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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Granger%20%28basketball%29
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Stewart Granger (basketball)
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Stewart Francis Granger (born October 27, 1961) is a Canadian former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and Canadian national team member.
Though, in his early years Granger grew up in Montreal, his high school years were spent attending and playing basketball at Nazareth Regional High School in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Granger won the New York State high school finals in 1979 playing for NYC-Nazareth. Granger played college basketball at Villanova University, where his career averages were 10.4 points per game and 4.8 assists per game.
In the 1983 NBA Draft, Granger was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers at the 24th overall pick.
In 1984, his first season, Granger played with the team that drafted him, the Cleveland Cavaliers, an average 4.5 points per game and 2.4 assists per game. In his second season, he played for the Atlanta Hawks, where he averaged 1.8 points per game, and 1.3 assists per game. Then in his final NBA season, which was in 1987 with the New York Knicks, he averaged 3.3 points per game and 1.8 assists per game.
Granger was also a first team USBL All-Star in 1986 while a member of the Wildwood Aces. He also had a career in the Philippine Basketball Association.
See also
List of Montreal athletes
List of famous Montrealers
References
External links
FrozenHoops.com History of NBA basketball in Canada. Selection of Top 100 Canadian players of all time
1961 births
Living people
Alviks BK players
Anglophone Quebec people
Atlanta Hawks players
Basketball players from Montreal
Black Canadian basketball players
Canadian expatriate basketball people in Sweden
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
Canadian men's basketball players
1982 FIBA World Championship players
1990 FIBA World Championship players
Cleveland Cavaliers draft picks
Cleveland Cavaliers players
Florida Stingers players
Maine Windjammers players
National Basketball Association players from Canada
New York Knicks players
Philippine Basketball Association imports
Point guards
Sarasota Stingers players
Sportspeople from Brooklyn
Villanova Wildcats men's basketball players
Shell Turbo Chargers players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ship%20decommissionings%20in%201995
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List of ship decommissionings in 1995
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The list of ship decommissionings in 1995 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1995.
See also
1995
Ship decommissionings
Ship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20US%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles
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2004 US Open – Women's singles
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Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Elena Dementieva in the final, 6–3, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2004 US Open. She lost only one set during the tournament (to Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals). Kuznetsova became the third Russian woman, after Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova (who won the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively, earlier in the season), to win a major that year. This was also the second-ever all-Russian major final (the first being at the French Open earlier in the year, where Myskina defeated Dementieva).
Justine Henin was the defending champion, but was defeated by Nadia Petrova in the fourth round. As a result, Amélie Mauresmo became the new world No. 1 ranking following the tournament.
This marked the first US Open main draw appearance for 2011 champion Samantha Stosur, who was defeated by Petrova in the second round.
The quarterfinal between Serena Williams and Jennifer Capriati is often considered the catalyst for the International Tennis Federation adoption of Hawk-Eye triangulation technology to review line calls. Hawk-Eye was unofficially used during television coverage for the match, with results suggesting several crucial points awarded to Capriati were incorrectly called. The most egregious of these errors was a potential Williams winner at deuce in the first game of the final set that appeared to be well within the left baseline; while the line judge called the ball in, the referee awarded the point to Capriati. Capriati ultimately ended up winning the deuce, the set, and thus the match. Following outcry from spectators and the press, the United States Tennis Association suspended official Mariana Alves for the remainder of the tournament and apologized to Williams. The ITF tested the Hawk-Eye system in an official capacity the next year, ultimately approving it for official use.
Seeds
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match statistics
References
External links
WTA Draw
2004 US Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
US Open (tennis) by year – Women's singles
2004 in women's tennis
2004 in American women's sports
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Schalk
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Franz Schalk
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Franz Schalk (27 May 18633 September 1931) was an Austrian conductor. From 1918 to 1929 he was director of the Vienna State Opera, a post he held jointly with Richard Strauss from 1919 to 1924. He was later involved in the establishment of the Salzburg Festival.
Life and career
Born in Vienna, he studied under composer Anton Bruckner. From 1900, he was first kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). Between 1904 and 1921, he was head of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In 1918 he became director of the Vienna State Opera (Staatsoper, successor to the Hofoper), but from 1919 shared the directorship with Richard Strauss, with the well-known composer considered "blatantly (though unofficially) the 'greater equal' of the pair" (despite Schalk's recorded renditions of the Beethoven and Schubert 8th Symphonies virtually as distinguished as Strauss' versions of the last three Mozart symphonies, Beethoven's 5th & 7th, and some of the best-known German overtures). Tensions resulting from unclear division of responsibility between the two men eventually led to Strauss's resignation.
Schalk's most famous quote is "Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
Today, he is best known for his association with Anton Bruckner. He gave the premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 in 1894, but with numerous cuts and alterations thought by most authorities to have been made without Bruckner's approval. (The composer was too ill to attend the premiere.) Schalk's version of the Fifth Symphony was the one chosen for first publication, and was the only version heard by audiences for almost forty years. While many critics have attacked him for his alterations of the original versions of many of Bruckner's most important symphonies, others credit him for popularizing great works which might otherwise have remained unknown. Present-day conductor Leon Botstein is a prominent advocate of Schalk's versions of Bruckner's music, as was Hans Knappertsbusch.
Schalk was also involved in the early publication of Mahler's Symphony No. 10. Schalk gave the premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1919.
He died in 1931, aged 68. Some of his work as a conductor has been preserved and is available on CD. Schalk's elder brother Joseph was also a prominent conductor and musician.
References
External links
Franz Schalk at the aeiou Encyclopedia
An article about Bruckner, written from a pro-Schalk viewpoint
Available recordings
1863 births
1931 deaths
Austrian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Opera managers
Musicians from Vienna
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danu%20people
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Danu people
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The Danu people () are a government-recognized ethnic group in Myanmar, predominantly populating the areas near the Pindaya Caves in Shan State. They speak the Danu language.
Etymology
The name Danu derives from the Pali term dhanu, which means "archer" or "bow." The term dhanu is a reference to the legend of Prince Kummabhaya, whose bow and arrow rescued seven princesses trapped in the caves by a giant spider.
Notable Danu people
Aung Myat - former Chief Minister of Shan State
References
Ethnic groups in Myanmar
Buddhist communities of Bangladesh
Buddhist communities of Myanmar
Sino-Tibetan-speaking people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20regularity
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Partition regularity
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In combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, partition regularity is one notion of largeness for a collection of sets.
Given a set , a collection of subsets is called partition regular if every set A in the collection has the property that, no matter how A is partitioned into finitely many subsets, at least one of the subsets will also belong to the collection. That is,
for any , and any finite partition , there exists an i ≤ n, such that belongs to . Ramsey theory is sometimes characterized as the study of which collections are partition regular.
Examples
the collection of all infinite subsets of an infinite set X is a prototypical example. In this case partition regularity asserts that every finite partition of an infinite set has an infinite cell (i.e. the infinite pigeonhole principle.)
sets with positive upper density in : the upper density of is defined as (Szemerédi's theorem)
For any ultrafilter on a set , is partition regular: for any , if , then exactly one .
sets of recurrence: a set R of integers is called a set of recurrence if for any measure preserving transformation of the probability space (Ω, β, μ) and of positive measure there is a nonzero so that .
Call a subset of natural numbers a.p.-rich if it contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. Then the collection of a.p.-rich subsets is partition regular (Van der Waerden, 1927).
Let be the set of all n-subsets of . Let . For each n, is partition regular. (Ramsey, 1930).
For each infinite cardinal , the collection of stationary sets of is partition regular. More is true: if is stationary and for some , then some is stationary.
the collection of -sets: is a -set if contains the set of differences for some sequence .
the set of barriers on : call a collection of finite subsets of a barrier if:
and
for all infinite , there is some such that the elements of X are the smallest elements of I; i.e. and .
This generalizes Ramsey's theorem, as each is a barrier. (Nash-Williams, 1965)
finite products of infinite trees (Halpern–Läuchli, 1966)
piecewise syndetic sets (Brown, 1968)
Call a subset of natural numbers i.p.-rich if it contains arbitrarily large finite sets together with all their finite sums. Then the collection of i.p.-rich subsets is partition regular (Folkman–Rado–Sanders, 1968).
(m, p, c)-sets (Deuber, 1973)
IP sets (Hindman, 1974, see also Hindman, Strauss, 1998)
MTk sets for each k, i.e. k-tuples of finite sums (Milliken–Taylor, 1975)
central sets; i.e. the members of any minimal idempotent in , the Stone–Čech compactification of the integers. (Furstenberg, 1981, see also Hindman, Strauss, 1998)
Diophantine equations
A Diophantine equation is called partition regular if the collection of all infinite subsets of containing a solution is partition regular. Rado's theorem characterises exactly which systems of linear Diophantine equations are partition regular. Much progress has been made recently on classifying nonlinear Diophantine equations.
References
Sources
Vitaly Bergelson, N. Hindman Partition regular structures contained in large sets are abundant J. Comb. Theory A 93 (2001), 18–36.
T. Brown, An interesting combinatorial method in the theory of locally finite semigroups, Pacific J. Math. 36, no. 2 (1971), 285–289.
W. Deuber, Mathematische Zeitschrift 133, (1973) 109–123
N. Hindman, Finite sums from sequences within cells of a partition of N, J. Comb. Theory A 17 (1974) 1–11.
C.St.J.A. Nash-Williams, On well-quasi-ordering transfinite sequences, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 61 (1965), 33–39.
N. Hindman, D. Strauss, Algebra in the Stone–Čech compactification, De Gruyter, 1998
J.Sanders, A Generalization of Schur's Theorem, Doctoral Dissertation, Yale University, 1968.
Ramsey theory
Set families
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Lilletun
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Jon Lilletun
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Jon Lilletun (23 October 1945 – 21 August 2006) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian Democratic Party.
Background
Lilletun was born in Western Vossestrand, now a part of the municipality of Voss. His father owned a farm and also worked as a mailman. Lilletun was raised as a Pentecostal, and his family always tithed to the religious community.
After his mandatory 8-year primary education, Lilletun's family was unable to finance attendance at a higher level of school with an academic track. Lilletun worked as an apprentice at a local merchant and attended various trade schools. In 1974 he opened his own retail store that went bankrupt within a few years. He was subsequently convicted of negligence in his accounting practices and sentenced to a 55-day prison term, which he served.
He attributed this experience with a new outlook on life, and from 1975 to 1988 he worked for the municipality of Vennesla on issues related to youth. In 1982 he ran for election as the mayor of Vennesla, but lost in a landslide defeat. During this time he also moved from the Pentecostal movement to the Church of Norway.
Political career
Representing the county of Vest-Agder, he served as a deputy member of the Norwegian parliament from 1981 to 1985, and as an elected member from 1989 until his death. In the spring of 2005 he took sick leave, and his deputy Sigmund Kroslid filled in for him. After his death he was replaced by Dagrun Eriksen.
Lilletun was the Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs 1997-2000, in the first cabinet of Kjell Magne Bondevik. Under his administration, the Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities was approved.
Among his other parliamentary appointments were:
Storting Committees
Since 2001: member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee
2000-2001: member of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry
1993-1997: chair of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs
1990-1993: member of the Standing Committee on Church and Education
1989-1990: member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and the Environment
Other
Since 2001: member of the Norwegian delegation for Relations with the European Parliament
Since 2000: member of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Deputy Head of the delegation since 2001
1993-1997: alternate member of the Storting delegation to the Nordic Council
2001-2005: chair of the Christian Democratic Party parliamentary group
Since 2005, he was also vice president of the Lagting.
The cause of his death was cancer.
External links
Interview with Lilletun in 1997
Official parliamentary biography
1945 births
2006 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians
Deaths from cancer in Norway
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Education of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbj%C3%B8rn%20Lindboe
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Asbjørn Lindboe
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Asbjørn Lindboe (19 June 1889 – 8 March 1967) was a Norwegian politician of the Agrarian Party who served as Minister of Justice from 1931–1933 under prime ministers Peder Kolstad and Jens Hundseid. He later served as County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag from 1946–1959.
Lindboe was the son of Trondheim lawman and parliamentary representative Jacob Albert Lindboe (Liberal). He became an MSc. in 1914, and was a deputy clerk in Nordfjord 1914–1915, an attorney at Trondheim City Attorney General 1915–1919 and a private practice lawyer in Trondheim 1919–1931 (Supreme Court Attorney from 1925). He was then Minister of Justice in the Agrarian Party Governments of Kolstad and Hundseid from 1931 to 1933. From 1933 he was a magistrate in the Inderøy magistrate's office, a position he held until he was dismissed by the occupying authorities in 1943. On 23 November 1945, he was appointed County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag, and assumed office in 1946. He resigned after having reached the age limit in 1959, and move to Bærum.
Function at the Trondheim Student Society
In the Student Year in Trondheim, his first year, Asbjørn Lindboe was one of the most important figures. He contributed as both writer and actor in the first UKErevyes, but is today best known for having been the leader of the Student Society Building Committee, whose aim was to raise money and build a new house for the Student Society in Trondheim. In 1929, this house was built, and it is still used by the Student Society in Trondheim. As an active member of the Student Society, Lindboe was the proprietor of the Grand Cross of the Golden Cat, the Order of the Student Society's Internal Theater, 1919 and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Black Fathers, the Student Society of the Order of Trondheim.
External links
Asbjørn Lindboe’s private archive
1889 births
1967 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Justice of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrotius%20Olsen%20Lindvig
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Ambrotius Olsen Lindvig
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Ambrotius Olsen Lindvig (30 September 1855 – 9 May 1946) was the Norwegian Minister of Trade 1912–1913.
1855 births
1946 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%20Listau
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Thor Listau
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Thor Listau (3 June 1938 – 22 March 2014) was a Norwegian military technician and politician for the Conservative Party. He was a three-term MP and served as Minister of Fisheries from 1981 to 1985. Later he served as director of Statkorn from 1991 to 1995.
Early life and career
He was born in Svolvær as a son of fish food producer Magnus Listau (1898–1976) and housewife Johanna Jakobsen (1904–1945). After attending the military communications school from 1954 to 1958, he was employed in the military as a radio mechanic. From 1961 he served the Norwegian Army in Kirkenes.
Political career
Here he chaired the local chapter of the Young Conservatives from 1965 to 1967, and the county chapter from 1967 to 1969. During those two years he was also a central board member of the Norwegian Young Conservatives. He was an elected member of Sør-Varanger school board from 1966 to 1971, and the municipal council from 1967 to 1975, the last four years in the executive committee. He also chaired the local sports club in Hesseng, SK Vigør, for one year.
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Finnmark in 1973, and was re-elected in 1977 and 1981. In 1981, however, the Conservative Party fared to well as to form the Willoch's First Cabinet. Listau was selected for the cabinet as Minister of Fisheries, serving until 1985 (i.e. also in Willoch's Second Cabinet). While he was a cabinet member, his seat in Parliament was filled by Steinar Eriksen.
In 1986 he retired from electoral politics and was hired as an office manager in Statens Kornforretning. He also studied part-time and graduated from the BI Norwegian Business School in business administration in 1988. However, he continued in positions in the Conservative Party. Having been a member of its party platform committee from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1985, he was a central board member from 1988 to 1990 and chaired the party's study league from 1988 to 1995.
Later career and life
From 1991 to 1995 he served as director of Statkorn. In 1995 Statkorn was altered into the fish food producer and acquaculture company Cermaq, where he served as organizational director until 2005. He also chaired the board for the first year, 1995 to 1996. Listau also chaired Statskraftverkene from 1985 to 1991 and was a board member of Sør-Varanger Avis and Finnmarksposten from 1974 to 1982, and the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits from 1993 to 2004.
He resided at Østerås in Bærum in his later life. He died in March 2014.
References
1938 births
2014 deaths
People from Vågan
People from Sør-Varanger
Finnmark politicians
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Directors of government agencies of Norway
20th-century Norwegian politicians
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Johnny Revolta
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John F. Revolta (April 5, 1911 – March 3, 1991) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. He won a major title, the 1935 PGA Championship, and had 18 career wins on tour.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Revolta's family relocated to Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1923 when he was twelve. He learned the game as a caddie at the public course in Oshkosh and won the state caddie championship at age 14. Like most professional golfers of his generation, Revolta started out as a club professional. He worked at Swan Lake Country Club in Portage in 1930, Chippewa Elks Golf Club in 1931, Riverside Country Club in Menominee, Michigan 1932–1933, and Tripoli Country Club in Milwaukee from 1934–1936. He won the Wisconsin State Open four times in a six-year period; he was not eligible for two years while working in Michigan. Revolta was a member of the PGA Tour from 1935–1952.
Revolta's best year as a tour pro was 1935, when he won five tournaments and led the PGA Tour's money list. He defeated Tommy Armour 5 & 4 in the PGA Championship held at Twin Hills Golf & Country Club and also won the Western Open, the era's "fifth major." He also played in the Ryder Cup in 1935 and 1937.
Revolta was known as the "Iron Master" because of his outstanding short game. Regarding his bunker play in particular, short game master Paul Runyan said Revolta "led the class [of outstanding bunker players] by a big margin. His skill from sand simply left me aghast." His instruction book, Johnny Revolta's Short Cuts to Better Golf, first published in 1949, is still in print today.
Revolta was the head professional at Evanston Golf Club in Skokie, Illinois, from 1935 to 1966, and continued to teach there during summers into the late 1980s. He died in Palm Springs, California in 1991, a month shy of his 80th birthday.
Professional wins (29)
PGA Tour wins (18)
1933 (1) Miami Open
1934 (2) St. Paul Open, Wisconsin Open
1935 (5) Western Open, Sarasota Open, Wisconsin Open, PGA Championship, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball (with Henry Picard)
1936 (1) Thomasville Open
1937 (2) Miami Biltmore Open, Miami International Four-Ball (with Henry Picard)
1938 (4) Sacramento Open, St. Petersburg Open, St. Paul Open, Columbia Open
1939 (1) Inverness Invitational Four-Ball (with Henry Picard)
1941 (1) San Francisco National Match Play Open
1944 (1) Texas Open
Major championship is shown in bold.
Other wins (11)
this list is probably incomplete
1930 Wisconsin State Open
1931 Wisconsin State Open
1935 Miami International Four-Ball (with Henry Picard)
1936 Waterloo Open Golf Classic, Miami International Four-Ball (with Henry Picard), Illinois PGA Championship
1937 Illinois PGA Championship
1938 Illinois PGA Championship
1941 Illinois PGA Championship
1944 Pro-Lady Victory National (with Patty Berg)
1947 Illinois PGA Championship
Major championships
Wins (1)
Note: The PGA Championship was match play until 1958
Results timeline
NYF = tournament not yet founded
NT = no tournament
WD = withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF, F = round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Summary
Most consecutive cuts made – 24 (1933 U.S. Open – 1940 PGA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (1934 U.S. Open – 1934 PGA)
See also
List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
List of men's major championships winning golfers
References
External links
American male golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for the United States
Winners of men's major golf championships
Golf writers and broadcasters
Golfers from St. Louis
American people of Italian descent
1911 births
1991 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norimitsu%20Onishi
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Norimitsu Onishi
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is a Japanese Canadian journalist. He is a Paris correspondent for the New York Times, after holding the position as Bureau Chief in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan.
He was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Sheri Fink, Adam Nossiter, Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. Solomon.
In November 2018, Onishi wrote an article about the lonely deaths of the elderly in Japan, titled "A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death" for which he was nominated as a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing Finalist. Readers thanked Norimitsu for his "profoundly moving piece" about two people who live alone in a danchi, a sprawling government apartment complex, outside Tokyo.
Career
Onishi was born in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. When he was four years old, Onishi and his family immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He attended Princeton University and served as the chief editor of the student newspaper.
Onishi was a reporter for The Detroit Free Press from 1992 until 1993. In December 1993, he joined The New York Times where he began as police reporter from January to July 1994 and city weekly reporter from July 1994 to March 1995. He went on to become the Queens bureau chief from March 1995 to September 1997 and later the West Africa bureau chief from 1998 to 2002.
Onishi became the Tokyo bureau chief for the Times in August 2003. In 2008, he was transferred to head the Southeast Asia bureau in Jakarta; Martin Fackler succeeded him as chief of the Tokyo bureau. In 2012, he was part of a team of reporters, which also included Fackler and Hiroko Tabuchi, that was named as finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for its investigative coverage of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
In September and October 2014, Onishi reported on the ebola virus epidemic in West Africa from Liberia.
Since July 2019, he is a Paris correspondent.
Onishi received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia".
Criticism
Conservatives in Japan such as Kohyu Nishimura and Yoshihisa Komori, accuse Onishi of holding a leftist perspective and having a strong "anti-Japan" bias, which, they suggest, helps foster a vilified image of Japan abroad. This is partially due to Onishi criticisms of Japan’s largest far-right organisation and lobby Nippon Kaigi, in which members include prominent Japanese politicians including Prime Ministers.
Another article, "Letter from Asia: Why Japan Seems Content to Be Run by One Party" provoked an official objection statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for being "an incorrect article." In it, Onishi referred to Japan's democracy as an "illusion" and immature, comparing its government to that of North Korea and China.
His article on December 17, 2006, "Japan Rightists Fan Fury Over North Korea Abductions," was also criticized by Kyoko Nakayama, Special Adviser to the Japanese Prime Minister on Abduction. Thomas H. Snitch, a former professor of American University also suggested that Onishi's coverage on Japan's effort to deal with the issue of the North Korean abductions of Japanese is influenced by political bias. Some Japanese conservatives even made unproven claims that Onishi is a naturalized Japanese citizen of Korean descent.
References
External links
Contributed articles by Norimitsu Onishi in the New York Times
Times Coverage of Ebola: Pulitzer-Winning Articles and More (Published 2015), Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Ebola
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States
Canadian male journalists
Detroit Free Press people
Japanese emigrants to Canada
The New York Times writers
People from Ichikawa, Chiba
Princeton University alumni
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Breaking News
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20Anadyomene
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Venus Anadyomene
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Venus Anadyomene (from Greek, "Venus Rising From the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of the goddess Venus (Aphrodite), made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny's Natural History, with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great, for his model. According to Athenaeus, the idea of Aphrodite rising from the sea was inspired by the courtesan Phryne, who, during the time of the festivals of the Eleusinia and Poseidonia, often swam nude in the sea. A scallop shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female vulva.
The subject never entirely disappeared in Western art, and revived greatly in the Italian Renaissance, with further boosts in the Baroque and Rococo, and in late 19th-century Academic painting. At least one central female nude is practically required in the subject, which has contributed to its popularity.
Antiquity
According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite was born as an adult woman from the sea off Paphos in Cyprus, which also perpetually renewed her virginity. A motif of the goddess wringing out her hair is often repeated. The subject was often repeated in Antiquity, a fourth-century sculptural representation from a Gallo-Roman villa in Aquitania (Louvre) testifying to the motif's continued viability in Late Antiquity.
Apelles' painting was executed for the temple of Asclepius at Kos, from which it was taken to Rome by Augustus in part payment of tribute, and set up in the Temple of Caesar. In the time of Nero, owing to its dilapidated condition, it was replaced by a copy made by the painter Dorotheus. Pliny, listing Apelles' best paintings, noted "[Another of] Venus emerging from the sea, dedicated by the late Augustus of blessed memory in the shrine of Caesar his [adoptive-]father, which is called 'The Anadyomene', praised in Greek verses like other works, conquered by time but undimmed in fame."
The image of Venus Anadyomene is one of the very few images that survived in Western Europe, essentially unchanged from its classical appearance, from Antiquity into the High Middle Ages. Jean Seznec instances two images of Venus among constellations illustrating 14th-century Provençal manuscripts of Matfre Ermengau of Béziers' Breviari d'amor, in which Venus is represented nude in the sea: "This extraordinary conservatism may perhaps be explained by the fact that the culture of the last pagan centuries remained alive longer in Provence than elsewhere."
Renaissance onwards
Through the desire of Renaissance artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides Botticelli's famous The Birth of Venus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas-relief by Antonio Lombardo from Wilton House (Victoria and Albert Museum).
Titian's Venus Anadyomene, , formerly a long-term loan by the Duke of Sutherland, was bought by the National Gallery of Scotland in 2003. It depicts Venus standing in the sea, wringing out her hair. The scallop shell is merely symbolic, as it does not interact with Venus. Giambologna's sculpture is also a single figure wringing out her hair.
The subject was popular with Baroque and Rococo painters, who made up large groups with attending cherubs, sea-nymphs, sea-horses, and tritons around the goddess; these might also be called a Triumph of Venus, and can be traced back to Raphael's Galatea (c. 1514). This, rather than the Botticelli, was the dominant influence on paintings of the subject until the late 19th century. Paintings in this vein include those by Nicolas Poussin (1635–36, Philadelphia), Sebastiano Ricci (c. 1713, Getty Museum), Pierre-Jacques Cazes, François Boucher (1740, Stockholm, and c. 1743 Hermitage Museum). A Cornelis de Vos in the Prado has an original and less formal composition.
Rococo sculptures of the subject were modestly draped across the hips, but bolder nudes appealed to male nineteenth-century patrons. Théodore Chassériau executed the subject in 1835; he repeated the hair-wringing gesture in his most famous work The Toilette of Esther (1841). Ingres' Venus Anadyomene, completed after many years in 1848, is one of the painter's most celebrated works (Musée Condé).
Alexandre Cabanel's The Birth of Venus, reworking the then recently discovered Pompeii fresco, was shown at the Paris Salon in 1863, and bought by Napoleon III for his own personal collection. Venus lies naked on the waves ambiguously, with putti flying above her. Robert Rosenblum's comment on Cabanel's painting is that "This Venus hovers somewhere between an ancient deity and a modern dream... and the ambiguity of her eyes, that seem to be closed but that a close look reveals that she is awake... A nude who could be asleep or awake is specially formidable for a male viewer".
Such a highly conventionalized theme, with undertones of eroticism justified by its mythological context, was ripe for modernist deconstruction; in 1870 Arthur Rimbaud evoked the image of a portly Clara Venus ("famous Venus") with all-too-human blemishes (déficits) in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature: La graisse sous la peau paraît en feuilles plates ("the fat under the skin appears in slabs").
The Birth of Venus, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879), reimagines the composition of the Raphael and Poussin tradition, reflecting the subject's continuing popularity among the academic painters of the late 19th century. It was shown at the Paris Salon of 1879, and was bought for the Musée du Luxembourg. Venus' nude figure takes up the center of the composition, with many admirers gathered around her.
Pablo Picasso recast the image of Venus Anadyomene in the central figure of his seminal painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a modernist deconstruction of the icon, and one of the foundational artworks of Cubism.
Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject for a fountain: the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., has a lifesize bronze plumbed so that water drips from Venus' hair, modelled by a close follower of Giambologna, late sixteenth century.
The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies
In 1793, Thomas Stothard created an etching inspired by Raphael or by Baroque compositions for the third edition of Bryan Edwards' The History, civil and Commercial of the British colonies in the West Indies. The voyage of the Sable Venus, from Angola to the West Indies depicts an African woman in the role of Venus. Attended by eight cherubs fanning her with feathers either of ostrich or of peacock, she holds the reins of a pair of dolphins who draw onward to the Americas the half-shell on which she stands. Cupid is displayed in the scene taking aim at a depiction of Neptune on the left waving a British flag. To the right is shown Triton looking back to the Sable Venus and embracing one of the dolphins. The figure is one of feminine strength: muscular, lean and adorned by a jewel necklace.
Wave theory
In 1913 the British archaeologist John Myres was on the coast near Paphos in winter. Watching the sea, he saw the wind blow two breakers together
Gallery
References
Further reading
Especially pp. 126–132.
External links
Venus Anadyomene, Roman villa of Petit-Corbin, Gironde (Musée du Louvre)
Antonio Lombardo, Venus Anadyomene
Venus Anadyomene, National Gallery of Art
Arthur Rimbaud, "Vénus Anadyomène"
T.R. Quigley, "Semiotics and Western Painting", 1994 Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Iconography
Nude art
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20McLane
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Robert McLane
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Robert Milligan McLane (November 30, 1867 – May 30, 1904) was the 32nd Mayor of Baltimore, serving from May 19, 1903 to his death on May 30, 1904. He is known for his role in the Great Baltimore Fire, and for his sudden death in office.
Early life
Robert McLane was born in Baltimore, the son of James Latimer and Fanny (King) McLane. He was the nephew of Robert Milligan McLane. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1886, and subsequently attended the University of Maryland School of Law.
On May 14, 1904, he married Mrs. Mary (Lusby) Van Bibber, a widow several years his senior. She had been previously married to Dr. John Pierre Van Bibber, a Baltimore physician who had died in 1892.
Political career
In 1903, McLane was elected Mayor of Baltimore; he was 35, and the city's youngest mayor. His actions in office included the appointment of William Cabell Bruce to the position of city solicitor, and, far more controversially, the management of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904: during the fire, McLane "stood in the streets (...) cheering on the firefighters", which historian and professor of management Pete Petersen has described as "the macho thing to do", but "not the smartest", since it meant that McLane was incommunicado, and could not accept offers of aid from other cities. In the fire's aftermath, McLane told The Baltimore News that although he was "gratified at the sympathy and the offers of practical assistance" from across the United States, "Baltimore [would] take care of its own people the best it can"; all donations were returned.
Death
On May 30, 1904, McLane was found in his home, dying of a gunshot wound to the head. He had been in office 385 days.
McLane's death was ruled suicide. Those who knew him had differing opinions as to this verdict, with some emphasizing the stress that he had faced as a result of the post-fire reconstruction. In 2004, researchers from The Baltimore Sun pointed out that McLane had gotten married two weeks before his death, which could have alleviated his stress, but that his family had refused to attend the wedding because his wife was 12 years older than he and from the wrong social class ("the smart set" as opposed to "the retiring aristocratic sort"), which could have exacerbated it. They also pointed out that McLane left no suicide note, and that he had written a letter earlier that day describing his plans for the following week. In 1986, Sun columnist Theo Lippman, Jr. cited a 1956 letter to the editor which claimed that "many of us feel confident that we know that [McLane] was murdered and also who the murderer was and also the motive for that crime", but which did not provide further details.
By 1914, the intersection of Baltimore Street and Liberty Street had been renamed McLane Place in his honor; however, this name was subsequently abandoned.
References
1867 births
1904 deaths
Mayors of Baltimore
Suicides by firearm in Maryland
American politicians who committed suicide
Maryland Democrats
1904 suicides
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Karjalainen
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Toni Karjalainen
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Toni Karjalainen (born 9 July 1979) is one of only a few Finnish professional golfers on the international circuit, and has been his country's highest ranked male golfer.
Karjalainen won the 2005 Thomas Björn Open on the European Tour's official developmental tour to earn full membership of the Challenge Tour for 2006. He followed up in 2006 by winning the Telenet Trophy. He also made several appearances on the main European Tour in 2006, having won limited privileges through his Challenge Tour performances.
Having lost his playing privileges in Europe at the end of the 2008 season, Karjalainen joined the Asian Tour in 2009 after coming through qualifying school.
Professional wins (3)
Challenge Tour wins (2)
Nordic Golf League wins (1)
2002 Messilä Trophy
Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Finland): 2000, 2002
See also
2005 Challenge Tour graduates
External links
Finnish male golfers
European Tour golfers
Asian Tour golfers
Sportspeople from South Karelia
People from Lappeenranta
1979 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20of%20Internal%20Security%20Act
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Maintenance of Internal Security Act
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The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was a controversial law passed by the Indian parliament in 1971 giving the administration of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Indian law enforcement agencies very broad powers – indefinite preventive detention of individuals, search and seizure of property without warrants, and wiretapping – in the quelling of civil and political disorder in India, as well as countering foreign-inspired sabotage, terrorism, subterfuge and threats to national security. The law was amended several times during the subsequently declared national emergency (1975–1977) and used for quelling political dissent. Finally it was repealed in 1977, when Indira Gandhi lost the 1977 Indian general election and the Janata Party came to power.
History
The Act was enacted on July 2, 1971, and replaced the previous ordinance, the "Maintenance of Internal Security Ordinance" promulgated by the President of India on May 7, 1971. The Act was based on the Preventive Detention Act of 1950 (PDA), enacted for a period of a year, before it was extended until December 31, 1969.
The legislation gained infamy for its disregard of legal and constitutional safeguards of civil rights, especially when "going all the way down" on the competition, and during the period of national emergency (1975–1977) as thousands of innocent people were believed to have been arbitrarily arrested, tortured and in some cases, even forcibly sterilized.
The legislation was also invoked to justify the arrest of Indira Gandhi's political opponents, including the leaders and activists of the opposition Janata Party. In all, during the emergency period of 1975–1977, some 100,000 people, which included journalists, scholars, activists and opposition politicians were detained without trial for a period of up to 18 months. Some people were even detained for opposing forced sterilization drives or demolition of slums carried out during this period.
The 39th Amendment to the Constitution of India placed MISA in the 9th Schedule to the Constitution, thereby making it totally immune from any judicial review even on the grounds that it contravened the Fundamental Rights which are guaranteed by the Constitution, or violated the Basic Structure.
The law was repealed in 1977 following the election of a Janata Party-led government; the 44th Amendment Act of 1978 similarly removed MISA from the 9th Schedule.
However, other coercive legislation like Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA), the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA, 1968), and economic counterpart of the act, Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA) enacted on December 13, 1974 to prevent smuggling and black-marketing in foreign exchange is still enforced. Controversial successors to such legislation include the National Security Act (1980), Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA, 1985–1995), and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA, 2002), criticized for authorizing excessive powers for the aim of fighting internal and cross-border terrorism and political violence, without safeguards for civil freedoms.
Pension
In the non-Indian National Congress ruled states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, people detained under Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and Defence of India Act (DIR) during the 1975-1977 national emergency, get Rs. pension per month from the respective state governments. In 2014, the Rajasthan government restarted its pension scheme of Rs. per month for 800 enlisted former detainees, first launched under Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's first term in 2008. The scheme was discontinued in 2009, by Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government.
Detainees
Some notable political leaders imprisoned under Maintenance of Internal Security Act:
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Chandra Shekhar
Jayprakash Narayan
Devi Lal
George Fernandes
M. Karunanidhi
M. K. Stalin
T. R. Baalu
Jai Kishan Gupta (one of the longest MISA detainee from Delhi)
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Santosh Bharti, thrice (1973 - 74 - 75)
Sharad Yadav, twice (1973–75)
Vijay Rupani
Charanjeet Bhatia
Choudhary Mir Singh philanthropist from Munirka, Delhi
Dr. Satpal kapoor, Sonepat (Hr.)
N. Azu Newmai, one of the leaders of UDF, a regional political party of Nagaland
See also
42nd Amendment Act of 1976
References
External links
The Emergency (India)
Acts of the Parliament of India 1971
Human rights abuses in India
Internal security issues of India
Repealed Indian legislation
Indira Gandhi administration
1977 disestablishments in India
Repealed Acts of the Parliament of India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twofour
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Twofour
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Twofour is a British television and digital media group founded in 1989 by Charles Wace, a former BBC news producer, and Christopher Slade, a BBC presenter. With its headquarters in Plymouth, Twofour has offices in London and Los Angeles.
In June 2015, Twofour Group was acquired by ITV Studios.
Melanie Leach was named CEO in summer 2014. In Autumn 2019, Leach stepped down, and Tim Carter was appointed CEO of Twofour and the ITV company Multistory Media.
Divisions
Twofour
Twofour supplies programming to channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, and UKTV.
Twofour was awarded Broadcast's "Best Indie Production Company" title in 2010 and 2014, with titles including The Jump (Channel 4), The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC One/BBC Two) and This Time Next Year (ITV) and Channel 5's longest running series, The Hotel Inspector.
The company produces ob-doc and fixed rig shows such as Channel 4'sEducating Yorkshire, Educating the East End and 2011's Educating Essex.
Twofour has produced a range of adventure documentaries such as Harry's Arctic Heroes for BBC One and Harry's Mountain Heroes for ITV, both featuring Prince Harry and a group of wounded soldiers as they attempt to reach the North Pole and Mount Everest respectively and “You’ve Gotta Run” for ITV and Peace Point TV as the students run away and DeeDee is the running teacher.{citation needed|date=May 2020
Twofour Rights
Twofour Rights was the distribution arm of TwoFour. Launched in 2012, they brought TwoFours programmes to the international marketplace.
In 2021, TwoFour's parent company ITV Studios, merged TwoFour Rights into ITV Studios Distribution.
Programmes produced by Twofour
2021
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Awards
This Time Next Year was named the fastest selling format in the world in 2016, and secured a C21 award and a Realscreen Award.
The Real Marigold Hotel won a Rose d'Or award in 2016. The series was moved to BBC One for its second series.
Educating Yorkshire won a National Television Award, RTS Award, Broadcast Award for Best Documentary, IVCA Award, a BAFTA Craft award and two BAFTA Television nominations.
Twofour held the title Best Indie Production Company in 2010 and 2014, and secured 1st place in Televisual Magazine's True Indie Survey 2013.
The company has been awarded several IVCA and RTS awards. In 2013, triple BAFTA-nominated Educating Essex won a Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Series.
References
External links
ITV (TV network)
Mass media companies established in 1989
Television production companies of the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw%20Warszycki
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Stanisław Warszycki
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Stanisław Warszycki of Abdank coat of arms (c. 1600 – 1680/1681) was a noble (szlachcic) and magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Starosta of Piotrków, Voivode of Mazowsze (1630–1651), Castellan of Cracow (from 1651). He was known for his loyalty to his king and country, and gained fame as a good military commander and especially as a keen investor dedicated to developing his lands, but there are also many legends about his cruelty — although it is likely many of the latter were spread by his enemies. There are now several places in Poland which claim his ghost appears there.
Biography
In his youth he studied at the University of Padua.
He was known for his interest in economics of his estates. He ordered the creation of many fishing ponds and canals, as well as manufactures: his estates supported several cloth and pottery manufacturers and brick factories. He encouraged the immigration of foreign craftsman to his estates. However it also appears that he or some of his overseers were responsible for some serfs' unrest; there are also legends of his cruelty towards the peasantry.
In 1632 he married Helena Wiśniowiecka, daughter of Konstanty Wiśniowiecki. Her dowry included estates at Pilica and Smoleńsk. They had one son, Jan Kazimierz Warszycki, and two daughters, Anna Helena and Teresa.
From 1632 he fortified his village of Danków to such an extent (moat, wall with towers) that it withheld the Swedish assault during the Swedish invasion of Poland. It was possibly not attacked by them, and remained Warszycki base of operations for the duration of the war. It was probably the only fortified village in the entire country. In his manor at Danków he received prominent personalities of his era, including king of Poland Jan II Kazimierz, queen Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, hetman Stefan Czarniecki (however, some sources indicate he received them at Pilica or Ogrodzienic), and other senators of Poland (he, as a voivode and later castellan, was a senator himself). Danków fortifications remained a notable place long after Warszycki's death, but by the 19th century the castle was in ruins and today only ruins of outer walls remain.
In 1651 he expanded the fortifications at Pilica castle. He is generally known for constructing, rebuilding or expanding many fortifications in his dominions. He also sponsored the construction of at least one church and donated money to the Jagiellonian University.
He remained loyal to the Polish state during the war with Sweden (when many powerful magnates defected to the Swedish side). He recaptured the castle at Pilica from the Swedish commander Lindorn. He relieved his manor at Danków and forced the Swedes to retreat from Krzepice and Ogrodzieniec. He took part in the defence of Częstochowa, where Swedes laid siege to the Jasna Góra Monastery. Stanisław sent some of his men with provisions (cows) and 12 cannons to defend the monastery.
During the Polish counteroffensive against the Swedes he took part in the fights against the Swedes in Siewierszczyzna (Severia). At some point he was ambushed by another magnate, Orzechowski. Warszycki barely escaped with his life and sued Orzechowski before the Crown Tribunal. Despite royal support for Orzechowski, Warszycki succeeded in securing a death penalty for his enemy. Although he gave Orzechowski the chance to evade the penalty if he would renounce his faith (he was a Polish brother), Orzechowski refused and consequently was executed by a firing squad.
In 1669 he bought from for 267,000 zloty's estates at Ogrodzieniec, Bydlin, Włodowice, Kromołów, Zawiercie, and silver mines near Olkusz. He spent much of his fortune rebuilding what was damaged during the Swedish invasion, including the castle at Ogrodzieniec.
He was known as a mediator and was active in the politics of Poland. Once, when an illness made him too weak to move, he ordered to be carried from Radom to Pilica to a Sejm (session of Polish parliament).
His and his wife's epitaphs are to be found in Jasna Góra.
Folklore
Warszycki became a rather prominent character in many legends. Danków was said to have vast dungeons filled with treasures and in contemporary Poland there were stories that Warszycki sold his soul to the Devil to enlist his help in the construction of the fortifications. The Devil supposedly took him to hell before he died.
His enemies also accused him of being cruel to his peasants; in Ogrodzienic he presumably constructed a 'cave of tortures'. Another story tells of how he became furious that his wife received a male guest, and suspecting them of an affair, blew up part of the castle. According to a variant of that story, he immured the unfaithful wife, before blowing up that part of the castle. Another just limits the penalty to public flagellation. An alternative reason for his cruelty against his wife is that she attempted to poison him. Yet another story describes his greedy side and how he promised his daughter, Barbara, a dowry and then gave her nothing out of greed and spite. Or, in yet another variant, he had nothing to give because his treasures mysteriously disappeared. Whether he hid them, or they were stolen, or the devil took them... who knows.
Many of his former possessions have legends centered around him being a ghost. He haunts especially the Ogrodzienic and Olsztyn castles, with chains, black dogs, and various accessories (sources vary).
On the other hand, there is a story about a great feast he once held for the poor people. He invited them to his castle in Pilica, ordered them to take a bath and gave them clean clothes. The source seems to indicate he also sponsored a charity in Pilica. To make matters more confusing, a female ghost immured in the castle is also rumored to appear at Pilica; her connection to Warszycki family is not known.
There is at least one story connected to his son, Jan Kazimierz, telling he was an extreme womanizer and his first wife left him on the very day of their marriage.
It is unknown if any of those stories bear much truth, they may also be connected to other members of his family, several of which also bore his name.
At least one story gives the year 1697 for the event, thus it would most certainly be related to a later Stanisław Warszycki. This story tells how that Stanisław wanted to buy a certain village. When its owner refused, Stanisław invited him and held a series of feasts and festivals for the guests over the period of several weeks. When the other noble returned home, he discovered that Warzycki's people have moved the entire village to his lands. When he returned to complain, Warszycki paid him a good price but refused to return the villagers.
References
WARSZYCKI STANISŁAW - zm. 1680
Danków 3 Photos
Legends about Warszycki - a good compilation of many legends found throughout the 'net
External links
Portrait
Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1600s births
1680s deaths
Polish ghosts
Polish nobility
People from Sandomierz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scophony
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Scophony
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Scophony was a sophisticated mechanical television system developed in Britain by Scophony Limited. A black and white image was produced by an early form of acousto-optic modulation of a bright light using a piezoelectric crystal and water or other transparent liquid column.
Principle of operation
The light modulator worked as follows. Crystal vibrations at one end of a horizontal water column would cause waves to propagate through the water. The light was passed through this column from the side across the waves as they propagated through the column, via separate horizontal and vertical orientated cylindrical lenses. The vibrations through the water would act as a diffraction grating, the higher the amplitude, the more that the light passing through would be diffracted. The light passed through the water column was then horizontally focussed onto either a slit or narrow optical block, depending on whether positive or negative modulation of the water column was used. The amount of light which would either pass through the slit or go around the block depended on the amplitude of the modulation, thereby causing the light amplitude to be modulated. Following the slit/block, the light would hit the high speed horizontal rotating mirror drum which was synchronised to the propagation of the waves through the water bath, in order that a particular wave in the water bath would appear at a fixed position on the screen, although that wave would actually be moving through the water column. This technique allowed significantly more of the light from the light source to be used compared to previous light modulation techniques. Vertical scanning was achieved by a separate much larger rotating mirror drum.
It is a common misconception that the water column would contain a complete video line, but this was not necessary with the Scophony system.
Innovation
Scophony's system used several innovative devices:
A split horizontal and vertical focus optical system invented by Walton, developed specially for use with mirror scanning systems and the Jeffree cell. Light beams were focused by crossed cylindrical lenses, concentrating the light in two planes. This allowed the use of smaller lenses and mirrors, thus reducing size and cost. This was particularly important to Scophony since they intended to produce extremely large images.
A light modulator developed by J.H. Jeffree in 1934 and known as the Jeffree cell, a cell filled with a transparent fluid which used mechanical oscillations to modulate the light beam passing through it. It was a substantial improvement over the previous Kerr cell, 200 times as much modulated light being available at the screen.
High speed synchronous motors which could be relied on for 1000 hours of use, some lasting longer without noticeable wear. The Scophony system used two: a low speed scanner which operated at 240 RPM and a high speed scanner which ran at 30,375 RPM for 405 line transmissions or 39,690 RPM for the American 441 line system.
Company
The company Scophony Limited was established by entrepreneur Solomon Sagall in the early 1930s to exploit the patents of inventor George William Walton and William Stephenson. In 1932, Ferranti invested £3,500 in the company, however in 1934 Ferranti turned down the option to invest a further £10,000 to re-structure Scophony Limited, and in 1935 EKCO replaced Ferranti as the company's main investor.
In 1938, the Scophony company demonstrated three types of 405 line mechanical television receivers at the Radiolympia exhibition in London: a home receiver, with a picture area of approximately and two systems intended for theater operation, one producing a image and the other a image.
Several of the theatre systems were installed and operated successfully but none of the receivers were sold as production was halted due to the impending war.
Scophony Limited operated as a television manufacturer in Britain up to WWII and then in the USA. During WWII Scophony moved to Somerset and worked on war work. "Of all the electro-mechanical television techniques invented and developed by the mid-1930s, the technology known as Scophony had no rival in terms of technical performance."
In November 1948, Scophony merged with John Logie Baird Ltd to become Scophony-Baird; offering for sale a line of four Baird-branded television sets the following year.
See also
Ulises Armand Sanabria
Joshua Sieger
References
External links
Scophony system at TV History website
Scophony system at Early Television website
Solomon Sagall obituary: NY Times
Ferranti
History of television
History of science and technology in the United Kingdom
Television technology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20of%20Arthur%20Russell
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The World of Arthur Russell
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The World of Arthur Russell is a compilation album by Arthur Russell, released in 2004 on Soul Jazz Records.
Reception
Simon Reynolds of Uncut gave the album a five star rating, but stated that the album "is splendid but in truth only scratches the surfaces of Russell's officially released work (plus there's mountains of unreleased material originally deemed too kooky for the '80s post-disco market)."
Track listing
"Go Bang" (Dinosaur L) – 7:36
"Wax the Van" (Lola) – 5:27
"Is It All Over My Face" (Loose Joints) – 6:57
"Keeping Up" (Arthur Russell) – 6:20
"In the Light of the Miracle" (Arthur Russell) – 13:21
"A Little Lost" (Arthur Russell) – 3:18
"Pop Your Funk" (Loose Joints) – 6:38
"Let's Go Swimming" (Arthur Russell) – 5:14
"In the Cornbelt" (Dinosaur L) – 5:57
"Treehouse" (Arthur Russell) – 2:17
"Schoolbell/Treehouse" (Indian Ocean) – 10:05
References
Sources
2004 compilation albums
Arthur Russell (musician) albums
Soul Jazz Records compilation albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Reid%20Speed
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DJ Reid Speed
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Reid Speed (born Amy Margolis) is a multi-genre DJ who specializes in dubstep, drum and bass, trap, and electro. She owns and runs Play Me Records out of Santa Monica, California.
Biography
Music
When Reid Speed began spinning records in 1996, she first generated curiosity as one of few female DJs at the time. However, she quickly earned respect for her talent in the highly competitive New York City DJ scene. By the summer of 1997, she was working with rave promoters Stuck on Earth Promotions and the following year as a member of the Direct Drive crew.
Play Me Records, her label, is a leading force in the American end of dubstep. Reid has now a second label, Play Me Too Records. As one of the first US DJs to champion speed garage & 2 step.
Reid started out in the New York City underground working behind the counter at the legendary Breakbeat Science store, holding residencies with Stuck on Earth, Direct Drive & Camouflage while in college at the School of Visual Arts. Drum and bass at the start, she was soon was seduced by the sounds of 2 step and speed garage and began DJing full-time, producing tracks and throwing her own events. Signing to Breakbeat Science's label in 2001, she released her first mix "Resonance" to much critical acclaim, and successfully followed it up with 2003's "Life After Dark." On subsequent tours with Om artists Ming (DJ) & FS and Colette she honed her precise genre mashing mixing skills and developed a synergy with her crowds that is unmatched. Her tunes and mixes get play from many of the world's most respected radio stations and DJs including BBC/ Annie Nightingale (voted Reid Best Mix of 2008), Sweidish Egil (Power 106 LA), Z-trip, Drop the Lime, Jaimie Fanatic, 12th Planet, Bassnectar & DJ Dan. Whether on the floor, in the studio or behind the decks Reid keeps pushing boundaries forward every step she takes.
Tours
Reid toured the US from June 2011 to October 2011 with Sub Antix, FS, and Cyberoptics as part of Play Me Records' Bass Monster Tour.
Reid's tracks and mixes have been featured on/by:
Showtime Shonext, Puma, Adidas, BBC Radio 1 (Annie Nightingale's Best Mix of 2008), LA Power 106, Sirius, I Heart Comix, NickyDigital, Groove Radio, Dogs On Acid, Missingtoof, Discodust, Hype Machine, Crux Da House, NerdyFrames, Media Contender, "Bomb It" History of Graffiti Documentary.
TV/Print appearances
In 2003, Reid was chosen to play her blend of drum & bass on Jamie Kennedy's show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on the WB Television Network. She also appeared in an episode of Spike TV's MDN. In 2005, she was chosen to judge BPM Magazine & Rockstar energy drink's "Beauty & the Beats" contest with DJ Rap and Colette. A subsequent tour garnered much attention, including an appearance on Bravo's "Blowout".
Other appearances: MDN, "Concentric Beats" Documentary, "Sabotage" short film, Nylon, Paper, Flaunt, Gear, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Vice, The Fader, Urb, XLR8R, Mixer, Karma, Tokyon, Metropop, Frank151
Notable Events
Diesel, Scion, J. Lindberg, Rockstar, Skullcandy, LA Natural History Museum, Beautiful Decay, US Capitol Lawn protest
2014
New Zealand:
Code Bar in Auckland, Friday 18 of July
The Block Party in Hamilton, Saturday 19 July
Sponsors
Shure, Pioneer, Native Instruments, Stanton, Numark, Tascam, Triple 5 Soul, Matix, Sinful, JNCO, Junkytees.
Discography
EPs
Reeespect (2001)
Resonance (2002)
Life After Dark (2003)
Under The Influence (2009)
We Love The Blunts (2012) with Proper Villains
Singles
"S-I-M-P-L-O-T (Original Mix)" (2000) w/ FS
"PantyDrop" w/ Flinch
"Why Don't You Pay Me" w/ Flinch
"Shake Dat" w/ Flinch
"Danger" w/ Queensyze
"Prosti-tot" (2009) w/ Mike Balance
"U Hold The Weed" w/ Dino
"Jailbait Rinse" (2009) w/ Hot Mouth
"Fangbanger" (2010) w/ Dino
"Bass Monster" (2011) w/ FS
Remixes
"Krafty Kuts & Tim Deluxe - Bass Phenomenon" (2007) w/ Josh David
"Datcyde - Naughty Ride VIP" (2009)
"Jaimie Fanatic & Kelevra - We Are All Kidz" (2009) w/ Mike Balance
"Doc Trashz - The Battle" (2009)
"Sporty-O - Motion" (2010)
"Dirty Talk - P.O.T." (2011) w/ FS
Tracks released as Breakdown
MC Flipside "What It's About" (Breakdown Remix) (PBR)
Breakdown feat. Whisky Pete & Julz "Play With It" (PBR)
Oh Snap & Jen Lasher- "So Dynamite" (Breakdown Remix)
Jamie Fanatic "Double Dutch Buzz" (Breakdown Remix)
Breakdown "Break The System" w/ Mightyfools Remix (Illeven:Eleven)
Breakdown "Team Axel" w/ Will Bailey Remix (Promo)
DJ Kue "Lover's Break" (Breakdown Remix) (InStereo)
Breakdown "Do What I Want" (Illeven Eleven)
Robb G "Heavy" (Breakdown Remix) (Promo)
DJ Kue "Dont Get High" (Breakdown Remix)
Harley Schoolkid "From Paris With Love" (Breakdown Remix) (DUG )
Effekt "Abuser" (Breakdown's Wonkyshizzle Remix) (DUG)
Cybersutra "Dope" (Breakdown Remix) (Shush)
Krafty Kuts "The Bass Phenomenon" (Breakdown Remix) (Against The Grain/Supercharged)
References
External links
Official SoundCloud
Exclusive Interview with DJ Reid Speed
[ DJ Reid Speed bio on allmusic.com]
Interview in Lunar' Magazine
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electronic musicians
Breakbeat musicians
Club DJs
Women DJs
Participants in American reality television series
Remixers
American women record producers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward%20Morse
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Hayward Morse
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Hayward Morse is a British stage and voice actor born in 1947. His career began on CBC television and with numerous stage performances in Canada and the United States. He made his USA television debut in 1959 with Ingrid Bergman in the film The Turn of the Screw. This was the first teleplay to be broadcast in color on the NBC network.
Background
Morse is the son of actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess and brother of Melanie Morse MacQuarrie. He received a scholarship at the age of 16 to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, receiving the 'Silver Medal' award upon graduation.
Career
He made his London West End debut in the original production of Joe Orton's What The Butler Saw at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baxter and Coral Browne.
He received a Best Supporting Actor Antoinette Perry 'Tony' award nomination for his performance in Simon Gray's Butley on Broadway, starred in the first stage production of The Rocky Horror Show, the Bristol Old Vic production of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, and has appeared in many of William Shakespeare's plays internationally. Other stage roles include 'Hercule Poirot' in Alibi, the dual roles of 'Aunt' and 'Nephew' in Travels With My Aunt, Sleuth and I Ought to be in Pictures. Morse appeared as 'Bosie' in the North American premiere of Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship by Anthony Wynn alongside his father, Barry Morse.
A voice artist, Hayward Morse has recorded hundreds of audio books, including the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Robbins, Bernard Cornwell, Jackie Collins, Arthur C. Clarke, and Mickey Spillane.
References
External links
Website of Hayward Morse
Website of Sydney Sturgess
Website of Melanie Morse
Official Website of Barry Morse
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male actors from London
English male stage actors
English male voice actors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20von%20Fischer
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Samuel von Fischer
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Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer (24 December 1859 – 15 October 1934), was a Hungarian-born German publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), Liptau/Liptó megye, northern Hungary.
Biography
He was trained as a bookseller in Vienna and moved to Berlin shortly afterwards. In Berlin, he joined the bookseller and publisher Hugo Steinitz. Fischer took on increasing responsibility for new publishing endeavours and managed to launch his own firm in 1886, the S. Fischer, Verlag.
The Fischer publishing house first became known by introducing the works of Ibsen to German stages and by supporting the naturalist circle in Berlin. Samuel Fischer founded the theatre society Freie Bühne with Otto Brahm to avoid censorship.
He died in Berlin, Germany. His granddaughter was the actress Gisela Fischer.
See also
S. Fischer Verlag
References
Judentum-projekt.de
External links
1859 births
1934 deaths
People from Liptovský Mikuláš
Hungarian Jews
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to Germany
German people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
German people of Slovak-Jewish descent
19th-century German people
20th-century German people
19th-century Austrian people
20th-century Austrian people
19th-century Hungarian people
20th-century Hungarian people
19th-century publishers (people)
20th-century publishers (people)
German publishers (people)
Austrian publishers (people)
Hungarian publishers (people)
Businesspeople from Berlin
Austrian magazine founders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201928%20Summer%20Olympics
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Canada at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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Canada competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 69 competitors, 62 men and 7 women, took part in 49 events in 8 sports.
Medalists
Athletics
32 athletes represented Canada in 1928. It was the nation's 7th appearance in the sport, having competed in athletics at every Olympics to date. After failing to win any medals in 1924, Canada returned to the athletics podium in 1928 with 4 golds, 2 silvers, and 2 bronzes.
The women's relay team broke the world record twice on the way to winning the gold medal. Percy Williams won both of the men's sprint events, twice matching the Olympic record in the 100 metres. Bobbie Rosenfeld briefly held the Olympic record in the women's 100 metres, setting it at 12.4 seconds in the semifinals before that mark was bested by all three medalists, including Rosenfeld and Smith (with the record ultimately ending with American gold medalist Betty Robinson at 12.2 seconds).
Track and road events
Boxing
7 boxers, all men, represented Canada in 1928. It was the nation's 3rd appearance in the sport. Canada had a boxer in every weight class except the heavyweight. For the second straight Games, Canada won exactly one bronze medal in boxing.
Cycling
Six cyclists, all men, represented Canada in 1928. It was the nation's 5th appearance in the sport. Joe Laporte had previously competed in 1924.
Road cycling
Track cycling
Time trial
Match races
Diving
One man represented Canada in diving in 1928. It was the nation's 4th appearance in the sport and first since 1920. Phillips advanced to the finals in both events, placing 7th in each.
Rowing
11 rowers, all men, represented Canada in 1928. It was the nation's 6th appearance in the sport, tying Belgium and Great Britain for most appearances. Canada had 3 boats compete and won one silver medal in men's double sculls (matching its best ever result in the sport) and one bronze medal in the men's eight, as well as an effectively 5th place finish in men's single sculls after Wright was defeated in the quarterfinal round.
Swimming
6 swimmers, 5 men and 1 women, represented Canada in 1928. It was nation's 5th appearance in the sport and the first time the nation sent a female swimmer. Canada won a bronze medal in the men's relay, the first medal in the sport for Canada since 1920. In the individual events, Canadian swimmers advanced to 3 finals but took 6th place each time.
Wrestling
5 wrestlers, all men, competed for Canada in 1928. They competed only in the freestyle discipline. It was the nation's 4th appearance in the sport. Canadian wrestlers won a silver medal (the nation's best result in the sport so far, improving on a bronze medal in 1908) and 2 bronze medals.
Freestyle wrestling
Art competitions
References
External links
sports-reference
Nations at the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928
Summer Olympics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman
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Hangman
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Hangman may refer to:
Executioner who carries out a death sentence by hanging
Hangman (game), a game of guessing a word or phrase one letter at a time
Arts and entertainment
Comics
Hangman (DC Comics), an enemy of Batman
Hangman (Marvel Comics), the name of a couple of different characters in the Marvel Universe
Hangman (Archie Comics), a number of Archie Comics superheroes
Hangman Comics, a Golden Age MLJ/Archie Comics imprint comics title featuring the Hangman
Films
The Hangman (1928 film), a German silent film
The Hangman (1959 film), an American Western directed by Michael Curtiz
Hangman, a 2001 television film featuring Mädchen Amick and Lou Diamond Phillips
The Hangman (2005 film), an Indian film starring Om Puri and Shreyas Talpade
Hangman (2015 film), a British found-footage film starring Jeremy Sisto
Hangman (2017 film), an American crime thriller film starring Al Pacino
Literature
"The Hangman" (poem), a 1954 children's poem by Maurice Ogden, and a 1964 animated short based on the poem
Hangman, a 2000 novel by Michael Slade
"Hangman", a short story by David Drake in his 1979 collection Hammer's Slammers
Songs
"Hangman", by Black Stone Cherry from Kentucky, 2016
"Hangman", by Chapman Whitney from Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers, 1974
"Hangman", by Dave, 2018
"Hangman", by Krokus from Hellraiser, 2006
"The Maid Freed from the Gallows", a folk song sometimes given the title "Hangman"
Other
Hangman (video game), a 1978 game for the Atari 2600 based on the guessing game
The Hangman (roller coaster), a 1990s roller coaster at Opryland USA in Nashville, Tennessee
Hangman Books, a British independent small press, and associated film and record projects
Places
Hangman cliffs, on the north coast of Devon, England
Hangman Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, US
Hangman Creek, or Latah Creek, in Washington and Idaho, US
Hangman Creek, a tributary of the White Salmon River via Gilmer Creek; see List of rivers of Washington (state)
People
Nickname
Henry Hawley ("Hangman Hawley") (c. 1679–1759), British Army lieutenant general
Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), German Nazi, one of the main architects of the Holocaust
Ring name
Hangman Hughes (born 1974), Canadian professional wrestler
Bobby Jaggers (1948–2012), American professional wrestler
Gene LeBell (born 1932), American martial artist, professional wrestler, stunt performer, and actor
Adam Page (born 1991), American professional wrestler
See also
Hangmen (disambiguation)
Hang (disambiguation)
Hanging tree (disambiguation)
The Hanged Man (disambiguation)
Lists of people by nickname
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20Ljungberg
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Birger Ljungberg
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Birger Ljungberg (7 June 1884 – 20 April 1967) was a Norwegian military officer and politician from the Conservative Party who served as Minister of Defence from 1939–1942.
References
1884 births
1967 deaths
Norwegian Army World War II generals
Defence ministers of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satakunta%20University%20of%20Applied%20Sciences
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Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
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Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) () is a university of applied sciences in the Satakunta region of Finland. The university is headquartered in Pori and offers additional instruction in Huittinen, Kankaanpää and Rauma. The number of students is 6,000 and the staff about 400.
Faculties
The faculties implement education, R&D activities, and business operations.
Health and Welfare
Health and Welfare faculty offers bachelor's and master's degree level education in Social and Health Services and Fine Arts. The faculty was the first to begin offering the Human Ageing and Elderly Services degree and also offers the only English-language Physiotherapy degree in the Nordic countries. The faculty is responsible for developing the aging services specialization, has strong expertise in accessibility and runs the learning centre Soteekki.
Service Business
This faculty is in charge of e.g. Tourism and Business related degrees: Economy and Financing, Sales and Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business Law, Public Administration, Management and Digital Expertise. Of the emerging fields highlighted in the SAMK strategy, Tourism Business belongs in this faculty. With regard to tourism, special focus is placed on nature tourism and the development of local tourism.
Logistics and Maritime Technology
The Logistics and Maritime Technology faculty focuses on international business, logistics and maritime management. Of the areas of strength listed in the SAMK strategy, this faculty is in charge of maritime management and the emerging field of multi-disciplinary logistics. The faculty participates in, for example, co-operative projects for the development of maritime education in Namibia.
Technology
The Technology faculty is in charge of a majority of the Engineering degrees that SAMK offers. Of the areas highlighted in the SAMK strategy, Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and Smart Water and Environmental Technology are this faculty's specialties. Notable laboratories and learning environments include e.g. the telecommunications NGN lab, solar power lab and simulation environments. The water institute Wander is also a part of the faculty.
Degrees in English
Bachelor's Degrees
• Industrial Management, Bachelor of Engineering
• Logistics, Bachelor of Engineering
• Physiotherapy, Bachelor of Health Care
• International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration
• International Tourism Development, Bachelor of Hospitality Management
• Nursing, Bachelor of Health Care
• Sea Captain, Bachelor of Marine Technology
The duration of bachelor's degree Programmes is 210 or 240 ECTS credits, and their completion time usually takes from 3.5 to 4.5 years.
Master's Degrees
• Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration
• Maritime Management, Master of Marine Technology or Master of Engineering
• Rehabilitation Master of Health Care or Master of Social Services
• Welfare Technology, Master of Engineering or Master of Health Care
The scope of the studies is 60–90 credits. The degree can be completed while working in about 1.5–2.5 years.
References
External links
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences website
Organisation of Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Youtube
Theses and publications
Education in Satakunta
Universities and colleges in Finland
1997 establishments in Finland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangible%20bullet
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Frangible bullet
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Frangible bullets are intended to disintegrate into tiny particles upon target impact to minimize their penetration of other objects. Small particles are slowed more rapidly by air resistance, and are less likely to cause injury or damage to persons and objects distant from the point of bullet impact.
Most frangible bullets are subject to brittle failure upon striking a hard target. This mechanism has been used to minimize the tendency of malleable lead and copper bullets to ricochet from hard targets as large, cohesive particles. Brittle failure may occur at subsonic velocity. Attempting to crimp a brittle frangible bullet into the cartridge case may break the bullet. Brittle frangible bullets may break during the self-loading cycle of semi-automatic firearms; and those fired from revolvers often break as the bullet encounters the barrel forcing cone after leaving the cylinder.
Manufacturing
Powder metallurgy techniques fabricate bullets from mixtures of powdered metals (typically tin, copper, zinc, and/or tungsten) compressed at room temperature to produce a high-density material. Mechanical interlocking and cold welding bond the metals together either pressed directly to shape, or into bar stock billets that can be swaged into projectiles, with or without jacketing.
Alternative manufacturing techniques include heat treating or sintering powdered metals at temperatures below the melting point, or binding the powdered metal with an adhesive or polymer in an injection moulding.
Target damage
The mechanism of bullet disintegration varies with the energy transfer at the time of impact. With sufficient velocity, bullets may be vaporized upon impact. Few firearms can propel bullets at sufficient velocity to cause reliable vaporization at the target, and air resistance causes bullet velocity to decrease with increasing distance from the firing point; so frangible bullets typically rely upon other mechanisms for disintegration at lower velocities. Target characteristics are an important aspect of interaction with the bullet. Energy available to initiate the disintegration mechanism is limited by the rate at which the target slows the bullet; so bullets may pass through flexible, fragile or low-density materials without slowing the bullet enough to cause disintegration. Bullets must resist disintegration during handling, loading, and firing to reliably hit the target; so high-velocity loads may require a non-frangible jacket to protect a frangible core from disintegration prior to target impact. The jacket may ricochet, but should have reduced range without the weight of the frangible core. Frangible hollow-point bullets may penetrate clothing, drywall, and light sheet metal; but often disintegrate upon striking glass.
Hard targets may be damaged by frangible bullets. Extent of damage increases with velocity of bullet impact. Energy transfer at the point of impact may break brittle targets, and may temporarily soften and permanently deform malleable materials. Target crystalline structure may be changed to increase target damage by subsequent bullets. Steel targets designed to withstand rifle ammunition may be damaged by bullet velocities over per second; and lower velocity bullets may damage steel targets intended for pistol or rimfire ammunition.
Frangible bullets striking animal targets create wounds similar to conventional bullets. Some penetrate soft tissue similar to full metal jacket bullets. Some may disintegrate upon striking bone. Hunting bullets include a frangible core designed to disintegrate when a protective jacket is opened by softer tissue or fluid. Frangible bullets disintegrating in flesh cause very serious wounds with persistent effects.
Frangible bullets may represent an unconventional threat to personal armor intended to resist traditional lead bullets. At the request of the National Institute of Justice, staff of the Office of Law Enforcement Standards, located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has conducted a limited series of tests evaluating the performance of frangible ammunition against body armor. This preliminary study was designed to attempt to establish the validity of claims that these types of rounds pose a potential safety threat to personal body armor. The true scope and relevance of this threat was not known as of November 2002.
Uses
Frangible bullets offer improved safety for specialized combat simulation training, which involves one or more shooters engaging multiple steel targets from various directions while moving through a 360 degree range, due to the decreased risk of ricochet, overpenetration, as well as decreasing lead exposure. Frangible bullets are also used in reduced ricochet, limited penetration (RRLP) loads intended to reduce risk to friendly forces and innocent persons during close quarters military or police actions in urban areas, aboard ships or aircraft, or in hazardous material environments like oil platforms and chemical or nuclear plants.
History
Injuries from lead bullet fragments ricocheting off metal targets at 20th-century amusement park shooting galleries encouraged development of frangible bullets in specialized .22 Short gallery loads including Peters Krumble Ball, Remington Spatter-Less, Western Kant-Splash, and Winchester Spatterpruf. The United States used frangible lead/Bakelite M22 bullets in aircraft .30 caliber machine guns for target practice at armored RP-63 manned target aircraft. The lower density M22 bullets were of the same shape as conventional M2 bullets for reliable function through self-loading machine guns, but weighed only in comparison to for the M2 bullets.
In the early 21st-century, the United States military began using frangible bullets to reduce ricochet risk during small arms training. These bullets use nylon as a binding agent for a core of powdered copper and tungsten contained within a gilding metal jacket.
References
Bullets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot%20%28broadcasting%29
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Rimshot (broadcasting)
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In radio and television broadcasting a rimshot is a station that attempts to reach a larger media market from a distant suburban, exurban, or even rural location. The term is primarily used with FM stations, and mainly in North America. The name derives not from the sound of a rimshot in music, but rather from basketball, where the ball hits the rim of the basket, and may or may not go in.
Rimshot stations are often at a disadvantage compared to higher-strength signals in a market. Many rimshot operators attempt to serve the larger market with a signal that has deficiencies in the intended listening area, especially on the far side from where it is transmitted.
Many (if not most) rimshot stations are "move-ins", having moved to about halfway between their city of license (which they are legally required to cover and serve) and the metro area which they actually care about. In this manner, the broadcast range of the station ideally covers both. Although stations have traditionally been required to keep their main studio in their community of license, this has become less and less meaningful as more and more have been granted waivers to consolidate radio studios at a single location due to concentration of media ownership.
In the U.S., it was FCC MM docket 80-90 that allowed FM stations to have closer spacing, thereby allowing move-ins, and some new stations as well. This has generally been allowed, especially when it makes room for additional stations in outlying areas. In these cases, the table of allotments is amended in a rulemaking proceeding, although this is not always a requirement to move a station in most cases, depending on each particular situation.
On an international level, stations which attempt to serve another country are called "border blasters". These are primarily Mexican AM stations operating at very high power on clear channels to reach the American Southwest and beyond via skywave at night.
In Canada, the CRTC restricts most same-market duopolies in television to channels broadcasting in different languages. Hence, English-language duopolies in major Canadian markets have involved stations licensed to rimshot major cities or serve different portions of a larger metropolitan area (such as Victoria and Chilliwack for Vancouver, Hamilton and Barrie for Toronto, Pembroke for Ottawa and Sherbrooke for Montreal).
References
Television terminology
Radio broadcasting
Broadcast law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20McGriff
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Curtis McGriff
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Curtis McGriff (born May 17, 1958) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins.
Early life
McGriff grew up in rural Houston County, Alabama in the southeastern corner of the state. He attended and played football at Cottonwood High School in Cottonwood, Alabama graduating in 1976. He played college football at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant from 1976 to 1979. McGriff was an interior defensive lineman for the 1978 squad that defeated Penn State in the famous “goal line stand” Sugar Bowl. He was also part of the 1979 team that repeated as undisputed national champions, punctuated by a win over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
Professional career
McGriff entered the NFL and signed with the New York Giants in 1980 as a defensive lineman. He made the NFL's all-rookie team that year and was a member of the Giants' 1986-1987 Super Bowl Championship team. McGriff was primarily used as a defensive tackle and rotated into the game on downs when a running play was anticipated (McGriff would be rotated out of the game and a pass-rush specialist would be brought into the game on passing downs.) He played his final season (1987) with the Washington Redskins.
After football
Formerly, McGriff lived in Hackensack, New Jersey in the New York metropolitan area. He was often seen at charity event such as Kidney Benefits with close friend and fellow Alabama player, Don McNeal, who played cornerback for the Miami Dolphins from 1980–1989. On May 15, 2005, McGriff married his longtime girlfriend Maurie Morris. He taught at a correctional school in Lodi, New Jersey.
Mr. McGriff now lives in Dothan, Alabama.
References
1958 births
Living people
New York Giants players
Washington Redskins players
Alabama Crimson Tide football players
African-American players of American football
Players of American football from Alabama
People from Houston County, Alabama
People from Donalsonville, Georgia
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiley%20McClendon
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Reiley McClendon
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Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor.
He has appeared on such television shows as Will & Grace, Zoey 101, and Medium, as well as in Disney Channel films such as Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off and Buffalo Dreams.
He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Identity" in a dual role as identical twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton. He had a role in Shangri-La Suite (2016) opposite Luke Grimes and Emily Browning.
Filmography
References
External links
1990 births
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Episcopal High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie%20Lorentzen
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Annemarie Lorentzen
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Annemarie Røstvik Lorentzen (23 September 1921 – 30 June 2008) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was the first female Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications, in addition to being Minister of Consumer Affairs and Administration and Norwegian ambassador to Iceland. Lorentzen played a major role in the post-World War II reconstruction of her Hammerfest after it was razed by the fleeing Nazi occupiers.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion. She had previously served as a deputy representative during the terms 1954–1957 and 1961–1965.
From 1973 to 1977, Lorentzen was appointed to the second cabinet Bratteli. During this period her seat in parliament was taken by Per A. Utsi. She was Minister of Transport and Communications from 1973 to 1976 and Minister of Consumer Affairs and Administration from 1976 to 1978.
She was born in Sør-Varanger, but worked in Hammerfest as a teacher from 1947 to 1969. She was a member of Hammerfest municipal council from 1951 to 1963. From 1961 to 1965 she chaired the regional party chapter of Western Finnmark. From 1961 to 1969 she was a member of the national Labour Party board.
After her time as government minister, she was appointed Norwegian ambassador to Iceland. She served in this capacity from 1978 to 1985.
References
1921 births
2008 deaths
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Finnmark politicians
Ambassadors of Norway to Iceland
People from Hammerfest
People from Sør-Varanger
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Women government ministers of Norway
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Women members of the Storting
Norwegian women ambassadors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon%20Ditlev%20Lowzow
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Haakon Ditlev Lowzow
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Haakon Ditlev Lowzow (5 October 1854 – 12 August 1915) was a Norwegian military officer and politician for the Liberal Party. He is best known as the Norwegian Minister of Defence from 1908 to 1909.
Personal life
Lowzow was born in Kristiania, and came from a military background. His father was a lieutenant, his grandfather was a major general and his great-grandfather was a lieutenant general. Also, he was a granduncle of Carl Fredrik and Wenche Lowzow.
Career
He became a military officer in 1872, and was promoted to premier lieutenant in 1887 and lieutenant colonel in 1904. On 11 April 1908, when the first cabinet Knudsen assumed office, he was appointed as the new Minister of Defence. He held this position until 19 August 1909, when he resigned. He later became major general of rank and Inspector-General of the Infantry. He died in August 1915.
References
1854 births
1915 deaths
Norwegian Army generals
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Military personnel from Oslo
Defence ministers of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOD%20Electronics
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DOD Electronics
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DOD Electronics, or simply DOD, is a Cort Guitars company that makes guitar effects pedals, many of which are now discontinued. Additionally, the company has made active crossover gear.
History
DOD originally stood for David Oreste DeFrancesco, who founded the company in 1973 with business partner and musician John Johnson. David was the original engineer who, with his business partner John, later sold the company to Harman International in 1990-'91. David now runs a company called Rolls Corporation.
Over DOD's 40-year history, the company introduced many pedal lines and early multi-effect devices, like the "944 Chain-Reaction" and digital delays like the now sought-after PDS series. The '70s and early '80s 200, 400 and 600 series of stompboxes have become very collectable. '70s gray "DOD Overdrive Preamp/250"s with LM741 op-amps fetch premium prices with collectors, with the yellow early '80s 250s not far behind. Later '90s DOD pedals have also become collectors items like the "Gonkulator", "Grind", "Buzz Box", "Meat Box", "Vibro Thang", and "Big Pig Fat" Distortion.
Many of the more popular DOD pedals are now available under the DigiTech name. This includes the Envelope Filter.
In early 2010 Harman employee Tom Cram personally began a clandestine skunkworks project to revive DOD. This resulted in the prototypes for what would be the new DOD 250, 201, and an unidentified third red pedal. This skunkworks project was unknown to Harman and only became official after Mr. Cram showed his completed prototypes. Mr. Cram has subsequently become the marketing manager for DigiTech/DOD and continued to work on new DigiTech and DOD pedals until Samsung bought Harman International in 2018.
On September 16, 2013, DOD returned with updated versions of the venerable "Overdrive Preamp/250", and "Phasor/201". Both feature true bypass, blue LEDs, modern power jack, lighter aluminum chassis, two tone flat-black and metal-flake paint jobs. The 2013 250 also features an LM741 op-amp to replicate the sounds of the original 250. In 2014 three more updated DOD pedals were released, the "BIFET Boost 410", and the "Envelope Filter 440", and the "Electro-Optical Compressor 280". The 410 features a new buffer on/off toggle and the 440 features an up/down voicing toggle, and the 280 circuit is untouched except for the addition of true bypass, LED, and modern PSU jack. All feature true bypass, blue LEDs, modern power jack, lighter aluminum chassis, two tone flat-black and metal-flake paint jobs.
In early 2015 a new DOD pedal called the "Boneshaker" distortion unit was released; this is a collaboration with boutique pedal builder Mark Wentz of Black Arts Toneworks.
In September 2017, Harman announced that it was restructuring and consolidating its R&D facilities. This led to the engineering team at DOD/Digitech being fired in 2018, and the department integrated into Harman Pro. Tom Cram now runs his own pedal company called Spiral Electric Effects.
References
External links
Guitar effects manufacturing companies
Music equipment manufacturers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja%20Ludvigsen
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Sonja Ludvigsen
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Sonja Aase Ludvigsen (7 February 1928 – 12 July 1974) was a Norwegian politician, a member of the Labour Party.
Career
Ludvigsen was born in Vestby in 1928. After completing her education she did various white-collar jobs before obtaining employment with Vestby municipality where she was a tax adjuster from 1958 to 1965. She was a member of Vestby municipal council from 1955 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1972, and a member of the school board from 1960 to 1968. She was a member of the Workers' Youth League central board from 1958 to 1964 and the Labour Party central board from 1965 to 1974.
Ludvigsen served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Akershus during the terms 1958–1961 and 1961–1965 before being elected in 1965. During her first term she was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications. She was re-elected in 1969 and again in 1973. She spent her second term as a member of the Standing Committee on Industry from 1969 to 1971, then as chair of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs and member of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Affairs from 1971 to 1973. During her third term she did not attend parliamentary sessions at all but served as Minister of Social Affairs in Bratteli's Second Cabinet from October 1973. She died in office, and was replaced in Parliament by Thor-Eirik Gulbrandsen.
Ludvigsen chaired the now-defunct government agency Likestillingsrådet from 1972 to 1973, and from 1973 to 1974 she was a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Ludvigsen died when only 46 years old having been suffering from a terminal disease, a condition she knew about before taking office as Minister of Social Affairs.
Tor Halvorsen was appointed acting Minister in April, but no successor had been named a month after Ludvigsen's death. In August 1974 the newspaper Verdens Gang wrote that the "only thing which can be said to be certain now, is that the new Minister of Social Affairs will be a woman". This proved to be an inaccurate statement as three weeks later a man, Tor Halvorsen, was named as the permanent Minister of Social Affairs.
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1928 births
1974 deaths
People from Vestby
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Akershus politicians
Members of the Storting
Government ministers of Norway
Women government ministers of Norway
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Women members of the Storting
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are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles.
In the context of the four divisions of society, were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). This connotation no longer exists in the modern Japanese language, and any traditional Japanese-style residence of appropriate age could be referred to as .
are characterized by their basic structure, their roof structure, and their roof shape. developed through history with distinctive styles emerging in the Edo period.
Types
The term literally means houses of the people. It covers houses that accommodated a wide variety of people from farmers to village headmen, merchants and low level samurai.
come in a wide range of styles and sizes, largely as a result of differing geographic and climatic conditions as well as the lifestyle of the inhabitants. They generally fall into one of four classifications: farmhouses town houses , fishermen's dwellings and mountain dwellings .
Unlike other forms of Japanese architecture (such as those of the style), it is the structure rather than the plan that is of primary importance to the . are divided up with primary posts that form the basic framework and bear the structural load of the building; secondary posts are arranged to suit the functional arrangements of the plan.
Despite the wide variety of , there are eight basic forms:
The 'inverted U' consists of two vertical posts fixed at the top with a horizontal beam; these units can then be joined with side girders. The beam can be fixed to the top of the post either by resting upon it or via a mortise and tenon joint. This latter method is often found in on the island of Shikoku.
The 'ladder' has post and beam units connected with larger beams including beams that are closer to the foundation level. This form of structure originated in townhouses of the Edo period. The system allows the irregular placement of posts and, therefore, allows flexibility in the plan.
With the 'umbrella' style, four beams radiate out from a central post. These posts sit at the centre of the square rather than the corners. of this type are often found in Shiga Prefecture.
The 'cross' has two beams at right angles to one another with the posts in the centre of the sides. It is often used for very small that have no other posts erected in the space or for large in the earth-floored area. The style is most often found in Shiga and Fukui prefectures.
'Parallel crosses' are found in Shizuoka Prefecture and cover an area 5 metres by 10 metres. This system doubles up the 'cross' structure with two crosses and eight posts.
The 'box' structure connects four or more post and beam units to create a box-like structure. It was devised in the Edo period and can be found in Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures.
The 'interconnected box' can be found in Kyoto and Osaka.
'Rising beams' is a form that enables better use of the second storey. It uses beams that rise from the posts to a secondary ridge that is below the one formed by the rafters.
Thatched roof farmhouses based upon the 'rising beam' structure can be further classified into four major types. The and the are rare. The latter of these, the , is popular for houses. Far more common are the (also known as ) and the types.
The style has rafters, crossbeams and short vertical posts to support the ridge. Historically, these posts would have extended to the ground resulting in a row of posts extending down the centre of the house and dividing it. Although these could be accommodated in the layout of the main house, they were impractical in the earth-floored entrance area—so they were omitted and a special beam structure used instead. This style was in wide use until the Edo period when a shift was made to the style (although both types had been used since historic times).
The style is a simpler triangular shape with a pair of rafters joined at the top to support the ridge pole. The ends of these rafters were sharpened to fit into mortice holes at either end of crossbeam. As this system does not rely on central posts it leaves a more unobstructed plan than the style.
Design of the floor plan
There were two main methods for setting out the floor plan of the . The method uses a standard size of mat, whereas the method is based upon column spacing.
The method works well for without central columns as the mats and the sliding partitions ( and ) can be based on a standard size. It was mainly used in in eastern Japan. The method has its disadvantages if used with posts because variations in post width can make the prefabrication of the sliding partitions difficult.
The method is based upon the distance between centre of one post and centre of the post adjacent to it and it was mainly used on the eastern side of Japan.
Overall construction
The size, construction and decoration of a was dependent upon its location, climate, and social status of its owner.
were influenced by local building techniques and were built with materials that were abundant in the immediate locality. For example, in Shizuoka used abundant bamboo for roofs, eaves, doors and floors. When miscanthus reeds were difficult to obtain for thatched roofs, shingles were used instead; in volcanic areas rushes or boards were used instead of clay for the walls.
Climate had a bearing on construction: In Kyoto in the late Heian and Muromachi periods, roofs were clad in thin wooden shingles so owners would put stones on top to prevent the shingles from flying away in the wind.
The social status of the owner was indicated by the size and complexity of the building. For thatched roof the number of crossed wooden members () or bundles of miscanthus reeds along the ridge are a good indicator of the importance of the owner's status in the village. For , the presence and elaborateness of an ()—a wall that projects above the roof line—has a similar status. The inherited the function of a fire break, but initially it was a method of establishing the extent of ownership in long terraces of row houses.
During the evolution of , the townhouses gradually changed its construction away from perishable and flammable materials to those of a more durable nature. Thatched roofs were replaced with tiles and exposed timbers were covered up with layers of clay plastering.
owned by people of a higher social status began to incorporate elements of the shoin style, particularly in living rooms. The types of elements incorporated were limited by sumptuary laws to preserve strict class distinctions.
Roofing
There are four types of roof shape that can be differentiated for . Most have gabled roofs, covered in shingles or tiles, and slanting down on either side of the house. The majority of have either thatched -style hipped roofs, which slant down on four sides, or the more elaborate roof with multiple gables and a combination of thatched sections and shingled sections. Finally, the also slopes in four directions but is more pyramidal in shape.
The primary purpose of shaping roofs was to accommodate the extensive precipitation experienced in many parts of Japan. A steeply peaked roof allows rain and snow to fall straight off, preventing water from getting through the roof into the home and, to a lesser extent, preventing the thatch from getting too wet and beginning to rot.
At the peak and other places where roof sections came together decorations were added. Thatched roofs would have trimmed or transverse layers of straw, bamboo poles or planks of wood. Tiled roofs have a variety of decorative plates to the ends of the ridge, for example, (fish). They also had circular plates to the ends of the tiles at the eaves called that helped to deflect rain.
Farmhouse interior
The deep eaves of the farmhouse roof helped to protect the interior from driving rain. They stop the sun from entering the interior during the summer, and they allow the low rays of sun to warm the house during the winter. Often there is a timber-floored veranda () around the house under the eaves and protected on the outside by storm shutters. In areas where there is heavy snow there may be a lowered earth-floored area outside the veranda further protected by shutters which helps to stop snow from blowing inside.
The interior of a was generally divided into two sections: a floor of compacted earth, called a (the precursor to a Genkan) and a raised floor (generally around 20 inches (50 cm) above the level of the ), called a , and, in larger, richer houses, an area or set of rooms covered in tatami or mats, called a . Large farmhouses sometimes had a raised, timber-floored internal veranda () that separated the and the areas. In older houses, like the 17th century Yoshimura house, this separating zone was up to 2.5 m wide and servants apparently slept there.
The raised floor often included a built-in hearth, called an . Above the ash-filled hearth would hang a kettle suspended from the ceiling by an adjustable hearth hook made of wood, metal and bamboo. This could be raised or lowered depending on the amount of heat required and was often shaped into decorative fish or blade shapes. There was no chimney in the farmhouse and the smoke from the irori would rise through the roof drying the reeds and deterring insects. The was the centre of communication for the house where the family gathered to chat and eat, and it was a cozy place around which to sleep.
Though there were many possible arrangements of the rooms in a home, one of the most common, called , comprised four rooms in the raised floor portion of the house, adjacent to the . The arrangement and size of these rooms was made more flexible with the use of sliding fusuma and shōji partitions.
The social status of the owner of house governed the conventions of their social relationships in the house. For example, the lowliest ranked people would sit on the earth floor whilst those above them would sit on the and those above them on the floored inner rooms. Honoured guests would sit next with their back to the . The requirements for social etiquette extended to the family and there were particular seating positions () positioned around the hearth.
Typical Edo period farmhouses
A number of styles of farmhouses came to maturity during the Edo period; some typical examples follow.
Gasshou
The -style have vast roofs that are a large form of the structural system. Their name derives from the similarity of the roof shape to two hands in prayer. They are frequently found in Gifu Prefecture. The upper floors of the two- and three-story houses are used for sericulture, with storage space for trays of silkworms and mulberry leaves.
Honmune
literally means "true ridge": The style has a nearly square plan with a gabled roof that is board covered. The gable end of the house is particularly impressive with its composition of beams, eaves and braces. The gable is topped by a birdlike ornament called a . Houses of this type can be found in Gunma, Nara, Yamaguchi and Kouchi prefectures.
Preservation
are generally treated as historic landmarks, and many have been designated for preservation by municipalities or the national government. The tremendous regional variation of has also been preserved in open-air museums such as Nihon Minka-en in Kawasaki, where examples from around Japan are on display. Minka have also been used as hotels and restaurants to be preserved.
Of particular note is the , which is preserved in two villages in central Japan — Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture and Gokayama in Toyama Prefecture — that together have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
In 1997, the Japan Minka Reuse and Recycle Association (JMRA) was established to promote the benefits and conservation of . One that belonged to the Yonezu family was acquired by the JMRA and donated to Kew Gardens as part of the Japan 2001 Festival. The wooden structure was dismantled, shipped and re-assembled in Kew with new walls and a thatched roof.
See also
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama
Nihon Minka-en
A-frame house
Machiya
Footnotes
References
Japan Live. (2020). Komika. 2nd ed.
Further reading
Suzuki Mitsuru (1985). "Minka." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.
Taro Sakamoto, et al. (1964). Fuzoku jiten (A Dictionary of Popular Culture). Tokyo: KK Tokyodō
External links
The Herbert Offen Research Collection of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
Definition of Minka at JAANUS
Architecture of Japan
Japanese home
Timber framed buildings
Vernacular architecture
Thatched buildings
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Brandon Forsyth (born November 8, 1979) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With Emilie Nussear, he is the 2000 World Junior silver medalist. They were coached by Bob Young in Simsbury, Connecticut. In the summer of 2000, Forsyth teamed up with Jessica Joseph. They became the 2001 U.S. national bronze medalists and alternates to the 2002 Winter Olympics. They were coached by Alexander Zhulin and Samvel Gezalian in Hackensack, New Jersey. Forsyth formed a partnership with Lydia Manon in March 2005.
Programs
(with Joseph)
Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With O'Donnell
With Nussear
With Joseph
References
External links
1979 births
American male ice dancers
Living people
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is a 1944 work of literary criticism by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. The work gives both a general critical overview of Finnegans Wake and a detailed exegetical outline of the text.
According to Campbell and Robinson, Finnegans Wake is best interpreted in light of Giambattista Vico's philosophy, which holds that history proceeds in cycles and fails to achieve meaningful progress over time.
Campbell and Robinson began their analysis of Joyce's work because they had recognized in The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), the popular play by Thornton Wilder, an appropriation from Joyce's novel not only of themes but of plot and language as well. They published a pair of reviews-cum-denunciations of Skin of Our Teeth, both entitled "The Skin of Whose Teeth?" in The Saturday Review.
References
Sources
Further reading
1944 non-fiction books
Books by Joseph Campbell
Collaborative non-fiction books
English-language books
Works about Finnegans Wake
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Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (), also known as the Kolarac People's University Building, is at 5 Students' Square in the heart of Belgrade. The building is a monument of a great cultural and historical importance and as such was declared as the immovable cultural property.
History
The Kolarac People's University Building was erected at the time of the raising awareness about Belgrade as the capital of the new country and the needs of the metropolitan environment for the cultural centre. The first ideas about the construction of the building for the needs of public lectures and performances according to the program of a "people's university" appeared in 1928, when the competition for the Kolarac People's University Building at the Republika Square was announced. The first prize was won by the architect Andrej Papkov. However, since the regulation of this part of the Square – between Makedonska and Francuska Street was not definitely determined, the investor gave up the construction on this terrain, and in 1929 made the decision to erect the building on the endowment plot at 5 Students' Square. No competition was announced for the new location at the Students' Square; instead of that the project was directly assigned to the architect Petar Bajalović (1876–1947), a professor at the Technical Grand School and the author of significant buildings from the period before the First World War (The Pavilion in Rome, the residential building at 31 Francuska Street etc.). The construction of the building started in 1929, as the object in the inner part of the lot, in the courtyard of already existing two-storey building on the plot of the endowment of Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac. The idea was to use the old part of the object as the place for selling the tickets for the performances. In 1930a large concert hall with the capacity of around 1200 seats was erected, and was the largest one in Belgrade at the time. The next year, the decision was made to erect a new, four-storey building facing the street. Considering the fact that the endowment did not have enough material resources, the new object at the Students' Square was intended for rent, so the business premises were designed on the ground floor. The entrance with the cloakroom connected to the concert hall at the back was also designed in that area. Mezzanine was also intended for the rent, whereas upper floors were conceived as the reading room, smaller classrooms and rooms for the administration of the Kolarac People's University. The building was completed in 1932.
Architecture and urbanism
The building covers almost entire irregularly shaped lot, on the corner of Students' Square and 1300 Kaplara Street. To the west, the lot was separated from the neighbouring lots by a one-way alley, whereas to the north it borders the line of residential and business objects as well as with the newly built Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra building. Since it was built in phases, on the irregularly shaped lot, the building does not have its naturally developed structure. The layout and the architecture directly followed the changeable intentions of the investor. In general, the object bears the characteristics of moderate academism specific for the Belgrade of that time, and it does not differ a lot from many similar objects from the same period. There is an engraved inscription on the front facade "Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment".
Cultural monument
The Kolarac People's University Building is the building of the monumental value, first of all because of its purpose and irreplaceable cultural role. It is conceived as the institution which through the cycles of lectures and other forms of education at the highest expert and scientific level, affects the development of the cultural environment. The lectures include various areas of human knowledge, from medicine, technics, philosophy, to the History of Art, and refer to world accomplishments as well as to the researches in local environment. The acoustic hall is particularly valuable, and even nowadays it is the venue of gathering of the music youth and the place of live concert activities. It is known as the most acoustic if not the only really acoustic hall in Belgrade. That is why it is the concerts of the most famous musicians in the world are organized in that hall. Except for the great hall, there is also a small hall on the first floor, where various lectures and promotions are held every day. Usually, these lectures are organized in cycles, and are held on certain days. Kolarac People's University is also important as the representative of the idea of endowment which remained preserved up to present time, and which enriched Belgrade for some of the most representative buildings. The programme concept of the art gallery on the ground floor is directed towards the artistic work of the young visual artists. One part of the Gallery is reserved for the selling of the artistic works of the artists who displayed their works in the Gallery. The bookshop "Aleksandar Belić" is oriented towards selling books from humanistic and social sciences. The People's University Building was declared as the cultural monument (The Decision, "The Official Gazette of the City of Belgrade", no. 23/84).
See more
Spisak spomenika kulture u Beogradu
Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac
References
External links
Official website
Slikarski ateljei ili učionice („Politika“, 15. April 2009)
Kolarac za muzikalne duše („Politika“, 1. februar 2012)
I pingpong u koncertnom holu Kolarca („Politika“, 2. februar 2012)
Republički zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture – Beograd
Republički zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture – Beograd /Baza nepokretnih kulturnih dobara
Buildings and structures in Belgrade
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Bill Camfield
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William Joseph Camfield (June 27, 1929 – September 30, 1991) was a popular television personality in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as Icky Twerp, host of the kids’ show Slam Bang Theatre, and Gorgon, host of the horror film series Nightmare.
Early life
Camfield was born in Mineral Wells, Texas, the son of a coal miner, Joseph E. Johnston Camfield. Following his father's death in 1935, Camfield and his mother moved to Fort Worth. Camfield graduated from Carter Riverside High School in 1947, and in 1948 went to work as a copy writer for the ad department of Leonard's Department Store. Two years later, the store asked Camfield to write a locally produced television show, “Hometown Harmony.” As he had some performing experience (having appeared in Christmas stage shows with Paul Jung, the famed Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus clown), Camfield also starred in the show. Following the show's success, the store promoted him to Radio-TV Director, in which capacity he produced and starred in several shows over the next five years, including “Let’s Go Shopping,” “Man about Music,” “Billboard,” and “Meet the Candidate.”
Career
In 1954, Camfield went to work for the newly created independent television station in Fort Worth, KFJZ-TV Channel 11 (now KTVT), writing advertising copy, creating original programming, and often acting in the programs and commercials he created. For instance, he provided the voice for Hoover the Movie Hound, the puppet co-host of "Million Dollar Matinee," and portrayed Mortimer Moolah on a long-running series of commercials for Texas Consumer Finance. During this time, he also married and started a family, and attended Texas Christian University on a writing scholarship. He graduated from TCU with an English degree in 1957.
In 1957, KFJZ purchased the SHOCK horror film package from Screen Gems and began airing these films (primarily Universal Horror classics) on Saturday nights. Camfield portrayed the host of the show, Gorgon, an eerie, black-caped character with a sinister laugh. The show was an immediate hit, receiving national attention in magazines such as Life, Saturday Evening Post, TV Guide, and Famous Monsters of Filmland. In 1959, the show went on hiatus, except for annual Halloween specials. In 1962, it was again broadcast on a weekly basis and remained on the air until 1964. Later, in 1972 and 1976, the show was revived for two Halloween specials.
Camfield's other popular character was Icky Twerp (shortened from "Ichamore Twerpwhistle"), host of Slam-Bang Theatre, an morning, before-school kids’ show which presented cartoons and Three Stooges comedies. Icky Twerp was a goofy character in horn-rimmed glasses, striped suit, tousled hair, and an undersized cowboy hat who performed in slapstick skits with two sidekicks in ape masks, Ajax and Delphinium. (A third ape, Arkadelphia, was added later.) The character acquired legendary status in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and is fondly remembered by his many now grown-up fans, including actor/director Bill Paxton (who used Slam-Bang Theatre footage in his film Frailty, a murder mystery set in 1960s Fort Worth) and underground comics artists Mack White and Gary Panter'.
In 1965, the Three Stooges invited Camfield, along with several other kids’ show hosts from across the country, to act in their final feature film The Outlaws Is Coming (1965), playing the role of Wyatt Earp.
Camfield's Icky Twerp character continued to be regularly seen on Channel 11 until 1972, after which he left Fort Worth to work as promotions director for a television station in Denver, Colorado. Later, he returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to work in sales for KDAF-TV Channel 33. In 1985, he revived the Icky Twerp character on a KDAF show called Icky Twerp's Summer Reunion. With his son, Paul, Camfield performed new skits which were interlaced with summer-themed movies. In 1989, KDAF-TV produced a Slam Bang Theater 30th Anniversary special. Hosted by legendary Dallas-Fort Worth radio and television personality Ron Chapman, the show was taped before a live audience at the Comedy Corporation in Arlington and included clips from his 30-year career. In addition, the Governor of Texas and the State Legislature passed a proclamation declaring "Icky Twerp Day."
During this time, Camfield also wrote a column about growing up in Mineral Wells for the Mineral Wells Index and for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's StarText computer service.
Death
In 1991, Camfield died of brain cancer at his Fort Worth home. After his death, his family established a scholarship for humor and satire in his name at Texas Christian University. His son, Paul, maintains a website in his memory, the Official Icky Twerp Website, which features biographical information, as well as photographs and ephemera from his father's archives; he also makes videotapes of his father's shows available to fans.
In 2001, the Dallas Video Festival posthumously awarded Camfield the Ernie Kovacs Award for “slapstick genius.”
External links
(Official Website via Internet Archive)
Slam Bang Theatre Starring Icky Twerp with Ajax and Delphinium (Fan Site and Memorial Message Board via Internet Archive)
"Texas TV Terror," TV Kid Magazine
"The Real Icky Twerp Was Neither," TCU Magazine, Fall 2005
E-Gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts
"Tragedy hit hard for host of kids' TV show 'Slam Bang Theater'", The Dallas Morning News, Jacquielynn Floyd, 2009-08-23
The Bill Camfield Collection, Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
"The Professor's SF & Horror Host Tome" - Gorgan The Gruesome: Nightmare.
[https://www.facebook.com/bradleybeardartist/photos/705020259610160 "Facebook - Bradley Beard's portrait of Bill Camfield as "Gorgan The Gruesome"}
References
1929 births
1991 deaths
People from Mineral Wells, Texas
Horror hosts
American male television actors
American male comedians
Texas Christian University alumni
Male actors from Fort Worth, Texas
20th-century American male actors
Comedians from Texas
20th-century American comedians
Television personalities from Texas
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Zharchikhite is a halide mineral, a hydroxyl fluoride of aluminium; formula AlF(OH)2. It forms colourless, transparent crystals. Discovered in 1968, it is named after its original locality, the Zharchinskoya Deposit, which is in Buryatia, Russia.
References
Webmineral - Zharchikhite
Aluminium minerals
Fluorine minerals
Monoclinic minerals
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Prado del Rey is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 5,968 inhabitants.
History
Human remains have been found dating back to the Paleolithic but the first mention in ancient sources of activity in the area described what was in the Roman city of Iptuci, cited by Pliny as a "Civitas" capable of minting its own currency. From this period are preserved wall paintings, ramparts, the Memorial stone on the facade of the Church, and a copper plate detailing a treaty between the Roman colony Ucubi (Córdoba) and the municipality Iptuci.
Prado del Rey was later part of the border with the Nasrid kingdom of Granada (this border was very unstable) and the control of this city frequently changed hands.
In the township, has found a unique exhibit of Christian weaponry, whose style was imposed on Al-Andalus in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, coexisting with other weapons of Muslim tradition. The sword, double edged, is adorned with a solid spherical pommel topped by a button to fix the handle. The fist, divided into four sectors, home decoration engraved inscriptions.
After a period of Arabic hegemony, it was conquered by Alfonso VII.
It remained depopulated until Carlos III I refounded in the 18th century, with the plan of resettlement in southern Andalusia Assistant Sevilla D. Pablo de Olavide and divided his land from 189 settlers from the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park and Ronda.
Demographics
References
External links
Prado del Rey - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities of the Province of Cádiz
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Fredrik Stang Lund (17 November 1859 – 13 June 1922) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was the mayor of Oslo briefly in 1895.
On 14 October, 1895, he was appointed to the first cabinet Hagerup as both Minister of Auditing and Minister of Finance. He left the Minister of Finance post on 1 November 1895, and the Minister of Auditing post exactly one year later, only to become a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm. On 1 August, 1897, he was appointed Minister of Labour. He held this post until 16 February, 1898, when the first cabinet Hagerup fell.
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1859 births
1922 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of Oslo
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Ministers of Finance of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Allen%20%28actor%29
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Bill Allen (actor)
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William Lawrence Allen (born November 7, 1962) is an American film and television actor.
Allen was born in Wichita, Kansas. He became famous for his role in the 1986 film Rad as BMX racer Cru Jones. Among other roles, William appeared as Roger Sloate in the 1987 Family Ties television episode "Matchmaker". Bill has toured extensively for the band The Pipefitters with his harmonica, alongside actor Lou Diamond Phillips.
Filmography
References
External links
1962 births
Male actors from Kansas
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
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Ryo Chonan
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is a retired Japanese professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor from 2001–2013, Chonan competed for the UFC, PRIDE, DEEP, DREAM, Pancrase, and World Victory Road. Chonan is the former DEEP Middleweight Champion and the former DEEP Welterweight Champion.
Mixed martial arts career
Early career
Chonan's roots are in Kyokushin Karate, which he began in high school before later moving to Thailand to train. Chonan officially began his professional mixed martial arts career in 2001, losing his first fight in Pancrase – Neo Blood Tournament. He then went on to fight in DEEP, going 6-2 in the organization including a TKO win against Hayato Sakurai.
Chonan fought in PRIDE Bushido 3 as a representative of Team Japan, losing a decision to Ricardo Almeida. Then at PRIDE Bushido 5 he went on to defeat Carlos Newton via unanimous decision.
Chonan's next win was against future UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva at PRIDE: Shockwave 2004, where he executed a spectacular flying scissor-lock takedown, followed quickly by a heel-hook submission.
Chonan returned in DEEP defeating Roan Carneiro via TKO at 18th Impact.
He won his fight at PRIDE Bushido 7 against Nino Schembri via unanimous decision. His next fight was a KO loss against Phil Baroni at PRIDE Bushido 8. He also lost his next fight against future teammate Dan Henderson via KO at the opening seconds of the bout at PRIDE Bushido 9.
He returned at DEEP: 23 Impact to defeat Ryuta Sakurai by TKO to become the DEEP Middleweight Champion.
In the 2006 PRIDE Welterweight Grand Prix, Chonan suffered a broken orbital bone at the end of his match against Joey Villasenor caused by a stomp but was able to continue in the tournament. In his next match of the tournament, against Paulo Filho, Chonan was submitted by armbar early in the first round.
In February 2007, Chonan returned to DEEP and defeated former DEEP Middleweight Champion Ryuta Sakurai to retain the Middleweight Championship.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Ryo Chonan made his UFC debut against Karo Parisyan on November 17, 2007, at UFC 78 which Chonan lost via unanimous decision after three rounds.
Chonan then defeated Roan Carneiro in their rematch via split decision on September 6, 2008, at UFC 88.
Chonan was also defeated in his next fight on December 27, 2008, by Brad Blackburn. Blackburn controlled the first two rounds before Chonan was significantly more dominant in the third round. He was unable to finish the fight by T/KO or submission and lost by unanimous decision, 2 rounds to 1.
Chonan is currently a part of the Team Quest, along with former PRIDE Fighting Championships Middleweight and Welterweight Champion Dan Henderson, Matt Lindland, Jason "Mayhem" Miller, and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou.
Ryo Chonan was subsequently released from the UFC following a controversial split decision loss to T. J. Grant.
Return to Japan
He won his fight at DEEP : 43 Impact against Jutaro Nakao by unanimous decision.
Chonan made his DREAM debut at DREAM 13 defeating Andrews Nakahara by unanimous decision.
He then made his World Victory Road debut at Soul of Fight on December 30, 2010. Chonan was originally scheduled to face Dan Hornbuckle, but illness forced Hornbuckle off the card and he was replaced by Taisuke Okuno. Chonan lost the fight via KO in the first round.
Chonan returned at DEEP: 54 Impact on June 24, 2011, against Iwase Shigetoshi. Chonan won the fight by knockout.
On October 29, Chonan defeated Naoki Samukawa by unanimous decision.
Chonan returned at Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 where he faced Hayato Sakurai. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.
On October 20, 2013, Chonan fought Dan Hornbuckle in his retirement fight. He won the fight by unanimous decision and retired as DEEP Welterweight Champion.
Championships and accomplishments
DEEP
DEEP Middleweight Championship (One time)
One successful title defense
DEEP Welterweight Championship (One time)
Sherdog
2004 Submission of the Year- vs. Anderson Silva on December 31
Sports Illustrated
2000s Best Submission of the Decade- vs. Anderson Silva on December 31, 2004
2000s One Hit Wonder
Bleacher Report
2000s Submission of the Decade- vs. Anderson Silva on December 31, 2004
MMAFighting
2004 Middleweight Fighter of the Year
2004 Submission of the Year- vs. Anderson Silva on December 31
Mixed martial arts record
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| Dan Hornbuckle
| Decision (unanimous)
| DEEP: Tribe Tokyo Fight
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| Tokyo, Japan
| Won the DEEP Welterweight Championship.
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| Seichi Ikemoto
| Decision (unanimous)
| DEEP: Osaka Impact 2013
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| Hayato Sakurai
| Decision (unanimous)
| Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011
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| Saitama, Japan
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| Naoki Samukawa
| Decision (unanimous)
| Deep: Cage Impact 2011 in Tokyo, 2nd Round
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Shigetoshi Iwase
| KO (punch)
| Deep: 54 Impact
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| align=center| 4:45
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 18–12
| Taisuke Okuno
| KO (punch)
| World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Win
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| Jun Hee Moon
| TKO (punches)
| Deep: 50 Impact
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| align=center| 2:57
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 17–11
| Jung Hwan Cha
| KO (punches)
| Astra
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| Yokohama, Japan
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| Andrews Nakahara
| Decision (unanimous)
| DREAM 13
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| align=center| 5:00
| Yokohama, Japan
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| Jutaro Nakao
| Decision (unanimous)
| Deep: 43 Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| T. J. Grant
| Decision (split)
| UFC 97
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| align=center| 5:00
| Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| Brad Blackburn
| Decision (unanimous)
| UFC 92
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| align=center| 5:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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| Roan Carneiro
| Decision (split)
| UFC 88
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| Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| Karo Parisyan
| Decision (unanimous)
| UFC 78
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| align=center| 5:00
| Newark, New Jersey, United States
| Vacated DEEP Middleweight Championship.
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| Seo Do Wong
| TKO (strikes)
| DEEP: DEEP in Yamagata
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| Yamagata, Japan
| Drops to Welterweight.
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| Ryuta Sakurai
| Decision (majority)
| DEEP: 28 Impact
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| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
| Defended DEEP Middleweight Championship.
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| Paulo Filho
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE: Bushido 12
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| align=center| 2:30
| Nagoya, Japan
| PRIDE 2006 Welterweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal.
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| Joey Villaseñor
| Decision (split)
| PRIDE: Bushido 11
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| Saitama, Japan
| PRIDE 2006 Welterweight Grand Prix Opening Round.
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| Ryuta Sakurai
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| DEEP: 23 Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
| Won DEEP Middleweight Championship. Doctor stoppage due to cut.
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| Dan Henderson
| KO (punch)
| PRIDE: Bushido 9
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Phil Baroni
| KO (punch)
| PRIDE: Bushido 8
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| Nagoya, Japan
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| Nino Schembri
| Decision (unanimous)
| PRIDE: Bushido 7
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Roan Carneiro
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| DEEP: 18th Impact
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| align=center| 2:15
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Anderson Silva
| Submission (flying scissor heel hook)
| PRIDE Shockwave 2004
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| align=center| 3:08
| Saitama, Japan
| MMAFighting Submission of The Year (2004).
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| Carlos Newton
| Decision (unanimous)
| PRIDE Bushido 5
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| Osaka, Japan
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| Ricardo Almeida
| Decision (unanimous)
| PRIDE Bushido 3
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| Yokohama, Japan
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| Daijiro Matsui
| Decision (majority)
| DEEP: 13th Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Hayato Sakurai
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| DEEP: 12th Impact
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| align=center| 2:10
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Yuji Hisamatsu
| Decision (majority)
| DEEP: 11th Impact
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| Osaka, Japan
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| Masanori Suda
| Decision (split)
| DEEP: 7th Impact
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| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Katsumi Usuta
| TKO (strikes)
| DEEP: 6th Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Eiji Ishikawa
| Decision (majority)
| DEEP: 5th Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Kenji Akiyama
| TKO (submission to punches)
| DEEP: 4th Impact
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| align=center| 4:22
| Nagoya, Japan
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| Takaku Fuke
| Decision (unanimous)
| DEEP: 3rd Impact
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| Tokyo, Japan
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| Hikaru Sato
| Decision (unanimous)
| Pancrase: 2001 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations
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| Japan
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See also
List of male mixed martial artists
References
External links
Official MySpace
Pride official site
Tribe MMA Official website
Living people
1976 births
Japanese male mixed martial artists
Welterweight mixed martial artists
Japanese male karateka
Japanese Muay Thai practitioners
Mixed martial artists utilizing Kyokushin kaikan
Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai
Japanese expatriates in Thailand
People from Yamagata Prefecture
Deep (mixed martial arts) champions
Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters
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Per Berg Lund (14 October 1878 – 22 January 1954) was a Norwegian politician and jurist for the Liberal Party who served Minister of Finance from 1928-1931 and again from 1933-1934. He also served as the director of the Norwegian Tax Administration from 1934 to 1948.
References
1878 births
1954 deaths
Ministers of Finance of Norway
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Directors of government agencies of Norway
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Jang Bogo (787–841), childhood name: Gungbok, was a Sillan who rose to prominence in the Later Silla period of Korea as a powerful maritime figure who effectively controlled the Yellow Sea (West Sea), and dominated the trade between Silla, Heian Japan, and Tang China for decades. His impressive fleet of ships was centered in Wando, an island in South Jeolla Province. So influential a figure did Jang become in late Silla politics that he was granted official office as maritime commissioner of the Cheonghaejin Garrison (on Wando) and came near to marrying his daughter into the Silla Royal House before his assassination in 841. He was worshipped as a god following his death.
Early years
Jang Bogo was born as the son of a boatman and his childhood name was Gungbok. Gungbok means a good bow shooter, and he excelled in martial arts and swam well since he was young. Gungbok, a native of Cheonmin, learned that he could not become a general in Silla, so he moved to Tang Dynasty and joined the army and changed his name to Jang Bogo. Meanwhile, Jang Bogo, who learned that the Silla people were suffering from pirates, eventually returned to Silla.
The three sources on his life are the Chinese New Book of Tang (Xīn Tángshū), the Japanese Shoku Nihon Kōki (続日本後紀), and the Korean 12th-century Samguk Sagi ("A History of the Three Kingdoms"), which contains a brief biography of Jang compiled three centuries after his death. The biography relates that Jang Bogo was adept in martial arts and claims that Jang's companion Jeong Yeon (정년, 鄭年) could swim five li (about 2.5 km) underwater, without taking a breath. The history further records that as young men the two companions, Jang Bogo and Jeong Yeon, traveled to Tang China. Their skills in horsemanship and the handling of spears soon won them military office. They were both named Junior Generals of Wuning District (武寧軍小將) (in what is today Jiangsu province).
Rise to power
By the ninth century thousands of Silla subjects were living in Tang, centered mostly around merchant activities in coastal Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, where they established their own Silla communities often led by Silla officials. Wealthy benefactors (including at one point Jang Bogo himself) even established Silla Buddhist temples in the region, as related by the 9th-century Japanese monk Ennin, whose journal constitutes one of the rare sources on Jang Bogo.
Apparently, while in China Jang Bogo had become incensed at the treatment of his fellow countrymen, who in the unstable milieu of late Tang often fell victim to coastal pirates or inland bandits. In fact, Silla subjects living in Tang had become a favored target of bandits, who sold their captives into slavery. In 823 the Tang emperor went so far as to issue an edict stopping the slave trade and ordering the return of all abducted Koreans to Silla. Shortly after returning to Silla around 825, and by now in possession of a formidable private fleet headquartered at Cheonghae (Wando), Jang Bogo petitioned the Silla king Heungdeok (r. 826-836) to establish a permanent maritime garrison to protect Silla merchant activities in the Yellow Sea. Heungdeok agreed and in 828 formally established the Cheonghae (淸海, "clear sea") Garrison at what is today Wando island off Korea's South Jeolla province. The Samguk Sagi further relates that Heungdeok gave Jang an army of 10,000 men to establish and man the defensive works. The remnants of Cheonghae Garrison can still be seen on Jang islet just off Wando's southern coast.
The establishment of Cheonghae garrison marked the apex of Jang's career. From that moment he can be viewed in the context of the numerous private warlords arising outside the Silla capital who were often backed by formidable private armies. Jang's force, though nominally bequeathed by the Silla king, was effectively under his own control. Jang became arbiter of Yellow Sea commerce and navigation. Another rare account of Jang and his garrison comes from the journal of the Japanese monk Ennin (Jikaku), who in 840 made a pilgrimage to Tang in search of Buddhist scriptures and relied upon the maritime abilities of Jang to reach China and return. The best evidence of Jang's now high fortunes is his involvement in the volatile factional politics of the Silla court.
Political influence
At the time, Jang Bogo's backing by his own army allotted him immense power in politics. Militarily, he was powerful enough to overthrow the state and become king himself had he wanted to. He was often hated by the Silla royal family members due to his prominent status and the fact that he was born a commoner, not a nobleman.
In 839 Jang proved instrumental in the seizure of power by Silla's King Sinmu following the overthrow of King Minae. Kim Ujing (later King Sinmu) approached Jang for help in taking the throne from the usurper who had killed Ujing's father. Jang is purported to have replied, “The ancients had a saying, ‘To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.’ Though I am without ability, I shall follow your orders." Thereupon Jang dispatched a force of 5000 men under the command of his closest companion and adviser Jeong Yeon (who had since also returned from Tang) in support of Sinmu's claim. The success of Sinmu's power grab won Jang Bogo the post of Prime Minister.
Death
The account of Jang Bogo's demise comes from the Samguk Sagi. In 845 Jang overplayed his hand when he maneuvered to marry his daughter to King Munseong (ruled 839-857), son of Sinmu. Aristocratic factions at court, no doubt fed up with the machinations of Jang (a man in all likelihood from obscure provincial origins outside Silla's aristocratic order), then plotted to have him killed. The Samguk Yusa, a late 13th century Korean book that mixes history and tales of marvels and popular legend, relates that the Silla king was pressured by aristocrats to deny Jang his marriage and that as a result Jang began to conspire against the king. Whether it was the Silla king or the aristocracy that was behind Jang's demise is unclear. However, both the Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa relate that in 841 Jang was assassinated at his Cheonghae garrison headquarters by Yeomjang (염장, 閻長), an emissary from the Silla court who had arrived concealing a knife in his garments. Gaining Jang's confidence by pretending he had fled from the Silla capital, he then attacked Jang as they shared wine. However, the Japanese history book, Shoku Nihon Kōki (續日本後紀) (Later Chronicle of Japan, Continued), gives Jang's date of death as 841.
In 851 the Cheonghae garrison was disbanded and its troops dispersed. The location of Jang Bogo's burial spot remains unknown.
In Korean Shamanism and Mythology
Jang Bogo was worshipped as a god after his death, especially on the small island of Jangdo. The shamanistic temple on the island worships 'Great General Song'; however, according to the islanders, 'Great General Song' is a title of Jang Bogo.
There is a myth about Jang Bogo ('General Jang') and 'General Eom', Jang Bogo's son-in-law, retold in the region.
General Eom, who was General Jang's son-in-law, lived in the Eomnamut Valley. One day, he and General Jang had a contest; who could first raise a flag on that eastern crag? Jang Bogo transformed into a male pheasant and flew to the crag, but General Eom turned into a falcon and killed and ate General Jang in the form of a pheasant. Thus, the crag is still called Kattturiyeo (male pheasant crag).
Jang BoGo Memorial Hall
Jang BoGo Memorial Hall, which is a 2F reinforced concrete structure with a plottage of 14,472m², a building area of 1,739m², and an exhibition space of 730m², has on its ground floor Central Hall, Video Room, Special Exhibition Hall, storage, and lounge and on its second floor its permanent exhibition venues of Exhibition Hall 1, Sea Route, and Exhibition Hall 2.
Central Hall on 1F displays ‘Trade Ships of Jang BoGo’, which was made to one fourth of the actual size by Director Ma Gwang-nam of Cheonghaejin Ship Institute and donated by Sea King Jang BoGo Memorial Society, and a large wooden mural(8m x 2.2m) entitled ‘Sea King Jang BoGo’, which was created with linden tree by Lu Guangzheng, the Chinese craft art maestro.
The permanent exhibition hall on 2F is divided into the four themes of ‘Root’, ’Formation of Cheonghaejin’, ‘Maritime Empire’, and ‘Voyage’, which respectively display relevant exhibits.
Visiting hours
Winter Season 09:00 a.m ~ 06.00 p.m
Summer Season 09:00 a.m ~ 07.00 p.m
Cultural references
Jang Bogo and his exploits were the subject of the 1965 South Korean film, Jang Bogo, directed by Ahn Hyeon-cheol and starring Shin Yeong-gyun and Lee Min-ja. Its English title is Admiral Jang.
The South Korean navy named the first of its Type 209 submarines 'Admiral Chang Bogo' in Jang's honor.
A highly fictionalized account of Jang's life was the subject of the 2004 Korean drama Emperor of the Sea, starring Choi Soo-jong as Jang Bogo.
In March 2009, the Cheonghae Anti-piracy Unit was formed by the Republic of Korea Navy to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia. The unit is named after Cheonghaejin, the maritime base created by Jang Bogo to combat piracy on the waters of Silla and Tang.
In Shenyang, a memorial dedicated to Jang Bogo opened in 2007.
In popular culture
Portrayed by Choi Soo-jong and Baek Sung-hyun in the 2004-2005 KBS2 TV series Emperor of the Sea.
On a 2022 episode of the TV series Finding Your Roots, it was revealed that one of American restauranteur and TV personality David Chang's paternal ancestors was Jang Bogo.
See also
Yeom Jang
Jang Bogo Station
Cheonghaejin
References
External links
Jang Bogo - World History Encyclopedia
Chang Po Go festival on Wando Island
ROK Navy profile of Jang Bogo
Jang BoGo Memorial Hall
Silla people
Silla Buddhists
Korean admirals
Korean generals
841 deaths
787 births
Deaths by stabbing
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Pagination
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Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.
In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced foliation, which numbered only the front sides of folios.
Pagination in word processing, desktop publishing, and digital typesetting
Word processing, desktop publishing, and digital typesetting are technologies built on the idea of print as the intended final output medium, although nowadays it is understood that plenty of the content produced through these pathways will be viewed onscreen as electronic pages by most users rather than being printed on paper.
All of these software tools are capable of flowing the content through algorithms to decide the pagination. For example, they all include automated word wrapping (to obviate hard-coded newline delimiters), machine-readable paragraphing (to make paragraph-ending decisions), and automated pagination (to make page-breaking decisions). All of those automated capabilities can be manually overridden by the human user, via soft hyphens (that is, inserting a hyphen which will only be used if the word is split over two lines, and thus not shown if not), manual line breaks (which force a new line within the same paragraph), hard returns (which force both a new line and a new paragraph), and manual page breaks.
Pagination in print
Today printed pages are usually produced by outputting an electronic file to a printing device, such as a desktop printer or a modern printing press. These electronic files may for example be Microsoft Word, PDF or QXD files. They will usually already incorporate the instructions for pagination, among other formatting instructions. Pagination encompasses rules and algorithms for deciding where page breaks will fall, which depend partly on cultural considerations about which content belongs on the same page: for example one may try to avoid widows and orphans. Some systems are more sophisticated than others in this respect. Before the rise of information technology (IT), pagination was a manual process: all pagination was decided by a human. Today, most pagination is performed by machines, although humans often override particular decisions (e.g. by inserting a hard page break).
Pagination in electronic display
"Electronic page" is a term to encompass paginated content in presentations or documents that originate or remain as visual electronic documents. This is a software file and recording format term in contrast to electronic paper, a hardware display technology. Electronic pages may be a standard sized based on the document settings of a word processor file, desktop publishing application file, or presentation software file. Electronic pages may also be dynamic in size or content such as in the case of HTML pages. When end-user interactivity is part of the user experience design of an electronic page, it is better known as a graphical user interface (GUI). The number and size of electronic pages in a document are limited by the amount of computer data storage, not by the display devices or amount of paper.
Most electronic pages are for either display (screen output) on a computer monitor or handheld device, or output to a printing device. PDF and some e-book file format pages are designed to do both. Most applications will print electronic pages without the need for a screen capture. However, not all software supports WYSIWYG printing of pages. Pages exclusively for screen output are more commonly known as screens, windows, interfaces, scenes, or cards. In the case of presentation software, electronic pages are known as slides.
In web browsers
Electronic pages displayed on a web browser are often called web pages, regardless of whether they are accessed online via a web server on the World Wide Web, or stored locally offline. More accurately, such documents are named by the markup language that makes them displayable via a web browser, e.g. "HTML page" or "PHP page".
With dynamic web pages, pagination is used for such things as displaying a limited number of results on search engine results pages, or showing a limited number of posts when viewing a forum thread.
Pagination is used in some form in almost every web application to divide returned data and display it on multiple pages within one web page. Pagination also includes the logic of preparing and displaying the links to the various pages.
Pagination can be handled client-side or server-side.
For client-side pagination, the content of each page is included in the HTML source code pre-loaded within the page, while server-side pagination requests each page individually upon navigation.
Server-side pagination is more common. Client-side pagination can be used when there are very few records to be accessed, in which case all records can be returned, and the client can use JavaScript or CSS to view the separate pages.
By using AJAX, hybrid server/client-side pagination can be used, in which JavaScript is used to request the subsequent page from the server which is loaded and inserted into the Document Object Model via AJAX.
Server-side pagination is appropriate for large data sets providing faster initial page load, accessibility for those not running Javascript, and complex view business logic, while client-side pagination allows navigating between pages without delay from a server request.
Correctly implementing pagination can be difficult. There are many different usability questions such as should "previous" and "next" links be included, how many links to pages should be displayed, and should there be a link to the first and last pages. Also ability to define the number of records displayed in a single page is useful.
In comparison to bottomless scrolling, pagination allows skipping pages and can be implemented with permanent links (as done with the offset URL parameter in the MediaWiki wiki engine), whereas bottomless scrolling does not require clicking or tapping if loaded automatically.
Presentation vs. content
Today, all content, no matter which output medium is planned, predicted, or not predicted, can be produced with technologies that allow downstream transformations into any presentation desired, although such best-practice preparation is still far from universal. This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired. This concept is known as the separation of presentation and content. This paradigm is now the conventional one in most commercial publishing, except to the extent that legacy and backward compatibility issues and budget constraints interfere, and to the extent that many of the people involved don't understand the topic enough to help build compliance. But the need to manually paginate has diminished as the technology for dynamic display and automatic pagination advances. Also, there is less need to make a hierarchical distinction between pagination in print and pagination in electronic display, because the same underlying content will most likely be used for the latter exclusively if not for both display methods.
See also
For position only
Page numbering
References
Printing terminology
Page layout
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Gulbrand Oscar Johan Lunde (14 September 1901, Bergen – 26 October 1942, Våge, Rauma, Norway) was a Norwegian councillor of state in the NS government of Vidkun Quisling in 1940, acting councillor of state 1940-1941 and minister 1941–1942. Lunde and wife Marie died when his car fell off the ferry dock at Våge, between Ålesund and Åndalsnes. The incident was investigated because sabotage was suspected, but the conclusion was that it was merely an accident. The 2012 biography by Arntsen and Harestad does however conclude that accident was staged by the German occupiers who wanted to remove a bothersome minister. Professor Gunnar Skirbekk quotes German intelligence reports indicating that Lunde was unpopular with the occupiers because of his focus on the more narrow "norse" tradition as opposed to the wider "germanic" concept.
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Bjarne Lyngstad
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Bjarne Lyngstad (9 January 1901 – 4 September 1971) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was born in Inderøy.
From August to September 1963 he served as the Minister of Local Government and Work Affairs during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng. When another centre-right cabinet was formed in 1965, under Prime Minister Per Borten, Lyngstad was appointed Minister of Agriculture and held this position until 21 August 1970.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag in 1961 and was re-elected on one occasion. During his stints as cabinet member, which included the entire second term, he was replaced by deputy representative Ola H. Kveli. Lyngstad had served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1954–1957 and 1958–1961.
Lyngstad was a long-time member of the Inderøy municipality council, serving as deputy mayor in the periods 1945–1947 and 1955 to 1961 and mayor from 1947 to 1952.
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Nils Kristian Lysø (born 3 September 1905 in Jøssund, died 7 July 1977) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1958, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the terms 1950–1953 and 1954–1957.
He was the Minister of Fisheries from 1955 to 1963 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen. During this period he was replaced in the Norwegian Parliament by Jenny Lund.
On the local level he was a member of Jøssund municipality council from 1936 to 1954, serving as mayor from 1945 to 1953. From 1945 to 1955 he was also a member of Sør-Trøndelag county council. His political career ended with the position of County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag, which he held from 1963 to 1974.
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Harald Johan Løbak (2 June 1904 – 6 February 1985) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Trysil.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1945, and was re-elected on six occasions.
He was the Minister of Agriculture from May 1956 to April 1960 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen. During the period, he was replaced in the Norwegian Parliament by Haldis Tjernsberg.
On the local level, he was a member of Trysil municipality council from 1928 to 1955, serving as mayor from 1937 except for the period 1940–1945 during the German occupation of Norway. He chaired the county party chapter from 1952 to 1968.
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Einar Løchen (2 November 1850 – 27 November 1908) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.
He was a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from February 1898 to April 1899. Then, he was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police in the second cabinet Steen. Løchen left this post in 1900, to become the ninth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway, a post he held until his death.
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Johan Christen Løken (27 July 1944 – 18 December 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1981 to 1983, as a Member of Parliament until 1993. He also served as the Leader of the Hedmark Conservatives from 1976 to 1982.
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Smoke was a band from the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that dissolved in 1999 with the death of writer/singer Benjamin. Benjamin was the subject of Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen's documentary Benjamin Smoke (2000).
History
The group formed during the demise of the Opal Foxx Quartet, starting with Benjamin on vocals, Bill Taft on cornet and banjo, Brian Halloran on cello, and Todd Butler on guitar. Coleman Lewis and Tim Campion later joined on guitar and drums, respectively, followed by Will Fratesi on drums.
Their last show was New Year's Eve, 1998. Benjamin died January 29, 1999.
Though many of the band's CDs are apparently out of print, some copies may be currently available at online record stores.
Bill Taft and Will Fratesi went on to form Hubcap City, who are still active in the Atlanta area.
Former guitarist Coleman Lewis died from a heroin overdose in May 2014.
Discography
Pretend 7" (1993, Colossal Records)
Pretend
Dirt
Heaven on a Popsicle Stick CD (1994, LongPlay Records)
Hole
Awake
Freak (Winn's Song)
The Trip
Hank Aaron (lyrics by Dana Kletter)
Luke's Feet
Beeper Will
The Pond
I Do
Ballet
Guilt
Abigail
Curtains
Another Reason To Fast CD (1995, LongPlay Records)
Trust
Friends
When It Rains
Clean White Bed
Shadow Box
Dream
Fatherland
Train Song
Debbey's Song
Chad
That Look
I Don't
Snake
Compilation appearances
? CD (1992)
Smoke - Dog
The lineup on this song was Benjamin, Bill Taft, Brian Halloran, and Todd Butler. This CD was a benefit compilation.
Radio Oddyssey Volume 2: The Georgia Music Show CD (1997 Altered Records/Ichiban)
The Rock*A*Teens - Black Ice
The Continentals - Please, Please
Pineal Ventana - Dark Cloud
DQE - Mermaid And The Sailor
No. 1 Family Mover - Hey Soul
Bob - Ants
Velvet Overkill Five - Pillow Talk
The Goodies - Live On WRAS-FM
Tweezer - Sucking Midgets
Marcy - Driver
Heinous Bienfang - Stay Behind The Cones
Babyfat - Redd Lobster
Frontstreet - Scandinavian Pamphlet (Sex Book)
17 Years - Doing Wrong
Smoke - Hamlet
Benjamin - Big Daddy Story and Other Saucy Tales
Rudy's Rockin' Kiddie Caravan CD (1997 Bloodshot Records)
Susie Honeyman - Bus
Schoolly D - This Old Man
Smoke - Old Joe Clark
Calexico - The Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Waco Brothers - Them Bones
Giant Sand - Blow the Man Down
Anne Richmond Boston - What Can the Matter Be?
D. L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces - J'ai Passe Devant Ta Porte?
Zydeco Elvis - The ABC Song
Sally Timms - Hush Little Baby
New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Nokas for the Kinder
The Chiselers - Playmate
The Rock*A*Teens - She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
Moonshine Willy - Skip to My Lou
Kelly Hogan - The Great Titanic
The Black Mama Dharma Band - A Frozen Road
Mekons - Oranges & Lemons
New Kingdom - John Henry
Rob Gal - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Blacktop Rockets - Froggy Went A-Courtin'
Vic Chesnutt - Home on the Range
The Grifters - The Muffin Man
Hidden Tracks] CD (2000, Daemon Records)
Kick Me - Arms
Smoke - Midnight
DQE - Ivytwine
Parlour - The Cold Snap
Kick Me - Black Coat
Kick Me - Blue Midnight
Parlour - Baby Doll
Bill Taft & Neil Fried - Old West
Smoke - Pretend
Palookaville - Seventh Day
Long Flat Red - Eighty-Six Days
Railroad Earth - Keep Seeing That Soul
Kick Me - Lucky Nights
The Hollidays - Miles Away
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Dresden Hauptbahnhof
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Dresden Hauptbahnhof ("main station", abbreviated Dresden Hbf) is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the Böhmischen Bahnhof ("Bohemian station") of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn), and was designed with its formal layout as the central station of the city. The combination of a station building on an island between the tracks and a terminal station on two different levels is unique. The building is notable for its train-sheds, which are roofed with Teflon-coated glass fibre membranes. This translucent roof design, installed during the comprehensive restoration of the station at the beginning of the 21st century, allows more daylight to reach the concourses than was previously possible.
The station is connected by the Dresden railway node to the tracks of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway and the Dresden–Werdau railway (Saxon-Franconian trunk line), allowing traffic to run to the southeast towards Prague, Vienna and on to south-eastern Europe or to the southwest towards Chemnitz and Nuremberg. The connection of the routes to the north (Berlin), northwest (Leipzig) and east (Görlitz) does not take place at the station, but north of Dresden-Neustadt station (at least for passenger trains).
Location
The station is located south of the Inner Old Town in the Seevorstadt and the district of Südvorstadtat reaches its southern edge. Next door to the station area is the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (University of Applied Sciences). Federal highway 170 passes under the station area to the east of the station building, running north–south.
Prager Straße, the inner-city shopping street, begins at Wiener Platz to the north. Road traffic on Wiener Platz was diverted in the 1990s to run through a road tunnel with connections to underground parking, and it is now a pedestrianised street. Several major buildings have been constructed in the area in the modern style and there is an excavation in Wiener Platz, which was dug a few years ago, but construction has been abandoned (2013).
History
In 1839, the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company (Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie) opened the first long-distance railway in Germany from Leipzig to its Dresden terminus, the Leipziger Bahnhof. In the following decades more railways were built, increasing the destinations that could be reached from Dresden. Each private company built its own station as the terminus of its lines. The Silesian Station (Schlesischer Bahnhof) was opened in 1847 as the terminus of the Görlitz–Dresden railway and the Bohemian station (Böhmische Bahnhof) was opened in 1848 on the line towards Bohemia. Seven years later, the Albert station (Albertbahnhof) was opened on the line towards Chemnitz and the Berliner station (Berliner Bahnhof) opened in 1875 on the line to Berlin.
Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Dresden grew from 61,794 to 396,146. As a result, traffic grew enormously. The existing railway facilities proved to be inadequate to satisfy the increasing traffic as a result of rising mobility, population increase and industrialisation. In particular, the railway tracks of the poorly interconnected stations were not designed for through traffic and the many level crossings created major traffic problems.
After the late 1880s, when all the railway infrastructure affecting the city had been nationalised, the Saxon government decided to carry out a fundamental reconstruction of the Dresden railway node under the leadership of the engineer Otto Klette. This would create a new central railway station, but there was no consensus on its location for a long time. After the Elbe flood of March 1845, the inspector of surveys, Karl Pressler suggested that the Weißeritz near Cotta should be relocated and that the existing riverbed could be used for a central station. This plan was taken up and the former riverbed was used for a connection line between Dresden's long-distance railway stations, but, instead of a central station, the planners foresaw a new main station in front of the former Bohemian station, as it was already the busiest station in Dresden and it was close to Prager Straße, which became the most important shopping street of Dresden in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Böhmischer Bahnhof
On 1 August 1848, the Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn) opened the Bohemian station as the terminus of its line, which only extended to Pirna. It was initially only a barn-like half-timbered building spanning four tracks and it also had a makeshift locomotive depot, carriage sheds and workshops.
The opening ceremony took place on 6 April 1851, coinciding with the extension of the line to Bodenbach (now Děčín). A year later the opening of the Marienbrücke (Maria Bridge) for road and rail traffic on 19 April 1852 allowed the operation of traffic through the Bohemian station to the Leipziger station and the Silesian Station on the Neustadt side of the Elbe.
From 1861 to 1864, the passenger infrastructure was moved to the west, to make room for a new building. On 1 August 1864, a solid new entrance building replaced the previous provisional building The realised design incorporates elements of both drafts. Construction began in the same year, led by Ernst Giese and Paul Weidner. Railway operations continued at the Bohemian station while the south hall was opened to traffic on 18 June 1895. Subsequently, the Bohemian station was demolished and the construction of the central and northern halls started on its site. Until the completion of the entire building, the south hall served as the provisional station.
The new building, which had six terminal platform tracks in the central hall, six through high-level tracks and other terminal tracks in the eastern precinct, met all the requirements for greatly expanded passenger operations. A roofed building with two elevated tracks was built for freight traffic between the south hall and Bismarckstraße (now Bayrischen Straße) to the south. The entrance building covered an area of approximately 4,500 square metres. The steel fabrication company, August Klönne supplied 17,000 tons of steel for the structure of the platform halls and the masonry consists of Elbe Sandstone. The cost of construction amounted to 18 million marks; corresponding to the equivalent of about €320 million.
After more than five years of construction the whole building went into operation on 16 April 1898. At 2:08 AM the first train running as the 101 from Leipzig entered the newly opened Dresden Hauptbahnhof.
As a result of the restructuring of the Dresden railway infrastructure that was carried out simultaneously, the station received better links with the lines to Leipzig, Berlin and Görlitz, which had previously been poorly connected. A new high-capacity, continuous four-track urban connecting line was opened through the new Wettiner Straße station (now Dresden Mitte station) for suburban traffic and the Maria Bridge to Dresden-Neustadt station in 1901. It was connected by rail junctions to other stations, in particular to Dresden-Friedrichstadt station.
Although it was built in the heyday of luxury trains, it was almost unaffected by this phenomenon with only one branch of the Balkanzug (Balkan train) serving Dresden between 1916 and 1918.
Early conversions and extensions
The builders of the station assumed that the new facilities would provide sufficient capacity for many decades. In fact, the volume of traffic developed more rapidly than assumed as indicated in the table below.
Since the rapid increase in traffic could barely be handled, the first expansion of facilities was planned prior to the start of the First World War. In 1914, the Saxon Parliament approved funds for the expansion, but the beginning of the war prevented its realisation. The extension could not be started until the late 1920s.
One obstacle to operations until then was that it was difficult to reach the terminal tracks in the eastern precinct. As a remedy, a new through track was built through the north hall between platforms 10 and 11, replacing a luggage platform. This would henceforth be used for the passage of additional trains to the eastern precinct and for the passage of unattached locomotives and freight traffic. To take advantage of the sharp rise in through passenger traffic, the covered side hall next to the south hall was demolished, so that the two freight train tracks could be moved on to an outer track on a new concrete structure over the pavement and the released space could be used for an island platform.
The signal box equipment was modernised at that time. New electromechanical systems replaced the mechanical systems and a new command signal box tower was built on the Hohe Brücke (bridge) that at that time carried an extension of Hohe Straße over the station's western track field. The architecture of the station was also transformed. Numerous decorations and structures were replaced by modern plain surfaces.
During the Third Reich
In the 1930s, Deutsche Reichsbahn built a high-speed rail network. It operated high-speed diesel multiple units on routes between Berlin and Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne and Berlin and Frankfurt among other cities. However, the connection from Dresden to Berlin was served by a high-speed steam-hauled train, the Henschel-Wegmann Train. From 1936 until the outbreak of war in 1939, the journey time from Dresden to the Anhalter Bahnhof was about 100 minutes.
In the late 1930s, the Nazis planned to reconstruct the city with the intention of glorifying the Third Reich on an enormous scale. A new central train station to be built at Wettiner Straße station would have been 300 metres wide and 200 metres long. In addition, an oversized station courtyard and spacious streets were intended to create spaces for rallies and marches. With the outbreak of the Second World War, however, these plans lapsed.
During the Second World War the station had only minor importance for the dispatch of troop and prisoner transports, though Dresden was a garrison town. However, it connected the Saxon railway network with Bohemia and formed a bottleneck as a result.
At the beginning of the war Dresden hardly seemed threatened by air raids, so initially insufficient preparations were made and later additional preparations were no longer possible. The air raid shelters of the central station could accommodate about 2,000 people, but they lacked airlocks and ventilation systems. This had serious consequences: during the great air raid on the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the station burned down, and the entrance to the luggage store was set alight; as a result 100 people were burned to death and another 500 people suffocated in the air raid shelters.
Subsequent air raids destroyed the railway tracks entirely. The station was made permanently inoperable during the eighth and final air raids on the city on 17 April 1945 by 580 USAAF bombers.
The long reconstruction
In spite of its severe war damage the station was one of the distinctive buildings in the central Dresden. The restoration of rail connections had to take precedence over the restoration of the historic building. So passenger services were restored to Bad Schandau by 17 May 1945.
A temporary reconstruction began after the war and was completed in the same year. Some parts of the building, such as the concourses and the dome, were not immediately repaired and continued to deteriorate. At the same time a far-reaching reorganisation of the railway infrastructure was considered as the large-scale destruction of the city seemed to make it possible. Draft plans from 1946 show a turning loop south of the station, which would have allowed east–west traffic on the Chemnitz–Görlitz route to stop without a change of locomotives. In 1946 and 1947, several drafts of a new, generously-dimensioned central station replacing the Wettiner Straße station emerged. The former Hauptbahnhof would have been renamed Bahnhof Dresden Prager Straße and passenger services would have operated only through the north hall and from the east side. Initially a postal station was planned for the remaining area. This was abandoned in the draft of 1947; the south hall would now also be used for passenger operations, while the central hall would be used for any purpose.
It is not absolutely certain why these plans ultimately did not proceed. Possible reasons were financial problems, material shortages, labour shortages and general planning uncertainty during a period of social and political changes. A planned new entrance building on Wiener Platz with an attached new administration building for the Reichsbahndirektion Railway division of Dresden was also not realised.
The remaining structure was restored from 1950 in a similar but simpler form, due to economic difficulties and the shortage of skilled workers. The roof, which had previously been partially covered with glass, was temporarily covered with wood, board and slate. The station building itself was only partially restored. In particular, the buildings south of the main hall remained hollow ruins, although the outer walls implied a complete reconstruction. The intact steel construction of the dome over the main hall was also externally covered with wood and slate and a coffered ceiling was built inside it. The construction work was not largely completed until the early 1960s. One of the last measures was the modification of the clock towers on either side of the entrance portal to fit the “skeletal” facade.
In the coming decades, the station's makeshift parking and traffic arrangements and its power lines shaped perceptions of it.
East German times
From the 1960s the station again became an important hub for long-distance services from Western Europe and Scandinavia to Southeastern Europe. The well-known services of this period were the Vindobona (Berlin–Vienna), the Hungaria (Berlin–Budapest) and the Meridian (Malmö–Bar).
As part of the change in traction, trains hauled by electric locomotives reached Dresden from Freiberg for the first time in September 1966. A good ten years later–on 24 September 1977–the final steam-hauled service departed the station towards Berlin as the Dresden Express. Steam-hauled passenger trains were still seen running towards Upper Lusatia until the late 1980s. Since the headroom in the western part of the station area was insufficient, the Hohe Brücke (bridge) had to be demolished to permit the electrification of the railway lines.
Within the city and the surrounding area, the Dresden S-Bahn has carried the majority of traffic to the station since 1973 and has operated as its central point. In 1978, the Dresden Hauptbahnhof was heritage-listed.
On the night of 30 September and 1 October 1989, six so-called refugee trains were operated from Prague through Dresden station and the territory of the German Democratic Republic to West Germany. Two hours before the news spread to the West German media about these trips, a few quick and resolute citizens managed to jump on a train during transit. More East Germans were queuing in the West German embassy in Prague and so more trains were run. Therefore, on the following days, more and more disgruntled citizens collected at the station, amounting to about 20,000 people on the night of 4 and 5 October, according to the police. While the majority of the demonstrators and the security forces confronted each other that night in Lenin-Platz (now Wiener Platz), three of the expected trains from Prague passed on the southern tracks of the Hauptbahnhof but were hardly noticed. Due to the critical situation in Dresden, five additional special trains were diverted via Vojtanov and Bad Brambach to Plauen. Most demonstrators were peaceful, but there were also violent clashes between about 3,000 demonstrators and the Volkspolizei and property at the station was damaged. In the following days, peaceful demonstrations took place in Lenin-Platz and the adjacent Prager Straße, resulting in the beginning of a dialogue on state power at the local level with the establishment of the Group of 20 (Gruppe der 20) on the evening 8 October.
With a combined 156 arrivals and departures of scheduled long-distance trains per day in the station in the summer 1989 timetable, it was the third most important node in the network of Deutsche Reichsbahn, after Berlin and Leipzig.
After the political changes in the GDR
Since the 1990s, Dresden has gradually become part of the Intercity network. From 1991, individual Intercity services ran via Leipzig and the Thuringian Railway to Frankfurt am Main and these service have run every two hours since 1992. The first pair of EuroCity services ran from Dresden to Paris-Est over the same route on 2 June 1991. That same year, InterRegio trains served Dresden for the first time. The 2048/2049 and 2044/2143 trains pairs ran between Cologne and Dresden. Later, other connections were added. In 1993, a north–south connection through Dresden was included in the EuroCity network and some of the eight EC trains that now run to Prague, Vienna and Budapest were introduced.
On 25 September 1994, scheduled Intercity-Express (ICE) services operated for the first time to the station. The ICE Elbkurier ran in the evening on the line from the Zoo station in Berlin to Dresden in one hour and 58 minutes. In the morning there was a service in the opposite direction. The introduction of the ICE meant that construction work at the station had to be carried out in advance.
Until the timetable change on 28 May 2000, a pair of trains ICE ran daily via Berlin to Dresden, then the hourly ICE line 50 service, which has continued to the present, was introduced from Dresden to Frankfurt via Leipzig, eliminating the connection via Berlin. Dresden station became the starting point of the central east–west connection in the German ICE network.
This change caused changes in locomotive-hauled long-distance operations, since Dresden was now served almost exclusively in the north–south direction by Intercity (IC) and EuroCity (EC) trains. There were other related changes to the IC/EC network. So already the service, subsequently numbered EC/IC 27 (Prague–Dresden–Berlin), received a through connection to Hamburg in 1994 and in 2003 two pairs of trains continued to Vienna and a pair of trains continued to Aarhus in Denmark for the first time.
ICE TD (class 605) services ran on the Saxon-Franconian trunk line to Nuremberg from 10 June 2001. These replaced InterRegio services that had been abandoned a year earlier. After the 2002 Elbe flood and the resulting disruption of the line between Chemnitz and Dresden, as well as problems with the tilting systems, Deutsche Bahn discontinued the operation of the trainsets from the summer of 2003. Instead services were operated with Intercity trains until the end of long-distance services in 2006.
A suitcase bomb was discovered in the station by an explosive-detection dog on 6 June 2003. After the evacuation of the entire building, the police destroyed the suitcase bomb. The bomb consisted of a standard wheeled suitcase which contained an alarm clock, a pressure cooker, explosives and stones as well as an ignition device with fuse. According to experts, this bomb was capable of exploding.
The fundamental renovation after 2000
The first restoration work took place in the 1990s. The bridges over federal highway 170 were renovated and the eastern building was given a new facade on the street side and new entrance steps.
A draft plan by Gerkan, Marg and Partners for the modernisation of the station in the mid-1990s envisaged part of the central hall remodelled as a market as well as the building of an office and hotel tower. This design was not realised.
At the end of December 2000, the Board of Deutsche Bahn, let a contract for modernisation work. The planned construction costs amounted to approximately DM 100 million, which was funded from the federal government's remediation funds, Deutsche Bahn's own funds and a grant from the state of Saxony (DM 13 million). The completion of construction works was scheduled for the spring of 2003.
The extensive redevelopment had already commenced in 2000 with the commissioning of the Leipzig remote electronic control centre. The additional redevelopment included the renovation of the entrance building and the train shed roof, track work of the north and south hall and changes to the track and signaling systems. To ensure uninterrupted movement of trains, the track structures of the north hall were first rehabilitated and recommissioned in November 2003. Subsequently, the renovation of the track structures of the south hall began at the end of 2004. The train shed roof was renovated from 2002 and the station building was renovated from the end of 2003. Because of the construction, shops were accommodated in containers in the station hall from 2002 to 2006. The dome above the connection hall between the two halls, which is up to 34 metres high, the connecting hall and the large waiting rooms were restored to their historical designs. A travel centre and a supermarket were opened in the waiting rooms in July 2006, simultaneously with the commissioning of the central hall. The high-level platforms are now reached via escalators and lifts.
In December 2007, the newly designed network of tracks was put into operation on the station's south side, except for platform 1, which was opened at the end of 2008. In addition, the two freight train tracks outside the south hall were rebuilt, but omitting the platform between the tracks that had been built with the tracks in about 1930.
The 2002 floods delayed the renovation work significantly. On 12 August 2002, the station was closed due to flooding by the Weißeritz, which had returned to its old route through Dresden and followed the route of the line to Chemnitz to reach the Hauptbahnhof, reaching a height of up to 1.50 m at the station. Water, mud and debris caused damage of €42 million. Many sections of track were impassable for a long time, especially towards Chemnitz. After a few regional trains reached the station on 2 September 2002, a long-distance train also reached it. The building was, in part, demolished down to its basement, except for its facade; this work lasted until the end of 2004.
The cost of the remediation amounted to about €250 million up to November 2006. Of this amount, €85 million was spent on the membrane roof and €55 million on the entrance building. The federal government contributed about €100 million of this and the government of Saxony contributed about €11 million. The renewal of the elevated track structures in the south hall had still not been carried out at that time, it would be supported by the federal government with some €54 million.
The inauguration of the renovated station took place under the dome of the lobby on the evening of 10 November 2006. It was carried out in 2006 to coincide with the celebration of the 800-year anniversary of the city. The opening meant the end of a significant obstacle for tourism, but the renovations have not yet finished even in 2014.
After 20 months of construction, carried out as part of the federal economic stimulus package, the refurbishment of the station's energy systems were completed in June 2011. This construction work included the renovation of the royal pavilion. Since the summer of 2011, Deutsche Bahn has been developing a future retail space under the tracks of the north and south hall of the station. Around €25 million were expected to be invested by 2014. It has around 40 storefronts with a total area of 14,000 square metres. The first new stores opened in August 2013, although construction work had not been completed in April 2014. The second stage of the development of the Dresden railway node was planned in 2009 to be completed in 2011. However, this construction phase was not included in the 2011–2015 federal Investment Framework Plan (Investitionsrahmenplan) and construction is not currently scheduled (as of 2012). In September 2013, Deutsche Bahn said that the platforms of the central hall would be replaced by 2019 and they would also be slightly raised.
The Förderverein Dresdner Hauptbahnhof e. V. (Friends of Dresden Hauptbahnhof) supported the renovation and enabled the recovery of some details about the required conservation measures. So broken decorative elements on a sandstone facade of the clock tower were returned to their correct places, windows were equipped with arches and architraves and the crowning group statue of Saxonia with personifications of science and technology have been restored.
Building
The station building is oriented in a northwest–southeast direction and is divided along its longitudinal axis into three train sheds with eye-catching arched roofs. The lobby is located to the east of the central and largest of the three buildings and it is centered between the outer halls; it has an approximately square plan. A small forecourt facing on to federal highway (Bundesstraße) 170 is in front of the main entrance. This road passes at roughly right angles under the railways running through the other two halls.
The tripartite platform hall covers an area that is 60 metres wide and 186 metres long. The iron arch structure of the roof rises up to 32 metres high and has a width of 59 metres. The spans of the train sheds are 31 or 32 metres and 19 metres wide. The dimensions of the roof were necessary during the days of steam so that smoke could be blown away.
On the other side of federal highway 170 opposite the main entrance is the station's east wing. Several bay platforms are arranged in an elevated position between the running lines from the north and south hall. These are mainly used for stabling short sets.
Impressive entrances to the station building were built not only from the east, but also from the north and the south. Additionally from these sides there are direct entrances to the central train shed under the elevated through tracks. The entrance from Wiener Platz to the station hall was also perceived as the main entrance during construction, which led to contemporary criticism that "the organic development of the building had to suffer from the needs of two main entrances with one having greater architectural significance and the other responding more to the needs of users."
In the northwest is the royal pavilion (Königspavillon), which is built in the Baroque Revival style. Originally it served to receive state guests of the Kingdom of Saxony. After the end of the monarchy in 1918, it contained a ticket office before it was again reserved for functions and receiving dignitaries during the Third Reich. From 1950, the royal pavilion contained the Kino im Hauptbahnhof (cinema in the station), which had more than 170 places. On 31 December 2000, Deutsche Bahn dismissed the operator and the Pavilion has since been unused. During a renovation to make it energy-efficient in 2010, the facade of the Pavilion was repaired and new windows and a new roof were installed. In April 2014, the royal pavilion is to be opened as an additional entrance to the station, allowing direct access to platforms 17, 18 and 19 from the north-west side. In the royal pavilion itself there will be room for cultural projects and art exhibitions. Originally there was another entrance to the Pavilion on the north side. Eliminating it led to criticism from architects and the press, as the royal pavilion would now not be integrated into a harmonious structure.
Among the elevated tracks of the north and south hall there was originally facilities for loading luggage and offices for the management and inspection of operations (north hall) and rooms for the staff (south hall). Since the redevelopment there are shops for travel necessities below the eastern part of the north hall and a waiting hall with its own lost property office and sanitary facilities under a part of the south hall. The development of further rooms below the north hall and south hall is still continuing (as of 2013).
Platforms
The central train shed today serves as a terminal station with seven tracks running from the west. Originally, however, it housed only six platform tracks. Even before the Second World War another platform track was integrated into the train shed, the current platform 14. This change involved the abolition of two luggage platforms, leaving only the former luggage platform between platforms 6 and 9. The tracks of the central part of the station are approximately at street level, while all the through tracks run in a second level which is about 4.50 metres higher.
The north and south halls house three through tracks (without platforms) that run in a southeasterly direction past the terminal hall. The eastern sections of platforms 1 and 2 are also referred to as platforms 1a and 2a. The north hall also houses an additional through track without platform. During the refurbishment works carried out since 2000, the platform height was adjusted to meet current standards. The east wing originally had a second terminal track, but only platform track 4 is still in use.
In addition to structural changes, the system of operations has also changed. It was initially mainly operated with tracks arranged according to direction (that is with fast and slow lines in the same direction). The tracks are now largely arranged as discrete lines (for instance some tracks are dedicated to S-Bahn services). The following table gives an overview of the aspects of the platform and their original and current use (November 2009). The island platform added between the freight tracks south of the south hall in the 1930s has not existed since the reorganisation in the new millennium and therefore it is not shown in the table.
Roof construction
A special feature of the station is the renovated roof, which was designed by the British architect Sir Norman Foster. The previous panes of framed glass were replaced by 0.7 mm-thick glass fibre membranes which have been stretched between the arched halls. The membranes have double-sided Teflon coatings that are 0.1 mm-thick and are self-cleaning. It was the first time that a historic building had been treated with this new material. Designed for a service life of 50 years, the membrane can resist tensile forces of up to about 150 kN per metre. It can be walked over by trained personnel with a safety harness.
The membrane is largely translucent during the daytime and reflects the light of the concourse back at night; the structure appears to be silver from the outside. Narrow slits between the membranes are left open over the hall arches, forming a total of 67 skylights. The roof area is about 33,000 square metres (of which 29,000 square metres is composed of glass fibre membrane), which covers a surface area about 24,500 square metres. The architects who won the competition emphasised their entry's relatively easy installation, low weight and low maintenance costs (self-cleaning). According to the Deutsche Bahn specifications, cooling is not required due to the "tent construction" of the roof even in bright sunlight.
The restoration was carried out between February 2001 and July 2006 with trains running through the station. 800 tons of material were installed in the two outer halls from elevated work platforms and more than 1600 tons of material were installed in the central hall. On 15 May 2001, workers began with the removal of the old glass roof. Some of the old steel beams were rebuilt and some new ones have been inserted as wind bracing between the hall arches. Secondary structures were then built to attach the membranes on the beams. A total of more than 100,000 screws were installed, some of which also replaced rivets on the historic hall arches. A service lift was also installed.
The planning began in 1997 and originally a full canopy covering the outer platforms was envisaged, but this was rejected in 2000. Instead it was decided to take up an option to extend the two outer roofs by 200 metres to the east above the outer platforms using a membrane roof.
The membrane roof has been damaged several times during bad weather. In the winter of 2010/2011, eight cracks, which were up to two metres wide, were formed. Responsibility for the damage was still being contested in court in January 2013.
Main entrance and lobby
The main entrance of the station building forms part of a large circular portal window arch. The portal is installed in the massive Avant-corps that dominates the centre of the facade. In addition there is a statue of Saxonia, the embodiment of the spirit of Saxony, which is arranged between allegories of science and technology. Both the portal of the entrance building and the clock towers on both sides show the association of the station with the architectural style of Historicism, which was typical of the buildings of the kingdom of Saxony in Dresden.
The entrance building consists of two elongated, T-shaped crossings, which intersect under the large glass dome of the hall. The main corridor leads to the central hall, while the side halls can be reached by passages running parallel to the cross passage through the central hall. During the renovation of the business and administrative areas, large parts of the station building were converted into facades and additional areas of glass were inserted into its roofs for daylighting.
While the interiors of the lobby are now simply decorated, they appeared much more lively before the destruction of the station during World War II. Ceiling paintings and the 26 emblems of the administrative districts of the Kingdom of Saxony in their heraldic colours adorned the lobby. The waiting rooms of the first and second class were graced with large murals made of porcelain tiles to the design of Prof. Julius Storm of Meissen.
For a long time many locals have met at the Unterm Strick (“rope end"), which is just below the center of the dome of Dresden station. Before the renovation of the station, a so-called rope hung here in the middle of the entrance hall. Although nothing has hung here since the station redevelopment, the old name is still used for this meeting place by many in Dresden.
At this point of the roof, there is now a round cushion, 15 metres in diameter and made of ETFE foil. Its height can be adjusted and it serves mainly to regulate the ventilation.
In the upper floor of the station there has been a DB Lounge for first class passengers and frequent travellers since September 2006. In the entrance building there are shops for travel needs. It includes leased retail space of 3,969 square metres in addition to the space below the elevated tracks of the south hall; this provision is low compared to other metropolitan stations.
Operations
As an important transport hub in Dresden, the station is linked to various transport services. It is not only a stop on the rail network, but it is also an important transfer point for public transport, a grade-separated crossing of two main roads and the beginning of the pedestrianised route through the inner city.
Railway lines and operations
Unifying railways
The Dresden station is located on three electrified double-track main lines:
The Děčín–Dresden railway (also called the Elbtalbahn–Elbe Valley Railway) (route 6240) passes through the station running over two lateral elevated railway tracks and runs to the south-east. It connects with Děčín and Prague through the valley of the Elbe. The section to Pirna is designed for speeds up to 160 km/h.
From Dresden Hauptbahnhof to the vicinity of Dresden-Neustadt station there is a parallel single or double-track line for freight traffic (route 6241). The double track line branches off in Dresden Hauptbahnhof and runs south of the south hall. The line is single track from the vicinity of Dresden Mitte station over the Marien Bridge to Dresden-Neustadt station and it is shared by passenger trains and runs as a single track to the line to Dresden-Klotzsche.
The Pirna–Coswig S-Bahn line (route 6239) runs parallel to the Elbe Valley Railway; it runs through the northern hall of Dresden station.
The Dresden–Werdau railway (route 6258) starts in the station and branches on the western approach over a grade-separated junction. It represents the first section of Saxon-Franconian trunk line via Chemnitz, Zwickau and Hof to Nuremberg.
The Hauptbahnhof is also connected with railway to Berlin via the triangle of rail tracks between Dresden Freiberger Straße and Dresden Mitte and with the railway to Leipzig and railway to Görlitz via Dresden-Neustadt.
Components of the station
An electronic interlocking controls the Dresden junction to the limits on Dresden station. For operational purposes, Dresden Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) is part is part of the Dresden “operating agency” (Betriebsstelle; DDRE) which consists of the following station parts:
Dresden Hbf
Dresden-Altstadt
Dresden Freiberger Straße
Dresden Freiberger Straße platform
Dresden Mitte
Dresden-Neustadt Pbf (passenger station)
Dresden-Neustadt Gbf (freight yard)
All lines to Dresden have entry signals, as do the opposite tracks. The operating agency of Dresden has a total of 15 entry signals.
Rail operations
Two long-distance railway corridors intersect in Dresden. In addition to the important long-distance route to Leipzig, there is also the north–south corridor from Berlin via Dresden and Prague to Vienna. A third corridor from Nuremberg to Wrocław has lost its importance in Germany and Poland and is no longer served by long-distance traffic.
Journey times are as follows from Dresden to:
Leipzig (120 km): 65 minutes, with stops in Dresden-Neustadt and Riesa; corresponding to an average speed of 110 km/h;
Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof, low level) (182 km): 128 minutes, with stops in Dresden-Neustadt (some trains), Elsterwerda (some trains) and Berlin-Südkreuz; corresponding to an average speed of 85 km/h;
Prague (Holešovice) (191 km) 126 minutes, with stops in Bad Schandau, Děčín and Ústí nad Labem; corresponding to an average speed of 90 km/h.
In the plans of the European Union, the station is the starting point of "Pan-European Corridors III and IV" to Kyiv and southeast Europe.
Train services
The station is served by the following services (incomplete list):
Traffic
Each day the station is used by around 60,000 passengers, 381 trains (including 50 long-distance services), including up to ten S-Bahn services each hour. In passenger traffic it is served by services operated by DB Fernverkehr (long-distance), DB Regio (Südost), Städtebahn Sachsen and Vogtlandbahn (under the brand name of Trilex). In addition, about 200 freight trains operated by different railway companies pass the station daily.
The most common direct destination outside the area of the Dresden S-Bahn is Leipzig with up to 32 services daily. The other most frequent long-distance destinations are Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Prague and Budapest. The Saxon-Franconian trunk line via Chemnitz and the Vogtland to Nuremberg has been discontinued in recent years, despite the growth of long-distance traffic and is now only operated by DB Regio as far as Hof.
The number of direct connections to the station mean that it has national significance as an interchange. It is one of the 21 stations of the highest category as classified by DB Station&Service.
Transport links
Public transportation
The station is the main inner-city hub for national passenger services. From the outset, it was the centre of the tram network of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (Dresden Transport) or its predecessor organisations. Today, along with Postplatz, Albertplatz and Pirnaischer Platz, it is one of the four major tram hubs of the city. The first bus service was operated in Dresden from April 1914 via the station as the overland buses of the Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Freistaat Sachsen (KVG) from 1919 until the end of World War II.
Tram stops are located on the station forecourt fronting highway B170 and on Wiener Platz. The distance from the centre of the station to each of the tram stops is about 100 metres. The connecting path runs at ground level from the head of the platforms. Also in front of the entrance building is the bus stop, which is served by city and regional buses. As part of further restructuring, a new central bus station (Zentraler Omnibus Bahnhof, ZOB) is being built at the western end of Wiener Platz. Bus passengers will then be able to use the station entrance by the royal pavilion.
Four tram lines (3, 7, 8, 10), a city bus route (66) and several regional bus services operated by Regionalverkehr Dresden (Regional Transport Dresden), line 261 operated by the Pirna-Sebnitz Upper Elbe Transport Company (Oberelbischen Verkehrsgesellschaft Pirna-Sebnitz) and other services operated by long-distance transport companies regularly stop at the station. Apart from destinations in the surrounding area of Dresden, services are also operated to Annaberg-Buchholz, Olbernhau and Mittweida as well as Teplice in the Czech Republic, among other places. In addition, tram lines 9 and 11 stop at the Hauptbahnhof Nord stop, which is about 150 metres to the northeast of the station. In the Bayerischen Straße to the south of the station are the bus stops of several long-distance bus services. After the completion of the planned ZOB, this is to be served by all regional and long-distance bus services.
Private transport
Stopping places for cars are provided near the entrances on the south side of the station. An underground car park with 350 parking spaces is located at Wiener Platz in front of the northern entrances of the station. It is reached from the road tunnel under the Platz running to the east. Further parking is available in parking garages and parking lots along Prager Straße and south of the station.
Awards
The renovated station in Dresden received the 2007 Renault Traffic Future Award for special transport architecture. In addition, the architectural firm of Foster and Partners received a second place in the award of the Stirling Prize in the same year and in 2008 the new roof of the station hall received the Brunel Award, an award for railway design. In August 2014, the station was given an award by Allianz pro Schiene entitled "Station of the Year in the category of large city railway station". The jury praised the station as being a "monument of a clear, lilting lightness."
Notes
References
(brochure)
External links
Dresden Hauptbahnhof | Deutsche Bahn AG - Official DB site (in English).
Foster + Partners - project description
Hauptbahnhof
Foster and Partners buildings
Lattice shell structures
DresdenHauptbahnhof
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1897
Rebuilt buildings and structures in Dresden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp%20onion
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Swamp onion
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Swamp onion is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Allium madidum, native to Idaho, Oregon and Washington
Allium validum, native to western North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes%20L.A.
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Yes L.A.
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Yes L.A. is a six-song compilation EP featuring first-generation Californian punk rock bands. It was also the final release of the short-lived but influential Dangerhouse Records label.
Overview
A one-sided picture disc released at the twilight of the early Los Angeles punk scene, Yes L.A. features some of its most acclaimed bands: the Bags, the Eyes, the Alley Cats, Black Randy and the Metrosquad, X, and the Germs.
The record title makes parody of No New York, the seminal no wave compilation album issued a year earlier, perceived as pretentious by West Coast punkers. The EP even included a satirical disclaimer printed on the disc saying: "Not produced by Brian Eno".
The compilation includes a rawer early version of X's song "Los Angeles", recorded in 1978, which is, in the words of Dangerhouse Records co-founder David Brown, "a scathing, literal depiction of the scene which needs no explanation". The record also features a rare alternate mix of the Germs' "No God", a song originally produced by Geza X for the EP Lexicon Devil, previously released in May 1978.
The Yes L.A. EP has become highly sought after by record collectors.
Production and release
Yes L.A. was mastered by Jeff Sanders at Crystal Sound Studios in Hollywood, California.
All songs on the compilation were previously unissued, with the only exception of Black Randy and the Metrosquad's tune "Down at the Laundrymat", featured on the band's studio album Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie from July 1979.
Yes L.A. was originally released in August 1979 on Dangerhouse Records, in a limited edition of 2,000 copies pressed on 12-inch clear vinyl discs.
Artwork and packaging
Designed by Pat Garrett, the record artwork was silkscreened by hand on the ungrooved side of each single disc, with one of three different color combinations, namely, green/black, green/blue, and green/red. Some of those copies were misprinted. Examples include discs with text only, with the background image in front of the text, or the image and text on the side with the grooves, rendering such a record unplayable.
Some non-silkscreened black vinyl test pressings are known to exist.
Original copies came without a sleeve, instead packaged in a clear plastic bag with a white cardboard backing.
Reissues
At some point during the 1990s, the rights to Yes L.A. (and the entire Dangerhouse Records catalog) were acquired by Frontier Records.
In June 2013, after 34 years out of print, Yes L.A. was reissued by Frontier in a one-time limited edition of 1,000 almost exact replicas of the original EP to commemorate the label's 100th release.
Track listing
Where it is necessary, songwriting credits are listed in the format lyrics/music.
Personnel
Bags
Alicia Armendariz (pka Alice Bag) – vocals
Patricia Morrison (pka Pat Bag) – bass
Craig Lee (pka Craig Bag) – guitar
Rob Ritter – guitar
Terry Graham (pka Terry Dad Bag) – drums
Eyes
Joe Ramirez – vocals, guitar
Jimmy Leach – bass, backing vocals
Joe Nanini – drums
David Brown – organ
The Alley Cats
Randy Stodola – vocals, guitar
Dianne Chai – vocals, bass
John McCarthy – drums
Black Randy and the Metrosquad
Black Randy – vocals
Bob Deadwyler – guitar
Keith Barrett (aka KK Barrett) – drums
Pat Garrett – bass
David Brown – electric piano
John Duchac (pka John Doe) – percussions (wastebasket)
X
Exene Cervenka – vocals
Billy Zoom – guitar
John Doe – bass, vocals
Don Bonebrake – drums
Germs
Darby Crash – vocals
Pat Smear – guitar
Lorna Doom – bass
Nicky Beat – drums
Don Bolles – backing vocals and hand clapping
Pat Delaney – backing vocals and hand clapping
Production
Dangerhouse – production (track 4), co-production (1 to 3, 5), remixing (6)
Geza X – production (6), co-production (1)
Eyes – co-production (2)
Randy Stodola – co-production (3)
Jimmy Nanos – co-production (5), engineering (5)
Pat Rand (Pat Garrett) – co-production (5), graphic design
X – co-production (5)
Mike Hamilton – engineering (4)
Jeff Sanders – mastering
See also
1979 in music
Punk rock in California
Notes
References
External links
"Frontier Reissues Rare Punk Classic: Yes LA EP!". Frontier Records.
Regional music compilation albums
1979 compilation albums
Punk rock compilation albums
Music of Los Angeles
Dangerhouse Records compilation albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Catholic%20dioceses%20in%20Spain
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List of Catholic dioceses in Spain
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The diocesan system of the Catholic church government in Spain consists mainly of a nearly entirely Latin hierarchy of 70 territorial (arch)dioceses :
fourteen ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop (one of which, Toledo, uses the Mozarabic rite), have a total of 55 suffragan Bishops.
Exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, are :
the (vacant) Latin Titular Patriarchate of the West Indies
the Spanish military ordinariate, which is a Latin army bishopric (personal diocese for the military) headed by an archbishop
the bishopric of Gibraltar, also Latin
the joint Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rite for all Eastern Catholics in Spain.
All except the Exempt Bishop of Gibraltar are members of the national episcopal conference of Spain.
There is also an apostolic nunciature (papal embassy) to Spain (in national capital Madrid), into which is also vested the nunciature to Andorra. Gibraltar, being British overseas territory without sovereignty (and disputed by Spain), has no papal diplomatic representation.
Exempt current jurisdictions
Latin
Military Archbishopric of Spain, personal archbishopric for the Spanish armed forces
Eastern Rite Ordinariate
Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rite in Spain
Current Latin provinces
Ecclesiastical province of Barcelona
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Barcelona
Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat
Diocese of Terrassa
Ecclesiastical province of Burgos
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Burgos
Diocese of Bilbao
Diocese of Osma-Soria
Diocese of Palencia
Diocese of Vitoria
Ecclesiastical province of Granada
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Granada
Diocese of Almería
Diocese of Cartagena
Diocese of Guadix
Diocese of Jaén
Diocese of Málaga
Ecclesiastical province of Madrid
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madrid
Diocese of Alcalá de Henares
Diocese of Getafe
Ecclesiastical province of Mérida-Badajoz
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz
Diocese of Coria-Cáceres
Diocese of Plasencia
Ecclesiastical province of Oviedo
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Oviedo
Diocese of Astorga
Diocese of León
Diocese of Santander
Ecclesiastical province of Pamplona
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela
Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño
Diocese of Jaca
Diocese of San Sebastián
Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Compostela
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
Diocese of Lugo
Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Diocese of Ourense
Diocese of Tui-Vigo
Ecclesiastical province of Seville
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seville
Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta, which includes the Spanish exclaves in Morocco
Diocese of Córdoba
Diocese of Huelva
Diocese of Canarias
Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera
Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tarragona
Diocese of Girona
Diocese of Lleida
Diocese of Solsona
Diocese of Tortosa
Diocese of Urgell, which includes Andorra, where he is prince-bishop as joint head of state (with the French president)
Diocese of Vic
Ecclesiastical province of Toledo
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toledo, which uses the Mozarabic Rite
Diocese of Albacete
Diocese of Ciudad Real
Diocese of Cuenca
Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara
Ecclesiastical province of Valencia
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valencia
Diocese of Ibiza
Diocese of Majorca
Diocese of Menorca
Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante
Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón
Ecclesiastical province of Valladolid
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valladolid
Diocese of Ávila
Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo
Diocese of Salamanca
Diocese of Segovia
Diocese of Zamora
Ecclesiastical province of Zaragoza
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zaragoza
Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón
Diocese of Huesca
Diocese of Tarazona
Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín
Titular sees
(Excluding the current but vacant Latin titular patriarchate, above)
Forty-eight Titular bishoprics (all Episcopal): Diocese of Abula, Diocese of Acci, Diocese of Álava, Diocese of Algeciras, Diocese of Amaia, Diocese of Arcavica, Diocese of Assidona ? Asidonia, Diocese of Auca, Diocese of Baeza, Diocese of Basti (Baza), Diocese of Besalú, Diocese of Bigastro, Diocese of Britonia, Diocese of Castulo, Diocese of Celene, Diocese of Denia, Diocese of Écija, Diocese of Egabro, Diocese of Egara, Diocese of Elepla, Diocese of Elicroca, Diocese of Elo, Diocese of Emerita Augusta (now Mérida(-Badajoz), again suppressed as titular see), Diocese of Fuerteventura, Diocese of Iliturgi, Illiberi (Elvira / Eliberi / Granada / Ilurir), Diocese of Illici, Diocese of Ipagro, Diocese of Iria Flavia, Diocese of Italica, Diocese of Mentesa, Diocese of Naiera (Najéra), Diocese of Oreto, Diocese of Rota, Diocese of Rotdon, Diocese of Rubicon, Diocese of Saetabis, Diocese of Sasabe, Diocese of Segia, Diocese of Segisama, Diocese of Telde, Diocese of Tucci, Diocese of Urci, Diocese of Ursona, Diocese of Valabria, Diocese of Valeria, Diocese of Valliposita, Diocese of Vergi
Other
(Excluding mere predecessors of current sees)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albarracin
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ceuta
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tudela
Gallery of Archdioceses
Sources and external links
GCatholic.org - Spain.
GCatholic.org - Andorra.
GCatholic.org - Gibraltar.
Catholic-Hierarchy entry.
Spain
Roman Catholic Dioceses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Stern%20%28British%20politician%29
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Michael Stern (British politician)
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Michael Charles Stern (born 3 August 1942) is a British Conservative Party politician. Stern contested Derby South at the 1979 general election before being elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West at the 1983 general election. He represented the seat for 14 years. In the 1992 election, he held on by the extremely narrow margin of 45 votes, but in 1997 — unhelped by adverse boundary changes — lost the seat to Labour's Doug Naysmith by 11,382 votes.
References
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992 and 1997 editions
External links
Living people
1942 births
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
Members of the Bow Group
People educated at Christ's College, Finchley
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Kinloch Rannoch (; Gaelic: Ceann Loch Raineach) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, at the eastern end of Loch Rannoch, 18 miles (29 km) west of Pitlochry, on the banks of the River Tummel.
The village is a tourist and outdoor pursuits centre. It has a small population and is fairly remote.
The name of the village, Kinloch Rannoch, or rather Ceann Loch means 'end' of the loch. It could be used for either end, but is usually used for the end the water flows out of in a fresh water loch such as this, in contrast to a sea loch where it would obviously have to be where the brine hits the land. On the road to Rannoch Station is the church of A. E. Robertson at Braes of Rannoch.
Overview
Formerly a tiny hamlet, Kinloch Rannoch was enlarged and settled, under the direction of James Small, formerly an Ensign in Lord Loudoun's Regiment, mainly by soldiers discharged from the army, but also by displaced crofters. Small had been appointed by the Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates to run the Rannoch estates, which had been seized from the clan chieftains who had supported the Jacobites following the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Local roads and bridges were improved, enabling soldiers at Rannoch Barracks to move more freely around the district. The Soldiers' Trenches were dug on nearby Rannoch Moor in an unsuccessful attempt to create better quality agricultural land.
Small was supported by Dugald Buchanan and his wife who taught the villagers new trades and crafts. Buchanan was a local schoolmaster and Gaelic poet, who is commemorated by a large monument in the centre of the square in Kinloch Rannoch. He worked with James Stuart minister of Killin on translating Bible passages into Scottish Gaelic.
The main economic activities in the area are agriculture, forestry, hydro power and tourism with local tourist activities including fishing, rafting, cycling and hiking.
Near the village is a hill reputed to resemble the head, shoulders, and torso of a man. It has been given the name of "The Sleeping Giant". Local myth says that the giant will wake up only when he hears the sounds of his master's flute.
The old bridge over the River Tummel is worthy of note. Some sources attribute it to Thomas Telford but that is unlikely since a plaque on the bridge dates its building to 1764 when Telford would have been 7 years old.
There is also has an attractive waterfall at the entrance to the village on the Allt Mor burn known locally as The Falls and there is a walkway to the hill giving access to Craig Var an imposing craggy outcrop jutting into the valley and offering stupendous views over the village and nearby lochs and hills.
The village and some of its inhabitants were featured in the film Shepherd on the Rock.
Gallery
References
External links
Explore Rannoch Path Network - Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust
Villages in Perth and Kinross
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Vvedensky Municipal Okrug
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Vvedensky Municipal Okrug (), formerly Municipal Okrug #58 (), is a municipal okrug of Petrogradsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Population:
The okrug borders Bolshoy Avenue in the north, Vvdenskaya Street in the east, Kronverksky Avenu in the southeast, and Malaya Neva in the southwest.
References
Petrogradsky District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envoy%20Extraordinary
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Envoy Extraordinary
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Envoy Extraordinary may refer to:
Envoy Extraordinary (novella) by William Golding
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, a diplomatic rank
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Weightlifting
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USA Weightlifting
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USA Weightlifting, otherwise known as USAW, is the national governing body overseeing the sport of weightlifting in the United States. USAW is a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), responsible for conducting weightlifting programs throughout the country, and a member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). Top competitors are selected by USAW to compete in major international events such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Junior Championships, Pan American Championships and Pan American Games.
There are 45 state oriented Local Weightlifting Committees (LWC's). Each LWC promotes weightlifting programs and develops athletes in its region by holding local competitions and other programs. To compete in any USA Weightlifting sanctioned events, an athlete must be a current member of USAW. All athletes participating in USA Weightlifting activities may be subject to random drug testing, conducted via either the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) or the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
USA Weightlifting authorizes five National Championships in all age groups, giving athletes a chance to evaluate their competition nationwide. Top competitors are selected from the various National Championships to compete in major international events.
The CEO oversees the USA Weightlifting National Office, which is located at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The CEO coordinates affairs with the US Olympic Committee (USOC), oversees national competitions and team selections, and supervises sponsorship and fundraising activities.
National events
National Championships
The USA Weightlifting National Championships is the pinnacle Olympic weightlifting competition held in the United States. Open to registered USAW athletes (US citizens only) of all ages that reach the qualifying total in their weight class.
American Open
Open to registered USAW athletes of all ages that reach the qualifying total in their weight class.
National Collegiate Championships
Open to registered USAW athletes (US citizenship not required) currently registered at accredited colleges throughout the United States, who reach the qualifying total in their weight class. Athletes competing at the National Collegiate Championships cannot be younger than 15 or older than 28, as of December 31 of the year in which they are competing at this event.
National Junior Championships
Open to registered USAW athletes (US citizens only) that reach the qualifying total in their weight class. Athletes competing at the National Juniors cannot be younger than 18 or older than 20, as of December 31 of the year in which they are competing at this event.
National School Age Championships
Open to registered USAW athletes (US citizens only) that reach the qualifying total in their weight class. Athletes competing at the National School Age Championships cannot be older than 17 years old, as of December 31 of the year in which they are competing at this event.
Olympic trials
The USA Weightlifting Olympic Trials are by invitation only, according to athlete ranking and other factors. Anyone hoping to compete at the Olympic Trials must request to be in the Registered Drug Testing Pool at least one year prior to the first Olympic Trials qualifying event.
Coaches
Club Coach (Level 1)
The Club Coach course is aimed at beginning coaches who will be working with competing weightlifters and who want to learn the basics of the Olympic lifts. Material learned covers the foundation of the snatch and the clean and jerk. Progression coaching is used as the tool for teaching the lifts, including push press, overhead squat, muscle lifts, and others.
Senior Coach (Level 2)
This is the second formalized education course within USA Weightlifting's Coaching Education curriculum. The course accommodates the needs of coaches who have already qualified as Club Coaches. The facilitation of this course is over four days and may take place at USAW Headquarters, the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs or at a club location.
The aim of this course is at the developing Club Coach graduate who has progressed beyond coaching beginners. The course offers an expanding education for the coach, introducing many Sports Science elements. Instructors will provide candidates with a body of knowledge and practical expertise so that they can develop their lifters from Club standard to National standard and beyond. More emphasis is on programming of training and preparing athletes to compete on the international platform. A more comprehensive biomechanics chapter is included and a number of new topics are introduced such as anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, strength and power principles and general physical preparation.
Regional Coach (Level 3)
This is the final formalized education course within USA Weightlifting's Coaching Education curriculum. The course caters to the needs of coaches who have already qualified as Club and Senior Coaches.
The main thrust and aim of the course is to progress the Senior Coach Graduate, who is by now, hopefully, coaching and developing national standard lifters, to a point where he/she can develop his/her lifters into international class competitors. The course will also prepare the coach to handle team coaching at international events.
The course is very open-ended and designed to provide the most up-to-date information on a variety of topics. The provision of this information will stimulate the candidates to develop their own coaching philosophies within USAW guidelines. Looking at the sport on an "international" rather than a national context should aid in this endeavor.
Sports Performance Coach
The Sports Performance Coach course focuses on the utilization and application of the Olympic lifts and their assistance exercises, plyometrics and medicine ball training to the realm of sport specific training, power development and injury prevention. The course is appropriate for high school, college and professional sports coaches who work with athletes from other sports besides weightlifting, such as football, track and field, wrestling, etc. It is also appropriate for personal trainers who work with private clients, incorporating weightlifting into their personal fitness routines. There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Advanced Sports Performance Coach
The Advanced Sports Performance Coach course is a secondary course to the standard Sports Performance Coaching Course. The course is aimed at coaches who would like advanced knowledge in hopes of bettering themselves and their athletes.
References
External links
United States
Weightlifting
Weightlifting in the United States
Organizations based in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sports in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Save Our Springs Alliance
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Save Our Springs Alliance (SOS), originally called the Save Our Springs Legal Defense Fund, was a nonprofit corporation created to protect the citizen-drafted SOS Ordinance of 1992 to conserve Barton Springs in Austin, Texas. The ordinance was written by citizens in reaction to the city's "Composite Ordinance," which citizens regarded as insufficient to save Barton Springs.
History
In 1990 Freeport-McMoRan, a mining company, threatened to develop of land it owned along Barton Creek. When it came time for City Council to approve the development, though, an all-night meeting ensued wherein citizens decried the company's actions and professed their love of Barton Springs, what many refer to as the "Soul of the City."
Today, SOS works with groups in the larger Edwards Region with a collective goal of conserving the Greater Edwards Aquifer Ecosystem, which is now chartered in the "Edwards Aquifer Protection Plan." The Edwards Aquifer is the source of water to over 4 million people, including residents of San Antonio. It also provides necessary heat relief and recreation to central Texas residents, and it is the home of many rare plant and animal species.
Six creeks run through the Barton Springs watershed: Barton Creek, Little Barton Creek, Bear Creek, Slaughter Creek, Williamson Creek, and Onion Creek. Sinkholes and other karst features allow water from these creeks to travel underground to the Aquifer. Because limestone provides no natural filtering system (unlike sandstone aquifers) it is more susceptible to pollutants in the creeks. SOS works to minimize development near these creeks, as sewage, run-off from roads and lawn fertilizers can end up in the Aquifer and come up at Barton Springs. Some of the ill effects of this pollution include a sewage smell, eutrophication (the proliferation of algae due to increased nutrients), increase turbidity (cloudiness) and harm to endangered species.
Barton Creek and other lakes and rivers in Central Texas are very popular in the Austin and Edwards Aquifer region as most citizens enjoy kayaking, swimming, and other outdoor recreation.
Pursuant to Section 11(g) of the Endangered Species Act, Save Our Springs Alliance petitioned the Secretary of the Interior to list the Barton Springs Salamander as an endangered species. After a favorable ruling by the Supreme Court, the species was listed.
In 2006, a visiting judge ruled that Save Our Springs lacked standing in a suit that it had brought. SOS claimed that the Lazy 9 Municipal Utility District was created in violation of the Texas Constitution. The judge also levied $294,000 in attorney's fees against Save Our Springs, but the directors of SOS filed bankruptcy to avoid paying this judgment. Although the Court of Appeals subsequently determined that SOS did have standing to file the suit, it refused to reverse the trial court's decision on the merits and left the attorney's fees ruling intact. On motion for rehearing, the Court of Appeals affirmed its decision. The Texas Supreme Court refused the writ of appeal, determining there was no reversible error. The bankruptcy court judge denied Save Our Springs' plan to emerge from bankruptcy and dismissed the case after SOS failed to meet a deadline.
References
Organizations based in Austin, Texas
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Sergei Kharitonov
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Sergei Valerievich Kharitonov (, ; born August 18, 1980) is a Russian professional heavyweight mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. A professional MMA competitor since 2000, Kharitonov has previously fought in Japanese MMA organizations PRIDE Fighting Championships & DREAM (Both in Japan), Bellator MMA, M-1 Global, Strikeforce, and GLORY.
Kharitonov has competed in two major mixed martial arts tournaments and one major kickboxing tournament. He holds notable wins over former EliteXC Middleweight Champion Murilo Rua, former K-1 Champion Semmy Schilt, former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem, and former UFC Heavyweight Champions Andrei Arlovski and Fabrício Werdum.
Biography
Sergei Kharitonov was born on August 18, 1980 in Plesetsk, Russian SFSR, (now Russia). His parents were very athletic: Sergei's mother was a volleyball coach, and his father at various times studied boxing, skating, football, and long distance marathon running. Under their influence, Sergei was very active physically while growing up.
Kharitonov graduated from a high school with a specialization in music (accordion). Following the advice of his parents as well as his own dreams, Sergei went to the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, and enlisted in the Russian Airborne Troops after finishing the academy. Kharitonov credits the army and the academy with giving him psychological skills he relies on during his fights.
Until resigning from the military in the late 2010s, Sergei remained on the active duty while training full-time. His military rank is captain.
Kharitonov sometimes gets confused with his full namesake Sergey Haritonov, a much less prominent mixed martial arts fighter from Estonia.
Mixed martial arts career
Martial arts background
Sergei started being interested in sports when he was still in kindergarten, being taught at first by his father. Kharitonov started training boxing seriously when he was ten or eleven years old, following an incident when a drunken adult passer-by broke up a scuffle between Sergei and another boy by lifting Sergei in the air, hitting him in the face and cutting his eyebrow with that punch. The man justified his behavior by saying that Sergei should not have been hitting a grounded opponent.
At the age of sixteen, Kharitonov started studying Combat Sambo. During his studies in the Airborne Troops Academy, Sergei started competing in hand-to-hand combat (simplified form of Combat Sambo) and MMA. After Kharitonov graduated from the Academy, he was contacted by Vladimir Pogodin, the manager of the Russian Top Team, who invited him to join the club. At first, Sergei was invited to be Fedor Emelianenko's sparring partner, who taught him many ground fighting techniques, including striking on the ground and submissions. Sergei kept competing at various Russian MMA competitions, and in October 2003 he debuted in Pride Fighting Championships, one of the top two leading MMA organizations in the world at that time.
Sergei trains with the Russian national boxing and Sambo teams, as well as some freestyle wrestlers. He also recently added Muay Thai training to his regimen, and, according to him, he even borrows some elements from karate.
Sergei Kharitonov trained in Kirieevsk, Russia, under coach Mikhail Illoukhine (). Ilyukhin chose Kirieevsk as their training base due to a large number of heavyweight MMA fighters available there. According to him, key elements of Sergei's success are his willpower and unpredictability in the ring. As of September 2007 he recently began training with the Golden Glory fight team in the Netherlands.
In addition to competing in MMA and boxing, Sergei competes in Combat Sambo for the Ryazan Desantnik (Paratrooper) club.
PRIDE
Sergei had a successful career as a heavyweight fighter in the Pride Fighting Championships, with an overall Pride record of 8–3–0. As of late 2005, Kharitonov has struggled with ongoing injuries to his upper back and shoulders, evident in his victory against Fabrício Werdum, in which his right shoulder was strained and injured nearly a minute into the bout, and in his loss to Alistair Overeem, where an awkward fall dislocated his shoulder.
Kharitonov lost to Alexander Emelianenko at Pride's Final Conflict Absolute 2006 on September 9, 2006.
Kharitonov scored a win against Mike Russow at PRIDE 33 in Las Vegas on February 24.
K-1 Hero's
On September 17, 2007, Kharitonov TKO's Alistair Overeem in the first round in the Hero's 10: Middleweight Tournament Final event, avenging a previous loss.
DREAM
Kharitonov's next fight was scheduled to be against Mighty Mo at DREAM 6 on September 23, 2008. However Mighty Mo was forced to withdraw due to a back injury. Jimmy Ambriz was Mighty Mo's replacement. Sergei scored a win in the first round by submission via strikes.
At Dream 8 Jeff Monson secured Sergei in a North/South Choke. The Russian tried punching his way out but was soon forced to tap for the first time in his career.
Strikeforce
Sergei signed a deal to fight for Strikeforce and made his debut on February 12, 2011. He faced former UFC Heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski in the opening round of Strikeforce 2011 Heavyweight Grand-Prix. Sergei defeated Andrei Arlovski by knockout in the first round. Sergei faced Josh Barnett, who defeated Brett Rogers on June 18, 2011 at Strikeforce: Dallas, in the next round. He lost via submission in the first round.
Post-Strikeforce
On June 1, 2012, he submitted John Delgado by keylock at the MMA: Russian Open Championship in St.Petersburg, Russia. Kharitonov has signed with M-1 Global and Oleg Taktarov's Fight Star MMA Promotion and was expected to fight Travis Wiuff in December 2013. This fight did not materialize, but on November 15 of that year Kharitonov faced Alexey Kudin at M-1 Challenge in Surgut, Russia and defeated him by TKO (punches) in the second round.
In his next appearance, Sergei defeated Tyler East via second-round TKO at Tech-Krep Fighting Championship - Prime on March 21, 2014.
Kharitonov was expected to face Satoshi Ishii on November 11, 2014 at M-1 Challenge 53: Battle in the Celestial Empire. However, Ishii withdrew from the bout due to injury. He instead faced Kenny Garner at the event, which took place on November 25, with Kharitonov winning via doctor stoppage in the third round.
M-1 Global
Kharitonov faced Alexei Kudin on November 15, 2013 at M-1 Challenge 43. He won the fight via TKO in the second round.
Kharitonov beat Kenny Garner at M-1 Challenge 53 on November 25, 2014 via TKO (doctor stoppage) in 3 round.
In the rematch he wins over Kenny Garner again on July 3, 2015 at M-1 Challenge 59 via TKO in the first round.
Bellator MMA
On February 3, 2016 it was announced that Kharitonov had signed with Bellator. Kharitonov made his debut against Javy Ayala on November 4, 2016 at Bellator 163. He lost the fight via knockout in the first round.
Kharitonov faced Chase Gormley at Bellator 175 on March 31, 2017. He won the fight via knockout in the first round.
Kharitonov faced Roy Nelson in the Bellator 207 co-main event on October 12, 2018. He won the fight via knockout in round one.
After the Nelson fight, Kharitonov signed a new multi-fight contract with Bellator and headlined Bellator 215 against Matt Mitrione on February 15, 2019. Unfortunately, the bout ended in a No Contest just 15 seconds into the first round after Mitrione landed an accidental groin strike and Kharitonov was unable to continue.
Kharitonov faced Mitrione in an immediate rematch six months later at Bellator 225 on August 24, 2019. He won the fight via TKO in the second round.
Kharitonov headlined Bellator 234 against Linton Vassell on November 14, 2019. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round.
Kharitonov faced Fernando Rodrigues Jr. at World Total Kombat Federation 5 on February 23, 2020. He claimed the WTKF Heavyweight Championship via second-round knockout.
Next, Kharitonov was supposed to rematch Linton Vassell in May 2020, but the bout was scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kharitonov faced Oli Thompson at MFP Parus Fight Championship on November 7, 2020. He won the fight via first-round knockout.
Kharitonov faced Cheick Kongo on August 20, 2021 at Bellator 265. He lost the fight via a rear-naked choke in round two.
Other Promotions
Kharitonov defended his Parus FC Heavyweight Championship against Fábio Maldonado at an Parus FC event on November 6, 2021. He won the bout via TKO in the first round.
Kharitonov, as a replacement for Antônio Silva, faced Tyrone Spong on January 28, 2022 at EFC 44. He won the fight by technical knockout in the second round.
Kickboxing
Since signing with team Golden Glory Breda in July 2007, Sergei has been in the Netherlands training with some of the best standup fighters in the world. After his loss to Jeff Monson in April, the decision was made to make the last fight on his Dream contract a K-1 match at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final on December 5. On November 28, K-1 announced that his opponent would be Daniel Ghita in the second reserve match of the Grand Prix. Ghita was originally scheduled to face Kharitonov's teammate Chalid Arrab, who had to withdraw due to an injury. Ghita defeated Kharitonov by TKO (right low kick) in the third round.
Kharitonov fought Takumi Sato at the 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix in Seoul. Kharitonov won by KO in the first round. On December 11 at the 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix Final Sergei was defeated by Singh Jaideep by TKO (punches) in the first round. Kharitonov faced Samoan kickboxer Mighty Mo at the United Glory World Series Finals in Moscow on May 28, 2011. He won via KO in the first round. On March 23, 2012, Kharitonov met Mark Miller at United Glory 15 in Moscow, and won by KO (right hook) in the first round.
He lost to Rico Verhoeven at the opening round of the sixteen-man 2012 Glory Heavyweight Grand Slam held at Glory 4: Tokyo - 2012 Heavyweight Grand Slam in Saitama, Japan on December 31, 2012. Verhoeven was leading the judges' scorecards after the first two, two-minute rounds and so was given the victory.
He was set to fight Jérôme Le Banner at Glory 10: Los Angeles in Ontario, California, United States on September 28, 2013 but the Frenchman withdrew after suffering a neck injury.
Kharitonov defeated Daniel Sam via unanimous decision at Glory 11: Chicago - Heavyweight World Championship Tournament in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on October 12, 2013.
The Jérôme Le Banner fight was rescheduled for Glory 13: Tokyo - Welterweight World Championship Tournament in Tokyo, Japan on December 21, 2013. Kharitonov won by unanimous decision.
He lost to Anderson "Braddock" Silva via UD the semi-finals of the Glory 16: Denver - Heavyweight Contendership Tournament in Broomfield, Colorado, US on May 3, 2014.
Replacing Pat Barry who withdrew from the fight for undisclosed reasons, Kharitonov was scheduled to face Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović at Glory 17: Los Angeles in Inglewood, California on June 21, 2014. Kharitonov then also withdrew, citing a finger injury, and was replaced by Jarrell Miller. On October 11, 2014, at the W5 Grand Prix in Moscow, Kharitonov again faced Silva, winning the rematch by second-round TKO.
Boxing
Kharitonov started his Amateur Boxing Career in 2000. He tried to get into the Russian Olympic Boxing team but got injured in the semi finals during a live boxing TV event. Instead he competed for Tajikistan in 2003 at the Central Asian Games where he won a silver medal. Kharitonov earned a shot at that year’s Olympics, representing former Tajikistan (the former Soviet republics often have ethnic Russians on their teams) but passed on the chance to instead fight in the Pride 2004 Heavyweight Grand Prix.
Kharitonov nearly qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he was defeated by Uzbekistan's Rustam Saidov. In the fall of 2004 he competed in the Russian Boxing Championship and placed second. Sergei could not fight in the final match due to an injury.
Kharitonov defeated Danny Williams on September 11, 2020 in his professional boxing debut.
Personal life
Kharitonov and his wife Natalya have one child.
Championships and accomplishments
Boxing
2003 Central Asian Games silver medalist
2004 Asian Championships silver medalist
2007 Russian Championship silver medalist.
Mixed martial arts
MFP Parus Fight Championship
Parus FC Heavyweight Championship
World Total Kombat Federation
WTKF Heavyweight Championship
PRIDE Fighting Championship
PRIDE 2004 Heavyweight Grand Prix semi-finalist
Strikeforce
Strikeforce 2011 Heavyweight Grand Prix semi-finalist
Other
Tournament of Real Men 8 champion.
Brilliant 2 – Yalta's Brilliant 2000 champion.
Kickboxing
W5
W5 World Heavyweight Championship
Other
Six times champion Russian Airborne Troops Hand-to-hand combat fight.
Russian Airborne Troops Sambo champion.
Eurasia Combat Sambo champion.
Three times champion Russian Army combat fight.
Three times champion Russian combat Hand-to-hand fight.
World Universal Fight Unifight champion.
Two times Russian Free Fight champion
Mixed martial arts record
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|Tyrone Spong
|TKO (punches)
|Eagle FC 44
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| Fabio Maldonado
| TKO (punches)
| MFP Parus Fight Championship
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| Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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| Cheick Kongo
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Bellator 265
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| Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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| Oli Thompson
| KO (punch)
| MFP Parus Fight Championship
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| align=center| 2:50
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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| Win
| align=center| 31–8 (2)
| Fernando Rodrigues Jr.
| KO (punch)
| World Total Kombat Federation 5
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| Minsk, Belarus
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| align=center| 30–8 (2)
| Linton Vassell
| TKO (punches)
| Bellator 234
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| Tel Aviv, Israel
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|Matt Mitrione
|TKO (knee and punches)
|Bellator 225
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|Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
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| Matt Mitrione
| NC (accidental groin strike)
| Bellator 215
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| align=center| 0:15
| Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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| align=center| 29–7 (1)
| Roy Nelson
| KO (punches and knee)
| Bellator 207
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| Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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| NC
| align=center| 28–7 (1)
| Anton Vyazigin
| NC (accidental eye poke)
| M-1 Challenge 92: Kharitonov vs. Vyazigin
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| align=center|0:20
| St. Petersburg, Russia
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| Joey Beltran
| Decision (unanimous)
| Russian Cagefighting Championship
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| align=center|5:00
| Yekaterinburg, Russia
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| Geronimo dos Santos
| Submission (ankle lock)
| M-1 Challenge 81: Battle in the Mountains 6
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| Nazran, Russia
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| Win
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| Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
| KO (punch)
| M-1 Challenge 80: Kharitonov vs. Sokoudjou
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| align=center|0:40
| Harbin, China
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| align=center| 25–7
| Chase Gormley
| KO (punch)
| Bellator 175
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| align=center|3:55
| Rosemont, Illinois, United States
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| align=center| 24–7
| Javy Ayala
| KO (punch)
| Bellator 163
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| align=center|0:16
| Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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| align=center| 24–6
| Kenny Garner
| TKO (punches)
| M-1 Challenge 59: Battle of Nomads 5
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| align=center| 4:11
| Astana, Kazakhstan
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| align=center| 23–6
| Kenny Garner
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| M-1 Challenge 53: Battle in the Celestial Empire
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| Beijing, China
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| align=center| 22–6
| Tyler East
| TKO (punches)
| Tech-Krep Fighting Championship: Prime
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| align=center| 2:54
| Krasnodar, Russia
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| align=center| 21–6
| Alexei Kudin
| TKO (punches)
| M-1 Challenge 43
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| align=center| 4:56
| Surgut, Russia
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| align=center| 20–6
| John Delgado
| Submission (americana)
| MMA: Russian Open Championship
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| align=center| 0:34
| St.Petersburg, Russia
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| Loss
| align=center| 19–6
| Josh Barnett
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov
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| align=center| 4:28
| Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 19–5
| Andrei Arlovski
| KO (punches)
| Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva
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| align=center| 2:49
| East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
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| align=center| 18–5
| Tatsuya Mizuno
| KO (knee)
| Dynamite!! 2010
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| align=center| 1:25
| Saitama, Japan
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| align=center| 17–5
| Jeff Monson
| Submission (north-south choke)
| DREAM 8
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| align=center| 1:42
| Nagoya, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 17–4
| Jimmy Ambriz
| TKO (submission to punches)
| DREAM 6: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Final Round
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| align=center| 2:15
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 16–4
| Alistair Overeem
| KO (punch)
| HERO'S 10: Middleweight Tournament Final
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| align=center| 4:21
| Yokohama, Japan
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| align=center| 15–4
| Mike Russow
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE 33
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| align=center| 3:46
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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| align=center| 14–4
| Alexander Emelianenko
| TKO (punches and knees)
| PRIDE FC: Final Conflict Absolute
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| align=center| 6:45
| Saitama, Japan
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| align=center| 14–3
| Alistair Overeem
| TKO (knees)
| PRIDE 31: Dreamers
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| align=center| 5:13
| Saitama, Japan
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| Fabrício Werdum
| Decision (split)
| PRIDE 30: Fully Loaded
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| align=center| 5:00
| Saitama, Japan
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| align=center| 13–2
| Peter Mulder
| Submission (armbar)
| RINGS Russia: CIS vs. The World
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| align=center| 6:16
| Yekaterinburg, Russia
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| Pedro Rizzo
| TKO (soccer kick and punches)
| PRIDE FC: Critical Countdown 2005
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| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
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| Choi Mu-Bae
| KO (punches)
| PRIDE 29: Fists of Fire
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| align=center| 3:24
| Saitama, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 10–2
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
| Decision (unanimous)
| PRIDE Final Conflict 2004
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| align=center| 5:00
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 10–1
| Semmy Schilt
| TKO (punches)
| PRIDE Critical Countdown 2004
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| align=center| 9:19
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 9–1
| Murilo Rua
| KO (punches)
| PRIDE Total Elimination 2004
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| align=center| 4:14
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 8–1
| Cory Peterson
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE 27
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| align=center| 1:23
| Osaka, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 7–1
| Jason Suttie
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE Bushido 1
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| align=center| 2:25
| Saitama, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 6–1
| Martin Malkhasyan
| Submission (knee bar)
| Legion Fight Black Sea Cup 2003 (Stage 2)
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| align=center| 4:45
| Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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| Win
| align=center| 6–0
| David Shvelidze
| Submission (heel hook)
| rowspan=2| TORM 8: Tournament of Real Men 8
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| align=center| 1:00
| rowspan=2| Yekaterinburg, Russia
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| Win
| align=center| 5–0
| Osman Vagabov
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:47
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| Win
| align=center| 4–0
| Sergey Kaznovsky
| Submission
| IAFC: Mega-Sphere Cup 2
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| N/A
| Moscow, Russia
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| Win
| align=center| 3–0
| Roman Savochka
| TKO (hand injury)
| rowspan=3| Brilliant 2: Yalta's Brilliant 2000
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:11
| rowspan=3| Yalta, Ukraine
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| Win
| align=center| 2–0
| Viacheslav Kolesnik
| TKO (punch)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:26
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| Win
| align=center| 1–0
| Zamir Syrgabayev
| TKO (submission to punches)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:43
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Kickboxing record
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-05-30 || Win ||align=left| Frédéric Sinistra || Zhara Fight Show || Moscow, Russia || TKO (3 knockdowns) || 2 || N/A || 7-4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2014-10-11 || Win ||align=left| Anderson Silva || W5 Grand Prix - Rematch || Moscow, Russia || TKO (Punches) || 2 || 2:50 || 6-4
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|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 2014-05-03 || Loss ||align=left| Anderson Silva || Glory 16: Denver - Heavyweight Contender Tournament, Semi Finals || Broomfield, Colorado, USA || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 5-4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2013-12-21 || Win ||align=left| Jérôme Le Banner || Glory 13: Tokyo || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 5-3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2013-10-12 || Win ||align=left| Daniel Sam || Glory 11: Chicago || Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 || 4-3
|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 2012-12-31 || Loss ||align=left| Rico Verhoeven || Glory 4: Tokyo - Heavyweight Grand Slam Tournament, First Round || Saitama, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 2 || 2:00 || 3-3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-03-23 || Win ||align=left| Mark Miller || United Glory 15 || Moscow, Russia || KO (Right hook) || 1 || 1:59 || 3-2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-05-28 || Win ||align=left| Mighty Mo || United Glory 14|United Glory 14: 2010-2011 World Series Finals || Moscow, Russia || KO (Right uppercut) || 1 || 1:59 || 2-2
|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 2010-12-11 || Loss ||align=left| Singh Jaideep || K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right hook) || 1 || 2:58 || 1-2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2010-10-02 || Win ||align=left| Takumi Sato || K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Seoul Final 16 || Seoul, South Korea || KO (Strikes) || 1 || 2:50 || 1-1
|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 2009-12-05 || Loss ||align=left| Daniel Ghiţă || K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final || Yokohama, Japan || KO (Right low kick) || 3 || 0:36 || 0-1
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| colspan=9 | Legend:
Professional boxing record
Exhibition boxing record
Bareknuckle boxing record
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|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Mike Cook
|TKO (punch)
|BYB Extreme Fight Series
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:27
|Miami, Florida, United States
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|}
See also
List of current Bellator fighters
List of Strikeforce alumni
List of male mixed martial artists
References
External links
Profile at K-1
1980 births
Living people
People from Plesetsky District
Russian male mixed martial artists
Heavyweight mixed martial artists
Russian male kickboxers
Heavyweight kickboxers
Russian submission wrestlers
Super-heavyweight boxers
Russian Muay Thai practitioners
Russian sambo practitioners
Russian military personnel
Russian male boxers
Glory kickboxers
Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School alumni
Mixed martial artists utilizing sambo
Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing kickboxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai
Mixed martial artists utilizing ARB
Sportspeople from Arkhangelsk Oblast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQue%20%28disambiguation%29
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IQue (disambiguation)
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iQue may refer to:
iQue, a Chinese video game company
Garmin iQue, a personal digital assistant with GPS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Souchak
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Mike Souchak
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Michael Souchak (May 10, 1927 – July 10, 2008) was an American professional golfer who won fifteen events on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s, and played for the Ryder Cup teams in 1959 and 1961.
Early years
Born and raised in Berwick, Pennsylvania, Souchak served two years as a gunner in the U.S. Navy. He then attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and played both golf and football for the Blue Devils, as an end and placekicker. He was inducted into the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
Tour record-setter
In his first win at the 1955 Texas Open, Souchak set and tied several records. In the first round, he tied the tour's 18-hole record with a 60. This record was finally broken in 1977 by Al Geiberger's 59, and then lowered by Jim Furyk's 58 in 2016. This first round also included a record-breaking 27 on the back nine holes, a record that was tied by Andy North in 1975, Billy Mayfair in 2001 and Robert Gamez in 2004, and broken by Corey Pavin in 2006. He then finished with a 72-hole record of 257 (27-under-par). This record stood until 2001, when Mark Calcavecchia shot 256 at the Phoenix Open, and lowered two years later by Tommy Armour III (254) at the Texas Open. Justin Thomas lowered the mark to 253 in 2017 at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
Souchak's fifteen PGA Tour wins came between 1955 and 1964, with his best year in 1956 (four victories). He won three tour titles in 1959, and was on an early cover of Sports Illustrated in January 1956, for its preview of the Bing Crosby Pro-Am.
Near misses in majors
Souchak had eleven top-10 finishes at major championships, including third-place finishes at the U.S. Open in 1959 and 1960. Souchak led after 36 holes in 1960 with a new record score of 135, which was 7-under-par. But he struggled on the final hole of the third round (which was played on the same day as the fourth round,) making a triple bogey, and couldn't regain his composure. Arnold Palmer, who had been seven strokes behind entering the final round, shot 65 to win the championship.
Souchak played on the Senior PGA Tour (now called the PGA Tour Champions) from its inception in 1980 until 1990. His best finish was second place in his very first tournament, the Atlantic City Senior International in 1980.
Souchak moved from North Carolina to Florida in 1970 and became the first head pro at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, and resided in Belleair with his wife Nancy. He had four children: sons Mike, Frank, and Chris Souchak and daughter Patti Taylor, as well as five grandchildren. He ran Golf Car Systems, a preventive maintenance firm, with his partner Bill Dodd until his death from complications of a heart attack in 2008.
Professional wins (19)
PGA Tour wins (15)
PGA Tour playoff record (0–3)
Other wins (4)
This list is probably incomplete
1955 Havana Invitational
1959 Carolinas PGA Championship
1967 Michigan Open
1968 Michigan PGA Championship
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
Summary
Most consecutive cuts made – 19 (1958 PGA – 1965 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (twice)
U.S. national team appearances
Ryder Cup: 1959 (winners), 1961 (winners)
Hopkins Trophy: 1956 (winners)
See also
List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
References
External links
Duke University Athletics – Mike Souchak
American male golfers
Duke Blue Devils men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for the United States
Golfers from Pennsylvania
Duke Blue Devils football players
Players of American football from Pennsylvania
People from Berwick, Pennsylvania
People from Belleair, Florida
1927 births
2008 deaths
United States Navy personnel of World War II
United States Navy sailors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Ape
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Honda Ape
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The Honda Ape is a minibike sold in the Japanese market. While technically classed as a minibike due to its small frame and 50 cc or 100 cc engines, its height makes it rideable for an adult. The Ape features four-stroke engines, and five-speed transmissions.
It is sometimes classed as a monkey bike alongside the Honda Monkey and Honda Gorilla.
References
External links
Honda Ape official site
Ape
Minibikes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale%20Alumni%20Magazine
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Yale Alumni Magazine
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The Yale Alumni Magazine is an alumni magazine about Yale University. It was founded in 1891.
The Magazines statement of purpose approved on June 16, 2003 says:
Yale University took over operations of the Yale Alumni Magazine in 2015. As of July 2015 the editor-in-chief was Kathrin Day Lassila.
References
External links
Official site
1891 establishments in Connecticut
Alumni magazines
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1891
Yale University publications
Magazines published in Connecticut
Mass media in New Haven, Connecticut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Thomason
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Roy Thomason
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Kenneth Roy Thomason (born 14 December 1944) is a former British Conservative Party politician. He was a local government leader and served one term as a member of parliament.
Local government experience
Thomason was educated at Cheney School in Oxford and trained as a Solicitor at the College of Law, being admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 1969. He practised in Bournemouth and was elected to Bournemouth Council in 1970. From 1974 to 1982 he was the Leader of the Council, and he was made a delegate to the Council of the Association of District Councils in 1979. Thomason was made Chairman of the Conservative Party's Local Government Advisory Committee in 1980 and became Leader of the Conservative Group on the Association of District Councils the next year, serving until 1984 and 1987 respectively. In 1986 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to local government.
Parliament
Thomason contested Newport East in 1983, coming second to Labour's Roy Hughes by 2,630 votes.
Between 1988 and 1991 Thomason served on the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Executive, a Conservative body which administered the party. He was selected to follow Sir Hal Miller as candidate for the safe seat of Bromsgrove, and won the seat with a 13,702 majority in the 1992 election. Thomason was one of 26 new Conservative MPs to sign an Early Day Motion put down by Eurosceptics calling for a "fresh start" in Britain's negotiations with the European Communities, but was not a hardened eurosceptic and signed an open letter calling for support for the 'paving motion' on the Maastricht Treaty in November 1992.
On social issues Thomason was mildly progressive, supporting a reduction in the age of consent for gay sex to 18 rather than equalising it with the heterosexual age at 16. He resigned from the Carlton Club in December 1994 at a time of a dispute over the admission of women, although newspapers suspected this was because he could not justify the cost of membership.
Decision to stand down
On 18 September 1996, Thomason decided he would not offer himself as a candidate for reselection and would stand down as an MP.
Subsequent career
After the 1997 election, Thomason went back into business management and is currently executive chairman of the Charminster group of property companies. He has also served as chairman of London Strategic Housing, a Housing Association.
References
External links
Court judgment of 2005 relating to Thomason's financial difficulties
Tufnol Composites
1944 births
Councillors in South West England
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
British businesspeople
Living people
UK MPs 1992–1997
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Politics of Worcestershire
People educated at Cheney School
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Baby
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John Baby
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John George Baby (born May 18, 1957) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played two seasons in the National Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and Minnesota North Stars between 1977 and 1979.
Baby was born in Sudbury, Ontario.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1957 births
Living people
Binghamton Dusters players
Binghamton Whalers players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cleveland Barons (NHL) draft picks
Cleveland Barons (NHL) players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Sportspeople from Greater Sudbury
Kalamazoo Wings (1974–2000) players
Kitchener Rangers players
Minnesota North Stars players
New England Whalers draft picks
Oklahoma City Stars players
Phoenix Roadrunners (CHL) players
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers players
Sudbury Wolves players
Syracuse Firebirds players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%20language
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Dani language
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Dani may refer to:
Dani languages of New Guinea
Western Dani language of New Guinea
Deni language of Brazil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20Jessup%20Moore
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Clara Jessup Moore
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Clara Sophia Jessup Bloomfield-Moore (February 16, 1824 – January 5, 1899) was an American philanthropist and philosopher.
Biography
She was born in Westfield, Massachusetts.
She married businessman Bloomfield Haines Moore (1819-1878) and resided in Philadelphia from the date of her marriage onward. Following the death of her husband she moved to London, where she eventually died in 1899. She organized in Philadelphia a hospital relief committee during the American Civil War and assisted in the foundation of the Temperance Home for Children.
She and her husband had three children: Ella Carlton Moore (1843–1892), Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936), Lilian Stuart Moore (1853–1911). They were the grandparents of Swedish explorer and ethnographer Eric von Rosen.
Philosophy
Her books on etiquette connected the perennial philosophy to social behavior; for instance, she described harmony as the basis of good manners: "the secret or essence of good manners, as of goodness in all other things, consists in suitableness, or in other words of harmony." She promoted a "science of social intercourse" consisting of "the means through which people meet each other, maintaining harmony and peace in their relations, and securing the greatest possible amount of pleasure and comfort to all." This philosophy was subsequently applied to physics. Her book on ether was written because she believed that ether could account for the operation of the motor invented by John Ernst Worrell Keely, to whose Keely Motor Company she gave liberally in order that he might develop his idea.
Selected works
Miscellaneous Poems (1875)
On Dangerous Ground (1876), a romance
Sensible Etiquette (1878)
Ether the True Protoplasm (1885)
Social Ethics and Social Duties (1892)
References
Attribution
External links
More of her publications
1824 births
1899 deaths
American romantic fiction writers
19th-century American poets
Writers from Philadelphia
American women poets
Women romantic fiction writers
19th-century American women writers
People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
19th-century American philanthropists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis%20pallida
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Prosopis pallida
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Prosopis pallida is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe () (in Hawaii), huarango (in its native South America) and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis), "algarrobo pálido" (in some parts of Ecuador and Peru), and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba). It is a thorny legume, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, particularly drier areas near the coast. While threatened in its native habitat, it is considered an invasive species in many other places.
The kiawe is a spreading bush or moderately sized tree, bearing spines, spikes of greenish-yellow flowers, and long pods filled with small brown seeds. It is a successful invasive species due to its ability to reproduce in two ways: production of large numbers of easily dispersed seeds, and suckering to create thick monotypic stands that shade out nearby competing plants. It survives well in dry environments due to a long taproot which can reach deep watertables. It is so efficient at extracting moisture from soil that it can kill nearby plants by depriving them of water, as well as by shading them out. It can be found in areas where other plants do not grow, such as sandy, dry, degraded slopes, salty soils, disturbed areas, and rocky cliffs.
The tree grows quickly and can live for over a millennium. It makes a good shade tree, if one does not mind the nasty thorns of the fallen branches. Its hard wood is a source of long-burning firewood and charcoal. Kiawe pods can be used as livestock fodder, ground into flour, turned into molasses or used to make beer. The light yellow flowers attract bees, which produce from them a sought-after white honey.
Fallen Kiawe branches usually contain sharp spines that can puncture both feet and tires.
At times the tree was used to replace forest and prevent erosion, and once it was established it generally dominates the habitat. It was introduced to Puerto Rico and Hawaii as well as New South Wales and Queensland in Australia and is now naturalized in those places. The first kiawe was planted in Hawaii in 1828; today it is a ubiquitous shade tree and invasive weed on the Hawaiian Islands, but provides firewood for heating and cooking.
The clearing of kiawe (huarango) has been suggested as a major reason for the collapse of the Nazca culture in southern Peru at the beginning of the 6th century AD after an El Niño event led to flooding, erosion and desertification.
Ecologists consider the huarango important to the ecosystem of the desert area west of the Andes in southern Peru, because of its ability to bind moisture and counter erosion. Despite prohibitions by regional authorities, poor villagers continue to harvest the trees to make charcoal. Efforts are under way to reforest the area with huarangos.
In the southwest of Ecuador, Prosopis pallida and Prosopis juliflora both display substantial genetic variability due to the (intraspecific) cross-pollination of their self-incompatible flowers which are typical of the genus Prosopis. As a result, trees of these species display a range of physical traits that lead to trees of one species resembling descriptions of the other, and the two species are often confused. To compound the difficulty in discerning the species of a given tree, these two species hybridise readily where their ranges overlap. In the semi-arid Zapotillo Canton of Ecuador, both thorn-bearing and thornless strains of Prosopis pallida exist with thorn-bearing trees being more common. It is the preferred tree of the local people for making charcoal and is sometimes also cut for firewood or fence posts.
History
The first specimen in Hawaii was planted from a seed brought by missionary Alexis Bachelot from the Palais-Royal Gardens in 1828.
Photos
References
External links
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk
P. pallida photo gallery
Kiawe info sheet
Habitat restoration and sustainable use of southern Peruvian dry forest: Huarango forest, project by Kew Gardens
Invasive Species Remedy
Prosopis pallida (mesquite) CABI Invasive Species Compendium
pallida
Plants described in 1823
Trees of Bolivia
Trees of Colombia
Trees of Ecuador
Trees of Peru
Hawaiian cuisine
Fodder
Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland
Taxa named by Alexander von Humboldt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Pekarek
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Justin Pekarek
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Justin Pekarek (born August 26, 1981) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With Jamie Silverstein, he is the 2000 Four Continents bronze medalist and 1999 World Junior champion.
Personal life
Pekarek was born on August 26, 1981, in Valencia, California, the son of a General Motors executive. He and ice dancer Hilary Gibbons were married in January 2008, but had divorced by November 2016. Their son, Cooper Joseph, was born on September 1, 2011.
Pekarek has a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and worked in plastics design before switching to a career as a real estate broker.
Career
Silverstein and Pekarek won the 1999 World Junior and U.S. Junior titles.
The next season, Silverstein and Pekarek moved up to the senior level. They won gold at the 1999 Nebelhorn Trophy, silver at the 2000 U.S. Championships, and bronze at the 2000 Four Continents. They announced their split on January 10, 2001.
Pekarek teamed up with Hilary Gibbons for several years. They won bronze at the 2003 Karl Schäfer Memorial.
Pekarek coached and competed with the Theatre on Ice team Act I of Boston at the Skating Club of Boston.
He and Gibbons coached competitive ice dance teams to national titles at the juvenile, intermediate, and novice level.
Pekarek retired from coaching in 2008.
Programs
(with Silverstein)
Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Series / Junior Grand Prix
With Gibbons
With Silverstein
References
External links
Navigation
1981 births
American male ice dancers
Living people
Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
People from Valencia, Santa Clarita, California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20J.%20Sullivan%20%28Pennsylvania%20politician%29
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Patrick J. Sullivan (Pennsylvania politician)
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Patrick Joseph Sullivan (October 12, 1877 – December 31, 1946) was Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.
Biography
Patrick Joseph Sullivan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was employed in the Homestead Axle Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania, from 1890 to 1900, and in the steel mills at Pittsburgh from 1900 to 1909. He was a member of the city council from 1906 to 1909, and served as alderman from 1910 to 1929, police magistrate from 1916 to 1923, and member of the board of assessment and tax revision for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1929.
He was elected in 1928 as a Republican to the 71st and 72nd Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932. He was city police magistrate in Pittsburgh from 1936 until his death there. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sources
1877 births
1946 deaths
Burials at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Politicians from Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania city council members
Pennsylvania Republicans
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair%20Urquhart
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Alasdair Urquhart
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Alasdair Ian Fenton Urquhart (; born 20 December 1945) is a Scottish philosopher and emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has made contributions to the field of logic, especially non-classical logic. One of his ideas is proving the undecidability of the relevance logic R. He also published papers in theoretical computer science venues, mostly on mathematical logic topics of relevance to computer science.
A native of Scotland, Urquhart received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1967, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973 under the supervision of Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap. He is currently on the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2020–2023).
Selected publications
with Nicholas Rescher, Temporal Logic, Springer Verlag New York and Vienna, 1971
"The Undecidability of Entailment and Relevant Implication." Journal of Symbolic Logic 49(4): 1059–1073 (1984).
with Stephen A. Cook, "Functional Interpretations of Feasibly constructive Arithmetic", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 1993; preliminary version at STOC'89
"The Complexity of Decision Procedures in Relevance Logic II", Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 64, Issue 4 (1999), 1774–1802.
References
External links
Curriculum vitae (1998)
DBLP publications
1945 births
Living people
Scottish logicians
Scottish mathematicians
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish philosophers
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Scottish emigrants to Canada
University of Toronto faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Serrano
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Puerto Serrano
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Puerto Serrano is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 6,852 inhabitants.
Leisure
Puerto Serrano is part of Vía Verde de la Sierra biking and hiking route.
Demographics
References
External links
Puerto Serrano - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities of the Province of Cádiz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Morse%20MacQuarrie
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Melanie Morse MacQuarrie
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Melanie Virginia Sydney Morse MacQuarrie (13 June 1945 – 1 February 2005) was a British-born Canadian actress.
Background
MacQuarrie was the daughter of actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess and sister of Hayward Morse. She was born in London, England, but lived in Canada from the age of six. She earned the nickname "Big Mel," having made several newspaper headlines in London as one of the largest babies born in Britain, at 11 pounds, 9 ounces.
Career
She worked professionally as a child actress and later as an adult, when she was sometimes billed by her married name Melanie Morse MacQuarrie. She received a scholarship at the age of 19 to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
Her film work includes roles in Prom Night (1980) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen, as well as Murder by Phone (1982) with Richard Chamberlain. On stage, she performed in such diverse venues as stages in Boston, Massachusetts and the Stratford Festival of Canada, in productions including Peter Pan and Much Ado About Nothing. Her TV appearances include Noises in the Nursery, Drought, and the popular Canadian television series Street Legal.
Death
She died in Montague, Prince Edward Island, from a heart attack. She was 59 years old. She was survived by her husband, Donald, and two daughters, Vanessa Root Archer and Megan MacQuarrie, as well as her father and younger brother.
Filmography
References
External links
Website of Melanie Morse
Website of Sydney Sturgess
Website of Hayward Morse
Official Website of Barry Morse
1945 births
2005 deaths
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Canadian film actresses
Actresses from London
English film actresses
English emigrants to Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%20Ingram
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Clarke Ingram
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Clarke Ingram is a United States radio personality and programming executive.
Ingram is best known in his home market (and hometown) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career
Ingram was formerly the program director of two Pittsburgh stations, top 40 WBZZ (now KDKA-FM) and "Jammin' Oldies" WJJJ (now country WPGB). He also served as program director of top 40 stations WPXY in Rochester, New York and KRQQ in Tucson, Arizona, operations manager of top 40 KZZP in Phoenix, Arizona, and as an on-air personality at top 40 WHTZ (Z-100) in New York City and other radio stations including WBZZ, WWSW-FM, and the former WXKX/WHTX (now WKST-FM), all in Pittsburgh. He also was operations manager and program director at suburban WKHB/WKFB (owned by Broadcast Communications Inc.) for several years.
While the bulk of Ingram's career was in top 40 radio, he moved into oldies in his later years, and hosted weekend oldies shows on WWSW-FM and WKHB. Saying it was "the first step on the road to my retirement", Ingram relinquished his remaining duties at Broadcast Communications Inc. in 2011.
In 2013, Ingram returned to radio as consultant to Pittsburgh-area station WZUM, for which he developed an urban oldies format. Three years later, the station was sold and changed to a jazz format. In 2019, Ingram announced that "whatever time (he had) left on this earth" would be devoted to television history and preservation. With assistance from fellow historian Sean Cogan he launched a YouTube channel called "Free The Kinescopes", which features rarely seen TV shows.
Awards and recognition
In 1995, Ingram was named one of the top 40 "Top 40 DJs of All Time" (ranked #38) by Decalcomania, a radio enthusiasts' club publishing a monthly newsletter. The list was published in the New York Daily News on September 5, 1995.
Ingram won radio industry "Program Director of the Year" awards three times, twice from the Gavin Seminar for Media Professionals, and once from the Bobby Poe Pop Music Survey.
Other activities
Ingram is recognized as an expert on the defunct DuMont Television Network. He maintained an extensive website devoted to the subject.
Ingram was also a leading force in a grassroots protest to get the CBS Television Network to reconsider its cancellation of the program Jericho, which it announced in May 2007. Ingram was part of a group that organized jericholives.com, a website dedicated to saving the show, and was referred to as a "save-the-show campaign leader" by columnist Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In response, the producers gave Ingram an onscreen tribute in the penultimate scene of the series' final episode in 2008.
References
External links
Aircheck of Clarke Ingram on KZZP, Phoenix, August 1986, posted at airchexx.com
Aircheck of Clarke Ingram on WKHB, Irwin, PA (serving the greater Pittsburgh market), posted at airchexx.com
American radio personalities
Living people
American radio executives
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Framsden
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Framsden is a village and civil parish located around north of Ipswich and south of the small market town of Debenham in the English county of Suffolk. The total population of Framsden in the census of 2001 was 299, with 125 households, 52 people under 16 years, 201 of working age and 46 over 65 years, increasing to a population of 357 in 137 households at the 2011 Census.
Geography
The majority of homes are situated along Framsden Street, with smaller clusters at Peats Corner, along the A1120 and St John's Row, in addition to more scattered houses towards Otley and Cretingham. The B1077 runs through the west of the Parish, and the A1120 cuts across the north of the Parish. Framsden is mostly within the Helmingham Estate, and a lot of property is tenanted. These are traditional estate 2-bedroom cottages or large farmhouses. The estate cottages and school were designed 150 years ago by Lord John Tollemache, to provide dwellings for estate workers. Two cottages shared a bread oven, and each had an acre of land to grow food for the family and to fatten a pig. These cottages, once home to working families, are now described as 'quaint' and are mostly privately rented.
The village has a public house and village hall as well as Helmingham Primary School and Old Schoolhouse Nursery. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary and a Baptist chapel is also located in the parish. In the middle of the 20th century Framsden had 2 blacksmiths, 2 butchers and an abattoir, 2 windmills, a carpenter, wheelwright, pony carts and hurdle maker, brickmaker, cobbler, grocers shop, a horse-drawn cart for transport to Ipswich, a 'carrier'- taking goods to and from Ipswich and a tailor at Hill House. The village shop and post office on the street closed in the early 1990s, and the village now has few basic services. All essential services can be accessed at Debenham, including the High School.
History
Oral History about Framsden has been captured by authors such as George Ewart Evans in Where Beards Wag All, by Robert Simper in Family Fields and more recently by a 'libraries and heritage' project to record interviews of Helmingham estate workers, such as the Clerk of Works and Farm Manager who were employed over 30 years ago. Another Framsden resident has had his reminiscences of early years as a gamekeeper published.
Webster's Mill, Framsden is a landmark in the village.
Natural environment
The village is surrounded by arable farmland, much of which is managed by the Helmingham Estate. This includes preserving veteran trees, ancient hedgerows, old ponds and ancient meadows rich in plant and wildlife diversity. These achievements have been acknowledged by the estate farm winning the FWAG (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) Conservation Award for "high level of commitment shown to the principles and delivery of conservation, combined with good farming – an innovative approach to cultivations based on minimum tillage across the whole farm".
Fox Fritillary Meadow nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest is located to the north of the village. The reserve is managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust and is a major site within East Anglia for snake's-head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris).
References
External links
Villages in Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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Naoya Ogawa
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(born 31 March 1968) is a Japanese Olympic and world champion judoka, retired professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He won a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships (second only behind Yasuhiro Yamashita), and set a record of seven medals at the World Judo Championships. Ogawa won the silver medal in the +95 kg judo weight class at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Ogawa is also known for his career in professional wrestling, where he primarily worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and took part in one of the promotion's most high-profile feuds of the 1990s with Shinya Hashimoto. In professional wrestling, Ogawa was a two-time National Wrestling Alliance world heavyweight champion.
Life and judo career
Ogawa first started in judo in his high school years. He continued on in college attending Meiji University in 1986. In his second year at school he became a world freeclass champion, the youngest in the history of judo. He won many more championships before graduating from the College of Business Administration at Meiji University, setting a record of seven medals at the World Judo Championships. He also gained a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships in two separate winning streaks, from 1989 to 1993 and from 1995 to 96, second only to Yasuhiro Yamashita's nine medals. Ogawa was a silver medalist in judo of 1992 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
He was known for his slow, cerebral style of judo, nicknamed due to his usual strategy of investing the first three minutes in pressing on his opponent before trying to score. Due to this, Japanese specialized press often criticized him as lacking heart. When finding an opening, Ogawa would favor uchi mata, kosoto gari, kosoto gake, sasae tsurikomi ashi, tai otoshi and sukui nage, sometimes using a controversial standing ude gatame entry to set up sasae tsurikomi ashi and hiza guruma. He was not an user of newaza, preferring to attempt only osaekomi-waza from failed throws.
His performance at the 1996 Olympics would be criticized and led to Ogawa's retirement from professional judo.
Ogawa runs a judo school in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, where he trains potential Olympians and Paralympians in his network of dojos.
Professional wrestling career
In 1997, Ogawa was recruited by Antonio Inoki, chairman of New Japan Pro-Wrestling, for his UFO (Universal Fighting-Arts Organization) project. He was put to train under Satoru Sayama, legendary professional wrestler and mixed martial arts pioneer.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (1997-2001)
Ogawa made his debut in NJPW on April 12, 1997 at the Tokyo Dome, replacing the stipulated Ken Shamrock as the opponent for Shinya Hashimoto, then IWGP Heavyweight Championship titleholder. In a shocking upset, Ogawa defeated Hashimoto by choke, which put him in the spotlight and gained him a title shot at May 3. This time Ogawa was defeated by kick to the head, with Shinya retaining his title. This marked the beginning of their feud, which would extend for years.
Through 1997 and 1998, Ogawa wrestled for NJPW as part of "Different Style Fights", meeting wrestlers with legit backgrounds like Ogawa and Hashimoto themselves. He defeated shoot-style wrestler Kazuo Yamazaki, arm wrestler Scott Norton, Ultimate Fighting Championship exponents Brian Johnston and Don Frye, and Dutch martial artist Erwin Vreeker. His only loss came from The Great Muta, via Muta's signature Asian mist dirty trick. In March 1998, Ogawa took part in the Inoki Final Tournament, but he was eliminated by Frye at the finals after beating Johnston and Dave Beneteau. In order to bounce back from the defeat, he started a special training, and ditched his trusted judogi for black tights, boots and fingerless gloves.
On January 4, 1999, Ogawa was involved with one of the most controversial moments in NJPW history. During his anticipated rubber match with Shinya Hashimoto, Ogawa broke kayfabe and shot on Hashimoto, attacking him for real and leaving him downed and bloodied with kicks and stomps. The NJPW and UFO crews flooded the ring and a legitimate fracas erupted, with Ogawa's cornerman Kazunari Murakami having to be hospitalized by a beatdown by Takashi Iizuka and Naoya himself being slapped by NJPW executive Riki Choshu. During all the brawl, Ogawa taunted the crowd and the wrestlers, having to be accompanied out of the arena by his bodyguard Gerard Gordeau. Many years later, in august 2021, Ogawa confessed he had been pressed by Antonio Inoki into shooting on Hashimoto in order to hijack the match and increase his popularity.
In May, Ogawa traveled to United States and defeated Gary Steele to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Hashimoto followed him to the country and attacked him (kayfabe this time) in a press conference, challenging him to a title match in Japan with Tatsumi Fujinami as special referee. Naoya toured through United States, retaining the title before Dan Severn, Doug Gilbert and Biggie Biggs, trading it with Steele in a three-way match that also involved Brian Anthony on September 25, 1999, and finally coming back to Japan to meet Hashimoto. They faced on October 10 at the Tokyo Dome, with Ogawa winning the bout.
On January 4, 2000, one year after their incident, Ogawa and Murakami faced off against Hashimoto and Takashi Iizuka in a special match. Unfortunately, it became a real fight again when Murakami knocked Iizuka out legitimately with a stiff head kick, causing the teams to brawl in the ring again. Under Antonio Inoki's eye, the match was restarted, with Ogawa's team losing when Iizuka choked out Murakami.
After a tense alliance between them formed for the Rikidozan Memorial, Hashimoto challenged Ogawa to a last match, in which Hashimoto would retire from professional wrestling if he lost. Ogawa and Hashimoto fought the last time of their careers on April 7 at the Tokyo Dome, where Naoya defeated Hashimoto by KO after several iterations of his Space Tornado Ogawa technique. His opponent carried out and performed a retirement ceremony, while Inoki and other tried to convince him not to do it; even Ogawa declared in a segment that he repented having finished off the career of his rival.
Ogawa vacated the NWA title on July 2, 2000 in order to focus on training for his fight against Rickson Gracie, which never took place.
Pro Wrestling Zero-One (2001-2004)
In 2001, after Shinya Hashimoto founded Pro Wrestling Zero-One, Ogawa left NJPW and moved in, forming a tag team with his former rival which was called "OH Gun". Their beginning together was harsh, but they eventually got along and won the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship from the UPW team of Jon Heidenreich and Nathan Jones. Ogawa and Hashimoto, along with the rest of native wrestlers of Zero-One, entered in a feud with the foreign wrestlers, led by Tom Howard and Steve Corino.
Hustle (2004-2007)
In 2004, Ogawa took part in the foundation of the sports entertainment promotion Hustle, a combined effort between Zero-One and mixed martial arts league Pride Fighting Championships. Ogawa opened the storyline of Hustle during a staged press conference with Pride chairman Nobuyuki Sakakibara. During the interview, Sakakibara criticized professional wrestling and declared it inferior to MMA, which turned Ogawa furious. With Nobuhiko Takada acting on behalf of Sakakibara and Shinya Hashimoto backing Ogawa, it was decided they would prove their postures in an event where MMA fighters would face professional wrestling representatives. Ogawa himself would be slated to wrestle Bill Goldberg, who had been introduced by Takada as his champion. However, the night of the event turned sour as, although Ogawa managed to overpower Goldberg, Takada ordered Giant Silva to attack Ogawa and distract him to be finished off by Goldberg.
At the second Hustle event, when Takada proclaimed himself Generalissimo Takada, leader of the villainous Monster Army, and declared his goal was to destroy professional wrestling, Ogawa and Hashimoto founded Hustle Army, a union of professional wrestlers bent on protecting their guild. Ogawa became the leader of the army, being nicknamed "Captain Hustle" and debuting a characteristic hip thrust gesture to chant Hustle's name. Although his first match was a loss, being pinned by Matt Ghaffari with the help of several Monster Army members, he bounced back by summoning several high level wrestlers, among them Riki Choshu and Toshiaki Kawada, to help him and Hashimoto.
In September, after Ogawa lost to Fedor Emelianenko in 54 second at a Pride event, Takada started a mocking campaign against him and banned him from competing in Hustle for 54 days. In order to overcome this ban, Ogawa disguised himself as "Captain O", a masked gimmick based on Hulk Hogan's Mr. America persona, whom Ogawa claimed was the true Hogan in disguise. Deducting Captain O was really Ogawa, Takada's second-in-command Commander An Jo sent several Monster Army wrestlers to capture and tie him up, but O escaped by shedding this gimmick and adopting yet another, "Judo O", where he would wear a blue judogi along with his mask. Judo O teamed up with Hustle Rikishi to defeat Takada's slave Hakushi and a one night mercenary named Russian 54.
After Ogawa returned to the ring, Hustle co-produced a show along with Michinoku Pro Wrestling, whose star The Great Sasuke was inducted in the Hustle Army.
In 2007, Ogawa disappeared from the Hustle Army and sided shockingly with Takada. Ogawa changed his persona to an arrogant socialite gimmick and called himself "Monster Celebrity", wearing sunglasses and ornated coats. Takada explained Ogawa had been brainwashed by him to turn him in one of his henchmen, and he proved Ogawa's newfound loyalty by sending him to attack Hustle Army member Banzai Chie. This storyline was written in order to explain Ogawa's departure from Hustle, as he had signed up with Antonio Inoki's new promotion, Inoki Genome Federation.
Mixed martial arts career
First ventures
Ogawa had his first MMA fight the same year of his debut in NJPW, taking part in an event promoted by Chris Dolman in Holland in which he faced Rens Vrolijk. Ogawa submitted him relatively fast, throwing him to the mat and choking him out.
His first high level match, however, would be for Pride Fighting Championships at the event Pride 6 against the kickboxer and Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Gary Goodridge. Naoya evidenced his lack of MMA experience when he suffered heavy blows and almost failed his first morote gari, but he eventually took Goodridge down and gained dominant position as expected. Ogawa immediately tried several submissions, and although he didn't manage to lock them, he kept his stronger opponent busy through the round. At the second one, Ogawa swept Goodridge down and finally locked an ude-garami, making him tap out.
It was rumored that Goodridge had been paid to throw the fight, but Gary himself said in an interview that, although he was effectively proposed an anonymous money bribe to let Ogawa win, he rejected it and fought for real, thus losing legitimately to Ogawa. He added that PRIDE executive Nobuyuki Sakakibara had promised him "to write his own ticket" if he defeated Ogawa in order to increase his motivation.
In 2000, Ogawa took part in negotiations with Rickson Gracie for a match between them at the Colosseum promotion, in which Gracie had just defeated Masakatsu Funaki. With the fight scheduled for the next year, Ogawa vacated his NWA World Heavyweight Championship in order to focus in his fight with Gracie, but all the plans were suspended upon the news of the death of Rickson's son Rockson and the event never had place.
Main competition
Ogawa returned to Pride at Pride 11 - Battle of the Rising Sun, facing world karate cup champion Masaaki Satake in which was called a classic style vs. style matchup. Satake had recently defeated Kazunari Murakami, Naoya's former teammate, so the match sported a shade of revenge as well. During the bout, Satake opened the action with punches and kicks, avoiding Ogawa's takedowns but at the same time being unable to land decisive blows, while Ogawa threw punches as well in an attempt to keep the pace. At the second round, however, Ogawa took over, cutting the karateka's eye with a hard punch and swiftly taking him down for a rear naked choke.
In 2002, Naoya participated in the first event of Universal Fighting-Arts Organization against another Olympic medalist, the Greco-Roman wrestling champion Matt Ghaffari, who had claimed he would knock Ogawa out with knee strikes. However, the match transpired quite different, as although Ghaffari did take Ogawa down in an instance, Ogawa controlled the standing exchanges. After one minute and thirty seconds, the judoka landed a right punch that made Ghaffari stumble and fall, and the wrestler decided to tap out before receiving further damage. Rickson Gracie attended the event and was invited to train with Ogawa, which led to new talks about the possibility of a match with Naoya, but it did not happen either.
Two years after, Ogawa took part in the PRIDE Grand Prix tournament as a representative of his home pro wrestling promotion HUSTLE. His first opponent was K-1 veteran and MMA debutant Stefan Leko, whom Naoya shockingly knocked down with a punch before submitting him to an arm triangle choke. Ogawa's next match was against fellow HUSTLE wrestler Giant Silva, who outweighed him by 130 pounds, but the judoka took him down and rained ground and pound for the referee stoppage. His last match in the tournament, a matchup decided by fan voting, was against then PRIDE World Heavyweight Champion and eventual tournament winner Fedor Emelianenko. Fedor overpowered Ogawa and submitted him by armbar in just 54 seconds, giving him his first MMA loss.
Retirement fight
Ogawa's last fight in mixed martial arts was at PRIDE Shockwave 2005 against the man who took from him the world judo championships the last time they fought, Hidehiko Yoshida. The bout was highly anticipated and became one of the most expensive fights in MMA history, with Ogawa and Yoshida being both paid US$2 million. The fight was a difficult perspective for Ogawa, as he was clearly behind in training and experience: while Yoshida had focused on MMA since 2002, Ogawa had fought only occasionally aside from his work in the pro wrestling circuit.
Ogawa made his entrance to the arena with the hachimaki and music theme of his late friend Shinya Hashimoto as a tribute and proof of motivation, while Yoshida took off his usual gi after making his own entrance. Started the battle, they fought on the clinch before Yoshida managed to trip Ogawa down with kouchi gari. Yoshida locked an ankle hold that broke Ogawa's ankle, but the Hustle wrestler escaped, and then an exchange of reversions and ground and pound took place. At the end, Ogawa looked to have dominant position, but Yoshida locked an armbar from the guard by surprise, winning the fight.
Mixed martial arts record
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| Loss
| align=center| 7-2
| Hidehiko Yoshida
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE Shockwave 2005
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 6:04
| Saitama, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 7-1
| Fedor Emelianenko
| Submission (armbar)
| PRIDE Final Conflict 2004
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| align=center| 0:54
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 7-0
| Paulo Cesar Silva
| TKO (punches)
| PRIDE Critical Countdown 2004
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:29
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 6-0
| Stefan Leko
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| PRIDE Total Elimination 2004
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:34
| Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 5-0
| Matt Ghaffari
| TKO (punches)
| UFO: Legend
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:56
| Tokyo, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 4-0
| Masaaki Satake
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Pride 11 - Battle of the Rising Sun
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:01
| Osaka, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 3-0
| Rob Peters
| Submission
| UFO Europe: Free Fight Gala
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| align=center| N/A
| align=center| N/A
| Kijkduin, Holland
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| Win
| align=center| 2-0
| Gary Goodridge
| Submission (americana)
| Pride 6
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:36
| Yokohama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 1-0
| Rens Vrolijk
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| Red Devil Free Fight 1
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:51
| Amsterdam, Holland
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Personal life
His son, Yusei Ogawa, is also a judoka. He won the mixed team gold medal at the 2018 World Judo Championships, representing Japan.
Championships and accomplishments
Mixed martial arts
PRIDE Fighting Championships
2004 PRIDE Heavyweight Grand Prix Semifinalist
Professional wrestling
NWA Northeast
NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #152 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010
PWI ranked him #302 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE
NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Shinya Hashimoto
ZERO-ONE United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Tokyo Sports
Fighting Spirit Award (1999)
Topic Award (1997)
Filmography
Film
The Wolverine (2013) – Yakuza 1
Television
Doraemon Haha ni Naru: Ōyama Nobuyo Monogatari (2015) – Kazuya Tatekabe
See also
Hidehiko Yoshida
References
External links
1968 births
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Asian Games medalists in judo
Heavyweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
Living people
Japanese male judoka
Japanese male mixed martial artists
Japanese male professional wrestlers
Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
NWA World Heavyweight Champions
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Olympic judoka of Japan
Olympic medalists in judo
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Judoka at the 1990 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
World judo champions
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Norm Gratton
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Normand Lionel Gratton (December 22, 1950 – December 10, 2010) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He played six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres and Minnesota North Stars. He played 201 games in the NHL, scoring 39 goals and 44 assists. His brother Gilles also played in the NHL. He died in 2010 at the age of 59.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
See also
List of family relations in the NHL
References
External links
1950 births
2010 deaths
Atlanta Flames players
Buffalo Sabres players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
French Quebecers
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Maine Nordiques players
Minnesota North Stars players
Montreal Junior Canadiens players
National Hockey League first round draft picks
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
People from LaSalle, Quebec
Sportspeople from Montreal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Bucks%20High%20School%20South
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Central Bucks High School South
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Central Bucks High School South, also known as CB South, is a public high school serving students in tenth through twelfth grades, one of three high schools in the Central Bucks School District. The school is located in Warrington, Pennsylvania in Bucks County.
As of the 2018-19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,730 students and 103.95 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.64:1. There were 128 students (7.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 12 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Completed in late 2004, the school opened in January 2005, so the first graduating class attended classes in the school only during the spring semester of that year. CB South is the most recent high school in the Central Bucks School District, following Central Bucks High School East and Central Bucks High School West. The high school hosts grades 10–12 and is built for just under 2,000 students. Its two feeder schools are Unami Middle School and Tamanend Middle School.
CB South is located on Folly Road. The school cost approximately $84 million to build and is the largest school in the Central Bucks School District.
Academics
CB South is ranked among the best high schools in Pennsylvania. CB South students consistently place in the top 10% of the state in test scoring. The majority of students (87.7%) are Caucasian, with 6.6% Asian, 2.2% African American, and 2.6% Hispanic. The school recently received a grant from the state which they used to place SmartBoards with projectors, new laptops and new supplies for every classroom. They spend about $9,500 on every student. Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, after a successful pilot at Holicong Middle School, all sophomores and juniors received laptops as a part of the district’s 1:1 initiative for use in the classroom.
Athletics
CB South competes in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, in the Suburban One Conference. The School offers 22 sports both boys and girls, with strengths in football, field hockey, boys/girls indoor and outdoor track, boys/girls basketball, girls soccer, softball, wrestling, and ice hockey. In Central Bucks South's inaugural year of 2004, it received its first state championship, in men's swimming. The school perennially competes at the state level in field hockey, softball, and boys and girls track. The football and soccer programs have also been highly competitive, with both consistently reaching the playoffs. In 2012, the Central Bucks South softball team was the first team sport to bring a PIAA AAAA State Championship back to Warrington. The Central Bucks South Ice Hockey team won the AA State Championship in 2014 and 2016.
Societal impact
In 2015, CB South gained national attention when the students selected two of their classmates with Down syndrome as Homecoming King and Queen.
Notable alumni
Josh Adams, running back for the New Orleans Saints and Philanthropist.
Images
References
External links
Central Bucks South
Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 2004
Schools in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
2004 establishments in Pennsylvania
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Other People's Problems
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Other People's Problems is the sole album by The Upper Room. It was released in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2006.
The album art, an image of the United Kingdom made up of green dots, was based on a survey taken of O2 customers. The size of the green dots indicates the percentage of people who have a garden in each area, and the shade represents the percentage of seasonal affective disorder sufferers in each area.
The tracks "All Over This Town" and "Black and White" were released as singles. "All Over This Town" reached number 38 in the UK singles chart, and "Black and White" reached 22.
Track listing
"All Over This Town" – 3:28
"Black and White" – 3:35
"Leave Me Alone" – 3:22
"Your Body" – 3:36
"Never Come Back" – 3:26
"Kill Kill Kill" – 3:03
"Portrait" – 3:04
"The Centre" – 3:14
"Once For Me" – 3:13
"Girl" – 3:56
"Combination" – 3:38
"It Began on Radio" – 3:34
References
Other People's Problems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20American%20Institute%20of%20Geography%20and%20History
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Pan American Institute of Geography and History
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The Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH, - IPGH) is an international organisation dedicated to the generation and transference of knowledge specialized in the fields of cartography, geography, history and geophysics.
The institute was created on February 7, 1928, during a conference held in Havana. The city that was established to be the host was Mexico City. The Institute signed an agreement with the Organization of American States and became a specialized organization of the OAS; in 1974 this agreement was modified and signed.
PAIGH publishes the following academic journals:
Biannual publications
Revista Cartográfica
Revista Geográfica
Revista de Historia de América
Revista Geofísica
Annual publications
Boletín de Antropología Americana
Revista de Arqueología Americana y Folklore Americano
External links
Pan American Institute of Geography and History
Organization of American States
Geography organizations
History organizations based in Mexico
Cartography organizations
Geophysics organizations
International geographic data and information organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgoridae
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Fulgoridae
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The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due to their brilliant and varied coloration. Various genera and species (especially the genera Fulgora and Pyrops) are sometimes referred to as lanternflies or lanthorn flies, though they do not emit light.
The head of some species is produced into a hollow process (structure), resembling a snout, which is sometimes inflated and nearly as large as the body of the insect, sometimes elongated, narrow and apically upturned. It was believed, mainly on the authority of Maria Sibylla Merian, that this process, the so-called lantern, was luminous at night in the living insect. Carl Linnaeus adopted the statement without question and coined a number of specific names, such as laternaria, phosphorea and candelaria to illustrate the supposed fact, and thus propagated the myth.
Taxonomy
Metcalf in 1938, as amended in 1947, recognized five subfamilies (Amyclinae, Aphaeninae, Fulgorinae, Phenacinae, and Poiocerinae) and twelve tribes in the Fulgoridae. By 1963 Lallemand had divided the Fulgoridae into eight subfamilies (Amyclinae, Aphaeninae, Enchophorinae, Fulgorinae, Phenacinae, Poiocerinae, Xosopharinae and Zanninae) and eleven tribes. This classification was generally accepted.
However, in 2008 Julie Urban's molecular analysis in her dissertation showed that a significant revamping of the Fulgoridae subfamilies and tribes would be necessary, as the morphological analysis by itself did not take into account the complexity of the Fulgoridae evolution. Her work was recapitulated in 2009 with Jason Cryan. The Zanninae may not even be in the Fulgoridae.
Subfamilies and Selected Genera
The NCBI and the Hemiptera Database currently include to the following sub-families and genera (lists complete if subfamily not linked):
Notes:
Laternaria is a nomen nudum of Pyrops
Pyrilla Stål, 1859 is now placed in the Lophopidae
The type species of genus Apossoda, A. togoensis Schmidt, 1911 is now placed as Pyrgoteles togoensis (Schmidt, 1911)
Gallery
References
Sources
T. Porion, 1994 - Fulgoridae 1. Illustrated Catalogue of the American Fauna , Sciences Nat, Venette, 72 pages, 14 plates in colours
T. Porion & P. Bleuzen, 2004 - Fulgoridae 1. Supplement 1. New Neotropical Fulgoridae , Hillside Books, Canterbury, 22 pages, 4 plates in colours
T. Porion & S. Nagai, 1996 - Fulgoridae 2. Illustrated Catalogue of the Asian and Australian Fauna , Sciences Nat, Venette, 80 p., 20 plates in colours (Suppl. 1 , Suppl. 2 )
External links
How to Make Homemade Lantern Fly Spray?
Auchenorrhyncha families
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PurVIEW
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PurVIEW is an integrated image display and viewing plug-in software package that incorporates stereoscopic viewing technology for ESRI ArcGIS 9 (or later version). Essentially, PurVIEW is a photogrammetry-based data capture workstation that extend the ArcGIS environment. It converts Arc- desktops into precise stereo-viewing windows for geo-referenced aerial or space-borne imagery. Digitizing features directly yields positional accuracy comparable with photogrammetric mapping.
Using ArcMap, geodatabase contents can be directly accessed and reviewed superimposed on standard geo-referenced 3-dimensional image models, revealing errors and omissions, or natural changes.
PurVIEW's creators, International Systemap, are working with ESRI to develop seamless software integration for the 2010 release of ArcGIS 9.4.
PurVIEW is suitable for a number of professional fields, such as mapping, geomatics, geology, forestry and mining.
External links
http://www.purview.com/
http://www.mypurview.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20091016095055/http://www.esricanada.com/EN_products/7098.asp
Image processing software
GIS software
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Eugene trilogy
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The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon, the "quasi-autobiographical trilogy" Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.
History
The trilogy tells the story of Eugene Jerome from his adolescence in New York City, to his time spent in basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi during World War II, and finally to the beginning of his career as an aspiring comedy writer. The trilogy is a semi-autobiographical account of Neil Simon's own early life and career.
In an interview in 1986, Simon said: " 'Brighton Beach' was going to be another singular play....Again, I still hadn't thought of a trilogy. But I decided to take Eugene the next step chronologically in my life, which was the army. But even after I wrote 'Biloxi Blues', I still didn't think about a sequel, because if it turned out to be a bomb, why would one want to do a sequel? So I just waited to see what would happen. Well, Biloxi enjoyed enormous success, and I thought of a third part."
Stage
Brighton Beach Memoirs premiered on Broadway on March 22, 1983; Biloxi Blues premiered on Broadway on March 28, 1985 and Broadway Bound premiered on Broadway on December 4, 1986.
Film
Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues were made into films, while Broadway Bound was adapted as a made-for-TV movie. On screen the role of Eugene Jerome was played by Jonathan Silverman in Brighton Beach Memoirs (he also played Stanley in the film version of Broadway Bound), Matthew Broderick in Biloxi Blues (he also played Eugene in the Broadway productions of both Brighton Beach and Biloxi Blues), and Corey Parker in Broadway Bound.
References
External links
(archive)
(archive)
(archive)
Plays by Neil Simon
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Eldbjørg Løwer (born 14 July 1943) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
Education
Løwer was trained at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
Career
Løwer was a ceramist.
Løwer began her career in politics and served as mayor of Kongsberg and later leader of Kongsberg Chamber of commerce.
Løwer was Minister of Planning and Coordination and Minister of Local Government and Labour (local government affairs) in 1997, Minister of Labour and Administration 1998-1999, and Minister of Defence 1999-2000.
Since 2011 she has chaired the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee.
See also
Minister of Defence (Norway)
References
1943 births
Living people
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni
Chairs of NRK
Female defence ministers
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
People from Ål
Defence ministers of Norway
Women government ministers of Norway
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Betty Sue Flowers
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Betty Sue Flowers is the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and an Emerita Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas and the University of London. She is the author of a number of texts, particularly relating to Christina Rossetti. She also edited the book and acted as a consultant to the 1988 documentary, The Power of Myth, a series of interviews between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.
She also coauthored the influential book Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (2004) together with Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer and Joseph Jaworski - a predecessor to Theory U: Leading From The Future As It Emerges.
She lives with former New Jersey Senator and NBA star Bill Bradley.
References
External links
Living people
Directors of museums in the United States
Women museum directors
University of Texas at Austin alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
People from Austin, Texas
Futurologists
American academics of English literature
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Jim Lester
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Sir James Theodore Lester (23 May 1932 – 31 October 2021) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Parliamentary career
Born in Nottingham in May 1932, Lester first stood for Parliament in a by-election at Bassetlaw in 1968, when he almost overturned a Labour majority of 10,428 votes, failing to beat Joe Ashton by just 740 votes. He contested the seat again at the 1970 general election, but Ashton stretched his advantage to 8,261 votes.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Beeston between February 1974 and 1983, then for Broxtowe until the 1997 election, when he lost his seat to Labour. During his time in the House of Commons, he served as a party whip and a junior employment minister.
Lester died on 31 October 2021, at the age of 89.
References
1932 births
2021 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Knights Bachelor
Politicians from Nottingham
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20Hill%20Manufacturing
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Spring Hill Manufacturing
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Spring Hill Manufacturing is a General Motors factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The plant currently includes vehicle assembly (Cadillac Lyriq, Cadillac XT5, Cadillac XT6, and GMC Acadia) as well as powertrain, stamping and molding operations. The plant originally operated as the sole manufacturing facility for Saturn Corporation.
History
On January 7, 1985, Saturn Corporation was formed as a subsidiary of General Motors to compete with Japanese imports, and shortly thereafter, began searching for a site for a manufacturing facility. Then-governor Lamar Alexander began encouraging GM to locate the plant in Tennessee. The site in Spring Hill was officially announced on July 26, 1985. At the time, Spring Hill was a predominantly agricultural community with a population of about 1,000. A payment in lieu of taxes agreement was negotiated with the state in September 1985, and that same month the Tennessee Department of Transportation announced plans to construct State Route 396 (Saturn Parkway), a long controlled access highway that connects the plant to Interstate 65, at a cost of $29.3 million. This was completed in 1989. Preliminary site work for the plant began in May 1986, and construction activities began two months later. The plant began operation on July 31, 1990, when the first vehicle was produced.
The decision to locate one factory as the source of Saturn vehicles was based on a tradition GM was founded on in 1909 with the core brands that came together to form GM. Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac each had main factories where the cars originated from, then in 1933 branch assembly plants were established in major American cities and the branch assembly locations would receive knock-down kits from the main plants and locally assemble GM products to meet demand. The main facilities were Flint, Michigan for both Buick and Chevrolet; Oldsmobile at Lansing, Michigan; Pontiac at Pontiac, Michigan; and Cadillac at Detroit, Michigan. The approach for Saturn was to have one dedicated location where vehicles originated from one location as in the past with the legacy brands.
Manufacturing continued through March 2004 as the sole assembly plant overseen by the Saturn subsidiary. After the United Auto Workers ratified a new contract in March 2004, the plant became part of General Motors, but Saturn-only manufacturing lines continued until March 2007. The facility includes a four-cylinder engine assembly plant, auto assembly plant, paint and plastics plant, a Saturn parts warehouse, and a visitors center. In 2005, the plant had a yearly production of 198,142 vehicles. Harbour Consulting rated the Ion line as the tenth most efficient auto plant in North America in 2006.
After GM considered idling or shutting down the plant as part of its restructuring effort, it idled in March 2007 for a 1-year retooling project to produce the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse after receiving incentives from the State of Tennessee. Changes include adding metal stamping and removing the plastics plant (the Saturn production lines used plastic-based panels). General Motors has stated the plant will manufacture various GM vehicles and no longer be dedicated to Saturns.
The vehicle assembly part of the Spring Hill plant was idled in late 2009 when production of the Traverse was moved to Lansing Delta Township Assembly near Lansing, MI, while production of power trains and metal stamping continued. Nearly 2,500 Spring Hill auto workers were faced with lay-offs, buy-outs and early retirement. In September 2011, it was announced that the plant would end its period of idling. In November 2011, GM announced plans for retooling of the vehicle assembly portion of the plant for use as an "ultra-flexible" plant which will initially be used to build the Chevrolet Equinox but will be designed for rapid retooling to other vehicles of similar size.
In 2015, the plant announced that it would be reopening the entire plant's facilities, and would hire locally creating thousands of jobs for the surrounding area. General Motors looks to expand the plant's facilities and influence in the North American and Global Auto industries, and as of 2021, was the company's largest plant in North America.
In January 2019, General Motors said it has invested $2 billion into the complex since 2010. In October 2020, GM announced that it was investing another $2 billion in the plant to build electric vehicles including the Cadillac Lyriq.
Products
Current
Cadillac Lyriq (2022–present)
Cadillac XT5 (2016–present)
Cadillac XT6 (2019–present)
GMC Acadia (2016–present)
Former
Chevrolet Equinox (2013–2015)
Chevrolet Traverse (2008–2010)
Holden Acadia (2016–2021)
Saturn Ion (2002–2007)
Saturn S series (1990–2002)
Saturn Vue (2001–2007)
References
Bibliography
General Motors factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Tennessee
Buildings and structures in Maury County, Tennessee
1990 establishments in Tennessee
Saturn Corporation
Buildings and structures completed in 1990
Tourist attractions in Maury County, Tennessee
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Accidental release source terms
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Accidental release source terms are the mathematical equations that quantify the flow rate at which accidental releases of liquid or gaseous pollutants into the ambient environment can occur at industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, natural gas processing plants, oil and gas transportation pipelines, chemical plants, and many other industrial activities. Governmental regulations in many countries require that the probability of such accidental releases be analyzed and their quantitative impact upon the environment and human health be determined so that mitigating steps can be planned and implemented.
There are a number of mathematical calculation methods for determining the flow rate at which gaseous and liquid pollutants might be released from various types of accidents. Such calculational methods are referred to as source terms, and this article on accidental release source terms explains some of the calculation methods used for determining the mass flow rate at which gaseous pollutants may be accidentally released.
Accidental release of pressurized gas
When gas stored under pressure in a closed vessel is discharged to the atmosphere through a hole or other opening, the gas velocity through that opening may be choked (i.e., it has attained a maximum) or it may be non-choked.
Choked velocity, also referred to as sonic velocity, occurs when the ratio of the absolute source pressure to the absolute downstream pressure is equal to or greater than [(k + 1) / 2]k / (k − 1), where k is the specific heat ratio of the discharged gas (sometimes called the isentropic expansion factor and sometimes denoted as ).
For many gases, k ranges from about 1.09 to about 1.41, and therefore [(k + 1) / 2]k / (k − 1 ) ranges from 1.7 to about 1.9, which means that choked velocity usually occurs when the absolute source vessel pressure is at least 1.7 to 1.9 times as high as the absolute downstream ambient atmospheric pressure.
When the gas velocity is choked, the equation for the mass flow rate in SI metric units is:
or this equivalent form:
For the above equations, it is important to note that although the gas velocity reaches a maximum and becomes choked, the mass flow rate is not choked. The mass flow rate can still be increased if the source pressure is increased.
Whenever the ratio of the absolute source pressure to the absolute downstream ambient pressure is less than
[ (k + 1) / 2]k / (k − 1), then the gas velocity is non-choked (i.e., sub-sonic) and the equation for mass flow rate is:
or this equivalent form:
The above equations calculate the initial instantaneous mass flow rate for the pressure and temperature existing in the source vessel when a release first occurs. The initial instantaneous flow rate from a leak in a pressurized gas system or vessel is much higher than the average flow rate during the overall release period because the pressure and flow rate decrease with time as the system or vessel empties. Calculating the flow rate versus time since the initiation of the leak is much more complicated, but more accurate. Two equivalent methods for performing such calculations are presented and compared at.
The technical literature can be very confusing because many authors fail to explain whether they are using the universal gas law constant R which applies to any ideal gas or whether they are using the gas law constant Rs which only applies to a specific individual gas. The relationship between the two constants is Rs = R/M.
Notes:
The above equations are for a real gas.
For an ideal gas, Z = 1 and ρ is the ideal gas density.
1kilomole (kmol) = 1000moles = 1000 gram-moles = kilogram-mole.
Ramskill's equation for non-choked mass flow
P.K. Ramskill's equation for the non-choked flow of an ideal gas is shown below as equation (1):
(1)
The gas density, A, in Ramskill's equation is the ideal gas density at the downstream conditions of temperature and pressure and it is defined in equation (2) using the ideal gas law:
(2)
Since the downstream temperature TA is not known, the isentropic expansion equation below is used to determine TA in terms of the known upstream temperature T:
(3)
Combining equations (2) and (3) results in equation (4) which defines A in terms of the known upstream temperature T:
(4)
Using equation (4) with Ramskill's equation (1) to determine non-choked mass flow rates for ideal gases gives identical results to the results obtained using the non-choked flow equation presented in the previous section above.
Evaporation of non-boiling liquid pool
Three different methods of calculating the rate of evaporation from a non-boiling liquid pool are presented in this section. The results obtained by the three methods are somewhat different.
The U.S. Air Force method
The following equations are for predicting the rate at which liquid evaporates from the surface of a pool of liquid which is at or near the ambient temperature. The equations were derived from field tests performed by the U.S. Air Force with pools of liquid hydrazine.
If TP = 0°C or less, then TF = 1.0
If TP > 0°C, then TF = 1.0 + 0.0043 TP2
The U.S. EPA method
The following equations are for predicting the rate at which liquid evaporates from the surface of a pool of liquid which is at or near the ambient temperature. The equations were developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency using units which were a mixture of metric usage and United States usage. The non-metric units have been converted to metric units for this presentation.
NB, the constant used here is 0.284 from the mixed unit formula/2.205lb/kg. The 82.05 become 1.0 = (ft/m)² × mmHg/kPa.
The U.S. EPA also defined the pool depth as 0.01m (i.e., 1cm) so that the surface area of the pool liquid could be calculated as:
A = (pool volume, in m3)/(0.01)
Notes:
1kPa = 0.0102kgf/cm2 = 0.01bar
mol = mole
atm = atmosphere
Stiver and Mackay's method
The following equations are for predicting the rate at which liquid evaporates from the surface of a pool of liquid which is at or near the ambient temperature. The equations were developed by Warren Stiver and Dennis Mackay of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Toronto.
Evaporation of boiling cold liquid pool
The following equation is for predicting the rate at which liquid evaporates from the surface of a pool of cold liquid (i.e., at a liquid temperature of about 0°C or less).
Adiabatic flash of liquefied gas release
Liquefied gases such as ammonia or chlorine are often stored in cylinders or vessels at ambient temperatures and pressures well above atmospheric pressure. When such a liquefied gas is released into the ambient atmosphere, the resultant reduction of pressure causes some of the liquefied gas to vaporize immediately. This is known as "adiabatic flashing" and the following equation, derived from a simple heat balance, is used to predict how much of the liquefied gas is vaporized.
If the enthalpy data required for the above equation is unavailable, then the following equation may be used.
See also
Choked flow
Orifice plate
Flash evaporation
References
External links
Ramskill's equations are presented and cited in this pdf file (use search function to find "Ramskill").
Choked flow of gases
Development of source emission models
Atmospheric dispersion modeling
Air pollution
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United States national bandy team
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United States national bandy team has been taking part in the Bandy World Championships since 1985, being the first nation to join apart from the four teams which had so far participated in almost all the world championships; the Soviet Union, Sweden, Finland and Norway. However, the American team has yet to make it to the championship medals.
America also plays Canada in the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.
World Championship record
References
External links
American Bandy Association Official Homepage
New York Times article
Bandy in the United States
National bandy teams
Bandy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon%20River
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The Saigon River () is a river located in southern Vietnam that rises near Phum Daung in southeastern Cambodia, flows south and south-southeast for about and empties into the Soài Rạp, which in its turn empties into the East Sea some northeast of the Mekong Delta.
The Saigon River is joined northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly named Saigon) by the Đồng Nai river, and just above Ho Chi Minh City it is joined by the Bến Cát River. Saigon River is important to Ho Chi Minh City as it is the main water supply as well as the host of Saigon Port, with a total cargo volume loaded and outloaded of more than 35 million metric tons in 2006.
The Bình Quới Tourist Village is located on the Thanh Da peninsula on the Saigon River, in the Bình Thạnh District of Ho Chi Minh City.
Thủ Thiêm Tunnel, an underwater tunnel passing below the Saigon River, was opened to traffic on November 20, 2011. Since its completion, it has been the longest cross-river tunnel in Southeast Asia.
See also
Bình Triệu Bridge
References
External links
Rivers of Đồng Nai province
Rivers of Ho Chi Minh City
Rivers of Cambodia
International rivers of Asia
Rivers of Vietnam
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James Thompson (born 16 December 1978) is a British professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2003, Thompson has also formerly competed for PRIDE FC, Bellator MMA, Cage Rage, EliteXC, Sengoku, DREAM, KSW, Rizin, and the SFL.
Background
Born in Rochdale to a Gibraltarian father and English mother, Thompson grew up playing rugby league. Widely considered to be a talented player, at one point in time he did consider pursuing a professional career in rugby. Ultimately, he ended up working as debt collector and nightclub bouncer, whilst also competing in amateur bodybuilding. Thompson then took up the sport of wrestling and competed in several matches before eventually seeing an MMA bout featuring Don Frye (whom he would later fight and beat at PRIDE 34: Kamikaze), which ultimately inspired him to pursue a career in MMA. Thompson initially started watching DVDs on boxing, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and then began training in all three martial arts disciplines.
Mixed martial arts career
Early career
Thompson began his mixed martial arts career fighting in the British promotion Ultimate Combat (UC). He developed a rivalry with Mark "The Shark" Goddard after their bout in Ultimate Combat 6: Battle in the Cage. Thompson won the bout by referee stoppage, but Goddard disputed the result, saying that Thompson had tapped earlier to one of his armbar attempts. A rematch at Ultimate Combat 8: Retribution resulted in an 18-second knockout victory for Thompson. After five straight victories, he faced his first loss to Georgian Tengiz Tedoradze at Ultimate Combat X. Tedoradze managed to stop Thompson's initial charge and won by doctor stoppage after the second round. Thompson bounced back with a UC Championship bout against Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veteran Dan Severn at Ultimate Combat 11: Eyes of the Beast.
PRIDE
After defeating Severn, Thompson made his PRIDE Fighting Championship debut at PRIDE 28 to face Alexander Emelianenko at PRIDE 28: High Octane. Despite losing the fight in only eleven seconds, he remained with the organisation, earning quick victories over Henry Armstrong Miller and Giant Silva. Thompson became known to Pride fans for his penchant for rushing at opponents at the opening bell, which became known as 'Gong and Dash'. During this time, Thompson alternated appearances in Japan with fights in British organisations such as Cage Rage.
Thompson's career took a downturn with three consecutive losses to Kazuyuki Fujita, Rob Broughton and Jon Olav Einemo. However, he followed up with an upset victory over Olympic judo gold medalist Hidehiko Yoshida at PRIDE Shockwave 2006. He next suffered a quick KO at the hands of super heavyweight boxer Eric 'Butterbean' Esch at Cage Rage 20. In his final appearance in Pride, Thompson dominated against UFC veteran Don Frye to a first round stoppage at PRIDE 34. Thompson followed up with his final appearance in Cage Rage, losing to Neil "Goliath" Grove by knockout in just 10 seconds. Thompson cited a lack of quality heavyweight training partners for his poor performances, and switched training camps to join Randy Couture's Xtreme Couture.
EliteXC
Thompson made his EliteXC debut against undefeated 8-0 fighter Brett Rogers at the EliteXC: Street Certified on 16 February 2008. Rogers knocked Thompson out in the first round. Despite this loss, Thompson followed up with a headlining appearance at EliteXC: Primetime against streetfighter Kimbo Slice. Entering the fight with a considerably swollen cauliflower ear, Thompson managed to control the first two rounds with effective ground and pound. However, both fighters came into the third round substantially winded. Slice landed several unanswered blows to Thompson's face whilst on his feet, one of which burst his cauliflower ear, prompting the referee to stop the fight and declare a TKO in Slice's favour.
Strike Box/Titans Fighting incident
On 6 February 2009, Thompson fought Steve Bossé at Strike Box/Titans Fighting's inaugural event in Quebec, Canada. The event was originally scheduled to be under Strike Box's own rules where only boxing, takedowns and standing submissions were allowed, but the rules were not accepted by the province's athletic commission in time for the event. It was therefore conducted under MMA rules instead. Before the event some fighters agreed to fight under Strike Box's proposed rules as a gentleman's agreement, though the referee in charge would not have any choice but to allow ground fighting were it to happen. Thompson, who later claimed to be unaware of the agreement, proceeded to take down, mount and ground and pound Bosse - as allowed under MMA rules - after Bosse went for a standing guillotine choke at the start of the fight. This caused the audience to boo Thompson and the referee, unaware of that the fight was being conducted under MMA rules. Beer cans and eventually chairs were then thrown into the ring, prompting referee Yves Lavigne to stop the match. Although it was originally declared a no contest the fight and its result doesn't appear on either fighter's official fight records.
Sengoku
Thompson's fought on 20 March at Sengoku 7 against New Zealand fighter Jim York, which he lost by KO.
DREAM
Thompson lost a fight with Alistair Overeem on 25 October 2009 at Dream 12
Strikeforce
Thompson revealed at the Dream 12 press conference that he has three more fights for his Strikeforce contract.
ZT Fight Night: The Tournament
Thompson competed in the ZT Fight Night Tournament for £10,000 along with 7 other fighters on 30 January 2010. He avenged his first career loss against Tengiz Tedoradze in the quarterfinals, his first win in nearly three years, breaking a five-loss streak. He was then knocked out by the eventual tournament winner, Rob Broughton.
DREAM return
Rumours that Thompson could face Ikuhisa Minowa at DREAM 16 surfaced. However it was later revealed that Minowa would face Satoshi Ishii at DREAM 16. Thompsony instead fought DEEP veteran Yusuke Kawaguchi and lost via a controversial Split Decision. Many believed the two majority decision judges were biased towards the Japanese home country fighter after Thompson retained top position and did much more damage at the end of the first and throughout the second round.
Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki
Thompson fought five-time "World’s Strongest Man" Mariusz Pudzianowski at KSW XVI on 21 May 2011. He won the fight via submission in the second round.
In the rematch at KSW XVII, Thompson lost a controversial decision. After the fight, he launched a profane verbal assault directed at the promotion. Two days later the promotion changed the result to a No Contest, claiming an error in scorecard tallying. Thompson, however, has not participated in any subsequent KSW events.
Super Fight League
Thompson fought in the main event of the Super Fight League's inaugural event, SFL 1, against Bob Sapp. He won the fight when Sapp injured his leg as he was being taken down by Thompson, forcing him to tap out to the injury.
He next competed at Super Fight League 3 against Bobby Lashley. The outcome was yet another close and controversial decision, this time going unanimously in Thompson's favour, giving him his first winning streak since 2005.
UXC
Thompson returned to action once his orbital bone had healed from his previous war with Lashley on 1 March 2014 against UFC veteran Colin Robinson, as part of the UXC 2 card at the Odyssey Arena, Northern Ireland. He won via arm triangle choke in the second round.
Bellator MMA
It was announced on 23 May that Thompson had been signed by Bellator MMA and would make his promotional debut against Eric Prindle in the headlining bout of Bellator 121 on 6 June 2014. Thompson dominated Prindle and won by TKO in the first round at 1:55 minutes.
Thompson was expected to face UFC veteran Houston Alexander in the co-main event on 17 October 2014 at Bellator 129. However, on 10 October 2014 it was announced that Thompson was pulled from the fight due to injury.
Thompson was scheduled to face Bobby Lashley in a rematch at Bellator 134 on 27 February 2015. However, Lashley pulled out of the fight due to injury. The fight was rescheduled for 19 June 2015 at Bellator 138. In early June, it was revealed that Dan Charles would instead face Lashley at the event due to an injury sustained by Thompson.
The rematch with Lashley eventually took place on 6 November 2015 at Bellator 145. Thompson lost the fight via TKO in the first round.
In April 2016, Bellator President Scott Coker announced on ESPN’s SportsCenter that Thompson would have a rematch against Kimbo Slice in the main event of Bellator 158, which would take place on 16 July 2016 at London’s O2 Arena. Slice died unexpectedly on 6 June 2016.
Rizin Fighting Federation
In his debut for the Rizin Fighting Federation, Thompson faced Tsuyoshi Kohsaka on 29 December 2015. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round.
Bellator MMA
After two years hiatus, Thompson faced Phi De Fries on Bellator 191 on December 15. 2017. He lost the fight via a submission in round one.
Thompson was suspended for one year by the Mohegan Tribe Department of Athletic Regulations and fined two thousands dollars for testing positive from a in competition sample collected for steroid dirostanolone in competition at Bellator 191.
Championships and accomplishments
Ultimate Combat
Ultimate Combat Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Underdog Xtreme Championships
UXC British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Film
In April 2012, Thompson was cast for the role of The Berserker in Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz.
Mixed martial arts record
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| align=center| 20–14 (2)
| Eric Prindle
| TKO (punches)
| Bellator 121
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:55
| Thackerville, Oklahoma, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 19–14 (2)
| Colin Robinson
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| Underdog Xtreme Championships 2
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:47
| Belfast, Northern Ireland
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| Win
| align=center| 18–14 (2)
| Bobby Lashley
| Decision (unanimous)
| Super Fight League 3: Lashley vs. Thompson
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Delhi, India
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 17–14 (2)
| Bob Sapp
| TKO (leg injury)
| Super Fight League 1: Thompson vs. Sapp
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:17
| Mumbai, India
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| NC
| align=center| 16–14 (2)
| Mariusz Pudzianowski
| No Contest (overturned)
| KSW 17: Revenge
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Lódz, Poland
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 16–14
| Mariusz Pudzianowski
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| KSW 16: Khalidov vs. Lindland
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 1:06
| Gdańsk, Poland
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–14
| Yusuke Kawaguchi
| Decision (split)
| DREAM 16
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
|Super Heavyweight bout.
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| Loss
| align=center| 15–13
| Miodrag Petkovic
| KO (punch)
| Millennium Fight Challenge 4
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:01
| Split, Croatia, Croatia
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 15–12
| Rob Broughton
| KO (punch)
| ZT Fight Night: Heavyweights Collide
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:28
| Hove, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 15–11
| Tengiz Tedoradze
| TKO (punches)
| ZT Fight Night: Heavyweights Collide
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:55
| Hove, England
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–11
| Alistair Overeem
| Submission (standing guillotine choke)
| Dream 12
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:33
| Osaka, Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–10
| Jim York
| KO (punch)
| World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 7
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:33
| Tokyo, Japan
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|NC
|align="center"|14–8 (1)
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|No Contest
|Titans Fighting
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|align="center"|N/A
|align="center"|N/A
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–9 (1)
| Kimbo Slice
| TKO (punches)
| EliteXC: Primetime
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 0:38
| Newark, New Jersey, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–8
| Brett Rogers
| KO (punches)
| EliteXC: Street Certified
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:24
| Miami, Florida, United States
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 14–7
| Neil Grove
| KO (punch)
| Cage Rage 22
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:10
| London, England
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| Win
| align=center| 14–6
| Don Frye
| TKO (punches)
| PRIDE 34
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 6:23
| Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 13–6
| Butterbean
| KO (punches)
| Cage Rage 20
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:43
| London, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 13–5
| Hidehiko Yoshida
| TKO (punches)
| PRIDE: Shockwave 2006
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 7:50
| Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–5
| John-Olav Einemo
| Submission (armbar)
| 2H2H: Pride & Honor
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:18
| Netherlands
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–4
| Rob Broughton
| KO (punches)
| Cage Rage 17
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| London, England
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 12–3
| Kazuyuki Fujita
| KO (punch)
| PRIDE: Total Elimination Absolute
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 8:25
| Osaka, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 12–2
| Giant Silva
| TKO (soccer kicks)
| PRIDE: Shockwave 2005
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:28
| Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 11–2
| Alexandru Lungu
| TKO (knees and punches)
| PRIDE 30
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:13
| Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 10–2
| Andy Costello
| TKO (punches)
| Cage Rage 13
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:33
| London, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–2
| Autimio Antonia
| KO (punch)
| Urban Destruction 2
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:54
| Bristol, England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 8–2
| Henry Armstrong Miller
| KO (punch)
| PRIDE: Bushido 8
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:21
| Nagoya, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–2
| Nikolajus Cilkinas
| TKO (punches)
| Urban Destruction 1
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:04
| England
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|-
| Loss
| align=center| 6–2
| Alexander Emelianenko
| KO (punch)
| PRIDE 28
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:11
| Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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| Win
| align=center| 6–1
| Dan Severn
| Decision (unanimous)
| UC 11: Wrath of the Beast
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| align=center| 5
| align=center| 5:00
| Bristol, England
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| Loss
| align=center| 5–1
| Tengiz Tedoradze
| TKO (referee stoppage)
| Ultimate Combat X
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| England
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–0
| Aaron Marsa
| Submission (neck injury)
| UC 9: Rebellion
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:20
| Bristol, England
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| Win
| align=center| 4–0
| Marc Goddard
| KO (punches)
| UC 8: Retribution
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:18
| Chippenham, England
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| Win
| align=center| 3–0
| Richie Cranny
| Submission (arm-triangle choke)
| UC 7: World Domination
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:34
| Chippenham, England
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| Win
| align=center| 2–0
| Marc Goddard
| TKO (submission to punches)
| UC 6: Battle in the Cage
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:47
| Chippenham, England
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| Win
| align=center| 1–0
| Will Elworthy
| Submission (forearm choke)
| Ground & Pound 2
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:22
| England
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See also
List of male mixed martial artists
Notes and references
External links
James Thompson "WarWagon" Fan Club
"Colossal Concerns", Thompson's official blog
English male mixed martial artists
Heavyweight mixed martial artists
Super heavyweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Sportspeople from Rochdale
1978 births
Living people
English practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Bodyguards
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Eve Chalom
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Eve Chalom (born October 22, 1979) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With Mathew Gates, she is the 1996 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist and a two-time (1997, 1999) U.S. national silver medalist.
Personal life
Chalom was born October 22, 1979 in Detroit, Michigan. She is profoundly hearing impaired, having lost a significant portion of her hearing in both ears in a car accident when she was four years old. After studying elementary education and American sign language at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan, she went on to receive bachelor's degrees from the University of Michigan in English and Philosophy.
Career
Chalom teamed up with British skater Mathew Gates in 1992, following a tryout in Boston arranged by Elizabeth 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 Warren Maxwell and Christopher Dean 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 teaches figure skating and is a dance movement therapist in Chicago.
Programs
(with Gates)
Results
GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix
(with Gates)
References
1979 births
American female ice dancers
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Living people
Figure skaters from Detroit
21st-century American women
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Mehmed Baždarević
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Mehmed Baždarević (born 28 September 1960) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Ligue 2 club Guingamp.
Baždarević played for Bosnian side Željezničar and French outfit Sochaux, among others. Nicknamed Meša in the former Yugoslavia and Mécha in France, he is considered to be one of the best football players to come from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Internationally, Baždarević earned caps with Yugoslavia and took part playing at UEFA Euro 1984. He also played for Bosnia and Herzegovina after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992. He was the first captain of the Bosnian national team. He retired as a player in 1998 and moved into management.
Club career
Željezničar
Born in Višegrad, FPR Yugoslavia, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Baždarević's professional playing career started in Željezničar in 1978. He was part of the team that managed to reach the UEFA Cup semi-finals in 1985 under the guidance of Ivica Osim.
In the 1980–81 season, Željezničar reached the Yugoslav Cup final (Marshal Tito Cup final), with 20-year-old Baždarević scoring two goals in a 2–3 loss to another Bosnian side Velež Mostar. The venue of the final was Red Star Stadium in Belgrade played in front of 40,000 football fans.
Baždarević played more than 300 games for the club.
Sochaux
In 1987, Baždarević moved to French club Sochaux alongside compatriot Faruk Hadžibegić. He stayed at the club until 1996. He collected more than 350 appearances for Sochaux in various competitions.
Later career and retirement
After Željezničar and Sochaux, Baždarević played for Nîmes (1996–97 season) and Swiss side Étoile Carouge (1997–98 season) before he announced his retirement in the summer of 1998.
As a player, Baždarević was targeted by many clubs including Barcelona, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund.
International career
Baždarević played for the national teams of two countries. He played for the Yugoslavia junior, Olympic and under-21 teams. He captained the under-20 national team that took part in the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. His debut for the senior Yugoslav national team came in 1983 in a friendly match against France. He collected 54 caps and scored four goals for the national team. He represented the Yugoslavia at UEFA Euro 1984 playing in all the team's games at the tournament.
Baždarević began to play for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in 1992 after Bosnia and Herzegovina gained independence. However, the team was not recognised by FIFA until 1995 in part due to the Bosnian War. He made his official debut for them in a September 1996 FIFA World Cup qualification match away against Greece and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a month later against Croatia.
Managerial career
Early career
From 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2003, Baždarević worked as Sochaux assistant manager to Jean Fernandez and Guy Lacombe before taking over as manager of reserve sides at the club.
Istres
Baždarević's first job as a manager was at Istres. He guided the club to its biggest success – entering the French Ligue 1 in 2004, which secured him a best Ligue 2 Manager of the Year award.
Étoile
On 16 July 2005, Baždarević took over Tunisian side Étoile du Sahel. He reached the 2005 CAF Champions League final with the club. Baždarević was fired by Etoile on 12 April 2006, after a 1–0 home defeat to USM Monastir in their final league game which cost them the Tunisian championship.
Al-Wakrah
Baždarević was employed as manager of Qatar Stars League club Al-Wakrah in 2006.
Grenoble
In December 2007, Baždarević became the manager of French side Grenoble where he arrived on recommendation of his mentor, Ivica Osim, who knew Grenoble's Japanese owners from working with them in J.League with JEF United Chiba. He rejected offers from top league clubs Le Mans and Nice to take over Grenoble. At the end of the 2007–08 Ligue 2 season, Grenoble, led by Baždarević, gained promotion to the Ligue 1, for the first time in their history. Under Baždarević, the club reached the French Cup semi-finals during the 2008–09 season.
In September 2010, he left Grenoble due to financial reasons.
Sochaux
On 10 June 2011, Baždarević was named as manager of Sochaux, for which he played as a player. He was sacked on 6 March 2012, due to poor results after only 8 months in charge.
After Sochaux, he had interest to manage clubs from Serbia and Belgium.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
On 13 December 2014, Baždarević was named head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, beating Milovan Rajevac for the position. Among other candidates were Vahid Halilhodžić, Igor Štimac, and Felix Magath. He replaced Safet Sušić, who was sacked by N/FSBiH due to a run of poor results in the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying having only taken two points in four matches. Bosnia and Herzegovina improved considerably under Baždarević and reached the play-off stage for Euro 2016, where they were unfortunately eliminated by the Republic of Ireland with a 3–1 aggregate score. In the aftermath, Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević, former national team head coach and successful manager, blamed Baždarević for Bosnia's elimination against the Republic of Ireland.
On 9 November 2015, the Bosnian FA extended the contract with Baždarević till after the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier campaign. He won his first managerial trophy with Bosnia and Herzegovina after beating Japan 2–1 in the 2016 Kirin Cup final.
After not qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Baždarević's contract expired and shortly after was left of his duties as the head coach after three years in charge.
Paris FC
On 15 June 2018, Baždarević was named manager of Ligue 2 club Paris FC on a two-year contract. In his first season, the French team finished on a good 4th place. However, on 30 December 2019, Baždarević was sacked due to poor results in the following season.
Guingamp
On 30 August 2020, Baždarević was hired as the new manager of Guingamp until 2022. On 1 February 2021, he terminated his contract with the club due to poor results.
Personal life
Baždarević's wife, Marina Baždarević, was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He met his wife in 1979 on an airplane from Japan going back to Belgrade. Nine months later, they met again on another flight from Tunisia to Belgrade and after the second meeting they started dating. Their daughter, Téa Baždarević, works as a journalist in France.
Career statistics
International goals
Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Baždarević goal.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Sochaux
Ligue 2: 1987–88 (Group A)
Yugoslavia
Summer Olympics third place: 1984
Manager
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kirin Cup: 2016
Individual
Bosnian Manager of the Year: 2008
Ligue 2 Manager of the Year: 2004
In popular culture
Baždarević's international career is remembered for his spitting on Turkish referee Yusuf Namoğlu during a qualifying match for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, against Norway, which was played in Sarajevo. Baždarević was banned from the 1990 FIFA World Cup for the incident. Yugoslavia reached the quarter-finals at the tournament.
Baždarević again missed a major tournament, this time the entire Yugoslav team was excluded from taking part in UEFA Euro 1992, having already qualified, because of UN sanctions due to the Yugoslav Wars. Denmark instead took their place and, ironically, won the 1992 championship. On 14 November 1990, Baždarević scored a goal against Denmark in Copenhagen during the qualification for the tournament.
During the early 1990s, a Yugoslav sketch comedy TV show, Top lista nadrealista, made Baždarević a popular figure, due to the spitting incident on the Turkish referee.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
People from Višegrad
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association football midfielders
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers
Dual internationalists (football)
Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in football
UEFA Euro 1984 players
FK Željezničar Sarajevo players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Nîmes Olympique players
Étoile Carouge FC players
Yugoslav First League players
Ligue 2 players
Ligue 1 players
Swiss Super League players
Yugoslav expatriate footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in France
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
FC Istres managers
Étoile Sportive du Sahel managers
Al-Wakrah SC managers
Grenoble Foot 38 managers
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard managers
Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team managers
Paris FC managers
En Avant Guingamp managers
Ligue 2 managers
Ligue 1 managers
Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 managers
Qatar Stars League managers
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in France
Expatriate football managers in Tunisia
Expatriate football managers in Qatar
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
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