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4035536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C4%8D%C3%AD%20%28Chrudim%20District%29 | Kočí (Chrudim District) | Kočí is a municipality and village in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
References
External links
Villages in Chrudim District |
4035542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koci | Koci | Koci may refer to:
Kočí, Czech surname
Kočí, Czech Republic
Koći, a village in Montenegro
Koçi, Albanian surname
Koci Cliffs, an Antarctic cliff
See also
Kuci (disambiguation) |
4035545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaSharon%20Junction | HaSharon Junction | The HaSharon Junction (), commonly known as Beit Lid Junction (), is a key road junction in the Sharon region of Israel. It intersects Highway 4 and Highway 57. The junction serves as a large transportation hub for dozens of Egged and Kavim buses.
On the southwest corner of the junction is Ashmoret Prison, a civilian jail.
The junction was the scene of the Beit Lid suicide bombing, a 1995 attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
It is planned that in the future, a large interchange will replace the current intersection. It will be located slightly north of the existing junction, along a new alignment of Highway 57, which will be shifted to the north.
Buses
The following buses stop at the Beit Lid Junction. The junction itself does not have routes using it as a starting or ending station.
Egged
Nativ Express
Road junctions in Israel
Geography of Central District (Israel) |
4035551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast%20Guard%20Island | Coast Guard Island | Coast Guard Base Alameda also referred to as Coast Guard Island is an artificial island in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda, California. It is home to several major United States Coast Guard commands and cutters, including the Coast Guard Pacific Area. It is one of the largest Coast Guard bases on the West Coast. From 1942 until 1982, the island was the site of the Coast Guard's recruiting training center (boot camp), enlisting and training hundreds of thousands of Coast Guardsmen including many of the 214,239 who served in the Pacific and European Theaters of World War II.
The island is situated in the historic Brooklyn Basin, now known as Embarcadero Cove. It is within Alameda city limits, but is tied to land only via a bridge from Dennison Street in Oakland.
Tenant commands
The island houses a number of U.S. Coast Guard commands and its facilities are managed by Base Alameda. Over 1200 personnel are assigned to the island. Area commands include:
Pacific Area and Defense Force West
Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center Pacific (MIFCPAC)
Sector San Francisco (Prevention Department; the remainder of Sector San Francisco is housed at nearby Yerba Buena Island)
Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center (formerly known as Training Team West)
Maritime Safety and Security Team 91105 (MSST 91105)
It is also the homeport for four Legend-class cutters:
USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750)
USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751)
USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752)
USCGC Munro (WMSL-755)
Coast Guard Island also houses and supports a number of other Coast Guard commands with detachments or regional offices located on the island, including:
Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) Pacific Region
Legal Service Command West
Personnel Service Center Detachment Alameda
Coast Guard Office of Civil Rights Detachment Region 3
Coast Guard Office of Civilian Human Resources (CG-121), Human Resources Operations Division, Human Resources Center-West
Surface Force Logistics Center
Detachment Alameda
Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center Detachment Alameda
Coast Guard Office of Contingency and Deployable Logistics, DOL-42 (Pacific Area) and DOL-43 ((Atlantic Area)
Atlantic Area International Port Security Detachment Alameda
Coast Guard Engineering Support Unit (ESU) Alameda and Naval Engineering Support Unit (NESU) Alameda were also located on the island until those units were decommissioned in 2013. The functions and capabilities of the units remain as departments within Base Alameda.
The facilities on Coast Guard Island also include an industrial service center, enlisted barracks, a medical and dental clinic, and public works facilities to service the island.
History and formation
Originally known as Government Island, this artificial island was formed in 1913 by the dredging project that extended the Oakland Estuary to San Leandro Bay. The Coast Guard first came to the island in 1926 when it established "Base 11" under an Executive Order signed in September 1931 that gave title to a tract for a permanent base. Improvements were started at that time and by 1933 included streets, utilities, spur tracks, a trestle bridge from Oakland, a transformer station, and rebuilding of the existing wharves. The cost was more than one and a half million dollars and provided facilities for Base 11 and the Coast Guard Store (warehouses).
Establishment
The shore establishment expanded in 1939 with the amalgamation of the Lighthouse Service. A training center was established in 1940 to meet the service's increased personnel needs.
An area of was acquired from the City of Alameda in 1939 with an additional purchased by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1942. The entire island of was devoted to training center facilities. The first contract provided for five barracks, mess hall and galley, engineering and administration buildings, an infirmary, roadways, heating, plumbing, electrical and fire protection. The contract was awarded February 21, 1942 and completed June 30, 1942 at a cost of $1,680,082.94. Additional contracts for another half million dollars provided for additional barracks, clothing issue building, paving a drill field, band room, incinerator, anti-aircraft trainer building, and docks for small boats.
Recruit Training Center
The training center was first opened on June 1, 1942 with accommodations for 900 men. It was solely to train recruits. Specialty training was added later to include fireman, signalman, laundryman, radioman, boatswain's mate, cooks and bakers, and port security.
After the war, Government Island remained a Coast Guard Training Center with addition of the Weather Bureau, Internal Auditors, and the Bureau of Roads. During the late 1960s the Training & Supply Center was the Coast Guard's largest field unit on the West Coast. The Training Center graduated 60-100 seaman apprentices and fireman apprentices each week. The Supply Center provided support to the western area districts including Squadron One and Squadron Three in Vietnam. The cutters Taney, Gresham, and Barataria were homeported on the island at the time.
In 1982, the Training Center was closed and recruit training was moved to United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, New Jersey, where it remains today. Support Center Alameda was established June 1, 1982 and the island was renamed Coast Guard Island. The Coast Guard Pacific Area, Coast Guard 11th District (then known as Coast Guard 12th District), and Marine Safety Office San Francisco moved from downtown San Francisco to the island. On June 24, 1987, Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific was established and located on the island until its decommissioning. The Support Center was redesignated as Integrated Support Command Alameda on March 15, 1996, and today is Base Alameda.
Notable Commanders
World War II Era Rear Admiral A. J. Carpenter, Commanding Officer of Alameda and District 3.
Vietnam War Era Captain Henry P. Kniskern, Commanding Officer
Captain Michael L. Woolard, Commanding Officer 2011–2015.
Captain Jonathan P. Hickey, Commanding Officer 2015–2018.
See also
Islands of San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay Area
Integrated Support Command Alameda
References
External links
Coast Guard description
Geography of Alameda, California
Islands of Alameda County, California
Islands of Northern California
United States Coast Guard bases
Military facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Islands of San Francisco Bay |
4035560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostelec%20u%20He%C5%99manova%20M%C4%9Bstce | Kostelec u Heřmanova Městce | Kostelec u Heřmanova Městce is a small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 280 inhabitants.
Village Tasovice is administrative part of Kostelec u Heřmanova Městce.
External links
Short official information about the village (cz)
Villages in Chrudim District |
4035581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Forester | Nicole Forester | Nicole Forester (born November 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maggie Zajac on the Starz original series Boss and as Cassie Layne Winslow on Guiding Light. She currently appears as Christie on NBC's Chicago Fire.
Early life
Forester was born Nicole Theresa Schmidt in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She began dance training at the age of five and began working locally in professional musical theatre at the age of twelve. She majored in drama in the Creative and Performing Arts Program at Winston Churchill High School in Livonia, Michigan (fellow alumni include actress Judy Greer and musician Rosie Thomas) and majored in Musical Theatre Performance at Western Michigan University before moving to Los Angeles at 19. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1993, when she took Forester, her grandmother's maiden name, as her professional name.
Career
Her early work in Los Angeles included roles in the television series Two and a Half Men, Monk, Will & Grace, The Single Guy, Beverly Hills 90210, and Mister Sterling, among others. Forester guest starred in two of the Star Trek spin-offs, playing a dabo girl in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Distant Voices", and Nora in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Horizon". Her all-American classic beauty landed her in numerous national commercials, including The Olive Garden, Miller Lite, Claritin, and American Airlines. Forester has also appeared in many pilots, including playing the wife of Saturday Night Live's Chris Kattan in the sitcom Enough About Me for ABC.
After moving to New York City in 2005, Forester booked the coveted contract role of "Cassie Layne Winslow" on CBS soap opera Guiding Light, replacing the originating actress, Laura Wright. In her three years on the show, Forester performed in nearly 300 episodes and received a Lead Actress Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her work in 2008.
In 2010, David Schwimmer cast Forester in his film, Trust, starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener. Also in 2010 (and while 7 months pregnant with her second child), Forester worked with Richard Gere in The Double, directed by Michael Brandt. In 2012, Forester appeared in Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Academy Award-winner Christopher McQuarrie.
In 2012, Forester filmed season two of Boss, the Golden Globe nominated drama series on Starz, starring Kelsey Grammer. Forester played "Maggie Zajac", the politically savvy wife of gubernatorial candidate and chronic philanderer "Ben Zajac", played by Jeff Hephner.
Personal life
She is married to Paul Brown and they have two children: Frances Eleanor, born on February 11, 2009, and Paul Walker III, born on October 14, 2010.
Of French and German descent, Forester spent three years studying German at UCLA and, in 2006, a term at the Goethe Institut in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany.
An avid knitter, Forester models on the cover of and inside the book Greetings from Knit Cafe by former CBS vice president, Suzan Mischer.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
NicoleForester.com - Official website
1972 births
Living people
Actors from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Western Michigan University alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Michigan
American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni |
4035585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20L.%20Davis | Sammy L. Davis | Sammy Lee Davis (born November 1, 1946) is an American soldier who served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and was awarded the nation's highest military medal for valor, the Medal of Honor.
Early years
Born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 1, 1946, Davis was raised in French Camp, California. His family had a long tradition of military service; his grandfather served in the Spanish–American War, his father Robert Davis was in World War II, and his brothers Hubert ("Buddy") and Darrell Davis served in Korea and Vietnam, respectively. Davis attended Manteca High School in Manteca, California, where he was a member of the football and diving teams. He also participated in Sea Scouting in Stockton. After his junior year of high school, Davis' family moved to Indiana. He graduated from Mooresville High School in 1966.
Military career
Davis enlisted in the United States Army from Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1965.
In March 1967, Davis was sent to South Vietnam as a private first class, and was assigned to Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Artillery Regiment, 9th Infantry Division.
On November 18, 1967, his unit at Firebase Cudgel () west of Cai Lay, fell under machine gun fire and heavy mortar attack by an estimated three companies of Viet Cong from the 261st Viet Cong Main Force Battalion, which swarmed the area from the south and then west. Upon detecting an enemy position, Davis manned a machine gun to give his comrades covering fire so they could fire artillery in response. Davis was wounded, but ignored warnings to take cover, taking over the unit's burning howitzer and firing several shells himself. He also disregarded his inability to swim due to a broken back, and crossed a river there on an air mattress to help rescue three wounded American soldiers. He ultimately found his way to another howitzer site to continue fighting the NVA attack until they fled. The battle lasted two hours.
Davis was subsequently promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor the following year from President Lyndon B. Johnson. After he was presented the medal at the White house ceremony, Davis played "Oh Shenandoah" on his harmonica in memory of the men he served with in Vietnam.
Davis retired in 1984 due to his war-time injuries.
Later years
In 1994, footage of his Medal of Honor award ceremony was used in the film Forrest Gump, with actor Tom Hanks' head superimposed over that of Davis.
Davis tells his story in the 2002 documentary A Time For Honor.
In July 2005, while in Indianapolis, Davis' medal was stolen out of the trunk of his car. It was recovered a few days later in neighboring White River.
On July 4, 2010, Davis helped celebrate the 100th birthday of the Boy Scouts of America at Arlington Park. Davis entered scouting at the age of 9. He has also been honored by the Joe Foss Institute for his dedication to serving America.
Davis is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Military awards
Davis's military decorations and awards include:
Medal of Honor
Silver Star
Purple Heart w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
Good Conduct Medal
Presidential Unit Citation
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal w/ two bronze stars
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation w/ palm and frame
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal w/ 1960– device
Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Sergeant (then Private First Class), U.S. Army, Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division
Place and date: West of Cai Lay, Republic of Vietnam, 18 November 1967
Entered service at: Indianapolis, Indiana
Born: 1 November 1946, Dayton, Ohio
Bibliography
Davis, Sammy L. and Caroline Lambert (2016). You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying: Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient. New York, NY: Berkley Books.
See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War
References
External links
Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
1946 births
Living people
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Army soldiers
Military personnel from Dayton, Ohio
Recipients of the Silver Star
Vietnam War recipients of the Medal of Honor
People from Indiana |
4035600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonito%20Lake | Bonito Lake | Bonito Lake is an alpine reservoir located high in the Sierra Blanca mountains northwest of Ruidoso, New Mexico. It is a popular fishing and camping destination, and although it is surrounded by the Lincoln National Forest, it is not a part of the national forest. It is currently owned by the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico as their primary water source. Because of the high altitude, the lake's temperature is cold year round, and is home to an abundance of rainbow trout. The area around the lake has several campgrounds with hiking trails and streams.
The area is now a part of the Lincoln National Forest, but in the late 19th century, the Southern Pacific Railroad owned most of the water rights in the area. In 1907 the railroad built a small dam in South Fork Canyon, upstream from the current dam. From that dam they extended a wooden pipeline to Pastura, New Mexico to provide water for the steam trains of the era. The remnants of the original dam and pieces of the wooden pipeline are still visible to hikers along the trail in South Fork Canyon.
By the 1920s, the railroad needed even more water, and they petitioned the Government of New Mexico to allow them to build another, larger dam along Bonito Creek. The engineers who surveyed the canyon determined that the best place to build a dam would be downstream from the town of Bonito, across a narrow spot in the canyon. This location would allow the dam to contain the water of two streams which merged just above the dam. This location, however, meant that the town of Bonito would be flooded by the dam's lake. The people living in Bonito were given land further down the canyon, and the entire town was moved downstream to a new location.
The dam was completed in 1931, and by 1933 the lake was completely filled. At full capacity, the lake contains 1,500 acre-feet of water.
By the 1950s, steam locomotives had been replaced by diesel electric locomotives, and the railroad no longer needed the water from the lake. The railroad sold the lake to the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, which needed a reliable water supply to provide the town's drinking water. A pipeline was built to Alamogordo's "La Luz" water treatment plant. Alamogordo still owns the dam and lake, but all of the land around the lake is a part of the Lincoln National Forest. The lake and the surrounding mountains are now popular for fishing, camping, and hiking.
Little Bear Fire
The 2012 Little Bear Fire caused flooding and other damage to Bonito Lake and the surrounding area. The lake has been closed to fishing since that time, and the campgrounds around the lake are also closed. The fire caused severe erosion in the watershed above the lake, and the lake was contaminated with sediment and ash from the fire. In the summer of 2015 engineers began the process of draining the lake in order to dredge it. The expected reopen date is currently unknown, but may be as late as 2019 or 2020.
On September 26, 2017 the Alamogordo city commissioners approved an $8.6 million contract to drain, dredge, and restore the lake. The city engineer estimated that it would take about 24 months for the work to be completed and the lake reopened.
References
External links
History article about the town of Bonito
Reservoirs in New Mexico
Bodies of water of Lincoln County, New Mexico
Protected areas of Lincoln County, New Mexico
Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Lincoln National Forest |
4035605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1%20%C5%A0m%C3%ADd | Tomáš Šmíd | Tomáš Šmíd (born 20 May 1956) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who won nine singles titles during his career. In doubles, he won 54 titles and was world No. 1 in doubles from December 17, 1984 to August 11, 1985. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world 11 in July 1984. Šmíd participated in 31 Davis Cup ties for Czechoslovakia from 1977–1989, posting a 20-10 record in doubles and a 22-15 record in singles.
Career finals
Singles: 28 (9 wins, 19 losses)
Doubles: 101 (54 wins, 47 losses)
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 3 (2 wins, 1 loss)
External links
1956 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
Czechoslovak male tennis players
French Open champions
Sportspeople from Plzeň
US Open (tennis) champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade
ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players |
4035611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Lardner | James Lardner | James or Jim Lardner may refer to:
James L. Lardner (1802–1881), American naval officer
James Lardner (politician) (1879–1925), Irish nationalist politician
James Lardner (Cobra), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe |
4035614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Ramanauskas | Adam Ramanauskas | Adam Ramanauskas (born 19 November 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club.
Of Lithuanian descent, Ramanauskas was selected at no. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft and was mainly a defender or midfielder. In 2000, he was a regular selection on the wing in Essendon's 2000 premiership season, in which they lost just one game for the entire year.
Biography
Ramanauskas debuted with the Essendon Football Club in 1999 after being selected at No. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft. Playing mainly as a defender or midfielder, he was an integral member of the dominant 2000 Bombers' premiership team.
Regarded as one of AFL's up-and-coming young stars, Ramanauskas was runner-up in the AFL Rising Star Award in 2000 and placed third in Essendon's Crichton Medal the following year before being diagnosed with cancer in 2003.
After surgery, Ramanauskas missed eight matches but made a quick recovery to play a handful of games again in 2003 before a recurrence of his cancer. He had weeks of radiotherapy treatment, but he managed to come back and compete a solid 2004 season, where he played in all of the Bombers' 24 games.
Ramanauskas had more misfortune in 2005 when he underwent a season-ending knee reconstruction after a Round 4 training mishap. After he had completed his recovery, he was set to make another comeback. However, in February 2006, a recurrence of the cancer appeared, and he underwent further invasive surgery and six months of chemotherapy treatment.
At the end of 2006, Essendon sought special consideration from the AFL to place Ramanauskas on a mature-aged rookie list for the 2007 season. In July 2007, Ramanauskas was elevated to the senior list and played his first AFL match in two years.
Named as one of The Australian newspaper's "Most Inspirational People" in 2007, Ramanauskas's courage and determination both on and off the field has inspired many. Since 2007, he has worked passionately with the Essendon Football Club Community Affairs Department, co-ordinating youth programs and developing a strong alliance with the Cancer Council of Victoria.
Ramanauskas announced his retirement from AFL football at the end of the 2008 season. In 2009, he accepted a part-time role at Essendon focusing on fast-tracking the development of the club's youngest players. Alongside his duties at Essendon, he also began work on the management team at Elite Sports Properties, a sports talent management agency. He has also joined the football commentary team at 774 ABC Radio.
Career highlights
Essendon Football Club, VFL Reserves Premiership, 1999
Essendon Football Club, VFL Reserves Best & Fairest Player, 1999
Essendon Football Club, AFL Pre-Season Premiership, 2000
Essendon Football Club, AFL Premiership, 2000
AFL Rising Star Award, Runner-Up, 2000
Represented Australia, International Rules Series against Ireland, 2001
Essendon Football Club, Crichton Medal (Best & Fairest Award), 3rd Runner-Up, 2001
Essendon Football Club, "Best Clubman", 2005
Essendon Football Club, "Most Courageous Player", 2007
AFLPA, "Community Spirit Award Winner", 2008
Best games
32 disposals (26 kicks, 6 handballs), 8 marks and a goal in Round 10, 2002: 8-point loss to the North Melbourne Football Club
31 disposals (17 kicks 14 handballs) and 14 marks in Round 11, 2000: 58-point win over Geelong Football Club
Football, cancer and injury
In 2003, Ramanauskas was diagnosed with a low grade cancer (fibromatosis) in his neck after Round 3. He missed the next eight matches but made a quick recovery to play again in 2003. Following this was a solid 2004 season in which he played in all of the Bombers' 24 games.
Ramanauskas had more misfortune in 2005 when he underwent a knee reconstruction after a Round 4 training mishap. After he had completed his recovery, however, in February 2006, a recurrence of the cancer appeared.
At the end of 2006, Ramanauskas was delisted by Essendon, who asked for special consideration in placing him on a mature-aged rookie list for the 2007 season. After long deliberation by the AFL Commission on this issue, Essendon were granted permission for this to go ahead. Ramanauskas was re-drafted by Essendon with pick 33 in the 2006 Rookie Draft. On Wednesday, 4 July, Ramanauskas was elevated to the senior list and played his first AFL match in two years against the Geelong Football Club on 6 July 2007.
Statistics
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 9 || 4 || 13 || 1 || 5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.5 || 2.0 || 6.5 || 0.5 || 2.5 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 24 || 13 || 8 || 221 || 155 || 376 || 105 || 38 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 9.2 || 6.5 || 15.7 || 4.4 || 1.6 || 4
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 25 || 13 || 3 || 258 || 124 || 382 || 90 || 50 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 10.3 || 5.0 || 15.3 || 3.6 || 2.0 || 3
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 23 || 13 || 5 || 275 || 124 || 399 || 109 || 49 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 12.0 || 5.4 || 17.3 || 4.7 || 2.1 || 7
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 10 || 8 || 10 || 107 || 63 || 170 || 34 || 23 || 0.8 || 1.0 || 10.7 || 6.3 || 17.0 || 3.4 || 2.3 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 24 || 6 || 6 || 220 || 104 || 324 || 112 || 31 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 9.2 || 4.3 || 13.5 || 4.7 || 1.3 || 0
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 22 || 16 || 38 || 9 || 8 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 7.3 || 5.3 || 12.7 || 3.0 || 2.7 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 0 || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || – || 0
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2007
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 5 || 3 || 2 || 36 || 24 || 60 || 19 || 6 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 7.2 || 4.8 || 12.0 || 3.8 || 1.2 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 9 || 18 || 7 || 2 || 140 || 102 || 242 || 77 || 28 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 7.8 || 5.7 || 13.4 || 4.3 || 1.6 || 0
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 134
! 63
! 36
! 1288
! 716
! 2004
! 556
! 238
! 0.5
! 0.3
! 9.6
! 5.3
! 15.0
! 4.1
! 1.8
! 14
|}
Retirement
On 25 August 2008, Ramanauskas and longtime teammate Jason Johnson announced their retirements from AFL effective at the end of the season.
Media career
Ramanauskas is now an expert AFL commentator for 774 ABC as well as a Foxtel Cup commentator for Fox Footy.
Personal life
Ramanauskas was born to Joseph and Lucy Ramanauskas and grew up in Doveton, Victoria. He has an older brother, Daniel, and younger sister, Kayla. Ramanauskas attended Doveton Primary School. He later graduated high school from St John's Regional College, Dandenong, in 1998. Growing up, he supported the Richmond Football Club.
Ramanauskas married his high-school sweetheart, Belinda Henneman, in January 2006. They have two sons, Aidan (born October 2008) and Lucas (born August 2010).
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Australian people of Lithuanian descent
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Dandenong Stingrays players
Essendon Football Club players
Essendon Football Club Premiership players
Australia international rules football team players
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players |
4035618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockie%20Leonard | Lockie Leonard | Lockie Leonard is a fictional character in a series of children's novels by Australian author Tim Winton.
Character
Lockie Leonard is a 12 year old who moves to Angelus, a fictional, small coastal town in the south-west region of Western Australia. Lockie has to deal with starting high school in a new town, his father is a police officer who everybody calls Sarge, his mother Joy, is overly understanding, and his brother Phillip still wets the bed. The books follow his adventures and the disasters which beset him. From falling in love, being dumped, finding a best friend, being embarrassed by his family and through it all making discoveries about himself.
The Lockie Leonard TV series, adapted from the books, was shot in Albany, Western Australia and originally screened on the Nine Network in 2007, and a second season began airing in 2010. It was popular all around the world and still has many avid fans.
Books in the series
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
Published in 1990 the book has been republished several times by different publishers and in different formats (print, eBook, audio, braille) and languages (English, French, Dutch). Lockie Leonard is a teenage boy new in town who pines for the most unattainable girl in the class.
A stage version, dramatized by Paige Gibbs and published by Currency Press, was performed by the Perth Theater Company 1995. It was first commissioned and performed by the WA Youth Theatre Company, Perth in 1993.
Awards
1991 Joint winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Children's Book
1993 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award
1996 Winner YABBA Awards: Fiction for Older Readers
Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
Published in 1993 the book has been republished several times by different publishers and in different formats (print, eBook, audio, braille) and languages (English, French). Lockie has been dumped by his girlfriend but finds a new friend Egg the metal head, wants to save the planet and has a new love interest.
Awards
1993 Wilderness Society Environment Award
Lockie Leonard, Legend
Published in 1997 the book has been republished several times by different publishers and in different formats (print, eBook, audio, braille) and languages (English, French). With the first year of High School behind him Lockie finds embarrassment behaviour from all his family members but then events occur and Lockie makes some discoveries about himself.
Awards
1998 Family Award for Children's Literature
References
Series of children's books
Australian children's novels
Novels by Tim Winton
Novels set in Western Australia
Characters in children's literature |
4035619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Lettl | Wolfgang Lettl | Wolfgang Lettl (18 December 1919 – 10 February 2008) was a surrealist painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany. His retrospective was exhibited at the Schaezlerpalais in 2019.
In 1939, at the age of 20, Wolfgang joined the German Army and served as a communications officer in occupied Paris from 1940 to 1943, during which time he worked on his watercolours and first became exposed to surrealism. Later in the war, he became a reconnaissance airman in Norway, where he was captured at the end of the war and held for four months.
He returned to Augsburg in 1945, and worked there as a freelance painter from 1945 to 1948. In 1949, however, the currency reform forced him to turn to construction work to make ends meet. He continued working on his landscapes, portraits and surrealist art while working construction jobs and odd jobs. From 1954 onwards, he was able to concentrate on his art.
He married Franziska Link in 1949.
Success with his freelance art led him to develop his surrealism, and in 1963 he participated in the Grosse Kunstausstellung München (the "Grand Art Exhibition Munich"), becoming a member of the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft ("New Munich Artists' Cooperative Society"). One-man shows in Germany and abroad followed. In addition to his surrealist work, the landscapes around Manfredonia, his second home in Apulia, Italy, inspired him to sometimes paint in an impressionistic style.
In 1992, on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Toskan Hall of Columns, he offered his paintings to the city of Augsburg on permanent loan. After the opening of the "Lettl Atrium - Museum for Surreal Art" in Augsburg in 1993, Lettl has concentrated on experiments in other media (including film), as well as continuing with his painting. A major retrospective exhibition was held in Augsburg in 2000.
References
External links
Official Lettl Website
Wolfgang Lettl at Google Arts & Culture
1919 births
2008 deaths
German Army personnel of World War II
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
21st-century German painters
21st-century German male artists
Artists from Augsburg |
4035627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulionys | Kulionys | Kulionys is a village in Lithuania (Molėtai district municipality), near Molėtai, mostly famous for its Molėtai Astronomical Observatory and Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 34 people.
References
Villages in Utena County
Molėtai District Municipality |
4035659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Mayer | Sandy Mayer | Alexander Mayer (born April 5, 1952) is a former tennis player from the United States. He won eleven titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles in his professional career, and was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973.
Career
Mayer was born in Flushing, New York. He entered Stanford University in 1970. In 1972, Mayer and Roscoe Tanner won the NCAA doubles championship, and the Stanford team finished second in the NCAA tournament, behind Trinity University (Texas). In 1973, Mayer and Stanford won everything in the NCAA tournament: Mayer won singles, Mayer and Jim Delaney won doubles, and the team won the national championship ahead of USC.
The right-hander Mayer reached his highest singles ATP-ranking in April 1982, when he became world No. 7.
His younger brother Gene was also a world tour tennis player and reached a career high of world No. 4 in 1980.
Mayer has four sons and a daughter. All children had been previously ranked in the United States Tennis Association Junior Tennis League (Northern California Section). His wife Libby works as a teacher at a private school.
Mayer as of a few years ago resided in Portola Valley, California.
Career finals
Singles (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)
Doubles (24 titles, 16 runner-ups)
External links
1952 births
American male tennis players
French Open champions
Living people
Sportspeople from Queens, New York
People from Portola Valley, California
American people of German descent
Stanford Cardinal men's tennis players
Tennis people from New York (state)
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles |
4035663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurchenko | Yurchenko | Yurchenko is a Ukrainian patronymic surname that comes from the name Yuriy. It may refer to:
David Yurchenko (born 1986), Russian-Armenian footballer
Denys Yurchenko (born 1978), Ukrainian pole vaulter
Ihor Yurchenko (born 1960), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer
Henrietta Yurchenko (1916–2007), American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, radio producer, and radio host
Kateryna Yurchenko (born 1976), Ukrainian sprint canoer
Mikhail Yurchenko (born 1970), Kazakhstani boxer
Mykola Yurchenko (born 1966), Ukrainian footballer
Natalia Yurchenko (born 1965), Soviet artistic gymnast
Yurchenko (vault), a vault routine in artistic gymnastics
Yurchenko loop, a balance beam skill in artistic gymnastics
Tatyana Yurchenko (born 1993), Kazakhstani middle-distance runner
Vasyl Yurchenko (born 1950), Soviet sprint canoer
Vitaly Yurchenko (born 1936), KGB officer
Vladimir Yurchenko (born 1989), Belarusian footballer
Vladlen Yurchenko, (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
See also
Ukrainian-language surnames
Surnames of Ukrainian origin
Patronymic surnames |
4035676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Help%20of%20Christians%20Academy%20%28Warren%2C%20Michigan%29 | Mary Help of Christians Academy (Warren, Michigan) | Mary Help of Christians Academy was a small, Traditionalist Catholic K-12 school located in Warren, Michigan. It was founded by Donald Sanborn in 1986 with the purchase of a former Montessori school campus. From a few families it expanded to around 200 students at its peak of enrollment.
Internal disagreement between parents and school management (then including Robert Neville) in 1999 caused a number of families to leave. The school's teachers were dismissed from their positions and replaced with nuns from Robert McKenna's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Enrollment continued to decline and the school was closed in 2004. The campus was sold to a local Eastern Orthodox church.
Notes and references
RenewAmerica: News update on the closure of the school
Metro Detroit
Schools in Macomb County, Michigan
Traditionalist Catholicism
Defunct schools in Michigan
Educational institutions established in 1986
Educational institutions disestablished in 2004
Defunct Christian schools
1986 establishments in Michigan |
4035678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding%20the%20multitude | Feeding the multitude | In Christianity, the feeding the multitude is two separate miracles of Jesus reported in the Gospels.
The first miracle, the "Feeding of the 5,000", is the only miracle—aside from the resurrection—recorded in all four gospels (Matthew 14:13–21; Mark 6:31–44; Luke 9:12–17; John 6:1–14).
The second miracle, the "Feeding of the 4,000", with 7 loaves of bread and a few small fish, is reported by Matthew 15:32–39 and Mark 8:1–9, but not by Luke or John.
The feeding of the 5,000 people
The Feeding of the 5,000 is also known as the "miracle of the five loaves and two fish"; the Gospel of John reports that Jesus used five loaves and two fish supplied by a boy to feed a multitude. According to Matthew's gospel, when Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been killed, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Luke specifies that the place was near Bethsaida. The crowds followed Jesus on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a remote place, it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."
Jesus said that they did not need to go away, and therefore the disciples were to give them something to eat. They said that they only had five loaves and two fish, which Jesus asked to be brought to him. Jesus directed the people to sit down in groups on the grass. In Mark's Gospel, the crowds sat in groups of 50 and 100, and in Luke's Gospel, Jesus' instructions were to seat the crowd in groups of 50, implying that there were 100 such groups.
Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to Heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were leftover. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, beside women and children.
In John's Gospel, the multitude has been attracted around Jesus because of the healing works he has performed, and the feeding of the multitude is taken as a further sign that Jesus is the Messiah.
The feeding of the 4,000
This story, which appears only in Mark and Matthew, is also known as the miracle of the seven loaves and fish, as the Gospel of Matthew refers to seven loaves and a few small fish used by Jesus to feed a multitude. According to the Gospels, a large crowd had gathered and was following Jesus. Jesus called his disciples to him and said:
"I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way."
His disciples answered:
"Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"
"How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asked.
"Seven," they replied, "and a few small fish."Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward, the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were leftover. The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children. After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan (or Magdala).
Analysis
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer notes the differences between some of the details of the accounts as a means of emphasizing that there were two distinct miracles: for example, the baskets used for collecting the food that remained were twelve (hand baskets) in but seven (large baskets) in . Cornelius a Lapide stated that a or 'large basket' was double the size of a . An indication of the size of a is that the apostle Paul was let out of a building through a gap in the Damascus city wall in one in order to avert a plot to kill him (Acts 9:25).
Meyer also comments that in John's Gospel, the feeding of the multitude is taken as a further sign ( ) that Jesus is the Messiah, the prophet who (according to the promise in the Book of Deuteronomy () is to come into the world" ().
See also
Chronology of Jesus
Life of Jesus in the New Testament
Ministry of Jesus
Elisha feeding hundred men
References
Bibliography
HarperCollins Bible Commentary (2000)
External links
Biblical phrases
Miracles of Jesus
Bethsaida
Fish in Christianity
Gospel of John
Gospel of Luke
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Matthew
Animals in the Bible |
4035680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka%20Raya%20II | Bukka Raya II | Bukka Raya II (born 1363, reign 1405–1406 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty.
After the death of Harihara II, the succession of the throne was disputed amongst and eventually changed hands between Harihara II's three sons: Virupaksha Raya, Bukka Raya II, and Deva Raya I. First, Virupaksha Raya managed to rule for a few months before he was murdered by his own sons. Bukka Raya II then succeeded Virupaksha as emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. However similar to his brother before him, Bukka Raya II only reigned for a short time period before he too was be overthrown by his brother Deva Raya I who took the throne.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20051219170139/http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/HIST-CULT/history_medieval.html
http://www.ourkarnataka.com/states/history/historyofkarnatagggfgbnjjka40.htm
1406 deaths
People of the Vijayanagara Empire
15th-century Indian monarchs
1363 births
Indian Hindus
Hindu monarchs
Sangama dynasty |
4035681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostelec | Kostelec | Kostelec means 'fortified church' in Czech and may refer to several places in the Czech Republic:
Kostelec (Jičín District), a municipality and village in the Hradec Králové Region
Kostelec (Jihlava District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region
Kostelec (Hodonín District), a municipality and village in the South Moravian Region
Kostelec (Tachov District), a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Kostelec na Hané, a town in the Olomouc Region
Kostelec nad Černými lesy, a town in the Central Bohemian Region
Kostelec nad Labem, a town in the Central Bohemian Region
Kostelec nad Orlicí, a town in the Hradec Králové Region
Kostelec nad Vltavou, a municipality and village in the South Bohemian Region
Kostelec u Heřmanova Městce, a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region
Kostelec u Holešova, a municipality and village in the Zlín Region
Kostelec u Křížků, a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region
Červený Kostelec, a town in the Hradec Králové Region
Vrbatův Kostelec, a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region
Fictional
Kostelec, a fictional town in northeast Bohemia, the setting for Josef Škvorecký's novel The Cowards and episodes of The Engineer of Human Souls, and based on Náchod. |
4035685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20boy | Bat boy | Bat boy may refer to:
Batboy, a nickname for a US Army airborne ranger assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment originating from the period prior to the organization of the Ranger regiment in 1984 when there were only two independent Ranger Battalions
Boy serving as a batman, particularly in the British army in colonial period India
Batboy, a person who carries bats for a baseball team
The Batboy (2010), a novel about a batboy, by Mike Lupica
Bat Boy (character), a fictional creature who made many appearances in the defunct supermarket tabloid Weekly World News
Bat Boy: The Musical, a musical based on the Bat Boy character
"Bat Boy and Rubin!" (Mad #8, Dec. 1953 – Jan. 1954), Kurtzman/Wallace Wood parody of Batman and Robin
See also
Batkid Miles Scott, cancer survivor and subject of 2015 documentary Batkid Begins |
4035688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usotsuki%20Alice%20to%20Kujirag%C5%8D%20o%20Meguru%20B%C5%8Dken | Usotsuki Alice to Kujiragō o Meguru Bōken | is the fifth album by Yui Horie.
Track listing
"はじまりの唄" (Hajimari no Uta, A starting song)
"マッシュルームマーチ" (MASSHURUUMU MAACHI, Mushroom March)
"世界中の愛を言葉にして" (Sekai juu no ai wo kotoba ni shite, Turning the world's love into words)
"蒼い森" (Aoi Mori, Blue forest)
"Shiny merry-go-round"
"くじら光線" (Kujira Kousen, Whale light beam)
"Puzzle"
"いつか" (Itsuka, someday)
"day by day"
"スクランブル" (SUKURANBURU, Scramble)
"LET'S GO!!"
"Will"
"口笛" (Kuchibue, Whistle)
Yui Horie albums
2005 albums |
4035692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasne | Krasne | Krasne or Krásné may refer to:
Places
Canada
Krasne, Saskatchewan, near Quinton, Saskatchewan
Czech Republic
Krásné (Chrudim District), a village in the Pardubice Region
Krásné (Žďár nad Sázavou District), a village in the Vysočina Region
Poland
Krasne, Gmina Rejowiec Fabryczny in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Krasne, Gmina Wojsławice in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Krasne, Augustów County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Krasne, Białystok County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Krasne, Gmina Giby in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Krasne, Gmina Krasnopol in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Krasne, Lubartów County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Krasne, Sokółka County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Krasne, Zamość County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
Krasne, Przeworsk County in Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland)
Krasne, Rzeszów County in Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland)
Krasne, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Krasne, Człuchów County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
Krasne, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
Krasne Commune, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Krasne Commune, Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland)
Ukraine
Krasne, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Lviv Oblast, site of Krasne longwave transmitter
Krasne, Pokrovsk Raion, a village in Pokrovsk Raion (Donetsk Oblast)
Krasne, Tarutyne Raion, a village in Tarutyne Raion
Krasne, Turka Raion, a village in Turka Raion (Lviv Oblastn)
Crimea (disputed)
Krasne Lake, part of the Syvash salt lake system
People
Nancy Krasne, American politician
Philip N. Krasne (1905-1999), American lawyer and film and TV producer
See also
Krasna (disambiguation)
Krasno (disambiguation) |
4035693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meymand | Meymand | Meymand (, also Romanized as Maimand; also known as Meyman) is a city and capital of Meymand District, in Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,615, in 2,138 families.
Meymand is located a few miles east of Firuzabad and about from Shiraz. Its population is almost wholly occupied with the manufacture and sale of rose water, which is largely exported to many parts of Iran as well as to Arabia, India and Java. Shafaq cave is located nearby. The district also produces great quantities of almonds.
In 1961, Meymand became a city after consensus with the three villages of Meymand-e Sofla, Meymand-e Olya and Shabankareh.
Gallery
See also
Meymand, Kerman
References
Populated places in Firuzabad County
Cities in Fars Province |
4035706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emme%20Rylan | Emme Rylan | Emme Marcy Rylan (born Marcy Faith Behrens; November 4, 1980) is an American actress. From 2005 until 2013, she was credited as Marcy Rylan. She is best known for her portrayals on the CBS soap operas Guiding Light as Lizzie Spaulding and The Young and the Restless as Abby Newman. From 2013 to 2020, she portrayed the role of Lulu Spencer on ABC's General Hospital.
Career
Rylan joined the cast of Guiding Light as Lizzie Spaulding on February 7, 2006, taking over the role from Crystal Hunt, until the finale on September 18, 2009. She won the role of Winnie Harper in the straight-to-video 2006 cheerleading film Bring It On: All or Nothing in which she co-starred with fellow Guiding Light alumnus Hayden Panettiere. She was a guest star on the Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh and appeared in several national network commercials.
After CBS announced the cancellation of Guiding Light, Rylan joined The Young and the Restless as Abby Newman. Her first airdate was May 18, 2010. She was later absent from the soap during the 2011 holiday season due a maternity leave. In September 2012, it was announced that Rylan had been let go from The Young and the Restless due to budgetary cuts.
She made her final appearance on October 23, 2012; she later returned to the role from February 11, 2013, to April 10, 2013, when she ultimately left the role; she was recast with actress Melissa Ordway. On March 6, 2013, it was announced that Rylan would join the cast of General Hospital as Lulu Spencer, replacing Julie Marie Berman. On December 1, 2020, after increased speculation, Rylan exited the role.
Personal life
Rylan graduated from Tyrone Area High School in Tyrone, Pennsylvania in 1999. She and her long term significant other Don Money have three children — two sons and a daughter.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
American film actresses
American soap opera actresses
Actresses from North Carolina
Actresses from Pennsylvania
People from Blair County, Pennsylvania
People from Providence Township, Rowan County, North Carolina
21st-century American actresses |
4035713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee%20Cine%20Award%20for%20Best%20Actor%20%E2%80%93%20Female | Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female | The Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female is chosen by the members of Zee Entertainment Enterprises as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. Following its inception in 1998, a ceremony wasn't held in 2009 and 2010, but resumed back in 2011.
Superlatives
Multiple Winners
3 Wins : Alia Bhatt
2 Wins : Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukerji, Kajol, Deepika Padukone, & Vidya Balan
Multiple Nominees
9 Nominations : Kajol, Deepika Padukone
8 Nominations : Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor
7 Nominations : Rani Mukerji
6 Nominations : Karisma Kapoor
5 Nominations : Vidya Balan, Alia Bhatt
4 Nominations : Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta, Tabu, Anushka Sharma
3 Nominations : Katrina Kaif, Madhuri Dixit, Urmila Matondkar
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Notes
References
See also
Zee Cine Awards
Bollywood
Cinema of India
Film awards for lead actress
Zee Cine Awards |
4035715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fothergill%27s%20sign | Fothergill's sign | Fothergill's sign is a medical sign. If a mass in the abdominal wall does not cross midline and does not change with flexion of the rectus muscles, this is a positive sign for a rectus sheath hematoma.
It is named for English obstetrician William Edward Fothergill, who described features of rectus sheath hematomas in a 1926 article in the British Medical Journal entitled "Haematoma in the abdominal wall simulating pelvic new growth".
In rectus sheath haematoma, the haematoma produces a mass that does not cross the midline and remains palpable when the rectus muscle is tense.
External links
Medical signs |
4035716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiwand | Maiwand | Maiwand is a village in Afghanistan within the Maywand District of Kandahar Province. It is located 50 miles northwest of Kandahar, on the main Kandahar–Lashkargah road.
The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.
Maiwand is the birthplace of the13th-century Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
The village is notable for the Battle of Maiwand, which took place on July 27, 1880, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Ayub Khan together with Malalai Anaa defeated a British brigade under General Burrows. The British commemorated the battle with the Maiwand Lion sculpture at Forbury Gardens in England.
References
Populated places in Kandahar Province |
4035717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musgrave%20Block | Musgrave Block | The Musgrave Block (also known as the Musgrave Province) is an east-west trending belt of Proterozoic granulite-gneiss basement rocks approximately long. The Musgrave Block extends from western South Australia into Western Australia.
The Musgrave Block is primarily exposed through the actions of the Petermann Orogeny at c. 535-550 Ma, which exhumed the orogenic belt along the Woodroffe Thrust.
Geomorphology of Quaternary deposits
The Musgrave Block is currently passive geologically, with surficial processes described as residual erosion. The area currently experiences on average less than 150mm (6 inches) of rainfall per annum, which provides little surface runoff and hence virtually no erosion.
The landforms of the area are primarily composed of wide calcrete plains, often covered by Pleistocene Age aeolian deposits of sand dunes, sometimes reworked into ephemeral sheetwash fans. Outcrop is rare, restricted primarily to the igneous rocks of the Giles Complex and several granite domes, gneiss domes and isolated outcrops.
This area is also a distinct physiographic province of the larger West Australian Shield.
Palaeozoic rocks
Several Palaeozoic to neoproterozoic sedimentary basins onlap the Musgrave Block, and are exposed mostly around its edges. These were derived from erosion of the Musgrave Block basement during the neoproterozoic to Permian.
Proterozoic basement
The Proterozoic of the Musgrave Block is composed of seven main classes of rocks:
Surficial volcanics of c.1050 to 1080 Ma, both mafic (Mummawarrawarra Basalt) and andesitic to rhyolitic (Tollu, Smoke Hill Volcanics) and the Bentley Supergroup volcanics and sediments of c. 1080 Ma
Large intrusive caldera type granite intrusive complexes (Palgrave, Skirmish Hill, Smoke Hill), possibly of c. 1050 and likely no older than 1080 Ma
Partly metamorphosed, rarely dissected c. 1080 Ma granite
Usually unmetamorphosed, rarely dissected granites of a c. 1050 intrusive suite
Partly metamorphosed, dissected intrusive rocks of the mafic-ultramafic c. 1080 Ma Giles Complex
Highly metamorphosed metagranites of the c. 1200 Ma suite
High-grade crystalline metamorphic basement rocks of c. 1550-1300 Ma age
The Musgrave Block is flanked by several Proterozoic to Palaeozoic sedimentary basins, whose sedimentary history can elucidate the timing of tectonic events in the Musgrave Block post-1080 Ma. These include the Proterozoic Amadeus and Officer Basins.
Events
The most illustrating way of considering the Musgrave Block is as part of a time-space plot in which geological events are arrayed in time against rock units, stratigraphic relationships and for correlative purposes.
The key events in the Musgrave Block are:
Protolith formation ~1550 Ma. Formation of crustal rocks of the Birksgate Complex, which are both mafic and felsic in composition.
Igneous event and orogeny ~1300 Ma inferred from geochronology and distribution of felsic “volcanic” supracrustal sequence of the high grade gneisses
Musgravian orogeny at ~1200 Ma including generation of voluminous Kulgera Suite of granites and metamorphosis of the Birksgate Complex and ~1300 supracrustal sequence to amphibolite-granulite facies
Warakurna Large igneous province at 1076 ± 6 Ma including the intrusion of the Giles Complex and the Winburn Suite of granites, plus deposition of the Bentley Supergroup (including Tollu and Smoke Hill Volcanics)
Amata Dyke Suite at ~830-880 Ma
Petermann Orogeny, 535-550 Ma; marginal foreland basin formation, trending to crustal consolidation and quiescence
Permian glaciation and erosion of Petermann Orogeny mountains; deposition of Permian sequences in Officer and Amadeus basins
Intracontinental setting till present
Granites and calderas
There are three main phases of granite intrusion into the Musgrave Block:
Kulgera Suite at 1200 Ma
At ~1080Ma synchronous with the Giles Complex
Winburn Suite at ~1050Ma postdating the Giles Complex
The Kulgera Suite is a widespread, voluminous suite of fractionated amphibole-bearing plagioclase rich tonalite to granodiorites of an I-type affinity (Stewart, 2003). They are dated at ~1200 Ma and are considered to be related to melting of the lower crust during the ~1200 Ma Musgravian Orogeny.
The Windburn Suite is considered to be an anorogenic A-type granite suite produced by anatexis of the lower crust at ~1080 to 1050 Ma by the injection of the mafic Giles Complex intrusions. They are in most cases poorly fractionated, biotite-muscovite granites, with little hornblende, a high radiometric count and the presence of fluorine. The 1080 Ma granites and 1050 Ma granites can be distinguished on geochemical grounds, the latter is perhaps created by the above process, and the earlier suite a hybrid between A-type and I-type granites formed by assimilation and mixing.
There are also significant granite caldera complexes, of many hundred square kilometres in area, which intrude the Musgrave Block. These are of the ~1050 Ma age, and are subvolcanic, possibly related to some of the ~1050 Ma volcanic rocks.
Palgrave Volcanic Association
The Palgrave Palgrave Volcanic Association is a large volcanic and granite caldera edifice of about 1500 square kilometres sandwiched between the Jameson Range Intrusion and the gneisses underlying the Bentley Supergroup volcanics.
The caldera is in two parts, an overlying volcanic edifice composed primarily of porphyritic rhyolite and dacite with occasional vent complex agglomerates, which shows prominent circular ring-complex faults, and the Winburn Granite which underlies the caldera and is primarily exposed in the east as a pink, potassium-feldspathic porphyry granite, the lower margins of which are weakly tectonised.
The whole caldera edifice is tilted to the southwest, which is why the Winburn Granite is exposed along the east and northeast.
Skirmish Hill Caldera
The Skirmish Hill Caldera is poorly exposed along the southern margin of the Musgrave Block and consists of granite and overlying? rhyolite. It has been traditionally seen as a potential source for the Tollu Volcanics.
The caldera is truncated on the north by a north-dipping thrust fault and is probably tilted to the south.
Other calderas
Several other prominent gravity and magnetic highs are arranged along the Mugrave Block strike line, one of which was drilled by BHP in the 1990s through 300m of Permian glacial sediments.
This caldera is composed of highly tectonised, stretched felsic volcanic rocks, interleaved with a significant thickness of equally sheared titaniferous differentiated mafic sills. The best interpretation of this, and probably also of the Palgrave Caldera is that they represent hot spots along the Musgrave Block where significant magma flux penetrated, formed volcanic calderas with large subvolcanic granite intrusions, and associated mafic volcanism.
The relationship of the large granite calderas to the 1050-1080 Ma volcanics has been postulated as one in which the granite calderas were the source for the intermediate and felsic volcanic rocks.
Bentley Supergroup
The Bentley Supergroup Volcanics are a sequence of bimodal supracrustal volcanic rocks formed during the ~1080 Warakurna Large Igneous Province, and are widely considered comagmatic with the mafic to ultramafic Giles Complex intrusions.
The Bentley Supergroup is composed primarily of bimodal volcanism, with several hundred-metres thicknesses each of alternating rhyolite and basaltic volcanism adding up to several kilometres true thickness in the area of the Warburton Range to the southwest of the Palgrave caldera. The Bentley Supergroup is divided into the Cassidy Group, Pussycat Group and Tollu Group.
The prevailing theory of the formation of the Bentley Supergroup is that the Warakurna Large Igneous Province, primarily represented by the Giles Complex intruding into the lower crust, breached the crust and erupted voluminous basaltic lava flows, and when enough heat had been added to the crust by the massive intrusions below, intracrustal felsic and intermediate melts were produced, forming A-type intracontinental granites of the Winburn Suite, and the felsic volcanic rocks.
This created the typical bimodal volcanic signature of the Cassidy Group and Pussycat Groups; the Tollu Group is a bit different, and it is considered the product of the large granite calderas which were formed immediately after the Giles Complex magmatism.
Giles (1980) and earlier mappers have assigned the MacDougall Formation, overlying Mummawarrawarra Basalt, intermediate Smoke Hill Volcanics and the Tollu Volcanics to the Bentley Supergroup.
There has been little real study done on the Bentley Supergroup Volcanics since the 1960s. Geochemical and petrological observations are few and far between or lacking comprehensive rare earth and trace elements suites. The Bentley Supergoup is poorly exposed in South Australia (if at all).
References
Further reading
GLIKSON A.Y., STEWART A.J., BALLHAUS C.G., CLARKE G.L., FEEKEN E.H.J., LEVEN J.H., SHERATON J.W., AND SUN S.S. 1996. Geology of the western Musgrave Block, central Australia, with particular reference to the mafic-ultramafic Giles Complex. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Bulletin 239. 205 pp.
Geology of South Australia
Geology of Western Australia
Precambrian Australia
Orogeny
Physiographic provinces |
4035718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1sn%C3%A9%20%28Chrudim%20District%29 | Krásné (Chrudim District) | See other places named Krásné (disambiguation).
Krásné is very small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has approximately 150 inhabitants.
Hamlets Chlum and Polánka are administrative parts of Krásné.
Transmitter
Near Krásné, there is a TV transmitter with a 182 metres tall guyed steel tube mast, built in 1960.
External links
Short official information about the village (cz)
Villages in Chrudim District |
4035720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Drive | Ohio Drive | Ohio Drive is a street in Southwest Washington, D.C., located in East and West Potomac Parks and bordering the Tidal Basin, Washington Channel, and the Potomac River. It is a central organizing feature of East Potomac Park, providing the only major vehicular route to and through the area. Unlike most roadways named after states in the District of Columbia, Ohio Drive is not an avenue, nor it is heavily used like Wisconsin or Rhode Island Avenues. However, the segment from Independence Avenue to the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway is an important commuter route.
Ohio Drive SW is a contributing property to the East and West Potomac Parks Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in November 1973.
Route description
Ohio Drive starts at the Lincoln Memorial and continues south on the west side of West Potomac Park. It crosses a small channel connecting the Potomac River to the Tidal Basin via the Tidal Basin Inlet Bridge, and continues under the 14th Street Bridge and the Washington Metro Yellow Line span. The street enters and continues along the west side of East Potomac Park almost to the southern point of the island, then turns northwest up the eastern side of the island. Ohio Drive passes under 14th Street and CSX railroad tracks before ending at East Basin Drive (where that street connects to Maine Avenue).
History
Construction
Construction on what was then known as Riverside Drive began in 1912 and was completed in 1916. A portion of it was already finished by June 1913. (President Woodrow Wilson walked along it to take in the view.) The road was nicknamed "The Speedway" from the informal horse and buggy racing that used to occur on the road.
Riverside Drive in West Potomac Park was lit at night using the "Twin Twentys" lamppost. These wrought iron light standards, approved by the United States Commission of Fine Arts, have twin globes connected to a main pole by a decorative U-shaped bracket. The main pole is octagonal in cross-sextion and high. With the bracket and globes, the lamppost's total height is . As constructed, the road was one lane wide and consisted of macadam. At some point between 1916 and 1941, the portion of the road on the east side of the island between the railroad tracks and East Potomac Park Golf Course was turned into a two-lane road divided by a boulevard.
Important structures
A number of important and historic structures are located on Ohio Drive SW.
The West Potomac Park Polo Grounds, located between Independence Avenue SW and Ohio Drive SW, were laid out in 1908. Paved over in 1942 to provide parking for the temporary United States Department of War offices on the National Mall, the southern half was restored to athletic fields in 1943. A Women Appointed to Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES) dormitory was constructed on the remaining parking lot in 1944. The dormitory was demolished in 1965, and the area at last completely restored to athletic fields.
In 1926, the John Ericsson National Memorial was erected on Riverside Drive SW near the Lincoln Memorial. This statue commemorates the contributions of John Ericsson, a Swedish immigrant and designer of USS Monitor ironclad warship during the American Civil War. President Calvin Coolidge and Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Crown Prince of Sweden, attended the dedication ceremonies.
Riverside Drive was renamed Ohio Drive by 1950.
Cherry trees are also a defining feature of Ohio Drive. In the 1930s, a large grove of Yoshino cherry trees were planted on both sides of the street in the northwestern corner of West Potomac Park. From 1966 to 1968, more than 1,800 Yoshino cherry and other trees were planted along Ohio Drive SW in East Potomac Park. The trees were donated and planted by friends of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in honor of Lady Bird Johnson's continuing efforts at civic beautification nationwide. A plaque commemorating the planting of these trees is located on the east shore of East Potomac Park on Ohio Drive. The cherry trees, according to the National Park Service, "are a major character-defining component of the landscape of East Potomac Park" and are also considered a contributing property to the East and West Potomac Parks Historic District.
In 1957, another major memorial was erected on Ohio Drive SW and West Basin Drive SW. This object is a stone Japanese Pagoda. The stone pagoda is a gift from the people of Yokohama, Japan, to the people of Washington, D.C. It arrived on June 19, 1957, in five separate pieces and was assembled on-site. Yokohama mayor Ryozo Kiranuma helped dedicate it once it was erected. This stone pagoda is also a contributing property to the East and West Potomac Parks Historic District.
Another historic object on Ohio Drive SW is the First Air Mail Flight Marker. This object consists of a brass plaque attached to a boulder next to the Polo Grounds south of Ohio Drive SW. It was dedicated on May 15, 1958, by the District of Columbia to mark the spot where the aircraft took off with the first scheduled domestic air mail service. The original marker was stolen in 1969 and the plaque was replaced in 1971.
National Capital Parks structures
Two major National Capital Parks structures are located on Ohio Drive SW. The first is the headquarters of the National Capital Parks Central Office, which is at 900 Ohio Drive SW.
The second is the U.S. Engineers' Storehouse, also located at 900 Ohio Drive SW. This structure was designed in 1912 by the noted local architectural firm of Wood, Donn and Deming. The Mediterranean Revival style building was constructed in 1913. This building is also a contributing property to the East and West Potomac Parks Historic District.
Confusion with Ohio Avenue
Ohio Drive should be distinguished from Ohio Avenue. Ohio Avenue was part of the original L'Enfant Plan for the District of Columbia. It began on 15th Street NW, halfway between C and D Streets NW, and ran southeast (parallel to Pennsylvania Avenue) until it reached a small plaza at 12th Street NW. The avenue was obliterated in the early 20th century by the Federal Triangle complex. The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Herbert C. Hoover Building, and Internal Revenue Service Building currently sit on the path of the old Ohio Avenue.
References
External links
Streets in Washington, D.C.
Historic district contributing properties in Washington, D.C.
Southwest (Washington, D.C.) |
4035729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Frawley | Rod Frawley | Rod Frawley (born 8 September 1952) is a former tennis player from Australia, who won one singles title (1982, Adelaide) and five doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 43 in December 1980.
Frawley reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1981, before losing to eventual champion John McEnroe.
He is the older brother of John Frawley.
Career finals
Singles: 2 (1 win, 1 loss)
References
External links
Living people
1952 births
Australian male tennis players
Tennis players from Brisbane |
4035738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musakhel%20%28Pashtun%20tribe%29 | Musakhel (Pashtun tribe) | The Musa Khel, or Moosa Khel, is a Pashtun tribe of Ghilji origin. They are part of the Ghilji. The tribe resides in the tribal range of Musakhel and Batagram District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. This tribe also reside in Khost & Ghazni province of Afghanistan. Musakhel tribe enjoy unique history due to its location. Musakhel borders the district of the southern Pashtun belt. It separates the Pashtun belt from the Baloch belt and Punjab (Tunsa).
References
External links
Balochistan.gov.pk
Khel Bāzār|PK|Pakistan|Asia/Karachi|PK.02|PPL|30.8666667|69.8166667|Balochistān
PASHTUN TRIBAL DYNAMICS
Gharghashti Pashtun tribes
Social groups of Pakistan
Pashto-language surnames
Pakistani names |
4035747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Rodgers | Christopher Rodgers | Christopher Rodgers may refer to:
Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers (1819–1892), officer in the United States Navy
Chris Rodgers (born 1976), English golfer
See also
Chris Rogers (disambiguation) |
4035754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalem%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park | Dalem Lake Provincial Park | Dalem Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Boularderie Island.
Straddling the county line between Victoria and Cape Breton counties, the park is located in the communities of Dalem Lake and New Dominion and is adjacent to the communities of Big Bras d'Or, Millville Boularderie and Black Brook.
The 74 hectare picnic park is managed by the provincial Department of Natural Resources and completely surrounds Dalem Lake, a small lake that is almost perfectly circular - it sometimes also referred to by locals as "Round Lake". The lake has a small sand beach suitable for swimming and is popular for paddling such as canoeing and kayaking. The park also permits licensed trout fishing. There is a 1 kilometre hiking trail encircling the lake.
The park is open for day use (from dawn to dusk), from May 15 to October 12. There is no charge for using the park and its facilities.
Dalem Lake Provincial Park was established by Order in Council (OIC) 77-82 on January 25, 1977. Civic address: 220 New Dominion Rd., Boularderie, Nova Scotia.
References
Sources
Dalem Lake Provincial Park - Outdoors - Provincial Parks and Community Parks
Map of Dalem Lake Provincial Park
http://local.google.ca/local?q=%22dalem%20lake%22%20map&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wl
Provincial parks of Nova Scotia
Tourist attractions in Victoria County, Nova Scotia
Parks in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Geography of Victoria County, Nova Scotia |
4035755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kronk | Paul Kronk | Paul Kronk (born 22 September 1954) is a former tennis player from Australia.
Kronk won seven doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 25 April 1976, when he was No. 78 in the world.
Kronk won seven doubles titles, and was a runner-up in the US Open and a two-time runner-up in the Australian Open, on all occasions partnering compatriot Cliff Letcher.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
Career finals
Doubles (6 wins, 2 losses)
External links
1954 births
Living people
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Australian people of Dutch descent
Sportspeople from Toowoomba
Tennis people from Queensland
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles |
4035758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20P.%20Cormier | J. P. Cormier | John Paul "J.P." Cormier (born January 23, 1969), is a Canadian bluegrass/folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. To date he has won thirteen East Coast Music Awards and one Canadian Folk Music Award.
Cormier was born in London, Ontario and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine. Appearances on Up Home Tonight, a television show devoted to bluegrass music, followed at age fourteen.
Cormier has stated that he learned to play guitar by listening to such noted country / bluegrass musicians as Chet Atkins and Doc Watson. Other instruments J.P. has played on his albums include fiddle, twelve string guitar, upright bass, banjo, mandolin, drums, percussion, synthesizer, cello, tenor banjo and piano.
By age sixteen Cormier had recorded his first album (a collection of bluegrass instrumentals) and he began working the U.S. festival circuit. This led him to move to the United States and to begin working as a session musician. He continued to perform live on the festival circuit and at the Grand Ole Opry with country artists Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe and others.
In 1989 he attended the now-named Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Mississippi, where he majored in music education. At the time it was one of only three colleges in North America that offered a specialty in bluegrass instruments. During his stay at Northeast he began playing the dobro and piano. It was also during this time he first had the idea for the song "Northwind".
Cormier was involved in a serious truck accident in 2009, resulting in a fractured vertebra and a halt to his touring in 2012. He went back into the studio, focused on his singer-songwriter abilities, and released Somewhere in the Back of My Heart in the same year.
In April 2015 Cormier released a new album, The Chance, which included the previously released single Hometown Battlefield, about soldiers experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder. The song, inspired by Cormier's 2007 Afghanistan tour and news about soldiers' suicides, went viral, with millions of Facebook visits and 800,000 YouTube views (July 2015).
Discography
Return to the Cape (1995)
Another Morning (1997)
Heart & Soul (1999)
Now That the Work Is Done (2001)
Primary Color (2002)
Velvet Arm Golden Hand (2002)
X8… a mandolin collection (2004)
The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (2005)
Primary Color: The Owner's Manual (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 1: The Instrumentals (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 2: The Songs (2005)
Take Five – A Banjo Collection" (2006)The Messenger – J.P. Cormier Sings (2008)Noel – A J.P. Cormier Christmas (2008)Somewhere in the Back of My Heart (2012)The Chance (2015)Two with Dave Gunning as Gunning & Cormier (2017)
Albums No Longer Available
"Out Of The Blue" (Out Of Print)
"The Gift" (Out Of Print)
"Lord Of The Dance" (Out Of Print)
"When January Comes" (Out Of Print)The Fiddle Album (1991) CBC UG 1003
Awards
He has won or been nominated for the following awards:
Maritime Fiddling Festival- Best Reel - 1989
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year - 1991
Maritime Fiddling Festival – Best Reel – 1995
East Coast Music Award(ECMA) Roots/Traditional Artist of the Year – 1998
Nominated for a Juno Award in the Roots/Trad recording of the year category for "Another Morning" 1998
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year – 2000
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Artist of the Year – 2003
Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Folk/Roots Artist of the Year – 2005
Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Musician of the Year – 2005
Canadian Folk Music Awards – Instrumental Album of the Year – 2005
East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Folk Recording of the Year – 2006 (The Long River)
In addition, he has won several East Coast Music Awards and the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia (MIANS) Award in various years.
In 2005 the Bravo! network aired J.P. Cormier – The Man and His Music'', a one-hour documentary examining the life and music of J.P. Cormier. J.P. was also featured on Bravo's half-hour program "Men Of Music".
References
External links
Official Web Page
Living people
1969 births
Canadian bluegrass fiddlers
Canadian male violinists and fiddlers
Canadian folk musicians
Acadian people
Musicians from London, Ontario
Musicians from Nova Scotia
Canadian Folk Music Award winners
21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
21st-century Canadian male musicians |
4035759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose%C4%8D%20%28disambiguation%29 | Proseč (disambiguation) | Prosec or Proseč may refer to:
Prosec Mexico, an economic program
Places in the Czech Republic
Proseč (Chrudim District), a town in the Pardubice Region
Proseč (Pelhřimov District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Kámen, Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Pošná, Vysočina Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Seč, Pardubice Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Záhoří, Liberec Region
Proseč, a village and administrative part of Žernov, Liberec Region |
4035761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20M%C3%A9rida | Carlos Mérida | Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works, 4000m2 on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city.
Life
Carlos Mérida was born Carlos Santiago Ortega in Guatemala City to Serapio Santiago Mérida and Guadalupe Ortega Barnoya. He later changed his name what is known by as he thought it was more sonorous. His brothers and children also took the Mérida name later on. He was of mixed Spanish/Maya-Quiché heritage which he promoted during his life.
As a young child, Mérida had both music and art lessons, and his first passion was music, which led to piano lessons.
From 1907 to 1909, the family went to live in the small town of Almolonga in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala, where they were from. Here he continued music and art lessons.
At age 15, a malformation of his ear caused him to lose part of his hearing, so his father steered him towards painting. He felt “defeated” by music but found art to be an acceptable substitute. After he completed middle school and the family returned to Guatemala City, he entered a trade school called the Instituto de Artes y Oficios, then the Instituto de Ciencias y Letras. Here he began to have a reputation for the avant garde.
In 1919, he married Dalila Gálvez, with whom he had two daughters, Alma and Ana. She was from a wealthy family and understood Mérida’s aspirations although her parents had reservations about the marriage. She died ten years before him in 1974.
Merída’s first trip to the United States was in 1917, where he met writer José Juan Tablada. Mérida made several trips to Europe over his lifetime to both study art and work as an artist and diplomat. His early trips in the 1920s and 1930s put him in touch with both avant garde movements in Europe as well as noted Latin American artists, especially those from Mexico. His last trip was in 1950s.
In 1963, he donated canvases, graphic pieces and mural sketches to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Mérida was one of a number of artists such as Diego Rivera and Gerardo Murillo who became committed to promoting the handcrafts and folk art of Mexico and Central America, with a particular interest in those of Guatemala, often featuring Mayan textiles or elements in their decoration in his artwork.
He died in Mexico City at the age of 94 on December 21, 1985.
Career
Mérida’s art career began when he was still a teenager. His family’s move back to Guatemala City put him in touch with various artists and intellectuals. At age nineteen, he approached Catalan artist and writer Jaime Sabartés, who helped Mérida organize his first individual exhibition at the offices of the El Economista newspaper in Guatemala City in 1910.
As there was little opportunity for artists in Guatemala, in 1910, Mérida traveled to Paris with a friend named Carlos Valenti on a German cargo ship. From then until 1914, he lived and worked in Paris and traveled much of Europe. This put him in touch with European avant garde artists such as Van Dagen, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian as well as Latin American artists studying in Europe such as Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso, Ángel Zárraga and Dr. Atl. He exhibited his work in venues such as the Independent Salon and the Giroux Gallery in Paris. For unknown reasons, his traveling companion committed suicide in his studio, which affected Mérida deeply and temporarily losing interest in art. He was helped in overcoming this by Roberto Montenegro.
In 1914, Mérida returned to Guatemala and saw his country in a different light, becoming fascinated in the folklore
diversity. His second exhibition in Guatemala was at the Rosenthal Building in 1915, an exhibition which marks the beginning of modern painting in Guatemala. His time with Mexican artists in Europe prompted him to go to Mexico in 1919, when the fighting from the Mexican Revolution had ended but there was still disorder. He arrived to the country a year before Diego Rivera returned from Europe.
Mérida is noted for both easel and mural works. His first exhibition in Mexico was in 1920 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. In that same year, he exhibited in the United States at the Hispanic Society of New York. He participated in a collective show called the Independent Artists Exhibition in New York in 1922 and exhibited individually at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in Guatemala and the Valentin Dudesing Gallery in New York in 1926. In the 1930s and 1940s, the reputation of Mexican painting was rising; however, Mérida still needed to work to get his paintings sold. One reason for this was that his work differed from that of the Mexican muralists and was often not well received by critics. Mérida has forty five exhibitions in the United States and eighteen in Mexico from 1928 to 1948. These included an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo at the Art Center of New York (1930), the John Becker and Valentine galleries in New York (1930), the Club de Escritores de México and the Galería Posada in Mexico City (1931), the Stedhal Gallery and the Stanley Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, the East West Gallery in San Francisco, the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Georgette Passedoit and Cuchnitz galleries in New York (1939-1940) as well as the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1940 in Mexico City. He worked intensely in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s producing designs, graphic works, scenographic sketches for dance, and tapestries, playing with geometric variants. Other venues for his exhibitions included Harvard University, the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California in Berkeley, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1954 he exhibited at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas.
His important works include Alcalde de Almolonga, Bucólica, Imágenes de Guatemala (portfolio), Danzas de Mexico (album), Carnaval en México (album), Mexican costume (album), Trajes regionales mexicanos (album), Trajes indígenas de Guatemala (album), La virgen y las fieras, Divagaciones plásticas alrededor de un tema azteca (series), Estilización de motivos mayas and La mestiza de Guatemala.
Mérida’s early monumental work was related to Mexican muralism, one reason he relocated to Mexico at the end of the Mexican Revolution. There he joined a group called the Renacimiento Mexicano (Mexican Renaissance) and then worked with Diego Rivera as an assistant at the Bolivar Amphitheater (San Ildefonso College) along with Jean Charlot, Amado de la Cueva, and Xavier Guerrero. He also painted Caperucita roja y los cuatro elementos at the children’s library of the Secretariat of Public Education in the 1920s.
In the late 1940s, he worked on murals again, at the Secretaria de Rucursos Hidraulicos and the children’s area of the Miguel Alemán housing complex with Mario Pani. This prompted an interest in a concept called “plastic integration” combining art and architecture. In 1950 he returned to Europe, studying Venetian mosaic techniques in Italy. His next major project with Pani was for the Benito Juárez housing project covering 4,000m2. The concept of this project was to have the works clearly visible to cars passing by the buildings. However, this work was destroyed along with most of the housing complex in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. A monument to the Juarez project was created by a student of Mérida, Alfonso Soto Soria, at the Fuentes Brotantes housing complex in the south of Mexico City using the plans of the original work. Other projects of this type included the glass mosaic murals at the Reaseguros Alianza Building in Mexico City (1953), the artwork at the Torre Banobras in the center of Tlatelolco, the Cine Mácar and the Museo Nacional de Antropología (1964). In Guatemala, he also created murals and other monumental works including the Palacio Municipal of Guatemala City (La mestiza de Guatemala,), the Chancellery of Guatemala (Glorificación de Quetzal, 1955), the Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, at the Crédito Hipotectario Nacional and at the Bank of Guatemala (1956).
In addition to canvas and murals, Mérida also worked in education. In 1932, he founded the dance school of the Secretariat of Public Education with Carlos Orozco Romero and invited the participation of other artists such as Agustín Lazo, Leopoldo Méndez, Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo. He ran the school for three years working with dancers such as Gloria and Nellie Campobello, Graciela Arriaga, Anna Sololow, Waldeen, Gloria Contreras, Evelia Beristain, Rosa Rayna and his own daughter Ana Mérida. For Mérida dance was a way to express what painting and music could not. His daughter Ana studied at the school and became a noted Mexican choreographer. This interest in dance led him to design stage set and costumes for twenty two works from 1940 to 1979. He was particularly interested in indigenous dance, documenting 162 of them, some completely pre-Hispanic. In addition, in 1942 he was invited to teach fresco painting at the North Texas State Teacher’s College in Denton, today the University of North Texas .
In 1957 Mérida won the acquisition prize at the IV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. His first major recognition was in 1958, when he received the Order of the Quetzal from the Guatemalan government. This was following by the naming of an annual arts prize of the Instituto de Bellas Artes of Guatemala after him, and the Orden al Mérito Cultural y Artistico also from Guatemala. His first retrospective was in 1966, organized by the Bank of Guatemala. He participated in the III Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974 and the Panorama Artístico de la Gráficia at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1979. In 1980 he received the Orden del Águila Azteca the highest honor Mexico gives to foreigners. The Palacio de Bellas Artes held important retrospectives in 1981 and again in 1992. Since his death, there have been other events to honor his work including a retrospective at the Museo Metropolitano in Monterrey (2000), a retrospective at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (2008), another at the Museo Modelo de Ciencia e Industria (2010), and the Ana Lucia Gómez Gallery in Guatemala City held an homage to the artist (2011).
Mérida’s work can be found in major public and private collections around the world.
Artistry
Carlos Mérida is best known for his canvas and mural works, most of which was done in Mexico. However, he also did engraving, set design and mosaic work.
His artistic direction has been compared to that of Rufino Tamayo, generally rejecting large-scale narrative paintings, preferring canvas, being more interested in becoming a painter than in politics (with an exception in the 1950s when he was horrified by nuclear testing). He experimented with color and form as well as techniques. Music and dance were lifelong interests and they influenced his paintings with rhythmic, poetic and lyrical pieces.
He had three major epochs, a figurative period from 1907 to 1926, a surrealism phase from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s and from 1950 until his death, geometric forms characterized his work. His early work is marked by experimentation. He was in Europe when the avant garde was transitioning from Impressionism to Cubism and he was influenced by the works of Modigliani and Picasso. His surrealist phase again came from time in Europe, meeting not only Paul Klee and Miró but also fellow Guatemalan Luis Cardoza y Aragón. At this time, he abandoned his former figurative style and became one of Mexico´s first non-figurative artists, leaning to abstractionism and separating him from other Mexican artists. This focus on the non-figurative continued into his later work, but with focus on geometric elements, especially those linked to New World indigenous cultures such as the Maya. His work is considered highly intellectual, not representing things, but rather a concept of them. Salvador Novo wrote “The pre Hispanic world, in Carlos Mérida, attains a perfect synthesis, an ideal sublimation of numeric rhythm sprung from geometry. The debt owed by the abstract painting of our time to Carlos Mérida is thus as great as his work is perennially solid and relevant.
While heavily influenced by trends in Europe, especially his earlier work, Mérida felt it important to emphasize his American (New World) identity and culture. He fused European Modernism with forms and subjects specific to the Americas. One reason for this was that in Europe he found that European artists were not interested in what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic. He became convinced of the need to establish natively American art which would express the “original character which animates our nature and our race will inevitably engender a personal artistic expression.” His work reflects on both the Mayan and Aztec civilizations along with the colonial period representing the indigenous as symbols of post Revolution Mexico. He even integrated indigenous amate paper in to some of his works. While part of Mexican muralism, he predated it slightly by promoting indigenous motifs seven years before Rivera led Mexican painting to fame. Luis Cardoza y Aragon called him a pioneer of Latin American art, painting elements such as indigenous people, Mexican and Central American landscapes without oversentimenalizing which had not been done before. This emphasis on the New World not only was expressed with folkloric images, especially in his early work, but also in his later work. The discovery of Bonampak motivated him deeply, taking new ideas from the ruins and eventually led to his interest in integrating painting and sculpture into architecture.
Further reading
Harper Montgomery, "Carlos Mérida and the Mobility of Modernism: A Mayan Cosmopolitan Moves to Mexico City". The Art Bulletin, December 2016, vol. 98, number 4, pp. 488–509.
Nita Renfrew, "An Interview with Carlos Mérida," in A Salute to Carlos Mérida. Exhibition catalog. Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas Austin 1976.
References
1891 births
1985 deaths
People from Guatemala City
Guatemalan Maya people
Guatemalan artists
Guatemalan printmakers
Maya painters
Maya printmakers
Maya illustrators
Zapotec people
Latin American artists of indigenous descent
20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas
20th-century printmakers
Cubist artists
20th-century Native Americans |
4035764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsunomiko | Utsunomiko | , also written Utsu no Miko, is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title. The story is set in the late Asuka Period to the Nara Period, and follows the trials of the title character Utsunomiko (usually shortened to Miko), the offspring of the kami of the north star. There are 52 Utsunomiko novels, the first published in 1984, and the last published in 1998. The Utsunomiko anime film premiered in 1989, followed by a second anime film and a 13-episode OVA starting in 1990.
Introduction
In the chaos of the Jinshin War of 672, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shūgenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn symbolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendō, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed.
Story arcs
Chronicle of Earth (地上編 – Chijō-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Heaven (天上編 – Tenjō-hen) – 10 volumes (Miko faces the rulers of the Heavenly plane and seeks his father)
Uncanny Dream Chronicle (妖夢編 – Yōmu-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Purgatory (煉獄編 – Rengoku-hen) – 10 volumes
Chronicle of Dawn (黎明編 – Reimei-hen) – 8 volumes
Gaiden Collection (拾異伝 – Shūiden) – 4 volumes
External links
Utsunomiko Data
Kadokawa Dwango franchises
1984 fantasy novels
1984 Japanese novels
1989 anime films
1990 anime films
1990 anime OVAs
Anime films based on light novels
Fantasy anime and manga
Fantasy novel series
Japanese serial novels
Light novels
Japanese fantasy novels
Nippon Animation films
Japanese-language films
Japanese novels adapted into films
Historical fantasy novels
Toei Animation films
Buddhist novels |
4035769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Emery%20White | James Emery White | James Emery White (born December 20, 1961), is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina; President of Serious Times, a ministry that explores the intersection of faith and culture and hosts ChurchandCulture.org; ranked adjunctive professor of theology and culture on the Charlotte campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he also served as their fourth president; and author of more than 20 books that have been translated into ten languages.
Mecklenburg Community Church began with a single family and has grown to more than 10,000 active attenders. The church experiences more than 70% of its growth from those who were previously unchurched and during its formative years was often cited as one of the fastest growing church starts in the United States. He is also Distinguished Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Anderson University, and consulting editor to Leadership Journal.
White holds a B.S. degree in public relations and business from Appalachian State University and the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he received a Garrett Teaching Fellowship in both New testament and Theology. He has also done advanced university study at Vanderbilt University in American religious history and continuing education at Oxford University in England, including participation in Oxford's Summer Programme in Theology.
White is the author of more than 20 books, including such Gold Medallion nominees as Serious Times and A Search for the Spiritual, Christianity Today book-of-the-year award winner Embracing the Mysterious God, as well as The Prayer God Longs For and Rethinking the Church. His most recent publications include Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians, Meet Generation Z, The Rise of the Nones, The Church in an Age of Crisis, and What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary.
In November 2009, White signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.
Works
Books
External links
http://www.mecklenburg.org/
http://www.churchandculture.org/
References
1961 births
Baptist theologians
Appalachian State University alumni
Living people
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni
Seminary presidents |
4035784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose%C4%8D | Proseč | Proseč is a town in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Česká Rybná, Martinice, Miřetín, Paseky, Podměstí and Záboří are administrative parts of Proseč.
References
Populated places in Chrudim District
Cities and towns in the Czech Republic |
4035787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurchenko%20%28vault%29 | Yurchenko (vault) | Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko in 1982 during a competition in Moscow.
In a Yurchenko vault, the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the horse or vaulting table. The gymnast then performs a salto, which may range in difficulty from a simple single tuck to a triple twist layout. The Yurchenko gave birth to a new vault group called "Round off with or without 1/2 to 1/1 turn (180-360 degrees) in entry phase (Yurchenko entry) - Salto forward or backward with or without long axis turn in second flight phase.
Variations
Any vault with a roundoff-back handspring entry is classified as a "Yurchenko-style" vault in the Code of Points. Many variations of the original vault have been introduced by gymnasts in international competitions. Even as of 2019, gymnasts and coaches continue to develop more difficult versions of the Yurchenko.
Backhandspring entry (off the table):
Dungelova: Roundoff, back handspring entry; tucked salto bwd with 2/1 turn (720°) off
1½ twisting Yurchenko: Roundoff, back handspring entry; one and a half twisting layout. Abbreviated as 1.5Y.
Baitova (more commonly referred to as Double Twisting Yurchenko): Roundoff, backhandspring entry; double twisting layout. Abbreviated as DTY.
Amanar/Shewfelt (2½ twisting Yurchenko): Roundoff, back handspring entry; two and a half twisting layout.
Twisting entry (springboard to table):
Luconi: Roundoff, back handspring with ¾ turn entry; back tuck/pike/layout somersault
Omelianchik: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; piked salto fwd off
Ivantcheva: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; tucked salto fwd off
Servente: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; tucked salto fwd with ½ turn (180°) off
Podkopayeva: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front pike somersault with ½ twist
López: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front layout somersault with ½ twist
Khorkina: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front tuck somersault with 1½ twist
Mustafina: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 1 full twist
Cheng: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 1½ twist
Biles: Roundoff, back handspring with half turn entry; front stretched somersault with 2 twists
Scoring NCAA Gymnastics - Yurchenko
Each vault with a Yurchenko attached to it has its own points that are given values on a 10.0 scale, 10.0 being the maximum number of points allowed.
List of some vault values for reference:
Yurchenko back tuck - 9.5
Yurchenko back tuck 1/2 - 9.8
Yurchenko back tuck 1/1 - 9.9
Yurchenko back tuck 1.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko back pike - 9.6
Yurchenko back pike 1/2 - 9.9
Yurchenko back pike 1/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout - 9.75
Yurchenko back layout 1/2 - 9.95
Yurchenko 1/2 front layout - 9.95
Yurchenko back layout 1/1 - 9.95
Yurchenko back layout 1.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout 2/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko back layout 2.5 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck - 9.9
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck 1/2 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front tuck 1/1 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front pike - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front layout - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/2 on front layout 1/2 - 10.0
Yurchenko 1/1 on back tuck - 10.0
Deductions
Compared to the other events, vault has the fewest elements performed as there are only few skills in comparison to, for instance, a floor routine which could have a variety of skills involved in the routine.
Landings
Landings are treated the same as the other events although they can be treated a bit harsher due to there being less benefit of the doubt on a short landing or sticks. They may be forgiven at the end of a bar or beam routine, but they will not be overlooked after a vault.
Small steps will get 0.05 off and larger/lunges will get 0.1 off. Hops are also treated harshly due to it looking as though there was a lack of control. Small hops such as bunny hops or little bounces in place typically only get 0.05 off. A hop in place is not considered a stick and points will be deducted accordingly.
Landing short, for example landing too far forward and piked down, looking as though the full flip was incomplete, will be deducted along with any other additional steps. Uncontrolled landings or huge bounds and or lunges will get penalized with multiple tenth deductions.
Amplitude
Flight off the table is judged critically as it is necessary for the gymnast to show their propulsion off of the table and a high completion of the vault. If the amplitude is not reached they could end up landing short and get deductions as said before. There is no specific height that must be reached, but all necessary twists/rotations must be completed with the gymnast's hip being at least level with or above the table. A vault without the correct amplitude could result in more than 0.05 deducted. A vault that shoots horizontally off of the table could result in at least a tenth off.
Distance
Gymnasts must reach a desired distance off the table. Although there is no specific reference point, the judges base it on the possibility of the gymnast hitting their head on the table.
Direction
Gymnasts are expected to land in line with the table, without deviation to either side. For elite gymnasts the central line and outside lines are indicated, which help the judge see how far the gymnast has deviated from the line.
Background
It is asserted that the first gymnast to perform it in a competition was Viktor Levinkov.
See also
Yurchenko loop
Julissa Gomez
Produnova
References
External links
Video of Natalia Yurchenko performing Yurchenko vault - 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe, all-around (dead link)
Animation of a gymnast performing a DTY
Developing the Yurchenko from A to Z
List of Yurchenko family vaults with Start Values (old Code of Points)
Vault skills terminology
Natalia Yurchenko: http://www.nataliayurchenko.com/innovations/yurchenko-vault/
Vault Scoring Values: https://balancebeamsituation.com/2017/12/04/scoring-ncaa-gymnastics-vault/
Gymnastics manoeuvres |
4035790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Borowiak | Jeff Borowiak | Jeff Borowiak (born September 25, 1949) is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who won five singles and three doubles titles during his professional career, reaching a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 20 in August 1977.
Personal
Borowiak is also an accomplished musician, mastering the flute and the piano. He was also indirectly involved in the formation of the group Metallica when he invested in his friend and Danish fellow player Torben Ulrich's son band Lars Rocket, which later became Metallica.
Tennis career
Borowiak played number one singles on one of the greatest collegiate tennis team of all time for the UCLA Bruins. Haroon Rahim played number two singles, Jimmy Connors played at number three. Borowiak and Connors were NCAA champions, and Rahim remains the youngest player to represent his country in the Davis Cup competition.
Borowiak was ATP Comeback Player of the Year in 1981.
Borowiak was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame.
Career finals
Singles: 11 (5 titles – 6 runners-up)
Doubles: 9 (3 titles – 6 runners-up)
References
External links
1949 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Sportspeople from Berkeley, California
Tennis people from California
Tennis players from Seattle
UCLA Bruins men's tennis players |
4035807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Cullen | Eric Cullen | Eric Robertson Cullen (12 July 1965 – 16 August 1996) was a Scottish actor, who was famous for his role as Wee Burney in BBC's Rab C. Nesbitt. Cullen was born with achondroplasiaa type of dwarfism.
Early life
He was born to a single mother and was adopted by a family from Hamilton. He was diagnosed with achondroplasia at the age of seven.
Acting career
Cullen began acting when he was at school. He started to find roles appearing in several theatre groups before appearing in several Scottish TV programmes in the 1980s, particularly A Kick Up the Eighties. Cullen eventually found lasting fame playing the youngest son, Wee Burney, in the first three series of Rab C. Nesbitt. However, he left the programme in December 1993; owing to personal problems and citing ill health.
Victim of abuse
Cullen was sexually abused by a violent paedophile ring from the age of thirteen, and since his condition meant that he looked much younger than he was, this abuse continued into his twenties. Once he became a successful actor, his abusers returned to extort money with menaces. As a result, he developed clinical depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
Child campaigner
Cullen was arrested in 1993 for possession of child pornography, and the subsequent police investigation and press coverage resulted in clinical depression when he "finally cracked under a load which had become unbearable". In 1995, Cullen was convicted of child pornography offences, and his own history of being sexually abused since the age of 13 was revealed. His nine-month prison sentence was reduced to three years' probation on appeal. As soon as his prison sentence had been quashed on appeal, he began to be offered acting parts again, but he was still too ill with severe post traumatic stress disorder to resume work.
Once the court case was out of the way Cullen dedicated himself to campaigning against child pornography, and to trying to bring his abusers to justice. Of the three men he named as his principal abusers one, Francis Currens, was jailed during Cullen's lifetime; one, Cullen's uncle Jack Williams, was jailed after his death (both of them for sexual offences including the repeated rape of young boys); and as of summer 2006 one, whom Cullen named as the ringleader, has never been prosecuted.
Death
Only a day or two before his fatal heart attack, which followed on from surgery for a twisted bowel, he had been asked to take up the role of Wee Burney again. He was however in two minds as to whether to resume his acting career or become a clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of abuse victims; he already had a BA in psychology, and had been accepted to begin a more advanced course in forensic psychology that autumn.
Acting career
Huntingtower
Playfair
The Camerons
Govan Ghost Story
Deathwatch
A Kick Up the Eighties
Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee
Scotch & Wry
Out With the Old (1993) (STV's Hogmanay Show) Rab C Nesbitt''
References
External links
"Wee Burney - The Vile Truth" - 2000 Sunday Mail article which reports a claim that although Eric Cullen "was the victim of horrific and sustained abuse" he "crossed the line and became an abuser himself".
1965 births
1996 deaths
Actors with dwarfism
Scottish male television actors
Scottish male comedians
20th-century Scottish male actors
20th-century British comedians |
4035810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20the%20Blue%20%28Delta%20Goodrem%20song%29 | Out of the Blue (Delta Goodrem song) | "Out of the Blue" is a song written by Delta Goodrem and Guy Chambers, produced by Chambers, Richard Flack, and Steve Power for Goodrem's second studio album, Mistaken Identity (2004). It was released as the album's first single in Australia on 11 October 2004 as a CD single and became Goodrem's sixth consecutive number-one hit.
About the record
Goodrem announced the release of the song on 3 September 2004. She and Chambers worked together on her debut album Innocent Eyes and he offered to work with her several times on the new album. Goodrem states "Guy was such an inspiration to work with, besides being such a talented musician on so many instruments I felt we had a real connection on a musical level. He makes a lot of classical music and I'm classically trained so we both knew where songs should go and also when it wasn't right. We could bring something out of each other to create something unique. Once we had 'Out of the Blue' we knew we had something special".
Goodrem says the song is "being about times when someone comes into your life unexpectedly, and what a positive effect that can have on you" being about her then boyfriend Mark Philippoussis and the support he gave her. When the relationship ended Goodrem states she found a new meaning for the song.
Promotion and chart performance
The song was released to radio on 24 September 2004 and became the most added song to airplay. The song was later performed at the ARIA awards and it was her first performance at the ARIA awards. The song debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts, becoming her sixth consecutive number-one single and topping the chart for three weeks. The song was certified Platinum in its first week. It spent a total of sixteen weeks in the top fifty ending the run at position fifty and spent twenty three weeks in the top one hundred. It was the twentieth highest selling single in Australia for 2004.
The song peaked in the top twenty in Greece, Ireland and New Zealand. It peaked at number nine in the United Kingdom and spent a total of nine weeks in the top seventy five ending its run at number seventy five.
Music video
The video for her single was filmed on the coast of Malibu, California and was directed by Nigel Dick. It premiered on Channel Ten Australia after an episode of Neighbours on 1 October 2004, a news spot on her website stating "The clip will fittingly go to air during Neighbours - Australia's most successful and longest running soapie - to mark Delta's final episodes in the show as the hugely popular character Nina Tucker".
The start of the video opens up to Delta sitting on a beach in a green dress. After a while Delta gets up and walks across the beach with the waves washing on her feet. When the chorus comes around the second time Delta has changed into a pink dress and walks up a hill into a forest and finds her piano and starts playing it. After she has finished playing it the piano catches on fire and Delta sings at the camera then runs away ending the video. Delta has stated that at the time of making the video, she was intrigued by the classical elements—earth, wind, fire and water. All elements can be seen in the video clip.
Track listings
Australian CD single
"Out of the Blue"
"Visualise"
"Beautiful Madness"
European and UK CD1
"Out of the Blue" (album version) – 4:25
"Visualise" – 4:00
European CD2
"Out of the Blue"
"Visualise"
"How a Dream Looks"
UK CD2
"Out of the Blue" (album version) – 4:25
"How a Dream Looks" (album version) – 4:14
"Beautiful Madness" (album version) – 3:03
"Out of the Blue" (video)
German mini-CD single
"Out of the Blue"
"Beautiful Madness"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2004 singles
2004 songs
Daylight Records singles
Delta Goodrem songs
Epic Records singles
Music videos directed by Nigel Dick
Number-one singles in Australia
Pop ballads
Song recordings produced by Guy Chambers
Song recordings produced by Steve Power
Songs written by Delta Goodrem
Songs written by Guy Chambers |
4035820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20McNamara | Peter McNamara | Peter McNamara (5 July 1955 – 20 July 2019) was an Australian tennis player and coach.
McNamara won five singles titles and nineteen doubles titles in his career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became world No. 7. McNamara and fellow Australian Paul McNamee won the 1980 and 1982 men's doubles championship at Wimbledon and the Australian Open doubles in 1979. McNamara's highest rank in doubles was No. 3.
After retiring as a player, McNamara coached professionals including Mark Philippoussis, Grigor Dimitrov, Matthew Ebden and Wang Qiang.
McNamara died on 20 July 2019, at the age of 64, from prostate cancer.
Career finals
Singles (5 titles, 7 runner-ups)
Doubles (19 titles, 10 runner-ups)
References
External links
1955 births
2019 deaths
Australian male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) champions
Australian tennis coaches
Deaths from prostate cancer
Deaths from cancer in Germany
Tennis players from Melbourne
Wimbledon champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
People educated at Marcellin College, Bulleen |
4035826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripeikiai | Stripeikiai | Stripeikiai is the earliest known village in Aukštaitija National Park, Ignalina district best known for its unique ethnographic beekeeping museum. The museum was founded in 1974 by Bronius Kazlas at Vincas Bikus farmstead with a watermill and now receives about 10,000 visitors annually. The museum is all about the traditional beekeeping which was cultivated in this area throughout the ages. Guests still can taste fresh honey during their visit to the museum.
Villages in Utena County
Ignalina District Municipality |
4035828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle%20Rymes | Whistle Rymes | Whistle Rymes is the second solo studio album by English rock musician John Entwistle, released on 3 November 1972 by Track Records in the UK and on 4 November 1972 by Decca Records in the US. Entwistle co-produced the album with John Alcock, his first work with a producer after self-producing his debut album, Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971), and it was recorded at Island Studios in Notting Hill, a district of west London. The album features guitar contributions from both Peter Frampton and Jimmy McCulloch (who would later join Paul McCartney and Wings).
The album sold around 175,000 copies, and peaked at No. 138 on the US Billboard 200 but like his debut album it failed to chart in his home country.
The album was initially remastered and re-issued in 1996 by Repertoire Records, featuring no bonus content. The album was later remastered and re-issued again in 2005 by Sanctuary Records but this time featuring rare bonus content; the bonus content consists of two unreleased demos of songs that didn't make it onto the album (one of which is "Back on the Road" which would later be recorded by the John Entwistle Band for their sole album, Music from Van-Pires, which would also be the last album released during Entwistle's lifetime). This version of the album also has two demos of songs featured on the original album. However, all versions of the album remain out of print, and CD copies of this album are especially hard to come by.
Background
The album's title pokes fun at a common misspelling of Entwistle's surname. Several of the tracks give a humorous look on domestic life, following the birth of Entwistle's son, Christopher, earlier that year.
"Ten Little Friends" was written on piano at Entwistle's Ealing home studio at the time and sprang from a bout of writer's block. The title comes from a set of troll figures given to him by the Who's drummer Keith Moon. The track features a guitar solo from Peter Frampton, who also played on other songs on the album. As well as his usual bass guitar, Entwistle also plays bass synthesizer.
Packaging
Then Surrey-based artist Graham Lethbridge designed the album's gatefold cover artwork (at the suggestion of producer John Alcock). A watercolor painting, it depicts little scenes that were taken from themes expressed within the songs on the album. With a day and night theme, the front cover depicts nightime scenes, and the back is of daylight scenes. The time that it took to paint the artwork delayed the album's release.
Release
The original 1972 UK release of this album was on Track Records and distributed by Polydor. The first US issue of this album was by the silver Track/Decca label. A year later it was reissued in the US by MCA.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Donald A. Guarisco wrote that the album combines "catchy, straightforward, pop-tinged rock with dark, often bitingly sarcastic lyrics."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Whistle Rymes liner notes.
John Entwistle — lead vocals; bass guitar; keyboards; synthesizers; bass synthesizer; trumpet; piano; French horn
Peter Frampton — electric guitar
John Weider — backing vocals; violin (10)
Rod Coombes — drums
Gordon Barton — drums
Jimmy McCulloch — electric guitar
Neil Sheppard — electric piano; organ
Bryan Williams — trombone; keyboards
Alan Ross — acoustic guitar
Production and artwork
John Entwistle — producer
John Alcock — producer
Brian Humphries — engineer
Mike Weighell — engineer
Graham Lethbridge — cover design; drawing
Charts
References
External links
1972 albums
John Entwistle albums
Track Records albums |
4035834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krouna | Krouna | Krouna is a municipality and village in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The villages of Čachnov, Františky, Oldřiš, Ruda and Rychnov are administrative parts of Krouna.
History
The first written mention of Krouna is from 1349.
The municipality is known for the Krouna train accident, in which 19 people died, making it one of the deadliest train crashes in Czech history.
References
External links
Villages in Chrudim District |
4035835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbe%2C%20Saxony-Anhalt | Kalbe, Saxony-Anhalt | Kalbe is a town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (district), in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km north of Gardelegen, on the river Milde. To avoid confusion with Calbe, it is also called Kalbe an der Milde.
Kalbe an der Milde was the location of the World War II German Naval VLF Goliath transmitter complex.
Kalbe is home to D. Dornblüth & Sohn, a small luxury watch maker.
Geography
The town Kalbe consists of the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:
Altmersleben
Badel
Brunau
Engersen
Güssefeld
Jeetze
Jeggeleben
Kahrstedt
Kakerbeck
Kalbe (Milde)
Neuendorf am Damm
Packebusch
Vienau
Wernstedt
Winkelstedt
Zethlingen
References
Towns in Saxony-Anhalt
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
Province of Saxony |
4035836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oui%20%28magazine%29 | Oui (magazine) | Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. Oui ceased publication in 2007. ("" is French for "yes".)
Playboy years
Oui was originally published in France under the name Lui by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of Playboy. In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to Oui, and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at Rolling Stone magazine and editor of Rags and later editor of The Village Voice, was selected as the first editor. Arthur Kretchmer, the editor of Playboy, however, had a role in ensuring that editorial choices would be in line with Hugh Hefner's vision.
The intention was to differentiate the audience in mass-market men's magazines, in an attempt to answer the challenge brought by Penthouse and Hustler, with its more explicit photography, and therefore compete on multiple fronts. At first Playboy considered a direct response by following Penthouse in a nudity escalation, but Playboy management was hesitant to alter the magazine's philosophy, based on a more 'mature' and 'sophisticated' audience (one-third of Playboys readership at that time was estimated to be over 35). Instead, a separate publication, Oui, was introduced in order to pursue a younger readership, offering a combination of a "rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood."
Article content
In the late seventies, Oui published some interesting articles, including "Is this the man who ate Michael Rockefeller?" (April 1977) by Lorne Blair (lately famous for the Ring of Fire documentaries), beginning with a photograph of a grinning New Guinea native, told by the intrepid anthropologist/reporter who journeyed to New Guinea, interviewed people who had known Michael Rockefeller, then ventured into the jungle and talked to members of the tribe from whom Rockefeller had bought native art artifacts, including totem poles. In the end, he found a man who claimed he had eaten the unfortunate collector.
Oui also hosted several reportages about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity, like the article "CIA vs. USA – The Agency's Plot to Take Over America" by Philip Agee, about an alleged Operation PBPrime, whose leaders were the top four men in the Central Intelligence Agency and whose target was the control of the U.S. government.
In a more humorous vein, Oui also published the essay "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" by Harlan Ellison in its November 1978 issue. The three things in question were sex, violence and labor relations, each illustrated by anecdotes from Ellison's life. The sex anecdote involved a less-than-successful assignation with a young woman, the violence anecdote was about witnessing a murder in a movie theater during a screening of Save the Tiger, and the labor relations anecdote was Ellison's version of the story of his being fired after only one morning at The Walt Disney Company for jokingly suggesting the making of a pornographic cartoon using the primary Disney characters. The piece has since been republished in Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare and Edgeworks 1. Oui also published short fiction.
A 1977 interview by Peter Manso of the then 29-year-old emerging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on issues like sex, drugs, bodybuilding and homosexuality produced some embarrassment 25 years later to candidate Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign.
During the 1970s, Oui printed a copy of Shere Hite's questionnaire about female sexuality that was used as the basis of The Hite Report. Replies were received from 253 of the magazine's women readers.
Post Playboy years
Despite its popularity, Oui was unable to produce a profit. Furthermore, management realized that Oui was taking more readers from Playboy than from Penthouse. So, in June 1981 Playboy Enterprises, based in Chicago, ended its Oui experiment. The magazine was sold to Laurant Publishing Ltd. in New York; its new president and chief operating officer was Irwin E. Billman, former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Penthouse Group.
During the 1980s the magazine maintained its distinction from Playboy by publishing graphic nude pictures like its rivals Penthouse and Hustler. Initially, Laurant featured celebrity nudity in Oui, peaking in 1982 with pictorials of Phyllis Hyman, Linda Blair, Demi Moore and Pia Zadora. In the same year the magazine bought the short story "Down Among the Dead Men" by science fictions writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. The editorial plan was to return the magazine to the "younger Playboy image" that it previously had.
The 1990s found the magazine focusing on pop culture and youth-centered topics, with rock musician interviews and an increasingly large comics section that included R-rated versions of the X-rated Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Film Stars line, Rip Off Press' Demi the Demoness (later the first adults-only comic character to be adapted as a live action film), and a serialized version of Jay Allen Sanford's illustrated book Triple-X Cinema: A Cartoon History.
The magazine subsequently experienced a significant decline in circulation. As had many of its competitors, Oui expanded its photo content to hardcore in the early 2000s, which included depictions of couples having sexual intercourse, including explicit penetration. Oui ceased publication in 2007.
See also
List of men's magazines
References
External links
ouimagazine.com at Internet Archive
Men's magazines published in the United States
Pornographic magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1972
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Pornographic men's magazines
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines published in Chicago
Magazines published in New York City |
4035840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Chen | Adam Chen | Adam Chen (born 24 June 1976) is a Singaporean television and film actor.
Early life
Chen was educated at The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. Whilst a civil engineering student at the National University of Singapore he did some modelling and joined Route to Glamour, a talent show organised by SPH MediaWorks. He was offered a contract and joined MediaWorks after graduating.
Career
Before going into acting, Chen worked as a model for numerous print and television commercials in Singapore. He earned himself a role in the Singapore-Hong Kong co-produced TV series Yummy Yummy in 2005, before proceeding to work together with other famous actors such as Nicholas Tse, Dicky Cheung and Li Yapeng in TV series jointly produced by Singapore and other countries. When SPH MediaWorks closed in 2005, he was transferred to MediaCorp, which SPH had merged with. Chen has also acted in English language TV dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 5. He has since stepped away from the limelight, with his last known appearance in the drama, Gonna Make It! , in 2013. He is now an entrepreneur, owning a chain of restaurants with business partners. He is the owner of local bar chain Five, Park Cafe (previously at Holland Village, now sharing a space with Ikki Izakaya), Ikki Izakaya at Buona Vista (The Metropolis) and Golden bistro in Golden Mile Tower.
Personal life
In 2002 Chen ventured into business when some friends invited him to join them in setting up a merchandising company. He has since diversified into the food industry and owns two restaurants.
Filmography
Films
Television series
Variety shows
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Profile on xin.msn.com
Hwa Chong Junior College alumni
Hwa Chong Institution alumni
National University of Singapore alumni
Singaporean male film actors
Singaporean male television actors
1976 births
Living people
Singaporean people of Chinese descent |
4035842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20%26%20Ten | 1st & Ten | 1st & Ten, 1st and Ten, or First & Ten may refer to:
1st and 10, a situation in American football which occurs at first down
1st and 10 (2003 TV series), a 2003 sports debate program that aired on the cable television networks ESPN and ESPN2
1st & Ten (1984 TV series), a 1984 situation comedy that aired on the cable television network HBO
1st & Ten (graphics system), a television graphics technology system used during American football television broadcasts more known as the "first down line" casually |
4035844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Albrecht | Daniel Albrecht | Daniel Albrecht (born 25 May 1983) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. He was a world champion in super combined in 2007, but was severely injured in a training run in 2009.
Racing career
Born in Fiesch in the canton of Valais, Albrecht made his World Cup debut at age 19 in January 2003 in a slalom at Schladming, Austria. A few weeks later, he competed in the slalom at the 2003 World Championships at St. Moritz. That March, he won three gold medals and a silver at the Junior World Championships at Serre Chevalier, France.
At the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden, Albrecht won the gold medal in the super combined event, and took the silver medal in the giant slalom. A month later he made his first World Cup podium, a second-place finish in the downhill at Lenzerheide. Eight months later he won his first World Cup race, a super combined held in Beaver Creek, Colorado, followed by a giant slalom victory three days later.
Albrecht has four World Cup victories, eight podiums, and 22 top ten finishes.
Hahnenkammrennen injury
At Kitzbühel, Austria, on Thursday, 22 January 2009, Albrecht crashed in the final downhill training run on the Hahnenkamm's Streif course; he sustained brain and lung trauma and was placed in an induced coma. The fifth racer on the course, Albrecht was traveling at when he lost control on the final jump (Zielsprung) and flew through the air for about . He landed on his back, bounced forward onto his knees, then his face, and came to a stop near the finish line. Unconscious, Albrecht received medical attention for about 20 minutes before being airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in nearby St. Johann. He was later transferred to the university hospital in Innsbruck.
Two days later, Dr. Wolfgang Koller announced that the risk on Albrecht's life was decreasing. Dr. Markus Wambacher said that the pressure inside his head was lessening and that he could make a full recovery. He also stated that Albrecht, age 25, had problems with his knees and stomach. He was removed from the induced coma after three weeks, on 12 February, and doctors reported that he was breathing on his own.
Recovery
Albrecht expectedly missed the remainder of the 2009 season but had recovered sufficiently to train with the Swiss ski team in October, less than nine months after the crash.
Still not ready for World Cup competition, he sat out the 2010 season, missing the Winter Olympics.
Albrecht returned to the World Cup circuit in the giant slalom at Beaver Creek in December 2010 and finished 21st. Albrecht raced his first speed event of his comeback in Switzerland at Wengen in January 2011, the downhill portion of the super combined on a shortened Lauberhorn course. He missed a gate just after the high-speed Hannegschuss, about fifteen seconds from the finish, and safely skied off of the course.
Knee injury
During a training run for the Lake Louise downhill in November 2012, Albrecht crashed and suffered a dislocated left kneecap with torn ligaments, and underwent surgery in Switzerland. Less than a year later on 6 October 2013, he announced his retirement from racing.
World Cup results
Race podiums
4 wins – (3 GS, 1 SC)
8 podiums – (1 DH, 4 GS, 1 SL, 2 SC)
Season standings
World Championship results
Olympic results
Videos
YouTube video – Daniel Albrecht – training run crash at Kitzbühel – 22 Jan 2009
YouTube video – Daniel Albrecht – returns in GS at Alta Badia – 19 Dec 2010
References
External links
Daniel Albrecht World Cup season standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team – official site
1983 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
People from Goms District
Living people
Sportspeople from Valais |
4035849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Simpson%20%28tennis%29 | Russell Simpson (tennis) | Russell Simpson (born 22 February 1954) is a former tennis player from New Zealand, who won five doubles titles during his professional career. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 18 April 1983, when he became No. 47 in the world. He is currently the head tennis professional at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in Beverly Hills, California.
Simpson is the younger brother of Jeff Simpson, who was also a professional tennis player.
Career finals
Doubles (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
New Zealand male tennis players
Tennis players from Auckland |
4035851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Maria%20Flick | Giovanni Maria Flick | Giovanni Maria Flick (born 7 November 1940) is an Italian journalist, politician, and jurist.
Career
Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.
He began his education at the Jesuit liceo, and gained a diploma in law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He then practiced (1964–1975) at the Rome tribunal, as a judge, then as a prosecutor, was a professor at the University of Perugia, the University of Messina, and, from 1980, the LUISS University of Rome, and also started a career as a lawyer. He contributed editorials to Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.
He was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi's cabinet in 1996–1998, and presented the Italian Parliament with projects of organic laws meant to implement major judicial reforms which were almost entirely adopted by 1999 (including laws that made sentencing easier for misdemeanors). His experience as Minister got him named Italian representative to the European Commission of Human Rights, during the second Massimo D'Alema cabinet. In 2000, he was chosen by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the office of judge in the Constitutional Court of Italy.
References
External links
1940 births
Living people
People from Cirié
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian jurists
Italian lawyers
Italian people of German descent
University of Perugia faculty
Italian Ministers of Justice
Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni
University of Messina faculty
20th-century Italian judges
21st-century Italian judges |
4035853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20Justice%20and%20Public%20Security | Minister of Justice and Public Security | In Norway, the Minister of Justice and Public Security is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and a member of Government of Norway. The current Justice Minister is Emilie Enger Mehl.
Until 1 January 2012 the post was named the Minister of Justice and the Police
List of ministers
Key
2nd Ministry (justice affairs) (1814–1818)
Ministry of Justice and the Police (1819–1945)
During the German occupation of Norway (1940–1945)
Ministry of Justice and the Police (1945–)
Minister of Immigration and Integration
The Minister of Immigration and Integration was a minister-post that was responsible for dealing with immigration and integration related cases. The post was established in 2015 in response to the 2015 European migrant crisis, and was abolished in 2018. Sylvi Listhaug was the first and only person to hold the post, and was promoted to Minister of Justice when the position was abolished in 2018.
Key
Minister
Minister of Public Security
The Minister of Public Security was a post established in 2019 after the Christian Democrats joined the Solberg Cabinet. The post was primarily responsible for issues related to public security.
Key
Minister
See also
Courts of justice of Norway
Governor of Svalbard
Justice ministry
National Police Directorate
Norwegian Correctional Services
Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police
Norwegian Police Security Agency
Politics of Norway
References
External links
Ministry of Justice and Public Security
Minister
Justice and the Police |
4035854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Simms | Heather Simms | Heather Alicia Simms (born February 25, 1970) is an American actress.
Early life
Born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, she attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
Simms has appeared in a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , A Raisin in the Sun and Gem of the Ocean. Her film credits includes Broken Flowers (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), and The Light of the Moon. She also provided voice acting for All the Beautiful Things, Red Dead Revolver, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony and Mafia III.
Simms guest-starred in a number of television series, including Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, and The Good Wife. She had recurring roles in the Netflix series Luke Cage in 2018 playing Auntie Ingrid, and in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera The Kings of Napa as Yvette King in 2022.
Filmography
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
Actresses from New York City
American film actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
Actresses from Hartford, Connecticut
21st-century American women |
4035856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9%20Sidib%C3%A9 | Mandé Sidibé | Mandé Sidibé (20 January 1940 – 25 August 2009) was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the Central Bank of West African States (Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO) from 1992 to 1995.
Biography
Personal life
Sidibé was born in Bafoulabé, Mali, and raised in Bamako. He is the son of Mamadou Sidibé, a captain in the French Army. He attended the Terrasson de Fougères High School in Bamako, before leaving for France in 1959, where he obtained his Baccalauréat in 1960 at the Académie de Bordeaux. He also graduated with a degree in Economic Sciences (Licence ès-Sciences économiques) in 1965 from the University of Paris.
Sidibé is the brother of the Modibo Sidibé, a prominent politician who was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2007 until he resigned in 2011.
Career
Upon his return to Mali, he started working at Bank of the Republic of Mali (BRM). Then, in 1967, he was offered and opportunity at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an Economist in the Africa Department. He held several positions at the IMF, including a resident advisor role in Chad from 1975 to 1977. He went on to become the divisional head, Africa Department. While at the IMF, he attended the George Washington University, from which he graduated with a Masters in Business Administration in 1974.
In 1985, Mandé Sidibé left the IMF to join the BCEAO in various capacities, including Secretary General in charge of monetary policies and special advisor to the governor of BCEAO. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Director of BCEAO-Mali, while still retaining his role as a special advisor to the governor. In 1996, Mandé Sidibé became special advisor to Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré.
From 2000 to 2002 Mandé Sidibé served as Prime Minister of Mali. He was a candidate in the April 2002 presidential election, winning 2.01% of the vote and placing ninth.
Sidibé served on the Board of Directors of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a private sector banking group based in 13 countries of West Africa and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo), from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, he was appointed as Chairman of the Ecobank Board of Directors.
Mandé Sidibé died on August 25, 2009, in Paris at the age of 69 after a brief illness.
References
1940 births
2009 deaths
Malian economists
George Washington University School of Business alumni
University of Paris alumni
People from Bamako
People from Kayes Region
Prime Ministers of Mali
Malian expatriates in the United States
Malian expatriates in France |
4035860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigor%20Mortis%20Sets%20In | Rigor Mortis Sets In | Rigor Mortis Sets In is the third solo album by John Entwistle, who was the bassist for The Who. Distributed by Track Records, the album was named John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis Sets In in the U.S. Co-produced by Entwistle and John Alcock, it consists of three Fifties rock and roll covers, a new version of the Entwistle song "My Wife" from The Who's album Who's Next, and new tracks (only six of the ten songs were new). Rigor Mortis Sets In set in motion John Entwistle assembling his own touring unit during the increasing periods of The Who's inactivity.
Bearing the dedication "In Loving Memory of Rock 'n' Roll 1950–∞: Never Really Passed Away Just Ran Out of Time", Entwistle's affection for Fifties rock and roll was evident by covers of "Mr. Bass Man", "Hound Dog", and "Lucille". As George Lucas had released American Graffiti at the same time as Rigor Mortis Sets In was released, creating a huge market for Fifties nostalgia, Entwistle's timing was uncannily prescient. In Entwistle's original material for the album, light whimsy prevailed over the darker (and more creative) vein of Smash Your Head Against the Wall and Whistle Rymes. The album was completed in less than three weeks, ultimately costing $10,000 in studio time and $4,000 on liquor bills.
The cover art of the gatefold LP features on one cover an outdoor photo of a grave, whose heart-shaped headstone is engraved with the dedication described above, while the grave's footstone is inscribed "V.S.O.P." (a grading acronym for cognac). The opposite cover features a wooden coffin bearing a brass plate engraved with the album's name. The UK (Track) LP used the coffin on the cover and the gravestone on the inner gatefold, while the U.S. (MCA) LP had the opposite arrangement. Compact disc releases have been fronted with Track's original coffin cover, with the gravestone cover proportionally preserved inside as part of the liner notes.
Rigor Mortis Sets In had a rough launch due to its title and cover art. BBC Radio refused to play the album and banned it, ironically in part due to the influence of DJ Jimmy Savile who had just suffered a death in his family. The album's U.S. debut was problematic for MCA Records (Track's new American distributor), who insisted on appending the artist's name to the title, out of concern that the album's sales would be weak without the Entwistle name in the title.
Critical reception
The album was rated by AllMusic as a "Nosedive" in his career compared to Smash Your Head Against the Wall and Whistle Rymes. His covers of "Hound Dog" and "Lucille" were so "lifelessly performed that it sounds like the band is merely attempting to imitate Sha Na Na instead of sending up the original tunes themselves". The song that was known as the biggest offender in this respect was "Mr. Bass Man" which replaces the enthusiasm of Johnny Cymbal's original version with a self-consciously campy production built on cutesy vocals guaranteed to make listeners grind their teeth.
The album was more positively received by John Rockwell of the New York Times. In a 1973 article about solo albums released by members of popular bands, Rockwell said that the album found Entwistle "working effectively in a straight-ahead fifties idiom that the Who themselves have long since abandoned."
Track listing
All songs by John Entwistle, except where noted.
Bonus tracks
Personnel
John Entwistle - lead vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards
Alan Ross - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, trumpet, synthesizer; lead vocals (2)
Jim Ryan - lead guitar
Tony Ashton - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
Bryan Williams - trombone, electric organ (6, 8)
Howie Casey - saxophone (1, 3, 4)
Members of The Ladybirds:
Gloria George - backing vocals
Maggie Stredder - backing vocals
Marian Davies - backing vocals
Graham Deakin - drums, percussion (5, 6, 8)
Technical
Mike Weighell - engineer
References
1973 albums
John Entwistle albums
Track Records albums |
4035865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A4nzi%20Aufdenblatten | Fränzi Aufdenblatten | Franziska Christine "Fränzi" Aufdenblatten (born 10 February 1981) is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Zermatt, Valais, Aufdenblatten made her World Cup debut in March 2000 in a giant slalom at Sestriere. She scored four podium finishes on the World Cup: one win in a super-G in Val-d'Isère in December 2009, and three third places in downhill at Haus im Ennstal (2004), Bad Kleinkirchheim (2006), and Lenzerheide (2014). Aufdenblatten competed in three Winter Olympics (2002, 2006 and 2014) and her best finish was a sixth place in the 2014 super-G at Rosa Khutor.
After the 2014 Games, Aufdenblatten announced that she would be retiring from competition at the end of the season in order to start a new career in sports management. After announcing her retirement, she scored a fourth and final World Cup podium finish with a third place in the downhill at the 2014 World Cup Finals at Lenzerheide in her native Switzerland.
World Cup victories
References
External links
Fränzi Aufdenblatten World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team – official site –
Stöckli Skis – alpine racers – Fraenzi Aufdenblatten
1981 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
People from Zermatt
Living people
Sportspeople from Valais |
4035869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atabey | Atabey | Atabey is a town and district of Isparta Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The mayor is Ali Bal (MHP). The population is 4,153 as of 2010.
References
External links
District governor's official website
Populated places in Isparta Province
Districts of Isparta Province
Atabey District |
4035873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumar%20Sen%20%28linguist%29 | Sukumar Sen (linguist) | Sukumar Sen (; 16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was a Bengali linguist and historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit.
Life
Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini Devi. His hometown was Gotan, near Shyamsundar in the Purba Bardhaman district. Sen was educated at the Burdwan Municipal High School, Burdwan, 1917. He obtained an F.A. in 1919 from Burdwan Raj College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He received a divisional scholarship and earned first class honours in Sanskrit from the Government Sanskrit College in 1921. He studied Comparative Philology in Kolkata, scoring the highest marks in 1923. Linguists Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala were his teachers. He received a Premchand Roychand Scholarship and a PhD degree.
Sen retired from the University in 1964.
Work
He joined the University of Calcutta as a lecturer in 1930, where he served as a professor for thirty four years. He became the second Khaira Professor in the Department of Comparative Philology after his mentor, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, in 1954. After assuming this title, the department attracted many scholars from India and abroad to study and conduct research.
Sen was the first scholar to explore the Old Indo-Aryan syntax in his book, Use of Cases in Vedic Prose (1928), and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (1928). He later analysed the syntax of Middle Indo-Aryan in An Outline of Syntax of Middle Indo-Aryan (1950). He contributed significantly to Bengali literature, addressing themes ranging from mythology, the Puranas and crime to horror. Sen's crime stories were compiled in the book Galpa Samgraha (2009).
He published numerous significant articles and research papers. These include the Bangla Sahityer Itihas (5 Vol 1939, 1991), Bhashar Itibritta (1939, 1993), A History of Brajabuli Literature (1935), A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan (1960), Ramkathar Prak Itihas (1977), Bangla Sthannaam (1982), Bharat Kathar Granthimochan (1981), Bharatiya Arya Sahityer Itihas (1963, 1992) and Women's Dialect in Bengali (1923).
Bhashar Itibritta is the first book in the Bengali language on Indo-Aryan and Indo-European historical linguistics. In this book, he postulated Jharkhandi as the fifth dialect of the Bengali language. His book Bangala Sahitye Gadya (1934) remains the best example of a systematic, stylistic description of the literary dialect of the language. The Etymological Dictionary of Bengali (in two volumes, 1971) is one of the largest works on historical etymology in any Indian language. Bangala Sahityer Itihas was also a monumental contribution. Rabindranath Tagore commended the book and wrote the preface. The English edition was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1960. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the foreword for this book. His autobiography was 'Diner Pore Din Je Gelo' (The Days Pass By).
Recognition
The Royal Asiatic Society of London honoured him with a Jubilee Gold Medal in 1984, making him the first Asian to receive the prize. Other prizes include the Rabindra Puraskar (1963), Ananda Puraskar (1966, 1984), Vidyasagar Puraskar (1981), Desikottam (1982), and the Padma Bhushan (1990). The Asiatic Society, Calcutta, awarded him the Jadunath Sarkar Medal. He was elected as an honorary fellow of Sahitya Akademi in 1973.
He received the prestigious Ashutosh Memorial Gold Medal and Griffith Memorial prize twice. He was also awarded the University Gold medal and Sarojini medal.
A college in Gotan was named in his honour.
Books
Bhashar Itibritta ভাষার ইতিবৃত্ত (বাংলা ভাষাতত্ত্বের একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ আলোচনা)
Women's Dialect in Bengali (বাংলা মেয়েলি ভাষা নিয়ে গবেষণামূলক রচনা)
Bangla sthan nam বাংলা স্থাননাম (বাংলা স্থাননাম নিয়ে ভাষাতাত্ত্বিক ও ঐতিহাসিক বিশ্লেষণ)
Ram kathar prak itihas রামকথার প্রাক্-ইতিহাস (রামায়ণ-সংক্রান্ত তুলনামূলক পুরাণতাত্ত্বিক আলোচনা)
Bharat kathar granthi mochan ভারত-কথার গ্রন্থিমোচন (মহাভারত-সংক্রান্ত তুলনামূলক পুরাণতাত্ত্বিক আলোচনা)
A History of Brajabuli Literature (ব্রজবুলি সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস)
Bangla sahityer itihas বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস (৫ খণ্ডে, সুকুমার সেনের সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত বই, বাংলা সাহিত্যের একটি পূর্ণাঙ্গ ও সামগ্রিক ইতিহাস)
Bangla sahityer katha বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যের কথা
Bangla sahitye gadya বাঙ্গালা সাহিত্যে গদ্য
Banga bhumika বঙ্গভূমিকা (বাংলার আদি-ইতিহাস সংক্রান্ত গ্রন্থ)
Bangla Islami sahitya বাংলা ইসলামি সাহিত্য
Diner pare din je gelo দিনের পরে দিন যে গেল ( আত্মজীবনীমূলক রচনা )
References
1900 births
1992 deaths
Bengali writers
Bengali detective fiction writers
20th-century Indian linguists
Linguists from Bengal
Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
University of Calcutta alumni
University of Calcutta faculty
People from Purba Bardhaman district
Scholars from West Bengal
Linguists of Bengali
Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages
Scholars from Kolkata |
4035887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeh | Orfeh | Orfeh (born March 28, 1971 as Orfeh Or) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Orfeh and her husband, Andy Karl, performed at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series in 2016, and in the Broadway musicals Saturday Night Fever, Legally Blonde, and Pretty Woman.
Early life and career
Orfeh was born and raised in New York City. She attended the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and received a record deal shortly after graduation. Her first release was Life in the Movies, which she released as a part of the group Genevha with her musical partner Mike More in 1987. After the release, the duo formed the group Or-N-More and signed with EMI Records.
In 1991, the duo released a self-titled album, their single "Everyotherday" reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was awarded gold status, but shortly after the album's success, the duo found out their business manager had mis-managed their finances. She has been quoted about the situation, "My recording career went wrong," she has said. "Really, really wrong. We had the business manager that stole all the money, the hit record that was about to become a mega-hit record and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under us. After being on the road for years and devoting my life to recording, I found myself at home saying, 'What do I do now?'"
After Or-N-More disbanded, Orfeh signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music and continued to write and produce songs for other artists. She also remains a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which gives her nominating and voting privileges for the Grammy Awards. She also co-wrote the song "Wishing On You," which appears on the soundtrack of the Disney film Model Behavior that was released in 2000.
Broadway
Orfeh made her Broadway debut in 1998 as a swing in Footloose. In early 1999, Orfeh joined the ten-member company of The Gershwins 'Fascinating Rhythm with Adriane Lenox, Sara Ramirez and Patrick Wilson. She then starred in the Original Broadway Company of London musical of Saturday Night Fever as Annette, and in addition to winning positive reviews, Orfeh met her husband, Andy Karl, while playing the role. In 1999, she appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show to promote the musical and perform her solo from the show, If I Can't Have You.
After Saturday Night Fever closed, Orfeh starred in Me and Mrs. Jones and Bright Lights, Big City at the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. In 2001, she played Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway show, Love, Janis. In 2005, she starred in the off-Broadway musical The Great American Trailer Park Musical as Pippi, a stripper from the wrong side of the tracks.
In 2007, Orfeh was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the Legally Blonde musical. She played the role of Paulette, a down on her luck hairdresser who helps Elle on her journey, while finding love of her own. She also received Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for her performance. Her husband, Andy Karl, starred opposite her as her UPS man, Kyle. Orfeh stayed with the show until it closed on October 19, 2008. From July 20, 2018, through August 18, 2019, she played the role of Kit De Luca in Pretty Woman on Broadway.
Television and film
In addition to television appearances, she is a frequently used voiceover artist and has voiced characters for the videogames Max Payne 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and The Warriors. She also has done voiceover work for Wachovia bank.
Music
Orfeh released her first solo album, What Do You Want from Me, on September 30, 2008. In 2014, Orfeh recorded a song for Michael Mott's album, "Where The Sky Ends" which was later released as a dance mix. In 2015, she released the Christmas-themed single Baby Please Come Home. In 2016, Orfeh and her husband performed at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook series. That same year, she was featured on the single What the World Needs Now is Love with other Broadway artists and released the solo single, Forget My Name.
Personal life
In 2001, she married actor Andy Karl, a three-time Tony-nominated actor whom she met during her time in Saturday Night Fever, and who played opposite her as Paulette's UPS man, Kyle in the original cast of Legally Blonde. The couple splits their time between Manhattan and Los Angeles.
Discography Releases'
References
External links
Orfeh's official page at MySpace
Star File: Orfeh at Broadway.com
Q&A: Orfeh at Broadway.com
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
Living people
Actresses from New York City
American musical theatre actresses
1971 births
20th-century American actresses
American voice actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
Singers from New York City |
4035893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20%26%20Ten%20%28graphics%20system%29 | 1st & Ten (graphics system) | 1st & Ten is a computer system that augments televised coverage of American football by inserting graphical elements on the field of play as if they were physically present; the inserted element stays fixed within the coordinates of the playing field, and obeys the visual rules of foreground objects occluding background objects. Developed by Sportvision and PVI Virtual Media Services, it is best known for generating and displaying a yellow first down line over a live broadcast of a football gamemaking it easier for viewers to follow play on the field. The line is not physically present on the field, and is seen only by the television audience.
1st & Ten is sometimes used generically to refer to the class of systems capable of adding first down lines and similar visual elements, and not just the Sportvision system. However, PVI's competing system is more accurately named L-VIS, for Live Video Insertion System.
Over time, usage has evolved. Some football broadcasts change the color of the line from yellow to red on 4th down, or show a second computer-generated line (usually blue in color) that marks the line of scrimmage. Lines can also be projected to show other types of field position, including markings for the red zone and the optimum maximum distance for a placekicker's statistical field goal range. In extreme weather situations, an entire virtual field with yard and boundary markers can be projected onto the field in order to allow league officials, broadcasters and viewers some way to follow action when all field markings are obscured by snow, fog or mud.
The system makes use of a combination of motion sensors mounted on the broadcast cameras to record what they are viewing, and/or the use of match moving computer graphics technology and an enhanced version of chroma key or "green screen" technology.
History and development
The idea of creating an on-field marker to help TV viewers identify first down distances was conceived and patented in 1978 by David W. Crain, who presented the concept to Roone Arledge and Roger Goodman of ABC News and Sports and to the CBS Technology Center. At the time, both decided the broadcast industry was not ready to use Crain's invention.
In 1998, ESPN programmer Gary Morgenstern and others revived the idea. ESPN's NFL coordinating producer, Fred Gaudelli, was tasked with overseeing an implementation for his network. The 1st & Ten line was first broadcast by Sportvision, a private company, during ESPN's coverage of a Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens game on September 27, 1998. A few weeks later, on Thanksgiving Day in 1998, Princeton Video Image (PVI) aired its version of the virtual yellow down line on a CBS broadcast of a Pittsburgh Steelers–Detroit Lions game. Four years later, SportsMEDIA introduced a third version during NBC coverage of a Notre Dame game.
The rivalry between PVI and Sportvision began with a collaboration. In July 1995, PVI had successfully used its L-VIS (Live Video Insertion System) match moving technology to broadcast virtual advertising behind the home plate on a local broadcast of a Trenton Thunder baseball game. In January 1996, Roy Rosser, director of special projects at PVI, saw Sportvision's FoxTrax puck on the broadcast of the 1996 NHL All-Star Game and realized that a combination of L-VIS and FoxTrax would allow virtual insertions in a wider range of situations than either could do on its own, given the power of affordable computers. He contacted Stan Honey, CTO at Sportvision, and the two companies undertook a joint demonstration of their combined technologies during the 1996 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees at the Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium. The test was not a success and the two companies parted ways, each developing complementary systems that were eventually used to broadcast Sportvision's "First and Ten" line and PVI's "Yellow Down Line". In October 1999, SportVision sued PVI alleging that PVI's virtual signage, first down line and other products infringed Fox/Sportvision patents. In August 2001, PVI counterclaimed against Sportvision in the federal court action, alleging that Sportvision's virtual strike zone and virtual signage products infringed a PVI patent. In 2002, the companies settled the lawsuits out of court through a cross-licensing deal.
Before the game
Each football field has a unique crown and contour and is not perfectly flat in order to facilitate drainage, so a 3D model is made of the field prior to the game. Due to the low amount of change throughout a football season, this 3D model is usually only generated once a season at most. It also has a unique color palette, typically various shades of green, depending on the type of surface (i.e. real or artificial grass) and the weather (e.g. bright, shady or even snowing). In addition, after cameras are set up, the position of the camera relative to the field is established to be used in conjunction with the previously created 3D model of the field.
Cameras
There are usually a number of cameras shooting the field, but typically only three or four main cameras are used for an American football broadcast (one on the fifty-yard line, and one on each twenty-yard line, with most high profile games also having a Skycam, as described below). The cameras with video that will be used with the graphics system have electronic encoders within parts of the camera assembly (in the lens and the moving platform the camera sits on, sometimes called a "panhead") that monitor how the camera is used during the game (pan, tilt, zoom, focus and extender). The encoders transmit that info live 30 or more times per second to the broadcaster's production truck, where it is processed by Sportvision computers (typically one for each camera). A camera with this type of extra hardware is usually called an "instrumented" camera. This information helps keep the yellow 1st & ten line in the proper place without being distorted whenever the camera follows the players or the ball.
In the larger productions, several other cameras can be "instrumented" to work with the graphics system, but these are usually restricted to following additional types: a camera usually placed in a high position to see all twenty-two men on the field, typically called the "all 22" camera, and a camera shooting from above one end zone, called an "end zone camera", or in the industry often just "camera 4". The Skycam (or moving camera attached to cables above the field) can also be used to draw a yellow line over its video, but the mechanism has some major differences from the typical "instrumented" camera.
Crew
For the initial implementation, there were seven computers in total and a crew of four. Recent implementations require around four computers, one computer per camera plus a shared computer for chroma-keying and other tasks, that can be run by a single operator (although two is optimal). The primary operator usually uses a KVM to switch between camera computers and has an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse setup for the chroma-keying computer.
Of the original four-member crew, two members, one inside the stadium and one in front of a computer, communicated the position of the real first down line to make sure everything was working. The third crew member was a troubleshooter. The last crew member monitored the various colors that make up the color palette onto which the line is drawn.
In recent setups only a single operator is required for all cameras. The operator clicks on the ball in the video to set the line of scrimmage and right-clicks where the first down line should be (or presses a button to automatically position it 10 yards in the direction of play). If lighting conditions don't change that much, the primary operator can also monitor chroma-key settings, but often a secondary operator is used when conditions get too variable.
Data
Each set of camera encoders on a camera transmits orientation and zoom data to an aggregator box that translates the digital information into modulated audio where it is sent down to the corresponding camera computer in the truck. This data is synchronized with the video from that camera. At the camera computer the camera position data is demodulated back to digital data for use by the program that draws the "yellow line" over the video.
Separately, the chroma-keying computer is told what colors of the field are okay to draw over (basically grass) and that information is sent to the camera computers.
The old way
The first computer in the truck gathers all the separate readings from the cameras and transmits a single, consolidated data stream to the central computer.
The central computer takes these readings, the 3D field model and color palette, the knowledge of which camera is on the air, and together using a geometrical calculation determines which pixels in the video frame would make up the first down line. All pixels that are obstructed by a player, a referee, the ball or any other object are identified and not included in the calculation. This will ensure that the 1st & Ten line will be projected only onto the field.
The PVI Virtual Media system relies on a single spotter to relay the down and distance, and a single operator at the studio as their vision system does not need camera data to perform the insertion. The primary operator of the Sportvision system does the spotting by merely clicking on the video to place the line.
Technology errors
The only pixels that should change are the ones that are the same color as the field, typically several shades of green. As a result, there are a few situations that are difficult. One is when the player's uniform color nearly matches that of the field (for example, the Green Bay Packers' jersey on a bright, sunny day, or for Bronco Stadium at Boise State University, where the field and the home team uniform share the same blue shade). The other is when the field itself changes, like during a rain/snow storm or if the grass field becomes very muddy. In those cases, the field's color palette would need to include brown and/or white shades. The most difficult situations are when the shade of the field is constantly changing as in situations where moving clouds are shadowing the field on some spots, but not others, but continue to move across the field.
The data collection and computation also requires time. The audio feed goes to an audio delay to be synchronized with the delayed video. The total delay for the viewer from the live feed ends up being about 2/3 of a second.
Final result
After the camera computer has determined which pixels represent the 1st & Ten line, it takes that pixel information and draws the yellow line in video format at around 60 times per second (depends on video refresh frequency). A 2011 study conducted by SportVision determined the yellow line has an average margin of error of 1.38 inches compared to the official first down marker.
In recent years the system has been upgraded to add more features. During Fox broadcasts, the Sportvision system also generates an arrow-like graphic on the field with down and distance text information inside of an arrow pointing in the direction of play. Competitors have also added this feature in recent years.
Additionally, the Sportvision system can also place virtual graphics that have another embedded video feed inside them like a video picture frame. This is sometimes called "video-in-perspective".
This technology is also the basis for showing ads where they may not appear (i.e. behind home plate in baseball during national broadcasts), and Race F/X in which images can be displayed on the race track, and info can follow a specific car, no matter what the camera does. This technology is used by CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC, NFL Network, RDS, TSN, and TNT.
See also
FoxTrax
Match moving
L-VIS
References
External links
SportVision
PVI Virtual Media Services
Computing Basics - How Did They Do That? Thin Yellow Line
Sports television technology
National Football League on television
College football on television
Computer-related introductions in 1998 |
4035902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog | Mad Dog | Mad dog is a phrase commonly attributed to rabid dogs.
Due to the Welsh given name 'Madog' (derived from Prince Madoc), in English speaking countries, it is often mistaken for the words 'Mad dog'.
Mad Dog may also refer to:
Music
Mad Dog (album), an album by John Entwistle
"Mad Dog", a song by America from Holiday
"Mad Dog", a song by Deep Purple from The House of Blue Light
"Mad Dog", a song by Pentagram from Sub-Basement
People
Johnny Adair (born 1963), Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary
Martin Allen (born 1965), English footballer
Brett Banasiewicz (born 1994), American professional BMX rider
Mike Bell (wrestler) (1971–2008), American professional wrestler
Roger Caron (1938–2012), Canadian robber
Mad Dog Coll (1908–1932), Irish-American gangster
David C. Dolby (1946–2010), US Army Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Gargotta (1900–1950), Italian-American gangster
Jon Hall (programmer) (born 1950), American computer programmer
Leslie Irvin (serial killer) (1924–1983), 1950s American serial killer
Bob Lassiter (1945–2006), American radio talk show host
Pierre Lefebvre (1955–1985), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Vini Lopez (born 1949), American drummer
Adam MacDougall (born 1975), Australian rugby league player
Jeff Madden, college football strength and conditioning coach
Bill Madlock (born 1951), American baseball player
Mark Madsen (basketball) (born 1976), American basketball coach and former player
Jim Mandich (1948–2011), American football player
Michel Martel (1944–1978), Canadian professional wrestler
Jim Mattis (born 1950), American Marine Corps general and Secretary of Defense
Brian McGlinchey (born 1977), Northern Ireland footballer
Dominic McGlinchey (1954–1994), leader of the INLA
Mad Dog McPhie (born 1971), English professional wrestler
Lewis Moody (born 1978), English rugby union player
Dan Morgan (bushranger) (1830–1865), Australian bushranger
Robbie Muir (footballer) (born 1953), Australian rules footballer
Mad Dog O'Malley, Irish-American professional wrestler
Edgar Ross (boxer) (1949–2012), American boxer
Chris Russo (born 1959), American sports radio personality
Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky (1924–1960), American executed murderer
Michael Taccetta (born 1947), a member of the New Jersey Lucchese crime family
Maurice Vachon (1929–2013), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Dwight White (1949–2008), American football player
Xu Xiaodong (born 1979), a Chinese mixed martial artist
Wong Yuk-man (born 1951), Hong Kong politician
Characters
Mad Dog (comics), various fictional characters
Mad Dog (Marvel Comics)
Mad Dog Rassitano, a bounty hunter in the Marvel Universe
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, from the movie Back to the Future Part III
Johnny Mad Dog, from the film of the same name by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Goro Majima, known as the "Mad Dog of Shimano" in the Yakuza series
Mad Dog, a character from manga and anime series Haikyu!!
Mad Dog Branzillo, in the book A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Mad Dog, nickname of Wayne Dobie in the film Mad Dog and Glory
Mad Dog, from the John Woo film Hard Boiled
Mad Dog, from the movie Ong Bak, starring Tony Jaa
Mad Dog, from the movie The Raid: Redemption, starring Iko Uwais
Tommy "Mad Dog" McCulum, from the South African TV series Isidingo
Mad Dog, a character in the Nintendo DS game Contra 4
Other uses
Mad Dog (TV series), a 2017 South Korean television series
Mad Dog Knives, a knifemaking company
Mad Dog Oil Field, in the Gulf of Mexico
"Mad Dog", an episode of the 1975 television series Survivors
the title character of Mad Dog McCree, a 1990 laserdisc video game
the title character of Mad Dog Morgan, a 1976 Australian bushranger film
Mad Dog Inc., a group of Texas authors including Bud Shrake
Maddog 20/20, a flavored fortified wine from Mogen David
MadDog, the mascot of the Northeastern University Rugby Club
McDonnell Douglas MD-80, a family of commercial jet liners, nicknamed Mad Dog
See also
The mad dog of the Middle East, a phrase used by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to describe Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Wanderlei Silva (born 1976), Brazilian mixed martial artist nicknamed Cachorro Louco (Portuguese for "mad dog")
Mad-dog skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), a plant
Mad Dog Coll (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (disambiguation)
Madd Dogg, a video game character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Lists of people by nickname |
4035904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Berthod | Marc Berthod | Marc Berthod (born 24 November 1983 in Saint-Moritz) is a retired Swiss alpine skier.
In 2005, he was Swiss champion in giant slalom. He finished 7th in the combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On 7 January 2007, Berthod won the world cup slalom in Adelboden in a "miraculous" effort that saw him qualify in 27th position for the second run (an impressive performance in itself as he started at #60) and then proceeded to win with a second run that carried him all the way into 1st place, beating Olympic champion Benjamin Raich by 0.26 seconds. The 2007 season has also yielded other good results for Berthod, with two other podium finishes so far, with a 2nd place at the Beaver Creek alpine combined, and a 2nd place in Wengen also in the combined.
In September 2016 he declared his retirement, as he lacked motivation and suffered several injuries in the past.
Race podiums
2 wins – (1 SL, 1 GS)
5 podiums – (1 SL, 2 GS, 2 AC)
Season standings
External links
Official website
1983 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Living people |
4035911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginu%C4%8Diai | Ginučiai | Ginučiai is a village on the shore of the Lake Linkmenas in the Aukštaitija National Park, Ignalina district of Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, its population was 44.
It is best known for its 19th-century watermill. It is one of the few mills in Lithuania that survive with the original mechanism. Ginučiai watermill is declared a monument of engineering.
Ginučiai village is quite popular touring place in the Eastern Lithuania.
References
External links
Photo essays from the village
Villages in Utena County |
4035918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hary%20Suharyadi | Hary Suharyadi | Suharyadi, also known as Hary Suharyadi and as Suharyadi Suharyadi on documents (born 14 February 1965) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. He competed in three Summer Olympics; the 1984 Los Angeles Games, 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona.
He won gold on mixed doubles at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing with Yayuk Basuki, whom he married on 31 January 1994 in Yogyakarta.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Indonesian male tennis players
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Indonesia
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Jakarta
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1985 Southeast Asian Games |
4035922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definist%20fallacy | Definist fallacy | The definist fallacy (sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, after Socrates) is a logical fallacy, identified by William Frankena in 1939, that involves the definition of one property in terms of another.
Overview
The philosopher William Frankena first used the term definist fallacy in a paper published in the British analytic philosophy journal Mind in 1939. In this article he generalized and critiqued G. E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy, which argued that good cannot be defined by natural properties, as a broader confusion caused by attempting to define a term using non-synonymous properties. Frankena argued that naturalistic fallacy is a complete misnomer because it is neither limited to naturalistic properties nor necessarily a fallacy. On the first word (naturalistic), he noted that Moore rejected defining good in non-natural as well as natural terms.
On the second word (fallacy), Frankena rejected the idea that it represented an error in reasoning – a fallacy as it is usually recognized – rather than an error in semantics. In Moore's open-question argument, because questions such as "Is that which is pleasurable good?" have no definitive answer, then pleasurable is not synonymous with good. Frankena rejected this argument as: the fact that there is always an open question, merely reflects the fact that it makes sense to ask whether two things that may be identical in fact are. Thus, even if good were identical to pleasurable, it makes sense to ask whether it is; the answer may be "yes", but the question was legitimate. This seems to contradict Moore's view which accepts that sometimes alternative answers could be dismissed without argument, however Frankena objects that this would be committing the fallacy of begging the question.
See also
List of fallacies
References
Informal fallacies |
4035924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20City%20Star | Music City Star | The Music City Star, also known as the WeGo Star, is a commuter rail service running between Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee. The service uses the existing track of the Nashville and Eastern Railroad. The line stops at seven stations: Riverfront, Donelson, Hermitage, Mt. Juliet, Martha, Hamilton Springs and Lebanon. The operation covers of rail line. Service began on September 18, 2006. In , the system had a ridership of .
Description
The Star is considered a "starter" project to demonstrate the effectiveness of commuter rail service to the metro Nashville area. Expansion plans include as many as six more lines, terminating in Gallatin, Columbia, Murfreesboro, Dickson, Springfield, and Clarksville via Ashland City. All are planned to use existing CSX Transportation railroad lines. The planned seven lines meet in central Nashville in a star formation, hence the name of the system, which also alludes to the city's many country music stars.
The Star is the first passenger train service of any kind for Nashville since the discontinuation of Amtrak's Floridian in 1979. The Nashville and Eastern line, part of the former Tennessee Central Railway, had not seen passenger service for many decades prior to the Star, with the exception of excursion trains operated by the Tennessee Central Railway Museum and the Broadway Dinner Train.
Rolling stock
The Music City Star regional rail service is currently served by four rebuilt ex-Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives and seven former Chicago Metra coaches, standard gauge. The coaches are bilevel rail cars with seating on both levels.
Since 2022, all four F40PH locomotives have been rebuilt and repainted into the new WeGo paint scheme. 381 previously wore Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner paint scheme until late 2020.The coaches used also saw an overhaul; the former Metra Pullman-Standard coaches were withdrawn from service around 2020 and were replaced with corrugated stainless steel Budd bi-level gallery coaches formerly used by Chicago Burlington and Quincy, RTA, Metra, and the planned MiTrain.
Lines
Currently there is only one line, with six more planned to other satellite cities around Nashville.
The current line is long with seven stations. The line is mostly single-track, so this limits arrivals and departures to how long each train has to wait for the other to pass. The first "starter line" cost $41 million, or just under $1.3 million per mile, which made it the most cost-efficient commuter rail start-up in the nation.
East Corridor line
Riverfront station
Donelson station
Hermitage station
Mt. Juliet station
Martha station
Hamilton Springs station
Lebanon station
Ridership
Music City Star ridership steadily increased from 104,785 passenger trips in 2007 to 277,148 trips in 2012. In 2013, ridership decreased to 253,421 trips, but then steadily increased to 298,800 passenger trips in 2018. in 2019 ridership has slightly decreased to 292,500 passenger trips. During the 2020 pandemic, ridership plummeted to 77,200 with a majority of the rides being in the first quarter of the year, it fell further in 2021 to 57,500 although the 4th quarter saw immense improvement compared to the 4th quarter of 2020.
History
The train began operations on September 18, 2006, becoming the 18th commuter rail system in the United States, with a projected daily ridership of 1,500 passengers. The service launched with an estimated annual cost of $3.3 million, of which $1.3 million was covered by revenues.
In the first month after service began, ridership failed to reach the projected goals, a situation which continued for several years, culminating with a financial shortfall of $1.7 million by the summer of 2008, of which the state of Tennessee covered $1 million in a bailout of the service. Financial difficulties continued into the next year; in June 2009, the service was nearly shut down for lack of funds until state and local authorities granted the service $4.4 million to continue service until 2011.
During 2010, a third passenger car was added to all Music City Star trains to accommodate increasing ridership.
On May 2, 2010, the East Corridor line was closed because of damage related to the floods that hit Middle Tennessee. Flood waters pushed tracks off a concrete trestle over Sinking Creek in downtown Lebanon. This trapped Star trains at their Lebanon storage yard, causing RTA to suspend service until the trestle was repaired. MTA substituted chartered buses instead, picking up passengers at all stations except Martha. The line was repaired in one week.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee in 2020 briefly resulted in the shutdown of Star rail service, but service resumed on June 15, 2020 with eight trains each weekday — two each way in the morning and two more in the afternoon.
A proposed expansion of the system to Clarksville and Ashland City is projected to cost $525 million.
See also
List of United States railroads
List of Tennessee railroads
References
External links
Music City Star official website
Train-related introductions in 2006
Companies operating former Louisville and Nashville Railroad lines
Passenger rail transportation in Tennessee
Tennessee railroads
Transportation in Nashville, Tennessee
Commuter rail in the United States |
4035929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Caplan | Paula Caplan | Paula Joan Caplan (July 7, 1947 – July 21, 2021) was an American psychologist, activist, writer, and artist. She was an Associate at Harvard University's DuBois Institute, Director of the Voices of Diversity Project, and a past Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously she had been full professor of psychology, assistant professor of psychiatry, and lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education there, and was chosen by the American Psychological Association as an "eminent woman psychologist". She also taught at Harvard University, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island, gave hundreds of invited addresses, and did more than 1,000 media interviews about social issues. She was the author of The Myth of Women's Masochism, Don't Blame Mother, and a number of other books. Her twelfth and final book was When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Psychology category.
Since the 1980s, Caplan was concerned that psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific, that giving someone a psychiatric label does not reduce their suffering, and that labeling them carries enormous risks of harm. Caplan outwardly addressed her concerns to the public. In her book, They Say You’re Crazy: How the Worlds most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, Caplan discusses the nature of diagnosis and how the DSM contributes to the unique faults of psychiatry. She sought to educate the public about the unregulated nature of psychiatric diagnoses and the consequent lack of recourse for people who have been harmed by getting such labels, including how getting a psychiatric diagnosis and label often may stand in the way of recovery.
Paula Caplan died on July 21, 2021, in Rockville, Maryland. She was survived by her brother, her two children, and her five grandchildren.
See also
James Gottstein
David Oaks
Elyn Saks
References
External links
Paula Joan Caplan Official Site
In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan
Ending Harm from Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project
Papers of Paula J. Caplan, 1973-2006. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
1947 births
2021 deaths
Duke University alumni
American women psychologists
American psychologists
Psychiatric assessment
Radcliffe College alumni
People from Springfield, Missouri
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women |
4035941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humula | Humula | Humula is a small country town between Tarcutta and Tumbarumba in New South Wales, Australia. Humula was once named "American Yards" or "American Fields" during the gold rush, where many Chinese came for gold years ago. At the 2016 census, Humula had a population of 124 people.
Humula is located at the confluence of Carabost Creek, with Umbango Creek, a tributary of Tarcutta Creek, in the Murrumbigee catchment.
Humula Station, which is just outside the town, is one of Australia's most historic farming and grazing properties.
Although Humula is a small town, it has its own fire brigade, public school,p and a recreation ground. After surviving many fires including the latest in February 2006, Humula is still in one piece.
Murraguldrie Post Office opened nearby on 20 March 1874 and was replaced by a Humula office in 1888.
Humula has been around for well over 100 years. Older buildings include the butcher's shop at the end of Mate Street, the Humula Public School on School Street, and the ruins of the old Humula Hotel.
Humula once had a police station at the end of School Street. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Humula's activity and population peaked when logging was the main industry in the area. The Humula sawmill employed many people; when it closed Humula became almost a ghost town. The Sports Club is the only business still operating. Outside the town is Humula's large farming area, most of which has been converted to pine plantations.
Humula had its own railway station and siding, on the Tumbarumba railway line, but the railway is now disused.
The Post Office closed several years ago and the General Store continued in a much smaller role until about 2016.
References
External links
Humula Rail Siding
Mining towns in New South Wales |
4035943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webers | Webers | Webers (also known as Webers Hamburgers) is a hamburger restaurant on Ontario Highway 11, located 15 kilometres north of Orillia, Ontario that opened in July 1963. Webers grills their burgers over charcoal, with a grill man said to be able to flip up to 800 patties an hour. Long line ups are a common sight at the restaurant, which made the restaurant build a footbridge over the highway to provide access for guests from the southbound side. The restaurant's hamburger patties are also sold at Loblaws outlets.
As of 2009, Webers is reported to sell approximately 8000 hamburgers on a typically busy Friday. The restaurant is open weekends from Thanksgiving until Christmas, but closed from January to March break.
History
Webers was opened on July 11, 1963, by Paul Weber Sr., to cater to cottage goers. By the 1970s, it became so popular that patrons on the opposite side of the highway would often risk injury running across the street to the restaurant. In 1981, the province built a traffic barrier along the median of the highway in an effort to stop the jaywalking. Even so, travellers heading toward Toronto climbed over the waist-high wall to get their food. The following year, the province took further precaution by erecting a fence on top of the barrier. In 1983, Paul Weber Jr., the founder's son, bought a footbridge from a Toronto lawyer that was being used as part of the CN Tower's SkyWalk over Front Street to provide safe access to southbound travelers. This bridge has the distinction of being the first and only privately owned bridge spanning a public highway in Ontario. In 1987, Webers installed three CN train cars, retrofitted to house their own meat processing facility. They have since added five train cars, one of which is used as an eatery. The founder's sons eventually took over the business before their father's death in 1994. Webers opened up additional restaurants in Barrie in the late 1980s; one in Orillia, off the highway, in 1995; and two outlets in Toronto Pearson International Airport in the late 1990s. These restaurants have since closed, leaving only the original location on Highway 11. In 2005, Webers began selling frozen hamburgers through Loblaws.
Paul Weber Jr. sold the company in 2004 to Guelph businessman Tom Rennie, to spend more time with his family. This gave Rennie rights to the Webers name, and control of the Highway 11 flagship location as well as the outlets at Pearson. John Weber, the founder's other son, retained control of the locations in Orillia and Barrie. Since the additional restaurants closed their doors, Rennie became the sole owner of Webers.
On July 19, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Webers after visiting the Tim Horton Memorial Camp.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Webers has remained open to customers daily since May 3 with social distancing measures. Webers also started accepting debit cards for the first time in its history, having previously been a cash-only establishment.
References
External links
Restaurants established in 1963
Roadside attractions in Canada
Orillia
Fast-food hamburger restaurants
Restaurants in Ontario
1963 establishments in Ontario |
4035946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20commanders%20of%20Guantanamo%20Bay%20Naval%20Base | List of commanders of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | This is a listing of commandants and commanders of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located in Guantánamo Bay on Cuba.
Brief timeline
10 June 1898 : U.S. occupation.
23 February 1903 : U.S. leases naval station at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
6 October 1903 : Guantanamo Bay Naval Station leased to U.S.
12 December 1913 : Naval Station officially opens. Cuban flag lowered.
31 May 1934 : The 1934 Treaty of Relations abrogates the 1903 Treaty of Relations, explicitly spells out the right for the US to walk away from the lease.
1 April 1941 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Operating Base, after vast construction program for build-up of the Station Frederick Snare Corporation.
18 June 1952 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
List of commanders and commandants
Commandants
10 December 1903 – May 1904 : William H. Allen
17 May 1904 – September 1906 : Charles C. Rogers
8 September 1906 – July 1907 : Albert A. Ackerman
August 1907 – May 1908 : Clark D. Stearns
May 1908 – April 1909 : Charles H. Harlow
May 1909 – November 1909 : Myles Joyce
November 1909 – January 1912 : Walter Ball
18 January 1912 – June 1913 : George W. Kline
June 1913 – January 1914 : Merritt S. Corning
January 1914 – October 1914 : Hilary Williams
December 1914 – May 1916 : John M. Luby
4 May 1916 – September 1917 : CDR Dudley Wright Knox
September 1917 – November 1918 : E.E. Wright
December 1918 – September 1920 : Guy Whitlock
September 1920 – June 1921 : John J. Hannigan
June 1921 – May 1923 : Robert T. Menner
May 1923 – June 1924 : Ward K. Wortman
June 1924 – June 1926 : Charles M. Tozer
June 1926 – August 1928 : Charles C. Soule Jr.
August 1928 – June 1930 : Charles S. McWhorter
August 1930 – February 1931 : Alfred Hart Miles
February 1931 – May 1933 : Thomas L. Johnson
June 1933 – June 1934 : Edward C. Raguet
June 1934 – April 1936 : Charles "Savvy" M. Cooke Jr.
May 1936 – June 1938 : Mark L. Hersey Jr.
June 1938 – August 1940 : Worral Reed Carter
September 1940 – March 1944 : George L. Weyler
Commanders
April 1944 – October 1944 : F.A. Braisted
October 1944 – December 1945 : J.J. Mahoney
January 1946 – May 1948 : C.E. Battle Jr.
June 1948 – June 1950 : W.K. Phillips
June 1950 – December 1950 : A.M. Bledsoe
December 1950 – January 1953 : M.E. Murphy
January 1953 – December 1953 : C.L.C. Atkeson
February 1954 – September 1955 : E.B. Taylor
September 1955 – October 1956 : W.G. Cooper
December 1956 – November 1958 : R.B. Ellis
November 1958 – October 1960 : Frank W. Fenno
December 1960 - 22 December 1962 : RADM Edward J. O'Donnell
22 December 1962 – December 1963 : RADM J.W. Davis
December 1963 – June 1966 : RADM John D. Bulkeley
June 1966 – July 1968 : E.R. Crawford
July 1968 – June 1970 : James B. Hildreth
June 1970 – August 1972 : B. McCauley
August 1972 – June 1973 : Leo B. McCuddin
June 1973 – July 1975 : Ralph M. Ghormley
July 1975 – June 1977 : John H. McConnell
June 1977 – 7 February 1979 : David W. DeCook
7 February 1979 – 20 March 1981 : John H. Fetterman Jr.
20 March 1981 – 18 October 1983 : M.D. Fitzgerald
18 October 1983 – 28 October 1985 : R.A. Allen
28 October 1985 – 26 April 1988 : John R. Condon
26 April 1988 – 14 June 1990 : John S. Boyd
14 June 1990 – 21 August 1992 : W.C. McCamy Jr.
21 August 1992 – 2 September 1994 : W.M. DeSpain
2 September 1994 – 15 September 1995 : James F. Boland Jr.
15 September 1995 – 25 April 1997 : Jim Cannon
25 April 1997 – 12 May 2000 : Larry E. Larson
12 May 2000 – 27 March 2003 : Robert A. Buehn
27 March 2003 – 9 July 2005 : Leslie J. McCoy
9 July 2005 – 19 September 2005 : Lawrence S. Cotton Jr.
19 September 2005 – September 2008 : CAPT Mark M. Leary
September 2008 – September 2010 : CAPT Steve Blaisdell
September 2010 – July 2012 : CAPT Kirk Hibbert
July 2012 – January 2015 : CAPT J.R. Nettleton, relieved by RADM Mary M. Jackson
January 2015 – March 2015 : CAPT Scott Gray
March 2015 – present : CAPT David C. Culpepper
References
Guantanamo Bay commanders |
4035957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Westphal | Michael Westphal | Michael Westphal (19 February 1965 – 20 June 1991) was a male tennis player from West Germany.
Westphal participated for his native country in the 1984 Summer Olympics, making it as far as the quarter-finals. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 49 in March 1986.
Westphal died of complications from AIDS on 20 June 1991, aged 26.
Career finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
References
External links
1965 births
1991 deaths
People from Pinneberg
Olympic tennis players of West Germany
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
West German male tennis players
AIDS-related deaths in Germany |
4035960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome%20%28band%29 | Metronome (band) | Metronome (メトロノーム) is a Japanese visual kei rock band, which took its influence from many genres, including techno, rock, hardcore and pop.
Musical styles
They have also been described as gamewave and nintendocore. Their songs typically sampled video game, or video game inspired, sounds and while being based in rock, are heavily electronic as well. They have a total of 22 official releases, albums and singles. They maintained an indie career throughout their years, and were never a hot selling band among the visual kei scene, mainly due to their uncompromising approach to their sound.
History
Metronome's claim to fame is that they travelled from the future—The year 2005, to be exact. Because they were getting bad record sales in 2005, they decided to travel back in time to 1998, thus boosting sales via their "futuristic" sound and look.
In a 2007 interview, Talbo-1 Fukusuke mentioned how they stopped with saying they were from the year 2005 as said year neared. The band apparently had thought they wouldn't still be around by the time 2005 rolled around. They split in 2009 for unknown reasons.
Later in 2016 the band got back together after being asked if during band members solo projects if they would perform covers of Metronome song which they responded that if they were to perform Metronome songs they were going to do it right. This led to their first single since their break up being released. The next year they released a new full-length album.
Members
Voicecoder: Sharaku Kobayashi 小林 写楽 {シャラク}
Birthday: 08.10
Current Bands: metronome, FLOPPY, Muchi muchi Anago, Cuckoo (カッコー), GalapagosS
Previous Bands: Picopico PON, Propellerheads
Talbo-1: Fukusuke Fukuda {フクスケ}
Birthday: 12.09
Current Bands: metronome, ADAPTER
Previous Bands: Picopico PON
Support for: FLOPPY
Talbo-2: Riu {リウ}
Birthday: 06.01
Current Bands: metronome, BEE-315
Previous Bands: SPICY DRY HOT MUSTARD
Drums: Shintarou {シンタロー}
Birthday: 11.23
Current Bands: metronome, GalapagosS
Previous Bands:
Ex members
Drums: Yuuichirou {ユウイチロー}
Birthday: 09.28
Current Bands: boogieman
Previous Bands: Fill or Kill, FeNeK, BADxTIMING, Mind Break, CUVE, metronome
Discography
Albums
YAPUU Ga Shoukansareta Machi (2000)
Fukigen Na ANDROID (2002)
1 Metronome (2003)
UNKNOWN (2004)
LIFO (2004)
Electric Travel (2005)
Cycle Recycle (2007)
HIGH TO LOW ELECTRO (2008)
COLLECTION (2008)
COLLECTION 2 (2008)
CONTINUE (2017)
Singles
Single Top Religion (1999)
PLASTIC-MODELS Kuro (2001)
PLASTIC-MODELS Shirogane (2001)
Planet (2002)
Self Control (2002)
Mittsu Kazoero (2003)
S.P.A.C.E. Romantic (2003)
Mousou Trick (2004)
Isshukan (2004)
Computer (2004)
Oboro/Sora (2005)
Boku Sonzaisetsu (2006)
Zetsubou-San (2006)
Tawainai Twillight (2007)
Zombie-Kun (2007)
Kairisei Doitsujinbutsu (2016)
DVD
サイクルリサイクル～メーDAY X'mas～ (2007)
10th Anniversary Special ONE MAN LIVE
＠2008.8.25SHIBUYA-AX
since2005→1998→2008 (2009)
External links
Official Site
Profile at JaME
Japanese punk rock groups
Japanese rock music groups
Visual kei musical groups |
4035963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylviane%20Berthod | Sylviane Berthod | Sylviane Berthod (born 25 April 1977 in Salins) is a female alpine skier from Switzerland, who was Swiss champion in downhill skiing (1997, 1998, 1999) and Giant Slalom (1998). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she finished 7th in downhill.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20060203084825/http://www.sylvianeberthod.ch/
1977 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland |
4035966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20Righteous%20Brothers | Self Righteous Brothers | Self Righteous Brothers is the mainly acoustic, alternative rock music, side-project of Australian punk rockers, Frenzal Rhomb's lead singer Jason Whalley and guitarist, Lindsay McDougall which formed in 2004. Inspired by American band, the Frogs, their music is humorous and often explicit. They released an album, Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart, in 2004 and was re-released in March 2005 via Shock Records.
The group's members were called "insensitive" by the South Australian Tourism Commission for the album track, "There's no Town Like Snowtown", which refers to the infamous bodies-in-barrels murders and are associated with the South Australian town of that name. Blair Boyer of Punk Globe Magazine described how, "This song and other irreverent offerings", appear on that album.
dBMagazine s Simon Foster opined, "they've managed to round up a swag of witty/offensive (take your pick) tunes with some great names and lyrics, a bunch of obscure instruments (Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer anyone?), and chucked them all on the one album [...] Although having a bit of fun, the lads display a surprisingly high amount of musical ability and 'Love Songs...' is great for a laugh... just don't set your expectations too high."
Discography
Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart (March 2005)
"Now You're Gone"
"Snowtown (There's no Town Like Snowtown)"
"The Only Gay Soldier"
"Daddy Drinks"
"Ruggedly Beautiful"
"Golden Wedding Anniversary"
"Self-Righteous"
"Sperm in Your Eyes"
"Who Will Buy"
"Brothers in Arms"
"Emosexual"
"Love on the Inside"
"My Love Barks"
"Dead Horse"
Members
Lindsay McDougall: – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, violin, viola, cello, pan flute, glockenspiel, zither, timbales, cymbals
Jason Whalley: – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vibraphone, piano, cello, drums, cabasa, vibraslap, Appalachian dulcimer
Credits:
References
Australian folk music groups |
4035974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki%20%28James%20Bond%29 | Aki (James Bond) | Aki is a fictional character created for the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. In the film, Aki, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, is a female ninja agent with the fictional Japanese Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Creation
Aki does not appear in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel. She was originally named Suki in Roald Dahl's screenplay. According to The James Bond Films, the character was "Dahl's tribute to the Japanese woman of the Sixties". The character is portrayed as an attractive female Japanese SIS agent, a skilled ninja and an expert driver who often uses her skills at driving her white Toyota 2000GT sports car equipped with several high-tech communication devices.
Mie Hama was cast to play Suki, but she had trouble learning English; to solve the problem, she and Akiko Wakabayashi, originally cast to play the part of almost-silent Kissy Suzuki, decided to swap their respective roles. Wakabayashi then convinced director Lewis Gilbert to change the name of her character to Aki.
While Kissy acts as the film's main Bond girl, Aki serves as Bond's main contact and apparent love interest during the early and middle sections. When Kissy is set to be introduced as Bond's cover wife, Aki's role draws to a close. Her death shortly afterwards clears the way for Kissy to take on the role.
Character
Aki is first seen when 007 meets her at a sumo wrestling show. Bond is there to meet a contact who will take him to Mr. Henderson, M's recommended contact in Japan. He confirms that Aki is his contact by saying the code words "I love you" to her. Aki takes Bond to meet Henderson in her car. After Henderson is killed during their meeting, Bond attacks and kills one of Henderson's killers. Taking the man's place, he is driven to the Osato Chemical Works HQ, where he is discovered by the villains. Aki rescues him, using her skills as a driver, then takes him to meet her boss, Tiger Tanaka. It is after this meeting that a bikini-clad Aki invites Bond to spend the night with her, famously saying "I think I will enjoy very much serving under you", before Bond carries her to bed.
The next morning, Bond returns to the Osato Chemical Works and meets Blofeld's henchman Mr Osato. Leaving after the meeting, he is pursued by SPECTRE gunmen, from whom Aki rescues him again. The gunmen chase Aki's car and she leads them out into the countryside, where a SIS helicopter lifts the gunmen's car off the road with a giant magnet and drops it into the sea (in 2012, Complex ranked it as the sixth best James Bond chase scene). She then takes him to a quayside to investigate a ship he suspects is being used by the villains. When investigating the ship Bond and Aki are attacked by SPECTRE henchmen. Bond tells her to leave and report to Tanaka; Aki refuses to leave Bond at first, but eventually complies.
Aki next appears after Bond is captured and almost killed by Helga Brandt, when she meets with him back at Tanaka's headquarters and Bond is about to go on another mission that she cannot accompany him on.
When Bond returns to the base in Kyoto, Aki meets him there to discuss the plan to disrupt SPECTRE's plot. She had hoped to play the part of Bond's "wife" in the cover operation, however this was vetoed as she was not a native of the Ama island.
This proves to be a fortunate decision as Aki never makes it to the island at all. On Blofeld's orders Osato had sent ninja assassins to kill Bond, one of whom stealthily enters the bedroom where Bond and Aki are sleeping together and tries to poison Bond by dripping poison down a thread. (Dahl took inspiration for this by watching a similar scene in the first film in the Shinobi no Mono ninja film series.)
Bond, however, moves in his sleep. At the last moment Aki moves to his position, unwittingly takes the poison instead, and dies after a brief struggle for breath. The scene was accompanied by the musical track "The Death of Aki" by John Barry.
Reception
Various lists frequently ranked Aki among the best Bond girls ever, including as tenth by Zimbio in 2008 ("So beautiful you almost forget that Sean Connery has been ridiculously made up to look Japanese. Almost"), ninth by Postmedia News the same year ("Kissy Suzuki is considered the 'main' Bond girl in this film, but Aki has a bigger role and is more memorable"), and eight by WagerWeb in 2009 ("Hot Japanese agent, she kicks ass and look damn fine doing it. Besides, she dies to save James Bond, you have to give her some extra credit for that"). According to UGO, "although Akiko Wakabayashi is charming in the role, her chemistry with Bond is disappointing, and she lacks both the look and the attitude to make her a good Bond girl," but in another article UGO praised her as "Bond's super-hot guardian angel". Den of Geek included her in their 2008 list of ten James Bond characters who deserve their own spin-off.Esquire magazine dubbed Aki "the Girl Friday of Tiger Tanaka" and "Tiger's Pussycat".
References
Bond girls
Film characters introduced in 1967
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional secret agents and spies
Fictional women soldiers and warriors
You Only Live Twice (film) |
4035975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Flow | Best Flow | Best Flow, Inc. is a Korean entertainment company, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. It was founded on 26 September 1994 as Datagate International, changed its name to Yuri International in 2005 and Best Flow in 2008. Its CEO () is Lee Seong Wook (이성욱).
Business sector
Management of Celebrities
Producing and investing in films and TV programs
Producing and distributing music
Star marketing, selling merchandise
Multimedia
Games
Related companies
Trifecta Entertainment
Climix Entertainment
I Star Cinema
Companies listed on KOSDAQ
Entertainment companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 1994 |
4035980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugutka | Gugutka | Gugutka (, "collared dove", ) is a village in southernmost Bulgaria, part of Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province. Located in the valley of the Byala Reka ("White River"), it is famous for the Byalgrad ("White Fortress") medieval fortress located eight kilometres from the village. Its former name was "Arnavutköy".
Villages in Haskovo Province |
4035984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog%20%28album%29 | Mad Dog (album) | Mad Dog is the fourth solo studio album by the bassist for The Who, John Entwistle, and his last for six years, and the debut album by his band John Entwistle's Ox.
Mad Dog didn't generate much interest, either in sales or among fans, in what sounded like and is often referred as to by fans as "The Son of" Rigor Mortis a second volume of Rock & Roll pastiches rubbing shoulders with items of dubious taste.
His next solo album Too Late the Hero would become his most successful while Mad Dog was his least successful solo album until the release of The Rock.
The song "Cell Number 7", (which is a close relation to The Who's "Long Live Rock") detailed The Who's then recent brush with Canadian justice in 1974 after a hotel wrecking spree in Montreal while on their Quadrophenia tour.
Critical reception
AllMusic said that the album "Is enjoyable in short bursts, but it also makes a good case for the conventional wisdom that even the best bass players are only so-so as band leaders.", Allmusic also said that "He can't seem to tell his good jokes from the ones that sink without a trace, he sets his best songs right beside numbers that would have been best left in the rehearsal space, and for a guy who was one-third of England's greatest power trio (plus vocalist), he doesn't always know what to do with a large band."
Track listing
All tracks composed by John Entwistle, except where indicated.
Bonus tracks (2005 reissue)
Personnel
John Entwistle - lead vocals, bass guitar, 8-string bass guitar, synthesizer
Jimmy Ryan - guitar
Mike Wedgwood - guitar, string arrangements
Robert A. Johnson - guitar (2, 6, 7)
Eddie Jobson - piano, violin
Tony Ashton - piano
John Mealing - piano
Mike Deacon - piano (2)
Nashville Katz - string arrangements
John Mumford - trombone
Dick Parry - baritone saxophone
Howie Casey - tenor saxophone
Dave Caswell - trumpet
Doreen Chanter - background vocals
Irene Chanter - background vocals
Juanita "Honey" Franklin - background vocals
Graham Deakin - drums, percussion
References
1975 albums
John Entwistle albums |
4035991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Green | Luther Green | Luther Green (November 13, 1946 – January 25, 2006) was an American basketball player.
Born in New York City, Green played college basketball at Long Island University and was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the 1969 NBA draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft.
Green played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association for two seasons. From 1971 to 1972 he played for the Harlem Wizards, and he played briefly for the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers during the 1972–73 NBA season.
Green died of lung cancer at the age of 59.
References
External links
Career stats at basketball-reference.com
1946 births
2006 deaths
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from New York City
Cincinnati Royals draft picks
Deaths from lung cancer
DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
Hartford Capitols players
LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball players
Miami Floridians draft picks
New York Nets players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Small forwards
Wilkes-Barre Barons players
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people |
4036000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportvision | Sportvision | Sportvision was a private company that provided various television viewing enhancements to a number of different professional sporting events. They worked with NFL, NBA, NASCAR, NHL, MLB, PGA and college football broadcasts.
In 1996, Rick Cavallaro, working for Stan Honey at Etak (then owned by Fox/News America) developed a way to track hockey pucks with a blue halo as seen by television viewers. It was assumed at that time that viewers had a hard time keeping track of the puck. Released as the FoxTrax puck, it was not a success but led to the 1998 formation of the Sportvision company and later that year the development of the 1st & Ten computer system, which generates and displays the yellow first down line that a TV viewer sees during a live football broadcast. The system became a major hit with television viewers when used during a broadcast of the Super Bowl. It has since become part of all standard American professional and college football and Canadian pro football broadcasts.
Another popular Sportvision product is seen in broadcasts of NASCAR races. It is called RACEf/x, and creates virtual flags above the cars to make them easier to follow by the viewers.
Sportvision also created the PITCHf/x system used by Major League Baseball to provide pitch data to users of MLB.com GameDay and viewers of Fox, Fox Sports Net, Rogers Sports Net and TBS, until its replacement by Statcast in 2017.
The latest attempt for hockey was tested for deployment during the 2015 NHL All-Star weekend. The new system used computer chips to standardize and increase the volume of data tracked during the course of a game.
In a deal finalized Oct. 4, 2016, Sportvision was acquired by SMT.
See also
SMT (media corporation)
PVI Virtual Media Services
References
External links
http://www.sportvision.com/
Sports companies
Visual effects companies |
4036001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Cuche | Didier Cuche | Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
Born in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, he competed in the downhill and super-G, along with the giant slalom. He won the World Cup downhill and super-G title for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010, 2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009. Cuche has 21 World Cup race victories, along with 67 podiums (top three) and 181 top ten finishes. He is also an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals (a gold, two silvers, and a bronze). He retired from competition following the 2012 season.
Career highlights
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Cuche was the silver medalist in the super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal (no bronze medal was awarded).
Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.
During the 2007 season, Cuche was in top form, winning the downhill season title with a victory and four-second-place finishes. In the Bormio downhill on 28 December 2006 he finished second, 0.01 seconds behind winner Michael Walchhofer, the smallest measurable amount in ski racing.
Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in 2008 with 584 points, five ahead of overall champion Bode Miller. Cuche finished third overall and nearly won the super-G season title, finishing a single point behind champion Hannes Reichelt.
At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Cuche won the super-G and was the silver medalist in the downhill.
A week after winning the super-G and downhill at Kitzbühel in 2010, Cuche broke his right thumb in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on 29 January, two weeks before the 2010 Winter Olympics. The injury put Cuche's Olympic participation in doubt, and he was immediately flown to Switzerland. After successful thumb surgery, he was cleared to compete in the Olympics in Canada.
Cuche had a disappointing Olympics and did not win any medal; however, he regained the title of World Cup downhill champion for the 2010 season at the first post-Olympic race. Cuche won the downhill on the challenging Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, Norway, on 6 March for his fifth World Cup victory of the season. Until 2010, Cuche had never won more than two World Cup events in a single season.
On 22 January 2011, Cuche became the oldest race winner in the history of the World Cup, winning the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel at the age of . It was also his fourth downhill victory in Kitzbühel, which tied him with Franz Klammer for the record on the Hahnenkamm. He has since added a fifth victory in Kitzbühel to his tally, thus becoming the sole record holder; Klammer was there to congratulate him at the finish.
At the 2011 World Championships in February, he won the silver medal in the downhill. In March he won the World Cup downhill championship for the 2011 season. This marked the fourth time he won the season title (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a record only surpassed by Franz Klammer who won the title five times. He ended the 2011 World Cup season in first-place ranking in downhill and super-G, finishing second in the overall rankings to Ivica Kostelić.
After considerable speculation as to whether Cuche might instead retire, he opened the 2012 World Cup season by winning the downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada, further extending the age record he had last broken at in a super-G at Kvitfjell in March 2011. That record was extended yet again at Kitzbühel in January 2012 to .
On 19 January 2012 Cuche announced his retirement for the end of the 2012 season. He gave his retirement speech in Kitzbühel during which he stated that he wanted to "leave the World Cup stage on a high". Only two days later, Cuche won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel for the fifth time in his career, including his first World Cup win in 1998. The following week, Cuche won the downhill at Garmisch, Germany, for his twentieth World Cup victory. He extended the record for the oldest winner of a World Cup race with his 21st and last career victory in the super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to .
In December 2012, the Swiss ski federation announced that Cuche would work with his former teammates as a downhill coach after they suffered a slow start to the season.
Other awards
Cuche won the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 and 2011. In January 2012 during the "Swiss Awards" he won the Swiss Person of the Year award in 2011.
World Cup results
Season standings
Season titles
6 season titles: 4 downhill, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom
Race victories
21 wins (12 downhill, 6 super-G, 3 giant slalom)
67 podiums (32 DH, 23 SG, 12 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Didier Cuche World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
Swiss Ski team official site
Didier Cuche at Head Skis
1974 births
Living people
People from Val-de-Ruz District
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel |
4036005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridge%20at%20Andau | The Bridge at Andau | The Bridge at Andau is a 1957 nonfiction book by the American author James Michener chronicling the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Living in Austria in the 1950s, Michener was at the border of Austria and Hungary during the period in which a significant wave of refugees fled Hungary.
The book is one of Michener's journalistic works (his 9th or 10th published book) and much shorter than the episodic novels that he wrote over the next thirty years. While the book is of an historical event based upon interviews with eyewitnesses, the story is told largely through composite characters or characters based on real people whose names were changed, either for their safety or the safety of family left behind. The story examines the experience of different segments of Hungarian society, both before and during the uprising, such as students, workers, soldiers, secret police, and ordinary citizens. The book takes the reader to the streets of Budapest, where unarmed young people, factory workers, and poorly equipped Hungarian soldiers fought Soviet tanks. It also tells the bittersweet story of the few days of freedom enjoyed by the citizens of Budapest before the Soviets returned in force.
Written soon after the events it chronicles, and published during the ongoing general strike that started soon after the Soviet reoccupation, the book serves to give the reader an idea of the middle years of the Cold War.
The title of the books refers to an actual bridge on the Austria-Hungary border near the village of Andau. The bridge was destroyed in November 1956 by Soviet troops. It was rebuilt in 1996 as a symbol of tolerance and helpfulness.
Characters
Josef Toth
He is an 18-year-old boy who was blond, gray-eyed, and had a fair amount of acne. Josef escaped to Austria and helped many others escape as well. He became an amazing man who not only looked out for himself but for others as well.
AVO
The State Protection Authority ( or ÁVH, referred to as "AVO" in the book) was the secret police of Hungary from 1945 until 1956. It was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's secret police forces and gained an indigenous reputation for brutality during a series of purges beginning in 1948, intensifying in 1949 and ending in 1953. In 1953 Joseph Stalin died, and Imre Nagy (a moderate reformer) was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary. Under Nagy's first government from 1953 to 1955, the ÁVH was gradually reined in.
References
Books by James A. Michener
1957 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Random House books
Books about Hungary
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Works about refugees |
4036006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Millions | Kid Millions | Kid Millions (1934) is an American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor. Its elaborate "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number was filmed in three-strip Technicolor, one of the earliest uses of that process in a feature-length film.
Plot
In New York City, 1934, jazz singer Dot Clark and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"), are introduced. After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to $77 million. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash. Former assistant to Edward Wilson, Gerald Lane, informs the law offices of Benton, Loring, and Slade of Professor Wilson's death and the fact that Edward's son, Eddie Wilson, Jr, is the rightful heir to the money. Mr. Slade, the lawyer, goes to a barge in Brooklyn where Eddie is living with his adopted father, Pops, an old stevedore, and his three sons, Oscar, Adolph, and Herman, who roughhouse Eddie. However, Eddie is managing to live a nice life nonetheless, with his girlfriend, Nora 'Toots', and his care for all the kids on the barge. He dreams of the day when he will have enough money to live his own life outside of the dirty barge ("When My Ship Comes In"). Moments later, Eddie is informed that he has inherited the $77 million and boards a ship bound for Egypt to claim the money. Aboard the ship is Colonel Henry Larrabee, a gentleman from Virginia who sponsored Eddie, Sr's exploration endeavors and wants a share of the money, as well. Eddie befriends his beautiful niece, Joan, and Dot and Louie realize that they are not the only ones traveling to Egypt. In an elaborate scheme to trick Eddie into signing over the inheritance, Dot disguises herself as Eddie's mother and almost succeeds in duping him, but Louie ruins the plan at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gerald Lane has boarded the ship and he is revealed to be in love with Joan Larrabee.
In the ship's bar, the Colonel, Gerald, and Louie realize they are all traveling for the same reason, and Gerald calls Colonel Larrabee a liar. Joan overhears and becomes angry with him, much to Jerry's dismay. Louie tries to get Eddie to hand over the cash by trying to bump him off by pushing him off the ship's deck in a wheelchair. The duo thinks they have succeeded in getting rid of Eddie, but they are foiled again. Eddie tries to help Jerry win back Joan, and suggests they rehearse a number for the ship's concert the next evening. They rehearse ("Your Head On My Shoulder"), but Joan is still frosty toward him. At the ship's concert, Jerry, Eddie, Dot, Joan, and members of the chorus perform a big minstrel show number featuring a specialty tap by the Nicholas Brothers ("Mandy N' Me"). The ship lands in Alexandria, Egypt, and Joan is still angry with Jerry. Eddie, still convinced that Dot is his mother and Louie is his uncle, wants to see a magician performing at the ship's port. When the magician taunts Louie and calls him a coward, Louie gets in the magic basket and ends up getting beaten by Egyptian slaves. Eddie chases a little dog running through the marketplace and lands literally in the lap of the sheikh's daughter, Princess Fanya, who falls instantly in love with Eddie. She forces him to come with her back to the palace, where Eddie meets her father, Sheikh Mulhulla, and her fiancé, Ben Ali, who is extremely jealous. Fanya hyperbolizes the encounter with the dog, saying that Eddie saved her from a lion's attack instead of a puppy.
Eddie then is invited to stay at the palace, much to Fanya's delight. However, soon Sheikh Mulhulla learns of the Americans being in Egypt who have come to take the $77 million treasure that he believes is rightfully his. He tells Eddie about this and Eddie begins to worry about his mother and his uncle, along with the others. In a comical scene, the sheikh and Eddie smoke a hookah pipe and the sheikh tells him of the affair he is having with a famous dancer who lives in the village. The harem women try to seduce Eddie, but he is steadfast to remain faithful to Nora 'Toots' ("Okay Toots"). Princess Fanya has a plot to get Eddie to marry her, and she tells her father that Eddie kissed her on the camel when they first met. The sheikh then decrees that Eddie must marry Fanya or die, and has him suspended over a large bowl of soup. Eddie then agrees to marry Fanya, and is kept in a room on a dog collar until the next morning, when Ben Ali comes in with a gun in a jealous rage. Eddie convinces Ben Ali that he does not want to marry Fanya, and Ben Ali is convinced and lets him go. However, Joan, Jerry, the Colonel, Dot, and Louie arrive at the palace and are immediately accosted by the guards. In the tomb, Eddie and the men disguise themselves as the spirits of the sheikh's ancestors and tell him to let the Americans go free. The sheikh is so scared by the prophecies, he agrees to let them go on one condition: Eddie will never be able to see Fanya ever again. He agrees and boards a plane home to New York City, where he uses the inheritance to open a free ice cream factory with Toots, thus realizing their lifelong dream ("Ice Cream Fantasy Finale").
Cast
Eddie Cantor as Eddie Wilson Jr., the deceased Professor Edward Wilson's son and the now heir
Ann Sothern as Joan Larabee, niece to Colonel Larrabee who is in love with Jerry Lane
Ethel Merman as Dot Clark, a jazz singer and con artist out to get the Wilson fortune
George Murphy as Jerry Lane, assistant to the deceased Professor Edward Wilson who befriends Eddie Wilson Jr. and is in love with Joan Larrabee
Berton Churchill as Col. Harrison Larabee, uncle to Joan Larrabee, a Southern gentleman from Virginia who funded one of Professor Wilson's expeditions
Warren Hymer as Louie the Lug, Dot Clark's dim-witted gangster boyfriend and manager who travels with her to get the Wilson fortune
Paul Harvey as Sheik Mulhulla, an Egyptian sheik whose daughter, Princess Fanya, falls in love with Eddie Wilson
Jesse Block as Ben Ali, Princess Fanya's jealous fiancé who believes that Eddie is out to steal Fanya from him
Eve Sully as Princess Fanya, the sheik's daffy daughter who falls in love with Eddie after he saves her from a small dog
Otto Hoffman as Khoot, Sheikh Mulhulla's head advisor
Stanley Fields as Oscar, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Edgar Kennedy as Herman, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Jack Kennedy as Pop Wilson, Eddie's adopted father, an old stevedore who lives on the barge with his three sons
John Kelly as Adolph, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Doris Davenport as Nora 'Toots', Eddie's girlfriend who lives on the barge and dreams of marrying him when he gets his money
The Nicholas Brothers
Tommy Bond as Tommy, one of Eddie's kid friends who lives on the barge
Donald Haines as Kid Band Member (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel as Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Production notes
The film's "ice cream fantasy sequence" was Goldwyn's first attempt at film with three-strip Technicolor. The cast of Our Gang appears among the children in this sequence.
Cantor originally introduced the song "Mandy", with Marilyn Miller, in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
Among the Goldwyn Girls in this film are Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Lynne Carver, Helen Wood and Barbara Pepper.
Reception
The film was very successful at the box office.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – nominated
See also
List of American films of 1934
References
External links
1934 films
1934 musical comedy films
1930s color films
American films
American musical comedy films
Films directed by Roy Del Ruth
Films scored by Alfred Newman
Films set in 1934
Films set in Egypt
Films set in New York City
Samuel Goldwyn Productions films
United Artists films
Early color films
1930s English-language films |
4036008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20ringing | Method ringing | Method ringing (also known as scientific ringing) is a form of change ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change of sequence, and pairs of bells are affected. This creates a form of bell music which is continually changing, but which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody. It is a way of sounding continually changing mathematical permutations.
It is distinct from call changes, where the ringers are instructed how to generate each new change by calls from a conductor, and normally only two adjacent bells swap their position at each change.
In method ringing, the ringers are guided from permutation to permutation by following the rules of a method. Ringers typically learn a particular method by studying its "blue line", a diagram which shows its structure.
The underlying mathematical basis of method ringing is intimately linked to group theory. The basic building block of method ringing is plain hunt.
The first method, Grandsire, was designed around 1650, probably by Robert Roan who became master of the College Youths change ringing society in 1652. Details of the method on five bells appeared in print in 1668 in Tintinnalogia (Fabian Stedman with Richard Duckworth) and Campanalogia (1677 – written solely by Stedman), which are the first two publications on the subject.
The practice originated in England and remains most popular there today; in addition to bells in church towers, it is also often performed on handbells.
Fundamentals
Plain hunt
In method ringing, plain hunt is the simplest form of generating changing permutations in a continuous fashion, and is a fundamental building-block of change ringing methods.
It consists of a plain undeviating course of a bell between the first and last places in the striking order, with two strikes in the first and last position to enable a turn-around.
Thus each bell moves one position at each succeeding change, unless they reach the first or last position, when they remain there for two changes then proceed to the other end of the sequence.
This simple rule can be extended to any number of bells.
Grandsire
Plain hunting is limited to a small number of possible different changes, which is numerically equal to twice the number of bells that are hunting. However, by introducing deviations from the plain hunt, by causing some of the bells to change their relationship to the others, change ringing "methods" were developed. These allow a large range of possible different changes to be rung; even to the extent of the full factorial sequence of changes.
Grandsire, the oldest change ringing method, is based on a simple deviation to the plain hunt when the treble (bell No.1) is first in the sequence or it is said to "lead". The treble is known as the "hunt bell" because it hunts continuously without ever deviating from the path. The diagram for the plain course is shown here.
The Grandsire variation on the plain hunt on odd numbers adds a second hunt bell, which is "coursing" the treble: that is, the second hunt bell takes its place at the front of the change immediately after the treble. The single deviation away from hunting for the rest of the bells now takes place as the two hunt bells change places at the front of the lead.
Furthermore, because there are two hunt bells, not the second bell but the third remains in place:
13254 – Treble leads
12345
21354 – The second hunt bell, No.2 in this case, leads after the treble. It is coursing it.
23145
This forces a dodge on the other bells in 4/5 positions. After this the bells immediately return to the plain hunt pattern until the next treble lead.
This rule can now be extended to any number of odd bells in changes, making Grandsire an easily extendable method. The hunt bell is changed many times during such ringing to enable the full factorial number of changes to be achieved.
Plain Bob
"Plain Bob" is one of the oldest change ringing and simplest of these, first named "Grandsire Bob". The deviations when a plain course is extended with "calls" are much simpler than those in Grandsire.
A "plain course" of plain bob minor is shown in diagrammatic form, which has the characteristics;
all bells plain hunt, until the treble bell is first, when depending where they are in the pattern, they;
perform "Dodges" in the 3–4 position
or perform dodges in the 5–6 positions,
or sit for two blows if they are just above the treble, then go first again.
The red bell track shows the order of "works", which are deviations from the plain hunt.
3/4 down dodge
5/6 down dodge
5/6 up dodge
3/4 up dodge
make 2nds place.
And then it repeats. Each bells starts at a different place in this cyclical order.
A dodge means just that; two bells dodge round each other, thus changing their relationship to the treble, and giving rise to different changes.
The plain bob pattern can be extended beyond the constraints of the plain course, to the full unique 720 changes possible ( this is factorial 6 on 6 bells, which is 1×2×3×4×5×6 = 720 changes). To do this, at set points in the sequences one of the ringers, called the "conductor" calls out commands such as "bob" or "single", which introduce further variations. The conductor follows a "composition" which they have to commit to memory. This enables the other ringers to produce large numbers of unique changes without memorising huge quantities of data, without any written prompts.
Ringers can also ring different methods, with different "works" – so there is a huge variety of ways of ringing method changes.
Key points
Numbering the bells
The highest bell in pitch is known as the treble and the lowest the tenor. The majority of bell towers have the ring of bells (or ropes) going clockwise from the treble. For convenience, the bells are referred to by number, with the treble being number 1 and the other bells numbered by their pitch (2, 3, 4, etc.) sequentially down the scale. The bells are usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, with the tenor bell being the tonic (or key) note of the scale.
Ringing rounds and changes
The simplest way to use a set of bells is ringing rounds, which is sounding the bells repeatedly in sequence from treble to tenor: 1, 2, 3, etc.. (Musicians will recognise this as a portion of a descending scale.) Ringers typically start with rounds and then begin to vary the bells' order, moving on to a series of distinct rows. Each row (or change) is a specific permutation of the bells (for example 123456 or 531246)—that is to say, it includes each bell rung once and only once, the difference from row to row being the order in which the bells follow one another. Plain hunt is the simplest way of creating bell permutations, or changes.
Obtaining the maximum unique changes
Since permutations are involved, it is natural that for some people the ultimate theoretical goal of change ringing is to ring the bells in every possible permutation; this is called an extent (in the past this was sometimes referred to as a full peal). For a method on bells, there are (read factorial) possible permutations, a number which quickly grows as increases. For example, while on six bells there are 720 permutations, on 8 bells there are 40,320; furthermore, 10! = 3,628,800, and 12! = 479,001,600.
Key rules of valid method ringing
"Truth" of a ringing method
Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), we find that while an extent on 6 bells can be accomplished in half an hour, a full peal on 8 bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours and one on 12 bells would take over thirty years! Naturally, then, except in towers with only a few bells, ringers typically can only ring a subset of the available permutations. But the key stricture of an extent, uniqueness (any row may only be rung once), is considered essential. This is called truth; to repeat any row would make the performance false.
Allowable position changes
Another key limitation keeps a given bell from moving up or back more than a single place from row to row; if it rings (for instance) fourth in one row, in the next row it can only ring third, fourth, or fifth. Thus from row to row each bell either keeps its place or swaps places with one of its neighbours. This rule has its origins in the physical reality of tower bells: a bell, swinging through a complete revolution with every row, has considerable inertia and the ringer has only a limited ability to accelerate or decelerate its cycle.
Start and finish with "rounds".
A third key rule mandates rounds as the start and end of all ringing. So to summarize: any performance must start out from rounds, visit a number of other rows (whether all possible permutations or just a subset thereof) but only once each, and then return safely to rounds, all the while making only small neighbour-swaps from row to row. These rules dramatically limit the options open to a method-maker.
For example, consider a tower with four bells. An extent includes 4! = 24 changes and there are, naturally, 24! possible orders in which to ring each change once, which is about 6.2 × 1023. But once we limit ourselves to neighbour-swaps and to starting and ending with rounds, only 10,792 possible extents remain.
Reason for methods
It is to navigate this complex terrain that various methods have been developed; they allow the ringers to plot their course ahead of time without needing to memorize it all (an impossible task) or to read it off a numbingly repetitive list of numbers. Instead, by combining a pattern short and simple enough for ringers to memorize with a few regular breaking points where simple variations can be introduced, a robust algorithm is formed. This is the essence of method ringing.
Lead
A lead is part of the plain course. It commences when the method starts and lasts until the treble gets back to the same place. In the diagram of Plain Bob Minor shown, the lead starts when the treble rings in second place and lasts until the treble has rung twice at lead. It is common practice in diagrams to draw a line under the lead end to assist in understanding the method. Most methods have a plain course consisting of a number of leads where the pattern is the same, but different bells are in differing places. In the diagram given, the number 4 bell rings the same pattern as the number 2, but one lead earlier.
In principles (where the treble does the same work as other bells and is affected by calls) the definition of a lead can become more complex.
Calls and compositions
To obtain more changes than available in the plain course, a conductor makes a call directing the ringers to make a slight variation in the course. (The most common calls are called bobs and singles.) These variations usually last only one change, but cause two or more ringers to swap their paths, whereupon they continue with the normal pattern. By introducing such calls appropriately, repetition can be avoided, with the peal remaining true over a large number of changes. For example, an extent in a minor method is 720 (6!) changes, so would require 12 repetitions of the plain course shown.
To know when to make calls and which ones to make, a conductor follows a plan called a composition which he or someone else devised; if properly constructed it will ensure a true performance of the desired length. Today computers make checking a composition's truth easy; but the process once involved a mix of mathematics and laborious row-by-row checking.
Probably the greatest composer of the 20th century was Albert J Pitman, who composed over a hundred peals between 1910 and 1965, entirely by hand. None of his compositions was then, nor since, discovered to be false.
Place Notation (shorthand)
As well as writing out the changes longhand (as in the accompanying illustration of Plain Bob Minor) there is a shorthand called Place Notation. For each row in which all bells change place, such as the first change, use an "x" or a "-". In rows where one or more bells stay in place write down the place numbers which do not change, so that the second row is written "16". Plain Bob Minor is therefore x16x16x16x16x16x12.
Many methods are symmetrical, and so only the first half lead is given, along with possibly the lead end. Plain Bob Minor is thus: x16x16x16 le:12. Where two changes consisting of numbers follow each other, use a dot to separate them. Plain Bob Doubles (i.e. on 5 bells) is: 5.1.5.1.5 le:125, or if written at full length 5.1.5.1.5.1.5.1.5.125.
Method names
Methods are generally referred to by an official name assigned to them by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers; such names have three standard parts: the method's name proper, its class, and its stage.
The name proper is the method's personal name. The oldest methods have long-established names; but new methods are constantly being devised and rung, and the Central Council generally allows each to be named by the band which first rings a peal in it. Most often these methods end up with a place name, such as the band's village; but people's names and still more fanciful inventions are not uncommon.
The class describes the method, putting it in some established category of methods that work in similar ways. Methods in the simplest category omit this second name and use a simple two-part name.
The stage indicates the number of bells, using unique terminology:
As can be seen, there are different naming systems for even- and odd-bell stages. The odd-bell stage names refer to the number of possible swaps that can be made from row to row; in caters and cinques can be seen the French numbers quatre and cinq while the stage name for three-bell ringing is indeed "singles". Higher odd-bell stages follow the same pattern (sextuples, septuples, etc.) while higher even-bell stages have more prosaic names: fourteen, sixteen, etc.).
Note that the names refer to the number of bells being permuted, which is not necessarily the same as the number being rung: for it is typical to ring triples methods not on seven bells but on eight, with the tenor covering: only the seven highest bells permute; the eighth and lowest bell is simply rung last in every row. So likewise with caters, usually rung on ten bells, and other higher odd-bell stages.
Put together, this system gives method names sound that is evocative, musical, and quaint: Kent Treble Bob Major, Grandsire Caters, Erin Triples, Chartres Delight Royal, Percy's Tea Strainer Treble Place Major, Titanic Cinques and so forth.
"Performances"
A short composition, lasting perhaps only a few hundred changes, is called a touch, which got its name from the 16th-century expression a "touch" of music, meaning "a brief piece of instrumental music".; However many ringers look forward to the greater challenge of a quarter peal (about 1,250 changes) or a peal (about 5,000 changes), which is referred to as a "Performance".
This number derives from the great 17th-century quest to ring a full extent on seven bells; 7 factorial is 5,040. Sturdier bellframes and more clearly understood methods make the task easier today, but a peal still needs about 3 hours of labour and concentration.
Most ringers follow the definition of a peal as regulated by the Central Council. This requires a minimum of only 5,000 changes where major or a higher stage is being rung, but demands at least the full 5,040 changes on lower stages. For triples, this ensures at least a full extent; for lower stages a full extent falls well short of the goal and ringers must complete several full extents to reach 5,040 (working out mathematically to at least 7 extents on six bells, at least 42 on five, or at least 210 on four; three-bell peals are not recognised by the Central Council).
To qualify as a peal, the ringing must meet a number of other key criteria. Among other things, each bell must be rung continuously by the same person; a ringing band cannot swap in a person to give ringers an occasional break. Likewise the ringing must be done entirely from memory; ringers cannot consult the method's blue line nor can the conductor (who must be one of the ringers) have a written reminder of the composition.
More commonly rung is the quarter peal, typically consisting of 1,260 changes and typically taking 45 minutes to ring. Half peals are more rarely rung, but have been known. One example is in Buckfast Abbey in Devon, where there are two half peal boards.
See also
Campanology
Change ringing
Change ringing software
Siteswap
Notes
References
The Framework for Method Ringing, official definitions by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers on what constitutes methods and peals
External links
Change-ringing resources: an online compendium of almost everything you need to know
Bellboard - online update on current change ringing performances.
The methods committee of the Central Council, with links to their online listing of all named methods
On-line method generator, which explains method diagrams
Campanology
English culture
Permutations |
4036022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctibatrachus | Nyctibatrachus | Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog", in reference to their habits and dark color. They are the only extant members of the monotypic subfamily Nyctibatrachinae. Currently, 35 species belong to Nyctibatrachus.
Description
Members of the genus Nyctibatrachus are robust-bodied frogs that range in size from small (snout–vent length <13 mm in Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei) to relatively large (up to 84 mm Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis). The especially small species are among the smallest of all Indian frogs. They have a concealed tympanum, dorsum with longitudinal skin folds, femoral glands, and expanded finger and toes disks. They occur near streams in hilly evergreen forests and are nocturnal. Most species have amplexus but Nyctibatrachus humayuni does not; in this species the male moves over the eggs after the female has deposited them.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Nyctibatrachus:
References
External links
Nyctibatrachidae
Amphibians of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger |
4036025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker%20Hill%2C%20Connecticut | Quaker Hill, Connecticut | Quaker Hill is a village or neighborhood in the town of Waterford, in the southeastern part of Connecticut, USA.
It is located in the northeast corner of the town, on the west bank of the Thames River (around Smith Cove) north of New London, and centered on the intersection of the Old Norwich Road and the Old Colchester Road.
The village center is included in the Quaker Hill Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district is the area around Old Norwich Road, extending as far south as the village of Thames View and as far north as Route 32.
Quaker Hill is the place name used for ZIP code 06375, which extends beyond Quaker Hill to encompass the entire northeastern portion of the town of Waterford, including Bartlett, Best View, Cohanzie, Harrisons and Thames View.
History
The area became known as Quaker Hill by 1687 due to its association with the Rogerenes or Rogerene Quakers, a religious sect founded by a local farmer, John Rogers (1648–1721) at the house near Benham Avenue.
The first house was built around 1740 by Benjamin Greene at Scotch Cap. The Robertson and Bingham paper mill, established in 1851, is said to be the first manufacturer of real tissue manila in the United States.
Education
Quaker Hill School
Waterford Public Schools operates one elementary school in Quaker Hill. The original Quaker Hill School was built in 1915, replacing two one- room district structures and was opened in 1917, and demolished on February 23, 2007, to make way for construction of a new Quaker Hill Elementary School that was scheduled to open in August 2008. This school is now located on 285 Bloomingdale Road, Quaker Hill CT.
Waterford Country School
Waterford Country School is a private nonprofit human services agency in Quaker Hill that offers a variety of special educational, residential treatment, and care services for children ages 10–18 from throughout eastern Connecticut. It was established in 1922 and moved to its current site in Quaker Hill in 1929.
Famous Residents
Eugene P. Wilkinson, Captain of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, lived in Quaker Hill during the 1950s
Fire and EMS service
The Quaker Hill Fire Company serves the residents of Quaker hill. The Fire house is located on Old Colchester Road.
See also
Connecticut College Arboretum
New London, Connecticut
Waterford, Connecticut
References
Waterford, Connecticut
Villages in Connecticut
Villages in New London County, Connecticut
Populated places on the Thames River (Connecticut) |
4036031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissy%20Suzuki | Kissy Suzuki | Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character introduced in Ian Fleming's 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice. Despite Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character known to the reader who bears a child by him. The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film, where she is never identified by her name, no family name appears in the closing credits and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending.
Novel version
In the book, Kissy is an Ama diver and former Hollywood actress. She is distantly related to a local police superintendent working with Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service and is, therefore, asked to assist Bond. Bond stays with Kissy's family on an island near the castle, where Ernst Stavro Blofeld maintains a "suicide garden" where people come to die (and are killed by the "gardeners" if they change their mind), and Bond is seeking revenge for the murder of his wife at the conclusion of the previous novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond enters the castle alone and succeeds in killing Blofeld and then destroying the castle.
Bond then sustains amnesia in the aftermath of his attack with Blofeld and is believed dead by his superiors; in reality, he comes to believe he is a fisherman and lives with Kissy for several months. Kissy decides that she will not stop him if he decides to pursue his true identity, but will encourage the cover story that allowed him to stay with her until something else happens. When Bond decides to leave for Russia, believing the answers to his identity are there, Kissy does not follow; unknown to Bond, she is pregnant with his child.
Kissy Suzuki does not appear again in the Bond canon, and Bond's child does not appear until "Blast From the Past", a short story published in 1996 by Raymond Benson as a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. By the time of this story, Kissy is now dead, having died from ovarian cancer a few years before the story's timeline. Bond learns that she bore him a son, James Suzuki; Bond had little involvement in raising him, but paid for his university education.
Film version
In the 1967 film adaptation, Kissy is one of the ninja agents working for Tanaka. She is introduced shortly after Aki is killed and is first seen in a mock wedding ceremony as James goes undercover, posing as a Japanese fisherman. Bond and Kissy eventually find Blofeld's secret base, hidden within a volcano and Kissy is sent to alert Tanaka. While swimming to her destination, she is pursued and fired upon by a SPECTRE helicopter, but her experience as a pearl diver enables her to dive underwater and stay there long enough to convince her pursuers that she drowned. After alerting Tanaka, she joins the raid that manages to foil Blofeld's scheme, thereby averting the outbreak of World War III.
In the movie, Kissy is played by Mie Hama. She was originally cast to be played by Akiko Wakabayashi; however, Hama had trouble learning English for the much bigger role of Aki, so the two decided to swap their roles. When Hama became ill during shooting, Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento doubled for her in the swimming sequence. Her lines were dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
Cultural impact
A limited number of Kissy Suzuki dolls were produced in 1967; today, these dolls are valuable on the collector market. Mie Hama also appeared in Playboy magazine in a 1967 nude pictorial "007's Oriental Eyefuls" as the first Asian woman to appear in the magazine, a source of controversy in Japan. Pajiba included Hama on the list of the 15 most embarrassing post-Bond roles for Bond Girls at number seven for King Kong Escapes.
UGO.com offered a mixed review of the character: "Although Mie Hama is attractive in her bikini, this also looks extremely out of place. Similarly inconsistent is her acting, which is charming but forgettable." In another article, UGO called her "sexy yet cute-as-a-kimono." A 2006 retrospective CBS featurette called her "stunning", ranking her as the 23rd best Bond girl. She also placed 18th on the list of the Best Bond girls by LIFE, while Fandango ranked her as 23rd. Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the 2012 list of the best Bond girl names.
References
External links
Kissy Suzuki (Character) at the Internet Movie Database
KISSY SUZUKI - Bond Girls: Declassified at Yahoo!
James Bond multimedia | Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki)
Kissy Suzuki - James Bond Wiki
Bond girls
Characters in British novels of the 20th century
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional female secret agents and spies
Literary characters introduced in 1964
You Only Live Twice (film) |
4036034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Late%20the%20Hero%20%28album%29 | Too Late the Hero (album) | Too Late the Hero is the fifth solo studio album by English musician John Entwistle, released on 23 November 1981 by ATCO Records in the US, and by WEA in the UK. This was his only solo album of the 1980s and his last album to chart. The album peaked at No. 71 on the US Billboard 200, making it his best-selling album and his only album to reach the Top 100.
"Talk Dirty" was the first single released from the album and it received some airplay in the US on album-oriented rock radio, peaking at No. 41 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Too Late the Hero" was the second single to be released from the album and it would be his only single to chart on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 76. It also peaked at No. 101 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, making it his best-selling single all round. "Too Late the Hero" was the only single from the album that had a music video filmed for it.
The album was recorded as a core trio of musicians that were Entwistle on bass guitar with Joe Walsh of the Eagles providing all guitar work and Walsh's former Barnstorm bandmate Joe Vitale on drums. Billy Nicholls also sang backing vocals on most of the tracks.
Cover
The album cover is an assemblage of photographs taken by Gered Mankowitz. It depicts Entwistle with an Alembic Explorer bass over grainy photos of him dressed as various heroes. The red suit and ankle boots worn by Entwistle were later sold at auction.
Composition
The album was Entwistle's first solo album in six years. "I had stopped writing because I thought I was going in the wrong direction with the 'shoo-bop, shoo-bop,' old rock & roll stuff on Rigor Mortis Sets In and Mad Dog. When I started writing again, I went back to the kind of material I was writing before those albums.
"Until about two years ago, I tried to stay away from certain subjects. I was getting a feeling from everyone – from the fans right through my wife and family – that if you write about hookers, you must go to hookers, and if you write about drugs, you must take drugs. I got this reputation for sinister black humour after things like Whistle Rymes, when I was getting up at six in the morning to feed my son, Christopher, and then sitting down at the piano at seven to write songs about peeping Toms and suicide cases."
Recording
The album was recorded over a couple of years, during those infrequent months when both Entwistle and long-time friend Joe Walsh were free (Walsh's James Gang toured extensively with the Who in the early seventies, and the two had planned to collaborate for years).
Critical reception
In the AllMusic review by Ben Davies, he praises the contributions of Joe Walsh on lead guitar and Joe Vitale on drums, but says that they were unable to save the album from being boring. The reviewer concedes that the combination of these musicians would have seemed, "Like something of a dream proposition back in the 1970s," making the album an even bigger disappointment. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide awarded the album zero stars, calling it "a misguided, overblown collaboration with the severely unwitty Joe Walsh." The Rolling Stone Album Guide conceded that it "rocks capably."
Track listing
All songs written by John Entwistle.
Non-album track
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Too Late the Hero liner notes.
John Entwistle — vocals; bass guitar; eight-string bass guitar; piano; synthesizers
Joe Walsh — acoustic and electric guitars; piano; cabassa; waste container; tambourine; limps; synthesizer
Joe Vitale — drums; percussion; piano; flute; clavinet; timpani; metronome
Billy Nicholls — backing vocals (1, 3–6, 9)
Production and artwork
John Entwistle — producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — producer
Joe Walsh — executive producer
Joe Vitale — executive producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — engineering
Neil Hornby — assistant engineer
Jim Hill — assistant engineer
Jeff Eccles — assistant engineer
Mike Reese — mastering
Gered Mankowitz — album cover design, concept, cover photo, photography
Charts
References
External links
1981 albums
John Entwistle albums
Atco Records albums
New wave albums by English artists |
4036037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20D%C3%A9fago | Didier Défago | Didier Défago (born 2 October 1977) is a Swiss retired World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and giant slalom (2004). At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.
Défago finished the 2005 World Cup season as sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G, his most successful season so far. In 2009 he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel. He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in 1992.
While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September 2010, Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his 2011 season.
Défago announced his retirement in March 2015, after a second-place finish at the World Cup finals in the downhill in Méribel, France, and had his final World Cup race the next day in the super-G.
World Cup results
Season standings
Race podiums
5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG)
16 podiums – (5 DH, 7 SG, 3 AC, 1 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Didier Défago World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Wengen victory – 17 January 2009
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Kitzbühel victory on full course – 24 January 2009
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
1977 births
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Valais |
4036042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen%20%28surname%29 | Sen (surname) | Sen (Bengali: সেন) is a surname derived from "Sena", the Sanskrit word for "army".
The sequence of using this surname is first found among the kings of a Brahmin dynasty named as Vakataka (Vidarbha). This surname is also used by Raja Dahir Sen, the last king of Brahman dynasty of Sindh (Southeast Pakistan) and then followed by Sena Dynasty (East India and Bangladesh).
Presently, it is found in the east of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Baidya and Kayastha communities. The Sena kings claim that they are Brahmakshatriya or Kshatriya in their own inscriptions.
Notables
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Abhijit Sen is a former member of the Planning Commission of India, which was disbanded in 2014.
Akshay Kumar Sen The 19th century Bengali mystic, saint and writer.
Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.
Amarendra Nath Sen, jurist who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India.
Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
Amiya Sen (cricketer) (1925–2000), Indian cricketer
Amiya Prosad Sen (born 1952), historian and religious scholar
Amalesh Sen (; 2 March 1943 – 7 October 2017) was a Bangladeshi football player and coach.
Ananda Prakash Sen (born 20 September 1923), often known as A. P. Sen, is an Indian former judge who served as a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Anindya Sen Economist .
Anil Kumar Sen, jurist
Antara Dev Sen (born 1963), British–Indian journalist
Anupam Sen(born August 5, 1940) is a Bangladeshi academic and social scientist.
Anushka Sen (born 2002), Indian model and television actress
Aparna Sen (born 1945), an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress
Arunava Sen (born January 3, 1959) is a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He works on Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Mechanism Design, Voting and Auctions.
Ashalata Sen (5 February 1894 - 13 February 1986) was an activist, poet, social worker, and a leading figure in the Indian independence movement.
Ashish Sen is an American professor and transportation statistician based in Chicago.
Asit Sen (actor) (1917–1993), prolific Indian film actor and comedian in the Hindi film industry
Asit Sen (director) (24 September 1922 – 25 August 2001) was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who worked in both Bengali and Hindi cinema. He was born in Dhaka, now in modern-day Bangladesh, when it was part of East Bengal in British India. He directed 17 feature films in Hindi and Bengali
Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
Ashoke Kumar Sen former law minister, lawyer, and parliamentarian
Atul Sen (? – 5 August, 1932) (Bengali: অতুল সেন) was a Bengali Indian independence movement revolutionary activist against British rule in India.
Atul Prasad Sen (; 20 October 1871 – 26 August 1934) was a Bengali composer, lyricist and singer, and also a lawyer, philanthropist, social worker, educationist and writer.
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Baikuntha Nath Sen
(1843 – 1922) was a Bengali scholar, lawyer and philanthropist. His grandson Amarendra Nath Sen was a judge of Supreme Court of India.
Basiswar Sen also known as "Boshi" Sen (1887 – 31 August 1971), Indian agricultural scientist.
Benu Sen (26 May 1932 – 17 May 2011) was an awarded Indian photographer from Kolkata, India.
Bhim Sen (1 December 1894 – 18 January 1978) was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Punjab, thrice.
Bhupati Mohan Sen () was an Indian physicist and mathematician. He made remarkable contributions in the fields of Quantum Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics.
Bijoy Sen is a Bangladeshi art director. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Art Direction for the film Andha Biswas (1992).
Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Binayak Sen, human rights activist
Bireswar Sen(1897–1974) was an Indian painter, writer and teacher, who was influenced by the Bengal School of Art and Western modernism, but then later developed a unique visual language of miniatures.
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Chitra Sen, an Indian actress and dancer who works in Bengali language films and television series.
Chandan Sen a Bengali stage, television and film actor, playwright and director.
Chandan K. Sen is an Indian-American scientist who is known for contributions to the fields of regenerative medicine and wound care.
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Dahir Sen, last ruler of the Brahman dynasty of Sindh
Deben Sen (1897 – 19 April 1971) was an Indian trade union activist and politician.
Dinesh Chandra Sen, researcher of Bengali folklore
Dola Sen (born 26 March 1967) is an Indian politician and trade unionist. From 2020 she is now the central president of the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC).
Dwijesh Chandra Sen (died 9 July 1984) Revolutionary of Anushilon Samiti, awarded Tamrapatra by the President of India for his contribution to India's struggle for independence.He was the direct decedent of Raja Raj Bhallav Sen and the grandson of Rai Bahadur Kali Charan Sen.
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Erroll Chunder Sen (c. 1899 – after 1941), First World War Indian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps
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Gautam Sen is an Indian journalist, writer and automotive design consultant and expert.
Girish Chandra Sen( – 15 August 1910), Bengali religious scholar and 1st bengali translator of Al Quaran
Gertrude Emerson Sen (6 May 1890–1982), early 20th-century expert on Asia and a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers
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Haimabati Sen (1866 – 1932 or 1933), was an Indian physician.
Hari Keshab Sen (9 February, 1905 - 1 September, 1976), popularly known as H. K. Sen was an Indian Bengali scientist, astrophysicist.
Hiralal Sen is generally considered the first filmmaker of indian subcontinent
Hannah Sen (1894–1957) was an Indian educator, politician, and feminist, wife of Satish Chandra Sen. She was a member of the first Indian Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) from 1952 to 1957 and the president of the All India Women's Conference in 1951-52.
H. Nida Sen H.Nida Sen is an ophthalmologist researching mechanisms involved in different forms of human uveitis. She is a clinical investigator at the National Eye Institute.
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Inder Sen is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter working in Bengali cinema.
Indra Sen (13 May 1903 – 14 March 1994) was a psychologist, author, and educator, and the founder of Integral psychology as an academic discipline. Sen was born in the Jhelum District of Punjab (now part of Pakistan) in a Punjabi Hindu family from Punjab.
Indrani Sen A Bengali singer who is known for Nazrul geeti and Rabindra Sangeet.
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker.
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Jaladhar Sen Rai Bahadur Jaladhar Sen (; 13 March 1860 – 15 March 1939) was a Bengali writer, poet, editor and also a philanthropist, traveler, social worker, educationist and littérateur. He was awarded with the title Ray Bahadur (রায় বাহাদুর) by the British Government.
Jogendra Nath Sen, First Bengali soldier to die in the First World War
Joginder Sen Raja Sir Joginder Sen Bahadur KCSI (20 August 1904 – 16 June 1986) was the last ruling Raja of Mandi State, and was subsequently a diplomat and Member of Parliament.
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Kaushik Sen (or Koushik Sen), Indian actor of film, television and theater based in Kolkata
Keshab Chandra Sen, social reformer of India
Keshav Sen -A king of Sen Empire, reformer of 'Kaulinya' and 'Varna' in vernacular literature
Keshav Sen (born 21 September 1923) is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was Indian scholar, writer, a Sanskrit professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal (now in Bangladesh).
Konkona Sen (born 1979), Indian actress, writer, and director
Krishna Sen (19 October 1956 – 27 May 2002) was a writer and journalist of Nepal.
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Lakshya Sen (born 2001), Indian badminton player
Lakshman Sen, Emperor
Lalmohan Sen (Bengali: লালমোহন সেন) was an Indian revolutionary who took part in the Chittagong Armoury Raid.
Lionel Protip Sen Lieutenant-General Lionel Protip "Bogey" Sen DSO (20 October 1910 – 17 September 1981) was an indo-british decorated Indian Army general. He served as the Chief of the General Staff during 1959–1961 and commanded the Eastern Command during 1961–1963.
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Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist.
Mandakranta Sen (born 1972) is an Indian poet writing in Bengali. She became the youngest ever winner of Ananda Puraskar in 1999 for her very first poetry book. In 2004 she was awarded Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for poetry. She is also a lyricist, composer, fiction writer, dramatist and cover designer. She quit medical studies to become a full-time writer.
Manikuntala Sen (; c. 1911–1987) was one of the first women to be active in the Communist Party of India.
Mantu Sen (21 June 1923 – 12 April 1990) was an Indian cricketer. He played eighteen first-class matches for Bengal between 1942 and 1959.
Malabika Sen, Dancer
Mayukh Sen is an American writer . He was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2018 and 2019, winning the award in 2018 for his profile of Princess Pamela.
Mihir Sen (born 1930), a famous Indian long distance swimmer
Mimlu Sen (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer.
Minati Sen (born 2 October 1943) Politician, was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India.
Mithu Sen is an Indian conceptual artist. Born in West Bengal in 1971.
Mohit Sen was a communist intellectual. He was general secretary of the United Communist Party of India until of his death.
Moon Moon Sen (born 1954), an Indian film actress working in Bengali, Hindi and other regional films
Mrinal Sen, Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director
Mrinal Kanti Sen, an Indian-American geophysicist.
Mrinalini Sen (3 August 1879 - 8 March 1972) was a Bengali writer in British India. On 19 December 1910, she became the first Indian to fly in a plane.
Mukunda Sen (sometimes known as Makanda Sen) was the King of Palpa from 1518 to 1553 of Sena dynasty (Nepal).
In 1524, he invaded Kathmandu Valley. After his death in 1553, his kingdom was divided into various kingdoms.
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Nabhendu Sen (31 August 1944 – 25 September 2008) a Bengali dramatist, sculptor and artist.
Nabinchandra Sen, poet and writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nandana Sen (born 1967), daughter of Amartya Sen, actress in Hindi cinema, screenwriter
Narayan Sen (1912–1956) was a Bengali revolutionary in the Indian independence movement.
Neeta Sen (1935 – 1 April 2006) was an Indian classical music director and singer.
Nikhil Sen (16 April 1931 – 25 February 2019) was a Bangladeshi dramatist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2018 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali-born writer of speculative fiction.
Nilima Sen (1928 Kolkata –1996) was a famous Rabindrasangeet singer.
Nirupam Sen (cricketer)
Nirupam Sen (diplomat)
Nirupam Sen (politician)
Nirupam Sen Chowdhary (born 23 October 1990) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Tripura.
Nivaan Sen also known as Naveen Sen, is an Indian actor and producer.
Noel Swaranjit Sen (born 24 December 1946) is a retired Director-General and Inspector-General of Police in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. After a stint with the Indian Army (Short Service Commission) in the 1960s, he became an Officer of the Indian Police Service. He was also a Commandant of the 1st Battalion of Border Security Force.
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Orijit Sen (born 1963) is an Indian graphic artist and designer.
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Pabitra Kumar Sen, scientist and social reformer
Palash Sen, Band member of Euphoria (Indian band)
Paritosh Sen (Bengali: পরিতোষ সেন) (18 October 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca)
Partha Sen was an economist.
Probir Sen, wicket keeper, the only wicket keeper to have stumped out Sir Donald Bradman
Prafulla Kumar Sen (died 1942), also known as "Swami Satyananda Puri" Indian revolutionary and philosopher
Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen (born 7 November 1937 in Calcutta, India) is a statistician
Prafulla Chandra Sen (1897–1990), Bengali freedom fighter and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.
Prajesh Sen G. Prajesh Sen (also spelt G. Prajesh Sen; born 29 May 1979) is an Indian filmmaker and writer.
Prasenjit Sen (born 11 January 1956) Physical Scientist
P. K. Sen (surgeon) (1915–1982), Indian surgeon
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Rajanikanta Sen (26 July 1865 – 13 September 1910) was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions
Rajat Sen (1913 ― 6 May 1930) alias Rajat Kumar Sen was a Bengali revolutionary who joined in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Ramesh Chandra Sen (born 30 April 1940), Bangladeshi politician
Ramkamal Sen (Bengali: রামকমল সেন) (1783–1844) was the Diwan of the Treasury, Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal and Secretary of the Asiatic Society
Ramprasad Sen, singer and lyricist
Rangalal Sen (24 September 193310 February 2014) was a Bangladesh academician and writer. In 2011, he was inducted as the National Professor of Bangladesh.
Raima Sen (born 1979), Indian actress
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955), Indian film & television director and the winner of three National Film Awards
Reema Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and model primarily working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films
Riddhi Sen, an Indian Bengali film actor
Rii Sen, actress
Rimi Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and film producer who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Bengali films
Rinku Sen is an Indian-American author, activist, political strategist and the executive director of Narrative Initiative. She is also the co-president of the Women’s March Board of Directors. Sen is the former president and executive director of the racial justice organization Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines.com and Mother Jones magazine.
Rittika Sen, an Indian film actress
Riya Sen (born 1981), Indian film actress and model
Robin Sen was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India(Marxist). He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament
Ronen Sen Ranendra "Ronen" Sen (born 9 April 1944) is a veteran Indian diplomat who was India's ambassador to the United States of America
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Sagar Sen (15 May 1932 – 4 January 1983) was a Bengali singer.
Samar Sen, (;)(10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987), Indian poet and journalist
Samar Sen (diplomat) (10 August 1914 16 February 2003), Indian diplomat
Samita Sen, historian and professor
Sandip Sen (born 4 October 1966) is an Indian business executive.
Sandipta Sen (born 1987), Bengali television actress
Sankar Sen ( – 8 February 2020) was a Minister, Vice Chancellor, Electrical engineer and politician from West Bengal belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the vice chancellor of Jadavpur University. He served as a legislator of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Minister of Power of the Government of West Bengal from 1991 to 1999.
Sankar Sen (marketing academic) A marketing academic.
Sanjoy Sen, Football coach and manager
Santunu Sen is an Indian doctor and politician. He was a councilor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. He is a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal. He was the President of the Indian Medical Association.
Santosh Kumar Sen (1910–1979) was an Indian surgeon and the president of the Association of Surgeons of India. He was the first Indian surgeon to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Satrajit Sen (born 31 August 1977) is an Indian film director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the only producer/director in Bengal with a Lee Strasberg
Awards: National Award in the year 2014 for best Bengali Film Bakita Byaktigato
Sarajubala Sen(Bengali: লেখক:সরযূবালা সেন) (1889 - 1949) was a Bengali writer and educator.
Satyen Sen (), (28 March 1907 - 5 January 1981), a historian of Bengali literature from Bangladesh.
Shekhar Sen is a singer, a music composer, a lyricist, and an actor, Awards: Padma Shri(2015)
Shobha Sen (1923–2017), also known as Sova Sen, Bengali theatre and film actress
Shoma Sen An women's rights activist, professor and head of the English literature department of the Nagpur University.
Sohag Sen (Bengali: সোহাগ সেন) is a Bengali theater actress, director and casting director.
Soumik Sen an Indian contemporary screenwriter
Soumitra Sen is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court. He was the first judge in independent India whose removal motion was passed in Rajya Sabha for misappropriation of funds.
Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is a contemporary Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood.
Shyamal Kumar Sen, jurist and former governor of West Bengal
Srabani Sen (also spelt as Sraboni Sen), singer of Rabindra Sangeet and other genres of Bengali songs
Subir Sen (24 July 1934 – 29 December 2015) was an Indian playback singer who sang modern songs in Bengali and Hindi. He was also one of the artists of Rabindra Sangeet.
Sukomal Sen (14 June 1934 – 22 November 2017) was an Indian trade union and CPI(M) leader.
Sukumar Sen (civil servant) -(2 January 1898 – 13 May 1963) The first Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Surya Sen (1894–1934), revolutionary and Bengali freedom fighter
Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta, 1931), Indian actress
Sudeep Sen, poet
Sukumar Sen, first Chief Election Commissioner of India
Sukumar Sen, Bengali linguist
Susmit Sen, member of the band Indian Ocean
Sushil Sen full name Shushil Kumar Sen ((Bengali: সুশিল কুমার সেন; 1892 – 30 April 1915) participated in the Indian Independence Movement.
Sushmita Sen (born 1975), Indian actress, model and beauty queen; former Miss Universe
Supriyo Sen a contemporary independent filmmaker from India. He produced and directed the film Tangra Blues (2021).
Suvam Sen (born 14 November 1989) an Indian athlet (footballer and goalkeeper of Indian football team)
Samar Sen (c. 1916-2004), Indian agricultural economist
Swati Sen An Indian actress most known for her roles in Udedh Bun, which won the Silver Bear for Best Film at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, and the National Film Award-winning Antardwand (2010),
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Triguna Sen (24 December 1905 – 11 January 1998) was Union Minister for education in Government of India. He got Padma Bhushan in 1965.
Tanima Sen is a Bengali film and television actress.
Tapan Kumar Sen A politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), General Secretary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Tapas Sen (11 September 1924 – 28 June 2006) was a noted Indian stage lighting designer, who was an important figure in 20th-century Indian theatre.
Tapen Sen(born 2 September 1953) is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Jharkhand High Court and is currently holding the chair as the President of the Jharkhand State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
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Utpala Sen (12 March 1924 – 13 May 2005) was a prominent Indian Bengali playback singer.
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Vishwak Sen (born 1995), Indian actor who works in Telugu films
Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) is an Indian Judge, who has served as a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Fictional characters
Banalata Sen, fictional character in Jibanananda Das's poem
Mr. Saurav Sen, fictional characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, Mrs. Sen's, from her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
See also
Şen, Turkish surname
References
Bengali Hindu surnames |
4036061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnirana | Amnirana | Amnirana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae, "true frogs". The genus is primarily found in Sub-Saharan Africa, but one species occurs in parts of southern and southeastern Asia. Some of the African species are widespread but contain undescribed cryptic diversity. Most (but not all) species have a white upper lip, and the genus is sometimes known as the white-lipped frogs.
Taxonomy
Amnirana was originally introduced as a subgenus of Rana. It was often included in the then-diverse genus Hylarana, until Oliver and colleagues revised the genus in 2015, delimiting Hylarana more narrowly and elevating Amnirana to genus rank. Within the genus, Amnirana nicobariensis appears to be the sister taxon of the African clade of species, but the data are inconclusive. With more data available to resolve possible non-molecular synapomorphies of the genus, A. nicobariensis might become recognized as a separate genus. A later study suggested it to be closer to other Asian Hylarana sensu lato than to African Amnirana.
Description
The current delimitation of Amnirana is primarily based on molecular evidence in combination with geography. No morphological diagnosis is available, and the genus shows variability in characteristics that have been suggested to have diagnostic value within the genus Hylarana sensu lato. The body is robust and medium to very large in size. The dorsum is smooth to shagreened in texture and uniform to mottled in pattern. The upper lip is usually white, but it is dark in Amnirana lepus. Males have paired vocal sac, which may be internal or protrude externally.
Species
There are 11 recognized species:
In addition, the AmphibiaWeb recognizes Amnirana longipes as a valid species, whereas the Amphibian Species of the World, following Jongsma and colleagues, considers it synonym of Amnirana albolabris. Nevertheless, the "true" species number is likely to be substantially higher, with molecular data suggesting at least seven new African species.
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True frogs
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Asia
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4036072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliuona | Veliuona | Veliuona (, , ) is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania.
History
Veliuona (also known as Junigeda) was first mentioned in 1291 in the chronicle of Peter of Duisburg.
The town is primarily known as the burial place of Gediminas.
An old church, founded by Vytautas the Great in 1421, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1636.
In 1501–1506 m. Veliuona was granted Magdeburg rights by the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Alexander Jagiellon. In the 18th century Veliuona belonged to prince Józef Poniatowski, in the 19th century to the Zalewski family.
In July 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered dozens of Jews from the town in mass executions.
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References
Veliuona, 2001, Versme, 1176 p.
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Велона — Velona
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4036074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amolops | Amolops | Amolops (commonly known as cascade frogs or sucker frogs) is a genus of true frogs (family Ranidae) native mainly to eastern and south-eastern Asia. These frogs are closely related to such genera as Huia, Meristogenys, Odorrana, Pelophylax and Rana, but still form a distinct lineage among the core radiation of true frogs. They are commonly known as "torrent frogs" after their favorite habitat - small rapid-flowing mountain and hill streams - but this name is used for many similar-looking frogs regardless of whether they are loosely related.
Several species are highly convergent with other Ranidae "torrent frogs". A. archotaphus and its relatives for example very much resemble Odorrana livida. In another incidence of convergent evolution yielding adaptation to habitat, the tadpoles of Amolops, Huia, Meristogenys as well as Rana sauteri have a raised and usually well-developed sucker on their belly. This is useful in keeping in place in rocky torrents, where these frogs grow up. But as Odorrana and Staurois from comparable habitat prove, this sucker is by no means a necessity and other means of adaptation to torrent habitat exist.
Species
The delimitation of this genus has proven complicated, with many species believed to belong elsewhere. Due to the degree of convergent evolution, DNA sequence studies are very helpful in assigning species to the genera, though the possibility of past hybridization cannot be discounted in Ranidae.
New species are described on a regular basis. At least one undescribed species is known to exist, a very distinct form from Phetchaburi in Thailand that is possibly closer to A. marmoratus than to most others.
Amolops afghanus (Günther, 1858)
Amolops akhaorum Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010
Amolops albispinus Sung, Hu, Wang, Liu, and Wang, 2016
Amolops aniqiaoensis Dong, Rao, and Lü, 2005
Amolops archotaphus (Inger and Chan-ard, 1997)
Amolops assamensis Sengupta et al., 2008
Amolops australis Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops bellulus Liu, Yang, Ferraris, and Matsui, 2000
Amolops caelumnoctis Rao and Wilkinson, 2007
Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992
Amolops chayuensis Sun, Luo, Sun, and Zhang, 2013
Amolops chunganensis (Pope, 1929)
Amolops compotrix (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops cremnobatus Inger and Kottelat, 1998
Amolops cucae (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops daiyunensis (Liu & Hu, 1975)
Amolops daorum (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amolops formosus (Günther, 1876)
Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
Amolops gerutu Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops granulosus (Liu and Hu, 1961)
Amolops hainanensis (Boulenger, 1900)
Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888)
Amolops hongkongensis (Pope and Romer, 1951) – Hong Kong Cascade Frog
Amolops indoburmanensis Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012
Amolops iriodes (Bain and Nguyen, 2004)
Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992
Amolops jinjiangensis Su, Yang, and Li, 1986
Amolops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940)
Amolops kohimaensis Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops larutensis (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops lifanensis (Liu, 1945)
Amolops loloensis (Liu, 1950)
Amolops longimanus (Andersson, 1939)
Amolops mantzorum (David, 1872)
Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
Amolops medogensis Li and Rao, 2005
Amolops mengdingensis Yu, Wu, and Yang, 2019
Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
Amolops minutus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops nyingchiensis Jiang, Wang, Xie, Jiang, and Che, 2016
Amolops ottorum Pham, Sung, Pham, Le, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019
Amolops pallasitatus Qi, Zhou, Lyu, Lu, and Li, 2019
Amolops panhai Matsui & Nabhitabhata, 2006
Amolops ricketti (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops shuichengicus Lyu and Wang, 2019
Amolops sinensis Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops spinapectoralis Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
Amolops splendissimus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops torrentis (Smith, 1923)
Amolops tuberodepressus Liu and Yang, 2000
Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983)
Amolops vitreus (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops wenshanensis Yuan, Jin, Li, Stuart, and Wu, 2018
Amolops wuyiensis (Liu and Hu, 1975)
Amolops xinduqiao Fei, Ye, Wang, and Jiang, 2017
Amolops yatseni Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops yunkaiensis Lyu, Wang, Liu, Zeng, and Wang, 2018
Footnotes
References
(2007): Paraphyly of Chinese Amolops (Anura, Ranidae) and phylogenetic position of the rare Chinese frog, Amolops tormotus. Zootaxa 1531: 49–55. PDF abstract and first page text
(2008): The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49–60. (HTMl abstract)
Amphibian genera
Frogs of Asia
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope |
4036087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Galston | William Galston | William Arthur Galston (; born January 17, 1946) holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; he joined the think tank on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin, Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions.
Family
He is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.
Career
He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993 – May 1995). He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000), Walter Mondale, and John B. Anderson. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.
Galston was in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a sergeant. He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.D. He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. Later he was executive director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.
He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, U.S. politics and public policy, having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Galston is also a co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.
Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.
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