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4008221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Sudzilovsky | Nikolai Sudzilovsky | {{Infobox officeholder
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky (; also known as Nicholas Russel, and Kauka Lukini December 15, 1850 – April 30, 1930) was a revolutionary and scientist.
Biography
Sudzilovsky was born in Mogilev to a noble family. He entered the St. Petersburg University law department but dropped out on the next year and entered medical department of the Kiev University where he did not finish his studies. He began to get involved in political activity being one of the organisers of the Kiev commune, a left-wing student organisation in 1873–1874. Getting a job of medical assistant at the Nikolayev prison, he tried to arrange mass escape of the prisoners, but his plot failed and he had to flee from Russia escaping arrest in 1875.
In 1876 under the pseudonym Nicholas Russel, Sudzilovsky took part in the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. In 1877 he graduated from medical faculty of the University of Bucharest. Russel was one of the organisers of the socialist movement in Romania, published a socialist paper, and carried out socialist propaganda among the Russian troops during the Russo-Turkish War. He also fought in Romania's war of independence, being distinguished with the Order of the Star of Romania.
During his stay in Romania, Dr. Russel was one of the most energetic socialists during his stay in Romania from 1875 until 1881 when he was deported from Romania after attempting to hold a celebration of "The 10th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871", at the request of the Tsarist authorities.
In 1887, Sudzilovsky moved to San Francisco and later Hawaii, becoming an American citizen. There he became a founder of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii in 1892, which opposed Hawaii's joining the United States. In 1900 under the name Kauka Lukini'', Sudzilovsky was elected Hawaii Senator, in 1901 was elected as 1st Hawaii Senate President.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 Sudzilovsky actively conducted socialist propaganda among Russian prisoners of war. Following the demands of Russia's foreign minister, the US government revoked his citizenship. Sudzilovsky spent the last years of his life in the Philippines and China.
He was author of several works on medicine and sociology and was member of the American Genetics Society.
References
1850 births
1930 deaths
People from Mogilev
University of Bucharest alumni
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
American socialists
People of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Russian untitled nobility
Recipients of the Order of the Star of Romania |
4008235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Mahdavi%20Damghani | Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani | Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani (; 5 September 1926 – 17 June 2022) was an Iranian scholar and university professor.
Biography
Born in Mashhad, Iran, on 5 September 1926 he held a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University where he was a Professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology between 1962 and 1985. He had been teaching at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. He taught Islamic Sciences, Islamic Literature, Advanced Arabic and Persian Sufi texts, and Islamic Philosophy. Mahdavi Damghani also taught in Spain at Autónoma University of Madrid for three years.
Selected works
He is the author of over 300 articles in scholarly journals and of several books including:
Kashf al-Haqa'iq (Unveiling the Truths)
Al-Majdi (On the Genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad's Family)
Nasmat al Sahar - A History of Arab Shi`a Poets, Three volumes
The Sources of Arabic Poems in the Kalilah wa Dimna
The Garden of Light: An Anthology of Sana`i's Hadiqah
Kashf al-Haqa'iq 2 (Return of the Kashf)
The sources of Arabic Poems in “Marzban-Nameh”, 1970s
“Haasele Owqat” (A collection of assays and articles -1007 pages), 2002–2003
Tarjumaye Ashaar Arabiye “Saadi” beh Farsi (Translation of “Saadi’s” Arabic poems into Persian), 2004
Tchahr Maqaleh dar bareh “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam” (Four articles regarding “Amir-al-mumenin Ali Aleyh-al-salam”), 2004–2005
Maqalati “Dar Hadithe Digaran” (Articles in memory of his professors, friends, and others), 2005
Taswib Aghlate Tchapi Tafsir, “Kashf-al-asrar” (Correction of erratum in the printed book of “Tafsir Kashf-al-asrar”), 2007
Dar babe “Khizr” (Regarding “Khizr“), 2007
“The Noble Princess Shahrbanu” The mother of the Imam Ali b. al-Husain al-Sajjad” Mirror of heritage (Ayene-ye Miras), 2009
“In the Memory of Companions and Rain Drops“, (Yadeh Yaran va Qatreh hayeh Baran) A collection of his various articles, 2011
Yad-E-Azizan Dar Bargri-Zan (21 Articles Ettelaat Presse), 2015
Divan Khazen (Distinguished poet 4th century Hegir Miras-E-Maktoub), 2015
Essays in Islamic Philology, History and Philosophy, 2016
References
1926 births
2022 deaths
People from Mashhad
University of Tehran faculty
American Islamic studies scholars
University of Tehran alumni
Harvard University faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran alumni
Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni |
4008237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudunda | Eudunda | Eudunda is a rural town in South Australia, roughly 103 kilometres northeast of Adelaide, established in 1870 after settlers began moving into the area in the 1860s. As of the 2006 census, Eudunda had a population of 640.
Eudunda is in the Regional Council of Goyder local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Stuart and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Grey.
Etymology and Nomenclature
The town name of Eudunda originates from the name of the spring to the west of the town, which local Aboriginals called judandakawi. According to Dr. Phillip Clarke of the South Australian Museum, judandakawi means 'sheltered water.' Alternative translations appear as Eudundacowi, Eudandakawi, or Eudundacowie. The spring still flows to this day. Some local theories suggest that German pronunciation of the letter j led to the current pronunciation.
The earliest-known written mention of the name 'Eudunda' comes from the Adelaide newspaper, The Express and Telegraph, from 8 March 1872, where a small notice appears regarding the conveyance of mail.
Weigall Street in Eudunda is named after Sir Archibald Weigall, Governor of South Australia, who visited Eudunda in December 1920 to lay the foundation stone of the hospital. Hannan Street is named in honour of John Hannan, who once owned the land on which the town is now situated. Bruce Street may be named after Talbot Baines Bruce, a talented Adelaide solicitor in the 1850s and 60s, who purchased large swathes of land in the Hundred of Neales as early as 1867.
Barwell Street may take its name from Sir Henry Newman Barwell (1877-1959), a one-term Premier of South Australia. Likewise, Gunn Street may take its name from another South Australian Premier, John Gunn (1884-1959).
History
The earliest European activity in the district was overlanding, centred on Narcoota and the Narcoota Track in the late 1830s. Pastoralism soon followed, with expansive 'runs' being taken up for sheep grazing by men such as Lachlan McBean, Frederick Hansborough Dutton, and William Russell. Several decades then passed before closer settlement began.
In March 1838, four young men in their twenties, John Hill (c.1810-1860), William Wood (1813-1885), Charles Willis (1815-1886), and John Oakden (1818-1884), all being livestock importers from the eastern colonies, formed an exploration party in Adelaide. Their intention was to be the first to bring livestock overland from New South Wales to South Australia, following the Murray River, for which purpose they sought to find a viable route through the Mount Lofty Ranges between the Murray River and Adelaide. Travelling on horseback with packhorses, after leaving Adelaide they first traversed the Barossa Valley, finding and naming Cockatoo Valley, before continuing northeast past Nuriootpa to near Eudunda. Their expedition took them through the scrub to the east of Eudunda, where Sutherlands, Bower and Mount Mary lay, on their trek to Morgan and back.
In the late 1860s, Henry Watson, a Quaker, established a wine store and bar on the site of the Eudunda Hotel Motel, serving passing stockmen. The founder of Eudunda was John Henry Hannan, who owned the land that was surveyed and divided for sale.
In 1874, Friedrich Gotthilf Ernst Appelt opened Appelt's General Store on South Terrace, Eudunda. It was the first trading general store in the town. The building is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
Railway services were first introduced to Eudunda in 1878, with the opening of the North-West Bend Railway to Morgan. The line was opened by the Governor of South Australia, Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, on 18 October 1878.
In 1878 the District Council of Neales was formed, with the town becoming the centre of the local government area. The District Council lasted until 1932 when it merged with the District Council of Julia to form the District Council of Eudunda. This lasted until 1997 when the Regional Council of Goyder was formed.
Wiesner and Hilbig, founded in 1884 by Johannes Gottlieb Wiesner and Gustav Adolph Hilbig, were one of the founders of Eudunda's rich manufacturing history. Wiesner and Hilbig had five forges in the 1880s and cast plough and scarifier shares as well as casings for strippers. Wiesner and Hilbig received a First Order of Merit for their stripper at the 1887 Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition and a Second Order of Merit for their stump-jump plough and stump-jump scarifier. The business was taken on by Carl and Heinrich Lutz in 1895. With a team of up to 35 men on-site, the Lutz brothers were famed for their manufacturing of strippers; they were regularly sold to New South Wales and Victoria - one farmer on South Australia's West Coast even had 22 Lutz strippers. In 1905, Theodor and Georg Jansen took over the business from the Lutz brothers, soon expanding the business. In 1907 they submitted a patent for "An improved plough share and means for attaching it to the plough foot." As cars arrived in the Eudunda area, they expanded into the service of motor vehicles. In 1951, Johannes and Leslie Reimann purchase the Jansen Brothers business, renaming it J.B. Reimann and Son Holdings. The business continues today, after a twelve-year gap, as Reimann Manufacturing.
In 1895, a meeting of farmers and other interested parties was held at Mann's Hotel (The Eudunda Hotel) to discuss the sale of firewood, predominantly from the Murray Flats around Sutherlands, Bower and Mount Mary, to Adelaide. This was the foundation of the state-wide store franchise, Eudunda Farmer's Co-Operative Society, which later formed Eudunda Farmers.
Eudunda's strong German culture led to a series of events during the First World War that were stoked by anti-German sentiments. A local Lutheran pastor was arrested in early 1915 for having communicated with the then Attorney-General of South Australia, Hermann Homburg, regarding matters of naturalization. Although released shortly thereafter, a further incident occurred on 12 February 1915. Citizen's Forces raided homes and businesses of German-born and Australian-born residents. Sentries were posted outside the town stopping travellers in and out. Although the raiders discovered nothing, the raid was also served to demonstrate that authorities were determined to suppress any disloyal feelings.
On 16 November 1920, world-renowned author, Colin Thiele, was born at Mutter Knabe's Nursing Home in Eudunda. His upbringing in nearby Julia, and his two-year education in Eudunda, served as great inspiration for many of his writings.
In 1950, Laucke Flour Mills acquired the prominent grain-mill building on Gunn Street, which had previously been owned by Edwin Davey.
Media
The Eudunda Courier and Murray Flats Advertiser was first printed in Eudunda on the 9 February 1922, by Mr. H. J. Weckert. Ownership changed in 1928 when F. T. Marsden bought the newspaper, and again in 1948 when N. W. and V. H. Baehnisch acquired it. In 1978, due to the death of V. H. Baehnisch, the newspaper closed, but after negotiation, the newspaper was taken over by the Reese and Smedley family. In 1981, the partnership changed hands, with Barossa News taking ownership. The Eudunda Courier then became a supplement to the Barossa Herald. Since then, the title has been dropped, with Eudunda news items now being covered by The Leader.
The town today
The town landscape has changed a little from the Edwardian era – with the "Gunn Street Extension" pushing the main road from the Top Pub on Gunn Street straight through what used to be railway land toward Bruce Street and the centre of the town. The new road has further enhanced the town gardens, seen on the drive into the main centre.
Eudunda was the birthplace of world-renowned author Colin Thiele, whose bronzed sculpture (by Chris Radford) is in the Centenary Gardens. The gardens also contain stone walls and tiled art featuring a Century of Transport.
The town's distinctive German-Lutheran heritage continues with St. John's Lutheran Church and St. John's Lutheran Primary School. Many residents have German ancestry and carry Germanic surnames.
Reimann Manufacturing continues a long tradition of manufacturing in Eudunda. Reimann Manufacturing is a world-leader in the production of turnkey pipework. They have worked on projects including the Regency to Pym Pipeline, the Kangaroo Creek Dam Upgrade and the Northern Adelaide Irrigation Scheme, as well as Snowy Hydro 2.0.
In September 2021, artwork was completed on the Eudunda Silos, in the former railway station precinct. The 30-metre-tall mural was painted by artist, Sam Brooks, who said the mural, "tells a story about two children, sharing stories about their past and their culture. These two children use these local books as a way to teach each other about their history, culture and connections to the area." The mural reflects the town's rich agricultural heritage, with references to Eudunda's Ngadjuri heritage, author Colin Thiele, the Eudunda Farmer's Co-Operative Society, Laucke's Mill, and more.
Transport
Eudunda was once a station on the Morgan railway line from 1878 until it closed. From 1914, it was the junction station for a branch running north past Point Pass to Robertstown. It is on the Thiele Highway, and is the junction to the Worlds End Highway leading north through Robertstown towards Burra and state route B84 (Curio Road) leading west through Auburn and Balaklava to Port Wakefield.
Narcoota
Narcoota and associated Narcoota Springs, lie in a valleyin the south of the Eudunda locality near Neales Flat. The area featured prominently in the pioneering history of South Australia.
Located at Section 350, Hundred of Dutton, South Australia, , Narcoota Springs are at the eastern escarpment of the Mount Lofty Ranges, 12 kilometers south of Eudunda, in a valley on Narcoota Creek, adjacent to the later named Smith Road.
Narcoota, an indigenous name for the area, is of obscure meaning. It may be a corruption of 'Narcoona' – seeing – in reference to being a lookout over the Murray Plains. European settlers adopted it from the outset, although it was variously spelt at first (examples are Nancoota, Tharcoota, and Nicota).
Narcoota Springs was a bustling stopover and watering place for the earliest explorers and pioneering overlanders, being a rare source of permanent water at the brink of the waterless Murray Plains. It was at the western end of the Narcoota Track, which from 1838 to 1842 was part of the main (and first) road between the Murray River and Adelaide. At the eastern end was The Pound, 9 km north of Blanchetown, which years later became named McBean Pound at Roonka Station. The overland road diverged at the Pound – one track went south toward Mount Barker and the other west to Narcoota, then on to Gawler Town and Adelaide.
Apart from overlanding parties droving large mobs of livestock from New South Wales, Narcoota Springs had some distinguished visitors in its heyday. They included Governor George Gawler and explorer Charles Sturt, as well as Henry Inman, Commander of Police, who passed through there at least five times.The first was in 1839 when Inman led a police party to the Weston Flat district to investigate conflict resulting in the death of one over-lander and an unknown number of Aboriginals. Months later he was back again when he took part in the exploration expedition of Governor Gawler from North West Bend to Mount Bryan.
In 1841 Inman was there again after his own over-landing party was attacked near Chowilla, losing 5,000 sheep. He again camped there as part of the 68-man police party led by Commissioner of Police Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran, sent by Governor George Grey to protect other over-landers at the Rufus River.
After a settlement was established in late 1841 by Edward John Eyre at Moorundie (8 km below Blanchetown, South Australia), the overland route then shifted further south, roughly following the present Sturt Highway between Blanchetown and Truro. The Narcoota Track became disused thereafter.
Later in the 1840s a pastoral property named Narcoota Station was established. Nearby is Mount Rufus, where gold was discovered in 1868, but without much result. With closer settlement in the latter part of the 1800s, many grain farmers moved into the district, such that by 1900 there were busy schools and churches. Over a century later many stone ruins attest to the failure of close settlement, but those pioneering foundations produced the farms and grazing properties which thrive there
today.
Geologically, the beds outcropping along Narcoota Creek are so typical in structure and stratigraphy of geological features occurring in several locations throughout the North Mount Lofty Ranges, that the name Narcoota Series has been adopted for the entire group.
Gallery
References
External links
eudunda.net – Eudunda & Region of Southern Goyder's Web Portal
Eudunda Community, Business and Tourism Committee
The Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
Eudunda's 150th Anniversary
Towns in South Australia
Geology of South Australia |
4008239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizoseismal%20area | Meizoseismal area | The meizoseismal area in an earthquake is the area of maximum damage. For example, in the Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886, the meizoseismal area was an area about twenty by thirty miles stretching northeast between Charleston and Jedburg and incorporating Summerville. The estimated epicenter was near Middleton Place.
References
Seismology |
4008247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldar | Haldar | Haldar is a surname or a title. Notable people with the surname include:
Asit Kumar Haldar (1890–1964), Indian painter
Debshankar Haldar (born 1965), Indian actor
Indrani Haldar (born 1971), Indian actress
Sucharu Ranjan Haldar (born 1940), Indian politician
See also
Halfar |
4008253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign%20Ro%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20The%20Next%20Generation%29 | Ensign Ro (Star Trek: The Next Generation) | "Ensign Ro" is the 103rd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The third episode of the fifth season.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D.
Plot
The Solarion IV settlement is destroyed, and the Bajorans claim responsibility. Their homeworld Bajor was annexed by the Cardassians generations ago, and the Bajorans have been refugees ever since, and apparently some of them are using terrorism to draw attention from the United Federation of Planets.
Captain Picard meets with Admiral Kennelly, who tells him that the Bajoran responsible is a terrorist named Orta. Picard's mission is to find Orta, and to send him back to the Bajoran settlement camps where he can do less damage.
Kennelly assigns a controversial person to assist Picard: Starfleet Ensign Ro Laren, a Bajoran whose reputation is very poor. Kennelly insists she can help, and she comes aboard the Enterprise.
Despite a difficult attitude, Ro works with the crew to locate Orta. Ultimately, they head to the third moon Vallor I where they believe he is based.
Meanwhile, Ro receives a secret communication from Admiral Kennelly and tells him all is going exactly as he predicted.
The next day, the away team prepares to beam down, but discover Ensign Ro had preempted them by beaming down six hours earlier. They follow her, and are promptly captured by Orta and his people. Orta, who was disfigured by Cardassian torture, tells them that he felt abducting them was necessary, and says that the Bajorans were not responsible for the attack.
Picard finds himself inclined to believe Orta, but confines Ro to quarters for her unauthorized beam down. Guinan, who has befriended Ro, goes to see Ro, and after learning there is more to what is going on that meets the eye, convinces Ro to talk to Picard.
Ro reveals that she is on a secret mission by Kennelly to offer Orta Federation weapons in exchange for returning to the camps. Given her experiences, she no longer knows what to do or whom to trust. Picard decides that the best course might be to actually take Orta back to the camps, and see what occurs.
However, as the Enterprise escorts a Bajoran cruiser to the camp, two Cardassian ships cross the border and demand the Enterprise leave the ship to them. Picard initially refuses, and the Cardassians give him an hour to reconsider. Far from helping, Kennelly insists that the Cardassian treaty is the more important issue and orders Picard to withdraw.
Picard withdraws, and the Bajoran cruiser is destroyed. However, suspecting a chain of events like this might occur, Picard had ensured no one was aboard, and had the ship operated remotely. Picard informs Kennelly that the Bajoran ships are so old and obsolete that they were incapable of even reaching the Solarion IV settlement, much less attacking it, and suggests that the Cardassians staged everything, hoping to find someone like Kennelly, naive enough to help them solve their problems.
With the mystery solved and the mission accomplished, Ro accepts Picard's offer to remain in Starfleet and join the Enterprise crew.
Casting and impact
Actress Michelle Forbes is cast as the troubled Bajoran Starfleet officer Ro Laren, who was a very popular character on The Next Generation. She was offered lead roles on both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, and there were attempts to set the Ro Laren character up for a role on those series, however it did not work out. One impact of this was that the character Kira Nerys was created as a replacement for Ro Laren on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actress Nana Visitor.
Reception
Variety listed "Ensign Ro" as one of the top 15 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The A.V. Club gave the episode an A- and said that the new character Ro was "terrific".
The character of Ensign Ro led to a recurring role on the series, and was an influential and popular character for the Star Trek franchise. In The Deep Space Nine Companion, it is said that Ro is one of the reasons Bajor was picked for the then new spin-off that became Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Ensign Ro inspired the character Kira on that show when the original actress was not available.
Releases
On October 22, 1996 this episode and "Silicon Avatar" were released on LaserDisc in the United States.
The episode was later released in the United States on November 5, 2002, as part of the season five DVD box set. The first Blu-ray release was in the United States on November 18, 2013, followed by the United Kingdom the next day, November 19, 2013.
References
External links
Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 5) episodes
1991 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Les Landau
Television episodes written by Rick Berman |
4008260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Burns%20%28attorney%29 | Jacob Burns (attorney) | Jacob Burns (Russian Empire, 1902 - 1993, New York City) was a prominent New York attorney specializing in corporate law and estates and trusts. He was a philanthropist, a painter, and a corporate leader. He was a founder and, for several years, chairman of the board of U.S. Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corp., a public company that merged with Revlon in 1966. Mr. Burns was a member of the Revlon board of directors from 1966 to 1985.
Jacob Burns’ father, George Burns (born Zorak Bialack) immigrated to the United States from Kyiv, Ukraine. He settled in Washington, D.C., around 1915, where he opened what may have been that city's first silent movie house on 14th St. NW. As a teen, it was Jacob Burns’ job to deliver the film to the theater on his bicycle, and to work the pedals of the player piano throughout the show.
At Yeshiva University, Mr. Burns served on the board of trustees and was a founding director of the Sy Syms School of Business. He was a member of the Cardozo Board of Directors from 1976 until his death in 1993 and was chairman from 1986 to 1992. In 1984, Yeshiva conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1970, Mr. Burns received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the George Washington University Law School, from which he had graduated in 1924. He was a member of the Order of the Coif for more than six decades. At George Washington University, he was a trustee for many years and a member of the board of directors of the George Washington University Law Association, which presented him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1975. He also received the Alumni Achievement Award in 1983 from the university's General Alumni Association. He was a member of the Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha at GW and a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the national fraternity. In April, 1959, Phi Alpha fraternity merged with Phi Sigma Delta and in 1969–70, Phi Sigma Delta merged into Zeta Beta Tau. Mr. Burns served as a Director of the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation from December 18, 1970 - December 31, 1972.
In the legal field, he was vice chairman of the Committee on Character and Fitness of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, first Judicial Department. For many years, he was a director of the New York County Lawyers' Association, which awarded him its Medal for Conspicuous Service. He was chairman of the Joint Coordinating Committee on Discipline of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a member of the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association.
In addition to his involvement with Yeshiva University and the George Washington University, Mr. Burns was a philanthropic leader in a broad spectrum of institutions that promoted the advancement of learning and the arts, including the Metropolitan Opera Association, Thirteen (WNET), and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. The Jacob Burns Foundation, which he founded in 1959, has given away millions of dollars to not-for-profit organizations in the U.S. It continues his legacy today, providing grants to projects such as the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York.
References
1902 births
1993 deaths
New York (state) lawyers
George Washington University Law School alumni
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
20th-century American lawyers |
4008290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWLC | KWLC | KWLC (1240 AM) is a college radio station. The station's programming consists primarily of music, but also includes sports, religious services, and educational content. In September 2015, KWLC added a Sunday afternoon news program. Licensed to Decorah, Iowa, United States. The station is currently owned by Luther College and operated by a staff of Luther students.
The station began broadcasting in 1926 and is said to be the oldest continually operating radio station in Iowa. It broadcasts on a frequency shared with local commercial station KDEC. In 2004, the station began webcasting.
References
External links
FCC timeshare documentation
WLC
Radio stations established in 1926 |
4008294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Baaten | Doris Baaten | Doris Baaten (born April 12, 1956 in Maastricht, Limburg) is a Dutch voice actress.
Baaten performed various female voices on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. She also provided the voice for female roles, such as Countess Dahling Von Dahling and Deena, and was featured in musical numbers during the 1980s. She also performed in a Dutch version of the musical Chicago.
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Dutch voice actresses
Actors from Maastricht |
4008300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20Australian%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20singles | 1988 Australian Open – Men's singles | Mats Wilander defeated Pat Cash in the final, 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 3–6, 6–1, 8–6 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1988 Australian Open.
Stefan Edberg was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Wilander.
This marked the first edition of the tournament to be held on hardcourts, having previously been held on grass courts.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Mats Wilander is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
Ivan Lendl (semifinals)
Stefan Edberg (semifinals)
Mats Wilander (champion)
Pat Cash (finals)
Yannick Noah (fourth round)
Anders Järryd (quarterfinals)
Henri Leconte (third round)
Slobodan Živojinović (third round)
Jakob Hlasek (first round)
Amos Mansdorf (first round)
Peter Lundgren (second round)
Christo van Rensburg (third round)
Paul Annacone (first round)
Jonas Svensson (fourth round)
Kelly Evernden (first round)
Wally Masur (fourth round)
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) – 1988 Australian Open Men's Singles draw
1988 Australian Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Mens singles
Australian Open (tennis) by year – Men's singles |
4008316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein%20Boele | Hein Boele | Hendrik Evert "Hein" Wigand Boele (born 24 November 1939 in Zwolle, Overijssel) is a Dutch voice actor.
Boele provides the voice of Elmo on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Boele also dubbed Gobo Fraggle's voice for Fraggle Rock.
Selected filmography
Pastorale 1943 (1978)
External links
1939 births
Dutch male film actors
Dutch male television actors
Dutch male voice actors
People from Zwolle
Living people
20th-century Dutch male actors |
4008338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate%20Secret%20Service | Confederate Secret Service | Confederate Secret Service refers to any of a number of official and semi-official secret service organizations and operations conducted by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Some of the organizations were under the direction of the Confederate government, others operated independently with government approval, while still others were either completely independent of the government or operated with only its tacit acknowledgment.
By 1864, the Confederate government was attempting to gain control over the various operations that had sprung up since the beginning of the war, but often with little success. Secret legislation was put before the Confederate Congress to create an official Special and Secret Bureau of the War Department. The legislation was not enacted until March 1865 and was never implemented; however, a number of groups and operations have historically been referred to as having been part of the Confederate Secret Service. In April 1865, most of the official papers of the Secret Service were burned by Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin just before the Confederate government evacuated Richmond, although a few pages of a financial ledger remain. Thus, the full story of Confederate secret operations may never be known.
Military operations and officially sanctioned Secret Service activities
Agents within the United States
The Confederacy benefited from the services of a number of "traditional" spies including Rose O'Neal Greenhow and Aaron Van Camp, who appear to have been members of an espionage ring during the formative period of the Confederate government. Greenhow was incarcerated at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. Thomas Jordan recruited Greenhow and provided her with cypher code.
Other known espionage agents include Belle Boyd and Catherine Virginia Baxley. John Surratt served as both a courier and spy.
John H. Sothoron appears to have led the Confederate underground in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Col. Sothoron lived near Charlotte Hall Military Academy. His son, Webster, attended the school and was reputed to be a spy. Richard Thomas (Zarvona) and David Herold were also students, although Herold's attending is disputed.
Samuel Mudd, of Charles County, Maryland, appears to have lent shelter to agents and harbored John Wilkes Booth, although Mudd's role is disputed.
Foreign agents
The Confederacy's first secret-service agent may have been James D. Bulloch. In 1861, almost immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter, Bulloch traveled to Liverpool, England, to establish a base of operations. Britain was officially neutral in the conflict between North and South, but private and public sentiment favored the Confederacy. Britain was also willing to buy cotton that could be smuggled past the Union blockade, which provided the South with its only real source of hard currency. Bulloch established a relationship with the shipping firm of Fraser, Trenholm & Company to buy and sell Confederate cotton, using this currency to purchase arms and ammunition, uniforms, and other supplies for the war effort. Fraser, Trenholm & Co. became, in effect, the Confederacy's international bankers. Bulloch also arranged for the construction and secret purchase of the commerce raider CSS Alabama, as well as many of the blockade runners that acted as the Confederacy's commercial lifeline.
Jacob Thompson was the Confederate commissioner in Canada. He distributed money, coordinated agents, and may have planned covert operations. He was involved in the attempt to liberate Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island, a Union facility which also housed political prisoners.
Thompson met with Clement Laird Vallandigham, an Ohio politician. Vallandigham, a potential presidential candidate against Lincoln, was arrested by Union General Ambrose Burnside and deported to the Confederacy. Vallandigham made his way to Canada.
Signal Corps
The Confederate Signal Corps was established in 1862. Nearly 1,200 men were in the secret service, most of whom were well-to-do and knew more than one language. Example: Alexander Campbell Rucker, brother of Col Edmund Winchester Rucker, was in the Confederate Secret Service. -from an article in the Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, Kentucky) 16 Feb, 1922.
Major William Norris was their commander. Norris may have worked under Braxton Bragg. On April 26, 1865, Norris took the position of the Commissioner of Prisoner Exchange Robert Ould. Ould may have been the civilian liaison to the corps, and Bragg the military liaison, with both reporting to Jefferson Davis or Judah Benjamin.
Thomas Nelson Conrad was a scout and spy who worked with Norris.
Torpedo Bureau
The Torpedo Bureau, authorized on October 31, 1862, and headed by Brigadier General Gabriel Rains, was charged with the production of various explosive devices, including land mines, naval mines, and "coal torpedoes."
Submarine Battery Service
Created at the same time as the Torpedo Bureau, the Submarine Battery Service was the Confederate Navy's torpedo specialists. The service primarily utilized electrically-detonated torpedoes to protect the South's waterways. Originally under Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, known as "The Pathfinder of the Seas", Maury was succeeded by his protégé, Lt. Hunter Davidson, when Maury was sent abroad to further his experiments involving electrical torpedoes and to procure needed supplies and ships. The service operated along the James River between Richmond and Hampton Roads, Virginia, Wilmington, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, among other locales.
Bureau of Special and Secret Service
In November 1864, the Confederate House of Representatives in secret session referred a bill “for the establishment of a Bureau of Special and Secret Service” to their Committee on Military Affairs. The bureau was to have a “polytechnic corps”. The existing “torpedo corps” was to be incorporated into the bureau. New inventions were to be encouraged.
Secret Service operations in Canada and the Maritime provinces
Confederate agents operated around Halifax, Quebec City, Niagara, Toronto, and (especially) Montreal.
Sanctioned destructionists, privateers, and licensed operators
The bounty law
The Confederacy knew it was in trouble from the beginning of war without its own Navy. The few privately owned ships that could be converted to military service were no match for the Union Navy. On May 21, 1861, the Confederate Congress enacted an amendment to their May 6, 1861 Declaration of War which provided that
the government of the Confederate States will pay to the cruiser or cruisers of any private armed vessel commissioned under said act, twenty per centum on the value of each and every vessel of war belonging to the enemy, that may be sunk or destroyed by such private armed vessel or vessels, the value of the armament to be included in the estimate.
In 1862, possibly following a suggestion, the Confederate Congress enacted a bounty of fifty percent of the value of any vessel destroyed by means of a new invention:
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the first section of the above entitled Act be so amended, that, in case any person or persons shall invent or construct any new machine or engine, or contrive any new method for destroying the armed vessels of the enemy, he or they shall receive fifty per centum of the value of each and every such vessel that may be sunk or destroyed, by means of such invention or contrivance,
This attracted the attention of entrepreneurs. Horace Hunley put together a group of investors to finance the submarine that bears his name, hoping to profit from the bounties. Private individuals with engineering experience such as E. C. Singer, C. Williams, and Zere McDaniel developed and patented new torpedoes and fuses.
Special and detached service
The coal torpedo
Developed by Thomas Courtenay of the Confederate Secret Service, coal torpedoes were hollow metal castings resembling a lump of coal. The castings were filled with powder and then secreted in the coal bunker of enemy vessels. When the coal replicas were shoveled into the fire boxes of ship's boilers, the resulting explosions either damaged or sank the ship. A hollowed out piece of wood filled with powder was used against river steamers. These could be concealed in the fuel piles of cord wood stacked along the river banks.
Active measures operations
The Dahlgren Affair incensed Jefferson and the Confederate leadership. Combined with the desperate, dismal fortunes on the battlefield, the secret service was re-invigorated in 1864. It was involved in the 19 October 1864 St. Albans Raid in Vermont by personnel in Canada, the arson plans/attacks in northern cities, and future Kentucky governor Blackburn's biological warfare plot. Many historians believe the attempted John Wilkes Booth plots in the assassination of President Lincoln in August 1864 and April 1865 may have been connected to the Secret Service which was seen as reciprocation for the Stanton's Dahlgren orders. This is argued in the Edward Steers, Jr. book, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Confederate Secret Service in popular culture
In literature
On the Wing of Occasions, by Joel Chandler Harris, Doubleday, New York, 1904
The Butcher's Cleaver, (A Tale of the Confederate Secret Services.) by W. Patrick Lang Rosemont Books, 2007,
Death Piled Hard, (A Tale of the Confederate Secret Services.) by W. Patrick Lang iUniverse 2009
Down the Sky, (Volume Three of the "Strike the Tent" trilogy) by W. Patrick Lang iUniverse 2012
The Shenandoah Spy by Francis Hamit, Brass Cannon Books, 2008
The Queen of Washington by Francis Hamit, Brass Cannon Books 2011
In television
A self-igniting liquid, referred to as "Greek fire" in Season 1 Episodes 7–11 of the BBC America television series Copper, is featured as part of a plot by Confederate Secret Service agents to burn down New York City, in 1864.
See also
Nitre and Mining Bureau
American Civil War spies
Black Dispatches
Bureau of Military Information
Confederate Army of Manhattan
List of New York Civil War regiments
New York City in the American Civil War
New York National Guard (American Civil War)
St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City)
References
Further reading
Tidwell, William A., James O. Hall and David Winfred Gaddy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln (1988)
Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea, Frances Leigh Williams, (1969)
The Pathfinder of the Seas, The Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, by John W. Wayland, (1930)
Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N., by Diana Fontaine Maury-Corbin.
The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe; James Dunwody Bulloch
Perry, Milton F. "Infernal Machines: The story of Confederate submarine and mine warfare." Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
Crowley, R.O. "Confederate Torpedo Service" in The Century / Volume 56, Issue 2, The Century Company, New York, June 1898.
Bulloch, James D. "The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe; or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped." 1883.
Tidwell, William A. "April '65." Kent State University Press, 1995.
Kochan, Michael P. and John C. Wideman. "Torpedoes: Another look at the Infernal Machines of the Civil War." 2002.
United States Government, Intelligence in the Civil War. Washington, D.C., Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
1861 establishments in the Confederate States of America
Military units and formations established in 1861
1865 disestablishments in the Confederate States of America
Government of the Confederate States
Military history of the Confederate States of America
American Civil War espionage
Defunct intelligence agencies |
4008367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellen%20Huisman | Hellen Huisman | Hellen Huisman (26 March 1937, in Amsterdam – 29 January 2012, in Blaricum) was a voice actor who did voiceover work on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Hellen originated the Dutch voice of Prairie Dawn, and has done the voice-over of other girls on the show from 1976 to the 2000s. She is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.
External links
1937 births
2012 deaths
Actresses from Amsterdam
Dutch voice actresses |
4008377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garner%20Magnet%20High%20School | Garner Magnet High School | Garner Magnet High School (GMHS) is a comprehensive public high school in Garner, North Carolina, United States, a city southeast of Raleigh. The school was founded as Garner Senior High School (GSHS), which graduated its first class in 1969. Garner is one of four high schools in the Wake County Public School System offering an International Baccalaureate Programme of study, along with Needham B. Broughton High School, William G. Enloe High School, and Millbrook High School.
As of 2018-19, Garner offers its nearly 2,400 students 34 IB Diploma Programme courses, 16 Advanced Placement courses, 48 Career and Technical Education courses, Three world languages, a Public Safety Career Academy, an Army JROTC program, courses in Music, Dance, Theatre and Visual Arts, 19 varsity sports, and 50 student clubs. The school is also seeking authorization to begin offering the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme beginning in the fall of 2019.
History
The school opened in the fall of 1968 when Garner desegregated its schools. Garner Consolidated School had served African-American students. Garner High School had served white students (and handful of African-American students) who elected to attend under the "choice" plan that was in place prior to desegregation. Garner resident Tim Stevens, a retired journalist, in March 2018 premiered a theatrical production, "68," telling the story of the school's September 2 opening that year. Stevens credits the community and principal Wayne Bare for managing integration peacefully and for overcoming a number of construction delays. In a 2008 book on implementation of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, editors Daugherity and Bolton attribute Garner's successful desegregation to Bare's effort to create a shared culture and avoid a power imbalance.
In the summer of 2016, the Garner Magnet High School building was partially torn down due to mold and mildew, and Garner Magnet High School's students were located in the South Garner High School building until the renovation of Garner Magnet High School was complete.
Notable alumni
Brandon Banks, former NFL player for the Washington Redskins and CFL player for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Anthony Blaylock, former NFL defensive back
Matthew Butler, NFL defensive tackle
Chris Culliver, former NFL defensive back
Tucker Dupree, American swimmer, competed in the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic games
Nyheim Hines, NFL running back; two sport athlete in football and track at NC State
James Mays, professional basketball player
Scotty McCreery, country music singer and season 10 winner of American Idol
Richard Medlin, NFL player
King Mez (Morris W. Ricks II), rapper, producer and writer
Wilmont Perry, NFL and Arena League football player
Randolph Ross, track athlete, 2020 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400m relay
John Wall, All-Star NBA player for the Houston Rockets
Pat Watkins, MLB outfielder
David West, NBA player and two-time champion with the Golden State Warriors
Donald Williams, professional basketball player; 1993 NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player at North Carolina
Eric Williams, former NFL safety
References
Public high schools in North Carolina
Schools in Wake County, North Carolina
Magnet schools in North Carolina
1968 establishments in North Carolina
Educational institutions established in 1968 |
4008381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraz%C3%B3n%20salvaje%20%281968%20film%29 | Corazón salvaje (1968 film) | Corazón salvaje ("Wild at Heart") was the second film adaptation of the Caridad Bravo Adams 1957 novel of the same name. It is considered the closest to the original story.
The first film was made in 1956 and starred Martha Roth. The 1968 version starred Julio Alemán in the role of Juan del Diablo and Angélica María as Mónica Molnar – this part made her a star in China. She later repeated her role in the 1977 telenovela version.
Cast
Julio Alemán as Juan del Diablo
Angélica María as Mónica Molnar
Teresa Velázquez as Aimée Molnar
Manuel Gil
Beatriz Baz
Miguel Macía
José Baviera
Sara Guasch
Sandra Chávez
Rafael Llamas
Antonio Bravo
Consuelo Frank
Carlos Agostí
Eduardo MacGregor
Víctor Alcocer
Antonio Raxel
Ramiro Orci
Manuel Garay
Juan Antonio Edwards
Roberto Haughton
Plot
For the story read the article on the novel Corazón salvaje.
See also
Corazón salvaje
References
External links
1968 films
Mexican films
Spanish-language films
Films based on Mexican novels
Films set in the 1900s
Estudios Churubusco films
Films directed by Tito Davison
1968 drama films
Mexican drama films |
4008387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%27s%20hopping%20mouse | Mitchell's hopping mouse | Mitchell's hopping mouse (Notomys mitchellii) also known as the pankot, is the largest extant member of the genus Notomys, weighing between . N. mitchellii is a bipedal rodent with large back legs, similar to a jerboa or kangaroo rat. The species occurs throughout much of semi-arid Southern Australia, and appears to be particularly common on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Typical habitat for N. mitchellii appears to be mallee shrublands on sandy dune systems. The species is currently considered to be unthreatened, but its range has been reduced through habitat disturbance and destruction associated with European settlement in Australia.
Individuals are a sandy grey colour, with white chest hairs and a paler underbelly. The tail of the species is long and has the characteristic hopping mouse brush at the tip. This tail morphology is thought to aid balance when travelling at speed. Being nocturnal, Notomys mitchellii shelters during the day in typical hopping mouse burrows; a small number of interconnected, vertical shafts, burrowing deep into the dune. Up to eight animals, different ages and sex, have been found in a single burrow.
N. mitchellii is known to have a lifespan of up to five years in the laboratory and this is thought to be a strategy evolved to combat the breeding-constraints of lengthy periods of drought. It has also been found that this species is less able to cope with water deprivation than other species of the genus. Notomys mitchellii produces concentrated urine to conserve water, but in a different way to more arid-dwelling rodents. The diet of N. mitchellii is also thought to consist of more roots and green matter than that of other species of the genus: animals captured in drought conditions had stomach contents consisting of some 85% roots, 11% green leaf and 4% seed.
As a pet
A 2010 report by the Australian Government Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation into the feasibility of keeping Australian native mammals as pets concluded that "Mitchell's hopping mouse is a suitable species for widespread keeping as a pet." , this would require changes to legislation or policy in most Australian states and territories. As of late 2013, Mitchell's hopping mice can be kept as pets without a licence in Victoria (Australia), however commercial breeding still requires a licence to prevent removal of mice from the wild.
Victorian Wildlife Regulations 2013 - Schedule 4B
Species are commonly kept by large numbers of the general public.
Husbandry techniques are simple and well established.
A licence is required to obtain and, sell these species for commercial purposes as a safe guard against take from the wild.
A licence is not required for private purposes
References
Further reading
Notomys
Mammals of Western Australia
Mammals of South Australia
Mammals of New South Wales
Mammals of Victoria (Australia)
Rodents of Australia
Mammals described in 1838 |
4008394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio%20Pocitos | Estadio Pocitos | Estadio Pocitos was a multi-use stadium located in the Pocitos district of Montevideo, Uruguay. The stadium, owned by C.A. Peñarol, was mainly used for football matches from 1921 to 1933. It was demolished later in the 1930s when Peñarol started to play in the Estadio Centenario as its home field, and additionally due to the increasing urbanisation of Montevideo.
The stadium was one of the venues of the first FIFA World Cup held in 1930, and site of the first goal in World Cup history, scored by France's player Lucien Laurent against Mexico. The match was one of the two games that opened the World Cup, the other being held at the same time in Estadio Gran Parque Central.
This stadium was one of the first football stadiums to include elliptical stands, taken from the model of the ancient Greece theatre. It has been said that the Estadio Centenario was planned to be a "giant version" of this stadium. Pocitos Stadium was included in a German book of the 40 most influential stadiums in history.
History
The stadium was officially inaugurate on November 6, 1921 with a friendly match between Peñarol and Argentine River Plate with ended 1–1. It was located on Coronel Alegre, Charrúa, Silvestre Blanco, and Avenida Soca streets. The original idea was to inaugurate the venue with a Peñarol v Nacional match but due to relations between the two biggest clubs of Uruguay were increasingly tense on those days and Nacional did not want to participate, a new match was arranged inviting River Plate.
Peñarol used the Pocitos stadium as their home venue until 1933 when the team moved to Estadio Centenario that had been built for the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
Due to major road development projects in the city, the streets were laid out on the playing field in 1937 and the ticket offices were demolished along with the Pocitos tram station of in 1946 when Doctor Francisco Soca Avenue was extended to José Batlle y Ordóñez Park. The field disappeared and became part of a middle-class neighborhood of Montevideo with high real estate value.
Between 2002 and 2006, the Uruguayan architect Héctor Benech took on the challenge of conducting an investigation to determine the exact place where the first World Cup goal was scored. Without official records, he found in the archives of the Municipality of Montevideo an aerial photograph from 1926 which, by superimposing it with a current photo, made it possible to locate the playing field. In June 2006, the discovery was made public at the Uruguayan Football Museum of the AUF.
The Uruguayan Football Museum, the Municipal Administration of Montevideo and "Montevideo Refrescos" (local bottler of Coca-Cola) jointly organized the contest "In Search of the Lost Arch", to make two sculptures, one in the original location of the center of the pitch and the other in the location of the goal where the first goal in World Cup history was scored. The contest was won by Argentine architect Eduardo Di Mauro with his works Cero a cero y pelota al medio ("zero to zero and ball to the middle") and Donde duermen las arañas ("where the spiders sleep").
Events
1930 FIFA World Cup
During the 1930 FIFA World Cup, the stadium hosted two group matches:
Other football matches
The stadium hosted some friendly matches during the British football clubs tours to South America in the 1920s. Matches held in Pocitos include:
References
Pocitos
Pocitos
1930 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Defunct football venues in Uruguay |
4008403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Lagarde | Alfred Lagarde | Alfred Lagarde (April 2, 1948 – January 1, 1998) was a Dutch radio personality.
Born in Groningen, Lagarde presented the hard rock radio program Betonuur from 1974 to 1979. Lagarde was a great proponent of hard rock and heavy metal; he also produced the first single of Dutch-language hard rock act Vandale, in 1979.
Lagarde performed the original voice of Telly on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. After a few brief appearances, Telly became a main character in the late 1980s. His Dutch name is Teevee Monster, or simply Teevee ("tay-vay").
When Lagarde died, Fred Meijer became the new dubbing voice of Telly.
References
External links
Site dedicated to Alfred Lagarde
1948 births
1998 deaths
Dutch male voice actors
People from Groningen (city)
20th-century Dutch male actors |
4008418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston%20Public%20Schools | Livingston Public Schools | The Livingston Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Livingston, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The district consists of six elementary schools, grades PreK/K-5; one middle school for grade 6 and another middle school for grades 7 and 8, and one four-year high school.
As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprised of nine schools, had an enrollment of 6,151 students and 500.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
Awards and recognition
For the 1997-98 school year, Livingston High School received the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
The district's high school was the 16th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 24th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 20th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Livingston High School was the 14th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.
The school was ranked 1038th nationwide, the 33rd-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools based solely on the efforts among 27,000 US schools in making Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge (AICE) tests available to all students.
The district was among 367 school districts in the US to receive AP District of the Year Awards in the 2nd Annual Honor Roll and among 539 districts in the 3rd Annual Honor Roll.
FemGineers
FemGineers (Female Engineering Club) is a program in Heritage Middle School to encourage female students to participate in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The program was founded with 10 eight-grade girls to participate in engineering-based competitions. In the five-year period after the establishment of the program, the size of participant increased to 60 girls. The Board of Education of the Livingston Public Schools also supported the initiative by the mean of funding its technology lab. A review in 2013 by the American School Board Journal found that the program resulted in an improvement in standardized math test scores and more female students continued to enroll in higher-level math classes when they enter Livingston High School. However, the future career decisions for those participants are still yet to be seen. The journal awarded the program as one of the winners of the 2013 Magna Awards in the category of public school districts with 5,000 to 20,000 enrollments in the United States.
Additionally, the National School Boards Association listed the FemGineers program and the technology teacher in its "20 to Watch" in 2013 citing the program's attempt to address the gender equality concern in STEM initiatives.
Competitions
Livingston's schools participate in many county, interschool, state, and national competitions. Highlights of the accomplishments are:
Arts and literature
Harrison Elementary School and Mount Pleasant Middle School students won first place in the 2007 National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students and Essex County Poster Contest.
Finalist of 2009 Cray-Pas Wonderful, Colorful World Contest
A student was a winner of the Third Arts Olympiad and was selected to represent New Jersey in 2007 World Children's Festival
Elementary school students were winners of 2004, 2006 and 2007 Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest
Livingston High School students won first-place awards in Pascrell Congressional Art Contest and Ducret School of Art Annual High School Student Art Show.
In 2008, 2010 and 2012, Livingston High School students were selected to be part of the 120-member National High School Honors Orchestra that performs biennially at the American String Teachers Association National Conference.
Business and law
Elementary schools have been consistent winners of New Jersey State Bar Foundation Law Fair Mock Trial Competitions for grade 3 to 6. Riker Hill, Mount Pleasant, Harrison and Collins were winners of the competitions in 2000–2002, 2006–2010, and 2012–2013.
Livingston High School students were winners from 2008 to 2012 at Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference. In 2012, national first place in Economics and Sport Management, and seventh place in Entrepreneurship.
General knowledge
Mount Pleasant Middle School was first place national winner of Knowledge Master Open in 2007 and fourth place national winner in 2008
Heritage Middle School ranked #1 in New Jersey for Spring 2011 Knowledge Master Open. It was also ranked #19 out of 604 middle schools in the United States and other countries.
Livingston High School received recognition for its AP Program as a 2006-2007 State High School winner of the Seimen's Award for Advanced Placement
Math
Mount Pleasant Middle School ranked #2 out of 204 schools in 6th grade in 2008-2009 New Jersey Mathematics League contest
Heritage Middle School was national first-place winner in the Continental Mathematics League/Euclidean Divisions 7 and 8
Livingston High School ranked #1 in the league for the 2012 New Jersey Mathematics League contest
Livingston High School has been consistent first-place winner of Essex County Math League from 1989 to 2009
Science
Mount Pleasant Middle School was ranked #2 in Northern New Jersey region in 2009 New Jersey Science Olympiad
Heritage Middle School ranked #5 and #7 nationally in the Life Science and General Science respectively in National Science League
Livingston High School was placed first in the state in Integrated and Advanced Integrated Science in 2008 Merck State Science Day
Livingston High School has been the Northern New Jersey Regional Champion of New Jersey Science Olympiad from 2004 to 2009. Livingston school district is one of the only three districts that have both middle and high schools in top ten of State Championship Tournament in 2009.
Livingston High School has produced 4 semifinalists and 1 finalist for the Intel Science Talent Search between 2008 and 2012
A semi-finalist for the Google Science Fair in 2011
National Winner in the 2009 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. A regional finalist in 2010.
A national finalist at 2012 USA Biology Olympiad
National Honors since 2010 in United States National Chemistry Olympiad. Two of the top twenty students in the US in 2012 were from Livingston High School.
Regional finalists at Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition in 2007-08 and 2010-11
Technology
Heritage Middle School was a finalist in the National Technology Student Association Conference.
Heritage Middle School teams were winners in regional Future City Competition
Livingston High School's robotics team won at 2010-2011 FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship
A team from Livingston High School competed in 2012 Shell Eco-marathon Americas among other high-school and university teams. Ranked 6th among high school teams in the Gasoline Powered Prototype category.
Livingston Public School is a winner of the 2013 Magna Awards by American School Board Journal for its female engineering club.
World language
Heritage Middle School students scored third and seventh in the nation for the 2011 National French Contest. Livingston High School students scored up to the third in the nation.
Twenty-eight Livingston High School students placed in the top 10 positions in the state for the 2011 National Spanish Examinations
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2019-20 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Elementary schools
Burnet Hill Elementary School (488 students in grades PreK-5)
Sara Bright, Principal
Collins Elementary School (462; K-5)
Michelle Cebula , Principal
Amos W. Harrison Elementary School (449; K-5)
Daniel Garcia, Principal
Hillside Elementary School (397; K-5)
Carlos Gramata Jr., Principal
Mount Pleasant Elementary School (434; K-5)
Dr. Lorena Dolan, Principal
Riker Hill Elementary School (400; K-5)
. Justin Toomey, Principal
Middle schools
Mount Pleasant Middle School (507; Grade 6)
Bronawyn O'Leary, Principal
Heritage Middle School (1,008; 7-8)
Shawn Kelly, Principal
High school
Livingston High School (1,945; 9-12)
Danielle Rosenzweig, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Dr. Matthew J. Block, Superintendent
Steven K. Robinson, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Board of education
The district's board of education is comprised of five members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.
References
External links
Livingston Public Schools
School Data for the Livingston Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Livingston, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group I
School districts in Essex County, New Jersey |
4008436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201992%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympics | Canada competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Men's combined
Women
Women's combined
Biathlon
Men
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Women
Women's 3 x 7.5 km relay
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Men
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Women
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Curling
Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice Dancing
Freestyle skiing
Men
Women
Ice hockey
Group B
Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.
Final round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Leading scorers
Team Roster
Sean Burke
Trevor Kidd
Sam St. Laurent
Kevin Dahl
Curt Giles
Gord Hynes
Brian Tutt
Dave Hannan
Dave Archibald
Adrien Plavsic
Eric Lindros
Chris Lindberg
Todd Brost
Joé Juneau
Randy Smith
Jason Woolley
Dan Ratushny
Fabian Joseph
Kent Manderville
Brad Schlegel (c)
Patrick Lebeau
Wally Schreiber
Dave Tippett
Head Coach: Dave King
Luge
Men
(Men's) Doubles
Women
Short track speed skating
Men
Women
Ski jumping
Men's team large hill
1 Three (for most countries four) teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1992 Winter Olympics
1992
Winter Olympics |
4008439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Piekos | Peter Piekos | Peter Piekos (pseudonym of Pieter Koster) (13 January 1918, Amsterdam - 2000) was a Dutch voice actor.
Piekos was the original voice actor for Cookie Monster (and Herry Monster) for Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. He occasionally performed the voices of Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, as well as a lot of the narrators: his regular voice sounds like an old fashioned radio announcer.
During the late 1980s, Hero Muller took over both monsters. Peter was living in Italy at the time, and was unlocatable by producers.
Unlike the original English-speaking Cookie Monster, the Dutch "Koekiemonster" uses correct grammar.
External links
1918 births
2000 deaths
Dutch male voice actors
Male actors from Amsterdam
20th-century Dutch male actors |
4008471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingscote%2C%20South%20Australia | Kingscote, South Australia | Kingscote is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about south-west of the state capital of Adelaide. It is South Australia's oldest European settlement and the island's largest town. At the 2016 census, Kingscote had a population of 1,790. It is a well-established tourist centre and the administrative and communications centre. It is home to a colony of the smallest penguins in the world, the little penguin.
The town is served by Kingscote Airport with passenger flights on two airlines.
History
The South Australian Company established its colony at Kingscote at Reeves Point on 27 July 1836, as South Australia's first official European settlement, the first settlers having arrived on the Duke of York, and named for Henry Kingscote, one of the founding directors of the company.
It was early suggested that Kingscote could serve as the capital of South Australia, but the island's resources were insufficient to support such a large community; the South Australian Company moved almost six months later to Adelaide after sending surveyors to find a better site.
The history of the area is displayed in the museum in Hope Cottage, to the north of the town. Hope Cottage was one of the three earliest houses built in Kingscote, circa 1850, with the adjoining cottages of Faith and Charity. (Faith has been subsequently demolished.)
The Old Mulberry Tree at Reeves Point was planted in 1836 and still bears fruit. Reeves Point has been placed on the Australian Heritage Places List.
The current town of Kingscote is now immediately to the south of the original Kingscote settlement at Reeves Point in the area originally known as Queenscliffe (the origin of the name of the Queenscliffe Hotel in Dauncey Street).
State heritage places
Kingscote contains the following places which are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register:
Hope Cottage
The Bluff Cottage
Barrett's Store
Reeves Point Settlement Site being the site of the first official settlement in the Colony of South Australia
Old Government Quarry
Facilities
Kingscote has a school offering years reception to 12 (R-12), a hospital, supermarket, post office and government offices. It is the administrative centre for the Kangaroo Island Council, whose offices have recently undergone a significant upgrade.
Recreational facilities include a sports centre and adjoining oval and netball courts.
Foreshore
A wharf and jetty stand at the waterfront. They were previously used by the roll-on, roll-off vessels, Troubridge and Island Seaway and now serve smaller vessels.
The jetty is accessible for recreational fishing and scuba diving and pelican feeding and nocturnal penguin tours are offered at the Penguin Centre, which is adjacent to the jetty.
The Aurora Ozone Seafront Hotel, with its mermaid statue, is a well-known landmark on the Kingscote foreshore. The hotel opened in 1907. It was destroyed by fire 27 Aug 1918, but was rebuilt and opened for business again on 29 December 1920.
Shark proof tidal swimming pool
A shark-proof tidal swimming pool is open to the public. Fundraising commenced in 1947 and plans were drafted by the South Australian Harbours Board. The Harbours Board estimated the total construction cost for the pool to be £607 and Mr W. S. Myers, won the contract for its construction. A subscription list was started and maintained to update local residents on fundraising progress and matching funding was offered by the South Australian Tourist Bureau. Construction commenced in 1949. Work continued in 1950, following delays owing to labor shortages and inclement weather.
Little penguin colony
In 2007, the Kingscote colony of little penguins' population was 868 adults and fell to 706 in 2010. In 2011, it was believed to be either declining or stable. In 2012, the population fell to 300 adults according to DEW figures. In 2013, the Kingscote colony of little penguins had dropped to 20 birds, according to tour operator John Ayliffe. Official 2013 census figures were greater, estimating 154 breeding adults, down 48 per cent from the previous year and 82 per cent since the population peak in 2007.
Increasing populations of long-nosed fur seals are believed to be a factor in the decline. Other predators of penguins on Kangaroo Island include rats, dogs, cats, goannas, sea lions and sea eagles. Since the 1990s, penguin tour operators have improved the nesting habitat in the visitation area at Kingscote, through vegetation, habitat protection and constructing boardwalks for tourists. In October 2011, 15 dead penguin chicks were found near the Kingscote colony with their heads removed. A dog or cat attack was presumed to be the cause of death. A similar event also happened in 2010.
Disease and declining fish stocks have also been blamed for declines in Little penguin numbers.
Other colonies in South Australia have experienced dramatic declines since the 1990s. The nearest examples of colonies in decline are found in Encounter Bay (Granite Island, Wright Island and West Island) and at Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island.
Accounts of little penguins at Kingscote exist from the 1930s.
The Spit
Historically, little penguins have also been observed in burrows on The Spit which lies across the mouth of Bay of Shoals. Observations of penguins at this location were published in 1888, 1911, 1915, 1934 and 1938. A child visiting in 1947 found at least six penguin burrows. The species did not appear in the list of birds observed at Busby Islet Conservation Park (part of The Spit) which was published in 1987. The colonies at Busby and Beatrice Islets became extinct after introduced African boxthorn vegetation was removed. This destabilised the sand and rendered the habitat unsuitable for penguin burrows.
Climate
Kingscote experiences a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csb), Trewartha: Csbl); with warm, dry summers; mild, relatively dry springs and autumns; and mild winters with moderate precipitation.
There is also data at the airport in Kingscote, 12.0 km away. It experiences similar climatic conditions, but due to its inland location, the weather station has a greater seasonal difference between winter and summer; and the diurnal temperature variation is higher.
Gallery
See also
Kingscote (disambiguation)
Kingscote Airport
List of little penguin colonies
References
External links
Hope Cottage
Kangaroo Island
Towns on Kangaroo Island
Coastal towns in South Australia
1836 establishments in Australia
Penguin colonies |
4008483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB90-class%20fast%20assault%20craft | CB90-class fast assault craft | Stridsbåt 90 H(alv) (Strb 90 H; CB90) is a class of fast military assault craft used by several countries after being originally developed for the Swedish Navy by Dockstavarvet. Its name means Combat Boat 90 Half; the 90 refers to the year of acceptance (1990) and Half refers to the fact that it can carry and deploy a half platoon of amphibious infantry (18 men) fully equipped. The CB90 is an exceptionally fast and agile boat that can execute extremely sharp turns at high speed, decelerate from top speed to a full stop in 2.5 boat lengths, and adjust both its pitch and roll angle while under way. Its light weight, shallow draught, and twin water jets allow it to operate at speeds of up to in shallow coastal waters. The water jets are partially ducted, which, along with underwater control surfaces similar to a submarine's diving planes, gives the CB90 its manoeuvrability.
In addition to the many variants in service with the Swedish Navy under the "Stridsbåt 90H" designation, the CB 90 has been adopted by the navies of Norway (as the S90N), Greece, Mexico (as the CB 90 HMN), the United States (as the Riverine Command Boat), and Malaysia.
Development and adoption history
In 1988, Dockstavarvet won a competition to design and manufacture a replacement for the aging Tpbs 200 class. Two prototypes, with pennant number 801 and 802, were delivered in 1989. After completion of field trials, the Swedish Navy signed a purchase order for 120 boats in June 1990.
In 2002, the Swedish Navy ordered an additional 27 boats of a slightly different type, designated Stridsbåt 90 HS - where S refers to Skydd (protected) as the Strb 90 HS is armoured and features CBRN protection (the whole boat can be over-pressurized) - intended for use in international peace-keeping operations. Apart from the addition of armour, it sports air-conditioning for deployment in tropical conditions, fuel cooling system, 230 V generator and more powerful engines. The manufacturer sometimes refers to the model as the CB 90 HI, where the I probably stands for International.
Several of the tasks carried out by the Strb 90 H-variants, were originally intended for the Strb 90 E, which is now almost completely phased out.
The Royal Norwegian Navy evaluated the Strb 90 H in early 1996, and subsequently purchased a total of 20 boats, designated 90 N (for Norsk utgave, literally Norwegian version).
The Mexican Navy acquired 40 units (designated CB 90 HMN) between 1999 and 2001, and obtained a production license in 2002, allowing further units to be manufactured in Mexico. Since then eight additional units have been built.
The German Water Police rented a Combat Boat 90H from the manufacturer Dockstavarvet for the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. This boat was involved in a high-speed chase with three Greenpeace RIBs which were trying to enter the restricted area near the hotel where the meeting was being held. A video clip of the incident was later widely spread around the internet.
In July 2007 The United States Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) specified the CB90 for testing as its Riverine Command Boat. Safeboat International of Port Orchard, Washington, was given a US$2.8 million contract to produce one prototype. The CB90 was subsequently adopted, and two were involved in an incident with Iran in 2016.
In June 2009 an unknown buyer from Abu Dhabi bought two civilian luxury versions.
In 2010, Dockstavarvet Shipyard modified two CB90's to be carried in the davits of Dutch and UK Navy Landing Platform Docks. During these six months trials, the two boats and a full Swedish boat squadron were embarked on a Royal Netherlands Navy LPD as a fully integrated element of the amphibious forces aboard and successfully deployed.
In 2013 JSC Pella Shipyard near St Petersburg launched the first Russian built Raptor-class patrol boat "Raptor", but while the ships are strikingly similar there is no indication Dockstavarvet has been involved or licensed the design to Pella.
Versions
Several Strb 90 H have been converted by the Swedish Navy to fill various roles:
The Strb 90 L is outfitted for battalion-level command and control, with computer and communications equipment and an auxiliary generator to provide electrical power when the engines are not running. The L stands for ledning (command or leadership).
The Strb 90 KompL is a plain Strb 90 H in which portable computer and communications equipment has been installed, allowing it to temporarily provide company-level command and control. Electrical power is provided by a rather loud portable generator installed on deck.
The Strb 90 HS is designed for overseas peace-keeping and rescue operations. It is modified to keep its crew comfortable in Mediterranean conditions, with air conditioning, an auxiliary generator, a head, and more comfortable crew stations. More importantly, it is armored, and its engines have been upgraded to compensate for the added weight.
At least one Strb 90 H, pennant number 802, is equipped with a decompression chamber.
The Swedish Police operate one unarmed Strb 90 H equipped with bunks, a pantry and a crew lounge.
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society operates two unarmed Strb 90 Hs converted for search and rescue.
Hellenic Coast Guard operate also since 1998 three CB90 under the CB90HCG which is a slightly different version of the Norwegian Navy Version
Norwegian version
The Royal Norwegian Navy operates 20 CB90s under the designation SB90N; the N simply stands for Norsk utgave (Norwegian version). The S90N differs from the Strb 90 H in a few areas:
It is armed with two M2 Browning heavy machine guns (port and starboard), and a Sea PROTECTOR Remote controlled weapon station.
The anchor winch is motorized, and the anchor is mounted at the stern, allowing a grounded S90N to tow itself afloat rather than risk damage to its impellers.
It carries an auxiliary generator which provides electrical power to navigation and communications systems even when the engines are not running.
The troop compartment has a higher deck height, making it possible for most people to stand without crouching.
It has two water tight compartments in the bow, having an extra room for toilet and stores.
It has a much more sophisticated navigation equipment based on GPS-technology delivered by Kongsberg Seatex AS.
At least one S90N has been reconfigured into a floating ambulance.
In 2004, the Royal Norwegian Navy conducted tests (including a live fire exercise) to evaluate the effectiveness of the SB90N as an aiming and launching platform for the Hellfire missile. One SB90N was equipped with stabilized Hellfire-launcher based on the Protector (RWS), and its machine gun was replaced with a gimbal-mounted sensor package containing visible-light and infrared cameras and a laser designator. Although the tests were successful, there is currently no indication that the Royal Norwegian Navy will actually deploy SB90Ns armed with Hellfire missiles in regular service. The Hellfire can still be carried on the boats without launching platforms and be fired from shore with the Portable Ground Launch System.
The CB90s are used by the Coastal Ranger Commando.
Incidents and accidents involving CB90s
In mid-1999, one CB90 (No. 820) belonging to the Swedish Karlskrona Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA2) crashed into a concrete pier at approximately . There were eight soldiers on board; seven of them sustained more or less severe injuries, including fractures, while one soldier who was standing in the machine gun ring-mount on mid-deck remained physically unhurt.
On June 13, 2004, several Strb 90 H from the Swedish First Marine Regiment (AMF1) were sailing at high speed in convoy formation when one of them abruptly reduced speed (allegedly so its wake would not upset a smaller sailboat). The boat immediately behind it failed to react and rammed it. Two soldiers who were above deck at the time of the accident were hit and thrown in the water; both were killed almost instantly.
On the night of October 23, 2006, a CB90 sank off of Hamnudden, east of Utö in the Stockholm archipelago. The boat was traveling at due to the bad weather when it suddenly began to take on water from the bow. It then sank in less than ten minutes. All of the crew of 16 were quickly picked up by other ships that were nearby. No one was physically injured, but the crew suffered from shock and hypothermia when picked up.
On October 5, 2014, a Royal Malaysian Navy CB90 bearing registration number CB204 was reported lost at sea due to storm and high tides. There were seven crewmen on board. The boat was last detected at 1.05pm some 57 nautical miles off Labuan Island. The boat was found on October 6 near Station Lima, after its distress call was heard by KD Paus, a Jerung-class gunboat, with no injuries to all 7 crew. It was reportedly caused by engine and steering problems.
On January 12, 2016, two U.S. Navy riverine command boats were "taken into custody" by Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Navy near Farsi island in Persian Gulf. An Iranian state-run news outlet reported that 10 U.S. sailors had been "arrested" even though Iranian and U.S. officials said that none of the sailors were harmed and that they would be released promptly. Officials have stated that one of the boats broke down very close to Iranian territorial waters and after drifting for a short time both were picked up by Iranian forces. According to Stars and Stripes newspaper, the crews were released a short time later.
Operators
Hellenic Coast Guard: 3
Malaysian Navy: 5 unit CB90, 12 unit CB90HEX
Mexican Navy: 48
Royal Norwegian Navy: 20
Royal Swedish Navy: 147 in service, 18 on order
Royal Navy: 4, formerly leased from the Royal Swedish Navy, used to evaluate the option of potential acquisition and returned to the Swedish Navy.
US Navy: 6, known as 'Riverine Command Boat'
Marina de Guerra del Perú: SIMA Peru will build, on behalf of the Peruvian Navy, in agreement with the N.Sundin Dockstavarvet factory, a subsidiary of the Swedish group SAAB, the first 2 ultra-fast combat boats out of a total of 24 that will be used for maritime interdiction work on the Peruvian coast.
Related development
Storebro SB90E
Combat Boat 2010
See also
G class landing craft
Uisko class landing craft
Jurmo class landing craft
Jehu-class landing craft
KMC Komando
Multi-purpose Attack Craft
Project 03160 "Raptor" High-Speed Patrol Boat
Cotecmar LPR-40
Centaur-class fast assault craft
Mark V Special Operations Craft
References
Stridsbåt 90H at SoldF.com, an unofficial site dedicated to information about Swedish military materiel.
Et fremtidsrettet prosjekt, an article about the Hellfire experiment on the official web site of the Norwegian military.
A series of pictures of a Norwegian S90N
External links
Video of CB90 in action on the Amazon River (Windows Media Player) Note: Commercial video, but shows the boat’s capabilities.
(YouTube) CB 90 Hellfire Trials.
SoldF about Strb 90H, in Swedish
Ships of the Swedish Navy
Ships of Sweden
Patrol vessels of the Royal Norwegian Navy
Patrol vessels of the Hellenic Coast Guard
Riverine warfare
Military boats
Landing craft |
4008499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%20Our%20Love... | Can Our Love... | Can Our Love... is the fifth studio album by British band Tindersticks, released in May 2001 on the Beggars Banquet record label.
Reception
Commercial performance
Can Our Love... entered the UK Albums Chart during the week ending 2 June 2001 and peaked at number 47.
Critical response
The album received a generally favourable response from music critics, scoring 81 points out of a possible 100 on the music review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 19 reviews.
Track listing
"Dying Slowly" – 4:36
"People Keep Comin' Around" – 7:11
"Tricklin'" – 2:15
"Can Our Love..." – 5:57
"Sweet Release" – 8:55
"Don't Ever Get Tired" – 3:07
"No Man in the World" – 6:06
"Chilitetime" – 7:34
References
2001 albums
Tindersticks albums
Beggars Banquet Records albums |
4008505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadio%20Partenopeo | Stadio Partenopeo | Stadio Partenopeo, also known as Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, was a multi-use stadium in Naples, Italy. It was used mostly for football matches, and it was also the home ground of S.S.C. Napoli. The stadium was able to hold 40.000 people. During the 1934 World Cup, it hosted two games. The stadium was destroyed by bombardments during the Second World War.
The stadium was named after , an Italian sports executive and businessman in textile industry.
1934 FIFA World Cup
The stadium was used for two matches during the 1934 FIFA World Cup.
Sports venues in Naples
Partenopeo
Defunct football venues in Italy
1934 FIFA World Cup stadiums |
4008530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Tedesco | Giovanni Tedesco | Giovanni Tedesco (born 13 May 1972 in Palermo) is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Birkirkara
Career
Club career
Despite being a native of Palermo, Tedesco was initially refused by the local team, Palermo, because of his thin build, and moved to Reggina. At Reggina, he quickly became a regular in 1990. After three seasons with Reggina (1 in Serie B, 2 in Serie C1), Tedesco moved to Fiorentina in 1993 and helped the team to win the Serie B league. The following season, he then debuted in Serie A in a 2–1 win against Cagliari on 4 September 1994.
Successively, Tedesco has also played for Foggia, Salernitana and Perugia, where he stayed for six seasons and became popular as a valuable midfielder and team leader, especially during his time with Serse Cosmi as manager.
In January 2004, Tedesco was signed by Genoa of Serie B in an attempt to strengthen the team for the end of the season, which was seeing the rossoblu fighting for the promotion to Serie A. However, Tedesco only settle in with the arrival of Serse Cosmi, his former coach at Perugia, for the following season, who replaced Luigi De Canio who had not been able to maintain the team into the top table positions. Genoa eventually won Serie B in 2005. However the club was denied promotion and instead relegated to Serie C1 due to alleged match frauds. After relegation to Serie C1, Tedesco chose to stay and played in Genoa for the first half of the 2005–06 season before accepting an offer from Palermo which he would not have ever refused.
On 8 January 2006 Tedesco played his 500th professional match, a home debut match against Lazio, which the club won 3–1, and he scored the second goal. His contract with Palermo, due to expire in June 2007, was renewed for one more year after the final matchday. He was later stated to have refused offers from several other clubs in order to stay in Palermo and expecting to end his playing career with the rosanero. On 10 April 2008 he agreed terms with Palermo for another one-year extension of his contract with the rosanero.
In 2008–09 he was featured even less, only playing 17 games in his season with the rosanero, many of them in the final part of season. In June 2009 the club announced to have agreed a two-year extension for the 37-year-old local hero and Palermo native, who will play with a rosanero jersey until June 2011. However, in the 2009–10 season he found limited opportunities in the first team, appearing only seven times during the club's Serie A season. In June 2010 it was confirmed Giovanni Tedesco's retirement from football, and his appointment as US Palermo's new team manager.
Coaching career
After a few months as team manager of Palermo, Tedesco was moved into the youth coaching staff, initially working alongside youth system chief Rosario Argento as his aide; later in September 2011 Tedesco took his first coaching job, as head of the under-17 Allievi Regionali team for Palermo.
On 26 June 2012, Tedesco amicably parted company with Palermo in order to pursue a head coaching career. The next day he was announced as new coach of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Foligno, but he was sacked after four matches.
On 6 April 2014, Tedesco was assigned as the new manager for Floriana FC. He then switched to another Maltese team, Birkirkara, also coaching former Palermo teammate Fabrizio Miccoli.
On 25 January 2016, a few weeks after his departure from Birkirkara, Tedesco was announced as new head coach of his hometown club Palermo, as the club was searching for a trainer with the requested UEFA Pro coaching badges due to newly appointed Guillermo Barros Schelotto's pending issues on that sense. On that sense, Tedesco will officially fill in the role of head coach and hold press conferences till the end of the season, with Schelotto working alongside him as a "team manager" till his bureaucratic issues will not get solved.
On 10 February 2016, following Schelotto's resignation after UEFA refusal to hand him a valid European coaching authorization, Palermo announced to have promoted Primavera youth coach Giovanni Bosi as new head coach, with Tedesco as his technical collaborator.
He successively left Palermo in order to return to Floriana as head coach on 15 June 2016.
Further to 2017–18 Maltese FA Trophy defeat against Naxxar Lions F.C., Tedesco resigned with immediate effect from Head Coach of Floriana.
At the end of May 2018, he was appointed as coach of Ħamrun Spartans F.C. After reaching the fourth place in the league, he resigned from his position at the end of the season.
Right after leaving, he signed a new three-years contract with Gżira United. On 18 July 2019, he surprisingly guided Gżira United to eliminate Croatian powerhouse Hajduk Split in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round by defeating them at home 3–1. On 21 January 2020 Tedesco was sacked by the Maroons, leaving the team at the fourth position in the league.
After just one month, in February 2020, he has been appointed as new manager of Valletta F.C., signing a deal until the end of the season. After just three matches at the helm of the Citizens (due to the end of the season caused by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malta), in June Tedesco decided not to agree terms with the club for another year, remaining without a team.
In October 2020, he was appointed as a manager of Al Bataeh Club in Al Bataeh, United Arab Emirates in hoping of getting the new club to promotion however, due to getting infected with COVID-19 virus, he stepped down as coach of the new Emirati side around the end of the month with only coaching the team during the preliminary round of the UAE President's Cup.
In December 2020 Tedesco made his return to Malta, signing a one-year contract with the Premier League side Sirens. On 12 April 2021 it was confirmed, that Tedesco would leave the club, as his contract had expired.
In January 2022 Tedesco came back to Malta, signing a contract with Premier League side St. Lucia F.C. until the end of the season.
Personal life
Giovanni Tedesco has two brothers who are also football players, Salvatore (formerly of Perugia and Lucchese) and Giacomo, who is playing for Reggina.
Honours
Perugia
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003
References
External links
Tedesco's profile (from US Palermo official website)
Italian footballers
Italian football managers
Living people
Footballers from Palermo
1972 births
A.C. Perugia Calcio players
U.S. Salernitana 1919 players
Palermo F.C. players
Reggina 1914 players
ACF Fiorentina players
Calcio Foggia 1920 S.S.D. players
Genoa C.F.C. players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Association football midfielders
Palermo F.C. managers
Maltese Premier League managers
Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates
Al Bataeh Club managers |
4008532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy%20Paine | Roxy Paine | Roxy Paine (born 1966, New York City) is an American painter and sculptor widely known for his installations that often convey elements of conflict between the natural world and the artificial plains man creates. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York.
Since 1990, Paine's works have been exhibited in major collections and galleries across the United States, Germany, Sweden, England, the Netherlands, and Israel. His most reviewed exhibitions include Replicants, Machines, Dendroids, and Dioramas. Paine is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York The Kavi Gupta Gallery of Chicago & Berlin, and by the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Roxy Paine currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, New York.
Biography
Paine was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs of northern Virginia. Throughout his childhood, he spent his free time exploring the wooded, overgrown areas of land that separated housing developments in his neighborhood. He describes his experience of growing up in suburbia as a "twisted vision of nature", his environment possessing an "overwhelming blandness". Around age 13 or 14, Paine used his local creek as a place to experiment with using drugs and alcohol. "There was a creek nearby when I was growing up. That's where I spent most of my time. I would constantly reroute the stream, building dams. I was mostly interested in the water. What I remember distinctly about nature in the suburbs were the borders. The natural world is totally controlled and manipulated in suburbia."At age 15, Paine ran away to California to live with his brother, a hiker and rock climber. His brother's "outdoor western" influence spurred them to hike places like Yosemite and Joshua Tree. Living in California helped Paine make his decision to become an artist. He moved to New Mexico and enrolled at the College of Santa Fe, but he soon dropped out due to poor relations with his professors. "In general, the teachers hated me. I always had problems with art teachers. I don't know why. I didn't go in trying to be confrontational, but it always ended up with bad blood somehow."He then moved to New York and attended Pratt Institute for a time, originally as a painting major but later switching to sculpture. In addition to paintings, Paine produced unusual, functional ceramic and metal musical instruments. He eventually dropped out of Pratt, and with help from some of his colleagues, formed the artist collective Brand Name Damages in 1989.
Work
In his body of work, Paine mirrors natural processes, drawing increasingly on the tension between organic and man-made environments, between the human desire for order and nature's drive to reproduce. His highly detailed simulations of natural phenomena include an ambitious series of hand-wrought stainless steel trees, vitrines of mushroom and plant life in various states of decay and several large-scale machines designed to replicate creative processes. Many of his works create a platform to ask aesthetic questions about art, the natural, and the unnatural world rather than answer these questions like his counterparts he ignites the flame of inquiry. Collectively, his works demonstrate the human attempt to impose order on natural forces, depicting the struggle between the natural and the artificial, the rational and the instinctual. Paine has said, "I'm interested in taking entities that are organic and outside of the industrial realm, feeding them into an industrial system, and seeing what results from that force-feeding. The end results are a seamless containment of these opposites."
Early work
Paine began showing his work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1990 and 1991 at an artist run collective called Brand Name Damages (which he helped to found) and he had his first solo exhibition at the short-lived Herron Test-Site in October 1992. His early work consisted of kinetic and time-based sculptures such as Viscous Pult, 1990, which consisted of a paint brush smearing ketchup, white paint and motor oil on the gallery space's front window; and Displaced Sink, 1992, which had a leaking pipe in the ceiling dripping water on a tall stack of soap bars, leaving a pool of semi-liquid soap to collect on the gallery floor.
His next solo exhibition was at Ronald Feldman Gallery in 1995, and it included other kinetic works, but the central and most critically acclaimed work was a piece called Dinner of the Dictators, 1993–95, a vitrine enclosing the taxidermied favorite meals of infamous dictators, ranging from Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler to Napoleon Bonaparte and Suharto. The research alone took eight months, and overall, the work took two years to produce, opening Paine to new approaches and processes in his work.
From this point onward, Paine's work separated into a few distinct but nevertheless related categories. The first involves naturalistic works: minutely precise reproductions of natural objects like mushrooms, leafy plants or poppies. A second category consists of machine-based works: he has devised a number of conceptually-challenging art-making machines, like the SCUMAK (Auto Sculpture Maker), 1998, PMU (Painting Manufacturing Unit), 1999–2000, and the Erosion Machine, 2005. Bridging the gap between the naturalistic and mechanized works, Paine also creates large-scale stainless steel trees and boulders of varying sizes (ranging from 8 – 50 feet in height).
Replicants
Paine's vitrines and botanical works often feature replicas of plants that have been discovered as extremely poisonous or have been used by humans for experimental hallucinogenic or drug experiences. The living plants are cast and subsequently rendered in thermoset polymers, paint, lacquer, and epoxy, among other materials. Crop, 1997–98, shows a field of poppies, with ripened pods exposing the evidence of raw opium being readied for harvest. The piece embodies the shifting views of the beauty of a field of wild flowers and the grave potential of drug addiction. Amanita Muscaria Field, 2000, shows a field of psychoactive mushrooms that appear as if they are sprouting from the gallery floor. This field might present multiple readings: are these works a hallucinogenic vision on their own or do they represent the plant life that offers the possibility of arriving at that vision? Another related series of works is that of the Dead Amanita vitrines, lifelike mushrooms seem to be decaying under glass. The genus Amanita is a group of poisonous and psychoactive mushrooms that has some species that are among the deadliest if ingested by humans.
Another example is the leafy plant genus Datura, which has long been used as a poison and hallucinogen; many species are known by common names such as Hell's Bells or Devil's weed. Paine's re-creation of various species of Datura take on a state of potential, presenting us with a deceptively simple plant that nonetheless contains complex molecules that can give rise to an altered state of consciousness.
Machines
Removing the artist's hand in the creative process and replacing it with a computer program is the crux of Paine's machine-based works. His first art-making machine, Paint Dipper, 1997, employed a steel armature that continuously dipped canvases into a vat of paint over the course of time, creating works that collect latex paint stalactites along the bottom edge. SCUMAK (Auto Sculpture Maker), 1998–2001, melts plastic with pigments and periodically extrudes them onto a conveyor belt, creating bulbous shaped sculptures that are each unique.
PMU (Painting Manufacturing Unit), from 1999–2000, involves a metal painting arm that is programmed to expel white paint onto a canvas according to specific instructions programmed into the machine. The resulting works often can evoke landscapes or possibly layers of geological sediment.
Most recently, Paine introduced his Erosion Machine, 2005, which consists of a robotic arm that traces and cuts patterns into large blocks of stone. The course of the arm's movement is determined by data sets, such as weather conditions and school test results. The work suggests the corrosive effects of human imposition on the environment while at the same time represents the transformation of the banal into the beautiful.
About the SCUMAK (Auto Sculpture Maker), art historian Jonathan Fineburg wrote that "The beauty of the machine and the eccentricity of the results are also a paean to the romantic. Paine positions both his gardens and his machines at a fluid interface of man, nature, and science; they take the viewer to an intuitive experience of the liminal place at which scientists have arrived as they begin to redesign the human genome and connect living neurons with silicon chips."
Dendroids
Paine uses both mechanical means and the innate logic of natural forms to create his "Dendroid" tree-like sculptures. Paine's meticulous research and observation of a variety of tree species help him to understand the "language" of how a tree grows, and from there he creates fictional tree species that grow to a logic of their own. Paine has said: I've processed the idea of a tree and created a system for its form. I take this organic majestic being and break it down into components and rules. The branches are translated into pipe and rod. Employing the language that he has invented pertaining to each of these fictive species, Paine's trees are "grown" through a laborious process of welding together the cylindrical piping and rods of diminishing size. He has also described his aims with the Dendroids series by saying, "I have been seeking to expand the edges of the language, and send the work outward into those edges. Essentially, I am establishing the rules of a language, only to then break those rules."
The first of these dendroids was Impostor, 1999, now at the Wanas Foundation, in Knislinge, Sweden. He has gone on to create 25 of these sculptures, including Bluff, 2002, which premiered in New York's Central Park during the Whitney Biennial in 2002, and the very ambitious Conjoined, 2007, recently on display in Manhattan's Madison Square Park (through December 31, 2007). Conjoined is a 40 ft tall by 45 ft wide sculpture of two trees whose branches cantilever in space and connect in mid air. Paine creates two different fictional tree species where each branch from one tree joins with a branch from the other. For the observer, it is unclear where one tree begins and the other ends. "Conjoined" was acquired in 2008 by and is on display at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Paine's recent sculpture, Inversion, 2008, was installed in the Public Art Projects section of Art Basel 39, in Basel, Switzerland in June 2008. It was also part of FREEDOM: Den Haag Sculptuur 2008 in The Hague, Netherlands through August 2008.
Maelstrom, 2009, was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 28 - November 29, 2009 and Graft, 2009 was installed at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, in the fall of 2009. When asked about Maelstrom Paine described it as existing on five "levels" at once: "On one level, it's a forest that has been downed by an unseen force—a force of nature or, perhaps, a force of man. I also want the sculpture to be the force itself, a swirling, churning force. The word 'maelstrom' actually has a Dutch root; it literally means 'grinding stream,' ... The third state is trees in the state of becoming abstractions. There are areas with recognizable tree parts and then others where representation is stretching, breaking apart, and coalescing again ... I want the fourth state of trance to be a pipeline in a factory that's run amuck. This is getting back to the root of the material, so to speak, which is purely industrial. Here the piece is embracing its source. And, finally, the fifth state is that of a mental storm, or what I envision happens during an epileptic seizure." Distillation, 2010, was on view at James Cohan Gallery in New York from October 16 - December 11, 2010, and One Hundred Foot Line, 2010, was installed permanently at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Distillation, as described by Hilarie Sheets in The New York Times, pushes the metaphoric content that underpins these sculptures to new extremes. It still uses arboreal forms, but they now mesh with other overtly defined branching systems: a vascular network of arteries and veins with two plump kidneys, mushroom colonies and their germinating mycelia, neuron bundles and taxonomic diagrams, and raw pipelines connected to steel tanks and industrial valves.
Ferment was permanently installed in April 2011 on the south lawn of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. Taking more than three years to produce, this 56-ft tall stainless steel dendroid sculpture, as described by Paine, "was trying to capture a churning, swirling force."
In June 2014, Symbiosis (2011) was installed in Philadelphia, PA in Iroquois Park, originally on temporary loan to the Association for Public Art courtesy of Paine and Marianne Boesky Gallery. In 2015, the Association for Public Art received a grant from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Trust, Inc. to acquire Symbiosis, enabling the dendroid to remain in Philadelphia.
Dioramas
In September 2013 Paine debuted the first two installations of a new series of work utilizing large-scale dioramas. The two installations were revealed in an exhibition at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago. The new pieces, meticulously carved from wood, are life-size replicas of a fast-food restaurant and a control room, respectively.
The new work draws from a complex dialog of Western and Eastern philosophies which both embrace and deconstruct the values and conceptual core of Paine's earlier work. Christian Viveros-Faune, in an interview with Paine, discussed Paine's interests in the Japanese philosophical aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi, which emphasizes the beauty within natural and unpredictable flaws. Paine also told Viveros-Faune of an interest in Poststructuralism and the theories of Michel Foucault on Episteme, as described by Paine-
Paine further discussed his interest in the new work as a manifestation of "A copy of a copy of a copy," which could be connected Foucault's fellow poststructuralist, Jean Baudrillard.
Gallery
Selected exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Roxy Paine: Thermoplastic Flux, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, September 15 - October 22
Roxy Paine: Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, October 13
Roxy Paine, Gund Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, January - June 2016
2015
Articulated Confusion: The Drawings of Roxy Paine, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2014
Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
2013
Roxy Paine, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, September 20 - December 20, 2013
2011
Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 29 - August 28, 2011
2010
Roxy Paine: Distillation, James Cohan Gallery, New York, October 16 - December 11, 2010
Roxy Paine, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Roxy Paine: Scumaks, The Mill, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
2009
Roxy Paine: Dendroid Drawings and Maquettes, James Cohan Gallery, New York, May 1 - June 6, 2009
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden, New York, NY, April 28 - November 29, 2009
Roxy Paine: SCUMAKS", James Cohan Gallery, New York, Opened June 26, 2008
2007
Roxy Paine, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, May 15 – December 31, 2007
2006
Roxy Paine: PMU, curated by Bruce Guenther, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, February 25 – May 28, 2006
2004
Roxy Paine: New Work, James Cohan Gallery, New York, January 14 – February 25, 2004
Defunct, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 2004
2002
'Roxy Paine, James Cohan Gallery, New York, November 8 - December 22, 2002Scumak, Bernard Toale Gallery, BostonRoxy Paine: Second Nature, co-curated by Joseph Ketner and Lynn Herbert, Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands (April 2002 through January 2004)
2001Roxy Paine, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, November 11, 2001 - January 27, 2002Roxy Paine, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, June 29 - August 11, 2001
"Roxy Paine", Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, May 26 - June 30, 2001
"Roxy Paine", James Cohan Gallery, New York, April 5 - May 5, 2001Roxy Paine, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, February 13 - April 20, 2001
1999
"Roxy Paine", Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, February 26 - March 31, 1999Roxy Paine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, January 9 - February 13, 1999
1998Roxy Paine, Musee D'Art Americain Giverny, Giverny, France, June 1 - November 15, 1998. Traveled to Lunds Kunsthall, Lund, Sweden, March 6 - April 18, 1999Roxy Paine, Renate Schroder Galerie, Koln, Germany, April 24 - June 6, 1998
1997
"Roxy Paine", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, March 15 - April 26, 1997
"Roxy Paine", Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, September 5 - October 11, 1997
1995Roxy Paine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, April 29 - June 3, 1995
1992Roxy Paine, Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY, October 9 - November 8, 1992
1991Horns, The Knitting Factory, New York, December 3–31, 1991
Group Exhibitions
2016Impossible Blossom, September 5, 2016, The New School, New York, NYFalse Narratives, June 24 - July 31, 2016, Pierogi, New York, NYBuilt,World, June 7—
September 4, 2016, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GAAudacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out, March 2016 - February 2017, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
2015 Social Ecologies, Rail Curatorial Projects, December 5, 2015 - February 21, 2016, Industry City, Brooklyn NY.Devotion, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Co-curated by Will Corwin, November 21, 2015 - January 17, 2016, NY, NY. 20 Years / 20 Shows, SITE Santa Fe, March 12 - May 31, Santa Fe, NM. Sweet Sensation: UConn Reads 'The Omnivore's Dilemma, William Benton Museum of Art, February - March, curated by Jean Nihoul
2013
"Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital", Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2012Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2011Color in Flux, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, GermanyNod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influences, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
2010The Secret Life of Trees, Monica de Cardenas Galleria, Zuoz, SwitzerlandOut of the Woods, Leslie Tonkonow, New York17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney, Australia
2009Reflection, Refraction, Reconfiguration: Mediated Images from the Collection of Polly and Mark Addison, University Art Museum, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CORemote Proximity: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, GermanyThe Rose at Brandeis: Works From the Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2008Bending Nature, Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, OHBizarre Perfection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelFreedom: Den Haag Sculpture 2008, The Hague, The NetherlandsPublic Art Projects, Art Basel 39, Basel, SwitzerlandParagons: New Abstraction from the Albright-Knox Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
2007Delicatessen, Dorothy F. Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FloridaArt Machines/Machine Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Travelled to Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (through July 2008)Molecules that Matter, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY. Travelled to Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (through May 2009)The Outdoor Gallery: 40 Years of Public Art in New York City Parks, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New YorkDrawings from the Collection of Martina Yamin, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
2006Recent Acquisitions, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, October 28, 2006 - March 25, 2007Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI, October 28, 2006 - April 29, 2007A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NYGarden Paradise, curated by Lacy Davisson Doyle and Clare Weiss, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NYAmerican Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 7 - April 9Uneasy Nature, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, February 18 - May 28
2005Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, organized by Paul Schimmel with Gloria
Sutton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CAThe Empire of Sighs, Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NYSculpture, James Cohan Gallery, New YorkFlower Myth. Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, SwitzerlandMaterial Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, curated by Carla Hanzal, commissioned by Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. Traveling to Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (February 2005 through December 2007)
2004PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Disasters, curated by Cydney Payton, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, through January 2, 2005Paintings That Paint Themselves, or so it seems, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MISummer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New YorkBetween the Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New YorkThe Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, DenmarkNatural Histories: Realism Revisited, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, May 29 - September 12
2003Work Ethic, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 2003 - January 11, 2004. Traveled to the Des Moines Center for the Arts May 15 - August 1, 2004UnNaturally, organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), curated by Mary-Kay Lombino. Traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (January 2003 through November 2004)The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 A.D, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, April 12 - May 31Decade, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, April 11 - May 19
2002The Whitney Biennial in Central Park, curated by Tom Eccles, organized by the
Public Art Fund, New York in collaboration with The Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkEarly Acclaim: Emerging Artist Award Recipients 1997-2001, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 22 - December 31
2001Painting Matter, James Cohan Gallery, New York, May 3 - June 15, 20022001 Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, September 4 - November 25Arte y Naturaleza, Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo, Cadiz, Spain, June 2 - October 2Present Tense 6, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, May - DecemberA Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities - Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, January 17 - March 3Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, January 30 - April 1Making the Making, Apex Art, New York, January 5 - February 3Waterworks: U.S. Akvarell 2001, curated by Kim Levin, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CAAll-Terrain, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2000From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, curated by Jessica Morgan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MAWILDflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, July 28 - October 3Working in Brooklyn: Beyond Technology, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, July 1 - September 125th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art: Sharing Exoticism, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, June 27 - September 24Vision Ruhr, Dortmund Coal Factory, Dortmund, Germany, May 11 - August 20The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, April 4 - May 21Sites Around the City: Art and Environment, curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, March 4 - June 4Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 27 - April 16Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, January 8 - February 19. Travelled to The End, Exit Art/The First World, New York, January 29 - April 8As Far As the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, January 29 - March 7
1999Best of the Season: Selected Work from the 1998-99 Gallery Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, September 26 - January 9, 1999
1998Interlacings: The Craft of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, September 10 - November 2122/21, Emily Lowe Gallery/Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY, September 8 - October 25Elise Goodheart Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY, July 24 - August 16DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 17 - August 5Nine International Artists at Wanas, 1998, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden, May 24 - August 18Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA, January 8 - March 1
1997Redefinitions, A View From Brooklyn, California State University, Fullerton, CA, November 9 - December 11Sculpture, James Graham & Sons, New York, July 10 - August 29Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, July 2 - August 2Artists Respond to 2001: Space Odyssey, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Society, Brooklyn, June 21 - July 26Benefit for Pat Hearn, Morris-Healey Gallery, New York, February 26 - March 99 to 5 at Metrotech: New Commissions for the Common, The Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY, October 30, 1997 - May 31, 1998Best of the Season 1996-97, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 14 - January 4, 1997Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, July 25, 1997 - January 25, 1998
1996Imaginary Beings, Exit Art/The First World, New York, December 2 - January 27, 1996Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, November 12 - January 21, 1996Human/Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, April 20 - May 18Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, March - April, 1996Momenta Art, Inside Out, Brooklyn, September 15 - October 7, 1996Currents in Contemporary Art, Christie's East, New York, July 22–31, 1996Inside: The Work of Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, June 16 - October 13, 1996Wish You Were Here, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, March 1–30, 1996New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, February 8 - May 26, 1996NY Withdrawing, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, January 13 - February 17, 1996Multiples, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, December 2, 1995 - January 15, 1996
1995Lookin' Good-Feelin', 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, December 5–9, 1995
1994Red Windows: Benefit for Little Red School House, Barneys Windows, November - December, 1994Spring Benefit, Sculpture Center, New York, April 19, 1994Garden of Sculptural Delights, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY, March 2 - April 23, 1994Free Falling, Berlin Shafir Gallery, New York, January 22 - February 19, 1994
1993UNTITLED (14), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, November 13 - December 23, 1993INFLUX, Gallery 400, Chicago, November 3 - December 4, 19934 Walls Benefit, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, November 1993Fantastic Wandering, Cummings Art Center, New London, CT, October 9 - November 10, 1993Extracts, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, August 8 - September 19, 1993Real Art Ways, Popular Mechanics, Hartford, CT, June 19 - July 16, 1993Outside Possibilities '93, The Rushmore Festival at Woodbury, New York, June 5 - July 4, 1993The Nature of the Machine, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, April 3 - May 30, 1993Out of Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, January 22- February 28, 1993
1992Fever, Exit Art, New York, December 14, 1992 - February 6, 1993
1991Group, Jimenez-Algus Gallery, Brooklyn, September 13 - October 13, 1991Generator 547, Entropy, New York, August 2 - September 5, 1991Tweeking the Human, Brand Name Damages and Minor Injury Galleries, Brooklyn, June 7–31, 1991The Ego Show, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, April 5 - May 2, 1991
1990Desire and Deception, Brand Name Damages, Brooklyn, October 9–21, 1990Group Show, Ridge Street Gallery, New York, September 3–26, 1990Roxy Paine and David Fasoldt'', Brand Name Damages, Brooklyn, NY, March 29 - April 6, 1990
Awards
Roxy Paine was awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2006.
He also received a Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist by, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT in 1997.
Public collections
The artist Roxy Paine contributed many of his works to the following locations:
City of Beverly Hills, CA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Il Giardino Dei Lauri, Città della Pieve (PG), Italy
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Fundación NMAC, Cadiz, Spain
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
See also
References
External links
Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects
False Narratives at Pierogi
Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | BERLIN
Marianne Boesky Gallery
James Cohan Gallery
Roxy Paine in Madison Square Park
Public Art Fund: Whitney Biennial in Central Park, 2002
National Gallery of Canada: Roxy Paine - One Hundred Foot Line, 2010
Interview with Roxy Paine at ARTINFO.com
Conversation between Roxy Paine and Allan McCollum
Roxy Paine at NMAC Foundation
Maelstrom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Ken Johnson's review of Maelstrom, The New York Times
Blake Gopnik's review of Graft, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, The Washington Post
Hilarie Sheet's feature 'Man of Steel's Industrial Web Mirroring Nature,' The New York Times.
American sculptors
Contemporary sculptors
Pratt Institute alumni
Santa Fe University of Art and Design alumni
1966 births
Living people |
4008589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie%20Walker | Geordie Walker | Kevin Walker, known professionally as Geordie Walker (born 18 December 1960), is an English rock musician, best known as the guitarist of post-punk group Killing Joke. His unorthodox style of electric guitar playing is widely acclaimed.
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin hailed Walker's guitar sound as "really strong". Peer Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine praised Walker's guitar playing, which he described as "this effortless playing producing a monstrous sound".
Life and career
When he was eight years old, Walker was deeply marked by the guitar's sound in the song "Sabre Dance" by Love Sculpture. "I used to go mad when it came on the radio."
When he was fourteen, Walker's family moved south from Newcastle to Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, 45 miles northwest of London. It was during this era that he acquired his nickname due to his northeastern "Geordie" accent (which he has subsequently lost). He decided to learn to play the guitar: "I used to run home from school at about four, lock myself in the bedroom, turn the amp up full, and thrash it till he came in. It was a daily ritual". He learnt that it's melody lines as opposed to solos. The first guitar that helped him to find his way was bought in Northampton at Christmas 1973. When his mother saw a Gibson Les Paul in the shop, she suggested he try it in remembrance of a concert she attended with Jimi Hendrix on the bill. After Walker played about two chords, his mother's verdict was: "We'll take it." He worked at that time, "two real jobs" that allowed him to save money. He then bought another guitar, a Gibson SG Junior.
Walker later moved to London to study architecture and became a founding member of Killing Joke in 1979 when he responded to an advertisement placed by the singer Jaz Coleman. He had never played in a band before. Walker and Coleman have been the only constant members of the group since.
Walker has also been a member of industrial music supergroups Murder, Inc. and The Damage Manual.
Walker now lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit with his wife and son, Lloyd (Atticus). At the time of the recording of Hosannas from the Basements of Hell in 2006, he produced UK girl punk rock act Mary-Jane at Faust Studios in Prague.
Influences
Walker cited the band Love Sculpture featuring Dave Edmunds and their sound on the song "Sabre Dance" because "it used the guitar as a musical instrument to convey an atmosphere, it wasn't normal guitar playing which people feel they have to play, certain rhythms, certain solos, certain scales". Walker also named Siouxsie and the Banshees' debut album The Scream as an influence because their original guitarist John McKay "came out with these chord structures that I found very refreshing".
Style
Walker's tuning of guitar is different. He likes it to be strung a whole tone lower. "It suits the resonance and the volume of the thing, and you can use heavier strings. I’ve got 58s on the bottom. Basically if I play an E-position chord, it’s D." Walker said that "a guitar has a lot of musical capability, but it has the rhythm as well. As one instrument, I think it has the most pleasing sound, the attack, the rhythm". Concerning his guitar playing, Walker explained: "If you hit a chord and press down on the bridge, it bends all six notes at once, that's probably one of the odder aspects of my technique. If you want to get technical - things like augmented fourths and sevenths have a certain unnerving effect, a bit like a tingle up the spine. I go for a lot of those in my chord structures.
Equipment
His preferred guitar of choice is a hollow-bodied 1952 Gibson ES-295 in gold lacquer: an instrument also previously used by Elvis Presley sideman Scotty Moore. It is a semi-acoustic guitar, made in 1952, with a trapeze tailpiece. Walker bought it from an old jazzman who played in clubs. He plugged it into the Burman amplifier, "and the sound was there – a full resonance, and totally bell-like with the sustain on it through 250 watts of amplification in stereo. You can feel the thing vibrating, it's a huge sound. I tune the guitar in D (below bottom E) and my strings are really thick, I use an 062 on the bottom, and because of the way I tune the guitar, the strings still have the same response as a normal guitar would. The amplification makes the bottom end sound unreal. [...] the sound of the guitar is a lot sharper, a lot clearer than other ones I've heard."
He has used ADT units made by Bell, one of those on each amplifier : "It's got from a really tight delay to a single short delay, and a pitch bend on it", and Electro Harmonix Memory Man Chorus.
References
Bibliography
Further reading:
1958 births
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
Living people
English punk rock guitarists
British post-punk musicians
English expatriates in the United States
Killing Joke members
Pigface members
People from Chester-le-Street
Murder, Inc. (band) members
The Damage Manual members
Industrial metal musicians
English heavy metal guitarists |
4008592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0tefan%20Ru%C5%BEi%C4%8Dka | Štefan Ružička | Štefan Ružička (born February 17, 1985) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey forward who last played under contract with HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers and in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) where he is the All-time leading scorer for HC Spartak Moscow.
Playing career
Ružička was drafted in the third round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers and proceeded to the Canadian Hockey League to play for the Owen Sound Attack, of the Ontario Hockey League, under the direction of head coach Mike Stothers.
On September 14, 2015, Ružička opted to take a hiatus from professional hockey in spite of being only 30 years old. Over a calendar year later, he returned to the professional ranks in securing a contract with HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga on September 4, 2016.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honours
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Avangard Omsk players
Lausanne HC players
HC Oceláři Třinec players
Sportspeople from Nitra
Owen Sound Attack players
Philadelphia Flyers draft picks
Philadelphia Flyers players
Philadelphia Phantoms players
Salavat Yulaev Ufa players
Slovak ice hockey right wingers
HC Slovan Bratislava players
HC Sparta Praha players
HC Spartak Moscow players |
4008596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20van%20Dijk | Bill van Dijk | Willem Edsger "Bill" van Dijk (born 22 December 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch singer and musical performer.
He is best known for his rendition of the Wilhelmus (the national anthem of the Netherlands), which he performed on countless occasions in football stadiums. Moreover, Van Dijk worked on various musical productions. In 1982, he represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest. His song, "Jij en ik", written by Dick Bakker (music), Liselore Gerritsen (lyrics) and Peter Schön (musical arrangement), failed to make an impression in Harrogate: it finished 16th with only 8 points.
He performed voices on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. Van Dijk did the voices of Roosevelt Franklin, Clementine, and many of the rock singers on the show (such as Little Chrissy and Bip Bipadotta). He was active on Sesamstraat until the early 1990s.
Van Dijk portrayed the title character in both the Dutch and Broadway productions of Cyrano: The Musical in the early 1990s. He also played one of the lead roles in the Dutch production of the musical HAIR in the early 1970s, performing in Amsterdam at The Desmet Theatre and touring throughout the country.
He also played Clopin in the Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) in the Dutch version.
References
1947 births
Living people
Dutch male musical theatre actors
Musicians from Rotterdam
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for the Netherlands
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1982
Nationaal Songfestival contestants |
4008609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Cohen | Greg Cohen | Greg Cohen (born July 13, 1953) is an American jazz bassist who has been a member of John Zorn's Masada quartet and worked with numerous other noted musicians for over four decades.
Career
Cohen plays traditional jazz and other styles, including work with Ken Peplowski, Kenny Davern, Marty Grosz, and Woody Allen. He has also worked with Tom Waits, David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Dagmar Krause, David Sanborn, Susana Baca, Gal Costa, Marisa Monte, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Dave Douglas, Tricky, Jesse Harris, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, Joey Baron, Donovan, Crystal Gayle, Bob Dylan, Nina Nastasia, Alan Watts, Lee Konitz, Richie Havens, Dino Saluzzi, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Odetta, Vesna Pisarović, Danny Barker, Tim Sparks, and Antony and the Johnsons.
In August 2006 he was musical director of the Century of Song series at the German arts festival RuhrTriennale. He invited songwriters and performers such as David Byrne, Holly Cole and Laurie Anderson.
He has been a regular member of Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band, which played at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. He appeared in the documentary Wild Man Blues (directed by Barbara Kopple) about a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band. Cohen appears in Robert Altman's 1993 film Short Cuts.
Cohen is a bass professor and the head of string department at the Jazz Institute Berlin. and honorary professor in contemporary rhythmic music at SDMK - Danish National Academy of Music.
Discography
As leader
Way Low (DIW, 1996)
Moment to Moment (DIW, 1998)
Golden State (Relative Pitch, 2014)
As sideman
With Laurie Anderson
Bright Red (Warner Bros., 1994)
Life on a String (Elektra Nonesuch, 2001)
With Elvis Costello
Painted from Memory (Mercury Records, 1998)
With Dave Douglas
Charms of the Night Sky (Winter & Winter, 1997)
A Thousand Evenings (RCA, 2000)
El Trilogy (BMG, 2001)
With Tim Sparks
At the Rebbe's Table (Tzadik, 2002)
Little Princess (Tzadik, 2009)
With Tom Waits
Heartattack and Vine (Asylum, 1980)
Swordfishtrombones (Island, 1983)
Rain Dogs (Island, 1985)
Franks Wild Years (Island, 1987)
The Black Rider (Island, 1993)
Mule Variations (Anti, 1999)
With John Zorn
Masada: Alef (DIW, 1994) with Masada
Masada: Beit (DIW, 1994) with Masada
Masada: Gimel (DIW, 1994) with Masada
Masada: Dalet (DIW, 1994) with Masada
Masada: Hei (DIW, 1995) with Masada
Masada: Vav (DIW, 1995) with Masada
Masada: Zayin (DIW, 1996) with Masada
Masada: Het (DIW, 1996) with Masada
Masada: Tet (DIW, 1997) with Masada
Masada: Yod (DIW, 1997) with Masada
Bar Kokhba (Tzadik, 1996) with Bar Kokhba
The Circle Maker Tzadik, 1998) with Bar Kokhba and Masada String Trio
First Live 1993 (Tzadik, 2002) with Masada
Live in Jerusalem 1994 (Tzadik, 1997) with Masada
Live in Taipei 1995 (Tzadik, 1997) with Masada
Live in Middleheim 1999 (Tzadik, 1999) with Masada
Live in Sevilla 2000 (Tzadik, 2000) with Masada
Live at Tonic 2001 (Tzadik., 2000) with Masada
The Unknown Masada (Tzadik, 2003)
Filmworks XI: Secret Lives (Tzadik, 2002) with Masada String Trio
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 (Tzadik, 2003) with Masada String Trio
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7 (Tzadik, 2003) with Masada
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11 (Tzadik, 2003) with Masada String Trio
Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 (Tzadik, 2004) with the Jamie Saft Trio
Sanhedrin 1994–1997 (Tzadik, 2005) with Masada
Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2 (Tzadik, 2005) with Masada String Trio
Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10 (Tzadik, 2008) with Bar Kokhba
Stolas: Book of Angels Volume 12 (Tzadik, 2009) with Masada Quintet
Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem (Tzadik, 2008)
Alhambra Love Songs (Tzadik, 2009)
Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15 (Tzadik, 2010) with Ben Goldberg Quartet
Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16 (Tzadik, 2010) with Masada String Trio
In Search of the Miraculous (Tzadik, 2010)
With Victoria Williams
Happy Come Home (Geffen, 1987)
Loose (Atlantic, 1994)
With others
Fiona Apple, When the Pawn... (Epic/Work, 1999)
Cyro Baptista, Vira Loucos (Avant, 1997)
Steve Beresford, Signals for Tea (Avant, 1995)
David Byrne, Feelings (Warner Bros. 1997)
David Byrne, Look into the Eyeball (Virgin, 2001)
Marc Cohn, Join the Parade (Decca, 2007)
Holly Cole, Holly Cole (Alert, 2006)
Anthony Coleman, Sephardic Tinge (Tzadik, 1995)
Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski, The Jazz KENnection (Arbors)
Marianne Faithfull, Easy Come, Easy Go (Naive, 2008)
Mark Feldman, Secrets with Uri Caine and Joey Baron (Tzadik, 2009)
Michael Franks, Time Together (Shanachie, 2011)
Keiji Haino, An Unclear Trial (Avant, 1998)
Joe Jackson, Fast Forward (Caroline, 2015)
Natalie Merchant, Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch, 2010)
Randy Newman, Bad Love (Dreamworks, 1999)
Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (Nonesuch, 2008)
Madeleine Peyroux, Dreamland (Atlantic, 1996)
Marc Ribot, Shoe String Symphonettes (Tzadik, 1997)
Jamie Saft, Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006)
Ron Sexsmith, Other Songs (Interscope, 1997)
Julian Siegel, Live at The Vortex (Basho, 2008)
Loudon Wainwright III, Social Studies (Hannibal, 1999)
References
American double-bassists
Male double-bassists
Jewish American musicians
Living people
1953 births
Musicians from Los Angeles
Musicians from Summit, New Jersey
Jewish jazz musicians
21st-century double-bassists
21st-century American male musicians
Male jazz musicians
Masada (band) members
21st-century American Jews |
4008625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie%20Greenwich | Ellie Greenwich | Eleanor Louise Greenwich (October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009) was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Be My Baby", "Then He Kissed Me", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Hanky Panky", "Chapel of Love", "Leader of the Pack", and "River Deep – Mountain High", among others.
Early years
Eleanor Louise Greenwich was born in Brooklyn, New York to painter turned electrical engineer William Greenwich, a Catholic, and department store manager (later medical secretary), Rose Baron Greenwich, who was Jewish. Both parents were of Russian descent. She was not raised in either religion. She was reportedly named for Eleanor Roosevelt. Her musical interest was sparked as a child when her parents played music in their home and she listened to artists including Teresa Brewer, The Four Lads and Johnnie Ray, and she learned how to play the accordion at a young age. At age ten, she moved with her parents and younger sister, Laura, to suburban Levittown, New York.
By her teens, Greenwich was composing songs and said in a 1973 article, "When I was 14, I met Archie Bleyer who liked my songs but told me continue my education before trying to invade the songwriting jungle." At Levittown Memorial High School in Levittown, NY, Greenwich and two friends formed a singing group, The Jivettes, which took on more members and performed at local functions. While attending high school, she started using the accordion to write love songs about her school crush. After graduating high school, Greenwich applied to the Manhattan School of Music but was rejected because the school did not accept accordion players, and she subsequently enrolled at Queens College. Eventually she taught herself to compose on the piano rather than the accordion.
At 17, around the time she began attending Queens College, Greenwich recorded her first single for RCA Records, the self-written "Silly Isn't It", backed with "Cha-Cha Charming". The single was issued under the name "Ellie Gaye" (which she chose as a reference to Barbie Gaye, singer of the original version of "My Boy Lollipop"). However, a biography about Greenwich claimed that the name was changed by RCA Records to prevent mispronunciations of "Greenwich". "Cha-Cha Charming" was released in 1958 and indirectly led to her decision to transfer from Queens College to Hofstra University after one of her professors at the former institution belittled her for recording pop music.
Partnership with Jeff Barry
In 1959, still at college, Greenwich met the man who became her husband and main songwriting partner. Although it is possible they had been acquainted as children, since they shared a relative, the first time Greenwich and Jeff Barry met formally as adults was at a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by her maternal uncle, who was married to Barry's cousin. Greenwich and Barry recognized their mutual love of music. Barry was married at that time to his first wife, who was at the dinner, but he and Greenwich married several years later and became a songwriting duo recognized as one of the most successful and prolific among Brill Building composers.
Greenwich and Barry began dating after his marriage was annulled, but musically they continued separate careers. Still in college, in 1962, Greenwich got her first break in the business when she traveled to the Brill Building to meet John Gluck, Jr., one of the composers of the Lesley Gore hit "It's My Party". Needing to keep another appointment, Gluck installed Greenwich in an office and asked her to wait. The office turned out to be that of songwriter-producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Hearing piano music from the cubicle, Leiber poked his head in and, expecting Carole King, was startled to see Greenwich, who introduced herself and explained her reasons for being there. Recognizing her potential as a songwriter, Leiber and Stoller agreed to allow her to use their facilities as she wished in exchange for first refusal on songs she wrote. They eventually signed Greenwich to their publishing company, Trio Music, as a staff songwriter.
Before marrying Barry, Greenwich wrote songs with different partners, including Ben Raleigh (co-writer on Barry's first hit as a composer, "Tell Laura I Love Her," in 1960) and Mark Barkan. She was also a session singer, recording so many demos that she became known as New York's Demo Queen. Her biggest hits during this period were written with Tony Powers. The Greenwich-Powers team made the charts with tunes such as "He's Got The Power" (The Exciters), "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry" (Darlene Love), and "Why Do Lovers Break Each Others' Hearts?" (Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, with Love on lead vocal). These last two were co-written and produced by Phil Spector, who had been introduced to the songs, and to Greenwich, by music publisher Aaron Schroeder.
On October 28, 1962, Barry and Greenwich married, and shortly afterward decided to write songs exclusively with each other – a decision that disappointed Tony Powers as well as Barry's main writing partner, Artie Resnick. Barry was subsequently signed to Trinity Music, and he and Greenwich were given their own office with their names on the door. Before the end of 1963, Barry-Greenwich had scored hits with songs such as "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You" (The Ronettes), "Then He Kissed Me" and "Da Doo Ron Ron" (The Crystals), "Not Too Young To Get Married" (Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans), and "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love, all co-written and produced by Phil Spector. Greenwich and Barry also recorded singles and an album under the name The Raindrops, with Greenwich providing all the female vocals through overdubbing, and Barry singing backgrounds in a bass voice. In addition to "What A Guy" (actually a demo, with Greenwich on piano and Barry on drums, sold to Jubilee Records and released as the first Raindrops single) and the U.S. Top 20 hit "The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget," the couple wrote and recorded "Hanky Panky", which later became a hit for Tommy James and the Shondells in 1966 and, in 1964, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", was taken to the No. 1 spot on the charts, in both the UK and the US, by Manfred Mann. Toward the end of 1963, the Raindrops recorded "That Boy John", a catchy fusion of jazz and rhythm and blues that reached the middle of the charts; President John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated and, according to Barry and Greenwich, radio stations were loath to play the song. Barry and Greenwich also penned songs for Connie Francis and in 1964 charted with two Lesley Gore hits, "Maybe I Know" and "Look of Love."
When Red Bird Records was founded in 1964 by Leiber and Stoller, Barry and Greenwich were brought in as songwriters and producers. The label's first release was The Dixie Cups' "Chapel of Love" (written with Phil Spector and originally recorded by The Ronettes), which sailed up the U.S. charts to No. 1. Barry and Greenwich continued to write and/or produce hits for Red Bird, including several other releases by The Dixie Cups ("People Say") as well as The Ad-Libs ("He Ain't No Angel" and "Remember"), The Jelly Beans ("I Wanna Love Him So Bad"), and The Shangri-Las ("Leader of the Pack"), co-written by George "Shadow" Morton. Morton, Barry and Greenwich penned "You Don't Know," which Greenwich recorded on Red Bird under her own name in 1965, at the same time Barry recorded and released another Barry–Greenwich tune, "Our Love Can Still Be Saved".
However, the couple's marriage could not be saved; before the end of the year, Barry and Greenwich divorced. The couple continued to work together for much of 1966, partly due to Greenwich's discovery of a talented singer-songwriter named Neil Diamond. Barry, Greenwich and Diamond joined to form Tallyrand Music to publish Diamond's songs. Diamond was subsequently signed to Bert Berns's Bang Records, and had a number of hits such as "Cherry Cherry" and "Kentucky Woman", all produced by Barry and Greenwich, who also sang backgrounds on many tracks. In addition, Barry and Greenwich teamed with Phil Spector one last time to pen "I Can Hear Music" and "River Deep - Mountain High". "I Can Hear Music" was recorded by The Ronettes in 1966 as their final single for the Philles label, and recorded by The Beach Boys in 1969. Spector produced "River Deep - Mountain High" for Ike and Tina Turner, although Ike was officially banned from the studio recording. Although "River Deep" peaked at No. 3 in the UK, the song was a commercial failure in the US, stalling at No. 88. A few years later, in 1970–71, The Supremes and The Four Tops had a No. 14 (U.S. charts) hit with their revival of "River Deep".
Later career
During 1967, Greenwich formed Pineywood Music with Mike Rashkow, and over the next few years the Greenwich-Rashkow team wrote and/or produced recordings for Greenwich herself as well as for Dusty Springfield, the Definitive Rock Chorale, the Other Voices, The Fuzzy Bunnies, and the Hardy Boys. Also in 1967, Greenwich recorded her first solo album, Ellie Greenwich Composes, Produces and Sings, released in 1968, which produced two chart hits, "Niki Hoeky" (#1 in Japan) and "I Want You to Be My Baby". Additionally, Greenwich continued to provide background vocals and vocal arrangements for diverse artists such as Dusty Springfield, Bobby Darin, Lou Christie and Frank Sinatra, as well as Electric Light Orchestra, Blondie, Cyndi Lauper and Gary U.S. Bonds. She did studio work for her ex-husband as well, singing backgrounds for Andy Kim, who was recording for Barry's Steed Records, and the Archies.
At one such recording session, Greenwich met Steve Tudanger, with whom she and Steve Feldman would later form the company Jingle Habitat to write and produce jingles for radio and television. Tudanger and Feldman also co-produced Greenwich's second LP, Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung, in 1973. Her song "Sunshine After the Rain" was a hit in the UK for singer Elkie Brooks. It was produced by Leiber and Stoller and taken from the Elkie Brooks album, Two Days Away. In 1976 Greenwich sang back-up for Debbie Harry on the song "In The Flesh" for Blondie's self-titled debut album "Blondie". After her partnership with Rashkow ended in 1971, Greenwich collaborated with writers such as Ellen Foley and Jeff Kent; the Greenwich-Kent-Foley team penned "Keep It Confidential", a hit for Nona Hendryx on the R&B charts in 1983. That same year, "Right Track Wrong Train", which Greenwich wrote with Kent and Cyndi Lauper, was the B-side of Cyndi's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", which hit No. 2 on the U.S. charts, and spent three weeks at Number One on the Australian charts.
Legacy
Greenwich's affiliation with Ellen Foley and Nona Hendryx indirectly led to a Broadway show that resurrected her 1960s music. When Foley and Hendryx performed at The Bottom Line cabaret in New York City, Greenwich was there to see them. The Bottom Line owner Allan Pepper convinced Greenwich to meet him and discuss putting together a revue showcasing her hits. In 1984, Leader of the Pack, a show based on Greenwich's life and music, opened at The Bottom Line. Greenwich appeared as herself in the second act, which focused on her early years in Long Island and her marriage and partnership with Barry. The show was revamped for Broadway and opened at the Ambassador Theatre the following year. Cast members included Greenwich, Darlene Love, Annie Golden, Dinah Manoff as young Ellie, and Patrick Cassidy as Jeff Barry. Leader of the Pack was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Grammy Award for the cast album, and the play garnered The New York Music Critics' Award for Best Broadway Musical. During the 1990s and into the new millennium, the musical has enjoyed several revivals and continues to be performed at schools and community theaters. Leader of the Pack is still performed all over the world.
In 1991, Greenwich and Barry were inducted together into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest rock songs included six Greenwich-Barry compositions, more than any other non-performing songwriting team. In 1964 alone, the duo were responsible for writing 17 singles that reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
On December 15, 2009, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that Greenwich and Barry would receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award in March 2010 (which was posthumously awarded to Greenwich) for helping to define the Brill Building sound. At the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria, which was telecast on the Fuse TV cable network, Carole King inducted Greenwich, Barry, and other songwriting colleagues from the 1950s and early 1960s, including Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Otis Blackwell (also posthumously), Mort Shuman and Jesse Stone. Ellie's award was accepted by her sister Laura, while Barry's acceptance was read by Steve van Zandt.
On May 7, 2013, a "Garden of Ellie" that contains a statue of Greenwich was placed next to Hofstra University's music school. The sculpture was commissioned by Greenwich's family and created by Peter Homestead.
Death
On August 26, 2009, Greenwich died of a heart attack at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West), New York City, where she had been admitted a few days earlier for treatment of pneumonia.
On September 20, 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band dedicated "Da Doo Ron Ron" to Greenwich, while playing the song during a concert at the United Center, Chicago. Springsteen called Greenwich an "incredible rock and soul songwriter" before playing the song.
On February 3, 2010, Patti Smith dedicated an improvised cover of "Be My Baby" to Greenwich while playing a show on the Santa Monica Pier in California.
Discography
The Raindrops by The Raindrops with Jeff Barry (1963)
Ellie Greenwich Composes, Produces & Sings (1968)
Let It Be Written, Let it Be Sung (1973)
Selected songs
References
Further reading
Browne, David, "Ellie Greenwich: Brill Building Legend", Rolling Stone magazine, September 17, 2009, p. 43.
Kreps, Daniel, "Be My Baby songwriter Ellie Greenwich dead at 68", Rolling Stone magazine, August 26, 2009.
External links
Ellie Greenwich at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
Ellie Greenwich – Daily Telegraph obituary
– An Interview with the late Ellie Greenwich
1940 births
2009 deaths
20th-century American women singers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American women writers
American women pop singers
American women singer-songwriters
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American women record producers
Bell Records artists
Broadway composers and lyricists
Hofstra University alumni
Jewish American songwriters
Musicians from Brooklyn
People from Levittown, New York
Record producers from New York (state)
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American singers
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21st-century American Jews |
4008642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick%20Sidib%C3%A9 | Malick Sidibé | Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, Mali, and was a well-known figure in his community. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Sidibé's work has since become well known and renowned on a global scale.
His work was the subject of a number of publications and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he received a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, becoming both the first photographer and the first African so recognized. Other awards he has received include a Hasselblad Award for photography, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a World Press Photo award.
Sidibé's work is held in the collections of The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Life and work
Sidibé was born in the village of Soloba, 300 km from Bamako, in Mali. His father, a stock breeder, farmer, and skilled hunter named Kolo Barry Sidibé. Malick's father had wanted him to attend school, but passed before he was able to attend at the age of 16. In 1955 photographer Gérard Guillat came to the school looking for a student to decorate his studio, eventually hiring Sidibé. Guillat was impressed with his work and took him on as an apprentice. Sidibé's first tasks included calibrating equipment, and delivering prints. He soon learned more about photography as he assisted Guillat, and eventually took on his own clients. In 1957 Guillat closed his studio, and Sidibé began taking photographs of Bamako nightlife. He specialized in documentary photography, focusing particularly on the youth culture of the Malian capital. Sidibé took photographs at sport events, the beach, nightclubs, concerts, and even tagged along while the young men seduced girls. He increasingly became noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. In the 1970s, Sidibé turned towards the making of studio portraits. His background in drawing became useful: As a rule, when I was working in the studio, I did a lot of the positioning. As I have a background in drawing, I was able to set up certain positions in my portraits. I didn't want my subjects to look like mummies. I would give them positions that brought something alive in them.
In 1962 Sidibé opened his own studio in the Bagadadji neighborhood or Bamako. Sidibé continued to take photos of the surprise parties and club gatherings of the city until 1976. He attributed ending his career in reportagé to fewer club parties, rise in availability of affordable cameras, and the growth of the auto-lab film development industry. Sidibé continued to shoot black and white studio portraits, ID photos, and fix broken cameras at his Bamako studio. While Sidibé was locally famous for decades, he was not introduced into the Western fine art world until 1994 when he had a chance encounter with French curator André Magnin. One of the best known of Sidibé's works from that time is Nuit de Noel, Happy Club (Christmas Eve, Happy Club) (1963), depicting a smiling couple — the man in a suit, the woman in a Western party dress (but barefoot) and both dancing, presumably, to music. And it was images like these that revealed how Sidibé's photographic style was inextricably linked to music. This connection is something that Sidibé had spoken about during interviews, over the years. It is perhaps no surprise that other Malian artists, such as the musicians Salif Keita and Ali Farka Touré, also came to international attention in the 1990s at almost the same moment as Malian photography was being recognized.
Sidibé used flash when out in the field, but only tungsten lighting in the studio. He used an Afga 6 x 6 camera with bellows to shoot weddings and more formal events, and a Foca Sport 24 x 36 for his more candid work. He was known as a very charming person and would tell his clients jokes to put them at ease while shooting portraits.
The Grammy award-winning video of Janet Jackson's 1997 song "Got 'til It's Gone" is strongly indebted to the photographic style of Sidibé, and the video pays tribute to a particular time (during the 1960s and '70s) that Sidibé's pictures had helped to document. This was the time period just after the French Sudan (and then the Mali Federation) had gained their Independence from France in 1960. This new era (post-1960) has, subsequently, been characterized by various observers as a post-colonial (and post-apartheid) awakening of consciousness. Many of those who admire Sidibé's work believe that he somehow captured the joy and wonder of this awakening, and that it is seen in the faces, scenes, and images that he helped to illuminate. More recently, Sidibé's influence can be seen directly through Inna Modja’s 2015 video for her song "Tombouctou," as it was filmed in Sidibé's photography studio.
In 2006, Tigerlily Films made a documentary entitled Dolce Vita Africana about Sidibé, filming him at work in his studio in Bamako, having a reunion with many of his friends (and former photographic subjects) from his younger days, and speaking to him about his work.
Sidibé became the first African and the first photographer to be awarded the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Robert Storr, the show's artistic director, said:
Sidibé died of complications from diabetes in Bamako. He was survived by 17 children and three wives.
Publications
Publications by Sidibé
Malick Sidibé. Zurich; New York: Scalo, 1998. . Edited by André Magnin. With an introduction by Magnin, and essays by Sibidé ("Studio Malick"), Youssouf Doumbia, ("Ambiance totale avec Garrincha!"), Panka Dembelé ("Twist again!"), and Boubacar 'Kar Kar' Traoré ("Elvis est vivant!"). Included a four-song music CD by Kar Kar.
Malick Sidibé, Photographe: "vues de dos" photographies. Carnets de la création, Mali. Montreal: Editions de l'oeil, 2001. . With a text by Amadou Chab Touré. 24 pages.
Malick Sidibe: Photographs: the Hasselblad Award 2003. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center; Göttingen: Steidl, 2003. . With a foreword by Gunilla Knape, an essay by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown", and a transcript of an interview with Sidibé by André Magnin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Malick Sidibé: 2003 Hasselblad Award Winner held at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, 2003.
Malick Sidibé: Chemises. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. . Catalog of an exhibition presented at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and at Musée Nicệphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
Malick Sidibe. Wilsele, Belgium: Exhibitions International, 2008. By Foundation Zinsou. .
Bagadadji. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. . With an essay by Florian Ebner, "La scène de Bagadadji". Portraits of the inhabitants of Bagadadji, Bamako, taken between 1964 and 1976.
English-language version.
French-language version.
German-language version.
Perception. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. . In French. Studio portraits made in Brittany, France, over the course of three weeks in July 2006.
Malick Sidibé: La Vie en Rose. Milan: Silvana, 2010. Edited and with text by Laura Incardona and Laura Serani. .
Malick Sidibé: The Portrait of Mali (Sinetica Landscape). Milan: Skira, 2011. Edited By Laura Incardona, Laura Serani, and Sabrina Zannier. . Text in English, French and Italian.
Malick Sidibé: Au village. Montreuil, France: Éditions de L'Œil, 2011. . Text by Brigitte Ollier. Studio portraits taken in Sidibé's native village of Soloba over the course of 50 years. In French.
Malick Sidibé. :fr:Photo Poche No. 145. Arles, France: :fr:Actes Sud, 2013. . With an introduction by Laura Serani.
Publications with contributions by Sidibé
Photographes de Bamako: de 1935 à nos jours. Collection Soleil. Paris: Revue Noire, 1989. . Photographs by Sidibé, Mountaga Dembélé, Seydou Keïta, Félix Diallo, Sakaly, AMAP, Alioune Bâ, Emmanuel Daou, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and others. With a text by Érika Nimis. In French and English.
In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996. . With an introduction by Clare Bell and essays by Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, and Octavio Zaya. Photographs by Sidibé, Cornélius Yao Azaglo Augustt, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Zarina Bhimji, Gordon Bleach, Nabil Boutros, Cloete Breytenbach, Salla Casset, Mody Sory Diallo, Mohammed Dib, Kamel Dridi, Touhami Ennadre, Mathew Faji, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Jellel Gasteli, Meïssa Gaye, Christian Gbagbo, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Ranjith Kally, Seydou Keita, Peter Magubane, Santu Mofokeng, G.R. Naidoo, Lamia Naji, Gopal Naransamy, Lionel Oostendorp, Ricardo Rangel, and Iké Udé. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May–September, 1996.
Clubs of Bamako: 9 March-16 April 2000. Houston, TX: Rice University Art Gallery, 2000. . Photographs by Sidibé, Emile Guebehi, Koffi Kouakou, and Coulibaly Siaka Paul. Catalogue of an exhibition.
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait – Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. . Edited by Michelle Lamuniere.
Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé: Portraits of Pride: West African Portrait Photography. Katalog / Moderna Museet 318. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Raster-Förl, 2002. . Photographs by Sibidé, Samuel Fosso, and Seydou Keïta. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September–October 2002; Norskt Fotomuseum, March–April 2003. In Swedish and English.
African Art Now: Masterpieces From the Jean Pigozzi Collection. London; New York: Merrell, 2005. . By André Magnin, Alison de Lima Greene, Alvia J. Wardlaw, and Thomas McEvilley. Paintings, photographs, sculpture and installation art by 33 artists. Catalogue of an exhibition of work from The Contemporary African Art Collection held at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Recent Art. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008. . Edited by Lynn Gumpert. With essays by Kofi Anyidoho, Lynn Gumpert, and John Picton, and contributions by Jennifer S. Brown, Lydie Diakhaté, Janet Goldner, Lynn Gumpert, John Picton, and Doran H. Ross. Reproductions of paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by Sidibé, El Anatsui, Samuel Cophis, Viye Diba, Sokari Douglas Camp, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane, Abdoulaye Konate, Rachid Koraichi, Atta Kwami, Grace Ndiritu, Nike Okundaye, Owusu-Ankomah, Yinka Shonibare, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, and Sue Williamson. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Grey Art Gallery, Sept. 16-Dec. 6, 2008."
Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Burlafingen, Germany: The Walther Collection; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010. . Edited by Okwui Enwezor. With texts by Willis E. Hartshorn and Artur Walther, Okwui Enwezor, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Deborah Willis ("Malick Sidibé´: the front of the back view"), Santu Mofokeng, and Kobena Mercer. Photographs by Sibidé, Sammy Baloji, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candice Breitz, Allan deSouza, Theo Eshetu, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumè, Pieter Hugo, Seydou Keïta, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Salem Mekuria, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, James Muriuku, Ingrid Mwangi, Grace Ndiritu, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Jo Ractliffe, August Sander, Berni Searle, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo Veleko. In English with German translation. Published to accompany an exhibition in Burlafingen, Germany, June 2010.
Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2012. . Edited by Kate Bush and Gerry Badger. With texts by Bush ("Everything was moving"), Badger ("Spirit of the times, spirit of place: a view of photography in the 1960s and 1970s"), Gavin Jantjes ("Ernest Cole"), Sean O'Hagan ("The unreal everyday: William Eggleston's America" and "Against detachment: Bruce Davidson's photographs of America during the Civil Rights Era"), Tanya Barson ("Graciela Iturbide: a matter of complicity"), T.J. Demos ("On Sigmar Polke's Der Bärenkampf"), Helen Petrovsky ("Boris Mikhailov: towards a new universality"), Boris Mikhailov ("Yesterday's sandwich"), Ian Jeffrey ("Shomei Tomatsu"), Julian Stallabrass ("Rather a hawk?: the photography of Larry Burrows"), Robert Pledge ("Li Zhensheng: the cinematographer behind the photographer"), Manthia Diawara ("The sixties in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown"), Shanay Jhaveri ("Raghubir Singh and the geographical culture of India"), and Raghubir Singh ("River of colour: an Indian view"). Photographs by Sidibé, David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, William Eggleston, Bruce Davidson, Graciela Iturbide, Sigmar Polke, Boris Mikhailov, Shomei Tomatsu, Larry Burrows, Li Zhensheng, and Raghubir Singh. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, curated by Kate Bush, September 2012-January 2013 at Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London.
Malian Portrait Photography. New Platz, New York: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2013. . Photographs by Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, El Hadj Hamidou Maïga, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and El Hadj Tijani Àdìgún Sitou. With text by Daniel Leers. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Malian Portrait Photography on display from January 23–April 14, 2013 in the North Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz."
Afriphoto II. Collection Afriphoto, Vol. 5–8. Trézélan: Filigranes, 2005. . Vol. 5 is by Sidibé, vol. 6 is by Bill Akwa Bétotè, vol. 7 is by Omar D, and vol. 8 is by Fouad Hamza Tibin and Mohamed Yahia Issa. Edited by Corinne Julien. With texts by Guy Hersant, Jacques Matinet, and Claude Iverné. In French.
Publications about Sidibé
Retrats de l'Anima: Fotografia Africana. Barcelona: La Caixa Foundation, 1997. . By Sélim Benattiam, Cristina de Borbón, and Rosa Casamada. In Catalan and English. An exhibition catalogue. With a contribution by Mounira Khemir, "De una Punta a otra de Africa. Impresionas Fotograficas".
The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown. Paper Series on the Arts, Culture, and Society, Paper No. 11. By Manthia Diawara. New York: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2001. . About Sidibé and James Brown.
Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Vol. 4, No. 2/3. New York: New York University, 2002. Included an essay by Manthia Diawara, The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown.
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005. Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., and Kennell Jackson Jr. . Includes a chapter by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown."
Awards
2003: Hasselblad Award for photography
2007: Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale
2008: Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
2010: World Press Photo award – first prize singles, Arts and Entertainment
Collections
Sidibé's work is held in the following public collections:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi, Geneva
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
International Center of Photography, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
1995: Malick Sidibé: Bamako 1962–1976, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
1999: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1999: Malick Sidibé. Photographie, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich
1999: Cool Cats and Twist Club, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2000: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2001: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2001: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002: HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London
2003: Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2004: CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
2004: Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2005: Photographs: 1960–2004, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2007: Malick Sidibé. C'est Pas Ma Faute, Musee des arts derniers, Paris
2007: Malick Sidibé. Los Sabena Club, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2008: Malick Sidibé. Chemises, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009: Malick Sidibé. Bamako Nights, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône, France
2010: "Studio Malick", Tristan Hoare, London
2011: Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Bamako, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Studio Malick. Gares de Bretagne et Montparnasse, Frac Bretagne, Conseil régional and SNCF
2014: Malick Sidibé, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2016: It's Too Funky In Here! By Malick Sidibé, FIFTY ONE TOO, Antwerp, Belgium
2017: Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Modern Mali, Somerset House, London His first solo exhibition in the UK.
Group exhibitions and festivals
1995: Seydou Keita & Malick Sidibe: Photographs From Mali, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996: Double vie, Double vue, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
1996: By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
1999: 6th International İstanbul Biennial 1999, International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2000: Africa: Past-Present, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
2001–2003: You look beautiful like that: The Portrait of Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL; National Portrait Gallery, London; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
2004: Photography: Inaugural Installation, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
2004: Seeds and Roots, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
2005: African Art Now - Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
2007: Why Africa? The work of 13 photographers including Sidibé, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Chéri Samba, Makonde Lilanga, and Keita Seydou, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy.
2009: Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2009: Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2010: Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, USA
2010: Un Rêve Utile: Photographie Africaine 1960–2010, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2010: Represent: Imaging African American Culture In Contemporary Art, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2010: African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech
2011: Paris Photo, Grand Palais, The Walther Collection
2012: Afrika, hin und zurück, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2012: Gaze – The Changing Face of Portrait Photography, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2012: Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Centre,
2014: Back to Front, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
2014: Ici l'Afrique, Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, France
2015: The Pistil's waitz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2015: Making Africa. Un Continente De Diseño Contemporáneo, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2016: VIVRE !!, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
2016: Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: Back Stories, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
2017: Il Cacciatore Bianco / The White Hunter, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2017: Rhona Hoffman. 40 Years: Part 3. Political, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2020: Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collections, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Film and television appearances
Malick Sidibé: portrait of the artist as a portraitist (2006). . Directed by Susan Vogel for the National Museum of Mali / Prince Street Pictures. Produced by Vogel, Samuel Sidbe, and Catherine de Clippel. Interview with Sidibé by Jean-Paul Colleyn. In French with English subtitles.
Dolce Vita Africana (2008, Tigerlily Films). 62 mins. Directed by Cosima Spender. Produced by Natasha Dack, Nikki Parrott, and Spender. A documentary about Sidibé, and about Malian history as told through people he photographed. In Bamanankan and French. The film was shown as part of BBC4's Storyville series in March 2008.
Malick Sidibé, le Partage (2013, P.O.M. Films; Éditions de L'Œil, ADAV). 52 mins. DVD and brochure. Film by Thomas Glaser, text by Gaël Teicher. . The film is in French with French and English subtitles, and the text is in French.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
"Malick Sidibé" by Douglas Sloan (6-min. video)
Artnet, s.v. "Malick Sidibe"
Clewing, Ulrich. "Malick Sidibé: Pictures full of music"
Contemporary African Art Collection, Geneva
Sidibé at Jack Shainman Gallery
1935 births
2016 deaths
Malian photographers
Year of birth unknown
People from Sikasso Region
People from Bamako
20th-century photographers
21st-century photographers
21st-century Malian people |
4008644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermeer%20Technologies | Vermeer Technologies | Vermeer Technologies Incorporated was a software company founded in 1994 by Charles H. Ferguson and Randy Forgaard. Its products were a Web site development tool, called FrontPage, and a Web server to complement developing in FrontPage, called Personal Web Server. They launched the initial version of FrontPage on October 2, 1995.
Vermeer was funded by Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners, and Atlas Venture.
The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January 1996 ($ in present-day terms) in order to acquire FrontPage as a new weapon in the browser wars.
The company's birth, development and sale was the subject of Ferguson's 1999 book, High St@kes, No Prisoners.
The start of the company was described in a Harvard Business School case, "Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company is Born" (HBS 9-397-078).
Even after Microsoft acquired FrontPage, the software continued to store proprietary configuration settings in directories whose names started with _vti. The letters VTI stand for Vermeer Technologies Inc.
References
Microsoft Press release announcing Vermeer acquisition
History of Frontpage by SEO Consultants
W3C paper on Distributed Web authoring (including timeline)
Defunct software companies of the United States
Microsoft acquisitions
American companies established in 1994
Companies disestablished in 1996 |
4008652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Auguste-Delaune | Stade Auguste-Delaune | The Stade Auguste-Delaune is a multi-use stadium in Reims, France. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Stade Reims. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. It hosted five group matches and one Round of 16 game.
1938 FIFA World Cup
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
Gallery
References
External links
Stadium Guide Profile
World Stadiums Profile
Stadiumdb Profile
Soccerway Stats for the stadium
Auguste Delaune
1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Stade de Reims
Multi-purpose stadiums in France
Buildings and structures in Reims
Sports venues in Marne (department)
Sports venues completed in 1935
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup stadiums |
4008653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dundee | John Dundee | John Wharry Dundee OBE, (born 1921) was an anaesthetist and prolific medical researcher from Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Biography
Early life
Dundee was born the eldest son of a farmer, near Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Ballyclare High School, studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast, and undertook postgraduate studies at Liverpool, Oxford and Philadelphia. He graduated with a PhD from Liverpool University in 1957.
Career highlights
Dundee founded the Department of Anaesthetics at Queen's University Belfast in 1958. He was appointed Professor of Anaesthetics there in 1964—a post he held until his retirement in 1987. He worked as an anaesthetist in the Royal Victoria Hospital of Belfast, was a Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He presented the Joseph Clover Lecture in 1988.
A frequent international traveller, Dundee developed a great interest in acupuncture. One of his most notable achievements was the discovery that appropriate use of acupressure can provide relief of morning sickness in pregnant women. His 1988 report on this work, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, demonstrates significant reduction of nausea and vomiting in a controlled trial.
Dundee originated many anaesthetic techniques which remain in use, and his extensive writings on the subject continue to be consulted. He was a principal researcher of the human and veterinary anaesthetic ketamine and assisted in the development of intravenous anaesthesia. He also assisted with the development of cyclomorph, a preparation combining morphine and cyclizine.
His "service to medicine in Northern Ireland" was acknowledged by the award of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year's Honours List. That year, he was also the first anaesthetist to be elected President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. After his retirement, he was appointed Professor Emeritus and continued to undertake research into acupressure as an anti-emetic until his death, work which was sponsored by the Friends of Montgomery House, Belfast.
Besides receiving international awards and accolades in medicine, Dundee also held an internationally prestigious musical qualification (Associate of Trinity College London (ATCL). As a medical student, he had been an organist at Raloo Church near Larne. He continued to play the instrument in later life at church services throughout Northern Ireland, and he also sang in the choir at Windsor Presbyterian Church, Belfast. At various times, he was superintendent of Windsor Mission and a member of the board of Belfast City Mission. From 1985 to 1987, he was President of the Christian Medical Fellowship of UK and Ireland.
References
1921 births
1991 deaths
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
British anaesthetists
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People from Ballyclare
Anaesthetists from Northern Ireland
People educated at Ballyclare High School |
4008667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruspoli%20Sapphire | Ruspoli Sapphire | The Ruspoli Sapphire, also known as the Wooden Spoon Seller's Sapphire, is a 136.9 carat (27.38 g) blue sapphire that has historically been confused with Grand Sapphire of Louis XIV (which has also been called the Ruspoli Sapphire or Wooden Spoon Seller's Sapphire). Recent research has shown that not only are these two separate gems, but also that the story of once being owned by the Ruspoli family and having been acquired from a wooden spoon seller in Bengal are both apocryphal tales with no basis. The origins of this confusion stem from a book published in 1858 by Charles Barbot, who confused the Ruspoli Sapphire with the Grand Sapphire of Louis XIV..
The known history of this sapphire begins with a French jeweler named Perret, who sold it to a jeweler from Milan named Antonio Fusi around 1811. A dispute over the sale was settled by a court-ordered auction in 1813, leaving a clear paper trail of this gem's history. From there it passed through the hands of a well-known Parisian jeweler named David Achard who then apparently sold it to Henry Philip Hope (of the Hope Diamond fame). From there it passed into the Russian Crown Jewels and then to Queen Marie of Romania. Her daughter sold it to a "famed New York jeweler" in 1950, and its whereabouts from that point on are unknown.
References
External links
The Grand Sapphire of Louis XIV and The Ruspoli Sapphire
Individual sapphires |
4008691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Chapou | Stade Chapou | Le Stade Chapou (or Stade Jacques-Chapou) was a stadium that was located rue des Amidonniers in Toulouse.
Called Stade du T.O.E.C. before War World II, then Stade du Général Huntziger during the war, then Stade Chapou after the war (in tribute to Jacques Chapou (1909-1944), French Resistant).
This stadium is destroyed in 1965 for building a residence of students for the faculty.
1938 FIFA World Cup
The Stade du T.O.E.C. in the old Parc des Sports was one of the venues of the 1938 FIFA World Cup, and held the following matches (initially planned to the new stadium of the new Parc des Sports):
1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums |
4008699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Up | Beat Up | Beat Up may refer to:
Beat Up, a 1984 7" single album by American band The Toasters
"Beat Up", a 2000 episode of Japanese television series Mirai Sentai Timeranger
"Beat Up", a 2006 remix by German band KMFDM
"Beat Up", a 2007 entry in Japanese manga series Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
"Beat Up", a 2008 song by British band Mock & Toof
"Beat Up", a song by American singer Izzy Stradlin on his 2010 album Wave of Heat
See also
Beat 'em up, a video game genre
Up beat (disambiguation)
Beat It Up (disambiguation)
Beat Me Up (disambiguation)
Beat You Up (disambiguation)
Up (disambiguation)
Beat (disambiguation) |
4008705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rumble%20Strips | The Rumble Strips | The Rumble Strips were an English band from Tavistock, Devon. The 4-piece line-up of Charlie Waller, Henry Clark, Tom Gorbutt & Keith Lunnon was present from the first recordings until late 2006 when Sam Mansbridge joined to fill out the sound developed during the recording of 'Girls & Weather'. The band were signed to Fallout Records, a subsidiary of Universal Island Records.
History
Formation
Having known each other since childhood, there is no precise conception date for the band. Lead singer Charlie Waller was involved in music from an early age, initial inspirations included Lou Reed's Transformer and bands such as Adam and the Ants. He moved to London for art college and played with his band from Devon, the Action Heroes. The Action Heroes included Matthew Wheeler, drums, Sam Mansbridge, Guitar & Harry Dwyer on keyboards. (Harry would later go on to direct most of the Rumble Strips' videos). The Action Heroes disbanded in 2002. At this point Waller began writing and playing again with former Tavistock friends Tom Gorbutt, and Henry Clark. These three maintained various residencies at the then local Wandsworth pubs until Matthew Wheeler, rejoined them in 2004. Also during this time, Charlie was one of two frontmen in Vincent Vincent and the Villains with flatmate and fellow singer/songwriter Vincent Vincent. The strain of playing in two bands eventually led to Waller quitting both groups before being coaxed back to the Rumble Strips. Vincent Vincent wrote the song "Johnny Two Bands" about Waller's departure. Old friend and former bandmate of all the Rumbles (from the Mother Eating Blackberries and Action Heroes) Sam Mansbridge, returning from overseas, spent some time on the road with the band after their return from recording 'Girls & Weather' in LA with Tony Hoffer. The band had been used to Tom Gorbutt alternating between playing the Bass or Sax live however the need for a complete sound with bass guitar and a bass backing vocal led to the natural inclusion of Mansbridge for the live shows. Not taking away from Tom's bass playing Sam introduced the Rumble Drum that became such a feature of the band's live act.
The band took their name from rumble strips, which are a series of small, continuous lines of bumps alongside a road designed to help prevent inattentive drivers straying off the road.
2005–2007
Always gigging, The Rumble Strips found themselves at the front of the then exploding live music scene. Often performing in the early clubs and parties of East London. It was at such a gig that the independent record label Transgressive Records – who have produced singles for The Young Knives and Regina Spektor – noticed the band, eventually offering to release the band's first single. It was over this period that Waller had left the band, but decided to not pass up this opportunity of a first release and so together they released "Motorcycle" on 12 December 2005. Waller said at this time "It was like, What have I to lose? – Since I was young I'd always been in bands until a few months ago and now i'm just working on a building site.". The band moved further into the public eye with a number of key support dates for Dirty Pretty Things and fellow Transgressive artists The Young Knives in early 2006, and then the release of their second single, "Hate Me (You Do)" on 5 June. A further tour supporting The Zutons, and the release of the band's first EP, Cardboard Coloured Dreams, followed this in November 2006.
The new year brought the Rumble Strips their first move into the charts, with their release of "Alarm Clock" on 19 March 2007 reaching No. 41 in the UK Singles Chart. It was in this year, that they were voted number 10 in BBC's "Sounds of 2007". The band were asked by NME to play their biggest headline tour to date, as headliners of the 2007 Topman NME New Music Tour throughout May 2007.The tour saw them play a number of venues around the country with other new bands Pull Tiger Tail, Blood Red Shoes and The Little Ones. The band released a live EP recorded whilst on the tour containing the tracks "Oh Creole", "Alarm Clock", "My Oh My" and previously unreleased track, "London". The band re-released "Motorcycle" on 4 June 2007. The single failed to reach the previous heights of "Alarm Clock", charting slightly lower at No. 46. Two 7-inch vinyls were also released of the track, containing b-side "My Oh My". A misprint was made on some of these vinyls where 1000 copies were distributed labelling the b-side on the opposite side to the one listed. These are not being considered collector's items, especially by the band themselves.
Following the release of "Motorcycle", the band stated that they had already decided on their next single, "Girls and Boys in Love", which was released on 3 September 2007 and was the official song of the film Run Fatboy Run, starring Simon Pegg and directed by David Schwimmer, and itself released on 10 September 2007. Their debut album, Girls And Weather, was released on 17 September, peaking at No. 70 in the UK album charts, with "Girls and Boys in Love", reaching No. 64 in the UK Singles Chart.
2007–2010
The Rumble Strips were asked by Island records to remix the Amy Winehouse single "Back to Black", and this was released in 2007 on limited-edition white vinyl. The band also decided to re-record the song in their own style. This drew the attention of producer Mark Ronson and led to Charlie being asked to sing lead vocals on "Back to Black" at The Electric Proms in 2007. In late 2008, with Sam Mansbridge now a full member, the band began working with Ronson on their second record at London rehearsal space The Joint. Recorded off the back of their first US tour the band lay down the bulk of the tracks at Avatar Studios, New York, leaving vocals to be completed in London, England whilst orchestration was composed and overseen by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy, Arcade Fire) and completed in Prague. The album was released in July 2009 under the name Welcome to the Walk Alone.
As part of their First Listen series of features, The-Fly.co.uk ran a track-by-track synopsis of Welcome to the Walk Alone on their site on 26 May. Whilst stating that "Ronson's kitchen sink production is evident after little more than a minute," they said that the sound of the record is "lush", highlighting "Dem Girls", "Sweet Heart Hooligan" and "Daniel" as the album's highlights. The tour for the album concluded in 2010, after which the band removed themselves from the scene for an indefinite period.
2015–present
During the intervening five years, contact had always been close within the band despite much change. Geographically, all the members had been living around the world. Matthew Wheeler was in Berlin, Tom Gorbutt went back to Devon, Henry Clark was settled in Australia, and Charlie Waller was in Copenhagen, via Cuba.
Since 2010 Charlie and Henry had continued to write and perform in various projects, but as of late 2014-15 they began passing new ideas to each other. The writing was developed with each member's contributions until the summer of 2015, when the five members were able to be in the same place. The band decided to record what they could in those five days together. These recordings became known as 'The Lightship recordings' after the name of the studio, Lightship 95, a floating light-house moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf, East London.
The recordings are being released in their entirety during 2016 with a limited edition physical release planned.
Discography
Albums
Girls and Weather (2007) 70# UK
Welcome to the Walk Alone (2009) 76# UK
The Lightship Recordings - part 1 (2016) digital release only
The Lightship Recordings - part 2 (2016) digital release only
The Lightship Recordings - part 3 (2016) digital release only
Singles
EPs
Contributions
NME Presents The Best New Bands – contains "Motorcycle" (Issued with NME on 9 September 2006)
NME Presents The Essential Bands – Festival Edition – contains "Alarm Clock" (Released 11 June 2007)
Run Fatboy Run: Original Soundtrack – contains "Girls and Boys in Love" (Released 10 September 2007)
Amy Winehouse "Back to Black" remix
The song 'Sad City' was used in the Kurt Cobain documentary 'Too Young to Die'
The songs "Girls and Boys in Love" and "Alarm Clock" have been used in the UK TV sitcom The Inbetweeners.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging: Music From The Motion Picture – Contains "Girls and Boys in Love"
2010 Macy's denim jeans sale commercial uses the "Girls and Boys in Love" tune.
In October 2010, Baileys used the song "Girls and Boys in Love" for their commercial.
"Back Bone" featured in Remedy's 2010 video game "Alan Wake" as one of the songs found on the playable radios scattered throughout the game.
References
External links
Daily Music Guide review of performance at Island Records' 50th Birthday Party, Camden Crawl 25/04/09
Audio
Xfm Session
English rock music groups
People from Tavistock
Musical groups established in 2004
Allido Records artists
Musical groups from Devon |
4008734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie%20Krewson | Rollie Krewson | Rollie Krewson (sometimes credited as "Rollin Krewson") is a puppet designer and builder known for her work on various Muppet productions. She interned with Jim Henson's company in the mid-1970s. Although she now works primarily as a designer/builder, she began as a performer, doing small bits on The Muppet Show and other projects.
She has contributed to almost every Henson production since her arrival, and to this day carries her skills through on Sesame Street. Krewson was the designer for Julia, Sesame's autistic Muppet character.
Krewson has received seven Daytime Emmy Awards for her contributions on Sesame Street and has been nominated many times for her work on other Henson productions.
Design credits
Sesame Beginnings - built Baby Elmo Elmo's Dad
Plaza Sesamo - built Lola and Pancho
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) - (Muppet builder/designer)
Muppets from Space (1999) - (project supervisor: Muppet workshop)
Big Bag - built Chelli
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss - built Norval the Fish Project Supervisor
Dog City (1993) - (Muppet workshop) (project supervisor)
The Jim Henson Hour (1989) - built Lindbergh
The Christmas Toy (1986) - (Muppet design group) - built Rugby Tiger
Labyrinth (1986) - Creature workshop artist: The Wiseman, Alph and Ralph, Goblins
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) - (Muppets' studio coordinator)
Tale of the Bunny Picnic - built Twitch and Bean Bunny
Fraggle Rock (1983) - built Wembley, Red Fraggle, Balsam the Minstrel, others
The Dark Crystal (1982) - Creature design/Fabrication supervisor: Fizzgig
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) - built Wendel
The Muppet Show (1976) - Muppet designer/workshop supervisor; built Wayne and Wanda, Fozzie Bear's dummy Chuckie, Foo Foo and many others
Sesame Street (1969) - built Zoe, Curly Bear, Abby Cadabby, Lulu and many more; has built Elmo since 1988
Sisimpur - built Halum, Shiku, Ikri-mikri, Tuktuki
International Sesame Street Puppets for Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Egypt, Japan and Indonesia
Performer credits
The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence
The Muppets Go to the Movies
The Muppet Show - Mary Louise
Labyrinth - Fiery 5 (assistant)
The Dark Crystal - Assistant puppeteer (Fizzgig, Kira, Garthim Master)
Saturday Night Live - Assistant puppeteer
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Muppet designers |
4008746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Long%20Beach%20%28PF-34%29 | USS Long Beach (PF-34) | The second USS Long Beach (PF-34) was a in commission from 1943 to 1945. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-2 and then in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii (PF-17) and Shii (PF-297) and YAS-44.
Construction and commissioning
Long Beach was laid down 19 March 1943, as a patrol gunboat, PG-142, for the Maritime Commission by Consolidated Steel Corporation, in Wilmington, Los Angeles. Reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-34, on 15 April 1943, she was launched on 5 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Walter Boyd; and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 8 September 1943, with Lieutenant Commander T. R. Midtlying, USCG, in command.
Service history
U.S. Navy, World War II, 1943-1945
Following shakedown off California, Long Beach departed San Diego, on 12 January 1944 for Cairns, Australia, arriving there on 17 February 1944. After towing two LCSs from Milne Bay, New Guinea, to Cape Sudest, New Guinea, she departed on 16 March 1944 escorting the dock landing ship to the landings on Manus in the Admiralties. Returning to Cape Sudest on 18 March 1944, Long Beach screened ships around New Guinea, and on 19 April 1944 took part in the invasion of Aitape. She sailed for the Schoutens on 6 August 1944 for patrol and shore bombardment duty during cleanup operations against Japanese holdouts in the Biak area, returning to local operations off New Guinea on 31 August 1944.
On 5 November 1944, Long Beach departed for newly invaded Leyte guarding a resupply convoy of tank landing ships (LSTs), arriving at Leyte Gulf on 15 November 1944 and returning to New Guinea on 21 November 1944. She steered for home 15 December 1944, calling at Panama and reaching Boston, on 25 January 1945.
After overhaul, Long Beach, as flagship of Escort Division 25, departed Casco Bay, Maine, with the rest of the division – her sister ships , , , , and – on 28 March 1945 for Seattle via the Panama Canal, training en route at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. The six patrol frigates arrived at Seattle on 26 April 1945, then got underway again for Kodiak, Alaska on 7 June 1945. Ogden had to return to Seattle for repairs, but Long Beach and the other four frigates arrived at Womens Bay, Kodiak, on 11 June 1945.
On 13 June 1945, Long Beach, Belfast, Glendale, San Pedro, Coronado, and their sister ships , , , and got underway from Kodiak for Cold Bay, Alaska, where they arrived on 14 June 1945 to participate in Project Hula, a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan. Training of Long Beachs new Soviet Navy crew soon began at Cold Bay.
Soviet Navy, 1945–1949
Long Beach was decommissioned on 12 July 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately along with nine of her sister ships, the first group of patrol frigates transferred to the Soviet Navy. Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, she was designated as a storozhevoi korabl ("escort ship") and renamed EK-2 in Soviet service. On 15 July 1945, EK-2 departed Cold Bay in company with nine of her sister ships – EK-1 (ex-Charlottesville), EK-3 (ex-Belfast), EK-4 (ex-Machias), EK-5 (ex-San Pedro), EK-6 (ex-Glendale), EK-7 (ex-Sandusky), EK-8 (ex-Coronado), EK-9 (ex-Allentown), and EK-10 (ex-Ogden) – bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union.
EK-2 entered service with the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet on 23 July 1945 at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. She participated in the Soviet offensive against Japan in August–September 1945, including the amphibious landings at Chongjin on 18 August 1945 and at Maoka on 20 August 1945. After the Soviet Union concluded military operations against Japan on 5 September 1945, EK-2 served as a patrol vessel in the Soviet Far East.
In February 1946, the United States began negotiations with the Soviet Union for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Navy for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947, United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, EK-2 among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships was protracted, but the Soviet Union finally returned EK-2 to the United States at Yokosuka, Japan, in 1949.
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1953–1967
Reverting to her former name, Long Beach lay idle at Yokosuka until the United States loaned her to Japan for service in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in November 1953 as {{Nihongo|Shii (PF-17)|しい (PF-17)||"castanopsis"}}
. On 15 February 1957, the U.S. Navy cancelled the name Long Beach for her so that the name could be reassigned to a new ship, the nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser , which was then under construction. On 1 September 1957, the JSMDF reclassified Shii as PF-297.
Struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1961, Shii was transferred to Japan outright on 28 August 1962 and saw continuous service in the JMSDF until decommissioned and renamed YAS-44 on 3 March 1967.
Awards
The U.S. Navy awarded Long Beach four battle stars for her World War II service.
The Soviet Union awarded EK-2 the Guards rank and ensign on 26 August 1945 for her service during World War II Soviet operations against Japan in 1945.
References
External links
hazegray.org: USS Long Beach
Tacoma-class frigates
Ships built in Los Angeles
1943 ships
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Tacoma-class frigates of the Soviet Navy
World War II frigates of the Soviet Union
Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union
Tacoma-class frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Ships transferred under Project Hula |
4008752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goecha%20La | Goecha La | Goecha La (el. 4940 mt or 16,207 ft) is a high mountain pass in Sikkim, India in the Himalaya range.
The southeast face of Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, can be viewed from the pass, which is also a base camp for those aspiring to scale the mountain. They say that when the government authorities first saw the view from Goecha La, they were so moved by the view that they decided to feature it on the Rs.100 note.
Trekking
Trekking through the Kanchenjunga National Park, in one of the greenest regions in the world, remains one of the top things to do for any holiday maker in the Himalayas. The weather remains clear during the winters and dramatic during the pre-monsoon season, with misty clouds.
The trek itself can be challenging in terms of distances to be covered in a day. Acclimatization is important due to the huge changes in altitude over a small time during this trek.
List of Himalayan peaks seen on Goechala Trek from Dzongri Top, Thansing and Goechala:
Kanchenjunga (8586m)
Talung (7349m)
Rathong (6679m)
Kabru N (7353m)
Koktang (6147m)
Simvo (6812m)
Kabru S (7318m)
Kabru Dome (6600m)
Kabru Forked (6100m)
Pandim (6691m)
Tenchenkhang (6010m)
Jupono (5650m)
The basic itinerary:
Drive from Siliguri to Yuksom
Yuksom to Sachen (10 km hike)
Sachen to Tshoka (7 km hike)
Tshoka to Dzongri (10 km hike)
Rest and hike to Dzongri La Pass (4417 m)
Dzongri to Thansing (10 km hike)
Thansing to Goecha La Pass and back (14 km hike)
Thansing to Tshoka (16 km hike)
Tshoka to Yuksom (17 km hike)
Drive back to Siliguri
Film
Singalila in the Himalaya http://theindia.info/SingaliLaInTheHimalaya Film on the history of Singalila ridge through a 14 day trek.
Goecha La: In Search of Kangchenjunga
References
Mountain passes of Sikkim
Mountain passes of the Himalayas
Hiking trails in India |
4008755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Jules%20Deschaseaux | Stade Jules Deschaseaux | Stade Jules Deschaseaux is a multi-purpose stadium in Le Havre, France. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium is able to hold 16,400 people and was built in 1932.
It hosted one match at the 1938 FIFA World Cup between Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands.
In 2012, it was replaced by the newly constructed Stade Océane.
References
Jules Deschaseaux
1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Le Havre AC
Sports venues in Seine-Maritime
Multi-purpose stadiums in France
Buildings and structures in Le Havre
Sports venues completed in 1932 |
4008756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectoy | Tectoy | Tec Toy S.A., trading as Tectoy since late 2007, is a Brazilian toy and electronics company headquartered in São Paulo. It is best known for producing, publishing, and distributing Sega consoles and video games in Brazil. The company was founded by Daniel Dazcal, Leo Kryss, and Abe Kryss in 1987 because Dazcal saw an opportunity to develop a market for electronic toys and video games, product categories that competitors did not sell in Brazil at the time. The company stock is traded on the Bovespa.
Soon after its founding, Tectoy completed a licensing agreement with Sega allowing it to market a laser gun game based on the Japanese anime Zillion, which sold more units in Brazil than in Japan. Tectoy would later bring the Master System and Mega Drive to the region, as well as Sega's later video game consoles and the Sega Meganet service. Other products developed by Tectoy include educational toys such as the Pense Bem, karaoke machines, and original Master System and Mega Drive games released exclusively in Brazil, such as Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau and Portuguese translations and alternate versions of video games. Over its history, Tectoy has diversified to include more electronic products, such as DVD and Blu-ray players and the Zeebo console. While successful at times, the company has also undergone debt restructuring in 2000 and actions to consolidate its two public stock offerings into one.
Tectoy is credited with the continued success of Sega consoles in Brazil far past their lifetimes worldwide. At one point, Tectoy held an 80% market share of video games in Brazil. Tectoy continues to produce "plug and play" dedicated consoles modelled after the Master System and Genesis to this day, which continue to rival more modern systems by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony in popularity. Tectoy has sold Master System variants and Mega Drive variants.
History
Formation and early years (1987–1996)
Tectoy was founded in September 1987 by Daniel Dazcal, Leo Kryss, and Abe Kryss. Dazcal was previously associated with Sharp Corporation in Brazil, while the Kryss brothers were the owners of Evadin, a Brazilian TV manufacturer associated with Mitsubishi. The new startup company sought to create "intelligent toys" designed specifically for the Brazilian market. At the time, Brazil's most dominant toy manufacturer was Estrela, which held 55% of the market share but did not have any interest in electronics. This gave Dazcal an area to focus the new company. In order to give the company an advantage in marketing costs, Tectoy set its factory in the Free Economic Zone of Manaus to leverage tax incentives.
One of the primary goals of the founders of the company was to enter the video game market. Relying on individual previous experiences in working with Japanese companies, Tectoy executives reached out to Sega, which initially showed reluctance to partner with Tectoy given the failure of Tonka in merchandising Sega products in the United States. The company slowly built trust with Sega and was ultimately granted total liberty to manage Sega products in the Brazilian market. The first Sega product released by Tectoy was the Zillion infrared laser tag gun, based on the phaser featured in the anime of the same name. The success of Zillion led Sega to have Tectoy distribute its 8-bit video game console, the Master System, in Brazil as well. Launched officially in Brazil in September 1989, the Master System achieved success. Tectoy's revenue in 1989 was US$66 million, of which $40 million was attributed to the console. Some of this success is attributed to the company's strong advertising investments: the launch campaign, which lasted until Christmas 1989, was at an expense of $2 million. By the end of 1990, the Master System install base in Brazil was about 280,000 units. The company also introduced a telephone service with tips for games, created a Master System club, and presented the program Master Tips during commercial breaks of the television show Sessão Aventura of Rede Globo.
Over a year after the launch of the Master System, Tectoy officially brought Sega's 16-bit console, the Mega Drive, to Brazil in December 1990. Sega's handheld console, Game Gear, was later released in August 1991. Like the Master System, the two products were assembled by Tectoy in Manaus, and Game Gear was the first portable console manufactured in Brazil. Sega's primary competition, Nintendo, did not officially arrive in Brazil until 1993; they entered the region through Playtronic, a partnership between Gradiente and Estrela. By the time Nintendo arrived in the region, they were unable to compete with pirated NES systems already available in the region and Tectoy's established following. Mega Drive surpassed the SNES in market share in Brazil, and Tectoy claimed 80% of the local video game market. By 1996, Tectoy had sold 2 million video game consoles and was receiving 50,000 calls a month to their video game tip line.
On May 26, 1994, Dazcal died at the age of 42. He was replaced as CEO by Stefano Arnhold, who had worked for Dazcal at Sharp and became one of Tectoy's earliest employees in December 1987. Arnhold continued Tectoy's partnership with Sega and released the Sega Saturn on August 30, 1995, at a price of R$899.99. With the increase in the number of commercial Internet users in Brazil, Tectoy also invested in content and Internet access by introducing a Brazilian version of Internet service provider CompuServe, at the time the second largest US subscriber number. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte were the first cities to receive the service. The service officially began in April 1997 and was part of a strategy to diversify the company's interests away from being a seasonal industry.
Debt restructuring and changes in focus (1997–2006)
In 1997, Tectoy saw financial losses of R$35.9 million and saw a 32% drop in revenue compared to 1996, a year in which the company also failed to meet its revenue goal. The company managed to reduce its losses in 1998, but still saw a net loss of R$10.8 million. During this period, the company launched the Dreamcast console in Brazil in September 1999 at a price of R$900. To cut costs, the Brazilian version was released without a pack-in game and a modem for Internet connection. The modem would be released months later at a price of R$49.99. As of July 2000, Dreamcast sold about 20,000 units in Brazil.
By 2000, Tectoy had debts of R$55 million. The difficulties presented by the market caused Tectoy to announce its application for debt restructuring on December 9, 1997. At the time, the reasons disclosed to the press were the drop in sales and interest in Tectoy's products. The arrangement caused a number of Tectoy businesses to be restructured. CompuServe, which had opened the previous year in Brazil, was closed on April 25, 1998. Subscribers had the option of migrating to the competitor Universo Online (UOL). At the time of the closure, Arnhold stated that although the internet market was "promising", the company had not reached the number of subscribers that the company was expecting. As part of the debt restructuring, Tectoy renegotiated the debt up to six years for repayment, moved its factory in Manaus to smaller facilities, simplified its production chain, and cut its number of employees from 1000 to 110. In Tectoy's offices in São Paulo, all employees were centralized to one location. Tectoy also narrowed its focus to video games and its new work on karaoke machines. The company became the first in Brazil to use compact discs as media for its karaoke devices, in contrast to the cartridge-based machines of its only domestic competitor, Raf Electronics. With these restructuring changes, Tectoy was able to reduce its annual costs to R$4 million in 2001, half of what it spent in 1997, and bankruptcy procedures closed on October 4, 2000.
After the end of bankruptcy proceedings, Tectoy announced another change to its focus. The company announced its diversification from focusing solely on toys and video games into an "entertainment company". Tectoy intended to introduce more product lines, including DVD players, with a focus on higher profitability and less seasonality to the business. The company's video game business remained strong during this time; the year 2000 saw Tectoy make a 25% increase in sales of its Mega Drive console as compared to 1999. While a 2% sales decrease occurred in 2001 due to power rationing in Brazil, the company aimed for another 25% increase of its video game business the next year. By the year 2002, Tectoy had sold 1.2 million Mega Drives in Brazil, and aimed to produce another 100,000 units. Part of the continued success of the Mega Drive came from Tectoy's partnership with Brazilian television station SBT to release a game based on Show do Milhão, a popular game show.
Diversification and Zeebo (2006–2010)
In May 2007, Fernando Fischer became the company's president. He promised to reverse the R$3 million loss from the previous year, and increase revenue by R$45 million. At the same time, the company began using the name "Tectoy" as one word instead of two, and introduced a new logo. Tectoy set forth four business areas of focus in the digital entertainment field: video games, DVDs, digital TV receivers, and toys. One of the first new products was a mobile TV digital receiver, MobTV, in December 2007. During the previous year, Tectoy entered the gaming market for mobile devices. Branded as a subsidiary called Tec Toy Mobile, the company partnered with Level Up! Games, responsible for games like the MMORPG Ragnarok Online. The partnership between the two companies ended in the second half of 2010, when Tectoy sold its stake in Level Up!. Tectoy also began importing the Nabaztag, a portable rabbit-shaped electronic device that played music and accessed information over Wi-Fi. A fire occurred in the Tectoy factory in Manaus in November 2008, which temporarily paralyzed the production lines of the company. In February 2009, Tectoy launched the first Blu-ray player manufactured in Brazil. Subsequently, neither the digital TV receiver nor the Blu-ray player have been financially successful.
Tectoy announced a partnership with Qualcomm in 2008 for a new project, the Zeebo. Known by the codename "Jeanie", the project was originally announced as a "digital toy" that would talk to "several existing technologies." The new digital platform was publicly released at the end of the year as a new video game console dedicated to emerging markets, with no physical media and low price to minimize piracy. Zeebo was released in Brazil on May 25, 2009, but faced competition from Sony and its PlayStation 2 console, which originally sold at R$799. In turn, the Zeebo was not well received by consumers, selling only 30,000 units rather than the company's projection of 600,000. Fischer stated that Tectoy would be operating at a profit if it had not invested in and launched Zeebo. Faced with this scenario of losses, the Zeebo was discontinued in Brazil in 2011. The game purchase network, ZeeboNet, was shut down on September 30, 2011.
Further diversification and stock actions (2010–present)
For a short time starting in November 2010, Tectoy produced and marketed 14-inch tube TVs with 12 games included in memory. This production came at a time when LCD and plasma screen manufacturers accounted for 70% of production in the Free Economic Zone of Manaus. Faced with the success of outsourced set-top boxes for the South Korean company Humax, which produced them for Sky, Tectoy executives saw the possibility of using the company's factory in Manaus for third-party products. This, the company reasoned, would be especially helpful to those who wanted to enter the Brazilian market without investing in their own structure. Tectoy's workforce rose from 200 to 400 employees as a result of the partnership with Humax, which began on December 16, 2010. The company's partnership with Humax ended in the second quarter of 2013.
In the wake of higher revenues obtained in early 2011, Tectoy attempted to auction preferred and common shares. While the company expected to gain R$9.6 million from the sale, a lack of market interest prevented the sale from happening. Tectoy continued to invest in new categories and licensing in digital electronics. Tablets were a major part of the company's revenue in 2013, accounting for 37% of revenue between January and September, with the expectation of surpassing DVD players and becoming their main product category. In 2012, Tectoy licensed Disney characters to launch a new product, the Magic Tablet. The company's shares were grouped in 2015. Tectoy was forced to carry out the procedure after actions of BM&F Bovespa against penny stocks.
A strategy of the company has been betting on nostalgia to bring back consoles that were sold in the 1980s and 1990s. In March 2017, Tectoy released the Atari Flashback 7, a version of the Atari 2600, with 101 games in memory but without support to insert game cartridges. Additionally, by June of the same year, it was planned to relaunch the Mega Drive, with some additional features such as a microSD card slot. As of the end of 2015, Tectoy was still selling plug and play Master System derivatives. By 2016, the company had sold 8 million of these systems in Brazil.
Products
Tectoy is known for their handling and distribution of Sega consoles in Brazil. The company has sold all of Sega's consoles since 1987, including the Master System, Mega Drive, 32X, Sega CD, Game Gear, Saturn, Sega Pico, and Dreamcast, in addition to the Zillion laser tag gun. The company also introduced the Sega Meganet service to Brazil in 1995, starting with a focus on e-mail but later expanding to online multiplayer and chat by 1996, as well as partnering with Brazilian bank Bradesco to develop a banking system, similar to Japan's connection with Nagoya Bank. As of 2015, the Master System and Mega Drive combined sell around 150,000 a year. This is a level comparable to modern consoles available in Brazil such as the PlayStation 4, despite the Mega Drive being temporarily discontinued and reintroduced. Tectoy's hardware for the Master System and Mega Drive evolved over time into derivatives targeting the low-income market. These consoles generally do not have the cartridge slots, as games are installed directly on its internal memory. One of these consoles is the Mega Drive Portable, a portable Mega Drive with 20 games installed onto its memory. Other variations exclusive to Tectoy's releases include the Master System Super Compact, which is a wireless system that transmits to a television, and the Master System Girl, a version of the Super Compact in a pink shell. In 2006, Tectoy released the Master System 3 Collection and the Mega Drive 3, including 120 and 71 built-in games, respectively. Tectoy has received and considered requests to remake the original Master System.
In the 1990s, Tectoy translated several games published by Sega into Portuguese. Translated games include the first three Phantasy Star games, Shining in the Darkness, and Riven, the last of which also incorporated dubbed voices. Additionally, Tectoy built relationships with other developers, including Capcom, Acclaim Entertainment, Electronic Arts, and Midway Games. Tectoy would then translate titles from these developers into Portuguese for release in Brazil, and to tie in to popular Brazilian entertainment franchises. Some examples of this include: Teddy Boy became Geraldinho, certain Wonder Boy titles became Monica's Gang games, and Ghost House became Chapolim vs. Dracula: Um Duelo Assutador, based on Mexican TV series El Chapulín Colorado. Additionally, Tectoy ported games for their Sega systems, such as Street Fighter II: Champion Edition for the Master System and Duke Nukem 3D for the Mega Drive, as well as various games ported from the Game Gear to the more popular Master System. Aside from porting, the company developed Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau after finding out that Woody Woodpecker was the most popular cartoon on Brazilian television. These titles were developed in-house by Tectoy in Brazil. Tectoy also suggested the development of Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II, a project that Sega accepted but would be the only suggestion from Tectoy that Sega approved. More recently, Tectoy created two Mega Drive games based on Show do Milhão, a Brazilian game show based on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? format, and Mega Drive 4 Guitar Idol, a 16-bit rhythm video game based on Guitar Hero with its own guitar peripheral. Tectoy had been granted a master license by Sega for all of their games, including those developed in Europe or America, and had permission to sell any game by Sega in Brazil.
Aside from its work with Sega, Tectoy has developed and sold karaoke machines, set-top boxes, televisions pre-installed with games, mobile games, DVD players, Blu-ray players, a mobile TV receiver, the Nabaztag music player, and the Zeebo video game console. Tectoy also distributed PC games in Brazil such as Blade Runner, StarCraft, and Daytona USA. A successful electronic toy of the company was the Pense Bem, a toy computer introduced in 1988 that asked questions to kids on geography and history. Another product, the Teddy Ruxpin, is a teddy bear that moves and tells stories, licensed by Tectoy for release in Brazil. The Magic Star, a plastic singing toy based on a character from Monica's Gang, was popular in the 1980s and later was rereleased in 2013. Other toys include the Mr. Show electronic question and answer game, as well as Sapo Xulé, a frog doll wearing sneakers, and toys developed for Senninha, a comic based on Ayrton Senna. More recently, Tectoy has also entered the infant care market, partnering with Fisher-Price on baby monitors and with Disney on air purifiers and toothbrush sterilizers.
References
External links
Official Tectoy site
Sega
1987 establishments in Brazil
Electronics companies established in 1987
Electronics companies of Brazil
Companies based in São Paulo
Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange)
Video game companies of Brazil
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1987
Brazilian brands |
4008760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Mucha | Anna Mucha | Anna Maria Mucha (born 26 April 1980) is a Polish film and television actress and journalist. She is best known to Western audiences as the character of Danka Dresner in the film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. In Poland she is known for her regular role in soap opera M jak miłość (2003–present).
The winner of the Polish version of 10th season of Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami. In 2010 she became a member of the jury in the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance (You can dance: Po prostu tańcz).
Mucha posed nude in the October 2009 edition of Polish Playboy.
Early life
Anna Mucha was born and grew up in Warsaw. She graduated from Stefan Batory's Gimnazjum and Liceum in 1999.
Career
In 1990, she was cast as Sabinka in Korczak (directed by Andrzej Wajda) about Polish-Jewish humanitarian Janusz Korczak. That year she appeared in Femina (directed by Piotr Szulkin), in which she co-starred with Alina Janowska. The most important role of her career came when she was cast in Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg followed by several other roles in films such as Miss Nobody (1996), Mlode wilki 1/2 (1997) and Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi). She then appeared in her role of a prostitute named Lili in Chłopaki nie płaczą in 2000 and made no movie appearances for another 10 years.
Mucha also starred in a few Polish tv shows in the 1990s, including Kuchnia polska (1992), Bank nie z tej ziemi (1994) and Matki, żony i kochanki (1995, 1998). Since 2003 she has been a member of the main cast of M jak miłość.
Anna Mucha returned to acting in films in 2011. She played the role of a lesbian named Mira in the comedy Och, Karol 2.
Filmography
Taniec z Gwiazdami
Anna Mucha won the 10th season of Polish Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami.
External links
Anna Mucha Official Website
Schindler's List Official Website
1980 births
Polish actresses
Polish child actresses
Living people
Actresses from Warsaw
Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami
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4008770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%20Agreement | Tripoli Agreement | The Tripoli Agreement (also known as the Libya Accord or the Tripoli Declaration) was signed on February 8, 2006, by Chadian President Idriss Déby, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, effectively ending the Chadian-Sudanese conflict that has devastated border towns in eastern Chad and the Darfur region of western Sudan since December 2005.
Earlier meeting
The agreement was reached after a mini-summit in Tripoli, Libya, hosted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Prior to the meeting, Chadian Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-Mi, Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol, and Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, attended a two-day preparatory meeting aimed at reducing the scope of the disagreement before the heads of state met to iron out the details.
Attendance
Current Chairperson of the African Union and President of Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Central African Republic President François Bozizé, African Union Chairperson of the Commission Alpha Oumar Konaré, and Burkinabé President Blaise Compaoré, the current chair of the Community of the Sahelo-Saharan States, also attended the summit.
Sudanese Minister of Information and Communication al-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik called the summit "a generous initiative from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on patching up the rift and containing a security dispute between Sudan and Chad."
Resuming relations and ending support for rebels
The two heads of state agreed to resuming relations and reopening consulates. The agreement calls for a ban on the use of territory of either country for hostile action and the acceptance of rebels from each other. Libya intends on overseeing the agreement to end hostile press campaigns and support of militant groups. However, Muammar Gaddafi has called on the leaders of each nation to continue talks on solving the root cause of tensions.
"What's going on in Darfur is the cause of the tension in relations between Sudan and Chad... It is shameful that Africa resorts to weapons whenever there is a dispute. Unfortunately, we turn all our differences into wars, which gives an opportunity for foreign interference," Gaddafi said. Gaddafi backs the Agreement to keep make sure the conflict stays "solely African." The United Nations Security Council has contingency plans for international peacekeepers to replace African Union soldiers in Darfur. Gaddafi further stated that the nations involved in the dispute "have no need of UN peacekeepers - we have our own African forces - and we certainly have no need of the forces of our friend Prime Minister Tony Blair. We can settle our problems ourselves."
"The Tripoli peace agreement will enable the two countries to restore their good relations after they were about to go into the wrong path," Déby said.
"We will commit ourselves to the agreement because we are seriously endeavoring to exert sincere efforts which will be practically reflected in improving good neighborly relations," al-Bashir said.
Creation of new agencies
In addition, the Tripoli Agreement creates a "ministerial committee," chaired by Libya, to find a long term solution to the conflict, a commission to acquire information about the situation, and a peace force to prevent cross-border attacks by rebel groups like the UFDC and the Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of West Sudan. On February 12 Human Rights Watch expressed disapproval of the treaty's proposed multinational, instead of international peace force.
The African ministerial committee, made up of the foreign ministers of Chad, Sudan, Libya, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, and Burkina Faso and the chairman of the executive council of the Community of the Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), met in Tripoli on March 6 and Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham described the results. African Union (AU) Commissioner for peace and security Said Djinnit delivered his report on the conflict and the committee agreed to set up surveillance groups on the Chadian-Sudanese border. The other groups proposed in the Tripoli Agreement are expected to be implemented after the committee’s next meeting, sometime before the end of March. The committee identified 10 positions along the border for surveillance, five on each side of the border, and the states expected to form the control groups and the mechanisms for their operation.
Chalgam said the meeting was "constructive, sincere and detailed," and said the results were "practical."
Reaction
Arab League
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said, "I have the honour to warmly congratulate [Gaddafi] for the historic achievement at the mini-African summit held under your auspices that culminated into the settlement of the recent problems that occurred between the two brotherly countries of Sudan and Chad as well the signing of a peace agreement to end the crisis that could be harmful not only to the two states, but the entire Africa and the African-Arab world. History and Arab and African peoples will cherish your efforts that contributed to the creation of a mechanism to transcend the differences between these two countries and will remember you as the Arab and African leader who has initiated Africa's unity through the creation of the [African Union] and the continuation of actions for the unification of the Arab and African worlds."
Libya
Although it was not specified in the Tripoli Agreement, Gaddafi now wanted a temporary closure of the loosely enforced border between Sudan and Chad. Gaddafi said that "these measures are stated in the African Union deeds which are included in the AU constitutive act and the non aggression and joint defense act African security and Peace council protocol and the African joint defense policy plan."
Prior to the summit Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham emphasized the "need for all sides to contain the tensions between Chad and Sudan." After the summit Junior Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Salam Triki expressed his belief that the summit between the leaders "was positive. We heard the points of view of both Sudanese and Chadian sides. They showed a willingness to find a mechanism to end the conflict. We feel confident about finding one."
Mali
President of Mali Amadou Toumani Touré congratulated Libya's success with the Tripoli Agreement on February 15.
Niger
President of Niger Mamadou Tandja said Gaddafi has "once again proved [his] willingness to unite the African continent and reconcile its sons. I give my sincere congratulations for the success obtained by this summit. I reiterate my backing to whatever you do to unify the African continent and to consolidate the permanent march towards well-being and progress."
Rebels
Mohammed Nour, the leader of the United Front for Democratic Change, the Chadian rebel alliance operating from bases in Darfur to attack cities in eastern Chad, was not invited to the summit, despite playing a crucial role in the tension between Chad and Sudan.
UFDC rebels regard the treaty as "a piece of paper with signatures on it. It means nothing."
Nour's original demands, for Déby to relinquish power, a two-year interim period, and fair and free national elections, have been modified. Nour now wants a national forum, before the end of June, for opposition parties and organizations to discuss how the country should move forward politically.
Nour said, "A delegation will arrive tomorrow in Libya to present our demands to [Libyan leader] Gaddafi. We will have a transitional period, the length of which the forum will decide, and then we will have free and transparent democratic elections. I guess after a week or more we will know what Déby's reaction to this proposal is. If he refuses, then we will attack using force to remove him... No one wants a war, but if that's the only way, we will go to Chad."
Another rebel group joined the UFDC on February 13, and Nour says the UFDC is "eight times stronger" than it was when it attacked the city of Adré on December 18.
Colonel Bishara Moussa Farid acted as a peacekeeper in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, later helping both Déby and his predecessor Hissene Habre seize control of the Government of Chad. He recently defected, and said the UFDC is "much better off than the previous resistances. We didn't have equipment and heavy weapons as we do now."
African Union
Congolese Foreign Minister and current chairman of the African Union executive council Rodolphe Adada said on behalf of the African Union, "We hope to move forward. We think we could again lay the foundations for a lasting peace. The two countries have for a long time remained in an atmosphere of absolute confidence and there is no reason that we can't rekindle that confidence."
European Union
On February 14, 2006, the European Union expressed its approval of the treaty. Austria, which is the current president of the EU, released a press statement on February 13 on behalf of the EU, stating:
"After the tensions following the attack on the town of Adré by Chadian rebels [the Rally for Democracy and Liberty and Platform for Change, Unity and Democracy rebel groups] on 18 December 2005, the European Union sees this agreement as an important step towards the restoration of a climate of confidence and cooperation between the two countries. The European Union appeals to both parties to honor this agreement, in particular their commitment to refrain from hosting rebel forces of the other party on their respective territory."
Severance of diplomatic relations
Following the Battle of N'Djamena in April 2006, Chad severed relations with Sudan.
See also
Kano Accord
External links
Full text of the Tripoli Agreement, UN Peacemaker
References
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
2006 in Libya
2006 in Chad
Treaties concluded in 2006
Peace treaties of Chad
Peace treaties of Sudan
Peace treaties of Libya
Chad–Libya relations
Chad–Sudan relations
Libya–Sudan relations
Treaties of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
4008776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20du%20Fort%20Carr%C3%A9 | Stade du Fort Carré | Stade du Fort Carré is a multi-use stadium in Antibes, France, home ground of the FC Antibes. It is currently used mostly for football matches and the local athletics club.
The stadium is able to hold 7,000 people.
During the 1938 World Cup, it hosted one game, between Sweden and Cuba.
Fort Carre
Athletics (track and field) venues in France
Buildings and structures in Antibes
1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Sports venues in Alpes-Maritimes |
4008789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colaeus | Colaeus | Colaeus () was an ancient Samian explorer and silver merchant, who according to Herodotus (Hdt. 4.152) arrived at Tartessos c. 640 BC.
In an era where most Greek traders were anonymous, Herodotus believed that Colaeus and Sostratus the Aeginetan were important enough to note. Colaeus was on a venture to Egypt when he was blown off course by a great storm through the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar as far as Tartessus, south-western Spain. Tartessus had previously been unvisited by traders and Colaeus was able to obtain a cargo of metal and return it safely to Samos. Upon his return, he dedicated one tenth of his profits to his native goddess, Hera. It is widely believed that the storm was an invention by Colaeus to hide his trade route from his competitors as the rewards from the previously untapped source of metal proved immense. The Phocaeans were the first visitors of Tartessos (Herodotus (Hdt. 1.163)): Πρώτῃ δὲ Φωκαίη Ἰωνίης ἐπεχείρησε. Φωκαιέες .... καὶ τόν τε Ἀνδρίην καὶ τὴν Τυρσηνίην καὶ τὴν Ἰβηρίην καὶ τον Ταρτησσὸν οὗτοι εἰσὶν οἱ καταδέξαντες (First Ionian Phocea was involved. The Phoceans… discovered Adriatic and Tyrrenean and Iberia and Tartessos. Arriving at Tartessos they were welcomed by the Tartessian king by the name Arganthonios (ἀπικόμενοι δὲ ἐς τὸν Ταρτησσὸν προσφιλέες ἐγένοντο τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ταρτησσίων, τῷ οὔνομα μὲν ἦν Ἀργαθώνιος. Colaeus' voyage was profitable enough for him to devote the tenth of his earnings to Hera. The Phoceans built a new fortification wall for Phocaea.
References
Sources
The role of metals in ancient Greek history By Michail Yu Treister Page 102
The ancient explorers By Max Cary, Eric Herbert Warmington
Ancient Greek explorers
Ancient Samians
Ancient Greek merchants
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Explorers of Europe
7th-century BC Greek people
Tartessos |
4008824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studtite | Studtite | Studtite, chemical formula [(UO2)O2(H2O)2]·2(H2O) or UO4·4(H2O), is a secondary uranium mineral containing peroxide formed by the alpha-radiolysis of water during formation. It occurs as pale yellow to white needle-like crystals often in acicular, white sprays.
Studtite was originally described by Vaes in 1947 from specimens from Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo, and has since been reported from several other localities. The mineral was named for Franz Edward Studt, an English prospector and geologist who was working for the Belgians.
When exposed to air studtite converts over a short time to the metastudtite UO4·2(H2O) form. Despite their apparent chemical simplicity, these two uranyl species are the only reported peroxide minerals.
They may also be readily formed on the surface of nuclear waste under long-term storage and have been found on the surface of spent nuclear fuel stored at the Hanford, Washington nuclear site. It has also been reported that studtite has since formed on the corium lavas that were created during the course of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. Thus, there is considerable evidence that uranyl peroxides such as studtite and metastudtite will be important alteration phases of nuclear waste, possibly at the expense of other minerals, such as uranyl oxides and silicates, which have been more thoroughly studied and are better understood. The formation of these minerals may impact the long-term performance of deep geological repository sites such as Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Due to insufficient information about these minerals it is unknown if they will make radioactive wastes more or less stable, but the presence of studtite and metastudtite provides a pathway for mobilizing insoluble U(IV) from the corroding fuel surface into soluble uranyl species.
References
Uranium(VI) minerals
Oxide minerals
Radioactive waste
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 12 |
4008828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Henri-Jooris | Stade Henri-Jooris | Stade Henri-Jooris was a sports stadium in Lille, France. The stadium, used mostly for football matches was able to hold 15,000 people and was home stadium of Olympique Lillois and Lille OSC.
Originally it was known as Stade de l'avenue de Dunkerque; from 1907 to 1943, the stadium's name was the Stade Victor Boucquey. That year it was renamed after the former president of Olympique Lillois Henri-Jooris (who died four years before).
The stadium suffered a roof collapse during the Lens-Lille derby in February 1946. 53 spectators were injured as the structure partially collapsed during a 19th minute counterattack. The game was only delayed 20 minutes.
During the 1938 World Cup, it hosted one game.
1938 FIFA World Cup
References
Stade Henri-Jooris
Defunct football venues in France
Sports venues completed in 1902
Stade Henri-Jooris
Football venues in France
1938 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Stade Henri-Jooris
Olympique Lillois |
4008865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20P.%20Davies | L. P. Davies | Leslie Purnell Davies (20 October 1914 – 6 January 1988) was a British novelist whose works typically combine elements of horror, science fiction and mystery. He also wrote many short stories under several pseudonyms, including: L. Purnell Davies, Leo Berne, Richard Bridgeman, Morgan Evans, Ian Jefferson, Lawrence Phillips, Thomas Philips, G. K. Thomas, Leslie Vardre, and Rowland Welch.
Themes
Davies' books often deal with the manipulation of human consciousness, and in some ways are comparable to the works of Philip K. Dick. (The premise of The Artificial Man resembles that of Dick's Time Out of Joint.) His protagonists frequently suffer from amnesia or other loss of identity, and their quest to find out who they really are drives the plot.
Film adaptations
Davies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X, and The Alien (1968) was loosely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy.
Personal life
Davies worked as a pharmacist, postmaster, optometrist, and gift shop owner, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, Italy and North Africa.
Critical evaluation
A critical essay on Davies' novels can be found in S. T. Joshi's The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).
Novels
The Paper Dolls (1964)
Man Out of Nowhere (1965; published in the US in 1966 as Who Is Lewis Pinder?)
The Artificial Man (1965)
Psychogeist (1966)
Tell it to the Dead (1966, under the pseudonym Leslie Vardre; published in the US in 1967 as The Reluctant Medium under the author's real name)
Twilight Journey (1967)
The Lampton Dreamers (1967)
The Nameless Ones (1967; published in the US in 1968 as A Grave Matter)
The Alien (1968)
Dimension A (1969)
Genesis Two (1969)
Stranger to Town (1969)
The White Room (1969)
Adventure Holidays Ltd. (1970)
The Shadow Before (1970)
Give Me Back Myself (1971)
What Did I Do Tomorrow? (1972)
Assignment Abacus (1975)
Possession (1976)
The Land of Leys (1979)
Morning Walk (1983)
Short Story Collection
Shadows Before: The London Mystery Stories of L.P. Davies (2 vols., Ramble House, 2021)
See also
List of horror fiction authors
References
Joshi, S. T. "L. P. Davies: The Workings of the Mind", in The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004), pp. 149–165.
External links
L. P. Davies: International Man of Mystery, Author and ... Gift Shop Owner
M is for … MAN OUT OF NOWHERE by LP Davies (with much additional information)
1914 births
1988 deaths
British horror writers
British science fiction writers
20th-century British novelists
British male novelists
British Army personnel of World War II
Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers |
4008882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Annas | George Annas | George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law.
Biography
Annas holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics. He works the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights.
Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional NGO that states it is dedicated to promoting human rights and health. He teaches health law and human rights courses in the Boston University School of Public Health, the Boston University School of Law, and the Boston University School of Medicine. He is a Hastings Center fellow, a former member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and a member of the National Academies' Committee on Human Rights.
Selected bibliography
Books
Book review:
Book review: Selected as second of the top ten humanitarian books of 1999.
Journal articles
See also
Bioethics
Biopolitics
Eugenics Wars argument
Genism
References
External links
George Annas and Wendy Mariner on The Future of Health Law, on BUniverse, Boston University's video archive.
Interview: Engineering Life from Wonderlance, a monthly digital magazine
Bioethicists
Harvard Law School alumni
Harvard School of Public Health alumni
Living people
Boston University School of Public Health faculty
Hastings Center Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard College alumni |
4008886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratboy | Ratboy | Ratboy is a 1986 American drama film directed by and starring Sondra Locke. The make-up effects were designed by Rick Baker. The film's scenario is at times comic or serious, and one of its peculiarities is that there never is any explanation for Ratboy's origin and existence as a human-rat hybrid.
Ratboy had a troubled production and was both a critical and commercial failure. However, it received better reviews in European countries, especially France, winning the Deauville American Film Festival.
Synopsis
A former window dresser named Nikki overhears mention of a mysterious "Ratboy" named Eugene while dumpster diving at a dump. After finding and befriending him, Nikki makes several attempts at marketing his uniqueness to the public. At the same time, Eugene wishes to avoid public attention.
In the end, the police are searching for Eugene's body, as Nikki stands by, saddened, until a crystal in her jacket pocket begins to glow. Eugene has survived the police gunfire and is hiding atop a tree, signaling to Nikki. Nikki is happy that Eugene is alive. Eugene then flees as the police continue searching for him.
Cast
Sondra Locke as Nikki Morrison
Sharon Baird as Eugene / Ratboy (as S.L. Baird)
Robert Townsend as Manny
Christopher Hewett as Acting Coach
Larry Hankin as Robert Jewell
Sydney Lassick as Lee 'Dial-A-Prayer'
Gerrit Graham as Billy Morrison
Louie Anderson as Omer Morrison
Billie Bird as Psychic
John Witherspoon as Heavy
Charles Bartlett as Catullus Cop
Gordon Anderson as the voice of Ratboy
Tim Thomerson as Alan Reynolds (uncredited)
Reception
The film has a 'rotten' rating of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it two out of four stars, calling the film 'perplexing' and criticizing the film's unique premise devolving into a more standard narrative. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the film 'disorganized', criticizing the script and directing choices of Locke. On the opposite end, Michael Wilmington of The Los Angeles Times was more positive, calling the film, 'Grimm Brothers-style, mixing wonder with rough edges, undertones of pain beneath the fantasy.'
Awards
Sondra Locke received a 1987 Razzie nomination for Worst Actress, losing to Madonna for Who's That Girl.
References
External links
1986 films
Warner Bros. films
English-language films
Films directed by Sondra Locke
1986 drama films
American drama films
Malpaso Productions films
Films scored by Lennie Niehaus
American films
1986 directorial debut films |
4008889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Carrara-Rudolph | Leslie Carrara-Rudolph | Leslie Carrara, sometimes credited as Leslie Carrara-Rudolph or the misspelling Leslie Carrera-Rudolph, is an American actress, performer, puppeteer, speaker, singer and artist.
She is probably best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, most notably playing Abby Cadabby. She is also known for her original characters, including Lolly Lardpop. She is also a voice actress, creates artwork and performs in cabaret.
Career
Rudolph is known for performing the fairy Abby Cadabby on the PBS/HBO series Sesame Street, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Emmy Award for best performer in a children's series. She is also known for her puppeteer role as Ginger on the Disney Channel preschool series Johnny and the Sprites. She performed the Muppet, Jesse for Sesame Streets military outreach project Touch, Listen, and Connect, which starred Katie Couric. Rudolph plays various Muppet characters, besides Abby, on Sesame Street and has voiced animated characters and played live-action characters on the show. She got her start on ABC's Muppets Tonight as Spamela Hamderson and Darci. Other puppeteering credits include Edi the Zebra on Jim Henson's Animal Jam and the evil, blonde-haired vampire puppet in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Rudolph is one of the founding members of the Henson improv group Puppet Up!, which was later retitled as Stuffed and Unstrung. She was part of the improv cast for its debut at the Aspen Comedy Festival. She toured with them to the comedy festival in Australia and was a cast member for the off-Broadway show at the Union Square Theater. She also played the main role of Blue, the female blue puppy in Nick Jr.'s Blue's Room.
Her original character Lolly Lardpop has a musical comedy CD out called Sunkinsass. Rudolph portrayed the human children's show star Miss Poppy in the satirical play Pigeon-Holed, written by Sesame Street writer Annie Evans and Sesame Street puppeteer regulars. She does regular voiceover work, including characters in The Simpsons, Ratchet & Clank, and the English dub of the anime Zatch Bell. She has a BA degree from San Francisco State University in her major "Child Development Through the Arts". When she is not performing, she illustrates children's books and paints.
Rudolph performs an original, candy-obsessed character, Lolly, in several clubs and events in New York and Los Angeles, and works in children's outreach programs. Carrara-Rudolph released a Lolly children's CD called Spunkinsass.
Rudolph has written and produced several one-woman shows. Her latest musical, Entertaining a Thought, which was developed at the 2009 Ojai Play Write Conference, recently received a Jim Henson Foundation Grant and a 2009–2010 UNIMA Citation of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry. She just finished a run of her newest interactive show, Wake Up Your Weird, at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. The show she created for the Disney company, The Wahoo Wagon, ran for six months at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood and featured all of her original characters.
Some of Rudolph's voiceover credits include the voice of Peg Puppy for Nickelodeon's animated series T.U.F.F. Puppy, and additional voices for The Simpsons and for The Electric Company, for which she voices Wolfman, Bat, and Mummy. She joined the cast of the podcast series The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd in the season 3 premiere and has guest-starred several times since.
She plays the character Bubbles in Splash and Bubbles.
She was an additional puppeteer in Julie's Greenroom.
Filmography
Muppets Tonight - Spamela Hamderson, Darci, Shirley, Dorothy Bovine, Belle the Bubble Mom, Additional Muppets
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss - Little Cat A, Morton the Elephant Bird, Princess Tizz, Additional Muppets
Animal Jam - Edi the Zebra
Blue's Room - Blue
Johnny and the Sprites - Ginger
Sesame Street - Abby Cadabby, Lotta Chatter, Rosa, Sleeping Beauty, Virginia Virginia, Mrs. Grouch (episode 4237), Additional Muppets
T.U.F.F. Puppy - Peg Puppy (voice)
Frances - Mom (voice)
Rugrats: All Grown Up - Myron (voice)
Poochini's Yard - Wendy White (voice)
Splash and Bubbles - Bubbles, Flo
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - Sasha Phyronix
References
External links
Official Website
Living people
American women singers
American puppeteers
American voice actresses
Muppet performers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sesame Street Muppeteers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
4008897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Glendale%20%28PF-36%29 | USS Glendale (PF-36) | USS Glendale (PF-36), a patrol frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Glendale, California. In commission in the US Navy from 1943 to 1945, and from 1950 to 1951, she also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-6 from 1945 to 1949 and in the Royal Thai Navy as Tachin (PF-1) from 1951 to 2000.
Construction and commissioning
Originally classified as a patrol gunboat, PG-144, Glendale was reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-36, on 15 April 1943. She was launched on 28 May 1943, at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by Miss Shirley Schlichtman and commissioned on 1 October 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Harold J. Doebler, USCG, in command.
Service history
World War II, 1944-1945
Following shakedown off Southern California, Glendale departed San Diego, California, on 12 January 1944 and reached Cairns, Australia, on 17 February 1944. Until late 1944, she served as an anti-submarine and anti-aircraft escort ship based in New Guinea, protecting arriving and departing merchant ships.
In September 1944, Glendale took part in the assault on Morotai Island, departing Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, on 14 September 1944 to escort merchant ships to the island. She returned to Humboldt Bay on 24 September 1944 to continue escort assignments between New Guinea and the Philippine Islands.
On 5 December 1944, Glendale was escorting a convoy from Hollandia to Leyte in the Philippines when attacking Japanese aircraft sank SS Antoine Saugrain, a cargo ship laden with valuable radar materiel, and severely damaged the merchant ship . Glendale brought the rest of the convoy safely into Leyte the next day.
Glendale departed Leyte on 8 December 1944 bound for the Atlantic Ocean and moored at Boston, Massachusetts, on 24 January 1945.
After overhaul, Glendale got underway from Casco Bay, Maine, on 28 March 1945 as part of Escort Division 25 – which also included her sister ships (the flagship), , , , and – bound for Seattle, Washington, via the Panama Canal. The six patrol frigates arrived at Seattle on 26 April 1945. They got underway again for Kodiak in the Territory of Alaska on 7 June 1945. Ogden had to return to Seattle for repairs, but Belfast and the other four frigates arrived at Womens Bay, Kodiak, on 11 June 1945.
On 13 June 1945, Glendale, Long Beach, Belfast, San Pedro, Coronado, and their sister ships , , , and got underway from Kodiak for Cold Bay, Alaska, where they arrived on 14 June 1945 to participate in Project Hula, a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan. Training of Glendales new Soviet Navy crew soon began at Cold Bay.
Soviet Navy, 1945–1949
Glendale was decommissioned on 12 July 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately along with nine of her sister ships. This was the first group of patrol frigates transferred to the Soviet Navy. When her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Ambrose Simko, handed Glendale over to the Soviet Navy, he as well as the commanding officers of the other nine transferred patrol frigates received custom daggers made for each of them as gifts from the Soviets. Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, Glendale was designated as a storozhevoi korabl ("escort ship") and renamed EK-6 in Soviet service. On 15 July 1945, EK-6 departed Cold Bay in company with nine of her sister ships – EK-1 (ex-Charlottesville), EK-2 (ex-Long Beach), EK-3 (ex-Belfast), EK-4 (ex-Machias), EK-5 (ex-San Pedro), EK-7 (ex-Sandusky), EK-8 (ex-Coronado), EK-9 (ex-Allentown), and EK-10 (ex-Ogden) – bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union. EK-6 served as a patrol vessel in the Soviet Far East.
In February 1946, the United States began negotiations with the Soviet Union for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Navy for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947, United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, EK-6 among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships was protracted, but on 16 November 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned EK-6 to the U.S. Navy at Yokosuka, Japan.
Korean War, 1950–1951
Reverting to her old name. Glendale was recommissioned into the U.S. Navy on 11 October 1950 for service in the Korean War. In December 1950, the ship patrolled off Hungnam, Pusan, and Inchon, Korea, in support of United Nations forces fighting ashore. On 29 October 1951, she was decommissioned again and transferred along with her sister ship to the Government of Thailand. The U.S. Navy struck Glendale from the Navy List on 20 November 1951.
Royal Thai Navy, 1951-2000
The ship served in the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Tachin (PF-1), later reclassified PF-411. She was decommissioned on 22 June 2000 at Sattahip Naval Base.
Museum ship
Dismantled and transported by truck to the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School in Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand, Tachin was re-assembled and has been on display there since 9 July 2001 with all her original armament intact.
Awards
The U.S. Navy awarded Glendale five battle stars for her World War II service and four battle stars for her Korean War service. She also received the Korean Presidential Unit Citation for her actions during the Korean War.
References
External links
hazegray.org: USS Glendale
Tacoma-class frigates
Ships built in Los Angeles
1943 ships
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Tacoma-class frigates of the Soviet Navy
World War II frigates of the Soviet Union
Cold War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union
Korean War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Tacoma-class frigates of the Royal Thai Navy
Museum ships in Thailand
Glendale, California
Ships transferred under Project Hula |
4008907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlata%20Filipovi%C4%87 | Zlata Filipović | Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) is a Bosnian-Irish diarist. She kept a diary from 1991 to 1993 when she was a child living in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
She and her family survived the war and moved to Paris where they lived for a year.
Biography
The only child of an advocate and a chemist, Filipović grew up in a middle-class family. From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary, Mimmy, about the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, through which she lived.
Filipović and her family survived and escaped to Paris, in 1993 where they stayed for a year. She attended St. Andrew's College, Dublin (a senior school), going on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2001 with a BA in human sciences, and has lived in Dublin, Ireland since October 1995, where she studied at Trinity College Dublin.
Filipović has continued to write. She wrote the foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary and co-edited Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq. She appeared on the Canadian version of the talk show Tout le monde en parle on 19 November 2006. As of 2016 she lived in Dublin, Ireland, working in the field of documentary and other film production.
Works
Activism
In 2011, Filipović produced the short film Stand Up! for the Stand Up! campaign created by BeLonG To, an LGBTQ youth service organisation in Ireland against homophobic bullying in schools. It has been viewed over 1.6 million times on YouTube.
Filipović served on the Executive Committee of Amnesty International Ireland (2007–13) and is a founding member of NYPAW (Network of Young People Affected by War). She has spoken extensively at schools and universities around the world on issues of children in conflict. She was a member of the UNESCO Jury for the Prize for Children and Young People's Literature for Tolerance, and is a recipient of the Child of Courage Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles (1994).
Production
Short
2011: Stand up
2012: Motion Sickness
2013: Abacus
2014: Stand up for your friends
2016: OCD and Me
2016: The Wake
2017: James Vincent McMorrow: One Thousand Times
2017: Bittersweet (documentary)
2018: Johnny (documentary)
2018: Villagers - Fool
2019: Strong at the Broken Places
2020: How to 69
Documentary
2010: Blood of the Irish
2011: Hold on Tight
2012: Three Men Go to War
2013: Here Was Cuba
2014: Somebody to love
2016: The Farthest
2016: The Story of Yes
Television
2017: The Babymakers (series documentary)
2018: The Game: The Story of Hurling (series documentary)
References
External links
Interview with Zlata Filipovic, motherdaughterbookclub.com, February 2010; accessed 7 March 2016.
Zlata Filipović interview on the Charlie Rose show, 7 March 1994
Le Journal De Zlata from Zone Libre, radio-canada.ca, 19 December 2003.
1980 births
Writers from Sarajevo
Living people
Women diarists
People of the Bosnian War
Women in European warfare
Women in warfare post-1945
20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina women
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina women writers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin |
4008919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seba%20Beach | Seba Beach | Seba Beach is a summer village located west of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. The main employer to those within the village and surrounding area is the Sundance Generating Plant, a coal-fired power plant located on the south side of the lake, owned and operated by TransAlta Utilities.
A large cabin-going community exists during the summer, although the village is populated year round. Local sites include The Seba Heritage Museum and Memory Wall, Wabamun Lake, the village marina and pier, a public library, and several businesses including a restaurant, a general store, a miniature golf course, a golf resort, and a recreational vehicle park.
Seba Beach is one of the few summer villages in Alberta that employs community peace officers. The duties of its two peace officers include traffic and liquor enforcement as well as emergency response.
August long weekend is the annual Regatta at Seba Beach, which features a parade, dance, foot races, fireworks, beach volleyball tournament, and cribbage tournament, among other events. During the summer and fall, there is a weekly farmers market on Saturdays.
Fish within the lake include northern pike, whitefish, walleye, and yellow perch.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Seba Beach had a population of 229 living in 128 of its 333 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 169. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Seba Beach had a population of 169 living in 82 of its 323 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 143. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Edmonton Yacht Club
The Edmonton Yacht Club, founded in 1923, is the main sailing club of Seba Beach, located at 1 Avenue and 2 Street West. In 1989, Margaret Lemieux compiled 'Wind in the sails : the Edmonton Yacht Club, 1923-1981', which documented the history of the Edmonton Yacht Club and sailing in Alberta during this time period, published through the Seba Beach Heritage Society from records of the Edmonton Yacht Club from Cooking Lake and Seba Beach.
See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of summer villages in Alberta
List of resort villages in Saskatchewan
References
External links
1920 establishments in Alberta
Edmonton Metropolitan Region
Summer villages in Alberta |
4008923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmilles%20Stadium | Charmilles Stadium | Charmilles Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Geneva, Switzerland. It was used mostly for football matches, and was the home venue for Servette FC. The stadium was able to hold 9,250 people and was built in 1930 for the Coupe des Nations 1930 tournament. During the 1954 FIFA World Cup the stadium hosted five games. It was closed in 2002 before Stade de Genève opened.
Defunct football venues in Switzerland
1954 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Servette FC
Sport in Geneva
Multi-purpose stadiums in Switzerland
Defunct sports venues in Switzerland |
4008926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Fogg%20%28DE-57%29 | USS Fogg (DE-57) | USS Fogg (DE/DER-57), a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She was scrapped in 1966.
History
Fogg was named in honor of Carleton Thayer Fogg (1917–1942), who was killed in action while serving aboard the aircraft carrier during the initial attack Kwajalein, 1 February 1942.
Fogg was launched on 20 March 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Adelbert W. Fogg, mother of Lieutenant (junior grade) Fogg, and commissioned on 7 July 1943.
Battle of the Atlantic
Fogg's first cruise on convoy duty began with her departure from New York on 13 October 1943. She escorted unladen tankers to Aruba and Curaçao in the Netherlands West Indies, crossed to Algiers guarding loaded tankers, then
returned by way of Curaçao and Trinidad to New York on 4 December 1943. Between 26 December 1943 and 20 August 1944, she made six escort voyages from New York to Londonderry Port, Northern Ireland, guarding the flow of men and material which made possible the invasion of Europe and the push across the continent which followed.
The escort put to sea once more from New York on 12 September 1944, to escort a convoy through the English Channel to Cherbourg, France, then called at Portsmouth, England, before returning to New York on 9 October for a brief overhaul. After special training at Charleston, she sailed on 6 November to escort a slow towing convoy to England and back. Homeward bound, on 20 December, one of the LSTs in the convoy was torpedoed, and as Fogg began to search for the submarine, she, too, was torpedoed by commanded by Ernst Hechler. Fourteen of her men were killed and two wounded, and the ship badly damaged. For two days the crew fought to save their ship, but when on 22 December the stern sheared off, all but a skeleton crew were taken off. These men restored buoyancy, and Fogg reached the Azores in tow the next day. A first attempt to tow her back to the United States failed when bad weather tore away the temporary bulkheads replacing the stern, but she at last arrived at Boston for repairs on 9 March 1945.
After refresher training, Fogg sailed out of Norfolk between 2 and 30 June 1945, acting as target ship in battle problems with a cruiser, serving as plane guard for a carrier, and training men in combat information center duty.
Radar picket
On 1 July, she entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for conversion to a radar picket, which was completed on 2 October. Duty along the United States East Coast and in the Caribbean, primarily in anti-submarine warfare development and as combat information center school ship, continued until 26 July 1947, when she arrived at Charleston, South Carolina. There, Fogg was decommissioned and placed in reserve on 27 October 1947.
She was reclassified DER-57 on 18 March 1949. On 28 October 1954 she was reclassified DE-57. Fogg was stricken from the Navy List on 1 April 1965 and sold for scrap on 6 January 1966.
References
External links
Buckley-class destroyer escorts
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Ships built in Hingham, Massachusetts
1943 ships |
4008941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-war | Post-war | In Western usage, the phrase post-war era (or postwar era) usually refers to the time since the end of World War II. More broadly, a post-war period (or postwar period) is the interval immediately following the end of a war. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date (such as the period between World War I and World War II). By contrast, a post-war period marks the cessation of armed conflict entirely.
Post–World War II
Chronology of the post–World War II era
The term "post-war" can have different meanings in different countries and refer to a period determined by local considerations based on the effect of the war there. Some examples of post-war events are (in chronological order)
The Cold War (1947-1991)
The Cold War was a geopolitical conflict between the capitalist and liberal democratic United States of America, the Communist Marxist–Leninist Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and their allies: NATO and the Western Bloc for the United Stats, and the Warsaw Pact and the Eastern Bloc for the Soviet Union. Although both sides did not fight each other directly they have fought proxy wars when they support smaller countries to fight and watch other countries. At the height of the cold war both superpowers had nuclear weapons targeted at each other, leading to the risk of mutually assured destruction. But both nations chose harmony over peace by choosing diplomatic solutions rather than military conflict. The Cold War ended in the late 1980s with the overthrow of Communist governments across Eastern Europe in the Revolutions of 1989, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Korean War (1950-1953)
On June 25, 1950, after years of tension between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea, North Korea coordinated a series of surprise attacks against strategic points between the 38th parallel. Soon US-led United Nations forces joined the war on behalf of South Korea, expelled the North Korean invasion, and then invaded and nearly captured North Korea. In response, Chinese forces entered the war on behalf of North Korea and pushed the US, South Korean, and UN forces back to the 38th parallel. After 3 years of advances and retreats nearly five million lives were lost and to this very day there are still border disputes between the two Koreas.
Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
In the 1950s African Americans faced discrimination and segregation throughout the United States, especially in the south where many cannot even vote. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. By the end of the 1950s, fewer than 10 percent of Black children in the South were attending integrated schools.
Vietnam war ( 1955-1975)
The Vietnam War was fought between the communist North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union, China, and the Eastern Bloc and China and South Vietnam supported by the United States and SEATO. This war is especially brutal due to North Vietnamese regular forces and Viet Cong insurgents in South Vietnam adapting to guerrilla fighting and ambush tactics against the South Vietnamese military and the United States Armed Forces. Vietnam was is one of the first wars to be broadcast to television. Many American civilians and soldiers were opposed to the war due to the condition and many think the war is pointless. Finally after many protests the United States slowly withdraw from Vietnam due to public backlash.
United Kingdom
In Britain, "post-war":
culturally, is a term commonly used in the arts and architecture, as it is worldwide. It is primarily and especially before the ascendancy of Pop Art and overlapping "post-modernist" "1960s" movements. Its end is complex due to its archetypes of the 1950s contrasting with leading developments in avant-garde music genres and in popular art, becoming to some audiences mainstream, before 1960. Its movements such as continued functionalism and brutalism were overtaken by the, definitively raucous, counterculture of the 1960s, dominating as the decade wore on. Later resurgences to its stress on quite basic forms were common such as postmodernism and minimalism.
politically and economically
at its broadest, is the period from the election of Clement Attlee in 1945 general election to that of Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 general election, the so-called post-war consensus.
at its narrowest, usually with precise or contextual qualifiers, it is the war's direct aftermath; this prompted social solidarity, unprecedented high capital, particularly inheritance taxation, internationalism, the decolonization of the British Empire, the founding and endowing of the National Health Service all amid relative austerity particularly rationing. Hardships in capital taxation, and of rationing, faded due to global recovery, technological advances and consumerism enabled and encouraged from the late 1950s such as under the four-successive leader Conservative government, 1957–1964. These set a social norm for a majority of out-of-town journeys in private rather than public transport and private housing preferred over public housing, continued (with minor abatement) through alternating governments of the next two decades.
Cold War era
Considering the post-war era as equivalent to the Cold War era, post-war sometimes includes the 1980s, putting the end at 26 December 1991, with the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. The 1990s and the 21st century are extremely rarely described as part of the post-war era, with the more specific phrase “Post–Cold War era” being commonly used, instead.
See also
Interwar period
Pre-war (not a synonym for interwar when referring to World War I)
Aftermath of the September 11 attacks
Postbellum
Reconstruction Era of the U.S.
Post–Cold War era
References
Aftermath of war
Aftermath of World War II |
4008950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Armstrong%20%28basketball%29 | Jack Armstrong (basketball) | John Joseph "Jack" Armstrong (born January 3, 1963) is an American sportscaster, working primarily for the Toronto Raptors on TSN and NBA TV Canada. Armstrong is also the college basketball analyst for TSN and a former college basketball coach.
Personal
Armstrong is the son of Irish immigrants and was raised Catholic. His father died when Jack was age seven and his mother Mary raised him alone. Armstrong graduated from Fordham University in 1985 with a Masters in Communication. He has three brothers: William, James and Brendan.
Jack is married to Dena Armstrong, who was the women's soccer coach at Niagara University. They met at Niagara University, when they were both coaches. They are the parents of three adopted sons. They live in Lewiston, New York just across the Niagara River from Ontario.
Armstrong is a fan of the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres and the Toronto Raptors.
Coaching career
From 1989 to 1998, Armstrong was the lead basketball coach of Niagara University. In the 1992–93 season, he led the Niagara Purple Eagles to a 23–7 record and was named the New York State Division I Coach of the Year. His overall record with the team was 100-154.
Broadcast career
Armstrong is currently an NBA analyst for TSN and the on-air in-game broadcaster for the Toronto Raptors NBA team. He has been a part of the broadcast team since 2000. Armstrong has two catch-phrases that he uses during game broadcasts: "Helloooo" and "Get that garbage outta here". The "get that garbage outta here" phrase was also used by Armstrong in commercials for the City of Toronto government to encourage keeping garbage out of recycling materials. Most recently, following the Raptors’ signings of Montreal natives Chris Boucher and Khem Birch, he would use “Bonjour” instead of "Helloooo" whenever a big play such as a block or dunk would be made by those players.
Armstrong re-uses many on-air phrases that were originally created by fellow former coach and broadcaster Bill Raftery.
Armstrong is a 3 time winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sports Analyst in a Sports Program or Series.
On Thursday, July 31, 2008, it was announced that Jack Armstrong would take over The Chuck Swirsky Show effective August 18, 2008, alongside Doug MacLean on the Toronto, Ontario AM sports talk radio station The Fan 590. The show's name was later changed to The Game Plan. In 2009, Doug MacLean left the show and was replaced by Eric Smith.
In April 2022, while on a broadcast of Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs first round against the Philadelphia 76ers, Armstrong seemed happy that Joel Embiid appeared to be injured, stating "You get what you deserve." and "You know what it is…karma is a you know what, right?". Embiid had suffered a right orbital fracture and concussion in that moment.
References
External links
Bio from TSN.ca
Jack Armstrong's NCAA coaching record on sports-reference.com
1963 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Canada
American men's basketball coaches
American people of Irish descent
American sports announcers
Basketball coaches from New York (state)
Canadian bloggers
Canadian radio sportscasters
Canadian sports talk radio hosts
Canadian television sportscasters
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Fordham University alumni
Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball coaches
People from Lewiston, New York
Sportspeople from Brooklyn
Toronto Raptors announcers |
4008951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus%20squamata | Juniperus squamata | Juniperus squamata, the flaky juniper, or Himalayan juniper is a species of coniferous shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the Himalayas and China.
It represents the provincial tree of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (unofficial).
Description
It is an evergreen shrub (rarely a small tree) reaching tall (rarely 15 m), with flaky brown bark, and a prostrate to irregularly-conical crown. The leaves are broad, needle-like, long, arranged in six ranks in alternating whorls of three, and often strongly a glaucous blue-green in color. The cones are berry-like, globose to ovoid, 4–9 mm long, and 4–6 mm diameter. Often, they are a glossy black and contain one seed; they are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 3–4 mm long and shed their pollen in early spring. It is largely dioecious, with pollen and seed cones produced on separate plants, but occasionally monoecious.
Taxonomy
Three to five varieties are accepted, with treatment differing between different authors:
Juniperus squamata var. squamata – leaves mostly 5–9 mm. Throughout the standard range.
Juniperus squamata var. fargesii Rehder & E.H.Wilson – leaves mostly 3–5 mm. Confined to the eastern half of the range in China.
Juniperus squamata var. hongxiensis Y.F.Yu & L.K.Fu; often included in var. squamata.
Juniperus squamata var. parviflora Y.F.Yu & L.K.Fu; often included in var. squamata.
Juniperus morrisonicola from Taiwan is often treated as a synonym, or a variety Juniperus squamata var. morrisonicola (Hayata) H.L.Li & H.Keng, but is better treated as a distinct species as it has a distinct DNA profile.
Etymology
The Latin specific epithet squamata means small, scale-like leaves.
Distribution and habitat
It is found in (and native to) northeastern Afghanistan east to western Yunnan in southwestern China, with disjunct populations north to western Gansu, east to Fujian, and Taiwan. Recently, however, it was introduced to the United States in 1964 after being exported from the Netherlands. It grows at altitudes from .
Cultivation
Juniperus squamata is widely grown as an ornamental plant in Europe and North America, valued for its bluish foliage and compact habit. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:
'Blue Carpet'
'Blue Star'
'Holger'
References
Plants used in bonsai
squamata
Flora of Pakistan
Least concern plants |
4008968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Park | Tracy Park | Tracy Park is an estate near Wick, South Gloucestershire, close to the boundary with Bath and North East Somerset and approximately from the World Heritage City of Bath. Set in approximately of parkland, the house is a Grade II listed building. It has a 17th-century nucleus behind a classical two-storey front built of Ashlar stone. The gate piers either side of the carriageway leading to the house are also Grade II listed.
The estate is documented from 1246. Throughout the 17th and most of the 18th centuries, the estate was owned by a succession of Bristol merchants and tradesmen, culminating in Robert Bush, a pewterer, who purchased the estate in 1774. His son, Robert, constructed a classical façade in c. 1800, obscuring much of the original building. Sold for more than £12,000 to General Sir William Gabriel Davy in 1820, it was much altered and rebuilt by his son, a prominent Freemason, who adorned the estate with many Masonic symbols. The estate again changed hands in 1926. The mansion ceased to be a private house in 1973, when it was auctioned and subsequently became a golf and country club and hotel.
Early history
During the Roman occupation of Britain, a large villa was sited on what is today the Tracy park estate. It was excavated in 1865, when it was found that the villa had once been enclosed by earthworks encompassing some two acres of land. Standing stones, thought to be the remains of a long barrow, just under a mile from the house, suggest that the site was occupied at an even earlier date. The present site became the property of John de Tracye in 1246; the park probably constituted 100 acres of land at the bottom of Freezing Hill and his manor house was likely near the church and not in the park, although its exact location is unknown. His descendants, Lords of the Manor of Doynton, held the property until the end of the 16th century.
The estate was purchased from John de Tracye's descendants in 1595 by William Wintor, who likely built the house a few years later. It was a small gabled building, known in the 17th century as Well House. By 1718, it had a hall and kitchen and, in the 18th century, sat in a park comprising 200 acres of land. The estate was owned by a succession of Bristol tradesmen, ending with Robert Bush, a successful Bristol pewterer, who purchased the house in 1774 for £6,250. Bush's son, Robert, inherited the estate. Most traces of the 17th-century house were obscured when he rebuilt it and gave it a classical façade in c. 1800. In 1820, Bush sold the estate to General Sir William Gabriel Davy (1780–1856) for £12,818, and it was his son, Rev. Charles Raikes Davy (1819-1885), who after inheriting the estate from his father in 1856, was responsible for the size and appearance of the house and estate seen today.
Charles Raikes Davy began a program of rebuilding the mansion in 1858; datestones bear the years 1858, 1859, 1863, 1864 and 1871. He is thought to have commissioned the Bath architect John Elkington Gill to aggrandise the early 19th-century architecture. Gill retained the western façade, but embellished the slightly projecting central three bays with an overpowering Doric tetrastyle porch. It was during this rebuilding that two large pilasters were added to the western façade. In keeping with the mid-Victorian fashion for housing the growing number of servants in a separate wing, Gill also designed the large south-eastern service wing; this was designed in a loose Tudor Gothic style, linked to the main house by a belvedere. In addition to his work on the house, Davy was also responsible for building the dry-stone walls enclosing the property, and many of the estate buildings.
Description
The north-west entrance to the estate is through two tall mid-19th century gate piers, which are Grade II listed. These are constructed principally of rubble, but dressed with bath stone ashlar which frames heraldry peculiar to the Davy family. The piers are crowned by double cross finials. These piers clearly reflect the unusual design of the large buttresses on the south face of the mansion. Opposite the entrance piers, and deliberately complementing them, is a three-story farmhouse built in about 1845; this has been given heavy Grecian detailing, a blind pediment and a classical balustrade to its precincts. The southwest entrance is also through high gate piers, but these are cylindrical and of a simpler, chaste design than those of the northeast entrance.
Tracy Park gives its name to the Grade II listed mansion situated within its grounds. The house has a 17th-century nucleus, but has been remodelled externally. Its two-storey western façade of seven bays, in a classical style built of limestone ashlar, dates from circa 1800. The slightly protruding central three bays contain the main entrance which is through a later Doric tetrastyle porch; the tympanum within the porch's pediment contains a lamb and flag motif, while the entablature bears the motto "In hoc signo vinces." Two large pilasters sit between the outer pairs of windows on either side of the facade; perhaps intended to complement the porch, they rise only to the first floor and are crowned with heavy stone crosses. This porch is part of the remodeling of the house by Charles Raikes Davy. On the western facade's left side is a single-story 19th century extension; it has a central door (beneath a pediment) between two windows. Attached to the left is a lower extension, dating to c. 1920, with an arcade of eight Doric columns.
A 19th-century belvedere tower to the right of the house's western elevation links the main building to the service wing. It is described by Verey and Brookes as containing "over-elaborate Grecian detail." The unusual design of the tower is very much in the style of the 19th-century architect Alexander Thomson. Classical Greek architecture did not feature towers, therefore the tower would have been the unknown architect's own interpretation and explain why the "Grecian" tower contains both Greek and provincial Italian elements - such a tower is a feature of Italianate architecture derived from the look-out and campanile towers of the Italian Renaissance. Tracy Park's tower has an upper-most floor, completely surrounded by a slightly projecting Italiante balcony, supported by corbels, appears as a rectangular cupola and has Ionic pilasters at each corner; this structure is surmounted with a large finial.
Much of the rear facade of the house was remodeled in the 19th century in a Tudor Gothic style. However, the haphazard fenestration suggesting mezzanine floors, and stonework and the need for a low buttress suggest that the lower floors, at least, may belong to the 16th and 17th-centuries. Facing the rear are a number of outbuildings, including the former stables, which date from 1849 to 1860.
As of 2015, the Tracy Park estate consists of approximately of land. Historically, the size varied: when sold by the Bush family in 1820, to William Davy, the estate consisted of just ; nineteen years later, the estate was further reduced to , although it was expanded in the 19th century by Rev. Charles Raikes Davy.
Freemasonry
Tracy Park contains symbols of Freemasonry and the associated Knights Templar; these date to the occupation of the house by Rev. Charles Raikes Davy, who inherited the estate in 1856 and died in 1885. An Anglican priest, educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Davy was described in local newspaper reports as popular amongst Masonic groups in Gloucestershire due to his "devotion to the general interests of Masonry"; he was Grand Chaplain to the Grand Lodge of Freemasons and also Provincial Grand Master of Mark Masons for Gloucester. He added extensively to the estate in the 1850s, 1860s and early 1870s.
Amongst these additions are symbols associated with freemasonry: the cross of Lorraine finials crowning the main entrance piers; the twin cylindrical gate piers at the south-west entrance bear resemblance to the twin pillars, Boaz and Jachin; and the deep engravings in an overmantel in what is now the hotel restaurant, described by English Heritage as "masonic emblems". Other Masonic references include the motto "In hoc signo vinces" carved above the mansion's principal entrance, taken from the standard of a Commander of the Knights Templar. On the south front are paneled twin buttresses, flanking the entrance and crowned with crosses, which seem to serve no structural purpose; they are possibly a further reference to the pillars of Boaz and Jachin. The lamb and flag motif carved into the pediment of the entrance porch is not only the crest of the Davy family, but also a symbol of the Knights Templar and Freemasonry.
Modern history
Charles Raikes Davy died in 1885 and his son, William (1851−1915), inherited the estate. The younger Davy moved to St Ann's in Burnham and, by 1897, Tracy Park was unoccupied. After his death, the estate passed to his son, William James Davy, who had lived in the United States and Ceylon before joining the Ceylon Rifles at the outbreak of World War I; he fought with them in Gallipoli and France, but was killed in action in 1916. After his death, the estate passed to his sister, Helen Hodges (later known as Mrs Arthington-Davy).
In the family's absence, the house had been let from at least 1912 to Charles Samuel Clarke (1873−1947), a director of the Imperial Tobacco Company, who eventually bought the property from Helen Hodges in 1926. In July 1929, it was announced in The Times that the Davy heirlooms from Tracy Park were to be sold by Helen Arthington-Davy.
The Clark family remained in occupation of Tracy Park until the death of Charles Clark's widow, Elsie, in 1973; the estate was then put up for auction, after which it became a golf and country club hotel with two 18-hole courses, named the Crown and Cromwell. As a leisure complex, the estate was sold by Ian and Jane Knipe to TP Resorts in 2005; they bought it back in 2010 and, as of 2014, the Club is owned by Knipe and his wife, Ann.
References
Citations
Bibliography
South Gloucestershire District
Golf clubs and courses in England |
4008970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Alia%20bint%20Hussein | Princess Alia bint Hussein | Princess Alia bint Hussein (born 13 February 1956) is the eldest child of King Hussein of Jordan. Her mother is his first wife, Sharifa Dina bint Abdul-Hamid.
Education
Princess Alia received her primary education in Amman, attending Ahliyyah School for Girls and Rosary College, Amman. She then attended Sibton Park School in Lyminge, England, until 1968, after spending one year at Benenden School in Kent (1969–70), and obtaining her A-Levels in Arabic, English, and French from Millfield School in Somerset, England, in 1972. Princess Alia graduated with honours from the University of Jordan in 1977, obtaining a bachelor's degree in English literature.
Marriage
Princess Alia married Lieutenant-Colonel Nasser Wasfi Mirza (b. 1945) on 12 April 1977 in the Raghadan Palace, and has one son from the marriage:
Hussein Mirza (born 12 February 1981)
Alia and Nasser divorced in 1988. She married Sayyid Mohammed Al-Saleh (elder son of Sayyid Farid Al-Saleh) in Amman on 30 July 1988. They have two children:
Talal Al-Saleh (born 12 September 1989)
Abdul Hamid Al-Saleh (born 15 November 1992)
Princess Alia and her half-sister Zein are also sisters-in-law.
Life and activities
Princess Alia worked as registrar and artist with the British School of Archaeology under Crystal Benett OBE, and has been a member of Fakherelnissa' Zeid's Art Group since the 1980s. In her capacity as director of the Royal Stables of Jordan for the Preservation of the Arabian Horses, Princess Alia initiated the festival of the "Arabian Horse at Home" in 1988 (now a yearly event) and organised the Middle East Championships for Purebred Horses, Jordan. She has also founded the Princess Alia Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that is under the Ministry of Social Development in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Its stated motto is "Respect and Compassion towards Creation". In that capacity, in 2011, she delivered the keynote address at the World Arabian Horse Organization (WAHO) conference titled "The Relationship Between Horses and Humans in Today's World," drawing clear parallels between animal welfare and human rights.
Princess Alia has held a 2 Dan Black Belt Taekwondo since 1987, and enjoys equestrianism, horse breeding, judging of Arabian horses, collecting stamps, reading and sports in general. Equestrianism is a family passion; her half-sister, Princess Haya bint Hussein, is the former president of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) and a member of the International Olympic Committee.
Notable published works
The Arabian Horse of Egypt (), co-authored by Sharifa Sarra Ghazi.
Royal Heritage: The Story of Jordan's Arab Horses (), co-authored by Peter Upton.
Small Miracles: The Story of the Princess Alia Foundation (), co-authored by Cynthia Culbertson.
Honours
National honours
:
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan
First class of Al-Hussein Decoration for Distinguished Contribution (5 February 2007)
Foreign honours
:
Grand Cordon (Paulownia) of the Order of the Precious Crown (10 March 1976)
:
Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (4 April 2000)
:
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (18 March 1977)
References
External links
Princess Alia Foundation
House of Hashim
Jordanian princesses
1956 births
Living people
People educated at Millfield
University of Jordan alumni
People educated at Benenden School
Grand Cordons of the Order of the Precious Crown
Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Jordanian people of Egyptian descent
Daughters of kings |
4008974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20olympique%20de%20la%20Pontaise | Stade olympique de la Pontaise | Stade olympique de la Pontaise is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,850 people and was built in 1904.
It is used mostly for football matches. It is currently the homeground of FC Stade Lausanne Ouchy, of the Swiss Challenge League.
The stadium also hosts the Diamond League event, Athletissima.
Events
During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the stadium hosted five games.
Pink Floyd performed two concerts: on 12 July 1989 as part of their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour and on 25 September 1994 as part of their The Division Bell Tour.
Michael Jackson performed at the stadium during his "Bad" World Tour on 19 August 1988, during his "Dangerous" World Tour on 8 September 1992 and during his HIStory World Tour on 20 June 1997. Only Billie Jean was leaked from the performance(September 8th, 1992) during a crowd fundraiser where a person by the name of, K MJ released the audio to the world on YouTube.
In 2011, the stadium hosted some events of the World Gymnaestrada.
International matches
See also
Stade Pierre de Coubertin (another stadium of Lausanne)
Pontaise
1954 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Sports venues in Lausanne
Athletics (track and field) venues in Switzerland
Multi-purpose stadiums in Switzerland
Tourist attractions in the canton of Vaud
Diamond League venues |
4008975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Pickens%20Jr. | James Pickens Jr. | James Pickens Jr. (born October 26, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, and for his supporting role as Deputy Director Alvin Kersh on later seasons of the Fox Network science fiction series The X-Files, and Chuck Mitchell on Roseanne (1990-1996;2018), and The Conners (2018-Present). .
Early life and education
Pickens was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He began acting while a student at Bowling Green State University. His first acting role was in a campus production of Matters of Choice by Chuck Gordone. Pickens earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from BGSU in 1976.
Career
Pickens started his professional acting career at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City playing Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun. In 1981, Pickens performed in the Negro Ensemble Company's production of A Soldier's Play, starring alongside Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.
In 1986, Pickens moved to the West Coast and began his Hollywood career playing Zack Edwards on the soap opera Another World from 1986 to 1990. He went on to have recurring roles on "X-Files" as Deputy Director Kersh, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing, Roseanne, Beverly Hills, 90210, JAG, and Six Feet Under. He also served a role in 42. In 1997, Pickens played the role of Stevens, head of NASA, in Disney’s comedy Rocket Man.
In 2002, Pickens had a cameo appearance as the male zoo doctor in the film Red Dragon.
In the February 28, 2007, all-star benefit reading of "The Gift of Peace" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, he portrays a man whose life experiences lead him to volunteer in the peace movement, and plays alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Amy Brenneman, George Coe, and Wendie Malick. The play is an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U.S. House Resolution 808, which sought to establish a Cabinet-level "Department of Peace" in the U.S. government, to be funded by a two-percent diversion of the Pentagon's annual budget.
In 2005, Pickens was chosen to play Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. In 2018, Pickens has reprised his role as Chuckie Mitchell in two episodes of the tenth season revival of Roseanne.
Personal life
Pickens married Gina Taylor, a former member of Musique, on May 27, 1984 and has two children. In his spare time Pickens can be found horseback riding and roping cattle. He is a member of the United States Team Roping Championship and competes in roping events across the country. He owns an American Quarter Horse named Smokey.
James's two children, Carl Pickens and Gavyn Pickens, are both pursuing careers in show business. His son Carl is working on a Hip-Hop career and can be seen in various television appearances, including Hangin' with Mr. Cooper where he appeared alongside his long-time friend Omar Gooding. His father James Pickens Sr. worked for the City of Cleveland.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1954 births
Male actors from Cleveland
American male film actors
African-American male actors
American male television actors
Bowling Green State University alumni
Living people
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Roping (rodeo)
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people |
4008981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201988%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics | Canada was the host nation for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. It was the first time that Canada had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, and second time overall, after the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Vancouver would eventually host the 2010 Winter Olympics which makes it the second city in Canada to host the Winter Olympics and the third overall.
Medalists
For the second time Canada failed to obtain a gold medal on home soil. 22 years later, Alexandre Bilodeau was the first Canadian to obtain a gold medal on home soil in the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first of a Winter Olympics record for most gold medals of 14.
Alpine skiing
A total of 14 competitors, including the entire Canadian team was disqualified from the event after organizers became aware their ski suits were not previously approved by the International Ski Federation.
Men
Men's combined
Women
Women's combined
Biathlon
Men
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Men
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Women
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice Dancing
Ice hockey
Group A
Canada 1-0 Poland
Canada 4-2 Switzerland
Finland 3-1 Canada
Canada 9-5 France
Canada 2-2 Sweden
Medal round
The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.
Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
Canada 8-1 West Germany
Canada 6-3 Czechoslovakia
Team Roster
Sean Burke
Andy Moog
Chris Felix
Randy Gregg
Serge Roy
Tony Stiles
Tim Watters
Trent Yawney
Zarley Zalapski
Ken Berry
Marc Habscheid
Vaughn Karpan
Wally Schreiber
Gord Sherven
Claude Vilgrain
Serge Boisvert
Brian Bradley
Bob Joyce
Steve Tambellini
Merlin Malinowski
Jim Peplinski
Ken Yaremchuk
Head Coach: Dave King
Luge
Men
(Men's) Doubles
Women
Nordic combined
Men's individual
Events:
normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing
Ski jumping
Men's team large hill
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Works cited
Further reading
Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1988 Winter Olympics
1988
Winter Olympics |
4008984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornaredo%20Stadium | Cornaredo Stadium | Cornaredo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Lugano, Switzerland. It is used mostly for football matches. It is a home ground of FC Lugano. The stadium is able to hold 15,000 people and was built in 1951. The stadium has 5,000 seats and 10,000 standing places. During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, it hosted one game.
During the spring 2008, the political authorities of Lugano announced a plan to renew the stadium to fulfil the Swiss Football League requirements for Super League stadiums, however, the works never commenced.
1954 FIFA World Cup
See also
List of football stadiums in Switzerland
References
External links
Profile at worldstadiums.com
Football venues in Switzerland
Sports venues in Ticino
1954 FIFA World Cup stadiums
Multi-purpose stadiums in Switzerland
Athletics (track and field) venues in Switzerland |
4008999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Cubbon | Brian Cubbon | Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon GCB (9 April 1928 – 20 May 2015) was a British senior civil servant and a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission.
Biography
Cubbon was born in Oswaldtwisle, Lancashire on 9 April 1928. His father, Edward Moore Cubbon was a primary school teacher and his mother was Anita Jane, née Crossland. Cubbon was educated at Bury Grammar School under a scholarship and went on to study Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1949. He spent a while in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers for national service.
He became Permanent Under Secretary of State (the senior civil servant in charge of a Government department) of the Northern Ireland Office from 1976 to 1979 and Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1979 to 1988. He was a Press Complaints Commission Commissioner from 1995 to 2002.
Cubbon was injured in an IRA bomb explosion in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.
He married art teacher, Lorin Richardson on 20 October 1956 and they had four children. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the Bath Empire (CB) in 1974, Knight Commander (KCB) in 1977 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) 1984, the highest rank of the Order of the Bath. He died of a heart attack on 20 May 2015 at the age of 87.
References
1928 births
2015 deaths
People educated at Bury Grammar School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Home Department
Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Place of birth missing |
4009025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbal | Balbal | Balbal or bal-bal can refer to:
Balbals or Kurgan stelae
Bal-Bal - in Philippine mythology, a Bal-Bal is an undead monster that steals corpses. |
4009028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psssssst | Psssssst | Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo is a no-water substitute for traditional shampoo, popular in the 1970s; its popularity was widespread enough that it is considered a pop culture icon. The Nanny season 1 episode "Maggie the Model" featured a character who modeled for Psssssst during the 1960s. It was produced by Woodridge Labs. Its history may date to the 1950s. The company recently began making Psssssst again. The back label of a recently purchased can reads: "Between Shampoos- On Camping Trips- After Sports When Ill Any time you can't use water. Psssssst is the convenient, quick fresher-upper for your hair."
The current cans have four letters S in the brand name; previous versions had five or six.
References
Shampoos |
4009031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sper | Sper | Sper may refer to:
Sper (Armenia), ancient Armenian region
Sper (Georgia), ancient Georgian principality
Sper (historical region), now part of the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey
South Pacific Electric Railway (SPER), which operates the Sydney Tramway Museum
See also
Speer (disambiguation)
Spear (disambiguation) |
4009037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201984%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1984 Winter Olympics | Canada competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
As Calgary would be the host city of the following Winter Olympics, a Canadian segment was performed at the closing ceremony.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Women
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Men
Women
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice Dancing
Ice hockey
Group B
Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.
Canada 4-2 USA
Canada 8-1 Austria
Canada 4-2 Finland
Canada 8-1 Norway
Czechoslovakia 4-0 Canada
Medal round
USSR 4-0 Canada
Sweden 2-0 Canada
Carried over group Match:
Czechoslovakia 4-0 Canada
Team Roster
Darren Eliot
Mario Gosselin
Warren Anderson
Robin Bartel
J. J. Daigneault
Bruce Driver
Doug Lidster
James Patrick
Craig Redmond
Russ Courtnall
Kevin Dineen
Dave Donnelly
Pat Flatley
Dave Gagner
Vaughn Karpan
Darren Lowe
Kirk Muller
Dave Tippett
Carey Wilson
Dan Wood
Head Coach: Dave King
Luge
Women
Ski jumping
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1984 Winter Olympics
1984
Winter Olympics |
4009050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Faisal%20bin%20Hussein | Prince Faisal bin Hussein | Prince Faisal bin Hussein (; born 11 October 1963) is a son of King Hussein and Princess Muna, and the younger brother of King Abdullah II. Periodically he has served as regent during his brother's absences abroad.
Education
Faisal was born in Amman, Jordan. After early schooling in Amman, Faisal was sent in 1970 to his mother's native United Kingdom where he attended St. Edmund's School in Hindhead, England. The following year, he moved to the United States where he attended the Bement School in Deerfield, Massachusetts for the next two years. He then moved schools again, this time to Eaglebrook School, also in Deerfield. In 1978, Faisal commenced his high school education at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated in 1981. His initial university education was at Brown University from which he graduated in 1985 with a ScB degree in electrical engineering. The prince also earned a master's degree in management from the London Business School in 1988. During his university years, Faisal took flying lessons and obtained a private pilot's license.
Military service
Prior to graduating from Brown University, Faisal served in the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF), where he received helicopter training. In the summer of 1985, he gained his RJAF wings and then underwent officer training with the Royal Air Force at Cranwell. Remaining at Cranwell, he did his RAF Basic Flying Training in 1986 before moving to RAF Valley where he completed Advanced Flying Training on jets and received his RAF wings in 1987. Later that year, Feisal completed further flying training at the Tactical Weapons Unit, at Chivenor in Devon.
In September 2004, Faisal was appointed an assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the rank of Lieutenant General. He retired from the Jordan Arab Army in December 2017.
Other
Faisal has been President of the Jordan Olympic Committee since 2003 and Chairman and Founder of Generations For Peace since 2007, a non-profit peace building organization, the brain child of his ex-wife Sarah Kabbani who was also his advisor for many years before their marriage. Following a period of strategic development and implementation of unique peace through sport programs run jointly by Sarah and Faisal, he was elected as a member of the Jordan Olympic Committee in 2010.
From time to time, he has served as regent while his brother the king was out of the country.
Personal life
Prince Faisal has married three times. He married for the first time in August 1987. The bride, Alia Tabbaa is the daughter of Sayyid Tawfik al-Tabbah, founder and president of Royal Jordanian Airlines and his wife, Lamia Addem. They have four children together:
Princess Ayah (11 February 1990)
Prince Omar (22 October 1993)
Princess Sara (27 March 1997) (twin of Aisha)
Princess Aisha (27 March 1997) (twin of Sara)
Prince Faisal and Princess Alia divorced in April 2008.
Prince Faisal's second wife was Sara Bassam Qabbani. They were engaged on 20 March 2010 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and were married on 24 May 2010. Prince Faisal and Sara were divorced on 14 September 2013. The couple had no children together.
On 4 January 2014, Prince Faisal married Jordanian radio presenter Zeina Lubbadeh, daughter of businessman Dr. Fares Lubbadeh. The wedding ceremony was held at her parents' home in Amman, Jordan. The couple have two sons:
Prince Abdullah bin Faisal (born 17 February 2015)
Prince Muhammad bin Faisal (born 8 April 2017)
Honours
National honours
:
Knight Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance, Special Class
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Military Merit
Recipient of the Al-Hussein Medal of Excellence, 1st Class
Recipient of the Long Service Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Leadership Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Technical Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Training Competence Medal
Foreign honours
:
Grand Cross of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
:
Special Grand Cordon of the Order of the Cloud and Banner
:
Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour
:
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Sultan Qaboos
:
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
:
Commander of the Legion of Merit
References
External links
|-
1963 births
Living people
Jordanian princes
House of Hashim
Jordanian generals
Brown University alumni
Alumni of London Business School
Royal Jordanian Air Force personnel
Jordanian people of English descent
Air force generals
Graduates of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell
International Olympic Committee members
Grand Cordons of the Order of Independence (Jordan)
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) alumni
Sons of kings |
4009052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amwaj%20Islands | Amwaj Islands | Amwaj Islands (; transliterated: Juzur Amwaj) are a group of man-made islands, located in the Persian Gulf to the northeast of Bahrain, near the coast of Muharraq island. They lie northeast of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island.
Geography
Amwaj Islands have an area of 4.31 km2.
The Amwaj Islands were reclaimed from the relatively shallow seas to the northeast of Muharraq Island, which is the northernmost island in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
History
In the year 2000, a plan was created for a pioneering project in Bahrain, the first to offer 100% freehold land ownership to expatriates living in the Kingdom of Bahrain, was devised; thus came the plan of Amwaj Islands. The plan was also to increase the supply of waterfront property which is in low supply in this small island nation. The project is being developed by Oasis Real Estate Development Company with an investment of 1.5 billion US dollars
In 2002 the project started taking form. The first phase was completed in 2003. the second in 2004, when Cisco and Oracle began laying fabric for communications on the islands.
At 2016, Amwaj Islands saw the completion of infrastructure such as electricity, roads, water, sewerage and telecoms, and became fit for residential use.
Over the past decade, a series of hotels have also opened on the island such as the Art Rotana, The Grove Hotel, Ramada Hotel and Suites, The Sea Loft and the Dragon Hotel. In 2012, entrepreneur Yara Salman opened 'Yara Beauty Salon', a luxury beauty salon in the islands. The salon features a variety of beauty treatments, including Moroccan baths, a solarium, and cryotherapy suites. Salman was the first to introduce the concept of cryotherapy to Bahrain, which is used to treat minor tissue damage and can be "effective in cellulite reduction and calorie-burning".
Description
From an engineering perspective Amwaj introduced a number of new technologies to the region including geotubes for the reclamation phase of these islands, vacuum sewerage and fiber optic "Smart City" technology among others.
The Islands contain residential, commercial (highrise) and hotel and retail buildings, as well as a 240 m diameter circular marina with over 140 berths.
Administration
The island belongs to Muharraq Governorate.
Transportation
Amwaj Islands are connected to Muharraq Island by two causeways, each about 1 km in length.
The distance between the new island and Bahrain International Airport is only 4.5 km.
Image gallery
References
External links
Detailed map
Muharraq
List of tourist attractions in Bahrain
Populated places in Bahrain
Islands of Bahrain
Artificial islands of Bahrain |
4009068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia%20subornata | Elysia subornata | Elysia subornata is a species of small sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Plakobranchidae.
This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods. Instead, it is a sacoglossan.
Description
Elysia subornata grows to a length of about . It is variable in colour, being found in shades of green, olive and beige, sometimes with a reddish tinge. It has broad parapodia (fleshy protrusions at the side) with thick white margins sometimes edged in brown or black. The parapodia are covered in tiny papillae (fleshy protuberances) and the rhinophores (sensory organs on the head) are also papillose.
Distribution
This species is found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea.
Human uses
It has been proposed that Elysia subornata could be used as a biological control agent against an invasive strain of the alga Caulerpa taxifolia in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The high toxicity levels of that alga discourage most of the native herbivorous fauna from consuming it. Elysia subornata, however, preferentially feeds on Caulerpa taxifolia, using the secondary metabolite, Caulerpenyne, for its own defence. It doesn't survive the cool temperature of winter Mediterranean waters, and would therefore need to be raised on a large
scale to have any significant effect. Either that; or a hybrid would have to be genetically engineered using DNA from E. timida and/or E. viridis.
References
Plakobranchidae
Gastropods described in 1901 |
4009080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Hashim%20bin%20Hussein | Prince Hashim bin Hussein | Prince Hashim bin Hussein (born 10 June 1981) is the younger of the two sons of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. In her autobiography, Queen Noor states that Hashim was named after the clan of Hashim (Banu Hashim), a tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and King Hussein belong. He is in the line of succession to the Jordanian throne.
Early life and education
Prince Hashim was born on 10 June 1981. He received his elementary education in Amman at the Amman Baccalaureate School and then attended the schools of St. Mark's and Fay School in the United States. He later graduated from Maret School in Washington, D.C in 1999. Prince Hashim went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2000. He was awarded the Prince Saud Bin Abdullah Prize, presented to the cadet with the highest aggregate mark. After graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he attended Duke University, later transferring to Georgetown University. In August 2005, the Prince obtained an undergraduate degree in Comparative Studies from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He later graduated in Quran studies at Balqa Applied University in Jordan on 5 September 2006. While serving as a captain in the Jordanian Armed Forces 3rd Royal Ranger Battalion, the prince attended several military and security courses.
Marriage and family
On 6 January 2006, Prince Hashim was engaged to Fahdah Mohammed Abunayyan from Saudi Arabia, and they married on 15 April 2006. The bride's father is Mohammad bin Ibrahim Abunayyan and her maternal grandfather is Sheikh Turki bin Khaled bin Ahmed Al Sudairi, head of the Saudi Human Rights Commission.
They have 3 daughters and 2 sons:
Princess Haalah bint Hashim, born on 6 April 2007 in Amman, Jordan.
Princess Rayet Al-Noor bint Hashim, born on 4 July 2008.
Princess Fatima Al-Alia bint Hashim, on 5 November 2011.
Prince Hussein Haidara bin Hashim, on 15 June 2015.
Prince Mohammad Al-Hassan bin Hashim, on 21 October 2019.
Honours
Knight Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance, Special Class
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence
Knight of the Order of Military Merit
Recipient of the Al-Hussein Medal of Excellence, 1st Class
Recipient of the Administrative & Leadership Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Technical Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Training Competence Medal
References
External links
|-
1981 births
Living people
Jordanian princes
People educated at Amman Baccalaureate School
Duke University alumni
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni
Jordanian people of Lebanese descent
Jordanian people of English descent
Jordanian people of Swedish descent
Jordanian people of American descent
Fay School alumni
Sons of kings |
4009085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Gallup%20%28PF-47%29 | USS Gallup (PF-47) | The second USS Gallup (PF-47), a in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gallup, New Mexico. She also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-22 and in the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Prasae (PF 2).
Construction and commissioning
Originally classified as a patrol gunboat, PG-155, Gallup was reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-47, on 15 April 1943. She was launched on 17 September 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by Ensign Helen McMahon, NNRC, and commissioned on 29 February 1944, at San Pedro, California, with Lieutenant Commander Clayton M. Opp, USCG, in command.
Service history
U.S. Navy, World War II, 1944-1945
Following conversion work at Newport Beach, California, and shakedown out of San Pedro and San Diego, California, Gallup departed San Diego on 1 June 1944 for the Pacific war zone. Conducting anti-submarine patrol en route, she arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 21 June 1944, and began escort and patrol duties in the waters of New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Australia with Escort Division 43. On 17 August 1944, she bombarded enemy strongholds to support landings on Biak Island at Blue Beach, north of the Wardo River by units of the United States Armys 41st Infantry Division; she continued to fire until the troops had completed their landing and secured the beach. Again, on 25 August 1944, Gallup lent support to the conquest of Biak by shelling the beaches between Menoerar and Cape Warari. After Biak had been secured, she returned to her duties with Escort Division 43 until 12 October 1944.
Departing Hollandia, New Guinea, on 12 October 1944, Gallup was part of the screen for the task force which mounted the invasion of Leyte in the Philippine Islands. On 17 October 1944, she shelled the beach area of Dinagat, and the next day she swept the channel into Leyte Gulf as U.S. forces poised for the invasion. She then began anti-submarine and anti-mine patrol near Black Beach, screening vessels engaged in landing operations. Stationed most of the time off Desolation Point, she collected tide and hydrographic information, served as dispatch boat and as escort through the cleared channel in Leyte Gulf, guided incoming ships and convoys through the channel, and served as harbor entrance control vessel during landing operations. She performed these duties, most of the time in gusty, stormy weather, with her sister ship and the large infantry landing craft and , before being sent on an escort mission to Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, on 28 November 1944, touching San Pedro Bay in the Philippines, Kossol Roads in the Palau Islands, and Manus in the Admiralty Islands en route.
On 3 December 1944, Gallup departed for the United States West Coast, stopping to drop men at Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralty Islands and at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. She arrived at San Francisco, California, on 25 December 1944.
Departing San Francisco on 9 January 1945, Gallup steamed via Seattle, Washington, to Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska, where she arrived on 20 January 1945. She then patrolled the North Pacific Ocean. Selected for transfer to the Soviet Navy in Project Hula – a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan – Gallup proceeded to Cold Bay in August 1945 to begin training her new Soviet crew.
Soviet Navy, 1945–1949
Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, Gallup was decommissioned on 26 August 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately along with her sister ships Bisbee, , , , and . Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, Gallup was designated as a storozhevoi korabl ("escort ship") and renamed EK-22 in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, where she arrived on 5 September 1945, too late to see World War II service with the Soviets. She served as a patrol vessel in the Soviet Far East.
In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947, United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, EK-22 among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships were protracted, but on 14 November 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned EK-22 to the U.S. Navy at Yokosuka, Japan.
U.S. Navy, Korean War, 1950–1951
Reverting to her original name, Gallup lay idle in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Yokosuka until recommissioned on 18 October 1950 for service in the Korean War, with Lieutenant Commander William W. Boyd, Jr. in command. After shakedown off Sagami Wan, Japan, she got under way with Bisbee on 23 November 1950 for Hungnam, Korea. There she relieved her sister ship as harbor entrance control vessel, escorting ships when directed, guarding the channel against unfriendly ships, preventing friendly vessels from entering mined areas, and performing search and rescue services for the many refugees flooding through the area.
On 19 December 1950, Gallup left for Pusan, where she performed anti-submarine patrol on the approaches to the harbor, before leaving on 31 December 1950 for Sasebo, Japan. On 29 January 1951, she returned to Korea, this time to Kansang and Kosong to participate in a feint intended to divert Communist forces by making them think an amphibious assault was imminent, conducting what was designed to look like a pre-assault bombardment against installations at Kansang and Kosong.
Gallup continued to operate out of Sasebo, making escort, patrol, and guide tours to Pusan, Wonsan, and Chongjin, Korea, and to Sangley Point and Subic Bay on Luzon in the Philippine Islands. She helped in the bombardment of Wonsan from 23 through 25 February 1951 as United Nations forces seized the harbor islands, and then served as harbor entrance control vessel and "flycatcher," in the latter role patrolling against enemy small boats, combat swimmers, and suicide attack craft. Returning to Yokosuka on 14 March 1951, she entered dry dock there for extensive hull repairs. Returning to Korea, she continued similar duty off the Korean coast until she returned to Yokosuka on 6 October 1951.
Royal Thai Navy, 1951-2000
Gallup was decommissioned and transferred under the Military Defense Assistance Program along with her sister ship to Thailand at Yokosuka on 29 October 1951, and served thereafter in the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Prasae (PF 2). Prasae remained in service until struck from the Thai Navy Register and decommissioned on 22 June 2000.
Museum ship
Prasae initially was preserved as a memorial at the Sattahip Naval Base, then was towed to the mouth of the Prasae River in Rayong Province and put on display there by the Prasae River Communities Committee on 27 December 2003 as the "HTMS Prasae Memorial".
Awards
The U.S. Navy awarded Gallup two battle stars for her World War II service and three battle stars for her Korean War service.
References
External links
Tacoma-class frigates
Ships built in Los Angeles
1943 ships
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Gallup, New Mexico
Tacoma-class frigates of the Soviet Navy
World War II frigates of the Soviet Union
Cold War frigates of the Soviet Union
Cold War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Korean War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Tacoma-class frigates of the Royal Thai Navy
Museum ships in Thailand
Ships transferred under Project Hula |
4009088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juren | Juren | Juren (; lit. 'recommended man') was a rank achieved by people who passed the xiangshi () exam in the imperial examination system of imperial China. The xiangshi is also known, in English, as the provincial examination. It was a rank higher than the shengyuan rank, but a rank lower than the jinshi rank, which was the highest degree.
To achieve the juren rank, candidates, who already held the shengyuan rank, had to pass the provincial examination. The provincial qualifying examination occurred once every three years in the provincial capital. A second, less widespread pathway to gaining the juren rank was through office purchase.
Those with the juren rank gained gentry status and experienced social, political and economic privileges accordingly.
Apart from being a rank in the civil examination system, the juren title was also awarded in the military examination system in imperial China.
History
The term juren was first used in the Han Dynasty to refer to individuals at the provincial level who were recommended for civil service. Those who were recommended for civil service were required to pass a central government examination before they were awarded an official title.
The civil service examination system was first officially established in the Sui dynasty. During the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, juren was used to refer to candidates of the state examination. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the civil examination system matured and became well-established. During these later dynasties, juren was the title awarded to candidates who had successfully passed the provincial examinations. The awarding of the juren title ended with the abolition of the civil examinations in 1904.
Appointment
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were two pathways to gaining the juren rank: one, through the civil examination system; the other, through office purchase.
Civil examination
The juren rank was awarded for candidates who passed the provincial level of the civil examination system in the Ming and Qing dynasty. The juren who came first in the examination process was awarded the title of jieyuan (). The qualifying exam was held in each provincial capital, once every three years. Candidates were required to take the examination in their registered province and sitting the examination in unregistered provinces was prohibited. This process was called the zhengtu (), or the regular path.
The provincial examinations, called xiangshi (), were written exams which occurred in three stages. Candidates were required to participate in all three stages of the examination. A quota system at the provincial level controlled the number of juren titles awarded. Obtaining the juren degree through the civil examination pathway was a difficult process, with competition notably increasing during the Ming dynasty. By 1630, there were approximately 49200 candidates from across China competing for 1279 juren degrees, with only 2.6% of candidates successfully obtaining the degree. From the period of 1800 to 1905, around 1500 men throughout China were awarded the juren degree after every provincial examination.
The examination was open to men from all socio-economic backgrounds, as long as they were holders of the shengyuan degree, which was the degree directly below the juren degree in China’s imperial civil examination system. There was no limit on a candidate’s age or on the number of times a candidate could sit the exam and candidates did not require a reference from officials to participate. However, women, Buddhist and Daoist clergy and merchants were excluded from participating. It was only during the Ming dynasty when sons of merchants were first legally allowed to take any civil examination.
The provincial examination occurred in the fall of every third year. Shengyuan degree holders were required to travel to their respective provincial capitals to take three written examinations which were conducted over a week. An Imperial Commissioner, also known as the Grand Examiner, was sent to overlook the examinations from Beijing, the capital of China at the time.
The examination was governed by strict rules to ensure the process was fair. All essays were first transcribed in red ink before marking, to prevent examiners from identifying the candidates by their calligraphy and showing favourable treatment to particular candidates. As many as eight examiners would grade one candidate’s exam, whose name was concealed. Examiners would be removed from office if it was found that they had favoured a particular candidate during the grading of the exams. During the period that the Imperial Commissioner was in the province to overlook the examinations, his residence was guarded to prevent any candidates or friends or family of candidates from approaching him.
The provincial examination took place over three sessions with each session of the exam being held on a separate day. Three days would pass between each day of examination. The examination process started early in the day, Candidates assembled by the gates of the examination hall and candidates were allowed in enter the hall once their name was called. Each candidate was given a roll of paper which identified the examination cell the candidate was to occupy in the exam. The examination hall was divided into long alleys lined with open cells, in which candidates took their exam. At one time, there could be up to ten or twelve thousand individuals in the same examination hall, from day to night.
Curriculum
Each of the three sessions of the provincial examination tested candidates on separate areas of the curriculum. During the Qing dynasty, the first session required candidates to answer three questions based on the Four Books and four questions on one of the Five Classics. The particular Classic on which the four questions were answered on was chosen by the candidate. In the second session, the candidate was required to write a discussion of the Classic of Filial Piety. Additionally, the candidate was required to compose five essays on writing verdicts and attempt any one of the following political forms of writing: an address to the emperor, an imperial declaration or another form of imperial decree. In the third session, five essay questions on problems concerning the Five Classics, history and administrative affairs were to be answered.
In addition to the content of the exam, form was an examinable aspect of the candidate’s submission. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, all candidates’ essays were required to be composed in the form of eight-legged essays, which was a form of prose-writing involving strict enforcement of rigid parallel-prose styles. Candidates were rejected for writing in any structure which diverged from this standardised form.
Throughout the use of the civil examination system, there were minor changes to the provincial examination format and curriculum. In 1663, the imperial examination banned writing in the eight-legged essay form. However, in 1668, the eight-legged form was reintroduced. In 1687, the imperial declaration and decree were removed as possible political forms of writing for candidates in the second session. In 1758, the first session was changed to include a question on Song dynasty Neo-Confucian rationalist books. In 1767, the first session was changed to consist of only three questions on the Four Books while the discussion on the Five Classics was moved to the second session. Writing verdicts and addresses to the emperor were also abolished. Instead, a poetry question was introduced. In 1782, the question on poetry was moved to the first session and the question on Song Neo-Confucian rationalism was moved to the second session. In 1787, the candidate’s option of choosing any one of the Five Classics to discuss in the exam was changed so that a particular book from the Five Classics was set for candidates to compulsorily answer. In the same year, the question on Neo-Confucian rationalism was removed from the syllabus. By 1793, candidates were expected to write essays on all Five Classics. After 1793, the syllabus of the provincial examination remained fixed.
Office purchase
The second pathway to obtaining the juren degree was through office purchase. Obtaining degrees through office purchase was known as the yitu (), or the irregular path to gaining a degree. Office purchase, known as juanna (), was the practice of obtaining degrees and offices through purchase, instead of through successfully passing the civil examinations. The practice was formally introduced in the Ming dynasty and continued to exist through the Qing dynasty as a common practice. This was a legal process and was overseen by the government.
During the Qing dynasty, men could become officials by making a payment in silver to the government. Through office purchase, men did not need to meet any eligibility requirements to be appointed the juren rank. Those who obtained the juren degree through office purchase still enjoyed the same benefits, privileges and opportunity for career advancement, as those who obtained the degree through the civil examinations. Men could register for the prefecture-level entrance examination and then purchase the juren degree. It was also common for juren degree-holders to use office purchase to further their careers.
Responsibilities and privileges
Obtaining the juren rank enabled degree-holders to obtain official positions. In the Tang dynasty, only jinshi degree-holders were eligible for official positions. However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, passing the provincial examination and obtaining the juren degree entitled the degree-holder to obtain a lower-level government official role.[2] In early and mid-Ming dynasty, juren served as prefecture, county and department education officials. This entitled them to act as provincial examination officials. Juren who had failed to obtain the jinshi degree were immediately eligible to become education officials and act as directors and subdirectors of prefectural and county schools. In late Ming dynasty, juren were placed in posts of county magistrates, as well as directors and subdirectors of schools. Those who were appointed magistrate were responsible for collecting taxes from the residents of their county. Additionally, magistrates were responsible for maintaining law, order and the moral and ethical standards in the areas under their control. However, by late Ming dynasty and into the Qing dynasty, jinshi degree-holders had begun to displace juren degree-holders in high level official positions.
The juren rank brought degree-holders and their families such substantial privileges that it was not uncommon for families to pool resources together to support promising individuals from poor families during the examination process. Only those awarded with the juren degree had the opportunity to obtain the highest degree of the civil examination system, the jinshi degree, through the national examination. In the Qing dynasty, it became a requirement for candidates of the jinshi rank to have a father who had passed the provincial examination and had acquired at least a juren rank. An additional benefit of the juren degree was that the title was awarded for life, unlike the lower prefectural shengyuan degree. However, the juren degree could not be inherited.
Aside from the possibility of gaining higher official roles, juren also gained a higher social status. In imperial China, examinations and merit was strongly associated with social status, wealth, prestige and political power. This is reflected in how juren were distinctly addressed as “laoye” or “your honour” by commoners. Gaining the juren rank brought the degree-holder social privileges such as improved prospects for good marriages. Additionally, juren gave their family the ability to gain or maintain their elite status. For example, juren degree-holders were eligible to erect flagpoles with red and gold silk flags at their residences to announce their achievements. These residences were referred to as “flagpole families”, which was an honour and symbolised the higher social status of the family.
The legal privileges experienced by juren include being exempt from labour services, to which all commoners, except civil examination degree-holders were accountable. They were also exempt from normal penal codes and corporal punishments and could not be arrested without special imperial order. Juren households also had economic privileges in the local community, such as a guaranteed minimum level of employment and pay, as well as tax reductions and exemptions.
Other privileges of the juren rank include the right of having different clothing, carriages, guards, servants and funeral and grave ceremonies to commoners. For example, degree-holders had the privilege of wearing a scholar’s robe.
Other usage
Military
During Wu Zetian’s reign, a military examination system was introduced, which continued until the Qing dynasty. The military examinations were modelled off the civil examination system. A provincial military exam that was held once every three years, with successful candidates being awarded the title of military juren, or wu juren (). Military examinations involved various physical tests, such as ability in archery, horse-riding and handling polearms. Aside from the need for candidates to satisfactorily demonstrate their physical abilities, the military exams had written components that required candidates to master Chinese military or classic texts, such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Only individuals with the wu juren title could participate in the metropolitan military exam, with successful candidates of this exam being awarded the military jinshi, or wu jinshi () title.
Notable people
Notable people who achieved juren as their highest degree are listed below:
Shen Defu
Yang Shoujing
Wei Yuan, scholar and secretariat
Zuo Zongtang, General
Liang Qichao, scholar and politician
Wu Zhihui, anarchist writer and Republic of China official
Huang Zunxian, Chinese official, scholar, and writer, active during the late Qing dynasty
Zhu Xingyuan, politician and collaborator with Japan
References
Academic degrees
Imperial examination |
4009092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201980%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics | Canada competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. Canada had competed at every Winter Olympic Games previously.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Women
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Women
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice Dancing
Ice hockey
First Round - Red Division
All times are local (UTC-5).
Consolation round
The third-placed teams in each division, Czechoslovakia and Canada, played each other to determine fifth place.
Final Rank: 6th place
Team Roster
Bob Dupuis
Paul Pageau
Warren Anderson
Joe Grant
Randy Gregg
Terry O'Malley
Brad Pirie
Don Spring
Tim Watters
Glenn Anderson
Ken Berry
Dan D'Alvise
Ron Davidson
John Devaney
Dave Hindmarch
Paul MacLean
Kevin Maxwell
Jim Nill
Kevin Primeau
Stelio Zupancich
Franco Carella (practised from 1976–1980)
Head coaches: Lorne Davis, Clare Drake & Tom Watt
Luge
Men
Women
Ski jumping
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1980 Winter Olympics
1980
Winter Olympics |
4009093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Jam%20City | Ram Jam City | Ram Jam City is an album by British blues rock musician Danny Kirwan, released in 2000. This release consists of demo recordings for his 1975 debut solo album, recorded after leaving Fleetwood Mac in 1972. His solo career was being managed by ex-Mac manager Clifford Davis.
These demos were recorded around 1973–74, and finished tracks for this album were released in 1975 as Second Chapter.
Track listing
All tracks written by Danny Kirwan.
"Mary Jane" – 2:57
"Cascades" – 3:11
"Falling in Love with You (earlier version with false starts) – 2:56
"Odds and Ends" (alternate take) – 2:37
"Odds and Ends" – 2:37
"Skip a Dee Doo" – 2:45
"Hot Summer Day" – 2:38
"Second Chapter" – 3:22
"Silver Streams" (earlier version) – 3:18
"Best Girl in the World" – 2:29
"Falling in Love with You" – 2:16
"Lovely Days" (with false starts) – 3:40
"Ram Jam City" (earlier instrumental version) – 2:38
"Silver Streams" – 3:27
"Ram Jam City" – 2:43
Personnel
Danny Kirwan – vocals, guitar
Andy Silvester – bass guitar
Paul Raymond – piano
Geoff Britton – drums
Jim Russell – drums, percussion
Released in May 2000 by Mooncrest Records – CRESTCD 044 Z
References
Danny Kirwan albums
2000 albums |
4009102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Iman%20bint%20Hussein | Princess Iman bint Hussein | Princess Iman bint Hussein (born 24 April 1983) is a Jordanian princess.
Early life
On 24 April 1983, Princess Iman was born at King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan. Princess Iman is the daughter of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. She is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan, Princess Alia, Prince Faisal, Princess Aisha, Princess Zein, Princess Haya, Prince Ali, Prince Hamzah, Prince Hashem, and Princess Raiyah.
Education
Princess Iman studied at Garrison Forest School in Baltimore, Maryland, the Fay School in Massachusetts and the Maret School in Washington, D.C. She joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2002 and finished her training there on 8 August 2003. She enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and graduated in 2007 with a degree in Sociology.
Personal life
On 20 December 2012, the Royal Court of Jordan announced Princess Iman's engagement to businessman Zaid Azmi Mirza. They married on 22 March 2013. She gave birth to a son, Omar, on 7 October 2014. The couple divorced in 2017.
Honours
Knight Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance, Special Class
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Military Merit
Recipient of the Al-Hussein Medal of Excellence, 2nd Class
References
External links
The 20 Hottest Young Royals - Princess Iman bint Al Hussein, Forbes
1983 births
Living people
American University alumni
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Jordanian princesses
Jordanian people of Scottish descent
Jordanian people of English descent
Jordanian people of Swedish descent
Jordanian people of American descent
Jordanian people of Syrian descent
Fay School alumni
Daughters of kings |
4009103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Sykes%20%28diplomat%29 | Richard Sykes (diplomat) | Sir Richard Adam Sykes, (8 May 1920 – 22 March 1979) was the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, who was assassinated by the IRA in The Hague in 1979.
Early life
Richard Sykes was born on 8 May 1920 to Brigadier A. C. Sykes. For his schooling he attended Wellington College before going up to the University of Oxford, where he attended Christ Church.
Second World War
During the Second World War, Sykes served in the British Army with the Royal Signals from 1940 to 1946. During his service he attained the rank of major. In 1945 he was awarded the Military Cross as well as the Croix de Guerre by France.
Diplomatic career
Sykes joined HM Foreign Service in 1947 and served at the Foreign Office from 1947 to 1948. He then served in Nanking (1948–50), Peking (1950–52) and returned to the UK to serve at the Foreign Office (1952–56). His next overseas postings took him to Brussels (1956–59), Santiago (1959–62) and Athens (1963–66), before returning to the Foreign Office (1967–69).
Sykes' first posting as an ambassador came with a posting to Havana (1970–72) before moving to be a Minister at the British Embassy in Washington D.C. (1972–1975). From there he returned to the Foreign Office as Department Under-Secretary between 1975 and 1977. Sykes was then appointed as Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1977.
Assassination
Sykes was leaving his residence in The Hague at 9 am and was getting into his silver Rolls-Royce limousine when he was shot. He was sitting next to Alyson Bailes. The car door was held by Karel Straub, a 19-year-old Dutch national who worked at the embassy. Straub was also shot in the attack.
Sykes' chauffeur, Jack Wilson, was uninjured and drove Sykes to Westeinde Hospital, where he died two hours later. Straub was transported by ambulance to the same hospital, where he also died.
Police reported that the shots came from around away by two assailants wearing business suits, who escaped on foot following the attack.
Suspects for the assassination were Palestinians or Iraqis, although no evidence was ever put forward. It was ultimately confirmed that the IRA had carried out the killings.
The IRA claimed responsibility for the assassination in February 1980. In a statement they said of Sykes: "[he was] not just a Brit propagandist, as are all British ambassadors, but because he had been engaged in intelligence operations against our organisation."
The 'intelligence operations' mentioned in the statement related to a government report written by Sykes following the assassination of Christopher Ewart-Biggs. Ewart-Biggs was the British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland and was killed by the IRA in 1976. Sykes produced diplomatic security guidelines as part of his report.
Sykes' position as Ambassador to the Netherlands had been strained due to certain Dutch groups, which were sympathetic to the IRA, and consequent arms smuggling activities.
Family
Sykes was married to Ann, Lady Sykes (née Fisher). The couple had three children. Lady Sykes died in 2018.
Memorials
There is a memorial plaque to Sykes in St Michael's Church, Wilsford, Wiltshire.
See also
List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the Netherlands
References
1920 births
1979 deaths
Deaths by firearm in the Netherlands
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Recipients of the Military Cross
Assassinated British diplomats
People killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
British terrorism victims
Terrorism deaths in the Netherlands
British people murdered abroad
People murdered in the Netherlands
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Cuba
British Army personnel of World War II
Sykes, Richard
1979 crimes in the Netherlands
20th century in The Hague
20th-century British diplomats
1970s murders in the Netherlands
1979 murders in Europe
Royal Corps of Signals officers
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British expatriates in the United States
British expatriates in China
British expatriates in Belgium
British expatriates in Chile
British expatriates in Greece |
4009115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muharraq%20Island | Muharraq Island | Muharraq Island (), formerly known as Moharek, is the second largest island in the archipelago of Bahrain after Bahrain Island. It lies east of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island.
History
It is named after Muharraq City, the former capital of Bahrain.
The Al Khalifa dynasty settled there in the nineteenth century and resided there until 1923. The island dominated trade, fishing and especially pearls industries in Bahrain. The Pearl center was made a UNESCO world heritage site in 2012.
In recent years, north of Muharraq Island have a major reclamation of some artificial islands like Amwaj Islands. The south of the island, at Hidd district, the new Bahrain International Investment Park of the free zone (BIIP) was built.
And in the far south, new Khalifa bin Salman harbor, which opened in 2009.
Demography
There are several towns and villages located on the Island, including:
Al Muharraq
Al Dair
Arad, formerly a separate island of its own
Busaiteen
Hidd
Galali
Halat Bu Maher
Samaheej
Administration
The island belongs to Muharraq Governorate.
Transportation
The island has the Bahrain International Airport that follows the long east–west axis.
The island has the Muharraq Airfield (ICAO code:none) adjacent to Bahrain International Airport.
There are three causeways connecting Muharraq Island with Manama on Bahrain Island:
Shaikh Hamad Bridge: From Muharraq City to Diplomatic Area
Shaikh Isa bin Salman Causeway: From Muharraq City/Busaiteen to Diplomatic Area
Shaikh Khalifa Bridge: From Hidd to Juffair
Image gallery
Citations
Bibliography
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Islands of Bahrain |
4009120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Raiyah%20bint%20Hussein | Princess Raiyah bint Hussein | Princess Raiyah bint Hussein (; born 9 February 1986) is the younger daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Noor. She has two brothers Hamzah and Hashem and an elder sister Princess Iman. She is a half-sister to King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Education
Princess Raiyah attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales and received her undergraduate degree in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. She took a year abroad studying at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. She received a postgraduate degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University.
She later moved to Tokyo, where she spent three years working in the field of human development.
Currently, Princess Raiyah is a graduate student studying a PhD in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures on "the reception of medieval warrior narratives in Japan and the Arab World and their impact upon the construction of national identities" at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Official duties
Princess Raiyah took part in official visits to Japan in 2007 and 2008, and accompanied King Abdullah II to the country in April 2009. In 2008, she formed part of a Jordanian delegation on an official visit with King Abdullah II to South Korea.
Personal life
On 5 November 2019, the court announced Princess Raiyah's engagement to British-born journalist Ned Donovan, son of the writer Tessa Dahl and Patrick Donovan, and a maternal grandson of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, while his paternal grandparents are Francis Patrick Donovan and Maria Kozslik. His half-sister is the model Sophie Dahl, who is married to the singer Jamie Cullum.
The pair married on 7 July 2020 in the United Kingdom with the permission of King Abdullah II, after their planned wedding in Jordan was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Patronages
Patron of The Performing Arts Center of Jordan.
Honours
:
Knight Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance, Special Class
Recipient of the Al-Hussein Medal of Excellence in Gold (First Class)
Ancestry
References
1986 births
Living people
Jordanian princesses
Jordanian people of Scottish descent
Jordanian people of English descent
Jordanian people of Swedish descent
Jordanian people of American descent
Jordanian people of Syrian descent
People educated at Atlantic College
People educated at a United World College
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Ritsumeikan University alumni
Daughters of kings |
4009121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20O%27Brien | Alex O'Brien | Alex O'Brien (born ) is an American former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He gained the top ranking in May 2000 and was ranked as high as world No. 30 in singles in June 1997.
He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996 and reached the quarterfinals of the 1994 Cincinnati Masters and the 1996 Canada Masters. He won 13 doubles titles, the biggest coming at the 1999 US Open, the Cincinnati Masters in 1994 (his first doubles title), the Indian Wells Masters in 2000, and the Paris Masters in 1999.
Tennis career
Alongside his 13 titles, O'Brien also reached 20 doubles finals, including the Australian Open in 1996 & 1997, the U.S. Open in 1995, the Miami Masters in 1998, and the Canada Masters and the Rome Masters in 1997.
He also played on the United States Davis Cup team, competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and was a four-time All-American at Stanford University, where he won NCAA singles, doubles, and team titles in 1992. He earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies at Stanford in 1992.
On leaving his tennis career O'Brien founded an online business which markets, and distributes steaks. The O'Brien family has been in the beef business for 60 years basing their production out of the LIT Ranch. O'Brien is currently President and part owner of the Bank of Commerce, a small community online bank with branches in Amarillo and McLean Texas.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles (1 title, 3 runners-ups)
ATP career finals
Men's doubles: 33 (13 titles, 20 runner-ups)
Doubles performance timeline
External links
1970 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Sportspeople from Amarillo, Texas
Stanford Cardinal men's tennis players
Tennis people from Texas
US Open (tennis) champions
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Olympic tennis players of the United States
ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players |
4009132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201976%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1976 Winter Olympics | Canada competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Women
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Men
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Women
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Ice Dancing
Luge
Men
(Men's) Doubles
Women
Nordic combined
Events:
normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing
Ski jumping
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1976 Winter Olympics
1976
Winter Olympics |
4009140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorquin%27s%20admiral | Lorquin's admiral | Lorquin's admiral (Limenitis lorquini) is a butterfly in the Nymphalinae subfamily. The butterfly is named after Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin, a French naturalist who came to California from France during the Gold Rush, and made important discoveries on the natural history of the terrain.
Description
The Lorquin's admiral has brown-black wings, each with a row of white spots across it. Its forewings have orange tips. Wingspan: 47 to 71 mm; females are generally larger than males.
Distribution and habitat
The Lorquin's admiral can mostly be found across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho. Known areas include southern British Columbia (including Vancouver Island, north of Emerald Lake), and Cypress Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan as well as southwestern Alberta. The butterfly resides mostly in forest edges, mountain canyons, parks, streamsides, fencerows, orchards, and groves of cottonwood and poplar. Usually the butterflies feed on California buckeye, yerba santa, privet, bird droppings, and dung. They are extremely territorial and will attack any intruders into their habitat, including large birds.
Larvae
Larvae are usually yellow with a patch of white on the back. Eggs are laid near or on the tips of leaves. Common trees that the larvae feed on include willow (Salix), poplar, cherry (Prunus), cottonwood (Populus), and an assortment of orchard trees, including cherry, apple, and plum.
Flight season
The Lorquin's admiral usually flies around April to October, though it depends on the region. Butterflies in northern areas tend to have one brood a year (usually between June and August) whereas southern butterflies (mainly in California) tend to have multiple broods.
Similar species
California sister butterfly (Adelpha bredowii californica)
Weidemeyer's admiral (L. weidemeyerii)
White admiral (L. arthemis)
References
Further reading
Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars: The West (2001)
Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)
External links
Raising Butterflies
Butterflies of Oregon
Lorquin's Admiral, Butterflies of Canada
Butterflies and Moths of North America - Limenitis lorquini
Butterflies of America - Limenitis lorquini
Limenitis
Butterflies of North America
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1852 |
4009152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dockstavarvet | Dockstavarvet | Dockstavarvet is a Swedish shipyard located in the small village of Docksta, in the municipality of Kramfors, by the Gulf of Bothnia.
The company was founded in 1905 by Nils and Carl Sundin as N & C Sundins Båtbyggeri; the current name of the company simply means "Docksta shipyard".
In the 1970s Dockstavarvet began specializing in aluminium vessels, such as pilot boats, patrol crafts, and lifeboats.
In the mid 1980s the company was commissioned to build a military assault craft, known as the Combat Boat 90, for the Swedish Marines. This has been the company's most successful product, with around 250 to 300 units built.
In 2000, Dockstavarvet acquired the Rindö naval yard, which remains the primary repair facility for the Swedish Navy's CB90s.
The Russian Border Patrol operate 11 Interceptor Craft 16M built by Dockstavarvet. These boats are based on CB90 design concept but not identical to it.
References
Dockstavarvet's web site
Shipyards of Sweden |
4009153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leece | Leece | Leece is a village on the Furness peninsula in Cumbria, England, between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness.
Amenities
The village is built around a tarn and a village green, and Henry Armer & Son, a smithy established in 1914 that has since become an agricultural engineering business.
For parish council purposes, Leece belongs to Aldingham Parish Council.
History
Historically part of Lancashire, the name Leece is probably from the Old English leah, which means 'woodland clearing', and the plural of which is Leas. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Lies, in the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. It appears later in 1269 as Lees.
Leece used to contain the United Methodist Free Church. It was founded in 1881, but closed in 1912. The building, which was taken down in the late 1920s, can still be seen on some photographs from the period. The church did not have a cemetery. St. Matthew's Church, in the village of Dendron, built in 1642, also served the village, as both a church and a school. It was funded by Robert Dickinson, a citizen of London, who had formerly lived in Leece.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Leece played a part in the Lady in the Lake murder trial. Gordon Park, a resident of Leece, bludgeoned his 30-year-old wife Carol to death with an ice axe, then dumped her body in Coniston Water, telling police investigating her disappearance that she had left their home for another man.
Gallery
See also
Listed buildings in Aldingham
Sources
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Aldingham (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Aldingham
Furness |
4009155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20at%20the%201972%20Winter%20Olympics | Canada at the 1972 Winter Olympics | Canada competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.
The one silver medal won by Karen Magnussen ties with the Canadian Olympic Team of 1936 for the lowest medal total by a Canadian Winter Olympic Team.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Men's slalom
Women
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Men
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Women
Women's 3 × 5 km relay
Figure skating
Men
Women
Pairs
Luge
Men
(Men's) Doubles
Ski jumping
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1972 Winter Olympics
1972
Winter Olympics |
4009164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Family%20Game%20%28game%20show%29 | The Family Game (game show) | The Family Game was an American game show that ran on ABC for six months in 1967. Geoff Edwards was originally to host the (unrecorded) pilot, but was dropped at the last minute and was replaced by producer Chuck Barris. Although ABC bought the series, they mandated that someone other than Barris be the host; Bob Barker, then hosting Truth or Consequences and also began hosting the Miss USA & Miss Universe Pageants on CBS that year, was selected without a screen test or pilot.
The Family Game was played similar to Barris' more popular ABC game show The Newlywed Game, except that instead of four married couples there were three families (each consisting of two children and their parents).
The series is notable for being the last new black-and-white network series to air in America prior to the nationwide switch to color in 1968.
Gameplay
The Family Game had parents and their children aged 6–11 years old trying to predict and match answers to a series of questions, similar to Newlywed.
Round 1
In Round 1, the younger children were asked three questions while their parents were off stage. The parents returned and the mothers responded to the same questions. Their teams scored 10 points for each answer they matched.
Round 2
In Round 2, the parents again left the stage and the older children answered four questions. The first three were worth 15 points, while the last was a "bonus" worth 25 points. When the parents returned, the father tried to match answers to the first three questions and both parents responded to the 25-point bonus question.
The family with the most points won the game and a grand prize. If there was a tie, it was broken in the same manner as on The Newlywed Game. Before the show, each family was asked to predict how many points they would score. The one closest to their actual score without going over was declared the winner.
Merchandise
A board game based on the show was released by Hasbro at the time.
Episode status
The Family Game is believed to have been erased ("wiped") due to network practices. Only two episodes are known to exist.
Attempted revival
A revival was attempted in 1986 with Jeff MacGregor (the host of The All-New Dating Game from 1987 to 1989), but the pilot was not picked up. This unsold pilot can be viewed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and a clip was also shown briefly in the Game Show Network original series, As Seen On.
References
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
American game shows
1960s American game shows
1967 American television series debuts
1967 American television series endings
Lost television shows
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series by Barris Industries
Television series created by Chuck Barris |
4009170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraz%C3%B3n%20salvaje%20%281977%20TV%20series%29 | Corazón salvaje (1977 TV series) | Corazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1977. It is the fourth of five screen adaptations of the novel of the same name by Caridad Bravo Adams, and the second telenovela. The first telenovela starred singer Julissa while the 1977 production starred singer Angélica María who had previously had the role of Mónica in the 1968 film version. Actor Ernesto Alonso produced this version and after not casting Julissa and instead repeating Angélica María the first allegedly declared "Since my father (Luis de Llano) is not employed in this company (Televisa) anymore Ernesto Alonso has forgotten me in his castings".
Cast
Angélica María as Mónica Molnar
Martín Cortés as Juan del Diablo
Susana Dosamantes as Aimee Molnar
Fernando Allende as Renato D'Autremont
Bertha Moss as Sofía
Miguel Manzano as Pedro Noel
Kikis Herrera Calles as Catalina de Molnar
Lucy Tovar as Janina
Socorro Avelar as Ana
Jorge Vargas as Francisco D'Autremont
Armando Alcazar as Renato (as a child)
Ernesto Alonso as Narrator
Roberto Antunez as Vice-Secretary of the Governor
Carlos Argüelles as Juan (as a child)
Consuelo Frank as Sister María Inés de la Conception
Manuel Guízar as Doctor Alejandro Faber
Ernesto Marin as Colibrí
René Muñoz as Esteban
Agustín Sauret as Marcos
Raúl Vale as Adrián Lefevre
Sergio Zuani as Segundo Duclos
Eduardo Alcaraz as Padre Didier
Tony Bravo as Charles Brighton
Rosa Gloria Chagoyán
Juan Diego Fernandez Viñas
Roberto Montiel as Gracian
Leon Singer
Pilar Souza
Ignacio Rubiell
See also
Corazón salvaje
External links
Corazón salvaje at the telenovela database
1977 telenovelas
1970s Mexican television series
1977 Mexican television series debuts
1977 Mexican television series endings
Mexican telenovelas
Spanish-language telenovelas
Televisa telenovelas |
4009179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Closed%20Circle%3A%20An%20Interpretation%20of%20the%20Arabs | The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs | The Closed Circle: An interpretation of the Arabs is a 1989 book by author David Pryce-Jones that was published by Harper & Row.
Summary
This book discusses the tribal roots of Arab society which form the basis of its cultural traditions. The author documents the cultural forces which drive the violence and mayhem that, in his view, is characteristic of Arab societies in their dealings with each other and with the West.
The author argues that the Arab world is stuck in an age-old tribalism and behavior from which it is unable to evolve. In tribal society, loyalty is extended to close kin and other members of the tribe. In the Arab world those who seek power achieve it by plotting secretly and ruthlessly eliminating their rivals.
Table of contents
Tribal Society and Its Legacy
Shame and Honor
Western Approaches
Power Challenging and Careerism
Men and Women
The Turkish Example
Colonialism
The Impact of Nazism
The Impact of Communism
Arabia and Oil
The Issue of Palestine
Power Holders
Image and Identity
Conclusion
See also
The Arab Mind
The Bell Curve
The Camp of the Saints
Anti-Arabism
References
1989 non-fiction books
Race-related controversies in literature
Stereotypes of Arab people
History books about ethnic groups |
4009210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20You%27re%20Alone%2C%20You%27re%20Not%20Alone | When You're Alone, You're Not Alone | When You're Alone, You're Not Alone Is Forgive Durden's second EP. It was released independently and was available for purchase at shows.
Track listing
"B as in Burn" – 0:57
"No Ace, Just You" – 2:43
"I am a Heart, Watson. The Rest of Me Is Mere Appendix." – 3:36
"Caelestis" – 2:32
"Jamais Vu" – 3:42
"The Sour and the Sweet" – 3:08
"I'm a Sucker for Fakes" – 3:15
Forgive Durden albums
2004 EPs |
4009213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20eukaryogenesis | Viral eukaryogenesis | Viral eukaryogenesis is the hypothesis that the cell nucleus of eukaryotic life forms evolved from a large DNA virus in a form of endosymbiosis within a methanogenic archaeon or a bacterium. The virus later evolved into the eukaryotic nucleus by acquiring genes from the host genome and eventually usurping its role. The hypothesis was first proposed by Philip Bell in 2001 and was further popularized with the discovery of large, complex DNA viruses (such as Mimivirus) that are capable of protein biosynthesis.
Recent supporting evidence includes the discovery that, upon the infection of a bacterial cell, the giant bacteriophage 201 Φ2-1 (of genus Phikzvirus) assembles a nucleus-like structure around the region of genome replication and uncouples transcription and translation, and synthesized mRNA is then transported into the cytoplasm where it undergoes translation. The same researchers also found that this same phage encodes a eukaryotic homologue to tubulin (PhuZ) that plays the role of positioning the viral factory in the center of the cell during genome replication. The PhuZ spindle shares several unique properties with eukaryotic spindles: dynamic instability, bipolar filament arrays, and centrally positioning DNA. Furthermore, evidence indicates that many classes of nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) such as mimiviruses have the apparatus to produce m7G capped mRNA and contain homologues of the eukaryotic cap binding protein eIF4E. Those supporting viral eukaryogenesis also point to the lack of these features in archaea, and so believe that a sizable gap separates the archaeal groups most related to the eukaryotes and the eukaryotes themselves in terms of the nucleus. In light of these and other discoveries, Bell modified his original thesis to suggest that the viral ancestor of the nucleus was an NCLDV-like archaeal virus rather than a pox-like virus.
The viral eukaryogenesis has been controversial for several reasons. For one, it is sometimes argued that the posited evidence for the viral origins of the nucleus can be conversely used to suggest nuclear origins of some viruses. Secondly, this hypothesis has further inflamed the longstanding debate over whether viruses are living organisms.
Hypothesis
The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis posits that eukaryotes are composed of three ancestral elements: a viral component that became the modern nucleus; a prokaryotic cell (an archaeon according to the eocyte hypothesis) which donated the cytoplasm and cell membrane of modern cells; and another prokaryotic cell (here bacterium) that, by endocytosis, became the modern mitochondrion or chloroplast.
In 2006, researchers suggested that the transition from RNA to DNA genomes first occurred in the viral world. A DNA-based virus may have provided storage for an ancient host that had previously used RNA to store its genetic information (such host is called ribocell or ribocyte). Viruses may initially have adopted DNA as a way to resist RNA-degrading enzymes in the host cells. Hence, the contribution from such a new component may have been as significant as the contribution from chloroplasts or mitochondria. Following this hypothesis, archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes each obtained their DNA informational system from a different virus. In the original paper it was also an RNA cell at the origin of eukaryotes, but eventually more complex, featuring RNA processing. Although this is in contrast to nowadays more probable eocyte hypothesis, viruses seem to have contributed to the origin of all three domains of life ('out of virus hypothesis'). It has also been suggested that telomerase and telomeres, key aspects of eukaryotic cell replication, have viral origins. Further, the viral origins of the modern eukaryotic nucleus may have relied on multiple infections of archaeal cells carrying bacterial mitochondrial precursors with lysogenic viruses.
The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis depicts a model of eukaryotic evolution in which a virus, similar to a modern pox virus, evolved into a nucleus via gene acquisition from existing bacterial and archaeal species.
The lysogenic virus then became the information storage center for the cell, while the cell retained its capacities for gene translation and general function despite the viral genome's entry. Similarly, the bacterial species involved in this eukaryogenesis retained its capacity to produce energy in the form of ATP while also passing much of its genetic information into this new virus-nucleus organelle. It is hypothesized that the modern cell cycle, whereby mitosis, meiosis, and sex occur in all eukaryotes, evolved because of the balances struck by viruses, which characteristically follow a pattern of tradeoff between infecting as many hosts as possible and killing an individual host through viral proliferation. Hypothetically, viral replication cycles may mirror those of plasmids and viral lysogens. However, this theory is controversial, and additional experimentation involving archaeal viruses is necessary, as they are probably the most evolutionarily similar to modern eukaryotic nuclei.
The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis points to the cell cycle of eukaryotes, particularly sex and meiosis, as evidence. Little is known about the origins of DNA or reproduction in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. It is thus possible that viruses were involved in the creation of Earth's first cells. The eukaryotic nucleus contains linear DNA with specialized end sequences, like that of viruses (and in contrast to bacterial genomes, which have a circular topology); it uses mRNA capping, and separates transcription from translation. Eukaryotic nuclei are also capable of cytoplasmic replication. Some large viruses have their own DNA-directed RNA polymerase. Transfers of "infectious" nuclei have been documented in many parasitic red algae.
Another supporting evidence is that the m7G capping apparatus (involved in uncoupling of transcription from translation) is present in both Eukarya and Mimiviridae but not in Lokiarchaeota that are considered the nearest archaeal relatives of Eukarya according to the Eocyte hypothesis (also supported by the phylogenetic analysis of the m7G capping pathway).
Implications
A number of precepts in the theory are possible. For instance, a helical virus with a bilipid envelope bears a distinct resemblance to a highly simplified cellular nucleus (i.e., a DNA chromosome encapsulated within a lipid membrane). In theory, a large DNA virus could take control of a bacterial or archaeal cell. Instead of replicating and destroying the host cell, it would remain within the cell, thus overcoming the tradeoff dilemma typically faced by viruses. With the virus in control of the host cell's molecular machinery, it would effectively become a functional nucleus. Through the processes of mitosis and cytokinesis, the virus would thus recruit the entire cell as a symbiont—a new way to survive and proliferate.
See also
Endogenous retrovirus
Endogenous viral element
Paleovirology
References
Further reading
Microbiology
Evolutionary biology
Virology
Symbiosis
Cell nucleus
Eukaryote biology |
4009217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti%20%28disambiguation%29 | Spaghetti (disambiguation) | Spaghetti is a long thin form of pasta.
Spaghetti or spaghetto may also refer to:
Spaghetti
Spaghetti (film), a 1916 film starring Oliver Hardy
Spaghetti squash, a fruit
Spaghetti code, in software
Spaghetti plot, a method of showing possible flows through systems
Spaghetti Western, a genre of films produced by Italian production companies in the 1960s
Spaghetti Records, a record label
Spaghetti sort, a sorting algorithm.
Spaghetto
Diana Manfredi aka "Spaghetto"
People
Tony "Spaghetti" Eustace (b. 1948), Australian fugitive was found murdered in 1985
See also
Spaghetti tree, a 1957 BBC April Fools' Day hoax
Flying Spaghetti Monster, a religion (or pseudoreligion)
Spaghetti Junction, one of several highway junctions, nicknamed due to their complexity
"The Spaghetti Incident?", a cover album by Guns N' Roses
The Spaghetti Family, an animated television series |
4009244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville%20Daily%20Record | Jacksonville Daily Record | The Jacksonville Daily Record, formerly the Financial News & Daily Record, is a weekly newspaper that has been published in Jacksonville, Florida since 1912.
Overview
The Daily Record primarily publishes urban development, financial, and legal related news, articles, and profiles. It is the official newspaper of The Jacksonville Bar Association, Duval County Court, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. The paper is the primary publisher of legal notices in Duval County. Synopses from documents filed by The Clerk of the Circuit Court are published.
History
Founded in 1912, The Daily Record is currently published by Observer Media Group, which bought the newspaper from third-generation owner James F. Bailey Jr. in January 2017. Bailey was publisher for 41 years. His family owned the newspaper for 104 years.
References
External links
Mass media in Jacksonville, Florida
Newspapers published in Florida
Publications established in 1912
Northbank, Jacksonville
1912 establishments in Florida |
4009250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauri%20Shankar%20%28chess%20player%29 | Gauri Shankar (chess player) | Gauri Shankar (born 1 October 1992) is an Indian chess player who is currently a FIDE Master.
Gauri's older brother Arjun Vishnuvardhan is an International Chess Master and the 2006 National G/60 Chess Champion of the United States.
Achievements
National Chess Champion of India for Under-7 boys 1999-2000, Aurangabad, India.
2006 US Junior Open Chess Champion, Texas, United States.
2007 Biel International Youth Chess Champion, Switzerland in August.
References
External links
Article on Chessbase.com
1992 births
Living people
Indian chess players
Chess FIDE Masters
Place of birth missing (living people) |
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