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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layup
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Layup
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A layup in basketball is a two-point shot attempt made by leaping from below, laying the ball up near the basket, and using one hand to bounce it off the backboard and into the basket. The motion and one-handed reach distinguish it from a jump shot. The layup is considered the most basic shot in basketball. When doing a layup, the player lifts the outside foot, or the foot away from the basket.
An undefended layup is usually a high percentage shot. The main obstacle is getting near the rim and avoiding blocks by taller defenders who usually stand near the basket. Common layup strategies are to create spaces, release the ball from a different spot, or use alternate hands. A player able to reach over the rim might choose to perform a more spectacular and higher percentage slam dunk (dropping or throwing the ball from above the rim) instead.
Versions
As the game has evolved through the years, so has the layup. Several different versions of the layup are around today. Layups can be broadly categorized into two types: the underarm and the overarm. The underarm layup involves using most of the wrist and the fingers to 'lay' the ball into the net or off the board. This layup is more commonly known as the finger roll. Wilt Chamberlain was one of the early practitioners of a showy finger-roll layup. Notable past NBA players who rely heavily on the underarm finger roll are Mike Bibby and Allen Iverson.
Finger rolls today have many forms, including the "Around the World" which involves a complete circle around the player before the layup and a variety of faking in the approach to the rim. A classic example is a play by Jason Williams during his time with Sacramento, in which Williams brought the ball behind his back with his right hand, in a fake of a back pass, and then brought it front again with the same hand for the finish (reminiscent of Bob Cousy, who pioneered the move).
The other layup is the overhand shot, similar to a jump shot but from a considerably close range. Overhand layups nearly always involve the action of the backboard. Players like Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone have used this move to great effect.
The Reverse Layup is a more stylish method of making the ball from close. Generally, you fake the defender into defending a regular layup on the near side and then jump to the far side of the basket before shooting.
One notable Reverse Layup was that of Michael Jordan. His Reverse Layup consisted of him staying on the same side of the hoop while doing the Reverse Layup.
It is common for players to create room for a layup by making use of the allotted two steps before the layup attempt. Variations and improvisations exist, yet the most common form is the Euro-Step. So-called as it was introduced to the NBA by European players, it has been adopted mainly by guards and forwards as it relies heavily on agility and footwork to avoid larger defenders, although bigger players such as Joel Embiid have been seen making use of the move. The Euro-Step itself involves picking up one's dribble while dribbling, taking one step in one direction, then quickly taking a step in the other direction to avoid the defender to create room for a layup attempt. To make use of the move efficiently, it is best to dribble in aggressively then take two broad steps in different directions while simultaneously bringing the ball over one's head in the direction one is stepping for maximum evasion and protection while potentially drawing a foul.
Gallery
External links
Information on Layup and Variants
Layups and Dunks
Basketball terminology
Articles containing video clips
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pskov%20Judicial%20Charter
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Pskov Judicial Charter
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The Pskov Judicial Charter () was an Old Russian legal code of the Pskov Republic. It was issued in various redactions between 1397 and 1467, and was based on certain resolutions of the Pskovian city assembly or veche, princely decrees, provisions of the Russkaya Pravda and common law. It, along with the Novgorod Judicial Charter, was an important source for the Sudebnik of 1497.
The Pskov Judicial Charter reflected the most important aspects of socio-economic and political life of the Pskovian land in the 14th - 15th century. It protected private property, especially feudal landownership, regulated procedures for official registration of landownership and court examination of land disputes, defined the status of the so-called izorniks (a category of feudally dependent peasants). Many articles of the Charter were dedicated to trade relations, such as buying and selling, pawning, loans, hiring of workforce etc. The code provided for a death penalty in case of a political crime or regular criminal offense.
History of creation and enactment
PDC consist of two parts:
Chapter by Alexander Mikhailovich, Great Prince of Tver
Chapter of Konstantin Dmitrievich, Prince, who reign in Pskov at 1407—1414.
It was approved (with further additions) at veche at 1467.
PDC had to determine judicial laws of Prince, posadnik (governor of medieval Russian city-state, appointed by prince or elected by citizens), vicar, church hierarch and other officials. It also established orders of legal proceedings, determinations of crimes, proprietary rights and violences of it, different kinds of obligations and inheritance law.
References
External links
Full text of the charter in English
Full text of the charter
See also
Old Russian Law
Russkaya Pravda
Legal history of Russia
15th century in Russia
Medieval legal codes
East Slavic manuscripts
Pskov Republic
Cyrillic manuscripts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%20Salvadoran%20legislative%20election
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1978 Salvadoran legislative election
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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 12 March 1978. The elections were boycotted by all but one of the opposition parties, resulting in an easy victory for the ruling National Conciliation Party, which won 50 of the 54 seats.
Results
References
Bibliography
Political Handbook of the world, 1978. New York, 1979.
Anderson, Thomas P. 1988. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition.
Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead. 1984. Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador. Boston: South End Press.
Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
Webre, Stephen. 1979. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Elections in El Salvador
1978 in El Salvador
El Salvador
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken%20Meadow%20State%20Parkway
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Sunken Meadow State Parkway
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The Sunken Meadow State Parkway (also known as the Sunken Meadow Parkway or the Sunken Meadow) is a long parkway in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Located entirely within the town of Smithtown, the parkway begins at a cloverleaf interchange with the Northern State Parkway (exits 44–45) and the northern terminus of the Sagtikos State Parkway. The parkway, which continues north, is a northern spur of the Sagtikos, which opened in September 1952. The northern end of the parkway is at the toll barrier in exit SM5 in the Kings Park section of Smithtown. From there, the road continues north through Sunken Meadow State Park to a roundabout at the Long Island Sound. The parkway comprises the northern half of New York State Route 908K (NY 908K, an unsigned reference route), with the Sagtikos State Parkway forming the southern portion. Commercial vehicles are, like on most parkways, prohibited from using the Sunken Meadow, except for a portion north of NY 25A in Kings Park.
The parkway was first proposed in 1928 when the town of Smithtown deeded over of land to the Long Island State Park Commission via public vote. Due to land use restrictions in Nassau County, Sunken Meadow was the first park east of New York City, because provisions for a parkway would be near impossible to build. Construction of the parkway commenced after the Sagtikos opened in September 1952, with the interchange at the Northern State Parkway. The first portion opened to traffic in November 1954 from the Northern State/Sagtikos to NY 25, with a slated completion in 1956. The parkway was completed in April 1957, opening on the 1st. As part of the parkway opening, improvements were made to Sunken Meadow State Park, including expanded vehicle capacity and a longer boardwalk. In 2001, the Sunken Meadow was proposed in a study to receive a widening, which would include new bus and carpool lanes.
Route description
The Sunken Meadow State Parkway begins at exit 44–45 off the Northern State Parkway, a cloverleaf interchange that also serves as the northern terminus of the Sagtikos State Parkway. Southbound, this interchange is designed as exit SM1. After the Northern State, the Sunken Meadow continues northeast on the right-of-way used by the Sagtikos, crossing through Commack. Passing west of Valmont Village Park, the four-lane parkway crosses under New Highway, bending northeast through Commack, becoming a divided parkway as it enters exit SM2. This exit, which is only served northbound, connects the Sunken Meadow to NY 454 (Veterans Memorial Highway) via Harned Road, a local street in Commack. The four-lane parkway continues northward through Commack, crossing under NY 454 a short distance after the interchange. At the overpass, the westbound entrance from NY 454 connects to the southbound Sunken Meadow.
Immediately after crossing under NY 454, the Sunken Meadow State Parkway continues northward into exit SM3, which serves as a cloverleaf interchange with NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike). The four-lane parkway continues north out of the interchange, immediately entering exit SM3A, which northbound connects to County Route 14 (CR 14; Indian Head Road). Southbound, this interchange serves Old Indian Head Road, and is signed as part of exit SM2. After exit SM3A, the Sunken Meadow bends northeast, becoming a divided highway once again, crossing through Commack. The parkway bends north once again, crossing under Scholar Lane before paralleling Old Commack Road under Old Northport Road. After a bend to the northeast, the parkway enters Kings Park.
In Kings Park, the Sunken Meadow State Parkway bends northward, crossing under the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch and entering exit SM4. Exit SM4 is a cloverleaf interchange that serves CR 11 (Pulaski Road / East Northport Road). After the interchange with CR 11, the Sunken Meadow enters Fort Salonga as a four-lane parkway with a wide median, bending northeast into exit SM5. Exit SM5, the last on the Sunken Meadow, is a cloverleaf interchange with NY 25A (Fort Salonga Road). After crossing over NY 25A, the Sunken Meadow State Parkway enters Sunken Meadow State Park at a toll barrier in the middle of the interchange. The toll barrier serves as the northern terminus of the Sunken Meadow State Parkway, while the right-of-way continues north through Sunken Meadow State Park, terminating at a roundabout near the Long Island Sound.
History
Sunken Meadow State Park began as several parcels of land owned by the town of Smithtown that were combined to form the park. When the park first opened in 1928, it was large. This land had been given to the state by a public vote of 493–436 (for vs. against) with promises of a new parkway and expanded facilities. By 1949, this had been expanded over to , with of beach. Due to restrictive land usage in Nassau County for a parkway, Robert Moses and the Long Island State Park Commission announced that the burden of providing a beach on the northern shore of Long Island rested on Sunken Meadow State Park. However, no funding had been received for the new parkway, which had been requested.
The Sunken Meadow State Parkway was considered as one part of three spurs of the Sagtikos State Parkway, which bridged the eastern gap of the Long Island parkway system. Then designated the Sunken Meadow Spur, the route was to connect the Northern State and Sagtikos to Sunken Meadow State Park. The Sagtikos State Parkway opened on September 29, 1952 with provisions for the Sunken Meadow State. Originally when the park opened, an entrance was placed on a remote section of NY 25A in Fort Salonga.
Slated with a 1956 completion date, the first from the Northern State to NY 25 (Jericho Turnpike) opened on November 29, 1954, with the landscaping at NY 25 incomplete. The LISPC believed that Sunken Meadow State Park, when the parkway was finished, was to become the second-most used park on Long Island, behind Jones Beach State Park. On April 1, 1957, the Long Island Parks Commission opened the full alignment of the Sunken Meadow State Parkway to traffic, after an $11 million (1957 USD) construction project on the .
With the opening of the new parkway, the Long Island Parks Commission expanded Sunken Meadow State Park to handle the additional traffic. The commission added four new parking lots, which brought capacity on the parkway from 3,000 vehicles to 7,500 vehicles. A new overlook was constructed, which also had the capacity for 1,250 more vehicles. A new cafeteria, extensions of the then- boardwalk another , along with other new facilities valued at $1 million (1957 USD) were also constructed. These expansions brought the size of Sunken Meadow State Park to with of beachfront.
From 1997–2001, engineers worked on a $6.5 million (2001 USD) study that would expand Long Island's transportation system by 2020. Included within the plan was of road widening, which included the Sunken Meadow State Parkway from the Northern State to NY 454. These proposals would give the Sunken Meadow a restricted-access lane for buses and carpooling drivers, part of a long system on Long Island.
Exit list
References
External links
Sunken Meadow State Parkway Article from NYCROADS.com
New York State Parks: Sunken Meadow State Park
New York State Parks: Nissequogue River State Park
Parkways in New York (state)
Roads on Long Island
Robert Moses projects
Transportation in Suffolk County, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course-of-values%20recursion
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Course-of-values recursion
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In computability theory, course-of-values recursion is a technique for defining number-theoretic functions by recursion. In a definition of a function f by course-of-values recursion, the value of f(n) is computed from the sequence .
The fact that such definitions can be converted into definitions using a simpler form of recursion is often used to prove that functions defined by course-of-values recursion are primitive recursive. Contrary to course-of-values recursion, in primitive recursion the computation of a value of a function requires only the previous value; for example, for a 1-ary primitive recursive function g the value of g(n+1) is computed only from g(n) and n.
Definition and examples
The factorial function n! is recursively defined by the rules
This recursion is a primitive recursion because it computes the next value (n+1)! of the function based on the value of n and the previous value n! of the function. On the other hand, the function Fib(n), which returns the nth Fibonacci number, is defined with the recursion equations
In order to compute Fib(n+2), the last two values of the Fib function are required. Finally, consider the function g defined with the recursion equations
To compute g(n+1) using these equations, all the previous values of g must be computed; no fixed finite number of previous values is sufficient in general for the computation of g. The functions Fib and g are examples of functions defined by course-of-values recursion.
In general, a function f is defined by course-of-values recursion if there is a fixed primitive recursive function h such that for all n,
where is a Gödel number encoding the indicated sequence.
In particular
provides the initial value of the recursion. The function h might test its first argument to provide explicit initial values, for instance for Fib one could use the function defined by
where s[i] denotes extraction of the element i from an encoded sequence s; this is easily seen to be a primitive recursive function (assuming an appropriate Gödel numbering is used).
Equivalence to primitive recursion
In order to convert a definition by course-of-values recursion into a primitive recursion, an auxiliary (helper) function is used. Suppose that one wants to have
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To define using primitive recursion, first define the auxiliary course-of-values function that should satisfy
where the right hand side is taken to be a Gödel numbering for sequences.
Thus encodes the first values of . The function can be defined by primitive recursion because is obtained by appending to the new element :
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where computes, whenever encodes a sequence of length , a new sequence of length such that and for all . This is a primitive recursive function, under the assumption of an appropriate Gödel numbering; h is assumed primitive recursive to begin with. Thus the recursion relation can be written as primitive recursion:
where g is itself primitive recursive, being the composition of two such functions:
Given , the original function can be defined by , which shows that it is also a primitive recursive function.
Application to primitive recursive functions
In the context of primitive recursive functions, it is convenient to have a means to represent finite sequences of natural numbers as single natural numbers. One such method, Gödel's encoding, represents a sequence of positive integers as
,
where pi represent the ith prime. It can be shown that, with this representation, the ordinary operations on sequences are all primitive recursive. These operations include
Determining the length of a sequence,
Extracting an element from a sequence given its index,
Concatenating two sequences.
Using this representation of sequences, it can be seen that if h(m) is primitive recursive then the function
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is also primitive recursive.
When the sequence is allowed to include zeros, it is instead represented as
,
which makes it possible to distinguish the codes for the sequences and .
Limitations
Not every recursive definition can be transformed into a primitive recursive definition. One known example is Ackermann's function, which is of the form A(m,n) and is provably not primitive recursive.
Indeed, every new value A(m+1, n) depends on the sequence of previously defined values A(i, j), but the i-s and j-s for which values should be included in this sequence depend themselves on previously computed values of the function; namely (i, j) = (m, A(m+1, n)). Thus one cannot encode the previously computed sequence of values in a primitive recursive way in the manner suggested above (or at all, as it turns out this function is not primitive recursive).
References
Hinman, P.G., 2006, Fundamentals of Mathematical Logic, A K Peters.
Odifreddi, P.G., 1989, Classical Recursion Theory, North Holland; second edition, 1999.
Computability theory
Recursion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Hills%20Regional%20Technical%20School
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Blue Hills Regional Technical School
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Blue Hills Regional Technical High School, an American high school, is located in Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston and the geographical center of member towns of the Blue Hills Regional School District: Avon, Braintree, Milton, Canton, Norwood, Randolph, Dedham, Westwood, and Holbrook. The school is situated on a campus that borders the DCR's Blue Hills Reservation, and is within view of Great Blue Hill. The schools mascot is the Warriors
The Blue Hills Regional School District was formed on December 17, 1963, to serve the needs of the member towns' residents. The District School Committee was then authorized by the towns to establish and maintain educational programs at the secondary, post-secondary and adult levels in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 74 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, which require all municipalities in Massachusetts to offer vocational education for high school students that request it.
The original school building was opened to the first class in September 1966. Its success, coupled with increasing admissions, necessitated the building of additional facilities. Moreover, local employers were expressing a need for employees trained in certain skills areas. By 1976, the school had been expanded to house approximately 1,230 students in the high school, while also serving another 1,400 students in the adult education programs.
Shops
Blue Hills offers 17 sections:
Auto Body
Auto Repair
Construction Technology
Computer Information Systems (CIS)
Design and Visual Communications
Cosmetology
Criminal Justice
Culinary Arts
Drafting/CAD
Early Education and Care
Electrical
Electronics
Pre-Engineering Technology
Graphic Communications
Health Occupations
HVAC/R
Metal Fabrication
Criminal Justice (Added in 2015)
Athletics
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Cheerleading
Golf
Ice Hockey
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Track and Field
Volleyball
Rugby (Added in 2015)
The football team has played in the MIAA Division IV State Championship game twice (1984, 2010). On December 3, 2011, Blue Hills was victorious in the MIAA Division 4A Super Bowl against Cathedral (Boston), 16–14. The football team has also played in the MIAA Small School Vocational Super Bowl twice (2012, 2013). On November 29, 2012, Blue Hills defeated Minuteman Regional, 26–8. On December 6, 2013, they defeated North Shore Tech, 23–22.
Notable alumni
Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Arredondo (1984-2004), Purple Heart - Iraq War
Scott Tingle - NASA Astronaut
References
External links
Official site
Educational institutions established in 1966
Schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Public high schools in Massachusetts
1966 establishments in Massachusetts
Educational institutions accredited by the Council on Occupational Education
Buildings and structures in Canton, Massachusetts
1963 establishments in Massachusetts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite%20%28video%20game%29
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Frostbite (video game)
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Frostbite is a 1983 action game designed by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600, and published by Activision in 1983. Combining elements of Frogger and Q*bert in an arctic setting, the goal is to help Frostbite Bailey build igloos by jumping on ice floe. Thwarting this endeavor are clams, snow geese, Alaskan king crabs, polar bears, and the rapidly dropping temperature.
Gameplay
The bottom two thirds of the screen is water with four rows of ice blocks floating horizontally. The player moves by jumping from one row to another while avoiding foes. Landing on a row of white ice changes it to blue and adds a piece to the igloo on the shore. When all the ice is blue, it reverts to white. After 15 pieces, the igloo is complete, and the player must enter it to end the level.
The direction ice is flowing can be changed via the joystick button, but it costs a piece of an incomplete igloo.
Occasional fish can be collected for points.
Each level must be completed in 45 seconds (represented as the declining temperature). The faster a level is completed the more bonus points are awarded. Levels alternate between large ice blocks and little ice pieces. The large blocks have gaps that the player can fall in. Starting in the fourth level, a polar bear prowls the shore.
Activision patch
The game manual included a chance to become an Arctic Architect, by scoring 40,000 points or more. If the player took a photo of the TV screen showing the score and sent it to Activision, they would receive an Arctic Architects emblem.
References
External links
Frostbite at Atari Mania
Frostbite manual
1983 video games
Activision games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Multiplayer video games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games designed by Steve Cartwright
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20Fever
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Spring Fever
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Spring Fever may refer to:
Spring fever, an experience of restlessness or romantic feelings, associated with the onset of spring
Film
Spring Fever (1919 film), an American silent short film directed by Hal Roach
Spring Fever (1927 film), an American silent film directed by Edward Sedgwick
Spring Fever (1981 film), a Taiwanese film directed by Su Yueh-ho
Spring Fever (1982 film), an American film directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
Spring Fever (2009 film), a Chinese film directed by Lou Ye
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, a 2009 American film directed by Ti West
Literature
Spring Fever (novel), a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse
Spring Fever (manga), a Japanese manga anthology by Yugi Yamada
Music
"Spring Fever" (song), by Loretta Lynn, 1978
"Spring Fever", a song by Elvis Presley from Girl Happy
Spring Fever, a 1975 album by Rick Derringer
Springfever, a 1976 album by Joachim Kühn
Television episodes
"Spring Fever" (Bear in the Big Blue House)
"Spring Fever" (Last of the Summer Wine)
"Spring Fever!" (The Raccoons)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niranjan%20Iyengar
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Niranjan Iyengar
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Niranjan Iyengar born in Dombivali, Maharashtra, India, is a screenwriter and lyricist particularly known for his work with director Karan Johar. He is also author of the book, The Making of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Niranjan also hosts the talk show Look Who's talking with Niranjan, which is aired on Zee Café.
Selected filmography
Awards and nominations
Star Screen Awards
Nominated: Best Dialogue - Kal Ho Naa Ho (2004)
Zee Cine Awards
Nominated: Best Dialogue - Kal Ho Naa Ho (2004)
Filmfare Awards
Nominated: Best Lyricist - "Sajda" and "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan (2011)
Mirchi Music Awards
Nominated: Album of The Year - My Name is Khan (2010)
Nominated: Lyricist of The Year - "Sajdaa" from My Name is Khan (2010)
Nominated: Lyricist of The Year - "Tere Naina" from My Name is Khan (2010)
References
External links
Indian male screenwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hindi screenwriters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Special%20Fares%20Agents
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Association of Special Fares Agents
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The Association of Special Fares Agents, or ASFA, consists of airline consolidators, bucket shops and discount travel agents.
Aims
The main purpose of ASFA is the exchange of knowledge in regards to discounted airline tickets on the same air route offered in different markets.
Founding
After a preliminary meeting in Frankfurt, Germany in 1985, the first ever association of discount travel agents was formed in 1986 by a small group of German, Swiss, Dutch, Singaporean, Australian and English travel agents.
The association was founded as ITA (International Travel Association) in Amsterdam by Ad Latjes, Koos Schouten, Folke von Knobloch, Rudi Weissmann, Daniel Staeger and other discount travel industry experts as a platform for discount travel specialists, consolidators and bucketshops from all over the world.
History
Because of disagreements between the founding members about territorial exclusivity at a meeting in Singapore in April 1987 the name was changed to ASFA. ASFA was to allow multiple agents per country, while ITA continued as a small cartel.
Ad Latjes, the famous Dutch travel entrepreneur broke away from ASFA in 1989 to establish ETN (European Travel Network).
The administrative office of ASFA moved in 1998 to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Activities
ASFA organises annual workshops around the world with the purpose of educating international travel agents in the art of creative ticketing and to exchange information about new trends in the airline ticketing industry. In addition ASFA enables its membership of independent travel agents to create a worldwide network.
ASFA does not bond or license agents. ASFA members are registered and bonded according to the laws of the countries and states that they are operating in.
Membership
ASFA has 1608 members.
References
External links
ASFA.net, the Association of Special Fares Agents website
Koosschouten.com
Adlatjes.com
The Practical Nomad – Airline Ticket Consolidators and Bucket Shops FAQ, by Edward Hasbrouck
European Travel Network
Traveling business organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20%28musical%29
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Rebecca (musical)
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Rebecca is a German-language musical based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It was written by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Sylvester Levay (music), the authors of the musicals Elisabeth, Mozart! and Marie Antoinette. The plot, which adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative housekeeper of DeWinter's Cornish estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers resents the new wife's intrusion and persuades the new wife that she is an unworthy replacement for the first Mrs. DeWinter, the glamorous and mysterious Rebecca, who perished in a drowning accident. The new Mrs. DeWinter struggles to find her identity and take control of her life among the shadows left by Rebecca.
The musical premiered on 28 September 2006 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Austria, where it ran for three years. Subsequent productions have been mounted in Finland, Korea, Japan and elsewhere.
Background
As a teenager, Michael Kunze had read Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca. In the 1990s, he re-read it and decided that the story would make a good musical. He traveled to Cornwall, England, to find du Maurier's son in an attempt to obtain the rights to musicalize the work, which had been denied to other librettists. Attending a performance of Kunze's long-running 1992 musical Elisabeth in Vienna persuaded du Maurier's son that the novel would be in good hands with Kunze and his musical partner Sylvester Levay.
Writing the libretto took Kunze nearly two years, and Levay took another two years to compose the music. A 2003 demo recording in English was made, with Pia Douwes as Mrs. Danvers, Maike Boerdam as "I" and Uwe Kröger as Maxim de Winter. Workshops were also presented in Essen and Vienna.
Kunze and Levay formed a collaboration with American director Francesca Zambello and English set designer Peter J. Davison. In early 2005, they decided to launch the musical in Vienna, Austria, with the production company Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, which had previously produced Kunze's musicals Elisabeth, Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires), and Mozart!.
Synopsis
Act I
A young woman, Ich, dreamily walks among "shadows"; in the background, Manderley appears destroyed by fire ("Ich hab getraumt von Manderley"). Ich reveals her "paid companion" clothes, as she is transported to a 1930s hotel in Monte Carlo. Her employer is a wealthy American, Mrs. Van Hopper ("Du wirst niemals eine Lady"). Widowed, aristocratic Maxim de Winter enters, as the hotel guests gossip ("Er verlor unerwartet seine Frau, Rebecca"). In the dramatic hills near Monte Carlo, Maxim kisses Ich; the inexperienced girl is swept off her feet by his worldly charm. Back in the hotel, Ich is Told that she is to go back New York. She reflects on the memories she shared with Maxim. ("Zeit in einer Flashe") Moments later, Maxim comes in and asks Ich to marry him.
Maxim and Ich honeymoon in Italy and then drive up to his stately Cornwall estate, Manderley. The servants enter and talk about what they’d think their new mistress will be like. ("Die neue Mrs. de Winter"). The haughty Mrs. Danvers oversees the well-organized servants; she is cold and hostile to Ich. Later, in the morning room, Mrs. Danvers is alone lamenting about Maxim's first wife, Rebecca ("Sie ergibt sich nicht"). Ich comes in and accidentally breaks a statue of Cupid; she is frightened. Mrs. Danvers fears that she is an unworthy replacement for the beautiful, elegant and mysterious Rebecca. Maxim's sister Beatrice and her husband Giles arrive at Manderley to meet Ich. The three get along well and are in a happy mood ("Die lieben verwandten"). In the library, Ich becomes tipsy and Mrs. Danvers comes in to tell Maxim that the Cupid is broken. Ich admits to doing it which causes a fight between Maxim and Ich ("Bist du glücklich - Bist du böse"). At night, Ich and Maxim reflect on how they are seeking solace in each other ("Hilf mir durch die Nacht"). At her house, Beatrice reflects on her affection for her brother and how he has changed in the past year ("Was ist nur los mit ihm"). In Rebecca's room, Rebecca's cousin Jack Favell tries Mrs. Danvers' patience ("Sie war gewohnt geliebt zu werden"), arguing about Rebecca's possessions and the fact that Rebecca “loved him” and that he was “her favorite cousin”. Ich comes in and meets Favell who tells her not to tell Maxim he was at Manderley. Ich and Mrs. Danvers discuss an upcoming masked ball and Danvers suggests Ich wear a dress that copies a portrait of one of Maxim's ancestors. Unbeknownst to Ich this was a part of Mrs. Danvers's plan to humiliate her. Then, in worshipful terms, Mrs. Danvers tells Ich about Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, who drowned while sailing on Maxim's sailboat a year earlier.
Members of an elite golf club gossip about Maxim and his new wife ("Wir sind British"). Later, Ben, a mentally handicapped man, is in the boat house ("Sie's fort") and meets Ich. He rambles about how she is better than Rebecca until Maxim returns and finds that Ich is near the boathouse. This causes Maxim to fly into a rage due to his dark memories ("Gott, warum"). Frank Crawley is in his office discussing the upcoming ball as well as the late Rebecca with Ich. He reassures her that she doesn't need to be just like Rebecca to gain Maxim's love and the respect of society ("Ehrlichkeit und vertrauen"). Later at the ball, everyone is waltzing ("Der Ball von Manderley"). Mrs. Van Hopper enters ("I'm an American Woman"). Ich is in her room in the dress Mrs. Danvers suggested she wear. She hopes to impress the guests as well as Maxim ("Heut' nacht verzauber' ich die Welt"). She emerges and begins to descend the staircase to the party. The guests froze in horror realizing that the dress Ich is wearing is the same one Rebecca had worn at last years ball. Maxim bursts into fury and Ich runs upstairs crying. Mrs. Danvers looks on malevolently.
Act II
At night, Ich stands outside Rebecca's room hoping to sort out the previous night's accident, while Mrs. Danvers is inside the room ("Und das, und das, und das"). Mrs. Danvers makes Ich uncomfortable and she runs off when Mrs. Danvers menaces her ("Tu nicht, was sie empört!" ... "Nur ein schritt"). At the seaside, the people of Cornwall find the remains of a shipwreck and with it, Rebecca's boat with her body inside the cabin("Flotsam and Jetsam"). Ich runs to the boat house and sees Ben and a disheveled Maxim, who had gone to help the sailors. He tells Ich that Rebecca was a manipulative and deceitful person and that he never loved her, in fact he hated her. He also tells her that he confronted Rebecca about her having multiple affairs and an altercation between the two ensued causing Maxim to snap and push Rebecca, which caused her to hit her head and die from a concussion. He had hid the body in the boat in a fit of panic. ("Now she has returned" ... "No smile was ever so cold"). Maxim is suspected of having killed Rebecca, and an investigation is taking place. The next morning in the house, Beatrice is in a panic about the hearing but notices how confident Ich has become and compliments her on it (Die Stärker Einer Frau). Ich, having had enough of being treated like dirt by Mrs. Danvers, confronts her and makes some changes in the house's decor, getting rid of all of Rebecca's items ("Mrs. de Winter bin Ich"). Ich is now a confident woman; when she breaks the Cupid statue again, she is no longer frightened.
At a nearby courtroom a hearing takes place, and Maxim and Horridge are at odds. Ich faints, and everyone returns to Manderley. Danvers and Favell arrive at Manderley and go to the library. Mrs. Danvers leaves and Favell remains on the library ("Eine Hand wäscht die andre"). Frank and Ich try to get him to leave but to no avail. Favell tries to blackmail Maxim with a letter from Rebecca. He accuses Maxim of murdering Rebecca but doesn't have enough proof so he calls Mrs. Danvers and asks for Rebecca's diary. It's found out that Rebecca had gone to see a man named Dr. Baker on the day she died. Favell assumes she was pregnant and Maxim killed her in a jealous rage because the nonexistent child wasn't his but no one knows the real reason. Ich stands by her husband and takes the initiative to find out why Rebecca visited her doctor. Ich decides to go London to see Dr. Baker while Maxim is ordered to stay at Manderley until the truth is found out. The servants and Mrs. Danvers comment on the situation ("Sie fuhr'n um acht"). Maxim picks up a phone call from Ich. It turns out that Rebecca was terminally ill with a form of cancer. It seems likely that she instigated her own death by provoking Maxim because she did not want to die a slow and painful death and would rather die quickly. Mrs. Danvers overhears and learns that Rebecca was going to die of cancer.
After this liberating news, Maxim can finally remove the picture of Rebecca from Manderley and give his undivided love to his new wife. Maxim picks up Ich at the train station in Cornwall, and they kiss passionately ("Jenseits der Nacht"). As they prepare to return, they see a red glow in the distance and realise that Manderley is in flames. Maxim and Ich hurry home as the servants run around with buckets of water ("Feuer, feuer, Manderley in Flammen!"). Mrs. Danvers stands inside the house at the top of the staircase dressed in Rebecca's nightgown, holding a candelabra in her hand as the flames consume Manderley. Maxim and Ich arrive, and Frank runs towards them. Inside, Danvers inclines the candles to the stairway handrail and sets it on fire. The house collapses and Mrs. Danvers perishes in the flames together with her memories of Rebecca.
Ich walks dreamily in darkness ("Ich hab getraumt von Manderley" (reprise)). Everyone except Maxim is standing among Manderley's ruins, but now the shadows have faces. Under a bright blue sky, Maxim holds his hand out to Ich who runs to him, and they kiss.
Productions
Vienna
Rebecca had its world premiere at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, in German, in September 2006, "where it played to sold-out houses totaling more than three years". It was directed by Zambello and choreographed by Denni L. Sayers, with production design by Davison, with costumes by Birgit Hutter and lighting by Andrew Voller. The cast starred Wietske van Tongeren as "Ich" ("I"), Uwe Kröger as Maxim and Susan Rigvava-Dumas as Mrs. Danvers.
Variety magazine considered the Vienna production a "dream of a show", adding:
Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay deliver a work every bit as compelling as their hit Elisabeth, the most successful German-language musical of all time, while Francesca Zambello's dazzling, cinematic production offers storytelling at its best, clearly defining the whirlpool of emotions experienced by the three tortured principal characters. ... Kunze's deft lyrics take us deep into the psyches of the never-named heroine (simply called "I"); moody, mercurial Maxim de Winter; obsessive Mrs. Danvers; and even the late Rebecca herself. Levay knows how to write tunes that jam in your head; he delivers the goods with Mrs. Danvers' haunting "Rebecca" and the anthem "The Power of a Woman in Love". ... Designer Peter J. Davison stunningly captures the atmosphere, from heady summer nights on the Riviera to the oppressive decay of Manderley.
Wietske Van Tongeren has all the endearing pipsqueak qualities to make the nameless heroine endearing, expertly conveying the slow transformation from little brown mouse to confident, strong woman. Her performance is marred only by her screechy pop vocal production. ... Kroger has built a substantial career on his pretty-boy looks. As Maxim, they work against him: He seems too young, too fey, too lightweight for such a haunted, world-weary character. His singing, while impassioned, is merely adequate, but he rises to the challenge of confessing his hatred for Rebecca in "No Smile Was Ever as Cold". ... Mrs. Danvers gets the best music, and in Susan Rigvava-Dumas has found a perfect interpreter. ... With a rich mezzo-soprano as her weapon, she embodies evil born of passion and jealousy in a multi-layered turn.
Reviewing the Vienna production on a night when an understudy was playing the protagonist "I", the critic of The Times, Benedict Nightingale, praised the fidelity of the plot to du Maurier's original and rated the staging "up to the most lavish West End visual standards. ... Only the shipwreck that leads to the discovery of Rebecca's body disappoints – and only a gallumphingly Wodehousean golfing number (Wir Sind Britisch) needs excising." Nightingale judged the ending of the musical "forgivably ... a bit more upbeat than the novel's." He found the dancing dull and the music "seldom harsh or imaginative enough" despite "a terrific central song, a soaring, grieving tribute" to Rebecca by "Susan Rigvava Dumas's mesmeric Danvers". He said of Kröger's Max, "though white-hot at moments of crisis, [he] hasn't quite the mix of brooding inwardness and outer sang froid the character needs."
2008 Japan production
Rebecca was then produced at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, opening on 6 April 2008. Later there was a 2010 production and 2018-19 10th anniversary production. In 2010 a studio recording of Japanese Cast was released .
European productions
The musical was performed in Helsinki, Finland, at the Helsingin kaupunginteatteri (Helsinki City Theatre) from 28 August 2008 to 9 May 2009. as well as in Kouvola, Finland, at the Kouvolan Teatteri on 11 September 2010.Rebecca played in Budapest, Hungary, on 18 and 19 March 2010 (and later in repertory).
On 7 February 2014 the musical opened in Malmö, Sweden at Malmö Opera. Director was Åsa Melldahl and Musical Director Anders Eljas.
Productions have also played in Stuttgart, Germany; St. Gallen, Switzerland; Moscow, Russia; Belgrade, Serbia; Bucharest, Romania; and Ostrava, Czechia.
2009 West End readings
In 2009, Ben Sprecher co-produced two English-language readings of Rebecca, hoping to mount a London West End production. In October 2009, a reading featured Sierra Boggess as "I", Brent Barrett as Maxim and Pia Douwes as Mrs. Danvers. The English-language book was written by Christopher Hampton in collaboration with Kunze.
U.S. reading and cancelled Broadway production
A reading took place on 18 March 2011 in New York, directed by Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello. The cast featured Boggess as "I", Hugh Panaro as Maxim, Carolee Carmello as Mrs. Danvers and James Barbour as Jack Favell. A Broadway production of the musical was announced twice during 2012, to be co-directed by Blakemore and Zambello. However, the producers cancelled both times after financing for the production fell through, even though there were $1 million in advance ticket sales. In October 2012, The New York Times reported that four of the "investors" in the proposed Broadway production never existed. Following criminal investigations by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Mark Hotton, the middleman who fabricated the fictitious investors, and received $60,000 in fees, was arrested and charged with fraud. In January 2013, producer Ben Sprecher told an interviewer that he hoped to mount the show on Broadway later in 2013. Although after completing an investigation the Securities and Exchange Commission pursued no action against Sprecher and his partner, the producers were unable to raise enough funding for a 2014 Broadway opening. On 24 April 2017, during a trial concerning the musical, it was announced that Sprecher and Louise Forlenza had lost the rights to produce the show, and, therefore, the show will not be pursuing a Broadway run.
2013 Korean production
Rebecca premiered in Korea in January 2013, and was met with both critical and commercial success. The cast included Yoo Jun-sang, Ryu Jung-han, and Oh Man-seok as Maxim, Lim Hye-young and Kim Bo-kyung as "I", and Ock Joo-hyun and Shin Young-sook as Mrs. Danvers. In the 2013 7th Annual Musical Awards, the production won 5 awards, with Ock Joo-hyun as the Best Featured Actress, Robert Johanson as the Best Director, Jung Seung-Ho as the Best Scenic Designer, Jack Mehler as the Best Lighting Designer, and Kim Ji-Hyeon as the Best Sound Designer.
Characters and original cast
Songs in the original production
This list includes a literal translation of the German song titles into English
Act I
Ich hab geträumt von Manderley ("Ich", Shadows) – I dreamt of Manderley
Du wirst niemals eine Lady (Mrs. van Hopper, "Ich") – You will never be a lady!
Er verlor unerwartet seine Frau Rebecca (Ensemble) – He lost his wife Rebecca unexpectedly
Am Abgrund ("Ich", Maxim) – At the abyss
Zeit in einer Flasche ("Ich") – Time in a bottle
Hochzeit (Instrumental) – Wedding
Zauberhaft Natürlich (Maxim)- Naturally Enchanting ¥
Die neue Mrs. de Winter (Ensemble, Mrs. Danvers, Crawley) – The new Mrs. de Winter
Sie ergibt sich nicht (Mrs. Danvers) – She won't surrender
Die lieben Verwandten (Beatrice, "Ich", Giles) – The dear relatives
Bist Du glücklich? ("Ich", Maxim) – Are you happy?
Bist Du böse? ("Ich", Maxim) – Are you angry?
Hilf mir durch die Nacht ("Ich", Maxim) – Help me through the night
Was ist nur los mit ihm? (Beatrice) – What's wrong with him?
Sie war gewohnt, geliebt zu werden (Mrs. Danvers, Favell) – She was used to being loved
Rebecca - Version 1 (Mrs. Danvers, Ensemble)
Wir sind britisch (Ensemble) – We are British#
Sie's fort (Ben) – She's gone
Gott, warum? (Maxim) – God, why?
Ehrlichkeit und Vertrauen (Crawley) – Honesty and trust
Ball von Manderley (Ensemble) – The Ball at Manderley^
I'm an American Woman (Mrs. van Hopper)
Heut Nacht verzaubere ich die Welt ("Ich", Clarice) – Tonight I'm going to enchant the world
Finale Erster Akt (Mrs. Danvers & Ensemble) – Finale: Act One
Act II
Entr'acte
Und Das und Das und Das ("Ich") – And this and this and this
Rebecca - Version 2 (Mrs. Danvers, "Ich", Shadows)
Nur ein Schritt (Mrs. Danvers) – Just one step
Strandgut (Ensemble, "Ich", Crawley, Favell) – Flotsam and jetsam
Sie's fort – Reprise (Ben)
Du liebst sie zu sehr ("Ich") – You love her too much
Kein Lächeln war je so kalt (Maxim) – Never was a smile that cold
Die Stärke einer Frau (Beatrice, "Ich") – The power of a woman
Die Neue Mrs. de Winter – Reprise (Ensemble)
Mrs. de Winter bin Ich! ("Ich", Mrs. Danvers) – I am Mrs. de Winter!
Die Voruntersuchung (Ensemble) – The Enquiry
Eine Hand wäscht die andre Hand (Favell) – One Hand washes the other^
Sie's fort – Reprise (Ben)
Sie fuhr'n um Acht (Ensemble) – They drove at eight o'clock
Keiner hat Sie durchschaut (Maxim) – No one saw through her
Rebecca – Reprise (Mrs. Danvers, Shadows)
Jenseits der Nacht ("Ich", Maxim) – Beyond the night^
Manderley in Flammen (Maxim, Mrs.Danvers, Ensemble, Crawley) – Manderley in Flames
Ich hab geträumt von Manderley ("Ich", Shadows) – I dreamt of Manderley
-Replaced with the song Merkwürdig, where the servants make fun of “Ich”, in the St. Gallen and subsequent productions
¥-Written for the 2010 Japan production and used in all productions afterwards
^-Shortened for the Stuttgart production
Recordings
The original Vienna cast recording, Rebecca – Das Cast Album, a studio recording, was released on 24 November 2006. It has 22 tracks. It peaked number 18 on the Ö3 Austria Top 75 album chart.
One of the songs from the show, "The Power of a Woman in Love", was released in English, as a single sung by Gloria Gaynor, prior to the Viennese premiere.
Rebecca – Gesamtaufnahme Live (Rebecca – Complete Recording Live) was recorded on 6 and 7 June 2007. The 2-CD live recording was released on 19 October 2007. Its 44 tracks include the entire production, including all spoken dialogue and songs. The recording also includes a bonus track: Marika Lichter, who performed Mrs. Van Hopper from the summer of 2007 through the end of 2007, singing "I'm an American Woman".
Rebecca – Original Japanese Cast Recording was released on 5 March 2010. The CD has 10 tracks, including "Zauberhaft Natürlich", which was written for this production.
Rebecca – Original Hungarian Cast Recording was released on 22 May 2010. It includes 16 tracks.
Rebecca – Gesamtaufnahme Live
was recorded in 2012, this time with the Stuttgart cast featuring Valerie Link as “Ich”, Jan Amman as Maxim de Winter, Pia Douwes as Mrs. Danvers, and Kerstin Ibald reprising her role as Beatrice
References
External links
2006 musicals
Works based on Rebecca (novel)
Musicals based on novels
Musicals by Michael Kunze
Musicals by Sylvester Levay
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Evridiki (Vicky) Hadjivassiliou (, born: 9 February 1964), also spelling as Hadjivasiliou or Hadjivasileiou, is a Greek author, television presenter and local politician who stood for PASOK in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was born on 10 February 1971 in Thessaloniki and was raised there with her brother, Phoebus by their father Vassilis and their mother Chryssoula.
Hadjivassiliou wrote various books about healthy diet and tips for long-living as well as many articles for magazines of Athens and Thessaloniki. She currently presents the television show "Pame paketo" (The Package) on Alpha TV.
She is married to Ioannis Akkas and together they have two sons, Christos and Orfeus.
References
Living people
Greek television presenters
Greek women television presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Events from the year 2001 in Argentina
Incumbents
President:
until 16 December: Fernando de la Rúa
20 December-22 December: Ramón Puerta
22 December-30 December: Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
starting 30 December: Eduardo Camaño
Vice President: vacant
Governors
Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Ruckauf
Governor of Catamarca Province: Oscar Castillo
Governor of Chaco Province: Ángel Rozas
Governor of Chubut Province: José Luis Lizurume
Governor of Córdoba: José Manuel De la Sota
Governor of Corrientes Province:
until 20 March: Ramón Mestre
20 March-10 December: Oscar Aguad
starting 10 December: Ricardo Colombi
Governor of Entre Ríos Province: Sergio Montiel
Governor of Formosa Province: Gildo Insfrán
Governor of Jujuy Province: Eduardo Fellner
Governor of La Pampa Province: Rubén Marín
Governor of La Rioja Province: Ángel Maza
Governor of Mendoza Province: Roberto Iglesias
Governor of Misiones Province: Carlos Rovira
Governor of Neuquén Province: Jorge Sobisch
Governor of Río Negro Province: Pablo Verani
Governor of Salta Province: Juan Carlos Romero
Governor of San Juan Province: Alfredo Avelín
Governor of San Luis Province: Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (until 23 December); María Alicia Lemme (starting 23 December)
Governor of Santa Cruz Province: Néstor Kirchner
Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Reutemann
Governor of Santiago del Estero: Carlos Juárez (until 15 December); Carlos Ricardo Díaz (starting 15 December)
Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Carlos Manfredotti
Governor of Tucumán: Julio Miranda
Vice Governors
Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Felipe Solá
Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Hernán Colombo
Vice Governor of Chaco Province: Roy Nikisch
Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: vacant (until 10 December); Eduardo Leonel Galantini (starting 10 December)
Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Edelmiro Tomás Pauletti
Vice Governor of Formosa Province: Floro Bogado
Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Rubén Daza
Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Heriberto Mediza
Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Luis Beder Herrera
Vice Governor of Misiones Province: Mercedes Margarita Oviedo
Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Jorge Sapag
Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Bautista Mendioroz
Vice Governor of Salta Province: Walter Wayar
Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima
Vice Governor of San Luis Province: María Alicia Lemme (until 10 December); vacant thereafter (starting 10 December)
Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: vacant
Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Marcelo Muniagurria
Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: vacant
Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Daniel Gallo
Events
16 December: Unemployed activists and protestors demanding food from supermarkets cause several incidents in Greater Buenos Aires.
18 December: Supermarkets and convenience stores start being looted in several places of Greater Buenos Aires and Rosario.
19 December: President de la Rúa declares a state of emergency. Cacerolazos erupt in major cities. Minister Domingo Cavallo resigns.
20 December: Violent incidents in Plaza de Mayo between protestors and police, and in other parts of the country. 26 people die. The president resigns.
22 December: After Congress deliberations, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá is appointed interim president.
30 December: Rodríguez Saá fails to obtain political support from his fellow party members, and resigns after only a week in office.
Births
July 18: Agustina Roth, BMX rider
Deaths
January 19: Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (b. 1921)
March 4: Gerardo Barbero (b. 1961), chess grandmaster
October 3: Gregorio Peralta (b. 1935), heavyweight boxer
Sports
See worldwide 2001 in sports
References
Argentina
Years of the 21st century in Argentina
2000s in Argentina
Argentina
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The Dolev–Yao model, named after its authors Danny Dolev and Andrew Yao, is a formal model used to prove properties of interactive cryptographic protocols.
The network
The network is represented by a set of abstract machines that can exchange messages.
These messages consist of formal terms. These terms reveal some of the internal structure of the messages, but some parts will hopefully remain opaque to the adversary.
The adversary
The adversary in this model can overhear, intercept, and synthesize any message and is only limited by the constraints of the cryptographic methods used. In other words: "the attacker carries the message."
This omnipotence has been very difficult to model, and many threat models simplify it, as has been done for the attacker in ubiquitous computing.
The algebraic model
Cryptographic primitives are modeled by abstract operators. For example, asymmetric encryption for a user is represented by the encryption function and the decryption function . Their main properties are that their composition is the identity function () and that an encrypted message reveals nothing about . Unlike in the real world, the adversary can neither manipulate the encryption's bit representation nor guess the key. The attacker may, however, re-use any messages that have been sent and therefore become known. The attacker can encrypt or decrypt these with any keys he knows, to forge subsequent messages.
A protocol is modeled as a set of sequential runs, alternating between queries (sending a message over the network) and responses (obtaining a message from the network).
Remark
The symbolic nature of the Dolev–Yao model makes it more manageable than computational models and accessible to algebraic methods but potentially less realistic. However, both kinds of models for cryptographic protocols have been related. Also, symbolic models are very well suited to show that a protocol is broken, rather than secure, under the given assumptions about the attackers capabilities.
See also
Security
Cryptographic protocol
References
Computer security
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Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg (1368 – 2 July 1429) was Count of Nassau in Weilburg, Count of Saarbrücken and Seigneur of Commercy Château bas in 1371–1429.
Biography
Philipp was a son of John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1309 – 1371) and Johanna, Countess of Saarbrücken (d. 1381), daughter of John II, Count of Saarbrücken (d. 1381).
Philipp inherited the County of Nassau-Weilburg from his father in 1371 and the County of Saarbrücken from his mother 1381. For the first ten years, his mother was the regent in his place, then bishop Friedrich of Blankenheim was the regent until his majority.
Philipp married twice and had several children, and his first wife Anna brought some territories in Trier that were added to his realm. At Philipps death in 1429, the counties were ruled jointly by his eldest sons, with their mother Elisabeth as regent until 1442, then it was divided between them, Philipp getting Nassau-Weilburg and Johann getting Saarbrücken and Commercy. At Philip's majority in 1438 he began ruling in collaboration with his mother, and provisions were made for her future.
In the war 1387–1389 (de) Philipp sided with the Bavarian duchies, against the Swabian union (de). For his achievements at the battle of Döffingen (de) he was honoured with the accolade. His involvement gave important allies and influence in southern Germany. In 1398 he was accredited with the privileges of coinage by Emperor Wenceslaus, and the power of his realm was consolidated. The emperor appointed him also to supervise the "landfrieden" in Rhine and Wetterau areas. In the national politics he both collaborated in the removal of emperor Wenceslaus 1400, protecting his successor Rupert and then joining many other lords in the opposition against him 1405–07, and until his Rupert's death in 1410. He participated at the crowning of the successor, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, who elevated him, and made him a member of his council, and "Hauptmann" (leader) of the nobility in Luxembourg. He was also a member of the council of the French king.
At the Council of Constance, Philipp supported King Sigismund against the policies of certain Popes, at the time of the Western Schism.
Marriage and issue
Firstly, Philipp married in 1385 with Anna of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (d. 11 October 1410), daughter of Count Kraft IV of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (de) (d. 1399). They had:
Philip (1388 – 19 March 1416).
Secondly, he married in 1412 with Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont (c. 1395 – 1456), who bore:
Philip II of Nassau-Weilburg (14 March 1418 – 19 March 1492), married Margrete of Loon-Heinsberg. She was a daughter of Johann III (d.b. 1441), Herr of Heinsberg (nl), great grandson of Gottfried (d. 1395), Count of Loon-Heinsberg but sold the county in 1362. Philip and Margarete had two sons, founding the line Nassau-Weilburg (extinct 1912 on male side). As a widower he married Veronika of Sayn-Wittgenstein, without issue.
Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken Jean/John II/III (4 April 1423 - 15 July 1472), married Johanna (1443 - 1469), daughter of Margareta's brother Johann IV of Loon-Heinsberg (d. 1448), and had two daughters. As a widower he married Elisabeth, daughter of Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach and had a son and founded the line Nassau-Saarbrücken (extinct 1574). In 1444 he sold the Seigneurie of Commercy "Château-Bas" to Louis of Lorraine (1427 - 1445), marquis Pont-à-Mousson, son of King René of Anjou (1409 - 1480), who inherited the property from his son.
Margarete (26 April 1426 – 5 May 1490), married in 1441 to Gerhard of Rodemachern (Rodemack) (d. 1388?). They probably had about four daughters.
One daughter may have been from either marriage, probably with Anna:
Johannetta (d. 1 February 1481, Römhild), married on 22 June 1422 to Count George I of Henneberg (de).
Also, he had at least three illegitimate children:
Philipp of Nassau
Grete (d. 1437)
Heintzchen of Nassau
Ancestry
References
1368 births
1429 deaths
House of Nassau-Weilburg
Counts of Nassau
People from Weilburg
Counts of Saarbrücken
14th-century German nobility
15th-century German nobility
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Näckrosen (meaning the water lily) is a station on the Stockholm metro, blue line. The station is located in Solna Municipality (northwestern end of Råsunda area), but one of the entrances is in Sundbyberg Municipality (Storskogen square). The Näckrosen station was opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of the Blue Line between T-Centralen and Hjulsta. The trains were running via Hallonbergen and Rinkeby. It is located deep underground under a residential area, close to the Gamla Filmstaden former movie production area.
Gallery
References
External links
Images of Näckrosen
Stockholm metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1975
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Dale Douglass
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Dale Dwight Douglass (born March 5, 1936) is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments at both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour level.
Douglass was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from University of Colorado in 1959, turned pro in 1960, and joined the PGA Tour in 1963. He played on the 1969 Ryder Cup team.
Douglass won three times and earned $573,351 in just under 25 years on the PGA Tour. His best finish in a major championship was T-13 at the 1969 U.S. Open. His fortunes improved dramatically when he reached the age of 50 and joined the Senior PGA Tour (now known as the Champions Tour). In this venue, Douglass has 11 wins including the 1986 U.S. Senior Open and currently has about $7 million in earnings.
He lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Professional wins (21)
PGA Tour wins (3)
PGA Tour playoff record (0–3)
Other wins (3)
1965 Arizona Open
1978 Jerry Ford Invitational (tie with Ed Sneed)
1983 Colorado PGA Championship
Senior PGA Tour wins (11)
*Note: The 1992 NYNEX Commemorative was shortened to 36 holes due to rain.
Senior PGA Tour playoff record (4–4)
Other senior wins (4)
1990 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Charles Coody)
1994 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Charles Coody)
1998 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (Legends Division with Charles Coody)
1998 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (Legendary Division with Charles Coody)
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Senior major championships
Wins (1)
See also
List of golfers with most Champions Tour wins
References
External links
American male golfers
Colorado Buffaloes men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for the United States
Winners of senior major golf championships
Golfers from Oklahoma
People from Wewoka, Oklahoma
People from Castle Rock, Colorado
1936 births
Living people
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Anitra Ford (born 1942) is an American former actress and former model. She is best known for her work as a model from 1972 to 1976 on the game show The Price Is Right.
Ford's mother acted in summer stock theater productions, and her father was a jazz musician. She graduated from high school in 1966, after which she became a model.
Ford's first modeling assignment was a swimsuit spread for Life magazine that featured her on the cover. Her film appearances included Where It Hurts, The Love Machine, The Big Bird Cage (1972), Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), and The Longest Yard (1974), and she appeared in episodes of the television programs Banacek, S.W.A.T., Mannix and Starsky and Hutch.
She also appeared on a 2018 episode of the TV game show To Tell The Truth in which she played the contestant who was indeed telling the truth about being a former model on The Price Is Right.
See also
The Price Is Right models
References
External links
Anitra Ford's Personal Blog
1942 births
20th-century American actresses
American film actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)
Game show models
Living people
21st-century American women
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In-law (disambiguation)
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In-law may refer to:
Affinity (law), kinship by marriage, such as:
Parent-in-law, a mother-in-law or father-in-law
Sibling-in-law, a sister-in-law or brother-in-law
In-law apartment, a type of secondary residence
In-Laws, an 2002-2003 American situation comedy that aired on NBC
The In-Laws, a 1979 American action-comedy film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk
The In-Laws, a 2003 American comedy film starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks
See also
Kinship terminology
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Anthony "Tony" Barrell (7 May 1940 – 31 March 2011) was an English writer and broadcaster who lived in Sydney, Australia. He produced several award-winning radio and television documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC World Service, usually with a focus on Asia and particularly Japan.
Early life
Barrell was born in Cheshire, England in 1940; both his parents and most of his family came from the Suffolk town of Stowmarket. His maternal grandmother, née Florence Laflin, had a family tree linking her through an unbroken line of agricultural labourers to the end of the sixteenth century.
He was brought up in the Welsh town of Mold in Flintshire and went to The King's School, Chester in 1951, and then Liverpool University from 1958–61, where he obtained a degree in economics. He was a student journalist and edited the literary magazine Sphinx. The magazine's covers were designed by Bill Harry who later edited Mersey Beat. In Liverpool, thanks to a friendship with the London teenage pop poet Royston Ellis, he met George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatle who was a promising young artist but died of a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg in 1962.
London years
Barrell moved to London in 1961 and lived for some years with Roger Deakin, author of Waterlog, in a flat they shared in Bayswater. He worked as a writer and researcher for Pathé Films from 1965 to 1969 and made journeys to shoot Pathe Pictorial in Morocco, Bermuda, Florida, New York and Hong Kong. In 1967, he met film designer Jane Norris and together they began visiting the Greek island of Lesbos. Norris started the design shop Ace Notions in Camden Town, London, which was later shared with the new wave fashion house Swanky Modes. Barrell co-wrote Superslave, a comic book for adults, with illustrator Bill Stair, which was published by Penguin Books in 1972. He also wrote a long profile of Captain Beefheart (Don van Vliet) for Zig Zag magazine, during his UK tour with the Magic Band in 1973.
Move to Sydney
Following the excesses of the Three-Day Week and the IRA bombing campaign of 1974 (and the birth of their daughter Klio), Barrell and Norris moved to Sydney, where they lived together in the same house in Balmain. Barrell was hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1975 to write and produce ideas and stories for their 'youth station' 2JJ (later Triple J). He and Graeme Bartlett developed the style of "cut up" radio shows through Sunday Afternoon at the Movies and Watching the Radio with the TV Off, both of which combined music and audio from sound tracks, comedy shows, mystery stories and contemporary pop (avant garde and mainstream) to create new narratives (a style that was later re-invented by ABC Radio National's Night Air program, which Barrell worked on toward the end of his career). Among those Barrell interviewed for Triple J were Brian Eno, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Rotten (né John Lydon), John Cale, and members of bands such as Madness, Wire and Cabaret Voltaire.
Barrell worked with Rick Tanaka for Triple J on The Nippi Rock Shop—a program on pop culture and politics of Japan—for thirteen years. People featured in the programme included The Yellow Magic Orchestra (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi), Sandii and Makoto of Sandii & the Sunsetz and other people from all walks of Japanese life. The pair also made a groundbreaking series of radio documentaries Japan's Other Voices for the ABC's Radio National network's Background Briefing program in 1984. Tony and Rick wrote articles for Australian Rolling Stone, Kyoto Journal and, for a while, were Sydney correspondents for the newsletter Tokyo Insider.
The 1980s
Barrell made a four-part radio documentary series in the UK in 1987. Two parts, Welcome to the Post-Industrial Museum and Militants on Merseyside, were about the industrial decline of Liverpool and the control of the city council by the Militant tendency; and the other two were about the British press. The Wapping Truth was the story of the Wapping dispute that followed the relocation of News International papers from Fleet Street to Wapping, and Nothing Left to Read was an examination of the perceived bias of most British newspapers in favour of the government of Margaret Thatcher. The programmes included interviews with author Linda Melvern, Tony Benn MP and the then-editor of the New Statesman, John Lloyd.
In 1988, the last year of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Barrell toured the US to make a five-part radio series Choice of America which visited Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Boston, Washington and New York City. Notable interviewees included John Kenneth Galbraith, Jim Garrison (the New Orleans attorney who was later the subject of Oliver Stone's JFK movie), and former New York City mayor John Lindsay. The second part of the series, What Happened to Houston, won an award at the New York Festival.
In 1989, Barrell won the Australian Writers' Guild award (known as an AWGIE) for radio for his play about the American poet Hart Crane, Lost at Sea. The play also featured the Japanese kabuki performer Danzō Ichikawa VII. Both Danzo and Crane committed suicide by jumping off ferry boats—and it explored ideas of synchronicity and the concept of 'dying at the right time' in the context of western and Japanese culture.
In 1989, Barrell was associate producer for the four-part ABC-KCET television documentary series Power in the Pacific, a survey of ongoing impact of the Pacific War and the Cold War in the Asia-Pacific. The series was filmed in Japan, China, South Korea, the Philippines (Manila and Cebu), the Marianas (Saipan), Papua-Nugini. The episode he directed, "Japan Comes First", also won a medal at the New York Festival in 1990 and the series was broadcast in Japan by NHK 2.
The 1990s
In 1993, Barrell produced a radio documentary, Cheers, about the Sydney Swans football team of which he was a passionate supporter.
In 1994, in the immediate aftermath of the genocidal massacres, Barrell travelled as field producer for ABC's Foreign Correspondent on assignment to Rwanda (with reporter Peter George).
In 1995, he visited Tokyo to record interviews for a feature to commemorate the 9–10 March 1945 bombing which destroyed much of the city with incendiary bombs and was, arguably, the first strategic use of napalm against civilians. The Tokyo's Burning feature broadcast by ABC Radio National's Radio Eye won the RAI special prize at the Prix Italia that year in Bologna. Barrell also produced the story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that year—Don't Forget Nagasaki won a United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for radio. The fire-bombing story was central to the book written with Rick Tanaka Higher than Heaven (published by Private Guy International).
In 1996, the two made a new kind of radio program, a survey of the world's cities still running trams or light rail systems. They invited citizens of Tallinn (Estonia), New Orleans, Nagasaki (Japan) and Mainz (Germany) to send cassettes of their rides on local trams. The result was broadcast in a feature by Radio Eye, but what made it different and special, was that it was accompanied by a dedicated website titled Trammit!, the wider story of light rail trams and street cars throughout the world. It was designed by Rick and Eddy Jokovich from ARMEDIA. Trammit! was removed in 2005, but it was probably a first of its kind (a radio show with a website), at least in Australia. That same year Barrell and Rick Tanaka visited Okinawa to make more radio programs for the ABC and research their book Okinawa Dreams OK (1997).
In 1997, Barrell visited the northern Japanese town of Maki in Niigata to record a story about the town's decision to vote against the siting of a genpatsu (nuclear power station) nearby, the first such referendum to successfully block a genpatsu. The story was broadcast by ABC Radio National's Indian Pacific program.
2000 onwards
In 2000, Tony created (with sound engineer Russell Stapleton and researcher/translator Rick Tanaka) a major audio study of montage and collage, both visual and audio. It was broadcast by the ABC's Listening Room (now defunct). The ABC website carries Must You See the Joins?, an illustrated article about the great collagists including the veteran Japanese artist Kimura Tsuneihisa who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2008.
In 2000, Barrell was commissioned to produce a one-off report for the ABC TV's leading currents affairs program Four Corners, a study of how the service industries have grown and changed Australia's working life. "The Business of Change" was shot in Sydney and included scenes at the now-defunct One.Tel telco, interviews with life coaches, dog walkers and other 'new' professions.
In 2002, Barrell's Japan expertise earned him a commission to present the BBC World Service co-production (with the ABC) of six radio documentaries broadcast in the run up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan in May 2002. A feature about the older parts of Tokyo, called What Tokyo, shared the 2004 Prix Marulic, awarded at the annual drama and documentary festival sponsored by Croatian radio—HRTV—on the island of Hvar.
Also in 2003, BBC World Service and ABC sent Tony to Singapore, Vietnam and Okinawa for a series about the effect of Chinese and Confucian values in the Asian region. The Okinawa program, Live Slow Live Long, focussed on the island peoples' claim to be the oldest in the world, and included interviews with a centenarian who said the secret of her longevity was to work every day, sleep every day, eat plenty of Okinawa's national dish chanpurū (which includes pork and 'bitter melon' known in Okinawa as goya) and take a little awamori, Okinawa's own drink distilled from Thai sweet rice. Barrell made a third series for these two broadcasting networks in 2004 when he visited the Russian Far East—Sakhalin island, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. In 2005 his book of the series The Real Far East was published by the independent Melbourne company Scribe. In 2006, Barrell presented Rice Bowl Tales, a fourth series for the BBC and Radio National about the rice cultures of Asia.
Barrell was working with his wife on a DVD film about their many visits to Molivos, Lesbos and a book on the same subject. He retired from full-time employment with the ABC in May 2008, and had hoped to complete work on his own story—Your Island My Island—in 2009. He died on 31 March 2011 of an apparent heart attack.
In 2011 the Australian musician Paul Gough (aka Pimmon) dedicated his The Oansome Orbit album (released on Room40) to Tony Barrell.
Bibliography
Higher than heaven, Barrell, Tony and Tanaka, Rick, 1995, Privateguy International, Sydney
Okinawa Dreams Ok, Barrell, Tony and Tanaka, Rick, 1996, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin
References
External links
Tony Barrell Archive – A collection of his radio work.
1940 births
2011 deaths
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Australian television personalities
English emigrants to Australia
Griffith Review people
People from Mold, Flintshire
Triple J announcers
University of Technology Sydney faculty
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Emmanuel (born Jesús Emmanuel Arturo Acha Martinez, April 16, 1955, in Mexico City) is a Mexican singer who debuted in the 1970s.
He is the son of the Argentinian-born bullfighter Raúl Acha, "Rovira", who appeared numerous times in the Plaza de Acho in Lima, Peru. Emmanuel grew up in Chosica, a town about an hour from Lima, and attended Chosica's most prestigious boarding school, the Colegio Santa Rosa, of the Augustinian priests. His mother was Spanish singer Conchita Martínez.
Emmanuel's songs are usually ballads, which became popular during the 1980s.
His fourth and most successful album to date, Íntimamente (Intimately), was written by the famous Spaniard ballad composer Manuel Alejandro in collaboration with Ana Magdalena. It was released in 1980 and had the following seven hit songs:
"Todo Se Derrumbó Dentro De Mí" ("Everything Collapsed Inside of Me")
"Quiero Dormir Cansado" ("I Want to Sleep Tired")
"El Día Que Puedas" ("The Day You Can")
"Con Olor A Hierba" ("With the Smell of Grass")
"Tengo Mucho Que Aprender De Ti" ("I Have A Lot to Learn from You")
"Insoportablemente Bella" ("Unbearably Beautiful") (cover of Hernaldo Zúñiga's and Rudy Márquez's 1980 hit)
"Este Terco Corazón" ("This Stubborn Heart")
The remaining songs on the album are "Esa Triste Guitarra" ("That Sad Guitar"), "Caprichosa María" ("Capricious Maria"), and "Eso Era La Vida" ("That Was Life"), the last of which is the only song on the album not composed by Alejandro-Magdalena.
His follow-up albums also enjoyed success with memorable love songs. His Ibero-American number one single "La Chica de Humo" ("The Smoke Girl"), a New jack swing song which became one of the biggest hits throughout 1989, it also became a number one single on the U.S Hot Latin Tracks in the same year. The theme was included on the 1989 album Quisiera. The music video for the song had a constant rotation on the Mexican, Uruguayan and Argentinian music channels and became an eighties classic song in Ibero-America. In 2011, Emmanuel received the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award. Ten years later, he was presented with the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also been presented with the Billboard Spirit of Hope Award in 1997 for his work in philanthropy.
Emmanuel continues to tour throughout Latin America backed by bands that have included musicians from the United States, most notably guitarist Dick Smith of (Earth Wind & Fire, Kenny Loggins, and Air Supply).
Emmanuel's son, Alexander Acha, is a professional singer as well.
Discography
2015: Inédito
2007: Retro en Vivo
1999: Sentirme Vivo
1996: Amor Total
1994: Esta Aventura
1993: En Gira
1992: Ese Soy Yo
1990: Vida
1989: Quisiera
1988: Entre Lunas
1986: Desnudo
1984: Emmanuel
1983: En La Soledad
1982: Tú y Yo
1980: Intimamente
1979: Al Final
1977: Amor Sin Final
1976: 10 Razones Para Cantar
Television
2008: Premios TV y novelas (2008)
2008: Emmanuel... La trayectoria
2008: Más vale tarde
2007: Premios TV y novelas (2007)
2006: 'Aún hay más... Homenaje a Raúl Velasco2003: De pe a pa1992: Querida Concha1992: Ese soy yo1987: Emmanuel en Las Vegas1986: Querido amigo1984: Siempre en domingo1984: Emmanuel en Acapulco1983: Emmanuel; si ese tiempo pudiera volver1978: Festival OTI Sang "El y yo" and "Al Final"
1977: Variedades de media noche
1977: Otra vez Iran Eory
Soundtrack
2001: La Intrusa (Mexican telenovela) TV series aka "Telenovela"
1998: Dance with Me (film) (performer: "Esa triste guitarra")
References
External links
http://www.emmanuel.com.mx
http://www.universalmusica.com/emmanuel/
Mexican pop singers
1955 births
Living people
Mexican bullfighters
Singers from Mexico City
Universal Music Latin Entertainment artists
Mexican people of Argentine descent
Mexican people of Basque descent
Mexican people of Spanish descent
Mexican Roman Catholics
OTI Festival presenters
20th-century Mexican male singers
21st-century Mexican male singers
Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
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The Cardiff Huskies are a sledge hockey team based in Cardiff, Wales. The team was started by Andy McNulty and David "Jamo" James. The team is believed to be the oldest sledge hockey team in the UK. The Cardiff Huskies is the only sledge hockey team in Wales. The team is part of the BSHA (British Sledge Hockey Association).
The team is one of the main teams that champions adults, children, male athletes and female athletes, on the Huskies roster. The Huskies is one of the main teams that help raise awareness of sledge hockey in the British Isles, as a way of getting more players and more teams created. Kingston Kestrels is another team that advertises sledge hockey in the British Isles.
The Cardiff Huskies used to train in the Welsh National Ice Rink. Demolished in 2006 to build the St. David's 2 shopping centre, and specifically the John Lewis department store, they now play and train at Ice Arena Wales, Cardiff Bay, which is also home to the Cardiff Devils. The Huskies train on a Sunday night.
References
Official Cardiff Sledge Hockey Website
cardiffhuskies.com Official website for Cardiff Huskies Para Ice Hockey Team
Parasports teams
Ice hockey teams in Wales
Sledge hockey
Sport in Cardiff
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The Basarabi-Murfatlar Cave Complex is a medieval Christian monastery located near the town of Murfatlar (known as Basarabi between 1924–1965 and 1975–2007), Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The complex is a relict from a widespread monastic phenomenon in 10th century Bulgaria.
History
The rock churches of Murflatlar, carved into a chalk hill, were discovered in 1957. The excavations conducted in 1957–1960 uncovered of a complex of cells-dwellings, 4 small and 2 larger churches, crypts and tombs, all dating from the 9th – 11th century. From the late 7th until beginning of the 11th century this territory was part of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Inscriptions
There are many inscriptions engraved on the walls – 2 in the Greek alphabet, 2 in the Old Slavonic language (Bulgarian recension) using the Glagolitic script and over 30 using the Cyrillic script. The most numerous are the runic inscriptions of Turkic type – over 60 have been found so far. The same type of runes have been used on the Pliska Rosette and can be found on building materials and on the 9th century walls of the first Bulgarian capital Pliska. The Turkic runes in Murfatlar were based probably on the Kharosthi script. The language of the runes is presumably Bulgar, as suggested by some scholars. According to Romanian researchers, some graffiti, including a Viking navy, were interpreted as Varangian. However, they could have been carved by the local monks during the Rus' invasion of Bulgaria. Despite numerous attempts at cracking the Murfatlar script, there still is not a universally accepted decipherment, and it is rather heterogeneous. Nevertheless, it is most likely that local monks drew their inspiration here.
Image gallery
References
External links
Basarabi – The Cave Churches Complex
General Overview of the Inscriptions from Murfatlar (in English)
Съчетанията от графична рисунка и рунообразен надпис в Равна и Мурфатлар. – Културните текстове на миналото, Рашо Рашев, Кн. III. София, 2005, с. 140–148. (in Bulgarian)
За четенето на един рунически надпис от Мурфатлар – Северна Добруджа, Иван Т. Иванов М. Минкова, Националeн исторически институт с музей при БAН, София 2009. с. 297 – 299 (in Bulgarian, English summary)
Надписи из Мурфатлара,Д-р Живко Войников (in Russian)
Popkonstantinov, Kazimir 1986: Die Inschriften des Felsklosters Murfatlar. Die Slawischen Sprachen 10, 1986, 77–106.(in Deutsch)
Buildings and structures in Constanța County
Archaeological sites in Romania
Former populated places in Romania
Undeciphered writing systems
Lower Danube Cave Churches Complex
Bulgarian Orthodox monasteries
Byzantine sites in Romania
Medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church buildings
Cave monasteries
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Field goal percentage
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Field goal percentage in basketball is the ratio of field goals made to field goals attempted. Its abbreviation is FG%. Although three-point field goal percentage is often calculated separately, three-point field goals are included in the general field goal percentage. Instead of using scales of 0 to 100%, the scale .000 to 1.000 is commonly used. A higher field goal percentage denotes higher efficiency. In basketball, a FG% of .500 (50%) or above is considered a good percentage, although this criterion does not apply equally to all positions. Guards usually have lower FG% than forwards and centers. Field goal percentage does not completely tell the skill of a player, but a low field goal percentage can indicate a poor offensive player or a player who takes many difficult shots. In the NBA, Center Shaquille O'Neal had a high career FG% (around .580) because he played near the basket making many high percentage layups and dunks. Guard Allen Iverson often had a low FG% (around .420) because he took the bulk of his team's shot attempts, even with high difficulty shots.
The NBA career record for field goal percentage is held by Robert Williams III at 0.728. Currently, the highest field goal percentage record for a single season is 0.742 by New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson which was set during the abbreviated 2019–20 season. Before Mitchell Robinson, NBA Hall of Fame player Wilt Chamberlain held the record from 1971-1972 to 2019-2020 with a season high field goal percentage of 0.727.
Field goal percentages were substantially lower in the NBA until the mid-to-late 1960s. For this reason, many early NBA stars have low field goal percentages, such as Bob Cousy at .375, and George Mikan, Bob Pettit, and Bill Russell, whose career field goal percentages of .404, .436, and .440, respectively, are much lower than later post players.
Three-point field goal percentage is usually kept as additional statistics. Its abbreviation is 3FG%. A 3FG% of .400 and above is a very good percentage.
See also
50–40–90 club, an exclusive group of players with one criterion being shooting at least 50 percent of field goals
List of National Basketball Association top individual field goal percentage seasons
References
Basketball terminology
Basketball statistics
Percentages
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Chiral Potts curve
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The chiral Potts curve is an algebraic curve defined over the complex numbers that occurs in the study of the chiral Potts model of statistical mechanics. For an integer N, the parameters in the Boltzmann weights of the model are constrained to lie on the intersection of two algebraic surfaces of degree N in projective 3-space.
The equation is
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The curve has been known since papers published in 1987 and 1988. It has genus that is quadratic in N.
External links
PDF paper by Brian Davies and Amnon Neeman
Algebraic curves
Exactly solvable models
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1974 Salvadoran legislative election
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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1974. The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 36 of the 52 seats whilst the National Opposing Union (an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement and the Nationalist Democratic Union) won only 15. However, the election was marred by massive fraud and the official vote counts were not published.
Results
References
Bibliography
Political Handbook of the world, 1974. New York, 1975.
Anderson, Thomas P. 1988. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition.
Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead. 1984. Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador. Boston: South End Press.
Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
Webre, Stephen. 1979. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Elections in El Salvador
1974 in El Salvador
El Salvador
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
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Simon House
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Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is an English composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind. His arrival in 1974 introduced a new element to the band's style. He was the first conspicuously trained musician to join, and the sound that emerged on Hall of the Mountain Grill was a previously unheard, lush chaos which sounded a little like Black Sabbath meets The Moody Blues.
Before Hawkwind, House played in High Tide and the Third Ear Band, who contributed the soundtrack to Roman Polanski's Macbeth. Guitarist Tony Hill recounted how House became a member of High Tide: "[Pete Pavli and I were] hanging out with and crashing where we could at Mike's or Wayne's. Simon ended up crashing there as well. Simon was playing bass then. He said: 'I used to play violin, you know?' So I said 'Get it!' That was basically it."
He joined Hawkwind in 1974, playing on some of their albums, before leaving for David Bowie's band in 1978. That, along with Robert Calvert falling into clinical depression, led to Hawkwind breaking up in mid-tour.
Along with other Hawkwind members he guested on science fiction author Michael Moorcock's New Worlds Fair in 1975 and has also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner.
Since the 1970s, as well as cutting an album (Interesting Times) with Tony Hill under the High Tide banner and releasing several solo albums under his own name, House has twice rejoined Hawkwind; between 1989 and 1991, and between 2001 and 2003.
Discography
High Tide
Sea Shanties (1969)
High Tide (1970)
Interesting Times (1989)
Precious Cargo (1990)
The Flood (1990)
Denny Gerrard
Sinister Morning (1970)
Third Ear Band
Music from Macbeth (1972)
The Magus (recorded 1972, released 2004)
Hawkwind
Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)
Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (1976)
Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)
PXR5 (1979)
Lord of Light (1987)
Space Bandits (1989)
Palace Springs (1990)
Live in Nottingham 1990 (2004)
Anthology, 1967-1982 (1998)
Stasis: The U.A. Years, 1971-1975 (2003)
Yule Ritual (2002)
Canterbury Fayre 2001 (2002)
The Weird Tapes No. 5: Live '76 & '77 (2001)
Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix
New Worlds Fair (1975)
Robert Calvert
Lucky Leif and the Longships (1975)
Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler (1981)
Revenge
David Bowie
Stage (1978)
Lodger (1979)
Sound + Vision (2001)
Welcome to the Blackout (recorded in 1978) (2018)
Japan
Tin Drum (1981)
Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas (1994)
Exorcising Ghosts (2004)
David Sylvian
Everything and Nothing (2000)
Thomas Dolby
She Blinded Me With Science (1982)
The Golden Age of Wireless [Re-released version](1982)
The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle (1994)
Mike Oldfield
"Crises" (1983) [2013 Deluxe Edition only]
The Complete Mike Oldfield (1985)
Magic Muscle
One Hundred Miles Below (1989)
Gulp (1991)
Nik Turner
Prophets of Time (1994)
Transglobal Friends and Relations (2000)
Space Gypsy (2013)
Life In Space (2017)
Simon House
Yassasim (1995)
Spiral Galaxy Revisited (2005)
Simon House with Rod Goodway
House of Dreams (2002)
Spiral Realms
A Trip to G9 (1994)
Crystal Jungles of Eos (1995)
Solar Wind (1996)
Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation (1995)
Anubian Lights
The Eternal Sky (1995)
Jackal & Nine (1996)
Ambient Time Travellers
Ambient Time Travellers (1995)
Adrian Shaw
Head Cleaner (2000)
Bedouin
As Above So Below (2001)
Earth Lab
Element (2006)
Judy Dyble
Enchanted Garden (2004)
Spindle (2006)
The Whorl (2006)
Astralasia
Cluster of Waves (2007)
Away With the Fairies (2007)
Spirits Burning
Earthborn (2008)
Bloodlines (2009)
Nektar
A Spoonful of Time (2008)
Alan Davey
Eclectic Devils (2009)
Albums in process
Psychestra
Psychestra (demo, 2009)
Dark Chemistry
Romance of Desolation (demo, 2009)
Comitatus
Portable Casanova (demo, 2009)
References
External links
Myspace page for Simon House Official web site
Dark Chemistry Official web site
Myspace page for Dark Chemistry Official web site
Myspace page for Psychestra Official web site
Astralasia Official web site
1948 births
Living people
People educated at Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School
People from Nottingham
English keyboardists
Hawkwind members
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Stylomastoid artery
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The stylomastoid artery enters the stylomastoid foramen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells, and the semicircular canals. It is a branch of the posterior auricular artery, and thus part of the external carotid arterial system.
In the young subject a branch from this vessel forms, with the anterior tympanic artery from the internal maxillary, a vascular circle, which surrounds the tympanic membrane, and from which delicate vessels ramify on that membrane.
It anastomoses with the superficial petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery by a twig which enters the hiatus canalis facialis.
References
External links
ArcLab
Arteries of the head and neck
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Stadshagen
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Stadshagen is a district in Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden.
Location
Stadshagen is located in the northwest part of the island of Kungsholmen.
Stadshagen borders the districts of Kungsholmen through Lilla Västerbron, Marieberg and Igeldammsgatan;
Kristineberg through Lindhagensgatan; Marieberg through part of Rålambshovsleden and to Huvudsta in Solna municipality through the Karlbergskanalen.
History
One of Stockholm's major hospitals, Saint Göran Hospital (Sankt Görans Sjukhus), opened in 1888 in this district. Saint Göran Church (Sankt Görans kyrka) first opened in 1910 as a chapel designed by architect Gustaf Améen (1864–1949). The present church was designed by architect Adrian Langendal (1904-1970) and was inaugurated in 1958.
The Blue line metro station of Stadshagen was opened in 1975 between Fridhemsplan and Västra skogen. Stadshagen metro station was inaugurated on 31 August 1975.
References
Districts of Stockholm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Wass
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Albert Wass
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Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege (Hungarian gróf szentegyedi és czegei Wass Albert, January 8, 1908 – February 17, 1998) was a Hungarian nobleman, forest engineer, novelist, poet and member of the Wass de Czege family.
Wass was born in Válaszút, Austria-Hungary (now Răscruci, Cluj County, Romania) in 1908. In 1944 he fled from Hungary, and then joined the fleeing forces of the Third Reich and ended up in Germany, then emigrated to the U.S. After World War II, he was condemned as a war criminal by the Romanian People's Tribunals, however, United States authorities refused to extradite Wass to Romania claiming the lack of solid evidence.
The works of Albert Wass first gained recognition within Hungarian literature from Transylvania in the 1940s. In 1944 he moved to Germany and later in 1952 to the United States, and lived there till his 1998 death in Astor Park, Florida. During the communist regime his books were banned both in Hungary and in Romania. Part of his works were published in Hungary after the change of political system in 1989, however, before this time, his works were unknown to the Hungarian public.
He is popular among the Hungarian minority in Romania and has a growing popularity in Hungary. In 2005 in a public assessment (Nagy Könyv), he was found to be one of the most popular Hungarian authors: his book "A funtineli boszorkány" (The Witch of Funtinel) was named the 12th most popular book; two more books were named in the top 50 ranking, including the family saga "Kard és kasza" (Sword and Scythe).
Family
The Wass family has traced its descent from the age of Árpád, and is one of the oldest noble families in Transylvania. The family received the title of count from Maria Theresia in 1744.
His grandfather, Béla Wass, was a parliamentarian and Lord Lieutenant (főispán) of Szolnok-Doboka county. His father was Count Endre Wass (1886–1975), his mother Baroness Ilona Bánffy de Losonc (1883–1960).
He has six sons: Vid Wass de Czege, Csaba Wass de Czege, Huba Wass de Czege, Miklós Wass de Czege, Geza Wass de Czege and Endre (Andreas) Wass von Czege.
Youth
Albert Wass was born in Válaszút (today Răscruci) at the Bánffy mansion of Válaszút, distinct from the nearby Bánffy castle of Bonchida. His parents divorced early, and he was mostly brought up by his grandfather, Béla Wass. He graduated from the Reformed Church Secondary School in Cluj on Farkas Street and subsequently earned a diploma of forestry from the Academy of Economics in Debrecen, Hungary. He continued his studies of forestry and horticulture in Hohenheim, Germany and Sorbonne, Paris, where he received additional diplomas. He returned to Transylvania in 1932, as his father fell ill. He had to attend obligatory military service in the Romanian Army, and later settled to run the family estate in the Transylvanian Plain.
His first wife was his cousin Baroness Éva Siemers (1914–1991) of Hamburg. "Due to pressure from my family, I had to marry my cousin in 1935 (...) this was the only way to avoid bankruptcy of the family lands", Wass wrote later.
He had six children (Vid, Csaba, Huba, Miklós, Géza, Endre); Csaba died at age three. Huba Wass de Czege, born in 1941 in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) had a significant career in the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of brigadier general. He is known as a principal designer of the "AirLand Battle" military doctrine and took part in the planning of Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991.
Wass started to write poems, short stories and articles. His first books were published in 1927 and 1929 in Cluj. In 1934, his novel Farkasverem (Wolfpit) was published by the Transylvanian Guild of Arts. In 1935, he was accepted member of the Transylvanian Guild of Arts, and at the same time he was the first young Transylvanian to be awarded the Baumgarten Prize.
After the Second Vienna Award (30 August 1940), northern Transylvania was reassigned to Hungary, so in 1941, Wass was nominated as primary forest monitor in the Ministry of Agriculture for the area near Dés (now Dej).
During World War II
From May 1942 he took part in military training with the Hungarian Cavalry as a reserve officer, achieving rank of ensign. In his memoirs, Wass claims to have become chief editor of Ellenzék in May 1943, as his boss was drafted into the army. He writes:
two soldiers of Gestapo entered the editorial, showing the order they have to monitor the newspaper. I simply left the building, and walked up the mountains. Two weeks later, my father sent me a message that the Germans are looking for me. To avoid conflict, General Veress, the commander of military troops in North Transylvania has given me a uniform, and as master sergeant he sent me to Ukraine with 9th Hungarian Cavalry, from which I returned only at Christmas.
Wass became the aide-de-camp of General Lajos Veress in 1944. As the war was drawing to an end and the Soviet (and later Romanian) troops were drawing forward into Transylvania, as an officer, he did not wait for the occupation of North Transylvania, but on Easter 1945, crossed the border and chose emigration.
World War II sentence for war crimes
In May 1946, both Albert Wass and his father, Endre Wass, were sentenced to death in absentia by a Romanian tribunal for ordering the killing of Romanian peasants from Sucutard and Mureșenii de Câmpie and their possessions were confiscated, by Romanian People's Tribunal, a tribunal set up by the post-World War II government of Romania, overseen by the Allied Control Commission to trial suspected war criminals, in line with Article 14 of the Armistice Agreement with Romania. The tribunal were to a large extent set up on the model of the Nürnberg International Tribunal. The two were accused for events that happened in September 1940, when the Hungarian forces marched into North Transylvania, when a Hungarian lieutenant, Pakucs, arrested six inhabitants (a Romanian priest and his family, his Hungarian servant, also Romanian peasants, and a local Jewish merchant and his family) of Sucutard (Szentgothárd), and then shot to death two Romanian men and two Jewish women, Eszter and Róza Mihály in Ţaga (Czege), at the order of Albert and Endre Wass, when they allegedly attempted to escape. Albert Wass was also accused for, as the alleged instigator, for the shootings at Mureşenii de Câmpie (Omboztelke), when Hungarian soldiers, led by Lieutenant Gergely Csordás, killed 11 Jews. Wass defended himself as not present at the killings.
Romanian authorities tried several times to have him extradited to Romania, however in 1979, after several revisions, the U.S. Department of Justice refused the petition due to lack of evidence. This was confirmed even after the Wiesenthal Center denounced him, as he was among the people who were accused of killing Jews. After the analysis of the case, the U.S. dropped the charges against him. Wass continued to insist that he had nothing to do with the killings, and claimed he was the victim of a "Zionist-Romanian" conspiracy.
Albert Wass claimed several times that the secret police of Communist Romania, the Securitate, was trying to assassinate him, but he was not able to prove it. In 1986, he shot a film on bullet marks allegedly resulting from an attempt to kill him, but no solid evidence was found to link it to the Securitate. The two perpetrators of that attempt have been captured by American police, but they were released on account of their Romanian diplomatic passport.
In 2008, his son, Andreas Wass, appealed to the Romanian courts to annul the sentence, but the Romanian courts found that no new evidence was presented and as such, the sentence was upheld.
Emigration
First traveling to Sopron, he then moved onward to Bleichbach and Hamburg, Germany, and lived there till 1951, where the family of his first wife, Éva Siemers, had been living. He found a job as a nightwatchman at a construction site.
In 1951, Wass emigrated to the United States, together with four of his sons (Vid, Huba, Miklós, and Géza). Due to pulmonary disease, his wife was unable to receive approval for emigration from the US administration and was subsequently left behind in Germany with their other son Endre. The couple later divorced.
In 1952, he married Elizabeth McClain (1905–1987) Elizabeth was the daughter of WG McClain and Florence McClain of Bellaire Ohio both respectively Irish and English immigrants. Elizabeth's family consisted of four children to three girls two boys Carolyn Rose Joseph and John we're her siblings she also had children from a previous relationship two girls and a boy.
Wass founded the American Hungarian Guild of Arts, managing its academic work and publishing activities, and editing its newsletter. He launched his own publishing house, the Danubian Press, which published not only books but English language magazines of the American Hungarian Guild of Arts, too. The Transylvanian Quarterly dealing with Transylvania and related issues, then the Hungarian Quarterly undertaking the general problems of the Hungarian nation became the most important anti-Bolshevik forum of Hungarian exiles.
On 20 August 1993 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit by president Árpád Göncz according to the proposal of prime minister József Antall, received the next year from the Hungarian consul of Florida and Sándor Csoóri at his home.
Wass's application for naturalization in Hungary was first refused by the government between 1994 and 1998, as his death sentence in Hungary had not been revoked, then impeded by a reply that the naturalization certificate of the 90-year-old author would have been valid for only a year from the date of issue.
Wass committed suicide on February 17, 1998, at age 90 in his Florida residence after a long struggle with a medical condition. His final wish was to have his remains placed in the garden of Kemény villa in Brâncoveneşti, Mureș County, next to the tomb of author János Kemény.
Citizenship and rehabilitation attempts
It was a long debate in the Hungarian press about the fact that Albert Wass has not received Hungarian citizenship, in spite of his several applications, the explanation given being that he had again became a Romanian citizen after the 1946 Paris Peace Conference.
In 2007, Hungarian members of parliament István Simicskó (KDNP, Christian Democrats) and Mihály Babák (Fidesz, Young Democrats) have asked president László Sólyom to grant Albert Wass citizenship posthumously, but were replied that this is not possible for several reasons, for example, he had already received citizenship in 1997, so the writer has died as Hungarian, , however, the certificate of citizenship (but not the citizenship itself) was valid only for one year and he refused it as being offensive.
In recent years, some representatives of the Hungarian minority in Romania and his family attempted his rehabilitation. His son's request for a retrial of the case was rejected by the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice in 2007.
His life has never been examined thoroughly in court, so as a consequence it is a predominant view among Romanians that Albert Wass is a criminal, responsible for the murdering of Romanians and Jews and his condemnation by the Tribunal is just. The rehabilitation attempts are seen as immoral particularly by relatives of those he was accused of murdering.
On May 22, 2004, a statue was unveiled in Odorheiu Secuiesc bearing no name, only the Hungarian inscription "Vándor Székely" (Wandering Szekler). The sculpture was interpreted in the Romanian press as being of Albert Wass. Two statues of Wass have been moved to the interior of the Hungarian churches in Reghin and Lunca Mureșului.
Although Romanian law forbids the cult of those condemned for "offence against peace and mankind or promoting fascist, racist or xenophobe ideology", some Romanian localities predominantly inhabited by Hungarian ethnics still retain commemorative statues of Albert Wass. They argue the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Romania on 21 June 2004 in written declared – in another trial -:
"Regarding the analysis of the relevant international laws applied for war crimes and offence against peace and mankind that also Romania ratified (Geneva Conventions 12. 08. 1949 – "...") the conclusion is the activities of Albert Wass convict are not belonging to those crimes that are summarized in these international conventions. Conclusion: "..." Albert Wass was not condemned for offence against peace and mankind"
In another trial, a person was charged because he put a statue in his own yard in Sovata. Finally he was released from the charge and the authorities were obligated to restore the statue to its original place.
Albert Wass also has commemorative statues in several localities in Hungary, where he is considered by some on the Right to be a hero and a victim of the regime.
The representatives of the ruling Fidesz party and the radical nationalist Jobbik party together voted in early 2011 that several public squares be named after him in Budapest.
Novels, publications
In his 1939 work Farkasverem (Wolfpit), he described how the Trianon generation found their feet again: the unity of the presentation of social reality, the quest for meting out justice in history, together with ancient language, music, rhythm conquered the hearts of many readers in Hungary. In 1939, he was elected member of the Transylvanian Literary Society and the Kisfaludy Society. In 1940, he was awarded the Baumgarten Prize the second time.
In 1942, he received the Klebelsberg Award and in the same year on a memorable tour in Hungary he represented Transylvanian literature together with three of his peers. He was even elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as appreciation for his knowledge in forestry.
His writings were patriotic but did not exacerbate the tensions between the Romanian and Hungarian population during the recover of Northern Transylvania as a consequence of the Second Vienna Award.
His fable A patkányok honfoglalása – Tanulságos mese fiatal magyaroknak ("The Conquest by the Rats – A Fable for Young Hungarians"), which tells how rats take over a house, because they are tolerated by the magnanimous landowner, is considered paradigmatic for antisemitic story-telling.<ref>Symbolische Figuren ("Symbolic Figures"), essay by Krisztián Ungváry, author of A Horthy-rendszer mérlege, Budapest 2013, in "Budapester Zeitung" from January 30th 2012: […] after the Ghettoization of the Jews in Transylvania [Albert Wass] published an essay with the telling title The Conquest by the Rats. The story is only an allegory, but any other interpretation than identifying Jews with rats seems hardly credible. http://www.budapester.hu/bz/2012/01/30/essay-3/ </ref>
1934 Farkasverem (Wolfpit)1940 Csaba1940 Mire a fák megnőnek (By the Time the Trees Grow)1940 Jönnek! (They Are Coming!)1943 A kastély árnyékában (In the Castle's Shade)1943 Egyedül a világ ellen (All Alone Against the World)1943 Vérben és viharban (In Blood and Storm)
1944 Tavaszi szél és más színművek (Spring Breeze and Other Plays)1945 Valaki tévedett (Somebody Made a Mistake) (short stories from 1945 to 1949)1945 A költő és a macska (The Poet and the Cat) (short stories)1947 A rézkígyó (The Copper Snake)1949 Adjátok vissza a hegyeimet! (English edition: Give Back My Mountains to Me!, 1970, Eric Massey)1951 Ember az országút szélén (English edition: Man by the Side of the Road, 1984)1952 Elvész a nyom (The Trail Perishes)1953 Tizenhárom almafa (Thirteen Apple Trees)1958 Az Antikrisztus és a pásztorok (The Antichrist and the Shepherds)1959 A funtineli boszorkány (The Witch of Funtinel)1964 Átoksori kísértetek (English edition: The Purple Ghosts of Damnation Row, 1964)1965 Elvásik a veres csillag (English edition: The Red Star Wanes, 1965)1967 Magukrahagyottak (English edition: Forsaken are the Brave,1967)1974 Kard és kasza (Sword and Scythe)1978 Halálos köd Holtember partján (English edition: Deadly Fog at Dead Man's Landing)1982 Eliza and the House that Jack Built: Historical Novel (in English)
1985 Hagyaték (Inheritance)1989 Te és a világ (You and the World) (short stories)Igazságot Erdélynek! (Justice for Transylvania)Józan magyar szemmel I-II. (Through the Eye of a Sober Hungarian)Karácsonyi üzenetek – A temető megindul (Messages from Christmas – the Cemetery Starts to Move)Magyar pólus (Hungarian Pole)Népirtás Erdélyben (Genocide in Transylvania)Hűség bilincsében (In the Chains of Fidelity)Hanky tanár úr (Professor Hanky)Se szentek, se hősök (Neither Saints nor Heroes)A szikla alatti férfi (The Man Below the Cliff)A sólyom hangja (The Voice of the Falcon)Csillag az éjszakában (Star in the Night)Black HammockMagyar Számadás (Hungarian Accounts)Nem nyugaton kel fel a nap (The Sun Does Not Rise in the West)Voltam (I was/I have/had been)Poems, fables, narrations
1927 Virágtemetés (Flower Burial) (poem)
1943 Tavak könyve (Book of the Lakes) (fable)
1947 Erdők könyve (Book of the Woods) (fable)
1947 A láthatatlan lobogó (The Invisible Flag) (poem)
1970 Valaki tévedett (Somebody Made a Mistake) (narrations)
1972 Válogatott magyar mondák és népmesék (Assorted Hungarian Legends and Folktales)1978 A költő és a macska (The Poet and the Cat) (narration)
Awards
Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
Hungarian Heritage Award
Klebelsberg Award
References
External links
A biographical sketch of his father by Huba Wass
E. Balogh on Wass: a short critical assessment
Romania During World War II – The Antonescu regime's complicity in the Holocaust
"Febra răsăriteană a reabilitărilor – Cazul Albert Wass" , William Totok, Observator Cultural "Criminalul Wass Albert loveşte din nou", Mihai Petean, Gazeta de Cluj "Criminalul Wass omagiat la Odorhei de 15 martie", George Damian, Ziua'', March 18, 2006
The archive of the Wass de Czege family (Hungarian)
Official homepage of Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award which is founded by Pal Molnar
1908 births
1998 deaths
1998 suicides
People from Cluj County
People from the Kingdom of Hungary
Hungarian nobility
Hungarian military personnel of World War II
Hungarian people convicted of war crimes
20th-century Hungarian poets
20th-century Hungarian novelists
Hungarian male poets
University of Florida faculty
People convicted by the Romanian People's Tribunals
People sentenced to death in absentia
Hungarian forestry engineers
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Baumgarten Prize winners
Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award winners
Recipients of the Klebelsberg Award
20th-century Hungarian male writers
Hungarian male novelists
Anti-Romanian sentiment
Antisemitism in Hungary
Antisemitism in Romania
Hungarian fascists
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Eloise Southby-Halbish
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Eloise Southby-Halbish (born 6 July 1976) is an Australian sports commentator and former netball player. She was co-captain of the Melbourne Phoenix with fellow goaler, Sharelle McMahon, and also played for the Australia national netball team.
Netball career
Southby-Halbish appeared in 132 Commonwealth Bank Trophy matches for the Phoenix and represented Australia in 34 Tests in the positions goal shooter and goal attack.
Identified early in her career as a highly talented shooting prospect, Southby-Halbish made her international debut in early 1998, at the age of 21. Southby-Halbish's arrival on the international scene coincided with a period where Australia was rich in shooting talent - with the likes of Vicki Wilson, Nicole Cusack, and Jennifer Borlase all laying claim to the main shooting positions. This overflow of talent saw Southby-Halbish overlooked for the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 1999 Netball World Championships, however she was recalled to the team in 2000.
Southby-Halbish was renowned for her accuracy, strength, and netballing acumen. Her combination with international-level shooter Sharelle McMahon was one of the most successful shooting combinations, with Southby-Halbish's vision and timing complementing McMahon's speed and athleticism.
Southby-Halbish's career received a blow when she was forced to withdraw from the squad to represent Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a recurring ankle injury. She subsequently retired just before the start of the interstate home and away season, after playing a starring role in Melbourne Phoenix's comprehensive premiership in 2005.
Southby-Halbish won five premierships with Melbourne Phoenix, a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2002, and a World Championships silver medal in 2003.
Media commentator
Following her retirement, Southby-Halbish became a commentator with ABC Sports, calling Commonwealth Bank Trophy matches and international tests. Southby-Halbish co-wrote a novel Anna Flowers with a netball theme. Southby-Halbish moved to Fox Sports as commentator for the new ANZ Championship competition in 2008.
Personal life
Eloise Southby-Halbish is the daughter of Carlton premiership player Geoff Southby and occasionally appeared on Fox Footy's Living With Footballers.
References
External links
Stride Sports Management profile
1976 births
Living people
Australian netball players
Australia international netball players
Netball players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
Netball players from Victoria (Australia)
Melbourne Phoenix players
Esso/Mobil Superleague players
Australian netball coaches
Australian netball commentators
2003 World Netball Championships players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poona%20Pact
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Poona Pact
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The Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar on behalf of Dalits, depressed classes, and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India in 1932. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India. It was signed by Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and by Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of Hindus, Faraz Shah, Sana Ejaz and Gandhi as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking in jail as a protest against the decision made by British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to give separate electorates to depressed classes for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India. They finally agreed upon 148 electoral seats. Nearly twice as many seats were reserved for Depressed Classes under the Poona Pact than what had been offered by MacDonald's Separate Electorate.
Terms
The terms of the Poona Pact were as follows.
1. There shall be electoral seats reserved for the Depressed Classes out of general electorate. Seats in the provincial Legislatures were as follows:
These figures were based on the total strength of the Provincial Councils announced in Ramsay MacDonald's decision.
2. Election to these seats shall be by joint electorates subject, however, to the following procedure –
All members of the Depressed Classes registered in the general electoral roll of a constituency will form an electoral college which will elect a panel of four candidates belonging to the Depressed Classes for each of such reserved seats by the method of the single vote and four persons getting the highest number of votes in such primary elections shall be the candidates for election by the general electorate.
3. The representation of the Depressed Classes in the Central Legislature shall likewise be on the principle of joint electorates and reserved seats by the method of the primary election in the manner provided for in clause above for their representation in the provincial legislatures.
4. In the Central Legislature, 18% of the seats allotted to the general electorate for British India in the said legislature shall be reserved for the Depressed Classes.
5. The system of primary election to a panel of candidates for election to the Central and Provincial Legislatures as hereinbefore mentioned shall come to an end after the first ten years unless terminated sooner by mutual agreement under the provision of clause 6 below.
6. The system of representation of Depressed Classes by reserved seats in the Provincial and Central Legislatures as provided for in clauses (1) and (4) shall continue until determined otherwise by mutual agreement between the communities concerned in this settlement.
7. The Franchise for the Central and Provincial Legislatures of the Depressed Classes shall be as indicated, in the Lothian Committee Report.
8. There shall be no disabilities attached to anyone on the ground of his being a member of the Depressed Classes in regard to any election to local bodies or appointment to the public services. Every endeavour shall be made to secure a fair representation of the Depressed Classes in these respects, subject to such educational qualifications as may be laid down for appointment to the Public Services.
9. In every province out of the educational grant, an adequate sum shall be earmarked for providing educational facilities to the members of Depressed Classes.
See also
Communal Award
Forward Castes
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
Other Backward Classes
Scheduled Castes and Tribes
References
External links
Poona Pact from ambedkar.org
Britannica entry
Third Round Table Conference Indohistory.com
1932 in India
1932 documents
Indian independence movement in Maharashtra
History of Pune
Mahatma Gandhi
B. R. Ambedkar
Reservation in India
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Radnevo
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Radnevo ( ) is a town in southern Bulgaria, part of Stara Zagora Province, located in the eastern Upper Thracian Lowlands. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Radnevo Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 13,384 inhabitants.
The far east corner of Radnevo is the location of the Maritsa Iztok-2 power station. This power station was ranked as the industrial facility that is causing the highest damage costs to health and the environment in Bulgaria and the entire European Union.
Notable natives include Bulgarian Agrarian National Union politician Dimitar Dragiev (1869–1943), poet Geo Milev (1895–1925), Bulgarian international footballer Andrey Zhelyazkov (b. 1952).
Honour
Radnevo Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Radnevo.
References
Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Stara Zagora Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Deserts%20and%20Desertification
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International Year of Deserts and Desertification
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The year 2006 was declared the International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly.
The Year aims to raise $20 million from industry and governments and will spend half on co-funding research, and half on "outreach" activities. It will be the biggest ever international effort to promote the Earth sciences.
Apart from researchers, who are expected to benefit under the Year's Science Programme, the principal target groups for the Year's broader messages are:
Decision makers and politicians who need to be better informed about the how Earth scientific knowledge can be used for sustainable development
The voting public, which needs to know how Earth scientific knowledge can contribute to a better society
Geoscientists, who are very knowledgeable about various aspects of the Earth but who need help in using their knowledge for the benefit of the world’s population.
The research themes of the year, set out in 10 science prospectuses were chosen for their societal relevance, multidisciplinarity and outreach potential. The Year has 12 Founding Partners 23 Associate Partners and is backed politically by 97 countries representing 87% of the world’s population. The Year was promoted politically at UNESCO and at the United Nations in New York by the People’s Republic of Tanzania.
The Year is open to Expressions of Interest from researchers within each of its 10 themes. The Outreach programme of the year is also now open to expressions of interest, and will work in a similar way by receiving and responding to bids for support from individuals and organisations worldwide.
The Year's Project Leader is former IUGS President Professor Eduardo F J de Mulder. The Year's Science Committee is chaired by Prof. Edward Derbyshire (Royal Holloway) and its Outreach Committee by Dr Ted Nield (Geological Society of London).
The International Year of Planet Earth project was initiated jointly by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) . The
UN press release reads: "By a draft on the International Year of Planet Earth, 2008, which the Committee approved without a vote on 11 November, the Assembly would declare 2008 the International Year of Planet Earth. It would also designate the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to organize activities to be undertaken during the Year, in collaboration with UNEP and other relevant United Nations bodies, the International Union of Geological Sciences and other Earth sciences societies and groups throughout the world. Also by that draft, the Assembly would encourage Member States, the United Nations system and other actors to use the Year to increase awareness of the importance of Earth sciences in achieving sustainable development and promoting local, national, regional and international action"
The Year’s research themes are listed below.
The Project is backed by the following Founding Partners: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG); the International Geographical Union (IGU) ; the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) ; the International Lithosphere Programme (ILP) ; the National Geological Survey of the Netherlands (NITG-TNO) ; The Geological Society of London (GSL); the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) ; A consortium of the International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment (IAEG) , the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) ; the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) ; the American Geological Institute (AGI); the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) ; the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) .
The Year enjoys the support of 23 Associate Partners, including all major international geoscientific and other relevant organisations: ICSU International Council for Science; IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO; IPA International Permafrost Association ; IAGOD International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits; SEG Society of Economic Geologists; SGA Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits; IAH International Association of Hydrogeologists; IGCP International Geoscience Programme; EFG European Federation of Geoscientists; AARSE African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment; SCA Science Council of Asia; ProGEO European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage; SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology; CCOP Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia; GSAf Geological Society of Africa; UNU United Nations University; AGID Association of Geoscientists for International Development; UN/ISDR United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; NESF North-eastern Science Foundation (USA); AASG Association of American State Geologists; ISPRS International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; GSA Geological Society of America; NACSN North American Committee for Stratigraphic Nomenclature.
Objectives
The Year's Objective is to spread awareness about the desert areas of the world and especially the problem of desertification.
Themes
The Year's research themes are deserts and especially the problem of desertification.
See also
United Nations International Years
2007:International Year of Planet Earth
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
References
External links
International Year of Deserts and Desertification
"UN launches International Year of Deserts and Desertification"
Deserts and Desertification, International Year
2006 in international relations
Desertification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Madden
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Max Madden
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Maxwell Francis Madden (born 29 October 1941) is a British journalist and Labour Party politician.
Parliamentary career
Madden unsuccessfully fought Sudbury and Woodbridge in 1966, coming second.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sowerby at the February 1974 election, which he lost to the Conservatives in 1979.
From 1983 until 1997, he was MP for Bradford West before being deselected and replaced as Labour candidate by Marsha Singh.
References
External links
1941 births
Living people
British male journalists
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
Members of Parliament for Bradford West
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Annau
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Catherine Annau
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Catherine Annau is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and writer.
Annau's debut feature Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation won numerous awards including a Genie Award, and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and at various film festivals worldwide.
Annau's other directing work includes the international co-production Sexual Intelligence with Kim Cattrall, broadcast on HBO, Channel 4, and Discovery Canada; Winning, a documentary about lottery winners, which was broadcast by the Sundance Channel U.S and numerous public broadcasters, and The Power Refugees, a half-hour documentary about savvy young Canadians in New York, which was nominated for a Gemini award. She produced and directed for CBC's renowned investigative journalism series The Fifth Estate. Her documentary The Good Father about one of Canada's worst sexual predators won a Gracie Award (U.S). She has also produced an internationally award-winning documentary on women and heart disease, Wisdom of the Heart.
A published author, her written work has appeared in the best-selling Trudeau Albums (Penguin Books, 2000), and in The Globe and Mail, as well as in numerous academic journals and anthologies of Canadian history.
Annau produced and directed Brick by Brick: the Story of Evergreen Brickworks, a documentary film about urban and environmental renewal and the Nazi POWs who helped build modern Toronto. It won a Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence.
Filmography
Director
Sexual Intelligence With Kim Cattrall - HBO/Discovery Channel Canada (Documentary)
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation - National Film Board of Canada (Documentary)
Brick by Brick - The Story of Evergreen Brickworks - OMNI 1 Television (Documentary)
Winning: Life after the Lottery - TVO/Sundance Channel (Documentary)
The Power Refugees - TVOntario (Documentary)
Gold Medal Plates: The Quest for Canada's Best Chef - Lively Media (Documentary series)
Opening Soon - The Food Network (TV series)
Balance: Television for Living Well - CTV (TV series, selected episodes)
Producer
Dragons' Den - CBC (Reality series, selected episodes)
Spoiled Rotten - Temple Street (Reality series)
Pure Design - HGTV (TV series)
Wisdom of the Heart:Women and Heart Disease - CBC Newsworld/TVO (TV series)
Brick by Brick - The Story of Evergreen Brickworks - OMNI 1 Television (Documentary)
The Good Father - CBC (Documentary)
Winning: Life after the Lottery - TVO/Sundance Channel (Documentary)
The Power Refugees - TVOntario (Documentary)
Awards and nominations
Brick by Brick - The Story of Evergreen Brickworks - OMNI 1 Television (Documentary)
Winner of a 2011 Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
Sudbury Cinéfest Best Ontario Feature
Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian First Feature Film
Blockbuster People's Choice Awards Best Feature Length Documentary
Columbus International Film & Video Festival Chris Award
The Good Father
The Gracie Award Outstanding Investigative Program (USA)
3 Gemini Award Nominations - including Best Direction in a News or Information Segment, Best Host/Interviewer, Best Editing
Wisdom of the Heart: Women and Heart Disease
Houston International Film Festival Silver Medal
Columbus International Film & Video Festival Bronze Plaque
National Educational Media Network Awards Silver Apple
Winning: Life after the Lottery
Nominated Gemini Award
The Power Refugees
Nominated Gemini Award Best Information Segment
Dragon's Den
Nominated Gemini Awards Best Reality Program or Series
References
External links
Canadian women film directors
Canadian documentary film directors
Canadian television directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Film directors from Toronto
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film
Women documentary filmmakers
Canadian women television directors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Parkway%20%28Jones%20Beach%29
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Bay Parkway (Jones Beach)
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The Bay Parkway is a semi-limited-access highway entirely within Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The western terminus is at a loop near the western edge of Jones Inlet. The eastern terminus is at the Jones Beach Amphitheater east of an interchange with the Wantagh State Parkway. The parkway is primarily a service road for the park, providing access to the boat basin, fishing piers, and many of the parking lots along the beach. However, the parkway also has an interchange with the Meadowbrook State Parkway/Ocean Parkway.
East of the Meadowbrook/Ocean interchange, the Bay Parkway is designated New York State Route 909E (NY 909E), an unsigned reference route, by NYSDOT.
Route description
The Bay Parkway begins at a loop at the west end of Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County. The route heads eastward, passing the Short Beach Coast Guard Station to the north. There is a quick U-turn soon after, connecting to the other side and the station. The route passes the bays of the Atlantic Ocean, heading eastward into the Meadowbrook State Parkway and Ocean Parkway. The parkway gains the unmarked designation of Route 909E as it runs parallel to Ocean Parkway and passes more median-based U-turns. The route has one at-grade intersection along the eastbound lanes with a two-lane park road to Ocean Parkway now named "Clays Path" and the back entrance to Parking Field #3. More U-turns to and from the fishing piers and bait and tackle shop and Jones Beach Beer Garden (www.JonesBeachBeerGarden.com) at Parking Field #10 can be found on the westbound lanes followed by the back parking lot to Parking Field #4. Bay Parkway terminates at the Wantagh State Parkway near Jones Beach parking lot #5 and the parking lot for the Jones Beach Marine Theater.
Exit list
The entire route is in Jones Beach State Park, Nassau County.
References
External links
Bay Parkway at NYCRoads
Jones Beach State Park
Parkways in New York (state)
Roads on Long Island
Robert Moses projects
Transportation in Nassau County, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20American%20College%20of%20Financial%20Services
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The American College of Financial Services
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The American College of Financial Services (The American College) is a private online university focused on professional training for financial practitioners and located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. It offers several professional certifications and master's degrees. Annually, The American College educates approximately 40,000 students, mainly through distance education.
The institution was founded as The American College of Life Underwriters in 1927 by Solomon S. Huebner of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Huebner was a professional involved in the development of economic theory. His theory of human life value is used in the field of insurance. It was his vision for a college-level professional education program for insurance agents that led to the creation of The American College.
Today the college offers professional training to all types of financial practitioners. When the institution began, programs focused exclusively on providing education to life insurance professionals. The Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation was the first credential offered by The College. Today The College provides training for the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) exam, The Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation, and the Master of Science in Financial Services (MSFS) master's degree.
Twenty full-time faculty members and financial experts work at the campus.
The American College campus was bought by the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in 2007.
In May 2019, The American College moved its operational headquarters to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Notable alumni
Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., Maryland politician.
Lynn Yeakel, Pennsylvania administrator and politician
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1927
Universities and colleges in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
1927 establishments in Pennsylvania
Private universities and colleges in Pennsylvania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brosl%20Hasslacher
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Brosl Hasslacher
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Brosl Hasslacher (May 13, 1941 – November 11, 2005) was a theoretical physicist.
Brosl Hasslacher obtained a bachelor's in physics from Harvard University in 1962. He did his Ph.D. with D.Z. Freeman and C.N. Yang at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After having several postdoctoral and research positions at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Caltech, ENS in Paris, and CERN, he settled for more than twenty years at the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. There he was involved in theoretical, experimental, and numerical work in theoretical physics, high-energy physics, nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics, nanotechnology, and robotics.
In the 1970s, he worked on the extended hadron model, collaborating with A. Neveu.
During the 1980s, Hasslacher pioneered with Uriel Frisch and Yves Pomeau the lattice-gas method for discrete simulation of fluid flow.
As part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies, Hasslacher worked with Mitchell Feigenbaum and contributed ideas to chaos theory.
In the 1990s, Hasslacher worked with Mark Tilden on several papers concerning Biomorphic engineering. He is largely credited for using nonlinear dynamics to describe and design Tilden's BEAM robotics.
In 1994, Hasslacher's UNIX account (bhass) at Los Alamos National Laboratory was used by hacker Kevin Mitnick to break into computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura's computers.
He retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003.
Notable papers
B. Hasslacher, A. Neveu, "Dynamic charges in field theories", Nuclear Physics (1979).
B. Hasslacher, M.J. Perry, "Spin networks are simplicial quantum gravity", Physics Letters (1981).
Frisch, U., B. Hasslacher, and Y. Pomeau, "Lattice gas Automata for the Navier Stokes Equation"' Phys. Rev. Lett. (1986).
B. Hasslacher, "Spontaneous curvature in a class of lattice field theories" Physica D(1991).
B. Hasslacher, M.W. Tilden, "Living machines", Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1995).
B. Hasslacher, DA Meyer, "Modeling dynamical geometry with lattice gas automata", (1998).
Dashen, RF; Hasslacher, B; Neveu, "A Particle spectrum in model field theories from semiclassical functional integral techniques" Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); (1975)
Frisch, U.; d'Humieres, D.; Hasslacher, B.; Lallemand, P.; Pomeau, Y.; Rivet, JP "Lattice gas hydrodynamics in two and three dimensions. " Complex Systems; (1987)
Dashen, RF; Hasslacher, B; Neveu, A "Semiclassical bound states in an asymptotically free theory" Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 1975;
Christ, N.; Hasslacher, B.; Mueller, AH Light-cone behavior of perturbation theory. Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 15 Dec. 1972; vol.6, no.12, p. 3543-62
Corrigan, E; Hasslacher, B "Functional-Equation for Exponential Loop Integrals In Gauge Theories" Physics Letters B; 1979; v.81, no.2, p. 181-184
Feigenbaum, MJ; Hasslacher, B, "Irrational decimations and path integrals for external noise" Physical Review Letters; 30 Aug. 1982; vol.49, no.9, p. 605-9
Hasslacher, B; Mottola, E Gauge "Field Model of Induced Classical Gravity" Physics Letters B; 1980; v.95, no.2, p. 237-240
Hasslacher, B; Mottola, E, "Asymptotically Free Quantum-Gravity and Black-Holes" Physics Letters B; 1981; v.99, no.3, p. 221-224
Hasslacher, B; Perry, MJ, "Spin Networks are Simplicial Quantum-Gravity" Physics Letters B; 1981; v.103, no.1, p. 21-24
Hasslacher, B.; Kapral, R.; Lawniczak, A., "Molecular Turing structures in the biochemistry of the cell" Chaos; 1993; vol.3, no.1, p. 7-13
Hasslacher, B.; Sinclair, DK; Cicuta, GM; Sugar, RL "Tower exchange in lambda phi {sup 3} theory" Physical Review Letters; (1970)
Hasslacher, B.; Sinclair, DK "Feynman-parameter approach to N-tower exchange in phi {sup 3} theory" Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 15 April 1971; vol.3, no.8, p. 1770–81
Hasslacher, B.; Hsue, CS; Sinclair, DK "Dual-resonance model implications for two-particle spectra in inclusive reactions" Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); (1971)
Hasslacher, B; Sinclair, DK, "Problems with currents in the dual-resonance model" Lettere al Nuovo Cimento; 12 Sept. 1970; vol.4, no.11, p. 515-19
Imholt, TJ; Dyke, CA; Hasslacher, B; Perez, JM; Price, DW; Roberts, JA; Scott, JB; Wadhawan, A; Ye, Z; Tour, JM Nanotubes in Microwave Fields: Light Emission, Intense Heat, Outgassing, and Reconstruction Chemistry of Materials; 21 Oct. 2003; vol.15, no.21, p. 3969-70
Hasslacher, B; Meyer, DA Modeling dynamical geometry with lattice-gas automata. International Journal of Modern Physics C; Dec. 1998; vol.9, no.8, p. 1597-605 Conference: 7th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluids, 14–18 July 1998, Oxford, UK
Hasslacher, B; Meyer, DA Lattice gases and exactly solvable models. Journal of Statistical Physics; Aug. 1992; vol.68, no.3-4, p. 575-90
Hasslacher, B PARALLEL BILLIARDS AND MONSTER SYSTEMS DAEDALUS; WIN 1992; v.121, no.1, p. 53-65
HASSLACHER, B; MEYER, DA Knot invariants and cellular automata. Physica D; 2 Sept. 1990; vol.45, no.1-3, p. 328-44
Hasslacher, B.; Mottola, E. Asymptotically free quantum gravity and black holes. Physics Letters B; 19 Feb. 1981; vol.99B, no.3, p. 221-4
Hasslacher, B.; Mottola, E. Gauge field model of induced classical gravity. Physics Letters B; 22 Sept. 1980; vol.95B, no.2, p. 237-40
Dashen, RF; Hasslacher, B.; Neveu, A. Nonperturbative methods and extended-hadron models in field theory. I. Semiclassical functional methods. Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 15 Dec. 1974; vol.10, no.12, p. 4114-29
Dashen, RF; Hasslacher, B.; Neveu, A. Nonperturbative methods and extended-hadron models in field theory. II. Two-dimensional models and extended hadrons. Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 15 Dec. 1974; vol.10, no.12, p. 4130-8
Dashen, RF; Hasslacher, B.; Neveu, A., Nonperturbative methods and extended-hadron models in field theory. III. Four-dimensional non-Abelian models. Physical Review D (Particles and Fields); 15 Dec. 1974; vol.10, no.12, p. 4138-42
See also
Lattice gas automaton
Spin network
References
1941 births
2005 deaths
American nuclear physicists
20th-century American physicists
Cellular automatists
Chaos theorists
Harvard University alumni
Stony Brook University alumni
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
People associated with CERN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ultimate%20Evil
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The Ultimate Evil
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The Ultimate Evil is the second in a series of novelisations, based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of the television series Doctor Who. It was written by Wally K. Daly. It was first published by Target Books in 1989 as the second volume of its Missing Episodes series.
Synopsis
The Sixth Doctor's TARDIS is working perfectly, leaving him with nothing to do. When Peri suggests a holiday, the Doctor decides to visit the peaceful country of Tranquela. But an evil arms dealer, the Dwarf Mordant has been busy fomenting hatred there, so they will break a truce with their enemy, the people of the continent of Ameliora. But when even the Doctor becomes affected, can anything stop Mordant's plans?
Background
It was announced in 1985 that Michael Grade, controller of BBC1, had cancelled a number of long-running programmes in order to help fund the launch of a new soap opera named EastEnders. Of the many programmes that were cancelled, Doctor Who was the most high-profile. A campaign was quickly launched by the national press to see about its return and Grade very quickly confirmed that Doctor Who would be returning in 1986.
Several stories had already been in the planning stages for Season 23 of Doctor Who, three of which were in the middle of being scripted when the announcement was made. The Ultimate Evil was to be directed by Fiona Cumming.
In 1988, Target Books, which had been successfully publishing novelisations of Doctor Who stories for many years, saw itself quickly running out of available televised material (although a number of serials remained unadapted, most of these were off-limits due to licensing problems). While negotiations went forward with the BBC for the publication of all new adventures, the decision was made to resurrect three of the cancelled scripts and publish them in book form. The writers of all three were approached, and all were signed on to write the novels.
Intended Transmission
The Ultimate Evil Part One was to be transmitted on 18 January 1986. Part Two was to have been broadcast on 25 January 1986.
Audio adaptation
In 2009 Daly was approached by Big Finish Productions to write an audio adaptation for their Lost Stories range. However, they were unable to come to a suitable agreement. Daly had already recorded an audiobook for a fund-raising exercise between the RNIB and Rotary International. Big Finish eventually did come to terms with Daly and his audio adaptation was released in November 2019.
References
Sources
The Cloister Library - The Ultimate Evil
'Dr Who joins Rotary's fight to end polio' on the Rotary International website
1989 British novels
1989 science fiction novels
Sixth Doctor novels
Sixth Doctor audio plays
Novels set on fictional planets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Wimbledon%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles
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2001 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
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Defending champion Venus Williams successfully defended her title, defeating Justine Henin in the final, 6–1, 3–6, 6–0 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.
This tournament saw world No. 1 Martina Hingis lose in the opening round to world No. 83 Virginia Ruano Pascual.
Seeds
Martina Hingis (first round)
Venus Williams (champion)
Lindsay Davenport (semifinals)
Jennifer Capriati (semifinals)
Serena Williams (quarterfinals)
Amélie Mauresmo (third round)
Kim Clijsters (quarterfinals)
Justine Henin (final)
Nathalie Tauziat (quarterfinals)
Elena Dementieva (third round)
Amanda Coetzer (third round)
Magdalena Maleeva (fourth round)
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (second round)
Jelena Dokić (fourth round)
Sandrine Testud (fourth round)
Silvia Farina Elia (third round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (fourth round)
Anke Huber (fourth round)
Conchita Martínez (quarterfinals)
Amy Frazier (third round)
Barbara Schett (third round)
Paola Suárez (first round)
Magüi Serna (first round)
Henrieta Nagyová (first round)
Chanda Rubin (first round)
Anne Kremer (first round)
Ángeles Montolio (third round)
Lisa Raymond (third round)
Elena Likhovtseva (third round)
Patty Schnyder (third round)
Tamarine Tanasugarn (fourth round)
Tatiana Panova (third round)
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
2001 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2001 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles
Wimbledon Championships
Wimbledon Championships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-for-All%20%28Ted%20Nugent%20album%29
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Free-for-All (Ted Nugent album)
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Free-For-All is the second studio album by American hard rock musician Ted Nugent. It was released in October 1976 by Epic Records, and was his first album to go platinum.
Background
As the recording of Free-For-All commenced, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist Derek St. Holmes left the band, citing growing personal and creative conflicts with Nugent. Two solid years of living together on the road had taken its toll on the relationship. Additionally, St. Holmes was unhappy with Tom Werman's production, saying that the producer was watering down the band's sound.
A full year before Bat Out of Hell brought him international success, vocalist Meat Loaf was brought in by producer Werman to sing on the album. Meat Loaf was paid the sum of $1,000 for his contributions to the album, which included crafting his vocal arrangements and two days of recording sessions. He says that after he agreed to do the album he was sent a lyric sheet containing just the words with no arrangements. Having no idea what the songs were going to sound like, he then created the vocal arrangements for the songs during the two days of recording.
St. Holmes also sang lead vocal on several of the album's songs, including the single "Dog Eat Dog". He officially returned to the group after Free For Alls release, and performed on the subsequent tour. Band management asked him to return at the request of Epic Records.
Track listing
All songs written by Ted Nugent, except where noted, all songs arranged by Nugent, Rob Grange, Derek St. Holmes and Cliff Davies.
PersonnelBand members Ted Nugent – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals (tracks 1 and 10), percussion, bass guitar (track 2)
Meat Loaf – lead vocals (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9)
Rob Grange – bass guitar, bass phase effects
Cliff Davies – drums, percussion, backing vocals (track 2), producer
Derek St. Holmes – lead vocals (tracks 2, 4, 7, 11 and 12), rhythm guitar (tracks 2, 10 & 11)Additional musicians Steve McRay – keyboards, backing vocals
Tom Werman – percussion, producerProduction'
Lew Futterman – producer
Anthony Reale – engineer
Tim Geelan – mixing engineer
Paula Scher – album design
Jim Houghton – photography
Bruce Dickinson – 1999 reissue producer
Vic Anesini – remastering
Stephan Moore – 1999 reissue project director
Howard Fritzson – 1999 reissue art director
Gary Graff – 1999 reissue liner notes
Charts
Weekly charts
Singles
Certifications
References
1976 albums
Ted Nugent albums
Epic Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Werman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Bowden
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Andrew Bowden
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Sir Andrew Bowden (born 8 April 1930) is a British Conservative Party politician. From 2004 to 2010, he was an international consultant at Global Equities Corporation.
Early life
Bowden was born the son of William Victor Bowden, a solicitor, and Francesca Wilson. He was educated at Ardingly College.
He started his career as a sales executive. He served as a councillor on Wandsworth Borough Council from 1956 to 1961 and as national chairman of Young Conservatives from 1960 to 1961. Bowden worked in the paint industry from 1955 to 1968.
Parliamentary career
He entered the House of Commons on his fourth attempt in 1970 by gaining the Brighton Kemptown seat from the Labour Party. As well as fighting Kemptown in the previous election, he had fought Hammersmith North in 1955 and Kensington North in 1964. He remained Member of Parliament for Kemptown until his defeat by Labour's Desmond Turner in the 1997 election. As an MP, he acted as a parliamentary consultant for Southern Water. He was a member of the Council of Europe from 1987 to 1997.
He was accused of failing to register an election donation of £5,319 from lobbyist Ian Greer, who acted for Mohammed Al Fayed, as well as business interests with the House of Fraser.
After Parliament
In recent years he has become a regular on the poker circuit. He also plays chess and golf. From 1975 to 1997, he served as national president of the Captive Animals Protection Society. He is a patron of the Sussex & Kent ME/CFS Society. He is president of Brighton's Royal British Legion branch. He has also acted as vice president of the League Against Cruel Sports.
Honours
Bowden received an MBE in 1961. He was knighted in 1994.
Personal life
Bowden married Benita Napier in 1970. He has a son and daughter.
Bowden lives in Ovingdean, Brighton, and is a member of the Carlton Club. His recreations include birdwatching, chess and poker.
Bibliography
Dare We Trust Them - A New Vision for Europe (2005)
References
Times Guide to the House of Commons 1997
Who's Who 2007
Paul Kelbie, The Independent (London), Jun 17, 2006
1930 births
Living people
People educated at Ardingly College
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Politicians awarded knighthoods
Politics of the United Kingdom articles needing infoboxes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Open%20%28disambiguation%29
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Australian Open (disambiguation)
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The Australian Open is an annual grand-slam tennis tournament.
Australian Open may also refer to:
Australian Open (badminton)
Australian Open (golf)
Australian Open of Surfing
Australian Open (squash)
Australian Open (table tennis)
Australian Goldfields Open, a professional snooker tournament
Aussie Open (drone racing)
Aussie Open (professional wrestling)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20Orthodox%20Archdiocese%20of%20Thyateira%20and%20Great%20Britain
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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
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The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain is an archdiocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church, part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Its present head is Archbishop Nikitas Loulias. Its jurisdiction covers those Orthodox Christians living in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. The adherents are largely of Cypriot Greek descent, mainland Greek migrants and their descendants, and more recently native British converts along with a few Poles, Belarusians, and Ukrainians. The former archbishop, Gregorios, himself was a Cypriot whose ancestral village of Marathovounos, in the district of Famagusta, is occupied by the Turkish army. The archdiocese is based at Thyateira House, in the Bayswater district of London.
History
The first recorded organised Greek Orthodox community in England was established in 1670 by a group of 100 Greek refugees from Mani. There were also theologians, students, coffee shop owners, traders and sailors. Their priest was Daniel Boulgaris, who also seems to have taken the initiative to gain permission from the Bishop of London to build a permanent church for his growing flock. His efforts were boosted in 1676 by the arrival of the Archbishop of Samos, Joseph Georgerines, who had originally travelled to London to publish his Anthologion, "for the use of the Eastern Greek Church". Soon, the London authorities granted them permission to build a church. Georgerines then travelled around the country with his manservant, Dominikos Cratianas, to raise the necessary funds.
The church was inaugurated in 1677 in Soho and dedicated to the Panagia on what soon became Greek Street. However, the situation turned precarious when Dominicos Cratiana was taken to court by his master over the alleged disappearance of funds. Cratiana counteracted by accusing him of being a "Popish plotter".
The church was confiscated in 1684 and handed over to Huguenot refugees from France, much to the anger of the Greek Archbishop, who wrote and circulated a furious pamphlet which criticised this move and detailed how the English authorities had expropriated the community. He wrote that the community "never sold the said Church, nor received any sum for the building thereof". The church no longer stands but the dedicatory plaque that was embedded over the main entrance is now housed in the narthex of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Sophia in Bayswater.
During the next 150 years, the community had to worship in the Imperial Russian Embassy. Finally, in 1837, an autonomous community was set up in Finsbury Park in London. The first new church was built in 1850, on London Street in the City. In 1877, the Church of St Sophia (the Holy Wisdom) was constructed in London, in order to cope with the growing influx of Orthodox immigrants to the United Kingdom. By the outbreak of the First World War, there were large Orthodox communities in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Liverpool, each focused on its own church.
The issue of how these significant communities were to be governed was not resolved until 1922, when the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, following the initiative of the Ecumenical Patriarch Meletius IV, established the Metropolis of Central and Western Europe with its See in London, naming it ‘Metropolis of Thyateira and Great Britain’. The city of Thyateira, after which the Archdiocese was named, was one of the seven Apostolic Churches, and up to its decadence and abandonment, it had been a prominent Metropolis of the Christian World.
The Second World War and its aftermath saw a large expansion amongst the Orthodox Communities of Europe, necessitating the establishment of new dioceses in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.
Archbishops of Thyateira and Great Britain
Several archbishops have served the diocese since 1922 including:
Germanos Strenopoulos (1922—1951)
Athenagoras Kavadas (1951—1962)
Athenagoras Kokkinakis (1963—1979)
Methodios Fouiyas (1979—1988)
Archbishop Gregorios Theocharous (1988 - 2019)
Nikitas Loulias (2019–present)
Parishes and monasteries
there are 108 parishes and monasteries in the UK and Ireland:
South West
SS Michael the Archangel & Piran, near Falmouth
SS Demetrius & Nicetas, Plymouth
St Andrew, Torquay
St Andrew the Apostle, Weston-super-Mare
SS Peter & Paul, Bristol
Nativity of the Mother of God (Eastern Orthodox Church), Bristol
St John of Kronstadt, Bath
Community of St John Chrysostom, Gloucester
St John the Forerunner, Salisbury
Community of St Spyridon, Bournemouth
Holy Prophet Elias, Exeter & Combe Martin
South East
Holy Trinity & Annunciation, Oxford
SS Ambrose & Stylianos, Milton Keynes
Community of St Phanourius, Aylesbury
Community of St Gregory the Theologian, Beaconsfield
Prophet Elias, Reading
St Andrew the Apostle, Windsor
St Nicholas, Southampton
Community of Portsmouth
Holy Trinity, Brighton
St Mary Magdalene, St Leonards-on-Sea
SS Panteleimon & Theodore, Eastbourne
Annunciation of the Mother of God, Maidstone
SS Mark & Fotini, Folkestone
Archangel Michael, Margate
London
Central London
Cathedral & Metropolitical Church of St Sophia, Bayswater
Cathedral of St Andrew, Kentish Town
Cathedral of All Saints, Camden Town
Archdiocesan Chapel of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, Bayswater
North London
Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God, Wood Green
Cathedral of the Holy Cross & St Michael, Golders Green
SS Cosmas & Damian, NW5 1LN
SS Anthony the Great & John the Baptist, Islington
St Barnabas, Wood Green
St Demetrius, Lower Edmonton, N9 0LP
St John the Baptist, Hornsey
St Katherine, Friern Barnet
SS Panteleimon & Paraskevi, Harrow
Community of SS Raphael, Nicholas & Irene of Lesbos (Mytiline), Enfield North & District
Chapel of the Resurrection, Muswell Hill
South London
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Camberwell
SS Constantine & Helen, Upper Norwood
St Nectarius, SW11 5QR
St George, Kingston-upon-Thames
Christ the Saviour, Welling
East London
SS Eleutherius, Anthia & Luke the Evangelist, Leyton
St John the Theologian, E8 3RD
SS Lazarus & Andrew the Apostle, Forest Gate
West London
Cathedral of St Nicholas, Shepherds Bush
East of England
St Mamas, Bedford
St Charalambos, Luton
The Twelve Apostles, Brookmans Park
SS Athanasius & Clement, Cambridge
Mother of God, Norwich
Pan-Orthodox Chapel of Life-Receiving Source, Walsingham
St Spyridon, Great Yarmouth
Community of SS Cosmas & Damian, Ipswich
Community of St Sophia & Her Three Daughters, Bishop's Stortford
Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex
SS Barbara, Phanourius & Paul, Southend-on-Sea
West Midlands
Community of SS Stephen & Thecla, Hereford
Community of Oswestry
Holy Fathers of Nicaea & St John the Baptist, Shrewsbury
Community of the Holy Fathers of Nicaea, Telford
Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God & St Andrew, Birmingham
Holy Trinity & St Luke, Birmingham
Nativity of the Mother of God, Walsall
The Holy Transfiguration, Coventry
Ascension of the Lord, Rugby
SS Mary & Marina, Stoke-on-Trent
East Midlands
St Neophytos, Northampton
Cathedral of SS Nicholas & Xenophon, Leicester
Virgin Mary Eleousa, Nottingham
SS Cyril & Methodius, Mansfield
St Basil the Great & Saint Paisios, Lincoln
North West
St Barbara, Chester
St Nicholas, Toxteth
Annunciation of the Mother of God, Manchester
St Nicholas, Blackley
Community of the Holy Apostles, Leyland
Community of St Simon the Zealot, Dalton-in-Furness
Yorkshire and the Humber
Annunciation of the Mother of God, Sheffield
Three Hierarchs, Leeds
Community of St Constantine the Great, York
North East
Annunciation of the Mother of God, Middlesbrough
Community of SS Cuthbert & Bede, Durham
St Anthony, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Wales
St Nicholas, Cardiff
Three Hierarchs, Lampeter
Community of Rhuddlan
Private Chapel at White House, Saundersfoot
Scotland
Cathedral of St Luke, Glasgow
Chapel of St Andrew, Edinburgh
Chapel of St John the Baptist, Ardross Castle
Community of Dundee
Community of St Andrews
Community of Perth
Oratory of the Mother of God & St Cumein, Fort Augustus
Community of the Highlands, Inverness
Community of St Matthew the Apostle, Aberdeen
Channel Islands
Community of SS Simon, Andrew the Apostle & Philon, Jersey
Community of All Saints, Guernsey
Ireland
Community of the Annunciation, Dublin
See also Category:Greek Orthodox churches in the United Kingdom
References
Bibliography
External links
Eastern Orthodox dioceses in the United Kingdom
Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
Eastern Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland
Thyateira
Dioceses established in the 20th century
Christian organizations established in 1922
1922 establishments in England
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Stevens Cooperative School
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Stevens Cooperative School is a private school for PreK 3 through 8th grade with campuses in Hoboken and Newport, Jersey City. Founded in 1949, Stevens is the oldest parent cooperative school in New Jersey, and a model of progressive education in action. Originally an informal playgroup for children of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology, the school has grown into a nursery, elementary and middle school with over 420 students. The Stevens community includes Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, North Bergen, Secaucus, Union City, Bayonne, West New York, Cliffside Park and other NJ locations and Manhattan.
News, Press, Reviews of Stevens Cooperative School
Stevens Cooperative School names Dr. Sergio Alati, Head of School (Beginning July 2012)
History & Timeline
History and timeline references found on the Stevens Cooperative School .
1949 Stevens Cooperative School was incorporated as a school for 3s and 4s. After a number of years, it moved to Lott House, at 8th Street and Castle Point Terrace in Hoboken, where the nursery school remained until 2007.
1973 Stevens starts its first Kindergarten program at St. Matthews Presbyterian Church at 9th Street and Hudson Street.
1979 The School moves to St. John’s Lutheran Church at 3rd and Bloomfield Streets and adds a 1st grade and 2nd grade.
1980 Stevens adds 3rd grade and 4th grade and moves St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 820 Hudson Street. Families from all over Hudson County join the school’s population.
1983 Stevens buys a building at 220 Willow Street to house the K-4th grade.
1980s The expansion of the School allows for the hiring of many teachers from the Bank Street College of Education, one of the nation’s leaders in progressive education. This practice continues today.
1986 The school hires its first full-time educational director.
1992 The school moves into the Rue Building at 3rd and Garden Streets, where 1st grade - 8th grade in Hoboken remain today.
1995 Zoe L. Hauser begins her tenure
Late 1990s Stevens expands to middle school, adding a 5th grade in 1997 and a 6th grade in 1998.
2003 The school graduates its first 8th grade class.
2003 Stevens moves its PreK and Kindergarten classes into a building a 301 Bloomfield Street, financing the purchase of the land with its first capital campaign.
2005 Stevens opens a new campus at Newport in Jersey City with Kindergarten - 2nd grade, and the commitment to add one grade there per year.
2007 A morning and afternoon 2s program is launched at the 301 Bloomfield Street facility.
2007 Stevens moves its 3s, 4s and PreK/K students in Hoboken into a new facility at 333 River Street.
2007 The Harrell Room, a science and media center, is installed on the second floor of 301 Bloomfield.
2008 Stevens Newport Campus welcomes middle schoolers and has its first 5th grade class.
2009 Stevens Newport Campus moves into a brand new, build to suit, 20,000 square foot space at the AquaBlu building within the Newport development.
2010 Zoe L. Hauser celebrates 15 years as Head of School.
2012 Dr. Sergio Alati named Head of School.
2013 Josh Marks named Hoboken Campus Principal.
2015 Shehla Ghouse named Newport Campus Principal.
Accreditation
Stevens Cooperative School is accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS).
Buildings
Stevens Cooperative School has four buildings on two campuses in Hoboken and the Newport area of Jersey City.
References
External links
Data for Stevens Cooperative School, National Center for Education Statistics
Private elementary schools in New Jersey
Private middle schools in New Jersey
Hoboken, New Jersey
Schools in Jersey City, New Jersey
New Jersey Association of Independent Schools
Schools in Hudson County, New Jersey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gager
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John Gager
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John Goodrich Gager Jr. retired from his position as William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton University in the spring of 2006. Gager was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1937.
Biography
The Gager family's roots in New England reach back to the arrival of John Winthrop and the "Winthrop Fleet" at what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Gager joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1968 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religion, having previously taught at Haverford College. After studying at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Gager went on to receive his B.A. and M. Div. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Gager undertook additional studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tübingen in Germany. During his studies in Yale, Gager was a Freedom Rider, and was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in June 1961.
Gager's scholarly concern is with the religions of the Roman Empire, especially early Christianity and its relations to ancient Judaism, and has also written on the theme of religion and magic. Professor Gager is also an avid rock climber, kayaker, and cyclist.
In his book "Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity" (1975), Gager helped pioneer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion, drawing particularly on the works of sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann.
In "Reinventing Paul" (2002), Gager argued for a radical new understanding of the apostle Paul's views of Jews and Judaism. From Library Journal on "Reinventing Paul:"
Gager's work on curse tablets or defixiones in his book Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World is some of the best in this field.
Major books
Reinventing Paul (2002), 208 p.,
The Origins of Anti-Semitism : Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (1985), 312 p.,
Moses in Greco-roman Paganism (1972), 176 p.,
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. (1992), 278 p.,
References
External links
Robert Orlando, "Reinventing Paul" - Columbia Professor of Religious Studies reviews Gager's "Reinventing Paul."
Brent Vine's review of "Curse Tablets" Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2003).
Gager bio - Princeton's bio of John Gager, slightly outdated.
Jonathan Zebrowski, "Religion professor, active mentor, to retire".
Daily Princetonian Editorial, "Two great professors leave a legacy".
1937 births
Living people
Harvard University alumni
University of Paris alumni
American religion academics
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Princeton University faculty
American expatriates in France
American expatriates in Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaterial%20and%20Missing%20Power
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Immaterial and Missing Power
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, commonly abbreviated as IaMP in English speaking circles, is a versus fighting game collaboratively developed by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice released in 2004. It is the first spinoff in the Touhou series, and it is numbered as the 7.5th installment as the game's events place between Perfect Cherry Blossom (seventh) and Imperishable Night (eighth), although it was released after Imperishable Night. After the success of Immaterial and Missing Power, the game was followed up with Scarlet Weather Rhapsody in 2008, the first of several Touhou fighting game sequels.
Gameplay
Immaterial and Missing Power is a two-dimensional fighting game in which players can select one of several Touhou characters to fight either against an AI, or other human players. Because of Touhou's origins as a bullet hell game, Immaterial and Missing Power's special moves have a focus on large amounts of projectiles. To help counter the large number of enemy projectiles, Immaterial and Missing Power, allows the player to 'graze' enemy projectiles, which gets its namesake from the prior Touhou games. While in the bullet hell Touhou games, grazing refers to having enemy projectiles collide with the player's sprite, but not their hitbox (which is several times smaller), in Immaterial and Missing Power, the player can use an energy meter to completely circumvent enemy projectiles, though not all projectiles can be grazed.
Spell Cards, a central aspect of Touhou since Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, appear in Immaterial and Missing Power as special moves that have to be announced before they can be used. Each character can choose 1 out of 3 normal spell cards, and 1 out of 3 overdrive spell cards to use before a match starts. The overdrive spell card replaces the normal spell card when the player's character has been defeated once. Also, when a spell card is announced, the player's HP replenishes for a certain amount.
Immaterial and Missing Power contains a story mode, an arcade mode in which the player has to fight the entire cast while given only one life, a versus mode, and a practice mode.
In the story mode, there are Spell Cards that are available only to the enemy characters. A Spell Card can be "collected" when the player defeats the enemy character in a limited amount of time when the enemy's Spell Card is in effect. After collecting enemy Spell Cards, they can be viewed in an in-game gallery.
Plot
During Gensokyo's summer, there occurred an incident called the Night Parade of Ten Thousand Demons Every Four Days (三日置きの百鬼夜行). In this incident, the sakura trees have since shed their blossoms, but the hanami kept on going, with feasts being hosted day after day with no end in sight. Additionally, each time the feast is held, an unknown restless spiritual aura in Gensokyo also increases, but this spiritual aura itself had no effect, leading to suspicions of those who went to investigate it. As such, everyone who goes to the feast, be it human or yōkai, appear to be very suspicious. Three days before the next feast, the player character sets out, each on their own, and attempt to investigate.
Characters
Eleven characters are available in Immaterial and Missing Power, including Suika Ibuki, who had her debut in this game. The characters Remilia, Yuyuko, Yukari, and Suika must be unlocked by defeating them in story mode, and Meiling is unlocked by downloading a patch, and completing the story mode, though she does not appear in it.
Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢): The miko of the Hakurei Shrine and perennial protagonist of the Touhou Project. She is troubled by the constant feasts in the shrine that she has to host, and goes to attack whoever she thinks is responsible. Like in the bullet hell games, she has access to homing projectiles.
Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙): An ordinary human magician, and playable character in each main Touhou game since Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream. She acts as the secretary in charge of the feasts, though she is unsure of their cause.
Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜): The maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion introduced in The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Sensing a mysterious qi in the feasts, she sets out to investigate. Her main ability consists of being able to throw large amounts of knives.
Alice Margatroid (アリス・マーガトロイド): A human magician, who lives in the Forest of Magic, alongside Marisa. Alice attempts to exorcise the aura, believing it to be a ghost. She attacks using puppets that she creates.
Patchouli Knowledge (パチュリー・ノーレッジ): A witch from the Scarlet Devil Mansion who does not usually go out of her library. This time, however, she took responsibility in investigating the mist that has been blanketing Gensokyo. Patchouli is asthmatic, and has poor mobility, but compensates with magical barrages that cover a large area.
Youmu Konpaku (魂魄 妖夢): A half-human half-ghost, and Yuyuko's gardener and servant. Youmu starts fights with various innocents, assuming them to be the culprits. Her attacks are centred around the usage of her two swords.
Remilia Scarlet (レミリア・スカーレット): A vampire, and mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, who is thought to be one of the prime suspects in creating the strange mist, because she did it once before in The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Because of her childlike physique, she is able to move quickly, and release danmaku that cover a wide area.
Yuyuko Saigyouji (西行寺 幽々子): The ghost princess of the netherworld. She is also believed to be a suspect, as she orchestrated the incident in Perfect Cherry Blossom. Reflecting her lazy personality, Yuyuko lacks mobility, but her Spell Cards have an unmatched range.
Yukari Yakumo (八雲 紫): A wandering yōkai, who controls the Hakurei Border.
Suika Ibuki (伊吹 萃香): Introduced in Immaterial and Missing Power, she is an oni who loves drinks, feasts, and competition, like the rest of her race. Despite her small size, she is strong in strength, speed, and mystic powers; she is also several hundred years old. Using her ability to control density, she can gather people to form a banquet, or she can scatter herself to become mist. In Immaterial and Missing Power, she made the residents of Gensokyo have continuous feasts, intending to draw the joyous oni from hiding.
Hong Meiling (紅 美鈴): A Chinese-like yōkai and martial artist that was included in a later patch of the game. She has no story mode.
Development
Unabara Iruka (海原海豚) of the Twilight Frontier team had wanted to make a fighting game with aerial battles similar to Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness (1995) and Astra Superstars (1998), but felt that creating a whole set of characters and the setting just for the game would be overwhelming. Unabara felt that such a game would not feel out of place in the setting of Touhou, and so he sought out ZUN, the founder of the series, to collaborate on a Touhou fighting game.
Unlike the main Touhou games, which were written developed entirely by ZUN, the dialogue, character sprites, and ending artwork in Immaterial and Missing Power are drawn by alphes, an artist at Twilight Frontier. ZUN was responsible for character design, the plot, stage design, system graphics, Spell Card naming, and a portion of the soundtrack while Twilight Frontier took care of the rest.
On April 2 2004, Twilight Frontier announced the production of Immaterial and Missing Power, with Team Shanghai Alice. On December 21, a demo, which had the first three stages of Reimu's story mode, and the characters Reimu, Marisa, Alice and Youmu available in the versus mode, was released digitally. The finished game was sold at the 67th Comiket on December 30 2004.
The soundtrack of the game was compiled into an album named Gensōkyoku Bassui (幻想曲抜萃) which was sold on August 14, 2005. A significant portion of the soundtrack were remixes of existing Touhou songs.
Reception
On GameSpot, the game had an average user score of 8.6/10.
See also
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - the next Touhou fighting game, also produced by ZUN and Twilight Frontier
List of fighting games
References
Notes
Sources
ZUN. Shanghai Alice Signpost. vol.5 2004/12/30 (Immaterial and Missing Power readme file)
External links
Immaterial and Missing Power: Official Site
Immaterial and Missing Power introduction in Team Shanghai Alice's website
Immaterial and Missing Power on Touhou Wiki
IaMPWiki
2004 video games
Touhou Project games
Doujin video games
Fighting games
Video games developed in Japan
Windows games
Windows-only games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20Welsh%20Independents
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Union of Welsh Independents
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The Union of Welsh Independents () is a Reformed congregationalist denomination in Wales.
History
Welsh congregational churches or Independents stand in the Puritan tradition. The first congregational congregation was founded at Llanfaches in 1639. Early founders were in the puritan tradition. Later several churches were founded and formed separate denominations. They embraced different theological positions. Finally the denomination was founded in 1872 as a voluntary association of churches. They called it Independent because each congregation claims to be under the authority of Christ. Individual congregations cooperate through associations. Now the Union works through six departments: finance, mission, ministry, education, churches, communication. The Union churches have much in common with other free churches in Wales. Ministers can freely move their ministry among them. The Unions council met once a year. The Union is a free and voluntary body, its aims to help to make churches a fellowship that serve Jesus Christ. The church has high emphasis on preaching the Gospel, and education, empowering church members. The denomination currently is working on a new mission strategy, the AGAPE program, started in 2005. The latest strategy is the Welsh Independents Development Programme.
Statistics
In 2006 it had 16 associations of churches, 450 congregations, 31,000 members and about 107 ministers. Its worship services are held primarily in the Welsh language.
According to the latest statistics in 2021 it had over 400 congregations. The president is Beti-Wyn James.
Interchurch relations
The Union is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Also a member in the International Congregational Fellowship, Council for World Mission and the World Council of Churches.
It has friendly relations with the Congregational Federation.
References
External links
Union of Wales Independents official site
Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches
Reformed denominations in the United Kingdom
Christian denominations in the United Kingdom
Congregationalism
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Santa Apollonia
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Santa Apollonia may refer to:
Saint Apollonia
Santa Apollonia (Pisa), a church in Pisa, Italy
Réunion island, known as Santa Apollonia when it was ruled by the Portuguese
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20reliability
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Data reliability
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The term data reliability may refer to:
Reliability (statistics), the overall consistency of a measure
Data integrity, the maintenance of, and the assurance of the accuracy and consistency of, data over its entire life-cycle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment-specific%20technological%20progress
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Investment-specific technological progress
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Investment-specific technological progress refers to progress that requires investment in new equipment and structures embodying the latest technology in order to realize its benefits. To model the influence of technological change upon production the influence of a technological change upon the specific inputs (i.e. labor and capital) of a production model is assessed in terms of the resulting effect upon the final good of the model (i.e. goods and services).
To realize the benefits of such technological change for production a firm must invest to attain the new technology as a component of production. For example, the advent of the microchip (an important technological improvement in computers) will affect the production of Ford cars only if Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plants invest in computers with microchips (instead of computers with punched cards) and use them in the production of a product, i.e. Mustangs. Investment-specific technological progress requires investing in new production inputs which contain or embody the latest technology. Notice that the term investment can be general: not only must a firm buy the new technology to reap its benefits, but it also must invest in training its workers and managers to be able to use this new technology.
Significance
Identifying investment-specific technological progress within an economy will determine how an individual behaves in reaction to new technology, i.e. whether the individual will invest their savings. If "investment-specific" technological change is the main source of progress in an industry, then the individual would invest in firms to purchase and develop new capital, as technological improvements result in improvements to the goods available to consume. Firms may also choose to train current employees in the new technology or subsidize the education of new employees in the operation of the new technology. As such technological progress has an impact upon the labour market.
Technological progress has direct positive impacts upon human welfare. As a result of new technologies producers can produce a greater volume of product at a lower cost. The resulting reduction in prices benefits the consumer, who now can purchase more. Women have been able to break away from the traditional "housewife" role, join the labor-force in greater numbers and become less economically dependent on men. Further impacts include a reduction in child labor starting around 1900.
An example of investment-specific technological progress is the microwave oven. The first microwave oven cost between $2000 and $3000 US and was housed in refrigerator-sized cabinets. Through regular technological investment the microwave industry has developed into a competitive market, with small compact units in many households. Many industries have adopted the microwave through capital or research investment, applications outside the food industry include the iron and steel industry as a heating tool and the chemical industry as a tool for organic synthesis.
Measurement
There is no direct metric for measuring technological progress, as such workarounds based upon direct relationships between technological progress and recordable values are used. "'Investment-specific'" technological progress makes producing goods easier, as a result the price of the goods will decrease. In particular, "investment-specific" technological advance has affected the prices of two inputs into the production process: equipment and structures. If there is technological progress in the production of these goods, then it is expected the price will fall or the value of the good will rise relative to older versions of the same good.
Figure 2 (the pink line) shows how the price of new producer durables (such as equipment) in the United States relative to the price of new consumer nondurables has consistently declined over the past fifty years. To calculate the relative price of producer durables divide the price that firms pay (for the durable inputs of production) by the price that a consumer of the firms product pays. Relative prices are used to represent how many units of equipment can be bought in terms of the a single unit of consumer goods.As a result of technological development, firms have been able to buy comparitevly more units of equipment for each unit of consumption,
with the quality of the goods increasing while the cost of production decreases. When changes in quality are not taken into account the apparent price of equipment undergoes a smaller reduction (see the black line in Figure 2).
One approach to measuring the price of technologically improved structures is to assign newer building a higher value due to the embodyment of the new technology with the design. In particular, they should rent for more, i.e. renting a square foot in a new building is much more expensive than renting a square foot in a building forty years old.
Figures 2 and 3 suggest that investment-specific technological change is operating in the US. The annual rate of technological progress in equipment and structures has been estimated to be about 3.2% and 1%, respectively.
References
Economic growth
Technological change
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Yusuf Khattak
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Muhamad Yusuf Khan Khattak ( b. 18 November 1917 – 29 July 1991) was a Pakistani politician, left-wing intellectual, lawyer, and noted Pakistan Movement activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Although an early member of the Muslim League, he actively participated in politics through the left-oriented Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which he served as the minister of petroleum under the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
He was a highly respectable elder statesman and represented Pakistan at various international conferences during his political career.
Biography
Early life and education
Yusuf Khattak was born into a prominent Pashtun Khattak family, in Kohat, North-West Frontier Province now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. His father, Khan Bahadur Kuli Khan Khattak, was an influential figure in the nationalist politics of the then-North-West Frontier Province.
His younger brother, Aslam Khattak also served as the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Habibullah Khattak later enjoyed a distinguished career with the Pakistan Army.
After initially studying at the private Aitchison College in Lahore, he made a transfer to the renowned Government College University (GCU) in Lahore. At GCU, he graduated with BA in comparative literature and poetry, and moved to the United Kingdom for higher studies. He attended the Oxford University where he earned a BA in history, followed by MA in modern history. At Oxford University, he passed the bar exam to practice law and was Lincoln's Inn.
However, he returned to India to join the All India Muslim League and played a prominent role in the Pakistan Movement.
Political activism and the petroleum ministry
In November 1946, he led a group of 100 volunteers of Frontier Muslim League to Bihar for relief work after the massacre of Muslims there. During the Civil disobedience movement in British India, Khattak was arrested and sent to jail along with other leaders of the Muslim League. ln spite of his release orders, he refused to come out of the jail and persistently defied the orders by remaining behind the bars till Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave clarion call to the Muslim League leaders to fight the battle for referendum in North West Frontier Province.
Yusuf Khattak led the Pakistan Movement section against the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Congress government under Dr Khan Sahib. A close confidante of Liaqat Ali Khan, he became secretary general of the Muslim League after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. However, he fell out with Muslim League Chief Minister Abdul Qayyum Khan, who actively organised a campaign to oust him and his colleagues like Barrister Khan Saifullah Khan, from any role in provincial politics.
He was then elected secretary general of the Provincial Muslim League, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in 1949. He was soon elevated to the prominent position of secretary general of All Pakistan Muslim League the same year thereby succeeding Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister of Pakistan as secretary general of the league.
Leader of the opposition
Frequently in the opposition, he was elected the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan and was a prominent leader in the campaign of Fatima Jinnah against Field Marshal Ayub Khan's military government.
A prominent critic of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Pakhtunistan policy, he also rejected the National Awami Party's claim to be the sole representative of Pashtuns.
Reconciling with Qayyum Khan before the bye-elections of 1971, he joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Qayyum faction and contested and won the election from Qayyum Khan's vacated Peshawar seat.
As part of Qayyum Khan's alliance with the Pakistan Peoples Party, Yusuf Khattak was appointed Federal Minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources in Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Cabinet. He was re-elected to his seat in the 1977 election despite the Qayyum League's rout.
Commemorative postage stamp
Pakistan Post Office issued a commemorative postage stamp to honor him in its 'Tehreek-e-Pakistan Ke Mujahid' series in 2003.
Death
Yusuf Khattak died on 29 July 1991 at Islamabad, Pakistan after a long illness.
See also
Aslam Khattak
Abdul Qayyum Khan
Liaqat Ali Khan
References
External links
Muhammad Yusuf Khan Khattak ...A Daughter's Tribute by Zeenath Jehan
1917 births
1991 deaths
Pakistan Peoples Party politicians
Government College University, Lahore alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Pakistani scholars
Pakistani activists
Pakistan Movement activists from the North-West Frontier Province
Aitchison College alumni
Yusuf
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magician%20%282005%20film%29
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The Magician (2005 film)
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The Magician is a 2005 Australian film written and directed by Scott Ryan. The film was originally shot over 10 days with a budget of . Ryan edited a half-hour version of the film for screening at the St. Kilda Film Festival, where it was seen by stuntman and film producer Nash Edgerton (brother of Joel Edgerton), who took the project under his wing. After receiving A$330,000 in government grants, the film was re-released in 2005.
Plot
A mockumentary that follows the escapades of Ray Shoesmith, a Melbourne underworld hitman who hires a film student to document his life.
Cast
Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith
Ben Walker as Tony Richards
Massimiliano Andrighetto as Massimo "Max" Totti
Kane Mason as Benny
Nathaniel Lindsay as Edna
Box office
The Magician grossed $182,164 at the box office in Australia.
Reception
The film holds a 75% approval rating from critics based on 16 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.
Awards and nominations
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
IF Awards
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Spinoff series
A television spinoff based on the Ray Shoesmith character premiered on FX in 2018 titled Mr Inbetween. Ryan reprised his role, and served as writer and producer on the show. Nash Edgerton also served as producer and director.
See also
Cinema of Australia
Mr Inbetween
References
External links
The Magician at the National Film and Sound Archive
Australian films
2005 films
Australian crime drama films
English-language films
2000s crime drama films
Films shot in Melbourne
2005 drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Piano%20Land
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MV Piano Land
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MV Piano Land is a cruise ship in service for Astro Ocean, a newly-formed Chinese cruise line. She originally entered service in April 1995 as Oriana for P&O Cruises, and was named by Queen Elizabeth II. She was built by Meyer Werft at their shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, and measures 69,153 gross tons. As Oriana, she held the Golden Cockerel trophy in recognition of being the fastest ship in the P&O Cruises fleet from 1997, when she succeeded her fleetmate Canberra, to her departure in 2019.
Overview
When she was built in 1995, Oriana was the first new ship commissioned for P&O Cruises, and the first to be designed specifically for the British cruise market. At 69,153 gross tons, she was one of the largest cruise ships in the world. She was also designed in the style of an ocean liner to facilitate long distance voyages and world cruises. She was the second ship to carry the name Oriana, and was named in tribute to the first Oriana, which served for Orient Line and P&O from 1960 to 1986. After a lengthy campaign, P&O Cruises were permitted to allocate the new Oriana the call sign 'GVSN', which was the same call sign as the first Oriana.
From 1995 when she was built, until 2000, Oriana was owned by P&O. In 2000 P&O de-merged its cruise ship operations, with ownership of Oriana transferring to the new company, P&O Princess Cruises. In 2003 P&O Princess merged with Carnival Corporation to form Carnival Corporation & plc. Despite these changes of ownership, Oriana was operated by P&O Cruises throughout.
In 2006 she was re-registered to Bermuda so that weddings could be conducted on board, and as a result, her call sign was changed to ZCDU9. In November 2011, Oriana became a ship exclusively for adults.
In August 2019, Oriana was sold to the newly-formed Chinese cruise line Astro Ocean and renamed Piano Land.
General characteristics
Oriana is long, with a beam of just over , and a draught of , which varies up to 8.2 m depending on load. There is a and a maximum passenger capacity of 1,928. Outside passenger deck space is . Power is provided by four MAN B&W Diesels generating a total of 47,750 kW giving the ship a service speed of .
Design and construction
P&O wanted the new Oriana to be built in the United Kingdom, but there were no longer British shipyards capable of completing such an order, so P&O Cruises looked overseas.
Two of the three main designers, Sweden’s Robert Tillberg and British designer John McNeece, spent a considerable amount of time on board SS Canberra investigating the needs of British passengers, so as to include as many of Canberras features as possible into Orianas design. Oriana's single funnel is designed to resemble Canberras twin funnels. She has a single deck of balconies reserved for suites, mini suites and staterooms to cater for the growing desire for balconies on board.
John McNeece and his London-based team of designers were engaged by P&O to bring the British look to the high-revenue generating interiors of the ship, such as Anderson's, Lord's Tavern, the Knightsbridge Shops, the Emporium, Harlequins, the Casino, the Photo Gallery, the Pacific Lounge, and related public spaces, as well as on-board information graphics.
Service history
1995–2019: Oriana
When she entered service Oriana was one of the largest cruise ships in the world, and the largest ship built in Germany since 1914. Since then tonnages have increased as economies of scale make larger ships more profitable to operate. Nowadays most new cruise ships have a tonnage of around 100,000 GT. Annually undertaking world cruises with fleetmate Aurora, she normally operates cruises within the Mediterranean, the Canaries, Madeira and the Baltic seas.
In December 2006 the Oriana underwent a £12 million refit in Bremerhaven, Germany. Coinciding with the refit she was re-registered from Britain to Bermuda so that weddings could be held at sea. Oriana was also home to 'Oriana Rhodes', a restaurant designed by the celebrity chef Gary Rhodes in the former Curzon Room. This was later replaced by 'Sindhu' by chef Atul Kochhar, which remained in place until Oriana's departure from the P&O fleet. Other modifications during the 2006 refit included the extension of the cricket themed 'Lord's Tavern', and refurbishment of the children's play areas. All her cabins were restyled to include one of four new colour schemes, new curtains, carpets, beds, linen and duvets. During a 2011 refit at Blohm and Voss shipyard, Oriana's stern was remodelled and she was also converted to serve an adults only market, with the children's play areas removed and replaced with additional passenger cabins.
During cruises in four consecutive years to 2014 the ship suffered outbreaks of norovirus; about 400 passengers were affected in 2012, earning the vessel the nickname of "the plague ship". In 2014 passengers, angry at not being told of the earlier outbreaks, took legal action against P&O Cruises.
In June 2018, P&O Cruises announced that Oriana would be leaving the fleet in August 2019. Oriana departed on her final cruise, to Norway, the North Cape and Northern Ireland, on 23 July 2019 and returned on 9 August.
2019–present: Piano Land
In August 2019, Oriana joined the newly-formed Chinese cruise line Astro Ocean, and was renamed Piano Land. The name was chosen in reference to the Chinese island of Gulangyu, which is associated with music and known as the 'Island of Music'. Piano Land departed Southampton on 16 August 2019 and arrived in Xiamen, China on 20 September. She was christened by Ni Chao, the Director of the Xiamen Municipal Committee and the Director of the Free Trade Commission, on 26 September.
Astro Ocean Cruises and the Piano Land made their debut in Shanghai on 8 November 2019 as the ship marked her maiden call in China’s leading cruise port.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Official website at P&O Cruises
Oriana of 1995- Postcards
Photos
Oriana Video Tour
Ships of P&O Cruises
Ships built in Papenburg
1994 ships
Passenger ships of Bermuda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20destroyer%20Hatsuyuki%20%281928%29
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Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki (1928)
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was the third of twenty-four s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War.
History
Construction of the advanced Fubuki-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's expansion program from fiscal 1923, intended to give Japan a qualitative edge with the world's most modern ships. The Fubuki class had performance that was a quantum leap over previous destroyer designs, so much so that they were designated . The large size, powerful engines, high speed, large radius of action and unprecedented armament gave these destroyers the firepower similar to many light cruisers in other navies. Hatsuyuki, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal was laid down on 12 April 1926, launched on 29 September 1928 and commissioned on 30 March 1929. Originally assigned hull designation "Destroyer No. 37", she was completed as Hatsuyuki.
Operational history
On completion, Hatsuyuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 11 under the IJN 2nd Fleet. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Hatsuyuki helped cover landings of Japanese forces during the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, and subsequent landings of Japanese forces at Hangzhou in northern China. In 1940, she also participated in the Invasion of French Indochina.
World War II history
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hatsuyuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 11 of Desron 3 of the IJN 1st Fleet, and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island. From 4 December 1941 to 30 January 1942 Hatsuyuki was part of the escort for the heavy cruisers , , and out of Samah and Camranh Bay, French Indochina in support of Malaya, Banka-Palembang and Anambas Islands invasion operations. On 18 February, she was credited with sinking or capturing two transports attempting to flee from Singapore.
On 27 February, Hatsuyuki was assigned to "Operation J", covering landings of Japanese forces in western Java in the Netherlands East Indies, and was in the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March, assisting in the sinking of the Australian cruiser and the American cruiser .
Hatsuyuki was part of the escort for Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa's cover force for "Operation T" (the invasion of northern Sumatra) on 12 March and the "Operation D", (the invasion of the Andaman Islands) on 23 March. She subsequently served patrol and escort duties out of Port Blair during the Japanese raids into the Indian Ocean. On 13–22 April she returned to Kure Naval Arsenal for maintenance.
On 4–5 June 1942, Hatsuyuki participated in the Battle of Midway as part of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's main fleet.
In July 1942, Hatsuyuki sailed from Amami-Ōshima to Mako Guard District, Singapore, Sabang and Mergui for a projected second Indian Ocean raid. The operation was cancelled due to the Guadalcanal campaign, and she was ordered to Truk instead. From August onward, she was used for "Tokyo Express" high speed transport missions in the Solomon Islands. On one of this missions, on 4–5 September, Hatsuyuki assisted in sinking the high-speed transports and .
During the Battle of Cape Esperance on 11–12 October, Hatsuyuki took 518 survivors off of the sinking cruiser , and two days later escorted the badly damaged to Truk. During the Battle of Santa Cruz on 26 October, she was on alert station at Shortland Island.
After helping evacuate surviving Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in early November, from 12–15 November, Hatsuyuki took part in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Initially she escorted the Support Force commanded by Admiral Takeo Kurita, then joined the Emergency Bombardment Force of Admiral Nobutake Kondō. With the cruiser in the assault on enemy destroyers, Hatsuyuki assisted in sinking , , and and damaging . Hatsuyuki then returned to Truk on 18 November. After making one more transport run to Rabaul in December, Hatsuyuki was assigned to escort aircraft carrier back to Kure Naval Arsenal for repairs.
In January 1943, Hatsuyuki escorted a troop convoy from Pusan to Palau and on to Wewak. She continued to patrol and escort in the Solomon Islands until the end of February, when she was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet. In March, Hatsuyuki assisted the survivors of the Battle of Bismarck Sea, before returning to Kure for refit. In May, she escorted aircraft carrier from Yokosuka to Manila, Surabaya, Singapore, and back to Mako Guard District to Sasebo Naval District. In June, Hatsuyuki returned to Rabaul, and resumed "Tokyo Express" missions. In the Battle of Kula Gulf off of Kolombangara on 5 July, Hatsuyuki engaged a group of American cruisers and destroyers, and was hit by six dud shells, which damaged her steering and killed six crewmen.
On 17 July 1943, while docked at Shortlands unloading passengers at position , Hatsuyuki was attacked in an air strike by USAAF aircraft. A bomb exploded the after magazine, sinking her in shallow water, with 120 dead (including 38 passengers) and 36 wounded.
On 5 October 1943, Hatsuyuki was removed from the navy list.
Notes
References
External links
Muir, Dan Order of Battle – The Battle of the Sunda Strait 1942
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/ijn/hatsuyuki.html location in doubt
Fubuki-class destroyers
Ships built by Maizuru Naval Arsenal
1928 ships
Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan
World War II destroyers of Japan
Destroyers sunk by aircraft
Shipwrecks in the Solomon Sea
World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
Maritime incidents in July 1943
Ships sunk by US aircraft
Naval magazine explosions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domeki
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Domeki
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Domeki may refer to:
Domeki Station, a railway station in Eiheiji, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Masato Domeki (born 1983), Japanese ice hockey player
Shizuka Dōmeki, a fictional character in the manga series xxxHolic
Kai Domeki, a character in the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan rhythm video game duology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Spencer
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Derek Spencer
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Sir Derek Harold Spencer, QC (born 31 March 1936) is a British Conservative Party politician.
Education and career
Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, he was educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford. He served as a lieutenant in the King's Own Regiment from 1954 to 1956. He became a barrister in 1961 and 'took silk' as a QC in 1980.
He is a Master of the Bench, Gray's Inn.
Political career
Spencer was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Leicester South constituency in the Conservative landslide of 1983, by just 7 votes — the smallest margin in the country. He lost the seat back to Labour in 1987.
He was elected for the marginal Brighton Pavilion seat in 1992, when he was knighted and appointed Solicitor-General.
As Solicitor General, he represented the government in several significant cases including Wingrove v UK (1997) about the application of blasphemy law under the Human Rights Act 1998.
In 1997, however, he was defeated by Labour's David Lepper by 13,181 votes on a 13.5% swing.
Memberships
Ex officio Bar Council, 1992–1997
Criminal Bar Association
Northern Ireland Bar
South Eastern Circuit
Family
Spencer has three sons (David, Andrew and Frederick) and one daughter (Caroline). His second wife, Caroline, died on 10 January 2003 of a heart attack.
References
External links
1936 births
British Queen's Counsel
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1992–1997
Solicitors General for England and Wales
Living people
Members of Gray's Inn
Queen's Counsel 2001–
Politicians from Brighton and Hove
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20redundancy
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Data redundancy
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In computer main memory, auxiliary storage and computer buses, data redundancy is the existence of data that is additional to the actual data and permits correction of errors in stored or transmitted data. The additional data can simply be a complete copy of the actual data (a type of repetition code), or only select pieces of data that allow detection of errors and reconstruction of lost or damaged data up to a certain level.
For example, by including additional data checksums, ECC memory is capable of detecting and correcting single-bit errors within each memory word, while RAID 1 combines two hard disk drives (HDDs) into a logical storage unit that allows stored data to survive a complete failure of one drive. Data redundancy can also be used as a measure against silent data corruption; for example, file systems such as Btrfs and ZFS use data and metadata checksumming in combination with copies of stored data to detect silent data corruption and repair its effects.
In database systems
While different in nature, data redundancy also occurs in database systems that have values repeated unnecessarily in one or more records or fields, within a table, or where the field is replicated/repeated in two or more tables. Often this is found in unnormalized database designs and results in the complication of database management, introducing the risk of corrupting the data, and increasing the required amount of storage. When done on purpose from a previously normalized database schema, it may be considered a form of database denormalization; used to improve performance of database queries (shorten the database response time).
For instance, when customer data are duplicated and attached with each product bought, then redundancy of data is a known source of inconsistency since a given customer might appear with different values for one or more of their attributes. Data redundancy leads to data anomalies and corruption and generally should be avoided by design; applying database normalization prevents redundancy and makes the best possible usage of storage.
See also
Data maintenance
Data deduplication
Data scrubbing
End-to-end data protection
Redundancy (engineering)
Redundancy (information theory)
References
Computer memory
Data
Data modeling
Databases
Fault-tolerant computer systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashaval
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Ashaval
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Ashaval or Ashapalli or Yashoval is the first name of Ahmedabad or Amdavad. Archaeological evidence suggests that the area around Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat, India has been inhabited since the 11th century, when it was known as Yashoval or Ashapalli or Ashaval. The city of Ashaval was located on the east of River Sabarmati. Existence of Ashawal is traced way back in 9th - 10th century up till 13th century.
The Ahmedabad is a popular settlement near bank of Sabarmati river was earlier known as Ashaval or Ashapalli. In the tenth century Ashaval was one of the chief places in Gujarat as described by Al-Biruni. It was a well peopled, busy, trading, manufacturing and rich town around 1150.
Area
The estimated area of Ashawal was from Calico Mills via Jamalpur Darwaja up to Astodia Darwaja. The hillock near Astodia Darwaja (the present Dhal-ni-pol area) was known as 'Asha Bhil-no-Tekro'.
Rulers
Ashaval was originally ruled by a Bhil Maharaja, who was defeated by the Chaulukya(Solanki) king Karna (r. c. 1064–1092 CE). The 14th century chronicler Merutunga states that Karna established the city of Karnavati after this victory, which is identified with modern Ahmedabad by some scholars.
References
History of Gujarat
History of Ahmedabad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan%20Holiness%20Church
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Wesleyan Holiness Church
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The Wesleyan Holiness Church, also known as the Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches, is a Methodist Christian denomination in the conservative holiness movement. It has congregations throughout Canada, the United States and missions in other parts of the world.
History
The formation of the Wesleyan Holiness Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States and Canada; it sits within the Holiness movement which emerged in Methodism during the nineteenth century. The church is a schism from the Bible Missionary Church that happened in 1959, the result of perceived overly-lenient views on divorce and remarriage within that group. Congregations that belong to the Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches joined it, such as that in Portage, which held its first service of worship was held on 18 March 1956.
General Conference, Annual conferences and Camp meetings
The Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches holds a General Conference.
The Central District of Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches holds its annual conference and camp meeting at the Orleans Wesleyan Campgrounds in Orleans, Indiana.
The Northeast District of Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches holds its annual conference and camp meeting at the Orleans Wesleyan Campgrounds in Clinton, Pennsylvania.
Publications
The official organ of the Wesleyan Association of Churches is the Eleventh Hour Messenger.
United Kingdom
In the UK, the British Isles District has 16 churches. The head office is at New Life Wesleyan Church in Handsworth, Birmingham. This District is associated with the Wesleyan Church and not the same as the denomination which left the Bible Missionary Church.
References
External links
http://www.wesleyanchurch.co.uk (Official website)
http://www.wesleyan.net/churches/uk/ (Unofficial website)
Methodist denominations
Christian denominations established in the 20th century
Holiness denominations
Evangelical denominations in North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apistinae
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Apistinae
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Apistinae, the wasp scorpionfishes, is a subfamily of venomous, marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and related species. These fishes are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Apistinae, or Apsitidae, was first formally recognised as a taxononmic grouping in 1859 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Gill. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World treats this as a subfamily of the scorpionfish family Scorpaenidae, although other authorities treat it as a valid family, the Apistidae. The name of the subfamily is based on the genus name Apistus, which means "untrustworthy" or "perfidious", a name Cuvier explained as being due to the long and mobile spines around the eyes, which he described as “very offensive weapons that these fish use when you least expect it”.
A recent study placed the wasp scorpionfishes into an expanded stonefish clade (Synanceiidae) because all of these fish have a lachrymal saber that can project a switch-blade-like mechanism out from underneath their eye.
Genera
Apistinae contains the following 3 monotypic genera:
Apistops Ogilby, 1911
Apistus Cuvier, 1829
Cheroscorpaena Mees, 1964
Characteristics
Apistinae species have either 1 or 3 lower pectoral fin rays which are free of the fin membrane and a swimbladder with 2 lobes. They are fairly small fishes reaching lengths of TL in the humpback waspfish to TL in the ocellated waspfish.
Distribution and habitat
Apistinae species are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Red Sea and the eastern coast of Africa east in to the western Pacific Ocean, north to Japan and south to Australia. They are demersal species of the continental shelf and may be found over soft substrates or on reefs.
References
External links
Photos of Apistus carinatus (Bearded waspfish or Longfin waspfish)
Apistidae
Scorpaenidae
Ray-finned fish families
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packetized%20elementary%20stream
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Packetized elementary stream
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Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) is a specification in the MPEG-2 Part 1 (Systems) (ISO/IEC 13818-1) and ITU-T H.222.0 that defines carrying of elementary streams (usually the output of an audio or video encoder) in packets within MPEG program streams and MPEG transport streams. The elementary stream is packetized by encapsulating sequential data bytes from the elementary stream inside PES packet headers.
A typical method of transmitting elementary stream data from a video or audio encoder is to first create PES packets from the elementary stream data and then to encapsulate these PES packets inside Transport Stream (TS) packets or Program Stream (PS) packets. The TS packets can then be multiplexed and transmitted using broadcasting techniques, such as those used in an ATSC and DVB.
Transport Streams and Program Streams are each logically constructed from PES packets. PES packets shall be used to convert between Transport Streams and Program Streams. In some cases the PES packets need not be modified when performing such conversions. PES packets may be much larger than the size of a Transport Stream packet.
PES packet header
Optional PES header
While above flags indicate that values are appended into variable length optional fields, they are not just simply written out. For example, PTS (and DTS) is expanded from 33 bits to 5 bytes (40 bits). If only PTS is present, this is done by catenating 0010b, most significant 3 bits from PTS, 1, following next 15 bits, 1, rest 15 bits and 1. If both PTS and DTS are present, first 4 bits are 0011 and first 4 bits for DTS are 0001. Other appended bytes have similar but different encoding.
References
External links
http://www.bretl.com/mpeghtml/pespckt.HTM
http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/pes-hdr.html
ISO/IEC standard 13818-1 )
MPEG
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliverian%20Brook
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Oliverian Brook
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Oliverian Brook is a river in western New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Oliverian Brook rises in the town of Benton, New Hampshire, on the western slopes of Mount Moosilauke on the northern outskirts of the village of Glencliff, at the juncture of Slide Brook and Still Brook. The brook flows south to near the center of Glencliff in the town of Warren before taking a sharp turn to the northwest and flowing through the center of Oliverian Notch, the westernmost of the major passes through the White Mountains.
The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village. New Hampshire Route 25 closely follows Oliverian Brook from Glencliff to NH 10 near the Connecticut River.
See also
List of New Hampshire rivers
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Tributaries of the Connecticut River
Rivers of Grafton County, New Hampshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori%20Bernards
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Kori Bernards
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Kori Bernards is the media strategist and trade and business press contact for Universal Pictures. Prior to being appointed to her position at Universal, Bernards was the Vice President of Corporate Communications for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), headquartered in Los Angeles. She is the head of public relations and communications for the west coast and the principal spokeswoman in enforcing copyright protection for the MPAA. She is known to the public as a result of suing online copyright infringement hubs, including several popular BitTorrent trackers.
Career
Before working for the MPAA, Bernards worked in politics, most recently as the communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, (DCCC), in the 2004 elections cycle, spending the final months of the campaign traveling with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Before that, she was press secretary to House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt where she served as his spokeswoman and travelling press representative.
Before working for Gephardt, Bernards was communications director for Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin for four-and-a-half years, and as press secretary for the House Appropriations Committee Democrats. During that time, she volunteered, and was a board member for Horton's Kids Inc., where she worked with poor children from Anacostia, helping them obtain health care services.
In 1996, Kori Bernards worked for Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala as a political appointee to the Health Secretary's public affairs office. She was Shalala's radio press spokeswoman and travelling press coordinatrix. Bernard's first job in Washington was in the congressional office of Connecticut Representative Rosa L. DeLauro.
Personal life
Bernards is a native Californian who grew up in Orange County. Before going to Washington, D.C., she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, on several local and state campaigns, including the Clinton-Gore Arizona campaign in 1992. She has a Bachelor of Arts in political science degree from Regis University, Denver, Colorado.
References
1953 births
Living people
Regis University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20laser
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Mercury laser
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The Mercury laser is a high-average-power laser system developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a prototype for systems to drive inertial confinement fusion. Like the National Ignition Facility, it is intended to produce narrow pulses of extremely high power, using diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Unlike the NIF system, the Mercury laser aims to achieve a high repetition rate: its goals are 10 pulses per second, each delivering 100 J with a 10% efficient conversion of electricity to laser light.
The active gain medium is Yb:SFAP (Ytterbium-doped Sr5(PO4)3), which is cooled by fast-flowing helium to allow high repetition rates. Infrared light at 900 nm from 8 arrays of laser diodes pumps the laser.
See also
Mercury-vapor lamp, a gas discharge lamp that uses the element mercury in an excited state to produce light
References
Inertial confinement fusion research lasers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Russell
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Edward Russell
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Edward or Ted Russell may refer to:
Politics
Edward Russell (Maine politician) (1782–1835), secretary of state of Maine (1830–31), brigadier general in the militia
Lord Edward Russell (1805–1887), British Member of Parliament
Lord Edward Russell (1642–1714), English politician
Edward Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool (1834–1920), British journalist and Liberal politician
Edward Russell, 23rd Baron de Clifford (1824–1877), British Whig politician
J. Edward Russell (1867–1953), U.S. Representative from Ohio
Edward Russell (Australian politician) (1878–1925), senator
Ted Russell (Canadian politician) (1904–1977), Canadian politician and writer
Ted Russell (Irish politician) (1912–2004), Irish politician and company director
Other
Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford (1572–1627), Earl in the Peerage of England
Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1653–1727), Royal Navy officer, First Lord of the Admiralty under King William III
Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool (1895–1981), British soldier, lawyer and historian
Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford (1907–1982), only son of Jack Southwell Russell, 25th Baron de Clifford
Edward Russell (trade unionist) (1867–1943), Australian trade unionist
Edward Russell (television presenter) (born 1989), British Singaporean television presenter and actor
E. John Russell (1872–1965), British agriculturalist
E. S. Russell (1887–1954), Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology
Edward Russell (cricketer) (1875–1940), English cricketer
Ted Russell (musician), Mississippi bandleader and conductor
See also
Theodore Russell (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink%20Brook
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Mink Brook
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Mink Brook is a stream in western New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Mink Brook lies entirely in the town of Hanover. It rises on the western slopes of Moose Mountain and flows west, through the village of Etna, before reaching the Connecticut just north of the Hanover-Lebanon municipal boundary.
See also
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
New Hampshire GRANIT geographic information system: 1:25,000-scale digital hydrographic data derived from U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps
Rivers of New Hampshire
Tributaries of the Connecticut River
Rivers of Grafton County, New Hampshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigoni%20%28epic%29
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Epigoni (epic)
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Epigoni (, Epigonoi, "Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the Thebaid and not a separate poem.
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According to one source, the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse. It told the story of the last battle for Thebes by the Epigoni, the children of the heroes who had previously fought for the city. Only the first line is now known:
Now, Muses, let us begin to sing of younger men ...
Additional references, without verbal quotations, suggest that the myth of the death of Procris and the story of Teiresias's daughter Manto formed part of the Epigoni.
The epic was sometimes ascribed to Homer, but Herodotus doubted this attribution. According to the Scholia on Aristophanes there was an alternative attribution to "Antimachus." This presumably means Antimachus of Teos (8th century BC), and for this reason another verse line attributed without title to Antimachus of Teos is conjecturally thought to belong to the Epigoni. An alternative explanation for the naming of Antimachus here would be that the later epic poet Antimachus of Colophon (4th century BC) had been accused of stealing the traditional Epigoni by incorporating its plot in his literary epic Thebais.
The story of the Epigoni was afterwards told again in the form of a tragedy by Sophocles, Epigoni.
References
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Critical editions
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Translations
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Bibliography
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8th-century BC books
Ancient Greek epic poems
Homer
Lost poems
Sequels
Theban Cycle
Works of uncertain authorship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Wimbledon%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles
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2002 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
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Serena Williams defeated the two-time defending champion, her sister Venus Williams, in the final, 7–6(7–4), 6–3 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships. It was her first Wimbledon singles title, and the second step in completing her first "Serena Slam," a non-calendar year Grand Slam and career Grand Slam. She also claimed the world No. 1 singles ranking for the first time by winning the tournament. She achieved the 'Channel Slam' (winning the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year), a feat she would accomplish again in 2015. Williams did not lose a set during the tournament.
Seeds
Venus Williams (final)
Serena Williams (champion)
Jennifer Capriati (quarterfinals)
Monica Seles (quarterfinals)
Kim Clijsters (second round)
Justine Henin (semifinals)
Jelena Dokić (fourth round)
Sandrine Testud (second round)
Amélie Mauresmo (semifinals)
Silvia Farina Elia (third round)
Daniela Hantuchová (quarterfinals)
Elena Dementieva (fourth round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (second round)
Iroda Tulyaganova (second round)
Anna Smashnova (first round)
Lisa Raymond (fourth round)
Patty Schnyder (second round)
Anastasia Myskina (third round)
Magdalena Maleeva (fourth round)
Tamarine Tanasugarn (fourth round)
Tatiana Panova (third round)
Anne Kremer (second round)
Iva Majoli (third round)
Alexandra Stevenson (first round)
Nathalie Dechy (third round)
Dája Bedáňová (third round)
Ai Sugiyama (third round)
Paola Suárez (first round)
Barbara Schett (second round)
Clarisa Fernández (second round)
Nicole Pratt (first round)
Amanda Coetzer (second round)
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
2002 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2002 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles
Wimbledon Championships
Wimbledon Championships
Wimbledon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Ostry
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Bernard Ostry
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Bernard A. Ostry, (June 10, 1927 – May 24, 2006) was a Canadian author, philanthropist, and civil servant, who is best known for being chair and CEO of TVOntario.
Born in Wadena, Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1948. From 1948 to 1952, he did post-graduate work in the field of international history at the London School of Economics (LSE) under the Cambridge historian Charles Webster. From 1951 to 1955, he was a research associate for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. As well, from 1951 to 1952, he was a Special Assistant and Advisor to the Leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations. From 1956 to 1958, he was the David Davies Fellow in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In 1955 Ostry co-authored with historian H S Ferns the critical biography of Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, The Age of Mackenzie King: The Rise of the Leader. The book was supposed to be the first of a multi-volume biography of the former prime minister but the co-authors fell out in the process of writing and publishing the book. When it was published The Age of Mackenzie King created a minor controversy because of its critical tone. In February 1956 there were allegations that the federal Liberal government had censored public discussion of the book.
Leaving academics, he served as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Commonwealth Institute of Social Research from 1959 to 1961. He returned to Canada in 1961 to become Secretary-Treasurer for the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, a position which he held until 1963.
Changing careers again, he became a moderator for the CBC program Nightline from 1960 to 1963. From 1963 to 1968, he was a supervisor in the Department of Public Affairs (Radio & TV) at the CBC. From 1968 to 1969, he served as the Chief Consultant to the Canadian Radio Television Commission. Next, from 1968 to 1970, he was the Commissioner for the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Task Force on Government Information.
From 1970 to 1973, he was the Assistant Under Secretary of State (Citizenship). From 1974 to 1981, he was the Deputy Minister for various provincial and federal ministries including National Museums of Canada, Communications, Industry & Tourism, Industry & Trade, and Citizenship & Culture. From 1981 to 1985 he was a deputy minister in the Bill Davis government in Ontario variously as deputy minister of industry and trade, deputy minister of industry and tourism and then deputy minister of citizenship and culture.
In 1985, Premier David Peterson appointed Ostry to the position of chairman and CEO of TVOntario. Ostry retired from TVO in 1992.
In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "an outspoken advocate of cultural sovereignty, ethics in the public service and the preservation of public broadcasting". He was promoted to Companion in 2006. He has received honorary degrees from University of Manitoba, University of Waterloo, and York University.
He married Sylvia Ostry. They had two children: Adam Ostry (a senior federal civil servant himself) and Jonathan D. Ostry (Deputy Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund). He died in Toronto of prostate cancer, aged 78.
References
Obituary Toronto Star
Bernard Ostry: Cultural Bureaucrat 1927-2006 by Sandra Martin, Globe & Mail
1927 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Canadian civil servants
Ontario civil servants
Jewish Canadian writers
Companions of the Order of Canada
Writers from Toronto
Deaths from prostate cancer
University of Manitoba alumni
TVOntario executives
Deaths from cancer in Ontario
People from Wadena, Saskatchewan
Writers from Saskatchewan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Trafford%20Metropolitan%20Borough%20Council%20election
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2002 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
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Elections to Trafford Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a two-year term of office, expiring in 2004, due to the boundary changes and 'all-out' elections due to take place that year. The Labour Party retained overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 52.3%.
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:
Summary
Ward results
2002 English local elections
2002
2000s in Greater Manchester
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Live%20Gonzo%21
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Double Live Gonzo!
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Double Live Gonzo! is a live album by the American hard rock guitarist Ted Nugent, released as a double LP in 1978. In addition to live versions of songs from previous albums, this double album also contains original material played live, including: "Yank Me, Crank Me" and "Gonzo". The album has reached 3× Platinum status in the United States.
Track listing
Personnel
Band members
Derek St. Holmes – rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals
Ted Nugent – lead guitar, backing and lead vocals, arrangements
Rob Grange – bass
Cliff Davies – drums, backing vocals
Production
Lew Futterman, Tom Werman – producers
Ric Browde – assistant to the producers
Tim Geelan – engineer, mixing at CBS Studios, New York
Don Puluse – engineer
Chet Himes, Malcom Harper, Alex Kazanegas, Tom Arrison, Bob Dickson, Perry Cheatham – remote recorders personnel
Gerard Huerta – lettering
David Gahr – photography
John Berg, Paula Scher – design
Mark Wilder – digital remastering
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
Ted Nugent albums
1978 live albums
Epic Records live albums
Albums produced by Tom Werman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Sacks
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Leon Sacks
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Leon Sacks (October 7, 1902 – March 11, 1972) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life
Leon Sacks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1923, and from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. He commenced the practice of law in Philadelphia in 1926. He was appointed deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania in February 1935 and served until January 1937. He was elected as a member of the Democratic State committee in 1936 and served until 1942.
United States House of Representatives
He was elected in 1936 as a Democrat to the 75th United States Congress and to the two succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942.
World War II and later life
Sacks served at Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, from January 4, 1943, to January 10, 1946, when resumed the practice of his profession. He was a member of State Veterans Commission from 1951 to 1969, and the chairman of the registration commission of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1965. He was a member of Military Reservations Commission from 1957 to 1967.
On March 11, 1972, Sacks died in Philadelphia at the age of 69.
See also
List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
References
The Political Graveyard
1902 births
1972 deaths
20th-century American politicians
Pennsylvania lawyers
Politicians from Philadelphia
Jewish American military personnel
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
United States Army Air Forces officers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Democrats
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20destroyer%20Shirayuki%20%281928%29
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Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928)
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was the second of twenty-four destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War. Shirayuki was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 3 March 1943 while under attack by American and Australian aircraft.
History
Construction of the advanced Fubuki-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's expansion program from fiscal 1923, intended to give Japan a qualitative edge with the world's most modern ships. The Fubuki class had performance that was a quantum leap over previous destroyer designs, so much so that they were designated . The large size, powerful engines, high speed, large radius of action and unprecedented armament gave these destroyers the firepower similar to many light cruisers in other navies. Shirayuki, built at the Yokohama Shipyards was laid down on 19 March 1927, launched on 20 March 1928 and commissioned on 18 December 1928. Originally assigned hull designation "Destroyer No. 36", she was completed as Shirayuki, after Emperor Shōwa's favorite white stallion.
Operational history
On completion, Shirayuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 11 under the IJN 2nd Fleet. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Shirayuki was assigned to patrols of the southern China coast, and participated in the Invasion of French Indochina in 1940.
World War II history
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Shirayuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 11 of Desron 3 of the IJN 1st Fleet, and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island. From 4 December 1941 through February 1942, Shirayuki covered the landings of Japanese troops in Malaya, Anambas Islands and "Operation B" (the invasion of British Borneo). On 27 January, Shirayuki and her convoy were attacked by the destroyers and about north of Singapore in the Battle off Endau, and her torpedoes are credited with helping sink Thanet.
In February 1942, Shirayuki was part of the escort for the heavy cruiser during "Operation L" (the invasion of Banka and Palembang in the Netherlands East Indies), and was credited with sinking or capturing four transports attempting to flee from Singapore.
Shirayuki was subsequently assigned to "Operation J" (the invasion of Java), and was in the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March, assisting in the sinking of the Australian cruiser and the American cruiser . Shirayuki took a shell hit direct to her bridge during the battle, killing one crewman and injuring 11 others.
In early March, Shirayuki escorted a troop convoy from Singapore to Burma, and participated in "Operation D", the invasion of the Andaman Islands on 23 March. During the Indian Ocean raids, Shirayuki was assigned to patrols out of Port Blair. From 13–22 April, Shirayuki returned via Singapore and Camranh Bay to Kure Naval Arsenal, for maintenance.
On 4–5 June, Shirayuki participated in the Battle of Midway as part of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's main fleet. In July 1942, Shirayuki sailed from Amami-Oshima to Mako Guard District, Singapore, Sabang and Mergui for a projected second Indian Ocean raid. The operation was cancelled due to the Guadalcanal campaign, and she was ordered to Truk and Rabaul instead. From August through November, Shirayuki was used for numerous "Tokyo Express" high speed transport missions in the Solomon Islands. On 12 October, she rescued the survivors of her sister ship , which had been torpedoed.
On 14–15 November, Shirayuki was involved in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. She was initially attached to Admiral Kurita’s support force, and then joined Admiral Kondo’s emergency bombardment force. Together with the light cruiser , Shirayuki assisted in sinking two of the four American destroyers involved ( and ) mortally wounding (which was scuttled after the battle), and severely damaged , causing heavy American losses in the first phase of the battle.
Shirayuki returned briefly to Kure at the end of the year, as escort for the aircraft carrier .
In January 1943, Shirayuki returned to the Solomon Islands as part of a major reinforcement convoy from Shanghai, arriving with Rear Admiral Shintarō Hashimoto at Shortland Island at the end of January, and serving as the admiral’s flagship during the evacuation of Guadalcanal in February. Shirayuki was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet on 25 February .
During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 1–4 March, Shirayuki was flagship for Rear Admiral Masatomi Kimura, leading a troop convoy from Rabaul to Lae. In an Allied air attack on 3 March, a skip-bomb exploded in her aft magazine, severing her stern, and killing 32 crewmen. Shirayuki sank southeast of Finschhafen at position . The survivors, who included Admiral Kimura and her captain Commander Sugawara were rescued by .
On 1 April 1943, Shirayuki was removed from the navy list.
Notes
References
External links
Fubuki-class destroyers
Ships built in Japan
1928 ships
Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan
World War II destroyers of Japan
Destroyers sunk by aircraft
Shipwrecks in the Bismarck Sea
World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
Maritime incidents in March 1943
Naval magazine explosions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicDraw
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MagicDraw
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MagicDraw is a visual UML, SysML, BPMN, and UPDM modeling tool with team collaboration support. Designed for business analysts, software analysts, programmers, and QA engineers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of object oriented (OO) systems and databases. It provides the code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for J2EE, C#, C++, CORBA IDL programming languages, .NET, XML Schema, WSDL), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities.
Features
Domain specific language
The domain specific language (DSL) customization engine allows for adapting MagicDraw to a specific profile and modeling domain, thus allowing the customization of multiple GUIs, model initialization, adding semantic rules, and creating one’s own specification dialogs and smart manipulators. The ability to use multiple specific customizations helps to make MagicDraw better oriented to specific platforms, technologies or domains, and can even hide UML entirely. Active validation allows the checking of domain specific models in real time and suggests help and can even fix some issues. DSL elements can be converted to any subtype or a more general type using the “Convert to” function.
DSL allows custom derived properties to be created that allow extending a UML metamodel or its profile.
All DSL'ed elements can be numbered by using the generic numbering mechanism. The elements can be numbered in consecutive or multi-level style. The separator or prefix of number can be changed during the element numbering.
Model decomposition
Model Decomposition is a function which can split projects and other work into independent parts.
Lazy loading allows the specification of modules that should not be loaded into memory by default when a project is started. Module elements are only loaded as they are specifically requested.
Read-Write modules allow module editing of a fragmented model. It is also used during model refactoring.
Since MagicDraw has the ability to have flexible control over the dependencies between model parts, it is possible to continue working with the product without resolving dependencies between model parts.
Indexing – ability to create an index of an unloaded module. It allows using part of the elements of the module without loading it.
Template based documentation generation
Fully customizable templates can be created in the style and format preferred by the user. Reports can be exported into variety of file formats (OpenDocument (*.odt), RTF (*.rtf), Microsoft Word (*.docx), Microsoft Excel (*.xlsx), Microsoft PowerPoint (*.pptx), XML, HTML, XHTML). Reports can be personalized with characters, paragraphs, and fonts that are supported by a chosen file format. MagicDraw has the ability to import RTF documents or parts of them into reports (Import tool), to get Teamwork Project Information and upload reports to a remote location. It includes JavaScript Tool which enables report templates to evaluate or run JavaScript codes from templates and external JavaScript files. It also supports a rich set of image manipulation methods that enable image transformation during report generation.
MagicDraw supports MS Word and Open Document Format template.
Templates for SDD and UCS (Software Design Document and Use Case Specification), architectural templates: use case report, structural report, behavioral report, implementation report, environment report, Model Extension, Data Dictionary, Business Process Modeling Notation, Web publisher with collaboration ability for commenting on and editing report data through a web browser.
Analysis facilities
The following analysis facilities are available in MagicDraw:
The Dependency Matrix allows visualizing relationships of a large system in a compact way. Export to .csv is also available.
Traceability between different levels of abstraction which makes it possible to find more specific and realizing elements, usually not from the same view. This allows for handy specification and realization discovery, and navigation. Predefined traceability suites are customizable to customers’ needs.
Visual model differencing allows viewing the changes made between two different versions of a model.
Representation of the number of class and package dependencies is automatically generated after code is reverse engineered.
Usage in Diagrams allows viewing the diagrams on which a particular data element was represented.
Model refactoring
Model refactoring like code refactoring is the disciplined technique used for modifying or improving an existing model.
The following refactoring functions are available in MagicDraw:
Element conversion
Relationship direction reversion
Diagram extraction (this function is available only for the activity and composite structure diagrams)
Transformations
MagicDraw provides transformation of UML models to specific XML Schema and DB models (generic and Oracle DDL) and vice versa, and any to any transformation.
Also model-to-model transformations between the same or different meta-models can be defined and run directly in MagicDraw by using the QVT plugin. The QVT (Query/View/Transformation) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group.
Related products and plugins
Teamwork
The MagicDraw Teamwork Server allows simultaneous work by multiple users on the same project, since locking information is transferred quickly between the client and the server. Real time information is provided to all users about who is working on which part of the model. MagicDraw Teamwork Server stores and allows restoration of previous versions of projects and modules. The older project can be restored as current. MagicDraw Teamwork Server integrates with LDAP servers. This integration authenticates MagicDraw users against the LDAP Server using the Simple User + Password combination or SASL authentication as well as the SSL/TLS protocol.
Cameo Business Modeler
OMG BPMN 2.0 support with all three diagrams (Process, Collaboration and Choreography), model validation and reports are available with the Cameo Business Modeler plugin
SysML
The SysML plugin supports the latest OMG SysML Specification 1.3 version. The SysML plugin supports all SysML diagrams including Requirements, Block Definition, Internal Blocks, Parametric and other diagrams. Validation constraints actively check and validate user-created models against a set of constraints.
SysML provides support for analysis, design, and validation of a broad range of systems and system integrations.
UPDM
The UPDM plugin supports the latest OMG UPDM Specification 2.0 version. It unifies MoDAF 1.2, DoDAF 1.5 and DoDAF 2.0, NAF 3. It has support for all DoDAF and MoDAF modeling artifacts based on the DoDAF and MoDAF Architecture Frameworks, with reports, wizards, model correctness and completeness validation constraints, as well as usability features.
Cameo Simulation Toolkit
Cameo Simulation Toolkit provides the first in the industry extendable model execution framework based on OMG fUML and W3C SCXML standards. It extends MagicDraw to validate system behavior by executing, animating, and debugging UML 2.0 State machines and Activity models in the context of realistic mock-ups of the intended user interface.
References
External links
UML tools
Diagramming software
Enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture frameworks
Systems Modeling Language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor%20Park%2C%20Larchmont
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Manor Park, Larchmont
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Manor Park is a park in the village of Larchmont, New York. It consists of about of land (with a shoreline of more than ) that lies along the Long Island Sound and Larchmont Harbor. It is well known for its striated rocks, gazebos, scenic views and walking pathways.
The history of Manor Park goes back to 1614 when a Dutch ship captain "reported seeing campfires" belonging to the Siwanoy Indians in the area that now comprises the park. Within a century, British and Dutch settlers had purchased much of the land.
In 1661, John Richbell, a wealthy trader purchased "three necks" of land from "Chiefs Wappaquewam and Manhattan" with the "middle neck" consisting the land comprising Larchmont and Manor Park. Samuel Palmer purchased the "middle neck" in 1701. Afterwards he and his family resided in the area until 1790 when most of the land was purchased by Peter Jay Munro, a nephew of John Jay, one of the "Founding Fathers" and the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Subsequent to Munro’s ownership, Thomas J.S. Flint purchased the property comprising Manor Park and much of the Village of Larchmont and established the Larchmont Manor Company with plans of "developing the [area] into a suburban community..." During the 1870s, he reserved of waterfront land and named it Larchmont Manor Park, which became the heart of today’s park.
Afterwards, the Larchmont Manor Park Society was established in 1892 to "maintain, preserve and protect the park" which also includes "nearby Fountain Square and four small traffic islands" and Manor Beach. The Society’s latest endeavors included a successful $1 million capital improvement campaign in 2003 to provide for seawall reinforcement and repairs, path curbing and repairs, landscaping, replacement of an old chain-link fence, and rebuilding of the west gazebo and a permanent endowment fund as well as an art show "Manor Park—In All Seasons" in May 2004.
Although Manor Park is privately owned, it is open to the public from dawn to dusk.
During Hurricane Sandy in 2012, much of the sea way was destroyed by storm surges, and a small part of the park was eroded into the water.
References
External links
Larchmont Manor Park Society, Inc. Larchmont Gazette.
Parks in the Village of Larchmont. Village of Larchmont: Parks. 2005.
LarchmontManorPark.org. Larchmont Manor Park Society: 2010.
Larchmont, New York
Parks in Westchester County, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Institute%20of%20Oncology
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European Institute of Oncology
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The European Institute of Oncology (, IEO) is a non-profit private-law comprehensive cancer centre located in Milan, Italy. It is a clinic, a research centre and a training institution.
The European Institute of Oncology works on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer by developing clinical and scientific research coupled with organisation and management. It provides a professional network for its members.
History
The European Institute of Oncology was conceived by Umberto Veronesi, who developed a new model for health and advanced research in the international oncology field. The institute was inaugurated in May 1994, and is managed by Division and Unit Directors from eight European countries.
The Institute became a research hospital and treatment centre (IRCCS or “Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico”) through the Ministerial Decree issued in January 1996. The European Institute of Oncology provides services through agreements with Italy’s National Health Service. Professor Gordon McVie performs outreach activities on behalf of the IEO.
The Institute integrates various activities involved in the fight against cancer: prevention and diagnosis, health education and training, research and treatment.
At its centre in Via Ripamonti all clinical, research and training activities take place. In 2002 the institute opened IEO CENTRO, an integrated cancer diagnosis centre located in Milan downtown.
Journal
ecancermedicalscience is the non-profit open-access journal of the European Institute of Oncology. Founded by Professors Umberto Veronesi and Gordon McVie in 2007, ecancermedicalscience is published by Cancer Intelligence and forms part of ecancer.org.
In 2014, Managing Editor Gordon McVie was accepted as a Scholar Member of the World Association of Medical Editors.
Business model
ecancermedicalscience is a non-profit journal supported by charitable funding. The key founding charities are The Umberto Veronesi Foundation, the European Institute of Oncology Foundation and Swiss Bridge.
In 2014, ecancermedicalscience became the first open-access journal to charge article fees based on a "pay what you can afford" model. Authors with access to publication funding may choose to voluntarily donate to the journal in order to cover publication costs. Authors without access to funding do not have to pay any portion of the publishing costs.
In the news
In June 2014, a case report published in ecancermedicalscience received international media attention. The case report described a young Latin American girl whose fits of inappropriate laughter were mistakenly diagnosed as misbehavior or demonic possession, but were found to be gelastic seizures caused by a brain tumor.
Abstracting and indexing
ecancermedicalscience is indexed in the following repositories:
Memberships
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, of which ecancermedicalscience is a member
Committee on Publication Ethics, of which ecancermedicalscience is a member.
External links
European Institute of Oncology Website
ecancermedicalscience (Open Access journal of the European Institute of Oncology)
References
Hospitals established in 1994
Hospitals in Milan
Medical research institutes in Italy
Cancer organizations
International medical associations of Europe
International organisations based in Italy
1994 establishments in Italy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch%20Murray
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Mitch Murray
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Mitch Murray (born Lionel Michael Stitcher; 30 January 1940) is an English songwriter, record producer and author. He has won two Ivor Novello Awards, including the Jimmy Kennedy Award. Murray has written, or co-written, songs that have produced five UK and three US chart-topping records. He has also been awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
Early life
He was born Lionel Michael Stitcher in Hove, Sussex, England. In 1968, he changed his legal name by deed poll to Mitch Murray.
Musical career
Murray's first major songwriting success was "How Do You Do It?" It was picked up by producer George Martin, who insisted that The Beatles record it as their second single. The recording remained officially unreleased until it appeared on Anthology 1 in 1995. Martin let them release "Please Please Me" instead, passing "How Do You Do It?" to another young Liverpool-based group, Gerry and the Pacemakers. Their version – essentially a copy of The Beatles' recording – launched their career with a UK Number 1 single the following spring. Thus encouraged, Murray sent them another of his songs, "I Like It", which became their second single and also topped the UK Singles Chart.
He had further success throughout the next ten years, writing "You Were Made for Me" and "I'm Telling You Now" for Freddie and the Dreamers, the latter in collaboration with their frontman, Freddie Garrity; and "I Knew It All the Time" recorded in 1964 by The Dave Clark Five. Murray's 1964 book, How to Write a Hit Song, inspired Sting, then a 12-year-old schoolboy, to start writing songs. Sting now refers to Murray as "My Mentor", and wrote the foreword to Mitch Murray's Handbook for the Terrified Speaker (Valium in a Volume).
Most of Murray's subsequent hits were written with Peter Callander, among them "Even the Bad Times are Good" (The Tremeloes), "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" (Georgie Fame), "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha" (Cliff Richard), "Ragamuffin Man" (Manfred Mann), "Hitchin' a Ride" (Vanity Fare), "Turn On The Sun" (Nana Mouskouri) and "Avenues and Alleyways", "Las Vegas", and "I Did What I Did for Maria" for Tony Christie.
Murray and Callander were also Christie's producers, and produced "Is This the Way to Amarillo?" (written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield). In an interview in The Times in which Christie described another Murray-Callander penned tune, "Las Vegas", he noted that the two "were the star songwriters of the day".
After writing many hits for other people, in October 1965 Murray had a hit single as a performer, with his humorous composition, "Down Came the Rain", issued on Fontana Records under the moniker Mister Murray, with "Whatever Happened to Music" on the B-side. It missed the Record Retailer Top 50, but reached number 30 in the NME chart. An Italian version of "Down Came the Rain", under the name "Una ragazza per due" ("A girl for two") and with totally rewritten lyrics (unrelated to the original ones), has been performed by various artists, among them I Giganti, Ornella Vanoni and Mina. Murray also wrote "My Brother" which became a children's favourite when recorded by Terry Scott.
Later, Murray and Callander formed their own record label, Bus Stop, through which they launched the career of Paper Lace. Their first two singles, released in 1974, were both written by Murray and Callander: "Billy Don't Be a Hero" (number one in the UK, with a cover version by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods reaching number one in the US), and "The Night Chicago Died" (number one in the US). Another song Murray was involved in was "Sing Me", a UK Top Ten hit for one-hit wonders, The Brothers, in 1977.
In 1968, Murray became the youngest ever director of PRS for Music. In 1971, he conceived and founded the Society Of Distinguished Songwriters (SODS). Current members include Sir Tim Rice, Guy Chambers, Gary Barlow, David Arnold, Mike Batt, Justin Hayward, Don Black, Marty Wilde, Ricky Wilde, and more than thirty others. Bill Martin, who was also a founding member, died in April 2020.
Murray was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music.
Comedy
In the mid-1980s, just before the privatisation of British Telecom, Murray wrote and starred in a series of comedy programmes, The Telefun Show, which were only available for listening via the telephone (by dialling 01-246 8070 in the UK) in a similar way to the contemporary Dial-A-Disc service, which he also presented and which attracted up to 300,000 calls per day.
After "Down Came The Rain", Murray built up a reputation for comedy in many areas, including voice characterisation for movies and radio commercials, as well as for after-dinner speaking.
Author and speechwriter
Murray is now regarded as one of Britain’s leading professional humorous speechwriters, and has written several best-selling books on the subject including Mitch Murray's One-Liners For Weddings (1994), Mitch Murray's One-Liners For Business and Mitch Murray's One-Liners for Speeches on Special Occasions (1997).
Personal life
Murray was married to the singer and actress Grazina Frame, but they were divorced in 1980. They have two daughters, Gina and Mazz. Mazz, who was Bob Monkhouse's god-daughter, starred for nine years as Killer Queen in the musical We Will Rock You. Gina starred in the West End productions of The Full Monty and Chicago. They are currently working together as two-thirds of 'Woman' The Band.
Murray currently resides in the Isle of Man.
References
External links
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
Mersey Beat
Chartwatch
1940 births
English songwriters
English record producers
People from Hove
Living people
English humorists
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Defending champion Serena Williams successfully defended her title, defeating her sister Venus Williams in a rematch of the previous year's final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. It was her second Wimbledon singles title and her sixth major singles title overall.
This was the first Wimbledon appearance of future world No. 1 and five-time major champion Maria Sharapova, who lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round. Sharapova would win the title the following year. It was also the first Wimbledon appearance of future champion Marion Bartoli, who lost to Daniela Hantuchová in the first round. The semifinals featured the top four seeds, which last occurred in 1995.
This was the first major since the 1987 Australian Open to not feature either Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, or Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
Seeds
Serena Williams (champion)
Kim Clijsters (semifinals)
Justine Henin-Hardenne (semifinals)
Venus Williams (final)
Lindsay Davenport (quarterfinals)
Amélie Mauresmo (withdrew)
Chanda Rubin (third round)
Jennifer Capriati (quarterfinals)
Daniela Hantuchová (second round)
Anastasia Myskina (fourth round)
Jelena Dokić (third round)
Magdalena Maleeva (second round)
Ai Sugiyama (fourth round)
Eleni Daniilidou (second round)
Elena Dementieva (fourth round)
Vera Zvonareva (fourth round)
Amanda Coetzer (second round)
Conchita Martínez (third round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (first round)
Patty Schnyder (first round)
Elena Bovina (second round)
Nathalie Dechy (third round)
Lisa Raymond (third round)
Magüi Serna (second round)
Anna Pistolesi (first round)
Alexandra Stevenson (first round)
Silvia Farina Elia (quarterfinals)
Laura Granville (third round)
Nadia Petrova (third round)
Denisa Chládková (second round)
Elena Likhovtseva (second round)
Tamarine Tanasugarn (first round)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (quarterfinals)
Amélie Mauresmo withdrew due to a rib injury. She was replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded player Svetlana Kuznetsova, who became the #33 seed.
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
2003 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2003 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles
Wimbledon Championships
Wimbledon Championships
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Ariah Park
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Ariah Park () is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, west of Temora and south of West Wyalong. The town is within the Temora Shire near Burley Griffin Way. On Census night 2011, Ariah Park had a population of 268 people. The town is listed by the National Trust as a Conservation Area.
The town's name came from resident Sam Harrison who purchased a portion of the Wellman Estate and then named that portion Ariah Park (pronounced 'area'). The name is derived from the anglicisation of the Wiradjuri (local Aboriginal language) word "narriyar", meaning "hot".
Tourist information make reference to the town being known for its 'wowsers, bowsers and peppercorn trees'. A wowser is an Australian word describing a "mealy-mouthed hypocrite, a pious prude, one who condemns or seeks to curtail the pleasures of others or who works to have his or her own rigid morality enforced on all who prefers not to consume alcohol". A bowser refers to the everyday machine used to pump petrol or diesel into a vehicle, of which many antique examples can be seen on the main street. The peppercorn tree is a common variety of which many specimens populate the main street.
The settlement was first established in 1850. Ariah Park was connected to the Main Southern railway line via Temora in 1906. The village was gazetted the year after this connection and flourished at the expense of the nearby settlement of Broken Dam. Ariah Park Post Office had opened earlier on 26 August 1903. The peppercorn trees were planted in 1916 and railway silos built in 1919.
The district produces sheep and wheat. New South Wales Government Railways launched its first bulk-wheat loading operation in the town in 1916.
Notable residents
William Maitland Woods, Anglican minister at Ariah Park from 1913 to 1915 and Australian Army chaplain in World War I
Samuel Harrison, Publican and Hotelier (Ariah Park Hotel latterly Railway Hotel, opened Saturday 31 October 1903) 1857 - 1920
See also
Temora–Roto railway line
References
External links
Visitor information
Ariah Park Central School
Ariah Park Railway Station
Towns in New South Wales
Towns in the Riverina
Temora Shire
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2002 in Argentina
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Incumbents
President: Eduardo Camaño (until January 2), Eduardo Duhalde (starting January 2)
Vice President: vacant
Governors
Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Ruckauf (until 3 January); Felipe Solá (starting 3 January)
Governor of Catamarca Province: Oscar Castillo
Governor of Chaco Province: Ángel Rozas
Governor of Chubut Province: José Luis Lizurume
Governor of Córdoba: José Manuel De la Sota
Governor of Corrientes Province: Ricardo Colombi
Governor of Entre Ríos Province: Sergio Montiel
Governor of Formosa Province: Gildo Insfrán
Governor of Jujuy Province: Eduardo Fellner
Governor of La Pampa Province: Rubén Marín
Governor of La Rioja Province: Ángel Maza
Governor of Mendoza Province: Roberto Iglesias
Governor of Misiones Province: Carlos Rovira
Governor of Neuquén Province: Jorge Sobisch
Governor of Río Negro Province: Pablo Verani
Governor of Salta Province: Juan Carlos Romero
Governor of San Juan Province: Alfredo Avelín (until 22 August); Wbaldino Acosta (starting 22 August)
Governor of San Luis Province: María Alicia Lemme
Governor of Santa Cruz Province: Néstor Kirchner
Governor of Santa Fe Province: Carlos Reutemann
Governor of Santiago del Estero:
until 25 November: Carlos Ricardo Díaz
25 November-12 December: Darío Moreno
starting 12 December: Mercedes Aragonés
Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Carlos Manfredotti
Governor of Tucumán: Julio Miranda
Vice Governors
Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province: Felipe Solá (until 3 January); vacant thereafter (starting 3 January)
Vice Governor of Catamarca Province: Hernán Colombo
Vice Governor of Chaco Province: Roy Nikisch
Vice Governor of Corrientes Province: Eduardo Leonel Galantini
Vice Governor of Entre Rios Province: Edelmiro Tomás Pauletti
Vice Governor of Formosa Province: Floro Bogado
Vice Governor of Jujuy Province: Rubén Daza
Vice Governor of La Pampa Province: Heriberto Mediza
Vice Governor of La Rioja Province: Luis Beder Herrera
Vice Governor of Misiones Province: Mercedes Margarita Oviedo
Vice Governor of Nenquen Province: Jorge Sapag
Vice Governor of Rio Negro Province: Bautista Mendioroz
Vice Governor of Salta Province: Walter Wayar
Vice Governor of San Juan Province: Marcelo Lima
Vice Governor of San Luis Province: Blanca Pereyra
Vice Governor of Santa Cruz: vacant
Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province: Marcelo Muniagurria
Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero: vacant
Vice Governor of Tierra del Fuego: Daniel Gallo
Events
January
January 1: The Legislative Assembly gathers and chooses senator Eduardo Duhalde as interim president.
January 2: President Duhalde announces the end of the 1:1 peso-dollar fixed exchange rate (convertibility) after almost 11 years.
February
March
April
May
June
June 25: The exchange rate briefly reaches 4 pesos per U.S. dollar in the free market, which means the national currency has lost 75% of its value in 7 months.
July
August
September
September 4: Argentina defeated the United States, 87–80, at the World Basketball Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the first loss ever in international play for a United States team containing National Basketball Association players.
October
November
December
Deaths
October 8: César Milstein (b. 1927), scientist, co-awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for his work on monoclonal antibodies
December 23: Hilario Fernández Long (b. 1918), engineer and educator
Sports
See worldwide 2002 in sports
Years of the 21st century in Argentina
2000s in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina
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Hjulsta is a working-class suburb of Stockholm. It is considered being part of Tensta, but with its own subway station which was opened in 1975 and is the end station of the blue line.
The modern urban area of Hjulsta took its name from an old village known to have been located in the area at least from the 1480s.
The station's artwork is created by several artists, among them Sjöfåglar by Christina Rundqvist-Andersson, Sista skörden i norra Botkyrka by Olle Magnusson and Landbyska verken vid Engelbrektsplan år 1890 by Ruth Rydfeldt.
See also
Hjulsta metro station
Metropolitan Stockholm
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Terry R. Gale (born 7 June 1946) is an Australian professional golfer.
Professional career
Gale had a successful amateur career before turning professional at a relatively advanced age in 1976. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s he won regularly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Japan Golf Tour, and the Asia Golf Circuit. Since turning fifty he has been a member of the European Seniors Tour, where he has won seven tournaments. His best season on that tour was 2003, when he finished third on the Order of Merit. He also plays on the Japanese Seniors Tour.
Personal life
Gale originally worked as a sheep farmer.
Off the course, Gale was the second Chairman of the PGA Tour of Australasia. His son, Mark Gale was a professional Australian rules footballer. Gale was also a talented cricketer in his youth, representing his state on occasion, although never at First Class level.
Amateur wins
1969 Western Australian Amateur
1972 Western Australian Amateur
1974 Australian Amateur, Western Australian Amateur
1975 Western Australian Amateur
Professional wins (43)
Japan Golf Tour wins (2)
1Co-sanctioned by the Asia Golf Circuit
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
PGA Tour of Australasia wins (16)
PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (6–0)
Other Australian wins (10)
1969 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
1970 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
1971 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
1972 Western Australian Open (as an amateur)
1975 Western Australian Open (as an amateur)
1976 Nedlands Masters
1979 Mandurah Classic
1981 Western Australia PGA Championship
1990 Western Australian Open
1992 Nedlands Masters
Asia Golf Circuit wins (6)
1978 Singapore Open
1983 Malaysian Open
1984 Indonesia Open
1985 Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open
1987 Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open
1989 Dunlop International Open (also Japan Golf Tour event)
European Senior Tour wins (7)
European Senior Tour playoff record (0–2)
Australian senior wins (2)
1997 Australian PGA Seniors Championship
2006 Australian PGA Seniors Championship
Results in major championships
Note: Gale only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1980 and 1985 Open Championships)
"T" = tied
Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Australia): 1970, 1972, 1974
Commonwealth Tournament (representing Australia): 1971
Sloan Morpeth Trophy (representing Australia): 1969 (winners)
Professional
World Cup (representing Australia): 1983
Alfred Dunhill Challenge (representing Australasia): 1995 (non-playing captain)
References
External links
Profile on CricketArchive
Australian male golfers
PGA Tour of Australasia golfers
Japan Golf Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
People educated at Scotch College, Perth
People from the Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
Golfers from Perth, Western Australia
1946 births
Living people
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Benesch
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Benesch is a surname, a Germanized version of Czech surname Beneš. Notable people with the surname include:
Leonie Benesch, German actress
Lynn Benesch, American actress
Otto Benesch (1896–1964), Austrian historian
Reinhold and Ruth Benesch, American biochemists
Susan Benesch, American journalist and scholar
See also
Wilson Benesch, British audio equipment manufacturer
German-language surnames
Surnames of Czech origin
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Kornwestheim (Swabian: ) is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about north of Stuttgart, and south of Ludwigsburg.
History
Origins and Development
Kornwestheim can look back at a history of more than 1200 years. It was first mentioned in official documents as "Westheim" around 780 AC, within the interest register of the Lorsch monastery. The name form "Kornwestheim" appeared much later; for the first in 1472, which became common in the 17th century and has been in use ever since.
Archeological findings furnish evidence for the populating of the area in already prehistorical times. There was a Roman road that lead through the Kornwestheim urban area, which has been partially preserved as dirt road. Part of it was restored in Kornwestheim-Ost near the Theodor-Heuss-Realschule. In the western part of the city there was an even older road from the Bronze Age running towards what today is a highway.
It is assumed that the original Westheim is a western settlement, in contrast to the eastern settlement of Ostheim. For centuries, Kornwestheim was a prosperous and wealthy farming village that benefited from the fertility of its farmland and active trade. In 1303, the counts of Asperg sold Kornwestheim to the Dukes of Württemberg. At first, it belonged to the bureau of Cannstatt and since 1719 to the bureau of Ludwigsburg out of which emerged the county in 1938 and in 1973 the larger district of Ludwigsburg.
Urbanization in the mid-19th century
With the construction of the railroad line Stuttgart - Ludwigsburg - Heilbronn in 1846 the era of Industrialization began and the construction of the national switch yard in Kornwestheim in the years of 1913-1919 made Kornwestheim the railway road node in Southern Germany, creating ideal conditions for the future growth and development of the city. This infrastructure improvements and the convenient location of the city as well as several factory foundations contributed to a large increase in population in the late 19th century. The shoemaker Jakob Sigle, who had already opened his workshop in 1885, founded the shoe factory J. Sigle & Cie. together with his merchant partner Max Levi, which later became nationally known as the Salamander AG. In 1898, the machine factory A. Stotz Albert Stotz followed as well as the iron foundry firm Kreidler, opening operations in 1939.
As of April 1, when the population had nearly within the last three decades, Kornwestheim eventually received the official municipal law in 1931.
As part of the rearmament of the German re-armament, starting in 1934 the Hindenburg barracks and the Ludendorff barracks were built as tank units and Kornwestheim became a garrison town in 1935/36. The Second World War demanded numerous victims: allied air raids killed 162 people and destroyed 160 buildings. At the military front 478 resident soldiers were killed. On April 21 in 1945, the US troops took over the occupation using the existing barracks until 1993 and renamed the Hindenburg barracks into Wilkin Barracks. Since the Second World War the population has doubled due to the influx of exiles and guest workers. This resulted in an increased growth and designation of new living and commercial districts. On April 1, 1956, Kornwestheim became a large district town. Due to its location between the cities of Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg, the city was unable to incorporate neighboring communities during the 1973 regional reform. Only the restructuring undertaken by the US Army in 1954 added a new district called Pattonville to the city, although the eastern, larger part of Pattonville now belongs to the town of Remseck am Neckar.
Today
Today Kornwestheim presents itself as modern and amiable town that has preserved its individual character in the heart of the Stuttgart region. With its more than 30,000 inhabitants it offers a high degree of quality of life and recreational value.
Mayor
At the head of the municipality Kornwestheim was a Schultheiß. Since 1930 he is called mayor and since 1956 Lord mayor.
1793-1814: Johann Georg Sigle
1815-1823: Jakob Friedrich Sigle
1823-1840: Jakob Friedrich Ergenzinger
1841-1855: Christoph Richt
1855-1877: Thomas Hofmann
1877-1887: Georg Mayer
1887-1892: Karl Sigle
1892-1902: Adolf Voelmle
1902-1930: Friedrich Siller
1930-1931: Theodor Steimle
1931-1933: Friedrich Siller, temporary administrator
1933-1945: Alfred Kercher, 1933 initially as temporary administrator
1945: Gotthilf Küntzle,
1945-1948: Friedrich Warthmann, 1945-1946
1948-1954: Nathanael Schulz
1954-1962: Alfred Kercher
1962-1982: Siegfried Pflugfeld
1982-1999: Ernst Fischer
1999-2007: Ulrich Rommelfanger
Since 2007: Ursula Keck (re-elected on 21 June 2015, 54.44% of the vote)
Transport
At the western edge of Kornwestheim is the Kornwestheim classification yard. Up to 1600 freight cars are daily put together to freight trains. This is the second largest classification yard of Baden-Württemberg.
Media
As newspaper appears in Kornwestheim the Kornwestheimer Zeitung.
Local Authorities and Councils
Kornwestheim has a notary.
In the city is the Landesamt für Flurneuordnung und Landesentwicklung Baden-Württemberg. On the former Salamander area is since March 21, 2012, the Baden-Württemberg Grundbuchzentralarchiv.
Entertainment
The Kornwestheim Drive-In Cinema is the only drive-in cinema in Baden-Wuerttemberg. It lies in the town of the same name in the Ludwigsburg district and is well known outside the region. It has two projection walls; these are high by wide, and high by wide. For sound, the Kornwestheim Drive-In Cinema has two FM-transmitters which work on 89 MHz for the sound of the film shown on the big projection wall, and on 91.3 MHz for the sound of the film shown on the small projection wall. The light intensity of the projectors used is 6 Kilowatts.
Local Companies
Kreidler Werke GmbH
The well known small motorcycle and moped manufacturer Kreidler was situated here. It was founded in 1903 by Anton Kreidler and was at first a metalworking factory. Later in the 1950s they started producing small motorcycles with an engine capacity of 50 cc. In the later 1970s they became successful in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Riders such as Jan de Vries and Henk van Kessel won world championships and set speed records with these machines.
Twin towns – sister cities
Kornwestheim is twinned with:
Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom
Kimry, Russia
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France
Weißenfels, Germany
Notable people
Jakob Vogel (born 1584), physician and writer
Jakob Sigle (1861–1935), founder of the shoe factory Salamander AG
Walter Maier-Kößler (1914–1994), painter
Günther C. Kirchberger (1928–2010), painter
Georg Utz (born 1935), wrestler
Roland Geiger (born 1941), screen printers, publishers and art gallery owner
Anneke Dürkopp (born 1979), presenter
Honorary citizens
The town Kornwestheim has conferred to the following persons the honorary citizenship:
1896: Hugo von Baur, Colonel and commander of the Landwehr District Ludwigsburg
1916: Jakob Sigle, Privy Councillor of Commerce, Founder of Salamander AG
1916: Max Levi, Consul, co-founder of Salamander AG
1927: Ernst Sigle, Honorary Chairman of Salamander AG
1927: Isidor Rothschild (1860–1929), the Management and Supervisory Board of Salamander AG
1930: Friedrich Siller, Schultheiss
1950: Karl Joos, founder of the District Cooperative Altwürttemberg
1963: Alfred Kercher, Mayor retired
1970: Marius Faisse, mayor of the twin town Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
1989: Siegfried Pflugfelder, Mayor ret.
2004: Ernst Fischer, Mayor ret.
2011: Siegbert Hörer, local politician
References
Citations
Towns in Baden-Württemberg
Ludwigsburg (district)
Württemberg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Daniels%20%28disambiguation%29
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William Daniels (disambiguation)
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William Daniels (born 1927) is an American actor.
William Daniels may also refer to:
William Daniels (artist) (born 1976), British painter
William Daniels (automotive engineer) (1912–2004), British car engineer
William Daniels (cinematographer) (1901–1970), American cinematographer
William Antonio Daniels or Kiing Shooter (1992–2020), American rapper
William B. Daniels (1817–1894), pioneer in Oregon Territory, and in Idaho Territory
William Henry Daniels (1855–1897), Hawaiian judge and politician
William Randall Daniels or Billy Dee (born 1951), American pornographic actor
See also
Will Daniels (born 1986), American basketball player
Bill Daniels (disambiguation)
William Daniel (disambiguation)
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Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters (1735–1826) was a Connecticut Anglican clergyman and historian. A nephew, John Samuel Peters (1772–1858), served as Governor of Connecticut 1831–33. Another nephew, John Thompson Peters (1765–1834) served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut 1818–1834.
Biography
Samuel Peters was born December 1, 1735, in Hebron Connecticut Colony, being third youngest of twelve children of John Peters (1695–1754) and Mary Marks (1698–1784).
In 1757 he graduated from Yale College and was elected Rector of St. Peter's Church, Hebron, Connecticut. In 1758 he sailed to England where he was ordained Deacon in March 1759, before being advanced to the Anglican Priesthood a month later. In the following year he returned to America and took charge of St. Peter's Church parish at Hebron, Connecticut. in 1763 he climbed Killington Peak, and allegedly named the area Verd Mont giving the state its future name.
In August 1774 Peters fled to England after several visits from the "Sons of Liberty" because of his Loyalist sympathies. In 1781 he published, under a pseudonym, "General History of Connecticut, from its first settlement under George Fenwick, to its latest period of amity with Great Britain prior to the Revolution; including a description of the country, and many curious and interesting anecdotes. With an appendix, pointing out the causes of the rebellion in America; together with the particular part taken by the people of Connecticut in its promotion. By a Gentleman of the Province". This work is noted for its unflattering descriptions of the colonists and for its misrepresentation of the Connecticut Blue Laws. The work was negatively received. In February 1794 he was nominated Anglican Bishop-elect of Vermont but was never consecrated.
Peters returned to America in 1805. In 1817 he visited the Saint Anthony Falls, taking up a large claim there, but again settled in New York in 1818. He died in poverty in New York City on April 19, 1826.
Marriages and issue
February 14, 1760 : First marriage to Hannah Owen (1740–1765) who bore him three daughters.
June 25, 1769 : Second marriage to Abigail Gilbert (1751–1769).
April 20, 1773 : Third marriage to Mary Birdseye (1750- ) who bore him two sons.
References
Resources
Baker, Mark. Connecticut Families of the Revolution, American Forebears from Burr to Wolcott, The History Press, 2014
Cameron, Kenneth W., ed. The Works of Samuel Peters of Hebron, Connecticut, New England Historian..., Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1967
Cohen, Sheldon S. "Connecticut's Loyalist Gadfly: The Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters", American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut Pamphlet XVII (1976)
Cohen, Sheldon S. "Yale's Peripatetic Loyalist: Samuel Andrew Peters", Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society (NHCHS) 25 (Summer 1977) 1:3-7
Metz, Wayne Normile. "The Reverend Samuel Peters (1735-1826): Connecticut Anglican, Loyalist Priest", Doctoral dissertation, Oklahoma State University, 1974
Middlebrook, Samuel. "Samuel Peters: A Yankee Munchausen", New England Quarterly 20 (March, 1947) 1:75-87
O'Neil, Maud. "Samuel Andrew Peters: Connecticut Loyalist", Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1947
Peters, Samuel Andrew. "The Frogs of Windham" a popular chapter from Peters' History of Connecticut... (1781)
Rourke, Constance. See first section of Chapter II in American Humor: A Study of the National Character University of Virginia (2001)
Trumbull, The Reverend Samuel Peters; His Defenders and Apologists (Hartford, 1877)
Avery, Joshua M., "Subject and Citizen: Loyalty, Memory and Identity in the Monographs of the Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters", M.A. Thesis, Miami University, 2008
External links
The True-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven : and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters : to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James I / edited by J. Hammond Trumbull, Hartford, Conn, American Pub. Co., 1876
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Harry Clay Ransley (February 5, 1863 – November 7, 1941) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving eight terms from 1921 to 1937.
Early life and career
Harry Ransley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1891 to 1894. He was a member of the Select Council of Philadelphia for sixteen years and president for eight years. He was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention. He served as sheriff of Philadelphia County from 1916 to 1920. He was chairman of the Republican city committee 1916 to 1919.
Congress
Running as a Republican, in 1920, he sought election to the 66th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Hampton Moore. He won, and he was subsequently re-elected to the next seven sessions of Congress, serving from 1921 to 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936, losing to Democrat Leon Sacks.
Death
He died on November 7, 1941 and was interred Interment at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
External links
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Philadelphia City Council members
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1941 deaths
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20th-century American Episcopalians
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Sheriffs of Philadelphia
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Moran State Park is a public recreation area on Orcas Island in Puget Sound's San Juan Islands in the state of Washington, United States. The state park encompasses over 5,000 acres of various terrain including forests, wetlands, bogs, hills, and lakes. It is the largest public recreation area in the San Juan Islands and the fourth largest state park in the state. A park focal point is the observation tower atop Mount Constitution, the highest point in San Juan County at 2,407 feet.
History
The park was originally the estate of Seattle mayor and shipbuilder Robert Moran. Due to poor health, Moran moved to Orcas Island and between 1906 and 1909 built his estate, which included a large mansion named Rosario. Wood and stone material found on the island were used to construct the estate's houses and buildings. In 1921, Moran gave a large portion of his property to the state of Washington for the creation of Moran State Park. The mansion and its grounds remain in private hands, operated as Rosario Resort and Spa.
In August 1935, 28 men from the 4768th Company of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began constructing a stone observation tower atop Mount Constitution. Designed by noted Seattle architect Ellsworth Storey, the tower became the literal and figurative high point of eight years of work by crews from the CCC's Camp Moran. The state park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Activities and amenities
The park has more than of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding, non-motorized boating from two boat ramps, and year-round camping in five camping areas. The Mount Constitution observation tower commands sweeping marine views from the highest point in the San Juan Islands.
Friends of Moran raise money for park needs through fundraising and by operating a small gift shop at the top of the mountain. The volunteer group organizes park cleanups and improvement events.
References
External links
Moran State Park Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Moran State Park Map Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Moran State Park Orcas Online
State parks of Washington (state)
Parks in San Juan County, Washington
Protected areas established in 1921
Civilian Conservation Corps in Washington (state)
National Park Service rustic in Washington (state)
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Redefine the Enemy! Rarities and B-Sides Compilation 1992–1999 is a B-side compilation of rare and live recordings by the seminal digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot.
Track listing
"No Remorse" (Live in NY '99) - 5:37 (taken from Too Dead for Me EP)
"Revolution Action" (Live in San Fran '99) - 4:44 (taken from Too Dead for Me EP)
"Paranoid" (7" Remix) - 3:06
"Sick to Death" (Remix '97) - 5:55
"Deutschland (Has Gotta Die!)" (Remix) - 2:50
"You Can't Hold Us Back" (Instrumental) - 3:58
"Death of a President - DIY" (A Capella '99) - 0:27 (taken from Too Dead for Me EP)
"We've Got the Fucking Power" (Original '97) - 4:42
"Not Your Business" (Radio Version '95) - 2:30
"No Success" (hardbase Remix '99) - 4:18
"Midijunkies" (Remix '93) - 5:19
"Waves of Disaster" (Instrumental '97) - 5:08
"Waves of Disaster" (A Capella '97) - 4:19
"Redefine the Enemy" ('97) - 3:53
"Destroy 2000 Years of Culture" (Remix '97) - 4:22
"Sex" (Original Full Length Version '93) - 14:25
References
External links
Atari Teenage Riot albums
2002 compilation albums
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Maria Sharapova defeated the two-time defending champion Serena Williams in the final, 6–1, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships. It was her first major title. The 17-year-old's victory over the six-time major champion was described by commentators as "the most stunning upset in memory". With the win, Sharapova entered the top 10 in rankings for the first time in her career. She became the third-youngest woman to win Wimbledon (behind Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis) and the second Russian woman (after Anastasia Myskina won that year's French Open) to win a major title.
Serena Williams was attempting to become the first woman to win the singles tournament three consecutive times since Steffi Graf in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
This was the last major singles tournament for former world No. 1 Martina Navratilova. Awarded a wild card, she won her first round match and became, at age 47, the oldest player in the Open Era to win a main draw match at Wimbledon and the second-lowest ranked player (No. 1,001) to win a main draw match at Wimbledon (behind Barbara Schwartz, who was unranked in 2001).
Seeds
Serena Williams (final)
Anastasia Myskina (third round)
Venus Williams (second round)
Amélie Mauresmo (semifinals)
Lindsay Davenport (semifinals)
Elena Dementieva (first round)
Jennifer Capriati (quarterfinals)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (first round)
Paola Suárez (quarterfinals)
Nadia Petrova (fourth round)
Ai Sugiyama (quarterfinals)
Vera Zvonareva (fourth round)
Maria Sharapova (champion)
Silvia Farina Elia (fourth round)
Patty Schnyder (second round)
Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (first round)
Chanda Rubin (first round)
Francesca Schiavone (second round)
Fabiola Zuluaga (first round)
Elena Bovina (second round)
Magdalena Maleeva (fourth round)
Conchita Martínez (first round)
Jelena Dokić (first round)
Mary Pierce (first round)
Nathalie Dechy (third round)
Lisa Raymond (second round)
Alicia Molik (third round)
Émilie Loit (first round)
Dinara Safina (first round)
Eleni Daniilidou (first round)
Amy Frazier (fourth round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (third round)
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match statistics
References
External links
2004 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles
Wimbledon Championships
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The Mating Season is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1949 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1949 by Didier & Co., New York.
Featuring the well-intentioned Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, the novel takes place at Deverill Hall, where Esmond Haddock lives with his five overcritical aunts. The story concerns the relationships of several couples, most notably Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett, Esmond Haddock and Corky Potter-Pirbright, and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and Gertrude Winkworth.
Plot
Bertie's overbearing Aunt Agatha orders him to go to Deverill Hall, King's Deverill, Hants., to stay with some friends of hers and perform in the village concert. Jeeves, who knows about Deverill Hall because his uncle Charlie Silversmith is the butler there, says that Esmond Haddock, his aunt Dame Daphne Winkworth, four other aunts, and Dame Daphne's daughter Gertrude Winkworth live there. Bertie's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle will also go there. Gussie is upset because his fiancée Madeline Bassett was supposed to accompany him, but had to visit a friend, Hilda Gudgeon, instead.
Another friend of Bertie's, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, an actor, wants to marry Gertrude. However, the aunts disapprove of actors. Catsmeat thinks Esmond is wooing Gertrude and asks Bertie to keep them apart. In exchange, Catsmeat will keep Gussie from brooding about Madeline; Bertie does not want Gussie and Madeline to split up because Madeline is resolved to marry Bertie if she does not marry Gussie. Bertie is also visited by Catsmeat's sister, Corky, who is arranging the village concert and wants Bertie to play Pat in a comedic Pat-and-Mike crosstalk act. Corky loves Esmond but won't marry him until he stands up to his domineering aunts, who disapprove of Corky because she is an actress. She believes Esmond has moved on to Gertrude. While drunk, Catsmeat makes Gussie wade through the Trafalgar Square fountain, and Gussie is sentenced to fourteen days in jail. To keep Madeline from learning about this, Jeeves suggests Bertie stay at Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie. Bertie does so, taking Corky's dog Sam Goldwyn (a reference to film producer Samuel Goldwyn) with him at Corky's request.
At Deverill Hall, Bertie ("Gussie") learns that Esmond is in love with Corky and not Gertrude. Esmond hopes to win applause at the concert by singing a hunting song to impress Corky. Catsmeat, wanting to be near Gertrude, comes to the Hall pretending to be Bertie's valet Meadowes. The next day, Gussie, who was let off with a fine, arrives, pretending to be Bertie, along with Jeeves, who acts as "Bertie's" valet. Jeeves, believing that applause at the concert would give Esmond the courage to defy his aunts and marry Corky, starts assembling a claque. Gussie will take Bertie's place in the crosstalk act, with Catsmeat as his partner. Bertie will take Gussie's place by reciting Christopher Robin poems.
Catsmeat tells Bertie that Bertie's Aunt Agatha is coming to the house. Following a plan from Jeeves, Catsmeat asks Corky to invite Aunt Agatha's young son Thomas to visit her; Thomas, a fan of Corky's, runs away from school to see her, and Aunt Agatha cancels her trip when she learns her son has disappeared. Catsmeat tries to cheer up Queenie, the Hall's parlourmaid, who is distraught after ending her engagement to the local policeman Constable Dobbs, because he is an atheist.
Gussie, who has fallen for Corky, writes to Madeline ending their engagement. Bertie intercepts the letter, despite briefly running into Madeline and Hilda, and returns to King's Deverill. Thomas has arrived. He has a rubber cosh and hopes to hit Constable Dobbs, since Dobbs arrested Corky's dog Sam after Sam bit him. Silversmith announces that Queenie, his daughter, is engaged to Catsmeat ("Meadowes"); Queenie had to tell her father they were engaged after he saw Catsmeat trying to comfort her with a kiss.
Gussie and Catsmeat, both despondent, perform miserably at the concert. Esmond is very successful. Bertie, having forgotten the Christopher Robin poems, consults Jeeves, who has taken away Thomas's cosh. They get Esmond to read the poems. Gussie leaves to retrieve Sam for Corky while Dobbs is at the concert. When Jeeves learns that Dobbs has gone home early, Jeeves and Bertie try to stop Gussie. Sam is freed and picked up by Corky. Gussie, chased by Dobbs, climbs a tree, and Dobbs waits below. Jeeves knocks Dobbs unconscious from behind using the cosh. After his ordeal, Gussie's affections turn from Corky back to Madeline.
Esmond and Corky become engaged. Dobbs claims he has become religious after being knocked out by a thunderbolt and reconciles with Queenie. Dobbs is also looking for "Bertie" for taking Sam Goldwyn, but Jeeves provides an alibi for Bertie. Dobbs then assumes it was Catsmeat who stole the dog; as Jeeves predicted, Gertrude rushes to defend Catsmeat. Corky reveals Catsmeat is her brother. Esmond, an influential Justice of the Peace, makes Dobbs drop the case. The aunts disapprove, but Esmond stands up to them. Aunt Agatha followed Thomas and is now waiting downstairs. Jeeves advises that Bertie escape by climbing down a water pipe, but Bertie, inspired by Esmond's example, goes to face her.
Style
One of the stylistic devices Wodehouse uses for comic effect is exaggerated imagery in similes and metaphors. For instance, Bertie Wooster says of Esmond Haddock's five aunts: "As far as the eye could reach, I found myself gazing on a surging sea of aunts". He is alarmed to be: "trapped in a den of slavering aunts, lashing their tails and glaring at you out of their red eyes." Phrases are also sometimes used in the function of another part of speech, as in chapter 2: "I too-badded".
Original word formations are created with familiar prefixes and suffixes; for example, to "de-dog the premises" (chapter 24) is a variation on the pattern of de-louse or de-bunk. Wodehouse occasionally derives words from phrases using suffixation. An example of this can be seen in chapter 20: "the aunts raised their eyebrows with a good deal of To-what-are-we-indebted-for-the-honour-of-this-visitness".
Wodehouse also uses puns to create humour. For example, there is a pun based on the pair of homonyms ma and mar in British English in chapter 8. Bertie Wooster asks Jeeves:
"What's that thing of Shakespeare's about someone having an eye like Mother's?""An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, is possibly the quotation for which you are groping, sir."
Bertie and Jeeves often quote various literary sources. These quotations are frequently rendered with comic changes, such as when a quotation is rephrased with slang words or used in an unusual context. Another way Wodehouse varies allusions is to break them up with dialogue. This occurs when Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is alluded to in chapter 8, when Bertie asks Jeeves why the judge let Gussie off with a fine:
"Possibly the reflection that the quality of mercy is not strained, sir.""You mean it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven?""Precisely, sir. Upon the place beneath. His worship would no doubt have taken into consideration the fact that it blesseth him that gives and him that takes and becomes the throned monarch better than his crown."I mused. Yes, there was something in that.
Another source of humour appearing multiple times in the Jeeves stories is Bertie's searching for the right item of vocabulary, often with Jeeves supplying the correct word. An example of this occurs when Bertie is speaking with Jeeves in chapter 8:
"Then what we've got to do is to strain every nerve to see that he makes a hit. What are those things people have?""Sir?""Opera singers and people like that.""You mean a claque, sir?""That's right. The word was on the tip of my tongue."
Like Bertie Wooster, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright is a member of the Drones Club, which Wodehouse uses as an "inexhaustible source of young masculine lead-characters". Bertie says of Catsmeat: "Today he is the fellow managers pick first when they have a Society comedy to present and want someone for "Freddie", the lighthearted friend of the hero, carrying the second love interest". In fact, Catsmeat is given the "second love interest" in the novel.
Background
The book's title comes from a statement made in the novel by Catsmeat that it is springtime, the mating season, "when, as you probably know, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove and a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love", which is a reference to the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred Tennyson.
At the time of writing there was bad blood between Wodehouse and fellow author A. A. Milne. The book included several satirical jibes aimed at Milne, for instance after Bertie (pressured by Madeline Bassett) agrees to recite Christopher Robin poems at the village concert, he laments: "A fellow who comes on a platform and starts reciting about Christopher Robin going hoppity-hoppity-hop (or alternatively saying his prayers) does not do so from sheer wantonness but because he is a helpless victim of circumstances beyond his control."
According to a letter Wodehouse wrote to his granddaughter on 27 March 1946, Wodehouse began working on the novel in 1942. One of his ideas for the novel was for Bertie to take Stilton Cheesewright's place at a country house after the quick-tempered Stilton is arrested for getting into a fight. However, Stilton is let off with a fine, and he comes to the house pretending to be Bertie. Generally, the role Wodehouse describes in the letter was performed by Gussie Fink-Nottle instead of Stilton in the final novel.
Publication history
The first American edition of The Mating Season included ten illustrations by Hal McIntosh. McIntosh also illustrated the dust wrapper.
In addition to being published as a novel, the story was printed in the Canadian magazine, Star Weekly, on 12 November 1949, and in the Long Island Sunday Press, the Sunday edition of the Long Island Daily Press, on 18 December 1949.
Reception
The New York Times (4 December 1949): "Wooster is in the sauce again. And Jeeves, his stately butler, quoting bits from "The Oxford Book of English Verse" by the yard, is busy getting him—and all his loony friends—out once more. On this occasion the scene is Deverill Hall, a pre-Evelyn-Waugh period country house that Bertie has been invited to visit on the flimsiest pretexts and with the most cheerfully disastrous results. In order to help along one love affair, Bertie is forced to pretend that he is another guest, and in less time than you can say 'This reminds me a lot of standard-brand impersonations and mistaken identity plots,' several more people have got into the act, with the expected, and relentlessly unexpected, results".
John Cournos, The Saturday Review (31 December 1949): "By now all readers know what to expect of 'a hilarious new Jeeves novel,' as the publishers put it; and they are getting it in full measure. Wodehouse has a way with him; he has made an art of the gag and the wisecrack, and hash of realism. … Five—no less than five—scheming aunts preside over the destinies of the manor house, and their function seems to be to direct Cupid's arrows according to their own notions, which are not always the notions of the several young people concerned. True love meets with continued calamities until Jeeves steps in and, with his inimitable skill, throws enchanting Corky into the arms of Esmond, Madeline into Gussie's, etc. And, as the jacket says, 'there are no lonely hearts after the Mating Season'".
In 2014, Susan Hill listed The Mating Season as one of her three top reads, stating: "I need to have a book guaranteed to make me laugh at any time, anywhere. This does. But he was an English prose master too – it is both richly funny froth and bubble, and exemplary writing. I'd kill to write half as well".
Adaptations
Television
The story was adapted into the Jeeves and Wooster episodes "Bertie Takes Gussie's Place At Deverill Hall" and "Sir Watkyn Bassett's Memoirs", which first aired on 19 and 26 April 1992.
Radio
The Mating Season was adapted into a radio drama in 1975 as part of the series What Ho! Jeeves starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Novels by P. G. Wodehouse
English novels
1949 British novels
Novels set in Hampshire
Herbert Jenkins books
British comedy novels
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Dudley Butt MLC (born 1946) was a Member of the Legislative Council and Tynwald in the Isle of Man. He is a former Detective Chief Inspector of the Isle of Man Constabulary.
Early life and education
Dudley Michael William Butt is the son of Roger and Mary Butt. Butt attended Laxey Primary School and Ramsey Grammar School. He has an International Compliance Diploma and is a member of the International Compliance Association.
Career
Dudley Butt joined the Isle of Man Constabulary in 1962 and he held various positions, mostly in CID, but also as a Court Prosecutor, and retired after 39 years service in 2001 with the rank of Detective Chief Inspector.
Dudley Butt was elected as a member of the Isle of Man Legislative Council and Tynwald, the Isle of Man Parliament in February 2005. During his time on the Council and as a member of Tynwald, Mr Butt has served as a member of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, the Department of Trade & Industry, the Department of Local Government and the Environment, with responsibility for Waste Management and Recycling; the Department of Health and Social Security with responsibility for Social Services, the Department of Education, and Department of Tourism and Leisure. Dudley Butt was also until 2011 Chairman of the Whitley Council
In February 2010 at the conclusion of his first five years in Tynwald he was re-elected.
He became the political member with responsibility for the Health in the Department of Health and Social Care where he served for five years., Between 2009 and 2012 he was also the political member for the Department of Education and Children with responsibility for Children's Services and Special Needs. He resigned from the department in 2012 after disagreeing with the then minister Peter Karran's proposal to close pre-school nurseries and the Education Department Family Library.
His other roles in Government were as Children's Champion for Looked After Children, Chair of the Corporate Parenting Group, Chair of the Sport and Healthy Schools Partnership, and Chair of the Clinical Recommendations Committee.
His Parliamentary duties included being a member on the Select Committee investigating the affairs of the Manx Electricity Authority, a member of the Economic Scrutiny Committee, the Chair of the Environment and Infrastructure Scrutiny Committee, a member of the Public Accounts Committee for nine years and a member of the Tynwald Standards Committee.
Dudley Butt did not stand for re election for a third term in 2015 and retired from politics. He continued to work as the Children's Champion until November 2016.
Dudley Butt is the President of Laxey Football Club, having played for and represented the Club for many years, and captained the Police Cricket Team for a number of years. He is a regular competitor and finisher in the annual Isle of Man 85 mile Parish Walk. His interests include motorcycling, race walking, and writing.
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Manx police officers
1946 births
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The Staines Informer is a weekly free newspaper distributed in the area in and around Staines-upon-Thames. It is now owned by the Trinity Mirror group through their North Surrey and London Newspapers division.
The Staines Informer began in 1974. Several other 'freesheets' were already being circulated within this lucrative advertising area, but these usually lacked any editorial substance and were very much of the "read it and chuck it" variety. The Informer offered a new style of freesheet which also soon challenged the long established local "paid for" weekly press. The new entrant's mix of human interest stories, entertainment reviews, lifestyle features and informative advertorial soon garnered it a lot of local respect. It became a newspaper which people retained for the whole week and consulted when needing local information or services.
The main editorial areas covered by The Staines Informer today are the Surrey boroughs of Spelthorne, Runnymede and Elmbridge. The Staines Informer is distributed every Thursday and is based at offices in Eastworth Road, Chertsey, also the base for its sister papers the Staines and Egham News and Surrey Herald.
Newspapers published in Surrey
Staines-upon-Thames
Publications established in 1974
1974 establishments in England
Newspapers published by Reach plc
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Harvey armor was a type of steel naval armor developed in the early 1890s in which the front surfaces of the plates were case hardened. The method for doing this was known as the Harvey process, and was invented by the American engineer Hayward Augustus Harvey.
This type of armor was used in the construction of capital ships until superseded by Krupp armor in the late 1890s.
The Harvey United Steel Company was a steel cartel whose chairman was Albert Vickers. The year 1894 would see the ten main producers of armor plate, including Vickers, Armstrong, Krupp, Schneider, Carnegie and Bethlehem Steel, form the Harvey Syndicate.
Predecessors
Before the appearance of compound armor in the 1880s, armor plating was made from uniform homogeneous iron or steel plates backed by several inches of teak to absorb the shock of projectile impact. Compound armor appeared in the mid-1880s and was made from two different types of steel, a very hard but brittle high-carbon steel front plate backed by a more elastic low-carbon wrought iron plate. The front plate was intended to break up an incoming shell, while the rear plate would catch any splinters and hold the armor together if the brittle front plate shattered.
Compound armor was made by pouring molten steel between a red-hot wrought iron backing plate and a hardened steel front plate to weld them together. This process produced a sharp transition between the properties of the two plates in a very small distance. As consequence, the two plates could separate when struck by a shell, and the rear plate was often not elastic enough to stop the splinters. With the discovery of nickel-steel alloys in 1889, compound armor was rendered obsolete.
Production process
Harvey armor used a single plate of steel, but re-introduced the benefits of compound armor. The front surface was converted to high carbon steel by "cementing". In this process, the steel plate would be covered with charcoal and heated to approximately 1200 degrees Celsius for two to three weeks. The process increased the carbon content at the face to around 1 percent; the carbon content decreasing gradually from this level with distance into the plate, reaching the original proportion (approximately 0.1–0.2 percent) at a depth of around an inch. After cementing, the plate was chilled first in an oil bath, then in a water bath, before being annealed to toughen the back of the plate. The water bath was later replaced with jets of water to prevent the formation of a layer of steam which would insulate the steel from the cooling effect of the water. The process was further improved by low temperature forging of the plate before the final heat treatment.
While the American navy used nickel steel for Harvey armor (roughly 0.2 percent carbon, 0.6 percent manganese, 3.5 percent nickel), the British used normal steels since their tests had shown that ordinary steel subjected to the Harvey process had the same resistance to penetration as nickel steel, although it was not quite as tough.
Harvey armor was taken up by all of the major navies, since of Harvey armor offered the same protection as of nickel-steel armor. It was in turn rendered obsolete by the development of Krupp armor in the late 1890s.
See also
Carburizing
References
Gene Slover's US Navy Pages - Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
Naval armour
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Michael Lionel Standing (born 19 June 1939) is a British actor, appearing mostly in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Standing was born in London. Between an appearance in a 1964 episode of the TV series of The Saint and his final appearance in the 1973 opening season of The Tomorrow People in which he played Ginge, the biker heavy who became the Tomorrow People's ally, he appeared in a considerable number of dramas such as Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Rooms and the soap opera The Newcomers, and episodes of fantasy television series such as Adam Adamant Lives!, The Champions, and Ace of Wands.
Standing is probably best remembered for his role as Arthur in the 1969 film, The Italian Job, who was, as Michael Caine's character Croker famously observed "only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" after he had totally destroyed a van with gelignite.
Standing later moved to the United States, and was briefly married to Sherri Spillane, the ex-wife of writer Mickey Spillane.
Partial filmography
The Violent Enemy (1967) - Fletcher
Stranger in the House (1967) - Fashion photographer (uncredited)
Poor Cow (1967) - Young Man in Field
Up the Junction (1968) - John
The Italian Job (1969) - Arthur
Made (1972) - Young man on train
Aftershock (1990) - Gruber (final film role)
References
External links
1939 births
Living people
English male television actors
English male film actors
Male actors from London
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Murong Chong
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Murong Chong (; 359–386), formally Emperor Wei of (Western) Yan ((西)燕威帝), was an emperor of the Western Yan. He was a son of the Former Yan emperor Murong Jun and a younger brother of Former Yan emperor Murong Wei.
It is not known when Murong Chong was born — although as his older brother Murong Wei was born in 350, he must have been born later than that, but before 359, when he was created the Prince of Zhongshan. In 368, after his uncle Murong Ke, the regent for his brother Murong Wei, had died in 367, he succeeded Murong Ke in his post as the commander of the armed forces, but there is no evidence that he actually commanded armies. After Former Yan was destroyed by Former Qin in 370, he and his brothers were made local officials throughout the Former Qin realm. Historical accounts indicate that he had a sexual relationship with the Former Qin emperor Fu Jiān—and that Fu Jiān's favors for him and his sister Consort Murong, whom Fu Jiān took as a concubine, were the talk of the Former Qin capital Chang'an.
By 384, he was the governor of Pingyang Commandery (平陽, roughly modern Linfen, Shanxi). When he heard that his uncle Murong Chui and his older brother Murong Hong had rebelled against Former Qin in light of Fu Jiān's defeat at the Battle of Fei River in 383, he rebelled as well. He was soon defeated by the Former Qin general Dou Chong, and he joined his brother Murong Hong.
In summer 384, as Murong Hong was advancing on Chang'an, Murong Hong's strategist Gao Gai (高蓋) and other officials felt that Murong Hong's reputation was not as great as Murong Chong's, and that Murong Hong's punishments were overly harsh. They therefore killed him and supported Murong Chong to be the new ruler. As Murong Wei was still alive but under Former Qin control in Chang'an, Murong Chong took the title of crown prince. Fu Jiān made a peace overture to him with an apparent sexual undertone—by sending him a robe and a message reminding him of their personal relationship, but Murong Chong rejected the overture.
Around the new year 385, Murong Wei and his cousin Murong Su (慕容肅) organized the Xianbei men within Chang'an, preparing to start an uprising to join Murong Chong, but after Fu Jiān discovered their plot, he executed them and slaughtered the Xianbei inside the city.
Upon hearing news of his brother's death, Murong Chong declared himself emperor. After he took the title, he became capricious and handed out rewards and punishments at his whim. However, he did not let up his pressure against Chang'an, and Chang'an, under his siege, soon fell into a terrible famine. He also allowed his soldiers to pillage the Guanzhong region at will. In summer 385, Fu Jiān broke out to try to find food supplies to relieve Chang'an, leaving his crown prince Fu Hong (苻宏) in defense of the city—but as soon as he left, the city fell to Murong Chong, and Fu Hong fled.
Despite his Xianbei people's desire to return east to their homeland, Murong Chong decided to settle in Chang'an—both because he liked the city and because he feared his uncle Murong Chui, who had by then established Later Yan. He therefore sought to get his people to decide to settle as well, but they resented him for the decision. In spring 386, his general Han Yan (韓延) assassinated him in a coup and supported another general, Duan Sui, as the Prince of Yan.
Personal information
Father
Murong Jun (Emperor Jingzhao of Former Yan)
Children
Murong Yao (慕容瑤), later emperor
References
Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 101, 105, 106.
Western Yan emperors
350s births
386 deaths
Former Yan imperial princes
Former Yan generals
Former Qin people
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High-Logic, founded in 1997 by Erwin Denissen, is a privately held company headquartered in De Bilt, the Netherlands. High-Logic produces font editing and font management software.
Products
FontCreator
The company's flagship product is FontCreator (formerly known as Font Creator Program) for Microsoft Windows. Fonts are created using multiple vector drawing aids from free-hand drawing of individual glyphs to importing vector (PDF, EPS, SVG) or bitmap graphics.
Highlights of Recent Versions
FontCreator 11 introduced support for CFF Postscript outlines
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FontCreator 13 supports SVG colour fonts, and import for Unified Font Object (UFO).
FontCreator 14 supports Variable fonts, import/export of Designspace documents with UFOs. It now has three themes and uses docking/floating palettes instead of dialogs.
The latest version, FontCreator 14, was released in June 2021, which was last updated in August 2021.
MainType
On December 2, 2005 High-Logic released MainType, a font-management program for Windows, which has also been constantly updated and improved. Tools are provided for installing, uninstalling, loading (temporarily installing a font until your computer is turned off) and unloading fonts to the Windows Font Folder. In addition to providing a visual representation of each glyph and detailed information about each font AND rapid access to huge font collections, they can be easily arranged into user designed groups for seasonal or whatever categories a user can imagine. Even registry repair is included in the package.
A free version is available for non-commercial use, with fewer features, and the font library limited to 2,500 fonts.
The latest version, MainType 11, was released in May 2021, and was last updated a few days later.
Scanahand
On April 23, 2008 High-Logic released Scanahand, a font generator for Windows allows the user to print out a form, manually fill in the glyphs, scan it into the program and generate new fonts. The most recent version, Scanahand 7.0, was released in January 2020, which was last updated in July 2020.
References
External links
High-Logic Web Site
FontCreator Review
Companies established in 1997
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Complex reflection group
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In mathematics, a complex reflection group is a finite group acting on a finite-dimensional complex vector space that is generated by complex reflections: non-trivial elements that fix a complex hyperplane pointwise.
Complex reflection groups arise in the study of the invariant theory of polynomial rings. In the mid-20th century, they were completely classified in work of Shephard and Todd. Special cases include the symmetric group of permutations, the dihedral groups, and more generally all finite real reflection groups (the Coxeter groups or Weyl groups, including the symmetry groups of regular polyhedra).
Definition
A (complex) reflection r (sometimes also called pseudo reflection or unitary reflection) of a finite-dimensional complex vector space V is an element of finite order that fixes a complex hyperplane pointwise, that is, the fixed-space has codimension 1.
A (finite) complex reflection group is a finite subgroup of that is generated by reflections.
Properties
Any real reflection group becomes a complex reflection group if we extend the scalars from
R to C. In particular, all finite Coxeter groups or Weyl groups give examples of complex reflection groups.
A complex reflection group W is irreducible if the only W-invariant proper subspace of the corresponding vector space is the origin. In this case, the dimension of the vector space is called the rank of W.
The Coxeter number of an irreducible complex reflection group W of rank is defined as where denotes the set of reflections and denotes the set of reflecting hyperplanes.
In the case of real reflection groups, this definition reduces to the usual definition of the Coxeter number for finite Coxeter systems.
Classification
Any complex reflection group is a product of irreducible complex reflection groups, acting on the sum of the corresponding vector spaces. So it is sufficient to classify the irreducible complex reflection groups.
The irreducible complex reflection groups were classified by . They proved that every irreducible belonged to an infinite family G(m, p, n) depending on 3 positive integer parameters (with p dividing m) or was one of 34 exceptional cases, which they numbered from 4 to 37. The group G(m, 1, n) is the generalized symmetric group; equivalently, it is the wreath product of the symmetric group Sym(n) by a cyclic group of order m. As a matrix group, its elements may be realized as monomial matrices whose nonzero elements are mth roots of unity.
The group G(m, p, n) is an index-p subgroup of G(m, 1, n). G(m, p, n) is of order mnn!/p. As matrices, it may be realized as the subset in which the product of the nonzero entries is an (m/p)th root of unity (rather than just an mth root). Algebraically, G(m, p, n) is a semidirect product of an abelian group of order mn/p by the symmetric group Sym(n); the elements of the abelian group are of the form (θa1, θa2, ..., θan), where θ is a primitive mth root of unity and Σai ≡ 0 mod p, and Sym(n) acts by permutations of the coordinates.
The group G(m,p,n) acts irreducibly on Cn except in the cases m = 1, n > 1 (the symmetric group) and G(2, 2, 2) (the Klein four-group). In these cases, Cn splits as a sum of irreducible representations of dimensions 1 and n − 1.
Special cases of G(m, p, n)
Coxeter groups
When m = 2, the representation described in the previous section consists of matrices with real entries, and hence in these cases G(m,p,n) is a finite Coxeter group. In particular:
G(1, 1, n) has type An−1 = [3,3,...,3,3] = ...; the symmetric group of order n!
G(2, 1, n) has type Bn = [3,3,...,3,4] = ...; the hyperoctahedral group of order 2nn!
G(2, 2, n) has type Dn = [3,3,...,31,1] = ..., order 2nn!/2.
In addition, when m = p and n = 2, the group G(p, p, 2) is the dihedral group of order 2p; as a Coxeter group, type I2(p) = [p] = (and the Weyl group G2 when p = 6).
Other special cases and coincidences
The only cases when two groups G(m, p, n) are isomorphic as complex reflection groups are that G(ma, pa, 1) is isomorphic to G(mb, pb, 1) for any positive integers a, b (and both are isomorphic to the cyclic group of order m/p). However, there are other cases when two such groups are isomorphic as abstract groups.
The groups G(3, 3, 2) and G(1, 1, 3) are isomorphic to the symmetric group Sym(3). The groups G(2, 2, 3) and G(1, 1, 4) are isomorphic to the symmetric group Sym(4). Both G(2, 1, 2) and G(4, 4, 2) are isomorphic to the dihedral group of order 8. And the groups G(2p, p, 1) are cyclic of order 2, as is G(1, 1, 2).
List of irreducible complex reflection groups
There are a few duplicates in the first 3 lines of this list; see the previous section for details.
ST is the Shephard–Todd number of the reflection group.
Rank is the dimension of the complex vector space the group acts on.
Structure describes the structure of the group. The symbol * stands for a central product of two groups. For rank 2, the quotient by the (cyclic) center is the group of rotations of a tetrahedron, octahedron, or icosahedron (T = Alt(4), O = Sym(4), I = Alt(5), of orders 12, 24, 60), as stated in the table. For the notation 21+4, see extra special group.
Order is the number of elements of the group.
Reflections describes the number of reflections: 26412 means that there are 6 reflections of order 2 and 12 of order 4.
Degrees gives the degrees of the fundamental invariants of the ring of polynomial invariants. For example, the invariants of group number 4 form a polynomial ring with 2 generators of degrees 4 and 6.
For more information, including diagrams, presentations, and codegrees of complex reflection groups, see the tables in .
Degrees
Shephard and Todd proved that a finite group acting on a complex vector space is a complex reflection group if and only if its ring of invariants is a polynomial ring (Chevalley–Shephard–Todd theorem). For being the rank of the reflection group, the degrees of the generators of the ring of invariants are called degrees of W and are listed in the column above headed "degrees". They also showed that many other invariants of the group are determined by the degrees as follows:
The center of an irreducible reflection group is cyclic of order equal to the greatest common divisor of the degrees.
The order of a complex reflection group is the product of its degrees.
The number of reflections is the sum of the degrees minus the rank.
An irreducible complex reflection group comes from a real reflection group if and only if it has an invariant of degree 2.
The degrees di satisfy the formula
Codegrees
For being the rank of the reflection group, the codegrees of W can be defined by
For a real reflection group, the codegrees are the degrees minus 2.
The number of reflection hyperplanes is the sum of the codegrees plus the rank.
Well-generated complex reflection groups
By definition, every complex reflection group is generated by its reflections. The set of reflections is not a minimal generating set, however, and every irreducible complex reflection groups of rank has a minimal generating set consisting of either or reflections. In the former case, the group is said to be well-generated.
The property of being well-generated is equivalent to the condition for all . Thus, for example, one can read off from the classification that the group is well-generated if and only if p = 1 or m.
For irreducible well-generated complex reflection groups, the Coxeter number defined above equals the largest degree, . A reducible complex reflection group is said to be well-generated if it is a product of irreducible well-generated complex reflection groups. Every finite real reflection group is well-generated.
Shephard groups
The well-generated complex reflection groups include a subset called the Shephard groups. These groups are the symmetry groups of regular complex polytopes. In particular, they include the symmetry groups of regular real polyhedra. The Shephard groups may be characterized as the complex reflection groups that admit a "Coxeter-like" presentation with a linear diagram. That is, a Shephard group has associated positive integers and such that there is a generating set satisfying the relations
for ,
if ,
and
where the products on both sides have terms, for .
This information is sometimes collected in the Coxeter-type symbol , as seen in the table above.
Among groups in the infinite family , the Shephard groups are those in which . There are also 18 exceptional Shephard groups, of which three are real.
Cartan matrices
An extended Cartan matrix defines the unitary group. Shephard groups of rank n group have n generators.
Ordinary Cartan matrices have diagonal elements 2, while unitary reflections do not have this restriction.
For example, the rank 1 group of order p (with symbols p[], ) is defined by the matrix .
Given: .
References
Hiller, Howard Geometry of Coxeter groups. Research Notes in Mathematics, 54. Pitman (Advanced Publishing Program), Boston, Mass.-London, 1982. iv+213 pp. *
Coxeter, Finite Groups Generated by Unitary Reflections, 1966, 4. The Graphical Notation, Table of n-dimensional groups generated by n Unitary Reflections. pp. 422–423
External links
MAGMA Computational Algebra System page
Reflection groups
Geometry
Group theory
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