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5392770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Burk | Henry Burk | Henry Burk (September 26, 1850 – December 5, 1903) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and Philadelphia businessman.
Private life
Henry Burk was born in Knittlingen, Württemberg, Germany, son of David and Charlotte Reinman Burk; Henry was the fourth child of eight. David, a shoemaker, made the decision to leave Germany because of unacceptable political views. The family emigrated to the United States in 1854 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Henry attended school only a few years, but then began to work to help his family; he was reputed to have a natural engineering ability. He became a repairer of shoemaking machinery and subsequently engaged in supplying this machinery to the trade. He was engaged in the manufacture of leather and in 1887 invented the alum and sumac tawing process, which revolutionized the tanning industry. The company he founded with his two brothers Alfred E. Burk and Charles D. Burk, Burk Brothers and Company, is now listed as a Registered Historic Place. He also helped to establish a meat packing company in Philadelphia with the same brothers and two others, William and Louis; this company was known variously as Burk Meats and Louis Burk & Co. ("Burk's Franks" were known throughout the Delaware Valley well into the 1950s). He became president of the Manufacturers’ National Association in 1895. He travelled around the world for his leather business, from Europe—visiting his birthplace in 1894—to India.
Family
Burk married Ellen Carney (1851–1914) on August 18, 1873, in Philadelphia; they had six children: Mary, Charles Henry, Henry Jr., Helen, Gertrude, and Charlotte. Burk was grandfather to character actor Henry Jones (1912–1999), and great-grandfather to actress Jocelyn Jones.
Congress
Burk was elected in 1901 as a Republican to the 57th Congress and served from March 4, 1901, until his death in Philadelphia.
During the time that Burk served in Congress, the Boer War was raging in South Africa. Burk supported the Boers against the British. However, the United States sold the British preserved meat and hay, as well as mules and other supplies. Burk moved in the House that "mules, remounts, and other supplies be declared contraband", but by this time the war was practically over.
See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
Sources
Notes
External links
Henry Burk, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1905
1850 births
1903 deaths
German emigrants to the United States
Tanners
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Republicans
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
19th-century American politicians |
5392774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auraria%20Library | Auraria Library | Auraria Library is an academic library in downtown Denver, Colorado. It provides academic resources and research experiences to students, staff, and faculty at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver), the Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver), and the Community College of Denver (CCD) on the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) campus, also called the Auraria Campus. The Library is administratively operated by CU Denver and occupies a building owned by the State of Colorado.
About one in five students in college in Colorado attend classes on the Auraria Campus. The combined tri-institutional census for fall 2012 reports 45,062 students attending the three institutions. The three institutions have combined populations of 15,903 minor students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, which represents thirty-five percent of the total student population. Seventy-six percent of the graduates remain in the Denver Metropolitan area, contributing to its economic and civic vitality.
The library is known for its association with Beall's List, created by its former faculty member Jeffrey Beall and used by universities and libraries worldwide.
Building
Auraria Library's $32.8 million renovation project came to a close in 2017. "The reconfigured and upgraded library, whose Lawrence Way entrance faces west under a colorful cayenne canopy, is now bright, roomy, innovative, study-friendly, artsy and still flexible enough to meet the changing needs of 21st century college students."
The building was originally designed by internationally recognized architect Helmut Jahn. Its design excellence was recognized by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1978. In 2009, it earned the Denver AIA 25-year Award, which recognizes the enduring quality of architectural design that has withstood the “test of time” and still functions in its original capacity.
Renovation
Auraria Library's $32.8 million renovation project was funded by $26.8 million in state funds and $6 million in cash contributions including donations. The renovation was broken down into five phases:
2012-2011: Creating Community
2012: Transforming Learning Spaces
2013: Discovering Possibilities
2014: Exploring Library as Place
2015-2016: Innovating Dreams
The renovation created more collaborative space, improved technology and added many student-friendly amenities.
Collections
The Auraria Library houses approximately 650,000 print books and provides access to 206,000 ebooks, 87,000 ejournals, and 280 million electronic resource records through its Summon Discovery service. The Library maintains 580 journal and newspaper subscriptions and 822 database subscriptions; which are accessible to current students from its website. The library also has a sizable film and videotape collection which contains over 22,000 titles.
Notable faculty
Jeffrey Beall, founder of Beall's list
See also
References
External links
Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library
University and college academic libraries in the United States
Libraries in Colorado
Auraria Campus
Buildings and structures in Denver
Education in Denver
Metropolitan State University of Denver
University of Colorado
Libraries established in 1976 |
5392786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20media%20in%20the%20United%20States | News media in the United States | Mass media are the means through which information is transmitted to a large audience. This includes newspapers, television, radio, and more recently the Internet. Organizations that provide news through mass media in the United States are collectively known as the news media in the United States.
History
Structure
Public sector news media
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is the primary non-profit television service, with 349 member public broadcasters. News and public affairs programs include PBS NewsHour, Frontline, and Washington Week. In September 2012, PBS rated 88% above CNN in public affairs programming, placing it competitively with cable news outlets but far behind private broadcasters ABC, CBS, and NBC. Due to its local and non-profit nature, PBS does not produce 24-hour news, but some member stations carry MHz WorldView, NHK World, or World as a digital subchannel.
National Public Radio (NPR) is the primary non-profit radio service, offered by over 900 stations. Its news programming includes All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
PBS and NPR are funded primarily by member contributions and corporate underwriters, with a relatively small amount of government contributions.
Other national public television program distributors include American Public Television and NETA. Distributors of radio programs include American Public Media, Pacifica Radio, Public Radio International, and Public Radio Exchange.
Public broadcasting in the United States also includes Community radio and College radio stations, which may offer local news programming.
Private-sector news media
In the past few years Journalism has become tainted by trying to disguise opinion as news or at least news worthy. An opinion piece gives you information from the point of view of the writer, or presenter. It may include facts, and reporting, but it differs from a news story in that it lays out an individual’s ideas and often their biases. Opinion is, essentially, someone’s argument for a certain point of view about a specific topic.
When we read newspaper editorial pages, we see two types of opinion. We get the collective opinion of the editors and we also read, on the OpEd page — the page opposite the editorials — what individual columnists have to say in their byline pieces.
A news story reports the facts without the opinion of the reporter,
Fox Corporation
The Fox Broadcasting Company, television and cable networks such as Fox, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Sports, and 27 local television stations.
News Corp
Holdings include: the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Barron's, book publisher HarperCollins and numerous websites including MarketWatch.
Warner Bros. Discovery
Holdings include: CNN, the CW (a joint venture with Paramount Global), HBO, Cinemax, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock and New Line Cinema.
Paramount Global
Holdings include: MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, CBS, Showtime, Paramount Home Entertainment Viacom 18 is a joint venture with the Indian media company Global Broadcast news.
The Walt Disney Company
Holdings include: ABC Television Network, cable networks including ESPN, the Disney Channel, A&E, Lifetime, National Geographic Channel, FX, 227 radio stations, music and book publishing companies, production companies Touchstone, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Blue Sky Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, and the cellular service Disney Mobile.
Major news sources
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Means of distribution
! Main media type(s)
! Founded/launched
|-
| ABC News
| Television,online
|News
| 1945
|-
| CBS News
| Television, magazines, and radio
|News
| 1927
|-
| CNN
| Television, online
| News, Politics
| 1980
|-
| Fox News Channel
| Television, online
| News, Politics
| 1996
|-
| MSNBC
| Television,online
| News, Politics
| 1996
|-
| NBC News
| Television, online
|News
| 1940
|-
| The New York Times
| Newspapers, online
| News, sports
| 1851
|-
| USA Today
| Newspapers, online
| News
| 1982
|-
| The Wall Street Journal
| Newspapers, online
| News
| 1889
|-
| The Washington Post
| Newspapers, online
| News
| 1877
|-
| POLITICO
| Online
| News, Politics
| 2007
|-
| Bloomberg
| Online
| World news
| 1981
|-
| Vice News
| Online
| News
| 2013
|-
| HBO
| Online, television
| Entertainment
| 1972
|-
| HuffPost
| Online
| News
| 2005
|-
| TMZ
| Online
| Celebrity news
| 2005
|-
| CNET
| Online
| Tech news
| 1994
|-
| NPR
| Radio, online
| News
| 1970
|-
| The Hollywood Reporter
| Magazines, online
| Hollywood film
| 1930
|-
| Newsweek
| Magazines, online
| News
| 1933
|-
| The New Yorker
| Magazines, online
|News
| 1925
|-
| Time| Magazines, online
| News
| 1923
|-
| U.S. News & World Report| Magazines, online
| News
| 1948
|}
Agenda-setting
An important role which is often ascribed to the media is that of agenda-setter. Georgetown University professor Gary Wasserman describes this as "putting together an agenda of national priorities — what should be taken seriously, what lightly, what not at all". Wasserman calls this "the most important political function the media perform". Agenda-setting theory was proposed by McCombs and Shaw in the 1970s and suggests that the public agenda is dictated by the media agenda.
Agenda-setting in domestic politics
In a commercialized media context, the media can often not afford to ignore an important issue which another television station, newspaper, or radio station is willing to pick up. The news media may be able to create new issues by reporting or they can obscure issues through negligence and distraction. For example, if neighborhoods are affected by high crime rates, or unemployment, journalists may not spend sufficient time reporting on potential solutions, or on systemic causes such as corruption and social exclusion, or on other related issues. They can reduce the direct awareness of the public of these problems. In some cases, the public can choose another news source, so it is in a news organization's commercial interest to try to find an agenda which corresponds as closely as possible to peoples' desires. They may not be entirely successful, but the agenda-setting potential of the media is considerably limited by the competition for viewers' interest, readers and listeners.
Different US news media sources tend to identify the same major stories in domestic politics, which may imply that the media are prioritizing issues according to a shared set of criteria.
Agenda-setting in foreign policy
One way in which the media could set the agenda is if it is in an area in which very few Americans have direct experience of the issues. This applies to foreign policy. When American military personnel are involved, the media needs to report because the personnel are related to the American public. The media is also likely to have an interest in reporting issues with major direct effects on American workers, such as major trade agreements with Mexico. In other cases, it is difficult to see how the media can be prevented from setting the foreign policy agenda.
McKay lists as one of the three main distortions of information by the media "Placing high priority on American news to the detriment of foreign news. And when the US is engaged in military action abroad, this 'foreign news' crowds out other foreign news".
Horse race approach to political campaign coverage
American news media are more obsessed than ever with the horse-race aspects of the presidential campaign, according to a new study. Coverage of the political campaigns have been less reflective on the issues that matter to voters, and instead have primarily focused on campaign tactics and strategy, according to a report conducted jointly by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, part of the Pew Research Center, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Harvard University, which examined 1,742 stories that appeared from January through May 2007 in 48 news outlets. Almost two-thirds of all stories in US news media, including print, television, radio and online, focused on the political aspects of the campaign, while only one percent focused on the candidates' public records. Only 12 percent of stories seemed relevant to voters' decision-making; the rest were more about tactics and strategy.
The proportion of horse-race stories has gotten worse over time. Horse-race coverage has accounted for 63 percent of reports this year (2007) compared with what the study said was about 55 percent in 2000 and 2004. "If American politics is changing," the study concluded, "the style and approach of the American press do not appear to be changing with it".
The study found that the US news media deprive the American public of what Americans say they want: voters are eager to know more about the candidates' positions on issues and their personal backgrounds, more about lesser-known candidates and more about debates. Commentators have pointed out that when covering election campaigns news media often emphasize trivial facts about the candidates but more rarely provide the candidates' specific public stances on issues that matter to voters.
The same approach can also apply to issue politics. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center coined the term "tactical framing" to describe news coverage that focuses on the question of how a policy proposal will affect the next election, rather than whether or not it is a good idea. Jamieson cites coverage of the Green New Deal as an example. Research by Jameson has found the presence of tactically framed stories can make voters more cynical and less likely to remember substantive information.
See also
Media bias in the United States
Media of the United States
Weather media in the United States
References
Further reading
Kurtz, Howard (1993). Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers'', Times Books, Random House.
External links
Chart – Real and Fake News (2016)/Vanessa Otero (basis) (Mark Frauenfelder)
Chart – Real and Fake News (2014) (2016)/Pew Research Center
Mass media in the United States |
5392800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism%20of%20Christ%20%28disambiguation%29 | Baptism of Christ (disambiguation) | The Baptism of Christ is an event described in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Baptism of Christ may also refer to:
Baptism of the Lord, a liturgical feast
The Baptism of Christ (Donatello), a sculpture by Donatello
The Baptism of Christ (Piero della Francesca), a 1448–1450 painting by Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio), a painting by Verrocchio
Baptism of Christ (Perugino, Rome), a fresco of about 1482
Baptism of Christ (Cima da Conegliano), a 1492 altarpiece
Baptism of Christ (Bellini), an altarpiece of c. 1500
Baptism of Christ (Perugino, Città della Pieve), an altarpiece of c. 1510
The Baptism of Christ (David), a painting by Gerard David
The Baptism of Christ (Mantegna), a painting by Andrea Mantegna
Baptism of Christ (El Greco, Toledo), a 1608–1614 painting by El Greco
Baptism of Christ, a panel of the Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece of c. 1596 by El Greco
Baptism of Christ (El Greco, Heraklion), a c. 1567–1569 painting by El Greco |
3999518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201924%20Summer%20Olympics | Canada at the 1924 Summer Olympics | Canada competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. 65 competitors, all men, took part in 39 events in 8 sports.
In January 1924, Canadian Olympic Committee secretary-treasurer Fred Marples announced that sending the Canadian team to the Summer Olympics would cost C$40,000. He stated that unless the Canadian Olympic Committee could raise $20,000 to $25,000 within a couple months, the national team would be small and not representative of Canadian athletics. He felt that it was the duty of all Canadian citizens to help, and urged contributions from individuals, organizations, and provincial governments. After the games, he reported that it cost $460 to send each athlete to France, but the Canadian Olympic Committee still had financial reserves despite being approximately $1100 over budget. The Amateur Athletic Union of Canada praised Marples and Canadian Olympic Committee executives for their efforts and assembling the largest Canadian Olympic team to date.
Medalists
Aquatics
Swimming
Ranks given are within the heat.
Athletics
Twenty-seven athletes represented Canada in 1924. It was the nation's sixth appearance in the sport.
Ranks given are within the heat.
Boxing
Nine boxers represented Canada at the 1924 Games. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport. Facing tougher competition, Canada's team was unable to achieve results comparable to the five medals earned in 1920. Lewis was the only Canadian boxer in 1924 to win a medal, taking the bronze in the welterweight.
Cycling
A single cyclist represented Canada in 1924. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport.
Road cycling
Ranks given are within the heat.
Track cycling
Ranks given are within the heat.
Rowing
14 rowers represented Canada in 1924. It was the nation's fifth appearance in the sport, tying Belgium and Great Britain for most appearances. Canada won a pair of silver medals, its first rowing medals since 1912 and tying its best rowing result (a silver medal in 1904).
Ranks given are within the heat.
Sailing
A single sailor represented Canada in 1924. It was the nation's debut in the sport.
Shooting
Six sport shooters represented Canada in 1924. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. The six-man clay pigeon teams finished second to earn Canada's first medal in shooting since 1908. The three members of the team who competed in the individual trap all finished in the top six, with Montgomery finishing outside the medals only because of a tie-breaker.
Wrestling
Freestyle wrestling
Men's
References
Nations at the 1924 Summer Olympics
1924
Olympics |
5392807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Dekker%20%28actor%29 | Thomas Dekker (actor) | Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American actor, musician, singer, director and producer. He is known for his roles as John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Adam Conant on The Secret Circle, and Zach on Heroes.
Dekker did the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time V-IX (singing voice in The Land Before Time V) and as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster. He played Jesse Braun in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Smith in Gregg Araki's film Kaboom. Dekker starred as Gregory Valentine in the TV show Backstrom.
He has also written and produced two albums.
Early life
Dekker was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. His mother, Hilary (née Williams), is a concert pianist, acting coach, actor, and singer, and his late father, David John Ellis Dekker, was an artist, set designer, opera singer, and actor. His mother is Welsh and his father was American, with English and Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandfather was Alun Williams, a radio broadcaster for the British Broadcasting Corporation. As a child, he and his parents moved all over the world, including his mother's native United Kingdom and Canada.
Career
Early career
Starting his acting career at age six, Dekker was first seen in the soap The Young and the Restless. He then appeared in Star Trek Generations, two episodes of Star Trek Voyager and the film Village of the Damned (1995). Dekker also appeared as a child actor on Seinfeld (season 5, episode 16, 1994) and as Bobby (season 7, episode 4, 1995). In 1997, he became a regular on the Disney Channel show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show which is based on the movie of the same name where he played Nick Szalinski for three years. After the show ended in 2000, he went on to appear in Run of the House, Fillmore!, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House, Boston Public, Reba and 7th Heaven. He appeared in films such as Campus Confidential and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster. Dekker has won three Young Artist Awards for his work in The Land Before Time films and one for his guest appearance on Boston Public. In 2001, he played the part of young Donny Osmond in the film Inside the Osmonds.
2006–present
In 2006, Dekker landed a recurring role on Heroes playing the character of Zach (Claire Bennet's best friend). He played Zach for eleven episodes before leaving Heroes to take a starring role in Fox's new show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as John Connor, starring opposite Lena Headey and Summer Glau. That show debuted January 13, 2008 and was canceled on May 18, 2009. Dekker also played the lead character Nate Palmer in the web-based science fiction series IQ-145.
In 2009, Dekker appeared in From Within (filmed in 2007), My Sister's Keeper, a drama in which he starred with Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin and Medium star Sofia Vassilieva, and Laid to Rest alongside Lena Headey. In 2010, Dekker starred in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010. His character's name was Jesse Braun, loosely based on the character Rod Lane in the original. That same year he also had a role in All About Evil, an indie horror film.
Dekker starred in Gregg Araki's Kaboom (2010). It is the first film ever awarded the Cannes Film Festival "Queer Palm Award" for its contribution to LGBT presence in cinema. Dekker was a "top candidate" for the lead role in Paramount's remake of Footloose (2011), but the role went to Kenny Wormald. In April 2011, Dekker starred as Lance Loud in the HBO original film Cinema Verite, about the creation of America's first reality television series, An American Family. Dekker played the role of Adam, the male lead on the television series The Secret Circle developed by The CW.
He appeared in Daughtry's music video for their single "Waiting for Superman", which was released September 17, 2013.
Dekker was a regular on the 2015 Fox crime drama Backstrom, playing Gregory Valentine, the gay underworld contact and roommate of Rainn Wilson's title character, revealed to be his half-brother.
Music
Dekker was brought up with a musical background, and started writing music at age ten while living in Canada. At the age of fifteen he landed a record deal; however after feeling that he wasn't as involved in the music as he would have liked, he left to concentrate on making his own music. At the age of sixteen, Dekker started writing and producing his own classical music influenced by electronica which he describes as "electrofolk". His debut album Psyanotic was released in 2008.
Personal life
Dekker has stated that for much of his childhood, he was a victim of sexual molestation. In his teenage years, he was part of a "metalhead" subculture, where he "caused trouble in Las Vegas," and was arrested "five or six times."
Dekker was involved in an auto accident on October 15, 2009, when he hit a 17-year-old cyclist training for a race on a freeway onramp. Originally charged with two counts of felony DUI, the charge was reduced to one count of misdemeanor reckless driving when it was found that the cyclist was at fault. He pleaded no contest, and was sentenced to a fine of $300 and two years of informal probation, and ordered to attend a 12-hour alcohol-education class.
Dekker is a vegan.
On April 20, 2011 in an interview with Out magazine Dekker spoke about his sexuality, which had been the subject of speculation:
On July 13, 2017, Dekker came out as gay and revealed that he married Canadian actor Jesse Haddock in April that year.
Awards
Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series — Leading Young Actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show) (1997)
Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a Voice-Over: TV/Film/Video — Young Actor (An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster) (1999)
Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a TV Series — Guest Starring Young Actor (Boston Public) (2000)
Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role (The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water) (2002)
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Discography
Albums
Psyanotic (2008)
Into the Night (2018)
Soundtracks
From The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island:
1997: "Friends for Dinner", "Always There", "Big Water"
From An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island:
1998: "Anywhere in Your Dreams"
From The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock:
1998: "Bad Luck", "The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur", "On Your Own"
From An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster:
1999: "Get the Facts", "Who Will"
From The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire:
2000: "Beyond the Mysterious Beyond", "Good Inside"
From The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze:
2001: "Family", "The Lesson"
From The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water:
2002: "Imaginary Friends", "No One Has to Be Alone", "Chanson D'Ennui", "Big Water"
From 7th Heaven:
From the episode Red Socks
2005: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"
2008: "From Within"
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
American male child actors
American male film actors
American people of Dutch descent
American people of English descent
American people of Welsh descent
American male soap opera actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American gay actors
American gay musicians
LGBT people from Nevada
Male actors from Las Vegas
Singers from Nevada
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people |
5392814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks%20economy | Goldilocks economy | A Goldilocks economy is an economy that is not too hot or cold, in other words sustains moderate economic growth, and that has low inflation, which allows a market-friendly monetary policy. The name comes from the children's story Goldilocks and The Three Bears.
History
The first use of this phrase was by an unnamed U.S. government official in a December 20, 1966 article in The Wall Street Journal. It appeared in print again, in The Washington Post, on January 8, 1967, attributed to James S. Duesenberry of the Council of Economic Advisers.
The phrase was picked up in a few other publications shortly thereafter. It gained wider use after 1988 following an April column by Dan Andriacco of Scripps-Howard, and a November The New York Times article quoting Richard B. Berner of Salomon Brothers.
Goldilocks economy is primarily used to describe the economic indicators of the Great Moderation: stable GDP growth, industrial production, monthly payroll employment, unemployment rate, real wages and consumer prices.
Michael Hudson argues that the positive connotations associated with the "Goldilocks economy" and the "Great Moderation" are because these terms were coined by bankers, who saw their loans soar along with their bonuses during this period. However, this economy was not "Goldilocks" for everyone. Indeed, during this period, the rich accumulated more wealth while the poor and middle class accumulated a tremendous amount of household debt.
In 2017, The Economist, citing a poll of global fund managers, suggested that the Goldilocks economy was returning; the post-Great Recession economic expansion starting in 2009 and ending when the economy crashed in 2020, (sometimes referred to as the "Great Austerity"), was posited by MarketWatch to be a return of the Goldilocks economy.
References
External links
Example usage
Economic geography
Economics catchphrases |
5392817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20Check | Battery Check | "Battery Check" is a song by the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin from the album Home from Home. It was released as a single on 3 July 2003 by Burning Heart Records in two versions: One with the album version of "Battery Check", sung in English, as the lead track, and the other with a Swedish language version entitled "E20 Norr" as the lead track. This version was named after E20 Norr, a northern part of the European route E20 which runs through the band's home town in Sweden. Both versions of the single include the alternate language version as the second track, and both also include the B-side song "Bowmore" from the album's recording sessions. An accompanying music video was also filmed and released in both languages, with the English version titled "Battery Check" and the Swedish version titled "E20 Norr". Both versions of the song and the music video are identical except for the language used.
Track listing
"Battery Check"
"E20 Norr"
"Bowmore"
"Battery Check" and "E20 Norr" are reversed on the "E20 Norr" version of the single.
Personnel
Millencolin
Nikola Sarcevic - lead vocals, bass
Erik Ohlsson - guitar
Mathias Färm - guitar
Fredrik Larzon - drums
Millencolin songs
2003 singles
2002 songs
Burning Heart Records singles
Songs written by Mathias Färm
Songs written by Nikola Šarčević
Songs written by Fredrik Larzon
Songs written by Erik Ohlsson (musician) |
5392820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimirsky%20Municipal%20Okrug | Vladimirsky Municipal Okrug | Vladimirsky Municipal Okrug () is a municipal okrug in Tsentralny District, one of the eighty-one low-level municipal divisions of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 59,065, up from 57,213 recorded during the 2002 Census.
Geography
The municipal okrug borders with Nevsky Avenue in the north, Ligovsky Avenue in the south, Gorokhovaya Street in the west, and with the Fontanka River in the north.
Economy
Rossiya airline has its head office in the municipal okrug.
Architecture
Places of interest include the Vladimirskaya Church and the Corinthia Hotel.
References
Notes
Sources
Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg |
5392830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noelle | Noelle | Noelle or Noëlle is the feminine form of the gender neutral name Noel. It derives from the old French Noël, "Christmas," a variant (and later a replacement) of nael, which itself derives from the Latin natalis, "birthday". Other nicknames and variations for girls named Noelle include Noèle, Noelia, Noeline, Noela, Noell, Noella, Noelene, and Noeleen.
Given name
People with the name include:
Noelle
Noelle Barahona (born 1990), Chilean alpine skier
Noelle Barker (1928–2013), British soprano singer and singing teacher
Noelle Bassi (born 1983), American butterfly swimmer
Noelle Beck (born 1968), American actress
Noelle Freeman (born 1989), American beauty pageant titleholder
Noelle Kennedy, Irish camogie player
Noelle Keselica (born 1984), American soccer forward
Noelle Kocot, American poet
Noelle Lenihan (born 1999), Irish paralympic discus thrower
Noelle Middleton (1926–2016), Irish actress
Noelle Montcalm (born 1988), Canadian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles
Noelle Murray (born 1989), Irish footballer
Noelle Pikus-Pace (born 1982), American skeleton racer
Noelle Quinn (born 1985), American basketball player
Noelle Reno (born 1983), American fashion entrepreneur, television presenter, socialite, and model
Noelle Sabbe, French racing cyclist
Noelle Sandwith (1927–2006), English artist
Noelle Scaggs (born 1979), American singer-songwriter
Noelle Valdivia, American television writer and playwright
Noelle Vial (1959–2003), Irish poet
Noëlle
Noëlle Boisson (born 1944), French film editor
Noëlle Châtelet (born 1944), French writer and lecturer
Noëlle Cordier (born 1944), French singer
Noëlle Lenoir (born 1948), French stateswoman
Noëlle Maritz (born 1995), Swiss football defender
Noëlle Norman (1921–1985), French film actress
Noëlle van Lottum (born 1972), Dutch tennis player
Fictional characters
Noelle Holiday, a main character in the video game Deltarune
Noelle Silva, a character in the manga series Black Clover
Noelle, a playable character in the video game Dragalia Lost
Noelle (), a playable character in the video game Genshin Impact
Surname
Amanda Noelle (born 1983), American Christian musician and worship leader
Chloe Noelle (born 2002), American child actress
Nica Noelle, American entrepreneur, pornographic film actress and director
See also
Noel (given name)
Noelia (disambiguation)
Noell (disambiguation)
Marie-Noëlle
Noella
References
French feminine given names
Surnames |
5392837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Delaware%20Gazette | The Delaware Gazette | The Delaware Gazette is an American daily newspaper published in Delaware, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.
The newspaper is published on weekday and Saturday mornings and is the only daily newspaper in Delaware County, Ohio. The paper's circulation in 2004 was approximately 8,000 daily.
In addition to the daily newspaper, the Gazette newsroom also publishes The Sunbury News, a weekly newspaper in nearby Sunbury, Ohio, and provides commercial printing and website management services.
History
The Delaware Gazette was founded as a weekly newspaper in 1818, by Abram Thomson and a partner. In 1834, Thomson bought out his partner and from that time until 2004, the newspaper was owned and managed by members of the Thomson family. The Gazette published its first edition as a daily newspaper January 10, 1884.
In June 2004, W.D. "Tom" Thomson II, the great-great-grandson of Abram Thomson, sold the Gazette to Brown Publishing Company of Cincinnati. At the time of its sale, the newspaper had been owned by a single family longer than any other newspaper in America.
At the time, Thomson family members said they had not been under pressure to sell the newspaper, and chose to sell it to Brown because it, too, was a longstanding family-owned business:
"We had a hell of a ride," said Gazette vice president Chip Thomson. "I'm at peace."
Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010. The company, including the Gazette, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.
In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.
References
External links
The Delaware Gazette
The Delaware Gazette on Facebook
The Delaware Gazette on Twitter
Ohio Community Media
Publications established in 1818
1818 establishments in Ohio
Newspapers published in Ohio
Delaware, Ohio |
5392846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne%20Avenue%20Bridge | Claiborne Avenue Bridge | The Claiborne Avenue Bridge, officially known as the Judge William Seeber Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana over the Industrial Canal. It was built by the Louisiana Department of Highways (later renamed the Department of Transportation and Development) and opened to vehicular traffic in 1957. The bridge has suffered numerous disasters: A barge hit the bridge in 1993, Hurricane Katrina damaged it in 2005, and a car plunged into the canal in 2008 due to a malfunction.
Description
The bridge carries four vehicular lanes, two in each direction, of North Claiborne Avenue, which here is also Louisiana Highway 39. It accommodates most marine traffic in the down position. The bridge is located in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, with the Upper 9th Ward on the western side and the Lower 9th Ward on the eastern or "lower" (down river) side. Along with St. Claude Avenue, it is one of the main links of New Orleans with the communities in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana such as Arabi and Chalmette. Many locals who regularly use the bridge are unaware of the bridge's official name.
Accidents
Tugboat collision
On May 28, 1993 the tugboat Chris was pushing an empty barge through the canal toward the Mississippi River locks. As was common at the time, the tugboat captain would have to wait to enter the locks, and he was directed to the side of the canal to ground his barge to keep the waterway clear. However, at 3:30 p. m., the barge collided with a support pier of the bridge, causing a section of the bridge to collapse onto the western canal bank and onto the barge. Two automobiles plummeted off of the bridge, killing one person and severely injuring two others. The waterway was closed to navigation for 2 days, and the bridge was closed for 2 months while the collapsed span was rebuilt. The concrete debris from the collapsed span was used to protect the new support pier from future collisions.
Hurricane Katrina
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina severely affected the areas on both sides of the bridge (see Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans), with the most extreme devastation on the Lower 9th Ward side. The bridge was out of service for months, left in the up position to accommodate Canal shipping, until it was restored to service in early 2006.
Crossing gates malfunction
On May 20, 2008 17-year veteran New Orleans Police Officer Tommie Felix was killed when his vehicle drove off the bridge and plunged into the canal while the bridge was in the raised position. Eye witness accounts say that the gates which come down to indicate the bridge's closure were not functioning at the time, and several other cars came close to driving off the bridge but stopped short.
References
Bridges in New Orleans
Road bridges in Louisiana
Vertical lift bridges in Louisiana
Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans
Bridges completed in 1957
Bridge disasters in the United States
Bridge disasters caused by collision
Bridge disasters caused by maintenance error
Bridge disasters caused by tropical cyclones
Bridge disasters involving open moveable bridges
Transportation disasters in Louisiana |
5392853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Ameer%20Ali | Syed Ameer Ali | Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India (1849–1928) was an Indian/British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Bengal Presidency. He was a prominent political leader, and author of a number of influential books on Muslim history and the modern development of Islam, who is credited for his contributions to the Law of India, particularly Muslim Personal Law, as well as the development of political philosophy for Muslims, during the British Raj. He was a signatory to the 1906 Petition to the Viceroy and was thus a founding-member of the All India Muslim League. He played a key role in securing separate electorates for the Muslims in British India and promoting the cause of the Khilafat Movement.
Family background
He was born on 6 April 1849, toward the end of Mughal empire in India, at Cuttack in Odisha as the fourth of five sons of Syed Saadat Ali. His father moved the family to Calcutta, and then to Chinsura where they settled more permanently. His family took advantage of the educational facilities provided by the British government but otherwise shunned by the Muslim community. With the assistance of his British teachers and supported by several competitive scholarships, he achieved outstanding examination results, graduating from Calcutta University in 1867, and gaining an MA degree with Honours in history in 1868. The LLB degree followed quickly in 1869. He then began legal practice in Calcutta. By this time, he was already one of the few outstanding Muslim achievers of his generation.
Political career
After moving to London, where he stayed between 1869 and 1873, he joined the Inner Temple (professional associations for barristers and judges) and made contacts with some people of London. He absorbed the influence of contemporary liberalism. He had contacts with almost all the administrators concerned with India and with leading English liberals such as John Bright and the Fawcetts, Henry (1831–1898) and his wife, Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929.)
Syed Ameer Ali resumed his legal practice at Calcutta High Court on his return to India in 1873. The year after, he was elected as a Fellow of Calcutta University as well as being appointed as a lecturer in Islamic Law at the Presidency College, Kolkata. In 1878, he was appointed as the member of the Bengal Legislative Council. He revisited England in 1880 for one year.
He became a professor of law in Calcutta University in 1881. In 1883, he was nominated to the membership of the Governor General Council. In 1890 he was made a judge in the Calcutta High Court. Earlier he had founded the political organisation, Central National Muhammedan Association, in Calcutta in 1877. This association later spread nationwide with 34 branches from Madras to Karachi. This made him the first Muslim leader to put into practice the need for such an organisation due to the belief that efforts directed through an organisation would be more effective than those originating from an individual leader. The Association played an important role in the modernisation of Muslims and in arousing their political consciousness. He was associated with it for over 25 years, and worked for the political advancement of the Muslims. Syed Amir Ali became the second Indian to hold the post of law member of the government of India, assuming the position after Satyendra P. Sinha resigned in November 1910.
Syed Ameer Ali established the London Muslim League in 1908. This organisation was an independent body and not a branch of All India Muslim League. In 1909, he became the first Indian to sit as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on which he would serve till his death in 1928. On appointment to the Privy Council he became entitled to be addressed as The Right Honourable.
In 1908, he was an advisory member to the Muhammadan Art and Life in Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Morocco and India exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Autumn Exhibition was held from 23 October to 6 December. The opening day to the public was on 27th Ramadan.
In 1910, he formally co-established the London Mosque Fund, alongside a group of prominent British Muslims, to finance the building of the first mosque in the capital: East London Mosque, today one of the largest mosques in Europe. His field of activities was now broadened and he stood for Muslim welfare all over the world. He played an important role in securing separate electorates for the Muslims in South Asia and promoting the cause of the Khilafat Movement.
He retired from Bengal High Court in 1904 and decided to settle down, with his English wife (Isabelle Ida Konstam) in England where he was somewhat isolated from the main current of Muslim political life. Throughout his career, he was known as a jurist and a well-known Islamic scholar. He died on 4 August 1928 in Sussex and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery.
Personal beliefs
Syed Ameer Ali believed that the Muslims as a downtrodden nation could get more benefit from loyalty to the British rather than from any opposition to them. For this reason, he called upon his followers to devote their energy and attention to popularising English education among the Muslims. This perception and consequent activism have been known as the Aligarh Movement.
Referring to the concept of progressive social laws, Syed Ameer Ali wrote:
Opinions and legacy
David Samuel Margoliouth in the preface of his book Mohammed and the Rise of Islam wrote:
Syed Ameer Ali belongs to that generation of Indian Muslims who tried to defend their faith, Islam, at a time when Mughal empire had only recently collapsed in 1857 and the Muslims were generally out of favour with the British rulers. The prevailing environment was generally hostile to Islam and Muslims. That's why, to some people, he may appear somewhat apologetic in his narration of Muslim history. Like some other authors of that time, he tried to show that Islam was a rational religion. At that time, very little was being published about Islam that was positive. His works created a sense of hope for the Muslim youth and provided a much needed feeling of historical context in the colonized British India.
Honors and recognition
There is a very famous Hall in the University of Rajshahi the second largest university of Bangladesh which is named in his honour The "Sayed Ameer Ali Hall".
In recognition of his services, Pakistan Postal Service issued a commemorative postage stamp in 1990 to honor him in its 'Pioneers of Freedom' series.
Books
A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed (1873) — His first book, written when he was 24, while in England. The orientalist Major R. D. Osborn (1835–1889) wrote: "Regarded simply as a literary achievement, we have never read anything issuing from the educated classes in this country which could be compared with it; and the Muslims of India are to be congratulated on the possession of so able a man in their rank. It is impossible, if his after-life accords with this early promise that he should not leave his influence for good stamped upon the country in deep and enduring characters."
The Personal Law of Muhammedans (1880)
The Spirit of Islam (editions in 1891, 1922, 1953) - A book covering the life of Muhammad, and the political, cultural, literary, scientific, mystic, philosophical, and social history of Islam.
Ethics of Islam (1893)
A Short History of Saracens (1899)
Islam (1906)
The Legal Position of Women in Islam (1912)
References
External links
1849 births
1928 deaths
19th-century Indian judges
20th-century Indian judges
Aliah University alumni
All India Muslim League members
Burials at Brookwood Cemetery
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
Government Madrasah-e-Alia alumni
Indian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Judges of the Calcutta High Court
Leaders of the Pakistan Movement
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Presidency University, Kolkata faculty
Shia scholars of Islam
University of Calcutta alumni
University of Calcutta faculty |
3999537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew%20Gates | Mathew Gates | Mathew Gates (born June 29, 1975) is a British-American former competitive ice dancer. With Eve Chalom, he is the 1996 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist and a two-time (1997, 1999) U.S. national silver medalist. He has medaled seven consecutive times at the US National Championships from Novice to Senior level. Gates is a two-time World competitor and member of Team USA.
Personal life
Gates was born June 29, 1975 in Hitchin, England. He moved to the United States in 1992. He is married to Kelly Gates (who is a former professional figure skater) and has two children.
Career
Gates started skating as a singles skaters before focusing on ice dancing. He was coached by Elizabeth Coates in England before he relocated to the U.S.
Partnership with Chalom
Gates teamed up with American skater Eve Chalom in 1992, following a tryout in Boston arranged by Coates. They decided to represent the United States. After winning national titles on the novice level in 1993 and on the junior level in 1995, the duo took bronze at the 1996 U.S. Championships in their first season as seniors.
In the 1996–97 season, Chalom/Gates were awarded silver at the 1996 Nebelhorn Trophy and debuted on the Champions Series (later known as the Grand Prix series). They also won silver at the 1997 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne, where they placed 17th.
Chalom/Gates were ineligible for the 1998 Winter Olympics because he was not yet an American citizen. They finished fourth at the 1998 U.S. Championships. They were coached by Coates and Igor Shpilband until the end of the 1997–98 season and then switched to Christopher Dean and Warren Maxwell in Plano, Texas. In their final season together, Chalom/Gates won their second national silver medal and finished 17th at the 1999 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
Chalom/Gates skated professionally in numerous ice shows, and were invited to perform for the Champions on Ice Tour.
Later career
In January 2002, Gates tried out with Emilie Nussear on the advice of a coach, Tatiana Tarasova. Nussear/Gates won the silver medal at the 2002 Karl Schäfer Memorial and placed 5th at the 2003 U.S. Championships. They were coached by Tarasova, Nikolai Morozov, and Maia Usova in Newington, Connecticut.
Gates began working as a coach and choreographer by 2000. He has coached skaters from the beginner level up to World & Olympic level. Former students include: Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, Zachary Donahue, Nikolaj Sorensen, among others.
He is also an International Technical Specialist for the United States. Gates currently coaches in Charlotte, NC though travels to choreograph for international skaters.
Programs
With Chalom
With Nussear
Results
GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix
With Chalom
With Nussear
References
External links
1975 births
American male ice dancers
English emigrants to the United States
Living people
Sportspeople from Hitchin |
3999538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Patten | Fred Patten | Frederick Walter Patten (December 11, 1940 – November 12, 2018) was an American writer and historian known for his work in the science fiction, fantasy, anime, manga, and furry fandoms, where he gained great distinction through a substantial contribution to both print and online books, magazines, and other media.
Background
Patten was born in Los Angeles on December 11, 1940 to Shirley Marie (Jones) Patten and Beverly Walter Patten. He had two younger sisters: Loel Anne Patten (born 1943) and Sherrill Clare Patten (born 1947). He learned to read at a young age, starting with comic strips in both the Los Angeles Times and Examiner, and later was introduced to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories around 1945. Much of his early reading also came from magazines and books, and he showed an interest in superhero comic books as well.
Science fiction became a key interest around age 9, and Patten began to collect books from Ace Books, Ballantine Books, and other publishers, as well as major science fiction magazines including Astounding, F&SF, and Galaxy Science Fiction. In the late 1950s, he became involved in science-fiction fandom.
Patten entered the University of California at Los Angeles in 1958, and its graduate School of Library Science in 1962. He became active in fandom after discovering the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in 1960. By the time he graduated with a master's degree in Library Science in 1963, Patten had been writing for science fiction fanzines and publishing his own stories for three years. His Master's thesis was on the books of Andre Norton.
Work in anime, fantasy, and science fiction fandoms
In 1972, Patten partnered with Richard Kyle to create Graphic Story Bookshop in Long Beach, California. In an interview posted on the (now defunct) website of Pulp, Patten said he had discovered manga at Westercon, one of the largest science fiction conventions on the West Coast, in 1970. At the time, he had been aware of television shows like Astro Boy, but had no idea then that they were Japanese.
Through his bookshop, Patten wrote to Japanese publishers, asking to import their manga, achieving some success and in the process becoming a pioneer in the anime and manga fandom. He was one of the founders of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, the first American anime fan club, in 1977.
During this time, Patten worked in numerous library positions, notably that of technical catalogue librarian at Hughes Aircraft Company's Company Technical Document Center (CTDC), in El Segundo, Calif., from 1969 to 1990. After leaving that position, he served from 1991 to 2002 as the first employee of Streamline Pictures, one of America's pioneering anime specialty production companies, founded by Carl Macek and Jerry Beck in 1988. He has been a presenter at major conventions and guest lecturer at universities in the U.S. and Australia.
Patten wrote numerous monthly columns and individual articles for Animation World Magazine, Newtype U.S.A., the Comics Buyer's Guide, and other magazines, including serving as the Official Editor for the Rowrbrazzle Amateur Press Association, until March 2005, when he suffered a stroke.
No longer able to keep his collection, which had grown over more than 40 years, Patten donated everything – almost 900 boxes (~220,000 items) of comic books, records, tapes, anime, manga, programs from science-fiction conventions dating back to the 1930s, convention T-shirts, paperbacks, and an array of sci-fi fanzines back to the 1930s – to the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside, which houses the world's largest collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Death
Patten died on the morning of November 12, 2018, at the age of 77.
Bibliography
As author
Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews (2004)
Funny Animals and More: From Anime to Zoomorphics
Furry Fandom Conventions, 1989-2015 (McFarland, 2017)
As editor
Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry Fiction
Already Among Us; An Anthropomorphic Anthology
The Ursa Major Awards Anthology; A Tenth Anniversary Celebration
What Happens Next; An Anthology of Sequels
Five Fortunes
Anthropomorphic Aliens; An Interstellar Anthology
The Furry Future: 19 Possible Prognostications
An Anthropomorphic Century: Stories from 1909 to 2008
"Cats and More Cats: Feline Fantasy Fiction"
"Gods with Fur: And Feathers, Scales, ..."
"Dogs of War"
"Symbol of a Nation"
"Dogs of War II: Aftermath"
"What the Fox?!"
"Exploring New Places"
As contributor
Animation Art: From Pencil to Pixel, the History of Cartoon, Anime & CGI, edited by Jerry Beck.
The Animated Movie Guide: The Ultimate Illustrated Reference to Cartoon, Stop-Motion, and Computer-Generated Feature Films, edited by Jerry Beck.
Comic books
Stories by Fred Patten have appeared in comics including Mangazine, The Ever-Changing Palace, Albedo Anthropomorphics, and Furrlough (which included the series "Theriopangrams," in 36 issues between 1997 and 2003).
Patten adapted into English volumes 2–7 of The Skull Man by Kazuhiko Shimamoto; created by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Filmography
Anime staff
Tekkaman: The Space Knight, (1984, TV) – Writer/adapter
Robot Carnival (1991) – Publicity
Fist of the North Star (1991) – Publicity
Vampire Hunter D (1992) – Marketing and Promotion
The Castle of Cagliostro (1992) – Translation
Nadia (1992–1993, TV) – Story Editor
Neo-Tokyo 2099 (1993, featurette) – Unit Publicist
Silent Mobius (1993, featurette) – Unit Publicist
Golgo 13: The Professional(1993, featurette) – Unit Publicist
Wicked City (1993) – Unit Publicist
Lupin III: Tales of the Wolf (1993–1994, TV) – Story Editor
Crying Freeman (1993–1995, featurette) – Publicity
Doomed Megalopolis (1993–1994, featurettes – Story Editor
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1994) – Story Editor
Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy (1994) – Story Editor
8 Man After (1994, featurettes) – Script Editor
Lily-C.A.T. (1994) – Publicity
8 Man (1995, live-action) – Script Editor
Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (1995) – Story Editor
Crimson Wolf (1995) – Story Editor
Babel II (1995, featurette) – Story Editor
Casshan, Robot Hunter (1995, featurettes) – Story Editor
Barefoot Gen (feature, 1995) – Story Editor
Megazone 23, Part 1 (1995) – Story Editor
Accolades
Evans-Freehafer Award, 1965 – presented annually by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc., for service to the Society.
Sampo Award, 1971 – presented annually at the West Coast Science Fantasy Conference (Westercon) for "unsung" services to s-f fandom
Inkpot Award, 1980 – presented annually at the San Diego Comic-Con in various categories; "For Outstanding Achievement in Fandom Services/Projects".
Ursa Major Awards, 2003 ("The Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Awards") – presented annually at an anthropomorphic convention in various categories; to Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry Fiction, edited by Fred Patten (Sofawolf Press, July 2003); for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work of 2003".
Life Achievement Award, 64th World Science Fiction Convention (LA Con IV; 2006) – awarded in recognition of a lifetime of service to the fandom.
Forry Award, 2009 – presented annually at the Los Angeles Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention (LosCon) "for lifetime achievement in the field of science fiction".
Furry Hall of Fame, 2012 – inducted annually at the MiDFur convention in Melbourne, Australia, for a lifetime of service to the Furry fandom.
References
External links
Fred Patten News Page
Fred Patten's book reviews at Animation World Network
Fred Patten's stories and reviews at Flayrah
Fred Patten's stories and reviews at Dogpatch Press
Fred Patten's "Funny Animals and More" column at Cartoon Research
Science fiction fans
Historians of animation
Furry fandom people
1940 births
2018 deaths
American male writers
Anime and manga critics
Inkpot Award winners
Writers from Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles alumni |
3999553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Campbell%20%28scientist%29 | Kevin Campbell (scientist) | Kevin P. Campbell is an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, the Roy J. Carver Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and head of the department; he is also professor of neurology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa.
Research interest
Campbell, who is on the faculty at the Roy J. And Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, is internationally recognized for his contributions to muscular dystrophy research. His discoveries of genetic and molecular causes of many forms of the disease have improved diagnosis of muscular dystrophies and provided a basis for developing new treatments of musical disability.
Professional training
He received his B.S. degree in physics from Manhattan College in 1971, his master's degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics at the University of Rochester. He did postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. David MacLennan at the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, before moving to Iowa in 1981.
Honors
Campbell is director of the Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1989. In 2006, Campbell was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Campbell, who has authored more than 300 scientific research articles, has received numerous awards and honors for his research, including a Scientific Achievement Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the ASBMB-Amgen Award, the Duchenne-Erb-Preis Award, an American Academy of Neurology Lecturer Award, and March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. He also is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
Campbell Laboratory web site
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American biologists
Manhattan College alumni
University of Iowa faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
5392862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20works%20by%20Thomas%20Aquinas | List of works by Thomas Aquinas | The collected works of Thomas Aquinas are being edited in the Editio Leonina (established 1879).
As of 2014, 39 out of a projected 50 volumes have been published.
The works of Aquinas can be grouped into six categories as follows:
Works written in direct connection to his teaching
Seven systematic disputations (quaestiones disputatae), on:
Truth;
The union of the Incarnate Word;
The soul;
Spiritual creatures;
Virtues;
God’s power; and
Evil.
Twelve quodlibetal disputations
Philosophical commentaries
Eleven commentaries on Aristotle;
Two expositions of works by Boethius;
Two expositions of works by Proclus
Lesser tractates and disputations
Five polemical works;
Five expert opinions, or responsa;
Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects;
Ninety-nine Homilies Upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Year
A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels (Catena aurea)
Systematic works (Summa Theologiae, Summa contra Gentiles, Scriptum super Sententiis)
Biblical commentaries on Job, Psalms and Isaiah, Canticles and Jeremiah, John, Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul
Nine exegeses of Scriptural books
Liturgical works
Editions
In 1570 the first edition of Aquinas's opera omnia, the so-called editio Piana (from Pius V, the Dominican pope who commissioned it), was produced at the studium of the Roman convent at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. The critical edition of Aquinas's works is the ongoing edition commissioned by Pope Leo XIII (1882-1903), the so-called Leonine Edition. Abbé Migne published an edition of the Summa Theologiae, in four volumes, as an appendix to his Patrologiae Cursus Completus. English editions: Joseph Rickaby (London, 1872), J. M. Ashley (London, 1888).
Works in chronological order
Works of uncertain date
Works of uncertain authenticity
Notes
References
I. T. Eschmann, O.P., 1956 catalog of Thomas's works
External links
Corpus Thomisticum, his complete works in Latin
Complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas works at Somni:
Aurea expositio sancti Pauli apostoli ad Corinthios. Naples, 1491
Beati Thomae Aquinatis De ente et essentia. Italy, made between 1477 and 1485. It contains: De ente et essentia, Rescriptum super libro De ente et essentia and De fallaciis.
Ad regem Cypri de rege et regno. Italy, 1486
Brevis Compilatio theologie edita a fratre Thoma de Aquino. Italy, made before 1487. It contains: Compendium theologiae.
Prima pars secunde partis Summe Theologie beati Thome de Aquino. Naples, 1484. It contains: Prima pars secunde partis de la Summa Theologica.
Quaestiones disputatae. Naples, made between 1480 and 1493. It contains some of the Quaestiones disputatae of Thomas Aquinas: De spiritualibus creaturis, De anima, De unione Verbi and De virtutibus.
Thome de Aquino commentum in Marci Evangelium. Naples, 1491
Catholic theology and doctrine |
3999557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppinakudru | Uppinakudru | Uppinakudru, located 6 km north of Kundapura Udupi District (Karnataka, India), is a small island village, once famous for trading of salt (uppu) and seafood (picking of sea shells in backwaters). UppinaKudru (UK) is also having short name of UK. So this is called as UK of Kundapura. This is also known as 'The King of Kudrus'.
Etymology
Uppina Kudru name comes from two words in Kannada. It means an island of salt or place where salt is produced and exported.
History
It was isolated from main land of Kundapura and main means of transport was by boats only. During Tippu Sultan's regime, Uppinakudru was a major armament storage point. It is also a through destination from Arabian Sea towards Basrur which was a major trade centre up to 19th Century. Coconut trees were to be found around the island which literally hide the island from pirates, which was useful up to 20th century as this village was near an important trade sea route. Vessels sailing to Basrur, (then an important business centre, now a village) must pass Uppinakudru village.
Education
The village has three Kinder Gartens of which one requires new building (presently running in Lord Vasudeva temple). The higher primary school, which was built in 1917, has churned out nearly 5000 students. It has mid-day meal scheme running efficiently. In the year 1992 a new building was constructed. Sri U. Nagappa Aithal and Yajnanarayana Aithal are motivating personalities of new building for the higher elementary school.
High school
The Government high school in this village was established on 16-01-1993. It had a strength of 125 students during 2005. 569 students have passed as of 2005. Consistently more than 90% of students are passing out every year.
Economy
People of this village largely depend on agriculture. They grow paddy, ground nut and various types of dhal (pulses/lentils). There is a milk collecting centre which provides livelihood for many people. Formerly sugarcane was grown. This is not grown anymore as there is no reliable market nearby. Self-help groups which have come into existence recently have helped many people to stand on their own legs through co-operative movement.
Yakshagana puppetry
Yakshagana string puppet show is the major art of this village (puppet dance with music in Yakshagana style). The wooden puppets are about 18 inches high. Their costumes are similar to those worn by the characters from Yakshagana Bayalata, with the same elaborate make-up, high and colorful headgear and heavy jewellery. The person who infuses life into the puppet and makes it come alive, by dexterous manipulation, is the puppet master, known as the 'Suthradhara'.
The contents of the Yakshagana puppetry, as in every other ancient performing art, are drawn from the Epics and Bhagavatha Purana. There may have been possibilities for embracing secular themes, but the older tradition still persists. Yakshagana puppetry has lived through the onslaught of social and economic ravages and now reposes safely in the hands of handful of devoted practitioners.
Sri Kogga Devanna Kamath also won National Award in 1980, State Award in 1986 and Tulsi Samman in 1995 for his contribution to Yakshagana puppet show.
Awards
National awards
This tiny village has been bestowed with four national awards.
In Education field, Sri Anantha Maiya and Sri U. Nagappa Aithal are the recipients of national award.
Father-son duo of Sri Devanna Kamath & Sri Kogga Devanna Kamath are the other recipients of National award in fine arts. Their specialization is in Yakshagana string puppetry.
See also
Yakshagana
Kundapura Taluk
External links
Goto uppinakudrufriends group
Yakshagana string puppets
Islands of Karnataka
Villages in Udupi district
Geography of Udupi district |
5392863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Shane | Sara Shane | Elaine Hollingsworth (née Sterling; born May 18, 1928), known by the stage name Sara Shane, is an American former actress who starred in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Acting career
Shane secured a film contract with MGM and was featured in a few musicals (billed as Elaine Sterling). She "was dropped by the studio after six months." In 1953 she hired publicist Russell Birdwell, and began using the name Sara Shane ("inspired by the movie with the same name"). She secured a seven-year contract with Universal International pictures (UI), but after two films took a sabbatical, which at the time was predicted as likely being brief.
A 1953 newspaper article reported that Hedy Lamarr prompted Shane (described as Lamarr's "closest woman friend in recent years") to resume her career in film. Shane said of Lamarr, "She pushed me into a career again and got me out of my laziness." The article noted that Shane was "currently testing for the John Wayne picture, 'The High and the Mighty,' and the film version of 'Oklahoma.'" She returned to film and television work in 1955, most notably in the Clark Gable film The King and Four Queens. Her last film, 1959’s Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, in which she portrayed Angie, is considered her most memorable performance. She continued in television through 1964.
Among Shane's television appearances, she played the role of defendant Alyce Aitken in the 1961 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Envious Editor."
Business ventures
Shane left acting in 1964 to go into business. As of 2018, she is a director of Hippocrates Health Centre in Queensland, Australia and an author. In 1974, she published a non-fiction novel, Zulma, about a Mexican pre-op trans woman's experiences in the La Mesa Prison, based on her visit to the prison and her meeting with a trans woman named Zulma. In 2000, she published Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry (). In 2008 she wrote, produced, and co-presented (with narrator Tony Barry) a DVD documentary entitled "One Answer to Cancer" (2008). The first half of the DVD is about the dangers of the pharmaceutical drug Aldara. The rest of the movie promotes the alternative cancer treatment, black salve; including detailed instructions on how to make it and apply it yourself.
Personal life
Shane married William Hollingsworth, a "wealthy real estate tycoon," in 1949. They divorced in 1957. The couple had a son, Jamie.
Filmography
References
External links
Interview with Elaine Hollingsworth
biography at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
1928 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from St. Louis
American film actresses
American television actresses
American women writers
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players
21st-century American women |
5392872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Bosque%2C%20Spain | El Bosque, Spain | El Bosque is a town and municipality located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 2,004 inhabitants.
Demographics
Gallery
References
External links
El Bosque - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities of the Province of Cádiz |
5392888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal%20Fear%20%28novel%29 | Primal Fear (novel) | Primal Fear is a 1993 American thriller novel by William Diehl about Aaron Stampler, an altar boy accused of murder, and Martin Vail, the attorney defending him.
It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996, starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton.
The characters of Stampler and Vail appear in two additional novels by author Diehl, Show of Evil and ''Reign in Hell''.
References
1993 American novels
American thriller novels
Legal thriller novels
English-language novels
American novels adapted into films
Villard (imprint) books |
5392903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Patches | Green Patches | "Green Patches" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction under the title "Misbegotten Missionary", and reprinted under that title in the 1952 anthology Tomorrow, the Stars. It was retitled "Green Patches" in Asimov's 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.
Plot summary
A human colony ship lands on an unknown planet (later named "Saybrook's Planet"). The ship's captain, Saybrook, analyzed the planet's abundant plant and animal life and discovered that it is all part of a single organism with a unified consciousness. However, that organism perceived the humans (and all the other lifeforms they have brought along) as being "incomplete" and mere "life fragments", because they were not part of the perfect planetary consciousness. In an altruistic attempt to help the humans, the planetary organism decides to make them part of itself; it induces pregnancy in all the colony ship's female animals, and all the offspring born have green patches of fur (alien sense organs) instead of eyes, a sign that they were part of the planetary organism. When Saybrook had the women in his crew examined and confirmed that they were all pregnant, he sent a sub-ether report back to Earth and then destroyed his ship with all aboard.
Later, a research spaceship from Earth lands on Saybrook's Planet to investigate the report by the earlier colony ship. The crew take no chances and incinerate all life around the landing point, while carefully preventing any life from the planet from coming on board (and have an all-male crew for good measure). They confirm Saybrook's report, then set out to return to Earth to recommend that Saybrook's Planet be permanently quarantined. Unknown to the research ship's crew they carry a stowaway — a part of the planet's fauna that crawled aboard when they temporarily dropped their force fields. The small creature has been specially bred to resemble a length of wiring and go undetected. The planetary organism has never before experienced selfishness and violence and is desperate to "help" the "life fragments" (Earthlings) to become "complete", by joining consciousness with it in blissful unity. If the stowaway manages to reach Earth, it will eventually convert all life there into a single organism with a unified consciousness — and green patches of fur instead of eyes.
The stowaway creature removes a section of wiring from the cockpit and impersonates it, in order to hide. It then psychically examines the minds of the humans and other organisms on the ship and is increasingly disturbed by their chaotic, conflicting existence as individuals. It is revolted by the fact that they show selfishness and competition, instead of altruism and cooperation. The creature is greatly saddened by being disconnected from the planetary consciousness, but takes solace in the fact that it will soon perform its mission and join with all life on Earth. The invasion is thwarted however, when the stowaway is accidentally killed after the research ship lands on Earth; the wiring it was impersonating controlled the ship's airlock doors, and it was incinerated when they were activated. The ship's scientist, aware of the potential threat from Saybrook's Planet, is relieved to return to the anarchy that is Earth.
Critical response
Science fiction author and critic Damon Knight wrote:
Story notes
Asimov notes in the introduction that this story was (unintentionally) a reworking of the theme from Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell.
"Green Patches" was later included in an early Foundation Series timeline that was published in Thrilling Wonder Stories along with the story The Portable Star.
Asimov returned to the theme of a unified planetary consciousness in his novels Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, and Nemesis.
References
External links
"Green Patches"/"Misbegotten Missionary" at the Internet Archive
Short stories by Isaac Asimov
1950 short stories
Works originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction |
5392911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partridge%20Brook | Partridge Brook | Partridge Brook is a stream located in southwestern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Partridge Brook begins at the outlet of Spofford Lake at Spofford village in the town of Chesterfield, New Hampshire. The brook flows east, then north, then northwest, into the town of Westmoreland, before reaching the Connecticut River.
In Westmoreland, the brook is subject to New Hampshire's Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act.
See also
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Tributaries of the Connecticut River
Rivers of Cheshire County, New Hampshire |
5392914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20measurement%20systems%20in%20India | History of measurement systems in India | The history of measurement systems in India begins in early Indus Valley civilisation with the earliest surviving samples dated to the 5th millennium BCE. Since early times the adoption of standard weights and measures has reflected in the country's architectural, folk, and metallurgical artifacts. A complex system of weights and measures was adopted by the Maurya empire (322–185 BCE), which also formulated regulations for the usage of this system. Later, the Mughal empire (1526–1857) used standard measures to determine land holdings and collect land tax as a part of Mughal land reforms. The formal metrication in India is dated to 1 October 1958 when the Indian Government adopted the International System of Units (SI).
Early history
Standard weights and measures were developed by the Indus Valley Civilization. The centralised weight and measure system served the commercial interest of Indus merchants as smaller weight measures were used to measure luxury goods while larger weights were employed for buying bulkier items, such as food grains etc. Weights existed in multiples of a standard weight and in categories. Technical standardisation enabled gauging devices to be effectively used in angular measurement and measurement for construction. Uniform units of length were used in the planning of towns such as Lothal, Surkotada, Kalibangan, Dolavira, Harappa, and Mohenjo-daro. The weights and measures of the Indus civilisation also reached Persia and Central Asia, where they were further modified. Shigeo Iwata describes the excavated weights unearthed from the Indus civilisation:
The significance of a binary system of weights is that it allows an indivisible weight (eg. a gold coin or piece of jewelry) to be measured on a balance with the minimum number of weights, while the decimal system of weights and measures allows the minimum number of weights/measures to be used for bulk items by allowing repeat measures to be counted on the fingers.
Rulers made from Ivory were in use by the Indus Valley Civilisation prior to 1500 BCE. Excavations at Lothal (2400 BCE) have yielded one such ruler calibrated to about . Ian Whitelaw (2007)—on the subject of a ruler excavated from the Mohenjo-daro site—writes that: 'the Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (33.5 mm) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with amazing accuracy—to within 0.005 of an inch. Ancient bricks found throughout the region have dimensions that correspond to these units.' The Indus civilisation constructed pan balances made of copper, bronze, and ceramics. One excavated pan balance from Mohenjo-daro (2600–1900 BCE) was constructed using a cord-pivot type fulcrum, a bronze beam, and two pans. A number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods have yielded evidence of early cartographic activity.
Weights and measures are mentioned throughout the religious and secular works of the Vedic period in India. Some sources that mention various units of measurement are Satapatha Brahmana, Apastamba Sutra, and the Eight Chapters of the grammarian Pāṇini. Indian astronomers kept a pañchānga for calculations of tithi (lunar day), vāra (weekday), naksatra (asterism), and karan (half lunar day) for social and religious events. Klostermaier (2003) states that: "Indian astronomers calculated the duration of one kalpa (a cycle of the universe during which all the heavenly bodies return to their original positions) to be 4,320,000,000 years."According to epigraphic evidence, we have references of measurement units such as – “Kulyavapa”, “dronavapa”, “adhavapa” and “Pataka” from Bengal, nivratana” and “bhumi” from Central India and “nivartana from Western India.
Post Maha Janapadas period—High Middle Ages (400 BCE–1200 CE)
Steelyard balances—found in India since the 4th century BCE—have been excavated from the archaeological sites of Gandhara and Amravati. Evidence of a complex system of weights and measures existing in use for multiple purposes under the central control of the Maurya administration (322–185 BCE) is found in the Arthashastra. Archaeologist Frank Raymond Allchin outlines the details of the measurement systems of the Maurya state:
Depiction of equal arm balances is found in the art of Ajanta cave (No. 17) in the Maharashtra state. Beams of steelyard balances have been unearthed from the 8th century CE archaeological sites at Sirpur and Arang. The research conducted by Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūn, an Islamic scholar who undertook one of the first studies of India's traditions in his Tahriq-e-Hind, also reflect on the regular usage of the steelyard in India.
Late Middle Ages—Republic of India (1200 CE–1947 CE onwards)
The Chinese merchant Ma Huan (1413–51) outlines the standardised weight and currency system in place at the port city of Cochin. Ma Huan noted that gold coins, known as fanam, or locally known as "panam", were issued in Cochin and weighed a total of one fen and one li according to the Chinese standards. They were of fine quality and could be exchanged in China for 15 silver coins of four-li weight each.
The Mughal empire (1526–1857) undertook central agrarian reforms, under which statistical data was compiled by the local quanungo officials on instructions from then revenue minister Todar Mal. As a part of these reforms, Akbar the Great (1556–1605) enforced practical standardisation in the empire's weight and measure system. The Mughal measurement system measured land in terms of gaz and bigha. The measure of agricultural output was the man. Todar Mal's reforms were resisted by large land holders in India, following which the land of these zamindars was placed under the control of the Mughal treasury. Mughal surveying parties used standardised bamboo rods with iron joints to clearly record land according to the standard imperial land measures. These records were later used to collect land revenue corresponding to the land holdings.
British units of measurement were adopted in India as first the East India Company and later colonial rule gained foothold. The Republic of India adopted the metric system on 1 October 1958. However, the traditional units still prevail in some areas. Chakrabarti (2007) holds that: 'Yet a few areas have still remained untouched by the metric system. In the land-measuring system in India, possibly one of the most complex and archaic systems, we follow different sets of measuring units and systems in different parts of the country. Different State governments have tried to standardise this by introducing a suitable metric system through which official transactions take place and official records are kept. But the land dealings are still done in a number of archaic units. It appears that people are satisfied and comfortable with them.'
Indians in villages continue to use some of the ancient measuring techniques and standards such as palm length, arm length or the owner, tula for gold and mana for weight etc.
See also
Hindu units of measurement
Indian weights and measures
Citations
Bibliography
Allchin, F.R. (1995), "The Mauryan State and Empire", The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States, Cambridge University Press, .
Baber, Zaheer (1996), The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India, State University of New York Press, .
Chakrabarti, Bhupati (2007), "Fifty years of the metric system in India and its adoption in our daily life", Current Science, 92 (3): 390–391, Indian Academy of Sciences.
Chaudhuri, K. N. (1985), Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean, Cambridge University Press, .
Iwata, Shigeo (2008), "Weights and Measures in the Indus Valley", Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd edition) edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 2254–2255, Springer, .
Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark (2006), "Indus Valley Civilization", Encyclopedia of India (vol. 2) edited by Stanley Wolpert, pp. 258–266, Thomson Gale,
Klostermaier, Klaus K. (2003), "Hinduism, History of Science and Religion", Encyclopedia of Science and Religion edited by J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, pp. 405–410, Macmillan Reference USA, .
Richards, John F. etc. (1996), The Mughal Empire, Cambridge University Press, .
Sarma, K.V. (2008), "Astronomy in India", Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd edition) edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 317–321, Springer, .
Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (2008), "Maps and Mapmaking in India", Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd edition) edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 1301–1303, Springer, .
Sharma, V.L. & Bhardwaj, H.C. (1989), "Weighing Devices in Ancient India", Indian Journal of History of Science 24 (4): 329–336, Indian National Science Academy.
Whitelaw, Ian (2007), A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement, Macmillan, .
Measurement systems
India
Measurement systems |
5392916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Hussain%20Bilgrami | Syed Hussain Bilgrami | Nawab Syed Hussain Bilgrami, Imad-ul-Mulk Bahadur, CSI (1842-1926) was an Indian civil servant, politician, educationalist and an early leader of the All India Muslim League.
Early life
Syed Hussain Bilgrami was born in 1844 in Gaya from ancestors of Sadaat-e-Bilgram, and was educated at the Presidency College, Calcutta. He was married in 1864 and had four sons and one daughter.
Career
After holding the post of Professor of Arabic at Canning College, Lucknow from 1866 to 1873 he entered the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was the Private Secretary to Sir Salar Jung till his death. During his tenure, Sir Hussain Bilgrami accompanied Sir Salar Jung on a memorable mission to England where he had the honour of meeting and speaking with Queen Victoria and also of meeting other distinguished people such as Disraeli, Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, John Morley and others.
Later, he was Private Secretary to the Nizam of Hyderabad in a number of roles. He was made the Director of Public Instruction for the Nizam's Dominions from 1887 to 1902. In 1901-1902 he was a member of Indian Universities Commission 1902. Soon afterwards he was made a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and a member of the Secretary of State's Council from 1907 to 1909. He retired from the service of the Nizam in 1907 as a result of ill health.
His most important work was that of an educationalist. He founded the institution that was to become Nizam College. He along with Sir Agha Khan (Agha Khan III) and many others was one of the founding members of the "All-India Muslim League" which was a political party set up for the sole purpose of protection of the rights of the Muslims of the Indian sub-continet.He also founded a girls’ high school in 1885, which was the first institution of its kind in India. He was instrumental in the formation of three industrial schools (helping revive declining industries) at the three principal centres of local industries, namely Aurangabad, Hyderabad and Warangal. The State Library was also started by him.
He received, for his services, the titles of Nawab Ali Yar Khan Bahadur, Motaman Jung, Imad-ud-Dowla and Imad-ul-Mulk and also the CSI from the Government of India for his services to the British Empire.
Publications
Life of Sir Salar Jung
Lectures and Addresses
Historical and Descriptive Sketch of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 2 vols.
Verses
References
Indian Muslims
All India Muslim League members
People from Bilgram
1844 births
1926 deaths |
3999563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20French%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles | 2001 French Open – Men's singles | Defending champion Gustavo Kuerten successfully defended his title, defeating Àlex Corretja in the final 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–2, 6–0 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2001 French Open.
This was the first time future world No. 1 Roger Federer reached the quarterfinals of a major. He would go on to win the title eight years later.
This was the last major to feature only 16 seeds.
Seeds
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
Official Roland Garros 2001 Men's Singles Draw
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
2001 French Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Men's Singles
French Open by year – Men's singles
French Open |
3999569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%20railway%20station%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Exeter railway station, New South Wales | Exeter railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the village of Exeter. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
It opened in 1878 as Badgerys Siding, and was renamed to Exeter on 12 August 1890.
Platforms and services
Exeter has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn.
During the day the station is served by NSW TrainLink road coach services from Bundanoon to Wollongong and Moss Vale to Goulburn.
Description
The historic Exeter station complex includes a timber station building with a skillion roof (1891), a timber waiting shed on platform 2 (1891), and an additional timber station building dating from 1915, with brick-faced platforms. It also includes the two storey gabled single box on platform 2 dating from 1897, the corrugated iron lamp room, signals, platform plantings and platform signs.
Heritage listing
Exeter is one of the best small station complexes in the State and demonstrates all of the elements of a turn of the century rural station group. In particular it has a rare on-station two level signal box (another is located at Katoomba railway station) and excellent planting on and around the station. The combination of station buildings dating from both periods of construction, signal box, signals and station details contributes to the high significance of the site. This is one of the best small country examples of station planting which was an important part of most station complexes.
The location of the group within the small and historic village of Exeter adds to both the importance of the site and the quality of the town. The site has a strong visual impact on the town and streetscape.
Exeter railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
References
Attribution
External links
Exeter station details Transport for New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1878
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Short-platform railway stations in New South Wales, 2 cars
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Wingecarribee Shire
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
5392934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THL%20Simplified%20Phonetic%20Transcription | THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription | The THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or THL Phonetic Transcription for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language.
It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 12 December 2003. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan-language textbooks.
THL (formerly THDL) stands for the "Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project, which is hosted at the University of Virginia.
Overview
Onsets
Vowels
Notes
References
External links
The Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan (Tibetan & Himalayan Library)
THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan
THL Extended Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan
Tibet
Romanization of Tibetan |
3999577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Land%20%28album%29 | Holy Land (album) | Holy Land is the second album by Brazilian metal band Angra. It is a concept album whose theme is centered on the Brazilian land by the time it was discovered in the 16th century (from a European perspective), as depicted in the art surrounding the album release. Once fully opened, the cover illustration turns out to be an old 15th-century map. Title track "Holy Land" contains many indigenous and folkloric influences taken from Brazilian music, but also includes classical arrangements symbolizing Europe at the time.
The opening track "Crossing" features a rendition of O Crux Ave by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The following songs deal with life in the "holy land" prior to its colonization by the Portuguese and subsequent changes Brazil underwent upon their arrival.
According to drummer Ricardo Confessori, the track "Nothing to Say" was developed around a drum riff he created around 1994 at a small rural property owned by guitarist Rafael Bittencourt. His band mates heard it and soon joined in to create the rest of the song, including the single-note opening riff.
Track listing
Personnel
Angra
Andre Matos – lead vocals, piano, orchestral arrangements, keyboards, organ
Kiko Loureiro – lead guitar, backing vocals, additional percussion on "Holy Land"
Rafael Bittencourt – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, additional percussion on "Holy Land"
Luís Mariutti – bass
Ricardo Confessori – drums, percussion on "Holy Land"
Guests
Alto vocals – Mônica Thiele
Soprano vocals – Celeste Gattai
Bass vocals – Reginaldo Gomes
Conductor – Naomi Munakata
Choir – The Farrambamba Vocal Group
Computer, keyboard programming and orchestral arrangements – Sascha Paeth
Flute – Paulo Bento
Strings (berimbau) – Pixu Flores
Viola – Ricardo Kubala
Whistle, tamborim and percussive effects – Castora
Double bass – Holger Stonjek
Recording information
Recorded at Hansen Studios in Hamburg, Big House Studios in Hannover and HG Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany 1995.
Vocal, piano and organ recordings at Vox Klangstudio, Bendestorf, Germany 1995-1996.
Mixed by Charlie Bauerfeind at Vox Klang Studio and Hansen Studios, January 1996.
Engineered by Charlie Bauerfeind and Sascha Paeth
Brazilian, Latin percussion parts and percussion (congas, djembe, timbales, claves, triangle, repinique, toms) production by Tuto Ferraz
All guest performances recorded at Djembe Studio, São Paulo, Brazil, August/October 1995.
Flute solo on "Carolina IV" is a citation/variation from "Bebê", a theme by Hermeto Pascoal.
Taiko excerpts & sounds on track 5 taken from the album "Ondekoza New".
Speech & sounds on "The Shaman" taken from the album "Musica Popular do Norte n°4".
References
External links
www.progarchives.com/
1996 albums
Angra (band) albums
Albums produced by Charlie Bauerfeind
Concept albums |
3999582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont%20Harbor%2C%20Mississippi | Clermont Harbor, Mississippi | Clermont Harbor is an unincorporated community on the western end of Hancock County on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Clermont Harbor is located directly on the coastline, with the main road in and out of town being Beach Boulevard (unsigned Mississippi Highway 606). Buccaneer State Park lies on the eastern boundary of the community. The community lies along the CSX Transportation line. A post office operated under the name Clermont Harbor from 1913 to 1989. Clermont Harbor was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
The 40-room Clermont Harbor Hotel operated in Clermont Harbor from 1915 to 1946.
Notable people
Lori K. Gordon, artist
Albert Rieker, sculptor
References
Unincorporated communities in Hancock County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area
Populated coastal places in Mississippi |
5392947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20of%20crime | Fear of crime | The fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime as opposed to the actual probability of being a victim of crime.
The fear of crime, along with fear of the streets and the fear of youth, is said to have been in Western culture for "time immemorial". While fear of crime can be differentiated into public feelings, thoughts and behaviors about the personal risk of criminal victimization, distinctions can also be made between the tendency to see situations as fearful, the actual experience while in those situations, and broader expressions about the cultural and social significance of crime and symbols of crime in people's neighborhoods and in their daily, symbolic lives.
Importantly, feelings, thoughts and behaviors can have a number of functional and dysfunctional effects on individual and group life, depending on actual risk and people's subjective approaches to danger. On a negative side, they can erode public health and psychological well-being; they can alter routine activities and habits; they can contribute to some places turning into 'no-go' areas via a withdrawal from community; and they can drain community cohesion, trust and neighborhood stability. Some degree of emotional response can be healthy: psychologists have long highlighted the fact that some degree of worry can be a problem-solving activity, motivating care and precaution, underlining the distinction between low-level anxieties that motivate caution and counter-productive worries that damage well-being.
Factors influencing the fear of crime include the psychology of risk perception, circulating representations of the risk of victimization (chiefly via interpersonal communication and the mass media), public perceptions of neighborhood stability and breakdown, the influence of neighbourhood context, and broader factors where anxieties about crime express anxieties about the pace and direction of social change. There are also some wider cultural influences. For example, some have argued that modern times have left people especially sensitive to issues of safety and insecurity.
Affective aspects of fear of crime
The core aspect of fear of crime is the range of emotions that is provoked in citizens by the possibility of victimization. While people may feel angry and outraged about the extent and prospect of crime, surveys typically ask people "who they are afraid of" and "how worried they are". Underlying the answers that people give are (more often than not) two dimensions of 'fear': (a) those everyday moments of worry that transpire when one feels personally threatened; and (b) some more diffuse or 'ambient' anxiety about risk. While standard measures of worry about crime regularly show between 30% and 50% of the population of England and Wales express some kind of worry about falling victim, probing reveals that few individuals actually worry for their own safety on an everyday basis. One thus can distinguish between fear (an emotion, a feeling of alarm or dread caused by an awareness or expectation of danger) and some broader anxiety. Some people may be more willing to admit their worries and vulnerabilities than others.
Cognitive aspects of fear of crime
Concern about crime can be differentiated from perceptions of the risk of personal victimization (i.e. cognitive aspects of fear of crime). Concern about crime includes public assessments of the size of the crime problem. An example of a question that could be asked is whether crime has increased, decreased or stayed the same in a certain period (and/or in a certain area, for instance the respondents own neighborhood). Between 1972 and 2001, the Gallup Poll shows that American respondents think crime has decreased. By contrast, the cognitive side of fear of crime includes public perceptions of the likelihood of falling victim, public senses of control over the possibility, and public estimations of the seriousness of the consequences of crime. People who feel especially vulnerable to victimization are likely to feel that they are especially likely to be targeted by criminals (i.e. victimization is likely), that they are unable to control the possibility (i.e. they have low self-efficacy), and that the consequences would be especially severe. Additionally, these three different components of risk perception may interact: the impact of perceived likelihood on subsequent emotional response (worry, fear, anxiety, etc.) is likely to be especially strong among those who feel that consequences are high and self-efficacy is low.
Behavioral aspects of fear of crime
A third way to measure fear of crime is to ask people whether they ever avoid certain areas, protect certain objects or take preventive measures. This way, measuring fear of crime can become a relatively straightforward thing, because the questions asked tap into actual behavior and 'objective' facts, such as the amount of money spent on a burglar-alarm or extra locks. Although, some researchers such as Jesse Omoregie argue that measuring fear of crime can be problematic as there are various factors like social desirability effects, respondents downplaying or over-exaggerating their fear which can affect the reliability of data. Some degree of 'fear' might be healthy for some people, creating a 'natural defence' against crime. In short, when the risk of crime is real, a specific level of 'fear' might actually be 'functional': worry about crime might stimulate precaution which then makes people feel safer and lowers their risk of crime. The fear of crime is a very important feature in criminology.
The influence of public perceptions of neighborhood breakdown and stability
Perhaps the biggest influence on fear of crime is public concern about neighbourhood disorder, social cohesion and collective efficacy. The incidence and risk of crime has become linked with perceived problems of social stability, moral consensus, and the collective informal control processes that underpin the social order of a neighborhood. Such 'day-to-day' issues ('young people hanging around', 'poor community spirit', 'low levels of trust and cohesion') produce information about risk and generate a sense of unease, insecurity and distrust in the environment (incivilities signal a lack of conventional courtesies and low-level social order in public places). Moreover, many people express through their fear of crime some broader concerns about neighbourhood breakdown, the loss of moral authority, and the crumbling of civility and social capital.
People can come to different conclusions about the same social and physical environment: two individuals who live next door to each other and share the same neighbourhood can view local disorder quite differently. Why might people have different levels of tolerance or sensitivity to these potentially ambiguous cues? UK research has suggested that broader social anxieties about the pace and direction of social change may shift levels of tolerance to ambiguous stimuli in the environment. Individuals who hold more authoritarian views about law and order, and who are especially concerned about a long-term deterioration of community, may be more likely to perceive disorder in their environment (net of the actual conditions of that environment). They may also be more likely to link these physical cues to problems of social cohesion and consensus, of declining quality of social bonds and informal social control.
Interpersonal communication and the mass media
Hearing about events and knowing others who have been victimised are thought to raise perceptions of the risk of victimisation. This has been described as a 'crime multiplier', or processes operating in the residential environment that would 'spread' the impacts of criminal events. Such evidence exists that hearing of friends' or neighbours' victimisation increases anxiety that indirect experiences of crime may play a stronger role in anxieties about victimisation than direct experience. However, there is a cautionary note: '… many residents of a neighbourhood only know of [crime] indirectly via channels that may inflate, deflate, or garble the picture.' A subject's criminal risk perception is exaggerated by peer-communication on crime and only moderated by the own experience.
Public perceptions of the risk of crime are no doubt also strongly shaped by mass media coverage. Individuals pick up from media and interpersonal communication circulating images of the criminal event - the perpetrators, victims, motive, and representations of consequential, uncontrollable, and sensational crimes. The notion of 'stimulus similarity' may be key: if the reader of a newspaper identifies with the described victim, or feels that their own neighbourhood bears resemblance to the one described, then the image of risk may be taken up, personalised and translated into personal safety concerns.
Yet the relationship between fear of crime and mass media is unclear, at least in its causal ordering. To put the dilemma in simple terms: do people fear crime because a lot of crime is being shown on television, or does television just provide footage about crimes because people fear crime and want to see what's going on? The complex nature of crime could allow the media to exploit social naivety, covering crime not only selective, but also distorting the everyday world of crime. Some say the media contribute to the climate of fear that is created, because the actual frequency of victimisation is a tiny fraction of potential crime.
With crime accounting for up to 25 per cent of news coverage, the quality and angle of the coverage becomes an issue. The media displays violent crime disproportionately, whilst neglecting minor crimes. The reality is violent crime has been declining in the past 10 years The profile of offenders in the media is distorted, causing misunderstanding of criminal offending.
Unfortunately, despite an abundant literature on media effects – particularly the 'mean world' hypothesis – little work has been done into how representations, imagery and symbols of crime circulate in society, transmitted and transformed by multiple actors with a wide array of effects, only to translate into personal fears about crime. Perhaps future work will take account of the transmission mechanisms through which representations, beliefs and attitudes about societal risks are propagated in different social and cultural contexts.
Fear of crime as socially constructed
Fear of crime can also be understood from a social constructionist perspective. The term and concept of fear of crime did not, for example, enter the public or political lexicon until the mid-1960s. That is not to say individuals did not fear crime victimization prior to this period, clearly they did at various points in history to varying degrees. However it demonstrates that fear of crime only became part of a political economy when researchers began to measure and analyse it under the auspice of The US President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice which reported in 1967 Once fear of crime had a name it could be deployed as a political tactic in a law and order politics. It also became something that citizens could experience as an emotional response to the threat of victimisation. The formation of a 'fear of crime feedback loop' then allowed more citizens to be surveyed as fearful, more politicians to be able to use crime fear as a political issue, security products to be sold on the back of crime fear and so on in an ever-increasing spiral that popularised crime fear. Moreover, once citizens were seen as being motivated by concerns about crime fear of crime could be used as a responsibilising technique to activate citizens to conduct themselves or consume products in ways that reduce their vulnerability to crime victimisation. This approach to understanding fear of crime does not deny the experiences of individuals who fear crime victimisation but suggests that such experiences have to be understood as being intimately connected to broader socio-political contexts.
See also
Women's fear of crime
Public Criminology
External links
"Fear of Crime and Perceived Risk." Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology.
"FBI Violent Crime Report for 2010." FBI Homepage Online.
References
Other references
Criminology
Crime
Social constructionism |
5392948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Braden | Bill Braden | Bill Braden (born 1954) is a former politician and former news reporter in Northwest Territories, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories.
Biography
Braden was born in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. After graduating high school in 1972, Bill worked for a number of different news papers including the Edmonton Journal.
Bill has been active in the political scene since 1970 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Bill Braden was first elected in the Yellowknife riding of Great Slave in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election and was re-elected in the 2003 Northwest Territories general election. He retired from territorial politics at the dissolution of the Legislature in 2007.
He is the brother of former Northwest Territories premier George Braden.
After serving several years as an MLA in the territories, Bill attended VanArts to study Digital Photography.
Bill also landed the opportunity to write his first book, as a corporate publication for diamond mines in the Northwest Territories. This book came out in 2011 and was titled "On Good Ice: Lifeline to Gold, Diamonds and the Future. The Evolution of Canada's Arctic Ice Road".
External links
Bill Braden biography Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories
1954 births
Living people
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
People from Rosthern, Saskatchewan
People from Yellowknife
21st-century Canadian politicians |
3999583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundanoon%20railway%20station | Bundanoon railway station | Bundanoon railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the small town of Bundanoon. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
The station opened on 6 August 1868 as Jordans Crossing, being renamed Jordans Siding in 1878 and finally Bundanoon in 1881.
The station has a signal box on platform 2 which controls a set of points just to the north of the station. Until the 2005 timetable one afternoon train a day terminated using this setup, the train arriving on platform 1 using the set of points, and departing back towards Campbelltown. This practice was discontinued, the signal box and points closed and the route curtailed to end at Moss Vale.
Bundanoon station celebrated 150 years since it opened on Sunday 5 August 2018.
Platforms & services
Bundanoon has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn.
During the day the station is served by a NSW TrainLink road coach service from Wollongong and another operating from Moss Vale to Goulburn.
It is also serviced by NSW Trainlink Xplorer long-distance services from Sydney to Canberra & Griffith. This station is a request stop for this service, so the train stops only if passengers booked to board/alight here.
Transport links
Berrima Buslines operate one route via Bundanoon station:
813: Moss Vale to Tallong
Description
The station complex consists of a timber station building on the northbound platform () and another timber station building of an initial island side building design () with brick-faced platforms. It also contains a corrugated iron former toilet and shed (), timber skillion roofed signal box (1914) and timber parcels office, all situated on the platforms, and a 30'x15' corrugated iron goods shed of a side shed design.
Heritage listing
Bundanoon station and yard group is an excellent example of an early 20th century station complex with remnants of the early period of construction including the unusual and rare small goods shed. The original buildings for a small country location were expanded to take advantage of the holiday market in the early years of the century. The length of platforms indicate the relative importance of the station and the need for longer distance trains to stop here. The location of the site at a major intersection in the village of Bundanoon makes it an important visual element in the historic townscape that contributes significantly to the visual importance of the town. All of the listed elements contribute to the group and give a clear indication of the operation and style of a 1913 station group.
Bundanoon railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
References
Attribution
External links
Bundanoon station details Transport for New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1868
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Wingecarribee Shire
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
3999589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%20railway%20station%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Penrose railway station, New South Wales | Penrose railway station is located on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the village of Penrose opening in 1869 as Cables Siding being renamed Penrose on 1 June 1871. It was relocated to its present site on 15 March 1916.
Platforms & services
Penrose has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn.
During the day it is served by one NSW TrainLink road coach service in each direction between Moss Vale and Goulburn.
References
External links
Penrose station details Transport for New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1869
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1916
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Short-platform railway stations in New South Wales, 2 cars
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales
Southern Highlands (New South Wales) |
3999592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingello%20railway%20station | Wingello railway station | Wingello railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the village of Wingello. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
It opened on 1 June 1871 as a siding, with a station built in 1882.
Platforms & services
Wingello has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn.
During the day, it is served by one NSW TrainLink road coach service in each direction between Moss Vale and Goulburn.
Description
The station complex includes two timber station buildings: a third-class building of type 4 design (1871) and a timber island/side building (1915) with shelter shed and a brick-faced platform (1915). A reverse skillion-roofed timber signal box (1915) and skillion roofed out of shed also form part of the precinct. The station plantings, lights and furniture are also included in the heritage listing.
Heritage listing
Wingello is an excellent example of a small country location with both platforms and buildings intact with timber buildings and a good collection of miscellaneous supporting structures. It is a rare example where both buildings survive and is typical of many similar arrangements which have now been removed. It is on a section of line where a number of early buildings survive to demonstrate early construction techniques and styles of building. The 1871 building is one of the earliest surviving buildings on that section of line.
Wingello railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
References
Attribution
External links
Wingello station details Transport for New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1871
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Wingecarribee Shire
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
3999597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallong%20railway%20station | Tallong railway station | Tallong railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the village of Tallong, opening in 1869 as a small halt named Barbers Creek Tank. A platform was opened on 16 April 1878 and it was renamed Tallong on 6 April 1905. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Platforms & services
Tallong has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn.
During the day it is served by one NSW TrainLink road coach service in each direction between Moss Vale and Goulburn.
Transport links
Berrima Buslines operates one route to and from Tallong railway station:
813: to Moss Vale
Description
The station complex consists of a type 7 station building constructed ) with concrete platforms. The station signs are also heritage-listed.
The station dam and reservoir was first built in 1869, rebuilt in 1888, and had the dam wall raised in 1917. The corrugated iron clad pump station had its equipment changed to oil in 1911. The dam precinct also includes cast iron Atlas Engineering water tanks on metal stands and standard metal water columns with a swing arm, situated on the western side of the railway line.
Heritage listing
Tallong station and dam group is one of the very few surviving sites with a dam and associated facilities that are visible from the line and a station location. The dam itself and pump house are significant elements in the industrial heritage of the railways. The station group is a significant early group of timber buildings from the 1870s through to early this century. All are rare surviving examples.
Tallong railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as scientifically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.
References
Attribution
External links
Tallong station details Transport for New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1869
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Short-platform railway stations in New South Wales, 2 cars
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Tallong, New South Wales
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
3999601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Otto%20Lange | Jacob Otto Lange | Jacob Otto Lange (12 November 1833 – 26 May 1902) was a Norwegian politician.
He was born in Stavanger, Norway. He worked for the Kongsberg Silver Mines and served as mayor of Kongsberg 1875–1876. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament as a representative from Kongsberg between 1879 and 1891. He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1891-1892 and Minister of Auditing 1892-1893 under the government of Prime Minister Johannes Steen.
References
1833 births
1902 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Politicians from Stavanger
Mayors of places in Norway
People from Kongsberg |
3999603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marulan%20railway%20station | Marulan railway station | Marulan railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Marulan. It opened on 6 August 1868. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Platforms & services
Marulan has two side platforms and one dock platform. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown, Moss Vale and Goulburn. A south facing dock platform was used to stable maintenance vehicles. It was removed when a pedestrian ramp was installed in April 2014.
During the day it is served by one NSW TrainLink road coach service in each direction between Moss Vale and Goulburn.
Description
The station complex includes a type 1 brick combination station building and residence completed in 1867, with a verandah dating from 1874. The railway platform is faced in brick and dates from . A timber signal box situated on the platform, dating from and the overbridge road at the Sydney end comprise part of the complex. A Goulburn works 20 ton weighbridge () 1923 is no longer extant, having been removed at an unknown date prior to September 2004.
Heritage listing
Marulan is a rare surviving station dating from the opening of the line with relatively small changes to the fabric of the station building. Although much equipment at the site has been removed and there are only remnants of the goods yard surviving, the station building in particular is significant in understanding the development of railways and is a significant townscape and landscape element, particularly when viewed from the overbridge or the park in the main street. The residence and weighbridge add to the site, the weighbridge indicating the nature of the remainder of the yard now deserted with most facilities removed and the residence relating to the rear of the station building with its frontage to the main street.
Marulan railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.
References
Attribution
External links
Marulan station details Transport for New South Wales
Easy Access railway stations in New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1868
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Short-platform railway stations in New South Wales, 2 cars
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Marulan
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
3999608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave%20Lussi | Gustave Lussi | Gustave François Lussi (June 2, 1898 – June 23, 1993) was a figure skating coach. His students include many champions, such as Dick Button, Tenley Albright, Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek, Donald Jackson, Alena Vrzáňová, Ronald Robertson, Ronald Ludington, Barbara Ann Scott, David Jenkins, Hayes Jenkins, Emmerich Danzer, Dorothy Hamill, John Misha Petkevich, Maureen Masley, and John Curry.
Personal life
Lussi was born in Stans, Switzerland. He himself was not a competitive skater but a ski jumper. He lost his nerve for that sport after a fall, and became interested in skating instead. His previous experience with the sport was only recreational skating on Lake Lucerne as a boy.
In 1919, Lussi emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City. He became a U.S. citizen in 1927. In 1932, he married Thelma McDowell, with whom he had two sons. He died on June 23, 1993, at the age of 95.
Coaching career
Lussi supported another Swiss emigrant, Mr. De Bergen, a skating coach, and himself in New York while learning skating from De Bergen. Considering himself to be big and gawky, he vowed that if he could not be a world champion himself, he would produce one through his teaching. A few years later, while teaching in Philadelphia as De Bergen's assistant he rebelled against De Bergen's style of skating, started pioneering his own methodology, and left Philadelphia for a while to coach in Canada and Lake Placid.
His first champion student was Egbert S. Carey Jr., who won the U.S. junior men's title in 1924. At around the same time, he and his student, Montgomery "Bud" Wilson, invented the flip jump. In 1928, Bud Wilson and his sister, Constance Wilson-Samuel, became Lussi's first World Champions. Lussi coached Dick Button from the age of twelve.
Lussi introduced checking the jump landings instead of turning a three after landing, a program as composition with a beginning and ending instead of the official just banging a gong to signal the end of the allotted time to perform, closing the figures on the backward pushes which until that time were left open, the original design for the Pattern 99 blade, the flying sit spin, the flying camel or Button Camel spin with Dick Button, the crossed-leg rotation position in jumping and spinning, the double Axel jump, the triple jumps, the delayed Axel and delayed-rotation double and triple jumps.
Lussi also started summer skating in Lake Placid after the Olympic Arena was enclosed in 1932 for the Winter Olympics. He convinced the local municipality to open the arena for a month that summer and imported skaters from Canada to perform shows that summer. His father-in-law painted the ice for these great extravaganzas. These shows led to his being hired to choreograph the shows for Ice Capades for several years.
Legacy
Lussi's skaters are known for their strong spinning technique. Lussi was also responsible for developing modern figure skating jump technique, including the now-standard crossed-leg rotation, or back spin, position in the air. His pupil Dick Button was the first to perform a double Axel and the first triple loop jump in competition, and Lussi students were also the first performers of flying spins such as the flying camel and flying sit spin which are now a standard part of every elite skater's repertoire.
In April 1990, a documentary film Gustave Lussi: The Man Who Changed Skating was shown on the PBS television network. The documentary was conceived and co-produced by his former student Cecily Morrow and produced by station WCFE-TV. Around this time Morrow also worked with Lussi to produce a series of instructional videos, entitled Systematic Figure Skating: The Spin and Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi, capturing his coaching techniques.
Some of Lussi's other students, such as Carlo Fassi, Ron Ludington, Mary Scotvold, Robin Wagner, Evelyn Kramer, Cecily Morrow, and Priscilla Hill, have also become successful coaches who have passed on Lussi's techniques to subsequent generations of skaters. Wagner coached Sarah Hughes to the 2002 Olympic title and Sasha Cohen to a World Championship medal. Priscilla Hill has coached Johnny Weir to three national titles. Evelyn Kramer is now known as a "spin doctor" and has helped many skater improve their spins. They include Michelle Kwan, Robin Cousins and Caryn Kadavy. Lussi was enshrined into the professional Skaters Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002.
On December 15, 2015, U.S. Figure Skating announced Lussi would be a member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame Class of 2016.
References
Button, Dick (1955). Dick Button on Skates. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Catalog Card No. 55-12069.
www.lussitechnicalvideo.com Systematic Figure Skating: The Spin & Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi. (instructional videos produced by a Lussi student, Cecily Morrow)
1898 births
1993 deaths
American figure skating coaches
People from Stans
Swiss emigrants to the United States |
5392961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Big Brother (Australian TV series) | Big Brother Australia (also known simply as Big Brother) is an Australian reality show based on the international Big Brother format created by John de Mol.
Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show features a group of contestants, known as "housemates" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, housemates are evicted from the house - eliminated from the competition. The last remaining housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize.
Big Brother was produced from 2001 and ran for eight seasons and a Celebrity edition on Network Ten before the network cancelled it in July 2008 after experiencing audience erosion and controversy. Big Brother returned in 2012 on the Nine Network. Nine's iteration of the series lasted 3 seasons and was not renewed beyond 2015. In 2019 the Seven Network picked up the series, which is produced by Endemol Shine Australia. All eleven previous seasons were produced by Endemol Australia and Endemol Southern Star. The twelfth season aired in 2020. The series was renewed for a 13th season in June 2020. Seven has also commissioned a new celebrity edition titled Big Brother VIP to air on 1 November 2021.
The Ten and Nine iterations of the series used a compound located at the Dreamworld theme park, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, as the Big Brother House. It has since been abandoned and vandalised. In June 2019, the house was set ablaze and burnt down entirely. The entire compound was demolished by Dreamworld in August 2019. A new Big Brother House located on Sydney Harbour's North Head is used for Seven's iteration of the series in season 12, although this house has since been pulled down following season 13. The following VIP season was filmed at a newly built compound in Sydney Olympic Park. The upcoming Season 14 was too filmed at this location.
Format
Housemates must remain in the house at all times, with the aim of avoiding eviction from the house to be the last Housemate remaining to win a substantial cash prize at the end of the series. Alternatively, housemates can also be removed from the house if Big Brother feels this is necessary, and can voluntarily leave the show at any time. In order to support the housemates' well-being, all participants have access to psychologists and a doctor, at all times. Housemates are filmed 24 hours per day with edited highlights broadcast during prime time slots every evening.
Big Brother
While in the house, the housemates are under the watchful eye of "Big Brother" - the embodiment of the Show's Producers, who will act as an authoritative all-seeing voice of God to the housemates. Housemates are at all times under the control of Big Brother, a rule enforcing authority figure who monitors the behaviour of the housemates, set tasks and punishments and provides the mechanism for contestants to make external requests.
Unlike other versions of Big Brother, housemates would refer to Big Brother as if it was one person. Over the course of the series, Big Brother developed a dry wit in his interactions with the Housemates. He would also offer to counsel his housemates in need of His wisdom.
Eviction Format
Over the duration of the competition, the Housemates will face nominations and evictions to eliminate housemates from the game. However, over the course of the series, the format regarding evictions has changed.
Original Format
For Ten's and Nine's iterations of the series, the format of the show resembled the original Dutch version of the show - a format adapted by most versions of the Big Brother format. In this format, the competitive aspects are minimised - The eviction decisions were determined by viewer voting, Housemates were not allowed to discuss nominations (at the risk of punishment) and most seasons did not feature any regular competitions for power or safety (with the exceptions being the ‘'Friday Night Games'’ and ‘'Showdowns'’). The main elements of the original format are as follows:
Nominations: Every week, the Housemates would participate in nominations, a secret voting process to determine who would be nominated for eviction that week. Each Housemate nominated two other fellow housemates in the Diary Room, providing full reasons to Big Brother for their nominations. The three or more housemates with the most nominations were nominated and faced Australia's vote
For Seasons 1-7 and the second half of Season 8; each housemate had 3 nomination points to allocate two housemates - one housemate for two points, and another with one.
For the first half of season 8; The power over nominations was given the viewers, with viewers voting to save a housemate via televoting and the 3 lowest vote receivers facing a House Eviction Vote.
For Seasons 9-11; each housemate had 5 Nomination Points to allocate to two housemates - For a 3/2 or 4/1 point allocation.
Eviction: After the nominations are finalised, voting for viewers is open, the Australian public voting via televoting (and in later seasons via social media) to determine the evictee of that week. As the first four seasons aired in New Zealand on a one-day delay, New Zealand viewers could also participate in the eviction voting (and then vote for the eventual winner). Later seasons aired in New Zealand on an extended delay, with New Zealand viewers being unable to vote.
For Seasons 1-5 and the second half of season 8; viewers voted to evict a nominee. The nominee with the most votes is evicted.
For Seasons 6 and 7; viewers had the option to both save and evict. Both vote tallies would be combined and the nominee with the highest net-evict vote (or lowest net-save vote), is evicted.
For the first half of season 8; the housemates voted between Australia's nominees in a similar style to the original nomination vote (3 Eviction Votes to be allocated in a 2/1 vote allocation). The housemate with the most votes is evicted.
For Seasons 9-11; viewers voted to save a nominee. The nominee with the fewest votes is evicted.
Finale: The final housemates would face a Final Vote to determine the winner of the series.
For Seasons 1–5; viewers voted to evict between the final 2 housemates. The housemate with the fewest votes is declared the winner.
For Seasons 6 and 7; viewers had the option to both vote to save and to evict between the final 2 housemates. Both vote tallies would be combined and the housemates with the highest net-save vote (or lowest net-evict vote), is declared the winner.
For Season 8; viewers voted to evict between the final 3 housemates. The housemate with the fewest votes is declared the winner.
For Seasons 9-11; final voting began with the final 5 or 6 housemates with Australia voted to win. Throughout the final week, the housemates with the lowest vote total are progressively evicted until 3 remain for the grand finale. Of the final 3, the finalist with the most votes to win is declared the winner.
Current format
In 2020, Seven Network revamped the format of the series to resemble the format of the American & Canadian editions - with housemates deciding both Nominations and Evictions among themselves. The new format added emphasis to the competitive aspect of surviving the eviction process. As such, the housemates will now be allowed to strategise, politic and collude about the nominations and evictions. However, there will still be key differences compared to the American/Canadian format, most prominently with the Australian public still deciding the eventual winner - rather than being decided by a "Jury" of evicted housemates (as is the case on the American and Canadian show).
Nominations: At the start of each round, the housemates compete in a "Nomination Challenge". The winner of the competition has immunity from the next eviction and the power over the nominations. Immediately after the challenge, the winning housemate will be called to the Diary Room by Big Brother to name their nominees, and provide full reasons for their nominations. The number of nominees is determined by how far into the overall game housemates are, as the game starts with three nominees and reduces to two nominees towards the end of the game.
Eviction: On eviction night, all housemates must vote to evict one of the nominees, with the exception of the nominating housemate (who will only cast a tie-breaker vote, if required), nor do the nominated housemates vote when there are only two nominees (on account of their votes cancelling the other's out). The eviction vote is by secret ballot, with housemates casting their votes orally in the Diary Room to Big Brother, and must provide a reason for their vote. The nominee with the most votes is evicted from the house.
Finale: The final three housemates will face Australia's vote to determine the winner. This vote is conducted on a dedicated website, with voters voting for a winner and the finalist with the most votes wins.
Prize money
The winner of Big Brother Australia receives a cash prize for being the last remaining housemate.
In Big Brother 1 - Big Brother 3, Big Brother 8 - Big Brother 10 & Big Brother 13, the prize was guaranteed A$250,000. Some seasons only mentioned the grand prize part-way through the series.
Big Brother 11 & Big Brother 12 also intended to have a A$250,000 prize, but tasks and challenges during both seasons resulted in the prize decreasing. In Big Brother 11, the final prize was A$200,000 and in Big Brother 12 the prize was $234,656.
In Big Brother 4, the prize money was a guaranteed A$1,000,000.
In Big Brother 5 and Big Brother 6 continued to offer the A$1,000,000, but introduced a fine system. The winner of Big Brother 5 received $836,000, while the winner of Big Brother 6 received $426,000.
Big Brother 7 was advertised as having no prize money. When the series began, it was revealed the grand prize would be based on the Household's completion of weekly tasks. The money earned for the grand prize was $450,000.
In both celebrity spin-offs, Celebrity Big Brother Australia and Big Brother VIP Australia, the winner was awarded $100,000 to the charity of their choice.
Tasks & Missions
During their time in the house, housemates are given tasks by Big Brother.
Punishments
Big Brother 5 introduced a fines system in which the $1,000,000 cash prize was decreased by $5,000 each time housemates violated a rule of Big Brother. The house used for the 6th season featured a Punishment Room, where housemates would sometimes be sent to be punished in addition to the $5,000 fine. In Big Brother 7, some changes were made. These monetary fines were subtracted from the household budget rather than from the prize money, while the Punishment Room remained.
In Big Brother 9 there was a small, rectangular-shaped room, linked to the lounge. This room was the Naughty Corner. This room was similar to the Punishment Room of the sixth and seventh series. The eighth and ninth series' featured no fines system at all. Instead, Big Brother used the original striking system more frequently that meant when a housemate received three strikes they were evicted.
Intruders
Most seasons of Big Brother Australia usually includes "Intruders". Intruders are new housemates added to the house by the show's producers as ongoing housemates after the series has started. Intruders will be eligible to win the series but will often face a special "Intruder Eviction" shortly after their entrance to the house (either by House Vote, Australia's vote or some combination of both).
Big Brother in Australia
Network Ten iteration (2001–08)
The first Australian series began to broadcast on 23 April 2001. It was hosted by Gretel Killeen from 2001 to 2007. In late 2007 it was announced that Gretel Killeen would not host the show for its 2008 return as part of a revamp of the formula.
In 2008, Big Brother returned for its eighth season with hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O. Ten's chief programmer David Mott admitted the series had recently experienced "audience erosion" inherent with the show's long run. Mott defended the new hosts saying that the ratings for eviction shows held up.
Mike Goldman provided narration and voice-overs for all eight seasons.
First hiatus
Big Brother Australia was axed by Network Ten on 14 July 2008 with the broadcaster confirming that the 2008 season would be the last to air on the channel. A decrease in ratings for the daily shows was cited as the reason for Network Ten opting not to renew its contract for another season.
After the show was axed in 2008, there were many rumours about a possible revival by Nine, Seven, Ten, or SBS. SBS Programmer Shawn White denied the show would be revived on their channel despite rumours with Nine CEO David Gyngell notably 'interested' in the idea soon after the cancellation, only to turn it down days later. The Seven Network expressed interest since bidding for the show after the seventh-season finale; however, denied any and all revival occurring a week after the 2008 finale on morning program Sunrise.
Most notably, Network Ten expressed some interest in the format when on 3 June 2011, News Limited posted an article suggesting the network may be interested in putting it on its digital channel, Eleven. In the article, Chief Programming Officer David Mott stated that "...Ten have considered ways to bring the show back on a number of occasions'; however, was worried that audiences had 'moved on'. Made mention was the US version where the show has had 12 successful seasons, and a thirteenth on the way." Mott said; "It's a summer show for CBS, it doesn't play in the heart of the ratings season but it's done a pretty good job for them."
Nine Network iteration (2012–14)
On 9 September 2011, it was reported and later confirmed that the Nine Network had signed a deal with Southern Star Group to bring the Australian version of Big Brother back. On 22 February 2012 it was confirmed that Dreamworld will be used again as the location for the 2012 series.
The first episode of the revived series premiered on 13 August 2012 with its daily show airing five nights a week at a family-friendly timeslot of 7pm.
After a successful season in 2012, Nine confirmed that the series would be renewed for Season 10 in 2013 during their Nine Network 2013 promotion & during the 2013 finale, host Sonia Kruger confirmed the series renewal for Season 11 in 2014 formally opening auditions.
Second hiatus
In 2018, "Big Brother" returned to Australia as Nine confirmed they would air the first season of Celebrity Big Brother US. Nine created a special logo for the show resembling the eye logo of Nine's iteration of Big Brother Australia that previously aired on the network. Episodes were "fast-tracked" and available on their streaming service 9Now shortly after their American airing with televised broadcast on 9Go! starting 11 February 2018. Due to low ratings episodes were moved from the 9:30pm timeslot to 11:30pm effective 14 February 2018. No further American seasons of Big Brother aired.
On 1 April 2018, a highly publicised April Fools prank by the Australian television news blog TV Tonight reported the return of Big Brother on Ten with Lisa Wilkinson to host.
Seven Network iteration (2020–present)
On 23 October 2019, Seven Network confirmed it will be reviving the series in 2020. Rumors indicate the series will be closer in format to the American & Canadian versions - particularly given the upfronts trailer featured footage from Big Brother US 17, Big Brother Canada 2 and Big Brother Canada 3 as well as the emphasis on the phrase "Control, Evict, Win" in the promo.
The reboot has been compared to Survivor - in which the politicking and strategising regarding the Nomination and Eviction processes is allowed (being disallowed in earlier iterations) and central to the format, with Housemates directly voting each other out of the house. Seven's Director of Programming Angus Ross confirmed there would be no live shows on 26 October. It was announced on 5 February 2020 that Sonia Kruger will return to host Big Brother. The show was renewed for a 13th season (the second with 7) on the 28th of June, 2020.
In October 2021, the series was confirmed to return for its 3rd main season with Seven and 14th overall. In celebration of Big Brother Australia's 21st anniversary, season 14 would have former Housemates from all eras of the show returning to compete against new Housemate. A second VIP edition was also confirmed, and as well as Big Brother Canada being made available to stream in Australia on 7plus.
Series details and viewership
Location
First house (2001–2014)
The first Big Brother House was located at near Dreamworld, a theme park in Coomera, a northern suburb of the city of the Gold Coast, Queensland. The house was used for Ten and Nine's iteration of Big Brother. Footage from the house is monitored and edited in Dreamworld Studios. There is also an auditorium where the live audience shows, such as the eviction and finale episodes, were staged. The auditorium was an existing facility at Dreamworld used for live stage shows prior to the first series of Big Brother. It was leased to Endemol Southern Star for the duration of the series each year.
Only slight modifications were made to the interior of the house for the second series and the special Celebrity Big Brother Australia series that were screened in 2002. Subsequent to those series, the interior of the house has been rebuilt or extensively remodelled for each new series. Two separate houses were built for Big Brother 2003, and they were merged twenty-three days into the series when previously hidden connecting rooms were revealed. The fifth series introduced a Friday Night Live games arena. An animal enclosure was added to the side of the compound for the sixth series. It was retained for the seventh series.
During production on the series, visitors could access the Big Brother auditorium and view live footage from the house. This feature was, however, discontinued at the start of the ninth series.
Second house (2020–2021)
As the original house had burned down, Seven Network who currently produce and broadcast the series decided on a new location for the Big Brother House much closer to where production and crew members live. It has been understood the house has been built inside a warehouse which existed during World War II as an artillery shed, with a secondary building (previously used a gym) housing activities and challenges for the housemates. The exact location is next to the North Head Sanctuary Visitor Centre car park on Sydney Harbour's North Head near Manly. This house has since been pulled down following the 2021 season.
Third house (2021–present)
It was announced on Thursday 15 July that the Big Brother house is being built at Sydney Olympic Park in the White Pavilion.
Theme music
The theme music was adapted from the original theme used in the original Big Brother, which aired in the Netherlands. The theme for Big Brother Australia was written by Siew Ooi and 001 Productions in Melbourne. The track is an extended version of the main title theme used in the first two seasons of Big Brother Australia, and tracks heard throughout the seasons that followed are shorter, remixed versions of this track. The original track can sometimes be heard in the background when eviction votes, or the nomination tally in the Nominations show, are shown on screen, or when eviction phone numbers are during a show. In 2008, the theme music was retooled into an electric amplified remix, in counterpart of the format changes that were made that year. Four years later in the 2012 revival of the program, the original theme song returned with a futuristic remix. The theme song was completely absent from the 2020 season.
The title theme was initially released as a single. The track was an extended mix of the main title theme used in the first two seasons, and was released with an acoustic "Diary Room" mix and more trance influenced "Eviction" mix. It barely scraped in the top 50, but was re-released a few months later where it reached #12 on the ARIA charts in 2001 with a B-Side of The Sirens' hit "Don't You Think That It's Strange", which was also co-written by Big Brother 2001 housemates; the Diary Room mix; and an extended version of the Big Brother Uncut theme.
International broadcasts
New Zealand
Between 2001 and 2003, as well during 2005, Big Brother Australia aired on TV2 in New Zealand. The show aired on Prime in 2004. Between 2001 and 2004, the show aired on a one-day delay from the Australian broadcast. As such New Zealand viewers had the ability to cast eviction votes to determine the weekly evictee, however this did not continue in 2005 as the show aired on a three-week delay long after voting in Australia had concluded.
The show returned to New Zealand, as part of the TV3 summer line-up in November 2013 with the tenth season of the show. The following eleventh season was also broadcast by TV3 in November 2014.
The show then returned to New Zealand and TV3, which has since rebranded as Three, with the Seven iteration of the show in June 2020. This marked the first time the show has aired in primetime in New Zealand since the conclusion of the 2004 season due to the network needing to fill a scheduling gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic delaying The Block NZ's ninth season to 2021. On 14 July 2020, it was announced due to low ratings, the show would be moving into a later timeslot and would drop to airing two episodes per week.
The second season to air on Seven was broadcast online-only, via TVNZ OnDemand, starting 4 May 2021 with the first four episodes and each subsequent episodes being released within 48 hours of the Australian broadcast.
Finland
The 2020 edition of the show was also broadcast on Finnish streaming service Ruutu.fi from 6 December 2020, with two episodes airing every Sunday.
The Netherlands
Dutch broadcaster RTL revealed that they are going to broadcast Big Brother Australia from season 12 on RTL 5, starting from 9 April 2021, only one day after their Dutch-Flemish version ended. The broadcast would occur each weekday at 9:30 pm.
United States
In the United States, seasons 12 and 13 were added to Paramount+ on 16 February 2022.
Companion shows
Reception
Criticism and controversy
The series received some criticism from commentators and audiences for its sexual content. The series was occasionally referred to as "Big Brothel" in the press, in reference to the sexual content of the Uncut episode. Criticism was also voiced in the Australian Government, with one politician referring to it as "toxic television". Complaints about Uncut led to it being rebranded Big Brother: Adults Only for the 2006 season. Adults Only was cancelled early in the season due to continuing controversy.
Censorship and sexual content
After the 2005 series, complaints prompted the Australian Communications and Media Authority to launch an investigation into Big Brother: Uncut. The main complaint was that Network Ten had breached the industry code of practice by broadcasting footage that went past the maximum MA15+ rating for Australian commercial television.
The ACMA found Network Ten had breached the code on a number of occasions:
The airing of housemate Michael massaging his penis on Gianna's back and hair, allegedly without her consent. Gretel Killeen later expressed her disapproval with Michael's indecent actions (BB 2005).
Vesna Tosevska plucking her pubic hair in bed (BB 2005).
A song about sexual fetishes (BB 2005).
Tim hogtied and dumped in the diary room, where he was tackled and had his testicles hit with a leather strap (BB 2005).
Airing of housemates Glenn Dallinger and Michelle Carew-Gibson appearing to have sex in a sauna (BB 2005).
In the 2001 season, Big Brother Uncut received backlash for airing a ‘sex scene’ between Peter Timbs and Christina Davis, though neither of the two were having sex, despite making rhythmic sexual movements under the bedsheets.
A 'bondage' party earlier in the 2001 season caused concerns when housemate Andrea Silva, a dominatrix in profession, displayed some of her sexual fetishes to the other housemates, where she tied up her shirtless male housemates, pinched their nipples and lashed them with a scourge.
Later that night, Sara-Marie Fedele tied up Gordon Sloan on a wooden table and sensually stroke his bare chest.
The ACMA did not impose any direct punishment on Network Ten, however outlined requirements for the 2006 series of Uncut. Included in those requirements is a commitment by Network Ten to compile episode footage early enough for censors to evaluate it. Two censors were taken on by the network specifically for Big Brother, and crew were trained on the restrictions of the MA15+ television rating. As a result of criticism, the show was renamed Big Brother: Adults Only for the 2006 season.
The daily shows in the first 4 seasons were rated G, despite their (mild) sexual references or innuendos and adult subject matter. The daily shows in the latter seasons were rated PG. Late Night Feast, an adult-oriented show first aired in the 2013 season, was rated M for moderate sexual references, (non-graphic) nudity and coarse language.
2006 alleged sexual assault controversy
On 1 July 2006 two housemates, Michael Cox (using the alias Ashley for the show) and Michael Bric (using the alias John), were removed from the house for allegedly sexually assaulting, "Turkey slapping" female housemate, Camilla Halliwell, in a season of the series that had already attracted significant controversy. Following the incident the live feed was temporarily replaced by an old UpLate update of the housemates completing their football task, continuously looped, and the forums on the Big Brother website were removed. Queensland Police were shown the relevant footage, but opted not to conduct a criminal investigation. Subsequent to this incident former housemate Rita Lazzarotto reported that she had been subjected to a similar incident during her time in the Big Brother house in the 2005 series.
Then Australian Prime Minister John Howard asked for Big Brother to be cancelled, saying, "Here's a great opportunity for Channel 10 to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid program off the air"; Leader of the Opposition Kim Beazley and Senator Steve Fielding supported this view. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie argued that the show employed many Australians in production and that, because of the already diminished size of the Australian television industry, the show should continue.
Housemate selection
The show's producers aim to get "real people" in the house. This has been done by personality testing, engaging with people around the country and appearances. While there are housemates who are "unique" and reflect many diverse people in Australia, there has been a high number of individuals in the latter seasons who come from a modelling background which has alienated them from the public audience.
In the 2007 season, to lower censorship controversies that stemmed from the housemates' generally salacious and revelling personality types from the previous seasons, producers selected more sophisticated, reserved and modest type of housemates, such as Rebecca Dent, a devout Mormon, and Jamie McDonald, a computer geek. Such practise of selecting more educated and mature type of people continued into the latter seasons, with other examples being Michael Beveridge from the 2012 season, who had the IQ of a genius, and Priya Malik, an Indian Australian schoolteacher with an English Honours degree from the 2014 season.
Awards and nominations
Other media
On 8 July 2003, a DVD entitled Big Brother: Unseen/Uncut/Unreel by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, featuring risqué moments from the series was released and became marginally successful. It was rated M which means that the DVD requires a mature perspective, however there is no legal restriction on access. The DVD is broken down into three sections. Unseen showed Launch and Eviction episodes, while Uncut features clips from Big Brother Uncut; speaks of how television censorship laws of different countries that have Big Brother seasons that differ from Australia's; footage of the audition process; and a package where Peter Abbott, the voice of Big Brother for the first three seasons, was "Big Brother'd" for a day, where a camera followed him from the time he woke up to when he went to sleep. Unreel section has information on the first three seasons' housemates, including Big Brother 2003's housemates' introduction packages shown at In They Go; an image gallery with information on what the 24 original housemates of the first two seasons were doing at the time of the DVD's release; and an interactive tour of Big Brother 2003's Houses before and after they were merged.
Notable contestants
2001
Rachel Corbett
Christina Davis
Sara-Marie Fedele
Blair McDonough
2002
Nathan Morris
Brodie Young
2003
Regina Bird
Chrissie Swan
2004
Bree Amer
Wesley Dening
Ryan Fitzgerald
2005
Tim Brunero
Simon Deering
Greg and David Mathew
2006
Danielle Foote
Krystal Forscutt
2007
Jamie McDonald
2008
Craig Barnett
Michael Crafter
2013
Ed Lower
2014
Sam Bramham
2020
Daniel Gorringe
2021
Nick Benton
Jess Trend
See also
List of Australian reality shows
List of Australian television series
References
Bibliography
External links
Big Brother Australia
Seven Network original programming
Network 10 original programming
Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in Gold Coast, Queensland
2001 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
2012 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
2020 Australian television series debuts
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series by Endemol
Australian television series revived after cancellation
English-language television shows
Dreamworld (Australia)
Australian television series based on Dutch television series |
5392977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Malan | David H. Malan | David Huntingford Malan (21 March 1922 – 2020) was a British psychoanalytic psychotherapy practitioner and researcher recognized for his contribution to the development of psychotherapy. He promoted scientific spirit of inquiry, openness, and simplicity within the field. He is also noted for his development of the Malan triangles, which became a rubric in which therapists can reflect upon what they are doing and where they are in relational space at any given moment.
Early life
Malan was born in Ootacamund in the province of Tamil Nadu in India on 21 March 1922. His father was English, working in the Indian Civil service as Paymaster General of Madras State, and his mother was American. When Malan was seven years old his father died from pneumonia and Malan and his mother came to England.
At preparatory boarding school Malan particularly enjoyed learning Latin and Greek, but as a scholar at Winchester he became interested in chemistry which he then studied, winning a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated in 1944 with a 1st class Honours degree in Chemistry.
During the war Malan was seconded to the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E), initially to develop devices for Resistance fighters, and later incendiary bombs for use in the Far East.
After a year at Courtaulds doing fundamental research, he knew he wanted to become a Psychotherapist.
In 1947 Malan began a training analysis and medical training at the same time with the objective of practising Psychiatry and ultimately Psychotherapy. His initial analysis was with Balint and then with Winnicott.
Career
After qualifying from the London Hospital in 1952, he worked as a casualty officer, then as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley before transferring to the Tavistock Clinic in 1956. He became a Consultant in the Adult dept. in 1966 and remained there until his retirement in 1982.
In 1956, at the Tavistock Clinic, Balint asked him to join his Brief Psychotherapy research group investigating whether brief focal therapy was effective. Malan analysed the results which were highly encouraging. During his early years as a psychotherapist, he already advocated the accurate, reproducible clinical descriptions, as well as the prediction of desirable outcomes prior to the process of therapy or an "intention to treat", which are then followed by unbiased evaluation post-treatment. This approach was met with suspicion during the 1950s within the analytic community, including Malan's colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic.
In 1967 Malan developed the Brief Psychotherapy workshop which all trainees were required to attend for one year and treat a patient under his supervision. It attracted students internationally as well as nationally. The aim was to achieve effective therapeutic results in the shortest possible time and to research the factors that made this happen.
The therapy was actively interpretive, using the elements of the Two Triangles – the Triangle of Conflict and the Triangle of Person - as the basis for many of the interventions that the therapists made.
The outcome data exploded the Myth of Superficiality whereby critics claimed that Brief Psychotherapy could only be helpful with superficially ill patients, that the technique used should be superficial and that only superficial improvements can be achieved.
At this time Malan lectured nationally and internationally many times in the US, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and Greece, describing his active interpretive approach and his investigation of the factors that made Brief Psychotherapy most effective. He received the highest medical Merit award for this work.
In 1974, Davanloo showed his tapes of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy to Malan who was convinced by the evidence that the technique used was extremely effective. They began a twelve-year collaboration, doing workshops and lectures together with Davanloo showing his tapes of therapy and Malan outlining the concepts and explaining the principles of the technique.
In 1979, Malan wrote Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics pub. Butterworth-Heinnemann which outlines the principles of Dynamic Psychotherapy from the most elementary to the most profound, using true case histories to illustrate each concept. It has been translated into 8 languages and following a second edition in 1995 is still in print as a classic textbook for psychotherapists.
Retirement and death
After his retirement, Malan continued to write and lecture extensively on Brief Psychotherapy and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP), publishing his last book "Lives Transformed", in 2006, which he co-authored with Patricia Coughlin. He also put on Conferences in Oxford in 2006 and 2008 to demonstrate the effectiveness of ISTDP as a method of Brief Psychotherapy. Following these conferences, core training courses developed, and therapists, who completed them and have become experienced, have continued to lecture and teach subsequent core trainings.
In 2005, Malan received a Career Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to Psychotherapy from the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association, of which he was Emeritus President since its inception. He died in 2020.
Brief Psychotherapy
Although trained as an analyst, initially using analysis in therapy, and recognising the validity of analytic insights, Malan has always been concerned that analysis takes too long and too few patients can be treated.
His research and writing therefore focussed on finding the most effective treatment that can help more patients in the shortest possible time.
Balint's Brief Therapy Research Group.
In 1956, after becoming a psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, Malan was invited by Balint to join his Brief Psychotherapy research group investigating whether brief focal therapy was effective. Patients were treated using a radical interpretive approach and the results were evaluated against specified criteria and, in general, they were extremely good. Malan analysed the results in his Oxford DM thesis and subsequently developed the ideas in A Study of Brief Psychotherapy : Tavistock publications 1963. Other publications analysing aspects of the results were The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy and Toward the Validation of Dynamic Psychotherapy - both published by Plenum in 1976.
Brief Psychotherapy Workshop
Following his appointment as a Consultant in the Adult dept., Malan introduced a Brief Psychotherapy workshop which all trainees were required to attend. They presented cases where they had used the principles of Brief Psychotherapy under his supervision. The aim was to achieve effective therapeutic results in the fewest sessions and to research the factors that made this possible.
In the workshop the technique was actively interpretive. The work was initially focussed on the presenting problems but became more wide-ranging with responsive patients and demonstrated deep and lasting changes.
An account of twenty-four therapies completed by trainees as part of the Brief Psychotherapy Workshop is summarised in ‘Psychodynamics, Training and Outcome’ by Malan and Osimo, pub. Butterworth –Heinemann 1992. It is based not only on the sessions but on the follow-up of a series of patients, and shows that good therapeutic results can be achieved by trainees under supervision.
The Two Triangles
A key element of therapy is the linking of the Two Triangles - the Triangle of Conflict (Defence, Anxiety and Hidden Feeling) and the Triangle of Persons (Current, Transference/Present and Past). The Triangle of Conflict illustrates the relation between anxiety, defences and the underlying impulses or feelings. The Triangle of Persons shows the links between the relationship with the therapist, with current people in the patient's life, and with people from their past.
Malan always acknowledges that each Triangle was independently devised by Ezriel (1952) and Menninger (1958) respectively, but he showed how, when put together, the relation between them for the patient at any given moment in therapy, can form a reliable basis for many of the interventions that the therapist makes. Ref: Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (p. 80)
As early as 1963 in his analysis of cases in Balint's workshop, Malan had identified that good outcome correlated with a high frequency of interpretations making a link between the transference and childhood, but the full significance and usefulness of the concept of linking the Triangles came later.
The Myth of Superficiality
Research from the workshop exploded the ‘myth of superficiality’ whereby critics maintain that Brief Psychotherapy is a superficial treatment that can only be effective with superficially ill patients, bringing about superficial results. Malan maintains that the aim of every session is to ‘put the patient in touch with as much of their true feelings as they can bear and that the long-term outcome should demonstrate deep and lasting changes.’ The work does not have to be focal and limited to specific problems and should lead to therapeutic changes that are wide-ranging, deep-seated and permanent. This has been shown in many of Malan's follow-up studies where Brief Therapy and Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy have been used.
Collaboration with Habib Davanloo
In 1974 Davanloo presented videotapes of his therapeutic work using Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) at the Tavistock Clinic. The essence of ISTDP is to enable the patient to reach and experience their hitherto buried, and often unconscious feelings, which have been governing their emotional responses leading to deep-seated neurotic patterns of behaviour that in many cases have crippled their lives. He does this by challenging the defences that the patient has been using to avoid painful feelings of loss, grief, anger, hate and guilt about people who they loved and /or needed when children.
Although aspects of Davanloo's challenging and sometimes abrasive technique were antipathetic to him, Malan recognised that the challenge was to the defences, not to the patient directly, and results were conclusive and convincing. The videotapes showed undeniable evidence that patients could be treated in a relatively few sessions (40 or fewer) and fully recover from a range of longstanding emotional and psychosomatic illnesses.
Malan and Davanloo collaborated for twelve years from 1974, doing many Conferences and Workshops worldwide. Davanloo showed his tapes of therapy while Malan outlined the rationale and objectives of the technique and explained the elements of the therapy. After his retirement, Malan wrote many books and articles about Davanloo's concepts and technique.
Subsequent Developments using Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
It became apparent that the abrasive element when challenging the defences is not necessary, and the same results can be achieved by blocking them much more gently but persistently until they disintegrate. Malan recognised that as long as the patient reaches and experiences the buried, often previously unconscious painful feelings, they no longer have the power to govern their emotional responses. It is the avoidance of these feelings that underlies many neurotic and psychosomatic symptoms.
Malan has worked with many of Davanloo's ex-trainees lecturing and writing extensively. In 2006 he co-authored with Patricia Coughlin ‘Lives Transformed – a Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy’ pub. Karnac.
In order to introduce Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy to the UK, Malan organised two Conferences in Oxford in 2006 and 2008, where video-tapes of therapies were shown. Following these Core Training groups were established. Subsequent Conferences have been held demonstrating ISTDP and currently there are Core trainings in London and the North of England. Malan hopes ISTDP will become available as a treatment method on the N.H.S. as it so effective, but it is difficult to learn and challenging to do.
Scientific principles and Brief Psychotherapy
A hallmark of Malan's work is his scientific approach to research in Psychotherapy. He is convinced that psychodynamic processes can and should be scientifically studied, and he rigorously insists on long-term follow-ups to see how effective therapy really has been and what factors contributed to this.
Outcome Studies
Malan believes that one of the most important tools for this ‘objective study of subjective matter’ is long-term follow-up interviews to obtain reliable psychodynamic outcome data. He considers that questionnaires are useless, and proper follow-up interviews are necessary based on the initial criteria the therapist sets for the complete resolution of the presenting problems. To this end he has carried out many such follow-ups and trained others to do so. These outcome studies are actually process and outcome studies as they analyse the process of change as well as the long-term results. He published papers throughout his career evaluating outcome data which showed that the results of Brief Psychotherapy are as good as, or better than, those found in long-term therapy.
Publications
Books
A Study of Brief Psychotherapy : Tavistock publications 1963 . Reprinted Plenum 1975. Translated into 7 languages.
The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy : Plenum 1976
Towards the Validation of Brief Psychotherapy : Plenum 1979
Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics : pub. Butterworth-Heinemann !979 Second edition 1995 Reprinted in 8 languages.
Psychodynamics, Training and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy : Malan and Osimo pub. Butterworth-Heinemann 1992
Anorexia, Murder and Suicide : pub Butterworth-Heinemann 1997
Lives transformed – a Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy : Malan and Coughlin pub:Karnac 2006
Throughout his career Malan consistently published research papers and wrote chapters in books.
Significant ones include:
Malan, D.H. (1978a) Exploring the limits of brief psychotherapy. In H. Davanloo (Ed.) Basic Principles and Techniques in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (pp43 –67). New York. Spectrum Publications
Malan, D.H. (1978b) Evaluation criteria for selection of patients. In H.Davanloo (Ed) Basic Principles and Techniques in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (pp. 85 –97). New York. Spectrum Publications.
Malan, D.H. (1980) The most important development in psychotherapy since the discovery of the unconscious. In H. Davanloo (Ed) Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, (pp. 13–23) Northvale NJ: Aronson.
Malan, D.H. (2001) The Way Ahead. In Short-Term Therapy for Long-term Change. New York. Norton.
Malan D.H. (1986) Beyond Interpretation: Part I and II. International Journal of Short-term Psychotherapy, I (2), (pp. 59–82, 83-106)
References
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Malan, D.H. (1963) A Study of Brief Psychotherapy Tavistock Publications. Reprinted Plenum
Malan, D.H. (1976a). The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy. New York: Plenum Press
Malan, D.H. (1976b). Toward the Validation of Dynamic Psychotherapy. New York: Plenum Press.
Malan, D.H. (1979). Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics. London: Butterworth- Heinemann.
Malan, D.H. and Osimo, F. (1992). Psychodynamics, Training and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy. London: Butterworth- Heinemann.
Malan, D.H. and Coughlin Della Selva, P. (2006) Lives Transformed – a Revolutionary Method of Dynamic psychotherapy. London Karnack
Osimo, F and Stein, M.J. Theory and Practice of Experiential Dynamic Therapy London: Karnac (pp 9–13, 23 -42).
1922 births
2020 deaths
Psychodynamics
British psychiatrists
British psychotherapists
British people in colonial India
British people of American descent
People from Nilgiris district |
5392982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe%20Theatre%2C%20Regina | Globe Theatre, Regina | Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer. It was the first professional educational theatre company in Saskatchewan.
Background
Founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer, Globe Theatre was Saskatchewan's first professional theatre company. It was named for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Globe Theatre is the province's largest performing arts organization and the regional theatre for Regina. The theatre is housed in the Prince Edward Building in downtown Regina, a designated heritage site that was built in 1906 as the Regina Post Office and RCMP headquarters and later became City Hall. The theatre took over the second and third floors of the building in 1981. In 2014, Globe Theatre purchased The Prince Edward Building.
Globe Theatre programs two stages: a 406-seat theatre-in-the-round stage and a 100-seat black box space where the theatre produces emerging artists and work. The theatre produces six productions per year. The Globe Theatre School was launched in 2006.
Artistic directors
Ken Kramer (1966–1989)
Susan Ferley (1989–1998)
Ruth Smillie (1998–2019)
Jennifer Brewin (2020-present)
See also
Globe Theatre (Shakespeare's)
List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage
Saskatchewan Royal Connections
Culture in Regina, Saskatchewan
References
External links
Globe Theatre fonds (R3474) at Library and Archives Canada
1966 establishments in Saskatchewan
Culture of Regina, Saskatchewan
Organizations based in Regina, Saskatchewan
Organizations established in 1966
Theatre companies in Saskatchewan
Theatres completed in 1966
Organizations based in Canada with royal patronage
Tourist attractions in Regina, Saskatchewan |
5393014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpina%20%C5%BDiri | Alpina Žiri | Alpina is an Slovenian footwear manufacturing company founded in 1947 after several private shoemaking workshops with long tradition joined together in the town of Žiri. Initially named "Žiri Shoe Factory", it was renamed "Alpina" in 1951. In 1985, the company employeed almost 2,000 people. Alpina operates as a joint stock company, with approximately a thousand employees producing over 1.7 million pairs of shoes and boots each year. The greater part of production is sold abroad under their own brand name.
Alpina currently produces athletic, and winter sports footwear through its subsidiary "Alpina Sports". Products include snow boots,. The company also produces a line of shoes for different purposes, such as oxford and derby shoes, platform and ballet shoes, and sandals.
Alpina is the leading producer of cross-country boots, with a 30 percent world market share and provides for several cross-country and biathlon national teams (Slovenia, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Canada). Products are exported to countries where skiing is extremely popular, including the United States, Croatia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Poland. Alpina also has expanded its network of retail stores, mostly in the South East Europe.
References
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5393034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20Brook%20School%20System | Mountain Brook School System | The Mountain Brook School System serves the city of Mountain Brook, a area outside of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The school system supports a city with approximately 20,600 residents. The system was established in 1959, it being split off from nearby districts.
The Mountain Brook School System has four elementary schools that serve kindergarten through the sixth grade. These schools are Brookwood Forest Elementary School, Cherokee Bend Elementary School, Crestline Elementary School, and Mountain Brook Elementary School. Upon completion of the sixth grade, students flow into Mountain Brook Junior High School where they attend seventh through ninth grades. The school system has only one high school, Mountain Brook High School, which serves grades ten through twelve.
The school system has enjoyed a low rate of turnover in its leadership. In 2009, the system celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding and that year marked the hiring of Dicky Barlow, former principal of Mountain Brook High School, as only the 4th superintendent in the 50-year history of the system.
There is also a private school, Highlands Day School, within Mountain Brook's city limits, but it is not part of the Mountain Brook School System.
In 2019, Niche ranked the system the 24th best school district in America. In 2017, Mountain Brook Elementary was named a State School of Character, one of only two in Alabama to receive this honor. Schools that receive this recognition demonstrate a dedicated focus on character development. Newsweek Magazine recognized MBHS as one of the nation's top 100 high schools. In 2016, Mountain Brook Schools was named the international Outstanding District by the International Society for Technology in Education.
Mountain Brook Board of Education
The Mountain Brook Board of Education consists of five members appointed by the Mountain Brook City Council. Each member serves a five-year term, with one seat up for appointment by the Council each year. The Board is currently:
Anna Comer
Brad Sklar
Nicky Barnes (President)
Jeffrey Brewer (Vice President)
Jennifer Kimbrough
Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation
Since 1992, the Mountain Brook School System's funding has been significantly enhanced its own foundation, lessening its dependence on state funds with each passing year. Any funds raised as a result of the foundation's actions are added to a permanent endowment that is used to support any of the school's academic needs.
Since its inception, the foundation's main focus has been in the areas of technology, professional development, and library enhancement. Because of the endowment, the foundation has been able to commit over $5 million in grants to the school system between 1995 and 2013. According to MBCSF, this money was used to complete 55,628 hours of teacher training, purchase in excess of 600 computer workstations, and add 4,500 books to its libraries.
In 2004, the Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation launched its first public campaign since 1996. The idea behind the Aim Higher campaign was to allow anyone in the Mountain Brook Community a chance to "invest in the future of Mountain Brook by investing in the education of its young people." The plan was to ask every family in the school system to contribute at least $1,500 over a three- to five-year period, with donations totaling $2 million, allowing Mountain Brook's endowment to grow to approximately $9 million. With $8.2 million raised, the foundation is nearing its goal.
Mountain Brook City Schools
Brookwood Forest Elementary School
Brookwood Forest Elementary (BWF) is a public elementary school within the Mountain Brook School System. It serves kindergarten through sixth grades and enrolled approximately 530 students during the 2017-2018 school year. Nathan Pitner serves as principal.
Cherokee Bend Elementary School
Cherokee Bend Elementary (CBE) is a public elementary school formed in 1969 in the Mountain Brook School system. One of four schools, it serves kindergarten through sixth grade with approximately 524 students enrolled during the 2007-2008 school year. Betsy Bell serves as Principal of the school and Jennifer Galloway is assistant principal.
Crestline Elementary School
Crestline Elementary School (CES) is the largest elementary in the Mountain Brook School System and is home to over 700 students. Accredited in 1973, Crestline Elementary belongs to the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges and serves kindergarten through sixth grades. Christy Christian serves as principal, with Josh Watkins and Catherine Waters as assistant principals.
Mountain Brook Elementary School
Mountain Brook Elementary (MBE) is located in the heart of Mountain Brook Village. MBE is a public elementary school in the Mountain Brook School System, serving kindergarten through sixth grades with about 550 students. It is the oldest school in the Mountain Brook System. The school was constructed in the 1920s. Mountain Brook Elementary is also a Leader in Me school and has been recognized as a Lighthouse School. Ashley McCombs serves as principal. Brannon Aaron serves as the assistant principal.
Mountain Brook Junior High School
Mountain Brook Junior High (MBJH)serves as a public middle school within the Mountain Brook School System. The school contains grades seven through nine and currently has just over 1000 students enrolled. The junior high administration is headed by principal Donald Clayton. The athletic teams wear green and gold and are supported by their mascot, the spartan.
Beginning with the 2014-2015 School year, MBJH started their first year in VEX IQ robotics under the direction of Mr. James Salvant. His excellent leadership and direction proved valuable in that MBJH won the Alabama VEX IQ State Championship. That event placed the MBJH team in competition at the VEX World Championships in Louisville KY, the largest educational robotics competition in the world where more than 850 teams from 29 nations gathered at the Kentucky Exposition Center to compete with custom-built robots during three days of intense back-to-back matches. The MBJH team finished 12th overall and the members were John Shows and Caleb Summitt.
Mountain Brook High School
Mountain Brook High School (MBHS) is a three-year public high school serving the Mountain Brook School System. Situated on of land the school serves grades ten through twelve and enrolled approximately 1004 students during the 2007-2008 school year. The principal is Amanda Hood. The Spartan Arena serves for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling purposes. A new front entrance to the high school was completed in the fall of 2008.
The quality of education is apparent by the many accomplishments of the student body. Currently about 98% of Mountain Brook students go on to colleges and universities in the U.S. Over 500 MBHS students have been named National Merit Finalists, and three Rhodes scholars have graduated from MBHS. College Board's Advanced Placement Program honored MBHS for academic excellence and outstanding support and participation in the AP Program. MBHS has won 122 State Athletic Championships in its 40-year history.
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5393052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20Burke%20%28politician%29 | James F. Burke (politician) | James Francis Burke (October 21, 1867 – August 8, 1932) was Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.
Early life
James Burke was born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants. He studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he graduated 1892. While at Michigan he organized the American Republican College League, the predecessor to the College Republicans. Petitioning then president, Republican William McKinley Burke won approval for the organization and hosted an inaugural banquet attended by McKinley along with 1,500 college students The organization quickly spread to almost every college in the country. In 1888, at age 21, Burke was made secretary of the committee in charge of the dedication of the then-new Allegheny County Court House, at which President Rutherford B. Hayes made the dedicating address.
Legal career
After graduating from the University of Michigan, he was admitted to the Allegheny County bar the same year. Subsequently, he was admitted to the Superior and Supreme courts of Pennsylvania, and later to the United States Supreme Court, and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892, resigning during the same year to devote his entire time to his duties as president of the American Republican College League.
Political career
Burke ran for Congress in 1904 and was elected by a wide majority. He subsequently served five consecutive terms. He was chairman of the congressional committee which inaugurated William Howard Taft as the president of the United States.
During his time in congress, Burke served on a number of committees, including:
Committee on Education – Chairman
Military Affairs Committee
Committee on Banking and Currency
He had a hand in a number of important pieces of legislation, including taking an active role in framing the Federal Reserve Act which created the Federal Reserve Bank, America's central bank.
He was appointed a delegate to the Parliamentary Peace Conference at Brussels in 1905. He was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to codify the navigation laws of the United States. He was officer of, or a delegate to, the Republican National Conventions from 1892 to 1924, with the exception of the year 1912.
Post-Congress career
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. In December, 1917, he became United States Government Director of War Savings during the First World War.
Following his political career, Burke resumed the practice of law, practicing for 10 years as a criminal lawyer at the Allegheny county bar. Additionally, he was elected General Counsel of the Republican National Committee in December 1927 and served until his death. He was parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention at Kansas City, Missouri, in 1928.
Burke wrote a number of treatises, including "The Powers of the President", investigating the role of the president during wartime, and a history of the World Peace Conference entitled "Perplexing Problems of the World's Peace Conference".
Personal
Burke was an avid golfer and belonged to a number of golf and country clubs. He was founder of the Beaumaris Yacht Club, in Beaumaris, Ontario, where he had a summer house. He may also have been a member of the very exclusive Bath and Tennis Club in Palm Beach, Fl. At one point the United States Golf Association asked him to prepare a set of rules which was ultimately presented to the international committee at St. Andrews in Scotland.
In 1895, Burke married Josephine Birch Scott of Detroit, Michigan, and had two children, James Scott Burke and Josephine Frances Burke. He died in Washington, D.C., and is buried in the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
References
Sources
Pittsburgh Press, Feb 17, 1929, Rep Burke hosted luncheon for Pres-Elect Hoover at the Bath and Tennis Club
1867 births
1932 deaths
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
American people of Irish descent
Burials at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
University of Michigan Law School alumni
College Republican National Committee chairs
College Republicans
Pennsylvania lawyers
Pennsylvania Republicans
People from Venango County, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Pittsburgh
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives |
5393056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy | Ruy | Ruy may refer to:
Arts and Entertainment
Ruy, the Little Cid, Spanish animated television series
Ruy Blas, a character in the eponymous tragic drama by Victor Hugo
People
another form of Rui, a Portuguese male given name
another form of the Spanish male given name Rodrigo
Ruy López de Segura (1530-1580), Spanish chess player
Ruy Ramos (born 1957), Japanese footballer
Ruy (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Places
Ruy, Isère, a commune in France
Ruy, Iran, a city in Iran
Ruy Special Town, a village in Iran
Ruy Mountain, a mountain on the border of Bulgaria and Serbia
Other uses
Ruy Lopez, a chess opening named after the Spanish chess player |
3999627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn%20railway%20station | Goulburn railway station | Goulburn railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. Opened on 19 May 1869, it serves the city of Goulburn. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Goulburn Station is operated by NSW TrainLink, and has several train and coach services to destinations including Canberra, Albury, Melbourne, Griffith, Moss Vale, Campbelltown and Sydney.
History
The foundation stone for the main station building was laid by the Mayor of Goulburn, William Davies, on 12 May 1868. At the time, the explorer William Hovell lived immediately opposite the main station building on Sloane Street. The land on which the station buildings are sited was originally designated for public parkland.
The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1881 (and the connection with Victorian Railways in 1883), was a boom to the town. Later branchlines were constructed to Cooma (opened in 1889) and later extended further to Bombala, and to Crookwell and Taralga. Goulburn became a major railway centre with a roundhouse and engine servicing facilities and a factory which made pre-fabricated concrete components for signal boxes and station buildings. A large railway refreshment room opened on the island platform in 1915, closing in 1986 with the withdrawal of the Cooma Mail. A disused bay platform is located at the southern end of platform 1.
From April 1962 until March 1975, the Spirit of Progress conveyed a through car between Melbourne and Canberra, three days per week in each direction. The through carriage was detached at Goulburn and conveyed to Canberra attached to a mixed train. Until the early 1990s, Goulburn was also the terminating point for the Goulburn Day Train and Southern Highlands Express from Sydney.
Platforms and services
Goulburn has one side platform and one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by early morning and evening NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services to and from Sydney Central, Campbelltown and Moss Vale.
During the day, it is served by one NSW TrainLink road coach service to/from Moss Vale.
It is also serviced by NSW TrainLink Xplorer and XPT long-distance services from Sydney to Canberra, Griffith and Melbourne. The Griffith Xplorer combines with the Canberra Xplorer to operate as one train between Sydney and Goulburn.
Opening hours and amenities
The Goulburn Station Travel Centre is open between 3.45am - 9.00pm with staff on site from 3.30am - 12.00am every day of the year.
The following amenities are available at the station:
Public toilets (male, female and disabled)
Waiting room with seating and climate control
Wheelchair accessibility
Hearing loop
Water bottle refill station
Luggage check-in
Description
The station complex includes a type 5 first-class brick station building on Platform 1, completed in 1869, and a type 11, initial island/side building of thirteen bays on the island platform 2 and 3, completed in 1915. Brick refreshment rooms, also completed in 1915, form part of the island platform station building. A brick two-storey signal box with a gable roof was completed in the 1970s.
The broader station complex included three residences and two railway barracks. The stationmaster's residence at 7 Sloane Street is a two-storey type 4 brick design. Two gatekeeper's residences – at 58 Reign Street and 1 Blackshaw Road – were type 1 design brick and stone buildings. All three residences were built in 1868. The HS railway barracks, built in brick in three pavilions, were completed 1880, while the standard railway barracks were built in 1891.
Other buildings in the station complex include:
The locomotive supervisor's office (former police barracks), built in 1812
The goods shed, a 146' x 45' corrugated iron through shed built 1870s
The locomotive straight shed, a "Wellington Shed" built in Wellington in 1880 and transferred to Goulburn in 1930
The roundhouse, built in brick and corrugated iron in 1916, including the turntable
The per way and carriage workshops, built 1881
The heritage-listed complex also includes the station forecourt and plantings to Sloane Street including stone gutters, the footbridge (1894), another footbridge over the yard (1899), a water tank near the station, a water column at the south end of platform 2, a pumphouse, turntable and the Mulwaree Ponds dam.
The cedar wall panelling and timber door panels in the refreshment room and the timber train controller's desk in the area manager's office are specifically listed as artefacts in the station's heritage listing.
Heritage listing
Goulburn railway precinct is of state significance as one of the earliest principal rail locations in NSW and has had continuous use as a major railway centre since the 1860s. The main station building (1869) is significant as the earliest "first class" station building constructed in NSW. The railway station is a prominent public building in Goulburn that, along with other significant railway structures in the adjacent yard, is closely associated with the development of Goulburn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The major railway buildings and other structures at Goulburn are integral to the history and identity of a town which has relied to a great extent on the railways for its growth and development for a large part of its history, with the railway being the major employer for much of Goulburn's history.
Other significant items within the Goulburn railway precinct include the former Station Master's residence (1869), the former Gatekeeper's residence on Blackshaw Road (), the barracks, the former carriage and per way workshops (part of which remain in private ownership), and the former administrative headquarters on Sloane Street.
The Goulburn barracks building is an excellent representative example of 1890s railway barracks construction, is one of the oldest extant railway barracks in NSW, and is associated with an important historical phase in the history of NSW: the rapid development of the NSW railway network in the late 19th century. It is important as an example of a standard 19th century railway design, and along with the two residences at Goulburn, is significant as a group that collectively demonstrate the custom of providing accommodation for railway staff.
Goulburn railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.
Goulburn was one of the earliest major railway centres in NSW and is therefore associated with the earliest development of railway infrastructure in regional NSW in the 1860s. The construction of the line to Goulburn was a major milestone in the development of the railways during the 19th Century and opened up the pastoral industry in this region to new markets. The 1860s station building is significant as one of the earliest first class buildings constructed in NSW, indicating the importance of Goulburn as a major railway centre in the state. The barracks building is one of the earliest extant buildings of its type constructed in NSW, and along with the two railway residences at Goulburn, is significant as a group that collectively demonstrate the custom of providing designated accommodation for railway staff. The site is significant for its collection of buildings form various periods, demonstrating continuous railway activity on the site for almost 150 years
The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history.
The site is associated with John Whitton ('Father of the NSW Railways'), through his achievement in completing the trunk lines to Goulburn. The line from Picton to Goulburn via Thirlmere is one of Whitton's greatest triumphs throughout his career.
The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.
The 1860s station building is a significant and imposing landmark in Goulburn which demonstrates a high level of aesthetic significance. The building is a fine example of a first-class Victorian Italianate railway building, demonstrating the importance of railway development during the earliest period of railway construction. Aspects of the main buildings of special note are the original interiors including the interior of the refreshment room.
The 1915 station building and railway refreshment rooms are significant for demonstrating a variation on a standard building type employed throughout NSW, adapted to accommodate the high level of traffic at Goulburn railway station.
Several other items within the precinct are excellent examples of their type and demonstrate technical and/or aesthetic significance, particularly the Station Master's and Gatekeeper's residences which are good examples of Victorian Gothic style domestic buildings. The roundhouse is of significance as a good example of a large scale industrial railway structure retaining much of its original fabric and form. The railway barracks building at Goulburn is aesthetically significant as an example of late 19th century standard railway architecture.
The place has strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
The major railway buildings at Goulburn are integral to the history and identity of the town which has relied on the railways to a large extent for its growth and prosperity, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The depot, in particular, employed a large number of people, many of whom still live in or near Goulburn.
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
The site has research significance as Goulburn once contained the most comprehensive group or railway buildings outside Sydney, representing most stages of railway development and technology. Much of this infrastructure remains. The roundhouse and associated structures are maintained and interpreted by a local rail heritage group, allowing public access to the roundhouse and surrounds. The collection of residential buildings within close proximity are of research potential by providing an insight into the variety of residences used to accommodate railway staff; providing a contrast between the simple, utilitarian barracks and the grand Station Master's residence.
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
The site is rare as a large scale railway precinct, retaining the majority of its significant features. The Goulburn locomotive depot is rare as an excellent example of a largely intact locomotive depot in NSW, with the roundhouse being one of only seven remaining roundhouse buildings in NSW. The 1869 Gatekeeper's residence is a rare example of its type still in railway ownership and one of the earliest extant examples of its type in NSW. The footbridge is one of only a few surviving old rail truss footbridges, and is a good example of the effects of the economic constraints of the 1890s.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.
The site has representative significance for its collection of railway structures that collectively demonstrate widespread 19th and early 20th century railway customs, activities and design in NSW, and are representative of similar items that are found in many other railway precincts across the state.
The barracks building is a good representative example of late 19th century barracks (rest house) design, displaying full length verandahs on two sides and other features typical of barracks design in the late 19th century.
The 1860s station building is a fine example of the first class station buildings constructed throughout major NSW towns during the 19th Century.
The 1915 station building is a good example of a standard (A8 – A10) early twentieth century station design with fabric, form and details typical of many other island platform buildings of the period.
References
Bibliography
Attribution
External links
Goulburn station details Transport for New South Wales
Buildings and structures in Goulburn, New South Wales
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1869
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
New South Wales State Heritage Register
Main Southern railway line, New South Wales |
3999633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Vincent%20Lange | Otto Vincent Lange | Otto Vincent Lange (30 November 1797 – 4 November 1870) was a Norwegian politician.
Lange was born in Jevnaker, but moved to Arendal. He worked as a school teacher, and helped found the local library and museum in 1832. In 1833 he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the first time. He then changed his civil job to that of surveyor of customs and excise. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1836, 1839, 1842, 1845, 1848, 1851 and 1854, representing the constituency of Arendal og Grimstad.
In October 1854 he was appointed Minister of Church and Education, succeeding Jørgen Herman Vogt. In September 1855 he left that succeeded Vogt again, this time as Minister of Finance and Customs. He held this position periodically until June 1863, interrupted by spells as member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from 1 June 1856 to 31 July 1857, 1 September 1858 to 30 September 1859 and 1 September 1861 to 31 August 1862.
Otto Vincent Lange was married to Anne Nicoline Aall (1800–1886), daughter of businessperson, politician and historian Jacob Aall. The Aall family was a notable one; Anne Nicoline Aall's grandfather was businessman Nicolai Benjamin Aall (died 1798) and her uncles were politicians Niels and Jørgen Aall. Also, Otto Vincent Lange had a brother Ulrik Frederik Lange who was an educator and five-term member of Parliament. Otto Vincent's sister Barbara Abigael married Even Hanssen, whose son Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen married Otto Vincent's daughter Lovise Jacobine.
Otto Vincent Lange was proclaimed Knight of the Order of St. Olav 1847, promoted to Commander in 1857, and in 1863 was awarded the Grand Cross in 1863. He was awarded two Swedish orders: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star and Knight of the Order of Vasa. Lange also held the first class (equivalent to Grand Cross) of the Ottoman Mecidi Order.
He died in 1870 in Kristiania and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.
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Ministers of Finance of Norway
Government ministers of Norway
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Knights of the Order of Vasa
Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie
People from Arendal
People from Jevnaker
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
19th-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Education of Norway |
3999644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Tiger | Thunder Tiger | Thunder Tiger Corporation () is a Taiwan manufacturer of radio controlled models including airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, accessories and engines. Thunder Tiger is the maker of MT4-G3, Raptor e720, Ghost+ drone, award-winning R/C submarine - Neptune SB-1, and SeaWolf.
History
Thunder Tiger Group was founded in Taichung in 1979. In 1997 it was involved in a takeover of ACE R/C corporation in America. Its 1/8 EB4 car was honored as an Offroad Champion of Europe in 1999. It established a marketing center in Germany for Europe in 2004 and was involved in a takeover of Associated in America in 2005.
In 2012, ThunderTiger set up a new company TTBIO CORP in order to provide the Dental Instruments, accessories, machining parts, and components to customers.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
1979 establishments in Taiwan
Radio-controlled car manufacturers
Radio-controlled aircraft
Model manufacturers of Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 1979
Taiwanese brands
Electronics companies of Taiwan |
3999651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus%20Olsen%20Langeland | Rasmus Olsen Langeland | Rasmus Olsen Langeland (8 February 1873 – 1954) was the Norwegian Minister of Labour 1931–1933.
He was father of Olav Rasmussen Langeland.
1873 births
1954 deaths
Government ministers of Norway |
3999652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventor | Ventor | Ventor can refer to
Jürgen "Ventor" Reil, the drummer of Kreator
Bentor, also called Ventor
See also
Ventnor (disambiguation) |
3999655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils%20Brigade%20%28band%29 | Devils Brigade (band) | Devils Brigade is an American rock band formed as a side project by Rancid bassist Matt Freeman in 2000. In Devils Brigade Freeman performs a mix of punk rock and psychobilly styles, singing lead vocals and playing a double bass in contrast to the backing vocals and bass guitar he performs in Rancid. He was backed by his Rancid bandmates for singles released in 2003 and 2005, and recruited X drummer DJ Bonebrake to play on Devils Brigade's eponymous debut album in 2010.
History
Devils Brigade was started in 2000 by Matt Freeman as a side project from his regular band, Rancid, when he and longtime bandmate Tim Armstrong began writing songs together in between Rancid tours. While Freeman plays the electric bass guitar and sings backing and occasional lead vocals in Rancid, Devils Brigade would feature him on lead vocals and playing a double bass, incorporating elements of psychobilly into his usual punk rock repertoire. Devils Brigade debuted with the song "Vampire Girl" on the 2002 compilation album Give 'Em the Boot III, released by Armstrong's label Hellcat Records. Freeman was backed by Armstrong on guitar and their Rancid bandmate Brett Reed on drums for this track and two subsequent 12" singles—"Stalingrad" / "Psychos All Around Me" (2003) and "Vampire Girl" (2005)—both released through Rancid Records during downtime between Rancid tours.
Following tours in support of Rancid's 2009 album Let the Dominoes Fall, Freeman revived Devils Brigade to record a full-length album. It was originally envisioned as a concept album based on an idea of Armstrong's for a musical about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, titled Half Way to Hell Club after the informal fraternity of nineteen steelworkers who were caught by safety netting strung below the construction site, saving them from what would have otherwise been fatal falls into the bay below. "We grew up in the East Bay looking at that bridge and it has always been a part of our lives", said Freeman.
Six of the album's twelve tracks originated from this concept, while the remaining six were re-recorded tracks from the first Devils Brigade demo. The album was recorded in early 2010 with Armstrong on guitar and drummer DJ Bonebrake of X and The Knitters, who had previously played with Freeman in Auntie Christ, and includes contributions from Rancid member Lars Frederiksen. "It was a great vibe in the studio," said Freeman, "The record has a real live and loose vibe. Loose in a good way. Tim's guitar style blended really well with DJ and everything clicked very quickly." The album was released as Devils Brigade August 31, 2010 through Hellcat Records. Devils Brigade toured the United States supporting Street Dogs from August through October 2010.
According to the ASCAP website, the band wrote a song titled I Can See The Ocean, but it is unknown as to whether or not the song made the album under a different name or not.
Members
Current members
Matt Freeman – lead vocals, double bass, guitars, bass guitar (2000–present)
Tim Armstrong – guitars, vocals (2000–present)
DJ Bonebrake – drums, percussion, vibraslap (2010–present)
Rob Milucky - guitar (2012-present)
Former members
Brett Reed – drums (2000–2006)
Touring members
Chris Arredondo - drums (2010-2011)
Rob Milucky - guitar (2010-2012)
Discography
"Stalingrad" / "Psychos All Around Me" 12" single (2003)
"Vampire Girl" 12" single (2005)
Devils Brigade (2010)
Music videos
"I'm Movin' Through" (2010)
References
External links
Devils Brigade on Myspace
Devils Brigade at Hellcat Records
American psychobilly musical groups
Hellcat Records artists |
3999657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20Langhelle | Nils Langhelle | Nils Langhelle (28 September 1907 – 28 August 1967) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and Minister of Labour 1945–1946, Norway's first Minister of Transport and Communications 1946-1951 and 1951–1952, Minister of Defense 1952–1954, Minister of Trade and Shipping 1954-1955 and President of the Storting from 7 May 1958 to 30 September 1965.
He was arrested on 29 January 1943 and imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from May to December 1943, then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of World War II.
References
1907 births
1967 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Grini concentration camp survivors
Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Presidents of the Storting
Vice Presidents of the Storting
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Chairpersons of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Defence ministers of Norway |
5393065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ship%20commissionings%20in%201917 | List of ship commissionings in 1917 | The list of ship commissionings in 1917 includes a chronological list of ships commissioned in 1917. In cases where no official commissioning ceremony was held, the date of service entry may be used instead.
References
See also
1917
Ship commissionings
Ship commissionings
Ship commissionings |
5393071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Innocence%20Project%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Innocence Project (disambiguation) | The Innocence Project is a 2006–2007 BBC television series.
The Innocence Project may also refer to:
The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization in the United States founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld
Alaska Innocence Project, an Alaska (USA) organization based on the group above
California Innocence Project, a California (USA) organization based on the group above
Georgia Innocence Project, a Georgia (USA) organization based on the group above
Illinois Innocence Project, an Illinois (USA) organization based on the group above
Innocence Project of Texas, a Texas (USA) organization based on the group above
Innocence Project New Orleans, a Louisiana (USA) organization based on the group above
Medill Innocence Project, an Illinois (USA) organization based on the group above
Nebraska Innocence Project, a Nebraska (USA) organization based on the group above
Northern California Innocence Project, a California (USA) organization based on the group above |
3999670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Roar%20Langslet | Lars Roar Langslet | Lars Roar Langslet (5 March 1936, Nes, Buskerud – 18 January 2016) was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (culture and science affairs only, not church affairs) in 1981, and Minister of Culture and Science from 1982 until 1986 for the Conservative Party.
As Norway has a Lutheran State Church, his ministry had to be divided, since Langslet was a converted Catholic, and hence could not be in charge of the affairs of the state church.
He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. In 1984 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.
He was appointed a government scholar in 1997. He was one of the editors of Ordet, a quarterly magazine published by Riksmål Society.
References
20th-century Norwegian politicians
1936 births
2016 deaths
People from Nes, Buskerud
Norwegian Roman Catholics
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism
Former Lutherans
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Ministers of Culture of Norway
Members of the Storting
Members of the Norwegian Academy
Norwegian magazine editors |
3999680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Larssen | Per Larssen | Per Larssen (11 June 1881 – 21 October 1947) was Norwegian Minister of Trade 1931–1932 in Kolstad's Cabinet.
Son of a farmer, he was an engineer by education, with a Ph.D from Dresden University of Technology in 1924. He worked as director of the National Insurance Service 1932–1937; as acting port director 1937–1940 and then as port director from 1940.
References
1881 births
1947 deaths
Government ministers of Norway |
3999686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder%20Carl%20Lasson | Peder Carl Lasson | Peder Carl Lasson (14 November 1798 – 5 June 1873) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1855 to 1873.
He was born in rural Bærum in Akershus, Norway. He was the son of Niels Quist Lasson (1762-1853) and Barbara Christiane Bremer (1773-1833).
He went on the Christiania Cathedral School (now Oslo Cathedral School). He studied at the newly founded University of Christiania (now University of Oslo). He graduated with a degree in law during 1822.
He received a license as a barrister and began a career in law, being appointed Supreme Court judge in 1828, Supreme Court assessor in 1837 and district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) of Aker in 1848.He had many law-related publications to his name. He was acting Minister of Justice and the Police from July to September 1852 and October 1852 to April 1853, as a member of the interim governments. Such interim governments were established when King Oscar I of Sweden travelled abroad or was ill.
Lasson was appointed successor to Chief Justice Georg Jacob Bull, who died in 1854. Lasson served as the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1855 to 1873.
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1798 births
1873 deaths
People from Akershus
People educated at Oslo Cathedral School
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian lawyers
Government ministers of Norway
Chief Justices of Norway |
5393086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douala%20International%20Airport | Douala International Airport | MD-Douala International Airport () is an international airport located in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. With its 4 terminals and an average of 1.5 million passengers and 50,000 tonnes of freight per year it is the country's busiest airport. The airport is managed and partly owned (34%) by the company Aeroport du Cameroon (ADC) which also manages all other 13 airports on Cameroonian soil.
Runway
Douala Airport has a single runway, 12/30, with a length of 2,880 m (9,448 ft). Between 1 and 21 March 2016, the runway was closed for upgrade works; all airlines switched operations to Yaoundé Airport during that period. This formed part of a renovation plan of 20 billion CFA (US$36,363,636 million), financed by the French Agency of Development, which targeted a two-stage renovation: first the airport's runway, and then its terminals and interior.
Statistics
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Accidents and incidents
4 March 1962: Caledonian Airways Flight 153
3 December 1995: Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701
5 May 2007: the Kenya Airways Flight 507 scheduled for Abidjan - Douala - Nairobi crashed in Mbanga Pongo near Douala international airport, two minutes after it took off from the airport. Although the weather was bad, the report from the Cameroonian civil aviation authority said the pilots were to blame for the crash. There were 114 fatalities, including 37 Cameroonians, 15 Indians and one American.
References
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Airports in Cameroon
Buildings and structures in Douala |
5393088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimston%2C%20Norfolk | Grimston, Norfolk | Grimston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximately 6 miles north-east of King's Lynn.
It covers an area of and had a population of 1,952 in 823 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 1,980 at the 2011 Census.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
The village is a few miles away from the Royal family residence at Sandringham House.
The village was built on a spring line and a Roman villa was found near Watery Lane in the late 19th century. Subsequently, Roman villas were found in the neighbouring villages of Gayton Thorpe and Well Hall to the south and Congham and Appleton to the north. Some red bricks from the villas were re-used in the church, on buttresses and on the South Wall.
Grimston, and particularly the nearby hamlet of Pott Row were quite significant centres of pottery production from the 11th to 16th centuries, and important suppliers of this to Scandinavia. Grimstonware finds have also been made in Italy and Spain. Pots often had faces carved just under the rim. Some of these can be seen in local museums including the Castle Museum, Norwich.
The Grade I listed Church of St Botolph has late Saxon or early Norman origins, largely extended in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Schools that serve the area of Grimston are Holly Meadows School (Primary) in Vong Lane and Springwood High School in King's Lynn (Secondary).
Adam Thoroughgood (1604 -1640) was born in Grimston. He was a prominent Virginia settler in the 1620s, naming the city of Norfolk, Virginia after his home county. The district of Thoroughgood in Virginia Beach is named after him, and a house he built there is open as Adam Thoroughgood House.
Name
Grimston is a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse words. Other place names with this formulation are called Grimston Hybrids. Grim is an alternative name for Odin, as well as being a commonly used personal name, and ton is from the Anglo-Saxon word for town or village.
Governance
An electoral ward of the same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 2,237.
Notes
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Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
5393097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mountains%20in%20Bulgaria | List of mountains in Bulgaria | Mountains constitute a significant part of Bulgaria and are dominant in the southwest and central parts. Bulgaria's highest mountains are Rila (highest peak Musala, 2925 m; the highest in the Balkans) and Pirin (highest peak Vihren, 2914 m). The large mountain chain of Stara planina (Balkan Mountains) runs west–east across the entire country, bisecting it and giving the name to the entire Balkan peninsula. Other extensive mountains are the massifs Rhodopes and Strandzha in the south.
List of mountains in Bulgaria with their highest peaks
List of peaks above 2500 m
Gallery
See also
List of mountain peaks in Pirin
Rila
Balkan Mountains
Rhodope Mountains
List of mountains of the Balkans
List of European ultra-prominent peaks
List of the highest European ultra-prominent peaks
List of mountain ranges
Most isolated major summits of Europe
Southernmost glacial mass in Europe
External links
Водач за българските планини
Bulgaria
Mountains
Bul |
5393106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Roche | Lee Roche | Lee Paul Roche (born 28 October 1980) is an English former professional footballer. He played as a right sided full-back but could also play on the right of midfield.
Club career
Manchester United
Roche started his career as a trainee at Manchester United but made only one substitute appearance in the league against Newcastle United. He also started a League Cup game against Arsenal and a Champions League tie against Deportivo la Coruna. During his time with the 'Red Devils' the young full-back was loaned out to Wrexham for the 2000–01 season, and was a key member of the team for the entire season, playing in 41 of the 46 league games.
Burnley
At the end of 2003 Roche was released on a free transfer from Manchester United. Burnley were the team to take advantage of this situation with then manager Stan Ternent using his connections to the Old Trafford club to sign the promising youngster to a two-year deal.
In his first season, Roche wasn't a first team regular, despite scoring an outstanding 25-yard volley against Crystal Palace on his debut which although credited to him was a clear own goal. Towards the end of the 2003–04 season though, he began to push the previous right back, Dean West out of the side. Unfortunately for Roche, Ternent's contract wasn't renewed and Steve Cotterill was appointed as the new manager at Turf Moor. Cotterill did not rate Roche as highly as Ternent had done, and brought in Mike Duff from Cheltenham Town instead. Roche still featured in the team fairly regularly though, but out of position on the right side of midfield where he looked much less comfortable. Roche scored his only other Burnley goal in a famous 2–1 victory at Elland Road against Leeds United.
Wrexham
After his two-year contract with Burnley expired, Roche returned to play for Wrexham in the summer of 2005. He scored on his second debut for the club against Boston United. At the end of the 2006–07 season Roche was released by Wrexham after a disappointing season in which they just avoided relegation to the Football Conference.
Later career
He joined Droylsden in 2007, staying with the club until February 2011.
International career
Roche made one appearance for the England under-21s; he started the 2−2 draw with Finland during qualifying for the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
Retirement
Following a sequence of injuries and falling out of love with the game, Roche retired from football at age 27. He now works as a plumber and cavity wall remover and also coaches the Bury F.C. under-11 side.
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Bolton
English footballers
Association football defenders
Manchester United F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Droylsden F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players |
3999687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footballer%20of%20the%20Year%20%28Germany%29 | Footballer of the Year (Germany) | The title Footballer of the Year (German: Fußballer des Jahres) has been awarded in Germany since 1960. In 1996, the title Women's Footballer of the Year (German: Fußballerin des Jahres) was awarded for the first time. Both awards are determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists (Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten) and the publication kicker. Eligible are German players and non-German players playing in Germany.
The current titleholders are Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich and Nicole Billa of 1899 Hoffenheim. In 2004, Brazilian Aílton became the first foreign player to attain the honour.
Footballer of the Year
Women's Footballer of the Year
Footballer of the Year for East Germany
From 1963 to 1991, the publication Die Neue Fußballwoche awarded the Footballer of the Year for East Germany award.
East German Women's Footballer of the Year
References
See also
List of sports awards honoring women
Football Manager of the Year (Germany)
German Sportspersonality of the year
German Volleyball Player of the Year
German football trophies and awards
Awards established in 1960
1960 establishments in West Germany
Annual events in Germany
Germany
Awards established in 1996
Germany
Association football player non-biographical articles |
3999703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfdan%20Lehmann | Halfdan Lehmann | Halfdan Lehmann (1825-1908) was a Norwegian state secretary 1879–1906, temporary councillor of state to the Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1881, temporary Minister of the Navy in 1884, and the appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1884.
1825 births
1908 deaths
Government ministers of Norway |
3999709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Leiro | Lars Leiro | Lars Leiro (13 April 1914 – 22 March 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Haus.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1958, and was re-elected on two occasions. From August to September 1963 he served as the Minister of Transport and Communications during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng. During his stints as cabinet member his seat in the Parliament was taken by Eilif Åsbo. His career in politics ended with the post of County Governor of Hordaland, which he held from 1966 to 1984.
Leiro was a member of Voss municipality council from 1947 to 1960, serving as mayor in the period 1955–1959. Having grown up in Frekhaug, he had become a farmer in Voss in 1941, from which he stepped down in 1976. He held numerous posts in local and national boards and committees.
References
1914 births
2005 deaths
Members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Mayors of places in Hordaland
County Governors of Norway
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
20th-century Norwegian politicians |
3999718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer%20Lehmkuhl | Kristofer Lehmkuhl | Kristofer Diedrich Lehmkuhl (25 September 1855 – 23 October 1949) was a Norwegian politician from Bergen. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1903 and became the Minister of Labour in 1905 and from 1905 to 1907. He did not seek reelection in 1906.
He gave name to the three-masted barque rigged sail vessel Statsraad Lehmkuhl.
References
1855 births
1949 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting |
3999724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons%20Lid | Mons Lid | Mons Lid (8 April 1896 – 3 March 1967) was a Norwegian politician of the Labour Party who served as Minister of Finance from 1955 to 1956 under Einar Gerhardsen. He also served as County Governor of Hordaland from 1949 to 1966.
References
1896 births
1967 deaths
Ministers of Finance of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians |
3999733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cablem%C3%A1s | Cablemás | Cablemás was a Mexican regional telecommunications company, owned by Grupo Televisa. The company had a triple play-based service, consisting on subscription television, phone line and broadband internet offered in a single package deal. The company had its headquarters in Colonia Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.
In 2015, Cablemás's operations were rebranded as izzi Telecom following a corporate decision by Televisa to unify its regional-based TV providers, such as Cablecom and Cablevisión, under one sole brand.
History
It is the second-largest cable operator in Mexico after Megacable. It has offered cable since the late 1980s, and broadband Internet since the late 1990s with approximately 953,000 cable TV customers, 325,000 high speed internet customers, and 180,000 telephony lines in 49 cities in Mexico (July 2010). Cablemas is also the first company to distribute VoIP in Tijuana, Baja California. VoIP is the spearhead of Cablemas's new promotionals.
Due to the previous laws in Mexico, in the past, telecommunication companies cannot provide more than two services. An example of this is the company Telnor, which provides telephones and Internet. Another example is Megacable, a company that provides cable and broadband Internet. To provide more services, Cablemas made an alliance with Axtel, a new telephone company operating from Monterrey, and the new Cablemas-Axtel Alliance was created with initially nearly 1,000 customers. Nowadays, Cablemás offers also fixed telephony at its own.
Cablemas bases its primary operation in the city of Tijuana, which is also the city that produces the highest influx of money into the company.
From 2015, Cablemás disappears as a trademark to make way for Izzi Telecom, following Televisa's strategy to unify its cable TV operations throughout the country under a single brand (just as Cablevisión).
Controversy
Ongoing issues with service on Isla Mujeres and in parts of Cancún and Mérida have led to allegations of fraud against Cablemás. Tests performed by local municipalities show that advertised rates of 10Mbit/s are actually capped as low as .5 or even .3 Mbit/s, or less than 5% of advertised speeds. The lack of a stable Internet connection, coupled with the company's virtual monopoly in isolated regions like Isla Mujeres, has resulted in unrest among businesses and residents. In December 2014, the municipality of Isla Mujeres vowed to investigate Cablemás and recommend sanctions to the governor of Quintana Roo.
References
External links
Official Webpage
Press Releases
Annual Financial Statements
Issues with Cablemas
Telecommunications companies of Mexico
Telecommunications companies established in 1968
Televisa subsidiaries
1968 establishments in Mexico
Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Mexico |
3999740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Allen | Bill Allen | Bill Allen may refer to:
Bill Allen (footballer) (1889–1948), Australian footballer and cricketer
William McPherson Allen (1900–1985), CEO of Boeing
Bill Allen (British politician) (1901–1973), MP for West Belfast
Bill "Hoss" Allen (1922–1997), American radio disc jockey
Bill Allen (businessman, born 1937), American corporate executive and political financier
Bill Allen (dentist) (born 1943), English dentist
Bill Allen (basketball) (born 1945), American basketball player
Bill Allen (Canadian politician) (born 1946), politician from Saskatchewan, Canada
Bill Allen (actor) (born 1962), American film and television actor
See also
Billy Allen (1917–1981), English footballer
Will Allen (disambiguation)
William Allan (disambiguation)
William Allen (disambiguation)
Willie Allen (disambiguation)
Allen (surname) |
3999748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal%20Bose | Gopal Bose | Gopal Bose ( ; 20 May 1947 – 26 August 2018) was an Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played one One Day International for India against England in 1974.
Bose was born in Kolkata, Indian state of West Bengal. He was a relatively successful first-class player with an ability to play long innings. He was selected in the national team for the tour of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where he impressed with a 194-run partnership with Sunil Gavaskar. He was again selected in the 14-member squad for the West Indies tour of 1974–75 but was surprisingly left out of the playing eleven and was never considered thereafter. He represented Bengal for the rest of his career with much success. In his career Bose had scored 3757 runs in 78 first-class games with eight hundreds and 17 fifties. He also took 72 wickets.
Bose was the head coach of Kolkata's Cricket Club of Dhakuria(CCD). He died in Birmingham on 26 August 2018, following a heart attack.
References
External links
1947 births
2018 deaths
Bengal cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
Indian cricketers
East Zone cricketers
State Bank of India cricketers
Cricketers from Kolkata
Indian cricket coaches |
3999752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Lie%20%28government%20minister%29 | Jonas Lie (government minister) | Jonas Lie (31 December 1899 – 11 May 1945) was a Norwegian councilor of state in the Nasjonal Samling government of Vidkun Quisling in 1940, then acting councilor of state 1940–1941, and Minister of Police between 1941 and 1945 in the new Quisling government. Lie was the grandson of the novelist Jonas Lie and the son of the writer Erik Lie.
Early life
Raised in a family with close ties to Germany, Lie was a war correspondent on the Western front and Eastern front during World War I. He was a successful police officer in the 1930s. He was the police officer charged with accompanying Leon Trotsky on a freighter from Norway to Mexico. His political convictions may have been influenced by his uncle Nils Kjær, who was an ardent antisemite.
Fascism
It is possible that Lie was introduced to Heinrich Himmler as early as 1935. They maintained a close personal relationship during the entire Nazi era. Lie became a rival of Vidkun Quisling's during the occupation of Norway.
Despite his later collaborationist stance, Lie took part in the defense of Norway after the German invasion of Norway, fighting at Folldal. After suffering an injury to his foot, Lie was captured by the Germans and briefly held prisoner.
Lie became one of the first Norwegian SS volunteers when he served for a brief period of time during the Balkans Campaign of 1940 as a war correspondent in Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler together with Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs. He later led the 1st Police Company of the Norwegian Legion of the Waffen-SS on the Leningrad Front in 1942–43.
Lie was also the official leader of the Germanic-SS in Norway. This organisation, first known as Norges SS (founded 1941) and Germanske SS Norge (re-founded 1942) was a Norwegian equivalent to the German Allgemeine-SS.
In late 1944, after pressure from Josef Terboven, Quisling appointed the Ministers Jonas Lie and Johan Andreas Lippestad as 1st and 2nd County Governors of Finnmark county in the extreme north of Norway. Lie, Lippestand and others went to Kirkenes in mid-October 1944 to order an evacuation of the civil population in order to assist the German plans for a scorched earth policy in the face of the Soviet forces who were about to push German forces back into Norway.
He died at Skallum on 11 May 1945, just before being arrested. The cause of death is unknown, as the autopsy was unable to find any evidence of suicide. It was widely believed a combination of stress, a large consumption of alcohol and lack of sleep was the cause of his death. It is also a fact that he had a heart condition, was a chain-smoker and had several other health problems.
Writing
In the tradition of his father and grandfather, Lie was also a writer in his own right. During the 1930s, he produced a number of popular detective novels under the nom de plume Max Mauser. In 1942, he also published Over Balkans syv blåner, an account of his service with the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in the Balkans.
References
External links
Ny bok om nazisten Jonas Lie, in Aftenposten, retrieved 4 November 2007
1899 births
1945 deaths
20th-century Norwegian novelists
20th-century Norwegian politicians
War correspondents of World War I
Norwegian Army personnel of World War II
Norwegian prisoners of war in World War II
World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
Government ministers of Norway
Norwegian police chiefs
Norwegian crime fiction writers
Members of Nasjonal Samling
SS-Standartenführer
War correspondents of World War II
Norwegian anti-communists
Norwegian Waffen-SS personnel
Ministers of Justice of Norway |
3999758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnor | Telnor | Telnor, or Teléfonos del Noroeste ("Telephones of the Northwest") is a company providing telephone and internet services since 1981 (DSL through Prodigy and E1). It operates in the Mexican states of Baja California and part of the northwest of Sonora, It is part of América Móvil Telecom, which is owned by billionaire Carlos Slim.
See also
Telmex - sister telephone company within Grupo Carso
Axtel - competition in the local telephone market
Prodigy - its provider of DSL service
External links
Telnor official website (in Spanish)
Telecommunications companies established in 1981
Mobile phone companies of Mexico |
5393115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20Matthews | A. E. Matthews | Alfred Edward Matthews (22 November 186925 July 1960), known as A. E. Matthews, was an English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Already middle-aged when films began production, he enjoyed increasing renown from World War II onwards as one of the British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men.
Biography
Matthews was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews.
A prominent stage actor by his mid-40s, Matthews was among several theatre figures who then began a film career during the silent era with the British Actors Film Company, a production company that operated between 1916 and 1923.
Matthews toured during World War II in The First Mrs. Fraser, with Dame Marie Tempest and Barry Morse, and was later cast in the extremely popular films Carry On Admiral, Doctor at Large and Around the World in 80 Days, in which he played a mainstay of the Reform Club.
Matthews's other best-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck.
In 1951 Matthews was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George VI, and on 15 August 1951 when aged 81 he was interviewed by Roy Plomley as the guest "castaway" on BBC Radio's long-running Desert Island Discs programme. He was Roy Plomley's 100th castaway.
In his 89th year, Matthews made national headlines by sitting for several days and nights on the pavement outside his beautiful Georgian home near London, his purpose being to prevent the council from installing a new streetlight, the design of which he felt was totally out of keeping with the neighbourhood and which badly needed improvement. Spike Milligan penned an episode of the Goon Show entitled "The Evils of Bushey Spon" based on the incident. The programme, first broadcast on 17 March 1958, included a guest appearance by Matthews himself at the end of the episode, and this part of the show was ad-libbed as Milligan knew Matthews had never used a script in his life, and wrote blank lines for him. Much laughter was obtained by the larking around of the Goons interaction with their guest.
Shortly afterwards, on 5 May 1958, Matthews appeared on the live BBC TV programme This Is Your Life, a notable feature of which occurred at the end when he was faded out just as he began to speak directly to the television theatre audience. Having regaled audience and viewers throughout the show with highly engaging reminiscences, there were many press and public complaints to the BBC about the fade out. Host Eamonn Andrews recalled in his autobiography that "Matty had been a bit of a hellion all his life, a loveable, unpredictable rebel whose sense of fun was monumental. I knew I had a tough assignment on my hands once the decision was made to present his 'life'. On transmission, he did just about every solitary thing calculated to wreck the show's intricate timing and drive me up the drapes. He snorted, contradicted, interrupted, laughed, and, at one stage, even stretched out on the couch and said he was going to have a snooze.". On the following day, the Yorkshire Post declared that "There has never been a This Is Your Life quite like it", and a Daily Express article titled Mattie's BBC Fade-Out Angers Viewers wrote that "This was THE life of the whole series."
Matthews was still working as an actor right up until his death two years later. He died on 25 July 1960 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, aged 90. A Blue Plaque is displayed on his former home at 38 Little Bushey Lane, WD23 4RN.
In 2008 Greg Knight, the Member of Parliament for the East Riding of Yorkshire constituency, (which includes Matthews's birthplace, Bridlington), launched a successful campaign to have his birthplace recognised with a Blue Plaque. A special ceremony to commemorate his life and career was held in the town on 22 November 2008, organised and compered by Knight. It was attended by the ventriloquist Ray Alan, who knew Matthews and who spoke about his memories of him.
Filmography
A Highwayman's Honour (1914 short)
Wanted: A Widow (1916 short)
The Real Thing at Last (1916 short) as Murdered
The Lifeguardsman (1916) as Lt. Tosh
Once Upon a Time (1918) as Guy Travers
The Lackey and the Lady (1919)
Castle of Dreams (1919) as Gerald Sumner
The Iron Duke (1934) as Lord Hill
Men Are Not Gods (1936) as Frederick Skeates
Quiet Wedding (1941) as Arthur Royd
This England (1941)
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) as Earl of Meadowbrook
The Great Mr. Handel (1942) as Charles Jennens
Thunder Rock (1942) as Mr. Kirby
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) as President of Tribunal
The Man in Grey (1943) as Auctioneer
Escape to Danger (1943) as Sir Thomas Leighton
They Came to a City (1944) as Sir George Gedney
The Way Ahead (1944) as Colonel Walmsley
Love Story (1944) as Col. Pitt Smith
Twilight Hour (1945) as General Fitzhenry
Flight from Folly (1945) as Neville
Piccadilly Incident (1946) as Sir Charles Pearson
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) as Gen. Bristow
Just William's Luck (1947) as The Tramp
William Comes to Town (1948) as Minister for Economic Affairs
Edward, My Son (1949) as Lord George Trelby
The Forbidden Street (1949) as Mr. Bly
Whiskey Galore (1949) as Colonel Linsey-Woolsey
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) as Lord Lister
Landfall (1949) as Air Raid Warden
Mister Drake's Duck (1951) as Brig. Matthews
The Galloping Major (1951) as. Sir Robert Medleigh
Laughter in Paradise (1951) as Sir Charles Robson
The Magic Box (1951) as. Old Gentleman
Castle in the Air (1952) as Blair
Who Goes There! (1952) as Sir Arthur Cornwall
Something Money Can't Buy (1952) as Lord Haverstock
Penny Princess (1952) as Selby
Made in Heaven (1952) as Hillary Topham
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) as Himself
Skid Kids (1953) as Man in Taxi
The Million Pound Note (1954) as Duke of Frognal
The Weak and the Wicked (1954) as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau
Happy Ever After (1954) as General O'Leary
Aunt Clara (1954) as Simon Hilton
Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955) as Mr. Potts
Jumping for Joy (1956) as Lord Reginald Cranfield
Loser Takes All (1956) as Elderly Man in Casino
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Reform Club member
Three Men in a Boat (1956) as Crabtree, 1st Old Gentleman
The Square (1957 short)
Doctor at Large (1957) as Duke of Skye and Lewes
Carry On Admiral (1957) as Adm. Sir Maximillian Godfrey, K.C.B.
The Royalty (1957) (BBC TV series) – Episode 1 as Lord Charters
The Sky Larks (1958) (BBC TV series) – Episode 9: Find the Lady as Vice Adml. Sir Geoffrey Wiggin-Fanshawe
How Say You? (1959) (BBC TV drama) as Mr. Peebles
Inn for Trouble (1960) as Sir Hector Gore-Blandish (final film role)
Selected stage appearances
Lady Huntworth's Experiment by R.C. Carton (1900)
Bulldog Drummond by Gerald du Maurier (1921)
Spring Meeting by Molly Keane (1938)
They Came to a City by J.B. Priestley (1943)
But for the Grace of God by Frederick Lonsdale (1946)
The Chiltern Hundreds by William Douglas Home (1947)
The Manor of Northstead by William Douglas Home (1954)
References
External links
Performance details in University of Bristol Theatre Archive
A. E. Matthews Biography
1869 births
1960 deaths
English male film actors
English male silent film actors
English male stage actors
People from Bridlington
20th-century English male actors |
5393133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20McGlashan | Thomas McGlashan | Dr. Thomas McGlashan (born 1942) is an American professor of psychiatry at Yale University, well known for his academic contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.
Professional career
He obtained his medical qualification from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, and was a staff member in Chestnut Lodge, where according to the New York Times, May 23, 2006, McGlashan "strived for years to master psychoanalysis, only to reject it (for psychosis) after demonstrating, in a landmark 1984 study, that the treatment did not help much at all in people ... with schizophrenia.". These long term follow up and reported outcomes for patients with schizophrenia are known as the Chestnut Lodge studies.
In the 1990s he embarked upon work focused on interventions early in the course of schizophrenia, and became an early advocate and researcher in early detection and intervention for psychosis, including being a key participant in the Norway early detection studies (TIPS) and PRIME studies on early treatment of those at risk of schizophrenia The study reported that the drug Olanzapine had a "trend significant" effect in preventing conversion to psychosis and that further, larger studies are warranted.
Professor Thomas McGlashan is the current recipient of the Richard Wyatt Award, of the International Early Psychosis Association, and of the Psychiatric Research Award of the American Psychiatric Association for his contributions to the field of early detection and intervention in psychosis.
Books
The documentation of clinical psychotropic drug trials by Thomas H McGlashan - 1973)
The Borderline: Current Empirical Research by Thomas H. McGlashan (1985)
Co-authored:
Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders (Nato Science Series: D Behavioural and Social Sciences, Volume 91) (NATO Science Series D: (closed)) by Tandy Miller, Sarnoff A. Mednick, Thomas H. McGlashan, and Jan Libiger (Hardcover - Nov 2001)
Schizophrenia: Treatment Process and Outcome by Thomas H. McGlashan and Christopher J. Keats (1989)
A Developmental Model of Borderline Personality Disorder: Understanding Variations in Course and Outcome by Patricia Hoffman Judd and Thomas H. McGlashan (2002)
References
1942 births
Living people
American psychiatrists
Yale University faculty
Psychiatry academics |
5393139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilchrist%20Document | Gilchrist Document | The Gilchrist Document is a much cited letter from 1965 often used to support arguments for Western involvement in the overthrow of Sukarno in Indonesia. The document purports to be a letter from the British ambassador to Jakarta, Andrew Gilchrist, addressed to the British Foreign Office and refers to a joint US–UK plan for military intervention in Indonesia.
The letter was first made public by the Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio on a trip to Cairo. The US embassy in Cairo was soon able to get a photographic copy of the letter. The embassy concluded that it was a fake, and the "Gilchrist letter" was subsequently referred to as a forgery in the US administration. An internal discussion in the US administration on who was behind the forgery followed, and the US settled on a Subandrio-controlled intelligence agency.
The Czech agent Vladislav Bittman who defected in 1968 claimed that his agency forged the letter. Bittman also claimed responsibility for the campaign against US citizen and movie distributor Bill Palmer.
The papers of the British ambassador Sir Andrew Gilchrist are held in the Churchill Archive at Churchill College, Cambridge University. Some of them are still classified. Speculation about a possible British role in the overthrow of Sukarno continues, although British defence secretary in 1965, Denis Healey, stated in 2000 that Britain was not involved, though Healey would have supported involvement had it been possible.
Text
The following is the text of the document as reproduced in a semi-official collection of documents:
I discussed with the American Ambassador the questions set out in your No.:67786/65. The Ambassador agreed in principal with our position but asked for time to investigate certain aspects of the matter.
To my question on the possible influence of Bunker's visit, to Jakarta, the Ambassador state that he saw no reason for changing our joint plans. On the contrary, the visit of the US. President's personal envoy would give us more time to prepare the operation the utmost detail . The Ambassador felt that further measures were necessary to bring our efforts into closer alignment. In this connection, he said that it would be useful to impress again on our local army friends that extreme care discipline and coordination of action were essential for the success of our enterprise.
I promised to take all necessary measures. I will report my own views personally in due course.
GILCHRIST
References
Transition to the New Order
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
1965 documents |
5393161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait%20Area%20Education%20and%20Recreation%20Centre | Strait Area Education and Recreation Centre | Strait Area Education and Recreation Centre (SAERC) is a high school located in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is attended by approximately 400 students in grades 9 to 12. The school is also home to a community swimming pool, as well as a public library, SAERC FM and SAERC TV. The school falls under the jurisdiction of the Strait Regional School Board.
Notable alumni
Lynn Coady
Mark Day
Allie MacDonald
References
External links
Official website
SAERC TV Website
SAERC Student Handbook 2016 - 2017
High schools in Nova Scotia
Schools in Inverness County, Nova Scotia |
5393176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Triestino | Lloyd Triestino | Lloyd Triestino was a major shipping company, created in 1919 when the city of Trieste became part of Italy in the settlement after the First World War. It ran passenger services on ocean liners around the world. Seriously harmed by Second World War, in which it lost 68 ships, it recovered to run passenger services with new ships on routes as far as Australia. In 2006, with the business by then mainly container freight, the company's name was changed to Italia Marittima.
Background
The company was founded as Österreichischer Lloyd (or "Austrian Lloyd") as an insurance company in 1833. In 1836 the company went into shipping. It became one of the world's biggest shipping companies by managing most oversea trade and passenger travel of Austria-Hungary until 1918. The Austrian Lloyd was running regular services from Trieste to the Near East, India, China and the Far East, Brazil, the US and Northern Europe. It was one of the first companies to use steam ships.
Company
Between the wars
Österreichischer Lloyd's name was changed to Lloyd Triestino in 1919, when Trieste became a part of Italy. At this time, the company also faced major restructuring in order to recover losses incurred during World War I. By the end of the 1930s, Lloyd Triestino, with its offshoot Italia di Navigazione, was once again a major world shipping power, owning a fleet of 85 vessels with 17 services to east Africa, southern Africa, Asia, and Australia.
After the Second World War
The company was crippled by the devastation of the Second World War, losing 68 ships and 1,000 sailors. At the end, they were reduced to a fleet of just five ships and were again faced with a massive recovery operation.
In 1950, Lloyd Triestino launched three 13,140 GRT ocean-going passenger liners for its service to Australia: the Australia, the Oceania, and the Neptunia. All three were moved to the Italia line in 1963, replaced by two new liners, the Guglielmo Marconi and the Galileo Galilei, each twice the size of the "trio" ships at 27,905 GRT.
By 1956, the fleet had grown to 31 ships. A total of 199 ships were owned by Lloyd Triestino between 1919 and 2006.
Sul Mare magazine
The illustrated travel magazine Sul Mare (Italian for 'On the Sea') was distributed on Lloyd's ships and other outlets from March 1925 to 1944, and revived after the Second World War; 148 issues were produced. Their covers were decorated with four-colour illustrations by Italian artists, many of them from Trieste, including , , Gianni Brumatti, }, Augusto Černigoj, Marcello Claris, Marcello Dudovich, Ugo Flumiani, , Lauro Laghi, , Guido Marussig, Argio Orell, and Antonio Quaiatti. The contents were written in Italian, French, English, and German.
Partnership with Evergreen Marine
Lloyd Triestino entered into a partnership with Taiwanese shipping giant, Evergreen Marine, Corp., in 1993. The partnership has grown over the years, and now includes Evergreen's British-based line, Hatsu Marine, created in 2000.
Successor company
On March 1, 2006, Lloyd Triestino's name was changed to Italia Marittima. Ship names were changed from the prefix "LT" to "Ital" (e.g., LT Cortesia to Ital Contessa).
References
Shipping companies of Italy
Companies based in Trieste
1919 establishments in Italy |
5393189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD154 | CD154 | CD154, also called CD40 ligand or CD40L, is a protein that is primarily expressed on activated T cells and is a member of the TNF superfamily of molecules. It binds to CD40 on antigen-presenting cells (APC), which leads to many effects depending on the target cell type. In total CD40L has three binding partners: CD40, α5β1 integrin and αIIbβ3. CD154 acts as a costimulatory molecule and is particularly important on a subset of T cells called T follicular helper cells (TFH cells). On TFH cells, CD154 promotes B cell maturation and function by engaging CD40 on the B cell surface and therefore facilitating cell-cell communication. A defect in this gene results in an inability to undergo immunoglobulin class switching and is associated with hyper IgM syndrome. Absence of CD154 also stops the formation of germinal centers and therefore prohibiting antibody affinity maturation, an important process in the adaptive immune system.
History
In 1991, three groups reported discovering CD154. Seth Lederman, Michael Yellin, and Leonard Chess at Columbia University generated a murine monoclonal antibody, 5c8, that inhibited contact-dependent T cell helper function in human cells and which characterized a 32 kDa surface protein transiently expressed on activated CD4+ T cells. Richard Armitage at Immunex cloned a cDNA encoding CD154 by screening an expression library with CD40-Ig. Randolph Noelle at Dartmouth Medical School generated an antibody that bound a 39 kDa protein on murine T cells and inhibited helper function. Noelle contested Lederman's patent, but the challenge (called an interference) was rejected on all counts
Expression
CD40 ligand (CD154) is primarily expressed on activated CD4+ T lymphocytes but is also found in a soluble form. While CD40L was originally described on T lymphocytes, its expression has since been found on a wide variety of cells, including platelets, mast cells, macrophages, basophils, NK cells, B lymphocytes, as well as non-haematopoietic cells (smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, and epithelial cells).
Specific effects on cells
CD40L plays a central role in costimulation and regulation of the immune response via T cell priming and activation of CD40-expressing immune cells. At least 46 disease-causing mutations in this gene have been discovered.
Macrophages
In the macrophage, the primary signal for activation is IFN-γ from Th1 type CD4 T cells. The secondary signal is CD40L on the T cell, which binds CD40 on the macrophage cell surface. As a result, the macrophage expresses more CD40 and TNF receptors on its surface, which helps increase the level of activation. The activated macrophage can then destroy phagocytosed bacteria and produce more cytokines.
B cells
B cells can present antigens to a specialized group of helper T cells called TFH cells. If an activated TFH cell recognizes the peptide presented by the B cell, the CD40L on the T cell binds to the B cell's CD40, causing B cell activation. The T cell also produces IL-4, which directly influences B cells. As a result of this stimulation, the B cell can undergo rapid cellular division to form a germinal center where antibody isotype switching and affinity maturation occurs, as well as their differentiation to plasma cells and memory B cells. The end-result is a B cell that is able to mass-produce specific antibodies against an antigenic target.
Early evidence for these effects were that in CD40 or CD154 deficient mice, there is little class switching or germinal centre formation, and immune responses are severely inhibited.
Endothelial cells
Activation of endothelial cells by CD40L (e.g. from activated platelets) leads to reactive oxygen species production, as well as chemokine and cytokine production, and expression of adhesion molecules such as E-selectin, ICAM-1, and VCAM-1. This inflammatory reaction in endothelial cells promotes recruitment of leukocytes to lesions and may potentially promote atherogenesis. CD40L has shown to be a potential biomarker for atherosclerotic instability.
Interactions
CD154 has been shown to interact with RNF128.
References
Further reading
External links
GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on X-Linked Hyper IgM Syndrome or Immunodeficiency with Hyper-IgM, Type 1
Clusters of differentiation |
5393194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operability | Operability | Operability is the ability to keep a piece of equipment, a system or a whole industrial installation in a safe and reliable functioning condition, according to pre-defined operational requirements.
In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business processes to work together to accomplish a common task such as finding and returning availability of inventory for flight.
For a gas turbine engine, operability addresses the installed aerodynamic operation of the engine to ensure that it operates with care-free throttle handling without compressor stall or surge or combustor flame-out. There must be no unacceptable loss of power or handling deterioration after ingesting birds, rain and hail or ingesting or accumulating ice. Design and development responsibilities include the components through which the thrust/power-producing flow passes, ie the intake, compressor, combustor, fuel system, turbine and exhaust. They also include the software in the computers which control the way the engine changes its speed in response to the actions of the pilot in selecting a start, selecting different idle settings and higher power ratings such as take-off, climb and cruise. The engine has to start to idle and accelerate and decelerate within agreed, or mandated, times while remaining within operating limits (shaft speeds, turbine temperature, combustor casing pressure) over the required aircraft operating envelope.
Operability is considered one of the ilities and is closely related to reliability, supportability and maintainability.
Operability also refers to whether or not a surgical operation can be performed to treat a patient with a reasonable degree of safety and chance of success.
References
External links
Software Operability
Examples Software Operability Requirements
Computer systems |
5393195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Clark%20II | Michael Clark II | Michael Clark II (born May 4, 1969) is an American professional golfer.
Clark was born in Kingsport, Tennessee. He attended Georgia Tech and turned professional in 1992. He won two events on the PGA Tour's official developmental tour in the 1990s, but it took him some years to win a place on the PGA Tour itself. His 2000 rookie PGA Tour season was a great success, with victory in the John Deere Classic and the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award, but he struggled to build on this, and by 2005 he was back on the Nationwide Tour. Clark last played in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event in 2012.
Professional wins (3)
PGA Tour wins (1)
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
Nike Tour wins (2)
Nike Tour playoff record (0–1)
Results in major championships
Note: Clark never played in the Masters Tournament nor The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
See also
1999 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
External links
American male golfers
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Golfers from Tennessee
People from Kingsport, Tennessee
1969 births
Living people |
5393201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang%20in%20Blue | Gang in Blue | Gang in Blue is a 1996 American film co-directed by Melvin Van Peebles and his son, Mario Van Peebles, about a black police officer who discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Cast
Mario Van Peebles as Michael Rhodes
Josh Brolin as Keith DeBruler
Melvin Van Peebles as Andre Speier
Cynda Williams as Anita Boyard
Stephen Lang as "Moose" Tavola
J. T. Walsh as Lieutenant William Eyler
Sean McCann as Clute Mirkovich
Zach Grenier as Joe Beckstrem
External links
1996 films
1996 crime drama films
1990s police films
American crime drama films
American films
American police films
1990s English-language films
Films about race and ethnicity
Films directed by Mario Van Peebles
Films directed by Melvin Van Peebles
American vigilante films
Films about corruption in the United States |
3999764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20French%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles | 2004 French Open – Men's singles | Gastón Gaudio defeated Guillermo Coria in the final, 0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2004 French Open. Gaudio became the first Argentine to win a major since Guillermo Vilas at the 1979 Australian Open. Gaudio came back from two sets to love down, saved two championship points, and broke Coria's serve twice when the latter served for the championship.
Juan Carlos Ferrero was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Igor Andreev, his first loss at the French Open prior to the semifinals.
This was the first major where Roger Federer competed as the world No. 1. He lost in the third round to former No. 1 and three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten, in his last pre-quarterfinal exit from a major until the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, a run of 36 quarterfinals or better in a row. Until the 2020 US Open, this was the last major without any of the Big Three players in the quarterfinals. This was also the most recent French Open not to feature future fourteen-time champion Rafael Nadal, who withdrew prior to the tournament due to an ankle injury sustained in Estoril in mid-April.
This was the first major in the Open Era to feature four Argentines in the quarterfinals, those being Gaudio, Coria, David Nalbandian, and Juan Ignacio Chela.
Until the 2017 Australian Open, this would be the last major where the top two seeds failed to reach the quarterfinals. Alongside Federer's loss to Kuerten, number two seed Andy Roddick lost in the second round to Olivier Mutis.
The first round match between Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clément was at the time the longest match of the Open Era in 6 hours and 33 minutes over two days. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut would later break this record with their first-round singles match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships.
Seeds
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
Official Roland Garros 2004 Men's Singles Draw
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
2004 French Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Men's Singles
French Open by year – Men's singles
2004 ATP Tour |
3999765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Gunnar%20Lie | Lars Gunnar Lie | Lars Gunnar Lie (born 18 September 1938) is a Norwegian politician from the Christian Democratic Party and was the Minister of Transport and Communications 1989–1990.
References
1938 births
Living people
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Members of the Storting
Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians |
5393231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ship%20commissionings%20in%201943 | List of ship commissionings in 1943 | The list of ship commissionings in 1943 includes a chronological list of ships commissioned in 1943. In cases where no official commissioning ceremony was held, the date of service entry may be used instead.
References
See also
1943
Ship commissionings
Ship commissionings
Ship commissionings |
5393234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Hudson | Sid Hudson | Sidney Charles Hudson (January 3, 1915 – October 10, 2008) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Washington Senators (1940–42, 1946–52) and Boston Red Sox (1952–54) who had a lengthy post-playing career as a pitching coach and scout. Born in Coalfield, Tennessee, he batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed .
Biography
Hudson entered baseball in 1938 with the Class D Sanford Lookouts, who had a working agreement with the Senators. In his second year with Sanford, Hudson led the Florida State League in games won (24), winning percentage (24–4, .857), earned run average (1.79) and strikeouts (192). The following year, he won 17 games for a second-division Washington team as a rookie, and he was selected to the American League All–Star team in both and . He appeared in the 1941 midsummer classic on July 8 at Briggs Stadium and worked the seventh inning, allowing a two-run home run to Arky Vaughan that put the rival National League ahead, 3–2. (The American League would triumph in the ninth inning, however, on a three-run, walk-off homer by Ted Williams).
Hudson's career was interrupted by three years (1943–45) of military service during World War II. A veteran of the United States Army Air Forces, he served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and attained the rank of sergeant. Pitching for Washington's struggling late-1940s teams, he led the American League in games lost (17) in . On April 27, 1947, Hudson was the starting pitcher against the New York Yankees on Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium. In front of 58,000 fans in one of Ruth's last public appearances, Hudson threw a complete game, 1–0 shutout, scattering eight hits and three bases on balls. He was traded to the rebuilding Red Sox in the middle of the campaign, and went 16–22 as a spot starter and reliever over 2 years.
He retired from the field after the campaign. In his 12-season MLB career, Hudson posted a 104–152 record with 734 strikeouts, 123 complete games, 11 shutouts, 13 saves, and a 4.28 earned run average in 2,181 innings pitched. He allowed 2,384 hits and 835 bases on balls. A good-hitting pitcher, he batted .220 with 164 hits and 75 runs batted in during his big-league tenure.
Following his pitching career, he scouted for the Red Sox from 1955 through 1960, then joined the expansion edition of the Senators in 1961 as the team's first pitching coach. He spent all or parts of 13 years over three different terms (1961–April 1965; 1968–1972; and mid-1975–1978) in that role for the franchise in both Washington and Dallas–Fort Worth, where it moved in to become the Texas Rangers. In between those assignments, Hudson served the team as a minor league pitching instructor. After leaving professional baseball in 1985, he was a pitching coach for Baylor University's varsity baseball team.
At the time of his death, at 93 years of age, Hudson was one of the oldest living major league players. He died in Waco, Texas.
Highlights
Twice American League All-Stars (1941–42)
As a rookie in 1940, won 17 games and pitched two one-hitters, and was runner-up rookie of the year
Was fourth in wins (17) and in shutouts (5), fifth in home runs allowed (20), and third in hits allowed (272), in the American League in 1940
References
External links
Baseball Library
Baseball Reference
News Story and partial interview with Sid
Buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Waco, Texas)
1915 births
2008 deaths
American League All-Stars
Baseball coaches from Tennessee
Baseball players from Tennessee
Boston Red Sox players
Boston Red Sox scouts
Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Waco, Texas)
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball pitching coaches
People from Morgan County, Tennessee
Sanford Lookouts players
Texas Rangers coaches
Texas Rangers scouts
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Washington Senators (1961–1971) coaches |
5393237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee%20taping | Knee taping | Knee taping (also known as patellar taping) is a procedure performed by physiotherapists or physicians to alleviate the symptoms of patellofemoral pain. Though knee taping has been shown to offer short-term pain relief, its long-term efficacy is confounded by several studies. The mechanism of action by which it alleviates pain is unknown, though it has been suggested by physicians that it could correct patella position, facilitate/inhibit quadriceps components or bear stress associated with peripatellar tissues or patellar compression (Wilson, T). Evidence for these suggestions, however, has been contradictory or absent.
Types of tape
A pre-wrap is a protective tape. Its purpose is to create a firm surface for further taping.
Adhesive tape or wrap is applied to the cover tape and must not be applied directly to the skin.
References
Taping
Pain management |
3999769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lasner | Robert Lasner | Robert Lasner is the co-founder of Ig Publishing, a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. His books include For Fucks Sake, a bildungsroman novel which gained somewhat of a cult following, and The Real Republican Dictionary, a satirical dictionary of the Republican lexicon . Lasner also co-edited Proud to be Liberal, a collection of essays from liberal voices in America. His short story, "Snow Forts," was featured in the anthology, Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms With Queens, published by SUNY Press.
Bibliography
For Fucks Sake (2002)
Proud to Be Liberal (editor) (2005)
The Real Republican Dictionary (2006)
Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (2011)
External links
Ig Publishing homepage
For Fucks Sake
SUNY Press Page for Forgotten Borough
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American political writers
American publishers (people)
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers |
5393241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nobility | The Nobility | The Nobility is a rock and roll band based in Nashville, Tennessee, currently composed of Sean Williams (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Stephen Jerkins (background vocals, keys), Cheyenne Medders (background vocals, bass) and Will Medders (background vocals, drums). At certain performances they are joined by a third Medders brother, Carson on lead guitar.
The Early Years (Jetpack)
In the spring of 2001, The Nobility (then known as Jetpack) began playing a slew of shows around the southeast and that summer recorded their first EP, High School Girls. A self-titled album (Jetpack, 2002) and a digital EP (Saxophone, 2003) followed. In the summer of 2004, the band received attention from some major labels, but was never signed. Their final recording under the name "Jetpack," an EP entitled The Art of Building A Moat, was released in early 2005 marking a distinct shift in their sound and lyrical content.
2005-2008
New lineup
After the departure of drummer Jeremy Lutito and bassist Landon Ihde in the spring of 2005, Jetpack was offered an opportunity to shoot a video for a song on The Art of Building A Moat entitled "Mathematics." Down two members, they asked close friends Brian Fuzzell and David Dewese to play the parts of drummer and bassist in the video. Deciding that the chemistry was right both Dewese and Fuzzell stayed on as permanent members in their respective roles following the shoot.
Legal roadblocks/Children's book
In early 2006, Heatstroke Records, a label located in Philadelphia, PA, was set to release The Art of Building A Moat nationwide. Just before the release, Jetpack received a cease and desist notice from a California-based surf rock band also known as Jetpack. Around the same time, a publishing company out of Minneapolis contacted the band asking them to be the subject of a children's book which chronicled the ins and outs of performing in a rock band. Hoping to avoid any legal troubles that would impede the national release of the EP or the children's book, Jetpack came up with a stopgap measure and added a "UK" to the end of their name—a tongue-in-cheek reference to the British band The Charlatans who had added a "UK" to their name for similar reasons. With legal trouble out of the way for the moment, Jetpack UK launched an extensive tour of the Eastern and Midwestern United States in the summer of 2006 to support The Art of Building A Moat. That fall, to take advantage of the fact that they were featured in a children's book (an unusual situation for a rock band), Jetpack UK booked a six-week tour where they played their full-volume set in a host of public libraries and school auditoriums throughout the U.S. With library shows during the day and regular club gigs at night, the band earned enough money to go back into the studio to record their next LP.
The Mezzanine
In the summer of 2005, songwriter Sean Williams spent several weeks in Little Rock, AR working on a handful of songs that would eventually make up most of the band's next full-length album, The Mezzanine. While touring as Jetpack UK in the summer of 2006, the band went through an extensive list of possible permanent band names until keyboardist Stephen Jerkins suggested "The Nobility" based on a lyric in one of Williams' new songs ("Halleluiah Chorus"). The band continued to perform under Jetpack UK until the official release of The Mezzanine.
In the fall of 2006, the band headed into the studio in between stints on the road to begin recording The Mezzanine. During the first week-long session the basic tracks were recorded for the following songs:
Halleluiah Chorus
Riverboat
Worth Your While
Let Me Hang Around
Midst of the Park
After returning from another leg of the library tour, The Nobility recorded these remaining songs:
Skeleton Key
The Mezzanine
This Is What I've Wanted To Tell You
Angel's Debut
Gold Blue Sky
I Refuse
Jim Hoke, famed saxophonist who had worked The Beach Boys, Kenny Rogers, Harry Connick, Jr., My Morning Jacket and Guster, was brought in to play on the song The Mezzanine.
The Mezzanine was released on July 31, 2007, and received high praise from several media outlets including NPR, which described the album as "jangly guitar rock with sweet harmonies and carefully plotted melodies….the kind of music that leaves you humming and feeling better about the world." A tour in support of the album followed, which included stops at the CMJ Music Festival in New York and SXSW in Austin. Shortly after the initial tour for The Mezzanine, bassist David Dewese left the band to focus on his own musical projects, including the Foxymorons. The Nobility continued playing shows in support of The Mezzanine throughout the remainder of 2007 and 2008 using a host of friends on bass, which included Benjamin A. Harper, Keith Lowen and Cheyenne Medders.
2008-2010
Gentle Giant
By the end of 2008, The Nobility had played several shows in support of The Mezzanine and were now shifting their focus to record more material. That fall, they went back into the studio with Brian Carter to lay down a song that had been in contention for The Mezzanine track list called "Gentle Giant" and another song that had been floating around, but never officially released called "Mr. Danby/Mr. Blackman". The two songs were recorded over a weekend and released in the spring of 2009 as a digital single. A demo Sean Williams had done on 4-track called "The Birds & The Bees" was added. The three-song single was released digitally in spring of 2009. While Benjamin A. Harper plays bass on the two main songs, Cheyenne Medders is seen playing bass in the "Gentle Giant" video and David Dewese is seen playing bass in the "Mr. Danby/Mr. Blackman" video.
I've Got a Present for You-The Christmas EP
Throughout the years, Sean Williams had randomly written a handful of Christmas tunes so in October 2009, The Nobility decided to officially record them and release them as an EP. David Dewese stepped back in on bass and the songs were tracked at a Nashville studio where Cheyenne Medders worked as an engineer. The following songs were recorded over a five-day period:
I've Got a Present for You
Santa Shaved His Beard
Say the Words, "Merry Christmas"
A fourth song was recorded—a cover of "Good King Wenceslas," which was recorded on Sean Williams' TASCAM four track. The EP, entitled I've Got a Present for You was released electronically that Christmas.
The Christmas EP recording session would mark drummer Brian Fuzzell's last with the band. In early 2010, Fuzzell left the band to pursue other interests.
The very next fall, Williams had written another new Christmas song—"It Must Be Christmastime." The Nobility went back into the studio to record the track, this time with Cheyenne Medders on bass. Williams, Jerkins, Medders along with the band's new drummer, Eric Stroud tracked the song over a couple of days. It was then added to the existing I've Got A Present For You track list along with another four-track composition entitled "Figgy Pudding." The new 2010 version of the EP, which included a physical pressing, was rereleased the day after Thanksgiving.
2011-present
The Secret of Blennerhassett Island
In the fall of 2010, The Nobility went back into the studio with Brian Carter to record a collection of songs based on Sean Williams' childhood experiences. The resulting album—The Secret of Blennerhassett Island was recorded over several weeks and utilized a handful of extra musicians including noted cellist, Cara Fox (The Dead Weather, Ingrid Michelson).
Track list:
Devil's Lullaby
Caviar Comedian
Everybody Says It's Funny
Marigolds
Moonlight Shines
Severe Miscalculation
My Best
Start It All Over
The Words
Best Day of My Life
The Art Form
The Secret of Blennerhassett Island, released on Island was well-received by critics. However, sales lagged.
Ashford Castle
In October 2014, The Nobility launched a successful Kickstarter campaign, which allowed them to record their next full-length album, Ashford Castle. Wanting to mix it up, while at the same time maintain their analog sound, the band spent several days at Reel Recording Studios with engineers Mark Gallup and Erik Thompson tracking 10 songs. The track list is as follows:
Ashford Castle
Wonderful Night
Heart Is Strange
Rollin' In The Aisle
On The Sly
I Can't Tell You Why
Alone
Mrs. Judy May
Sharks
Walk Into The Light
Ashford Castle was released independently on February 19, 2016.
In April 2016, NPR's All Songs Considered podcast praised the album for its attention to detail, carefully mapped out harmonies and sheer exuberance.
As tracking was wrapping up on Ashford Castle, the band booked another day at Reel Recording to track a song featuring The Secret Sisters. This song is yet to be released.
In pop culture
In 2009, "Riverboat" by The Nobility was featured in the Magnolia Pictures release Serious Moonlight starring Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton.
The grocery store chain Meijer featured the Nobility song "Alone" in a television spot in the spring of 2016.
Discography
Studio albums
2001 (as Jetpack) High School Girls (WorldCat entry for their early album)
EPs
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3999770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn%20Lied | Finn Lied | Finn Lied (12 April 1916 – 10 October 2014) was a Norwegian military researcher and politician for the Labour Party. He was particularly known for work on the establishment of the Norwegian state oil company Statoil. His effort to ensure that a large part of the revenues from the oil industry that explored the petroleum deposits under the Norwegian continental shelf was taxed by the Norwegian state was of great importance.
Career
Finn Lied studied electrical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim when Norway was attacked by Nazi-Germany in 1940. Lied fled to Sweden in 1941 and worked for one year with the Norwegian Military Attaché in Stockholm before he went to the United Kingdom. After an officer course, he was employed by the communications department at the Armed Forces High Command in London.
Lied spent almost his entire professional career at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), where he worked from 1946 to 1983, interrupted only by studying and ministerial posts. Lied was director of FFI from 1957 until he retired in 1983, and contributed greatly to shaping the institute. Lied was concerned with the technological importance of research for social development.
Lied was Labour Party politician and Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Industry in Trygve Bratteli’s government from 17 March 1971 to 18 October 1972. He was aware of other countries' experience with rapid oil money having harmful effect on the economy, allowing other businesses to suffer. He observed that in many countries the overwhelming proceeds from the oil industry went to an elite, while only a small part was used to the benefit of the population as a whole. The management scheme and the bold tax system he supported meant that most of the wealth remained in Norway, and the bolstering of the welfare state.
Lied was a driving force for the creation of state-owned oil company Statoil in 1972, where his undersecretary Arve Johnsen was the first CEO. Lied was Chairman of Statoil from 1974 to 1984.
Statoil was the instrument of the "nationalization" and entered operational cooperation with major foreign companies had to obey the Norwegian government.
Support for Israel
During the Yom Kippur War, Lied led the action committee Let Israel Live. Later, he was involved in the creation of the friendship association Friends of Israel in the Norwegian Labour Movement ( Norwegian: Venner av Israel i Norsk Arbeiderbevegelse (VINA). From 1978 to 1993 he was a member of the Norwegian Committee for the support of the Jerusalem Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Honours
In 1980, Lied was appointed commander of the Order of St. Olav. He was also the holder of the Defence Service Medal with Laurel Branch. In 1982 he was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the British Order Royal Victorian Order.
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3999772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut%20Liest%C3%B8l | Knut Liestøl | Knut Liestøl (13 November 1881 – 26 June 1952) was a Norwegian folklorist, Nynorsk proponent and politician.
He was born in Åseral as a son of farmers Olav Knutson Liestøl (1855–1944) and Sigrid Røynelid (1856–1950). He was a nephew of Lars Liestøl. In July 1913 he married farmers' daughter Signe Høgetveit. Their son Olav became a noted glaciologist.
A folklorist by profession, he took the dr.philos. degree in 1915 with the thesis Norske trollvisor og norrøne sogor. He was appointed as a docent in Nynorsk at the Royal Frederick University in 1909 and promoted to professor of folkloristics in 1917. He also served in Mowinckel's Third Cabinet as Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1933 to 1935. He was also the chairman of Noregs Mållag from 1925 to 1926.
Liestøl was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1916 and graduated as a Knight, Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon and the Order of the Three Stars. He resided at Ramstad. He died in June 1952 in Bærum.
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3999781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Knutson%20Liest%C3%B8l | Lars Knutson Liestøl | Lars Knutson Liestøl (13 June 1839 – 15 December 1912) was a Norwegian politician.
Liestøl served on the district council of Bygland in Aust-Agder, Norway over a 36-year period. He also was the municipal mayor for twelve years. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament during various sessions between the periods 1874–1912. He served under the government of Prime Minister Johan Sverdrup as Minister of Auditing 1888–1889, as well as head of the Ministry of the Interior in 1888.
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5393250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther%20%28film%29 | Panther (film) | Panther is a 1995 cinematic adaptation of Melvin Van Peebles's novel Panther, produced and directed by Mario Van Peebles. The drama film portrays the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracing the organization from its founding through its decline in a compressed timeframe. It was the first narrative feature-film to depict the Black Panther Party.
Plot summary
In this semi-fictionalized account of the origins of the Black Panthers, Vietnam veteran Judge (Kadeem Hardison) returns to his hometown of Oakland to find it beset by violence and police discrimination against African-Americans. Judge's friend Cy tells him about a vigilante group that's organizing against the police and introduces him to its leaders, Bobby (Courtney B. Vance) and Huey (Marcus Chong). Judge joins the movement but is soon beset by police pressure to inform against Huey.
Cast
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% approval rating based on 13 reviews.
Roger Ebert stated "There is a fascinating study to be made of the Black Panther Party. Panther is not that film." Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, a major character in the film, called it "80 percent to 90 percent" untrue and "a false-light invasion of my privacy." While Kennith Turan praised it as a "sincere attempt at celebratory, spirit-raising filmmaking", he also criticized it as "a frustrating amalgam of truth, violence, supposition and inspiration".
Soundtrack
A soundtrack for the film containing R&B and hip hop music was released on May 2, 1995 by Mercury Records. It peaked at number 37 on the Billboard 200 and number 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was certified gold on July 25, 1995. Featured on the soundtrack was the single "Freedom (Theme from Panther)", a collaboration among more than 60 female R&B singers and rappers that peaked at 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Three singles made it to the Billboard charts, "Head Nod" by Hodge, "The Points", a collaboration between 12 of hip-hop's most popular artists and groups, and "Freedom (Theme from Panther)", a collaboration between over 60 female R&B singers and rappers.
"Freedom (Theme from Panther)" - 4:47
Aaliyah, Felicia Adams, May May Ali, Amel Larrieux, Az-Iz, Blackgirl, Mary J. Blige, Tanya Blount, Brownstone, Casserine, Changing Faces, Coko, Tyler Collins, N'Dea Davenport, E.V.E., Emage, En Vogue, Eshe & Laurneá (of Arrested Development), Female, For Real, Penny Ford, Lalah Hathaway, Jade, Jamecia, Jazzyfatnastees, Queen Latifah, Billy Lawrence, Joi, Brigette McWilliams, Milira, Miss Jones, Cindy Mizelle, Monica, Me’Shell NdegéOcello, Natasha, Pebbles, Pure Soul, Raja-Nee, Brenda Russell, SWV, Chantay Savage, Sonja Marie, Tracie Spencer, Sweet Sable, TLC, Terri & Monica, Vybe, Crystal Waters, Caron Wheeler, Karyn White, Vanessa Williams, Xscape, Y?N-Vee, Zhané
"Express Yourself" - 3:48 (Joe)
"We'll Meet Again" - 4:43 (Blackstreet)
"Black People" - 4:11 (George Clinton, Belita Woods & Funkadelic)
"Let's Straighten It Out" - 4:05 (Usher & Monica)
"The Points" - 4:54
Big Mike, Biggie Smalls, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Buckshot, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Digable Planets, Heltah Skeltah, Ill Al Skratch, Jamal, Menace Clan & Redman
"Slick Partner" - 2:46 (Bobby Brown)
"Stand (You Got To)" - 4:35 (Aaron Hall)
"The World Is a Ghetto" - 4:32 (Da Lench Mob)
"If I Were Your Woman" (Shanice & Female)
"We Shall Not Be Moved" - 4:49 (Sounds of Blackness & Black Sheep)
"A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)" - 3:48 (Female)
"Freedom" (Dirty Dozen remix) - 4:49
MC Lyte, Meshell Ndegeocello, Nefertiti, Patra, Queen Latifah, Salt-n-Pepa, Left Eye of TLC, Da 5 Footaz, & Yo-Yo
"Head Nod" - 3:33 (Hodge)
"Stand!" - 4:28 (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
"Don't Give Me No Broccoli and Tell Me It's Green's" - 6:17 (The Last Poets)
"The Star-Spangled Banner" - 3:12 (Brian McKnight, Boys Choir of Harlem & Slash)
"The Ultimate Sacrifice" - 3:15 (Stanley Clarke)
Awards
Locarno International Film Festival – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Special Mention: Silver Leopard
References
Bibliography
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Black Power
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Cultural depictions of J. Edgar Hoover
1990s English-language films
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Films scored by Stanley Clarke
Films set in Oakland, California
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5393261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik%20languages | Wik languages | The Wik languages are a subdivision of the Paman languages consisting of sixteen languages, all spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. This grouping was first proposed by R. M. W. Dixon.
Each of the Kugu-Muminh dialects may have the prefix Wik- instead of Kugu-. Wik Paach is not a Wik language despite its name.
The languages are as follows; often various dialects are considered separate languages:
Wik-Ngathan (incl. Wik-Ngatharr dialect)
Wik-Me'nh
Wik-Mungkan
Wik-Ompoma (Ambama) †
Kugu Nganhcara (incl. Gugu Uwanh dialect) †
Ayabadhu †
Pakanha †
The Flinders Island language and Barrow Point language were apparently Wik.
See also
Wik peoples
Wik Peoples v Queensland
References
North Cape York Paman languages |
3999783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard%20Liljedahl | Edvard Liljedahl | Edvard Apolloniussen Liljedahl (6 August 1845, in Vik - 10 October 1924) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm in 1889, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1912-1913. Liljedahl died on 10 October 1924 in Vik and was buried there.
Biography
Edvard Liljedahl was born to Apollonius Liljedahl and Britha Olsdotter Hopperstad in 1845. He received his degree from the Balestrand Teacher's School in 1864 and another from the Stord Seminary in 1866. For a year, he taught school in Leikanger. He also worked as an office clerk for a justice of the peace. On 18 October 1869, Liljedahl married Barbra Einarsdotter Ramsli. They were the first couple to be married in the newly built church in Kyrkjebø. They were the parents of Army general Einar Liljedahl. He sang in the church choir and was the first educated teacher in Kyrkjebø, where he worked from 1867 until 1889. He then went on to become a member of the cabinet in Stockholm from 6 March 1889, until 13 July 1889. Liljedahl later became postmaster in Aalesund in 1891, and then Bergen in 1901. After retiring in 1904 he moved to his property Røytehola (officially Fredheim) in Kyrkjebø. He cleared the land himself during his time as a parish clerk and a member of parliament, and rented it out when he lived in Ålesund and Bergen. On a visit to Vik, he purchased the Havnen farm from hotel owner Hopstock and moved to Vik in 1905. He sold the Røytehola property to a quartermaster sergeant named Mo.
Agriculture
When he took over the property, the Havnen farm consisted of only a barn, a summer cow barn, and a bathhouse. Liljedahl had to build a farmhouse, cow barn, and a stall. He cultivated more land in Havnen and planted a large number of fruit trees (about 250) of which, about half were pear and the rest were apple and cherry. These trees became an important source of income for him in Havnen.
In addition to Røytehola which had been cleared and planted with fruit trees, he also had another farm in Østrem which he sold, and an additional farm farther out in Sogn. In Sogn he planted many plants and also tended the parish garden in Eivindvik.
In 1904 after his postmaster days were over, he went back to Kyrkjebø to live at the Røytehola property, and immediately purchased more land which he cultivated. After his employment as postmaster in Ålesund, he purchased the Vågenes farm in Borgund, but quickly sold it to his brother-in-law Magnus Ramslie, who was from Vangsnes. He then purchased the Spjelkavik farm, which was a large farm with several cottages, many forests, and mountain bodies of water. It ended up being too large and expensive to operate, so he sold it after a few years, and moved from Ålesund to Bergen.
In addition to farming, he was interested in freshwater fishing and hunting. At that time there were no fish in the large lake of Uldalsvatn in Kyrkjebø. His brother-in-law, merchant Andreas Ramslie, introduced fish there. This later became a source of income for Liljedahl. He started fisheries in many lakes in Sogn and in Uldalsvatn. He also founded the Spjelkavik yarn and fishnet factory, which grew to be a large business that contributed to the construction of many buildings and homes in the area.
Community involvement
In Kyrkjebø, Liljedahl was a community spokesman for many years, a member of the township board for 14 years, and a member of the election board. He was an arbitrator commissioner for 18 years. He was a member of Borgund's town council and Ålesund's city council. He was also a member of the school board in 1884 and the clergy salary board, and he enforced laws in Romsdal county.
He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the constituency of Nordre Bergenhus amt from 1870–1891, for Ålesund 1895-1905, and Ytre Sogn from 1906-1909. He was President of the Odelsting from 1899-1900. He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm in 1889, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs in the Bratlie cabinet from 1912 to 1913.
Education and church
In 1868, the Kyrkjebø district opened its first school, which still stands. At the dedication of the school, some songs were sung that Liljedahl had written. He wrote many songs, one of which is printed in Nordahl Rolfsen's school books. He also wrote a newspaper column in the local press about people. In Kyrkjebø he helped many people to write legal papers and took care of their legal matters while he worked for the justice of the peace. A colleague who attended school with Liljedahl in 1876 wrote, "He was a pleasant man, full of life and desire. I was amazed at how the children clung to him with such high affection and respect." Those who had him as a teacher say that he was unusually serious in school. He carried out his parish clerk duties in an honourable way which left a valuable impression. Many who remember his conversations with the youth on the church floor can still repeat portions of them.
When the weather was bad and the pastor could not come from Lavik, Liljedahl spoke from his front porch to the congregation.
He was a Commander of the Order of St. Olav, a Grand Cross of Legion of Honour, and a Knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.
See also
Jens Bratlie
References
Edvard Appoloniussen Liljedahl — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
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5393265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20B.%20Noel | Rachel B. Noel | Rachel Bassette Noel (January 15, 1918 – February 4, 2008) was an American educator, politician and civil rights leader in Denver, Colorado. She is known for the "Noel Resolution", a 1968 plan to integrate the Denver city school district, and her work to implement that plan, as well as other work on civil rights. When elected to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education in 1965, Noel was the first African-American woman elected to public office in Colorado. In 1996, Noel was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
She was born in Hampton, Virginia to college-educated parents; her father was a doctor. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Hampton Institute and Fisk University, respectively. She and her husband, a physician from Jackson, Mississippi, moved to Denver after he finished his residency.
Personal life
Rachel Bassette was born in 1918 in Hampton, Virginia to parents who were both college graduates. Her father, A. W. E. Bassette Jr., was a lawyer. From an early age, her parents emphasized the importance of education. Bassette graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Hampton Institute (now known as Hampton University) and earned a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University, both historically black universities.
In October 1942, she married Dr. Edmond F. Noel (1916-1986) from Jackson, Mississippi, whom she had met at Fisk. Born in Holmes County, Mississippi and reared in Jackson, he was named for a half-uncle, Edmond Favor Noel, governor of Mississippi, serving 1908 to 1912. The African-American physician and European-American politician were from different lines of descendants of Leland Noel, a major white planter in Holmes County before the American Civil War. Noel completed his undergraduate degree at Howard University and got his medical degree at Fisk.
Edmond Noel served as a medical officer in the Army during World War II, from 1942 to April 1946. After he completed his residency, the Noel couple moved to Denver, Colorado in 1949. It was during years of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the West. Edmond Noel was the first African American to practice medicine in Denver. He was affiliated with Rose Hospital, a new hospital founded by the Jewish community. He was the first African American to have staff privileges at a hospital in Denver. He also set up his own practice in the Five Points community.
Together they had a son, Edmond "Buddy" Noel Jr., born in 1946, and daughter, Angela Noel, born in 1950. Buddy graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard University Law, and practices as a lawyer in Denver.
Rachel Bassette Noel became increasingly active in civil rights and school issues in Denver. (See below).
Her husband Edmond Noel died in 1986. In her last years, Noel moved from Denver to Oakland, California in 2007 to live with her daughter. Noel died on February 4, 2008. She is survived by her two children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Civic life
Noel became active in civic affairs and politics in the 1960s, working to integrate local schools and ensure that minorities had equal opportunities. In 1965, Noel was elected as the first African American to serve on the Denver Public Schools Board of Education. She was the first African-American woman elected to public office in Colorado.
She presented what became known as the Noel Resolution to the Board of Education on April 25, 1968, and called for the Denver area school district superintendent to develop a plan for integration, providing equal educational opportunity for all children. Public opposition was high, and Noel and her family received many threatening phone calls and hate mail. The resolution was passed in February 1970.
Noel was a professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver, where she founded the African-American Studies Department in 1971, chairing it until 1980. Noel was also a member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the Health Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Colorado at Denver. She was appointed as a Commissioner of the Denver Housing Authority
Noel served on the Advisory Board of the United States Civil Rights Commission.
Legacy and honors
She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree by the University of Denver.
In 1976 she was appointed by Governor Richard Lamm to serve on the University of Colorado Board of Regents; in 1978 she was elected statewide to a six-year term on the board, and served as chair of the board for one year.
The Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Professorship was endowed in her honor in 1981 at Metropolitan State College of Denver. A visiting professor is named each year; Noel Professors have included Princeton professor Cornel West, international philanthropist Julius Coles, pianist Billy Taylor, author Iyanla Vanzant, Johnnetta B. Cole, former president of Spelman College; jazz singer Dianne Reeves; Ossie Davis, the actor and civil rights activist; and Lerone Bennett, Jr., executive editor of Ebony (magazine).
In 1990 she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award.
1996, Noel was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
The Rachel B. Noel middle school in Denver is named in her honor.
See also
Brown v. Board of Education
Education in the United States
Plessy v. Ferguson
Racial segregation
References
Further reading
Summer Marie Cherland, No Prejudice Here: Racism, Resistance, and the Struggle for Equality in Denver, 1947-1994, 2014, UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers and Capstones, 2526
Robert T. Connery, Keyes v. School District No.1, 2013, History Colorado, Online Exhibits
Jeanne Varnell, Women of Consequence: The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, Big Earth Publishing, 1999
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5393266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Morin | John M. Morin | John Mary Morin (April 18, 1868 – March 3, 1942) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.
Biography
Morin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved with his parents to Pittsburgh. He began working in a glass factory in 1882, and was employed in steel mills until 1885. In 1889, he moved to Missoula, Montana and engaged in mercantile pursuits, during which time he took a night course at the Haskins' Business College in Missoula. After graduating from college in 1892, he returned to Pittsburgh and became engaged in the hotel business. He became a director of the Washington Trust Company in 1910. He served as a member of the Pittsburgh Common Council from 1904 to 1906. He was a delegate to the Republican State conventions from 1905 to 1912, and director of Public Safety in Pittsburgh from 1909 to 1913.
Morin was elected in 1912 as a Republican to the 63rd United States Congress, and served eight terms. He was Chairman of the United States House Committee on Military Affairs in the 69th and 70th Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928. He was appointed a commissioner of United States Employees' Compensation Commission in Washington, D.C., and served from 1928 until his death at age 73.
A long-time member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, he served as Grand Worthy (International) President of the fraternity in 1920-21. He died in Marine Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Anecdotes about Morin, and correspondence by his family during World War II, can be found in a book written by his grandson, Love and War as Never Before.
References
1868 births
1942 deaths
Burials at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh City Council members
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Politicians from Pittsburgh
Politicians from Missoula, Montana
Politicians from Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Republicans
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives |
5393268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%200095 | Gas 0095 | Gas 0095 was the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis (High Skies) released under his Gas moniker. It was written,
performed and recorded in his Nottingham studio during 1994 and released on Em:t Records (Emit Records) in January 1995.
The album was never advertised, yet quickly began selling by word of mouth. Before its 2008 re-release and remaster it was known to regularly sell for $400+ on auction sites, like eBay, to collectors. The album was encoded in 3D by the large and hugely expensive Roland Sound Space RSS 3D sound imaging system.
In 2008, Gas 0095 was remastered at 32bit/96 kHz from the original studio tapes, and re-released on CD and digital download by Jarvis on the Microscopics label as Micro-000001.
Track listing, 1995 version
(Names listed as styled on back cover. Note that many of the track lengths given are not correct, actual lengths are listed in parentheses)
"generator 0000"- 0:33 (0:35)
"experiments on live electricity"- 16:36 (16:35)
"microscopic"- 9:50 (9:53)
"miniscule" - 0:00, "pixels"- 1:27 (Named separately but grouped together as track 4)(1:30)
"vapourware"- 2:00 (1:30)
"SeOCl2"- 0:33 (0:35)
"earthshake"- 8:15 (8:56)
"mathematics and electronics"- 12:30 (12:50)
"timestretch"- 0:01, "earthloop"- 3:40 (Named separately but grouped together as track 9)(3:46)
"f"- 0:20 (0:50)
"H2TeO3"- 0:20
"discovery"- 10:30
"generator 0072"- 5:08
The song "generator 0072" ends at 1:23. After 25 seconds of silence (1:23 - 1:48), begins the hidden track "Pink" (1:48 - 3:53). After "Pink", there are 25 seconds of silence (3:53 - 4:18) and the hidden track "Doom" (4:18 - 5:08).
Track listing, 2008 version
(Names listed as styled on back cover)
"generator"- 0:35
"experiments on live electricity"- 16:40 (16:40)
"microscopic"- 9:55 (9:54)
"miniscule" - 0:00 (0:04)
"pixels"- 1:30 (1:27)
"vapourware"- 1:30 (1:28)
"selenium"- 0:40 (0:38)
"earthshake"- 9:00 (8:57)
"mathematics and electronics"- 12:50 (12:49)
"timestretch"- 0:02 (0:04)
"earthloop"- 3:45
"f"- 0:15 (0:14)
"tellurium"- 0:35 (0:32)
"discovery"- 11:00
"generator 74"- 1:15 (Time does not include "pink" or "doom")
Oddities
The track "Timestretch" is a full four-minute track, shrunk down into one second of audio. Much speculation has been made over whether this track can be stretched back again to recover the full version.
The track "Miniscule" is a four and a half minute track time-stretched down to twelve milliseconds and is intended as a "comma" between tracks.
There are two extra unlisted tracks, "Pink" and "Doom", which appear at the end of the album. "Pink" is a short instrumental, while "Doom" is composed of sound effects from the last level of the classic 1990s computer game, DOOM.
Artwork
Em:t releases are noted for their striking graphic design, and the 0095 cover is no different. It displays a very iconographic invertebrae ctenophora zooming off like an alien spaceship. The high resolution nature photography is believed to have been chosen by an artist with layout by British design firm The Designers Republic.
References
External links
microscopics.co.uk Mat Jarvis' new label for High Skies & Gas
highskies.com High Skies / Gas - Official Website
thevibes.net Mat Jarvis interview about the 0095 album
emit.cc Fan Site
Mat Jarvis albums
1995 debut albums |
5393272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffree%20cell | Jeffree cell | The Jeffree cell was an early acousto-optic modulator, best known for its use in the Scophony system of mechanical television. It was invented by J.H. Jeffree in 1934, and was a major improvement over the Kerr cell modulators used up to that time by allowing more than 200 times the available modulated light.
Using ultrasonic sound waves travelling perpendicular to the light, the modulator created areas of varying refractive index leading to advancement and retardation of portions of the light wavefront. This led to constructive and destructive interference among the light waves, modulating their intensity.
External links
Scophony system at Early Television website
References
Optical devices |
5393274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304%20EIHL%20season | 2003–04 EIHL season | The 2003–04 Elite Ice Hockey League season was the inaugural season of the Elite League. The season ran from September 12, 2003 until April 4, 2004.
During the 2002–03 season, the financial collapse of the Manchester Storm and the Scottish Eagles, the resignation of the Bracknell Bees and the uncertainty surrounding the London Knights and their London Arena home left the Ice Hockey Superleague with little option but to fold.
The three remaining Superleague clubs, the Belfast Giants, Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers were joined by three British National League clubs, the Basingstoke Bison, Cardiff Devils and Coventry Blaze and two new clubs, the London Racers and Manchester Phoenix in establishing the Elite Ice Hockey League. The clubs hoped to provide a more financially sustainable league than its predecessor with a greater number of British trained players taking part.
The league was met with considerable opposition from the governing body, Ice Hockey UK who initially refused to affiliate itself with the new league, instead desiring that the remaining Superleague clubs integrate themselves into the British National League. This led to a bitter summer of uncertainty which only the intervention of the International Ice Hockey Federation ended. The IIHF ruled that the Elite League be granted a single season's affiliation with IHUK while discussions between IHUK, the EIHL and the BNL took place on the future of the sport in the United Kingdom.
The season began on September 12, 2003 with a game between the newly formed London Racers and the previous season's league champions, Sheffield Steelers. London began the season at Alexandra Palace but within a few weeks had relocated to the Lee Valley Ice Centre. The Racers went much of the season without winning, before finally claiming a 3–0 victory over Cardiff as the season drew to its close.
Challenge Cup
During the early part of the season, the results from league games also counted towards a separate Challenge Cup table. After each team had played each other once at home and once away, the top four teams in the table qualified for the semi finals.
Semi Finals
1st (Belfast) vs 4th (Nottingham)
Belfast Giants 2–4 Nottingham Panthers
Nottingham Panthers 7–3 Belfast Giants (Nottingham win 11–5 on aggregate)
2nd (Sheffield) vs 3rd (Cardiff)
Cardiff Devils 1–3 Sheffield Steelers
Sheffield Steelers 1–1 Cardiff Devils (Sheffield win 4–2 on aggregate)
Final
The final brought Nottingham and Sheffield head-to-head in a major final for the seventh time. The Steelers had won each of the last six finals in a run stretching back to 1995 and were clear favourites to win a seventh straight final against their bitter rivals after convincingly winning the Elite League title.
After a tight 1–1 draw at the National Ice Centre, the two clubs met in the second leg at Sheffield Arena on March 17. The Panthers stormed into an early 2–0 lead before the Steelers fought back to tie the game at 2–2. Regulation time ended level and so the game went into overtime. After 53 seconds, Kim Ahlroos won the game for Nottingham, ending an eight-year wait for the club to defeat their rivals in a showpiece event.
First Leg
Nottingham Panthers 1–1 Sheffield Steelers
Second Leg
Sheffield Steelers 2–3 Nottingham Panthers (after overtime, Nottingham win 4–3 on aggregate)
Elite League Table
Each team played four home games and four away games against each of their opponents. Sheffield and Nottingham fought it out for the inaugural Elite League title before the Steelers pulled away to become comfortable champions, thanks to twenty consecutive wins, including 7–3, 5–0, 3–0 and 7–4 victories over the Panthers.
Nottingham finished runner-up while Coventry were the most successful former BNL side, finishing third. Belfast began the season strongly before a poor run of results in the second half of the season saw them slip to fourth place. Struggling London were always destined to finish last, doing so by thirty-eight points, while Basingstoke also missed out on a place in the playoffs.
Elite League Play Offs
The top six teams qualified for the playoffs. Group A consisted of Sheffield, Belfast and Manchester while Group B consisted of Nottingham, Coventry and Cardiff. The Phoenix chose to stage one of its home games, against the Steelers at the 1,500 capacity IceSheffield rather than play the substantial costs involved in hiring the MEN Arena.
Group A
Group B
Semi Finals
The finals weekend took place over the weekend of 3 April-4 April at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham.
Winner A vs Runner-Up B
Sheffield Steelers 2–0 Cardiff Devils
Winner B vs Runner-Up A
Nottingham Panthers 6–1 Manchester Phoenix
Final
Winner A vs Winner B
Sheffield Steelers 2–1 Nottingham Panthers
The final saw the two main protagonists of the season come head-to-head in a repeat of the title race and Challenge Cup final. The Steelers avenged their overtime loss in the Cup a few weeks earlier by beating the Panthers 2–1 before a capacity crowd at the NIC. Sheffield marched into a 2–0 lead before Nottingham pulled a goal back on a 5 on 3 powerplay. The Panthers never seriously threatened Sheffield's goal and in the end the Steelers were comfortable winners.
Awards
Coach of the Year Trophy – Mike Blaisdell, Sheffield Steelers
Player of the Year Trophy – Jason Ruff, Belfast Giants
Alan Weeks Trophy – Leigh Jamieson, Belfast Giants
Best British Forward – Ashley Tait, Coventry Blaze
Vic Batchelder Memorial Award – Leigh Jamieson, Belfast Giants
All Star teams
Scoring leaders
The scoring leaders are taken from all league games.
Most points: 88 Mark Dutiaume, Sheffield Steelers
Most goals: 39 John Craighead, Nottingham Panthers
Most assists: 54 Mark Dutiaume, Sheffield Steelers
Most PIMs: 352 Paxton Schulte, Belfast Giants
References
Ice Hockey Journalists UK
The Internet Hockey Database
Malcolm Preen's Ice Hockey Results and Tables
Elite Ice Hockey League seasons
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5393285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ship%20commissionings%20in%201966 | List of ship commissionings in 1966 | The list of ship commissionings in 1966 includes a chronological list of all ships commissioned in 1966.
See also
1966 |
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