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4037859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20Muhammad%20IV%20Stadium | Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium | The Sultan Muhammed IV Stadium () is a stadium in the state of Kelantan. It is located on Jalan Mahmood, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, and the home of Kelantan FA, a Malaysia football team. The stadium can accommodate up to 22,000 spectators. At this time, this stadium is the largest in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia with seating capacity of 22,000 and a pitch area to meet the standards set by the National Sports Council of Malaysia is measuring 119 meters long and 100 meters wide.
The stadium is always full of supporters of Kelantan FA. Therefore, it was called the Red Warriors Stadium by the fanatical supporters of Kelantan FA.
History
Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium is one of the oldest football field in Malaysia and probably one of the oldest in Asia continent based on the use of field. The stadium was built in 1967 and initially aims to provide a venue for sports activities from Kelantan, especially as a football pitch. The stadium was built in an area of 13 acres at a cost of RM 1.5 million, was built in stages.
It was built on the site of a football field of Kelantan Football Association and located in the heart of Kota Bharu town centre. The stadium initially managed by the Association of Kelantan Stadium, which is chaired by the Menteri Besar of the state of Kelantan and comprises a total of 30 members made up of government employees as well as representatives of sports associations.
Facilities
Their main facilities involve football since it is a home ground for, Kelantan FA. Apart from football facilities, the stadium complex also has tennis courts, race tracks, sports facilities, business facilities to be rented as, warehouses, office space, exhibition sites, kiosks and public toilets. It also provides recreational facilities and a Surau.
The stadium also situated near to government offices such as Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital, Kelantan Police Headquarters and the Kota Bharu Municipal council. The stadium is also close to Kentucky fried chicken (KFC), a fast food outlets. Besides that, there are Perdana Specialist Hospital and Perdana Hotel not far from the stadium.
The stadium is surrounded by many restaurants, food stalls and retail stores. It become a place for people around the pedestal to find a food. There are Dataran Stadium Sultan Muhammad IV near the main entrance of the stadium. Usually, carnivals or events held there especially involving The Red Warriors team. There is also parking around the stadium, but very limited. Usually when the matches involving The Red Warriors was held, the audience just parking them on the pavement and it cause a massive traffic jam for the road nearby.
Transport
Distance between Kota Bharu bus station and taxi station to the stadium is about 1 km. You can take a bus, taxi or on foot. There are bus stops not far from the stadium main entrance.
Electronic scoreboard
An Electronic LED Scoreboard system was installed at the stadium in late 2012. It was first deployed during the international match AFC Cup 2012 Quarter Final between Kelantan FA and Iraq Football Club, Arbil Soccer Club. The Scoreboard costs RM2.36 million where the funding came from the Malaysian Federal Government. The project was supervised by the Jabatan Pembangunan Persekutuan and designed by a local Audio Visual consultant appointed by the stadium. The size of the LED scoreboard is about 6×11 meters and could display high resolution video. The LED component came from an LED industry leader called Nicchia and imported from Japan. It is considered the best electronic scoreboard in the country in terms of resolution.
The system is also equipped with a Multi-camera video production system which consists of slow-motion unit, digital video effects and graphics system. The system has 3 HD robotic cameras installed under the roof of the stadium and 3 HD portable professional video cameras. One of the HD portable camera has a HD video transmitter system which enable the camera (Fan-Cam) to send stable live video from anywhere in the stadium back to the control room for display on the LED scoreboard. The entire system was imported from the United States and similar system is used by major stadiums in the United States. The system is also capable of bringing live TV programs via the internet (live video streaming) as well as recording the video programs on HD. The stadium is the first stadium in Malaysia to install such HD multi-camera video production system. It
International matches
2011
2012
2013
2014
See also
Sport in Malaysia
Kelantan FA President and Youth
References
External links
Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium at theredwarriorsfc.com
Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium at kelantan.gov.my
Football venues in Malaysia
Athletics (track and field) venues in Malaysia
Multi-purpose stadiums in Malaysia
Kelantan FA
Sports venues in Kelantan
MPKB-BRI U-BeS F.C. |
4037861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahalin%20Bedouin | Jahalin Bedouin | The Jahalin Bedouin are a Palestinian tribe of Bedouin Arabs who currently live in the eastern Judaean Desert in the West Bank.
History
South of Hebron (1875-1952)
In March 1875 Claude R. Conder, leader of the Palestine Exploration Fund survey team, reported the land south of Ain Jidy, close to Masada, belonged to the Jahalin. He met one of their sheikhs, Abu Dahuk, and noted the size and strength of their horses and their fondness for tobacco. He states that they had recently been driven from their country by Dhullam Arabs and mentions a war going on three hours from the team's camp at Beit Jibrin. Earlier in the same year one of Conder's colleagues on the survey listed the Jahalin as numbering 150 men, with 100 tents, after noting the "utmost civility" of all Arabs, settled or Bedouin, from the Ghor area (the Jordan River and Dead Sea rift valley).
The Jahalin lived in the Tel Arad region of the Negev at the time of the creation of the state of Israel.
Near Jericho under Jordanian rule (1952-1967)
In 1952, the Jahalin were evicted from their lands by the Israeli army and they settled at a location southwest of Jericho, within the Jordanian-ruled West Bank. There, they took up their traditional seminomadic lifestyle, grazing livestock in the nearby area and the Jordan Valley.
Under Israeli occupation (1967-2014)
After the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank, access to their grazing grounds was increasingly restricted by the Israeli military. The Jahalin were pushed into the vicinity of the Jerusalem‐Jericho road,
were their settlement area became part of the municipality of Maale Adumim, an Israeli settlement established in the 1970s. The semi-permanent Jahalin encampments built until the 1980s contained at least two permanent structures.
Since 2014 eviction order
The tribe currently lives in villages such as ʿArab al-Jahalin, Wadi Abu Hindi, Al-Muntar, Al-Hathrura, Ghawaliya, Wadi Sneysel and Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem, bordered by the Israeli settlements of Maale Adumim and Pisgat Ze’ev. On 16 September 2014 it was announced that they would be moved to a new area in the Jordan Valley north of Jericho.
On 17 April 2012 a documentary about the Jahalin, "Nowhere left to go" directed by Harvey Stein, was premiered at the French Cultural Centre, Jerusalem.
Since 2014, a football team made up of Jahalin Bedouin, the Desert Hawks, has been training and competing in the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem.
References
External links
Oxfam Report
Bedouin groups
Bedouins in Israel
Bedouins in the State of Palestine |
4037865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan%20Sri%20Dato%27%20Haji%20Hassan%20Yunos%20Stadium | Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium | Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, also known as Larkin Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Larkin, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000 people and opened in 1964. It is named after former Menteri Besar of Johor, Tan Sri Hassan Yunus.
History
The stadium was built in 1964, but back then it was only a minor venue with 15,000 people to accommodate. In 1991, the capacity was doubled after a minor revamp. Athletics track, floodlight masts and media infrastructure also came in allowing the ground to host major events. One of the major events came in 1997 when the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship was played at the venue. Seats were installed as part of the event preparation.
Events
1992 Sukma Games
1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
References
Football venues in Malaysia
Buildings and structures in Johor Bahru
Rugby union stadiums in Malaysia
Athletics (track and field) venues in Malaysia
Multi-purpose stadiums in Malaysia
Sports venues in Johor
Sports venues completed in 1964 |
4037872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Surer | Christina Surer | Christina Surer (born 26 March 1974 in Basel) is a Swiss race car driver. She spent several years in go-karts before participating in the Ford Superseries (2002), Alfa 147 Cup (2002) and the Ford Fiesta Cup (2003). She has participated in two 24 Hours Nürburgring races (2004, 2005) and since 2004, has been racing in the Seat Leon Supercopa.
Surer has modelled for Playboy and was married to Formula One driver Marc Surer from 1997 to 2000. In 2012, she became engaged to DTM racer Martin Tomczyk. Aside from racing and modelling, she hosts television programs.
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt
Racing drivers' wives and girlfriends
Swiss racing drivers
Swiss female racing drivers |
4037874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuanku%20Abdul%20Rahman%20Stadium | Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium | Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium (STAR; Malay: Stadium Tuanku Abdul Rahman) also known as the 'STAR of Paroi' is a multi-purpose stadium in Paroi, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000 people and was opened in 1992. In 2004, the capacity of stadium had been upgraded to 45,000 people for the hosting of the 2004 Sukma Games. It is currently home of Negeri Sembilan Football association.
The stadium is named in honor of Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, the eighth Yamtuan Besar of Seri Menanti, the second Yamtuan Besar of modern day Negeri Sembilan and the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
See also
Sport in Malaysia
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20140327083902/http://www.worldstadiums.com/asia/countries/malaysia.shtml
Football venues in Malaysia
Athletics (track and field) venues in Malaysia
Multi-purpose stadiums in Malaysia
Negeri Sembilan FA
Sports venues in Negeri Sembilan
1992 establishments in Malaysia |
4037881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastlake%20High%20School%20%28Chula%20Vista%2C%20California%29 | Eastlake High School (Chula Vista, California) | Eastlake High School (ELH or EHS), in Chula Vista, California, United States, is a four-year high school which opened on September 8, 1992. The school is located just east of California State Route 125 near the eastern edge of Chula Vista in the neighborhood of Eastlake, a suburb located 20 minutes southeast of Downtown San Diego. The movie Bring It On, was partially filmed at the school's football stadium.
The Ruth Chapman Performing Arts Center, located on campus, is used for band and orchestra concerts, dance performances, plays, church services, and other community performances. The school also features an amphitheatre for pep rallies and seating during lunch and nutrition break. The school also features an observatory and an engineering department, with classes ranging from Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) to Aerospace engineering.
Academic Performance
The school received an Academic Performance Index score of 854 for the 2012 school year, which was the highest score by a high school in the Sweetwater Union High School District.
Programs
The Japanese supplementary school Minato School began teaching classes at Eastlake High in 1996. As of 2015 Minato no longer holds classes there.
Sports
Fall Sports:
- American football
- Girls' Volleyball
- Cheerleading
- Girls' Golf- Metro League Champs
- Cross Country
- Boys' Water Polo
- Field Hockey
Winter Sports
- Boys' Basketball
- Girls' Basketball
- Boys' Soccer
- Girls' Soccer
- Wrestling/ Girls & Boys
- Girls' Water Polo
- Roller Hockey
Spring Sports:
- Baseball
- Softball
- Track and Field
- Boys & Girls' Volleyball
- Boys' Tennis
- Boys' Golf
-Girls' Gymnastics
- Swim & Dive
- Lacrosse
Notable alumni
Valentino Arteaga, drummer for Lower Definition and Of Mice & Men
Adrián González, Major League Baseball first baseman
Tony Jefferson, NFL Defensive Back
Marcelo Mayer, first-round selection in the 2021 MLB draft
Eddy Marshburn, lead guitarist of the band Lower Definition
Stefan Toler bass guitarist of the band Lower Definition
William Dunkle, offensive guard for the Philadelphia Eagles
References
External links
School website
Educational institutions established in 1992
High schools in San Diego County, California
Public high schools in California
1992 establishments in California
Education in Chula Vista, California |
4037893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphyta%20%28moth%29 | Symphyta (moth) | Symphyta is a genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. The genus was erected by Turner in 1902. All species were described from Australia.
Species
From Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms:
Symphyta psaropis Turner, 1902
Symphyta nyctopis Turner, 1902
Symphyta colpodes Turner, 1924
Symphyta oxygramma (Lower, 1902)
Symphyta nephelodes (Turner, 1924)
External links
Lasiocampidae |
4037898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beewolf | Beewolf | Beewolves (genus Philanthus), also known as bee-hunters or bee-killer wasps, are solitary, predatory wasps, most of which prey on bees, hence their common name. The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the territorial males mark twigs and other objects with pheromones to claim the territory from competing males.
As with all other sphecoid wasps, the larvae are carnivorous, forcing the inseminated females to hunt for other invertebrates (in this case bees), on which she lays her eggs, supplying the larvae with prey when they emerge. The adults consume nectar from flowers.
The prevalent European species, P. triangulum, specializes in preying upon honey bees, thus making it a minor pest for beekeepers. Other Philanthus may specialize in other bee species or they may be generalists which prey upon a wide variety of bees such as the American bumblebee, Bombus pensylvanicus, or other hymenopterans, including conspecifics.
They are notable for stinging their prey in a membranous location on the ventral surface, where the venom quickly paralyzes major voluntary muscles, yet does not kill the prey. The prey may attempt to sting in return, but it is always grabbed in such a way that only well-armored portions of the beewolf's body are presented. The beewolf carries its prey back to a tunnel, but usually only stores it temporarily, until it is later used to provision a cell burrow, where an egg is laid.
The tunnel of Philanthus triangulum can be as much as 1 m long. The first part of the tunnel slopes downward at an angle of 30°, after which it levels out. Up to 34 lateral tunnels, each ending in a brood chamber, branch off from the main tunnel. Each brood chamber is stocked with one to six honeybees.
Species
The genus Philanthus contains about 135 species, including:
Gallery
See also
List of Philanthus species
References
External links
Semiochemicals of Genus Philanthus. Pherobase.
Philanthus. BugGuide.net
Crabronidae
Apoidea genera
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius |
4037908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Matie | Die Matie | Die Matie is a student newspaper at the University of Stellenbosch. Founded in 1941, Die Matie is published every second Wednesday during the academic term. The editorial content includes sections on news, student life, sport, arts and entertainment, current affairs and news from other campuses. The entire production of Die Matie – from photos, articles and advertisements to page layout and distribution – is managed by the editorial staff; all students.
History
On August 1, 1941, the first issue of Die Matie student newspaper was published in Stellenbosch.
Distribution
8,000 copies of the newspaper are distributed on the main campus of Stellenbosch, as well as on the three satellite campuses, the medical campus at Tygerberg, military campus at Saldanha and business school in Bellville. Die Matie has an estimated readership of 16 000 students, staff and Stellenbosch residents. In addition to print the paper is also published electronically though an online archive.
Structure
With every edition of Die Matie a pre-elected editorial team member has the responsibility of compiling a supplement, either on: motoring, lifestyle, travel, science & technology and health.
The editor of this supplement is expected to gather advertisements for the supplement (as ads pay for the printing of the supplement), the collection of editorial content, photos and for the layout of the supplement.
Financing
Although Die Matie receives a small subsidy from Stellenbosch University's Student Affairs Department, all printing costs and some of the office upkeep is covered by advertisements, which are the responsibility of Die Maties advertising manager (also a student and member of the editorial team).
See also
List of newspapers in South Africa
MFM 92.6, Stellenbosch University's radio station
External links
Official Homepage
Official Online Archive
Stellenbosch University Homepage
Student Representative Council
The full history
Student newspapers published in South Africa
Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans-language newspapers
Mass media in Stellenbosch
1941 establishments in South Africa |
4037909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Fada%20Oriana | A Fada Oriana | A Fada Oriana (), Portuguese for The Fairy Oriana, is one of the most emblematic children's book of Portuguese literature, written in 1958 by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
The main character is a fairy who was given the responsibility of ensuring the well-being of a forest and its inhabitants, the animals and plants. After a while, Oriana befriends a nefarious fish, and while contemplating her image reflected in the river, Oriana is mesmerized by the fish. Deceived by the words of this fish, Oriana ends up neglecting and abandoning the forest, with serious consequences for its denizens. Deprived of her powers as punishment for this failure, Oriana begins a journey of self-consciousness to repair the evils caused by her omission.
The book is a subject on Portuguese Language teaching curricula. It has been adapted to children's theatre several times, and has inspired derived works of illustration
and animation.
References
1958 children's books
Children's fiction books
Fairies and sprites in popular culture
Portuguese children's literature |
4037912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Asimov%20Awards | Isaac Asimov Awards | Four distinct awards have been named for writer, chemist, and humanist Isaac Asimov.
The Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Writing, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, is an annual award open to undergraduate college students and given to the author of the best science fiction or fantasy short story. Established by the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, the award is typically given for character-driven stories of the type published in that magazine.
The ASIMOV Prize () for popular science books, edited in the Italian language. Its organising committee is composed by several hundred of professors and PhD students from all over Italy. Originally established at Gran Sasso Science Institute, it grew and became a national prize thanks to INFN and many other scientific institutions. The winner is selected by a large jury of high school students, about 3300 in the last edition. The 1st recipient (2016) was the chemist Peter Atkins, the 2nd one (2017) was the medical doctor Roberto Burioni, the 3rd ones (2018) are Helen Czerski and Marco Malvaldi ex aequo, the 4th one the neurophysiologist Lamberto Maffei. The winner of the 5th (2020) edition is the mathematician Hannah Fry.
The skeptical organization CSICOP created an Isaac Asimov Award, established in 1994 "to honor Asimov for his extraordinary contributions to science and humanity". The first recipient was Asimov's friend Carl Sagan. Stephen Jay Gould was also a winner.
In 1998, the American Humanist Association awarded its first Isaac Asimov Award to Eugenie Scott. Awardees since then have included Robert Sapolsky, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Steve Wozniak, Richard Leakey and Lynn J. Rothschild.
References
External links
Award information from Asimov's
List of past winners of the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Writing / Dell Magazines Award
American literary awards
Isaac Asimov
Asimov |
4037915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungcheng%20Stadium | Chungcheng Stadium | The Chungcheng Stadium (), opened in 1986, is a multi-use stadium in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is employed to hold several (athletics) events.
On 20 October 1996, Michael Jackson made a stop at the stadium for his HIStory World Tour playing to a sell out crowd of 35,000 fans.
Transportation
The stadium is accessible within walking distance South from Martial Arts Stadium Station of the Kaohsiung MRT.
See also
Sports in Taiwan
List of stadiums in Taiwan
References
1986 establishments in Taiwan
Athletics (track and field) venues in Taiwan
Football venues in Taiwan
Sports venues completed in 1986
Sports venues in Kaohsiung |
4037916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatushyamji%2C%20Rajasthan | Khatushyamji, Rajasthan | Khatushyamji or Khatu is a village, near Sikar city and religious importance in Sikar District in Dhundhar region of Rajasthan in India. It is home to a famous temple of Khatushyam. It is one of the most sacred temples in India.
Distances
Sikar: 55 km
Shrimadhopur: 33 km
Jaipur: 80 km
New Delhi: 266 km
Indore: 680 km
Jabalpur: 1000 km
Jeenmata: 26 km
Salasar Balaji:105
Mumbai : 1250 km
Kolkata : 1592 km
Hyderabad : 1775 km
Nagpur : 1200 km
Guwahati :2300 km
Varanasi : 940 km
Ahmedabad : 720 km
The nearest airport is Jaipur.
Features
Khatushyamji Temple
Khatushyamji's temple, constructed of the famous Makrana marble, is in the heart of the town. The temple of Baba Shyam is built in the middle of the town. The mere sight of the temple gives great peace to the mind. There is a big hall for worship in the temple, which is known as Jagmohan. There are mythological paintings on its four walls. The door of the sanctum sanctorum and its surroundings are decorated with silver lining. Baba's head is situated inside the sanctum sanctorum. Sheesh is decorated with beautiful flowers from all sides. There is a big ground outside the temple for the devotees. There is a fair ground on the right side of the temple. On this side the office of Shyam Mandir Committee, which handles the administration of the temple, is also located.
Veer Barbarik(Shyam Baba) is the son of Dvapara Yuga Bhimsen and Naag Kanya Ahilawati(daughter of Basak/Basuki Naag). Khatushyamji is considered to be the God of the Kali Yuga who shall perform incarnation (10th incarnation of Lord Vishnu) or an avatar, once the Kali Yuga is at its final stage, until then he was worshipped as KhatuShyamji. Shyamji is synonymous with Krishna and thus, he is worshipped in the same form. He is also known as khatu naresh(ruler of Khatu), sheesh ro dani (head donator), lakhdatar (one who gives after proper judgement), teen baan dhari(holder of three arrows), haarya ro sahhaaro (supporter of defeated), Ahilawati ro laal (son of Ahilawati), Pandav kul Avtar (Son of Pandav kul), Bhimsen ra Kanwar (grand son of Raja Bhim), leele ra aswar (rider of horse named Leela), baba shyam, etc. Shyam Baba is the community god of the Marwaris from the Dhundhar, Shekhawati, Bagad, Ahirwati and Haryana area and is widely revered by many other communities also. People from all over India come to seek his blessings every year, with a large following from Kolkata, West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab
During the Mahabharat war between Pandavas and Kaurvas, baba Shyam (Veer Barbrik) came to the war field with 3 baan (arrows) and Shree Krishna, even knowing his potential asked him reason for his arrival at war field with only 3 arrows and asked to prove his capabilities by targeting all leaves of a Pipal tree(having uncountable leaves) with just one arrow and placed one leaf under his own feet. Baba took the bow and an arrow and made a hole in all leaves with one arrow and also hit the leaf under the foot of Lord Krishna. On asking to whom he will support in the Mahabharat, veer Barbrik told that he will support the one being defeated. Then considering his such act to be against the Pandavas scope to win, Lord Krishna asked him that the war needs one stringent fighters sacrifice (only 3 such fighters being available – Krishan himself, Arjun and Barbrik), Baba offered himself for ultimate sacrifice and donated his head that's why reminded and worshipped in Kali Yuga as "sheesh ke daani & haare ka sahara", as announced by Lord Krishna and also the name Shyam was given by Lord Krishna.
Shyam Kund
It is the holy pond near the temple from which the Sheesh (Head) was retrieved. It is believed that a dip in this pond cures a person from ailments and brings good health. People come at Falgun Mela from various places here and assume sacred after taking bath. People take water from here which they use to remove several diseases.
Shyam Bagicha
A blessed garden near the temple from where the flowers are picked to be offered to the deity. The great devotee Lt. Alu Singhji's Samadhi is also in the premises.
Gourishankar Temple
This is a Shiva temple which is near Khatushyamji's temple. There is a legend that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's soldiers wanted to destroy this temple, and attacked the Shiva Linga with a spear. Fountains of blood appeared from the Shiva Linga, and the soldiers ran away, terrified. One can still see the mark of the spear on the Linga.
References
2. Khatu shyam ji website
Hindu holy cities
Locations in Hindu mythology
Villages in Sikar district |
4037917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusheng | Lusheng | The lusheng (, ; Vietnamese: Khèn Mông; also spelled lu sheng; spelled ghengx in standard Hmong and qeej in Laotian RPA Hmong) is a Hmong musical instrument. It has a long history of 3000 years in China, traced back to the Tang Dynasty. It is a mouth organ with multiple bamboo pipes, each fitted with a free reed, which are fitted into a long blowing tube made of hardwood. It most often has five or six pipes of different pitches and is thus a polyphonic instrument. Its construction includes six parts (mouthpiece, air feed pipe, sheng dou (笙斗, body), sheng guan (笙管, pipes), reed, and resonator tube). It comes in sizes ranging from very small to several meters in length.
The lusheng is used primarily in the rural regions of southwestern China (e.g. Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan) and in nearby countries such as Laos and Vietnam, where it is played by such ethnic groups as the Miao (Hmong-Hmyo-Hmao-Hmu-Xong) and Dong. The lusheng has special cultural significance in the Miao regions due to its role in marriage and religious ceremonies. At the lusheng festival (September 27–29), performers often dance or swing the instrument from side to side while playing. Since the late 20th century, a modernized version of the instrument has been used in compositions, often as a solo instrument. The lusheng production technique has been recorded in China's State-Level Non-Material Cultural Heritage List since May 20, 2006.
History
The lusheng can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty with a history of 3000 years in China. It is originated from the Central Plains Region of China. After spreading to the rural regions of southwestern China, lusheng became one of the favorite traditional instruments in several Chinese minority ethnic groups (in particular, the Miao, Yao, Dong, and Yi). It is believed to have evolved from the Yu (wind instrument), which is a free-reed wind instrument originated in the Han nationality.
In the Miao region, there is a folk legend about the origin of the lusheng. According to the legend, the world had nine suns in ancient times that caused heavy drought. People struggled to survive and built huge bows and arrows, shooting down eight of the nine suns. This scared the last sun, which kept itself hidden in the clouds. Without the sunshine, there was always night and crops failed to grow. To induce the last sun to come out, people produced the lusheng and played music. The beautiful melody from the lusheng successfully attracted the sun to come out again. After that, playing lusheng became a tradition and cultural expression of the Miao people.
Modern development of lusheng
On May 20, 2006, the production techniques on lusheng of the Miao nationality group was approved by China State Council and listed in the State-Level Non-Material Cultural Heritage List. The production techniques used to produce the lusheng advanced techniques of reed musical instruments production in ancient China, connecting Chinese Miao and other Miao ethnic groups around the world.
Construction
A traditional lusheng consists of six parts: mouthpiece, air feed pipe, sheng dou (笙斗, body), sheng guan (笙管, pipes), reed, and resonator tube. The mouthpiece is thin bamboo, which is connected to the air feed pipe and the sheng dou (笙斗, body); six bamboo-made sheng guan (笙管, pipes) of different lengths and with reeds at the bottom are inserted into the sheng dou (笙斗, body), each of which has a press hole and is equipped with a bamboo resonator tube at the upper or lower end of the different bamboo pipes.
sheng dou
Sheng dou (笙斗), which is also called a gas box, is the body of the lusheng. It is mostly made of cedar, pine or wu tong (梧桐) wood. It has a spindle shape, with 46~56 cm in length, 4 ~ 9 cm in width, and 3.5 ~ 8 cm in height. During the production, a whole piece of blank material is split into two halves, and each inner chamber will be hollowed out respectively. Then two halves will be glued after loading into the sheng guan (笙管, pipes) with seven turns of thin gabions around the outer part. The sheng dou (笙斗) often has the color of light yellow, decorated with tung oil on the outside. Its beautiful appearance made lusheng has the reputation of "golden sheng".
sheng guan
Sheng guan (笙管, pipes) is mostly made out of white bamboo, which has a thin diameter (1.2 cm), long joints (40~50 cm), uniform thickness, and thin walls. They are inserted longitudinally at an angle of 75° to 90° into the sheng dou (笙斗). The height of sheng guan (笙管) varied based on a different level of tones: soprano lusheng is 14.5 cm ~ 30 cm high, alto lusheng is 30 cm ~ 58 cm high, bass lusheng is 58 cm ~ 105 cm high, times bass lusheng is 105 cm ~ 210 cm high.
reed
Reed is the soundbox of lusheng, mostly is made from ringing copper. Its size varies depending on the pitch: The pitch of c, c1, c2 has the length of 4 cm, 3.5 cm, 2.5 cm, and the width of 0.25 cm, 0.2 cm, 0.15 cm, respectively. The lusheng reed can also be made of brass, while it is not as crisp as the sound of copper.
resonator tube
The resonator tube acts as the "microphone" of the lusheng. It is a bamboo tube set on the upper end of the sheng guan (笙管) and is mostly made of Moso bamboo. Two types of resonator tube are used in the production, which is movable and fixed. Its length varied with different pitches: c, c1, c2 have length of 60 cm, 30 cm, 15 cm, respectively.
Culture and Festivals
In marriage custom
The lusheng plays an important role in pursuing love in Miao culture. Among traditional Miao (Hmong), intermarriage is prohibited between people of the same surname. Instead, Miao people usually choose their mates through collective activities. During annual spring farming periods, Miao people will build lusheng fields in Hmong villages as places for people to choose their spouses. In the lusheng fields, young men and women from different villages gather together, playing lusheng and dance to get to know each other. When a Miao man picks his mate, he will play lusheng songs like "asking for a flower belt" and ask for a love token from the woman.
In religion custom
In the Miao religion, they believe lusheng is a spiritual instrument (an animism belief) and has a certain effect on the gods. Between the beginning of spring and autumn harvest, lusheng playing is prohibited. During that period, Miao people will wipe the lusheng clean and tie it with red cloth, plugging the sheng guan with cotton flowers and placing it in the reed-pipe hall. Otherwise, it is believed that the sound of lusheng during harvest season will offend the gods. Violators are subject to reprimand by the elders of the tribe.
Lusheng can be used in funerals, as its sound signifies death. In the funeral ceremony, Miao people will play lusheng to release the souls of dead people from suffering. They believe lusheng symbolizes a strong blood tie between the Miao people and their ancestors.
lusheng festival in Miao
Miao lusheng festival (also called lusheng fair) occurs on September 27 and lasts for three days. It has become a traditional festival with hundreds of thousands of Miao people participating. During the festival, a lusheng competition takes place among individuals and among teams composed of five people. They play lusheng music and dance in ritualized forms (lusheng dance). The players with more tunes and brighter sounds will win and their lusheng will be hung with red ribbons, as a symbol of honor in the village. Other activities also take place during lusheng festival to increase the jubilant atmosphere, including horse racing, bird-fighting, and cock fighting.
See also
Sheng (instrument)
Khene
Yu (wind instrument)
Hulusheng
Mangtong
Music of China
Traditional Chinese musical instruments
References
External links
Lusheng page (Chinese)
Lusheng and Qeej
Video
Traditional Hmong lusheng performance in Guizhou
Traditional Hmong lusheng performance in Guizhou
Traditional Hmong lusheng performance in Rongshui, Liuzhou, Guangxi
Modernized lusheng performance
Chinese musical instruments
Sets of free reeds
Laotian musical instruments
Mouth organs |
4037920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao%20Stadium | Banqiao Stadium | The Banqiao Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is administered by the New Taipei City Government. It consists of several parts, of which the Banqiao First Stadium (Traditional Chinese: 板橋第一運動場) is able to hold 30,000 people and was opened in 1987. It is currently used mostly for football matches. In recent years, it has also been used for outdoor concerts. Guns N' Roses kicked off their 2009-2011 World Tour at the stadium on 11 December 2009.
Transportation
The stadium is accessible within walking distance South East from Banqiao Station.
See also
List of stadiums in Taiwan
References
1987 establishments in Taiwan
Buildings and structures in New Taipei
Football venues in Taiwan
Multi-purpose stadiums in Taiwan
Sport in New Taipei
Tourist attractions in New Taipei
Banqiao District |
4037924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunlin%20County%20Stadium | Yunlin County Stadium | The Yunlin County Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Douliu City, Yunlin County, Taiwan. The stadium is able to hold 10,000 people.
Transportation
The stadium is accessible within walking distance South West from Douliu Station of the Taiwan Railways Administration.
See also
List of stadiums in Taiwan
External links
Yunlin County Stadium
Buildings and structures in Yunlin County
Football venues in Taiwan |
4037927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20and%20John | Bob and John | Bob and John (foaled May 17, 2003 in Kentucky; died December 10, 2018 on Jeju Island, South Korea) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. He was the son of Seeking The Gold out of the mare Minister's Melody. His sire is a son of Mr. Prospector and his dam is from Deputy Minister. Bob and John was bred and raced by Stonerside Stable. He was trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Garrett Gomez.
As a three-year-old, Bob and John was a top contender for the Kentucky Derby after winning the Sham and Wood Memorial Stakes, beating Jazil in the latter. He finished seventeenth in the Derby and eighth in the Belmont Stakes. Raced at age four in 2007, his best result was a win in the Grade III Lone Star Park Handicap.
Bob and John was retired from racing in August 2007 to stand at Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, but died on December 10, 2018 at Isidore Farm on the South Korean Jeju Island.
Races
References
External links
National Thoroughbred Racing Association bio
Bob and John's pedigree and stats
2003 racehorse births
2018 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 21-a |
4037931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taichung%20Municipal%20Stadium | Taichung Municipal Stadium | Taiwan Provincial Stadium (now Taichung Municipal Stadium) is a multi-use stadium in North District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium is able to hold 30,000 people and was opened in 1950.
See also
List of stadiums in Taiwan
External links
National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sport Stadium - Ministry of Education
Football venues in Taiwan
Athletics (track and field) venues in Taiwan
Buildings and structures in Taichung
Sport in Taichung
Multi-purpose stadiums in Taiwan |
4037936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Airkewwa | Ċirkewwa | Ċirkewwa is a harbour situated in the northernmost point of Malta.
It is the site of the Ċirkewwa Ferry Terminal, where regular car ferries operate to the port of Mġarr in Gozo. In the summer, boat trips to Comino also operate, as well as organised diving excursions. As Ċirkewwa is a point on the northernmost end of the island, and not a town, there is no major infrastructure besides the terminal.
Visitors travelling to Gozo can reach Ċirkewwa by car by following road signs to Gozo, and by bus from Valletta, Sliema, Buġibba and St. Paul's Bay.
Near the harbour there is a hotel and Paradise Bay, a sandy beach.
Diving in Ċirkewwa
Ċirkewwa is one of the most visited scuba diving sites on the Maltese Islands. It has underwater cliffs, caves, tunnels and an arch down to the seabed at 27m. Ċirkewwa also includes the wrecks of the tugboat MV Rozi and the P29 patrol boat, which were intentionally sunk in 1992 and 2007 respectively. Out towards Marfa Point is a statue of the Virgin Mary which was placed in a natural cavern by the Amphibians Diving Club.
From the middle of 2010, divers have been cooperating to designate Ċirkewwa as a Voluntary Marine Reserve. The site now has the support of the diving community which is working to gain the support of the fishing, angling and boating communities to implement a code of conduct to preserve and protect the site.
References
External links
Gozo Channel Company Limited
Malta Amphibians Dive club
Cirkewwa Voluntary Marine Reserve
Coordinates:
Geography of Malta
Underwater diving sites in Malta
Mellieħa
Ports and harbours of Malta |
4037939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobruja%20Plateau | Dobruja Plateau | The Dobruja Plateau or Dobrogea Plateau () is a plateau in eastern Romania located in the Dobruja () region, surrounded to the north and west by the Danube and to the east by the Danube Delta and the Black Sea.
Its average altitude is around 200–300 metres, higher in the northern part. The highest point is the Țuțuiatu/Greci Peak in the Măcin Mountains, at a height of 467 m.
The climate is slightly warmer and more arid than in the rest of Romania and as such, its flora contains some Mediterranean species.
The Casimcea River and Taița River flow through it from west to east. There are several lakes, including some lagoons, the most important being Oltina Lake, Bugeac Lake, Mangalia Lake, Techirghiol Lake, Siutghiol Lake, Lake Tașaul, and Razim Lake.
Subdivisions
Its main subdivisions are:
Măcin Mountains
Casimcea Plateau
Tulcea Hills
Medgidia Plateau
Negru Vodă Plateau
Oltina Plateau
Istria Plateau
References
Dobruja
Plateaus of Romania |
4037941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Lead%20Actress%20in%20a%20Drama%20Series | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a television drama series for the primetime network season.
The award was first presented at the 6th Primetime Emmy Awards on February 11, 1954. The acting awards presented during the inaugural years were not genre-specific, with actresses in either drama or comedy series receiving nominations and awards. While Eve Arden was the first winner in the female acting category, Loretta Young was the first actress to win for a lead performance in a drama series. By 1966, the acting awards were split into drama and comedy categories, undergoing several name changes until settling with the current title.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 36 actresses, with 31 winning for performances in a drama series. At four awards, Tyne Daly and Michael Learned hold the record for most wins in the category. Angela Lansbury is the most nominated actress in the category, with twelve nominations, though she has never won the award. In 2015, Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to win the award, for her performance as Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away with Murder". Zendaya is the youngest recipient of the award, for her work on Euphoria. As of 2021, Olivia Colman is the most recent recipient for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II on The Crown.
Winners and nominations
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
6 wins
Cagney & Lacey (consecutive)
3 wins
The Loretta Young Show
Mission: Impossible (consecutive)
Picket Fences (2 consecutive)
The Sopranos
The Waltons (2 consecutive)
2 wins
China Beach
The Crown
Damages
Father Knows Best
The Good Wife
Hazel
Homeland (consecutive)
Thirtysomething
The West Wing
Programs with multiple nominations
12 nominations
Cagney & Lacey
Murder, She Wrote (consecutive)
9 nominations
The Sopranos
8 nominations
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7 nominations
ER
L.A. Law
6 nominations
Hill Street Blues
House of Cards
The Loretta Young Show
Mad Men
The Waltons
5 nominations
The Closer
The Crown
Family
Homeland
Killing Eve
Six Feet Under
4 nominations
Alias
Chicago Hope
China Beach
Dallas
Damages
Fame
The Good Wife
How to Get Away with Murder
Mission: Impossible
The Mod Squad
Picket Fences
The X-Files
The West Wing
3 nominations
The Americans
The Big Valley
Brothers & Sisters
The Donna Reed Show
Downton Abbey
The Handmaid's Tale
Hazel
I Love Lucy
Lassie
Orphan Black
Our Miss Brooks
Police Woman
The Rockford Files
Sisters
2 nominations
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
Charlie's Angels
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Dynasty
Empire
Father Knows Best
Fireside Theatre
Friday Night Lights
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Harry's Law
Hart to Hart
Here Come the Brides
I'll Fly Away
Judging Amy
McMillan & Wife
Medium
Nurse
Once and Again
Ozark
Private Secretary
Saving Grace
Scandal
Thirtysomething
Touched by an Angel
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
Upstairs, Downstairs
Westworld
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Tyne Daly (3 consecutive)
Michael Learned (2 consecutive)
3 wins
Barbara Bain (consecutive)
Kathy Baker (2 consecutive)
Edie Falco
Loretta Young
2 wins
Glenn Close (consecutive)
Claire Danes (consecutive)
Dana Delany
Sharon Gless (consecutive)
Susan Hampshire (consecutive)
Allison Janney
Julianna Margulies
Barbara Stanwyck
Sela Ward
Patricia Wettig (consecutive)
Jane Wyatt
Performers with multiple nominations
12 nominations
Angela Lansbury (consecutive)
8 nominations
Sharon Gless
Mariska Hargitay
Michael Learned
Julianna Margulies
Elisabeth Moss
6 nominations
Tyne Daly
Claire Danes
Edie Falco
Robin Wright
Loretta Young
5 nominations
Glenn Close
Veronica Hamel
Kyra Sedgwick
4 nominations
Debbie Allen
Gillian Anderson
Kathy Baker
Frances Conroy
Viola Davis
Dana Delany
Jill Eikenberry
Jennifer Garner
Allison Janney
Christine Lahti
Peggy Lipton
Barbara Stanwyck
Sada Thompson
3 nominations
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bel Geddes
Lorraine Bracco
Amy Brenneman
Connie Britton
Jan Clayton
Susan Dey
Angie Dickinson
Michelle Dockery
Sally Field
Tatiana Maslany
Sandra Oh
Keri Russell
Sherry Stringfield
Sela Ward
2 nominations
Patricia Arquette
Kathy Bates
Joan Blondell
Olivia Colman
Jodie Comer
Roma Downey
Claire Foy
Susan Hampshire
Marg Helgenberger
Taraji P. Henson
Holly Hunter
Kate Jackson
Swoosie Kurtz
Laura Linney
Jean Marsh
Stefanie Powers
Diana Rigg
Susan Saint James
Jane Seymour
Regina Taylor
Kerry Washington
Patricia Wettig
Evan Rachel Wood
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyatt
Notes
See also
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
References
Lead Actress - Drama Series
Emmy Award |
4037946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Nobs | Olivia Nobs | Olivia Nobs (born 18 November 1982 in La Chaux-de-Fonds) is a Swiss snowboarder. Nobs captured the silver medal in snowboard cross at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 in South Korea.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Nobs took the bronze in the Women's Snowboard Cross.
References
Official website
FIS-Ski.com Biography/Results
Swiss female snowboarders
Olympic snowboarders of Switzerland
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
1982 births
Living people
Olympic medalists in snowboarding
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel |
4037951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%20Derek | Brother Derek | Brother Derek (foaled March 31, 2003 in California) is a thoroughbred horse. He was bred by Mary H. Caldwell and owned by Cecil N. Peacock.
Trained by Dan Hendricks, Brother Derek began racing at age two in California. He won his 2005 debut race as well as the Norfolk Stakes before finishing fourth to winner Stevie Wonderboy in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Three-year-old season
In 2006, following three straight stakes wins in California including the Grade I Santa Anita Derby, Brother Derek was regarded as a leading contender for the Triple Crown. He was made the pre-race betting favorite for the Kentucky Derby but as a horse who traditionally is a front runner, after drawing the very difficult outside post position #18 his odds dropped sharply. In the Derby, he finished in a dead heat for fourth place with Jazil.
Then two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Maryland Brother Derek broke slow and had to be steadied by his jockey Alex Solis after being bumped. Then he checked off the heals of Barbaro and as they passed the stands for the first time, Brother Derek was four lengths back. Going into the club house turn he altered course way out in the five path rushed up to within a head of the leader Like Now down the back stretch in :46-3/5 for a half mile. At the beginning of the final turn eventual runner-up Sweetnorthernsaint passed Brother Derek and then Like Now to take the lead. Brother Derek continued to chase the leaders drifting out four wide on this turn. At the quarter poll Eclipse Award Champion Bernardini passed Brother Derek and the others and to win while Brother Derek faded to fourth earning his second straight check in a classic race, this one for $60,000.
Four-year-old season
In 2007 Brother Derek finished third in both the San Fernando Stakes and the Strub Stakes after which he underwent surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle. He did not race again until 2008 but after one start, in late July his owner announced that Brother Derek was being retired from racing and would enter stud in 2009 at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Kentucky.
References
Brother Derek's pedigree and partial racing stats
National Thoroughbred Racing Association's bio
2003 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in California
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 1-g |
4037955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Pinchudos | Los Pinchudos | Los Pinchudos is an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex, perched in a high rock cleft in one of Peru's northern Andean cloud forests. Los Pinchudos is located in Río Abiseo National Park, a natural and cultural World Heritage Site, guarded and closed to all except scientific missions. The clay and stone tombs of the complex have wooden roofs and are painted in red, yellow, black, and white colors. Anthropomorphic carvings featuring prominent phalluses are responsible for giving the site its name. Los Pinchudos is located very near the related site of Gran Pajaten.
Preservation
Due to the tombs' deteriorated condition, a result of seismic activity, exposure to the tropical environment, and damage by tourists, Los Pinchudos was listed in the 2000 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. In 2000 American Express offered $47,000 through the Fund for an emergency conservation and structural stabilization project. While these emergency actions were successful, the site was also listed on the 2002 World Monuments Watch in order to raise awareness for additional conservation work required at the site and for the need of a permanent site management plan.
"Los Pinchudos" are large statues which feature male anatomy. These inspired the name, "Los Pinchudos", which is slang for "the ones with big penises."-Gwin Peter. The researchers believe that these tombs and their surroundings can teach us many things about the vanished culture. The site is located in the Rio Abiseo National Park which is a natural and cultural World Heritage, which has been closed to the public and where tourism is not permitted at all. Government officials are studying to see if they can figure out how this area can be accessed, which has to be done with caution because this is a site where there is always research going on. Not only are tourist not allowed but the scientist have some areas that are restricted to them as well in order to protect the cloud forest, the archaeological sites, and keep the extreme rare yellow-tailed woolly monkey from going extinct. Los Pinchudos is a precious cultural and natural place. It is the ancient burial of ground of the Chachapoyas. The fact that these monuments are exposed to extreme weather due to the tropical environment has brought the structures there to the verge of collapse. Still to this day they wonder how the wooden statues of Los Pinchudos have yet not rotted away.
References
External links
Gwin, Peter : Tombs of Peru's Cloud People, National Geographic. Jun2004, Vol.205 Issue 6, p. 56-59
Bibliography of Research at Gran Pajatén, Los Pinchudos and the Rio Abiseo National Park since 1985 - Columbus State University
Archaeological sites in Peru
Archaeological sites in San Martín Region |
4037956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Kerrigan | Jonathan Kerrigan | Jonathan Kerrigan (born 14 October 1972) is an English actor well known for various leading roles on TV including In The Club, The Five, Casualty, Heartbeat, Merseybeat and Reach For The Moon. Films include Diana, FLiM,
The Somnambulists and The Best Possible Taste. He is also a musician and has composed for both television and film.
Career
He had his screen debut in the Chemical Brothers music video, "Life Is Sweet". In Peak Practice he played climber Ewan Harvey.
From 1996 to 1999 he played a Project 2000 nurse, Sam Colloby, in BBC medical drama Casualty.
In 2001, as well as starring in Merseybeat as Police Constable Steve Traynor, Kerrigan also composed the theme tune.
On 5 September 2004, Kerrigan made his first appearance as police constable Rob Walker in the British popular and long-running primetime television drama series Heartbeat, set in the 1960s in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Rob was an extremely popular character and was always in the thick of the action, including having a relationship with Helen Trent (played by Sophie Ward) who was separated but still married at the time. They went on to get married but Helen was tragically killed in an explosion in the Police House, which left Rob devastated. In April 2007, Kerrigan announced his decision to quit his role as PC Rob Walker in Heartbeat. Scottish actor Joseph McFadden replaced him as village constable Joe Mason in the following series of the show. Kerrigan's departure marked the end of another chapter in the series history, as the viewers of the show saw PC Rob Walker ride off on his motorcycle into the sunset at the end of Series 16.
In May 2010, he appeared in episode 21 of the seventh series of the US crime drama NCIS playing the character Rex Carhartt.
In 2012, he appeared in a Richard Jobson film called The Somnambulists about British servicemen and women reflecting on the action they saw in Basra during the Iraq War.
He composed some of the original music for the film including the opening title sequence.
Also in 2012, he played John Alkin in BBC Four's The Best Possible Taste, a biography of Kenny Everett, as well as appearing in the film Diana which starred Naomi Watts and was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The film was released in 2013.
In 2014, he played Neil in In the Club, returning for Series 2, in 2016.
He also appeared in and wrote original music for an ongoing film project called FLiM by Raffaello Degruttola.
2015 was a busy year for Kerrigan. He filmed a ten-part drama for SKY 1 called The Five written by Harlen Coben playing American businessman Stuart Carew. He also filmed series 2 of In the Club, both of which are to be screened in 2016.
Kerrigan and his wife both appeared in Death in Paradise “Murder Most Animal” (S8:E2) in 2019. She played his wife. In 2021 he played Richard in 4th season of Kay Mellor's the Syndicate.
Personal life
In the 1990s, Kerrigan dated his Casualty co-star, Claire Goose. In 2011, he married actress Shelley Conn, whom he had been in a relationship with for a decade. In 2012 they had a son named Oscar.
References
External links
BDi Composer
1972 births
Living people
Alumni of Bretton Hall College
English people of Irish descent
English male television actors
English television composers
English male composers
People from Lincolnshire
People from Kentish Town |
4037957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludmila%27s%20Broken%20English | Ludmila's Broken English | Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre. It was published in March 2006.
Plot introduction
The novel follows two initially separate narratives set in the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe. Recently separated – at the age of 33 – conjoined twins Blair Albert and Gordon-Marie "Bunny" Heath struggle to cope with life in a post-globalisation and fully privatised London. Meanwhile, Ludmila Derev, an impoverished young woman living in the war-torn Southern Caucasus, leaves her mountain home to meet up with her boyfriend in the region's major town and send money back to her family. However, things start to go wrong and she ends up with her picture on a Russian Brides website. Slowly her life and those of the twins are drawn together.
Quotes
"Blair Albert and Gordon-Marie Heath were omphalopagus: conjoined anteriorly at the trunk. They shared certain organs, but not the heart."
"While Blair possessed the twins' physical power – forza – their cunning resided in Gordon, making him dominant in most situations, despite being the weaker twin."
After being sent to Eastern Europe by Blair's American boss, Truman, Blair gives the twins sachets of "solipsidrine" whenever they need some confidence. Bunny however thinks the drug has a major problem:
"Listen: the qualities removed by your so-called cocktail are there for a purpose, Blair. They're the little voices that stop us raping and pillaging. It might suit your Yank mate to do away with them, but we're civilised people, from an ancient, civilised country."
Later Bunny again talks of the drug:
"Do you know what this drug does? Do you know its single active quality? The suspension of conscience, Blair. Do you hear?"
Political parallels
The twins are named Blair Albert Heath and Gordon-Marie "Bunny" Heath – something many commentators have taken as a reference to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Their father is Ted Heath – a possible reference to Edward Heath.
Blair is employed by a company called "Global Liberty Solutions" run by an American, Truman (the surname of an American president, Harry Truman), to go to a foreign country and sort out a problem. He is given a drug, which suspends the "conscience", to get him through difficult situations. His arrival in the country leads to the shooting of the majority of Blair's hosts, and the rape of the family's daughter.
References
External links
Review of Ludmila's Broken English at The Sydney Morning Herald
Short interview with DBC Pierre – discussing Ludmila's Broken English
Faber and Faber
2006 British novels
British comedy novels
Novels by DBC Pierre
Faber and Faber books |
4037961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karytaina | Karytaina | Karytaina or Karitaina () is a village and a community in Arcadia, Greece. Karytaina is situated on a hill on the right bank of the river Alpheios, near its confluence with the Lousios. The village dates back to the Middle Ages, but its history is unknown before the Crusader conquest ca. 1205. Karytaina became the seat of a barony under the Frankish Principality of Achaea, and the Castle of Karytaina was built in the mid-13th century on a steep rocky outcrop by Baron Geoffrey of Briel. The area returned to Byzantine control in 1320, and came under Ottoman control in 1460. After a brief period of Venetian rule (1687–1715), Karytaina returned to Ottoman control, and prospered as an administrative and commercial centre. Karytaina and its inhabitants were among the first to rise up during the Greek War of Independence of 1821–29. Today Karytaina is a protected traditional settlement and has, alongside the remains of its Frankish castle, several other medieval and Ottoman monuments.
Location
Karytaina is from the capital of Arcadia, Tripoli, from Megalopoli and from Stemnitsa, built on the slopes of the hill of Achreiovouni, some 550 m above sea level.
The town was formerly the seat of the municipality of Gortyna, which also included the villages of Atsicholos, Katsimpalis, Kotylio, Kourounios, Kyparissia, Mavria, Sarakini, Vlachorraptis, Zoni, Palaiokastro, Karvounari, Kryoneri, Kalyvakia, Strongylo, Palatou. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Megalopoli.
Ηistory
The site of Karytaina is often identified with the ancient city of Brenthe, but although a settlement certainly existed there before the Frankish conquest in , few archaeological remains survive. The Greek archaeologist N.K. Moutsopoulos has suggested the existence of a 12th-century church inside the Karytaina Castle. The name of the town itself is of uncertain provenance: the most common theories are that it derives either from a Slavic root or is a corruption of Gortyna, but it has also been suggested that it derives from the Greek word for walnut, karydion, or from the female name Karitaina.
With the Frankish conquest and the establishment of the Principality of Achaea, Karytaina became one of the secular baronies into which the Morea was divided by the Crusaders. Karytaina was one of the largest baronies, and of special strategic importance: its position allowed it to control the southern part of the mountainous Skorta region and, through the ravine of the Alpheios valley, the main route connecting the Arcadian plateau with the coastal plains of Elis. The barony belonged to the Briel or Bruyères family. The third baron, Geoffrey of Briel, built the Castle of Karytaina and played a major role in the affairs of Frankish Greece in the middle of the 13th century, repeatedly defying even the Prince William II of Villehardouin. After Geoffrey's death in 1275, the barony gradually reverted to the princely domain, and was later held by Isabella of Villehardouin and her daughter, Margaret of Savoy. From the late 13th century, Karytaina was increasingly threatened by the attacks of the Byzantine Greeks of Mystras, until it finally fell to them in 1320.
The town and its castle lost their importance thereafter, and are only intermittently mentioned in the 14th–15th centuries until the time of the Ottoman conquest in 1460. The 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi mentions the town but did not visit it, while under Venetian rule (1687–1715) only the town, and not the castle, is mentioned by the Venetian governors. During the second period of Ottoman rule after 1715, the castle was abandoned and fell in ruins, and remained so until the 19th century. The town itself grew in importance as the centre of a district (kaza) and a marketplace, especially for wheat; it was also a centre for silk and carpet manufacture. At the turn of the 18th century, François Pouqueville recorded that the district comprised 130 villages with 28,170 inhabitants, of which 3,000 in Karytaina itself.
Karytaina was taken by the Greek rebels on the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and formed one of the first strongholds of the rebellion, earning the nickname "Bastion of 1821". In 1826 Theodoros Kolokotronis used it as a base of operations against Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt and as a shelter for women and children.
Sights
Κarytaina has been listed as a protected traditional settlement. Its unique townscape has earned Karytaina the moniker of the "Greek Toledo", and was depicted on the reverse of the Greek 5000 drachmas banknote in 1984–2001.
The main sight is the 13th-century Frankish castle, built at the top of the hill, with its highest point rising above the town. It consists of a triangular circuit wall, over 110 m in the long sides and ca. 40 m at its base, and a central structure which served as the barons' residence, built above the castle cistern. The castle was repaired by Kolokotronis, who erected a small church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and built his house outside the walls.
Also to the Frankish period, but repaired by the Byzantine lord Raoul Manuel Melikes in 1439/40, dates the bridge that crosses the Alpheios over five arches. The town also has several churches, of which the most notable are the cathedral of the Annunciation (Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου Evangelismós tis Theotokou), built in 1878; the 11th-century Church of St. Nicholas (Άγιος Νικόλαος Áyios Nikólaos); the 15th-century Church of the Life-giving Spring (Ζωοδόχος Πηγή Zoodóchos Piyí), distinguished by its tall bell-tower; the church of St. Athanasios, at the entrance of the town, dedicated to Karytaina's patron saint, who was the bishop of the city in the early 18th century. Further landmarks also include ruins of Byzantine-era tower,s and of a Turkish bath, and the large Kavia cave (σπήλαιο Κάβιας spíleo Kávias). Karytaina hosts several events in August, most notably the annual Women's Bazaar.
Nearby sights include the Lousios Gorge. Apart from its natural beauty, which includes the Vrontou waterfall, the gorge is also notable as the "Mount Athos of the Peloponnese" on account of the many monasteries that dot its walls.
Historical population
Notable individuals
Saint Athanasios (1664–1735), Bishop of Christianoupolis and Karytaina from 1711 until his death, known for his charitable work
Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos (1864–1921), jurist and Minister for Justice of Greece
Dimosthenis Valavanis (1829–1854), poet
See also
List of settlements in Arcadia
List of traditional settlements of Greece
References
Sources
External links
www.karitena.gr
Arcadia - Karytaina
Gortyna, Arcadia
Populated places in Arcadia, Peloponnese
Castles and fortifications of the Principality of Achaea |
4037962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermus%20thermophilus | Thermus thermophilus | Thermus thermophilus is a Gram-negative bacterium used in a range of biotechnological applications, including as a model organism for genetic manipulation, structural genomics, and systems biology. The bacterium is extremely thermophilic, with an optimal growth temperature of about . Thermus thermophilus was originally isolated from a thermal vent within a hot spring in Izu, Japan by Tairo Oshima and Kazutomo Imahori. The organism has also been found to be important in the degradation of organic materials in the thermogenic phase of composting.
T. thermophilus is classified into several strains, of which HB8 and HB27 are the most commonly used in laboratory environments. Genome analyses of these strains were independently completed in 2004.
Cell Structure
Thermus thermophilus is a Gram-negative bacterium with an outer membrane that is composed of phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides. This bacterium also has a thin peptidoglycan (also known as murein) layer, in this layer there are 29 muropeptides which account for more than 85% of the total murein layer. The presence of Ala, GLu, Gly, Orn, N-acetyl glucosamine and N-acetylmuramic were found in the murein layer of this bacterium. Another unique feature of this murein layer is that the N-terminal Gly is substituted with phenylacetic acid. This is the first instance of phenylacetic acid found in the murein of bacterial cells. The composition and peptide cross-bridges found in this murein layer are typical of Gram-positive bacterium, but the amount, the degree of the cross-linkage and length of the glycan chain gives this bacterium its Gram-negative properties.
Survival Mechanisms
Thermus thermophilus was originally found within a thermal vent in Japan. These bacteria can be found in a variety of geothermal environments. These Thermophiles require a more stringent DNA repair system, as DNA becomes unstable at high temperatures. The GC content of this bacterium is about 69%, this contributes to the thermostability of this bacterium's genome.
Strains
The two most widely used strains in laboratory settings are HB27 and HB8. The strain HB27 is capable of living in an aerobic or anaerobic environment. It has a genome that consists of a main chromosome (1.89Mb long), as well as a megaplasmid, known as pTT27 (0.23Mb long). The chromosome of HB27 contains 1,968 protein coding genes, with 20% of these genes having no known function. While the megaplasmid contains 230 protein coding genes, about 39% of these genes have no known function.
The strain HB8 is also an aerobic organism and is a model organism for systems biology. It has a genome consisting of a plasmid, known as pTT8 (9.3kb long), that is coupled with a chromosome (1.85Mb), as well as a megaplasmid, also known as pTT27 (0.26Mb). This strain was found to be a polyploid organism, with a chromosome and megaplasmid copy number of about four to five.
Applications
This organism has been advantageous for industrial biotechnological fields as it is an excellent source of enzymes, more specifically thermozymes. One of these enzymes being the rTth DNA polymerase.
rTth DNA polymerase is a recombinant thermostable DNA polymerase derived from Thermus thermophilus, with optimal activity at 70-80 °C, used in some PCR applications. The enzyme possesses efficient reverse transcriptase activity in the presence of manganese. This enzyme is beneficial for amplification of GC-rich targets and for crude samples. It can be used in applications of PCR, RT-PCR and also primer extension. This polymerase has been shown to be resistant to DNA polymerase inhibitors present in clinical samples, it also has the capacity to detect RNA in the presence of inhibitors. Under the presence of inhibitors, it was shown to detect this RNA at a comparable level with its capacity to detect DNA.
References
External links
Thermus thermophilus HB27 genome page.
Thermus thermophilus HB8 genome page.
Structural-biological whole cell project of Thermus thermophilus HB8.
Isolation of Thermus strains from hot composts (60ºC-80ºC)
Whole Cell Project of Thermus thermophilus HB8: Database
Type strain of Thermus thermophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Model organisms
Thermophiles
Thermozoa |
4037967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Hettich | Georg Hettich | Georg Hettich (born 12 October 1978 in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg) is a Nordic combined skier and Olympic medalist from Germany.
Hettich was a surprise winner of the 15 km individual event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km team event and repeated this in 2006. With his bronze in the 7.5 km sprint contest in 2006, he completed his medal collection.
Hettich also won silver medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in the 4 x 5 km team event both in 2003 and 2005.
References
1978 births
Living people
People from Furtwangen im Schwarzwald
German male Nordic combined skiers
Nordic combined skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Nordic combined skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Nordic combined skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Germany
Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Universiade medalists in nordic combined
Universiade gold medalists for Germany
Competitors at the 2005 Winter Universiade
Sportspeople from Baden-Württemberg |
4037970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boixcar | Boixcar | Boixcar (pen name of Guillermo Sánchez Boix; 1917 —1960) was a Spanish cartoonist.
He was born in Barcelona, and began his career in the mid-1940s. His first comics include El Caballero Negro ("The Black Knight", 1945), El Puma (1946), and La Vuelta al Mundo de dos Muchachos ("The Two Boys' Return to the World", 1948).
He gained popularity with his comic book Hazañas Bélicas ("War Deeds", first issue in 1948, second one in 1950). It drew inspiration from the recent events of World War II (and later of the Korean War), with an accent placed on human values expressed in the most desperate situations, the sentimentalism of the action being in contrast with the spectacularly realistic depiction of weapons and vehicles. The Hazañas''' success made the editor issue another in the series, as Hazañas Bélicas Extra, increased in content that due to Boixcar's collaboration with several other artists on the project.
Boixcar was at ease with other themes, as shown by his contributions to the series Mundo Futuro ("Future World", from 1956), Flecha Negra ("Black Arrow") and Murciélago'' ("Bat").
External links
Boixcar at the Comic Book Database
1917 births
1960 deaths
People from Barcelona
Spanish cartoonists
Spanish comics artists
20th-century Spanish male artists
Artists from Barcelona |
4037989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20That%27s%20What%20I%20Call%20Music%21%208%20%28American%20series%29 | Now That's What I Call Music! 8 (American series) | Now That's What I Call Music! 8 was released on November 20, 2001. The album is the eighth edition of the Now! series in the U.S. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and has been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA. Three tracks selected for the album, "Bootylicious", "Stutter" and "U Got It Bad", had reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Now! 8 is dedicated to Aaliyah, who had died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, with a portion of the album's profits going to the Aaliyah Memorial Fund.
Track listing
* The song "I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez is not the more popular "Murder Remix" version featuring Ja Rule.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2001 compilation albums
008
Virgin Records compilation albums |
4037994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellie%20Francon | Mellie Francon | Mellie Francon (born 24 January 1982 in La Chaux-de-Fonds) is a Swiss snowboarder.
Francon is Swiss Champion 2005 in snowboard cross. On 5 January 2006 she won the World Cup competition at Bad Gastein.
References
Swiss female snowboarders
Olympic snowboarders of Switzerland
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
1982 births
Living people
People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel |
4037996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnberg%20Abbey | Nonnberg Abbey | Nonnberg Abbey () is a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, Austria. Founded by Saint Rupert of Salzburg, it is the oldest continuously existing nunnery in the German-speaking world. The monastery complex is today a protected monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.
History
The convent was established beneath the Festungsberg hill and the ruined fortifications of the former Roman city of Juvavum. Its first abbess was Saint Erentrudis of Salzburg, who was either a niece or a sister of Bishop Rupert. The abbey's endowment was provided by the Agilolfing duke Theodo of Bavaria and his successor Theodbert.
The nuns, all of noble birth, held extended estates up the Salzach river in the south of the city. The convent's possessions were later augmented by Emperor Henry II, who was also Duke of Bavaria. The Benedictine rule was finally implemented under Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg in the early 12th century.
The abbey became independent of the founding house from 987. After a blaze about 1006, the abbey church was re-built with the support of Henry II; he and his consort Cunigunde of Luxembourg attended the consecration in 1009. This Romanesque building was again largely destroyed in a fire of 1423. Reconstruction took place between 1464 and 1509. In 1624 the church was enlarged by the addition of three side chapels. A refurbishment in the Baroque style took place in the 1880s.
Commemorative coin
The Abbey was selected as main motif for the Austrian Nonnberg Abbey commemorative coin minted on April 5, 2006. This was the first coin of the series "Great Abbeys of Austria". It shows the Benedictine convent of Nonnberg Abbey. On the hilltop in the background, Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Kajetaner church can be seen. The abbey and fortress are connected by the Reisszug, one of the world's oldest extant railways.
In popular culture
Through Maria Augusta Kutschera, later Maria Augusta von Trapp, who became a postulant in the abbey in 1924 and whose life was the basis for the Broadway musical (1959) and film (1965) The Sound of Music, the abbey has acquired international fame. The Mother Abbess during Maria's time at Nonnberg was Sister Virgilia Lütz (1869-1949). Nonnberg Abbey is featured in movies depicting the life of Maria Augusta Kutschera, namely The Sound of Music and Die Trapp-Familie.
Gallery
References
Citations
Bibliography
Franz Esterl: Chronik des adeligen Benediktiner-Frauen-Stiftes Nonnberg in Salzburg, Salzburg, 1841 (at Google Books, in German)
External links
www.nonnberg.at Official Website
Nonnberg Abbey at Sacred Destinations
Stift Nonnberg at Visit-Salzburg
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg at UNESCO
Benedictine monasteries in Austria
Christian monasteries established in the 8th century
Benedictine nunneries in Austria
Monasteries in Salzburg
Tourist attractions in Salzburg
Churches completed in 714
Establishments in the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg |
4038006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Lead%20Actor%20in%20a%20Drama%20Series | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Beginning with the 18th Primetime Emmy Awards, leading actors in drama have competed alone. However, these dramatic performances included actors from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:
# – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Television film, before the category's creation
§ – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, before the category's creation
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
4 wins
Breaking Bad (3 consecutive)
NYPD Blue (2 consecutive)
3 wins
Columbo
I Spy (consecutive)
The Sopranos (2 consecutive)
St. Elsewhere (2 consecutive)
2 wins
Boston Legal
The Defenders
Father Knows Best (consecutive)
Hill Street Blues (consecutive)
Lou Grant
Perry Mason
Programs with multiple nominations
14 nominations
NYPD Blue
10 nominations
St. Elsewhere
8 nominations
Columbo
Law & Order
Mad Men
This Is Us
7 nominations
The West Wing
6 nominations
24
Breaking Bad
ER
House
I Spy
The Sopranos
5 nominations
Dexter
The Equalizer
Hill Street Blues
House of Cards
Ironside
Lou Grant
Magnum, P.I.
Quantum Leap
The Rockford Files
4 nominations
Better Call Saul
L.A. Law
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Quincy, M.E.
Six Feet Under
The Streets of San Francisco
3 nominations
The Americans
Boston Legal
Dallas
The Danny Thomas Show
Dynasty
Father Knows Best
The Fugitive
Gunsmoke
The Jackie Gleason Show
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Newsroom
Ozark
Perry Mason
Pose
Ray Donovan
The Waltons
Westworld
2 nominations
Baretta
Beauty and the Beast
Bloodline
Boardwalk Empire
The Bob Cummings Show
Cannon
The Defenders
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Downton Abbey
Dragnet
Four Star Playhouse
Friday Night Lights
Have Gun – Will Travel
Hennesey
Homeland
Homicide: Life on the Street
I'll Fly Away
In Treatment
Kojak
Moonlighting
Naked City
Northern Exposure
The Phil Silvers Show
Picket Fences
The Practice
Rescue Me
Run for Your Life
The Shield
Succession
True Detective
Twin Peaks
The Untouchables
The X-Files
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Bryan Cranston (3 consecutive)
Dennis Franz (2 consecutive)
3 wins
Bill Cosby (consecutive)
Peter Falk
James Gandolfini (2 consecutive)
James Spader (2 consecutive)
Robert Young (2 consecutive)
2 wins
Ed Asner
Raymond Burr
William Daniels (consecutive)
E. G. Marshall (consecutive)
Daniel J. Travanti (consecutive)
Performers with multiple nominations
8 nominations
Raymond Burr
Peter Falk
Dennis Franz
Jon Hamm
7 nominations
James Garner
6 nominations
Bryan Cranston
James Gandolfini
Michael C. Hall
Hugh Laurie
Martin Sheen
Kiefer Sutherland
Robert Young
5 nominations
Ed Asner
Sterling K. Brown
William Daniels
Ed Flanders
Tom Selleck
Jimmy Smits
Kevin Spacey
Daniel J. Travanti
Sam Waterston
Edward Woodward
4 nominations
Scott Bakula
Richard Boone
Kyle Chandler
Mike Connors
Anthony Edwards
Jack Klugman
Bob Odenkirk
Karl Malden
Michael Moriarty
Matthew Rhys
James Spader
3 nominations
James Arness
Jason Bateman
Andre Braugher
Bill Cosby
Robert Culp
Jeff Daniels
John Forsythe
David Janssen
Peter Krause
Martin Landau
Billy Porter
Liev Schreiber
Milo Ventimiglia
2 nominations
Corbin Bernsen
Robert Blake
Hugh Bonneville
Paul Burke
Steve Buscemi
Gabriel Byrne
Michael Chiklis
George Clooney
William Conrad
Jackie Cooper
David Duchovny
Ben Gazzara
Larry Hagman
Denis Leary
Damian Lewis
Kyle MacLachlan
E. G. Marshall
Rob Morrow
Ron Perlman
Telly Savalas
Tom Skerritt
Robert Stack
Richard Thomas
Michael Tucker
Jack Webb
Bruce Willis
See also
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Notes
References
Lead Actor - Drama Series
Emmy Award |
4038015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydel | Hydel | Hydel may refer to:
Shorthand for hydroelectricity, by combining the prefix hyd- (from "hydro-") with -el (from "electricity")
Mirosław Hydel (born 1963), Polish long jumper |
4038017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimati | Shrimati | Shrimati or Shreemati (), abbreviated Smt., is a widely accepted Indian honorific (akin to Mrs. in English) used when referring to a married woman in some Indian languages, including Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Odia, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tulu, and sometimes in English as well (in an Indian context). The equivalent title for men is Shri or Sri, which is a shortened version of Shriman or Shreeman.
References
Titles in India
Women's social titles |
4038021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20M.%20Canright | D. M. Canright | Dudley Marvin Canright (September 22, 1840 – May 12, 1919) was a pastor in the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 22 years, who later left the church and became one of its severest critics. He joined the church in 1859, at the age of 19, and rose through the ministry to a position of prominence on the General Conference, a committee of Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders.
Early life
Dudley Marvin Canright was born in a farmhouse near Kinderhook, Michigan, on September 22, 1840, to Hiram and Loretta Canright. In 1859, at the age of 19, Dudley journeyed eastwards to attend the Albion Academy, in Albion, New York. To support himself, he worked as a farmhand for Elder Roswell F. Cottrell, a Seventh-day Adventist minister. In the summer of 1859, he attended a camp meeting, held by Elder James White, near Albion. There, he accepted the doctrine of the Advent Message, and was soon baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Dudley briefly served as secretary to Elder White, who encouraged him to enter the ministry. For 5 years, after converting his entire family to Adventism, Dudley served as an evangelist for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, traveling and preaching across the midwestern U.S. In 1865, at the age of 24, Dudley Canright was ordained by James White and J. N. Loughborough, in a service held at Battle Creek.
Dudley continued his evangelistic career, preaching throughout New England. In 1867, he married Lucretia Cranson, a 19-year-old orphan, partially brought up by Ellen G. White. Mr. and Mrs. Canright had 3 children, 2 of whom survived infancy.
The life of a traveling minister's wife was harsh for Mrs. Canright, and in 1879, she succumbed to tuberculosis. Two years later, Dudley was remarried, to a Miss Lucy Hadden. Their union produced 4 children, 3 of whom survived infancy.
Estrangement and reconciliation with the Adventist Church
For 20 years, Canright was a minister and evangelist for the Seventh-day Adventist Church across the United States. He was also a notable contributor to the Adventist periodical, the Review and Herald (now the Adventist Review). During a vacation in Colorado with James and Ellen White in 1873, Canright and his wife had a falling out with them. Canright and James White reconciled later that year. At the 1876 General Conference Session he was 1 of 3 men elected to the General Conference Executive Committee, the most prestigious committee in the denomination. In 1878, Canright was elected President of the Sabbath School Association of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. His first wife Lucretia died the following year.
Canright was frequently called upon by Elder James White, and other leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to debate ministers of other denominations, generally on the question of the seventh-day Sabbath:
From the early 1880s, Canright gradually became disillusioned with what he considered autocratic behavior on the parts of Elder and Mrs. White. In 1880, he retired briefly from the ministry and journeyed through the Midwest, as an elocution teacher and lecturer. After a year of itinerant living, he returned to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he reconciled himself with Elder and Mrs. White.
In a September 13, 1881 article in the Advent Review and Herald, entitled, "Danger of Giving Way to Discouragement and Doubts", Canright wrote:
Break with Seventh-day Adventism
In 1881, back as a Seventh-day Adventist minister, Canright remarried, and continued his life as a traveling evangelist for another year. Then, in 1882, he retired from the ministry and bought a farm in Otsego, Michigan. Once again, he began to have doubts about the White family, particularly about Ellen White's "gift of prophecy". He wavered repeatedly, several times emerging from his early retirement to hold meetings and preach. Throughout the early 1880s, his relations with Mrs. White remained amicable.
Then, quite abruptly, in 1887, Canright and his wife, Lucy Canright, left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was a decision he had been mulling over for a year. In severing his relations with his home church, the Otsego Seventh-day Adventist Church, Canright stated the following, as recorded by the church clerk:
Life after Adventism
Having left the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Dudley and his family briefly considered joining the Methodist Church, but finally settled upon the Baptist Church. On March 5, 1887, he, his wife and their daughter Veva (Genevieve) were accepted into the Otsego Baptist Church. On the 17th he was given a license to preach, and 2 days later, was ordained and made the Church's salaried pastor. He remained in this position until 1889.
In September 1890, Dudley and his family left Otsego, moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, he became Pastor Emeritus of the Berean Baptist Church, an office he held for only a year. During his time as pastor of these churches, he occupied himself in writing his 413-page critique, Seventh-day Adventism Renounced, which was published in 1889. In 1915, he and his brother Jasper attended the funeral of Ellen G. White, during which he reportedly exclaimed, "There is a noble Christian woman gone!"
In March 1916, Canright accompanied an old Adventist friend, J.H. Morrison, to a church workers' meeting in Battle Creek. Afterward, they went to Morrison's house. Following that visit, Canright walked to the local Baptist church, where he had a key to the basement. Unaware that extensive remodeling had taken place, and arriving at the church after dark, Canright fell through an open hole into the basement, broke his leg, and remained there for two days. He was taken to the local hospital, and then to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where his leg was amputated. He spent the last 3 years of his life with his daughter Genevieve, who had converted to Christian Science. Canright died on May 12, 1919. Two months later, his final book, The Life of Mrs. E.G. White, was published. In it he criticised White heavily and maintained, among other charges:
that the early doctrines held in 1844 and up to 1851 failed utterly
that in some cases her prophecies were wrong, and then suppressed afterwards
that she rebuked and controlled peoples' conduct, purportedly by spiritual knowledge, but factually by informings that often attacked an innocent party
that she plagiarized many of her purportedly God-inspired texts from other authors, and had to revise one of her books at an expense of $3,000
In 1933, the Review and Herald published In Defense of the Faith: A Reply To Canright. Written by W.H. Branson, an Adventist minister, the book sought to correct what the author alleged were Canright's distortions and misrepresentations of Adventist doctrine. In 1971, the church published I Was Canright's Secretary, by Carrie Johnson, a memoir of her work for D.M. Canright in the early 1900s.
References
External links
Canright's statements:
Seventh-day Adventism RENOUNCED, by Canright
The Lord's Day From Neither Catholics nor Pagans: An Answer to Seventh-Day Adventism on this Subject by Canright
Life of Mrs. E.G. White - Her Claims Refuted by Canright
Life of Ellen White, by Canright, print edition
Counterstatements:
I Was Canright's Secretary by Carrie Johnson
The Case of D.M. Canright by Norman F. Douty
In Defense of the Faith: A Reply to Canright by William H. Branson
Historical Interview of Carrie Johnson (Canwright's Secretary) (audio)
Additional Publications
The Morality of the Sabbath'' by D.M. Canright (1875)
1840 births
1919 deaths
Former Seventh-day Adventists
Seventh-day Adventist religious workers
Converts to Baptist denominations
People from Branch County, Michigan
People from Otsego, Michigan
Critics of Seventh-day Adventism |
4038024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Arendt | Nicole Arendt | Nicole J. Arendt (born August 26, 1969) is an American retired professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked 49th in the world. Arendt reached her career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in the world on August 25, 1997.
Arendt was born in Somerville, New Jersey. She attended the Hun School of Princeton for her high school education.
Arendt received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1988 to 1991. She was a key member of the Gators' NCAA national championship runners-up teams in 1988 and 1990, and received eight All-American honors during her college career.
She turned professional in 1991. Arendt's best Grand Slam doubles result was reaching the finals of the 1997 Wimbledon Championships, partnering with Manon Bollegraf. She and her mixed doubles partner Luke Jensen were the runners-up in the 1996 Australian Open and 1996 French Open. Her highest world doubles ranking was No. 3 on August 25, 1997.
Arendt was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001; she graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in public relations in 2003.
Grand Slam finals
Women's doubles: 1 runner-up
Mixed doubles: 2 runner-ups
WTA career finals
Doubles titles: 16
Doubles runner-ups: 16
Performance timeline
Doubles
See also
Florida Gators
List of Florida Gators tennis players
List of University of Florida alumni
List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Somerville, New Jersey
American female tennis players
Florida Gators women's tennis players
Hun School of Princeton alumni
Sportspeople from Gainesville, Florida
Tennis people from Florida
Tennis people from New Jersey |
4038031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20%28Field%20Mob%20and%20Ludacris%20song%29 | Georgia (Field Mob and Ludacris song) | "Georgia" is a single by Southern hip hop duo Field Mob and Atlanta-based rapper Ludacris featuring R&B singer Jamie Foxx, with production by DJ Vudu Spellz. It first appeared on Ludacris Presents: Disturbing tha Peace, a compilation album released by Ludacris' own Disturbing tha Peace record label, showcasing the company's new talent as of 2006. The track was reprised on the Field Mob album Light Poles and Pine Trees released later the same year.
In the original radio version of the song, the background chorus was a sampling of Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind". Appropriately, because he portrayed him in the film Ray, Jamie Foxx performed Charles' parts on the version that appeared on the subsequent albums and video. However, despite being featured in the chorus, Foxx was absent from the music video.
"Georgia" reached #39 on US Hot 100 and #31 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart.
A remix by Lil Wayne with lyrics focusing on the Hurricane Katrina disaster appeared on his mixtape Dedication 2.
Track listing
"Georgia" (Clean version)
"Georgia" (A capella)
"Gettin' Some" (Clean version)
"Gettin' Some" (Main version)
"Gettin' Some" (Instrumental)
Charts
External links
2005 singles
Field Mob songs
Jamie Foxx songs
Ludacris songs
Songs about Georgia (U.S. state)
Songs written by Ludacris
Songs with music by Hoagy Carmichael |
4038037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemnitsa | Stemnitsa | Stemnitsa () is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Trikolonoi, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Trikolonoi. Stemnitsa is a traditional settlement and is considered one of the most beautiful villages in Arcadia, due to its picturesque location and its historical churches and mansions. It is situated at the western edge of the Mainalo mountains, above the left bank of the river Lousios, at about 1050 m elevation. Stemnitsa is 6 km southeast of Dimitsana, 9 km northeast of Karytaina, 18 km northwest of Megalopoli and 26 km west of Tripoli. In 2011 Stemnitsa had a population of 191.
History and myths
Stemnitsa has been identified with the ancient Arcadian city Hypsous (). It was already ruined in the 2nd century AD, when it was visited by Pausanias. It was near Thyraion (present Pavlia), Zoetia and Paroria. Hypsous was founded by a son of Lycaon.
In the 7th and 8th century Slavs settled in the Peloponnese. The name Stemnitsa has Slavic roots and means "woodland". After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Peloponnese was occupied by the Ottoman Empire. Due to its remote location Stemnitsa served as a relatively safe haven from the Ottomans, and it became a centre of Greek culture and religion. Many old churches from this period have been preserved. The church of Bafero was built in 1185 and the Zoodochos in 1433. The two larger churches are Ai-Giorgis and Agia Paraskevi. The first mention, some say, of the word Stemnitsa, was found in Ottoman taxation documents dated 1512-1515 where the number of families appeared to be about 120. This information was published by professor John Alexandropoulos. In the Grimani Venetian Census report Stemnitsa was shown as the most populous village in Gortynia with 925 people.
Stemnitsa was a shelter for the Kolokotronis clan and other fighters of the Greek War of Independence. After the revolution of March 25, 1821, from the end of May to mid of June 1821, it served as the first seat of the "Peloponissiaki Gerousia", the temporary government of the liberated Peloponnese. The Gerousia met at the monastery of Zoodochos Pigi. Stemnitsa was known for its gold- and silversmiths, as well as other crafts. Since the 1970s, there is a public funded gold and silver smithery school in Stemnista.
Sights
Stemnitsa has a folklore museum. It includes various exhibitions regarding the traditional way of Stemnitsa life in the past including how candles were made, a jeweler's workshop, a shoe repair shop and a copper tinning representation. It also houses an extensive selection of Byzantine icons, old costumes, copper- ware, guns and jewelry.
An organization which is responsible for the beautification of Stemnitsa is the Cultural and Beautification Organization "Politistikos kai Exoraistikos Syllogos Stemnitsioton Ypsountas". This organization is also in charge of the local cultural center "The Nikoletopouleion" and of organizing a number of other events which take place during the year, mainly during the months of July and August.
Seven kilometers from Stemnitsa, down by the ravine of the river Lousios one can find the monastery of St. John the Baptist (Prodromos) built, according to some sources, around 1167, on the side of a rock face. It served as a center of faith and education for the enslaved Greeks during the Ottoman rule. About 200 yards below the monastery, is the river Lousios. Near the monastery are the excavations of an ancient hospital built in honor of the ancient Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.
The library of Stemnitsa used to have around 5,000 volumes until the Greek War of Independence of 1821. It is now a monument and is located next to the square.
Population history
People
Elias Gyftopoulos, Ford Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, MIT.
Gennaios Kolokotronis (1803-1868), Prime Minister of Greece.
Georgios Roilos (1867-1928), famous painter, among the first to introduce impressionism into Greek painting, Professor at the University of Athens (a teacher and mentor of Giorgio de Chirico).
Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece; President of the political party "New Democracy;" former minister of foreign affairs.
Dimitrios Thanopoulos, silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Olympics.
See also
List of settlements in Arcadia
List of traditional settlements of Greece
References
External links
Stemnitsa
Folklore Museum of Stemnitsa
Brief history of Stemnitsa
GTP - Stemnitsa
Stemnitsa Museum
Populated places in Arcadia, Peloponnese |
4038040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Medical%20Sciences%2C%20University%20of%20Manchester | School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester | The School of Medical Sciences at the University of Manchester is one of the largest in the United Kingdom with around 6,000 undergraduates, 3,000 postgraduates and 2,000 staff. It is the third oldest medical school in England and the largest medical school in the United Kingdom. The Faculty is a member of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and has four affiliated teaching hospitals at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe Hospital, Salford Royal Hospital and the Royal Preston Hospital.
History of the Medical School
Medical teaching in Manchester began when Charles White founded the first modern hospital in the Manchester district, the Manchester Infirmary (later the Manchester Royal Infirmary), in 1752. He was followed by Joseph Jordan, who opened a School of Anatomy in 1814. In the intervening 60 years more than one private medical school existed in Manchester: the most successful was the Pine Street medical school, not far south of the Infirmary. A faculty of medicine opened in 1873 (at Owens College), and medical degrees were awarded by the Victoria University from 1883. The school was made co-educational in 1899 after a long and contentious debate about whether women could be members of the College at all. The first female medical student to qualify Catherine Chisholm practised as a paediatrician after graduating. The success of the school meant that the building needed to be extended twice, in 1883 and 1894. From 1903/04 degrees were awarded by the Victoria University of Manchester.
A considerable space was allocated to the library of the Manchester Medical Society (founded 1834) which until 1930 remained in their possession while accommodated in the University. The library became part of the university library at that time and remained in the building until 1981 when it was transferred into the present Main Library building of the University of Manchester Library (part of the rare books went to the John Rylands Library).
Additional departments were added from time to time: chronologically these were pharmaceutics, dentistry, and public health. A dental hospital was associated with the department of dentistry.
Until 1908 the Manchester Royal Infirmary was at Piccadilly a mile away from the school but in 1908 it moved to a new site on Oxford Road much nearer the medical school and the two institutions were interdependent. The medical school expanded greatly in the 1950s, culminating in the opening of the Stopford Building in 1973 and additionally accepting medical students from University of St Andrews (who have completed their pre-clinical course at St Andrews) and International Medical University, for their clinical studies.
The Medical School today
Pre-clinical teaching is based at the Stopford Building on Oxford Road, Manchester, for the first two years. Clinical teaching takes place over four teaching 'sectors' in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Teaching sectors in Greater Manchester are Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (incorporating Manchester Royal Infirmary, Saint Mary's Hospital and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital); Salford Royal Hospital; and Wythenshawe Hospital. The Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire also serves as a Manchester Medical School teaching sector.
Notable alumni
John Charnley, orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer in hip replacement.
Hilary Critchley, Professor of Reproductive Medicine/Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Edinburgh.
Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England 2010–2019.
Professor Sir Robert Lechler, immunologist.
Brian Day, President of the Canadian Medical Association 2007-2008.
Shepherd Dawson, psychologist.
Julius Dreschfeld, leading British physician and pathologist at the end of the 19th century.
John Haggie, President of the Canadian Medical Association 2011-2012. Minister of Health and Community Services, Newfoundland and Labrador December 2015 – present.
Archibald Vivian Hill, awarded Nobel Prize in 1922 for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle.
Ian Jacobs, gynaecologist and former vice-president of the University of Manchester.
Ralph Kohn, British medical scientist and founder of the Kohn foundation. He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to science, music and charity.
Sumant Mehta, Indian physician and social worker.
David H.H. Metcalfe, academic general practitioner, Professor Of General Practice University of Manchester, President Royal College of General Practitioners.
David Nott, general & vascular surgeon.
Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon.
Sir John Randall, developer of the cavity magnetron.
Herchel Smith, a researcher at the University of Manchester, developed an inexpensive way of producing chemicals that stop women ovulating during their monthly menstrual cycle in 1961.
John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, anatomist; vice-chancellor.
Sir John Sulston, awarded Nobel Prize in 2002 for his discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'.
Raymond Tallis, gerontologist.
Nesta Wells, first British female police surgeon.
References
Further reading
Elwood, Willis J. & Tuxford, A. Felicité (eds.) (1984) Some Manchester Doctors: a biographical collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society, 1834-1984. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Peters, James & Gow, Elizabeth (2007) "The medical archive collections of the John Rylands University Library", in: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester; vol. 87, no. 1 (2005)
Mohr, Peter & Jackson, Bill (2007) "The University of Manchester Medical School Museum ...", in: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester; vol. 87, no. 1 (2005)
External links
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester Medical Society official website; includes a brief history of the society
Medical Schools Council
Medical schools in England
Buildings and structures in Manchester
Medicine
Libraries in Manchester
Professional education in Manchester |
4038046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20World%20Championships%20in%20Athletics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%2010%2C000%20metres | 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres | The Men's 10,000 metres event featured at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The final was held on 8 August 2005.
Medalists
Finishing times
References
IAAF results
Events at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics
10,000 metres at the World Athletics Championships |
4038055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus%3A%20The%20Discipline%20of%20Fire%20%26%20Demise | Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise | Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Emperor. It was released on 21 October 2001, through Candlelight Records. Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise differs from Emperor's previous recordings with a focus on a more progressive style.
The album was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy Award for Best Metal album in 2001.
Release and reception
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise failed to chart in North America and Europe. A music video was made for the song "Empty" and released on 8 October 2001.
The album received critical praise from music critics. Reviews from metal-based magazine Kerrang! declared it their album of the week on 10 October, comparing it to Metallica's Master of Puppets in terms of quality, while the magazine Terrorizer picked it as album of the month. John Serba of the online music database AllMusic praised the album, stating "Those willing to invest a significant amount of time into Prometheus will be thoroughly rewarded on intellectual and emotional levels [...] while more practical listeners unwilling to slap on headphones and willfully ingest the lyrics will find the record impenetrable", calling the album a "birth-to-death concept album of such weight and density that it takes roughly two dozen listens to even begin to appreciate the depth of its composition and its painstaking attention to detail."
In 2003, in a review of Emperor's compilation album Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath, Dominique Leon of Pitchfork referred to Prometheus as "fairly amazing", and "arguably [Emperor's] most technically and compositionally complex album".
Track listing
Personnel
Ihsahn – vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar, programming, arrangement and mixing
Samoth – additional guitar
Trym – drums and percussion
Technical staff
Thorbjørn Akkerhaugen – mixing
Tom Kvålsvoll – mastering
Christophe Szpajdel – logo
References
2001 albums
Emperor (band) albums |
4038066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Collins%20%28musician/researcher%29 | John Collins (musician/researcher) | John Collins (born 1944) is a UK-born guitarist, harmonica player and percussionist who first went to Ghana as a child in 1952 for a brief period and later became involved in the West African music scene after returning to Ghana in 1969.
Biography
Collins originally accompanied his parents to Ghana in 1952, when his father was setting up the philosophy department at the University of Ghana. Returning to Britain with his mother, on her divorce from his father, Collins was educated in Bristol, Manchester and London, doing a science degree. He was also playing music and when he returned to Ghana in 1969 to study archeology and sociology at the University of Ghana/Legon, he began to play with many local bands and has been involved with West African music ever since.
Collins has worked, recorded and played with numerous Ghanaian and Nigerian bands; the Jaguar Jokers, Francis Kenya, E. T. Mensah, Abladei, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Koo Nimo, Kwaa Mensah, Victor Uwaifo, Bob Pinado, the Bunzus, the Black Berets, T.O. Jazz, S. K. Oppong and Atongo Zimba. In the 1970s, Collins ran his own Bokoor highlife guitar band which released 20 songs and, since 1982, he has been running Bokoor Recording Studio eight miles north of Accra. The studio released nine records and 60 commercial cassettes and has released three highlife CDs: Electric Highlife (Naxos label Hong Kong/US, 2002), Vintage Palmwine (Otrabanda, Holland, 2003) and The Guitar and Gun (Sterns/Earthworks, UK, 2003).
Careers
Collins is a music journalist and writer with over 100 journalistic and academic publications (including seven books published in the UK, US and Ghana) on African popular and neo-traditional music. He has given many radio and television broadcasts, including over 40 for the BBC. In 1978, he wrote and presented the BBC's first-ever (five-part) series of radio programmes on African popular music called In The African Groove.
Collins has been a film consultant/facilitator, working for the BBC's Repercussions, Brass Unbound by IDTV of Amsterdam, The Highlife Story for Ghana Broadcasting, Highlife for German Huschert Realfilm, African Cross Rhythms by the Danish Loki Films (re-released 1996 as Listen to the Silence by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, New Jersey, US), When the Moment Sings by the Norwegian Visions company, Ghanaian Art Music by Bavarian TV and One Giant Leap/Astronaut music-video for Palm Pictures/Island Records.
In 1995 he joined the University of Ghana, where he has taught African popular music, the history and sociology of music.
Education
Collins obtained his first degree (sociology and archaeology) from the University of Ghana in 1972 and his Doctorate in ethnomusicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has given lectures and workshop in Canada, the US, the UK, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, the Caribbean, Ghana and the Cote d'Ivoire. He has been a resident research-fellow at the North-Western University African Studies Department at Evanston in the US and at Dartmouth Art College in the West of England.
Activities in Ghana
Collins was on the Executive of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) in the 1970s and, together with Professor J. H. K. Nketia and the Ghanaian folk-guitarist Koo Nimo, was in 1987 made an honorary life-member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). During the 1990s, Collins was technical director of the three-year joint University of Ghana African Studies Department/Mainz African Music Re-documentation Project, and for seven years was with the Ghana National Folklore Board of Trustees/Copyright Administration. In summer 2000 Collins teamed up with fellow guitarist Koo Nimo and went on a performance tour of the US eastern seaboard with him.
Recent work
Currently, Collins is running his Bokoor Studio as a mobile one. He is the acting chairman of the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF), formed in 1990. He is PRO for the Old Ghanaian Musicians Welfare Association (GOMAWA), consultant for MUSIGA, patron of the Afrika Obonu music therapy drum group and consultant for a World Bank project to assist the African music industry. He is also a Full Professor at the Music Department of the University of Ghana, Legon, from where he runs (with Aaron Bebe Sukura) the Local Dimension highlife band that toured Europe in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and released a CD in 2003 entitled N’Yong on the French Disques Arion label. He has also done some research into and documentation of highlife, a Ghanaian popular music.
References
External links
"African Musical Symbolism in Contemporary Perspective", by John Collins - by-nc-sa
John Collins Discography and Videography
"John Collins & 45 days of Music", Digging 4 Gold, 23 October 2011.
Living people
Ghanaian musicologists
Ghanaian musicians
1944 births |
4038077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull%20Thunder | Hull Thunder | The Hull Thunder were a British ice hockey club from Kingston upon Hull, England. Formed in 1999, it competed in the now defunct British National League playing its home games at the Hull Arena.
The club replaced the Humberside Seahawks, which existed from 1988 until 1999.
The team ran into financial problems in 2001 and was bought. After a promising pre-season, the team under the new owners again ran into financial trouble, resulting in it finishing the 2002 season without any imports.
A new team was formed in 2003 called Hull Stingrays, which played the majority of its time in the Elite Ice Hockey League before folding in 2015. The Hull Stingrays were quickly replaced by the Hull Pirates and debuted in the 2015-16 English Premier Ice Hockey League.
References
External links
Hull Stingrays
Defunct ice hockey teams in the United Kingdom
Ice hockey teams in England
Sport in Kingston upon Hull
Ice hockey clubs established in 1999
Sports clubs disestablished in 2002
1999 establishments in England
2002 disestablishments in England |
4038081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Price | Phillip Price | John Phillip Price (born 21 October 1966) is a Welsh professional golfer who plays on the European Senior Tour. He won three European Tour events between 1994 and 2003 and played in the 2002 Ryder Cup.
Early life
Price was born in 1966 in Pontypridd. He currently resides in Newport.
Professional golfer
Price turned professional in 1989 and qualified for membership of the European Tour for the 1991 season via the 1990 Qualifying School. His best year on the tour came in 2000, when he finished eighth on the Order of Merit. His other top ten placing came in 2003, when he was tenth.
He has three tournament wins on the European Tour. In 2005 he played on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, but he did not do well enough to retain his card. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking.
Price has made one appearance in the Ryder Cup, playing for the winning European team of 2002. He beat Phil Mickelson in the final day's singles to secure an invaluable point and an historic victory.
Price played in the 2016 Senior Italian Open which started on his 50th birthday and finished second, a stroke behind Stephen Dodd. In 2017 he had his first win on the European Senior Tour, winning the WINSTONgolf Senior Open. He won the 2019 Staysure PGA Seniors Championship for his second European Senior Tour win.
Professional wins (6)
European Tour wins (3)
Other wins (1)
1993 Welsh Professional Championship
European Senior Tour wins (2)
European Senior Tour playoff record (0–2)
Results in major championships
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Summary
Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (three times)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1
Results in World Golf Championships
1Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Team appearances
Amateur
Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1984 (winners)
European Amateur Team Championship (representing Wales): 1987, 1989
Professional
Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Wales): 1991, 1996, 2000
World Cup (representing Wales): 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004
Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2000, 2003 (winners)
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2002 (winners)
See also
2004 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
References
External links
Welsh male golfers
European Tour golfers
PGA Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for Europe
Sportspeople from Newport, Wales
1966 births
Living people |
4038082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20%28singer%29 | Maya (singer) | Kim Young-sook (Hangul: 김영숙; born 17 November 1979), better known as Maya (Hangul: 마야) is a South Korean pop rock singer and actress. She debuted in 2003 with the album, Born To Do It, which included the hit single "Azalea."
Discography
Studio albums
Filmography
Television
Bodyguard (KBS2, 2003)
Nursery Story (MBC, 2003)
Magic (SBS, 2004)
Family's Honor (SBS, 2008)
Dandelion Family (MBC, 2010)
Dream of the Emperor (KBS1, 2012)
Ugly Alert (SBS, 2013)
Film
What Is Natural? (2003)
Awards and nominations
State honors
Notes
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
South Korean pop rock singers
South Korean television actresses
South Korean film actresses
Mnet Asian Music Award winners
21st-century South Korean singers
21st-century South Korean women singers |
4038083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20treatment | Moral treatment | Moral treatment was an approach to mental disorder based on humane psychosocial care or moral discipline that emerged in the 18th century and came to the fore for much of the 19th century, deriving partly from psychiatry or psychology and partly from religious or moral concerns. The movement is particularly associated with reform and development of the asylum system in Western Europe at that time. It fell into decline as a distinct method by the 20th century, however, due to overcrowding and misuse of asylums and the predominance of biomedical methods. The movement is widely seen as influencing certain areas of psychiatric practice up to the present day. The approach has been praised for freeing sufferers from shackles and barbaric physical treatments, instead considering such things as emotions and social interactions, but has also been criticised for blaming or oppressing individuals according to the standards of a particular social class or religion.
Context
Moral treatment developed in the context of the Enlightenment and its focus on social welfare and individual rights. At the start of the 18th century, the "insane" were typically viewed as wild animals who had lost their reason. They were not held morally responsible but were subject to scorn and ridicule by the public, sometimes kept in madhouses in appalling conditions, often in chains and neglected for years or subject to numerous tortuous "treatments" including whipping, beating, bloodletting, shocking, starvation, irritant chemicals, and isolation. There were some attempts to argue for more psychological understanding and therapeutic environments. For example, in England John Locke popularized the idea that there is a degree of madness in most people because emotions can cause people to incorrectly associate ideas and perceptions, and William Battie suggested a more psychological approach, but conditions generally remained poor. The treatment of King George III also led to increased optimism about the possibility of therapeutic interventions.
Early development
Italy
Under the Enlightened concern of Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo in Florence, Italian physician Vincenzo Chiarugi instituted humanitarian reforms. Between 1785 and 1788 he managed to outlaw chains as a means of restraint at the Santa Dorotea hospital, building on prior attempts made there since the 1750s. From 1788 at the newly renovated St. Bonifacio Hospital he did the same, and led the development of new rules establishing a more humane regime.
France
The ex-patient Jean-Baptiste Pussin and his wife Margueritte, and the physician Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), are also recognized as the first instigators of more humane conditions in asylums. From the early 1780s, Pussin had been in charge of the mental hospital division of the La Bicêtre, an asylum in Paris for male patients. From the mid-1780s, Pinel was publishing articles on links between emotions, social conditions and insanity. In 1792 (formally recorded in 1793), Pinel became the chief physician at the Bicetre. Pussin showed Pinel how really knowing the patients meant they could be managed with sympathy and kindness as well as authority and control. In 1797, Pussin first freed patients of their chains and banned physical punishment, although straitjackets could be used instead. Patients were allowed to move freely about the hospital grounds, and eventually dark dungeons were replaced with sunny, well-ventilated rooms. Pussin and Pinel's approach was seen as remarkably successful and they later brought similar reforms to a mental hospital in Paris for female patients, La Salpetrière. Pinel's student and successor, Jean Esquirol (1772–1840), went on to help establish 10 new mental hospitals that operated on the same principles. There was an emphasis on the selection and supervision of attendants in order to establish a suitable setting to facilitate psychological work, and particularly on the employment of ex-patients as they were thought most likely to refrain from inhumane treatment while being able to stand up to pleading, menaces, or complaining.
Pinel used the term "traitement moral" for the new approach. At that time "moral", in French and internationally, had a mixed meaning of either psychological/emotional (mental) or moral (ethical). Pinel distanced himself from the more religious work that was developed by the Tukes, and in fact considered that excessive religiosity could be harmful. He sometimes took a moral stance himself, however, as to what he considered to be mentally healthy and socially appropriate.
England
English Quaker William Tuke (1732–1822) independently led the development of a radical new type of institution in northern England, following the death of a fellow Quaker in a local asylum in 1790. In 1796, with the help of fellow Quakers and others, he founded the York Retreat, where eventually about 30 patients lived as part of a small community in a quiet country house and engaged in a combination of rest, talk, and manual work. Rejecting medical theories and techniques, the efforts of the York Retreat centered around minimizing restraints and cultivating rationality and moral strength. The entire Tuke family became known as founders of moral treatment. They created a family-style ethos and patients performed chores to give them a sense of contribution. There was a daily routine of both work and leisure time. If patients behaved well, they were rewarded; if they behaved poorly, there was some minimal use of restraints or instilling of fear. The patients were told that treatment depended on their conduct. In this sense, the patient's moral autonomy was recognized. William Tuke's grandson, Samuel Tuke, published an influential work in the early 19th century on the methods of the retreat; Pinel's Treatise On Insanity had by then been published, and Samuel Tuke translated his term as "moral treatment".
Scotland
A very different background to the moral approach may be discerned in Scotland. Interest in mental illness was a feature of the Edinburgh medical school in the eighteenth century, with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders. In 1816, the phrenologist Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832) visited Edinburgh and lectured on his craniological and phrenological concepts, arousing considerable hostility, not least from the theologically doctrinaire Church of Scotland. Some of the medical students, however, notably William A.F. Browne (1805–1885), responded very positively to this materialist conception of the nervous system and, by implication, of mental disorder. George Combe (1788–1858), an Edinburgh solicitor, became an unrivalled exponent of phrenological thinking, and his brother, Andrew Combe (1797–1847), who was later appointed a physician to Queen Victoria, wrote a phrenological treatise entitled Observations on Mental Derangement (1831). George and Andrew Combe exerted a rather dictatorial authority over the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, and in the mid-1820s manipulated the de facto expulsion of the Christian phrenologists.
This tradition of medical materialism found a ready partner in the Lamarckian biology purveyed by the naturalist Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874) who exercised a striking influence on the young Charles Darwin during his time as a medical student in Edinburgh in 1826/1827. William Browne advanced his own versions of evolutionary phrenology at influential meetings of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, the Royal Medical Society and the Plinian Society. Later, as superintendent of Sunnyside Royal Hospital (the Montrose Asylum) from 1834 to 1838, and, more extravagantly, at the Crichton Royal in Dumfries from 1838 to 1859, Browne implemented his general approach of moral management, indicating a clinical sensitivity to the social groupings, shifting symptom patterns, dreams and art-works of the patients in his care. Browne summarised his moral approach to asylum management in his book (actually the transcripts of five public lectures) which he entitled What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought To Be. His achievements with this style of psychiatric practice were rewarded with his appointment as a Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, and by his election to the Presidency of the Medico-Psychological Association in 1866. Browne's eldest surviving son, James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), did much to extend his father's work in psychiatry, and, on 29 February 1924, he delivered a remarkable lecture The Story of the Brain, in which he recorded a generous appreciation of the role of the phrenologists in the early foundations of psychiatric thought and practice.
United States
A key figure in the early spread of moral treatment in the United States was Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), an eminent physician at Pennsylvania Hospital. He limited his practice to mental illness and developed innovative, humane approaches to treatment. He required that the hospital hire intelligent and sensitive attendants to work closely with patients, reading and talking to them and taking them on regular walks. He also suggested that it would be therapeutic for doctors to give small gifts to their patients every so often. However, Rush's treatment methods included bloodletting (bleeding), purging, hot and cold baths, mercury, and strapping patients to spinning boards and "tranquilizer" chairs.
A Boston schoolteacher, Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), also helped make humane care a public and a political concern in the US. On a restorative trip to England for a year, she met Samuel Tuke. In 1841 she visited a local prison to teach Sunday school and was shocked at the conditions for the inmates and the treatment of those with mental illnesses. She began to investigate and crusaded on the issue in Massachusetts and all over the country. She supported the moral treatment model of care. She spoke to many state legislatures about the horrible sights she had witnessed at the prisons and called for reform. Dix fought for new laws and greater government funding to improve the treatment of people with mental disorders from 1841 until 1881, and personally helped establish 32 state hospitals that were to offer moral treatment. Many asylums were built according to the so-called Kirkbride Plan.
Consequences
The moral treatment movement was initially opposed by those in the mental health profession. By the mid-19th century, however, many psychologists had adopted the strategy. They became advocates of moral treatment, but argued that since the mentally ill often had separate physical/organic problems, medical approaches were also necessary. Making this argument stick has been described as an important step in the profession's eventual success at securing a monopoly on the treatment of "lunacy".
The moral treatment movement had a huge influence on asylum construction and practice. Many countries were introducing legislation requiring local authorities to provide asylums for the local population, and they were increasingly designed and run along moral treatment lines. Additional "non-restraint movements" also developed. There was great belief in the curability of mental disorders, particularly in the US, and statistics were reported showing high recovery rates. They were later much criticized, particularly for not differentiating between new admissions and re-admissions (i.e. those who hadn't really achieved a sustained recovery). It has been noted, however, that the cure statistics showed a decline from the 1830s onwards, particularly sharply in the second half of the century, which has been linked to the dream of small, curative asylums giving way to large, centralized, overcrowded asylums.
There was also criticism from some ex-patients and their allies. By the mid-19th century in England, the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society was proclaiming that the new moral treatment was a form of social repression achieved "by mildness and coaxing, and by solitary confinement"; that its implication that the "alleged lunatics" needed re-educating meant it treated them as if they were children incapable of making their own decisions; and that it failed to properly inform people of their rights or involve them in discussion about their treatment. The Society was suspicious of the tranquility of the asylums, suggesting that patients were simply being crushed and then discharged to live a "milk sop" (meek) existence in society.
In the context of industrialization, public asylums expanded in size and number. Bound up in this was the development of the profession of psychiatry, able to expand with large numbers of inmates collected together. By the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, these large out-of-town asylums had become overcrowded, misused, isolated and run-down. The therapeutic principles had often been neglected along with the patients. Moral management techniques had turned into mindless institutional routines within an authoritarian structure. Consideration of costs quickly overrode ideals. There was compromise over decoration—no longer a homey, family atmosphere but drab and minimalist. There was an emphasis on security, custody, high walls, closed doors, shutting people off from society, and physical restraint was often used. It is well documented that there was very little therapeutic activity, and medics were little more than administrators who seldom attended to patients and mainly then for other, somatic, problems. Any hope of moral treatment or a family atmosphere was "obliterated". In 1827 the average number of asylum inmates in Britain was 166; by 1930 it was 1221. The relative proportion of the public officially diagnosed as insane grew.
Although the Retreat had been based on a non-medical approach and environment, medically based reformers emulating it spoke of "patients" and "hospitals". Asylum "nurses" and attendants, once valued as a core part of providing good holistic care, were often scapegoated for the failures of the system. Towards the end of the 19th century, somatic theories, pessimism in prognosis, and custodialism had returned. Theories of hereditary degeneracy and eugenics took over, and in the 20th century the concepts of mental hygiene and mental health developed. From the mid 20th century, however, a process of antipsychiatry and deinstitutionalization occurred in many countries in the West, and asylums in many areas were gradually replaced with more local community mental health services.
In the 1960s, Michel Foucault renewed the argument that moral treatment had really been a new form of moral oppression, replacing physical oppression, and his arguments were widely adopted within the antipsychiatry movement. Foucault was interested in ideas of "the other" and how society defines normalcy by defining the abnormal and its relationship to the normal. A patient in the asylum had to go through four moral syntheses: silence, recognition in the mirror, perpetual judgment, and the apotheosis of the medical personage. The mad were ignored and verbally isolated. They were made to see madness in others and then in themselves until they felt guilt and remorse. The doctor, despite his lack of medical knowledge about the underlying processes, had all powers of authority and defined insanity. Thus Foucault argues that the "moral" asylum is "not a free realm of observation, diagnosis, and therapeutics; it is a juridical space where one is accused, judged, and condemned." Foucault's reassessment was succeeded by a more balanced view, recognizing that the manipulation and ambiguous "kindness" of Tuke and Pinel may have been preferable to the harsh coercion and physical "treatments" of previous generations, while aware of moral treatment's less benevolent aspects and its potential to deteriorate into repression.
The moral treatment movement is widely seen as influencing psychiatric practice up to the present day, including specifically therapeutic communities (although they were intended to be less repressive); occupational therapy and Soteria houses. The Recovery model is said to have echoes of the concept of moral treatment.
See also
Erwadi fire incident
Humane treatment of the mentally ill
Moral insanity
Testimony of equality describing actions of the Quakers towards equality
The Retreat (First institution to implement moral treatment)
References
Abnormal psychology
History of mental health
Psychotherapy
Ethics in psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals |
4038084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Sp%C3%AErlea | Irina Spîrlea | Irina Spîrlea (born 26 March 1974) is a retired tennis player from Romania who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles. Spîrlea reached her career-high ranking on the WTA Tour on 13 October 1997, when she became No. 7 in the world. She retired in 2000.
Personal life
Spîrlea married Massimiliano Pace, her former coach, in 2001, and has a son, Tommaso, born in 2002, as well as a younger daughter, Francesca.
Career
Irina Spîrlea is one of the more successful tennis players from Romania, being one of only three women to have reached the top 10 (the others being Virginia Ruzici and Simona Halep.) Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was a semifinal at the US Open in 1997. She won the WTA Newcomer of the Year award in 1994.
In 1996, Spîrlea became the first player in the history of the Women's Tennis Association to receive a match default for conduct when she swore at an official in Italian during a match played in Palermo, Italy.
Spîrlea was involved in a bumping incident with Venus Williams during a changeover in the semifinals of the 1997 US Open. Spîrlea collided with Williams near the net post while changing ends, and did not move sideways. Spîrlea went on to lose the match 6–7, 6–4, 6–7 in a third-set tiebreak, after holding two match points, at 6–4 and 6–5 in the tie breaker. Williams' father accused Spîrlea of racism, and later called her "an ugly white turkey". Spîrlea accused Williams of arrogance, saying in a press conference following the match, "I'm not going to move. She never tries to turn (...) She thinks she's the fucking Venus Williams." Spîrlea subsequently had to pay $5,000 fine for using an obscenity. At the following Grand Slam tournament, the 1998 Australian Open, Spîrlea was the first opponent of Venus' sister, Serena Williams in the main draw and lost in three sets.
WTA career finals
Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups)
Doubles: 13 (6 titles, 7 runner-ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles (3–1)
Doubles (5–8)
Singles performance timeline
Record against other top players
Spîrlea's win–loss record against certain players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher is as follows:
Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.
Dominique Monami 6–3
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 5–5
Mary Joe Fernández 4–0
Karina Habšudová 4–1
Amanda Coetzer 4–4
Julie Halard-Decugis 3–2
Ai Sugiyama 3–2
Mary Pierce 3–5
Monica Seles 3–5
Barbara Schett 2–0
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 2–0
Anna Kournikova 2–1
Sandrine Testud 2–1
Gabriela Sabatini 2–2
Chanda Rubin 2–3
Natasha Zvereva 2–5
Lori McNeil 1–0
Paola Suárez 1–0
Andrea Temesvári 1–0
Nathalie Tauziat 1–2
Serena Williams 1–3
Venus Williams 1–3
Conchita Martínez 1–4
Barbara Paulus 1–4
Lindsay Davenport 1–6
Anke Huber 1–7
Kimiko Date 0–1
Zina Garrison 0–1
Martina Navratilova 0–1
Patty Schnyder 0–1
Jennifer Capriati 0–2
Steffi Graf 0–2
Iva Majoli 0–3
Martina Hingis 0–6
Jana Novotná 0–6
References
External links
1974 births
Hopman Cup competitors
Living people
Tennis players from Bucharest
Romanian female tennis players
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Romania
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
French Open junior champions |
4038100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Collins | Ray Collins | Ray or Raymond Collins may refer to:
Ray Collins (baseball) (1887–1970), American pitcher in Major League Baseball
Ray Collins (actor) (1889–1965), American actor
Raymond J. Collins (1897–1965), New Zealand philatelist
Ray Collins (American football) (1927–1991), American football defensive tackle
Ray Collins (cartoonist), American cartoonist
Raymond Collins (priest) (born 1935), American Roman Catholic priest and theologian
Ray Collins (musician) (1936–2012), American singer
Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury (born 1954), British trade unionist and politician
Raymond Collins, character in Ravenswood
See also
Raymond Collings (1908–1973), British bobsledder |
4038116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFRE | KFRE | KFRE may refer to:
KFRE-TV, a television station (channel 59 analog/36 digital) licensed to serve Sanger, California, United States
KFRE-CA, a defunct low-power television station (channel 27) formerly licensed to serve Tulare, California
KFIG 940 AM, a radio station licensed to Fresno, California, United States, which held the call sign KFRE from 1937 to 2000
KSKS 93.7 FM, a radio station licensed to Fresno, California, United States, which held the call sign KFRE-FM from 1963 to 1971 |
4038119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Kilbride%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 | East Kilbride (UK Parliament constituency) | East Kilbride was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1974 until 2005. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
At the 2005 general election it was merged with part of Clydesdale to form the new constituency of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow.
The East Kilbride Holyrood constituency, created to be coterminous in 1999, continues in use for elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Boundaries
1974–1983: The burgh of East Kilbride, the fourth district electoral division of Avondale, and the eighth district electoral divisions of Blantyre, High Blantyre, and Stonefield.
1983–1996: East Kilbride District.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections of the 1970s
Elections of the 1980s
Elections of the 1990s
Elections of the 2000s
References
Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1974
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005
East Kilbride
Politics of South Lanarkshire |
4038121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruxandra%20Dragomir | Ruxandra Dragomir | Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania.
She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 1997, when she became the No. 15 of the world. Between 2009 and 2013 she was the president of Romanian Tennis Federation. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1997 French Open, defeating Sonya Jeyaseelan, Yayuk Basuki, Karina Habšudová and Nicole Arendt before losing to eventual champion, Iva Majoli.
Dragomir retired from professional tennis in 2005.
WTA career finals
Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)
ITF finals
Singles (7–2)
Doubles (8–6)
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Head-to-head records
Serena Williams 0-1
Venus Williams 0-3
Martina Hingis 0-4
Lindsay Davenport 0-7
Anna Kournikova 2-1
Dominique Monami 1-2
Kim Clijsters 0-1
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 0-5
Nadia Petrova 2-0
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Olympic tennis players of Romania
Sportspeople from Pitești
Romanian female tennis players
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
French Open junior champions |
4038124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Lead%20Actress%20in%20a%20Limited%20or%20Anthology%20Series%20or%20Movie | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a television limited series or television movie for the primetime network season.
The award was first presented at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards on March 7, 1955, to Judith Anderson, for her performance as Lady Macbeth on the Hallmark Hall of Fame episode "Macbeth". It has undergone several name changes, with the category split into two categories at the 25th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy; and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series. By the 31st Primetime Emmy Awards, the categories were merged into one, and it has since undergone several name changes, leading to its current title.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 54 actresses. Kate Winslet is the current recipient of the award, for her portrayal of Mare Sheehan on Mare of Easttown. Helen Mirren has won the most awards in this category, with four, and has received the most nominations for the award, on ten occasions.
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Superlatives
Programs with multiple wins
5 wins
Hallmark Hall of Fame
2 wins
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Prime Suspect
Producers' Showcase
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Helen Mirren (2 consecutive)
3 wins
Patty Duke
Laura Linney
2 wins
Judith Anderson
Ingrid Bergman
Julie Harris
Holly Hunter
Regina King
Jessica Lange
Geraldine Page
Gena Rowlands
Meryl Streep
Kate Winslet
Joanne Woodward
Programs with multiple nominations
9 nominations
Hallmark Hall of Fame
6 nominations
American Horror Story
Prime Suspect
5 nominations
Playhouse 90
4 nominations
American Crime
3 nominations
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The United States Steel Hour
2 nominations
Angels in America
Big Little Lies
Captains and the Kings
CBS Playhouse
Climax!
A Cooler Climate
Dr. Kildare*
Elizabeth R
Fargo
Feud
Grey Gardens
Holocaust
Lonesome Dove
Lux Video Theater
The Miracle Worker
Norma Jean & Marilyn
The Richard Boone Show
Roe vs. Wade
The Snoop Sisters
Studio One
Sybil
When They See Us
Wild Iris
Performers with multiple nominations
10 nominations
Helen Mirren
7 nominations
Judy Davis
Jessica Lange
6 nominations
Glenn Close
Julie Harris
Gena Rowlands
Joanne Woodward
5 nominations
Helen Hayes
Lee Remick
4 nominations
Jane Alexander
Judith Anderson
Ann-Margret
Katharine Hepburn
Holly Hunter
Elizabeth Montgomery
Eva Marie Saint
Maureen Stapleton
Emma Thompson
Cicely Tyson
Alfre Woodard
3 nominations
Ingrid Bergman
Judi Dench
Colleen Dewhurst
Patty Duke
Sally Field
Lee Grant
Felicity Huffman
Glenda Jackson
Laura Linney
Mary Tyler Moore
Geraldine Page
Sarah Paulson
Vanessa Redgrave
Maggie Smith
Meryl Streep
Jessica Tandy
Sigourney Weaver
2 nominations
Halle Berry
Helena Bonham Carter
Carol Burnett
Ellen Burstyn
Stockard Channing
Susan Clark
Laura Dern
Blythe Danner
Bette Davis
Farrah Fawcett
Lynn Fontanne
Rosemary Harris
Barbara Hershey
Anjelica Huston
Ann Jillian
Ashley Judd
Nicole Kidman
Regina King
Diane Lane
Piper Laurie
Cloris Leachman
Jean Marsh
Suzanne Pleshette
Queen Latifah
Susan Sarandon
Jane Seymour
Sada Thompson
Claire Trevor
Kerry Washington
JoBeth Williams
Kate Winslet
Shelley Winters
Teresa Wright
See also
TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
References
Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie
Emmy Award |
4038128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause%20to%20Believe | Cause to Believe | Cause to Believe (foaled February 11, 2003 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a contender for the U.S. Triple Crown in 2006.
Cause to Believe was bred by Overbrook Farm. He is the son of Maria's Mon, the 1995 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. Out of the mare Imaginary Cat, a daughter of Storm Cat, his breeding line includes such notable horses as Northern Dancer, Secretariat and Majestic Prince.
Cause to Believe was purchased by Vancouver, British Columbia businessman Peter Redekop for $30,000 at the 2005 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. In early 2006, Redekop sold a 25% interest in the horse to Chicago businessman, Peter Abruzzo.
The colt was trained by Jerry Hollendorfer and ridden by Russell Baze.
Races
References
National Thoroughbred Racing Association bio
Cause To Believe's pedigree and racing stats
2003 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 14-c
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States |
4038132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Gaines | Gary Gaines | Gary Gaines (born May 4, 1949) is a former American football coach. Gaines was the head coach of the 1988 Permian High School football team, which was the focus of the H. G. Bissinger book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream and the 2004 motion picture Friday Night Lights starring Billy Bob Thornton. His coaching career spanned four decades, coaching at eight high schools and two colleges, all in Texas.
Coaching career
Gaines spent 30 seasons coaching high school in West Texas at different high schools. His career started at Fort Stockton High School in 1971, followed by five years at Monahans High School. His first head coaching job came in 1977 Petersburg High School. He would go on to be a head coach at Denver City High School (1978), Amarillo Tascosa High School (1982), Monahans (1983-1985), Abilene High School (1994-1995) and San Angelo Central High School (1996-1999).
Odessa Permian
Gaines gained his most notoriety from his time at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. He spent three years as an assistant coach under Head Coach John Wilkins from 1979 through the 1981 season. With Gaines on staff, Permian won the Texas 5A state championship in 1980.
Following Wilkins' retirement after the 1985 season, Gaines returned to Permian as head coach, taking over a team that had made back-to-back 5A state championship games. (Permian and Beaumont French High School were declared co-champions in 1984 after a 21-21 tie [Texas high school football had no overtime at the time] and lost to Houston Yates in 1985).
Gaines was one of the featured characters in H.G. Bissinger's 1990 book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which chronicled Permian's 1988 season and the football crazed culture of West Texas. The following season, Gaines coached Permian to a perfect 16-0 season and the 1989 5A state championship. Gaines left Permian following the 1989 season, compiling a 46-7-1 record.
Return to Permian
On March 9, 2009, Permian announced that Gaines would return as head coach of Permian after Darren Allman left for Austin Westlake. It had been 20 years since Gaines left Permian and 10 years since he had coached high school football. The Panthers were not able to recreate the success Gaines had in the 1980s, compiling a 23-21 record over four seasons with just one playoff victory. At the conclusion of the 2012 season, Gaines resigned as head coach and announced his retirement from coaching. In eight total seasons at Permian, Gaines compiled a 69-28-1 record and an overall record of 127-93-5 in 20 seasons as a head coach.
College Coaching
Following the 1989 season, Gaines accepted his first college coaching job, getting hired as the linebackers coach Texas Tech University under head coach Spike Dykes. (Dykes was the head coach of Permian rival Midland Lee High School when Gaines was an assistant at Permian in the early 1980s) In his five seasons at Tech, the Red Raiders had a record of 27-30 and appeared in two bowl games, including the 1995 Cotton Bowl Classic. Following the 1994 season, Gaines left Texas Tech and became the head coach at Abilene High School.
Abilene Christian
Gaines was named the 17th head football coach at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas in January 2000. In his first two seasons, ACU struggled under Gaines, losing 17 of 21 games. Despite the early struggles, the Wildcats rebounded in 2002, posting a winning record at 6-4 and winning the Lone Star Conference South Division Championship, the Wildcats' first championship of any kind since their only Lone Star Conference Championship in 1977. Gaines resigned at the conclusion of the 2004 season with an overall record of 21-30.
Post-coaching career
In 2005, Gaines moved on to serve as the athletic director for Ector County Independent School District, the same district of which Permian High School is a part. In 2007, he took the position of athletic director for the Lubbock Independent School District.
Gaines is also a public speaker. Speaking to high schools and colleges across the country, Gaines gives insight on teamwork, leadership, winning and success on and off the field.
Personal life
Gaines was born in Crane, Texas and played quarterback at Angelo State University from 1967 through 1970, lettering all four years. He is married to Sharon Gaines and the couple have two children and five grandchildren. He was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor in 2013 and Angelo State University Hall of Honor in 2019.
In 2017, Gaines announced that he had been diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's disease.
Head coaching record
College
See also
List of teachers portrayed in films
References
1949 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Abilene Christian Wildcats football coaches
Angelo State Rams football players
Texas Tech Red Raiders football coaches
High school football coaches in Texas
People from Crane, Texas
Coaches of American football from Texas
Players of American football from Texas
American members of the Churches of Christ |
4038166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation%20of%20Christ | Imitation of Christ | In Christian theology, the imitation of Christ is the practice of following the example of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, the term life in Christ is sometimes used for the same concept.
The ideal of the imitation of Christ has been an important element of both Christian ethics and spirituality. References to this concept and its practice are found in the earliest Christian documents, e.g. the Pauline Epistles.
Saint Augustine viewed the imitation of Christ as the fundamental purpose of Christian life, and as a remedy for the imitation of the sins of Adam. Saint Francis of Assisi believed in the physical as well as the spiritual imitation of Christ, and advocated a path of poverty and preaching like Jesus who was poor at birth in the manger and died naked on the cross. Thomas à Kempis, on the other hand, presented a path to The Imitation of Christ based on a focus on the interior life and withdrawal from the world.
The theme of imitation of Christ existed in all phases of Byzantine theology, and in the 14th-century book Life in Christ Nicholas Cabasilas viewed "living one's own personal life" in Christ as the fundamental Christian virtue.
Early period
The word imitate does not appear in the canonical gospels, but the word follow is often applied to those who believed in Jesus, and Jesus is quoted as requiring imitation in some form (Matthew 10:38; 16:24; Luke 14:27). But in 1 Thessalonians 1:6 Paul the Apostle refers to the imitation of Christ, as well as himself, and states: "And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit". Similarly, in 1 Peter 2:21, the Apostle Peter explains the duty of Christians to "follow his [Christ's] steps".
For Paul the imitation of Christ involves readiness to be shaped by the Holy Spirit as in Romans 8:4 and Romans 8:11, and a self-giving service of love to others as in 1 Corinthians 13 and Galatians 5:13. The imitation of Christ, as in Ephesians 5:1 is then viewed by Paul as a path to the imitation of God: "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you".
The early Church had little interest in the historical Jesus and this prevented an immediate development of the concept of literal imitation. Instead the earliest concepts of imitation focused on the works of the Holy Spirit, self-sacrifice and martyrdom. In time, this focus changed, and by the time of Saint Francis of Assisi attempts at literal imitation of Christ were well established.
By the 4th century, the ideal of the imitation of Christ was well accepted and for Saint Augustine, it was the ultimate goal of conversion, and the fundamental purpose of Christian life.
Book 7 of the Confessions of St. Augustine includes a well known passage on "at least imitate the lowly God" that confirms the strong Christian tradition of the imitation of Christ around the year 400. Augustine viewed human beings as creatures who approach the Holy Trinity through likeness, i.e. by imitating the Son, who is bound to the Father through the grace of the Holy Spirit. Thus for Augustine, the imitation of Christ is enabled by the Spirit who confers God's grace. Augustine viewed Christ as both a sign of grace and an example to be followed, and in his later writings stated that the imitation of Christ leads to a mystical union with him.
Middle Ages
The 895 Council of Tribur considered triple immersion in baptism as an imitation of the three days of Jesus in the tomb, and the rising from the water as an imitation of the Resurrection of Jesus. This period also witnessed a growing trend towards the denial of the flesh in favor of the soul among the monastic communities, who saw the rebuffing of the physical body (as an imitation of the sufferings of Christ) as a path to a higher level of spiritual achievement.
In the 12th century, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux considered humility and love as key examples of the imitation of Christ. Bernard argued that the Father sent his Son, who in turn sent the Spirit to the Church, and that those who, in imitation of Christ, humble themselves and serve the Church will obtain intimate union with God.
Early in the 13th century, groups of mendicant friars entered the scene, aiming to imitate Christ by living a life of poverty as well as preaching, as Jesus had done, and following him to martyrdom, if necessary. Chief among these were the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, who believed in the physical as well as the spiritual imitation of Christ. Francis viewed poverty as a key element of the imitation of Christ who was "poor at birth in the manger, poor as he lived in the world, and naked as he died on the cross". Francis also drew attention to the poverty of the Virgin Mary, and viewed that as a noble imitation. He was also the first reported case of stigmata in the history of Christianity, and reportedly viewed his stigmata as a key element of his imitation of Christ.
Later in the 13th century, Saint Thomas Aquinas (who advocated the perfection of Christ) considered imitation of Christ essential for a religious life. In Summa Theologica 2.2.186.5 Aquinas stated that "Religious perfection consists chiefly in the imitation of Christ" and in 3.65.2 he positioned the "perfection of the spiritual life" as an imitation of Christ, with baptism as the first step in the path towards the imitation of a perfect Christ.
The theme of imitation of Christ continued to exist in all phases of Byzantine theology, although some Eastern theologians such as Nicholas Cabasilas preferred to use the term "Life in Christ", as in his 14th-century book of the same title. Cabasilas advocated "living one's own personal life" in Christ as a fundamental Christian virtue. Cabasilas also believed that the Eucharist forms the new life in Christ.
In the highly influential book The Imitation of Christ first issued in 1418, Thomas à Kempis provided specific instructions for imitating Christ. His book is perhaps the most widely read Christian devotional work after the Bible. The approach taken by Kempis is characterized by its emphasis on the interior life and withdrawal from the world, as opposed to an active imitation of Christ (including outward preaching) by other friars. The book places a high level of emphasis on the devotion to the Eucharist as key element of spiritual life.
Reformation
The Reformation saw a multi-directional shift in focus on the concept of imitation. In the 16th century, Martin Luther initially made the connection between baptism and imitation even stronger. But in time Luther came to dislike the term imitation, and preferred the term "conformation", seeing imitation as an attempt to conceal a doctrine on the "works of Christ". However John Calvin gave a prominent place to the imitation of Christ in his writings and worked out the ideal of a "mystical union" with Christ in a way that resonated with the New Testament.
But the 16th century also witnessed a continuing interest in the imitation of Christ. Saint Ignatius of Loyola continued to advocate the path towards imitation and encouraged a sense of "being with Christ" and experiencing his humanity, e.g. in his Spiritual Exercises he asks the participant to imagine being in Calvary at the foot of the Cross, communing with Jesus on the Cross.
Christology
The concept of the imitation of Christ has had a Christological context and implications from the very early days of formalized Christian theology. In the context of the Person of Christ the belief in Monophysitism, which asserted only one divine nature for Christ with no human nature ran against the ideal that humans could imitate him. Those issues were mostly resolved, however, as Monophysitism was declared heretical by the Western Church and much of the Eastern Church.
The acceptance of a human (as well as a divine) nature for Christ by many Christians allowed the pursuit of the goal of the imitation of Christ, but with the realizations that it had inherent limits, e.g. that Christ's death in obedience to the will of the Father had a redemptive value beyond human potential.
While Western Christology of the "imitation of Christ" has had a focus on the sacrifice at Calvary, that has not been the main theme in the Eastern Church where the term "life in Christ" has been used and the key focus has been the Transfiguration of Jesus. No saints in the Eastern Church have reported signs of stigmata, but saints in the Eastern Church have frequently reported being transformed by the "inward light" of uncreated grace.
A further Christological issue that differentiates the Eastern and Western approaches is that the Eastern approach sees the Father as the sole hypostatic source of the Holy Spirit. Thus in contrast to Augustine and Aquinas, Eastern Christology does not see the Holy Spirit as the bond of love between the Father and the Son and hence the imitation of the Son does not have the same implications in terms of a unity with the Father.
See also
References
External links
Christian ethics
Christian terminology |
4038170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Decherd | Doctor Decherd | Doctor Decherd (foaled March 23, 2003) is a thoroughbred horse. He was a contender for the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 2006. Doctor Decherd was on the Derby trail in 2006, and ran against Barbaro in the Holy Bull stakes (click the Holy Bull video), won the Aventura Stakes ridden by Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan and had dropped down into the 4K claiming ranks in the spring of 2008. Because of the proactive approach to this horse's trainer, by Friends Of Barbaro Linda & Patty, to offer a retirement home for Doctor Decherd - he was retired from the track in September 2008 and brought to Texas for rehab and retraining into a second career. Doctor Decherd has sponsors amongst the Friends Of Barbaro all over the country (and Canada), who contribute to his upkeep and all "own" a little piece this horse.
Connections
Doctor Decherd is owned by Mike McCarty and was trained by Steve Asmussen. In all of his lifetime starts he has been ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan or Roman Chapa. Doctor Decherd was bred in Kentucky by Calumet Farm.
Pedigree
References
2003 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 4-m
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States |
4038173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mirror%20%281999%20film%29 | The Mirror (1999 film) | The Mirror is a 1999 Hong Kong horror anthology film directed by Siu Wing, produced and written by Raymond Wong, and starring Nicholas Tse, Ruby Lin, Lillian Ho, Law Lan, Jack Neo, Xu Fan and Sherming Yiu.
Plot
The film is divided into five unrelated segments with the mirror on an antique dressing table serving as the plot device.
The first segment is set in a brothel in 16th-century China. A courtesan is murdered and her blood spills onto the mirror on her dressing table.
The second segment is set in Shanghai in 1922. Mary, an heiress to a large mansion, receives an antique dressing table as a birthday gift. She notices that there is something strange about the mirror and starts receiving eerie phone calls reminding her about her dark secrets in the past. She had an affair with a professor who already had a family. In order to silence him and take over his mansion, she poisoned him to death. One night, her two servants confront her, tell her that they are actually the professor's daughters, and avenge their father.
The third segment is set in Singapore in 1988 during the Ghost Festival. James, a lawyer, has a one-night stand with Lora and tries to get away in the morning but her burly brother, Roman (who speak Teochew dialect), stops him and forces him to marry Lora. Lora moves into James's house and brings along an antique dressing table that she inherited from her deceased parents. One day, a woman approaches James and offers him a million dollars to defend her son, who has been accused of raping a lady and murdering her boyfriend. Overcome by greed, James ignores his conscience, defends the accused in court, and wins the case. James gets into a car accident later and his face is injured so badly that he has to undergo reconstructive surgery. When the bandages are removed, James is horrified to see that he now looks exactly like the rape victim's deceased boyfriend.
The fourth segment is set in Hong Kong in 1999. An old woman and her granddaughter Yu are waiting for the latter's cousin Ming to come home from his overseas studies. When Ming returns, he brings along his girlfriend, Judy, and announces his decision to marry her. Yu becomes very jealous because she is in love with Ming. One day, Ming and Judy purchase an antique dressing table from a shop and bring it home. Yu finds the mirror very weird and starts feeling uneasy. Judy's pet puppy also keeps barking at her. One night, the puppy is brutally killed, and Ming's grandmother goes missing on the following night. Ming's grandmother is eventually found dead with her body dismembered. Yu is blamed for the murder and gets arrested by the police. Later, Ming brings Judy to the mirror and tells her that he knows she murdered his grandmother so that she could inherit his grandmother's fortune. Judy reveals her true colours and tries to kill Ming but misses her step and ends up impaling herself on a pair of scissors stuck to the dressing table.
The fifth segment is set in Taiwan in 2000. A woman approaches the antique dressing table and sees her eyeballs falling out from their sockets in her reflection in the mirror.
Cast
In order of appearance:
Sherming Yiu as courtesan
Xu Fan as Mary
Li Zhirui as dumb girl
Chen Shasha as Mary's housekeeper
Jack Neo as James
Lynn Poh as Lora
John Cheng as Roman
Karen Tong as rape victim
Lin Ruping as accused's mother
Raymond Wong as rape victim's boyfriend
Lillian Ho as Yu
Law Lan as Ming's grandmother
Nicholas Tse as Ming
Ruby Lin as Judy
External links
Hong Kong films
1999 films
1999 horror films
Hong Kong supernatural horror films
Horror anthology films
Hong Kong ghost films
Cantonese-language films
Films set in 1922
Films set in 1988
Films set in 1999
Films set in 2000
Films set in Hong Kong
Films shot in Hong Kong
Films set in Singapore
Films shot in Singapore
Films set in Taiwan
Films set in Shanghai |
4038174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85sa%20Svensson | Åsa Svensson | Åsa Svensson (born Carlsson; 16 June 1975) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1992. She won two singles and seven doubles titles in her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 1 April 1996, when she became the No. 28 of the world.
Biography
Svensson trained at the Royal Lawn Tennis Club in Stockholm. She married Niclas Svensson on 8 December 2001 and travelled with him on the tour. Her maiden name is Carlsson, her father's name is Lennart, mother's name is Signe.
In January 2005, she announced she gave up tennis.
WTA career finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 16 (7 titles, 9 runner-ups)
ITF finals
Singles: 8 (3–5)
Doubles: 8 (6–2)
References
External links
1975 births
Hopman Cup competitors
Living people
People from Surahammar Municipality
Swedish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Västmanland County |
4038177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor%20Polishchuk | Fyodor Polishchuk | Fyodor Vasilievich Polischuk (; born July 4, 1979) is a Kazakhstani professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Polischuk previously played for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Vysshaya Liga between 1998 and 2004 before moving to the Russian Superleague with Metallurg Novokuznetsk. After one season he moved to SKA Saint Petersburg before returning to Metallurg Novokuznetsk during the 2006–07 season. He remained until 2010 when he joined Barys Astana.
He is a member of the Kazakhstan national team and participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Early life
Polischuk was born in the village of Kolodyste, located in Cherkassy Oblast, Ukraine.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
People from Uman Raion
Barys Nur-Sultan players
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Metallurg Novokuznetsk players
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Kazakhstani ice hockey centres
Ukrainian emigrants to Kazakhstan
Kazzinc-Torpedo players
Olympic ice hockey players of Kazakhstan
SKA Saint Petersburg players
Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan
Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
Ice hockey players at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Ice hockey players at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games medalists in ice hockey |
4038182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20sequence | Tornado outbreak sequence | A tornado outbreak sequence, or tornado outbreak day sequence, sometimes referred to as an extended tornado outbreak, is a period of continuous or nearly continuous high tornado activity consisting of a series of tornado outbreaks over multiple days with no or very few days lacking tornado outbreaks.
Major tornado outbreak sequences occurred in the United States in May 1917, 1930, 1949, 1965, 1974, 2003, and 2011. Another exceptional outbreak sequence apparently occurred during mid to late May 1896. Although some days lacked tornado outbreaks, the period from mid to late April 2011 and late May 2019 also were periods of especially high tornado activity.
Tornado outbreak sequences tend to dominate the tornado statistics for a year and often cause a spike in tornado numbers for the entire year. Not all periods of active tornado occurrences are outbreak sequences, there must be no break in the activity to satisfy the definition. Active periods occur ranging from every year to every several years whereas continuously active periods are less common and can be rare depending on the parameters applied to define a sequence. By the late 2010s, medium to long range forecasting advanced sufficiently that some periods of high tornado activity can be somewhat reliably predicted several days to several weeks in advance.
See also
List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
References
Further reading
Tornado
fr:Éruption de tornades#Longue séquence |
4038185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naimi | Naimi | Naimi is a surname.
People
Abdulla Majid Al Naimi, Bahraini formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Fazlallah Astarabadi (Naimi), also known by the pen name Naimi, Iranian mystic
Majed bin Ali Al-Naimi, Minister of Education of Bahrain
Yuval Naimi, Israeli basketball player
Other
Al-Naimi (tribe), a large Arabian tribe in the Persian Gulf region, including Iraq |
4038193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local | .local | The domain name .local is a special-use domain name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) so that it may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. As such it is similar to the other special domain names, such as .localhost. However, .local has since been designated for use in link-local networking, in applications of multicast DNS (mDNS) and zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) so that DNS service may be established without local installations of conventional DNS infrastructure on local area networks.
Multicast DNS standard
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) reserves the use of the domain name label .local as a special-use domain name for hostnames in local area networks that can be resolved via the Multicast DNS name resolution protocol. Any DNS query for a name ending with the label local must be sent to the mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address , or its IPv6 equivalent . A domain name ending in .local may be resolved concurrently via other mechanisms, for example, unicast DNS.
mDNS implementations
RFC 6762 was authored by Apple Inc. employees Stuart Cheshire and Marc Krochmal, and Apple's Bonjour zeroconf networking software implements mDNS. That service will automatically resolve the private IP addresses of link-local Macintosh computers running MacOS and mobile devices running iOS if .local is appended to their hostnames. In addition, Bonjour devices will use those .local hostnames when advertising services to DNS Service Discovery clients.
Most Linux distributions also incorporate and are configured to use zeroconf. By default, each computer's Avahi daemon will respond to mDNS hostname.local queries, and most shell commands and application program calls that attempt to resolve such names are routed to that daemon by the default hosts: line in the Name Service Switch configuration file. It is also possible to configure the nss-mdns modules and Avahi to resolve hostnames with other pseudo-TLDs.
Windows has some support for mDNS, which can be improved by installing zeroconf software available from Apple and other third parties.
Finally, many printers and other peripheral devices also implement the mDNS protocol in order to provide simplified connections to them from computers that implement zeroconf.
Microsoft recommendations
The connection of Macintosh and Linux computers or zeroconf peripherals to Windows networks can be problematic if those networks include name servers that use .local as a search domain for internal devices.
At one time, Microsoft at least suggested the use of .local as a pseudo-TLD for small private networks with internal DNS servers, via documents that (as of this writing) are still accessible. For example, support article 296250 included the following option:
However, more recent articles have cautioned or advised against such use of the .local TLD.
Support article 300684 listed contoso.local as an example of a "best-practice Active Directory domain name", but then added:
which would of course preclude using that or any other domain ending with .local.
Microsoft TechNet article 708159 suggested .local for the exact opposite reason:
but later recommended against it:
TechNet article 726016 cautioned against using .local:
By default, a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 Essentials also adds .local as the default dns-prefix, when a user doesn't select the advanced option. Thus resulting in a domain with .local extension.
Linux
Linux distributions use the Name Service Switch configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf in which mDNS name resolution was added via the mdns4_minimal plugin to nsswitch. In this configuration, where mdns4_minimal precedes the standard dns option, which uses /etc/resolv.conf, the mDNS resolution will block subsequent DNS resolution on the local network.
hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
or
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
This is a configuration choice made by distributions such as Ubuntu/Debian and SuSE and Red Hat, each of which have their own package configuration script that will install the mdns_minimal module as above.
In this way .local requests are being prevented from leaking to the internet, but also block legitimate .local requests for configured DNS servers.
Global DNS queries
As local is an officially reserved special-use domain name host names with this top level label are not resolvable in the global Domain Name System.
References
Domain Name System
Pseudo-top-level domains
sv:Toppdomän#Generiska toppdomäner |
4038199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stercoral%20perforation | Stercoral perforation | Stercoral perforation is the perforation or rupture of the intestine's walls by its internal contents, such as hardened feces or foreign objects. Hardened stools may form in prolonged constipation or other diseases which cause obstruction of transit, such as Chagas disease, Hirschprung's disease, toxic colitis, hypercalcemia, and megacolon.
Symptoms can include abdominal distension, pain, and nausea.
Stercoral perforation is a rare and very dangerous, life-threatening situation, as well as a surgical emergency, because the spillage of contaminated intestinal contents into the abdominal cavity leads to peritonitis, a rapid bacteremia (bacterial infection of the blood), with many complications.
See also
Gastrointestinal perforation
Stercoral ulcer, which can lead to stercoral perforation
References
Gastrointestinal tract disorders
Gross pathology
Articles containing video clips |
4038205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation%20of%20Christ%20%28disambiguation%29 | Imitation of Christ (disambiguation) | The Imitation of Christ is the Christian ideal of following the example of Jesus.
Imitation of Christ may also refer to:
In religion:
The Imitation of Christ, a 15th-century spiritual book by Thomas à Kempis
In art and music:
Imitation of Christ (film), a 1967 film by Andy Warhol titled after the book by Kempis
Imitation of Christ (designs), an art project and fashion line created by Tara Subkoff and Matthew Damhave
"Imitation of Christ", a song on The Psychedelic Furs (album)
See also
Imitatio dei
Imitation of Life (disambiguation) |
4038210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Fleet%20Project | Star Fleet Project | Star Fleet Project is a solo project of Brian May, Queen's guitarist, and a mini-album of the same name. Released as the work of Brian May + Friends, the album consisted of May, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alan Gratzer (of REO Speedwagon), Phil Chen (session bassist who played with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart), and Fred Mandel (keyboard player for Alice Cooper and additional keyboard player on Queen's Hot Space Tour and The Works). "[T]he result is high-octane instrumentals, instantly Queenish, and not unlike Flash with added fretboard pyrotechnics". The tapes were not intended to be released and received minimal mixing. "Star Fleet Project was called a 'mini-album' by [May] because he thought it...too short to be a proper album, but too long to be even an EP single".
Production
The idea for the album came from May's son Jimmy, a fan of Star Fleet, the English title of Japanese sci-fi puppet TV show X-Bomber. "[M]y little boy had been watching this science fiction series and I always thought that the theme tune for it would be a great vehicle for all-out guitar playing". "And [Jim] said, 'Daddy, you should play that!', and I thought, 'Actually, that's a rather good piece of music!'" There was a seven-month period between May watching the show with his son and the mini-LP's recording. "We were all in a little bit of downtime in our own projects. Queen was in a bit of a hiatus, and I think Van Halen weren't doing too much and my neighbour [in Los Angeles] Alan Gratzer from R.E.O. [Speedwagon] wasn't doing much and we got together". Recorded on 21 and 22 April 1983 at the Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California, the mini-album was released in October that same year. The record consists of three songs: "Star Fleet", "Let Me Out", and "Blues Breaker". The album name apparently comes from the title track: "Because one song was called 'Star Fleet', [May] dubbed the jam session...Star Fleet Project".
"Star Fleet", May's hard-rock arrangement of the Star Fleet theme tune, "soars on more sheer guitar power as the piece is translated into interstellar heavy metal", with heavy emphasis on May's and Van Halen's guitar work, as May "intended to provide a platform for Van Halen's soloing skills with...Star Fleet". The "strongest" track, the song "[carries] both the energy and full flavor of an early Queen work". "Van Halen's and May's guitar solos bounce off one another like playful lions". This "[bouncing] off one another" is intended, as May explained: "I wanted to play in a sympathetic way to him, to supply the great rhythms that he could play to. I wanted to be the perfect rhythm guitarist, and I grew up as a rhythm guitarist, so that's natural to me. But when we were trading solos... we were feeding off each other.... We'd never played together before, and yet the chemistry is there. It was as spontaneous as anything could be". "Edward played the solo on 'Star Fleet' three times. Each time it was incredible. Each time it was different". Prior to beginning work on the project, May "attempted to get in touch with the song's writer, British keyboardist Phil Bliss, but was unsuccessful until after the Star Fleet Project was completed". Of this attempted contact, May said, "I tried to get in touch with the guy who had written the song, Paul Bliss, and couldn't at the time. So I pressed on and did some arrangement around a couple of verses and wrote extra middle bit for it. Later I got in touch with him, and he said it was a pity that I couldn't find him in the early days because he's got some more verse in the middle – which I'm dying to hear – but it was too late for the project. My song does follow his musical theme, and I used the verse he wrote". Apparently "Brian sent a signed copy of the finished [mini-album] to... Bliss, with a message thanking him for his composition".
"Let Me Out", "an old song of [May's] which found new life", "turns into a blues jam, with Brian and Van Halen trading licks". "[Not as] structured", the song "does carry a nice, bluesy swagger". During this song, "Edward tortures his top string to its audible death and winds up quite naturally on the remaining five". The song "received its first live performance on 7 December 1990 at the Astoria Theatre, when Brian guest-starred on guitar for the last four minutes of The Cross' Fan Club gig....[and got] one additional airing on 7 July 2001 at [the Auditorium Stravinksi] as part of the Montreux Jazz Festival), with Brian on guitars and vocals, Jon Clearly on piano, Chris Spedding on guitar, John Hatton on bass, Bernie Dresel on drums, and Emily [May], [Jim May], and Anita [Dobson] providing backing vocals". "Queen fans may enjoy the piano blues "Let Me Out" best, as it sounds like it would have fit right in on News of the World. I can imagine Freddie putting his spin on it quite easily. Brian takes the first solo, but next time he says "Help me, Edward!" and it's Van Halen playing the blues....Brian and [Edward] alternate, and then [Edward] blazes the fretboard shredder style".
"Blues Breaker", "a 13-minute piece of improvisation highlighted by the attacks and counter-attacks of May and Van Halen", "a masterpiece...for its pure spontaneity", is a "long blues jam (edited together from several recorded that day), with no lyrics or vocals.... The liner notes dedicate this piece to E. C. (Eric Clapton), and that's where the name comes from". "[W]hen we started... the Blues Breaker track, I think we kind of had Eric Clapton in our minds and the people that Clapton would revere like [B.B.] King, Muddy Waters; it was the power of the blues which made us gel. I remember [Edward] saying, 'You know, you got me to play today in a way that I haven't played for years.' Just simple and from the heart and with that kind of feeling". Heavy metal magazine Kerrang! said of the song, "It has something epic, as if every one of the players touched deep into [the] collective music lexicon, and promptly replied to his previous speaker". This song and "Let Me Out" were more spontaneous than "Star Fleet", with May showing off his signature sound and Van Halen using his uniqe tapping technique to great effect. "May sent... 'Blues Breaker' to Eric Clapton, who reportedly found the song to not be terribly bluesy. [Edward Van Halen] was greatly disappointed". More than finding the song "not...terribly bluesy", Clapton took insult from the song, finding it horrible. "May was on the defensive when he talked about "Bluesbreaker" [sic], a lengthy jam dedicated to Eric Clapton, which took up all of side two: 'It seemed very indulgent putting out a long jam, but having listened to it, I think it's worthwhile...it's rock blues with all the mistakes left in'".
On the mini-album as a whole, Van Halen said:
That was just a get-together jam. [May] invited me down to... Record Plant and we played.... After we played, he called me up about four months later and asked what I thought about putting the stuff out. And I said, "Send me the tape, let me hear it first," because I didn't remember how it went. He did and said, "Sure, what the hell." It reeks of fun.
Releases
The project was originally released on 31 October 1983, and was later re-released in November of that year.
Capitol released "[a] shorter edit of 'Starfleet'....[a] move [which] proved to be a disaster...".
"Star Fleet Project" is currently available on two CD formats. It was first re-issued as part of May's "Back to the Light" single, in two CDs: the first featured "Star Fleet" and "Let Me Out", the second "Blues Breaker".
In 1993, the songs were re-issued as tracks 6–8 of the Japanese mini-album Resurrection.
Reception
Although the album did not do well initially—by the end of the year it reached No. 35 in the UK and No. 125 in the US, with the "Star Fleet" single being counted as "a non-starter at 65" that "received no daytime radio airplay", individuals took a liking to the mini-LP—so much so that by 1984, it was reported that the album was "already a cult guitar favorite. Where solo efforts often tend to be politely applauded and then forgotten as an artist's 'indulgence', the raw power of this album has given it instant, unanticipated acceptance.... [May admitted:] 'I must contest I still enjoy it—I still put it on the record player and like what I hear'". "[O]n this album May is able to let loose and allow his blues influences to show through....[T]he expert musicianship shows through in such a way that makes [the album] worth purchasing". "[T]here is so much spirited byplay among...May and...Van Halen...Alan Gratzer...Phil Chen and...Fred Mandel that [the mini-album] was just too good to be left sitting in the can". Star Fleet Project was voted Best Spontaneous Recording by Hope College in 1984. "[I]t lived on – at the conclusion of 'One Vision' on the 1986 Magic tour, [Queen] launched into the ascending false conclusion [of 'Star Fleet'] before [going] into 'Tie Your Mother Down'". This occurred at Råsundastadion and Wembley. By 1993, general perception of the mini-album was favorable, as Joe Kleon wrote in Scene magazine: "[May] has appeared in many projects, including the highly-acclaimed "Star Fleet Project" released in 1983 with [Edward] Van Halen". In comparing Star Fleet Project to the Ultima Thule Mix of May's song New Horizons, Rolling Stone journalist Kory Grow wrote that "May's first-ever solo recording was also a tribute to space travel".
Re-release
In late 2021, May stated that Star Fleet Project would be re-released following the re-releases of Back to the Light and Another World, "I'm going to do Star Fleet, which is the one with Eddie Van Halen, after that". This is , as following Van Halen's death on 6 October 2020, May stated that "[a]t some point it would be lovely to revisit [Star Fleet Project] in depth, but at the moment I'm not. It doesn't feel right now". As Another World was re-released on 22 April 2022, it can now be expected that Star Fleet Project will be re-released next, the last of May's solo work to be re-released. On the order of the albums re-released, May explained, "I didn't want to do [Star Fleet] first, because I wanted to put my proper solo album out first....I'll do [Back to the Light] first, Another World and then the third one will be Star Fleet".
Track listing
Personnel
Brian May – guitar, vocals, production, keyboards
Edward Van Halen – guitar
Alan Gratzer – drums
Phil Chen – bass guitar
Fred Mandel – keyboards
Roger Taylor – backing vocals on "Star Fleet", added and mixed at SARM Studios
Mack – mixing
Mike Beiriger – engineering
Nicholas Froome – additional engineering
References
External links
Star Fleet Project music video
1983 debut EPs
Brian May albums |
4038213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd%20R.%20Puin | Gerd R. Puin | Gerd Rüdiger Puin (born 1940) is a German scholar of Oriental studies, specializing in Quranic palaeography, Arabic calligraphy and orthography. He was a lecturer of Arabic language and literature at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. In regards to his approach of historical research, Puin is considered a representative of the "Saarbrücken School", which is part of the Revisionist School of Islamic Studies.
Discovery of the Sanaa manuscript
Gerd R. Puin was the head of a restoration project commissioned by the Yemeni government, which spent a significant amount of time examining the ancient Quranic manuscripts discovered in the Great Mosque of Sanaa, Yemen in 1972, in order to find criteria for systematically cataloging them. According to journalist Toby Lester, his examination revealed "unconventional verse orderings, minor textual variations, and rare styles of orthography and artistic embellishment."
These scriptures were written in the early Hijazi Arabic script, matching the pieces of the earliest Quranic manuscripts known to exist. Some of the papyrus on which the text appears shows clear signs of earlier use, being that previous, washed-off writings are also visible on it. In 2008 and 2009, Elisabeth Puin published detailed results of the analysis of "Sanaa manuscript DAM" (dar al-makhtutat) 01.27-1, proving that the text was still in flux in the time span between the scriptio inferior and the scriptio superior of the palimpsest.
More than 15,000 sheets of the Yemeni Quranic manuscripts have painstakingly been cleaned, treated, sorted, cataloged and photographed and 35,000 microfilmed photos have been made of the manuscripts. Some of Puin's initial remarks on his findings are found in his essay titled the "Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in Sana'a", which has been republished in the book What the Koran Really Says (2002), written by the Ex-Muslim author and activist Ibn Warraq. In January 2021, an interview with Puin regarding the discovery of the Sanaa manuscript was conducted by Robert M. Kerr, secretary of the INÂRAH Institute for Research on Early Islamic History and the Koran.
Assessment of the Quran
In a 1999 article published in the American magazine The Atlantic, Gerd R. Puin has been interviewed and quoted as saying that:
Works
See also
Patricia Crone
History of the Quran
Christoph Luxenberg
Sana'a manuscript
John Wansbrough
References
Reprinted in What the Koran Really Says, ed. Ibn Warraq, Prometheus Books, 2002, .
External links
Atlantic Monthly article: What is the Koran
Guardian article: Querying the Koran
1940 births
German Arabists
German Islamic studies scholars
German male non-fiction writers
German orientalists
German palaeographers
Historians of Islam
Living people
Non-Muslim scholars of Islam
Origins of Islam
Quranic studies |
4038218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melastoma | Melastoma | Melastoma is a genus in the family Melastomataceae. It has over 100 species distributed around Southeast Asia, India, north to Japan, south to Australia and the Pacific Islands. The number of species should probably be reduced according to some sources. Many species have been planted around the world for the aesthetic value of their bright purple flowers.
Species in this genus are native to temperate and tropical Asia, Seychelles, Pacific and Australasia. Several have the capacity to become invasive species, in Hawaii and other areas.
Species
, Plants of the World Online (PoWO) accepted the following species. An additional species, Melastoma malabituin, was described in 2020.
Melastoma aculeolatum Bakh.f.
Melastoma affine D.Don
Melastoma ansowii K.M.Wong
Melastoma apiense K.M.Wong
Melastoma ariffinii K.M.Wong
Melastoma ashtonii K.M.Wong
Melastoma atrofuscum Bakh.f.
Melastoma aureum Bakh.f.
Melastoma barioense K.M.Wong
Melastoma bauchei Guillaumin
Melastoma beccarianum Cogn.
Melastoma bensonii Merr.
Melastoma borijanum Korth.
Melastoma borneense Bakh.f.
Melastoma botryanthum K.M.Wong
Melastoma buennemeyeri Bakh.f.
Melastoma bukitrayense K.M.Wong
Melastoma celebicum Blume
Melastoma ceramense Naudin
Melastoma chevalieri Guillaumin
Melastoma collinum K.M.Wong
Melastoma culionense Merr.
Melastoma curvisepalum Bakh.f.
Melastoma cyanoides Sm.
Melastoma decipiens Bakh.f.
Melastoma denticulatum Labill.
Melastoma dodecandrum Lour. - dì niè (Chinese: 地菍) or de rěn (Chinese: 地稔)
Melastoma eberhardtii Guillaumin
Melastoma elbertii Bakh.f.
Melastoma godeffroyi Reinecke
Melastoma griffithianum Masters
Melastoma hansenii K.M.Wong
Melastoma harmsianum Lauterb.
Melastoma horridum Bakh.f.
Melastoma iliasii K.M.Wong
Melastoma imbricatum Wall. ex Triana - senduduk Putih, senggani putih
Melastoma impressinervium K.M.Wong
Melastoma incisum K.M.Wong
Melastoma × intermedium Dunn
Melastoma jenkinsii Masters
Melastoma joffrei K.M.Wong & Y.W.Low
Melastoma kahayanense K.M.Wong
Melastoma kemamanense L.Neo & K.M.Wong
Melastoma klossii Baker f.
Melastoma koordersii Bakh.f.
Melastoma kostermansii K.M.Wong
Melastoma kuchingense K.M.Wong
Melastoma kudoi Sasaki
Melastoma lanuginosum Blume
Melastoma linusii K.M.Wong
Melastoma longiramense K.M.Wong
Melastoma magnificum Bakh.f.
Melastoma malabathricum L. (many synonyms, some recognized as separate species by some sources, including Melastoma affine D.Don and Melastoma septemnervium Lour.) - Malabar melastome, Singapore rhododendron, senduduk, senggani
Melastoma malabituin J.Agcaoili, Barcelona & Pelser
Melastoma maraiparaiense K.M.Wong
Melastoma micans Gilli
Melastoma microlepidotum K.M.Wong
Melastoma microphyllum Naudin
Melastoma minahassae Koord. ex Karst.Mey.
Melastoma molkenboerii Miq.
Melastoma molle Wall. ex Cogn.
Melastoma muticum Ridl.
Melastoma oreophilum K.M.Wong
Melastoma oresbium K.M.Wong
Melastoma orientale Guillaumin
Melastoma ovalifolium Bakh.f.
Melastoma paleaceum Naudin
Melastoma palungense K.M.Wong
Melastoma patulisetum Ohwi
Melastoma pellegrinianum (H.Boissieu) Karst.Mey.
Melastoma penicillatum Naudin
Melastoma pentapetalum (Toyoda) T.Yamaz. & Toyoda
Melastoma picklesii K.M.Wong
Melastoma porphyraeum Zipp. ex Blume
Melastoma postarii K.M.Wong
Melastoma praetermissum K.M.Wong
Melastoma pubescens Bakh.f.
Melastoma pulongtauense K.M.Wong
Melastoma robustum Bakh.f.
Melastoma roemeri Mansf.
Melastoma runiae K.M.Wong
Melastoma sabahense Karst.Mey.
Melastoma saigonense (Kuntze) Merr.
Melastoma sanguineum Sims - fox-tongued melastoma, blood-red melastoma, red melastome
Melastoma sarawakense K.M.Wong
Melastoma scaberrimum (Hayata) Yuen P.Yang & H.Y.Liu
Melastoma septemnervium Lour.
Melastoma sibatii K.M.Wong
Melastoma suave Bakh.f.
Melastoma subalbidum Merr.
Melastoma subgrande Hochr.
Melastoma sugaui K.M.Wong
Melastoma sumatranum Bakh.f.
Melastoma sylvaticum Blume
Melastoma tanjiewhoei K.M.Wong
Melastoma tetramerum Hayata
Melastoma toppingii Merr.
Melastoma trachycaulon Miq.
Melastoma trachyphyllum Backer ex Bakh.f.
Melastoma trungii Pócs & Tiep
Melastoma ultramaficum K.M.Wong
Melastoma velutinosum Ridl.
Melastoma vile Bakh.f.
Melastoma vulcanicum Ridl.
Melastoma yahudii K.M.Wong
Melastoma yiianthum K.M.Wong
Melastoma zollingeri Naudin
References
Melastomataceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Blume |
4038225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal | Bernal | Bernal is a Spanish given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Bernard.
Bernal may refer to:
People with the name
Given name
Bernal de Bonaval, 13th century Galician troubadour
Bernal de Foix, 1st Count of Medinaceli, Spanish military officer
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 1581), Spanish conquistador
Middle name
Ralph Bernal Osborne (1808–1882), British Liberal politician
Surname
A
Agostino Bernal, Spanish Jesuit theologian
Agustín Bernal, Mexican film actor
Alejandro Bernal, Colombian football player
Andy Bernal, Australian football player
C
Cassie Bernall (1981–1999), student killed in the Columbine High School massacre
César Bernal (born 1995), Mexican footballer
Chesús Bernal (1960–2019), Spanish professor and politician
D
Darío Yazbek Bernal (1990), Mexican actor
David "Elsewhere" Bernal (1979), American popping dancer
Delfina Bernal (born 1941), Colombian painter and multimedia artist
Diana Bernal, Mexican politician
E
Egan Bernal, Colombian road cyclist
G
Gabriel Bernal, Mexican boxer
Gael García Bernal (born 1978), Mexican film actor
H
Heraclio Bernal, Mexican bandit
I
Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist
Ishmael Bernal (1938–1996), Filipino filmmaker
J
Jair Bernal (born 1968), Colombian road cyclist
Jesús Aparicio-Bernal, Spanish politician
Jesús Mosquera Bernal, Spanish actor
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), Irish-born biophysicist, crystallographer, historian of science, and British Communist
Jorge Bernal, Mexican football player
José Bernal (1925–2010), Cuban-American artist
José Daniel Bernal (born 1973), Colombian road cyclist
José León Bernal (born 1995), Spanish football player
Joyce E. Bernal, Filipina director
Juan Bernal Ponce, Costa Rican architect
Julio Ernesto Bernal, Colombian road cyclist
K
Kris Bernal, Filipina actress
L
Laura Bernal (195?–2020), Argentine diplomat
Lorena Bernal, Argentinian-Spanish beauty queen and actress
Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado, Spanish captain
Luz Marina Bernal (born 1960), Colombian human rights activist
M
Marcelino Bernal, Mexican football player
Martin Bernal (1937–2013), British scholar of modern Chinese political history
Miguel Bernal Jiménez (1910–1956), Mexican composer, organist, pedagogist and musicologist
P
Paulino Bernal, American accordion player
R
Ralph Bernal, British Whig politician
Rodrigo Bernal (born 1959), Colombian botanist
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 1969), Spanish-American astrophotographer
S
Sergio Bernal, Mexican football player
Susan Bernal, Colombian materials scientist
V
Victor Bernal, Major League Baseball pitcher
Geography
Peña de Bernal, monolith in Mexico
Bernal, Querétaro, Mexico (San Sebastián Bernal), site of the Peña de Bernal
Bernal, Argentina
Bernal, New Mexico, United States
Bernal, a location in Serafina, New Mexico, United States
Bernal Heights, neighborhood of San Francisco, United States
Bernal Heights Summit, a nearby hill
Bernal District, Peru
Bernal Islands, sub-group of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
Bernal/Singleton Transfer Location, bus station in Dallas, Texas. United States
Bernal Subbasin, an aquifer in California, United States
Augustin Bernal Park, a park in Pleasanton, California, United States
Other
Bernal Lecture (endowed by John Desmond Bernal), organised by the Royal Society of London
Bernal sphere (named after John Desmond Bernal), a type of space habitat
Bernal v. Fainter, 1984 US Supreme Court case
See also
Bernalillo
Sephardic surnames |
4038228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20the%20Month | Book of the Month | Book of the Month (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five to seven new hardcover books each month to its members. Books are selected and endorsed by a panel of judges, and members choose which book they would like to receive, similar to how the club originally operated when it began in 1926. Members can also discuss the books with fellow members in an online forum.
In late 2015, in concert with the club's 90th year, the club announced a relaunch into its current iteration. Within two years, the club had grown its membership to more than 100,000 members, primarily millennial women, and the club's presence on social media grew to over 1.2 million instagram followers. Approximately 75% of the club's titles are by up-and-coming authors, and 80% of titles are fiction. The club has also worked with a series of celebrity guest judges who bring broader awareness to new titles, and continues producing its own versions of books that feature special endpapers and casings. In 2016, the club launched a Book of the Year award. In 2017, the club debuted its first ever television advertisement called "Monthly".
The club has a tradition of focusing on debut and emerging writers, and is known for having helped launch the careers of some of the most acclaimed authors in American literary history. In 1926 (its first year in operation), the Club featured Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. In 1936 (its tenth year), the Club selected Gone with the Wind by unknown author Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell wrote: "I wanted to thank [Book of the Month] from the bottom of my heart for selecting my book. It was quite the most exciting and unexpected thing that ever happened to me." In 1951 (its 25th year), the club distributed its 100 millionth book and selected J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which became both the most-censored and the most-taught book in America. In 1978, the Club selected By the Rivers of Babylon, the first book by Nelson DeMille, who later wrote: "I will be forever grateful to Book of the Month for ensuring that my first book, By the Rivers of Babylon, was not my last. When the Club selected Babylon in 1978, it reached hundreds of thousands of additional readers and became an instant best-seller."
History
Harry Scherman was a copywriter for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1916 when he set out to create the "Little Leather Library". With his partners Max Sackheim, and Charles and Albert Boni, Scherman began a mail order service that offered "30 Great Books For $2.98" (miniature reprints "bound in limp Redcroft") and sold 40 million copies in its first five years. Sackheim and Scherman then founded their own ad agency devoted entirely to marketing books.
The problems of building interest in a new book led Scherman to create, along with Sackheim and Robert Haas (son of Kalman Haas), the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926. As Scherman explained it, the club itself would be a "standard brand". "It establishes itself as a sound selector of good books and sells by means of its own prestige. Thus, the prestige of each new title need not be built up before becoming acceptable," he explained later. After starting with 4,000 subscribers, the club had more than 550,000 within twenty years. The size of the club did in fact create the Book of the Month Club as a brand. Being a "Book of the Month Club" selection was used to promote books to the general public.
Book of the Month Club was acquired by Time Inc. in 1977; Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications in 1989. The original judges panel was eliminated in 1994. In 2000, the Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. merged with Doubleday Direct, Inc. The resulting company, Bookspan, was a joint venture between Time Warner and Bertelsmann until 2007 when Bertelsmann took over complete ownership. In 2008, Bertelsmann sold its US subscription business to the private equity firm Najafi Companies. In 2013, Najafi sold Bookspan to current parent company Pride Tree Holdings, Inc.
Membership terms
The club operates a subscription program, similar to other box subscription services, where customers select a membership plan for a set period of time (3-months, 6-months or 12-months) and books are shipped to all members during the first seven days of the month.
Historically, when the club operated through mail-order catalogs, membership involved a "negative response" system whereby a member was shipped the monthly selection on a particular date if the selection was not declined before that date. Members had the option to respond by declining the selection or opting to order another book or merchandise instead. No response was deemed acceptance of the selection.
Book of the Year Award
In late 2016, the club announced its first annual Book of the Year Award, the finalists for which are chosen by the club's members. The award is called the "Lolly", in tribute to Lolly Willowes, the first book selected by the club back in 1926. "Lolly Willowes" was written by Sylvia Townsend Warner, who later went on to become a prolific writer and even wrote short stories for The New Yorker. In 2017, the award added a $10,000 prize, and the winner was The Heart's Invisible Furies by Irish author John Boyne. In 2018, the members voted Circe by Madeline Miller as best book of the year. In 2019, the members voted Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid as best book of the year. In 2020, the members voted The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett as best book of the year.
Winners by Year
2016: Bryn Greenwood - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air
Ruth Ware - The Woman in Cabin 10
Blake Crouch - Dark Matter
Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
2017: John Boyne - The Heart's Invisible Furies
Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing
Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
Ruth Emmie Lang - Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances
2018: Madeline Miller - Circe
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Helen Hoang - The Kiss Quotient
Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone
A.J. Finn - The Woman in the Window
2019: Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & The Six
Blake Crouch - Recursion
Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man
William Kent Krueger - This Tender Land
Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient
2020: Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half
Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice
Lucy Foley - The Guest List
Fredrik Backman - Anxious People
V.E. Schwab - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2021: Kristin Hannah - The Four Winds
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising
Emily Henry - People We Meet on Vacation
S.A. Cosby - Razorblade Tears
Sarah Penner - The Lost Apothecary
References
Further reading
The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club by Charles Lee (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958) provides a history of the club, the book selection and membership procedures, and a list of all selections, dividends, and alternates from 1926 to 1957.
The Books of the Century, a website compiled by Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University), lists the Club's main selections from 1926 until the mid-1970s.
Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (Chapel Hill, 1997) offers a cultural analysis of the BOMC and its readers.
William Zinsser, A Family of Readers; An informal portrait of the Book-of-the-Month Club and its members on the occasion of its 60th Anniversary. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986. 74 pp.
External links
Book of the Month website
Book-of-the-Month Club Records. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Direct marketing
Bertelsmann
Publishing companies established in 1926
Book publishing companies of the United States
Entertainment companies of the United States
Book clubs
1923 establishments in the United States |
4038233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG%20Class%20ET%2091 | DRG Class ET 91 | The Baureihe ET 91 was a series of electric multiple units built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft of Germany. The units colloquially known as Gläserner Zug (Glass Train) were equipped with large panorama windows, providing an excellent outside view to the passengers. The vehicles were used for recreational trips only, especially in southern Germany and Austria.
History
Two units with the wheel arrangement Bo'2' were built in 1935 by Waggonfabrik Fuchs in Heidelberg and AEG. They were numbered elT 1998 (cream with red underside) and 1999 (dark green with yellow (lower) and grey (upper) window wrap).
ET 91 02 was destroyed on March 9, 1943, in a bomb attack on the Munich shunting yard. ET 91 01 survived World War II without major damage and was taken over by the Deutsche Bundesbahn From 1968 on, it was listed as Baureihe 491 in the DB numbering scheme, being assigned the number 491 001-4.
The train had been refurbished 5 times during its lifetime (1949, 1953, 1961, 1972, 1985), and suffered a number of changes to its livery. Between 1949 and 1953 it wore the Rheingold livery, that was grey underside, purple bodywork and cream wrap. Between 1953 and 1971 it had a black underside (standard underside paint still used today), maroon bodywork and custard window wrap. Between 1972 and 1985 this livery is changed to light blue bodywork and silver wrap. The last livery was applied from 1985 to 1995 (technically speaking it is still used today) and featured a marine dark bodywork and white window wrap.
On December 12, 1995, the remaining unit suffered extensive damage in a frontal crash at Garmisch-Partenkirchen with 1044 235 of the Austrian Federal Railways and was subsequently taken out of service. The unit has been stationed at the Bahnpark Augsburg in Augsburg since May 2005.
The unit is currently being renovated, however, due to economical reasons it will not be put into a usable state again, the power bogie having been destroyed in the 1995 accident.
Literature
Horst Troche: 60 Jahre im Betriebseinsatz: Der "Gläserne Zug". In: Eisenbahn-Kurier. No. 281/30/1996. EK-Verlag GmbH, , pp. 24–29.
Horst Troche: Die elektrischen Aussichtstriebwagen der Deutschen Bundesbahn
References
External links
Electric multiple units of Germany
ET 91
15 kV AC locomotives |
4038234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical%20emergency | Surgical emergency | Surgical emergency is a medical emergency for which immediate surgical intervention is the only way to solve the problem successfully.
The following conditions are surgical emergencies:
Acute trauma
Cardiothoracic
Cardiac tamponade
Acute airway obstruction
Pneumothorax
Gastrointestinal
Acute appendicitis
Bowel obstruction
Gastrointestinal perforation
Intestinal volvulus
Acute mesenteric ischemia
Peritonitis
Stercoral perforation
Genitourinary
Testicular torsion
Urinary retention
Paraphimosis
Priapism
Gynaecological
Ovarian torsion
Bleeding ectopic pregnancy
Retained abortion
Neurological/Ophthalmic
Acute subdural hematoma
Retinal detachment
Vascular
Ruptured aortic aneurysm
Aortic dissection
Internal bleeding
Limb ischemia
See also
List of medical emergencies
Advanced Trauma Life Support
References
Monson JRT, Duthie G, O'Malley K (Eds.). Surgical Emergencies. Blackwell Science (UK), 1999.
Emergency medicine |
4038249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti%20%28duo%29 | Tutti (duo) | Tutti (뚜띠) is a Korean female duo consisting of members No Hyun Jung and No Jung Hyun.
Member profiles
Both members No Hyun Jung and No Jung Hyun were born on August 5, 1977.
Discography
Kiss The Future, 1996. 11 1st ed.(Samsung Music)
Kiss The Future (0:55)
대리만족 (3:44)
콩쥐 팥쥐 (3:59)
절제의 미 (4:06)
겨울 연인 (3:38)
완전 범죄 (3:47)
사랑하기 때문에 (4:04) - original: Yoo Jae Ha, 1987
키스의 여왕 (3:49)
데릴라 사랑 (4:11)
잠시만의 이별 (4:02)
잠시만의 이별 (연주)
Kiss The Future, 1997 Special ed. 13 track (Samsung Music)
Kiss The Future (0:55)
대리만족 Remix (3:44)
Love Summer (3:38)
완전 범죄 (3:47)
콩쥐 팥쥐 (3:59)
사랑하기 때문에 (4:04)
키스의 여왕 (3:49)
대리만족 (3:47)
절제의 미 (4:06)
겨울 연인 (3:38)
데릴라 사랑 (4:11)
잠시만의 이별 (4:02)
잠시만의 이별 (연주)
본색 (本色), 2000 (Miracle Entertainment)
Intro
본색(本色) - Part 1
Baby I Love You - Part 1
Happy Ending
후회(後悔)
다짐
애원(哀怨)
가슴이 떨려와요
상처
Loving You
바램
본색(本色) - Part 2
Baby I Love You - Part 2
Runa: Crazy, 2002.1 (WEA)
Intro
첨봐 첨봐
Baby I Love (U) - 2000 2nd Album
후회
본색 - 2000 2nd Album
바램
Loving You
Happy Ending
다짐
애원
첨봐 첨봐 (Instrumental)
Semi Trot Song No.1, 2004 (Seeyoung)
짝짝짝
사랑가
해버려
때문에
짝짝짝 (MR)
사랑가 (MR)
해버려 (MR)
때문에 (MR)
Happiness, 2006 (EMI Music Korea Ltd)
삼백원
병아리
짝짝짝
사랑가
해버려
때문에
삼백원 (Remix)
삼백원 (Remix) (MR)
짝짝짝 (MR)
삼백원 (MR)
해버려 (MR)
삼백원 (M/V)
External links
Tutti discography at Trifecta homepage
K-pop music groups |
4038261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Lead%20Actor%20in%20a%20Limited%20or%20Anthology%20Series%20or%20Movie | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (called the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie prior to 2015).
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
2 wins
American Crime Story
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Laurence Olivier
3 wins
Peter Ustinov
2 wins
Fred Astaire
Hume Cronyn
Peter Falk
Hal Holbrook
Anthony Hopkins
Al Pacino
James Woods
Programs with multiple nominations
13 nominations
Hallmark Hall of Fame
7 nominations
Playhouse 90
4 nominations
Luther
Sherlock
3 nominations
American Crime Story
CBS Playhouse
The Dick Powell Theatre
Fargo
Studio One
2 nominations
An Early Frost
Behind the Candelabra
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Brian's Song
Brideshead Revisited
Columbo
The Defenders
Ford Star Jubilee
Genius
Hamilton
Hatfields & McCoys
Holocaust
The Kennedys
Lonesome Dove
Masada
McCloud
The Night Of
Producers' Showcase
Promise
Recount
Rich Man, Poor Man
Shōgun
Something the Lord Made
The Special Relationship
The United States Steel Hour
Performers with multiple nominations
7 nominations
Hal Holbrook
6 nominations
Benedict Cumberbatch
Laurence Olivier
5 nominations
Beau Bridges
James Garner
Jack Lemmon
Jason Robards
Mickey Rooney
George C. Scott
James Woods
4 nominations
Kenneth Branagh
Richard Chamberlain
Hume Cronyn
Robert Duvall
Idris Elba
William H. Macy
3 nominations
Lee J. Cobb
Laurence Fishburne
Peter Falk
Henry Fonda
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Anthony Hopkins
Ben Kingsley
Fredric March
Al Pacino
Christopher Plummer
Peter Strauss
Peter Ustinov
2 nominations
Alan Alda
Alan Arkin
Fred Astaire
Antonio Banderas
Robert Blake
Michael Caine
Brian Dennehy
William Devane
Melvyn Douglas
Albert Finney
Ricky Gervais
John Gielgud
Hugh Grant
Alec Guinness
Edward Herrmann
Trevor Howard
Jeremy Irons
Tommy Lee Jones
John Lithgow
Ewan McGregor
Ian McKellen
Barry Pepper
Sidney Poitier
Alan Rickman
Cliff Robertson
Mark Ruffalo
Geoffrey Rush
Martin Sheen
Gary Sinise
Rod Steiger
Dennis Weaver
Tom Wilkinson
Ed Wynn
See also
TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
References
Lead Actor - Miniseries or Movie
Emmy Award |
4038272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur%20International%20Airport | Jaipur International Airport | Jaipur International Airport is the primary airport serving Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Jaipur International Airport has been declared as the World's Best Airport in the category of 2 to 5 million passengers per annum for 2015 & 2016 according to Airports Council International. Jaipur Airport is the 11th busiest airport in India in daily scheduled flight operations.
It is located in the southern suburb of Sanganer, from Jaipur. The airport was granted the status of international airport on 29 December 2005. The civil apron can accommodate 14 aircraft and the new terminal building can handle up to 1,000 passengers at a time.
Runway
The airport's runway is (9/27) and is long. Runway 9/27 became operational from 15 September 2016 to handle bigger aircraft like the Boeing 747 to take off and land from Jaipur Airport after the completion of the runway extension from to in order to handle Boeing 777s. The runway 9/27 is CAT-IIIB instrument landing system (ILS) compliant. This facilitates the landing of aircraft on a runway visibility range (RVR) of up to during fog. Earlier this was , benefiting airlines in terms of increased safety and avoiding diversions to other airports resulting in better operational and environmental efficiency. CAT III B became operational from 8 December 2016. A taxiway has been planned for Jaipur Airport, parallel to runway 9/27 to deal with its air traffic congestion. The work will be completed in the end of May 2018, after the completion the airport will be able to accommodate 16 flights in an hour.
Terminals
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 used to operate international flights until July 2012, when the airport authorities decided to shift the international flights to the newly built Terminal 2 to reserve Terminal 1 for cargo operations. After four years, in 2017, the airport administration began preparations to resume commercial flight operations in the old terminal due to increasing passenger load on Terminal 2. Presently, only Hajj and cargo flights are operated from Terminal 1. To shift the flights to Terminal 1, a part of the cargo operations will have to be shifted from there. Renovation work of Terminal 1 started in December 2017 and there are plans to make it operational by May 2019. Terminal 1 will be renovated in Rajasthani look. After the completion of renovation, Terminal 1 will be fully upgraded and expanded to 18,000 square meters and it will cater to only international departures and arrivals.
Terminal 2
The new domestic terminal building at the airport was inaugurated on 1 July 2009. The new terminal has an area of with facilities such as a central heating system, central air conditioning, an inline x-ray baggage inspection system integrated with the departure conveyor system, inclined arrival baggage claim carousels, escalators, a public address system, a flight information display system, CCTV for surveillance, airport check-in counters with Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE), car parking, etc. The domestic terminal building has a peak hour passenger handling capacity of 500 passengers and an annual handling capacity of 400,000. The entrance gate is made of sandstone and Dholpur stones along with Rajasthani paintings on the walls. The terminal is currently integrated to allow both international and domestic flights. To manage the hordes of VIP's who fly in and out of the Pink City, the airport has three VIP lounges to ensure that the visiting guests and commuters do not cause inconvenience to each other. Terminal 2 is spread over twenty three thousand meter square in area and has 14 airport check-in counters, six immigration counters, four customs counters, and four security counters that can easily accommodate the passenger traffic at the airport and provide them a hassle free experience.
Cargo
Beginning from 16 July 2012, Terminal 1 was closed to passenger traffic and was remodeled to handle solely cargo operations. The cargo terminal is adjacent to the old passenger terminal building and has an area of approximately . The cargo facility is being provided by Rajasthan Small Scale Industries, a public sector undertaking of Government of Rajasthan. To shift the flights to Terminal 1, a part of the cargo operations will have to be shifted from here.
Modernisation and expansion of terminals
The current Terminal 2 will be expanded in a width of around 20 meters on each side. A new hall will be made in the departure area and 3 conveyor belts will be established in the arrival area with 2 new aerobridges to ease passenger movement. The work will be completed by May. The new departure area is spread in 2,700 square metres while the arrival area was constructed in an area of nearly 23,000 square feet.
A new integrated third terminal with amenities will come up in the following years, with an area seven times larger than Terminal 2, which will negate the need for passenger operations at previous Terminals 1 and 2.
Statistics
Airlines and destinations
Incidents
On 18 February 1969, Douglas DC-3 VT-CJH of Indian Airlines crashed on take-off on a scheduled passenger flight. The aircraft was overloaded and take-off was either downwind or with a crosswind. All 30 people on board survived.
On 5 January 2014, Flight AI-890 Airbus A320 VT-ESH of Air India from Imphal to Delhi via Guwahati was diverted to Jaipur Airport due to heavy fog in Delhi. The rear tire of the plane burst during landing, damaging the right wing. The plane received substantial damage and the aircraft was written off. All 173 passengers and 6 crew members survived.
See also
ASQ awards 2015 by Airports Council International
Airports in India
List of busiest airports in India by passenger traffic
References
External links
Airports in Rajasthan
Transport in Jaipur
Year of establishment missing |
4038273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic%20oil%20syndrome | Toxic oil syndrome | Toxic oil syndrome
(TOS) or simply toxic syndrome (Spanish: síndrome del aceite tóxico or síndrome tóxico) is a musculoskeletal disease. A 1981 outbreak in Spain which affected about 20,000 people, with over 300 dying within a few months and a few thousand remaining disabled, is thought to have been caused by contaminated colza (rapeseed) oil. It was unique because of its size, the novelty of the clinical condition, and the complexity of its aetiology. Its first appearance was as a lung disease, with unusual features, though the symptoms initially resembled a lung infection. The disease appeared to be restricted to certain geographical localities, and several members of a family could be affected, even while their neighbours had no symptoms. Following the acute phase, a range of other chronic symptoms was apparent.
Alternative mechanisms
The conclusion of the Joint WHO/CISAT Scientific Committee for the Toxic Oil Syndrome from 2002, that oil was the cause for TOS, is based only on epidemiological evidence, since up to now, experimental studies performed in a variety of laboratory animals have failed to reproduce the symptoms of human TOS. None of the in vivo or in vitro studies performed with toxic-oil-specific components, such as fatty acid anilides, and esters of 3-(N-phenylamino)-1,2-propanediol (abbreviated as PAP), have provided evidence that these markers are causally involved in the pathogenesis of TOS.
Specifically, three possible causative agents of TOS are PAP (3-(N-phenylamino)-1,2-propanediol), the 1,2-dioleoyl ester of PAP (abbreviated OOPAP), and the 3-oleoyl ester of PAP (abbreviated OPAP). These three compounds are formed by means of similar chemical processes, and oil that contains one of the three substances is likely to contain the other two. Oil samples that are suspected to have been ingested by people who later developed TOS often contain all three of these contaminants (among other substances), but are most likely to contain OOPAP. However, when these three substances were given to laboratory animals, OOPAP was not acutely toxic, PAP was toxic only after injection, but not after oral administration, and OPAP was toxic only after injection of high doses. Therefore, none of these three substances is thought to cause TOS. Similar results were obtained after administration of fatty acid anilides.
Data discrepancies combined with both a high level of secrecy surrounding the huge investigation and the fact that the first cases of the syndrome were located in Madrid (near the U.S. military base in Torrejón de Ardoz) spread the idea of a conspiracy. Several of those affected by TOS claim they never consumed any of the tainted oil products. Furthermore, the tainted oil was primarily sold in low-cost street markets; yet, a considerable percentage of the patients were wealthy. Another theory suggests the toxic reaction was triggered by organophosphate poisoning (e. g., from pesticide residues in tomatoes) and covered up by the Spanish government and the WHO.
See also
Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
Ginger Jake
Health crisis
The Jungle
List of food contamination incidents
References
External links
WHO Report: Toxic Oil Syndrome - Ten years of progress
Connective tissue diseases
Food safety scandals
Adulteration
1981 health disasters
1981 in Spain
Health disasters in Spain
Medical controversies
Mass poisoning
Syndromes |
4038279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Research%20in%20Security%20Prices | Center for Research in Security Prices | The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) is a provider of historical stock market data. The Center is a part of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. CRSP maintains some of the largest and most comprehensive proprietary historical databases in stock market research. Academic researchers and investment professionals rely on CRSP for accurate, survivor bias-free information which provides a foundation for their research and analyses. As of 2020, CRSP claims over 500 clients. The name is usually pronounced "crisp".
CRSP was founded in 1960 by James H. Lorie (professor of finance and director of research) and Lawrence Fisher (assistant professor of finance) of the University of Chicago, with a grant from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Its goal was to provide a source of accurate and comprehensive data that could be used to answer basic questions about the behavior of stock markets. The first effort of the Center was the production of a database consisting of monthly stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange for all common stocks from 1926 to 1962. Dividends, shares outstanding, capital changes, and delisting information was also included. Taken together, this data made possible the first comprehensive study of the rates of return on common stocks. Since then the database has been kept up to date to the present day, daily data has been expanded back to 1926, and other exchanges and financial instruments have been added.
On January 1, 2020, CRSP spun off from Chicago Booth and became CRSP, LLC. CRSP, LLC is an affiliate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
CRSP's flagship databases include:
Common stocks on the NYSE from 1926, AMEX from 1962, and NASDAQ from 1972
CRSP Indexes
NASDAQ and S&P 500 Composite Indices
NASDAQ and AMEX Industry Indices
US Treasury bonds
Survivor bias-free mutual funds
Market capitalization reports;
Proxy graphs for 10-K SEC filings
Other custom datasets
In partnership with Compustat, CRSP provides the CRSP/Compustat Merged Database, and in partnership with the Ziman School of Real Estate at UCLA's Anderson School of Business, the CRSP/Ziman REIT Data Series.
Notes
References
External links
Economic research institutes
Research institutes of the University of Chicago |
4038291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCAM | ARCAM | ARCAM may refer to:
ARCAM Corporation, a fictional company in the Spriggan manga series
ARCAM Private Army
A&R Cambridge Ltd, a British manufacturer of hi-fi equipment branded ARCAM
Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, an information center in the Netherlands
U.S. Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, United States Armed Forces
See also
Arcam AB, Swedish company
Arkham (disambiguation) |
4038293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchilus | Microchilus | Microchilus is a neotropical genus of about 75 species belonging to the orchid family (Orchidaceae).
It was first described by Carl Borivoj Presl in 1827, but the genus was not widely recognized until it was separated in 2002 by P. Ormerod from the genus Erythrodes s. str.. It corresponds to its New World species. The two genera were distinguished by the different characters of the column and pollinia. One needs to dissect the flowers to see the difference at generic level with Erythrodes.
In 2005, another 32 new species were added to this genus by Ormerod (see : Reference).
The horticultural abbreviation for this genus is Mcr.
Species
Microchilus anchoriferus (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Western South America)
Microchilus arietinus (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Ormerod (2002) (tropical America to Argentina)
Microchilus austrobrasiliensis (Porsch) Ormerod (2002) (Brazil)
Microchilus bimentatus (Dressler) Ormerod (2004) (Costa Rica)
Microchilus brachyplectron (Pabst) Ormerod (2002) (Brazil)
Microchilus brunnescens Ormerod (2005) (Ecuador)
Microchilus buchtienii (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Bolivia)
Microchilus callophylloides (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Ecuador)
Microchilus calophyllus (Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Costa Rica)
Microchilus campanulatus Ormerod (2005) (Venezuela)
Microchilus capitatus Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus caucanus (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia)
Microchilus constrictus Ormerod (2005) (Amazonas)
Microchilus curviflorus Ormerod (2005) (Venezuela)
Microchilus densiflorus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. (1852) (Brazil)
Microchilus dolichostachys (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia)
Microchilus ecuadorensis (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Ecuador)
Microchilus ensicalcar Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus epiphyticus (Dressler) Ormerod (2002) (Costa Rica, Panama)
Microchilus erythrodoides (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia, Venezuela)
Microchilus fendleri Ormerod (2005) (Venezuela)
Microchilus fosbergii Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus glacensis (Dod) Ormerod, Lindleyana 17: 216 (2002) (Haiti)
Microchilus glanduliferus Ormerod (2005) (Venezuela)
Microchilus globosus Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus haughtii Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus herzogii (Schltr.) Ormerod, Lindleyana 17: 217 (2002) (Bolivia)
Microchilus hirtellus (Sw.) D.Dietr. (1852) (West Indies - threatened or endangered species; northern South America)
Microchilus hughjonesii Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus integrus Ormerod (2005) (Ecuador)
Microchilus kuduyariensis Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus lamprophyllus (Linden & Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Brazil)
Microchilus laticalcar (Dod) Ormerod (2002) (Dominican rep.)
Microchilus lechleri Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus luniferus (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Mexico to Central America)
Microchilus madrinanii Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus major C.Presl (1827) (north & west South America)
Microchilus mexicanus (Ames) Ormerod (2002) (Mexico)
Microchilus micayvallis Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus microcaprinus Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus minor C.Presl (1827) (Peru)
Microchilus moritzii Ormerod (2005) (Venezuela)
Microchilus nigrescens (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Costa Rica to Ecuador)
Microchilus ortgiesii (Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia)
Microchilus ovatus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. (1852) (Colombia, Venezuela)
Microchilus paleaceus (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Caribbean, W. South America to N. Brazil)
Microchilus panamanicus Ormerod (2005) (Panama)
Microchilus pauciflorus (Poepp. & Endl.) D.Dietr. (1852) (Brazil)
Microchilus pedrojuanensis Ormerod (2005) (Paraguay)
Microchilus peytonorum Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus plantagineus (L.) D.Dietr. (1852) (Caribbean - threatened or endangered species; Venezuela)
Microchilus platanilloensis Ormerod (2004) (Costa Rica)
Microchilus platysepalus Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus plowmanii Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus preslii Ormerod (2002) (Peru)
Microchilus pseudobrunnescens Ormerod (2005) (Ecuador)
Microchilus pseudominor Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus putumayoensis Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus quadratus (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia, Ecuador)
Microchilus rioesmeraldae Ormerod (2005) (Colombia)
Microchilus rioitayanus Ormerod (2005) (Peru)
Microchilus riopalenquensis Ormerod (2004) (Ecuador, Peru)
Microchilus rojasii Ormerod (2005) (Paraguay)
Microchilus schultesianus (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Trinidad)
Microchilus scrotiformis (C.Schweinf.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia, Venezuela)
Microchilus sparreorum (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Ecuador)
Microchilus sprucei (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Ecuador)
Microchilus tridax (Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Central America)
Microchilus trifasciatus Ormerod (2002) (Peru)
Microchilus valverdei Ormerod (2005) (Costa Rica)
Microchilus venezuelanus (Garay & Dunst.) Ormerod (2002) (Venezuela)
Microchilus vesicifer (Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Mexico to Peru)
Microchilus weberianus (Garay) Ormerod (2002) (Ecuador, Galapagos)
Microchilus xystophyllus (Rchb.f.) Ormerod (2002) (Venezuela, Brazil)
Microchilus zeuxinoides (Schltr.) Ormerod (2002) (Colombia)
References
Ormerod, P. 2002. Taxonomic changes in Goodyerinae (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae). Lindleyana 17: 189-238
Ormerod, P. 2005. Studies of Neotropical Goodyerinae (Orchidaceae). Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 391–423
New species : Orchid Research Newsletter 47 (January 2006); Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
External links
Goodyerinae
Cranichideae genera
Orchids of North America
Orchids of South America
Taxa named by Carl Borivoj Presl |
4038295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20Secondary%20School%20Athletic%20Association | Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association | The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA), along with the affiliated Tennessee Middle School Athletic Association (TMSAA), is an organization which administers junior and senior high school sporting events in Tennessee. The TSSAA (commonly pronounced "Tee double-S double-A") is the only high school athletic organization in the United States to have a five-sport, Olympic-style spring sport championship tournament, known as Spring Fling, for baseball, softball, track and field, team and individual tennis, and soccer. Spring Fling began in Chattanooga in 1993, later moving to Memphis, and then establishing itself in Murfreesboro. The TSSAA was one of the first high school athletic organizations to host a central site for football championships, beginning in 1982.
Description
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association administers sporting events for an estimated 110,000 participants, 374 schools, 4,000 coaches, 3,000 officials, and 5,500 teams in the state of Tennessee. First organized in 1925, the TSSAA oversees athletic functions of both public and private schools. It includes schools throughout the state of Tennessee.
In 2001, the association was a party in the United States Supreme Court case Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. Brentwood Academy had sued the Association after the school was penalized for "undue influence" in recruiting football players, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. The court in this case held that a statewide association, incorporated to regulate interscholastic athletic competition among public and private schools, is regarded as engaging in state action when it enforces a rule against a member school.
The fall of 2009 was the first year for the TSSAA to divide into six playoff classifications for football. The new system allowed more teams into the playoffs. The state championship game for football, the BlueCross Bowl, which is held three consecutive days, ending the first Saturday of December, and includes Division I classes 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, and 6A, as well as Div. II A and AA, was held at Tennessee Tech University's Tucker Stadium in Cookeville 2009 – 2020 and will be held in Chattanooga beginning in 2021.
Classification
Each school chooses to compete in Division I or Division II. Division I schools are schools which generally allow students to attend without payment of tuition, i.e., public schools, except that tuition may be charged to a student who is a resident of the county in which a school is located but outside of a city school district or special school district, in which case the tuition is the difference between the amount of additional funding per student provided by the city or special school district above that provided by the state and county. Division II schools are independent schools which charge tuition to students' families. Financial aid is allowed provided it is limited to a need-based amount, and that the percentage of athletes receiving aid is no greater than for the school's students as a whole. The two divisions compete separately in all sports except cheerleading and girls' wrestling.
Division I schools are divided into three classes, as equally as possible, based on enrollment. A school's enrollment is multiplied by 2 if it is single-sex (the only single-sex school in Division I is Chattanooga Girls' Leadership Academy).
Division II schools whose enrollment (with the single-sex multiplier taken into account) is below the smallest school in Division I Class AA are Class A; larger schools are Class AA.
Finally, any school that wishes to play in a higher class may do so, but must do so for all sports other than football.
A full reclassification is held every four years; at the midpoint, any school that has had a 20% increase or decrease in enrollment will be moved to the class appropriate to its new enrollment (a school that will be moved down may decline).
Football classification
Starting with the 2015 season, a new classification system was implemented for Division I football, separate from those of other sports. The 31 largest schools in the state, plus Maryville playing up by request, will constitute Class 6A; the remaining football-playing schools are divided as equally as possible into classes 1A through 5A. The option to play up will apply separately to football and to the rest of the sports.
The 2015-2016 year varied from 2014-2015 only due to 20%-change adjustments.
Districts and Regions
For each sport, the schools competing are divided into regions, and/or districts depending on the sport.
Division I
Basketball, Baseball, Softball, and Volleyball: Eight regions in each of the three classes, with two districts per region.
Football (starting 2015): Four regions in Class 6A, eight regions each in 1A through 5A, with no districts.
Soccer, Golf, and Tennis: Class AAA is as in basketball. Classes AA and A are combined, with districts/regions of the same number in the two classes competing together regardless of geography. (For example, soccer District 7 combines district 7-A in the Upper Cumberland Plateau with district 7-AA in western Chattanooga.)
Cross-Country: As soccer, but with no districts (the state series begins with region meets).
Track and Field: Class AAA has four sections (pairs of basketball/etc. regions). Class A-AA has three sections, namely the three grand divisions.
Wrestling: In Class AAA, eight regions with two districts, but not the same as for other sports. (Districts are used only for the dual-meet series.) In Class A-AA, eight regions for duals, and three larger regions for the traditional series (note that one dual region is split between two traditional regions).
Bowling: A single class with eight regions containing from one to four districts each.
Division II
Most sports: Three regions in each of the two classes, in line with the East, Middle, and West grand divisions.
Football: Split into three classes (A, AA, and AAA). In Classes A and AA, there are the three standard regions. In AAA, there are only two regions (East and West) that divide the state into halves.
Cross-Country: No Class AA regions (all 11 teams enter the state meet).
Track and Field, Wrestling, Bowling: One class with the usual three regions.
Combined Divisions
Girls' Wrestling: Two regions, East and West.
Cheerleading/Dance: Classes are determined by number of competitors on the team and by the style of performance, as per cheerleading/dance tradition.
Administration
The TSSAA divides Tennessee's 95 counties, and the state's constituent Grand Divisions, into nine "athletic districts":
District 1: Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties
District 2: Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, and Union counties
District 3: Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, and Sequatchie counties
District 4: Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, Van Buren, Warren, White, and Wilson counties
District 5: Davidson, Macon, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart, Sumner, and Trousdale counties
District 6: Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne, and Williamson counties
District 7: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Madison, and McNairy counties
District 8: Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Tipton, and Weakley counties
District 9: Shelby County
East Tennessee comprises Districts 1, 2, and 3.
Middle Tennessee comprises Districts 4, 5, and 6.
West Tennessee comprises Districts 7, 8, and 9.
These districts are unrelated to the competitive districts above (although a few sports do use the grand divisions as regions); their primary purpose is to elect the Board of Control (the administrative authority) and the Legislative Council. Each district elects one member to each for a staggered three-year term; in addition, starting in November 2015, three additional members will be chosen to represent non-public schools, one from each grand division.
Out-of-state teams
The sole out-of-state school that is a member of the TSSAA is Northpoint Christian School in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis. Northpoint votes in the Athletic District 9 elections.
Cities and towns near Tennessee's borders with surrounding states, i.e. Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, or Virginia, such as Bristol, Chattanooga, Clarksville, and Memphis, do have various schools, both public and private, who play nearby out-of-state teams (which are not TSSAA members) on a regular basis, e.g. Heritage High School in Ringgold, Georgia for Chattanooga teams or Virginia High School in Bristol, Virginia for Bristol, Tennessee teams.
Notes
The only exception is Fort Campbell High School on the Tennessee side of the eponymous U.S. Army base. The base straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border, most of the base housing is in Kentucky, and the school is administered by the same Department of Defense district as the high school at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Fort Campbell High is therefore a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association. Northpoint Christian School, located a short distance across the Mississippi state line, is a TSSAA member under a rule provision permitting TSSAA membership for a school that relocates from Tennessee to another state if the majority of students at the school are Tennessee residents.
References
External links
Official Website
Education in Tennessee
High school sports associations in the United States
High school sports in Tennessee
Sports organizations established in 1925 |
4038299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20arm%20syndrome | Dead arm syndrome | Dead arm syndrome starts with repetitive motion and forces on the posterior capsule of the shoulder. The posterior capsule is a band of fibrous tissue that interconnects with tendons of the rotator cuff of the shoulder. Four muscles and their tendons make up the rotator cuff. They cover the outside of the shoulder to hold, protect and move the joint.
Overuse can lead to a buildup of tissue around the posterior capsule called hypertrophy. The next step is tightness of the posterior capsule called posterior capsular contracture. This type of problem reduces the amount the shoulder can rotate inwardly.
Over time, with enough force, a tear may develop in the labrum. The labrum is a rim of cartilage around the shoulder socket to help hold the head of the humerus (upper arm) in the joint. This condition is called a superior labrum anterior posterior (SLAP) lesion. The outcome in all these steps is the dead arm phenomenon.
The shoulder is unstable and dislocation may come next. Dead arm syndrome will not go away on its own with rest—it must be treated. If there is a SLAP lesion, then surgery is needed to repair the problem. If the injury is caught before a SLAP tear, then physical therapy with stretching and exercise can restore it.
It is common among baseball pitchers as they age, and it can also occur with quarterbacks in football and handball players also as they age.
References
Musculoskeletal disorders
Syndromes |
4038302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20power%20meter | Cycling power meter | A cycling power meter is a device on a bicycle that measures the power output of the rider.
Most cycling power meters use strain gauges to measure torque applied, and when combined with angular velocity, calculate power.
The technology was adapted to cycling in the late 1980s and was tested in professional bicycle racing i.e.: the prototype Power Pacer (Team Strawberry) and by Greg LeMond with the SRM device. This type of power meter has been commercially available since 1989.
Training using a power meter is increasingly popular.
Power meters generally transmit data wirelessly and can be paired to standard bike computers.
By providing instantaneous feedback to the athlete, and by allowing more precise analysis of rides, power meters can be a useful tool for training.
Interfaces
Older cycling power meters use a set of wires to transmit power information to a computer mounted on the bicycle; this system has a serious disadvantage of having fine electrical cables being run all over the bicycle, making it harder to clean as well as using a fair number of fasteners to hold them up.
However, since 2009 there is a general trend to move towards wireless systems.
Power meters generally transmit data over ANT+ or Bluetooth Low Energy protocols and can be paired to standard bike computers that display information about the power output generated by the rider.
Use in training
Power meters provide an objective measurement of real output that allows training progress to be tracked very simply—something that is more difficult when using, for example, a heart rate monitor alone.
Cyclists will often train at different intensities depending on the adaptations they are seeking.
A common practice is to use different intensity zones.
When training with power, these zones are usually calculated from the power output corresponding to the so-called lactate threshold or MAP (maximal aerobic power).
Power meters provide instant feedback to the rider about their performance and measure their actual output; heart rate monitors measure the physiological effect of effort and therefore ramp up more slowly.
Thus, an athlete performing "interval" training while using a power meter can instantly see that they are producing 300 watts, for example, instead of waiting for their heart rate to climb to a certain point.
In addition, power meters measure the force that moves the bike forward multiplied by the velocity, which is the desired goal.
This has two significant advantages over heart rate monitors: 1) An athlete's heart rate may remain constant over the training period, yet their power output is declining, which they cannot detect with a heart rate monitor; 2) While an athlete who is not rested or not feeling entirely well may train at their normal heart rate, they are unlikely to be producing their normal power—a heart rate monitor will not reveal this, but a power meter will. Further, power meters enable riders to experiment with cadence and evaluate its effect relative to speed and heart rate.
Power meters further encourage cyclists to contemplate all aspects of the sport in terms of power because power output is an essential, quantitative link between physiological fitness and speed achievable under certain conditions.
A cyclist's VO2 max (a proxy for fitness) can be closely related to power output using principles of biochemistry, while power output can serve as a parameter to power-speed models founded in Newton's laws of motion, thus accurately estimating speed. The joint application of power meters and power models has led to increasingly more scientific analyses of riding environments and physical properties of the cyclist, in particular aerodynamic drag.
Dual-sided power measurement
Dual-sided power meters, generally direct applied force or pedal power meters, can measure the power generated individually by the left leg and the right leg. The resulting data allow monitoring of the dominant/non-dominant leg ratio and observe how it varies in relation to different racing and fitness conditions. This can be useful to correct penalizing imbalances and in post-traumatic rehabilitation programs.
Power meter types
Most cycling power meters use strain gauges to measure torque applied, and when combined with angular velocity, calculate power.
Power meters using strain gauges are mounted in the bottom bracket, rear freehub, or crankset.
Certain newer devices do not use strain gauges and instead measure power through handlebar-mounted units that utilize the principles of Newton's Third Law by measuring a cyclist's opposing forces (gravity, wind resistance, inertia, rolling resistance) and combining these with velocity to determine the rider's power output.
Crank or Spider
Crank and Spider based power meters measure the torque applied through both pedals via strain gauge/s positioned within the crank or crank spider. A calculation of power is derived from the deflection of the strain gauge/s and pedaling cadence. While most crank-based power meters measure the power output of one leg only or need a second sensor to measure the power output of both legs, the spider-based power meters always measure the total power output of both legs.
These units require specific cranks or cranksets but can be relatively simple to interchange between bikes, depending on compatibility.
Pedals
Pedal-based power meters can be located either in the pedal axle or in the pedal body. This type of cycling power meter measures the cyclist’s force exactly where it is applied, through one or both pedals. Power meters with sensors on both pedals can provide a real dual-sided power measurement, that is power data gathered individually on both legs. This feature is useful to observe and correct penalizing differences in performance between legs.
Power meter pedals are easy to install and swap across bikes.
Bottom bracket
Bottom bracket power meters rely on the torsional deflection in the BB shaft. This is done by the shaft having a disc at each end with perforations. These perforations are detected using non-contact photo-electric sensors that detect when torque is applied to the left pedal and then doubled. Data is sent digitally to a handlebar mounted computer unit.
These units are difficult to interchange and require a different bottom bracket unit for each bike.
Freehub
A freehub power meter uses the same strain gauges that are present in the crank power meters, but it is located in the rear wheel hub and measures the power at the rear wheel. The power measured by a freehub power meter will be slightly less than the power measured by a crank-based power meter due to power losses in the chain, pedals, and bottom bracket. Because freehub power meters are built into the rear wheel, it is simple to interchange them among bikes so long as the wheels are compatible.
Chain
At the heart of chain units is essentially a guitar pick-up that mounts to the cycle's chain stay.
The pick-up detects chain vibration from which it calculates chain tension which, along with chain speed, gives power output. Finnish company Polar was the first to bring a chain-based power meter to market.
Opposing force
Opposing force power meters measure hill slope (gravity), bike acceleration (inertia), and sometimes, wind speed. From this, power can be indirectly calculated.
Direct applied force
This method monitors the forces applied to the pedal by the cyclist's foot. Sensors in the shoe or pedal measure the forces as the cranks rotate, and calculate the power based on the magnitude and direction of the applied force, and the angular velocity of the crank. Advantages of this technique include independent measurement of power for each leg, measurement of efficiency of pedaling style, and (depending on the placement of sensors) avoiding the need to replace bike components.
Current power meters in the market
Hub-based power meter
PowerTap Hub
Pedal-based power meter
Favero Assioma
Favero bePRO
Garmin Vector, Rally
Limits
Look
Polar/Look Power
PowerTap Pedals
Wahoo Speedplay POWRLINK zero
Spider-based power meter
SRM
Power2Max
Quarq Dzero DUB
SRAM AXS
FSA Powerbox
XCadey XPOWER-S, 2XPOWER
Sigeyi AXO
Croder S-POWER
Crank-based power meter
Avio PowerSense
WATTEAM Powerbeat
PowerTap ChainRing
Stages (crank arm)
4iiii Precision, Podiiiium (crank arm)
Pioneer Power
Verve infocrank
Rotor
Magene P325, RIDGE DUAL
Sigeyi DLS, AXPOWER
XCadey XPOWER
InPeak PowerCrank
Giant Power Pro
Footpod power meter
RPM2
Opposing force power meter
PowerPod
See also
Bicycle performance
Cadence
Cyclocomputer
Outline of cycling
References
External links
Book: Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.
DC Rainmaker - The Power Meters Buyer’s Guide–2016 Edition
Bicycle parts |
4038309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartist%20%28magazine%29 | Chartist (magazine) | Chartist is a bi-monthly democratic socialist magazine which has been published in Britain since the 1970s. The magazine is based in London. Its name is inspired by the Chartists, a British democratic movement which existed from 1838–1857.
History and profile
The magazine's editorial policy is firmly aligned with the "democratic socialist left" within the Labour Party, supporting such causes as the Grassroots Alliance slate in Labour National Executive Committee elections and the Save The Labour Party initiative. Its readership and editorial board are not confined, however, to the Labour Party or any one of its factions. This is because it seeks to invite debate with the broader left including greens and various independence movements. It has offered support to Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party. Chartist defines its policy as being "to promote debate amongst people active in radical politics about the contemporary relevance of democratic socialism across the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art, interpersonal relations – in short, the whole realm of social life".
The current editor is Mike Davis. The magazine's production editor and treasurer is Peter Kenyon, and its web editor is Andy Morton. Other members of the Editorial Board include Duncan Bowie, Peter Chalk, David Floyd, Don Flynn, Roger Gillham, Frank Lee, Dave Lister, Mary Southcott, James Grayson, Patricia d’Ardenne and Sheila Osmanovic, Robbie Scott, Patrick Mulcahy and Tehmina Kazi.
References
External links
Official website
1970s establishments in the United Kingdom
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Democratic socialism
Labour Party (UK) publications
Magazines published in London
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Political magazines published in the United Kingdom
Socialist magazines |
4038322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20machine | Bowling machine | In cricket a bowling machine is a device which enables a batsman to practise (usually in the nets) and to hone specific skills through repetition of the ball being bowled at a certain length, line and speed. It can also be used when there is no-one available to bowl, or no one of the desired style or standard.
There are a number of different types of bowling machine available to cricket coaches, each quite different in the ways they achieve the required delivery, though most allow the use of remote control, so that a coach can be closer to a batsman when the stroke is played.
Mechanical bowling machines
This type of machine is by far the most common. It is simple, strong and reliable, as well as being able to bowl a useful range of deliveries.
How they work
The main mechanism of the machine consists of two heavy wheels, between 30 and 50 cm in diameter, fitted with solid or pneumatic rubber tyres, each driven by its own electric motor. These are mounted in a frame such that the wheels are in the same plane, about 7 cm apart (slightly less than the diameter of a cricket ball). A ball joint allows the machine a wide range of movement. The whole assembly is mounted on a sturdy tripod or other frame so that the plane of the wheels is roughly at the height that a typical bowler would release the ball. A chute delivers the ball between the wheels, protecting the coach's hands.
The motors are typically powered by a car battery, and turn in opposite directions. A controller allows variation of the speed of each wheel, allowing the machine to be slowed down for less experienced batsmen, or when the motors are not running at the same speed, swing or spin bowling can be simulated.
These machines will work with any ball of roughly the right size and weight, such as normal cricket balls or tennis balls. However, they usually work best with their own balls, bowling machine balls which are made of hard plastic, and are covered in dimples. These dimples are to help with the swinging characteristics when this type of delivery is desired.
Simulating different deliveries
Fast bowling
This is achieved by setting both wheels to the same speed, as fast as the batsman is able to deal with, although the machine itself would have to be tipped horizontally. The coach can move the machine around slightly to vary the line and length of each ball.
Swing bowling
The plane of the wheels is flat, and the motors are set to run at slightly different speeds. This means the ball will spin about an axis perpendicular to the ground, causing it to swing due to the Magnus effect. If the ball is spinning anticlockwise (looking from above) the ball will swing from right to left; clockwise spin results in a swing from left to right. This means that if the coach slows down the wheel on one side, ball will swing in that direction. The swing produced in this way is different from normal swing bowling, however – it is much more like a curling ball in football.
Spin bowling
To achieve spin, the machine should be tilted to one side, and the wheels set to different speeds as per swing bowling. It will also probably be necessary to make the machine bowl significantly more slowly. The combined action of the spin imparted by the wheels, and the non-perpendicular axis of that spin will cause the ball to bounce up at an angle.
While spinning always see the ball when it has been started to deliver the ball towards the wicket
Seam bowling
This is difficult to achieve since the operator cannot control exactly how the ball will roll into the machine and between the wheels. However, by the law of averages, a ball will occasionally come out with its seam at the correct angle, and bounce unpredictably as a result.
Bouncers
To get balls that bounce unnaturally high or low, the plane of the machine must be set so that it is vertical. Not all machines can do this, simply because their ball joint doesn't give the required range of movement. To get balls that bounce higher than normal, the lower wheel should spin slightly faster than the upper. Deliveries that bounce much lower than normal are less common and are usually the result of the ball striking a broken-up patch of ground. These balls can still be simulated, however, by increasing the speed of the upper wheel.
Pneumatic bowling machines
This design is significantly less common than the mechanical type and operates using a completely different principle.
How they work
Most of the space in the machine is a hopper that contains the balls. At the bottom of the hopper, near the front, is a rotor with space for six balls. The balls slot into the spaces on the rotor by gravity, which then takes them into the innards of the mechanism. The rotor passes over a trap-door, which the ball opens with its weight, falling into a small chamber.
A pump is used to provide a flow of air into the chamber that the ball drops into. The airflow pushes the ball along the chamber to rubber ring, or gasket, known as a "restrictor". The restrictor has a hole through it that is sightly smaller than the ball, which the ball presses up against. This seals the hole, so air pressure builds up in the chamber. When the pressure is so great that the restrictor can no longer hold it, the ball bursts through, out of the main body of the machine and into an external tube, which guides it upwards and releases it at the height of a bowler's arm.
Simulating different deliveries
Fast bowling
A system exists that allows air to escape from the barrel shortly after it has passed the restrictor. This reduces the pressure on the ball, reducing its muzzle velocity. Closing this increases the speed to its maximum; its maximum speed is 160+ km/hr (100+ mph).
Swing bowling
To do this a curved piece of tubing is attached to the end of the barrel. The ball rolls around this causing it to spin and swing.
Spin bowling
The tubing used for swing bowling can also be used for spin bowling, by pointing the curve somewhere between vertical and horizontal.
Seam bowling
Seam bowling is impossible on this machine as it only accepts tennis balls and cricket training balls such as Slazenger's "Slazball" (a hard, small, low-bounce, heavy ball, similar in appearance to a tennis ball but usually red in colour). Neither of these types of ball has a seam.
Bouncers
The tubing can again be used, this time to simulate high and low bounce by mounting the tube vertically.
Programmable bowling machines
Both of the types of machines described above are fairly simple designs, intended for regular, hard use by clubs, and hence are simple to operate and reliable. They can only simulate one type of delivery with the machine in a given configuration and have other limitations, particularly with spin bowling, which limit their usefulness to players at the highest levels of the game.
Programmable bowling machines are intended to overcome some of these limitations by rapidly re-configuring themselves to bowl different types of delivery in quick succession.
A programmable bowling machine called "Merlyn", which its makers claimed could "bowl any ball known to man" received much public attention when it was used by the English cricket team in the run-up to and during the 2005 Ashes series.
Originally a one-off, Merlyn was built by Henry Pryor, a cricket coach in Herefordshire. Its mechanism has not been publicly revealed, though it is safe to assume it is much more complex than the other machines.
Crucially, the machine was claimed to be able to emulate Shane Warne's leg breaks, and although he is dismissive of its usefulness, the England batsmen disagree, and consider their ability to play spin bowling significantly improved.
The machine, as well as its mechanical abilities, also has significant elements of computer-control built in. It is claimed that it can reproduce an over from a particular bowler if fed the correct data.
One of the more unnerving aspects of the machine is that it provides no indication of the type of ball it is about to bowl until the ball has left the machine. This forces batsmen to work on their instinctive batting, rather than trying to second guess the bowler.
An improved version is currently in development at Loughborough University, which will add visual feedback by showing a representation of the bowler projected onto a screen. The ball will be released as the virtual bowler's hand reaches the hole from which the ball is released. This version of the machine is intended for mass production, so it can be sold to cricket clubs around the world. In the winter of 2009/10 the ECB acquired 20 of the machines, one for each county and two for the performance centre at Loughborough.
See also
Cricket clothing and equipment
Pitching machine
References
External links
"Merlyn proves a triumph for man and machine" by Matthew Pryor, "The Times" 23 July 2005
"Artificially Intelligent Bowling Machines-Revolutionizes the Cricket Learning" by Chaitanya Vankadaru, "DustMoon.Com Team" 31 March 2016
Cricket equipment
Bowling (cricket)
Loughborough University |
4038334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20skating%20at%20the%202006%20Winter%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%205000%20metres | Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres | The men's 5000 m speed skating competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 11 February, the first day of competition at the Olympics. The American Chad Hedrick, a former inline skater, began his quest to emulate Eric Heiden by taking five gold medals by racing a time of 6:14.68, 0.02 second behind the four-year-old Olympic record of Jochem Uytdehaage, which was enough to clinch gold. Dutchman Sven Kramer won the silver medal, 1.72 seconds adrift, while home skater Enrico Fabris claimed Italy's first medal by skating home the bronze in the last pair.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition. Although, American Chad Hedrick missed out on the Olympic record by just 0.02 second.
Results
Lap times
Chad Hedrick, United States, (18.64 – 29.03 – 29.46 – 29.26 – 29.23 – 29.34 – 29.52 – 29.45 – 29.71 – 29.95 – 30.19 – 30.20 – 30.70) 6:14.68
Sven Kramer, Netherlands, (18.45 – 28.63 – 29.59 – 29.83 – 29.95 – 29.82 – 30.08 – 29.75 – 30.07 – 29.95 – 30.04 – 30.27 – 29.97) 6:16.40 (+ 1.72)
Enrico Fabris, Italy, (18.70 – 29.40 – 30.09 – 30.20 – 29.86 – 30.43 – 30.29 – 30.35 – 30.22 – 29.90 – 29.85 – 29.71 – 29.25) 6:18.25 (+ 3.57)
Carl Verheijen, Netherlands, (18.49 – 28.93 – 29.81 – 30.04 – 29.93 – 29.94 – 29.82 – 30.02 – 30.23 – 29.98 – 30.42 – 30.66 – 30.57) 6:18.84 (+ 4.16)
Arne Dankers, Canada, (19.43 – 29.00 – 29.33 – 29.75 – 29.80 – 30.09 – 30.16 – 30.33 – 30.36 – 30.59 – 30.65 – 30.83 – 30.94) 6:21.26 (+ 6.58)
Bob de Jong, Netherlands, (19.58 – 29.67 – 30.30 – 30.28 – 30.00 – 30.11 – 30.03 – 30.07 – 30.11 – 30.22 – 30.35 – 30.54 – 30.86) 6:22.12 (+ 7.44)
Shani Davis, United States, (18.37 – 28.38 – 29.49 – 30.08 – 30.34 – 30.05 – 30.54 – 30.36 – 30.61 – 30.67 – 31.08 – 30.90 – 32.21) 6:23.08 (+ 8.40)
Øystein Grødum, Norway, (19.31 – 29.01 – 29.73 – 29.77 – 30.09 – 30.24 – 30.55 – 30.48 – 30.66 – 30.67 – 31.28 – 31.21 – 31.21) 6:24.21 (+ 9.53)
Lasse Sætre, Norway, (19.38 – 29.80 – 30.12 – 30.02 – 30.13 – 30.19 – 30.23 – 30.19 – 30.51 – 30.70 – 31.20 – 31.24 – 31.44) 6:25.15 (+ 10.47)
Eskil Ervik, Norway, (18.64 – 29.77 – 29.97 – 29.97 – 30.52 – 29.87 – 30.76 – 30.72 – 31.11 – 30.86 – 31.55 – 31.51 – 31.66) 6:26.91 (+ 12.23)
Detailed results
Skater in inner pair on first lap listed first
Claudiu Grozea, ROM – Bart Veldkamp, BEL
After running even with the Romanian for the first 200 metres from the outside lane, Veldkamp started with two sub-30 laps, and despite going up in lap times for the whole race and ending with a lap of 32.84, Veldkamp finished in 6:32.02, 18 seconds ahead of his Romanian compatriot.
Yeo Sang-yeop, KOR – Gao Xuefeng, CHN
Neither of the Asians had the stamina to catch Veldkamp; though Yeo was two seconds behind after 3.5 laps, and skated his first four full laps under 30 seconds, he finished with his last four laps in 36 seconds and ended with the worst time yet, 6:58.13. Gao held better, with a last lap of 34.10, and finished in second place with 6:44.78.
Justin Warsylewicz, CAN – Stefano Donagrandi, ITA
Warsylewicz, who clocked the first 3,000 metres in 3:54.51, was only 0.6 seconds behind Donagrandi then. However, he finished with laps of 34 and 35; Donagrandi kept his lap times better, only bursting into 32 on his penultimate lap, and went into second place with 6:33.45, over 10 seconds ahead of Warsylewicz.
Takahiro Ushiyama, JPN – Dmitry Babenko, KAZ
Two more Asians; Babenko won the battle, placing third after four pairs with 6:42.25, while Ushiyama fell behind in the first few hundred metres and eventually clocked 6:51.53, which was to be the second worst time of the day.
Steven Elm, CAN – Paweł Zygmunt, POL
Zygmunt took an early lead, and remained ahead for the entire race, as the Canadian went into 31 on the third full lap and 32 on the fifth; Zygmunt did not break 31 until the sixth lap. With three laps to go, Zygmunt was 0.08 behind second-placed Donagrandi; however, a last lap of 33.61 spoiled his chance of a second place thus far, as he clocked 6:35.01. Elm placed fourth, a further six seconds adrift.
Kesato Miyazaki, JPN – K. C. Boutiette, USA
Miyazaki, the last Asian, also records the best time of any Asian skater in the race; however, Boutiette kept ahead from the start, and despite losing time mid-race with a worst lap of 32.45, he went under 32 again for the penultimate lap. Boutiette eventually placed fourth, with 6:37.29, while Miyazaki, a further three seconds adrift, was fifth.
Johan Röjler, SWE - Lasse Sætre, NOR
The Scandinavians both better the leading time of Veldkamp, who was finally dethroned after six pairs in the lead. Röjler led the pair until 3,000 metres, when Sætre took over, clocking a time of 3:50.06, 1.4 seconds ahead of Veldkamp. Sætre went up from 30.19 on the seventh lap to 31.44 on the final lap, but still extended his lead over Veldkamp to 6.88 seconds. Röjler's time of 6:29.24 puts him between the two.
Jens Boden, GER – Øystein Grødum, NOR
Grødum gained 0.86 seconds on the leader Sætre on the first 600 metres, and didn't give them away, skating a race broadly similar to Sætre's. The German, who won a bronze medal at Salt Lake City in 2002, skates his last five laps above 32 seconds, and his time of 6:38.34 was only enough for eighth place.
Ivan Skobrev, RUS – Ippolito Sanfratello, ITA
Skobrev kept slightly behind Grødum and slightly ahead of his pairmate for most of the race; his final laps cost him a few tenths to Grødum, and he eventually finished in 6:27.02, three seconds behind the Norwegian. Sanfratello was within half a second until 3,000 metres, but went over 32 seconds towards the end, and his time of 6:32.58 was also behind Veldkamp for a fifth place thus far.
Yury Kokhanets, RUS – Artyom Detyshev, RUS
Skobrev remains the best Russian after this all-Russian pairing; neither could keep their laps below 32 for the entire race, with Kokhanets skating seven laps between 31 and 32. Detyshev skated the first seven full laps below 31, but finished in 33.16, keeping Kokhanets 1.77 seconds behind him as they go into sixth and eighth place respectively.
Carl Verheijen, NED – Sven Kramer, NED
Kramer and Verheijen had taken a 1–2 at the Salt Lake City World Cup event in November 2005, when Kramer set a world record; now, Kramer clocked his first 600 metres in just over 47 seconds, 1.3 seconds ahead of leader Grødum. With a worst lap of 30.27, and all but four of his laps below 30, Kramer eventually betters the leading time by eight seconds to end with 6:16.40; Verheijen was not much worse, but lost 1.5 seconds on the final two kilometres, and ended with 6:18.84.
Bob de Jong, NED – Chad Hedrick, USA
Hedrick took the lead by eight tenths out of his first outer curve, and just extended that lead, as de Jong could only keep below 30 on his first full lap and ended with 6:22.12. Hedrick had caught up with Kramer by 1,400 metres after laps of 29.5, 29.3 and 29.2 seconds, and his six next laps were also below 30, as he took a lead of 2.5 seconds with three laps to go. He lost somewhat towards the end, and a last lap of 30.70 prevented him from skating under Jochem Uytdehaage's Olympic record of 6:14.66; he finished 0.02 seconds behind it.
Arne Dankers, CAN – Shani Davis, USA
Davis, the leader of the World Cup on 1,000 metres, clocked the fastest first 600 metres of the day with 46.75. However, after a first full lap of 28.38, the fastest of the day, Davis trailed off, and the second lap following that went slower than 30 seconds. Dankers overtook him with three laps to go, and kept his lap times below 31 to go into fourth place with 6:21.26, while Davis' last lap of 32.21 sent him in 0.96 seconds behind Bob de Jong and into sixth place.
Enrico Fabris, ITA – Eskil Ervik, NOR
Fabris, the European all-round champion of 2006, paired up with the winner of the 5,000 metres at that event. After the two exchanged the lead for the first 2,000 metres, Fabris gained on his pairmate who had two laps around 30.75, but by 3,000 metres Fabris was more than five seconds behind the leading time. However, Fabris skated progressively faster for his last five laps, and his last lap of 29.25 was his fastest of the entire race; he was the only skater to achieve this. It also brought him in 0.59 seconds ahead of Verheijen to clinch bronze. Ervik, Norway's best by the World Cup standings, completed his last three laps with times above 31.5 seconds, and finished in tenth place, worst of the Norwegians with 6:26.91.
References
External links
Men's speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics |
4038339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20and%20Co-operative | Labour and Co-operative | Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated Labour Co-op; ) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party.
Candidates contest elections under an electoral alliance between the two parties, that was first agreed in 1927. This agreement recognises the independence of the two parties and commits them to not standing against each other in elections. It also sets out the procedures for both parties to select joint candidates and interact at a local and national level.
There were 26 Labour and Co-operative Party MPs elected at the December 2019 election, making it the fourth largest political grouping in the House of Commons, although Labour and Co-operative MPs are generally included in Labour totals. The Chair of the Co-operative Parliamentary Group is Preet Gill and the Vice-chair is Jim McMahon.
Description
Labour and Co-operative is a joint description registered with the Electoral Commission, appearing alongside a candidate's name on ballot papers. When elected, the designation is officially Labour and Co-operative Party, with elected representatives often meeting together in addition to being part of an official Labour group. For example, MPs and peers are members of the Co-operative Parliamentary Group.
Most Labour and Co-operative candidates use the joint description but some stand under another version, particularly for local government elections and elections in Scotland, Wales and London that use a list system. In this case only one description will be used to avoid voters thinking Labour and Co-operative candidates are standing against Labour candidates; however, joint candidates are still recognised as part of the Labour and Co-operative Group if they are elected.
Labour and Co-operative candidates and representatives also use a joint logo on their printed materials and websites.
History
The Labour Party was founded in February 1900, followed in October 1917 by the Co-operative Party. Initially both parties operated independently, but saw each other as part of a broader movement, appealing to a similar voting base. At a local level, the parties began working together, with informal pacts to stand agreed candidates to maximise the vote for centre-left candidates. The first Co-operative Party MPs also took the whip of the much larger Labour Party upon entering the House of Commons.
Moves toward a formal national partnership began in 1925 with the creation of the 'Joint Committee of the Executive Committees of the Co-operative Party and Labour Party'. This Joint Committee drafted a formal agreement between the two parties that was ratified at the June 1927 Co-operative Congress at Cheltenham, becoming the first 'National Agreement', also known as the 'Cheltenham Agreement'.
The Agreement was updated a number of times throughout the twentieth century, deepening the partnership between the two parties and gradually removing restrictions that formed part of earlier versions, such as a limit on the number of joint candidates in elections. The most recent National Agreement was signed in 2003 and sets out the process for selecting candidates and how the two parties can work together locally and nationally.
See also
Labour Party
Co-operative Party
List of Labour Co-operative Members of Parliament
References
Co-operative Party
Centre-left parties in the United Kingdom
Organisation of the Labour Party (UK)
Political party alliances in the United Kingdom |
4038343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20India | Copyright law of India | The Copyright Act 1957 as amended governs the subject of copyright law in India. The Act is applicable from 21 January 1958. The history of copyright law in India can be traced back to its colonial era under the British Empire. The Copyright Act 1957 was the first post-independence copyright legislation in India and the law has been amended six times since 1957. The most recent amendment was in the year 2012, through the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012.
India is a member of most of the important international conventions governing the area of copyright law, including the Berne Convention of 1886 (as modified at Paris in 1971), the Universal Copyright Convention of 1951, the Rome Convention of 1961 and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Initially, India was not a member of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) but subsequently entered the treaty in 2013.
Applicable Copyright Act before 1958
Prior to 21 January 1958, the Indian Copyright Act, 1914, was applicable in India and still applicable for works created prior to 21 January 1958, when the new Act came into force. The Indian Copyright Act, 1914 was based on the Imperial Copyright Act of 1911 passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, but was slightly modified in terms of its application to Indian law. According to this Act, the period of copyright for photographs was 50 years from the time it was first published. (Act language is: "the term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall be fifty years from the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly derived, and the person who was owner of such negative at the time when such negative was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and, where such owner is a body corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to reside within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends if it has established a place of business within such parts.") For photographs published, before 21 January 1958 in India, the period of copyright is thus 50 years, as for them the old Act is applicable.
Definition of copyright
Copyright is a bundle of rights given by the law to the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and the producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. The rights provided under Copyright law include the rights of reproduction of the work, communication of the work to the public, adaptation of the work and translation of the work. The scope and duration of protection provided under copyright law varies with the nature of the protected work.
In a 2016 copyright lawsuit, the Delhi High Court states that copyright is "not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public. Copyright is intended to increase and not to impede the harvest of knowledge. It is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors in order to benefit the public."
Types of works protected
The Indian copyright law protects literary works, dramatic works, musical works, artistic works, cinematograph films and sound recordings.
Duration of copyright protection under the Copyright Act 1957
Foreign works
Copyrights of works of the countries mentioned in the International Copyright Order are protected in India, as if such works are Indian works. The term of copyright in a work shall not exceed that which is enjoyed by it in its country of origin.
Ownership of copyright under the Copyright Act 1957
The author of a work is generally considered as the first owner of the copyright under the Copyright Act 1957. However, for works made in the course of an author's employment under a "contract of service" or apprenticeship, the employer is considered as the first owner of copyright, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary.
The concept of joint authorship is recognised in Section. 2(z) of the Act which provides that "a work produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one author is not distinct from the contribution of the other author or authors" is a work of joint authorship. This concept has been elucidated in cases like Najma Heptulla v. Orient Longman Ltd. and Ors.
Section 19 of the Copyright Act 1957 lays down the modes of assignment of copyright in India. Assignment can only be in writing and must specify the work, the period of assignment and the territory for which assignment is made. If the period of assignment is not specified in the agreement, it shall be deemed to be 5 years and if the territorial extent of assignment is not specified, it shall be presumed to be limited to the territories of India. In a recent judgement (Pine Labs Private Limited vs Gemalto Terminals India Limited), a division bench of the Delhi High Court confirmed this position and held that in cases wherein the duration of assignment is not specified, the duration shall be deemed to be five years and the copyright shall revert to the author after five years.
Exceptions to copyright infringement in India
The Copyright Act 1957 exempts certain acts from the ambit of copyright infringement. While many people tend to use the term fair use to denote copyright exceptions in India, it is a factually wrong usage. While the US and certain other countries follow the broad fair use exception, India follows a different approach towards copyright exceptions. India follows a hybrid approach that allows :
fair dealing with any copyrighted work for certain specifically mentioned purposes and
certain specific activities enumerated in the statute.
While the fair use approach followed in the US can be applied for any kind of uses, the fair dealing approach followed in India is clearly limited towards the purposes of
private or personal use, including research, and education,
criticism or review,
reporting of current events and current affairs, including the reporting of a lecture delivered in public.
While the term fair dealing has not been defined anywhere in the Copyright Act 1957, the concept of 'fair dealing' has been discussed in different judgments, including the decision of the Supreme Court of India in Academy of General Education v. B. Malini Mallya (2009) and the decision of the High Court of Kerala in Civic Chandran v. Ammini Amma.
IBomma is a website which releases movies for free illegally.It copies movies of streaming services such as Prime Video, Netflix etc. Surprisingly no one has lodged a complaint against this torrent website which has been running for a long time.In September 2016, the Delhi High Court ruled in Delhi University's Rameshwari Photocopy Service shop case, which sold photocopies of chapters from academic textbooks was not infringing on their publisher's copyright, arguing that the use of copyright to "stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public" outweighed its use by the publishers to maintain commercial control of their property. However, in December 2016, the ruling was reversed and taken back to court, citing that there were "triable issues" in the case.
Remedies available against copyright infringement in India
The Copyright Act 1957 provides three kinds of remedies - administrative remedies, civil remedies and criminal remedies. The administrative remedies provided under the statute include detention of the infringing goods by the customs authorities. The civil remedies are provided under Chapter XII of the Copyright Act 1957 and the remedies provided include injunctions, damages and account of profits. The criminal remedies are provided under Chapter XIII of the statute and the remedies provided against copyright infringement include imprisonment (up to 3 years) along with a fine (up to 200,000 Rupees).
Jurisdiction [Place of Suing] Under Copyright Act, 1957 - in 2015 the jurisdiction law regarding copyright violation underwent significant change through the judgement of the Supreme Court in the 2015 case Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd. Vs. Sanjay Dalia – If cause of action has arisen wholly or in part in place where plaintiff resides or is doing business suit has to be filed at such place – Plaintiff cannot drag defendant to far off place under guise that he carries business there also. --- Interpretation of statutes – Mischief Rule – Construction that suppresses even counter mischief has to be adopted.
See also
Registrar of Copyrights (India)
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – Government of India
References
Bibliography
The Copyright Act, 1957
Further reading
External links
Official website of Registrar of Copyright
Indian Copyright Act, 1957: Full text
A Handbook of Copyright Law
Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012
Copyright Rules, 2013
Copyright law in India
India
Law of India
Indian intellectual property law |
4038350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby%20Cadabby | Abby Cadabby | Abby Cadabby, mostly referred to as just Abby, is a 4-year-old Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street, performed by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph. In 2006, Abby made her debut in the first episode of Sesame Street’s 37th season, when she moved into the neighborhood and met some of the Street's residents. On the day of her debut, her wand broke; Big Bird told her to take her wand to the Fix-It Shop where Maria would fix it. Season 40 features her CGI animated recurring segments titled Abby's Flying Fairy School which were adapted into a proper spin-off. She is also currently the host of another spin-off Abby's Amazing Adventures, with her stepbrother Rudy. The first episode aired November 17, 2018 on HBO and September 2, 2019 on PBS.
Her name is a play on words of the magic word Abracadabra. Abby's magical powers are limited to popping in and out of thin air, floating when she's happy, and turning things into pumpkins. Although familiar with the world of fairy tales, Abby is astounded by such basic learning skills as drawing letters or counting, prompting her catchphrase "That's so magic!" She frequently uses her wand cell phone to call her mommy. When she's asked to return home, she says that she's "gotta poof". She can speak Dragonfly and Butterfly and is teaching Rosita the languages, while Rosita teaches her Spanish. Along with Baby Bear, Abby begins attending school in a 2006 episode at the Storybook Community School, where Mrs. Goose is the teacher and other fairy tale characters like Hansel and Gretel are her classmates. Her mother being the fairy godmother, went to that school and had the same teacher. In 2020 on Sesame Street in Communities, Abby was shown going to online Pre-School, but is obviously a different school as she has a different teacher and Elmo is now one of her classmates.
Tony Geiss conceptualized Abby as a way to simultaneously introduce a major female character to the show and add someone from a different culture, without "having consciously to introduce somebody from Indonesia or India". Abby's design is an intentional departure from the typical Muppet look because she's not originally from Sesame Street. The implication is that the fairies in her old neighborhood look like her.
Abby's likeness has been adapted for a 43-foot balloon which premiered in the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a full-body costume character for stage appearances and several merchandise items.
In 2008, Abby was added to the cast of Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street, appearing in new segments where she tries to perform magic tricks with various ordinary objects. She also has a segment with Lola where they solve everyday problems with simple science and sometimes art. In 2009, she became the host of 3, 2, 1 Vamos!, a Latin American pre-school programming block, which first aired in English in 2010, on Canadian television.
She is also one of the few Muppet characters to age, being age 3 from 2006 to 2018 and age 4 from 2018 to present.
Character launch
Abby Cadabby was officially announced in TV Guide, months before the 37th season debut of Sesame Street, and a press kit was issued soon after. Rumors had floated on the Internet before that, with an anonymous Sesame Workshop or Muppet insider revealing the addition on Muppet Wiki.
She made her Street debut on August 14, 2006.
Abby was scheduled to be interviewed August 10, 2006, on The Today Show on NBC; "NBC Special Report" coverage of the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot pre-empted the interview. Abby appeared for a short chat on 14 August, a few short minutes with Bobbie Thomas and Lester Holt before the weather. The scheduled "satellite-tour" of local stations across America went on later that day.
Abby was to be featured as ABC World News "Person of the Week" on 11 August 2006; Hurricane Katrina/2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict dog rescuer Linda Nealon pre-empted her. Abby Cadabby was featured on the 18 August broadcast, with the teaser, "Femininity comes to Sesame Street". She was touted as the first 3-year-old "Person of The Week".
Abby appeared on the August 11 edition of All Things Considered on NPR.
In 2007, Abby had a balloon made after her in the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 2008, Abby starred as 'Alice' in the Sesame Street direct-to-DVD film Abby in Wonderland that adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Abby was featured in the 2007-2009 tour of Sesame Street Live show When Elmo Grows Up and the 2012-2013 leg of the "Elmo Makes Music" tour.
In 2014's direct-to-DVD film "Elmo's Super Numbers", Abby appears at NumberCon as "One-Da Woman", a numeric spoof and pun of the DC comic book female superhero, Wonder Woman.
In 2018 (season 49) she got a wardrobe change. Her dress was replaced with a skirt with flower sparkles, a t-shirt with a flower, and hair clips shaped like daisies and ladybugs. This is a hint to her liking to take care of her fairy garden.
Abby is the host of Sesame Streets autism initiative.
Animation team
The animation studio SpeakEasy FX, founded by director Scott Stewart, produces the "Abby's Flying Fairy School" series.
References
External links
Fictional fairies and sprites
Sesame Street Muppet characters
Television characters introduced in 2006 |
4038352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serafino%20Vannutelli | Serafino Vannutelli | Serafino Vannutelli (26 November 1834 – 19 August 1915) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal and official of the Roman Curia where he held several of the highest administrative posts. Made a cardinal in 1887, he was named a cardinal-bishop in 1893 and elected dean of the College of Cardinals in 1915 and he died shortly after. He was thought a possible candidate for the papacy in 1903.
At the start of his career, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1869 to 1887, serving as Apostolic Delegate to several Latin American countries and as Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium and Austria.
His younger brother Vincenzo (1836–1930) was also a Catholic cardinal.
Biography
Vannutelli was born at Genazzano, in the diocese of Palestrina, where he studied and graduated in philosophy before studying theology in the Capranica College, Rome. After teaching theology at the Pontifical Seminary, he began his work in the diplomatic service of the Holy See as secretary to the Papal Nuncio in Bavaria. He became auditor to the Nuncio at the Court of Maximilian in Mexico.
On 25 June 1869 he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Nicaea and on 18 July was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro. On 23 July 1869, he was named Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Central America, which comprised these countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. He was made Apostolic Nuncio to Brussels in 1875, but his role there ended abruptly when the Belgian government broke off diplomatic relations with the Holy See on 28 June 1880. He became Apostolic Nuncio to Austria on 18 November of that year.
His service as a nuncio ended when Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal on 14 March 1887. As a Cardinal-Priest he was initially assigned the title of Santa Sabina, and then assigned to San Girolamo dei Croati on 11 February 1889.
On 16 January 1893, after Vannutelli reportedly declined an appointment as Secretary of State, Pope Leo XIII named him Archbishop of Bologna, an assignment considered an exile from Rome. The Pope wrote a letter to the people of Bologna saying that he had been guided by divine inspiration in making the appointment and was reported to have said "Vannutelli goes to Bologna Cardinal and will return a Pope". The New York Times commented: "He has for some time been prominently mentioned in connection with the Papal succession, and is supported by an influential ecclesiastical party, with whom, it is believed, Pope Leo is in sympathy." He served until he was named Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati just six months later on 12 June 1893.
From 1899 until his death in 1915 he was Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary.
He served as Secretary of the Congregation for Universal Inquisition (later known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), from 16 January 1903 until he resigned that office on 31 December 1908 at the age of 74. On 22 June 1903 he was moved from Frascati to become Cardinal-Bishop of Porto Santa e Rufina. At the conclave in 1903 that elected Pope Pius X, he was considered a contender for election to the papacy.
On 25 May 1914, Pope Pius X approved his election as Dean of the College of Cardinals, adding the title of Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia to his other titles. Performing the duties of Dean during the conclave that met in August 1914 proved challenging as he was "almost blind ... stone deaf ... and weakened from nervous prostration". En route to that conclave from Naples, his train was bombed and several other passengers were injured.
He died in Rome on 19 August 1915.
References
External links
Serafino Vanuttelli, Catholic Hierarchy
1834 births
1915 deaths
People from Genazzano
Deans of the College of Cardinals
Apostolic Nuncios to Ecuador
Apostolic Nuncios to Colombia
Cardinals created by Pope Leo XIII
Apostolic Nuncios to Austria
Cardinal-bishops of Frascati
Cardinal-bishops of Ostia
Cardinal-bishops of Porto
Roman Catholic archbishops of Bologna
20th-century Italian cardinals
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Members of the Holy Office
Major Penitentiaries of the Apostolic Penitentiary
Apostolic Delegates to Peru
Apostolic Nuncios to Belgium
Apostolic Nuncios to Costa Rica |
4038353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20Vannutelli | Cardinal Vannutelli | Cardinal Vannutelli may refer to:
Serafino Vannutelli (1834-1915), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, older brother of Vincenzo
Vincenzo Vannutelli (1836-1930), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, younger brother of Serafino |
4038358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20virens | Ficus virens | Ficus virens is a plant of the genus Ficus found in Pakistan, India, southeast Asia, through Malaysia and into Northern Australia. Its common name is white fig; it is locally known as pilkhan and in the Kunwinjku language it is called manbornde. Like many figs, its fruits are edible. One of the most famous specimens of this tree is the Curtain Fig Tree of the Atherton Tableland, near Cairns, a popular tourist attraction. Another famous example is the Tree of Knowledge in Darwin.
Ficus virens var. sublanceolata occurs the subtropical rainforest of northeastern New South Wales, and south eastern Queensland in Australia.
Description
It is a medium-sized tree which grows to a height of In dry areas and up to tall in wetter areas. It is a fig tree belonging to the group of trees known as strangler figs, which is because its seeds can germinate on other trees and grow to strangle and eventually kill the host tree.
It has two marked growth periods in its Indian environment: in spring (February to early May), and in the time of the monsoon rains (i.e. June to early September). The new leaves are a beautiful shade of reddish pink and very pleasing to the eye.
This is a very massive tree in which the size of the crown can sometimes exceed the height of the tree.
Use as food
The leaves are known in Thai cuisine as phak lueat (). They are eaten boiled as a vegetable in Northern Thai curries, referred to in the Northern dialect as phak hueat (ผักเฮือด).
References
External links
Galamarrma, The Tree of Knowledge, Darwin, Australia - Exceptional Trees on Waymarking.com
Epiphytes
virens
Flora of tropical Asia
Rosales of Australia
Rosids of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales |
4038397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai%20Ki-in%20Championship | Kansai Ki-in Championship | The Kansai Ki-In Championship is a Go competition.
Outline
The original Kansai Ki-In Championship ran from 1957 to 1975. It was merged with the Nihon Ki-In Championship to form the Tengen. A new Kansai Ki-In Championship tournament replaced the old. The tournament is sponsored by Sanyo Shimbun.
Past winners
Go competitions in Japan |
4038399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20That%27s%20What%20I%20Call%20Music%21%202 | Now That's What I Call Music! 2 | Now That's What I Call Music! 2 or Now 2 may refer to four "Now That's What I Call Music!" series albums.
Now That's What I Call Music II (UK series), released on 26 March 1984
Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (Asia), released on 9 August 1996
Now! 2 (Canadian series), released in 1997
Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (U.S. series), released on 27 July 1999
See also
Now That's What I Call Music! discography |
4038406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pui%20Ching%20Invitational%20Mathematics%20Competition | Pui Ching Invitational Mathematics Competition | Pui Ching Invitational Mathematics Competition (Traditional Chinese: 培正數學邀請賽), is held yearly by Pui Ching Middle School since 2002. It was formerly named as Pui Ching Middle School Invitational Mathematics Competition for the first three years. At present, more than 130 secondary schools send teams to participate in the competition.
See also
List of mathematics competitions
Education in Hong Kong
External links
Official website (in Traditional Chinese)
Site with past papers (in Traditional Chinese and English)
Competitions in Hong Kong
Mathematics competitions
Recurring events established in 2002
2002 establishments in Hong Kong |
4038407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene%20Ricard | Rene Ricard | Rene Ricard (July 23, 1946 – February 1, 2014) was an American poet, actor, art critic, and painter.
Life and career
Ricard was born in Boston and grew up near New Bedford in Acushnet, Massachusetts. As a young teenager he ran away to Boston and assimilated into the literary scene of the city. By age eighteen, he had moved to New York City, where he became a protégé of Andy Warhol. He appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966), and The Andy Warhol Story (1966).
As a performer, Ricard was a founding participant in the Theater of the Ridiculous collaborating with John Vaccaro and Charles Ludlam. He also appeared in the 1980 Eric Mitchell independent film Underground U.S.A. (1980), as well as numerous other independent art and commercial films.
In the 1980s, he wrote a series of influential essays for Artforum magazine. Having achieved stature in the art world by successfully launching the career of painter Julian Schnabel, Ricard helped bring Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame. In December 1981 he published the first major article on Basquiat, entitled "The Radiant Child," in Artforum. Ricard also contributed art essays to numerous gallery and exhibition catalogs.
Ricard was immortalized by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the drawing entitled Untitled (Axe/Rene), representing the tension that existed between the two.
Andy Warhol called Ricard "the George Sanders of the Lower East Side, the Rex Reed of the art world."
From the mid-1960s Ricard contributed writings to numerous independent poetry magazines and anthologies. In 1979, the Dia Art Foundation published Ricard's first book of poems, an eponymous volume styled on Tiffany & Co. catalog. The fact that the turquoise-covered book of poems appears in photographs taken on the beach in The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin illustrates its ubiquity as summer reading in 1979.
His second book of poetry, God With Revolver (Hanuman Books) was published ten years later, edited by Raymond Foye. The same year he contributed poems to Francesco Clemente: Sixteen Pastels (London: Anthony D'Offay). Ricard released two other volumes of poetry: Trusty Sarcophagus Co. (Inanout Press, 1990), which featured his poems rendered in paintings and drawings and was the basis of an exhibit at the Petersburg Gallery, New York City; and Love Poems (C U Z Editions, 1999) as a collaboration with artist Robert Hawkins who provided drawings for the book. Ricard also saw publication of single-poem works as limited edition artist books: Opera of the Worms with paintings by Judith Rifka (1984), Cecil (2004), and In Daddy's Hand with artist Rita Barros (2010).
Beginning in the late 1980s Ricard's poems were often rendered in paintings and drawings. His work was the subject of several solo gallery exhibitions in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as being represented in many group exhibitions.
In 2003, Percival Press published the full-color monograph Paintings & Drawings, illustrating a collection of visually rendered poems by Ricard. In 2004, Ricard created the album cover for Shadows Collide With People by musician John Frusciante.
Ricard was portrayed by Michael Wincott in Julian Schnabel's biographical film, Basquiat (1996). He lived at the famed Hotel Chelsea in New York City intermittently for 40 years.
Death
Ricard died on February 1, 2014 of cancer at Bellevue Hospital in New York City at the age of 67.
Books
Art reviews and essays
Selected additional published works
Solo exhibitions
Film performances
Recordings
References
External links
"After The Fall", Michele Civetta, NYU TSOA
1946 births
American male actors
American male poets
American gay writers
American LGBT poets
LGBT people from Massachusetts
2014 deaths
People from Acushnet, Massachusetts
Writers from Boston
Writers from New York City
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers |
4038408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra%20Bank | Andhra Bank | Andhra Bank was a medium-sized public sector bank (PSB) of India, with a network of 2885 branches, 4 extension counters, 38 satellite offices and 3798 automated teller machines (ATMs) as of 31 March 2019. During 2011–12, the bank entered the states of Tripura and Himachal Pradesh. It operated in 25 states and three union territories. It had its headquarters in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Along with Corporation Bank, Andhra Bank was merged with Union Bank of India in April 2020.
The government of India owned 90.85% of its share capital as on 31 March 2019. The state owned Life Insurance Corporation held 7.80% of the shares. The bank had done a total business of and has earned a net profit of for the financial year 2015–16.
History
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya founded Andhra Bank in 1923 in Machilipatnam, Madras Presidency (present-day Andhra Pradesh). Raja Yarlagadda Sivarama Prasad was the individual who committed the financial resources for starting the institution. The bank was registered on 20 November 1923 and commenced business on 28 November 1923 with a paid up capital of and an authorised capital of . In 1956, linguistic division of States was promulgated and Hyderabad was made the capital of Andhra Pradesh. The registered office of the bank was subsequently shifted to Andhra Bank Buildings, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad. In the second phase of nationalisation of commercial banks commenced in April 1980, the bank became a wholly Government-owned. In 1964, the bank merged with Bharat Lakshmi Bank and further consolidated its position in Andhra Pradesh.
IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company is a life insurance company in India. It is a joint venture between two of India's public sector banks – Bank of Baroda (44%) and Andhra Bank (30%), and UK's financial and investment company Legal & General (26%). It was incorporated in November 2009. It has its headquarters in Mumbai. India First Life made more than in turnover in just four and half months since the insurance company became operational. India First Life insurance company is headquartered in Mumbai. India First is the first life insurance company to be recommended for ISO certification within 7 months of inception.
On 30 August 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank would be merged into Union Bank of India. The proposed merger would make Union Bank of India the fifth largest public sector bank in the country with assets of and 9,609 branches. The Board of Directors of Andhra Bank approved the merger on 13 September. The Union Cabinet approved the merger on 4 March, and it was completed on 1 April 2020.
Products and services
Andhra Bank introduced Internet Banking Facility (AB INFI-net) to all customers of cluster linked branches. Rail Ticket Booking Facility is made available to all debit card holders as well as to internet banking customers through IRCTC Website through a separate gateway. Corporate Website is available in English, Hindi and Telugu Languages communicating Bank's image and information. Bank has been given 'BEST BANK AWARD' a banking technology award by IDRBT, Hyderabad for extensive use of IT in Semi Urban and Rural Areas on 2 September 2006. IBA Jointly with TFCI has conferred the Joint Runner-up Award to the Bank in the Best Payments initiative category in recognition of outstanding achievement of the Bank in promoting ATM Channel.
International expansion
Andhra Bank opened a representative office in Dubai in May 2006 and another at Jersey City, New Jersey, in June 2009.
In 2010 Malaysia awarded a commercial banking license to a locally incorporated bank to be jointly owned by Bank of Baroda, Indian Overseas Bank and Andhra Bank. The new bank, India International Bank (Malaysia), is based in Kuala Lumpur. Andhra Bank will hold a 25% stake in the joint-venture. Bank of Baroda will own 40% and IOB the remaining 35%.
Andhra Bank entered MoU with Bank of Baroda and Legal & General Group of UK to form a joint venture life insurance company IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company. The shareholders' agreement has already been signed and necessary formalities are being completed for setting up of the company. The JV Company is already incorporated in June'08 and is in the process of filing for approvals from IRDA etc. IndiaFirst has commenced operations.
Community involvement
Andhra Bank, along with A P State Government, NABARD, Canara Bank, Indian Bank, IOB and SBH sponsored the Andhra Pradesh Banker's Institute of Entrepreneurship Development, which will offer training to unemployed youth for improving their skills in Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Bank adopted Gundugolanu village, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh – the birthplace of its founder, Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya. A comprehensive budget with an outlay of was finalised for improving health, sanitation, education and social service facilities in the village.
See also
List of banks in India
Notes
References
External links
Draft Red Herring Prospectus of Andhra Bank filed with SEBI
Andhra Bank Press release-March '15
Defunct banks of India
Banks established in 1923
Banks disestablished in 2020
Companies formerly listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Companies nationalised by the Government of India
Companies based in Hyderabad, India
Indian companies disestablished in 2020
Indian companies established in 1923
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
4038417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Supporting%20Actress%20in%20a%20Drama%20Series | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre-, or even gender-, specific. Beginning with the 22nd Primetime Emmy Awards, supporting actresses in drama have competed alone. However, these dramatic performances often included actresses from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:
# – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Television film, prior to the category's creation
§ – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
4 wins
Lou Grant (3 consecutive)
3 wins
St. Elsewhere (2 consecutive)
The Waltons (2 consecutive)
The West Wing (consecutive)
2 wins
Breaking Bad (consecutive)
Caesar's Hour
Downton Abbey
Family
Hill Street Blues (consecutive)
Huff (consecutive)
Ozark (consecutive)
The Practice (consecutive)
thirtysomething (consecutive)
Programs with multiple nominations
13 nominations
Hill Street Blues
12 nominations
Game of Thrones
11 nominations
Lou Grant
The West Wing
10 nominations
Grey's Anatomy
The Handmaid's Tale
L.A. Law
NYPD Blue
St. Elsewhere
9 nominations
The Good Wife
8 nominations
ER
7 nominations
Downton Abbey
Mad Men
6 nominations
Judging Amy
The Sopranos
5 nominations
The Crown
Family
The Practice
thirtysomething
The Waltons
4 nominations
I Love Lucy
Mannix
Northern Exposure
Trapper John, M.D.
3 nominations
Ben Casey
The Bob Cummings Show
Breaking Bad
Caesar's Hour
China Beach
In Treatment
Ironside
The Jackie Gleason Show
McMillan & Wife
The Name of the Game
Six Feet Under
Upstairs, Downstairs
Westworld
2 nominations
24
Arrest and Trial
Big Little Lies
Boston Legal
Brothers & Sisters
Christy
Damages
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Huff
I'll Fly Away
Killing Eve
Make Room for Daddy
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Mister Peepers
Moonlighting
Orange Is the New Black
Ozark
Perry Mason
Peter Gunn
Peyton Place
Stranger Things
Reasonable Doubts
Touched by an Angel
Twin Peaks
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Nancy Marchand (3 consecutive)
3 wins
Ellen Corby (2 consecutive)
2 wins
Bonnie Bartlett (consecutive)
Tyne Daly
Blythe Danner (consecutive)
Julia Garner (consecutive)
Anna Gunn (consecutive)
Allison Janney (consecutive)
Kristy McNichol
Maggie Smith
Performers with multiple nominations
8 nominations
Tyne Daly
7 nominations
Nancy Marchand
Betty Thomas
6 nominations
Christine Baranski
Barbara Bosson
Stockard Channing
Christina Hendricks
5 nominations
Ellen Corby
Lena Headey
Linda Kelsey
Sandra Oh
Christina Pickles
4 nominations
Gail Fisher
Susan Ruttan
Madge Sinclair
Maggie Smith
Chandra Wilson
3 nominations
Barbara Anderson
Bonnie Bartlett
Emilia Clarke
Kim Delaney
Ann Dowd
Joanne Froggatt
Rachel Griffiths
Anna Gunn
Marg Helgenberger
Sharon Lawrence
Melanie Mayron
Kristy McNichol
Thandiwe Newton
Gail O'Grady
Archie Panjabi
Susan Saint James
Nancy Walker
Samira Wiley
2 nominations
Uzo Aduba
Mary Alice
Lauren Ambrose
Angela Baddeley
Barbara Barrie
Meredith Baxter
Allyce Beasley
Candice Bergen
Helena Bonham Carter
Millie Bobby Brown
Rose Byrne
Blythe Danner
Julia Garner
Cynthia Geary
Barbara Hale
Laura Innes
Allison Janney
Piper Laurie
Kay Lenz
Camryn Manheim
Julianna Margulies
Janel Moloney
Diana Muldaur
CCH Pounder
Della Reese
Gloria Reuben
Doris Roberts
Fiona Shaw
Yvonne Strahovski
Holland Taylor
Maura Tierney
Aida Turturro
Elena Verdugo
Dianne Wiest
Maisie Williams
Notes
See also
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
References
Supporting Actress - Drama Series
Emmy Award |
4038422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20French%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20singles | 1994 French Open – Women's singles | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Mary Pierce in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1994 French Open. Pierce reached the final with the loss of only 10 games.
Steffi Graf was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Pierce.
This tournament marked the first time that former world No. 1 Martina Navratilova lost in the first round of a major since 1976. This was also the last major to feature former world No. 1 Tracy Austin.
Seeds
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
External links
1994 French Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
Women's Singles
French Open by year – Women's singles
French Open - Women's Singles
1994 in women's tennis
1994 in French women's sport |
4038426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Sky%20Conference%20Men%27s%20Basketball%20Tournament | Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | The Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Big Sky Conference. The event has been held annually since 1976, the conference's thirteenth year.
The tournament winner earns a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Format and host sites
For the Big Sky's first twelve seasons, it did not have a conference tournament. Starting with its fifth season of the regular season champion received a berth in the West regional of the NCAA tournament. an unscheduled tiebreaker playoff was held; the two had identical records (conference & overall) and each had won at home to split the season series; visiting Idaho State prevailed at Montana in the Tuesday night playoff.
For the tournament's first eight editions (1976–1983), only the top four teams (of eight) in the conference standings participated. The tournament expanded to eight teams in 1984, then scaled back to six in 1989. Before 2016, when the tournament moved to a predetermined neutral site, it was often hosted by the regular season champion, but not always. If two or more teams tied for the regular season title, all were declared co-champions, but hosting rights were determined by a tiebreaker procedure. The first tournament in which the regular season champion did not host was in 1985.
Since the 2016 tournament, all full conference members (currently 12) have participated (barring NCAA sanctions or self-imposed postseason bans, the latter of which kept Northern Colorado out of the 2017 tournament), and the tournament is held at a predetermined site. The first such site to host was the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada, which hosted from 2016–2018.
On September 18, 2017, the Big Sky announced that its men's and women's tournaments would relocate in 2019 to Boise, Idaho; the initial contract runs for three years at CenturyLink Arena, through 2021.
History of the Tournament Finals
Finals performance by school
Current members of the Big Sky Conference are highlighted in yellow.
Boise State was a member for 26 years (1970–96), Nevada for 13 years (1979–92).
Charter member Idaho was out of the conference for 18 years (1996–2014).
Broadcasters
Television
Radio
See also
Big Sky Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
References
Recurring sporting events established in 1976 |
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