanushree Dutta, Isha Sharvani and Paresh Rawal. Produced by Raju Farooqui under the banner of Mukta Arts Ltd, the film is a remake of the 1992 film Class Act starring Kid 'N Play. This film marks the third collaboration between the lead actors Tanushree Dutta and Emraan Hashmi after Aashiq Banaya Aapne and Chocolate.
Plot
Raju Malhotra and Rajan Malhotra study in the same college but are poles apart in every trait. While Raju is a brat, poor in studies but good in sports, Rajan is a brilliant student but a zero in extracurricular activities. The college they study in has a new and strict principal Mr. Awasthi who wants to transform this ill-reputed college into a most flocked one. Hence he divides the students according to their merit. So while Raju is fit for C section, for poorly faring students, Rajan easily gets access to the A section with his 90% marks. But Raju falls for a girl in A-section and hence swaps his place with a hesitant Rajan who enters C-section for the first time in his life. Mr. Awasthi learns of this and retaliates by sending their names to a quiz and dance competition. So now, geeky Rajan will have to dance while brat Raju will have to answer questions hurled at him. What will Raju and Rajan do? Will they accept the challenge or just scoot off?
Cast
Emraan Hashmi as Rajveer "Raju" Malhotra / Rajan Malhotra
Tusshar Kapoor as Rajveer "Raju" Malhotra / Rajan Malhotra
Tanushree Dutta as Dinky Kapur
Isha Sharvani as Rashmi Awasthi
Paresh Rawal as Principal Diwanchand "Diwan" Awasthi
Manu Malik as Raj Basra
Rakesh Bedi as Mr. Prem Malhotra
Navni Parihar as Mrs. Prem Malhotra
Anang Desai as Mr. P.K. Malhotra
Prabha Sinha as Mrs. P.K. Malhotra
Kabir Sadanand as Willyboy
Sushmita Mukherjee as Prof. Bebo Chatterjee
Jennifer Mayani as Jenny
Abhishek Rawat as college student
Ambika Chaudhary as Deepti Talpade
Rajesh Balwani as Philosophy teacher
Nazzar Abdulla as Psychology teacher
Amita Chandekar as Prof. Julie
Ghanshyam Garg as Fakira
Ajay Thakur
Anuj Gill
Punit Aneja
Ajay Dixit
Tarul Swami
Soundtrack
All music was composed by Himesh Reshammiya. Lyrics penned by Sameer, Music Label: Tips Industries
References
External links
2007 films
Films scored by Himesh Reshammiya
Indian films
2000s Hindi-language films
Indian comedy films
Indian remakes of American films
2007 comedy films
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List of Bates College people
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This list of notable people associated with Bates College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Members of the Bates community are known as "Batesies" or bobcats. This list also includes students of the affiliated Maine State Seminary, Nichols Latin School, and Cobb Divinity School. In 1915, George Colby Chase, the second president of the college, opted that the college include former students (those who did not complete the full four year course of study) as alumni in "appreciation of their loyalty". Throughout its history, Bates has been the fictional alma mater of various characters in American popular culture. Notable fictional works to feature the college include Ally McBeal (1997), The Sopranos (1999), and The Simpsons (2015). , there are 24,000 Bates College alumni. Affiliates of the college include 86 Fulbright Scholars, 22 Watson Fellows, and 5 Rhodes Scholars.
, the college counts 12 members of the United States Congress–2 Senators and 10 members of the House of Representatives–among its alumni. In state government, Bates alumni have led all three political branches in Maine, graduating two Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Court, two Maine Governors, and multiple leaders of both state houses. Bates has graduated 12 Olympians, with the most recent alumni competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics. More than 20 universities have been led by Bates alumni as of July 2016.
This list uses the following notation:
B.A. or unmarked years – recipient of Bachelor of Arts either at the Maine State Seminary or Bates
B.S. – recipient of Bachelor of Science
B.S.E. – recipient of Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an affiliated engineering school with Bates
V-12 – recipient of the V-12 Degree through the college's V-12 Navy College Training Program
S.T.B. – recipient of Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus from the college's defunct Cobb Divinity School, which merged with Bates' religion department in 1908
Notable graduates
Arts and letters
Literature and poetry
Journalism and nonfiction
Film and television
Music
Art, architecture, and design
Government
Note: alumni who have served in multiple political offices are noted in all relevant sections respective to their position at the time for continuity
U.S. Cabinet-ranked officials
Although Bates alumni have served in a variety of capacities in American federal government, namely in executive departments and agencies, the following have served in Cabinet-level positions, advising the executive branch of the United States in one form or another. Other alumni–serving in secondary federal capacities–are catalogued in the succeeding section.
Federal officials and ambassadors
The following catalogues notable officials or ambassadors in American federal government, typically in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. Alumni who have served in leadership roles in federal government or in Cabinet-level positions are documented in the preceding section; members of the U.S. Congress (along with state government officials) are noted in the succeeding sections.
U.S. Senators
From 1965 to 1968, both Edmund Muskie (1936) and Robert F. Kennedy (1944) served together in the United States Senate, representing Maine and New York, respectively. Many of the following alumni served in leadership positions within the Senate.
U.S. Representatives
The first Bates alumni to serve in the United States Congress was John Swasey (1859) in the 60th United States Congress. During the 73rd and 116th U.S. Congresses, four Bates alumni served simultaneously–Carroll Beedy (1903) and Charles Clason (1911) during the former sitting with Ben Cline (1994) and Jared Golden (2011) during the latter. Approximately 45% of alumni elected to the U.S. House of Representatives have done so in pairs. Many of the following alumni served in leadership positions within the House of Representatives.
Governors
State officials and cabinet-ranked officials
The following alumni have served in U.S. state governments, typically in the state judiciary and executive cabinet. Many of the alumni also served in additional leadership roles within state government.
State Senators
Many of the following alumni served in leadership positions within their respective state's upper house, including president of the senate, majority leader, minority leader, as well as minority and majority whip.
State Representatives
Many of the following alumni served in leadership positions within their respective state's lower house, including speaker of the house, majority leader, minority leader, as well as minority and majority whip.
Mayors
There have been six Bates alumni to serve as the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine, the hometown of the college. The smallest city to be governed by a Bates alumni is Gardiner, Maine, while the largest is San Francisco, California. John Jenkins ('74) is the only alumni to serve as mayor to two different cities (Lewiston and Auburn, Maine).
Royalty
Law and legal studies
Federal and state judges
The following section documents Bates alumni who have served in both the federal judiciary of the United States (including the U.S. district court system) and state judiciaries. Alumni who have served in executive positions, such as attorneys general (both on a state and federal level) are noted in the "federal officials and ambassadors" section above.
State Supreme Court Justices
All Bates alumni who have gone to serve on a state supreme court have done so in the Maine supreme court system. There have been two chief justices and seven associate justices.
Legal academics and other legal figures
Alumni who have served in political or judicial offices are noted above. The following catalogues notable alumni who have contributed to legal studies, the law, or maintained notability in academia.
Academia and administration
University founders and presidents
Professors and scholars
Athletics
During the 1912 Summer Olympics there were two Bates alumni competing in the sporting event, both representing the United States in baseball exhibitions. Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler ('78) and Andrew Byrnes ('05) are the only two alumni to compete in two Olympic Games, competing in two successive winter and summer olympics, respectively. Byrnes is the only Bates alumni to medal at the Olympic Games, winning a Gold Medal rowing for Canada during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Business
Religion
Science
Military
Fictional people
Notable faculty
Sociology
Modern languages
Religious studies
Economics
English
Debate
Political science
Philosophy
History
Visual art
Theater
Music
Anthropology
Presidents of Bates College
Commencement speakers and honorary recipients
The following lists notable people who have spoken at a Bates College commencement ceremony or received an honorary degree. Those who are counted as alumni of the college and have received honorary degrees (or spoken at commencements) are noted in the preceding sections.
See also
List of Bowdoin College people
List of Colby College people
List of Dartmouth College people
History of Bates College
References
Further reading
Alfred, Williams Anthony. Bates College and Its Background. (1936) Online Deposit.
Stuan, Thomas. The Architecture of Bates College. (2006)
Chase, Harry. Bates College was named after Mansfield Man. (1878)
Woz, Markus. Bates College – Traditionally Unconventional. (2002)
Bates College Archives. Bates College Catalog. (1956–2017). 2017 Catalog.
Bates College Archives. Maine State Seminary Records. Online Deposit.
Bates College Archives. Bates College Oral History Project. Online Deposit.
Clark, Charles E. Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History. (2005)
Smith, Dana. Bates College – U. S. Navy V-12 Program Collection. (1943) Online Deposit.
Eaton, Mabel. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School. (1930)
Larson, Timothy. Faith by Their Works: The Progressive Tradition at Bates College. (2005)
Calhoun, Charles C. A Small College in Maine. p. 163. (1993)
Johnnett, R. F. Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine. (1878)
Phillips, F. Charles Bates College in Maine: Enduring Strength and Scholarship. Issue 245. (1952)
Dormin J. Ettrude, Edith M. Phelps, Julia Emily Johnsen. French Occupation of the Ruhr: Bates College Versus Oxford Union Society of Oxford College. (1923)
The Bates Student. The Voice of Bates College. (1873–2017)
Emeline Cheney; Burlingame, Aldrich. The story of the life and work of Oren Burbank Cheney, founder and first president of Bates College. (1907) Online Version.
External links
Bates College Alumni Serving in the Civil War (1863)
Student List from 1857 on LittleIvies.com
Student List from 1858 on LittleIvies.com
Bates College people
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UKAMS Ltd. is the UK partner of the EUROPAAMS consortium, the developer of the Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS), a naval air defence weapon system.
UKAMS was originally a consortium of Siemens Plessey Systems, GEC-Marconi and BAeSEMA. However, in 1997 British Aerospace acquired Siemens Plessey's UK operations and in 1998 UKAMS became a wholly owned subsidiary of Matra BAe Dynamics. In 2002 Matra BAe Dynamics was merged into MBDA and continues to be a subsidiary of that group.
References
Aerospace companies of the United Kingdom
Plessey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20D.%20Gibson
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Colin D. Gibson
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Colin David Gibson (November 2, 1922 – July 3, 2002) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Gibson was born into a political family. He was the son of Colin W. G. Gibson, a prominent Liberal cabinet minister during World War II, and the grandson of John Morison Gibson, former Attorney General of Ontario. He was educated at Upper Canada College.
On June 1, 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian army, stating a "desire to help the nation and defeat Hitler" As a platoon commander with the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, he fought on D-Day and was wounded several days later.
After returning to civilian life he practised law. In the 1968 federal election he was elected as a Liberal in the riding of Hamilton—Wentworth.
He was defeated in the 1972 federal election by Progressive Conservative Sean O'Sullivan, who at 20 years old was the youngest MP ever elected to that point.
Gibson was married and had two children.
References
External links
Biography from Veterans Affairs Canada
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
1922 births
2002 deaths
Canadian Army personnel of World War II
Canadian Army officers
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment)
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) officers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin%20Penner
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Dustin Penner
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Dustin Penner (born September 28, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and Washington Capitals. Undrafted by any NHL team, in 2004, Penner signed with Anaheim after playing college hockey at the University of Maine in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). Penner won the Stanley Cup in his first full season with the Anaheim Ducks in 2007, before adding a second Stanley Cup in his first full season with Los Angeles in 2012.
Playing career
Minors and collegiate
Growing up in Winkler, Manitoba, Penner played for his high school hockey team, the Garden Valley Collegiate Zodiacs, alongside future Washington Capitals teammate Eric Fehr. After high school, he was cut by many minor hockey teams, including his local junior club three times.
With little hope of ever playing hockey professionally, Penner agreed to play with Minot State University-Bottineau, now known as Dakota College at Bottineau, but immediately broke his femur, ending his first year with the club. The next year, in the 2001–02 season, he became a very important player for Bottineau, scoring 20 goals with 13 assists in 23 games, also earning the Most Determined Player Award for his improvement and stellar play after recovering from his injury.
Penner then went to an evaluation camp at Saskatoon. He played well there, scoring an average of three points per game. He was scouted by Grant Standbrook, the assistant coach for the University of Maine's Black Bears ice hockey team, and was offered a scholarship, which he accepted. Although he did not initially join the team, in the 2003–04 season, he helped lead the Black Bears and to the NCAA Championship game, scoring the game-winning goal in the semi-finals against Boston College. Maine then lost the championship title game to the University of Denver 1–0.
Anaheim Ducks
Having been undrafted by any NHL team, on May 12, 2004, Penner signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He was assigned to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, Anaheim's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate. He recorded 28 points in his professional rookie season with Cincinnati, then took a major step the next season as he was moved to the Portland Pirates, which became the Mighty Ducks' AHL affiliate in 2005–06. He scored 39 goals and 84 points in 57 games with Portland while also making his NHL debut, appearing in 19 games with the Mighty Ducks that season. He was originally called up on November 23, 2005, being sent back and forth from the minors. During the Mighty Ducks' 2006 Stanley Cup playoff run, Penner scored 9 points in 13 games until Anaheim was eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conference Finals.
Penner earned a full-time roster spot with the Ducks in 2006–07 and broke out with 29 goals and 45 points playing with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on a unit dubbed the "Kid Line". Penner's goal total was the second-highest on the team, only trailing superstar Teemu Selänne. He also set the Ducks' franchise rookie record for most points (surpassed by Bobby Ryan in 2008–09). During the Ducks' 2007 Stanley Cup run, Penner scored the game-winner in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarter-finals against the Minnesota Wild and Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Ottawa Senators. In Game 5, Penner and the Ducks defeated the Senators 6–2 to win the 2007 Stanley Cup. Penner became the first former Maine Black Bear to win the Stanley Cup as a player.
Edmonton Oilers
After winning the Stanley Cup with the Ducks, Penner's entry-level contract expired and he became a restricted free agent in the off-season. With the Ducks dealing with salary cap issues and the signing of Todd Bertuzzi, Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe jumped at the opportunity and signed Penner to a five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet. Lowe was criticized by the media and Ducks general manager Brian Burke. After seven days had passed, the Ducks were ultimately unwilling to match the offer and Penner became an Oiler. Penner remained the most recent player to change teams via an offer sheet for 14 years, until Montreal Canadiens accepted an offer sheet from Carolina Hurricanes for Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
In his first season with the Oilers, Penner scored a team-high 23 goals and improved to 47 points. He then began the 2008–09 season with a slow start and was publicly criticized by head coach Craig MacTavish for a lack of fitness and competitiveness after being made a healthy scratch for the second consecutive game.
Penner was confirmed to be a part of a planned summertime 2009 blockbuster trade that would see Andrew Cogliano, Ladislav Šmíd and himself dealt to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for disgruntled All-Star forward Dany Heatley. Ultimately, Heatley exercised the no-trade clause contained in his contract and the trade could not be finalized (shortly after, Heatley accepted a trade to the San Jose Sharks).
Penner got off to a strong start in 2009–10 season and was fourth in NHL scoring with 11 goals and 11 assists after 18 games played. On October 22, for the first time in his career, he scored five points (two goals and three assists), in a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. His linemates for that game were Aleš Hemský (one goal and four assists) and Sam Gagner (one goal and two assists). At season's end, the Oilers had finished last overall in the NHL, but Penner had recorded career-highs in goals (32) and points (63).
Los Angeles Kings
On February 28, 2011, Penner was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Colten Teubert, a first-round draft pick in 2011 (Oscar Klefbom) and a conditional third-round pick in the 2012 (Daniil Zharkov).
On January 7, 2012, Penner experienced back spasms while attempting to eat what he described as "delicious pancakes". The injury caused him to miss a game and become the subject of pancake-related jokes among fans.
On May 22, 2012, Penner scored the winning goal in overtime in Game 5 against the Phoenix Coyotes to advance the Kings to the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals. On June 11, 2012, Penner won his second Stanley Cup after the Kings defeated the New Jersey Devils 6–1 in Game 6.
Penner is the 21st NHL player to play for both sides of the "Freeway Face-Off" between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings, and the only one to win the Stanley Cup with both teams.
On July 1, 2012, Penner signed a one-year, $3.25 million contract extension with Los Angeles.
Return to Anaheim
On July 16, 2013, as a free agent, Penner returned to the Anaheim Ducks after signing a one-year, $2 million contract with the team. During the 2013–14 season, he rebounded offensively with the Ducks, reuniting with former line-mates Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry.
Trade to Washington
On March 4, 2014, approach the NHL trade deadline date and having scored a respectable 13 goals and 32 points with Anaheim in 49 games, Penner was traded to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Awards and honors
Transactions
May 12, 2004 - Dustin Penner was signed as a free agent by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
August 2, 2007 - Signed as a restricted free agent by the Edmonton Oilers to an offer sheet that was not matched by the Anaheim Ducks. The Ducks received 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks from the Edmonton Oilers as compensation in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
February 28, 2011 - Traded to Los Angeles Kings.
July 1, 2012 - Resigned with the Los Angeles Kings as an unrestricted free agent.
July 16, 2013 - Dustin Penner returned to the Anaheim Ducks as an unrestricted free agent.
March 4, 2014 - Traded to the Washington Capitals.
References
External links
1982 births
Anaheim Ducks players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Cincinnati Mighty Ducks players
Edmonton Oilers players
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Living people
Maine Black Bears men's ice hockey players
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim players
Portland Pirates players
Sportspeople from Winkler, Manitoba
Stanley Cup champions
Washington Capitals players
Los Angeles Kings players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador
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Quarry, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Quarry is an abandoned railway community that was located in the Gaff Topsails area of the province of Newfoundland, Canada. The community lies just north of Buchans and takes its name from the quarry established in the 1890s when the Newfoundland Railway was being built.
Granite from this quarry was used throughout the island by the Reid Newfoundland Company and it also provided cobblestones for Water Street in St. John's. The nearest community was Millertown Junction, 25 kilometres to the east. It became an important station as the area just west of Quarry was renowned for its frequently closing of the railway due to heavy snow drifts, an area known as the Gaff Topsails. The station was reclassified as unmanned by Canadian National in 1954.
See also
List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland Railway
External links
Newfoundland Railway - Newfoundland & Labrador Heritage
Photos of railway displays and memorabilia across the island
Ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Populated places in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Cheever Racing was an auto racing team founded in 1996 by Eddie Cheever as Team Cheever in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. They fielded a car for Cheever for much of its existence, but occasionally ran two cars, almost always for the Indianapolis 500. The team won the 1998 Indianapolis 500 with Cheever driving and then switched to Infiniti engines and gained sponsorship from Excite for 2000. The team continued to be moderately successful and gained Infiniti's first series win. When Infiniti left the series in 2003 the team, which by then was sponsored by Red Bull switched to Chevrolet engines and then switched to Toyota in 2005, after Chevrolet's departure. Despite some of the most talented drivers in the league, a long string of bad luck and underpowered engines rendered the team little more than mid-pack. With no sponsor for the 2006 season, Eddie decided to trim the team to a single car and return to the cockpit as both a cost-cutting move and to seize the opportunity to return to racing before he felt he got too old to be competitive. Cheever only committed to drive until the Indianapolis 500 but continued until the 8th race of the season. The IRL operation shut down after the Kansas Speedway race when it could not find a sponsor or pay driver to continue.
Cheever Racing also ran a Daytona Prototype car in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. In 2007 Cheever purchased the intellectual property rights to the Fabcar chassis and has renewed its development and begun offering the chassis to other teams in the series. The car was subsequently renamed the Coyote chassis, in tribute to the racing cars built in the 1970s by A. J. Foyt Enterprises. Cheever Racing did not field any entries for the 2009 Rolex 24 at Daytona.
In 2006, Cheever also founded an Indy Pro Series team. In 2006 its car was driven by Chris Festa. Their driver for the 2007 season was Richard Antinucci, Eddie's nephew, who captured two wins on a part-time schedule.
Drivers who have driven for Cheever
IRL IndyCar Series
Alex Barron (2003–2005)
Ed Carpenter (2004)
Patrick Carpentier (2005)
Eddie Cheever (1996–2002, 2006)
Tomáš Enge (2006)
Wim Eyckmans (1999)
Scott Goodyear (2001)
Robby McGehee (2002)
Max Papis (2002, 2006)
Buddy Rice (2002–2003)
Tomas Scheckter (2002)
Robby Unser (1998)
Jeff Ward (1997)
Indy Pro Series
Richard Antinucci (2007)
Chris Festa (2006)
Grand Am
Fabio Babini (2008)
Matteo Bobbi (2008)
Harrison Brix (2007)
Patrick Carpentier (2006)
Eddie Cheever (2006–2007)
Emmanuel Collard (2007)
Tommy Erdos (2007–2008)
Christian Fittipaldi (2006–2008)
Antonio García (2008)
Stefan Johansson (2006)
Tom Kimber-Smith (2008)
Lucas Luhr (2006)
Sascha Maassen (2007)
Scott Mayer (2008)
Mike Newton (2007–2008)
Hoover Orsi (2006)
Stephane Ortelli (2008)
Brent Sherman (2008)
Racing results
Complete IRL IndyCar Series results
(key)
The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.
Complete Indy Pro Series results
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IndyCar wins
References
IndyCar Series teams
Indy Lights teams
Grand American Road Racing Association teams
American auto racing teams
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Mary Therese Friel
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Mary Therese "Tyger" Friel (born February 10, 1959) is a beauty queen, model, teacher, activist, and businesswoman from New York who has held the title Miss USA 1979.
Friel, who grew up in Pittsford, New York won the titles Miss New York USA and Miss USA. She was later a model, and opened her own modelling agency in 1987. She currently trains and represents many models, as well as training beauty pageant participants.
Biography
Pageantry
Friel, a student at St. John Fisher College, first won the Miss New York USA title in 1978 and went on to represent her state in the Miss USA pageant televised live from Biloxi, Mississippi in April 1979. This was the first of four years that the pageant was held in Biloxi.
Friel placed second overall in the preliminary competition, behind Miss Illinois USA Debra Ann Niego (who would go on to place third runner-up). She won the swimsuit and interview competitions, and placed second in the evening-gown competition to Tracey Goddard of Washington, who would be her first runner-up.
Her victory was New York's second, and came after a string of three consecutive first runner-up placements in the early 1970s.
Friel later represented the United States in the Miss Universe pageant held in Perth, Western Australia in July the same year. She was a semi-finalist in the pageant, which was won by Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela. This was the first time that the pageant had been held in the Southern Hemisphere.
As Miss New York USA and later as Miss USA, Friel campaigned for numerous charities, including the Special Olympics, the American Heart Association, cerebral palsy, Camp Good Days and Special Times, March of Dimes and muscular dystrophy. She was also an ambassador for the American Lung Association.
Holding the title Miss USA opened opportunities for Friel to meet with various celebrities during her reign. Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants opened a lot of doors for me. I met a lot of people and made a lot of friends. She briefly travelled with singer Julio Iglesias and was invited by Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) to his anniversary concert. She was also a special guest at a Beach Boys concert. She also met Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson and Cher. Her reign coincided with the murder of John Lennon, which occurred while she was attending a birthday event for singer Ben Vereen.
Post-pageant years
After passing on her crown to Shawn Weatherly of South Carolina in May 1980, Friel returned to study, attending Fordham University in New York City. She signed with Ford Modeling Agency and modeled in a wide variety of American cities, as well as in Europe, as well as making the covers of Good Housekeeping and Glamour.
In 1983 Friel decided to take a break from the "high life" and returned to her parents' new hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, becoming a teacher at a local junior college and resuming her studies at Villanova University.
She also co-authored a book “You can be…the Model You!” and board game by the same name.
Friel was also a coach to Andrea Zingg of Klamath Falls, Oregon (formerly of East Rochester, New York). Zingg is most remembered for her constitutional activism during the water crisis of July 2001, which threatened local farmers and ranchers livelihood.
Modeling agency
In 1987, she returned to her hometown area, where she bought a farm in Mendon, New York and started her own modeling agency. Her company started as a small modeling, pageantry and self-development coaching facility for teenage girls and is now a full service modeling agency with a complete training program. She was joined in her endeavours in 1995 by her husband Kent. She is also a pageant coach, and has coached titleholders such as Candace Kuykendall, Miss New York Teen USA 2006.
See also
List of modeling agencies
External links
Official website
Miss USA official website
Miss New York USA official website
Miss USA winners Gallery
1960 births
Living people
Miss Universe 1979 contestants
Modeling agencies
Miss USA winners
People from Pittsford, New York
People from Mendon, New York
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John Harrington (baseball)
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John Leo Harrington (born c. 1937) is an American retired business manager and former executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was president of the Boston Red Sox from 1987 through 2001, also acting as CEO during much of the time the Red Sox were owned by the JRY Trust (1992–2001).
Early life and career
Harrington graduated from Boston College in 1957, and received his MBA there in 1966. After college, he was an officer in the U.S. Navy, then worked for both the General Accounting Office and NASA. He eventually became an accounting professor at Boston College until 1970, where he was hired by Joe Cronin, president of the American League, to be the league's controller.
Boston Red Sox
After Cronin retired, Harrington was hired by Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey as treasurer of the Red Sox. Yawkey died in 1976 and was eventually replaced by his wife Jean, who sold the team in 1977 to a syndicate headed by general partners Buddy LeRoux and Haywood Sullivan. To gain approval of the sale by the American League, Mrs. Yawkey joined the ownership group in 1978 as its third general partner and club president. Harrington left the team to work for Governor Edward King of Massachusetts and then for a Lloyd's of London insurance affiliate. But he eventually returned to the Red Sox in the mid-1980s, during a period of strife between LeRoux and his partners, and became an important advisor to Mrs. Yawkey.
CEO
After Jean Yawkey's death in 1992, as trustee of the JRY Trust, Harrington arranged for the Trust to buy out the shares of Sullivan, the last remaining general partner. He completely overhauled the front office, bringing in general manager Dan Duquette from the Montreal Expos. Under Harrington's leadership the team compiled one of the best records in baseball; the team won the 1986 American League Championship Series; won the American League East division in 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1995; and won the Wild Card in 1998 and 1999.
Harrington was instrumental in acquiring Pedro Martínez, Manny Ramírez, Jason Varitek, Tim Wakefield, Johnny Damon, Derek Lowe and other stars. Harrington built a new spring training facility in Fort Myers, Florida, and broadened the reach and popularity of Red Sox majority-owned New England Sports Network (NESN). He was responsible for bringing the All-Star Game to Fenway Park in 1999. He also played key roles within Major League Baseball. He was the lead negotiator for baseball owners during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, and led the development of both interleague play and the creation of the Wild Card playoff format.
Controversies
During Harrington's tenure, the Red Sox were also embroiled in several controversial episodes. In 1997, All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens acrimoniously left the team to sign as a free agent with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he won a fourth Cy Young Award.
Also in 1997, after infielder Wil Cordero was arrested on domestic assault charges, a half-dozen Red Sox front office members made a show of support on Cordero's behalf by appearing in court at his arraignment. Weeks later, Harrington initially refused to accept the terms of a negotiated settlement between the players' union and the owners' Player Relations Committee to allow Cordero to return to the team. However Harrington relented after the union threatened to file a grievance and owners' counsel advised him he was unlikely to prevail in court. Cordero's return drew criticism from women's rights advocates, and Cordero would ultimately plead guilty to the charges after the season.
In December 1997, Harrington and the club faced charges of racial bias and harassment after a black former employee of the team claimed a framed photo of himself and his fiancee was defaced with a racial epithet. The following month, a civil rights advocate who offered to mediate a settlement for the club abandoned those efforts, accusing Harrington of rebuffing him and failing to deal in good faith. The case led to a hearing before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) and was ultimately settled.
Ballpark
In 1999, Harrington proposed the idea of moving the Red Sox into a new ballpark that was scheduled to be built adjacent to Fenway and even named "New Fenway Park", (similar to what happened to Yankee Stadium in 2008). This idea was wildly controversial, as many Red Sox fans consider Fenway "a national treasure" of sorts. Harrington was quoted as saying that, "It would be easier to fix the Leaning Tower of Pisa than Fenway". The team set aside $415 million of $545 million allotted for the new ballpark, with the public financing the rest, estimated at $130 million. The baseball world had seen the closure of Tiger Stadium that same year, and many hoped Fenway would avoid the same fate. After much outcry from the public, Harrington sold the team to an ownership group headed by John W. Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino. Under this new ownership, Fenway Park was renovated, and the Red Sox celebrated the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park on April 20, 2012.
Later life
Harrington has served as chairman of the Yawkey Foundation since 2007.
Harrington was inducted to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019. In 2018, Boston College dedicated the Harrington Athletics Village at Brighton Fields, home of the college's softball and baseball fields, in his honor.
References
1930s births
Living people
United States Navy officers
Boston College alumni
Boston College faculty
Accounting educators
Boston Red Sox executives
Sportspeople from Boston
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The dominant religion in Vojvodina is Orthodox Christianity, mainly represented by the Serbian Orthodox Church, while other important religions of the region are Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Demographics
Christianity
Orthodox Christianity
The absolute majority of the population of Vojvodina (77.2%) are adherents of Orthodox Christianity. Most of the adherents belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church, and smaller number of them to the Romanian Orthodox Church. The ethnic groups whose members are mostly adherents of Orthodox Christianity are: Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanians, Yugoslavs, Romani, Macedonians, Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks, Vlachs, etc.
The Fruška Gora, a mountain in Vojvodina, is considered by some as one of the three Holy Mountains of the Orthodox Christianity (The other two being Athos and Sinai). There are as many as sixteen Orthodox monasteries located on the Fruška Gora. During the Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th centuries, the number of Orthodox monasteries on the Fruška Gora was as high as 35. There are also two Orthodox monasteries in the part of Syrmia that belong to Belgrade (but which historically belonged to Vojvodina), three Orthodox monasteries in the Bačka, and seven in the Banat.
The roots of Christianity in this region date back to the 3rd century when the Episcopate of Syrmia was established. This Episcopate existed until 1183, when the region of Syrmia was included in the Catholic Kingdom of Hungary. The 11th century Bulgaro-Slavic rulers of the territory of the present-day Vojvodina region, Ahtum and Sermon, were Orthodox Christians.
The Orthodox population which lived in the region was an impediment to the establishment of Catholic Church organization in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The Catholic inquisitor, Jacob de Marki, tried in 1483 to forcibly convert Orthodox Christians in the region to Catholicism.
With the Ottoman conquest of the region in the 16th century, the Catholic population mostly fled, and during Ottoman rule, the population of the region was mostly composed of Orthodox Christians, with some Muslims living in the cities.
At the end of the 17th century, the Muslim Ottoman Empire was replaced with the Catholic Habsburg monarchy, and during the Habsburg rule many Catholic settlers came to the region. Catholics then became the majority in the northern parts of the region, while Orthodox Christians remained the majority in the southern parts.
Catholicism
Catholic Christians constitute 17.4% of the population of Vojvodina. The ethnic groups whose members are mostly adherents of the Catholic Church are: Hungarians, Croats, Bunjevci, Germans, Slovenes, Czechs, Šokci, Poles, Banat Bulgarians, etc. A smaller percentage of Romani, Yugoslavs, and Slovaks are also adherents of Catholicism. The ethnic Rusyns and a smaller part of the ethnic Ukrainians are adherents of the Eastern Catholic (Uniate) Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia, of which the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Ruski Krstur is based in Ruski Krstur in Vojvodina.
Catholic Christians are mostly concentrated in the northern part of the region, notably in the municipalities with a Hungarian ethnic majority and in the multiethnic city of Subotica and multiethnic municipality of Bečej. The population of Subotica, the second largest city in Vojvodina, is 63.02% Catholic.
The Catholic population which lived in the region during the time of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary mostly fled from the region following the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century, and was replaced by Orthodox and Muslim inhabitants. A new Catholic population started to settle in the region with the establishment of Habsburg rule at the end of the 17th century. The 18th century colonizations were base for the current religious composition of Vojvodina, where there is a Catholic majority in several of the northern municipalities.
Protestant Christianity
Protestant Christians makeup 3.3% of the population of Vojvodina. Most of the ethnic Slovaks are adherents of Protestant Christianity. Some members of other ethnic groups (especially Serbs in absolute terms and Hungarians and Germans in proportional terms) are also adherents of various forms of Protestant Christianity.
The largest percentage of Protestant Christians in Vojvodina on municipal level is in the municipalities of Bački Petrovac and Kovačica, where the absolute or relative majority of the population are ethnic Slovaks.
According to the 2011 census, the largest Protestant communities were recorded in the municipalities of Kovačica (11,349) and Bački Petrovac (8,516), as well as in Stara Pazova (4,940) and the Vojvodinian capital Novi Sad (8,499), which are predominately Orthodox. While Protestants from Kovačica, Bački Petrovac and Stara Pazova are mostly Slovaks, members of Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia, services in most of the Protestant churches in Novi Sad are performed in the Serbian language.
Protestantism (mostly in its Nazarene form) started to spread among Serbs in Vojvodina in the last decades of the 19th century. Although, percentage of Protestants among Serbs is not large, it is the only religious form besides Orthodoxy, which is today widely spread among Serbs.
Islam
The ethnic groups whose members are mostly adherents of Islam are: ethnic Muslims, Albanians, Gorani, Bosniaks, Ashkali, and Egyptians. A smaller number of ethnic Romani are also adherents of Islam.
During Ottoman rule (16th-18th centuries), the Muslim population of the region was quite large and was mostly concentrated in the cities. Many cities of the region thus had a majority Muslim population, such as Sremska Mitrovica, which according to the 1566/69 data had a population composed of 592 Muslim and 30 Christian houses. According to the 1573 data, this city had 17 mosques and no Christian church. Following the establishment of the Habsburg rule at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, the Muslim population fled from the region. The current Muslim inhabitants of the region are mostly 20th century settlers from the Muslim areas of the former Yugoslavia.
Judaism
As elsewhere in the world, the Judaism is primarily associated with ethnic Jews. In the village of Čelarevo archaeologists have also found traces of people who practiced a Torah religion. Bunardžić dated Avar-Bulgar graves excavated in Čelarevo, containing skulls with Mongolian features and Judaic symbols, to the late 8th and 9th centuries. Erdely and Vilkhnovich consider the graves to belong to the Kabars who eventually broke ties with the Khazar Empire between the 830s and 862.
Today numbering only 329 people in Vojvodina, the Jewish population of the region numbered about 19,000 before the World War II. As elsewhere in Axis-occupied Europe, those Jews who did not flee were mostly killed or deported in the war.
See also
Vojvodina
Ethnic groups of Vojvodina
Religion in Serbia
Religious architecture in Novi Sad
References
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Ensonido
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Ensonido is a real-time post processing algorithm that allows users to play back MP3 Surround files in standard headphones.
Ensonido was developed by the Fraunhofer Society. It simulates the natural reception of surround sound by the human ear, which usually receives tones from surrounding loudspeakers and from reflections and echoes of the listening room. The out-of-head localization achieved that way increases the listening comfort noticeably in contrast to conventional stereo headphone listening with its in-head localization of all sounds. In version 3.0 of the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player, Ensonido is replaced with newer mp3HD
External links
all4mp3.com Software, demos, information, and various mp3 resources
mp3surround.com - Demo content, information and evaluation software
The Register news story
Press Releases
mp3surrounded.com - First Blog in the internet about MP3 Surround-MP3 Surround Samples
Audio codecs
Digital audio
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La Quinta High School
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La Quinta High School can refer to:
La Quinta High School (La Quinta, California)
La Quinta High School (Westminster, California)
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The 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 9th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 13 and 14 June 1931.
With the demise of Bentley, the favourite for an outright victory was split between the Bugatti and Alfa Romeo works teams, with a lone privateer Mercedes as an outside chance. Once again it was one of the smaller fields, with only 26 starters.
At the start of the race it was the Mercedes setting the pace from the Bugattis of Chiron and Divo. But tyre-wear was a big issue, with many cars suffering tyre blowouts and punctures. This left Marinoni leading in the works Alfa. Coming up to the first refuelling stops, the rear tyre on Maurice Rost's Bugatti blew out at full speed on the Mulsanne Straight. Rost lost control of the car and went through a fence, hitting three spectators, killing one. When more tyre issues plagued Chiron's car, the Bugatti team withdrew their remaining two cars. Tyre troubles had also cost the Mercedes team eight laps.
The Alfa Romeo of British privateers Howe and Birkin had been having a reliable race. As others were delayed they caught them up and took the lead after midnight. At 2.30am a sudden thunderstorm swept the track. Zehender went off at Indianapolis doing damage that eventually forced the works Alfa's retirement in the morning. The Talbots of the British Fox & Nicholl team were running third and fourth with the Mercedes closing in again. Ivanowski was able to source some Dunlop tyres. He and Stoffel were able to pick up their pace, and when the leading Talbot was waylaid in the morning by chassis damage, the Mercedes was up to second by noon.
At the finish, Howe and Birkin won by seven laps from the Mercedes and the remaining Talbot. This was the first win at Le Mans for an Italian car, and in a record-breaking run, they claimed all three trophies – including the Index and Biennial Cup – and broke the 3000km distance for the first time. Only six cars were classified, which has been the lowest ever number of finishers in the 24-Hour race.
Regulations
This year there were no changes to the racing regulations of either the AIACR (forerunner of the FIA) Appendix C rules, nor those of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The biggest change this year was in the pits. Rather than refuelling with 10-litre cans, a series of 4-metre high reservoir towers were built holding 1000-litres. Three hoses from each allowed gravity-replenishment at about 250 litres per minute. Shell once again had the fuel contract and again offered its three standard fuel options. The ACO also now allowed a mechanic to assist the driver with the refuelling.
As usual, as engine power advanced, the ACO once again adjusted the Index target distances. Example targets included the following:
Entries
With Bentley in major financial strife, the works team had been disbanded and the Bentley Boys dispersed, marking the end of an era. Into this void came works teams from the two main powerhouses of current Grand Prix racing: Alfa Romeo and Bugatti. However, apart from Aston Martin, and a (non-eventuating) effort from Ariès the remaining entries were from privateer teams and "gentleman-drivers". There were still only 30 cars entered, not a great improvement on the record low number from the previous year. Of those, only four were entered in the final of the Biennial Cup – an Alfa Romeo, the two Talbots and the returning women in their Bugatti.
Note: The first number is the number of entries, the second the number who started.
Daimler-Benz had pulled out of racing officially in 1930 leaving privateers to run their cars. In the 1930 race, the Mercedes of Rudolf Caracciola had taken the challenge to Bentley in the first half of the race. This year, Paris-based Russian Valériani-Vladimir Tatarinoff, entered an SSK (Super Sports Kurz) on behalf of fellow émigré Count Boris Ivanowski. He had previously been denied an entry of a stripped-down Alfa Romeo for the 1928 race. The SSK had a big 7.1-litre engine that could be augmented temporarily by a Roots supercharger up to 250 bhp. Along with his co-driver, Le Mans veteran Henri Stoffel, Ivanowski entered the car in both touring and Grand Prix races.
Bugatti had run almost exclusively in Grand Prix racing with great success in the late 1920s. This year marked its first foray to Le Mans with a works team. The new Type 50 was a development of the big-engined Type 46. Its 5.0-litre straight-8 engine had a Roots supercharger and was capable of 250 bhp, and with a 3-speed gearbox, gave the car a top speed of 195 kp/h (120 mph). The team, managed by Bugatti's 22-year old son Jean, brought three short-wheelbase versions for their works drivers Louis Chiron / Achille Varzi and Albert Divo/Guy Bouriat, joined by Maurice Rost/Caberto Conelli. Perhaps anticipating bad weather, they were running on a new, heavy-tread Michelin tyre. Other innovations were a new quick-change brake system, "pop-top" petrol caps, and oil-refill tubes in the bonnet all designed to speed up pitwork. Alongside the works team were three French privateer entries in smaller Bugattis, including wealthy Parisian bankers Pierre Louis-Dreyfus / Antoine Schumann who raced together under the pseudonyms "Ano-Nime"; and the women who charmed the media the previous year, Odette Siko and Marguerite Mareuse, returned.
Alfa Romeo had achieved great success in recent years with the 6C model, in both its regular or supercharged format. Vittorio Jano's new design, the 8C, had a supercharged 2.3-litre engine that developed 155 bhp. It came in two styles: a short-wheelbase, 2-seater corto adapted for Grand Prix racing and narrow, tight circuits like the Mille Miglia; and a 4-seater lungo (long) version for the ACO regulations for touring cars. Although the Scuderia Ferrari ran the car for Italian races, it was a works team that arrived at Le Mans with two cars. The driver-pairings were team regulars Giuseppe Campari / Attilio Marinoni and "Nando" Minoia / "Freddy" Zehender. Two Englishmen were some of the early purchasers of the new model. Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin had given up his Blower Bentley project for the more reliable Alfa, and won his class first time up at the Irish Grand Prix the week before Le Mans. Earl Francis Howe had his delivered to replace his 6C that Achille Varzi had crashed in the 1930 Irish race. So in the 1930 Le Mans, Howe had run his Mercedes-Benz instead, earning one of the four entries taken up for the Biennial Cup. For this race, he approached Birkin to be his co-driver The Bentley 4½ Litre that Birkin had raced in 1928 (and then Earl Howe in 1929) had been purchased Anthony Bevan who bought it back for a third run at Le Mans. Since the previous race, the great brand had been sold to Rolls-Royce.
Unlike most other car companies, Talbot had been reasonably successful with sales of its 6-cylinder car range. Its latest version, the 105, now had a 3-litre capable of 120 bhp and 175 kp/h (110 mph), as well as a 4-speed gearbox and a bigger 160-litre fuel-tank. Four cars were made available to the Fox & Nicholl team. Two were taken to Le Mans to race with another as a test vehicle. The drivers were team-regulars Brian Lewis, Baron Essendon / Johnny Hindmarsh and Tim Rose-Richards / Owen Saunders-Davies.
Henri de Costier had driven at Le Mans three times in the late-'20s. This year he organised the entry of a pair of big Chrysler straight-8s. He, himself, drove the larger 6.3-litre, 125 bhp, CG Imperial Eight while the new model CD Eight (with a 100 bhp 3.9-litre engine) was entrusted to the new, young French talent, Raymond Sommer.
La Lorraine-Dietrich had not competed at Le Mans since 1926, after the company believed they were denied victory in the Biennial Cup by the ACO on a technicality. The team's four B3-6 Le Mans specials had been mothballed until one was sold to Henri Trébor, who got the car a few days before the race after a factory refit. Racing journalist Roger Labric submitted an entry on his behalf. Trébor engaged Louis Balart as his co-driver, himself a veteran of the first four Le Mans races. The small Scottish car company of Arrol-Aster arrived for its only foray at the race. The 17/50 had a 2.4-litre sleeve-valve engine with a Cozette supercharger. The car was prepared at Tim Birkin's race-garage in London.
Aston Martin returned to Le Mans after a three-year hiatus with a works team of three cars. The 1.5-litre International was still in a limited run and only seven racing chassis had been made. Le Mans winner Sammy Davis was in hospital after a major accident at Brooklands at Easter so company engineer Augustus "Bert" Bertelli instead drove with Maurice Harvey. Former Lea-Francis drivers Kenneth Peacock and Sammy Newsome had the second car while Jack Bezzant and Humphrey Cook had the third.
Voiturette racing was still popular and encouraged enthusiast engineers to make their own small customised specials. Yves Giraud-Cabantous was one such. A mechanic and driver at Salmson, he adapted a Salmson chassis with the oft-used 1.1-litre Ruby engine that put out 35 bhp. After successes in the Bol d'Or, Roger Labric encouraged him to enter the Le Mans race and offered to enter two under his name. After a disappointing race for BNC the previous year, when the new car didn't even turn a wheel, the team returned with the tried and tested 527 Sport, also with a Ruby engine.
In 1930 George Eyston had approached Cecil Kimber, managing director of MG Cars, about developing the first 750cc car to break the 100mph barrier. In part, this was because his Land Speed Record rival, Malcolm Campbell was working with Austin for the same goal. With the resulting EX120 special, Eyston achieved the record in February 1931 at Montlhéry. Using the prototype's engine and frame, MG built the new C-Type. Fourteen cars, already pre-sold, were quickly built in time to take a clean sweep, first time out, at the Brooklands Double-12 (Britain's annual 24-hour event) in May. The result was repeated a month later at the Irish Grand Prix. A week later, two of the cars were entered for Le Mans, without superchargers. Sir Francis Samuelson returned with his regular co-driver Fred Kindell, while Lady Joan Chetwynd ran her husband's car along with fellow C-Type owner Henry Stisted.
Practice
A number of teams and drivers were racing the weekend before at events across Europe, which made preparations difficult. Arthur Fox, in one of his Talbots, gave Alfa drivers Birkin, Howe and Campari a lift to London from Dublin where they had all been racing in the Irish Grand Prix meeting.
After their races the Bugatti team drove their cars across from Molsheim in eastern France, arriving on Thursday. In practice, one of the cars blew a rear tyre, so team manager "Meo" Costantini directed the drivers to not go above 4000rpm to limit their top speed for the first six hours.
Through practice, the Alfa Romeos had engine ignition problems because of the hybrid fuel being used. This had happened the year before to Birkin and his "Blower Bentleys". His solution then was to switch to pure benzole and change out the pistons. Parts were delayed coming from the factory in Milan, the mechanics worked through the night but by race morning only three of the cars were ready. Team manager Aldo Giovannini stood down Campari and Minoia and instead teamed up Marinoni (as a very competent mechanic in his own right) with Zehender.
The ACO celebrated its Silver Jubilee, formed in 1906 running the first French Grand Prix. Special guests at the Saturday luncheon included Ferenc Szisz and Felice Nazzaro who had finished first and second respectively at that inaugural event. ACO Club secretary, Georges Durand, had also served 25 years and was the honorary starter for the race on a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon.
Race
Start
First away from the flagfall at 4pm were the two Chryslers, however their lead was short-lived and with the big cars' sluggish acceleration out of the Pontlieue corners, they were overtaken by the works Bugattis of Chiron and Divo. Henri Stoffel wound up the Mercedes' supercharger and quickly blasted past all four of them into the lead– Chiron failed his breaking at Mulsanne on lap 3 trying to outbrake him and ended up down the escape road. The two Alfas, and the Bugattis of Rost and Louis-Dreyfus filled out the top-9. A bit further back the three Aston Martins were jockeying with the Lorraine while the Chryslers slipped back.
After an hour though, by lap ten, it was all change. Birkin had just come in with a misfiring sparkplug when both Stoffel and Chiron arrived with flat tyres. This put Marinoni's Alfa in the lead, followed by the Bugattis of Divo and Rost. In his race back up the field Chiron had a big moment halfway down the Hunaudières straight. Having just overtaken Birkin, the other rear tyre blew at top speed putting him in a wild slide. With skill, he regained control and managed to get the car slowly back to the pits.
The two Chryslers were the first retirements. Sommer was out after 14 laps with a holed radiator, and then five laps later, into the pits came Costier with the same problem. At 6.30pm Marinoni had just finished his 20th lap, leading from Divo but Rost, running third, did not come around. He had been going down the back straight at 175 kp/h when a tyre blew. The car crashed through the roadside fence and trees. Three men standing in the spectator-prohibited zone were run down and one, Jules Bourgoin, was killed while the other two were seriously injured. Rost had been thrown from the car and suffered head injuries and a broken shoulder and ribs.
So, after three hours, at the first round of pit-stops, Divo led from Marinoni and Stoffel, having all done 23 laps. Chiron was a lap behind with the two Talbots. Chiron then pitted with a third delaminated tyre. Bouriat, who had just taken over from Divo was called in soon after while leading and both remaining works Bugattis were withdrawn, despite boos from the spectators.
This left the Mercedes to battle the Alfa Romeos. But when tyre-delaminations struck them twice, the drivers decided to ease back and change tyres every hour to avoid further issues. These delays cost the Mercedes eight laps. The Talbots' reliability kept them in touch with the leaders, only doing their first pit-stops at 8pm, four hours into the race. It was unknown why Odette Siko bought her Bugatti in for its second stop after 38 laps, but when the team refuelled it two laps before regulations allowed, they were disqualified.
Night
As dusk fell, Couper's Bentley broke its crankcase just as he was braking for the corners at Pontlieue. The driver managed to stop just in front of the barriers blocking the main road into Le Mans Going into the night, Marinoni/Zehender were still leading. At the 6-hour mark (10pm) they had done 46 laps. Howe and Birkin were closing in quickly, eventually overtaking them after midnight. Just a lap back was the Talbot of Rose-Richards/Saunders-Davies while the Lewis/Hindmarsh sister-car had been delayed by electrical issues and now three laps behind them with the Mercedes half a lap further back. The three Astons were also still running together inside the top-10: Bezzant/Cook in 6th (40 laps) and Bertelli/Harvey in 7th. However the team had replaced their headlamps with heavier Zeiss headlamps. The strain from the roads gradually shook the bolts loose and all the Aston Martins lost time getting them re-secured. The Caban of Labric/Giraud-Cabantous got beached at Pontlieue after midnight, losing much time getting dug out.
Then at 2.30am, a violent lightning flash and thunderclap heralded a short intense squall that flooded the track for an hour. Cars quickly came into the pits to raise wind-screens and put on wet-weather gear. But on his out-lap, Zehender aquaplaned off at Indianapolis corner, slamming the front corner. It got repaired and back on the road, but lost four laps. The two Fox & Nicholl Talbots were still running reliably in third and fourth – their only issues were similar to the Aston Martins. Both cars each had one of their headlamp brackets brake. The drivers latched onto faster cars, using them as spotters through the night on the dark roads.
Morning
As dawn broke nearly half the field had retired or been withdrawn. Howe and Birkin had done 92 laps, four laps ahead of Marinoni/Zehender with the two Talbots a further two laps back. Not long after 6am the rear-axle broke on the works Alfa in second, forcing its retirement. The MG of Samuelson/Kindell smacked an earth-bank avoiding another car. They lost three-quarters an hour fixing the suspension. Ivanowski was able to get hold of some Dunlop tyres to replace his problematic Engleberts. With the supercharger running, he was soon putting in very quick times, setting the fastest lap of the race. He was able to overhaul one of the Talbots and got a lap back off the leaders. At 9am, the Bezzant/Cook Aston Martin still running in fifth broke a front-wing support and the wing fell off. Without parts no repairs were possible, and the car was retired.
Around 9.30am, Lewis noticed the Talbot's rear fueltank shifting on the chassis. Pitting, the team found the frame had cracked just above the rear axle. Despite twenty minutes of repairs (using belts and straps to tie the tank in place) and three more laps, it was still dangerously loose, and the car had to be retired. The metal fatigue was put down to the combined strain from this race and the recent Brooklands Double-12 it had run in. This moved the Mercedes up into second, a place it held for the rest of the race. The two little Cabans had quietly kept circulating at a regular rate at the tail of the field, designed to get them to their target distance. But during the morning, Caban's car came to a stop on the Mulsanne straight with fuel-feed issues.
Going into the afternoon there were only nine cars left running. The last Bugatti had just retired – the privateer entry of Jean Sébilleau lost its failing clutch. Although the privateer Alfa had a sizeable lead over the Mercedes, they were not able to ease off, as the Talbot (in third) kept up the pressure for honours in the Index and Biennial Cup handicap competitions.
Finish and post-race
In the end, the hard driving by Howe and Birkin gave them a comfortable seven-lap victory, and they were only the second crew to win all three prizes: outright distance, Index and the Coupe Bienniale. It was Birkin's second win after his victory in 1929 with Bentley. They also gave Italy its first win in the endurance event, earning personal congratulations from Mussolini. Their total distance covered broke the barrier for the first time.
The Mercedes lasted the distance, finishing four laps ahead of the Talbot of Rose-Richards/Saunders-Davies. Fourth, 23 laps further back, was the old Lorraine-Dietrich. It had spent most of the race mixing it with the Aston Martins, with newer engines half its size. In the end it covered two more laps, but 100km less, than its stable-mate that had won the 1926 race.
The remaining two Aston Martins had varying stories: Peacock & Newsome retired with less than two hours to go because of bodywork issues while the other, after the assorted delays, had to hurry on to make its target distance. "Bert" Bertelli and Maurice Harvey made it by just one lap, finishing fifth and winning the 1500cc class. The little Caban of Vernet/Vallon was the final classified car, just meeting its target by bare metres and over 900km behind the winner. The meagre six finishers being the lowest number in the history of the race.
The hard-luck story was the Samuelson/Kindell MG. With just over an hour to go, a conrod broke. The team isolated the affected cylinder and parked the car to rejoin the race just before 4pm to complete a final, careful lap. Regulations stipulated the last lap had to be done within 30 minutes but when Samuelson took 32 minutes to complete it they were left unclassified.
Alfa Romeo developed the successful 8C-2300 into a shorter, Grand-Prix version developing 180 bhp. After a great win in the year's 10-hour Italian Grand Prix, it gained the "Monza" moniker. Bugatti instead chose to mothball their Type 50s, to concentrate on the more successful Type 51, while the engines were fitted to the new Type 54.
In a busy month after the race, Ivanowski and Stoffel took the Mercedes successively to the 10-hour French Grand Prix (DNF), Spa 24 Hours (DNF) and Belgian Grand Prix (5th).
Official results
Finishers
Results taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.
Did Not Finish
Note *: [B]= car also entered in the 1930-31 Biennial Cup.
Note **: equivalent class for supercharging, with x1.3 modifier to engine capacity.
Note ***: #31 was not classified, for failing to complete the final lap of the race in under 30 minutes.
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1931 Index of Performance
Class Winners
Statistics
Fastest Lap – B. Ivanowski, #1 Mercedes-Benz SSK– 7:03secs;
Winning Distance –
Winner's Average Speed –
References
Citations
Bibliography
Clarke, R.M. - editor (1998) Le Mans 'The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939' Cobham, Surrey: Brooklands Books
Clausager, Anders (1982) Le Mans London: Arthur Barker Ltd
Laban, Brian (2001) Le Mans 24 Hours London: Virgin Books
Spurring, Quentin (2017) Le Mans 1930-39 Sherbourne, Dorset: Evro Publishing
External links
Racing Sports Cars – Le Mans 24 Hours 1931 entries, results, technical detail. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
Le Mans History – entries, results incl. photos, hourly positions. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
World Sports Racing Prototypes – results, reserve entries & chassis numbers. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
24h en Piste – results, chassis numbers, driver photos & hourly positions (in French). Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
Radio Le Mans – Race article and review by Charles Dressing. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
Unique Cars & Parts – results & reserve entries. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
Formula 2 – Le Mans results & reserve entries. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
Motorsport Memorial – motor-racing deaths by year. Retrieved 22 Dec 2018
24 Hours of Le Mans races
Le Mans
1931 in French motorsport
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Ryan Lee Hudson (born 20 November 1979), also known by the nicknames of "Raz", and "Hudders", is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He played at representative level for Great Britain (A-Team), England (A-Team), and Yorkshire, and at club level for Stanley Rangers, the Huddersfield Giants (two spells), the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, the Castleford Tigers (Heritage № 786) (two spells) (captain), and the Bradford Bulls (no appearances), as a , or . He is also the brother of former Coronation Street and Wild at Heart actress Lucy-Jo Hudson.
Hudson was set to play for Bradford Bulls in 2005 but failed a substance test after taking some pain-killers abroad that contained the banned substance stanozolol. He was suspended from the game for two years; the ban expired shortly before the start of 2007's Super League XII.
Early career
As a youngster, he played for amateur side Stanley Rangers, whom he later went on to coach. Whilst at the club his potential was obvious. He picked up several player of the year awards and is regarded as one of the club's finest ever products.
International honours
In October 2001, Hudson was named as captain for England under-21s two-game tour against South Africa.
Ryan Hudson represented England 'A' while at Castleford playing in the 12–34 defeat by New Zealand at Brentford F.C.'s stadium on 30 October 2002, playing and scoring one try in the 44–8 victory over Fiji at Lautoka, Fiji on 9 November 2002, as a substitute in the 12–18 defeat by Fiji President's XIII at Suva, Fiji on 13 November 2002, and in the 30–18 victory over Tonga at Nukuʻalofa, Tonga on 16 November 2002, and represented Great Britain 'A' playing and scoring one try in the 52–18 victory over New Zealand 'A' at Leeds Rhinos' stadium on 29 October 2003.
County honours
Ryan Hudson won a cap playing for Yorkshire while at Castleford as the captain in the 56–6 victory over Lancashire at Odsal Stadium, Bradford on 2 July 2003.
Post playing career
Outside of Rugby League, he has an endorsement deal with Maximuscle. Hudson also co-owns a gym in Castleford with former Featherstone Rovers player Jamie Field, he is also a coach at Stanley Rangers ARLFC.
References
External links
Statistics at thecastlefordtigers.co.uk
1979 births
Living people
Bradford Bulls players
Castleford Tigers captains
Castleford Tigers players
Doping cases in rugby league
English rugby league players
English sportspeople in doping cases
Huddersfield Giants players
People educated at Garforth Academy
Rugby league hookers
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league five-eighths
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Leeds
Wakefield Trinity players
Yorkshire rugby league team players
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A catoptric cistula, also called a catoptric theatre or chest, is a box with several sides lined with mirrors, so as to magnify or multiply images of any object placed inside the box. Of these, there are various kinds for various purposes, such as magnification, deformation, or multiplication of images.
The most elaborate catoptric chests known from Ancient Rome exhibited detailed scenes, including expansive libraries, forests, cities, or even vast treasures. Another form of entertainment involved placing an animal, such as a cat, inside a chest, and watching it interact with numerous other cats that appeared to surround it.
Construction
Multiple scenes in one chest
Following is an explanation of the construction of a catoptric cistula to represent several distinct scenes of objects, when looked in through several holes. Provide a polygonous cistula, or chest, in the shape of a multilateral prism ABCDEF, as shown in the figure, and divide its cavity by diagonal planes EB, FC, DA, intersecting each other in the center G, into as many triangular cells as the chest has sides; for example, a hexagonal chest will have six cells. Line the diagonal planes with plane mirrors. In the lateral planes, make round holes, through which the eye may observe cells of the chest. The holes are to be covered with plain glass, ground on the inner side, but not polished, to prevent the objects in the cells from appearing too distinctly. In each cell are placed the different objects, whose images are to be exhibited; then covering up the top of the chest with a thin transparent membrane, to permit light, the apparatus is complete.
By the laws of reflection, the images of the objects, placed within the angles of the mirrors, are multiplied, and some appear more distant than others, so that the objects of one cell will appear to take up more space than is contained in the entire chest. Looking through each hole will produce a new scene, each seemingly too large to be contained in the chest. According to the different angles the mirrors make with each other, the representations will be different; if the mirrors are at an angle greater than a right one, the images will be immense. (see anamorphosis)
One large scene
Following is an explanation of the construction of a catoptric cistula to represent the objects within it prodigiously multiplied, and diffused through a vast space. Make a polygonous chest, as before, but without dividing the inner cavity into any apartments or cells; see the second figure for an example. Line the lateral planes CBHI, BHLA, ALMF, etc., with plane mirrors, and at the apertures, scrape off the tin and quicksilver of the mirrors, so that the eye can see through. Place any objects in the bottom MI, e.g. a bird in a cage, etc.
Here, the eye looking through the aperture h i, will see each object placed at the bottom, vastly multiplied, and the images separated by equal distances from one another.
In culture
The torture chamber in the Phantom of the Opera is a six-sided catoptric chamber:
The TARDIS of the television series Doctor Who is perhaps a modern expression, though fictional, of the effect sought to be created in the mind of the viewer of a catoptric chamber.
Jorge Luis Borges's Library of Babel is a universe which really is organized as an infinite matrix of repeating units, as it appears to be from the inside of a catoptric chamber.
References
Optical devices
Optical illusions
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JELD-WEN is an American company with its headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company operates more than 120 manufacturing facilities in 19 countries. JELD-WEN designs, produces and distributes interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl and aluminum windows, wall systems, shower enclosures, closet systems and other components used in the new construction, as well as repair and remodel of residential homes and non-residential buildings.
History
JELD-WEN was founded in 1960 by Richard "Dick" Wendt when he, together with four business partners, bought a millwork plant in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The company first established operations to support their millwork business and later added other materials to its offering including fiber, vinyl, aluminum and steel.
During the 1970s and 1980s, JELD-WEN grew through vertical integration and acquisition. By 1989, JELD-WEN was ranked seventh among privately held companies in Oregon with revenues of more than $350 million.
Throughout the 1990s, JELD-WEN continued diversification efforts, moving into additional areas of service and expanding to new countries and continents. In 1996, Forbes ranked JELD-WEN at 225 of the nation's top 500 privately owned companies. In 1997, it was ranked 119 and revenues were estimated at $1.39 billion.
By the early 2000s, JELD-WEN was operating throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Europe, Australia, and Asia. JELD-WEN also diversified in to the home center business and began selling through big-box retailers.
JELD-WEN was recapitalized by Onex Corporation in 2011 following the housing market downturn. JELD-WEN went public through an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on January 27, 2017. The company completed a secondary offering in May 2017.
Recent Acquisitions
From 2015 to 2017, the company completed nine acquisitions, including DOORIA, Aneeta, Karona, LaCantina, Trend, Breezway, Mattiovi Oy, Milliken Millworks, and Kolder Group.
JELD-WEN Brands
JELD-WEN brands include JELD-WEN, AuraLast, MiraTEC, Extira, LaCANTINA, Karona, ImpactGuard, Aurora, IWP, Stegbar, Regency, William Russel Doors, Airlite, Trend, The Perfect Fit, Aneeta, Breezway, Corinthian, Swedoor, Dooria, DANA, A&L and Alupan.
See also
List of companies based in North Carolina
References
External links
JELD-WEN (official website)
1960 establishments in Oregon
Companies based in Charlotte, North Carolina
Manufacturing companies established in 1960
Building materials companies of the United States
Window manufacturers
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Manufacturing companies based in North Carolina
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
2017 initial public offerings
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North Campus is a residential section of Cornell University's Ithaca, New York campus. It primarily houses freshmen. North Campus offers programs which ease the transition into college life for incoming freshmen. The campus offers interactions with faculty and other programs designed to increase interaction among members of the freshman class. North Campus is part of Cornell's residential initiative.
History
From 1913 to 1970, the area north of Fall Creek held Cornell's women-only dormitories. Risley (1913), Comstock (1925), Balch (1929), Dickson (1946) and Donlon (1961) were referred to as the "women's dorms." Visitation by men was so regimented that mobs of freshmen men would gather to storm the area in "panty raids" seeking undergarment mementos. During this period, women had limited opportunities to attend Ivy League schools, and the limited number of dorm rooms available to female freshmen students was used to calculate a female admission quota for each college. As a result, female applicants needed higher test scores and GPAs than male applicants to gain admission to Cornell.
The original master plan for the area called for the pattern of Balch-type courtyards to be extended northward. Dickson was built consistent with the spirit of the plan. The construction of Donlon broke with the plan with a high-rise modern design. All of these buildings were designed for women and included self-contained dining facilities as well as parlors for receiving male visitors.
Fuertes Observatory, built on a knoll just to the north of Beebe Lake, was completed in the fall of 1917. The observatory is still used for introductory astronomy labs, as well as for public viewing nights on clear Fridays.
In 1940, the first 9 holes of Cornell's Robert Trent Jones Golf Course were built adjacent to the North Campus dormitories.
In 1963, Helen Newman Hall opened to serve as the women's gymnasium and housed the women's physical education program.
In 1970, a new set of red brick dormitories called "North Campus" opened, consisting of the Low Rise and High Rise complexes. The Robert Purcell Community Center, originally known as the North Campus Union, was also built and opened in 1971. Although three more Low Rise dorms (#2 to #4) were planned, funding was not available, and the area between High Rises 1 and 5 was left undeveloped. Also in 1970, Cornell started experimenting with coed dorms, and all buildings except Balch Hall (which is limited to housing women by a bequest) gradually became coed. With coeducation, the name of the entire area north of the creek became "North Campus."
In 1972, to compensate the Athletics Department for the loss of the Lower Alumni Fields to biology buildings, intramural playing fields were developed on North Campus.
The need for additional dorms became pressing, and the Trustees commissioned Richard Meier to design new dorm buildings which followed the contours of the fairways of the abandoned golf course site. Again, economics prevented this striking design from being built. The townhouses now occupy a portion of this site.
The present programmatic layout of North Campus was initially proposed in 1997, by then-Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings III. It was designed to promote the unification of the freshman living areas. North Campus was brought about to bring together Cornell's disjointed first-year programs. This North Campus Initiative, as the proposal was called, united the vision of Charles Dagit and Alan Chimacoff with the Hillier Group and Dagit-Saylor Associates chosen to implement the plan which led to the construction of Mews Hall, Court Hall, and Appel Commons. Both Mews and Court are considered to be temporary names, to be replaced by the names of donors. On October 14, 2005, the southern wing of Court Hall was re-dedicated as Bauer Hall, marking the generosity of the Bauer family, and the B Wing of Court was renamed Kay, making the hall's full name Court-Kay-Bauer. Completed in 2002, Appel Commons became the second community center on North Campus. It contains North Star dining, Ezra's Emporium, a fitness center, and multipurpose rooms.
North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE)
The North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE), announced in 2018, will add six buildings with about 2,000 beds and a dining hall to North Campus. The project is led by Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects. The five new residence halls will be named for alumni Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, Barbara McClintock (B.S. 1923, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1927), Hu Shih (B.A. 1914), and to honor the Cayuga Nation ("Ganędagǫ"). The NCRE project is expected to be completed Fall 2022.
Noyes Lodge
Noyes Lodge was originally built in 1958 as a dining hall. It contained the Pancake House and the Pick-Up, a small grocery, in the 1970s and ’80s. It also contained the Language Resource Center. In 2018, Noyes was completely renovated to be the home of the Tang Welcome Center, the first official welcome center at Cornell. The center, which overlooks Beebe Lake, contains space for exhibitions about the University's history and mission, and serves as a gathering point for visitors and the starting point for campus tours.
Traditional residences
Balch Hall
On North Campus, Balch stands out for its majestic English Renaissance style. Originally, each of the four halls were decorated differently in "Early American, Georgian, English Jacobean, and modern Gramercy Park". Balch Hall is the only all-female dormitory left on North Campus. The former dining hall has since been converted into a student center, cafe, and lecture hall for all first-year students known as the Carol Tatkon Center. The dorm rooms are unique in that each has its own working sink.
Court-Kay-Bauer Community
Court, Kay and Bauer Halls are joined by an enclosed bridge on the second and third floor and an open air walkway (weather permitting) on the fourth floor. The residence hall opened in the fall of 2001 as Court Hall; in the fall of 2005, the south section was renamed Bauer Hall to honor Robert and Virginia Bauer's donation to the university. In autumn 2006, the former B wing of the building was renamed Kay Hall, in honor of Cornell alumnus Bill Kay's donation. Court-Kay-Bauer houses 270 first-year students, 9 Resident Advisors, 1 Residence Hall Director and a Faculty in Residence.
Clara Dickson Hall
Clara Dickson Hall or just "Dickson" is a Georgian-style building located on North Campus, built in 1946. With a gross area of 168,791 sq ft (15,681 m²) and a net area of 139,899 sq ft (12,997 m²), it is the largest dormitory in the Ivy League. It houses 575 first-year students in a variety of singles, doubles, and triples. Clara Dickson Hall also is home to the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, one of Cornell's residential program houses. When Dickson was an all-female residence hall, it had a dining hall.
Mary Donlon Hall
Mary H. Donlon Hall is a residence hall located at the center of North Campus and has a gross area of and net area of . Built in 1961, it houses 472 first-year students arranged in double rooms (with a few singles and two "quads," three room suites for four students, per floor), typically sized 12' x 18'. It has a unique triangular structure separated onto 6 floors. Facilities include a TV/social lounge, piano, laundry, elevator, kitchen, computer networking, study lounge, lofting furniture, and library. The study lounge located on the first floor is nicknamed 'The Morgue' due to its notoriously dim lighting, silence, and freezing temperatures for most of the year.
Low Rises
The Low Rise complex is composed of Low Rises 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Low Rise 6 and 7 operate as traditional suite style dormitories, whereas 8, 9 and 10 operate as Program Houses (Holland International Living Center, Just About Music, and Ujamaa respectively). The buildings were constructed in 1975. Low Rises 6 and 7 house 168 students while Low Rises 8,9, and 10 house 144 students. Each Low Rise is composed of four units, each of which have 6 suites, a kitchen, an RA room (formerly a study lounge), and a unit lounge. Each suite is composed of a bathroom, two singles, a double and a triple (though the doubles are used as "forced" triples in Low Rises 6 and 7). Each building also has its own main lounge, with some having apartments for Faculty-in-Residence or RHDs and their families to stay.
High Rises
George Jameson Hall and High Rise 5 (completed in 1972) are the two tall brick buildings on North Campus located at opposite sides of Robert Purcell Community Center. Each houses 225 freshmen, 5 Resident Advisors, a Faculty in Residence in Jameson, and an RHD in High Rise 5. There are 5 main living floors per building, although there are student rooms on the ground and lounge floors. The rooms are arranged in suite style, with 2 singles, and 2 doubles; or 2 singles, a double and a triple. Each of the five floors has 6 suites, a kitchen, and a common lounge, which can be converted into a quintuple in dire situations. On the top floors are Skylounges, which provide views of all of North Campus. The building is only accessible by elevators if a person wishes to go up because the stairs up are not accessible from the ground floor.
Townhouse Community
The Townhouse Community is a group of eight buildings supplying apartment-style living to approximately 300 freshmen. Originally graduate housing, they were opened to freshmen in the mid-1990s. The Townhouses are nearly all arranged in pairs of two doubles. This is unique in that just four students share a bathroom and shower, kitchen, living room, and dining room. The Townhouse Community Center, located between the buildings, provides community events, mailboxes, a study room, laundry machines, and lounges. The eight units are labeled A through H, and each pair sits at opposite sides of four grassy quads.
Mews Hall
Mews Hall, built in 2000, is located near Appel Commons and Helen Newman Hall and has a gross area of and a net area of . The building is designed and named after Mews, a building style originating with British stables. The building is separated into two parallel halves, east and west, which are linked by a hallway and Lund study lounge. Between the wings is a large courtyard. The Western wing houses two floors of students as well the Residence Hall Director and the Faculty in Residence, while the Eastern wing houses three floors of students. Each floor has two study lounges and a shared TV lounge and kitchen. Mews Hall houses 279 first-year students arranged in suites of singles and doubles. The air-conditioned facilities include a TV/social lounge, piano, laundry, elevators, computer networking, bike storage room. Mews Hall is governed by a student elected Hall Council and Judicial Board and has a student committee known as the Community Outreach Group which is responsible for organizing community service programs. Mews Hall is well-known for its proximity to basketball and tennis courts, in addition to its lavish rooms (J units).
Program Houses
Program Houses are themed residence halls in which students of all years may choose to live. These are the only opportunities for upperclassmen to live on the freshmen-centric North Campus.
Just About Music
Just About Music, also known as JAM, is a musically-themed program house founded during the 1987-1988 academic year. JAM is located on North Campus and is in Low Rise 9. Consistent with the low-rise style, the building contains four units, each comprising six suites, each of which contain a bathroom and four rooms (a double, a triple and two singles).
JAM houses 144 undergraduate students, who call themselves "Jammies". There are four residential advisors, or RAs, who often plan programs for the residents. There is one Residence Hall Director (RHD) and many out-of-house members.
JAM is also home to three pianos, a practice room, and a drum set. The building contains a Performance Space, also called the "P-Space," complete with a sound system and stage lighting, which is used throughout the school term for concerts, programs, and rehearsals. The P-Space also doubles as a recording studio for those who wish to record their music, with a separate recording booth and drum room.
In the 1990s, JAM was housed in Class of 1926 Hall on West Campus and housed 200 undergraduate students. This arrangement was superseded by the North Campus Initiative and the demolition of the University Halls.
Risley Hall
Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts, commonly known as Risley Hall, Risley Residential College, or just Risley, is a themed residence hall at Cornell University. Unlike most other traditional dormitories on campus, Risley is a residential college, meaning that the house members, "Risleyites", are encouraged to eat together at the in-house dining hall, can live as house members for all four or five years they spend enrolled at Cornell, and participate in educational activities, such as guest lectures, within their dormitory.
The building houses 190 students who are admitted by applications that are reviewed by current Risleyites and two Guest Suite Artists ("GSA"), who live in the building and organize regular programs in which the house members participate. As a dormitory, Risley offers a unique living experience. The Tudor Gothic building itself is shaped like a large, red castle. When constructed, the architect, William H Miller, was requested to design the floor plan such that no two rooms would be identical. Consequently, the rooms vary greatly. Sizes range from a single room that is 93 square feet (9 m²), a former maid's room, to a double room that is 273 square feet (25 m²), the largest double on campus. Various room features include balconies, fireplaces, dumbwaiter shafts, secret stairwells, bay windows, embrasures, and turrets.
Multicultural Living Learning Unit
The Multicultural Living Learning Unit, was originally housed in the Class of '17 on West Campus. In 1999 McLLU was relocated to North Campus within Clara Dickson Hall. There are approximately 50 "McLLUies" - first year and upper level student residents. These students represent a global community of backgrounds and ethnic groups which are found at Cornell University. Its new North Campus location is ideal because it is near several convenient facilities including community centers, dining halls, convenience stores, recreational facility, gyms, and bus routes.
Ujamaa
Ujamaa (pronounced oo-ja-ma) houses 140 students, in a program house dedicated to allowing students to learn about the history and culture of black people in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.
Akwe:kon
Akwe:kon (pronounced a-gway'-go) Residential College is the first university residence of its kind in the country purposely built for the interests of American Indians.It was established in 1991 and means "all of us". The community has 35 residents and the building's landscape was set up with Native American symbolism and extensive input from Native Americans.
Latino Living Center
Founded in 1994, the Latino Living Center is located in Anna Comstock House on North Campus, across the street from Risley Residential College. Every year, the Latino Living Center houses 56 residents from all over the world. Residents are not exclusively students with Latino heritage, since one of the goals of the program house is to give other students the opportunity to immerse themselves in Latino culture.
The LLC has numerous programs during the year. Every year, student organizations and fraternities hold events in the house in order to promote student activism. The LLC's main program is its Cafe con Leche Series, in which student organizations make a presentation of cultural, educational or political relevance for the event.
Holland International Living Center
The Jerome H. Holland International Living Center houses 144 students from the United States and other countries who would like to interact with people from across the globe on a daily basis. There are debates, presentations and forums to help foster international understanding and communication. The residential hall is named after Cornell alumnus Jerome "Brud" Holland, class of 1939.
Ecology House
Ecology House: The Hurlburt Residential College for Environmental Education and Awareness, commonly called Eco House, houses 96 students. Of these 96, approximately 45% are upperclassmen; 45% are freshmen; and 10% are transfers. The building has a large kitchen, several common areas (For both quiet studying and socializing), laundry facilities, and a bike room in the basement.
The house has several committees and clubs. Steering Committee is the governing body of the house, meeting every Sunday to discuss house related business and vote on certain topics, and sponsors many events throughout the year, including Ice Cream Nights on Wednesdays, the Fall Formal, and the Spring Formal. Project Greenhouse is a Cornell-based club housed in Eco, which helps improve and maintain the self-built greenhouse in the backyard, while also sponsoring events related to plant sciences and awareness. They also run a composting program that every resident can easily participate in. Other committees include Eco Creates, an environmentally centered arts & crafts committee, Eco Adventures, which organizes outdoor excursions and indoor activities, and Eco Eats, which hosts baking competitions, themed house dinners, and the much beloved "David Attenborough Pancake Brunches", which consists of eating pancakes made prior and watching Planet Earth documentaries.
Eco House is located behind the Africana Library, which houses Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. The residential building has three floors with two wings each, except for the basement which has only one wing. Eco House was originally a hotel; consequently, each resident enjoys the luxury of his or her own bathroom, shared only with one's roommate. Residents are also permitted to keep small, containable pets. Eco House has four Residential Advisors (RAs) and one Residence Hall Director (RHD).
Before becoming Ecology House, the building was the Cornell Heights Residential Club, an off-campus residence for students in an experimental accelerated Ph.D. program, and the site of a 1967 fire that killed eight students and a professor.
North Campus Housing Cooperatives
Housing cooperatives at Cornell University include Prospect of Whitby, Redbud Cooperative, Wari House, Watermargin, Telluride House, Triphammer Cooperative, 660 Stewart, 302 Wait Avenue, and 308 Wait Terrace. Students in cooperatives enjoy reduced housing costs while living in a community environment where they share household chores such as cleaning and cooking dinners for their residents. Student officers are appointed for each house, and active participation in household activities is encouraged.
North Campus Fraternities
Acacia (fraternity), 318 Highland Road
Alpha Epsilon Pi (fraternity), 140 Thurston Avenue
Beta Theta Pi (fraternity), 100 Ridgewood Road
Delta Chi (fraternity), 102 The Knoll
Kappa Delta Rho (fraternity), 312 Highland Road
Phi Delta Theta (fraternity), 2 Ridgewood Road
Phi Kappa Tau (fraternity), 106 The Knoll
Pi Kappa Phi (fraternity), 55 Ridgewood Road
Sigma Chi (fraternity), 106 Cayuga Heights Road
Zeta Beta Tau (fraternity), 1 Edgecliff Place
Zeta Psi (fraternity), 534 Thurston Avenue
References
External links
The Residential Initiative - Description of the new North Campus
Cornell University campuses
Cornell University dormitories
Cornell University buildings
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Swedish Open (badminton)
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The Swedish Open is an open badminton tournament that is annually held since 2018, previously from 1956 to 2000 after which the organizer, Svenska Badmintonförbundet, could no longer find a suitable sponsor. To some extent it has been replaced by the Swedish International Stockholm tournament.
Between 2004 and 2017 it was replaced by Swedish International / Swedish Masters Badminton Championships. The name is re-used since 2018.
Winners
Performances by nation
References
External links
Badminton tournaments in Sweden
1956 establishments in Sweden
Recurring sporting events established in 1956
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Royal Naval Academy
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The Royal Naval Academy was a facility established in 1733 in Portsmouth Dockyard to train officers for the Royal Navy. The founders' intentions were to provide an alternative means to recruit officers and to provide standardised training, education and admission. In 1806 it was renamed the Royal Naval College and in 1816 became the Royal Naval College and the School for Naval Architecture. It was closed as a training establishment for officer entrants in 1837.
Training
In 1733, a shoreside facility was established in the dockyard for 40 recruits. A comprehensive syllabus provided theoretical and practical experience in the dockyard and at sea. Graduates of the Academy could earn two years of sea time as part of their studies, and would be able to take the lieutenant's examination after four years at sea instead of six. The Academy did not, however, achieve the objective of becoming the preferred path to becoming a naval officer; the traditional means of a sea-going "apprenticeship" remained the preferred alternative. The vast majority of the officer class was still recruited in this manner based on family ties, and patronage. Family connections, "interest" and a sincere belief in the superiority of practical experience learned on the quarterdeck ensured that the officer class favoured the traditional model. William IV summed up this view when he remarked that "there was no place superior to the quarterdeck of a British man of war for the education of a gentleman".
There was a clear prejudice against graduates. The then rating of midshipman-by-order, or midshipman ordinary, was used specifically for graduates of the Royal Naval Academy, to distinguish them from midshipmen who had served aboard ship, who were paid more. After two years at sea, graduates of the academy were eligible to be promoted to midshipman.
In 1806 the Academy was reconstituted as the "Royal Navy College" and in 1816 was amalgamated with the "School of Naval Architecture".
The college closed as a young officer training establishment on 30 March 1837, meaning that from that date all youngsters setting out on a naval career proceeded directly to sea. The closure of the college created a gap in officer training, and in 1857 the two-decker Illustrious undertook the role of cadet training ship at Portsmouth. In 1859 she was replaced by the three-decker Britannia, which was removed to Portland in 1862 and to Dartmouth in 1863.
Notable individuals
A distinguished Academy graduate was Philip Broke, who attended the Academy in 1791. He achieved particular fame as captain of in its victory over in the War of 1812. Two of Jane Austen's brothers, Francis and Charles, attended the Academy in 1786 and 1791, respectively. Both went on to become admirals.
Another veteran of the War of 1812, Henry Ducie Chads, attended the Academy before joining the Royal Navy. He was First Lieutenant of during her capture by . Command of the ship fell to Chads when her captain was mortally wounded near the close of the action. He was forced to surrender the heavily damaged Java.
Masters
1733–1740 Thomas Haselden, FRS
1740–1755 John Walton
1755–1766 John Robertson, FRS
1766–1785 George Witchell, FRS
1785–1807 William Bayly
1807–1838 James Inman as Professor of the Royal Naval College
Notes
References
Hill, John R. and Bryan Ranft Eds. (2002) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, Oxford University Press
Roger N A M, The Wooden World, An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, Fontana, 1988
Kenedy G, Nelson K, Eds. Military education past, Present, and Future, Greenwood Publishing group, 2002
Military academies of the United Kingdom
Training establishments of the Royal Navy
Education in Portsmouth
History of the Royal Navy
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1837 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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Interim analysis
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In clinical trials and other scientific studies, an interim analysis is an analysis of data that is conducted before data collection has been completed. Clinical trials are unusual in that enrollment of subjects is a continual process staggered in time. If a treatment can be proven to be clearly beneficial or harmful compared to the concurrent control, or to be obviously futile, based on a pre-defined analysis of an incomplete data set while the study is on-going, the investigators may stop the study early.
Statistical methods
The design of many clinical trials includes some strategy for early stopping if an interim analysis reveals large differences between treatment groups, or shows obvious futility such that there is no chance that continuing to the end would show a clinically meaningful effect. In addition to saving time and resources, such a design feature can reduce study participants' exposure to an inferior or useless treatment. However, when repeated significance testing on accumulating data is done, some adjustment of the usual hypothesis testing procedure must be made to maintain an overall significance level. The methods described by Pocock and O'Brien & Fleming, among others, are popular implementations of group sequential testing for clinical trials. Sometimes interim analyses are equally spaced in terms of calendar time or the information available from the data, but this assumption can be relaxed to allow for unplanned or unequally spaced analyses.
Example
The second Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT II) was conducted to help better identify patients with coronary heart disease who would benefit from an ICD. MADIT II is the latest in a series of trials involving the use of ICDs to improve management and clinical treatment of arrhythmia patients. The Antiarrhythmics versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Trial compared ICDs with antiarrhythmic-drug therapy (amiodarone or sotalol, predominantly the former) in patients who had survived life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. After inclusion of 1,232 patients, the MADIT II study was terminated when interim analysis showed significant (31%) reduction in all-cause death in patients assigned to ICD therapy.
References
Clinical trials
Medical statistics
Clinical research
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AMCC
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AMCC is a four-letter abbreviation which may refer to:
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a semiconductor company
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III
Al-Madinah Cultural Center, a non-profit cultural student organization at the University of Minnesota
Aviators Model Code of Conduct, a publication and project providing voluntary flight safety guidance
Amikom Computer Club, the computer organization in STMIK Amikom Yogyakarta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morningwood%20%28album%29
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Morningwood (album)
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Morningwood is the first studio album by the New York City band Morningwood. It was released on Capitol Records in 2006.
The album peaked at #102 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Heatseekers album chart.
Several tracks were used on the soundtracks of video games: "Nü Rock" on Burnout Revenge, Burnout Legends and SSX on Tour; "Jetsetter" on Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix; and "Babysitter" on The Sopranos: Road to Respect.
"Nth Degree" was used in the CW television show One Tree Hill (season 3, episode 14), as was and "Body 21" (season 3, episode 5). "New York Girls" was used in the 2008 film adaptation of HBO's Sex and the City.
Critical reception
The album received mixed responses from critics reflected on Metacritic by its normalized score of 55 out of 100 based on 12 reviews. Jonathan Ringen of Rolling Stone called it "a catchier-than-chlamydia mix of power-pop hooks and effects-heavy riffage" but noted that "all the candy-coated excess might leave you feeling a little like Courtney Love after a heavy night". For Allmusic, Johnny Loftus referred to the songs as "sexy catch phrases around rhythms that have been heard before".
Track listing
All songs written by Pedro Yanowitz & Chantal Claret except as noted.
"Nü Rock" (Claret, Timo Ellis) – 2:30
"Televisor" – 3:37
"Nth Degree" (Yanowitz) – 3:55
"Jetsetter" – 3:54
"Take Off Your Clothes" – 3:17
"Body 21" – 3:37
"Easy" (Yanowitz, Claret, Richard Steel, Japa Keenon) – 3:10
"Babysitter" – 3:31
"New York Girls" (Yanowitz) – 2:56
"Everybody Rules" (Yanowitz, Claret, Ellis) – 3:08
"Ride the Lights" – 4:06
"Knock on Wood" (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper) (Japan only bonus track) – 3:53
Personnel
Chantal Claret - vocals
Peter "Pedro" Yanowitz - bass guitar, backing vocalist
Japa Keenon - drums
Richard Steel - guitar
References
2006 debut albums
Morningwood albums
Albums produced by Gil Norton
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Granular dogfish
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The granular dogfish, Centroscyllium granulatum, is a little-known, very small dogfish shark of the family Etmopteridae, endemic to the Falkland Islands.
Physical characteristics
The granular dogfish has no anal fin, two dorsal spines with the second one much larger than the first, a large second dorsal fin, a long abdomen, small pectoral and pelvic fins, a large eye, prominent nostrils and spiracles, and brownish-black coloration. It is very small, growing to only 28 cm.
Distribution
They have only been found around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
Habits and habitat
Almost nothing is known about this shark. It has been caught at around 450 m depth.
References
Sources
FAO Species Catalogue Volume 4 Parts 1 and 2 Sharks of the World
Centroscyllium
Fish described in 1887
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier%20Summit%2C%20Utah
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Soldier Summit, Utah
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Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, United States and an unincorporated community that is a near-ghost town located at the pass. Soldier Summit has been an important transportation route between the Wasatch Front and Price, Utah, since the area was settled by the Mormon pioneers. It is on the route of both U.S. Route 6 and the old main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW), now the Provo Subdivision of the Central Corridor. Located where the road makes a brief bend through the extreme southwest corner of Wasatch County, Soldier Summit historically had more to do with nearby Utah County.
At one time both the state highway department and the railroad had operations at the summit, but with the exception of a gas station that is sometimes open, the town site is now abandoned. Today it is a popular rest stop and photo spot for railfans. Many railfans also take pictures of the Gilluly loops, a series of horseshoe curves on the western approach to the summit. The California Zephyr Amtrak passenger train uses this route.
History
Spanish Friars Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante are credited with discovering the pass in 1776, but it was certainly used by Native Americans before them. The summit takes its name from a group of soldiers who were caught in an unexpected snowstorm on the summit in July 1861. These soldiers were Southerners, previously under Union General Philip St. George Cooke at Camp Floyd, on their way to join the Confederate Army. A few of them died in the storm and were buried on the summit.
In 1919, a real estate promoter named H.C. Mears surveyed a townsite at Soldier Summit and began to sell building lots. The town was incorporated in 1921. There were stores, hotels, saloons, restaurants, two churches, and a school. Growth was driven by the D&RGW moving some of its machine shops, used for servicing helper engines, to Soldier Summit from Helper. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized a branch in the new town on June 21, 1921, with Parley Bills as branch president. The number of Mormons in the town was large enough in June 1927 to organize a ward with Walter S. Groesbeck as bishop. The population of Soldier Summit peaked at 2,500 in the 1920s, but began to decline as the railroad decided to move its operations back to Helper due to the severe winters and high cost of doing business at the summit. The introduction of diesel locomotives, and the realignment of the tracks through Tucker and Gilluly which reduced the grade from 4% to 2%, eliminated the need to place helper engines at the site, and further hurt the town's fortunes. The railroad moved many employees' homes to Helper, leaving only the foundations. By January 1930, the ward was reduced to a branch.
Over the next few decades, the town dwindled away. In 1948 there were 47 students at the Soldier Summit school. The next year enrollment dropped to 11, but the school stayed open. It was not until 1973 that the school was closed and the last few students sent to schools in Carbon County.
By 1979 there were only about a dozen adult residents left, but Soldier Summit still had four part-time police officers enforcing a community speed limit on the stretch of highway passing through town. When motorists complained of a speed trap, the state attorney general and the Utah Chief of Police Association investigated. They determined that the only reason for having a police department in Soldier Summit at all was to generate revenue for municipal services through traffic tickets. The police department was disbanded.
The town was finally disincorporated in 1984. Other than the gas station and two or three occupied houses, Soldier Summit is uninhabited. An old two-room jail, a few deserted houses, and several acres of foundations and crumbling walls are all that remains of the former town.
Railroad
Helper derives its name from Soldier Summit. During the age of steam, the railroad stored helper engines at Helper. They placed the helpers on freight trains to climb the grades to the summit. Soldier Summit is the fifth-highest summit or pass on a U.S. transcontinental railroad main line after Tennessee Pass, Moffat Tunnel, Sherman Hill Summit, and Raton Pass.
References
External links
Ghost Depot
Ghost Towns
Railroad pictures of Gilluly Loops
Railroad pictures of Soldier Summit
Photos and Railfan Travel Info for Highway 6 over Soldier Summit
Ghost towns in Utah
Ghost towns in Wasatch County, Utah
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Populated places established in 1919
Populated places disestablished in 1984
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1984 disestablishments in Utah
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Bate
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Matthew Bate
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Matthew Bate, nicknamed “Master” (born 24 May 1987) is an Australian rules footballer and former player for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). At the conclusion of the 2012 AFL season, he was delisted by the Melbourne Football Club and subsequently drafted to the Essendon Football Club's reserve side in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He wore the number 6 guernsey.
Bate played as a tall forward or midfielder. He won the Morrish Medal as best player in the TAC Cup in 2004. He was drafted 13th overall by Melbourne in the 2004 AFL draft and made his AFL debut in Round 5 of the 2006 season.
Bate's achievements as a senior player included a nomination for the NAB AFL Rising Star award for his performance against Carlton in Round 18 of the 2006 season.
In the 2007 season for Melbourne, Bate finished third in the club's Best and Fairest Award (the Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal) with 179 votes, behind the winner James McDonald (260 votes) and fellow second season player Nathan Jones (190 Votes).
In 2009, he came second in the club's goal kicking.
Having completed his fifth full year of senior AFL football for the Melbourne Demons, Bate appeared to have become an important member of the team who was versatile and could be utilized across half-forward, in the midfield, or at full forward. Bate has been commended for his fine marking, booming kicks and endurance. However, in 2011, he only played nine games for Melbourne, despite showing good form for Casey in the VFL. He finished second in the 2011 J. J. Liston Trophy, awarded to the VFL's best and fairest player.
During Trade Week of 2011, Matthew Bate requested a trade to the Western Bulldogs. However, after Mark Neeld was appointed as Melbourne's new coach he was retained and not traded.
References
External links
Melbourne Football Club players
Casey Demons players
1987 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Eastern Ranges players
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Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (8 June 1848 – 23 October 1916) was a British businessman.
Beecham was the eldest son of Thomas Beecham and Jane Evans. He played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father's medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866. He was responsible for Beechams' factory and office in Westfield Street, St. Helens, being built in 1885. A factory was subsequently opened in New York followed by more factories and agencies in several other countries. The increasing demands placed on him by his father's business meant he had to step down from his position as the parish organist of St John the Evangelist, Ravenhead.
Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a justice of the peace for Lancashire and was mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912. He was made a baronet, of Ewanville in the Parish of Huyton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1914. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus by Tsar Nicholas II. Beecham was a patron of the arts and purchased a number of paintings by J. M. W. Turner
Beecham married Josephine Burnett in 1873. He died on 23 October 1916, aged 68, was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Thomas, who had been knighted in his own right earlier in 1916 for his services to music as an orchestral conductor.
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Businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
1848 births
1916 deaths
Mayors of places in Merseyside
19th-century English businesspeople
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The chestnut-winged cuckoo or red-winged crested cuckoo (Clamator coromandus) is a cuckoo found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. It has dark glossy upperparts, a black head with long crest chestnut wings, a long graduated glossy black tail, rufous throat dusky underside and a narrow white nuchal half collar. They breed along the Himalayas and migrate south in winter to Sri Lanka, southern India and tropical Southeast Asia including parts of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It is about 47 cm long.
Description
This dark and crested cuckoo has chestnut wings, a glossy black crest and a graduated tail (the feathers shortening in steps from the center outwards) whose terminal edges are white and inconspicuous unlike the white tips of the Jacobin cuckoo which is found in parts of its range. The black capping on the head is broken from black of the back by a white collar that extends to the sides of the neck. The lower parts are rufous turning to dark grey towards the vent. Young birds are dusky with a scaly appearance to the wing feathers.
Taxonomy
The species was first given its binomial name by Linnaeus in 1766. His description of what he called Cuculus coromandus was based on the notes of Brisson who described the bird as "Le coucou hupрé de Coromandel" which was collected on the Coromandel coast of India (probably near Pondicherry which was a French colony). Buffon noticed the close relation to the Jacobin cuckoo and called it "le Jacobin huppé de
Coromande". The species was later placed under the genus names of Coccystes, Oxylophus before being placed in Clamator.
Distribution
The species is found from the western Himalayas to the eastern Himalayas and extends into Southeast Asia. It has been recorded from India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Laos, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Some populations may be non-migratory.
During migration in India, it moves along the Eastern Ghats in its southward migration with exhausted individuals often being discovered in the vicinity of homes. In mid-October, they are found in numbers at Point Calimere, possibly into Sri Lanka. Some appear to winter in the Western Ghats.
Behaviour
This cuckoo sometimes joins mixed species foraging flocks and is usually seen singly. The breeding season is in summer and it is said to lay its eggs mainly in the nest of Garrulax laughingthrushes, especially G. monileger and G. pectoralis. The eggs are very spherical. The calls include fluty twin-notes repeated with short intervals.
References
External links
chestnut-winged cuckoo
Birds of Southeast Asia
Birds of Bangladesh
Birds of Bhutan
Birds of India
Birds of Nepal
chestnut-winged cuckoo
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Asad Rauf (Punjabi, , born 12 May 1956) is a Pakistani former umpire and cricketer. He was a member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel from 2006 to 2013, and is alleged to have been involved in match-fixing and spot-fixing of cricket matches. In February 2016, Rauf was found guilty of corruption by the BCCI and banned for five years.
Playing career
Rauf played in Pakistani domestic cricket between 1977 and 1991, representing Pakistan Universities, Lahore, National Bank of Pakistan and Pakistan Railways.
Umpiring career
Rauf became a first-class umpire in 1998. In February 2000, the Pakistan Cricket Board appointed him to his first One Day International (ODI), the match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Gujranwala, Pakistan, on 16 February 2000. In 2004, with the promotion of Aleem Dar to the ICC Elite Umpire Panel, Rauf was included in the International Panel of Umpires for the first time. In January 2005 the ICC appointed him to his first test match, the fixture between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at Chittagong (MAA). In December 2005 stood in the Boxing Day Test at the MCG between Australia and South Africa. In April 2006 Rauf's umpiring was rewarded with a promotion to the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. In September 2012 Rauf umpired the ICC World Twenty20 group stage match between India and Afghanistan.
Rauf from his inclusion in the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in 2006, umpired in 47 Tests, 98 one-day internationals and 23 Twenty20 internationals and was dropped from the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires after an annual review of their performance in June 2013 with an appreciation for the outstanding contributions of Asad over a long period of time. After being dropped from the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires he resigned from being an umpire anymore.
2013 IPL spot-fixing
Asad Rauf's name cropped up during the 2013 IPL spot fixing controversy and the ICC reacted immediately by withdrawing him from the panel of match officials for the 2013 Champions Trophy.
Rauf was charged by Mumbai Police on 21 September 2013 in a Mumbai Court with illegal betting, cheating and fraud. Rauf has denied the allegations but refused to go to Mumbai to face the charges. In February 2016, Rauf was found guilty and was banned for five years.
See also
List of Test cricket umpires
List of One Day International cricket umpires
List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires
References
External links
ICC Umpires and Referees
1956 births
Living people
Lahore City Whites cricketers
Pakistan Universities cricketers
Pakistani Test cricket umpires
Pakistani One Day International cricket umpires
Pakistani Twenty20 International cricket umpires
Pakistani cricketers
National Bank of Pakistan cricketers
Cricketers from Lahore
Pakistan Railways cricketers
Cricketers banned for corruption
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Dorothy Fuldheim (June 26, 1893 – November 3, 1989) was an American journalist and anchor, spending the majority of her career for The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV, both based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Fuldheim has a role in United States television news history. She is credited with being the first woman in the United States to anchor a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show, a role she held at WEWS for 37 years. She has been referred to as the "First Lady of Television News."
Early life and early career
Fuldheim, an American of Jewish descent, was born in Passaic, New Jersey. She spent her childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Prior to working in broadcasting, she was an elementary school teacher. Social activist Jane Addams recruited her in 1918 to speak about social causes, which started her career as a public speaker. For the next 19 years, Fuldheim frequently spoke about topics relating to foreign policy and social causes.
Fuldheim entered broadcasting with the debut of a weekly program over Cleveland radio station WTAM on December 12, 1929, and added a daily program over the NBC Red Network on August 28, 1933, that WTAM originated. Her speeches which advocated hot-button issues like birth control and publicly-owned utilities and railroads earned her the nicknames of "militant Cleveland lecturer" and "the American H. G. Wells", quickly becoming a fixture on the circuit with 3,500 speeches given during a 20-year span. Fuldheim traveled internationally and visited prewar Europe on an annual basis, notably interviewing Engelbert Dollfuss two days before his assassination, and Adolf Hitler in 1932 shortly before his rise to power. Interviews like these, which were conducted to help provide source material for her lectures, also informed her approach to broadcasting as the first female news analyst in network radio while with NBC Red.
WJW radio, also based in Cleveland, began airing daily news commentaries by Fuldheim starting in June 1944 as part of their Newspaper of the Air program. Fuldheim had hired by WJW based on her reputation as a public speaker, a career that continued unabated. WJW assigned her to attend the San Francisco Conference that established the United Nations and interview attendees, along with monitoring any developments. In a subsequent lecture, she warned about rising tensions between the U. S. and the Soviet Union, saying "unless the United States finds a way to work with Russia harmoniously, we are doomed." During this period, Dorothy spoke about and advocated for the peace movement and peacekeeping both prior to and after the end of World War II, along with maintaining social welfare programs domestically.
Fuldheim additionally engaged in literary criticism and book reviews, with one review for the Kathleen Winsor novel Forever Amber drawing a capacity crowd of 600 females; Fuldheim expressed shock at the number of people wanting to hear her discuss a "badly-written book" centering around sex appeal, while expressing chagrin over her other lectures not netting such large audiences. In addition to her daily program, Fuldheim hosted Young America Thinks over WJW, a weekly public affairs open forum program aimed at high school students in collaboration with the Cleveland Board of Education.
Television career
Scripps Howard hired Fuldheim away from WJW ostensibly for WEWS-FM (102.1) but promptly became a part of WEWS-TV upon their December 17, 1947, sign-on via a 13-week contract. Fuldheim later mused on joining WEWS, "I'm sure (Scripps) didn't intend to use me... because television was supposed to be for the young and the beautiful and God knows what". Despite leaving WJW proper, she informally remained with the station after the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen purchased airtime over ABC for a weekly 15-minute commentary program. At the time of its launch, WEWS was one of two television stations in operation between New York and Chicago. (The other one was in Detroit.)
In 1959, Fuldheim, who had been with the station before it even went on air, began to formulate her own newscast in response to the new Eyewitness News on KYW, which was the first half-hour newscast in the country. Fuldheim centered her newscast around her interviews, a general overview of the news, and her commentaries (during which the very opinionated Fuldheim frequently inserted her own opinions about the stories). Fuldheim was the first woman in the United States to have her own television news analysis program.
While the format of her show, Highlights of the News, consisted primarily of news analysis, it also included commentary, book reviews and interviews. In the years that Highlights of the News aired, Fuldheim interviewed among others Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, the Duke of Windsor, and Barbara Walters. She also interviewed several American presidents.
In the 1960s, Fuldheim teamed with Cleveland radio personality Bill Gordon to host "The One O'Clock Club" on WEWS, a mix of entertainment, news, and interviews. This show eventually inspired KYW to launch a similar show hosted by Mike Douglas that eventually eclipsed "The One O' Clock Club" in popularity en route to becoming nationally syndicated. At this same time, Fuldheim was also frequently lampooned and skewered on WJW-TV's Shock Theater with Ghoulardi.
Fuldheim, recognizable for her fiery red hair, was known for her sometimes controversial opinions. She was not shy about supporting unpopular causes, nor in voicing her opposition if she disagreed with a guest. On one program, she interviewed 1960s activist Jerry Rubin about his book Do It. In the interview, Jerry Rubin started to quiz Fuldheim, asking her if she drank. Fuldheim said, "I have the damn best liver in Cleveland." He then took a picture of a nude woman and showed it to her. Fuldheim responded by asking Rubin, "How is [the photo] germane to the topic?" He then referred to the police as "pigs" and offended Fuldheim, who replied, "I've got a shock for you. Some of my friends are policemen". Rubin then muttered "Well, I've got a shock for you. I'm good friends with the Black Panthers." At which, Fuldheim threw his book and kicked Rubin off the set saying "Out! Stop the interview" as the cameras rolled.
At times, Fuldheim could offend some members of her audience. A month after ejecting Rubin from her television show, she found herself in the controversial hotseat. On May 4, 1970, while live on the air, Fuldheim made the following statement regarding the actions of the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings, "What is wrong with our country? We're killing our own children." Due to her reference to the shooting of the four students as murder, there were numerous calls from viewers for Fuldheim to resign from her position at WEWS. However, she had the backing of station management and did not resign.
In 1980, Fuldheim was inducted in the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame and covered major 1980s events: She traveled to London to cover the 1981 royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the funeral of assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and to Northern Ireland to interview the family of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.
Death and posthumous recognition
Fuldheim's long and distinguished career - where, at age 91, she still conducted interviews and read commentaries on-air three times every day - ended when she suffered a stroke on July 27, 1984, shortly after interviewing U.S. President Ronald Reagan via satellite. The station received so many phone calls from viewers asking about her condition that an automated answering machine service was set up, devoted to providing updates about her health. She never again appeared on television and died in Cleveland five years later at the age of 96.
In 2003, Fuldheim was posthumously awarded an Ohio Historical Marker for her contributions to journalism, which is displayed in front of the WEWS studios.
Famous quotes
"This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover."
"It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own."
"Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer."
References
External links
WEWS-TV slideshow of Dorothy Fuldheim
A list of Ms. Fuldheim's various commentaries
Biography of Ms. Fuldheim
Fuldheim's 27 July 1984 interview with Ronald Reagan
Kent State University Special Collections and Archives Dorothy Fuldheim Papers Finding Aid includes a list of titles of her commentaries
1893 births
1989 deaths
Jewish American journalists
American television journalists
American women television journalists
Television anchors from Cleveland
Writers from Milwaukee
Writers from Passaic, New Jersey
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
20th-century American Jews
20th-century American women
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Skip Ltd. (stylized as skip Ltd.) is a Japanese video game developer that has a close relationship with Nintendo. Nintendo has published all of their Japanese releases; with the only notable exception being LOL (Archime DS), which skip Ltd. published independently. The company's staff includes prominent developers from Square such as Kenichi Nishi and Keita Eto. In August 2020, there were growing signs that the company may have become defunct, however this has not yet been officially confirmed.
Games
Game Boy Advance
bit Generations series
Boundish
Coloris
Dialhex
Digidrive
Dotstream
Orbital
Soundvoyager
Nintendo DS
Art Style: AQUIA (DSiWare)
Art Style: BASE 10 (DSiWare)
Art Style: BOXLIFE (DSiWare)
Art Style: Digidrive (DSiWare)
Art Style: precipice (DSiWare)
Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (DSiWare)
Art Style: ZENGAGE (DSiWare)
Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol
Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Richie Ōsōji!
LOL
Nintendo 3DS
Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder
Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash
GameCube
Chibi-Robo!
Giftpia
Wii
Art Style: CUBELLO (WiiWare)
Art Style: light trax (WiiWare)
Art Style: ORBIENT (WiiWare)
Art Style: ROTOHEX (WiiWare)
Art Style: Rotozoa (WiiWare)
Captain Rainbow
Chibi-Robo! (New Play Control!)
Snowpack Park (WiiWare)
Wii Play: Motion (Pose Mii Plus and Flutter Fly mini-games)
References
External links
Video game companies established in 2000
Japanese companies established in 2000
Nintendo divisions and subsidiaries
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
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Gillioz Theatre
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The Gillioz Theatre is a historic theater located at Springfield, Missouri, United States. It was built by M. E. Gillioz of Monett, Missouri. Mr. Gillioz was in the business of building bridges, and the theater was built with steel and concrete. Wood was only used for handrails, doors, and doorframes. The original cost of the building was $300,000. Renovation costs totaled approximately $1.9 million.
The theater opened on October 11, 1926. Gillioz managed to secure a 100-year lease on one wide piece of property which bordered on U.S. Route 66, so that the theater could garner patrons who traveled on that historic highway. After many prosperous years, and many not-so-prosperous years, the "Gillioz, Theatre Beautiful" finally offered its last show in the summer of 1980, an opera.
The theater was originally a transition theater, with a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ for silent movies and a stage for live performances, such as vaudeville acts. The pipe organ was Wurlitzer's opus 1411 Style D. The organ had 2 manuals and 6 ranks of pipes, 4 tuned percussions, 6 traps, and 9 sound effects. The organ was sold in 1980 when the theatre closed and is currently in private hands. A sound system was installed in 1928 with the advent of talkies.
The theatre is mainly a concert venue. It hosts a variety of entertainment such as Dave Chappelle, Elvis Costello, George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic, Kacey Musgraves, Billy Ray Cyrus and many more. Capacity for general admission is 1,300 and for reserved seating there is 1,015.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Springfield Public Square Historic District.
Premieres
The Gillioz hosted the premieres of three movies:
1938 January 14: “Swing Your Lady” with Humphrey Bogart and Penny Singleton
1952 June 6: “The Winning Team" with Ronald Reagan
1952 July 4: “She’s Working Her Way Through College,” also starring Ronald Reagan
Stories
Elvis Presley passed an afternoon watching a movie at the Gillioz after performing sound checks for an evening show at the nearby Shrine Mosque.
Questions of the old theatre being haunted are frequent. Factually, the theatre did have a death on New Year's Eve 1962 when the projectionist died at his post prior to starting a midnight screening. It is a favorite spot for paranormal investigation.
Renovation
The Gillioz is now operated by the Gillioz Center For Arts & Entertainment, a 501c-3 non-profit committed to preserving the space and enhancing the quality of life for people in the Ozarks, visitors and residents alike, through music, comedy, film and education. Restoration began in 1990, and was completed in 2006. The lobby and auditorium were restored to the original 1926 appearance. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eighty years after first opening its doors, the Gillioz had a grand reopening in October 2006 known as Encore 2006. The historic Gillioz has experienced a strong resurgence, including being named top event venue by both 417 magazine and the Springfield Newsleader. In 2017 the Gillioz was named a top 5 event venue under 4000 seats by the Academy of Country Music. Other venues listed were the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Tennessee, Austin City Limits in Austin Texas, the PlayStation Theatre in New York and Hoyt Sherman Theatre in Des Moines Iowa.
Reagan Center
The Gillioz Theatre and the Jim D. Morris Building together are known as the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Center. The Gillioz Theatre was chosen due to Ronald Reagan's theatrical contributions.
References
External links
Official Gillioz Theatre Website
News-Leader Ozarks Entertainment Published Sunday, April 30, 2006
National Register of Historic Places
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Missouri
Buildings and structures on U.S. Route 66
Cinemas and movie theaters in Missouri
Culture of Springfield, Missouri
Tourist attractions in Springfield, Missouri
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Theatres completed in 1926
Buildings and structures in Springfield, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Missouri
1926 establishments in Missouri
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Badminton Sweden
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Badminton Sweden () is the governing body for the sport of badminton in Sweden. The organization was established in 1936, and hosts the annual Swedish Open tournament. It has been affiliated with Badminton World Federation since 1937 and affiliated to Swedish Sports Confederation since 1942.
Tournaments
Swedish Open, an annual open tournament held from 1959 until 1999, revived in 2018.
Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships, a tournament originally organized by Stockholm Badminton Federation, held from 2004-2017.
References
External links
National members of the Badminton World Federation
Badminton in Sweden
Badminton
Sports organizations established in 1936
1936 establishments in Sweden
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Luis Martínez
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Luis Martínez may refer to:
Arts and Entertainment
Luis A. Martínez (1869–1909), Ecuadorian writer and painter
Lilí Martínez (1915–1990), Cuban pianist and composer
Politicians
Luis de Aliaga Martínez (1560–1626), Grand Inquisitor of Spain, 1619–1621
Luis Arráez Martínez (1897–1940), Spanish politician
Luis Martínez Villicaña (1939–2011), Mexican politician, governor of Michoacán, 1986–1988
Luis Martínez Noval (1948–2013), Spanish economist and politician
Luis Antonio Martínez Armengol (born 1952), Mexican politician
Luis Rodolfo Enríquez Martínez (born 1970), Mexican politician
Luis Estrella Martínez (born 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Religious figures
Luis María Martínez (1881–1956), Catholic archbishop of Mexico
Luis Aponte Martínez (1922–2012), Puerto Rican cardinal and Archbishop of San Juan
Sportspeople
Association football
Luis Enrique (born 1970), Spanish footballer
Luís Martínez (born 1976), Costa Rican in the 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup squads
Luís Fernando Martinez (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
Neco Martínez (born 1982), Colombian footballer
Luis Martínez (footballer, born 1987) (born 1987), Mexican footballer
Luis Martínez (footballer, born 1990) (born 1990), Mexican footballer
Luis Martínez (footballer, born 1991) (born 1991), Guatemalan footballer
Luis Martínez (footballer, born 1994) (born 1994), Mexican footballer
Luis Martínez (footballer, born 1999) (born 1999), Mexican footballer
Baseball
Luis Martínez (pitcher) (born 1980), Dominican baseball player
Luis Martinez (catcher) (born 1985), American baseball player
Combat sports
Luis Martínez (Spanish boxer) (1925-2008), Spanish boxer
Luis Martínez (judoka) (born 1965), Puerto Rican judoka
Luis Martínez (boxer) (born 1955), Cuban boxer
Luis Bernardo Martínez, Spanish wrestler
Luis Martinez (Colombian wrestler), Colombian in Wrestling at the 2003 Pan American Games
Luis Martinez (pro wrestler) (1923–2013), Mexican professional wrestler
Luis Martinez, American professional wrestler also known as Damian Priest
Other sports
Luis Martínez (runner) (born 1966), Guatemalan long-distance runner
Luis Martínez (sailor) (born 1973), Spanish Olympic sailor
Luis Martínez (sport shooter) (born 1976), Spanish Olympic sport shooter
Luis David Martínez (born 1989), Venezuelan tennis player
Luis Rojas Martinez (born 1990), Venezuelan swimmer
Luis Martínez (swimmer) (born 1995), Guatemalan swimmer
Luis Martinez (darts player), American darts player
Luis Martínez (hammer thrower), Puerto Rican in 1983 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
Luis Martínez (javelin thrower), Colombian in 1983 South American Championships in Athletics
Others
Club Deportivo Luis Cruz Martínez, a Chilean football club
See also
José Luis Martínez (disambiguation)
Sabu Martinez (Louis Martinez, 1930–1979), American conga player and percussionist
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Highland Academy Charter School
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Highland Academy Charter School (formerly Highland Tech High School) is a competency-based school in Anchorage, Alaska in the Anchorage School District. It is a charter school whose focus is a learning approach in which all students must demonstrate proficiency in a selection of standards. It was the first standards-based school in the Anchorage School District (ASD) and had its first graduating class on May 31, 2006. Highland Academy is a member of the Reinventing Schools Coalition, which is a division of Marzano Resources. Highland Academy draws its student population from all over the municipality of Anchorage. The curriculum holistically supports a more modern approach to learning, incorporating standards in career development and technology, as well as social, public service, and personal learning. Social-emotional learning is embedded into curriculum in a variety of ways. All students are part of an advisory team where academic coaching, goal setting, team building, and parent connections are focused. Highland Academy was formerly known as Highland Tech High and Highland Tech Charter School.
ILP Forms and C.O.R.E.
Students may choose one or more standards and create an activity or project that addresses these standards. The process is designed to allow flexibility in the learning environment to support anytime, anywhere learning opportunities for students and teaches them critical communication skills as they work with teachers who support their work.
Highland's model for mutual respect is called C.O.R.E. (Culture of Respect for Everyone). The model is designed to engage all stakeholders in an environment of respect. This includes teachers, parents, students, and administrators. To reinforce a culture of respect, Highland uses a conflict resolution tool (the C.O.R.E. form), which encourages both parties to provide their perspective. Highland Academy also celebrates respect on a regular basis through the SuperCORE process.
Staff
Current Administration
Amelia Johnson (Principal)
Nicole Crosby (Assistant Principal)
Former Principals and Assistant Principals
CJ Stiegele (founder)
Mark Standley
Rebecca Midles
Ginger Blackmon
Laura Hilger
Michael Shapiro
Graduation rates
Highland Academy regularly graduates students who are not in their expected graduation year. For example, in 2016 the graduating class consisted of three juniors (all of whom were recipients of the UA Jr Scholars Award) and three fifth-year seniors who benefited from having extra time. These students do not count towards the overall yearly graduation rate and account for misrepresentative data. The majority of students who do not graduate in the expected semester continue on at Highland to complete their graduation requirements .
References
External links
Highland Academy Charter School WebsiteAnchorage School District Website
2003 establishments in Alaska
Charter schools in Alaska
Educational institutions established in 2003
High schools in Anchorage, Alaska
Magnet schools in Alaska
Public high schools in Alaska
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLKN
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KLKN, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The station is owned by Nashville, Tennessee–based Standard Media. KLKN's studios are located south of downtown Lincoln, and its transmitter is located near Utica, Nebraska.
History
Channel 8 was originally licensed to Albion, Nebraska, and began broadcasting December 3, 1964, as KHQL-TV, a satellite of KHOL-TV (channel 13, now KHGI-TV) in Kearney and the Nebraska Television Network (NTN, later known as NTV) owned by Bi-States Company. The station served as the ABC affiliate for much of the Nebraska side of the Sioux City, Iowa market. NTV Enterprises acquired the NTV stations in 1974; on June 4, the station's call letters were changed to KCNA-TV (for the largest towns in its service area, Columbus, Norfolk, and Albion).
Joseph Amaturo bought the NTV stations in 1979 in a deal funded by the sale of KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri. Amaturo split KCNA from NTV on November 1, 1983, and relaunched it as Nebraska's first independent station, KBGT-TV (Big 8—named for the Big Eight Conference, of which the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Iowa State Cyclones were members). KBGT's programming during this time included movies, syndicated programming, newscasts (both locally produced and from CNN Headline News), and sports; it also operated 24/7, a rarity for small-market stations at that time. However, Sioux City was too small at the time for an independent station to be viable. It did not help matters that KSHB-TV in Kansas City was available in most of the market on cable.
By 1986, massive financial losses compelled Amaturo to sell the station. Citadel Communications then acquired KBGT and turned it into a satellite of co-owned Sioux City ABC affiliate KCAU-TV; in January 1987, the call letters were changed to KCAN.
In the spring of 1996, Citadel moved the license to Lincoln, and on April 1, relaunched the station as KLKN. Before then, Lincoln was one of the largest cities in the country with only one commercial television station; CBS affiliate KOLN had been the sole station in the state capital for virtually all of the television era. However, Omaha's WOWT-TV, KMTV and KETV had long been available on cable in Lincoln. KETV had served as Lincoln's default ABC affiliate for much of the broadcasting era, and is still carried on most Lincoln-area cable systems, including remaining the default ABC affiliate on some smaller systems.
As the move of channel 8 to Lincoln left Albion without a television station, Citadel established KLKE (channel 24) on March 30, 1996, as a satellite of KLKN. KLKE was shut down on March 2, 2003, and its license returned to the Federal Communications Commission after determining that the cost of converting the station to digital broadcasting was prohibitive. KLKE's vacant transmitter is located near Elgin at . This has resulted in parts of northeast Nebraska, including O'Neill, Neligh, and Albion having no local over-the-air ABC signal; however, KLKN and KHGI remain available on cable and satellite in these areas, and KHGI currently operates a repeater in O'Neill.
KLKN's digital signal signed on August 31, 2002, operating on UHF channel 31 until the end of the station's analog broadcasts on February 17, 2009. It was the first digital television station in Nebraska. KLKN started airing its newscasts in high-definition on October 26, 2010.
The Lincoln market is one of three in the country (along with Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Tampa Bay, Florida) where there are two separately-owned ABC affiliates in the market, as the western portion of the market (Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney) continues to be served by NTV. Both KLKN and NTV are carried on the Lincoln Dish Network and DirecTV local feeds.
Until 2011, KLKN did not carry ABC's World News Now. Instead, the station joined its fellow Citadel stations in signing off every night, making it one of the few remaining stations in the country to do so. However, many Lincoln area viewers could still receive World News Now via either KETV over-the-air or on cable, or NTV via satellite.
In November 2004, all three Citadel ABC-affiliated stations, including KLKN, preempted the network's Veterans' Day showing of the movie Saving Private Ryan.
After the sale of WOI-DT, WHBF-TV and KCAU-TV to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group was completed on March 13, 2014, KLKN and ABC affiliate WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, would become the only stations with a major network affiliation still owned by Citadel; the company also owns a news-intensive independent station, WSNN-LD (Suncoast News Network) in Sarasota, Florida.
On May 16, 2019, it was announced that Standard Media would acquire KLKN and WLNE for $83 million. Its leader, former Young Broadcasting and Media General executive Deb McDermott, had begun her career in the Lincoln market at CBS affiliate KOLN. The sale was completed on September 5.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On December 1, 2008, KLKN launched an affiliation with Retro Television Network on its DT2 subchannel and Time Warner Cable channel 82 and Charter digital 398, alongside former sister stations WOI-DT in Des Moines and WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities. On January 16, 2012, KLKN, along with all Citadel stations (including WLNE-TV in Providence and KCAU-TV in Sioux City), began carrying Disney/ABC's Live Well Network, replacing the Retro Television Network on its subchannel and cable channels. In June 2014, it was announced that the Live Well Network would shut down in January 2015. On August 18, 2014, KLKN replaced the network with two networks geared towards two genders. Male-oriented Grit took over Live Well's space on 8.2 and female-oriented Escape was added to 8.3.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KLKN shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 31 to VHF channel 8. KLKN was one of about 30% of TV stations in the United States to broadcast its digital signal on high VHF channel assignment.
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External links
ABC network affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1964
LKN
1964 establishments in Nebraska
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Dickinson%20%28politician%29
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Spencer Dickinson (politician)
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Spencer Dickinson, a Democrat from South Kingstown, was a former Rhode Island State Representative and candidate for governor in the 2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election.
State representative
Dickinson was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives between 1973 and 1980 and again from 2010 to 2014 in RI's 35th district, which encompasses the villages of Kingston and West Kingston, and parts of Tuckertown, Wakefield and Peace Dale.
Dickinson, a veteran of the General Assembly who served from 1973 to 1980 was motivated to return to the General Assembly in 2010 after 30 years, because he believed the situation in the legislature resembled what existed in 1972 when he first ran, with little transparency or accountability.
In addition to improving governance in the legislature, Dickinson's successful 2010 campaign emphasized fiscal responsibility, rebuilding the state's economy (such as by supporting the University of Rhode Island, which he believes can serve as an important incubator for technology based businesses), and an alternative energy strategy focused on wind power which he believes would reduce dependence on foreign oil while creating construction and technology jobs.
Dickinson was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1972 where he served four terms before retiring in 1980. During that time he championed environmental causes such as the Bottle Bill and was part of a group of reformers who, among other things, brought recorded voting to the Rhode Island General Assembly after assuming key leadership positions; Dickinson served as Deputy Majority Leader.
Dickinson is a career home builder who pioneered solar heating in Rhode Island in the 1970s, building the state's first solar heated home, and is a noted local expert in the field of alternative energy.
2018 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
Dickinson announced his candidacy for Governor of Rhode Island on October 4, 2017. In a statement, he stated that a major issue is the danger from climate change and rising sea levels, with a particular threat being a proposed fracked-gas power plant. He said the current governor seems to want to be on both sides of that issue, and added, "If you make me governor, there will be no fracked-gas power plant in Burrillville." Among other issues, he promised: a true resolution of 38 Studios; a review of pension management and restoring the Cost of Living Adjustment; a serious and detailed approach to bringing health care costs into line by developing a universal health care plan for Rhode Island, as well as advancing women's rights and fairness in the workplace.
See also
Rhode Island gubernatorial election, 2018
Rhode Island House of Representatives
References
Rhode Island Democrats
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Harvard University alumni
University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumni
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Simpang Pulai (Jawi: سيمڤڠ ڤولاي; ; Tamil: சிம்பாங் புலாய்) is a town in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia.
Transportation
Car
As mentioned earlier, highway , the premier north–south federal highway of Peninsular Malaysia, passes here.
Simpang Pulai is perhaps famous for being the newest gateway for Perakian motorists to the east coast states of Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu – the Second East–West Highway (highway ) begins here, passes through Cameron Highlands in Pahang, then Gua Musang in Kelantan before terminating in Kuala Jenderis in Hulu Terengganu.
The PLUS Expressway exit 137 serves Simpang Pulai.
Other features
A Ria Moda Jakel Trading Textile Company opened its branch here at the corner lot of the Simpang Pulai intersection.
Towns in Perak
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Robert Andrew Wauch (1786, Edinburgh, Scotland – 1866), Wauch emigrated to Australia in 1836, at the age of 50, where the town of Wauchope, New South Wales, was named after him.
Robert Wauch is sometimes referred to as Robert Wauchope. The confusion occurred because of a family dispute. When his paternal grandfather died, his heirs disputed the division of the family estate in Edinburgh, ending in a legal battle. After the court case, Robert Wauchope, Robert Wauch's father, dropped the "ope" from his name and retired to his property named Foxall.
Like his father, Wauch joined the armed services. He retired from service in 28th Regiment of Foot in 1836 and sailed to Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three children. They settled on a property at King Creek in the Hastings Valley. In the next four years he added to his property and built Wauch House.
Robert Wauch died in the Macleay area in 1866, and the Government Gazette published the deeds of his properties, specifying that they should be called Wauchope. When the post office opened in a nearby settlement in 1881, it was named Wauchope, although the Government Gazette misprinted the name Wanghope, an error that was not corrected for until 1889.
References
1786 births
1866 deaths
Military personnel from Edinburgh
Australian people of Scottish descent
28th Regiment of Foot officers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville%E2%80%93Manlius%20High%20School
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Fayetteville–Manlius High School
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Fayetteville–Manlius High School (also F-M High School or FMHS) is a comprehensive New York public high school on East Seneca Turnpike in the Town of Manlius, serving grades 9–12 in the Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District. It is the only high school in the district, and is the successor to both Wellwood Middle School and Eagle Hill Middle School. The school is governed under the authority of the New York State Education Department, whose standardized examinations are designed and administered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.
History
Fayetteville–Manlius High School was opened in 1963 after the 1951 merger of then separate Fayetteville and Manlius school districts and subsequent need to consolidate students into a single high school. Upon this opening, a major school restructuring was implemented, as the Fayetteville High School became Wellwood Middle School and Manlius High School became Pleasant Street Elementary (which closed in 1975). A new middle school, Eagle Hill, was also opened directly next to the high school in 1965. Space requirements, due mainly to ballooning enrollment and continued reorganization as a result of the 1951 merger, prompted the district to relocate Eagle Hill to a new building on a new campus in 1972, so the high school could expand into the junior high's previous facilities. This expansion, which connected the two buildings, now called House 2 and House 1, by a hallway and an enclosed footbridge, nearly doubled the school's footprint. F-M High School served grades 12 through 10 until 1976, when the two junior high schools became middle schools, and FM High took in 9th graders.
Administration
Raymond W. Kilmer is the school's current principal, and took office on July 1, 2010.
Traditions
Many of the school's traditions stem from the fact that decades ago, hornets nested in a 200-year-old oak tree that formerly stood on the old high school campus (now Wellwood Middle School). Because of this, the athletic teams' mascots are the Hornets, and several of the names used for the school newspaper over the years have been hornet-related (see Extracurriculars, below).
The school alma mater gives tribute to the original tree in its opening stanza, "Guarded by the old oak tree...". The alma mater is set to the melody of "Aura Lee". Its lyrics are attributed to teacher Richard Rhoades "and his music composition class". The motif can also be seen in the school colors (green and white), in the district logo, and in the name of the school yearbook (Oakleaves).
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Demographics
Entering the 2014–15 school year there were 1460 students enrolled at F-M High School and 130 faculty members, for a student-teacher ratio of approximately 11:1.
As of the 2005–06 school year, the racial/ethnic makeup of the student population was 91.8% White, 2.7% Black or African American, 4.4% Asian or Pacific Islander, and 0.8% Hispanic. Approximately 0.5% of the population, or 8 students, demonstrated limited English proficiency. Approximately 0.8% of students qualified for a reduced-price lunch, and another 3.5% were eligible for a free lunch. Since then the Asian student population has increased significantly, and now makes up almost 10% of the school's population.
Academics and extracurriculars
Curriculum
The school focuses on graduating all students with the minimum of a Regents Diploma, but some may also graduate with a less advanced local diploma. The Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation may be achieved with extended studies in a foreign language.
Though the curriculum is developed and sanctioned by the New York State Department of Education, and classes are developed to prepare students to achieve success on the required Regents Examinations, most core courses offer one or two components that explore more advanced topics. The school offers standard level Regents courses, but also offers more advanced Honors courses, Interdisciplinary courses (in English and History), Advanced Placement (AP) courses, as well as Syracuse University courses offered through Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA). SU courses offered through Project Advance are taught at the high school by F-M faculty members (qualified by the university), and follow the same curriculum and are given the same credit as courses taught at the university. A large percentage of students opt to take SU courses offered through Project Advance instead of AP classes because their equally challenging curriculum is often more widely accepted for transfer credit by the students' successive colleges or universities.
F-M is part of an extremely small percentage in the country that does not rank students publicly with the exception of awarding valedictorian to a graduating senior. The school also uses a 100 grade point scale, as opposed to the much more common 4.0 scale, and weighs the GPA based on class difficulty level (Regents, Honors, AP, etc.). In addition, the athletic department does not participate in academic All-America honors.
Notable achievements
Science Olympiad National Champions in 2004
Other National Finishes: 3rd Place: 2005. 4th Place: 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 5th Place: 2009
New York State Championships in ten consecutive years 2003–2012, 2014, and 2018.
2005 gold medal and 2006 blue ribbon, Expansion Management magazine's Education Quotient
1999, 2000, and 2006 GRAMMY Signature School
Six-times named one of the American Music Conference's "Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America".
The high school is consistently honored by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards as having one of the best art programs in the country. In 2006, students from the high school received a record number of national awards, including the prestigious National American Vision Award.
The district consistently exceeds average state and national performances on the SAT. In addition, 99% of F-M students take the exam at least once. The average scores for the Class of 2010 are as follows:
Graduation data
In 2006, the school graduated 100% of its senior class, 69% of whom received a Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation, and 28% of whom received a Regents Diploma. Of these graduating students, 98% continued on to higher education, 84% to a four-year college, and 14% to a two-year college. Of the remaining graduates, 1% continued into the workforce, and another 1% had unknown plans. The dropout rate also remained under 1%, about half of whom enrolled in a High School Equivalency or GED program.
Extracurriculars
The student activities program offers more than fifty clubs and activities in a wide range of interests. Student-run publications include the Oakleaves yearbook, the student newspaper called The Buzz (formerly The Sting, formerly the Hornet's Nest), and a literary magazine, Voices. The school has a Quizbowl team and Amnesty International Club. Fayetteville-Manlius also boasts a Model United Nations club with more than fifty participants. The club hosts an annual Central New York MUN Conference (CNYMUN), often inviting over a thousand delegates from around New York. Another extracurricular area in which the Hornets excel is Mock Trial, where in 2016, Fayetteville–Manlius High School won the New York State Mock Trial Championship with an undefeated season record.
The school has a chamber orchestra, string orchestra, concert orchestra, symphony orchestra, a jazz ensemble, two bands, concert band and wind ensemble as well as a very powerful Pep Band, and three vocal groups: choir, the select groups chorale, and Swing 16. The school also has the top Ukulele Ensemble in the Central New York area. FM also has three major stage productions during the year. The final production of the year, called Showboat, is the annual student-run talent show, a tradition reaching back several decades. Fayetteville–Manlius High School also hosts a π memorization contest, which along with other events, culminates in an annual assembly called "pi day", which typically takes place on March 14 (the date signifies the first three digits of pi.).
Athletics
F-M's 32 varsity teams compete in the Metro Division of the SCAC, Section III of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA), and Section III of the New York State Scholastic Rowing Association. A wide variety of teams claim SCAC and Section III championships every year, and the vast majority of athletes are honored with NYS Scholar Athlete Awards. The teams include:
All varsity teams practice and compete on the high school campus, with a few exceptions. The soccer teams compete in the village of Manlius, the hockey team practices and competes at the Cicero Twin Rinks in Cicero, New York and crew teams practice on Onondaga Lake and compete at various venues. The swimming teams practice and compete at Cazenovia College.
Notable athletic achievements
Girls' Cross Country
11 National Championships in 12 Seasons (seven consecutive): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 Nike Cross Nationals Champions
Second at Nike Cross Nationals: 2013
Ranked #1 in the nation (as of 01/01/18)
2006—2010 NYSPHSAA Class AA Champions & 1997 NYSPHSAA Class A Champions.
2006 & 2007 NYS Federation Champions.
Boys' Cross Country
Ranked #2 in the nation (as of 01/01/17)
2nd Place, 2004 & 2010, and 3rd place, 2005 — Nike Cross Nationals
1997, 2004 & 2005 NYS Federation Champions
2004, 2009, 2013 & 2014 NYSPHSAA Class AA Champions & 1997 NYSPHSAA Class A Champions
2014 Nike Cross Nationals Team Champions
Boys' Outdoor Track
2006 National Champion 4x1 Mile Relay (meet, Section III and NYSPHSAA record time) and 2nd Place Distance Medley Relay, 2006 Nike Outdoor Nationals
Boys' Indoor Track
2006 National Champion 4x1 Mile Relay (meet record time), 2006 Nike Indoor Nationals
Girls' Lacrosse
National Rankings: #4 (2004) and #3 (2005) by LaxPower
2004 & 2005 NYSPHSAA Class A Champions and 2006 NYSPHSAA Class A Runners-up
Boys' Lacrosse
1988 NYSPHSAA Class A Runners-up
1993 NYSPHSAA Class A Runners-up
2014 NYSPHSAA Class A Runners-up
Girls' Crew
1st Place, Girls 2nd 8+, 2006 New York State Scholastic Rowing Association (NYSSRA) Championships
1st Place, Girls V8+, 2009 Section 3 Champions
1st Place, Girls JV4+, 2011 National Champions
Girls' Tennis
2003 & 2004 NYSPHSAA Doubles Champions
26 consecutive Section III titles
undefeated from 1993 to 2014
Boys' Tennis
13 consecutive Section III titles
undefeated from 1995 to 2019.
Girls' Swimming
1994 and 1995 Section III Class A Champions
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Section III Class A Champions
2016,2018,2019 George Farwell Cup Winners
2018, 2019 Empire 8 Invitational Winners
Facilities
Recent facilities
The science wing, opened in 1998, includes eight laboratories and a large group instruction room.
The "overpass", at the middle of the school, connects its two main sections; "House 1" (primarily English and Social Studies) and "House 2" (primarily Science, Mathematics, and Technology). The school also opened a new Art Wing in 2000.
Subsequent additions and renovations have allowed the school to keep up with advances in technology, increases in enrollment, and changes in curriculum.
Two new wings for science and music and a renovated library media center were opened in 1998, followed by a renovation of the auditorium in 1999.
Since 1998, the school has opened seven computer labs spread throughout the school, in an ongoing commitment to making contemporary technology accessible to all students. Together, these labs contain almost 200 computers, in addition to around 10 student accessible computers in every classroom.
In 2000, to accommodate the school's nationally renowned, award-winning art programs, the district opened one of the most extensive art facilities of any public school system in Upstate New York. The new wing includes classrooms and studio space for drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, and digital media. Existing photography facilities remained intact and have since been updated to accommodate digital technologies.
2001 saw the opening of a television studio, FMTV, which develops and broadcasts a student-run morning news program and special events to every classroom in the school.
In 2003, after acquiring farmland adjacent to the campus, the school opened a new access road, expanded student parking lot, and additional athletic fields. Consolidated maintenance facilities, and an observatory opened in 2004, also as a result of this acquisition.
An expanded counseling suite and administrative office was opened in 2004.
The fitness center was expanded in 2008. The overpass was renovated and numerous classrooms were re-purposed.
During the Summer of 2011, the football stadium was renovated, and a new turf field was installed after a donation of $1.4 Million by the F-M Community Sports Facility Association.
During the Summer of 2019, the Library Media Center and bathrooms were renovated.
During the 2019–2020 school year, an ongoing project has seen the replacement of fluorescent hallway and classroom lighting to LED lights.
Notable incidents
"Grinding"
During the 2006–2007 school year, the school gained national attention due to controversial policies implemented at school-sponsored dances. Catching the attention of The New York Times in a December 17, 2006 article, was the decision by principal James Chupaila to ban "grinding", or any forms of perceived "suggestive dancing styles", at school dances, and to cancel one dance altogether for fear it could become a moral and legal liability. The story was also featured in the New York Observer, and on the front page of The Post-Standard. Chupaila's decision led to the cancellation of the remainder of class dances, with the exception of the school's popular spring charity fundraiser, Dance Marathon.
Cheating scandal
During the 2007–2008 school year, F-M was again in the news when the FBI was consulted in an investigation at Fayetteville–Manlius High School.
At a faculty meeting Administrators disclosed that there was breach in computer network security.
One student was caught trying to remove an electronic monitoring device (a hardware keylogger) from a school computer on October 24, 2007. Another student was caught trying to break into the school earlier that day, and the third was found waiting in a nearby car.
Further investigation implicated eight students altogether, two of them graduates attending college (Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University). The students faced criminal charges, some of them charged with multiple felonies.
Notable alumni
The school district, in conjunction with the Fayetteville-Manlius Education Foundation, has instituted a Fayetteville-Manlius Hall of Distinction, which is said "to recognize and celebrate Fayetteville-Manlius for the accomplishments of its graduates." These are some of the notable alumni who have been inducted, among many others:
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Steve Altes, humorist, graphic novelist – Class of 1980
Tom Rafferty, pro football player – Class of 1972
William Short, co-developer of the Acoustic Wave Music System (commonly known as Bose) – Class of 1969
Chris Wedge, Academy Award winning film director – Class of 1975
2001
Christopher Moeller, comic book artist, writer and illustrator – Class of 1981
2004
Laurie Halse Anderson, children's author and young adult novelist – Class of 1979
Jonathan Murray, co-creator and executive producer, The Real World – Class of 1973
2009
Nina Fedoroff (1960) – Science and Technology Adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Trevor Roe, basketball player, played professionally in Latvia-Estonian Basketball League - Class of 1969
Not inducted
Winnie Anderson (1931) – former NFL player
John Jamelske (1953) – serial rapist-kidnapper
Bob Kuziel (1967) – former NFL player
Ashley Twichell (2007) – Olympic swimmer, 2019 Fayetteville-Manlius Hornets Hall of Fame inductee
References
External links
NYS Education Department 2005–06 Comprehensive Information Report
NYS Education Department 2005–06 Accountability and Overview Report
Public high schools in New York (state)
Educational institutions established in 1963
Schools in Onondaga County, New York
Manlius, New York
1963 establishments in New York (state)
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Gumby: The Movie
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Gumby: The Movie (also referred to as its on-screen title Gumby 1) is a 1995 American stop-motion surrealist claymation adventure film featuring the character Gumby.
The film was released on October 4, 1995, and was mostly panned by critics; it went on to become a box-office flop, earning only $57,100 against its $2.8 million budget at the US box office, although much of its financial failure can be attributed to its very limited theatrical rollout. The film did, however, achieve a cult status among its fan base—especially on home media, where it quickly sold around a million copies on VHS—to the point where it received a 2007 remastered showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Plot
When the Blockheads' E-Z Loan company threatens to take away the farms belonging to the small farmers due to being unable to make their loan payments, Gumby and his band, the Clayboys, decide to have a benefit concert to save the farms. But when the evil Blockheads find out that Gumby's dog, Lowbelly, cries pearls when he sees the Clayboys perform, they decide to kidnap Lowbelly and force him to cry pearls (initially unaware that Lowbelly was only crying whenever Gumby changed his shape). Lowbelly doesn't respond to the Blockheads' initial attempt, but the Blockheads subsequently are informed by computer analysis that they need Gumby to extract the pearls, so they kidnap Gumby and the Clayboys in order to create robotic clones of them.
With the help of Pokey, Prickle, Goo, fans Tara and Ginger, and talent agent Lucky Claybert, Gumby takes on his robot clone and is still in time for his videotaping session in agreement with Claybert. At a picnic, Gumby announces that he's opening his own farm-centered loan company that will give reasonable loans for its customers. The Blockheads are forced to weed Gumby's garden as punishment, and Gumby and best friend Pokey decide that things are looking up for them as they head back to outer space.
Cast
Dallas McKennon (as Charles Farrington) voices Gumby: a young green boy made of clay
McKennon also voices Professor Kapp: an exuberant scientist with a voice like Ed Wynn; Fatbuckle: a red man with a big belt (his name is a play on "Fatty" Arbuckle); Lucky Claybert: a Groucho-like talent agent who makes a music video called "Gumbymania" (although it's officially known as "Take Me Away" in the credits); and Nobuckle: a yellow man with a New Jersey accent
Art Clokey voices Pokey: a talking red horse and Gumby's best friend
Clokey also voices Prickle: a yellow dinosaur with a Mel Blanc–like voice and Gumbo: Gumby's dad
Gloria Clokey voices Goo: a blue flying teenage mermaid
Manny La Carruba voices Thinbuckle: a blue teenager with a thin belt. A teenager much like Gumby and Goo.
Patti Morse (speaking voice)/Melisa Kary (singing voice) voices Tara: a light blue female and Gumby's love interest
Alice Young voices Ginger: Tara's best friend
Janet MacDuff voices Gumba: Gumby's mom
Bonnie Rudolph voices Lowbelly: the dog who cries pearls every time he sees Gumby change shapes
Rudolph also voices Farm Lady
Ozzie Ahlers voices Radio Announcer
Kirby Coleman voices the "This Way 'N That" singer
Anthony McNulty voices "Burnzy"
David Archer
Lillian Nicol
Rick Warren
Stan Freberg (uncredited)
Production
Production on Gumby: The Movie was completed in 1992. Despite this, Premavision was unable to find a distributor for the film until 1995, when they found a small company called Arrow Releasing (not to be confused with Arrow Films). John R. Dilworth, who would later be known for creating Cartoon Network's Courage the Cowardly Dog, served as the film's animation consultant.
The musical score was composed by Jerry Gerber, who previously worked on the television series, and Marco D'Ambrosio. Additionally, Ozzie Ahlers wrote and produced the featured songs "Take Me Away", "Ark Park" and "This Way'n That". Ahlers was also responsible for hiring frequent collaborator and Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico to play the electric guitar parts.
Release
Box office
Gumby: The Movie was released on October 4, 1995, by Arrow Releasing, but received only a limited release in 21 theaters. The film grossed $57,100 at the box office.
Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 20% based on reviews from 5 critics.
David Kronke of The Los Angeles Times described the screenplay as "tired and listless", and criticized the dialogue as unsophisticated and hastily assembled.
Common Sense Media rated the movie a two out of five stars, stating, "The animation in this feature film edition might feel old-fashioned and clumsy; the story bland and simplistic. It's slow going, not terribly funny, and it's repetitive. Still it has a quirky charm that kids respond to, especially the grown-up "kids" who are long-time fans and enjoy the memories that repeat viewings provide."
Several critics focused on the animation, particularly how it incorporated less advanced technology than films like Toy Story (1995), Pocahontas (1995), and stop-motion features like The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Home media
The film was released on home video on VHS by KidVision and Astral Home Video on December 26, 1995; it would be the former company's final release before becoming defunct. The next year, Warner Home Video released the film on VHS, which became a top-10 seller, selling about a million copies overall on this format in total. It was released on DVD by Classic Media on April 22, 2008. NCircle Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray September 5, 2017.
RiffTrax released their own commentary of the film on May 28, 2021.
References
External links
Gumby: The Movie at the TCM Movie Database
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1995 films
1995 animated films
1990s fantasy adventure films
1990s science fiction films
American children's animated adventure films
American children's animated science fantasy films
American fantasy adventure films
American independent films
American robot films
American rock music films
Animated films based on animated series
Animated films about horses
Animated films about robots
English-language films
Films about shapeshifting
Clay animation films
1990s stop-motion animated films
Films about cloning
1995 independent films
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ABC News at Noon is an Australian midday news programme which airs on ABC TV and ABC News and is presented by Ros Childs (weekdays) and Miriam Corowa (weekends) from the ABC's main national news studios at Ultimo.
A separate edition of the bulletin is produced for Western Australia two to three hours after the original broadcast, as the time delay was deemed too long to remain up-to-date.
History
The bulletin was launched in February 2005 to replace the less successful Midday News and Business, preceded in turn by the long-running World at Noon.
In March 2014, the programme's running-time was extended to one hour.
Brigid Glanville, Nicole Chettle, Deborah Rice and Tracy Kirkland are the main fill in news presenters for the bulletin.
Australian television news shows
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
2005 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney
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Royal Scottish Geographical Society
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The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) is an educational charity based in Perth, Scotland founded in 1884. The purpose of the society is to advance the subject of geography worldwide, inspire people to learn more about the world around them, and provide a source of reliable and impartial geographical information.
The RSGS delivers these core aims by producing a quarterly magazine, an annual programme of Inspiring People talks, a research journal, and a range of other publications. From its base in Perth, the society also operates a volunteer-led visitor centre, hosts an array of international exhibitions each year, and curates an archive dating back to its roots in 1884.
In addition, by working with partners around Scotland and further afield, the society encourages the teaching of geography in the curriculum, produces classroom resources for teachers, and facilitates thinking on issues such as climate change, city development and transport infrastructure, amongst many others.
Between 1904 and 1905, Sir Ernest Shackleton worked as the secretary of the society before resuming his career as an Antarctic explorer. Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Dame Freya Stark, Sir David Attenborough, Mary Robinson and Karen Darke have all received RSGS medals. Naomi Klein, James Cameron and the Dalai Lama, among others, have written for their magazine.
Since 2009, the society has been housed within Lord John Murray House in Perth; the society's visitor centre is next door in the Fair Maid's House, the oldest secular building in the city. The society was formerly based in the University of Strathclyde from 1994 to 2008, and before that at 10 Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh.
History
The originator of the idea for a national society of geography in Scotland was John George Bartholomew, of the Bartholomew family and map-making company in Edinburgh. Bartholomew felt that there was a low quality of map craftsmanship within Britain and a lack of geographical societies as compared with the rest of Europe, and set out to investigate the situation in other countries, particularly in Germany. As a result of this he began work in establishing a geographical society for Scotland.
Bartholomew was assisted by Mrs A. L. Bruce, the daughter of the explorer David Livingstone. She herself was a keen geographer, with a particular interest in Africa. Arthur Silva White, an experienced traveller and travel author, was also sought, and served as the Society's Secretary for the first 8 years. They sought the support of Professor James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh. Geikie had a keen interest in the advancement in geographical research and teaching, willingly giving his support to the project, and in December 1884 The Scottish Geographical Society (S.G.S.) was established. Recruiting members from many of Edinburgh's most prominent men and women, the Society managed to establish support from influential quarters. The S.G.S. encouraged members from scientific and academic backgrounds, providing a broad yet intellectual emphasis to its aims, as well as members of the general public, who joined more through interest or knowledge of the new discoveries than from any real interest in their own country.
The aims of the Society were diverse, yet exploration was seen as having less emphasis than research and education. The first edition of the Scottish Geographical Magazine stated: –
"... it is therefore one of the first objectives of the Scottish Geographical Society to advance the study of geography in Scotland: to impress the public with the necessity and inestimable value of a thorough knowledge of geography in a commercial, scientific or political education."
The SGS concentrated on education and research, against a backdrop interest in exploration and discovery, and the gathering together and dissemination of information from such activities. The SGS was founded at that point in the nineteenth century when the scientific climate prevailing in Scotland, and in particular Edinburgh, influenced the direction of the Society's goals and activities. With many academics as members, education and research were important issues to the Society.
At that time Edinburgh was the focus of geography within Scotland, with an active and lively scientific community from within which the seeds of a more balanced and scientific approach to geography would emerge. Yet, within a year of its foundation, the Scottish Geographical Society had established branches in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow to cater for the strong local interest and active participation in its work.
Chief amongst the RSGS's early achievements were its support for the quietly successful Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–04), and the establishment of Scotland's first professorship in Geography, at the University of Edinburgh.
Membership
Membership of RSGS is open to all, regardless of geographical location. Member benefits include:
Free attendance at c.90 Illustrated Talks per year which are held at 13 RSGS Local Groups throughout Scotland;
Four editions of The Geographer magazine, per year;
Free access to the Society's learned periodical, Scottish Geographical Journal, online or in hard copy;
Access to the Society's research collections, including its library, from which books may be borrowed, and its map and photograph collections, which may be consulted by prior arrangement with the Curator;
Other benefits include excursions and field trips, travel offers and competitions.
Collections
The Society holds extensive collections of historical and contemporary maps, atlases, books, journals, photographs, film, drawings, paintings, scientific instruments, personal papers, and artefacts, relating to the whole world, but especially to Scotland and the many areas of the world explored and settled by Scots. Items in the collection form a valuable part of Scotland's heritage, often providing the only record of people, places, and events, including unique items such as photographs of early polar exploration, photographs by and of eminent explorers and mountaineers, expedition reports and diaries, and the RSGS's own archive. There is a particularly important collection of early maps of Scotland with the earliest item dating from 1573. While many items are held in the RSGS headquarters in Perth, the majority of books are managed by the Andersonian Library at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Films, including unique footage of the Scottish Antarctic Expedition from 1904, are lodged with the Scottish Screen Archive in Glasgow. The Society's collections are managed by an enthusiastic team of volunteers and can be viewed by members by appointment.
Residences
The RSGS began a programme of residency in 2014, bringing on board specialists to help deliver its charitable aims and specific geographic output. The positions are all voluntary.
Explorers-In-Residence
The first Explorer-in-Residence was awarded to Craig Mathieson, a record-breaking Scottish explorer who established the Polar Academy in 2013, a charity which takes young adults to polar regions in order to improve their confidence. More recently, husband and wife team Luke and Hazel Robertson were the second recipients of the title. As part of their work with the RSGS, the pair travelled to Alaska in 2017 in an attempt to be the first to trek south to north across the country. Unfortunately, the trip ended abruptly just short of the finish line as climate change induced melting of permafrost halted their progress onward.
Writers-In-Residence
The first Writer-in-Residence was held by poet and author Hazel Buchan Cameron. During her tenure, she worked with young writers to produce creative writing pieces inspired by the RSGS collections. This culminated in an exhibition at Perth Museum in late 2014. The second recipient of the title was Jo Woolf who has brought the stories from RSGS history to life, most notably through the publication of her debut book, The Great Horizon. Published by Sandstone Press in 2017, this book features 50 inspiring stories from some of the most remarkable explorers, scientists and visionaries who have ever lived, all of whom have a connection to the Society. Woolf was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Society in 2018.
Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellowship, first awarded in 1888, is awarded in recognition of services to the Society and to the wider discipline of geography. Honorary Fellows may use the post-nominal designation FRSGS after their names.
Adolphus Greely (1890)
Adrien de Gerlache (1900)
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1891)
Albrecht Penck (1899)
Alick Buchanan-Smith (1974)
Angus Buchanan (1924)
Anne Glover (2014)
Anne, Princess Royal (1990)
Arthur Jephson (1890)
Arthur Silva White (1892)
Augustus Charles Gregory (1902)
Aurel Stein (1910)
Barbara Young (2012)
Børge Ousland (2014)
Boyd Alexander (1908)
Cameron McNeish (2009)
Carl Chun (1900)
Carsten Borchgrevink (1901)
Charles Cochrane-Baillie (1891)
Charles Tupper (1894)
Charles W. J. Withers (2010)
Christopher Smout (2013)
Clements Markham (1904)
Craig Sams (2012)
Crispin Tickell (1992)
David Attenborough (2011)
David E. Sugden (2011)
David Hempleman-Adams (2012)
David Shukman (2013)
Don Cameron (2011)
Doug Allan (2014)
Doug Scott (2009)
Ed Stafford (2011)
Ernest Shackleton (1911)
Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1889)
Eugenius Warming (1909)
Frederick Lugard (1892)
Frederick Roberts (1893)
Georges Lecointe (1900)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1945)
Greta Thunberg (2019)
Gustav Hellmann (1909)
Hamish Brown (2000)
Hamish MacInnes (2007)
Henry E. O'Neill (1889)
Henry Ogg Forbes (1900)
Henry Yule (1889)
Hugh Alexander Webster (1888)
Isabella Bird (1890)
James Hunter (2001)
Jason Lewis (2017)
John Briggs (2001)
John Christopher Bartholomew (1993)
John Scott Keltie (1907)
Karen Darke (2016)
Kim Crosbie (2016)
Laurence Pullar (1911)
Leo Houlding (2014)
Lewis Pugh (2011)
Lord Charles Beresford (1899)
Lord Foster (2011)
Magnus Magnusson (1991)
Mary Robinson (2012)
Michael Palin (1993)
Paul Vidal de La Blache (1909)
Polly Higgins (2018)
Ray Mears (2009)
Robert H. Nelson (1890)
Robert Laws (1900)
Robert William Felkin (1898)
Rory Stewart (2009)
Rosie Swale-Pope (2011)
Rune Gjeldnes (2010)
Selina Hales (2019)
Simon Pepper (2015)
Thomas Heazle Parke (1890)
Tim Butcher (2013)
Tom Weir (1992)
Vanessa Lawrence (2014)
William C. Dunbar (1890)
William Grant Stairs (1890)
William MacGregor (1890)
William Mackinnon (1890)
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (2009)
Michael Portillo (2018)
Presidents of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
1885–1891: The Earl of Rosebery KG KT
1891–1894: The Duke of Argyll KG KT
1894–1898: The Marquess of Lothian KT
1898–1904: Sir John Murray KCB
1904–1910: James Geikie DCL LLD FRS
1910–1914: The Earl of Stair
1914–1916: The Duke of Buccleuch KT
1916–1919: The Lord Guthrie LLD
1919–1925: The Lord Salvesen PC
1925–1930: The Viscount Novar KT GCMG
1930–1934: The Lord Elphinstone KT
1934–1937: The Lord Polwarth CBE
1937–1942: The Earl of Rosebery KT
1942–1946: Sir D'Arcy Thomson Kt CB
1946–1950: Alan G. Ogilvie OBE
1950–1954: John Bartholomew MC JP FRSGS
1954–1958: Douglas Allan CBE LLD DSc PhD FRSE FRSGS
1958–1962: The Earl of Wemyss and March LLD DL
1962–1968: The Hon. Lord Cameron DSC MA LLB LLD DL
1968–1974: The Rt.Hon. Lord Balerno CBE TD MA DSc
1974–1977: Professor Ronald Miller MA PhD FRSE FRSGS
1977–1983: Professor James Wreford Watson MA PhD LLD FRSC FRSE FRSGS
1983–1987: The Viscount of Arbuthnott DSC MA FRSA FRICS
1987–1993: John C. Bartholomew MA FRSE FRGS
1993–1999: The Viscount Younger of Leckie KT KCVO TD DL
1999–2005: The Earl of Dalkeith KBE DL
2005–2012: The Earl of Lindsay
2012–: Iain Stewart
Medals and awards
The Society awards a number of medals for outstanding contributions to geography and exploration.
Scottish Geographical Medal (Previously the RSGS Gold Medal)
Livingstone Medal
President's Medal
Mungo Park Medal
Coppock Research Medal
Geddes Environment Medal
Shackleton Medal
W.S. Bruce Medal
Joy Tivy Education Medal
The Newbigin Prize
Bartholomew Globe
Past Awards
RSGS Bronze Medal
See also
Geography of Scotland
History of science
Learned societies
List of British professional bodies
List of Royal Societies
References
External links
RSGS Publications
1884 establishments in Scotland
University of Strathclyde
Geographical Society
Geographical Society
Organizations established in 1884
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Along%20the%20Watchtower%20%28TV%20series%29
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All Along the Watchtower (TV series)
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All Along the Watchtower is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999, about an RAF site in Scotland, it was written by Pete Sinclair and Trevelyan Evans.
Cast
Chris Lang – Flight Lieutenant Simon Harrison
Roger Blake – Wing Commander Hilary Campbell-Stokes
Felix Bell – Airman Tench
Tony Roper – Iain Guthrie
Zoë Eeles – Eilidh Guthrie
Tom Watson – Douggie Maclaggan
Georgie Glen – Mrs Mulvey
Plot
The series focuses on Flight Lieutenant Harrison, a young up-and-coming RAF officer, whose job is to survey and then recommend RAF stations for closure. The latest on the list is RAF Auchnacluchnie, Nuclear Command Bunker No. K553/44FS, a massive concrete Cold War facility and airstrip, which looms over the isolated Scottish fishing village of Auchnacluchnie. Far from being staffed by the 300 crew he expects, he is horrified to find the site is actually occupied only by the eccentric, obtuse and war-ready Wing-Commander Campbell-Stokes and his gauche junior Airman Tench. All the other staff have been siphoned off over the years and never been replaced, resulting in RAF Auchnacluchnie receiving the full quota of supplies and budget for its supposed population. Campbell-Stokes and Tench have been left to eat from 100 pint tins of baked beans, make tea from 100,000 bag boxes of tea-bags, and keep ready for a war that will never come.
The startling state of affairs is considered just as bad by the local villagers, who see the site as an English establishment foisted upon them. Harrison decides to file a report recommending the site's closure, but meanwhile becomes smitten with Eilidh, the pub landlord's beautiful daughter. She single-handedly runs the local school while her boyfriend, the impressively muscular and unseen Hamish, is away working on an oil rig. Alongside his romantic longings, Harrison realises that closing the site will have a profound impact on the village's school (which only stays open because Eilidh pretends she cares for the children of the 300 site staff). Falsifying his report to London, he is dismayed to find it has not only been accepted but also that he has been posted to the station permanently. Campbell-Stokes and Tench quickly accept him into the fold.
Episodes
External links
All Along the Watchtower at British TV Comedy Resources
1999 British television series debuts
1999 British television series endings
1990s British sitcoms
BBC television sitcoms
Military comedy television series
Television shows set in Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Chicago%20Medical%20Center
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University of Chicago Medical Center
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The University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. It is the flagship campus for The University of Chicago Medicine system and was established in 1898. Affiliated with and located on The University of Chicago campus, it also serves as the teaching hospital for Pritzker School of Medicine. Primary medical facilities on campus include the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, and Comer Children's Hospital.
In 2019, U.S. News and World Report ranked UChicago Medicine the second-best hospital in both Chicago and Illinois behind Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
History
The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, one of the nation's leading academic medical institutions, was founded in 1927 when it first opened to patients. Today, it comprises The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, a section committed to scientific discovery; and The University of Chicago Medical Center. Twelve Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine have been affiliated with The University of Chicago Medicine.
In 1988, The University of Chicago Medicine decided to close its adult trauma center. At the time, the decision was made because the trauma center was losing a large amount of money and taking away resources from other specialties.
University of Chicago Medicine physicians are members of The University of Chicago Physicians Group, which includes about 900 physicians and covers the full array of medical and surgical specialties. The physicians are faculty members of the Pritzker School of Medicine.
These organizations are headed by Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and executive vice president for medical affairs at The University of Chicago.
Between 2005 and 2009, former First Lady Michelle Obama served as vice-president for Community and External Affairs. Obama resigned the position in 2009 as she and then President Barack Obama prepared their move to the White House.
Calls for a new adult level 1 trauma center surfaced after the death of Damian Turner, an 18-year-old who was killed by gunshot in August 2010. Hospital representatives have said that building an adult trauma center would compromise the other distinct and critically important services for the community, such as The South Side's only level 1 trauma center for children, the South Side's only burn unit, its emergency departments for adults and children and the neonatal intensive care unit. Protesters have suggested that The University of Chicago should not be seeking financial support to attract the presidential library of Barack Obama without first committing to reopening an adult trauma facility.
The Center for Care and Discovery (CCD) opened in 2013 and to date serves as the flagship hospital for UChicago Medicine. The 10-story facility has 436 beds in all private rooms, 52 intensive care beds, 9 suites for advanced imaging and interventional procedures and 23 operating rooms designed to accommodate hybrid and robotic procedures.
In December 2015, the university announced that it would be restarting the level 1 adult trauma center at the hospital. Furthermore, the university announced plans to expand The University of Chicago Medical Center. The center now includes 188 additional beds and has increased the hospital to its biggest size since the 1970s. The expansion was in response to an increased demand for bed space, as the medical center had been operating near capacity.
On December 29, 2017, a new adult emergency room connected to the Center for Care and Discovery opened for patient care. On May 1, 2018, the new Level 1 trauma center officially opened. The center is expected to serve between 2,700 and 4,000 patients a year and is the South Side's first Level I trauma center since the late 1980s. The remainder of the expansion is expected to be finished by 2022.
As of 2019, National Institute of Health research funding reached $168 million annually.
Composition
University of Chicago Medicine consists of:
Center for Care and Discovery, the primary adult inpatient care facility (opened in 2013 at a cost of $700 million)
Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital, adult inpatient care facility which houses the Burn and Complex Wound Center
Comer Children's Hospital, including the university's Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center
University of Chicago Medicine Family Birth Center, a maternity and women's hospital
Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, an outpatient care facility
Pritzker School of Medicine
The Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery (KCBD)
The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (in the main campus and other locations)
UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial, Harvey, Illinois
UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - Calumet City
UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - Crestwood
UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - Flossmoor
UChicago Medicine Outpatient Center at Ingalls - Harvey
UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - South Holland
UChicago Medicine at Ingalls - Tinley Park
regional physician offices located throughout the Chicago area
Recognition
The University of Chicago Medical Center is frequently ranked among the best in the country and a leader in both Chicago and Illinois by U.S. News & World Report. The 2010 rankings by U.S. News & World Report included the following 11 adult medical specialties:
digestive disorders (6),
cancer (15),
endocrinology (18),
kidney disease (21),
respiratory disorders (21),
heart (27),
urology (28),
geriatrics (29),
gynecology (34),
neurology and neurosurgery (36) and,
ear, nose, and throat (38). Until 2012, it was the only hospital in Illinois ever to be included on the magazine's "Honor Roll" of the best hospitals in the United States, and has made this coveted list 10 times.
References
External links
University of Chicago Medicine
University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital
University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics Collection 1924-1993 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
Hospitals in Chicago
University of Chicago
Hospital networks in the United States
Teaching hospitals in Illinois
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Neco Martínez
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Luis Enrique "Neco" Martínez Rodríguez, (born 11 July 1982 in Necoclí, Colombia) is a retired Colombian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is nicknamed "Neco" for the town of his birth.
Career
Martínez was signed by newly promoted Turkish team Sakaryaspor in summer 2006, signing a three-year contract, before moving to Colombian club Once Caldas.
International career
During a World Cup warm-up match between Poland and Colombia on May 30, 2006, he scored a remarkable goal, striking directly from a long distance over the head of the opposition goalkeeper, Tomasz Kuszczak.
After a three-year absence from the national team, he was called back by new coach Hernan Dario Gomez for an international friendly match against Bolivia on August 5, 2010.
He was the starting goalkeeper for the Colombian national team during the Copa America 2011, since the starting goalkeeper David Ospina was out with a facial injury after colliding with Hugo Rodallega days before the tournament. Martinez had a good start to the tournament, being the only goalkeeper to have a clean sheet on all three group games. In the quarterfinal match against Peru however he made two crucial mistakes which led to the two goals of Peru.
International goals
Scores and results list Colombia's goal tally first.
Honours
Club
Once Caldas
Categoría Primera A (1): 2010-II
Atlético Nacional
Categoría Primera A (3): 2013-I, 2013-II, 2014-I
Copa Colombia (1): 2013
See also
List of goalscoring goalkeepers
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Association football goalkeepers
Colombian footballers
Colombia international footballers
Envigado F.C. players
Atlético Huila footballers
Independiente Santa Fe footballers
Sakaryaspor footballers
Manisaspor footballers
Once Caldas footballers
Atlético Nacional footballers
América de Cali footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Süper Lig players
Colombian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Costa Rica
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2011 Copa América players
Sportspeople from Antioquia Department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jane%20Show
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The Jane Show
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The Jane Show is a Canadian television sitcom produced by Shaftesbury Films that was shown on Global from 2006 to 2007. The series stars Teresa Pavlinek as Jane Black, an aspiring novelist who takes a corporate job after her life undergoes a major upheaval.
Pavlinek was also a co-creator, producer and writer for the series, alongside Ralph Chapman.
The show's cast also included Patricia Zentilli, Darren Boyd, Kate Trotter, Hardee T. Lineham, Nigel Shawn Williams and Andrew Misle.
Global originally aired the series pilot in December 2004, but retooled and redeveloped the program before ordering more episodes, which aired in 2006. The second season aired in 2007. The show was officially cancelled by Global on June 28, 2007.
Awards
In 2007, both Ralph Chapman and Teresa Pavlinek were nominated for WGC awards for the episodes "Should Have Said" and "All About Steve", respectively.
Episodes
episode 0 "Pilot" 15 December 2004
Season 1
The End Is the Beginning 1 June 2006
Let the Games Begin 6 June 2006
Jane's Addiction 20 June 2006
Ode to Marian 22 June 2006
Daddy's Home 29 June 2006
Tasting 5 July 2006
Thursday Night Rules 13 July 2006
Close Friends 20 July 2006
Should Have Said 27 July 2006
Strictly Jane aired 3 August 2006
All About Steve 10 August 2006
Rules of Engagement 17 August 2006
Evaluating Jane 24 August 2006
Season 2
episode 14 Movin' on Up
episode 15 Blog Like Me 2 February 2007
episode 16 A Jane in the Crowd
episode 17 Shower Killer (featuring Anna Silk as Kathy)
episode 18: title of episode 5 unknown
episode 19 The House of Jane 14 March 2007
episode 20 Voices from the Past 15 January 2007
episode 21 The United Nations of Jane 22 February 2007
episode 22 Plastic Ono Jane
episode 23 The Chosen One 4 April 2007
episode 24 Walton Returns 11 April 2007
episode 25 It's All Relative 18 April 2007
episode 26 Till Beth Do Us Part 25 April 2007
episode 27 Who's Got Spirit? 6 May 2007
References
External links
Global Television Network original programming
2007 Canadian television series endings
Television series by Shaftesbury Films
2004 Canadian television series debuts
Television shows filmed in Toronto
2000s Canadian sitcoms
2000s Canadian workplace comedy television series
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Jacob A. Schowalter
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Jacob Abraham Schowalter (August 25, 1879 – March 10, 1953) was a Kansas farmer, business owner and Mennonite philanthropist whose estate formed the basis of the Schowalter Foundation.
Schowalter was born in Friedelsheim in the Palatinate province of Germany. He came to North American with his family in 1883, and with the help of Mennonite relatives, settled near Halstead, Kansas. Schowalter joined Halstead Mennonite Church in 1894. He attended Bethel College and later Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas.
Schowalter's father died in 1885 and his mother in 1890. He received his share of the estate in 1903, of the family farm near Halstead and purchased an additional from a sibling. This was the start of the real estate fortune that Schowalter would build over his lifetime. In 1917 he purchased near Newton, Kansas where he made his permanent residence. On the Newton farm, Schowalter started raising livestock, keeping up to a thousand sheep and 150 cattle.
As a blacksmith, Schowalter was able to improve and repair his farm equipment. He patented an adjustable cultivator (1904) and a portable hoist (1921). In 1923 he formed a partnership to own and operate a grain elevator, in part to market his own substantial wheat crop. Later he took over full ownership of the elevator.
During World War I wheat farming was profitable and Schowalter invested his earnings in stocks and bonds. When land prices fell during the Great Depression Schowalter was able to buy vast tracts of western Kansas and Oklahoma farmland from farmers eager to sell. Schowalter had earlier observed summer fallowing in eastern Oregon and applied it to his advantage, perhaps the first to introduce this practice to Kansas. From 1935 to 1950 good crop yields, high commodity prices and increasing land values all helped to build the Schowalter estate.
By 1950 Schowalter owned property in Harvey, Sedgwick, Butler, Scott, Sherman and Stevens counties. A significant portion of this laid over the Hugoton natural gas field and some of his in Oklahoma produced oil income.
Schowalter, a Democratic Party member, felt Mennonites should be more engaged in the political process and the problems of government. He served two terms (1934–1938) as a Kansas state representative.
Schowalter never married and lived a simple, austere life. His success was based on hard work, saving and common sense investments. Schowalter gave to charitable causes that were compatible to his Mennonite faith. He supported mission work, world relief efforts, education and church institutions. In 1952 Schowalter was a key donor involved in purchasing over 30,000 acres (120 km²) of land in Paraguay to aid resettlement of European Mennonite refugees displaced by World War II.
Schowalter died in 1953, leaving an estate of $1.57 million which became the basis for the Schowalter Foundation, a charitable organization that continues to support numerous Mennonite projects.
References
Kaufman, Edmund G. (1973), General Conference Mennonite Pioneers, pp. 405–411, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.
Krahn, Cornelius, Gingerich, Melvin & Harms, Orlando (Eds.) (1955). The Mennonite Encyclopedia, Volume IV, p. 480. Mennoniite Publishing House.
1879 births
1953 deaths
American philanthropists
American Mennonites
Members of the Kansas House of Representatives
German emigrants to the United States
Kansas Democrats
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ACCD
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ACCD may refer to:
accD, the beta subunit of the Acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme
Austin Community College District
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
Art Center College of Design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPPP
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UPPP
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UPPP may refer to:
Undecaprenyl-diphosphatase, an enzyme
Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, a surgical procedure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Masters%20International%20Badminton%20Championships
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Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships
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Swedish Masters International Badminton Championships or Swedish International Stockholm is an annual badminton tournament held in Sweden and hosted by Svenska Badmintonförbundet. It is part of the European Badminton Circuit. The tournament was started by Stockholms Badmintonförbund in 2004. Stockholms Badmintonförbund was running the tournament until 2008 and was handed over to Svenska Badmintonförbundet. The tournament was played in Sweden's capital Stockholm up until the 2013 edition.
In 2014 the tournament moved to Uppsala, about 1 hour north of Stockholm, and was run by former Swedish player Pär-Gunnar Jönsson. The 2016 edition represented the first BE International Challenge circuit tournament with the new increased prize money from US$15,000 to US$17,000, and will reach $25,000 by 2018. The Swedish Masters tournament also has one of the most unusual tournament trophies, in a circular shape representing the ring on the cork of the shuttle, with all the names of previous winners engraved on the inside.
In 2017 the tournament went back to an International Series from its previous position as an International Challenge and moved to a new home in Lund, just north of Malmo. The tournament also reverted to its original name of Swedish International from the previous three editions as the Swedish Masters.
In 2018 the tournament will revert to the name of Swedish Open (badminton), as used between 1956 and 2000. The tournament will be hosted in Lund as an International Series.
Past winners
Performances by nation
References
External links
Official Site
New Official Site
2004 establishments in Sweden
Recurring sporting events established in 2004
Badminton tournaments in Sweden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumsa%20Nahin%20Dekha%3A%20A%20Love%20Story
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Tumsa Nahin Dekha: A Love Story
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Tumsa Nahin Dekha: A Love Story (transl. I Haven't Seen Anyone Like You) is a 2004 Indian Hindi musical romantic drama film directed by Anurag Basu produced by Mukesh Bhatt, written by Subodh Chopra and starring Emraan Hashmi and Dia Mirza in lead roles with Sharat Saxena, Surekha Sikri, Uday Tikekar, Atul Parchure and Anupam Kher in supporting roles. It was released on 24 September 2004. Upon release, the film received mixed to negative reviews, having a 18% Rating on RottenTomatoes.
Synopsis
The film starts with Daksh Mittal (Emraan Hashmi), a charming and continually drunk billionaire. One day, he runs into a girl, Jiya (Dia Mirza) on the street and falls in love at first sight. Jiya is working as a dancer and has a mentally handicapped brother. Daksh and Jiya spend some time with each other and fall in love. Daksh, however, is supposed to marry Anahita Madhwani (Pooja Bharati) in order to inherit a million-dollar trust.
For help, Daksh turns to his butler, John Uncle (Anupam Kher). John Uncle wanted Daksh to end up marrying Jiya. However, John gets very ill and gets admitted to a hospital. The engagement party for Daksh and Anahita is taking place and John Uncle manages to convince Jiya to go to the party.
Daksh and Jiya dance, and meanwhile, John Uncle is dying at the hospital. Daksh decides to honour John Uncle's memory and goes to propose to Jiya – she accepts and after a final clash with the family, Daksh is allowed to marry her and they live happily ever after.
Cast
Soundtrack
The music of this movie was given by Nadeem-Shravan. The album features 9 songs with 8 original tracks and one other version of Bheed Mein. The song Yeh Dhuan Dhuan features Richard Clayderman with the lead vocalist Roopkumar Rathod. The response for album was excellent at music platforms in India. Singers like (singer) Legendery Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam and Shaan have lent their voices in this album.
References
External links
2000s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Nadeem–Shravan
Indian films
Indian remakes of American films
Hindi-language films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak%20First%20Ice%20Hockey%20League
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Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League
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The Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League was the elite ice hockey league in Czechoslovakia from 1936 until 1993, when the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga formed from the split.
History
The most successful team in the number of titles was HC Dukla Jihlava with 12 titles. HC Sparta Praha won the last season 1992–93, when they defeated HC Vítkovice 4–0 in the final for matches.
Champions
1992–93 – HC Sparta Praha
1991–92 – Dukla Trenčín
1990–91 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1989–90 – HC Sparta Praha
1988–89 – Tesla Pardubice
1987–88 – TJ VSŽ Košice
1986–87 – Tesla Pardubice
1985–86 – TJ VSŽ Košice
1984–85 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1983–84 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1982–83 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1981–82 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1980–81 – TJ Vítkovice
1979–80 – Poldi SONP Kladno
1978–79 – Slovan Bratislava
1977–78 – Poldi SONP Kladno
1976–77 – Poldi SONP Kladno
1975–76 – Sokol Kladno
1974–75 – Sokol Kladno
1973–74 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1972–73 – Tesla Pardubice
1971–72 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1970–71 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1969–70 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1968–69 – HC Dukla Jihlava1967–68 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1966–67 – HC Dukla Jihlava
1965–66 – ZKL Brno
1964–65 – ZKL Brno
1963–64 – ZKL Brno
1962–63 – ZKL Brno
1961–62 – ZKL Brno
1960–61 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1959–60 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1958–59 – Sokol Kladno
1957–58 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1956–57 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1955–56 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1954–55 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1953–54 – Spartak Praha Sokolovo
1952–53 – Spartak Praha Sokolovo
1951–52 – Baník Vítkovice
1950–51 – České Budějovice
1949–50 – HC ATK Praha
1948–49 – LTC Praha
1947–48 – LTC Praha
1946–47 – LTC Praha
1945–46 – LTC Praha
1937–38 – LTC Praha
1936–37 – LTC Praha
Notable officials
Paul Loicq Award recipient Juraj Okoličány worked 15 seasons in the league, and made his officiating debut at age 19.
See also
Czech Extraliga
Slovak Extraliga
References
External links
History of Czech and Czechoslovak Hockey
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Sports leagues established in 1930
1930 establishments in Czechoslovakia
1993 disestablishments in the Czech Republic
1993 disestablishments in Slovakia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20W.%20L.%20Bickley
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George W. L. Bickley
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George Washington Lafayette Bickley (July 18, 1823 – August 10, 1867) was the founder of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil War era secret society used to promote the interests of the Southern United States by preparing the way for annexation of a "golden circle" of territories in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean which would be included into the United States as southern or slave states. Bickley was arrested by the United States government and it was during this time he wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln expressing his distastes with Lincoln's handling of the government.
Biography
Bickley was born in Russell County, Virginia on July 18, 1823. His father died of cholera in 1830 and Bickley ran away from home to live an adventurous life around the country.
Medicine
By 1850, Bickley was a practicing physician in Jeffersonville (now Tazewell), Virginia. In Jeffersonville, he founded a local historical society and began writing the manuscript for the History of the Settlement and Indian War of Tazewell County, Virginia.
In 1851, Bickley moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, after being offered to serve as "Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Medical Botany" at the Eclectic Medical Institute, an institution teaching a form of alternative medicine known as eclectic medicine. Bickley had secured the offer by claiming to have been a graduate in the Class of 1842 of the University of London. Bickley stated that he had studied medicine under the renowned English physician John Elliotson, who supposedly had signed his diploma. The University of London failed to find Bickley's name in their records for the list of university graduates. Furthermore, Elliotson had resigned from the university in 1838, which would falsify Bickley's claim.
Writing
In 1853, Bickley published Adalaska; Or, The Strange and Mysterious Family of the Cave of Genreva, an anti-slavery novel based on the premise of the Young America movement and Manifest Destiny, and the Principles of Scientific Botany. Bickley was also the publisher of the Western American Review, a New York-based conservative publication.
The Knights of the Golden Circle
Hounded by creditors, Bickley left Cincinnati in the late 1850s and traveled through the East and South promoting an expedition to seize Mexico and establish a new territory for slavery. He found his greatest support in Texas and managed within a short time to organize thirty-two chapters there. In the spring of 1860 the group made the first of two attempts to invade Mexico from Texas. A small band reached the Rio Grande, but Bickley failed to show up with a large force he claimed he was assembling in New Orleans, and the campaign dissolved. In April some KGC members in New Orleans, displeased with Bickley's inept leadership, met and expelled him, but Bickley called a convention in Raleigh, North Carolina, in May and succeeded in having himself reinstated as the group's leader. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War numerous Golden Circle members became focused on the making the New Mexico territory a part of the proposed Golden Circle. In May 1861, members of the KGC and Confederate Rangers attacked a building in Texas which housed a pro-Union newspaper, the Alamo Express, owned by J. P. Newcomb, and burned it down.
KGC members in the largely aligned with Copperhead politicians who wanted a negotiated end to the war. In late 1863 the Knights of the Golden Circle were reorganized (sans Bickley) as the Order of American Knights and again, early in 1864, as the Order of the Sons of Liberty, with Clement Vallandigham, the most prominent of the Copperheads, as its supreme commander soon dissolved in 1864 after being exposed and members being arrested and tried for treason.
American Civil War
Bickley joined Confederate States Army at the beginning of 1863 to serve as a surgeon under General Braxton Bragg. However, he left for Tennessee in June 1863, and he was arrested as a Confederate spy in New Albany, Indiana in July 1863. He was never tried but remained under arrest until October 1865.
Personal life, death and legacy
In 1850, Bickley's wife of two years died, and he left their young son in the care of another family. He moved to Cincinnati the following year, and married a widow who owned a farm in Scioto County, Ohio. They separated when he tried to sell her farm. In 1863, he had a child out of wedlock with a woman in Tennessee.
Bickley died on August 10, 1867, either in Baltimore, Maryland or Virginia. Meanwhile, the Knights of the Golden Circle became the inspiration for the Ku Klux Klan.
References
Further reading
External links
Sam Lanham Digital Library Schreiner University
U. Texas at Austin, Knights of the Golden Circle
Columbia Encyclopedia, Knights of the Golden Circle
eHistory
1823 births
1867 deaths
People from Russell County, Virginia
Physicians from Cincinnati
American male novelists
19th-century American novelists
Confederate States Army officers
Physicians from Virginia
Novelists from Virginia
Writers from Cincinnati
Novelists from Ohio
19th-century American physicians
19th-century American male writers
Knights of the Golden Circle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20student%20publications%20in%20Australia
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List of student publications in Australia
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Listed are student publications in Australia. Most are published by student unions.
National
Previously National U, U, Axis, National Student, Student In Australia, The Student Leader and Student View
Australian Capital Territory
Curieux, University of Canberra and previously CUrio
Woroni, ANU Observer, Demos Journal and The Monsoon Project, Australian National University
New South Wales
Grapeshot, Macquarie University and previously Arena, Muscateer and The Word
Honi Soit, University of Sydney and previously BULL
Hungappa (Wagga Wagga campus) and Interp (Bathurst campus), Charles Sturt University and previously Interpellator (Bathurst campus)
Neucleus, University of New England
Opus and Yak, University of Newcastle
FLUNK, Southern Cross University and previously Pulp SCUM and Properganda
Tertangala, University of Wollongong
Tharunka, Blitz, Arcadia (COFA campus) and Framework (COFA campus), University of New South Wales and previously Zing Tycoon (COFA campus)
Vertigo and Playground, University of Technology, Sydney
W'SUP, Western Sydney University and previously HAC, TWOT, Nepean Echo, 1st Edition, Jumbunna, Berzerk, Hemlock, The Western Onion, Degreeº and Cruwsible
Northern Territory
Flycatcher, Charles Darwin University and previously Delirra and The Beard
Queensland
Bound, Bond University and previously Scope and Bond Briefs
Getamungstit (Gold Coast campus), Griffith University and previously Gravity (Nathan campus) and Arbiter (Nathan campus)
Scoop, University of the Sunshine Coast and previously ISM
Semper Floreat, University of Queensland
The Ashes, University of Southern Queensland and previously The Rambler
The Bullsheet, James Cook University and previously Bedlam and The Hack
Universe Magazine, Queensland University of Technology and previously CirQUTry, Utopia and Definite Article
Previously The Rattler and Pipeline, Central Queensland University
South Australia
Empire Times, Flinders University and previously Libertine
On Dit, University of Adelaide
Verse, University of South Australia and previously Entropy and UniLifeMag
On The Record'', University of South Australia student news publication.
Tasmania
Togatus, University of Tasmania
VictoriaCatalyst and The Swanston Gazette, RMIT University, and previously Don't Panic (Bundoora campus), Flip (Phillip Institute of Technology) and Plexus (Preston Institute of Technology)Evolve, Royal Gurkhas Institute of Technology Australia
Farrago, University of Melbourne and previously Postgraduate Review, Spark (VCA campus), Griffin and Farrago-Griffin Fedpress, Federation University and previously Bootleg, Hotch Potch, Oxalian (Gippsland campus), Emit (Gippsland campus), Winston (Gippsland campus) and Ink (Berwick campus)Hyde, Victoria University of Technology and previously Genesis, NoName and SeedLot's Wife (Clayton campus) and Esperanto (Caulfield campus), Monash University and previously Chaos, Naked Wasp and Otico (Caulfield and Peninsula campus)
Rabelais Student Media, La Trobe University and previously Missing Link and 3rd Degree (Bendigo campus)
Swine, Swinburne University of Technology and previously Tabula RasaWordly, Deakin University and previously Spurious Logic (Rusden campus) and CrossfirePreviously The Worm, intercampus
Western AustraliaDircksey, Edith Cowan University and previously Harambee, G-Spot and GSMGrok, Curtin University of Technology
Metior, Murdoch UniversityOnyx, Blackstone Society, UWA
Pelican, University of Western AustraliaPerth International Law Journal, UWA International Law ClubWestern Australian Student Law ReviewPreviously Quasimodo, University of Notre Dame
High schoolLion's Roar, Wesley College (St Kilda Road campus)Parallel, Nossal High School
Purple Haze, Wesley College (Glen Waverley campus)
Sentinel, Melbourne High School
Tiger'', Sydney Grammar School
See also
Student publication
List of student newspapers
List of student newspapers in Canada
List of student newspapers in the United Kingdom
List of student newspapers in the United States of America
References
Student
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Georgia%20Encyclopedia
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is a web-based encyclopedia containing over 2,000 articles about the state of Georgia. It is a program of Georgia Humanities (GH), in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), and the Office of the Governor.
The NGE was launched in 2004. It was the first state encyclopedia to be conceived and designed exclusively for publication online. The idea for the project grew out of the 1996 joint publication of The New Georgia Guide by the Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. The guide, itself a spiritual successor to the New Deal-era American Guide Series, was a literary success. Georgia Humanities and UGA Press then convinced Governor Zell Miller, who commissioned the guide in the first place, to fund the planning and development of a comprehensive print and online state encyclopedia. The name "New Georgia Encyclopedia" was chosen as an homage to the New Georgia Guide and as a reference to the new online medium.
As the project developed, plans for a print volume of the encyclopedia fell through. The planning committee argued that the increased receptiveness to change offered by the online medium would quickly obviate a printed volume. They also stressed that the proposed online-only encyclopedia would abide by the authoritative editorial standards of a print encyclopedia.
Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), a web portal to hundreds of subscription-only databases meant for Georgian libraries and schools, joined UGA Press and GH in fall 1998 as a project partner. GALILEO hosts the NGE website today.
Unlike other state and regional encyclopedias, the project partners and editorial staff believed that the NGE should cover a wide range of subjects, instead of only history and culture. Today, the NGE separates its articles into 10 topics: Arts and Culture, Business and Economy, Counties, Cities, and Neighborhoods, Education, Geography and Environment, Government and Politics, History and Archaeology, Science and Medicine, Sports and Outdoor Recreation, and People. Just under 800 writers contributed to the NGE. The site received 1-2 million page views a month at the beginning of January 2011. The site was redesigned in 2013. Site improvements included updated media players and a search engine for articles compliant with Georgia Educational Standards.
See also
List of online encyclopedias
References
External links
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Georgia Humanities Council
History of Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia
2004 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Internet properties established in 2004
21st-century encyclopedias
Georgia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement%20Normand
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Mouvement Normand
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The Mouvement normand (Norman Movement) is a regionalist political organisation from Normandy, in Northern France.
Unlike many regionalist groupings, it rejects "separatism" and underlines the view that people of Normandy are one of the constituent nationalities that made up the French nation. They also see the people of Normandy as direct inheritors of authentic Normans and also the results of their overseas exploits, including the Norman conquest of England.
History
The Mouvement normand has its origins in the far-right French movement of the 1960s. In 1969, Rouen branch of the right-wing students' union Fédération nationale des étudiants de France merged with l'Union pour la Région Normande in Lisieux to form Mouvement de la Jeunesse de Normandie, renamed Mouvement normand in 1971. It is led by prominent right-wing activist Didier Patte, who is also a member of Groupement de recherche et d'études sur la culture européenne (GRECE, the Research and Study Group on European Culture).
The Mouvement normand had always recruited its supporters from the French far-right, especially Front National. However, in recent years, there is a significant attraction for the members of centre-right parties such as Union for French Democracy (UDF).
Major goals
The unification of Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie into a single région'' of "Normandie". The merging of the two regions was decided by the French Parliament in 2014 and became effective on January 1, 2016
More authority for the regional government of Normandy
The recognition and preservation of the "unique" cultural character of Normandy, formed with elements from the Scandinavian culture as well as Gallic culture
See also
French nationalism
Regionalism (politics)
References
External links
Official website
TVNormanChannel Mouvement Normand's WebTelevision of current events and history on Normandy
Organizations based in Normandy
Far-right politics in France
Regionalism (politics)
Regionalist parties in France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyshe%20Kulbak
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Moyshe Kulbak
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Moyshe Kulbak (; ; 1896 1937) was a Belarusian Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish.
Biography
Born in Smarhon (present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family, Kulbak studied at the famous Volozhin Yeshiva.
During the World War I he lived in Kovno (today, Kaunas, Lithuania), where he began to write poetry in Hebrew, before switching to Yiddish. He made his publishing debut in Yiddish in 1916, with the poem "Shterndl" (Little star). In 1918 he moved to the city of Minsk; in 1919, after the Soviet Revolution, to Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania); and in 1920 to Berlin.
In 1923 he came back to Vilna, which after the war had become part of newly independent Poland, and was a center of Yiddish literary culture. In Vilna he taught modern Yiddish literature at the Real-Gymnasium (a Yiddish-speaking high school), as well as at the Yiddish teachers' seminary. By 1928 he became disappointed with the literary atmosphere in Poland, and decided to return to Minsk (capital of the Soviet Belarus), where much of his family lived, and where there was a lively Yiddish literary scene.
In Minsk, Kulbak worked for several media organizations and for the Jewish section of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Kulbak wrote poems, fantastical or "mystical" novels, and, after moving to the Soviet Union, what are described by one source as "Soviet" satires. His novel The Zelmenyaners depicted with some realism the absurdities of Soviet life.
His mystical novella The Messiah of the House of Ephraim (1924) draws together many strands of Jewish folklore and apocalyptic belief, presenting them from a perspective that owes much to German expressionist cinema. It principally concerns the poor man Benye, who may or may not be a Messiah, and whose destiny is intertwined with the Lamed-Vavniks. (In Jewish mysticism, the Lamed-Vavniks are a group of 36 holy Jews on whose goodness the whole of humanity depends.) Benye, and the many other characters, undergo experiences the strangeness of which approaches incomprehensibility, to themselves as well as the reader. Legendary figures such as Lilith and Simkhe Plakhte are characters in the novel.
In September 1937, Moyshe Kulbak was arrested during a wave of Stalinist purges. He was accused of espionage and executed a month later together with several dozens of other Belarusian writers, intellectuals and administrators. In 1956, after the death of Joseph Stalin, he was officially rehabilitated by the Soviet authorities.
Bibliography
Shirim (Poems), 1920.
Die Shtot (The Village) (Romantic poem), 1920.
Raysn ("Belarus") (Poems), 1922.
Lider (Poems), 1922.
Yankev Frank (Drama),1922.
Meshiekh ben Efrayine (Novel), 1924.
The Messiah of the House of Ephraim - English translation in Yenne Velt, ed. and trans. Joachim Neugroschel (1976; repr. New York: Wallaby, 1978).
Vilné (Poem), 1926.
Montag (Monday) (Novel), 1926.
Lunes - Editado por el Círculo d´Escritores, 2014.
Bunye un Bere afn shliakh (Novel), 1927.
Zelminianer (Novela), 1931;
(Russian edition translated by Rachel Boymvol), 1960
The Zelmenyaners: a family saga (English translation, 2013)
Зельманцы (Belarusian version), Minsk, 1960 (2nd edition - 2015);
Los Zelmenianos (Spanish version), Xordica editorial, Zaragoza, 2016.
Disner Childe Harold (Child Harold from Disna) (Satiric poem), 1933.
The Wind Who Lost His Temper,
English translation in Yenne Velt.
Boitre (Dramatic poem), 1936.
Beniomine Maguidov (Play), 1937.
References
External links
Moyshe Kulbak books in the Yiddish Book Center digital library (in Yiddish)
Lectures on Moyshe Kulbak's works by Marc Caplan from Dartmouth College and University of Wroclaw
1896 births
1937 deaths
People from Smarhon’
People from Oshmyansky Uyezd
Jews of the Russian Empire
Belarusian Jews
Yiddish-language poets
Jewish poets
Soviet poets
Belarusian male poets
Soviet male writers
20th-century male writers
Yiddish-language playwrights
20th-century dramatists and playwrights
Polish emigrants to the Soviet Union
Jews executed by the Soviet Union
Great Purge victims from Belarus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioimmunotherapy
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Radioimmunotherapy
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Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) uses an antibody labeled with a radionuclide to deliver cytotoxic radiation to a target cell. It is a form of unsealed source radiotherapy. In cancer therapy, an antibody with specificity for a tumor-associated antigen is used to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to the tumor cells. The ability for the antibody to specifically bind to a tumor-associated antigen increases the dose delivered to the tumor cells while decreasing the dose to normal tissues. By its nature, RIT requires a tumor cell to express an antigen that is unique to the neoplasm or is not accessible in normal cells.
History of available agents
131I tositumomab and 90Y ibritumomab tiuxetan were the first agents of radioimmunotherapy, and they were approved for the treatment of refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This means they are used in patients whose lymphoma is refractory to conventional chemotherapy and the monoclonal antibody rituximab.
Agents in clinical development
A set of radioimmunotherapy drugs that rely upon an alpha-emitting isotope (e.g., bismuth-213 or, preferably, actinium-225), rather than a beta emitter, as the killing source of radiation is being developed. Several phase II clinical trials for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia have been carried out using alpha-emitting RITs.
90Y-FF-21101 is a monoclonal antibody against P-cadherin radiolabeled with yttrium-90. It is one of several RIT treatments under investigation intending to treat solid tumors. A phase I clinical trial began in 2015.
Other applications (non-approved indications)
Other types of cancer for which RIT has therapeutic potential include prostate cancer, metastatic melanoma, ovarian cancer, neoplastic meningitis, leukemia, high-grade brain glioma, and metastatic colorectal cancer.
References
External links
Radioimmunotherapy.org
Radiation therapy
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Crossing the Rubicon (Armageddon album)
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Crossing the Rubicon was an album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Armageddon, released in Europe on the now defunct Wrong Again Records, and in Japan on Toy's Factory records in 1997. The album features Christopher Amott of Arch Enemy, as well as former Arch Enemy members Peter Wildoer and Martin Bengtsson. The album was only released in Japan, briefly in Europe, and is extremely hard to find.
Track listing
"2022" (Intro) – 1:59 (instrumental)
"Godforsaken" – 4:39
"The Juggernaut Divine" – 5:18
"Astral Adventure" – 4:59
"Funeral in Space" – 3:01 (instrumental)
"Asteroid Dominion" – 4:38
"Galaxies Away" – 3:49 (instrumental)
"Faithless" – 2:11
"Children of the New Sun" – 2:45 (instrumental)
"Into the Sun" – 4:33
Personnel
Band members
Jonas Nyrén - vocals
Christopher Amott - rhythm and lead guitars
Martin Bengtsson - bass
Peter Wildoer - drums, percussion
Guest/session musicians
Michael Amott - vocals
Fredrik Nordström - keyboards
Rasmus Fleischer - recorder
Jakob Törma - violin
Production
Arranged by Armageddon
Produced and Mixed by Fredrik Nordström
Recorded by Anders Fridén and Fredrik Nordström
Mastered by Staffan Olofsson
1997 debut albums
Armageddon (Swedish band) albums
Albums recorded at Studio Fredman
Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström
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Long Ranger
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Long Ranger may refer to:
Bell 206L LongRanger, a stretched variant of the Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter
Long Ranger, a multiplayer class in the video game Conker: Live & Reloaded
See also
Lone Ranger (disambiguation)
Long range (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20the%20Files%20of%20the%20Time%20Rangers
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From the Files of the Time Rangers is a fix-up novel by Richard Bowes dealing with time travel and alternative history. Its foreword, "Rick Bowes: An Appreciation", is by Kage Baker, author of The Company novels. The novel was edited by Marty Halpern for Golden Gryphon Press. Several of the individual sections had previously published in shorter, albeit different, form.
The novel was nominated for the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Summary
Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president. The Time Rangers, Apollo's chosen servants, are in charge of preserving the peace and harmony along the Time Stream, the pathway between various worlds and times.
But Apollo has given the Rangers a new task: to protect Timothy Garde Macauley, the chosen one, who must become the president of the United States to avoid the destruction of humankind.
Standing in the Rangers' way are other gods: Mercury, who's working his wiles in the world of public relations; Diana, cruising New York City in the guise of an NYPD detective; Pluto, who is in the process of grooming his successor; and Dionysus, who has caused the annihilation of an alternate world.
Contents
"Rick Bowes: An Appreciation" by Kage Baker
From the Files of the Time Rangers
Part One: The Ferryman's Wife
Part Two: The Young Macauley
Part Three: The Return of the Pretender
"Afterword: The Mosaic Novel" by Richard Bowes
See also
Myth-o-Mania - children's book series depicting modern twists on Greek mythology
Percy Jackson & the Olympians - also depicting Greek gods active in present-day America
External links
Golden Gryphon Press official site - About the novel
Richard Bowes official site
2005 novels
Novels about time travel
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Robert Abel (animator)
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Robert Abel (March 10, 1937 – September 23, 2001) was an American pioneer in visual effects, computer animation and interactive media, best known for the work of his company, Robert Abel and Associates.
Born in Cleveland, he received degrees in Design and Film from UCLA. He began his work in computer graphics in the 1950s, as an apprentice to John Whitney.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Abel wrote or directed several films, including The Making of the President, 1968, Elvis on Tour and Let the Good Times Roll.
In 1971, Abel and Con Pederson founded Robert Abel and Associates (RA&A), creating slit-scan effects and using motion-controlled cameras for television commercials and films. RA&A began using Evans & Sutherland computers to previsualize their effects; this led to the creation of the trailer for The Black Hole, and the development of their own software for digitally animating films (including Tron).
Abel and Associates was contracted to provide Paramount Pictures the special effects for the first Star Trek movie, but was not able to deliver them, and was taken off the film.
In 1984, Robert Abel and Associates produced a commercial named Brilliance for the Canned Food Information Council for airing during the Super Bowl XIX telecast. It featured a sexy robot with reflective environment mapping and human-like motion.
Abel & Associates closed in 1987 following an ill-fated merger with now defunct Omnibus Computer Graphics, Inc., a company which had been based in Toronto.
In the 1990s, Abel founded Synapse Technologies, an early interactive media company, which produced pioneering educational projects for IBM, including "Columbus: Discovery, Encounter and Beyond" and "Evolution/Revolution: The World from 1890-1930".
He received numerous honors, including a Golden Globe Award (for Elvis on Tour), 2 Emmy Awards, and 33 Clios.
Abel died from complications following a myocardial infarction at the age of 64.
Abel's film By the Sea, made with Pat O'Neill, was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
References
External links
1937 births
2001 deaths
Computer graphics professionals
Artists from Cleveland
UCLA Film School alumni
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CIRT
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CIRT may refer to:
Critical Incident Response Team, Australian police unit
International Centre for Theatre Research (), theatrical research and production company in Paris
Controlled Impact Rescue Tool, a concrete breaching device manufactured by Raytheon
National Chamber of the Radio and Television Industry (), Mexican association of broadcasters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyuben%20Karavelov
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Lyuben Karavelov
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Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov () (c. 1834 – 21 January 1879) was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival.
Karavelov was born in Koprivshtitsa. He began his education in a church school, but in 1850 he moved to the school of Nayden Gerov in Plovdiv. He was then sent by his father to study in a Greek school for two years, before transferring to a Bulgarian school, where he also studied Russian literature. He moved to Odrin for an apprenticeship, but he soon came back to Koprivshtitsa and was sent to Constantinople in 1856. There he developed a strong interest in politics and the Crimean War. At the same time, he studied the culture and ethnography of the region.
In 1857, Karavelov enrolled in the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Moscow, where he fell under the influence of Russian revolutionary democrats, was placed under police surveillance in 1859, and took part in student riots in 1861. With a group of other young Bulgarian student radicals, he published a journal and started writing poetry and long short stories in Bulgarian, and scholarly publications on Bulgarian ethnography and journalism in Russian. In 1867 he went to Belgrade as a correspondent for Russian newspapers and started publishing prose and journalism in Serbian. There he married Natalija Petrović, a Serbian activist and writer. In 1868 he was forced to move to Novi Sad, Austria-Hungary, because of his contacts with the Serb opposition (led by Svetozar Marković. Karavelov was arrested and spent time in a Budapest prison for alleged participation in a conspiracy. In 1869 he settled in Bucharest, intending to start his own newspaper and to cooperate with the newly founded Bulgarian Scholarly Society (the future Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
At his first newspaper Svoboda (Freedom) in Bucharest (1869–1873), he worked and became friends with poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev who devoted a poem to him. In 1870, Karavelov was elected chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, where he worked with Vasil Levski, the leader of the Internal Revolutionary Organization; he shared Levski's ideas of a democratic republic as the goal of the national revolution. Karavelov admired the political system of Switzerland (which he believed was a good model for the ethnically diverse Balkans) and the United States; he praised the American public education system, as well as the emancipated (in his opinion) status of American women.
In 1873–1874, Karavelov and Botev published a second newspaper, Nezavisimost (Independence). Although Karavelov, the older of the two, was the recognized master, both of them were very good professional journalists, setting high standards for Bulgarian language and literature. (Sometimes it was hard to know who exactly authored the many unsigned materials.) Following the capture and execution of Levski in 1873, though, the disheartened Karavelov gradually abandoned his revolutionary zeal, attracting Botev's severe criticism, and started publishing a new Znanie (Knowledge) journal and popular science books.
Karavelov died in Rousse in 1879, soon after the liberation of Bulgaria.
Karavelov's works include the short novels Old Time Bulgarians (; , and Mommy's Boy (; ), considered among the first original Bulgarian novels. His younger brother Petko was a prominent figure in Bulgaria's political life in the late nineteenth century.
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References
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1830s births
1879 deaths
People from Koprivshtitsa
Bulgarian writers
Bulgarian revolutionaries
19th-century Bulgarian people
Bulgarian women's rights activists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabular-grain%20film
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Tabular-grain film
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Tabular-grain film is a type of photographic film that includes nearly all color films, and many black and white films like T-MAX films from Kodak (with Kodak's T-grain emulsion), Delta films from Ilford Photo and the Fujifilm Neopan films. The silver halide crystals in the film emulsion are flatter and more tabular (hence T-Grain).
Tabular crystals
In panchromatic emulsions, the sensitivity of the silver halide crystal is enhanced by sensitizing dyes that adsorb on the crystal surface. Therefore, sensitivity can be increased by adsorbing more sensitizing dye. This requires increasing the surface area of the crystal, and also improving the dye molecules to form a dense assembly. Tabular grain emulsion solves the first part of this problem.
Tabular crystals tend to lie along the film's surface when coated and dried. This reduces scattering of light and increases resolution.
Tabular crystals usually have two twinned planes parallel to each other. They are formed at the very beginning of the crystallization. The crystal tends to grow at the edges and not on the main planes, forming very thin crystals of very large surface areas. Tabular crystals probably existed from very early days of silver-gelatin photography. However, it took until roughly 1970 for emulsion engineers to be able to make emulsions that consisted mainly of tabular crystals. Moreover, it was not until the 1980s that tabular crystals began to be used in production emulsions.
Tabular grain technology brought significant improvements to the image quality of the film, particularly in the improvement of resolution and granularity. However, several more key technologies were implemented into tabular grain products. Many of these concurrent improvements were applied to non-tabular grain products to improve image quality. Therefore, when tabular grain technology is described by uninformed writers, its advantage tends to be overemphasized. For example, excellent reciprocity law is not an inherent property of tabular crystals but rather the result of other techniques introduced at about the same time.
Fixing tabular crystals
Tabular crystals grow along the edges and not on the main planes. Similarly, tabular crystals dissolve mainly along the edges and this causes the crystals to be more difficult and slow to fix in the fixing stage. Users of tabular grain films are advised to ensure sufficient fixing time, at least twice the clearing time in rapid fixer.
References
Further reading
Photographic film types
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Butler%20%28aviator%29
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Harry Butler (aviator)
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Henry John 'Harry' Butler AFC (9 November 1889 – 30 July 1924) was a pioneer Australian aviator, Captain and Chief Fight Instructor in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton on 6 August 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere carrying air mail and the first flight over a major body of water in the southern hemisphere.
Early years
Butler was born on 9 November 1889 at the main hospital of Yorketown on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The son of John James Butler and Sarah Ann née Cook, he grew up on a small farm near Koolywurtie. From an early age he showed a strong desire to fly and an aptitude for mechanics; whilst at school he built model aircraft and studied the flying capabilities of his mother's chickens.
World War I
In 1915 he entered the Australian Flying School at Point Cook, Victoria as an engineer, but resigned 2 weeks later. He travelled to England to join the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 to have an opportunity of pilot training, and was commissioned three weeks later. He became Fighting Instructor (Turnberry, Scotland) and Chief Fighting Instructor in the RFC (at Marske Aerodrome in North Yorkshire) and trained over 2,700 pilots. In 1918 he received the Air Force Cross, and when demobilised in 1919, he held the rank of captain.
Post war
He returned to Australia with a Bristol M.1C monoplane and an Avro 504K biplane. The monoplane became known as "the Red Devil", and it was in this plane he made the 67-mile (108 km) water crossing from Adelaide to Minlaton in 60 minutes and the return trip on 11 August 1919 in 27 minutes.
Butler established the first airport and the first passenger flight business in South Australia. In partnership with Harry Kauper, he converted the Avro to seat two passengers, and operated as the Captain Harry J. Butler & Kauper Aviation Co. Ltd. initially out of an aerodrome at Northfield. Butler then bought of land in part of then-largely rural Albert Park in the Woodville district, and in October 1920 he moved his operations there, establishing the "Hendon" aerodrome, also known as "Captain Butler's Aerodrome". Hendon was later sold to the commonwealth government as the first commonwealth government airport in Adelaide.
Butler was known as the 'Peace Loan flyer' and performed many acrobatic displays over Adelaide to raise money for the Peace Loan and repatriation causes following World War I. He dropped Peace Loan flyers from his plane to promote the loan. He also partook in the first aerial race over the City of Adelaide to raise money for the Peace Loan.
On 21 July 1920 he married Elsa Birch Gibson (later Elsa Hay-Taylor) at St Paul's Anglican Church, Adelaide.
In early 1921 he sold some of his land to Wilkinson, Sands and Wyles Limited, who laid out the new suburb of Hendon. The subdivision sale was successful; however with the novelty of aviation wearing off, the cost of joy flights (5 pounds for 10minutes, more than the average weekly salary for men and more than double that of women) and with some aerial mishaps, Butler was forced to close the company in September 1921. He had previously offered to sell the remainder of his land to the Commonwealth in December 1920. The Department of Defence initially prevaricated, but in July 1922 compulsorily acquired the site, which was used as the first "Adelaide Airport" until 1927, when aviation operations were shifted to Parafield.
Early in 1922 Butler was seriously injured in a crash near Minlaton. He died suddenly of an unexpected cerebral abscess on 30 July 1924, which was related to his earlier crash.
A 1925 portrait of Butler by George A. J. Webb, funded by subscription from the South Australian community, is on loan to (from the AGSA) and held by the Minlaton branch of the National Trust. Other memorials include the 150th jubilee plaque on North Terrace, Adelaide and at Hendon at the site of his former aerodrome, and the 1958 Red Devil memorial hangar housing his bristol M1C monoplane at Minlaton, as well as a 2015 bronze statue at Minlaton.
References
Captain Harry Butler's obituary is in The Advertiser, 31 July 1924, page 13a, and The Observer, 2 August 1924, page 28a. Photographs are in The Chronicle, 9 August 1924, page 38.
External links
The Harry Butler Story, www.yorke.sa.gov.au
Parsons, L & Battams, S. (2019). The Red Devil: The story of South Australian aviation pioneer, Captain Harry Butler, AFC. Wakefield Press. http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1534&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
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1889 births
1922 deaths
Australian aviators
Burials at North Road Cemetery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Andelot
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Treaty of Andelot
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The Treaty of Andelot (or Pact of Andelot) was signed at Andelot-Blancheville in 587 between King Guntram of Burgundy and Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia. Based on the terms of the accord, Brunhilda agreed that Guntram adopt her son Childebert II as his successor and ally himself with Childebert against the revolted leudes. Gregory of Tours wrote in his Historia Francorum that in the thirteenth year of Childebert, he went on an embassy for the king from Metz to Chalon to meet Guntram, who alleged that prior promises were being broken, especially concerning the division of Senlis. Significantly to Gregory, the treaty brought about the cession of Tours by Guntram to Childebert. An agreement was provided in writing and Gregory preserves the text of the treaty in his history.
See also
List of treaties
Burgundy
Neustria
Austrasia
Sources
History of the Franks: Books I–X. Gregory of Tours, trans. Ernest Brehaut (1916).
6th century in Francia
Andelot
587
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face%20seal
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Face seal
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A face seal is a seal in which the sealing surfaces are normal to the axis of the seal. Face seals are typically used in static applications and are used to prevent leakage in the radial direction with respect to the axis of the seal. Face seals are often located in a groove or cavity on a flange. Face Seals are a category of products where there is no dynamic movement on the part of either the Seal or the hardware surface.
ISO 8434 specifies the general and dimensional requirements for the design and performance of O-ring face seal connectors made of steel for tube outside diameters or hose inside diameters of 6 mm through 38 mm, inclusive.
These connectors are for use in fluid power and general applications where elastomeric seals can be used to prevent fluid leakage, including leakage caused by variations in assembly procedures. They are intended for the connection of tubes and hose fittings to ports in accordance with
ISO 6149-1.
Types of face seals
O-rings
E rings
C rings
Gaskets
End face mechanical seal
References
Seals (mechanical)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%20Faction%20%28band%29
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October Faction (band)
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October Faction was one of the many off-shoots of punk band Black Flag. A supergroup of SST alumni that mixed jazz and hard rock mainly as an instrumental vehicle, the band included Chuck Dukowski (SWA, ex-Black Flag) on bass and vocals, Greg Ginn (Black Flag) on guitar, Greg Cameron (SWA) on drums, Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust) on guitar, and Tom Troccoli (Tom Troccoli's Dog and Black Flag roadie) on blues harp and vocals. Never an actual working band as much as an occasional jam band, the band released a live recording in 1985 (with Bill Stevenson sitting in for Greg Cameron, who was unable to perform but who appeared on the album's cover) and studio LP in 1986.
Discography
October Faction (SST Records, 1985)
Second Factionalization (SST Records, 1986)
"I Was Grotesque" on The Blasting Concept, Vol. 2 compilation (SST Records, 1986)
See also
Gone
Black Flag
SWA
Saccharine Trust
Punk rock groups from California
SST Records artists
Musicians from Redondo Beach, California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87e%C5%9Fme
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Çeşme
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Çeşme () is a coastal town and the administrative centre of the district of the same name in Turkey's westernmost end, on a promontory on the tip of the peninsula that also carries the same name and that extends inland to form a whole with the wider Karaburun Peninsula. It is a popular holiday resort and the district center, where two thirds of the district population is concentrated. Çeşme is located 85 km west of İzmir, the largest metropolitan center in Turkey's Aegean Region. There is a six-lane highway connecting the two cities (Otoyol 32). Çeşme district has two neighboring districts, Karaburun to the north and Urla to the east, both of which are also part of İzmir Province. The name "Çeşme" means "fountain" and possibly draws reference from the many Ottoman fountains that are scattered across the city.
Name
Turkish sources always cited the town and the region as Çeşme (or Cheshme) which is originally a Persian word since the first settlement 2 km south of the present-day center (Çeşmeköy) founded by Tzachas and pursued for some time by his brother Yalvaç before an interlude until the 14th century. The name Çeşme means "spring, fountain" in Persian (چشمه) and possibly draws reference from the many Ottoman fountains scattered across the city.
History
The urban center and the port of the region in antiquity was at Erythrae (present-day Ildırı), in another bay to the north-east of Çeşme.
Most probably, the ancient Greek polis of Boutheia (Βούθεια or Βουθία in ancient Greek) was situated in Çeşme. In the 5th century BC, Boutheia was a dependency of Erythrae and paid tribute to Athens as a member of the Delian League.
The town of Çeşme itself experienced its golden age in the Middle Ages, when a modus vivendi established in the 14th century between the Republic of Genoa, which held Chios (Scio), and the Beylik of Aydinids, which controlled the Anatolian mainland, was pursued under the Ottomans, and export and import products between western Europe and Asia were funneled via Çeşme and the ports of the island, only hours away and tributary to Ottomans but still autonomous after 1470. Chios became part of the Ottoman Empire in an easy campaign led by Piyale Pasha in 1566. In fact, the Pasha simply laid anchor in Çeşme and summoned the notables of the island to notify them of the change of authority. After the Ottoman capture and through preference shown by the foreign merchants, the trade hub gradually shifted to İzmir, which until then was touched only tangentially by the caravan routes from the east, and the prominence of the present-day metropolis became more pronounced after the 17th century. In 1770, the Çeşme bay became the location of naval Battle of Chesma between Russian and Ottoman fleets during Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). After the Balkan Wars, Bosniaks mainly from Montenegro settled in the environs of Çeşme such as Alaçatı and Çiflikköy. Up until September 16, 1922 Greeks consisted the majority of Çeşme and its environs. In 1924 with the Population exchange Muslims from Greece mainly from Karaferye settled to the town.
Çeşme regained some its former lustre starting with the beginning of the 19th century, when its own products, notably grapes and mastic, found channels of export. The town population increased considerably until the early decades of the 20th century, with immigration from the islands of the Aegean and the novel dimension of a seasonal resort center becoming important factors in the increase. The viniculture was for the most part replaced with the growing of watermelons in recent decades, which acquired another name of association with Çeşme aside from the thermal baths, surfing, fruits, vineyards, cheese, tourism, and history.
Archaeology
In January 2021, archaeologists headed by Elif Koparal, announced the discovery of the ruins of a 2500 year-old temple of Aphrodite from the 5th century BC. Among other findings in and around the temple, they found a statue piece depicting a woman, a terracotta female head and an inscription that reads, "This is the sacred area". The traces of the temple were first excavated in 2016.
The region
A prized location of country houses and secondary residences especially for the well-to-do inhabitants of İzmir for more than a century, Çeşme perked up considerably in recent decades to become one of Turkey's most prominent centers of international tourism. Many hotels, marinas, clubs, restaurants, boutique hotels, family accommodation possibilities (pansiyon) and other facilities for visitors are found in Çeşme center and in its surrounding towns and villages and the countryside, as well as very popular beaches.
Çeşme district has one depending township with own municipal administration, Alaçatı, where tourism is an equally important driving force as the district center area and which offers its own arguments for attracting visitors, as well as four villages: Ildırı on the coast towards the north, which is notable for being the location of ancient Erythrae, and three others which are more in the background, in terms both of their geographical location and renown: Germiyan, Karaköy and Ovacık, where agriculture and livestock breeding still forms the backbone of the economy. Some andesite, lime, and marble are also being quarried in the Çeşme area, while the share of industrial activities in the economy remains negligible. In terms of livestock, an ovine breed known as sakız koyunu in Turkish (literally "Chios sheep"), more probably a crossbreeding between that island's sheep and breeds from Anatolia, is considered in Turkey to be native to the Çeşme region, where it yields the highest levels of productivity in terms of their meat, their milk, their fleece, and the number of lambs they produce.
Preparations such as jam, ice cream and desserts, and even sauces for fish preparations, based on the distinctively flavored resin of the tree pistachia lentiscus from which it is harvested, are among nationally known culinary specialties of Çeşme. The adjacent Greek island of Chios (sakız in Turkish is the name for both Chios and mastic resin) is the source of mastic resin. Some efforts to produce mastic resin (in Greek mastiche, μαστίχη) in Çeşme, where climate conditions are similar, but they failed to produce the aromatic mastiche. A number of efforts are being made to rehabilitate the potential presented by the mastic trees that presently grow in the wilderness, and to increase the number of cultivated trees, especially those planted by secondary-residence owners who grow them as a hobby activity. The fish is also abundant both in variety and quantity along Çeşme district's coastline.
In relation to tourism, it is common for the resorts along Çeşme district's 90 km coastline to be called by the name of their beaches or coves or the visitor's facilities and attractions they offer, as in Şifne (Ilıca), famous both for its thermal baths and beach, and in Çiftlikköy (Çatalazmak), Dalyanköy, Reisdere (also spelled Reis Dere), Küçükliman, Paşalimanı, Ayayorgi, Kocakarı, Kum, Mavi and Pırlanta beaches; Altunyunus, synonymous with a large hotel located in its cove; and Tursite, by the name of the villas located there. Some of these localities may not be shown on a map of administrative divisions The district area as a whole is one of the spots in Turkey where foreign purchases of real estate are concentrated at the highest levels.
The town of Çeşme lies across a strait facing the Greek island of Chios, which is only a few miles' away. There are regular ferry connections between the two locations, as well as larger ferries from and to Italy (Ancona, Bari, and Brindisi), used extensively by Turks living in Germany returning for their summer holidays.
The town
The town itself is dominated by Çeşme Castle. While the castle is recorded to have been considerably extended and strengthened during the reign of Ottoman sultan Bayezid II, sources differ as to their citation of the original builders, whether the Genoese or the Turks at an earlier time after the early 15th century capture. A statue of Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha (Cezayirli Hasan Paşa Monument), one of the naval commanders of the Battle of Çeşme is in front of the castle and the Pasha is depicted caressing his famous pet lion and facing the town square. The battle itself, although ended in Ottoman defeat, had seen Hasan Pasha pulling out honorably after having sunk the Russian flagship Sv. Evstafii, together with his own ship, after which he had to follow the main battle from the coast before joining the capital by way of land, where he rapidly rose to become a distinguished grand vizier.
A few paces south of the castle, there is an Ottoman caravanserai built in the early centuries of the Ottoman conquest in 1528 by order of Süleyman the Magnificent, and it is now restored and transformed into a boutique hotel. The imposing but redundant 19th century Greek Orthodox church of Ayios Haralambos is used for temporary exhibitions. Along some of the back streets of the town are old traditional Ottoman houses, as well as Sakız house-type residences of more peculiar lines, for the interest of strollers.
Districts of Çeşme
Some of the main districts of Çeşme are Alaçatı, Ilıca, Paşalimanı, Şifne, Ardıç, Boyalık, Dalyan, Ovacık, Ildır and Germiyan.
Ilıca
Ilıca is a large resort area 5 km east of Çeşme to which it is attached administratively, although it bears aspects of a township apart in many of its characteristics. It is famed for its thermal springs, which is the very meaning of its name.
Ilıca started out as a distinct settlement towards the end of the 19th century, initially as a retreat for wealthy people, especially from İzmir and during summer holidays. Today, it is a popular destination for many. Mentioned by Pausanias and Charles Texier, Ilıca thermal springs, which extend well into the sea, are also notable in Turkey for having been the subject of the first scientifically based analysis in Turkish language of a thermal spring, published in 1909 by Yusuf Cemal. By his time the thermal springs were well-known both internationally, scientific and journalistic literature having been published in French and in Greek, and across Ottoman lands, since the construction here of a still-standing yalı associated with Muhammad Ali of Egypt's son Tosun Pasha who had sought a cure in Ilıca before his premature death.
Ilıca has a fine beach of its own, about 1.5 km long, as well as favorable wind conditions which make it a prized location for windsurfing.
One of the main landmarks of Ilıca is the Sheraton hotel.
Windsurfing in Çeşme
Çeşme is the third best surfing resort in the world. Alaçatı, a town located here, offers the ideal location for surfing, and this is where all the surfing schools are located. Surf Festivals take place here every year. Alaçatı is unique as the depth of the water does not go deeper than 1 meter for over 700 meters off shore and the area receives heavy winds.
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Çeşme is twinned with:
Ancona, Italy
Asciano, Italy
Bakhchysarai, Ukraine / Russia
Chios, Greece
Dömös, Hungary
El Mina, Lebanon
Serpukhov, Russia
Voula, Greece
Wise, United States
Famous residents
Mehmet Culum (born 1948), a novelist who based his books on stories from residents of various regions in western Turkey.
Gallery
See also
Karaburun Peninsula
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha
Battle of Chesma
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Çeşme Travel Guide in English
Çeşme Travel Guide in Istanbul to Çeşme
Çeşme Interactive Map
Information about Çeşme
Çeşme photos with explanations
About Çeşme
İzmir
Seaside resorts in Turkey
Aegean Sea port cities and towns in Turkey
Populated places in İzmir Province
Tourist attractions in İzmir Province
Fishing communities in Turkey
Çeşme District
Populated coastal places in Turkey
Districts of İzmir Province
Former Greek towns in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20Who%20Dared%20%281946%20film%29
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The Man Who Dared (1946 film)
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The Man Who Dared is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by John Sturges, which serves as the first film he directed.
Plot
It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder. He does this to prove that a death sentence could be erroneously issued based on circumstantial and flawed evidence and that the death penalty should be abolished.
Cast
Leslie Brooks as Lorna Claibourne
George Macready as Donald Wayne
Forrest Tucker as Larry James
Charles D. Brown as Dist. Atty. Darrell Tyson
Warren Mills as Felix
Richard Hale as Reginald Fogg
Charles Evans as Judge
Trevor Bardette as Police Sgt. Arthur Landis
William Newell as Police Sgt. Clay
Movies with similar themes
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Bidugade (1973)
Abhilasha (1983)
The Life of David Gale (2003)
References
External links
1946 films
1946 drama films
American drama films
Columbia Pictures films
English-language films
Films about capital punishment
Films about journalists
Films directed by John Sturges
Films scored by George Duning
American black-and-white films
1946 directorial debut films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Architecture%20Association
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Australian Architecture Association
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The Australian Architecture Association (AAA) was set up in 2004 as a not-for-profit organisation to promote the understanding of both local and world architecture in Australia. The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) is used as the model for the development of the organisation.
History
In late 2004, the Australian Architecture Association began to offer talks by internationally renowned architects as the Black Talk Series. In 2005, regular architecture tours showcasing important buildings and architecture of Sydney led by volunteer tour leaders began in Sydney city and architecturally significant suburbs of Surry Hills and Castlecrag. In 2006, the Australian Architecture Association started the annual Sydney Architecture Festival on World Architecture Day, first Monday of every October, with the Australian Institute of Architects and the New South Wales Architects Registration Board.
Founding Committee
The founding committee has a mix of architects, marketing professionals and publicists. The founding President is Glenn Murcutt, winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize and the founding committee are, Wendy Lewin, Harry Seidler, Richard Johnson, James Grose, Ian Moore, Alex Popov, David Bare and Manu Siitonen. Supporting them are the founding directors, Stella de Vulder and Annette Dearing.
External links
Official Web Site
Architecture organisations based in Australia
Non-profit organisations based in New South Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20of%20Trade%20Unions%20of%20the%20Slovak%20Republic
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Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic
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The Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic (KOZ SR) is a national trade union center in Slovakia.
In March, 1990 the Czechoslovak Confederation of Trade Unions (CSKOS) was formed from the remains of the Central Council of Trade Unions (URO). Within months, as the separation of the two states developed, the party was divided into the Bohemian-Moravian Chamber (CMK CSKOS) and the KOZ SR.
The KOZ SR is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation, and the European Trade Union Confederation, as well as having observer status at the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD.
During the Dzurinda-era the KOZ became weakened. In 2006 KOZ and the social-democratic SMER agreed on co-operation and the KOZ supported the SMER. After the SMER election victory in 2006 the KOZ once again gained strength.
Literature
External links
KOZ SR official site
References
Trade unions in Slovakia
International Trade Union Confederation
European Trade Union Confederation
Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaser%20%28Tommy%20Bolin%20album%29
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Teaser (Tommy Bolin album)
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Teaser is the 1975 debut solo album from American guitarist Tommy Bolin.
Background
Teaser was released in conjunction with the album Come Taste the Band by Deep Purple, on which Bolin also played guitar.
This album is cherished by fans for the broad range of styles in Bolin's playing. The material spans hard rock, blues rock, jazz, reggae and Latin music, often blending these styles together within a single song. It is also considered by many to be some of Bolin's greatest recordings in his short career.
The song "Teaser" was covered by American hard rock band Mötley Crüe on the charity album Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell.
Van Halen would often cover "The Grind" live in its early club days.
Reception
Upon its release on November 17, 1975, Teaser received considerable praise from critics. However, due to Bolin's obligations with Deep Purple, he was unable to promote the album with a solo tour. Despite Nemperor adding a "Guitarist for Deep Purple" sticker to the wrapping, sales were not as good as hoped. Nevertheless, Deep Purple had performed songs "Homeward Strut" and "Wild Dogs" off the Teaser album during their Come Taste the Band world tour in 1975—76.
Track listing
"The Grind" (Bolin, Jeff Cook, Stanley Sheldon, John Tesar) – 3:29
"Homeward Strut" (Bolin) – 3:57
"Dreamer" (Jeff Cook) – 5:09
"Savannah Woman" (Bolin, Jeff Cook) – 2:47
"Teaser" (Bolin, Jeff Cook) – 4:26
"People, People" (Bolin) – 4:56
"Marching Powder" (Bolin) – 4:14
"Wild Dogs" (Bolin, John Tesar) – 4:40
"Lotus" (Bolin, John Tesar) – 3:57
Personnel
Tommy Bolin - guitar, lead vocals
Stanley Sheldon - bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Paul Stallworth - bass (4, 8, 9)
Dave Foster - piano, synthesizer (1, 2, 3)
Jan Hammer - synthesizer (6, 7), drums (6)
Ron Fransen - piano (9)
David Sanborn - saxophone (6, 7)
Jeff Porcaro - drums (1, 2, 3, 5)
Prairie Prince - drums (4, 8)
Michael Walden - drums (7)
Bobbie Berge - drums (9)
Phil Collins - percussion (4)
Sammy Figueroa - percussion (6, 7)
Rafael Cruz - percussion (6, 7)
Dave Brown - backing vocals (1)
Lee Kiefer - backing vocals (1)
Note: Glenn Hughes (of Deep Purple fame) sings lead vocals on the final verse of "Dreamer" but, due to contractual reasons, was not credited.
Note: Tommy's younger brother Johnnie Bolin (of DVC, Dare Force, and currently (2011) with Black Oak Arkansas) also played drums. Bands he played in have often covered "Teaser" live.
References
1975 debut albums
Tommy Bolin albums
Albums with cover art by Jimmy Wachtel
Albums recorded at Trident Studios
Albums recorded at Electric Lady Studios
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt%20misc
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Binfmt misc
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binfmt_misc (Miscellaneous Binary Format) is a capability of the Linux kernel which allows arbitrary executable file formats to be recognized and passed to certain user space applications, such as emulators and virtual machines. It is one of a number of binary format handlers in the kernel that are involved in preparing a user-space program to run.
The executable formats are registered through the special purpose file system binfmt_misc file-system interface (usually mounted under part of /proc). This is either done directly by sending special sequences to the register procfs file or using a wrapper like Debian-based distributions binfmt-support package or systemd's systemd-binfmt.service.
Registration
The register file contains lines which define executable types to be handled. Each line is of the form:
:name:type:offset:magic:mask:interpreter:flags
name is the name of the binary format.
type is either E or M
If it is E, the executable file format is identified by its filename extension: magic is the file extension to be associated with the binary format; offset and mask are ignored.
If it is M, the format is identified by magic number at an absolute offset (defaults to 0) in the file and mask is a bitmask (defaults to all 0xFF) indicating which bits in the number are significant.
interpreter is a program that is to be run with the matching file as an argument.
flags (optional) is a string of letters, each controlling a certain aspect of interpreter invocation:
P to preserve the original program name typed by user in command line — by adding that name to argv; the interpreter has to be aware of this so it can correctly pass that additional parameter to the interpreted program as its argv[0].
O to open the program file and pass its file descriptor to the interpreter so it could read an otherwise unreadable file (for which the user does not have the "Read" permission).
C to determine new process credentials based on program file rather than interpreter file (see setuid); implies O flag.
F to make the kernel open the binary at configuration time instead of lazily at startup time, so that it is available inside other mount namespaces and chroots as well.
Each format has a corresponding file entry in the /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc directory which can be read to get information about a given file format.
Deregistration
Common usage
binfmt_misc allows Java programs to be passed directly to the Java virtual machine.
Another common usage is to execute PE executables (compiled for MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows) through Wine. For example, the following line will run DOS and Windows EXE files (identified by the "MZ" type code) using Wine:
:DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:
To run EXE (.NET) files with Mono:
:CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:
binfmt_misc can also be combined with QEMU or Box86 to execute programs for other processor architectures as if they were native binaries.
binfmt_misc can be used for Go as a scripting language.
See also
Shebang (Unix)
References
External links
Project home page Archived on archive.org
Linux kernel features
Free special-purpose file systems
Articles with underscores in the title
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowed
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Shadowed
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Shadowed, also known as The Gloved Hand, is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by John Sturges and starring Anita Louise, Lloyd Corrigan, and Robert Scott.
Plot
Salesman Fred J. Johnson manages to hit a hole-in-one as he plays golf one day, and he writes his initials and the date on the lucky ball. He swings at the same ball once more, but sends it into a ditch instead of towards the hole. When he goes to the ditch to get the ball, he finds a dead woman, as well, and next to the body lies a small package, which contains plates for forging dollar bills.
Fred takes the package from the dead woman.
The returning murderer and his wife find Fred's marked golf ball upon returning for the packet of plates, and suspect that a man with the initials F.J. has taken the package. Before leaving, the man raises his voice in the culvert, because he suspects the golfer is in hiding, and warns "F.J." not to go to the police with the package, threatening to kill him and his whole family if he does.
Fred goes back to his family, and opens the package, finding the address to a print shop with the plates. He doesn't call the police, remembering the threat. Returning to their boss, Lefty, the couple are chastized for losing the package, and punishment is subtlely suggested by him whilst playing Patience, Solitaire: the "Boys won't like it" sic.
The murder is all over the news the next day, and Fred discovers that his lucky charm is missing from the chain of his watch. His daughter Carol goes out on a date with a banker named Mark Bellaman, and his other daughter Ginny goes to the golf course with her young beau Lester Binkey, a budding criminologist. Examining the location where the body was found, she finds her father's lucky charm.
Pretending to be a detective investigating the crime, the murderer returns to the golf club, and bullies a gardener into giving him a list of those who played the golf course the day before. He hears Ginny speak her name, and realizes she is Fred's daughter. He offers to drive her home to her father, saying he is an old friend of his.
When Fred goes to send the plates to the police anonymously by mail, he is followed by Lefty, who is only prevented from seizing them because s policeman friend of Fred's just happens to stop and speak to him.
Ginny is called in to speak to Lt. Braden about the murder, because she ran away when a policeman approached her and Lester at the golf course. This leads Braden to question Fred, and his suspicions are raised when Fred gives a contradictory account of Lester's conversation with him than the one Lester gave at the police station. Braden orders one of his men, Sellers, to tail Fred afterwards.
Layer that night Ginny is kidnapped by Lefty and his gang. They tell Fred that she will be killed if he doesn't give them the plates. They agree on an exchange, but Fred won't give the plates away even after Ginny is returned safely. Tony, the murderer, pulls a gun on him, but his wife Edna panics and rushes to the window to scream for help. Tony shoots Edna in the back, and Fred manages to knock down Tony with a golf club. Confronting Lefty whilst holding the club, Fred warns him not to move by telling him how long he's been using them, so Lefty sits down, and waits for the police to arrive.
In the papers the next day, Fred is mentioned as a hero who caught the murderer.
The family is reunited in happiness.
Cast
Anita Louise as Carol Johnson
Lloyd Corrigan as Fred Johnson
Michael Duane as Lt. Braden
Mark Roberts as Mark Bellman (as Robert Scott)
Doris Houck as Edna Montague
Terry Moore as Virginia 'Ginny' Johnson (as Helen Koford)
Wilton Graff as Tony Montague
Eric Roberts as Lester Binkey
Paul E. Burns as Lefty
References
External links
Films directed by John Sturges
1946 crime films
1946 films
Columbia Pictures films
Films about kidnapping
American crime films
American black-and-white films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias%20Mr.%20Twilight
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Alias Mr. Twilight
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Alias Mr. Twilight is a 1946 crime drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Duane, Trudy Marshall, and Lloyd Corrigan.
Plot
Cast
Michael Duane as Tim Quaine
Trudy Marshall as Corky Corcoran
Lloyd Corrigan as Geoffrey Holden
Gigi Perreau as Susan
Rosalind Ivan as Elizabeth Christens
Alan Bridge as Sam Havemayer
Peter Brocco as Brick Robey
References
External links
Films directed by John Sturges
1946 crime drama films
1946 films
Films set in California
Columbia Pictures films
American crime drama films
American black-and-white films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalostotitl%C3%A1n
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Jalostotitlán
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Jalostotitlán (, ) is a town and municipality located in the northeast corner of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in a region known as Los Altos.
The municipality shares its border on the north with the municipality of Teocaltiche, the east with the municipality of San Juan de los Lagos, to the south with the municipality of San Miguel el Alto, to the southwest with the municipality of Valle de Guadalupe, and to the west with the municipality of Cañadas de Obregón.
The town is located in a midsection of the country, with semi-desert, arid lands to the north and more fertile lands to the south. Winters are relatively cold and summers are hot and rainy. The municipality also includes the towns of San Nicolás de las Flores, Teocaltitán de Guadalupe, San Gaspar de los Reyes and Mitic. In the center of town are the churches that originate from the 16th century, when the town was first founded. Jalostotitlan it's also known for its great religious center, El Señor de la Luz in the locality of Santa María de la O.
Etymology
The name "Jalostotitlán" is a Spanish rendering of the Nahuatl toponym Xālōztōtitlān, a locative which can be loosely translated as "place of sandy caves", or more accurately, "in the place of caves of sand" (from xālli "sand" and ōztōtl "cave"), referring to caves with sandy deposits from which sand was extracted.
History
In 1164, the residents of the area (mostly from the Tecuexe and Caxcan tribes) resisted Aztec advances, who had just settled in nearby Teocaltiche for a period of 40 years before moving on to Tenochtitlán.
The Spaniards first arrived in the area during the conquest of Tonalá under Captain Pedro Almíndez Chirino with the 350 Spaniards and 500 Purépecha and Tlaxcaltecs under his control.
After a series of rebellions, the area was placed under the Spanish crown in 1541. The town of Jalostotitlán was founded by Fray Miguel de Bologna in 1544.
After the Mexican War of Independence, Jalostotitlán gained the status of a town in 1838. The municipality of Jalostotitlán was created on 21 May 1872.
Jalostotitlan is the location of sites associated with canonized Mexican Catholic priests Toribio Romo Gonzalez and Pedro Esqueda Ramírez, who were murdered by federal troops during the Cristero War or La Cristiada
Jalostotitlán was elevated to city status on 1 September 1970 and made the seat of the municipality.
Jalostotitlán is the birthplace of famed General José María González de Hermosillo, who fought in the Mexican War of Independence. The city of Hermosillo, Sonora is named in his honor.
It is also the birthplace of famed poet Alfredo R. Plascencia Jáuregui.
Population
The population of the municipality of Jalostotitlán totaled 71,948 inhabitants according to the 2000 census. Of these, 2,200 reside in the municipal seat. Similar to the rest of the Los Altos region, Jalostotitlán did not retain a large indigenous population. Only two-tenths of one percent of inhabitants speak an indigenous language according to the census. Most of the residents can trace their ancestry to Spain and France
Economy
The main activities in the municipality are agriculture, cattle-farming and the services industry. In the past 15 years Jalostotitlán has become a relevant manufacturing center, producing shoes, leather goods and dairy products. One of the main sources of income for the families of the town, are the "remesas" or remittances of relatives that live abroad (mainly in the United States).
Annual fiestas in Jalostotitlan
There are two fiestas that are celebrated in Jalostotitlán once a year. The "Carnaval" that is held early to mid-February and the other in August (August 1–15) is the "Fiestas De La Virgen De La Asuncion" or "La Quincena", a religious festival.
During the Carnaval, there are many activities and events throughout the week. Carnaval has concerts, also known as "palenques". Bullfighting, cockfighting and parades are part of the activities. "Terrazas" or outdoor bars are found in the plaza accompanied with live bandas and mariachi music.
The Fiestas in August include mariachi music, Caxcan native dances, allegoric and big-rig truck parades and at night a "Castillo" or tower with fireworks every night. People from United States (mostly from California and other western states) go there to visit families during these festivals.
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Municipalities of Jalisco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andelot-Blancheville
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Andelot-Blancheville
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Andelot-Blancheville () is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in the Grand Est region in northeastern France. It lies on the river Rognon, a tributary of the Marne.
Population
Treaty (587)
It was the site of an important pact, known as the treaty of Andelot, by which king Guntram of Burgundy and queen Brunehaut agreed that Guntram was to adopt her and Sigebert I of Austrasia's son Childebert II as his successor, and ally himself with Childebert against the revolted leudes.
It also brought about the cession of Tours by Guntram to Childebert II.
Personalities
François de Coligny, the younger brother of the huguenots admiral Coligny and cardinal Coligny, born in 1521 at Châtillon-sur-Loing, was styled seigneur d'Andelot; but the castle of Andelot was not in the Andelot-Blancheville city, but at Andelot village (now called Andelot-Morval, in the Jura department).
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer, was born in Andelot.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Marne department
References
Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré (1952, in French)
Communes of Haute-Marne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo%20vs.%20Cobra
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Komodo vs. Cobra
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Komodo vs. Cobra, also referred to as KVC, is a 2005 American television film directed by Jim Wynorski. It is Wynorski's sequel to his 2004 film Curse of the Komodo, with several similar elements (experimentation gone awry, father-daughter team, government attempt to bomb things, the ending, Komodo's behaviors, etc.).
Wynroski says the first film "all turned out rather fun; so much so that they asked me to do a sequel. I said I would do it provided they sent myself and the entire cast to Hawaii to film it…which they did."
Plot
A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon arrival, however, they find no one. They finally reach a deserted house, where they are confronted Dr. Susan Richardson, who tells them that everyone on the island is dead, including her father. Richardson's team were working on a compound that could make edible plants grow to super size, however the military intervened with plans of their own. They wanted to test the compound's effects on animals, and proceeded to feed it to several Komodo dragons and cobras.
As a result, both species grows to an enormous size and begins to devour everything on the island, including the humans. The group, the doctor, and the boat captain must escape the island, while avoiding Cobra and Komodo. The military finds out that some problems are happening on the island, so they send in troops. One by one the troops are killed by Komodo.
Meanwhile, the group try to escape to the lab, barely escaping both Cobra and Komodo. One environmentalist is killed, and the camera man. In the lab, Richardson tells her flashback of how the military messed things up. Now just wanting to escape the island alive, the group try to get back to the beach. On the beach they try to get to the yacht, but the military drop a bomb on it. Then a cobra comes out the water and eats two more men. The remainder of the group decide to head for a helicopter that was left behind on a mountain by the doctor's father and team. While trying to cross a river to the mountain, one environmentalist is bitten by huge leeches. That is when Dr. Richardson announces that anything that comes into contact with the animal DNA (like saliva) can turn into a huge version of its kind. On the mountaintop, the remaining five run into Komodo, who is blocking the helicopter, the Komodo notices them and begins to attack. Soon, Cobra arrives. The man who was attacked by the leeches weakly makes himself bait. With bullets not penetrating Cobra's skin, only making the giant monster he is devoured.
The military sees footage of the demonic Komodo dragons and the yacht (meaning trespassers) decides to bomb the island, with the Americans still on it.
Soon, Komodo and Cobra begin to fight each other. The boat driver, a retired pilot in air force, flies the three remaining women away. Both Komodo and Cobra are killed in a military bombing on the island, still in mid-battle.
At the end of the film, a scientist, Dr. Michaels, who has escaped the Komodo, reawakens from the dead with reptilian characteristics, such as glowing green eyes and a forked tongue, revealing he is transforming into a Komodo dragon.
Cast
Michael Paré as Mike A. Stoddard
Michelle Borth as Dr. Susan Richardson
Ryan McTavish as Jerry Ryan
Renee Talbert as Carrie Evans
Jerri Manthey as Sandra Crescent
Ted Monte as Ted Marks
Glori-Anne Gilbert as Darla Marks
René Rivera as Dirk Preston
Jay Richardson as Dr. William Richardson
Rod McCary as General Bradley
Roark Critchlow as Major Garber
Paul Logan as Major Frank
Damian T. Raven as Weeks
Chris Neville as Lerner
Del Wills as Marsden
Mark Mahon as Patterson
Paul Green as Monroe
Jordon Krain as Dr. Rhodes
Dan Golden as Dr. Michaels
Home Media
The film was released on DVD on July 25, 2006 by Lionsgate.
References
External links
2005 television films
2005 films
CineTel Films films
Films directed by Jim Wynorski
Syfy original films
Films about snakes
Giant monster films
American natural horror films
American independent films
2000s monster movies
Films about lizards
Films set on islands
American monster movies
American horror television films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atascocita%20High%20School
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Atascocita High School
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Atascocita High School is a secondary school located in Atascocita CDP, a community housed in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. AHS is a part of Humble Independent School District and serves the eastern part of the district and small portions of the city of Houston.
AHS opened in August 2006, becoming the district's third traditional high school, and the first opened since 1979. Since its opening, it has been the district's largest high school in terms of enrollment. It's school colors are Red, White, and Blue, and it's mascot is the Eagle.
History
From its opening, AHS dealt with its own overcrowding problem. During its second year of operation, the campus installed temporary trailer classrooms in one of the parking lots. The following year, a new wing on the east side of the campus was built, the cafeteria was expanded, and the temporary buildings were removed. Finally, in 2009, the district openedSummer Creek High School to serve the large Fall Creek and Summerwood subdivisions. Recently, AHS has again begun to experience an overcrowding issue. During the 2015–2016 school year, it built temporary trailer classrooms again in the parking lot of one of the houses to make room for the influx of students.
House system
The campus was originally designed around three communities named after the school's colors: Red, White, and Blue. Each community was divided into two houses: Red 1 and 2, White 1 and 2, Blue 1 and 2. After the school's overcrowding issues, a fourth community, the Gold Community, was added onto the east side of campus. Currently, freshmen attend classes in the Gold Community, while the upperclassmen are equally dispersed across the other three communities.
The idea behind the house system is to have students attend their classes within their houses, providing a smaller environment for students in a large high school. Each house is served by a counselor and an assistant principal. Each house is centered on a "flex area" and shares an LGI (large group instruction), a collegiate-style lecture hall, with its adjacent house.
With the start of the 2018 school year, another part of gold was announced as Gold 3 due to overcrowding.
After AHS became the first high school in the district to use the house system on such a large scale, Humble ISD renovated its two other high schools (Humble and Kingwood) with the house system, and later opened Kingwood Park and Summer Creek high schools with the house system design.
Academics
For the 2018–2019 school year, the school received a B grade from the Texas Education Agency, with an overall score of 85 out of 100. The school received a B grade in two domains, Student Achievement (score of 87) and Closing the Gaps (score of 81), and a C grade in School Progress (score of 78). The school did not receive any of the seven possible distinction designations.
School activities
Atascocita High School has the following activities:
A1 music
AutoTech
Band
Beta Club
Best Buddies
Black Student Union
Choir
Coding Club
Chess Club
Current Events Club
Key Club
Debate
EPT
FFA
Human Geography Club
Marine Corps JROTC – The program was founded in August 2011 with retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 Mike Lasyone as the senior instructor.
Flight Crew
Latin Club
Math & Science League
National Honor Society
Orchestra
Patriettes
Project Graduation
Athletic Training
Spanish Club
Student Council
Theatre
School sports
AHS sports include:
AHS All Sports Athletic Booster Club
Baseball
Basketball - boys'
Basketball - girls'
Cheerleading
Cross country - boys'
Cross country - girls'
Diving
Football
Golf - boys'
Golf - girls'
Gymnastics
Lacrosse
Marching Band
Soccer - boys'
Soccer - girls'
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track & field - boys'
Track & field - girls'
Volleyball
Wrestling
Feeder patterns
The following elementary schools feed into Atascocita High School:
Atascocita Springs
Eagle Springs
Maplebrook
Oak Forest
Oaks
Pine Forest
Timbers
Whispering Pines
The following middle schools feed into Atascocita High School:
Atascocita
Timberwood
West Lake
Notable alumni
Sam Cosmi, football player
Alex Dixon, soccer player
Jonathan Dziedzic, baseball player
Carsen Edwards, basketball player for the Boston Celtics
Patrick Taylor Jr., NFL running back for the Green Bay Packers
Kenyon Green, NFL player for the Houston Texans
References
External links
Atascocita High School
Humble Independent School District high schools
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20Rod%20Crosby
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Fly Rod Crosby
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Cornelia Thurza Crosby, or "Fly Rod", as she was popularly known, was born in Phillips, Maine, on November 10, 1854. She died one day after her 92nd birthday on November 11, 1946. She was the first Registered Maine Guide.
On March 19, 1897, The Maine legislature passed a bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state. Maine registered 1316 guides in that first year. In addition to being its first licensed guide, Crosby promoted Maine's outdoor sports at shows in metropolitan areas, and wrote a popular column that appeared in many newspapers around the country, but was nationally published in the magazine "Fly Rod's Notebook" Her efforts helped to attract thousands of would-be outdoorsmen—and women—to the woods and streams of Maine. Crosby attracted generations of tourists and wilderness-visitors through her popular newspaper columns of her fishing and hunting tales in Rangleley Lake, Maine.
Crosby once stated, "I am a plain woman of uncertain age, standing six feet in my stockings...I scribble a bit for various sporting journals, and I would rather fish any day than go to heaven."
Fly Rod, as was her pseudonym on her columns, was a role model to young women around the nation, bolstering a personal philosophy of athleticism and independence not often found in other women of her time. Fly Rod was often described as having the heart of a “brave” or a Native American, as she excelled at outdoors sports. Crosby also had many friends among the Penobscot people, many of whom served as Crosby's guides in the woods.
Aside from her columns, work as a Maine Guide and fly fishing experiences, Crosby gained quite a bit of fame for her exhibit at the New York Sportsman's Exposition in 1898. At the exhibit, Crosby displayed a recreated hunting camp even with a log cabin. Throughout the duration of the exhibit, Crosby wore a “scandalously short” skirt which displays her characteristics as a woman who broke out of social norms for her time period.
In 1899, Crosby endured a knee injury that put an end to her mobility, although she continued to write her popular columns. Fly Rod Crosby lived a long life even after her injury, dying at the age of ninety-two in Lewiston, Maine. She died on November 11, 1946, Armistice Day and was buried in the Strong Village Cemetery in Strong, Maine.
Some of Fly Rod's greatest achievements include: becoming Maine's first registered Guide, shooting the last legally killed caribou, and catching hundreds and thousands of fish on the fly rod.
References
1854 births
1946 deaths
Sportspeople from Maine
American sportswomen
People from Phillips, Maine
Writers from Maine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20Casey
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Bernie Casey
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Bernard Terry Casey (June 8, 1939 – September 19, 2017) was an American actor, poet and professional American football player.
Early life
Casey was born in Wyco, West Virginia, the son of Flossie (Coleman) and Frank Leslie Casey. He graduated from East High School in Columbus, Ohio.
Career
Athletics
Casey was a record-breaking track and field athlete for Bowling Green State University and helped the 1959 football team win a small college national championship. Casey earned All-America recognition and a trip to the finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1960. In addition to national honors, he won three consecutive Mid-American Conference titles in the high-hurdles, 1958–60.
Casey was the ninth overall selection of the 1961 NFL Draft, taken by the San Francisco 49ers. He played eight NFL seasons (several positions, first five seasons mainly a halfback, last three seasons a flanker (setback wide receiver)): six with the 49ers and two with the Los Angeles Rams. His best-known play came in 1967 for the Rams in the penultimate game of the regular season against the Green Bay Packers. The Rams needed to win to keep their division title hopes alive, but trailed 24–20 with under a minute to play. Facing fourth down, the Packers lined up to punt, but Tony Guillory blocked the Donny Anderson punt and Claude Crabb returned it to the Packer five-yard line. After an incomplete pass, Casey caught the winning touchdown pass from Roman Gabriel with under thirty seconds to play to give the Rams a 27–24 victory. The Rams defeated the Baltimore Colts the following week to win the Coastal Division title at 11–1–2.
Acting
Casey began his acting career in the film Guns of the Magnificent Seven, a sequel to The Magnificent Seven. Then he played opposite fellow former NFL star Jim Brown in the crime dramas ...tick...tick...tick... and Black Gunn. He played a leading role in the 1972 science fiction TV film Gargoyles. He also played Tamara Dobson's love interest in 1973's Cleopatra Jones.
From there he moved between performances on television and the big screen such as playing team captain for the Chicago Bears in the TV film Brian's Song. In 1979, he starred as widower Mike Harris in the NBC television series Harris and Company, the first weekly American TV drama series centered on a black family. In 1980, he played Major Jeff Spender in the television mini-series The Martian Chronicles, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury.
In 1981, Casey played a detective opposite Burt Reynolds in the feature film Sharky's Machine, directed by Reynolds. He reunited with Reynolds a few years later for the crime story Rent-a-Cop.
In 1983, he played the role of CIA agent Felix Leiter in the non-Eon Productions James Bond film Never Say Never Again. He co-starred in Revenge of the Nerds and had a comedic role as Colonel Rhombus in the John Landis film Spies Like Us. Casey also appeared in the movie Hit Man.
Also during his career, he worked with such well-known directors as Martin Scorsese in his 1972 film Boxcar Bertha and appeared on such television series as The Streets of San Francisco.
He played a version of himself, and other football players turned actors, in Keenen Ivory Wayans's 1988 comedic film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. He played high school history teacher Mr. Ryan, in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, released in 1989. Casey appeared as a very influential prisoner with outside connections in Walter Hill's Another 48 Hrs.. In 1992, he appeared as a Naval officer on the battleship USS Missouri in Under Siege.
In 1994, Casey guest-starred in a two-episode story arc in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Maquis leader Lieutenant Commander Cal Hudson, and in 1995 as a guest-star on both SeaQuest 2032 as Admiral VanAlden and Babylon 5 as Derek Cranston. In 2006, he co-starred in the film When I Find the Ocean alongside such actors as Lee Majors.
Personal life and death
Casey enjoyed painting and writing poetry. Look at the People, a book of his paintings and poems, was published by Doubleday in 1969. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on September 19, 2017, after a stroke.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Bernie Casey at FelixLeiter.com
Biography at BGSUSports.com
1939 births
2017 deaths
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
African-American male actors
African-American male track and field athletes
African-American painters
American football wide receivers
American male film actors
American male hurdlers
American male television actors
Bowling Green Falcons football players
Bowling Green State University alumni
Los Angeles Rams players
Male actors from West Virginia
People from Wyoming County, West Virginia
Players of American football from West Virginia
San Francisco 49ers players
Track and field athletes from West Virginia
Western Conference Pro Bowl players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann%27s%20woodpecker
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Hoffmann's woodpecker
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Hoffmann's woodpecker (Melanerpes hoffmannii) is a resident breeding bird from southern Honduras south to Costa Rica. It is a common species on the Pacific slopes, locally as high as . It is expanding on the Caribbean slope, aided by deforestation. This is further facilitated by its tendency to wander about outside the breeding season.
The adult Hoffmann's woodpecker is long and weighs . Its upperparts and wings are neatly barred with black and white, and it has a white rump. The underparts are pale buff-grey with a yellow central belly patch. The male has a white forehead, red crown, and yellow nape. The female has a white crown and forehead and reduced yellow nape. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less yellow on the belly.
This common and conspicuous species gives a rattling call and both sexes drum on territory.
The golden-fronted woodpecker replaces it to the north. It is very similar, but has a yellow forehead; also, the calls are very different. The two species hybridize at the Rio Pespire in Honduras.
This woodpecker occurs in deciduous open woodland, second growth, shade trees and hedges, but avoids dense forest. It feeds on insects, often extracted from decaying wood, but will take substantial quantities of fruit and nectar and will mob the ferruginous pygmy owl.
It nests in an unlined hole up to high in a dead tree. The clutch is two or three glossy white eggs, incubated by both sexes.
This woodpecker is named for the German naturalist Karl Hoffmann.
References
External links
Hoffmann's woodpecker
Birds of Costa Rica
Birds of Nicaragua
Hoffmann's woodpecker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepechinia%20fragrans
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Lepechinia fragrans
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Lepechinia fragrans is a flowering herbaceous shrub known by the common names island pitchersage and fragrant pitchersage. It is a member of the Lamiaceae, or mint family, but like other Lepechinia, the flowers are borne in racemes instead of in mintlike whorls.
Distribution
Lepechinia fragrans is endemic to California. It is found in open areas in chaparral, in dry ravines, on rocky slopes and ridgetops, between 60 and 1100 meters. It is known in the Trifuno Pass area of the Santa Monica Mountains and in the San Gabriel Mountains, as well as the north Channel Islands. It may also exist in Ventura County and areas on the south coast below Los Angeles County, California.
It is threatened by development and by fire management. While it is not listed as a threatened or endangered plant by the State of California or by the U.S. federal government, it is listed by the California Native Plant Society as a plant of limited distribution which is fairly endangered and should be watched.
Description
Lepechinia fragrans is a vase-shaped herbaceous shrub from 60 centimeters to just under 2 meters in height and equal in spread. It tends to grow taller in shade, and somewhat shorter in full sun. The plant itself is light green, but the many hairs give it a fuzzy grayish-green appearance. The entire plant is hairy, with long nonglandular hairs and glands which have short or no stalks. It has a pleasant scent which may be released when the glands are touched. Its arching branches become woody toward the base of the plant. It has the square stems of the mint family, which are very pronounced in this species.
The leaves can be deltate-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, and are smooth-edged or slightly serrate. The lower ones are petioled below and generally larger, to 12 centimeters. Upper leaves can lack petioles and are generally smaller, as little as 4 centimeters in length. Like many of California's plants, it has two types of leaves. Larger, lusher leaves are produced during the rainy season in winter, and some of these are shed during the dry season, and are replaced by leaves which are smaller and more gray in color
The flowers range in color from white to pale pink to medium purple. The calyx has 5 lobes and is slightly two-lipped. It is persistent in fruit and enlarges, becoming slightly inflated and turning purple. The corolla is bell-shaped and 2.5 to 3 centimeters long. It is also two-lipped, with the upper lip divided into 4 lobes, and a larger, unlobed lower lip. There are two pairs of stamens and a double-lobed style in the flower's throat.
The fruit is a cluster of four smooth to shiny nutlets which are dark brown to black in color. They are round to ovate, with a length of 2 to 4 millimeters.
Cultivation
The Lepechinia fragrans plant is easy to grow, and is easy to propagate from seed, but can be a short-lived ornamental plant in the garden. Lepechinia fragrans "has the most attractive flowers and most pleasing scent of all our native pitcher sage species" according to California Native Plants for the Garden. It is pollinated by bumblebees.
It will grow in sun or light shade, and does best in soils with good drainage. It should be pinched back to create a more compact, fuller plant.
The cultivar 'El Tigre' has darker blooms and more purple in the calyx and bracts.
References
Harley, Ray. 2000. In Search of Labiatae in Eastern Brazil, Vitex, A Newsletter for Lamiaceae and Verbenaceae Research. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Junak, Ayers, Scott, Wilken, and Young; 1995. A Flora of Santa Cruz Island. CNPS Press and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment - Lepechinia fragrans
CalFlora Database: Lepechinia fragrans (fragrant pitcher sage)
USDA Plants Profile: Lepechinia fragrans
Lepechinia fragrans - Photo gallery
fragrans
Endemic flora of California
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
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Garden plants of North America
Drought-tolerant plants
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romesco
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Romesco
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Romesco () is a tomato-based sauce that originated from Valls, province of Tarragona, in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The fishermen in this area made this sauce to be eaten with fish. It is typically made from any mixture of roasted tomatoes and garlic, toasted almonds, pine nuts, and/or hazelnuts, olive or sunflower oil, and ñora peppers (capsicum annuum, a sun-dried, small, round variety of red bell pepper). Flour or ground stale bread may be used as a thickener or to provide texture.
Other common ingredients include sherry vinegar, red wine vinegar and onions. Leaves of fennel or mint may be added, particularly if served with fish or escargot. It is very often served with seafood, but can also be served with a wide variety of other foods, including poultry, some red meats like lamb, and vegetables.
According to food writer Melissa Clark, cookbook author Penelope Casas was considered the recognized authority on romesco recipes for English speaking readers. When touring Catalonia, though, Clark discovered that there is no single correct recipe, and encountered several variations. Clark described romesco as "a rich and piquant purée made from sweet dried Spanish peppers along with tomato, garlic, almonds, vinegar and oil, pounded with breadcrumbs as a binder." Some variations were thick, others were thin, and one substituted crushed almond biscotti for the almonds and bread crumbs and incorporated hard boiled eggs. Clark's version uses hazelnuts instead of almonds.
Romesco sauce is often confused with other similar sauces, particularly salsa de calçots or salvitxada. During the springtime, salsa de calçots is served as an accompanying dip for calçots, a spring onion typical to Catalonia, during traditional springtime calçot barbecues called "calçotades". During calçotades, calçots are roasted over an open fire until their outer layer is charred. The charred layer is then removed and the tender part of the onion may be dipped into the sauce.
See also
Salvitxada, a similar sauce
Muhammara, a similar dip
References
External links
Recipe for romesco sauce
Catalan cuisine
Sauces
Almonds
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructan
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Fructan
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A fructan is a polymer of fructose molecules. Fructans with a short chain length are known as fructooligosaccharides. Fructans can be found in over 12% of the angiosperms including both monocots and dicots such as agave, artichokes, asparagus, leeks, garlic, onions (including spring onions), yacón, jícama, barley and wheat.
Fructans also appear in grass, with dietary implications for horses and other grazing animals (Equidae).
Types
Fructans are built up of fructose residues, normally with a sucrose unit (i.e. a glucose–fructose disaccharide) at what would otherwise be the reducing terminus. The linkage position of the fructose residues determine the type of the fructan. There are five types of fructans.
Linkage normally occurs at one of the two primary hydroxyls (OH-1 or OH-6), and there are two basic types of simple fructan:
1-linked: in inulin, the fructosyl residues are linked by β-2,1-linkages
6-linked: in levan and phlein, the fructosyl residues are linked by β-2,6-linkages
A third type of fructans, the graminin type, contains both β-2,1-linkages and β-2,6-linkages.
Two more types of fructans are more complex: they are formed on a 6G-kestotriose backbone where elongations occur on both sides of the molecule. Again two types are discerned:
neo-inulin type (also called "inulin neoseries"): predominant β-2,1-linkages
neo-levan type (also called "levan neoseries"): predominant β-2,6-linkages
Functions
Fructans are important storage polysaccharides in the stems of many species of grasses and confer a degree of freezing tolerance. A notable exception is rice, which is unable to synthesise fructans.
In barley, fructan accumulates in the cell vacuoles and acts as a carbon sink within the cell to facilitate photosynthesis. Fructan reserves are transported to the reproductive tissue during grain filling, and to the vegetative tissues during periods of growth.
Chicory inulin-type fructans are used mainly as the raw materials for industrial production of fructans as food ingredients. Use in the food industry is based on the nutritional and technological properties of fructans as a prebiotic dietary fiber.
Fructan content of various foods
See also
Notes
References
Sugar – Chemical, Biological and Nutritional Aspects of Sucrose. John Yudkin, Jack Edelman and Leslie Hough (1971, 1973). The Butterworth Group.
Polysaccharides
Prebiotics (nutrition)
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Auckland Rugby Union
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The Auckland Rugby Union is a New Zealand provincial rugby union. The union was established in 1883 and was originally responsible for the administration of the sport in most of the former Auckland Province, although its boundaries have since shrunk to include only a portion of the Auckland urban area. The union governs the Auckland representative team, which has won New Zealand's first-tier domestic provincial competition 17 times, more than any other team. Their most recent title was the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup Premiership. The union administers all club rugby within its boundaries, including the Gallaher Shield and other senior club rugby, as well as school rugby. Auckland also acts as a primary feeder to the Blues, who play in the Super Rugby competition.
History
The Auckland Rugby Football Union (ARFU) was officially formed in 1883, when it joined the Canterbury, Wellington and Otago unions in the fledgling New Zealand Rugby Football Union.
Auckland has been the most successful union in New Zealand rugby history, having won a record 16 ITM Cup (and predecessor competition) titles. Auckland also holds the record for the most Ranfurly Shield wins (16), successful defences (148), and longest streak of successful defences (61). All Blacks statistics also reveal the extent of Auckland's influence: of the 1071 players to have worn the national jersey from 1888 to 2008, 133 were born in Auckland, compared to Christchurch (74), Wellington (60) and Dunedin (53).
In 1996, with the advent of professional rugby union, Auckland became the host, and primary feeder, to the Blues, known from 1996–99 as the Auckland Blues.
Golden eras
Auckland went undefeated for six seasons from 1897, with victory over the British and Irish Lions in 1904. There was an undefeated run in the early 1920s under Sir Vincent Meredith.
The 1960 to 1963 period, known as the Golden Era, was summed up in The Golden Years written by Don Cameron in 1983. Sir Wilson Whineray, who captained Auckland through those years and the All Blacks in 30 tests from 1957 to 1965, describes the period as one of "excitement, drama and fervor that transformed Eden Park into an oasis of magic during the winters of 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963." The period from 1982 to 2007 is also regarded as a golden period, with Auckland winning more than half (16 out of 26 ) of all NPC titles and five South Pacific Championship titles during the era and winning the team of the year award at the 1992 Halberg Awards.
Ranfurly Shield years
Auckland were the first holders of the Ranfurly Shield in 1902 and have won 153 out of 194 shield matches – the most successful record of any provincial union. Notable periods include from 1905 to 1913, when they defeated 23 successive challenges, 1960 and 1963, when 25 challenges were defeated, 1985 to 1993, when a record 61 were defeated. Auckland most recently held the shield between 2007 and 2008, when 5 challenges were defeated. Players like Andy Haden, Sean Fitzpatrick, John Drake, Olo Brown, Zinzan and Robin Brooke, Gary and Alan Whetton, Michael Jones, Steve McDowall, Grant Fox, Bernie McCahill, Grant Dickson, Mark Carter, Joe Stanley, John Kirwan and Terry Wright were important in Auckland's success in that last period.
In 1993, Auckland defeated the British Lions by 23–18 during their tour to New Zealand.
With six titles in the 1990s and four in the 2000s, Auckland's domination of the New Zealand rugby landscape continued. The 2007 team was the first since the 1990 side to remain unbeaten in a season and win the Ranfurly Shield and the provincial championship. Players like Kees Meeuws, Keven Mealamu, Ali Williams, Justin Collins, Xavier Rush, Steve Devine, Brad Mika, Ben Atiga, Doug Howlett, Daniel Braid, Brent Ward and Angus Macdonald contributed to that success.
Auckland' fortunes collapsed when New Zealand Rugby moved to being a professional sport. It was 2018 before an Auckland side once again won the National Provincial Championship.
Honours
National Provincial Championship/Air New Zealand Cup/ITM Cup/Mitre 10 Cup (17):
1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2018
South Pacific Championship/Super 6/Super 10 (5):
1986, 1987 (shared with Canterbury), 1988, 1989, 1990
Ranfurly Shield
1902–04 (0), 1905–13 (23), 1934–35 (1), 1952 (0), 1959 (2), 1960–63 (25), 1965 (3), 1971 (1), 1972 (0), 1974–76 (10), 1979 (6), 1985–93 (61), 1995–96 (3), 1996–97 (6), 2003–04 (2), 2007–08 (5)
Other representative teams
In addition to the Men's 1st XV, the ARU has a number of other representative teams for both Men and Women. Their women's team, known as the Auckland Storm, are the most successful women's team in New Zealand.
Club rugby
Among the earliest founding clubs in Auckland were Grafton (1874), Ponsonby (1874) and College Rifles (1897), Marist (1908), University (1888), Grammar (1914) and Suburbs (1918).
The premier competition's championship round was renamed the Gallaher Shield in 1922, in memory of Ponsonby, Auckland and New Zealand player Dave Gallaher who captained the 1905 All Blacks, known as The Originals, before retiring after the tour. He became the sole selector to the Auckland team, leading the side to eight successive Ranfurly Shield wins, before he served on the All Blacks selection committee from 1907 to 1914. He then joined the army at a relatively late age, and was killed in the Passchendaele offensive in 1917 aged 43. His Ponsonby side has dominated the Gallaher Shield, winning it 33 times.
Structure
The Auckland Rugby Football Union consists of 20 clubs from the Auckland isthmus. The premier competition runs from March to August and is split into three segments: the Waka Nathan Challenge Cup from March to May (primarily a pre-season tournament), the Alan McEvoy Round-Robin, and the Championship Round (finals series).
The Waka Nathan Challenge Cup and Pollard Cup
The Waka Nathan Challenge Cup is contested at the beginning of the season in a knockout style competition. Teams play for the cup and a winners prize of $2500. Eight teams compete for the Waka Nathan Cup while the bottom seven teams from the previous year's competition contest the Pollard Cup.
The Alan McEvoy Round-Robin
The 15 teams entered into the Premier Competition play a 15-week round-robin, played on Saturdays. The team with the highest competition points at the end of this round will be awarded the Alan McEvoy Memorial Trophy which commemorates Alan McEvoy an Auckland rep and All Black Trialist who drowned tragically at Baylys Beach in the early 1950s. To determine this, the bonus points system is used. Teams will be seeded 1-16 after this round. The Fred Allen Trophy is also played for during the round-robin phase. It is similar to the Ranfurly Shield, where it is only up for grabs at home games of the trophy holder. It is not contested in the Championship Round.
Championship Round
In the Championship Round the sixteen teams are split into the top and bottom eight. It is played over three weeks. The top eight compete for the Gallaher Shield, named after former Auckland and All Blacks player Dave Gallaher, while the bottom eight compete for the Portola Trophy.
The first week is a quarter-finals style format where the top seeded team play the bottom seeded team and the second seeded team play the second to last seeded team etc. The four losers from each group of eight go on to play for the Jubilee Trophy (Gallaher Shield Losers) and the President's Cup (Portola Trophy Losers). The next week is semi-finals and the two winners compete for the four trophies mentioned, with the overall champion being the winner of the Gallaher Shield Final.
Affiliated clubs
School competition
The union are one of three organisations (the others being Collegesport and the Secondary Schools Executive Committee) responsible for administering the local secondary school competitions. Notable rugby schools in Auckland include Auckland Grammar School, De La Salle College, Kelston Boys High School, King's College, Mount Albert Grammar School, Sacred Heart College and St Kentigern College. The 1st XV competition is split across three divisions, these being 1A, 1B and 1C. In addition to the 1st XV competition there a number of lower-grade (non-1st XV) and girls competitions.
Supporters
The Auckland Rugby Union Supporters Club (ARUSC) was established in 1976 after a meeting between ARFU administration and a group of supporters. The club's emblem is the "Flying Elephant", which was agreed upon after a competition to find a mascot was found. The winner of the competition was Mr J.E. Hannan. The supporters club is currently located under the North (ASB) Stand at Eden Park.
The ARUSC also operates the Junior Rugby Foundation (JRF). The purposes of the organisation is to provide education, assistant and support for the promotion and development of participation by young people in rugby within the areas governed by the ARFU. Recent JRF bursary recipients include Liaki Moli, Sean Polwart and Tyrone Ngaluafe.
Stadium
Auckland play their home matches at Eden Park, and have done so since 1925. The ground opened in 1900 and also is used for cricket. Eden Park has the largest crowd capacity of any New Zealand sporting venue, with a capacity of 50,000 for rugby matches.
Bunnings NPC
All Blacks
This is a list of players who have represented New Zealand from the Auckland representative rugby union team. Players are listed by the decade they were first selected in and players in bold are current All Blacks.
1880–1899
1900–1919
1920–1939
1940–1959
1960–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–
References
External links
Official Site
Supporters Club
Auckland Rugby (NZHistory.net.nz)
New Zealand rugby union teams
New Zealand rugby union governing bodies
Sports organizations established in 1883
Rugby union in the Auckland Region
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Sound Soldier
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Sound Soldier is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Skye Sweetnam. The album was released in Canada on October 30, 2007, and on February 14, 2008, in Japan. The first single off the album is "Human", produced by The Matrix.
Track listing
Charts and certifications
Release history
References
2007 albums
Albums produced by the Matrix (production team)
Albums produced by Soulshock and Karlin
Skye Sweetnam albums
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LVAD
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LVAD may stand for:
Left ventricular assist device, see Ventricular assist device
Low-Velocity Airdrop, see HALO/HAHO
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20the%20Love%20of%20Rusty
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For the Love of Rusty
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For the Love of Rusty is a 1947 drama film directed by John Sturges. It was the third of the "Rusty" film series involving the adventures of German shepherd Rusty and his human companions - young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson) and his pals. This film details Danny's friendship with an eccentric and itinerant "veterinarian" Dr. Fay (Aubrey Mather), and Danny's attempts to form a closer relationship with his father (Tom Powers). In this installment, Rusty was played for the first time by Flame, who would portray Rusty in four of the eight Rusty films.
Plot
Busy attorney Hugh Mitchell wants to become closer to his son, Danny, whom he knows little. He starts arranging a luncheon, but soon finds out that Danny prefers going to the carnival. Still he attends the luncheon, and brings along his dog Rusty, a German Shepherd. All the other boys attending with their fathers are quite amused when Rusty starts fighting with another dog, and the luncheon is abruptly interrupted.
The calamity that ensues enrages Hugh and disintegrates the chances of father and son coming closer. Instead Danny becomes friends with an eccentric traveling veterinarian, Dr. Francis Xavier Fay, who arrives to town. Hugh doesn't look kindly upon the friendship between his son and the doctor.
In an attempt to get their son back, Hugh and his wife Ethel invites the doctor to dinner one night, hoping that the doctor will seem out of place. But the doctor is very comfortable in the civilized and sophisticated setting in the attorney home.
Hugh decides to take Danny to the carnival to make him happy. Danny brings Rusty with him. When a man kicks at the dog, it attacks him and Hugh is quite upset with the dog's behavior, forcing it to wear a muzzle in the future.
In the night, Danny run away with his dog, taking refuge in the doctor's camp in the woods. Ethel suggest they leave the boy alone for a while, and Danny gets to live in a tree house at the doctor's, with his dog.
Hugh pays the doctor a visit to talk about his son, and gets the advice to try and understand and be friends with his son. Later in the night, when the doctor has fallen asleep with his gas stove on, Rusty smells the gas and tries to warn them about the danger. Rusty crawls under the trailer and is injured when the trailer collapses to the ground. Danny wakes up when the dog cries out, and wakes up the doctor, who is unconscious from the gas.
Danny goes home to his parents and the doctor treats Rusty at the camp. Hugh and his son are finally reconciled and go back to the doctor's camp together. Rusty is in bandages and able to come home with Danny.
Already the next day, Ethel comes to the camp looking for the dog, which has escaped and run around in the neighborhood. The doctor tells Ethel that this is perfectly normal, and decides it is time for him to leave and go to the next town.
Cast
Ted Donaldson as Danny Mitchell
Tom Powers as Hugh Mitchell
Ann Doran as Ethel Mitchell
Aubrey Mather as Dr. Francis Xavier Fay
Sid Tomack as Moe Hatch
George Meader as J. Cecil Rinehardt
Mickey McGuire as Gerald Hebble
Ralph Dunn as Policeman (uncredited)
Dick Elliott as Bill Worden (uncredited)
Harry Hayden as Mr. Hebble (uncredited)
Dwayne Hickman Doc Levy Jr. (uncredited)
Olin Howland as Frank Foley (uncredited)
Teddy Infuhr as Tommy Worden (uncredited)
Wally Rose as Bit Role (uncredited)
Fred F. Sears as Doc Levy (uncredited)
Almira Sessions as Sarah Johnson (uncredited)
See also
Adventures of Rusty
Rusty (film series)
References
External links
Films directed by John Sturges
1947 films
English-language films
American drama films
1947 drama films
Columbia Pictures films
American black-and-white films
Rusty (film series)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeper%20of%20the%20Bees%20%281947%20film%29
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Keeper of the Bees (1947 film)
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Keeper of the Bees is a 1947 American drama film directed by John Sturges. It was based on the novel by the same name, written by Gene Stratton Porter. The film was shot over three weeks. Keeper of the Bees (1947) is the third film adaption of the novel The Keeper of the Bees. There have been two previous film adaptations of the novel in 1925 and 1935. The novel was written by Gene Stratton Porter towards the end of her life, and the novel was published posthumously after a car accident. The film Keeper of the Bees was released in theaters on July 10, 1947, but the film seems to have been lost since then. The plot of the third film adaptation was changed greatly compared to the first two film adaptations. When the film was originally released by Columbia Pictures, audiences seemed to enjoy the film.
Plot
An aging apiary owner (bee-keeper) Michael Worthington meets a young ex-painter, Jamie McFarlane, on the road one day and in the process of conversation, attempts to persuade him to end his nomadic lifestyle.
Jamie listens, but considers the "Bee Master's" advice useless. But shortly after, when Michael has a near fatal heart attack; Jamie promises to look after the bees until his return. Shortly after, Worthington is surprised by a twelve-year-old girl who goes by the nick-name - 'Little Scout' who would visit the apiary nearly every day. He discovers that she is an orphan and likewise takes her into his care. In her child like way, she develops a crush on Jamie while he cares for the bees that have been left in his charge.
When Jamie meets Alice, the daughter of the orphanage supervisor, Mrs Ferris, he falls in love. This unexpected encounter begins to loosen his hardened heart and he begins to paint again.
Jamie eventually confides in Alice that he was once married, but that he had been divorced some time ago. In reality the divorce hasn't gone through yet. He sends his paintings to a gallery in New York, where he used to be a reputed artist. His soon to be ex-wife (Marcia) finds out about his recovered ability to paint and the success his paintings make, and wants to reconcile.
Alice hears about Marcia contacting Jamie, calling herself Mrs. McFarlane and is very distressed. Jamie suspects Alice of having betrayed his confidence, and Little Scout has to prove her innocence. She forces Mrs. Ferris to admit that she has spread the rumors by letting a swarm of bees loose on her.
Soon the elder Michael has recovered from his heart condition and manages to reconcile all the involved persons. He blesses the union of Jamie and Alice and gives them a cottage to live in after their marriage. In turn they decide to adopt Little Scout as their daughter, thereby bringing all the bees back into the fold.
History and disappearance
Instead of being a war veteran, Jamie is portrayed as an ex-painter, and the Little Scout is also portrayed as openly identifying as female unlike the novel, where the Scout is only ten, has a deliberately androgynous presentation, and it is only under extreme duress that her sex is discovered. Unlike the first two film adaptations, the third one was changed quite drastically by the screenwriters.
Being released into theaters on July 10, 1947, Keeper of the Bees seems to have gone missing since then. Only a few photos of the original film have survived to this day. Information about the film is difficult to find despite the star-studded cast in it and reputable film production company backing it. The film was also released in theaters in England several months after it was released in the United States. The films was seemingly dubbed into Spanish, as a Spanish film poster was made. The title of the Spanish dubbed version of the film translates into "Your Little Big Secret."
Cast
Michael Duane as Jamie McFarlaine
Gloria Henry as Alice
Harry Davenport as Michael Worthington
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Ferris
Jo Ann Marlowe as Little Scout - The Orphan
J. Farrell MacDonald as Postmaster
Will Wright as Dr. Grayson
Frances Robinson as Mrs. Marcia MacFarlane
George Meader as Barber
Olin Howland as Customer (as Olin Howlin)
Jessie Arnold as Mrs. Postmaster
References
External links
1947 films
1947 drama films
1940s lost films
American drama films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by John Sturges
English-language films
Fiction about beekeeping
Films about orphans
Films based on works by Gene Stratton-Porter
Films based on American novels
Remakes of American films
American black-and-white films
Lost American films
Lost drama films
Films scored by Paul Sawtell
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rognon
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Rognon
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Rognon is culinary French for kidney and may refer to:
Rognon (Marne), a river in France, tributary of the Marne
Rognon (Scey), a river in France, tributary of the Scey (Rhône basin)
Bourdons-sur-Rognon
Lanques-sur-Rognon
Rognon, Doubs
Charles Amédée Rognon
Rebecq-Rognon
a rock rognon (synonym: nunatak) projecting through a glacier
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Black Dragon Society (comics)
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The Black Dragon Society is a non fictional Japanese secret society, also known as the Kokuryūkai, which appears in DC Comics. The publisher first used the name in 1942's All Star Comics issue #12 (August 1942) as Japanese saboteurs. They were created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley. The same name and concept was also used by several other 1940s comics publishers that were later bought out by DC. A modern reimagining of the group as ecoterrorists was presented in JLA.
Publication history
The Black Dragon Society is based on a real World War II organization of the same name. As such, three separate comics companies (National Comics, Fawcett Comics, and Quality Comics) used them as villains.
The Fawcett Comics version debuted in Master Comics #21 (December 1941), it had Minute-Man fighting against the Society, and was created by Bill Woolfolk and Charles Sultan. The DC Comics version debuted in All Star Comics #12 (August 1942) and was created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley, in the story "The Black Dragon Menace" in which a Japanese spy ring called the Black Dragon Society of Japan steals eight American inventions and kidnaps their inventors. Quality Comics' version debuted in Military Comics #24 (November 1943), and was created by Ted Udall and Vernon Henkel.
Fictional team history
The Justice Battalion are given orders to retrieve eight stolen military weapons, and subdue the agents of the Black Dragon Society who had orchestrated the thefts. Starman took on a huge dirigible which acted as a flying aircraft carrier and the planes it housed. The Society, loyal to Imperial Japan, was to use the planes to attack an American city but Starman prevented this. Because of Johnny Thunder's bumbling, the whole Battalion was transported to the American HQ of the Black Dragon Society. After a quick fight and a call to the US Army, the threat posed by the Black Dragons was over.
The Black Dragon Society as an anti-U.S. organization also fought Minute-Man, Atom, Black Condor, the Sniper, and Johnny Everyman during World War II.
The Dragon King was a Japanese national and scientific genius who struck off from the Society early on. It was the Dragon King, using a combination of the occult and super-science, who created the forcefield that protected the Axis countries from the superhuman operatives of the Allies. He somehow was able to combine the energies of the Spear of Destiny with those of the Holy Grail to accomplish this. At some point after the war he develops an immortality serum that transforms him into a reptilian humanoid.
The modern versions of the Black Dragon Society show up in the pages of an issue of JLA. This version appears to be made up of fanatical, east Asian eco-terrorists with the stated intention of putting an end to the exploitation of Pacific oil fields by the west. They take the executive board of the Petroil oil company hostage, and kill all of their security and support staff. A superteam known as the Power Company shows up and shuts down the Black Dragons before they can kill their hostages. At the end of the story, it is revealed that the entire incident was only part of making a TV commercial for the Power Company, with the Black Dragon members being dressed-up actors on a set. Whether the commercial was based on a real incident, and if the Power Company ever battled the real Black Dragons, is not known.
References
External links
DCU Guide Black Dragon Society
Power Company Indedx Fanzing #47
DC Comics supervillain teams
Fictional eco-terrorists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Peterson%20discography
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Oscar Peterson discography
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This article contains the discography of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. No distinction is made between sessions as leader or sideman. Albums should be listed by date of initial release not recording session dates.
Albums
Filmography
1978 The Silent Partner (Movie Score)
1996 Life of A Legend (View Video)
1998 London: 1964 (Vidjazz)
2004 Music in the Key of Oscar (View Video)
2004 Easter Suite for Jazz Trio (TDK)
2004 A Night in Vienna (Verve)
2004 Norman Granz' Jazz in Montreux Presents Oscar Peterson Trio '77 (Eagle Vision USA)
2007 The Berlin Concert (Inakustik)
2007 Reunion Blues (Salt Peanuts)
2008 Oscar Peterson & Count Basie: Together in Concert 1974 (Impro-Jazz Spain)
2008 Jazz Icons: Oscar Peterson Live in '63, '64 & '65 (Jazz Icons)
2014 During This Time: Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster. NDR Jazzworkshop 1972 (art of groove)
References
External links
Jazz Discography Project
Discogs entry
Peterson, Oscar
Discographies of Canadian artists
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